The recruits lined up in a row, took the gunpowder from their waists, poured it into the barrel, and then stuffed the projectiles into it.
After compaction, raise the flintlock gun and shoot at the target.
One row shoots, one row prepares, and one row loads, shortening the shooting interval in the form of three rows.
The recruits became more and more proficient in their movements, and the effects of the training began to show.
Soldiers began to get used to this new weapon and knew its range and lethality after firing.
Compared to crossbows, the firing interval of flintlock guns is much longer.
A skilled crossbowman can fire very quickly, much faster than a gunner.
The most powerful part of the new army is the artillery. After becoming proficient with the flintlock rifle, Long Chen will start training in artillery shooting.
Hu Qiaotong and Yue Sisi were leading the musketeers in formation to shoot. The crackling sounds kept coming, and bursts of smoke spewed out from the muzzles of the guns.
"Long Chengen!"
Just when Long Chen was about to call Mei Yu over to train the artillery alone, Gongsun Linglong strode angrily from behind.
"Master Gongsun, are you okay? Are you not sick?"
Long Chen joked with a smile.
In the room just now, Gongsun Linglong was holding the window, Long Chen was standing behind him, and he happened to bump into Huang Ying.
Huang Ying saw that Gongsun Linglong looked sick and was asked a question.
Gongsun Linglong said angrily: "I told you that you would be discovered if you stood next to the window. If you still do that, I will castrate you next time!"
Long Chen smiled and said: "What does it have to do with me? Huang Ying saw you and didn't see me."
"Besides, you didn't blame me just now. You asked for it yourself. I just followed Lord Gongsun's request to do things."
In the room just now, Long Chen didn't plan to do anything.
Gongsun Linglong fell in love with that feeling and asked Long Chen to do something.
As a good and considerate man, Long Chen naturally did as he was told.
As a result, Huang Ying passed by the window.
"I asked for it, but I didn't say it was by the window. It was you who said it felt better to look at the snow scene."
Gongsun Linglong was still angry and clenched her fists tightly.
Long Chen smiled and said: "It was all an accident. If there is a mistake, the fault is that Huang Ying should not have passed by."
"Originally, you were in front of me and I was behind. It was nice to see the snow scene. It was double the happiness. But it was embarrassing when Huang Ying came over."
Gongsun Linglong's face turned red with anger, and Long Chen coaxed her: "Okay, I won't play like this next time. It's a cold day, and the bed is quite warm."
Gongsun Linglong said angrily: "I will never agree to your weird requests in the future."
Long Chen smiled and said: "Okay, I promise not to ask you to do weird things in the future."
Only then did Gongsun Linglong lose his anger.
After more than two months of training, the musketeers walked forward and backward in an orderly manner, poured in gunpowder, filled in projectiles, and then fired.
The connection between the teams is already very skillful.
"They are now very skilled in their movements. At the beginning, when the gunpowder was poured in, it always spilled out and the projectiles were not released accurately."
Gongsun Linglong taught them how to use muskets and how to aim three points and one line, and watched them grow up with his own eyes.
"You still need to continue shooting, and provide enough gunpowder and projectiles. Good shooters need to feed them with bullets."
"How much gunpowder is poured and how hard it is when compacted will all affect the shooting effect."
"And these require constant shooting to accumulate experience."
Long Chen doesn't expect these people to be smart, he believes practice makes perfect.
Gongsun Linglong agreed with Long Chen: "You will become proficient after doing it a few times. This is how soldiers are trained."
Long Chen suddenly reached out and patted his buttocks, and said meaningfully: "It's all done through practice, and you are very skilled now."
Gongsun Linglong didn't understand before that if the two of them didn't cooperate well, they would sometimes feel uncomfortable.
Later, one time she was a stranger, two times she was familiar with her, and three times and four times she asked for it.
The two now work well together and are very satisfied with each other.
Gongsun Linglong raised his chin, exposed his white teeth, and made a fierce look, saying angrily: "If you do this again, I will really bite you off! You are teasing me all day long!"
Long Chen smiled and said: "Okay, stop making trouble, call Mei Yu over, we are going to start artillery training."
Gongsun Linglong's eyes widened and she gritted her teeth as she stared at Long Chen for a long while before turning around to look for Mei Yu.
Looking at Gongsun Linglong's back, those long legs, those pert buttocks...
"Don't make her anxious. Rabbits will bite when they are anxious. If you really destroy me, you will really become a eunuch."
Long Chen shook his head and smiled, feeling that he should not tease her too much in the future.
Gongsun Linglong's personality is more manly, and she is the granddaughter of Lao Zhuguo. She comes from a truly famous family and is a lady, so her personality is different from others.
Zhang Qian and the others can tease her anytime, anywhere, and do whatever they want.
Gongsun Linglong was different, she just entered the room and acted casually.
She didn't like Long Chen being like this outside.
Not long after, Artillery Corps Lieutenant Mei Yu came over with Gongsun Linglong.
"Meet King Wu."
See plum jade in hand.
Long Chen asked: "How do you feel about the two months of training?"
Mei Yu replied: "Very good, the general is now able to operate a musket proficiently and can shoot accurately."
"The difference between a musket and a crossbow is really big. The projectile deviation is smaller than that of a crossbow. You can aim wherever you aim."
Feather arrows are heavy and are greatly affected by wind and gravity. When shooting, the arrow is actually an arc, and the landing point is difficult to control.
The ammunition of muskets is much easier to control than that of crossbows.
"Very good, starting from today, you will no longer have musketry practice."
Mei Yu was stunned and asked: "We don't practice musketry? Then what should we practice?"
Long Chen said: "Hu Qiaotong and Yue Sisi are musketeers. They practice musketry shooting."
"You are different. You are an artillery corps. Of course you have to practice artillery."
Since entering Linglong Pavilion, Mei Yu has practiced musket shooting with others. She has never seen artillery, or even knew about the existence of artillery.
Long Chen arranged this in order to let them know the basic knowledge of gunpowder first, so that they could slowly accept it.
Now that you have mastered the musket and know the power of gunpowder, it is time to start practicing artillery.
"artillery?"
Mei Yu looked at Gongsun Linglong in confusion.
Gongsun Linglong thought for a while and didn't know how to explain it. She gestured with her hands and said, "It's just...a very big musket. It's very big, and the projectiles are also very big."
Mei Yu felt strange and said, "Is it an oversized musket?"
Long Chen smiled and said: "Don't listen to her nonsense, call the people over, let's go to the special artillery training ground."
Mei Yu was very curious about what this oversized musket looked like.
"The last general takes command!"
Mei Yu immediately summoned a thousand artillery troops and followed Long Chen and Gongsun Linglong to the artillery training ground.
Twenty cannons were fixed on the cart, lined up, facing the stone wall in the distance.
Each artillery piece is about 3 meters long and has a caliber of 120 mm. The artillery piece is very heavy and is fixed on a specially reinforced vehicle.
When they saw the artillery, Mei Yu and his soldiers were shocked.
"What...what is this?"
"Is this also a musket?"
"This musket is too big. It requires at least two horses to pull it."
"If this is a musket, can you raise it and shoot?"
The soldiers talked a lot and were shocked by the size of the cannon.
Mei Yu asked Gongsun Linglong: "Commander, is this the artillery that King Wu mentioned?"
