The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 52 Practical Training
Zhu Linmei immediately called Ying Tianxiang, led Hong Si and Tian Zhuangfei, and the four of them checked the examination papers together.

After a busy day and night, several people just finished reviewing more than 25 examination papers, and selected [-] people for the Mission Office.

There are also 64 people who are suitable as mentors.But whether they can join the Dragon Guards in the end will not be confirmed until after Zhu Linming's interview.

Due to the vigorous propaganda of the Xuanjiao Office, now Longnan and several surrounding counties have gradually regarded joining the Dragon Guard Army as an honor.

Moreover, this guide has a civil official rank, and the salary is quite generous, which has almost become the first choice for scholars who have no hope of official career.

With these people joining, the Dragon Guards can basically ensure that each platoon is equipped with a guide.

The training pressure of instructors is getting heavier and heavier, but Zhu Linming can handle it by adopting the model of excellent old instructors leading newcomers.

He is already considering whether to add a mentoring major to the Royal Military Academy.

While the soldiers of other armies still held the idea that "being a soldier is a salary" and "being able to spend a day is a day", the instructors of the Dragon Guards were carrying out meticulous ideological guidance work beside each soldier, From telling them why they fight and what the Chinese nation is, to guiding them how to realize their ideals in life and how to gain the respect of others.

Now the soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army have begun to have the identity of the Chinese nation and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and have developed the concept of defending the family and the country and honor first.

Once this kind of sprout appears, it will surely make the Dragon Guards crush all enemies in terms of morale and fighting will.Not to mention that their equipment is the most advanced in the entire eastern world, even if they all fight with machetes, there is no old-style army that is their opponent.

On the Longnan Missionary Mansion, Zhu Linmei arranged for Tian Zhuangfei to be the ambassador, responsible for daily work.

This scholar is flexible in mind, has a good grasp of the interests and psychology of ordinary people, and with this period of training, he should be able to manage Longnan's propaganda work.

When Ambassador Tian took office as a new official, he immediately changed into his brand-new eighth-rank official uniform, and ran to Yuanwai Liu's house and walked around twice in a very unkind manner.

But as time passed, he watched the Liu family close the door in fright, and soon felt that it was boring, after all, he and the Liu family were far from the same level.He shook his head, returned home, and began to discuss his marriage with the second daughter of Luoxian Cheng's family next month.

Hong Si took the newly recruited missionaries and chief writers to Xinfeng County to preside over the preparations for the Mission Office there.

According to the instructions of King Chenzhou, he will then go to Dingnan, Anyuan and other counties to spread the missionary work to the south of Ganzhou.In the future, he will be in charge of the mission offices in various places, and will regularly report to His Royal Highness King Chenzhou on the situation of the propaganda work.

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The first month of the second year of Longwu.

That is, nearly five months after the new Dragon Guard Army was formally established.

On the vast dragon guard cavalry training ground.

More than a hundred cavalry in a neat line were galloping past a row of chest-high wooden stakes with three-foot long swords, and the tip of the sword accurately pierced the spherical straw bales on the top of the wooden stakes.

These cavalrymen were dressed in bright plate armor, with a blue wolf head with sharp teeth painted on their chest.On the top of the head is a cyan oval steel helmet, which protects the ears and nose, only revealing the sharp eyes.The crotch is all tall and strong Hetao horses, all of them are imposing and mighty.

This is exactly the two heavy cavalry companies under the Second Battalion of the Dragon Guard Cavalry conducting horizontal charge training.

After the team passed the stake, the two company chiefs asked the messengers to quickly coordinate with the semaphore, and each commanded the soldiers to turn around and line up again.

In less than half a minute, the two companies were rearranged into neat rows.Yilian raised his cavalry sword and shouted, "Charge!"

All the soldiers immediately roared together with him: "Charge!"

This method of repeating the orders of officers in the whole army can boost morale well on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also ensure that everyone can hear the instructions accurately in this era when communication is basically based on shouting.

Suddenly the ground trembled, and more than 140 cavalrymen from the two companies rushed towards the target with the momentum of overcoming all obstacles.

Since the first two months of basic formation training, all cavalry have performed hundreds of such charge and thrust exercises every day.

On the other side of the training ground.After Xia Fu first ordered "the whole battalion form a hollow phalanx", the messengers immediately conveyed the order.

As the drummer beat a specific drumbeat, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion immediately ran quickly, and in just over a minute, a square formation composed of more than 500 soldiers appeared in the open space.

A hundred steps away, the cavalry who assisted the infantry in training immediately charged.With the dust covering the sky and the sun, hundreds of cavalry rushed from all directions to encircle the infantry battalion.

The infantry in the phalanx held the guns in their hands steadily, with calm expressions.Now similar training comes dozens of times every three days, and they have no sense of the oncoming cavalry.

A few soldiers even exchanged their training experience in a low voice.

When the cavalry rushed to a distance of seventy steps, Xia Fu first shouted: "Aim! Shoot!"

Although no lead bullets were loaded, the loud noise of the firecrackers was still astonishing.Then the infantry raised their flintlocks and pointed their bright bayonets obliquely outwards. All the soldiers looked extremely determined.The phalanx immediately turned into a big hedgehog covered with bayonets.

In the end, the cavalry turned around about ten meters in front of the phalanx, waiting to regroup and charge again.

The artillery training ground is the quietest.

Chen Xiongfei used a telescope to determine the target position set by the trainers in the distance, then observed the terrain around him, and quickly determined that a mound could be used as a shooting position.

As the orderly conveyed his order to the officers and soldiers of the 31st Artillery Company, several artillerymen immediately fixed tools such as ram sticks, gun brushes, and gun gauges on the side of the gun mount, and then four of them lifted the legs of the gun mount vigorously. , and the other two pulled over a horse drawn by a pair of wheels.

There was a groove on the wheel axle behind the four horses, and the legs of the gun mount could just fit into it, and then the soldiers fixed the gun mount with two iron pins.

The addition of the new pair of wheels to the original pair of wheels on the gun transformed the carriage at once into the appearance of a carriage.

The soldiers immediately led their horses to the location designated by Chen Xiongfei.Once there, they unhooked the carriage from the horses and were ready to fire almost instantly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the five cannons were transferred from the firing state to another position two miles away, and they could be fired at any time.

This may seem like nothing, but in the Ming Dynasty, it took at least two hours to move a cannon weighing nearly [-] jin to a distance of two miles!It took more than half an hour just to set up the wooden frame to remove the artillery from the mount and load it into the vehicle.

It takes another ten minutes to load the gun mounts.When it is transported to the place, this operation has to be done in reverse again.

It took them enough time for the Dragon Guards to circle around them several times.

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