national surname chiming

Chapter 196

Shen Shuren gave instructions on the improvement of the protective gear, took off the deerskin gloves, wiped the black ash on his hands, and then took the time to add lessons:
"Also, the basic training of these soldiers was too incomplete before. Even if they didn't aim and just estimated and shot, they wouldn't be so far away. In the future, we need to practice waist shooting based on feeling!
Most of the musketeers in our army have been in the army for three years. After three years and several large-scale actual battles, haven't you found the feeling yet? "

Officers such as Zuo Zixiong and Lu Datou, of course, could only fully accept this criticism, but they also euphemistically expressed that they also had difficulties:
A lot of live ammunition training is too expensive. If you don’t encounter actual combat, who can waste ammunition like this to find a gun feel?It would be great to be able to practice the current aiming and shooting well.

Shen Shuren thought for a while and sighed.He also knew that this was the truth, he couldn't let the troops waste a lot of money and supplies on target shooting, he would rather hone his skills in actual combat, so that the ammunition shot out could kill the enemy no matter what.

So he added: "Let's start now, first select soldiers in the army who are good at riding and shooting, and have equestrian foundation, and then each of them shoots three to five shots. The best shooting talent.

In the future, form an army alone and organize a force that can shoot from the waist during a charge.Fortunately, there are not many short-barreled rear-loading guns in our army. If we only train a few hundred elite soldiers, we will not spend much ammunition——

Also, don't use wax shells during high-intensity training!Remember to use paper shells or loose ammunition, anyway, training is not afraid of slow reloading, just use cheap ammunition.

Ask Song Yingxing to make another batch of front-loading guns with the same shape and length as the double-barreled rear-loading guns, the ones that don't leak air at the rear, and are specially used for training.In this way, there are no wax-shell bullets, and there is no fear that the tail of the gun will leak and catch fire too seriously to burn people. "

After hearing this, Zuo Zixiong, Lu Datou and the others were also full of admiration, and immediately realized that Mr. Futai's plan is well-organized-the training cost is high, so they can find a way!Specially manufacture some low-cost training ammunition, and then specially match it with training guns, so you can practice shooting accuracy.

After Shen Shuren gave his orders, he asked the ministries to continue the drill.

After the short-barrel rear-loading nozzle drill is completed, let the revolver team go forward to demonstrate.

There was another roar of gunpowder, and the two hundred pistolmen each fired six rounds one after another.Shen Shuren watched carefully from the side, and the pistolmen could make sure to hold the pistol level with one hand, aim roughly and shoot.

The accuracy and hit rate within [-] to [-] steps are still very impressive. At least there will be no obvious errors in the general direction. Coupled with these pistols, they are also spray guns, and there are also several marbles. The coverage firepower is very fierce.

So Shen Shuren didn't criticize the pistol drills, and there was no need to specially select soldiers to form a pistol cavalry team. His main opinions today were focused on the rear-mounted double-barreled nozzles.

After reading it, Shen Shuren made a decision: "Okay, these soldiers will be used by the pistol cavalry. Let's form two hundred cavalry first, and strengthen the equestrian skills. As for the double-barreled cavalry, we still have to choose the best. Each battalion can recommend their own elite. If you have a good marksmanship, you can try it out, each of you tries two bullets, you are not allowed to aim, you just shoot from the waist, and the one with the best score will be trained."

Zuo Zixiong immediately began to carry out, and ordered the battalions to recommend themselves, and singled out the soldiers who thought they had the best marksmanship——

Of course, you can't do it for nothing. If the selected soldiers can't even reach the average level in the end, and the basic hit rate can't be guaranteed, then a few days of military pay and corporal punishment will be deducted.

In the same way, if you perform well, you can be directly incorporated into a new army, the military salary will also be increased, and the food standard will also be improved.

Otherwise, everyone is overconfident, and this will have to be selected in the year of the monkey, and there will not be so many wax shell ammunition to waste in a short period of time. Only when cheap training ammunition and training guns are in place in the future can the selection be opened at low cost.

After hearing this order, all the battalions were really excited. Some soldiers who thought they had good marksmanship, and even the junior officers of the musketeers at the general and team level all volunteered to try two shots.

Zuo Zixiong organized these people into a team of 200 people, fired at the respective targets in front of them, and then counted the bullet holes on the butt stacks. The competition was carried out in an orderly manner, and some elites with a good sense of waist shooting were really selected. , which made Shen Shuren very satisfied.

It seems that troops with new weapons will soon be able to formally form combat effectiveness.

However, looking at it, he suddenly discovered something unusual.

As the rehearsal was halfway through, about 400 candidates had been selected for the double-barreled musketeers. As another team of musketeers entered the field, fired, and counted the results, the data increased significantly, which surprised Shen Shuren.

"Whose subordinate is this? Which battalion is it? The feeling of shooting a gun from the waist is very good. You must sum up the drill method! Find me the officer in charge!" Shen Shuren attaches great importance to summing up experience and lessons, and when he sees something worth digging and promoting Yes, immediately get to the bottom of it.

After a while, an officer in his twenties with a slightly weird appearance was surrounded and saluted Shen Shuren.

"Are you... a native of Liaodong?" Shen Shuren went up and down a lot, not quite sure.

The other party reported his family: "Li Yu, the last general, was temporarily serving as the superintendent of the North Korean Bird Gunner Battalion. One and a half months ago, he led a team to abandon the secret in the Bijiashan Sea Battle. My father is Li Shibai, the Korean military judge."

Shen Shuren nodded politely when he heard that he was the North Korean general.Shen Shuren has also heard about the status quo of North Korea's high-level officials, but now is not the time to talk about it. He is now eager to find out the training methods of bird gunners.

So he also asked directly without politeness: "Then tell me, why don't these bird gunners in your battalion aim at the waist and shoot so accurately? I have read the statistics, and on average each gun can shoot more One or two marbles. How do you practice?"

Li Yu was also a little embarrassed, he had come to Daming for a month, and he still admired Daming's strength.

The Koreans in the late Ming Dynasty were not as arrogant as the Koreans in the later generations. They still thought that Ming Dynasty was a kingdom of heaven, and everything was awesome.

So Li Yu explained very modestly: "In the North Korean army, we really value bird gunners, but there seems to be no secret method in training... Maybe it's because we have a strict selection of soldiers, and we can select Orion to join the army as bird gunners." , and these hunters use bows, arrows and blunderbuss all year round, and their shooting skills are excellent."

After Shen Shuren heard the first half of the sentence, he didn't think much of it. When he was in Huangzhou, he also tried his best to choose Orion recruits as long-range arms. Orion has the basics of bows and arrows, and switching to muskets will be more accurate than farmers and miners.

But the second half of Li Yu's sentence made him discover a blind spot: "You mean, in North Korea, ordinary hunters can also get in touch with bird guns before they join the army? There is still a long time of daily practice? Is it for hunting? ?”

Li Yu was stunned: "The hunter uses the bird gun, so he is hunting... The general doesn't understand what your lord means."

Shen Shuren: "I mean, you, the lord of North Korea, don't you prohibit the people from holding bird guns?"

Only then did Li Yu know what the other party was focusing on, and quickly explained:

"In North Korea, there were few folk blunderbusses in the past, but since the Japanese Invasion in Wanli, for more than [-] years, our country has resisted the Japanese twice and the Tartars twice. Tartars, so the folk birds flooded. The king of our country saw that the rebel army could drive out the Tartars, so he was happy to see it, and he did not strictly control it."

Shen Shuren: "Isn't the lord of North Korea afraid that there will be too many guns among the people and someone will usurp and cause chaos?"

Li Yu was confused for a while: "...in my land of Sanhan, there has been no civil rebellion since ancient times. Since the Han Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, in my land of Sanhan, there have only been three main dynasties and some sporadic separatist regimes. When foreign enemies attack and destroy, they are brought out of chaos by the feudal town, and no common people have ever succeeded in rebelling——

What's more, North Korea was only a vassal of the Ming Dynasty before. If there is a usurpation, there will naturally be a Ming Dynasty to help counter the rebellion. We only need to deal with foreign enemies first.What's the use of guarding against the common people if we are afraid of not doing enough to deal with Japanese pirates and Tartars?

Even if you want to be wary of the inside, you are actually guarding against the side branches of the clan... and whether the side branches of the clan are "on the side of the Qing emperor" and whether they can succeed has nothing to do with whether the common people have weapons or not. "

Li Yu's words not only opened up a new perspective for Shen Shuren.A group of old and rough generals who don't know much about history refreshed their cognition even more.

If the history of Japan is equivalent to the history of China at 0.2 times the speed, then the history of the Korean Peninsula is also a history of China at 0.5 times the speed.

Not to mention the Jizi Korea and Weiman Korea before the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains. During the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains unified Korea. After the Han Dynasty perished in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Korean Peninsula was re-established in an all-round way. dynasty.

Goguryeo is equal to the entire Southern and Northern Dynasties in the Central Plains plus the Sui and early Tang Dynasties, Goryeo is equal to the end of Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms plus Song and Yuan, and North Korea corresponds to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There were three dynasties in total, two dynasties changed, the average time of the two long-term unified dynasties in the Central Plains, and only one change on the corresponding peninsula, which made them not have to worry about peasant uprisings at all.

There is no Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao, and Li Zicheng. If the peasants can't survive, they can at most resist taxes and separatize themselves.

On the contrary, in the past 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the Koreans were very wary of usurping coups within the Li family. The clans always killed each other randomly, because that was the biggest threat to the rule.Li sun-shin was a distant relative of the royal family because of his surname Li. After defeating the Japanese pirates, he was greatly suspected and dismissed for several years.

"Well, it seems that each has its own national conditions. There is really no way to learn this trick. I can't let Daming also lift the ban on bird guns and allow the people to use bird guns for hunting... This Daming can't help bows and arrows, but iron armor, crossbows, etc. And firearms, but you can't open your mouth..."

Shen Shuren thought over and over again, and felt that he still couldn't imitate casually.

This is the land of China. If you let go of the prohibition of guns, you will be in big trouble. How can you get it back in the future.

Moreover, Chongzhen is not dead yet, and he still has more than a year and a half to live. Even if Chongzhen's control over the local area has declined, if Shen Shuren dares to lift the firearms ban in Huguang, he will definitely be impeached by the people of the world to the point of eternal doom.Maybe warlords in other places will also think that he is a traitor and attack him directly.

This problem still cannot be attempted for the Central Plains, which has a strong foundation for rogue thieves.

However, the mind must be liberated, and one cannot feel that there is nothing to learn from because North Korea is a country of Dongyi.Even if it is far inferior to Daming in other aspects, there is something to learn from this point, and it is necessary to learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians.

In the end, Shen Shuren had no choice but to collect the chaff, selectively absorb, and told Zuo Zixiong: "In the future, when producing training bullets, iron bullets can be produced, lead bullets are not allowed, and then the musket team will use iron sand bullets for cross-country hunting and hunting.

Lead bullets are fragile, and the residues are also poisonous. The prey has to cut off a lot of meat, and it is easy to harm the body if it is not handled cleanly.It doesn't matter if the iron sand shoots the prey, just take the iron sand clean.

Blindly relying on spending money for free training, there is not so much waste of bullets, it is still necessary to teach and use, and find the gun feel while hunting-of course, only for troops that need intensive hip-fire training.For old-fashioned bird gunners who aim and shoot, off-road hunting training can be omitted. "

Zuo Zixiong Lu Datou and the others pondered for a while, and they were all convinced, feeling that Mr. Futai was thoughtful.

The musketeer team's drill that day was soon over, and the follow-up was repeated competition selection, and [-] soldiers suitable for using double-barreled breech guns were quickly selected, and they would continue to practice in turn in the future.

After re-selection, among the 200 people, many of them were veterans withdrawn from Liaodong, while the proportion of the original Huangzhou Army has further dropped-in fact, it is normal, because Shen Shuren is planning to use this army as a cavalry and archery army To use it, you have to fire before charging, and horsemanship is also very important.

Many of the veterans who survived the big waves in Liaodong were from the cavalry unit, and even a few were from the Guanning iron cavalry. Naturally, they have a good foundation in riding skills. If they also have a foundation in marksmanship, they are easy to be selected.

Because the war may not start within this month, based on the one-month allowance, the Shen family army may still have another [-] of these new breech-loading guns when the war starts.New equipment is expensive and difficult to obtain, so people can only wait for equipment, not equipment.

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After completing the drill and review of the army, a full half day passed. Zheng Chenggong, who had been quietly following and not interfering, also came to remind Shen Shuren at the right time, and advised Shen Shuren whether he should arrange lunch and rest in the afternoon before watching other things.

Shen Shuren is also very close to the people, and shares the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, saying that he will eat in the barracks, and by the way, take advantage of lunch time to visit the wounded who have been withdrawn from Liaodong.

Now these troops have only been on the shore for half a month to rest. Even if you add more than 20 days of drifting and sailing on the sea and the Yangtze River, only forty days have passed since the wounded and sick were injured in the Battle of Bijia Mountain.

During the time at sea, the recovery efficiency was still relatively low, with constant bumps and poor nutrition, and many people's injuries even worsened.After staying on the shore, improving medical conditions, and keeping up with nutrition, I quickly recovered.

A [-]-day injury to the muscles and bones, for a severely wounded person with broken tendons, fractures and internal organ injuries, at most [-]/[-] of them will recover in [-] days, and many people are still unable to get out of bed.Only the slightly wounded with skin and flesh injuries recovered.

During the inspection on the school grounds today, only the lightly wounded who had just recovered participated with the normal soldiers, and all the seriously wounded were still in bed.

Shen Shuren, as a person of later generations, must be more equal in thinking than people in the Ming Dynasty, and he must also pay more attention to humanity.In future generations, the president of any country will pretend to visit the wounded when it comes to war.

Therefore, Shen Shuren's concern for the wounded soldiers was of course incomparable to that of other civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty.

There is no need to pretend, as long as you show the experience of the chief inspector on TV in the future, you can directly crush it.

(End of this chapter)