The team marched forward for a while and found a wide place to set up camp. After Liu Pei arranged the sentries, Wu Yizhou had already arranged for the team members to light a fire. Five fires were burning. On each fire

They all set up a large copper pot to boil water.

As a modern person, Liu Pei is strict about hygiene. He doesn't want his team to lose its combat effectiveness due to diarrhea one day. So the day he established the team, he asked everyone not to drink raw water. Everyone drank water.

They are all boiled, let cool, and then poured into the gourd.

Speaking of gourds, Liu Pei thought that he should buy a batch of kettles from modern society. The gourds were too difficult to use. First of all, it was difficult to pour water in, and the hot water tasted strange after being poured in.

Liu Pei walked from fire to fire, patted the warrior on the shoulder, and boasted with another. The boys felt very welcome to the arrival of the family leader! Until a recruit asked him rashly, "I don't know when the family leader will be."

Give money?"

Everyone around the fire burst into laughter, and the two people next to him held him down and gave him a beating. When he was pulled up, Liu Pei grabbed his face and said, "Why are you in such a hurry to get the money? So...

What do you want to do in a hurry? Get a wife?" Everyone laughed together.

The young man blushed and said, "I'm so anxious! When my eldest brother reaches the age of marriage proposal, the girl's family wants a dowry gift of 5 taels of silver. But the family can't get enough! Otherwise, I won't be able to be a servant."

Liu Pei nodded and said: "Don't worry, we will distribute the reward as soon as we arrive at the camp when we return from Jinan City. And there will be a day off, which will give you time to send the reward home."

After hearing this, the young man nodded excitedly, saying that he would die for the master of the family. Liu Pei patted him on the shoulder and went to the fire in the middle. Qi Qitao, Wu Yizhou and the veterans were waiting for him there.

As soon as Liu Pei sat down, Qi Qitao handed him a pancake and a piece of dried meat. Liu Pei took the things and asked, "How are your feet?"

Qi Qitao shook his head and bit into the hard meat and said, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore. Just lie down for a few days and it will be fine."

Liu Pei nodded after hearing this, took a bite of the pancake, and said vaguely: "Let's get started."

This was a post-war summary meeting, and it was a rule Liu Pei had just set. Liu Pei thought about it carefully, and neither he nor his subordinates had ever received battlefield command.

The only way to train is to learn how to command the battle during the battle. Then summary is very necessary! You can find problems and correct them.

Liu Peixian said: "Let me talk about the first thing first. Who are the two people who escaped today? I didn't see it clearly at the time. Have they been counted?"

Wu Yizhou said: "We have counted them. They are the second son of the Zhou family and the second son of the Zhao family in the neighboring village. How to deal with them?"

Liu Pei originally wanted to deal with them harshly, but when he thought that he was not in the regular army yet, it was difficult to deal with them harshly, so he said: "I will fire them when I get back. No one from their family will be allowed to join our team in the future."

Their family members are not allowed to participate in the work of our family. Our family does not accept their goods, and they sell them to whomever they like. In short, their family is excluded from our system."

Qi Qitao spat and said: "I have finally seen it clearly. In the current world, if you want to eat well and drink hot food, what else can you do if you don't have to fight for your life? Forget it. Let's not talk about them. What I want to say is the archers.

Archers! We must have archers! Damn it, I don’t want to be outgunned anymore, it’s so suffocating! If we have archers, if we shoot a few rounds of arrows first, maybe the opponent will collapse first.

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A veteran said: "But I heard my father say that it is difficult to become an archer! It takes at least three or four years to practice to be a good archer. It takes that long for us to master it!"

The person next to him said: "Let the head of the family just withdraw his archers and become servants soon!"

Liu Pei shook his head and said: "We don't use archers, we use muskets!"

Wu Yizhou asked: "Is the fire gun easy to use? I heard people say that the fire gun is slow to use and keeps exploding!" Everyone nodded along,

Liu Pei said: "Fireguns have advantages that bows and arrows do not have. It is inevitable to replace bows and arrows in the future! Everyone thinks that a best archer can shoot twelve or three arrows at most and he will be so tired that he cannot even walk, and a

As for the Fire Gun Soldier, as long as he has enough gunpowder, he can shoot it down non-stop! In addition, the Fire Gun Soldier is the easiest to train! It only takes a month. As for the Fire Gun Soldier's blasting chamber, it is a quality issue. It is used when making it.

Just snacks.”

In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, firearms did not lag behind the West. They even surpassed the West in some aspects. For example, during the Chongzhen period, landmines, a deadly weapon, were produced. There was also the prototype of a hand grenade for city defense - the Qian

The enemy only began to lag behind the West in terms of artillery.

The reason lies in smuggling in the south

Big businessmen, in order to monopolize the profits of maritime trade, tried every means to hinder the development of the Ming Dynasty's navy. I think back when the Ming Dynasty made seven voyages to the West, a large number of artillery was deployed on the ship! The bombardment made the pirates and disloyal countries cry.

Mother! These people not only made up various reasons to hinder the development of the navy, but also bribed the cooperation of the court officials. At the same time, they also tried every means to insert their own people into the court, fundamentally stifling the development of the Ming Dynasty's navy. Liu Daxia, who burned the sea map, is one of them! If

If the Ming Dynasty had not been deceived by those maritime trading families in the south, and the navy had continued to develop, perhaps the whole world would have been free of those foreigners!

On the other hand, foreigners have always had a small country, a sparse population, and constant fighting. Under the stimulation of war, their armaments have developed relatively quickly. And they really couldn’t afford to die at that time! If they were like China, they would have hundreds of thousands at every turn.

In the battle of human beings, countries like Spain and the United Kingdom, which were relatively powerful at the time, have long been finished! The Chinese are worthless if they have too many people. Just grab a few people and stuff them with a sword and you can fight! How much does a sword cost?

In fact, the Ming Dynasty paid great attention to the use of firearms. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, officials at all levels were very corrupt. As a result, the materials and money used for processing weapons were often lost to only half! And the craftsmen never had wages.

In order to survive, you have to skimp a little and eat out. The weapons made under such circumstances are naturally cut corners and no one dares to use them.

And the soldiers all know the problems with firearms, so no one is willing to use them! Even if they pick out some firecrackers that will not explode, they still have problems of one kind or another. The most common problem is that the firecrackers are not tightly sealed and often fire when shooting.

There was hot gunpowder gas sprayed out. So the soldiers turned their faces away when shooting, for fear that the hot gas would be sprayed on their faces or the gun would explode in their hands! If they didn't even aim, then only God knows the projectiles.

Where will it fly to?

Moreover, most of the firearms in the army are kept by the eunuchs who supervise the army. If you want to use firearms to practice, you have to bribe them! Naturally, there is no motivation for training. Coupled with improper storage, the effect can be imagined.

After Liu Pei identified the problem, he recorded it. Then everyone raised a lot of questions. Liu Pei also recorded all the solutions that everyone came up with after discussing one by one. After this discussion, I feel that everyone has made little progress.
Chapter completed!