Chapter 280: Packing Gunpowder Breaking the Establishment
However, unlike Shi Dayong, Jiang Wanli, Li Dashan, Cao Bianjiao and other troops still recognized the performance of the Sichuan army and believed that compared with those captured soldiers, these Sichuan troops could still fight.
They were happy, but Shi Dayong was not happy. As expected, the coach and the general looked at the problem from a very different perspective. As the coach, he was more concerned about the loyalty of the troops, while as the general, he was more concerned about whether the soldiers could perform well.
Pull them out and fight. No matter who these Sichuan troops take orders from, just with their combat power, these Sichuan soldiers really cannot be called an elite division. They are far from the strong army Shi Dayong thinks of. They are just show-offs at best.
Optimistic estimates suggest that these two thousand Sichuan troops can fight against the rebels. They are better than Kong Youde's rabble, but they are certainly inferior to the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, the main force of the rebels, let alone the tigers outside the pass.
The Eight Banners of Manchuria.
The reason why Jiang Wanli and the others were happy was not because they were taller among a bunch of dwarfs. After all, the two thousand Sichuan soldiers were much stronger than those captured soldiers. At least, in terms of recognizing flags, these Sichuan soldiers were better.
Much better. They still know very well what flag is for advance, what flag is for retreat, what is the front army changing into the rear army, and what is the rear army changing into the front army. As for other aspects, the proficiency in using fire guns should also be an advantage.
Up to this point in the training, some of the captive soldiers still lacked grasp of the amount of reloading ammunition. During the gun shooting training the day before yesterday, one guy had a gun blast because he reloaded too much, almost blinding him.
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This accident made Shi Dayong suddenly think of the necessity of custom-loading gunpowder, that is, changing the current way of loading gunpowder and switching to quantitative powder weighing packages, which are standard in the standard, so that soldiers will not be too frightened on the battlefield and rush to pack less.
Perhaps more gunpowder was loaded, which caused the chamber to explode or weaken the power. However, Shi Dayong did not know how to pack the gunpowder, but one person might be able to think of it. This person was Ma Zhong who stayed in Jinzhou with Huang An.
Before Ma Zhong joined the army, he was a firearms craftsman in Fusi, Jinyiweinan Town. He was much more familiar with firearms than Shi Dayong. When he first came to this era, he had a whim to apply the advanced technologies of later generations to this era in advance, such as steelmaking,
The experiments of converting blunderbuss into guns all declared "failure" with the help of Ma Zhong.
But this failure was caused by Shi Dayong's impracticality. He ignored the hardware conditions provided by the law of this era and pursued what he thought was an advanced technology based on being divorced from reality. He would naturally fail. No matter when, he is divorced from reality.
, no matter how advanced your technology is, no matter how transcendent your theory is, it is doomed to fail.
However, Ma Zhong's familiarity with firearms must be able to help Shi Dayong solve the problem of fixed gunpowder. After all, this problem is quite practical, feasible, and much simpler to operate.
If fixed-loading of gunpowder can be achieved, it will not only reduce unnecessary explosion accidents, but also greatly shorten the firing time of the gun.
On the battlefield, at the moment when two armies are fighting, being able to fire a blunderbuss in one second is obviously of great significance to an army.
Soon, custom-made gunpowder took root in Shi Dayong's heart like a seed, and he just waited for Ma Zhong's arrival to implement it. In fact, if he knew that there was an expert on Western firearms he wanted in Dengzhou City, which was occupied by the rebels at the moment.
With the Portuguese instructors and even two machine tools imported from Macau that specialize in producing high-quality gun tubes, I am afraid that I will not be able to sleep at all.
The matter of customizing the gunpowder has been put on hold temporarily because Ma Zhongren has not yet arrived. Shi Dayong's current focus is to solve the issues under his nose.
Since he borrowed these two thousand soldiers, Shi Dayong had no intention of returning them. He was training them as his own soldiers and horses. This can be seen from the fact that he has been very strict about the training these days.
Thinking about the performance of the Wuyong Second Battalion that he personally trained in Songshan in the Battle of Daling River, and then looking at these Sichuan troops who were barely able to fight, Shi Dayong was certainly dissatisfied.
Two things must be solved urgently. One is how to increase the combat effectiveness of these two thousand Sichuan troops as soon as possible. Even if they still cannot catch up with the combat effectiveness of the Wolf Cavalry Army, they must be on par with the Changping Army. The second thing is to let them know who they are fighting for.
In war, whose orders should they obey?
If these two things are not resolved, then all the money and food Shi Dayong invested will be wasted. If these two thousand Sichuan soldiers can really be used, I am afraid that Deng Quan and Wang Hong will not be so willing to lend them to him.
. In the final analysis, these two thousand Sichuan soldiers are actually abandoned troops. They are in a similar situation to his Jinzhou Army. These individuals have no weight at all in the minds of Deng and Wang, and they are even considered cumbersome. If you borrow soldiers from them,
Ding, even if they are afraid of being beaten to death, they will not agree. No matter how much money you have paid for them, and what kind of brothers you are. In this world, can you achieve something that touches people's hearts and saves their lives?
To put it bluntly, the two thousand Sichuan soldiers lent to Shi Dayong are actually useless soldiers. The only advantage of these useless soldiers is that they have received some military training and are no strangers to firearms. This advantage also makes them accept
Jiang Wanli, Li Dashan and others were greatly delighted when the Jinzhou Army requested a musket shooting drill, which gave rise to the optimistic idea that this army could be used.
However, if he really takes them to the battlefield like this, then Shi Da is brave enough to be sure that not to mention the future Jiannu bandits, even Kong Youde can bite him to death, and even the Jingying camp led by Gao Qiqian can easily defeat him.
, let alone his ancestral family members who had a grudge against him for killing his brother and his father.
Their journey to the battlefield will be like those captured soldiers in the Xiaoguantun battle, who collapsed when they heard the news.
Since the soldiers are borrowed, they must be trained into elites and become an army that can be drawn out to fight at any time and is not afraid of fighting any enemy. Otherwise, what is the use of them? Is it too much money to spend?
But how can we make these Sichuan soldiers truly integrate into the Jinzhou Army and truly regard themselves as a member of the Liao Army and Shi Dayong's subordinates, instead of still treating themselves as Sichuan Army and as "guests"?
Where is the army?[
This problem tortured Shi Dayong for two days. Finally, he finally thought of a way, which was to break the original organizational structure of the Second Battalion in Chongqing and Chengdu, select relatively strong people from them to form a separate battalion, and assign the rest to the worst batch.
They were classified as auxiliary troops and used as baggage troops.
As long as the original organization of the Sichuan Army is broken and they actively or passively accept everything from the Jinzhou Army, this centripetal force and cohesion can be slowly generated, and then their combat effectiveness and loyalty can be improved. However, there is resistance to this plan.
, that was the attitude of Deng Quan and Wang Hong.
Deng Zhen might be easier to say. After all, he was a brother who had paid homage to him. Moreover, he had already made it clear that he had never thought of taking back this soldier. However, Wang Hong never said that he would not return it and borrowed it.
At the beginning of the army, Wang Hong said that he could borrow these soldiers, but they had to form their own battalions. This is also the origin of the names of the Chengdu and Chongqing battalions. At that time, Shi Dayong did not think so much, so far away
, just wanted to borrow the troops immediately, and he promised not to break them up but to mix them with his own troops. Now he wants to break his promise and break up the two battalions. This is not easy to say.