Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 362 New Equipment
Inside the Jinchuan gate, the barracks school grounds.

Grandpa is always training daily.

At the end of last year, Chongzhen made some changes to the recruitment system.

The smallest establishment team was abolished, and Shi became the smallest establishment, with a total of 10 people including Shi Zhang.

A team still governs three divisions, with a total of 30 people including the captain, and the captain is concurrently held by one of the three division chiefs.

One whistle still governs three teams, with a total of 90 people including the chief whistle and the trumpet drummer.

That is to say, there is no dedicated officer.

This is to reserve a place for future scholars.

One chief was changed from the original five posts to three posts, and together with a total of 271 people, the general was no longer held concurrently by one of the three post chiefs, but by Prince Qin's son full-time.

When the number of scholars increases in the future, the post chief may also be replaced by Qin Wang Shizi.

After entering the age of firearms, especially in the era of flintlock guns, the quantity and quality of the officer contingent will directly determine the combat effectiveness of an army.

Above the general is the battalion, and one battalion has five generals under its jurisdiction, with about 1350 people.

Chongzhen added another brigade between the camp and the town. One brigade has three battalions under its jurisdiction, with about 4050 people.

The last is the town. A town has three brigades under its jurisdiction. It is impossible for a town to be full of soldiers. It must be equipped with a considerable number of auxiliary arms, such as chariot battalions and cavalry.

So the total population of a town is about 15000 people.

This is very similar to the division, brigade, and regiment-level organizational systems of later generations.

"Look to the left, look to the front, have it all, step by step...go!"

The passwords of Xu Yingwei and other Prince Qin scholars all learned from Chongzhen, so they all learned the passwords of later generations, but they spoke in the Eastern dialect of Grandma, which only the descendants of Grandma Dong could understand.

For other general recruits to listen, it's basically like listening to the scriptures.

That's why the army puts more emphasis on orders, rather than obeying the verbal orders of the chief officer.

Because if he obeyed the chief officer's verbal orders, he would be blinded if he was replaced by a foreign scholar to command the battle.

But there is no such problem if the battle is commanded by the flag and drum. Anyway, when the war drum sounds, you will advance forward, when the charge number sounds, you will charge at full speed, and when the assembly number sounds, you will retreat decisively!

As for firing the gun, it depends on the gesture of the chief officer.

"Stand, set!" Xu Yingwei stopped the team and was about to proceed to the next step of training when a hearty laugh suddenly sounded from behind, "Crazy Xu!"

Xu Yingwei was furious, who is this person?How dare you call me by my nickname.

When I looked back anxiously, I saw Zhu Shunshui walking briskly, holding the hem of his shirt.

Because of the training of soldiers on the school field, the snow was trampled to pieces, and it became a muddy pond. Zhu Shunshui was reluctant to part with the official uniform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that had just been issued, so he lifted the hem.

By the way, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has unified the attire of officials.

There are three grades of official uniforms. The first grade is the scarlet robe, which corresponds to court officials of the third rank and above. The second grade is the green robe, which corresponds to the officials of the seventh rank and above. The third grade is the white robe, which corresponds to the eighth rank. Nine products.

Whether it is the scarlet robe, the green robe or the white robe, they all have python pattern embroidery, but there is no patch.

At present, the only person in the House of Internal Affairs who wears scarlet robes is Ma Mingjue. The rest of the officials of the House of Internal Affairs and the scholars of Qin Wang are wearing green robes and python suits, and white robes and python suits are the special clothing for Guozijian students.

Because it was a newly issued green robe and boa suit, Zhu Shunshui cherished it very much.

But Xu Yingwei didn't pay much attention to it, and within two days after receiving the python suit, he was covered in mud.

In fact, there is no way to do this, because Xu Yingwei is a military officer, he has to train every day, and sometimes he has to fall into the mud, how can he keep clean?

So seeing Zhu Shunshui's clean and tidy python suit, Xu Yingwei was very upset.

"Everyone is there, step on, go!" Xu Yingwei shouted, and stepped heavily on a muddy pond, and immediately splashed a piece of muddy water, splashing towards Zhu Shun's water.

Zhu Shunshui was caught off guard and was splashed, and became anxious immediately.

"Hey, I said Crazy Xu, you are pure-hearted, aren't you?" Zhu Shun said angrily.

"I did it on purpose, so what's the matter?" Xu Yingwei laughed. In fact, the two of them had a very good relationship in private, after all, they were buddies from the scholar camp.

"Okay, you madman Xu, wait for me." Zhu Shunshui cursed angrily, and then laughed too.

After bowing to each other, Zhu Shunshui said again: "Your grandpa's equipment has arrived, go and get it."

"It's here so soon?" Xu Yingwei was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately turned around and shouted, "Stand up, stand still, everything is there, turn back, target the gate of the barracks, run away!"

While running, Xu Yingwei asked, "How many total pieces of equipment are here?"

"Ten." Zhu Shunshui said as he followed Xu Yingwei out, since the python suit was already dirty, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Why are there only ten?" Xu Yingwei was taken aback when he heard this.

"What do you think?" Zhu Shunshui said angrily, "The Daming Armory only gave so much in total, and our supply department can't change more."

By the way, Zhu Shunshui is now in charge of the supply department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Zhu Shunshui, the logistics department, has a lot of authority in the matter.

Not only the logistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself, but even the logistics of the army under the Ministry of Internal Affairs is under the management of the logistics department, which is equivalent to the General Armament Department plus the General Logistics Department.

"This won't work." Xu Yingwei scratched his head and said.

"Isn't this a scolding for our ten bosses?"

"You don't want it?" Zhu Shunshui said angrily, "That's fine, I'll let others go."

"Hey, don't, don't, that's what I said." Xu Yingwei hurriedly said, "Chu Yu, why are you so impatient."

Zhu Shunshui sighed again suddenly, and said in a low voice, "Actually, this may not be a good thing. Haven't you heard of the mutiny in Wuchang?"

"Wuchang Mutiny?" Xu Yingwei asked in amazement.

He really didn't know that these days he was only focusing on cleaning up the old melon eggs of Mr. Laodong.

"So, the ten generals who received the equipment first, may be going to Wuchang." Zhu Shunshui shook his head and said, "Nine out of ten will go to war again."

"Isn't it good to fight?" Xu Yingwei was even happier.

Zhu Shunshui shook his head and said, "The problem is that you ten general recruits haven't touched guns yet."

"What's the matter?" Xu Yingwei waved his hand fiercely and said, "After receiving the blunderbuss, you can practice while marching, and when you reach Wuchang, you will be able to practice almost. At least it will be no problem to deal with the gang of disorderly soldiers."

While the two were talking, they had already arrived outside the gate of the barracks, and saw a carriage parked for a while.

"Youzhen, come quickly, good stuff!" Hua Xia, who arrived earlier, waved to Xu Yingwei and shouted.

In addition to Huaxia, there are eight scholars including Yan Yingyuan, Wang Fuzhi, Guan Siqiu, Xia Rubi, Lu Xiangtong, Xu Fuyi, Lin Zhiyuan and Xia Yunyi.

These ten scholars are the most outstanding military talents among the more than [-] scholars.

Originally there was another Zheng Sen, but now he has plunged into the research of aircraft, and he is not as interested in marching and fighting as before, so Chongzhen didn't want to force him.

After meeting with Huaxia and others, Xu Yingwei came to a carriage.

"This is a flintlock?" Xu Yingwei picked up a flintlock from the carriage.

It has long been heard that the Holy Majesty personally supervised the manufacture of a flintlock gun, which not only has a faster rate of fire, but also is not afraid of rain and fog. These soldiers who lead the army have long wanted to see the real face, and finally saw it today.

"What is this?" Xu Yingwei held the gun in his left hand and pointed to a box with his right hand.

"This is a paper shell." Zhu Shunshui opened the box, and saw rows of paper shells neatly stacked inside.

These paper case bombs are rolled with high-quality jute paper, and the surface is coated with grease, so when the box is opened, the smell of grease immediately hits the nostrils.

"Paper shells? Where's the lead?" Huaxia asked in amazement.

"The lead is inside the paper case." Zhu Shunshui picked up a flintlock from the carriage, opened another box, took out a piece of flint from the inside, clamped it on the trigger iron tongs, and locked it tightly.

Turn up the anvil again, exposing the medicine priming chamber underneath.

Bite the paper shell bullet from the tail, first pour a small amount of gunpowder into the primer chamber, then press down the iron drill to cover the powder chamber, then pour the remaining gunpowder from the muzzle, and then put the paper shell and lead from the muzzle Tuck it in.

Then take out the cleaning rod and poke the lead to the bottom of the barrel, and press it firmly.

Then insert the cleaning rod back to its original position. After doing all this, Zhu Shunshui pulled the trigger again, and then raised the flintlock.

After shooting in all directions, but failing to find a suitable target, Zhu Shunshui directly pulled the trigger on the open space in front of him, only to hear a soft clicking sound at first, followed by a loud bang.

Seeing this, the eyes of Xu Yingwei and the other ten soldiers with soldiers lit up immediately.

These ten scholars are all knowledgeable, and they can see the extraordinaryness of the flintlock at a glance.

It's just that they only saw that flintlock guns were more convenient than matchlock guns, and it was impossible for them to know about denser infantry line arrays and hollow phalanxes.

"There are still grenades." Zhu Shunshui put down the flintlock and walked in front of the second carriage.

Opening a mouthful of the box, I saw grenades with long wooden handles standing upright inside.

The projectile body is made of iron, and the surface is also cast with twelve longitudinal and six horizontal grooves, which divide the entire projectile body into eighty-four independent rectangular pieces.

A small hole was drilled in the middle of the long wooden handle.

There is a lead wire installed in the small hole.

Xu Yingwei stepped forward and picked up a grenade, good guy, it's quite heavy.

Zhu Shunshui said with a smile: "This thing is not light, one can weigh ten catties!"

Due to the insufficient effectiveness of the gunpowder unit, the explosive power can only be increased by increasing the amount of charge. As a result, the total weight of the projectile body and gunpowder has been increased to ten catties.

This thing is heavier than the nine-pound grenade made by Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal.

However, the hand grenades from Taiyuan Arsenal were the dream weapon of the Eighth Route Army, and they had blown up little devils on the battlefield until they cried. The power of the grenades from Daming Arsenal had to be verified on the battlefield.

"Brother Chu Yu, what's on this carriage?" Yan Yingyuan asked, pointing to the third carriage.

"This one." Zhu Shunshui smiled, "This is a self-defense weapon specially prepared by the Holy Majesty for you, the short flintlock."

(End of this chapter)