Not long after, Li Zhi heard the news that both Li Laosi and Zhong Feng had said that the matchmaking was successful and they had arranged a marriage!
Li Zhi secretly applauded. It seems that Li Xing's leading example has worked well and made his bachelors anxious. Now that these officers have engaged in marriage, they will be more calm in leading troops to fight in the future. This is good news
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At the end of August, Li Zhi brought all 12,000 Huben divisions to the school grounds to test the training results.
Now Li Zhi has more than 10,000 soldiers. He still divides these soldiers into four regiments, each regiment has six battalions, that is, each regiment has 3,000 men.
After recruiting 4,000 recruits in February, Li Zhi organized the recruits into separate recruit classes, which facilitated the unified management of the recruit classes and basic training. Li Zhi also mixed the recruit classes and veteran classes at the platoon level, so that
It is helpful for veterans to teach experience to new recruits and improve their combat effectiveness.
The new recruits practiced formation, shooting and marching hard during the day, and rested in the barracks at night. The veterans who had been on the battlefield had relatively easy training during the day and still had some energy left, so they went to the school set up by Li Zhi in the evening to learn literacy. To this day, the veterans
We already know a lot of words.
Eight thousand literate soldiers were an armed force unprecedented in this era.
Li Zhi is currently equipped with two thousand cavalry: these cavalry are composed of 1,500 veterans from the selected vanguard regiment and 500 veterans from other regiments who have been in the army for three years. These veterans have practiced fighting for three or four years and will immediately
Their fighting skills are already very proficient, comparable to other servants of the Ming army. Moreover, Li Zhi also equipped them with rifles and handguns, allowing them to complete two shots before a close encounter, allowing them to defeat several times their own.
of enemies.
These cavalry were led by Xue Sanku, deputy commander of the Selected Front Regiment.
Li Zhi also armed two battalions of artillery in the Frontier Regiment. Seven of these artillerymen operated a six-pounder gun, and a thousand men were equipped with a total of 140 artillery pieces. The Frontier Selection Battalion originally had 500 veteran artillerymen.
The newly added 500 artillerymen are all veterans who have experienced fighting. After half a year of training, the new 500 artillerymen are already able to operate artillery skillfully.
One thousand artillerymen are also equipped with handguns. If the enemy rushes to the artillery, the artilleryman can kill the enemy with handguns. Artillerymen equipped with handguns are no longer afraid of the enemy's close combat, and their morale is higher.
These artillerymen were led by Lu Hu, the second deputy commander of the Frontier Regiment. Lu Hu was one of the first batch of servants recruited by Li Zhi, and he was said to be a distant relative of Li Zhi's family. He was gradually promoted to an officer because of his seniority, and he was brave in fighting and running the army.
He was strict and the troops under his command had strong combat effectiveness. Li Zhi eventually promoted him to deputy regimental commander and became the senior regiment responsible for one thousand artillery troops.
On August 23, half a year after the new soldiers entered the camp, the Huben Division showed their training results to their general, Li Zhi, at the school grounds.
The first step is to line up for admission. The soldiers line up in a neat queue and walk in unison. They enter the school grounds from the west side of the school ground in company units. When entering, the soldiers line up in five rows. When they reach the designated position, the team turns left and stands.
The front row of the school ground stopped. Twelve thousand soldiers entered in order, and no one lost their chain by mistake.
Next, the four regiments took turns to demonstrate the change of formation. Three regiments walked out of the school field, leaving one regiment to demonstrate on the school field: as the command flags in the middle of the school field were waved, the company commanders continued to adjust the orders, allowing the teams of each company to continuously change the team thickness.
Sometimes it becomes a three-row column, standing in a long line with other companies. Sometimes it becomes a five-row deep team, forming a phalanx with other companies. There are five rows of soldiers standing on all four sides of the phalanx, without sides and rear.
The troops were attacked by the enemy's cavalry. Sometimes they formed five rows of columns, or four rows of deep circular formations. In short, the formations were constantly changing according to the specific requirements of the battle.
Both new recruits and veterans have trained the formation for a long time and are very skilled in organizing formations.
Seeing the soldiers well-trained in various formations, Li Zhi stood on the high platform in front of the school field and nodded.
Then the salvo is shown.
The two thousand cavalrymen of the Selection Regiment simulated the enemy's charge, and rode towards the troops performing a volley, making a thunderous sound of rolling horse hooves on the barren ground. The soldiers of each regiment calmly completed their preparations in the face of the pressure of the cavalry.
Bounce action.
Open the fire door, bite open the tail of the fixed gunpowder to load the gunpowder, close the fire door, clean the gun chamber with a purge bar, bite open the head of the fixed gunpowder, load granular gunpowder into the gun chamber, compact the granular gunpowder with the purge bar, and remove the cone.
The shaped bullet is loaded into the barrel of the gun, and the bullet is pressed in with a purge bar.
After loading the bullets, the soldiers moved their ranks under the orders of the platoon leader and fired into the sky.
The soldiers who finished shooting immediately moved a step to the right, turned around and walked back, walked to the back of the team and loaded their guns again. The soldiers in the second row quickly walked to the firing position and fired a volley into the sky.
All four regiments successfully completed the salvo. Except for one recruit who was a little nervous and knocked down another recruit behind him when he retreated after shooting, no one else among the nine thousand riflemen made any mistakes.
Li Zhi was very satisfied with the recruit's performance and said: "Not bad, good training!"
Zheng Kaicheng laughed and said: "These soldiers have been practicing for six hours a day for half a year. Even a fool can become proficient!"
Li Zhi smiled and nodded.
Then came the test of target shooting accuracy. Nine thousand infantrymen and two thousand cavalry drove to the shooting range, and each of them shot three rounds. After shooting the target for two hours, the final result reported was: the veteran's accuracy on the humanoid target at 200 meters.
The target rate is 99%, and the recruits' hitting rate is 97%.
The soldiers' target hit rate is close to 100%. Even if they are a little nervous on the battlefield, they can still hit a target of 70 to 80% at a target of 200 meters. This kind of accuracy is enough to make the Huben Division proud of other armies of this era.
Li Zhi's new recruits shoot ten rounds a day, and every three months they have to practice a rifle until it is useless and needs to be remade. The veterans practice less, but they still have to destroy a rifle every year. This is not burning
Rifles cost money. Which other army in this era has such intensity of training?
Master Huben's strength is acquired through practice with each shot.
Finally, there was a display of artillery firing: one hundred and forty artillery pieces lined up on the artillery test range, shooting at a target four hundred meters away. With the help of musket gauges, musket rulers and moment gauges, the artillerymen took the first
The first shot only missed the target by a few meters, and the second shot all hit a circular target area with a diameter of five meters.
The gunners also demonstrated how to shoot extremely fast shotguns. When the enemy rushed forward, the gunners did not cool down the barrel, nor push the gun carriage back to its original position, nor did they use instruments such as muskets and gauges to aim. Only seven people cooperated the fastest.
Load the gunpowder quickly and shoot at the enemy group rushing forward. Li Zhi stood behind the artillery and estimated that under such extremely fast shooting conditions, the six-pounder can fire a round of shotshells in eight seconds.
If the enemy's cavalry charges into the formation, it can only charge 200 meters in seventeen or eight seconds. In other words, Li Zhi's artillery can hit the enemy's cavalry two times at top speed.
A shotgun can hit a large area. It is very scary to be hit by shotgun twice in one charge.
Li Zhi was very satisfied with the training results of the new recruits and veterans, and said loudly: "The training was good."
The drums of the Chinese army sounded, symbolizing division commander Li Zhi's encouragement to the soldiers!
Twelve thousand soldiers were inspired and shouted: "Victory!"
