Second Lieutenant Most finally wrote a note of approval to Claude and asked Claude to go to the weapons and equipment department of the logistics department to collect twenty-eight Obash Type III matchlock guns. In addition to the normal nine-man squad and the slow eight
Outside the team, Claude, the four noble children and the errand boy Michael were each equipped with one of these crooked-neck muskets. The extra five were applied by Claude in the name of replacing broken muskets during training.
The leader, after pestering Second Lieutenant Most for a long time, finally agreed.
After having the musket, Claude began to personally train the recruits. He abolished the so-called training of marching in formation and firing together. The main training was to stand in a military posture, stand at attention and salute, and then get familiar with the musket and master the aiming.
The essentials of shooting are followed by the practice of loading and loading ammunition, and finally, firing at the target.
After everything was put into place, Claude was ingenious and dug a tunnel in the yard, placed stones, built a low wall, and then asked the soldiers to hide inside or lie on the ground, in a narrow space or
It is to practice loading and charging the musket and aiming and shooting while lying on your side or lying on the ground in an awkward posture.
So the seventeen recruits who received Claude's training, as well as four noble children, as well as the sixteen-year-old Michael, and of course Claude himself, were rolling around on the ground all day long, looking disgraced every day. Not only
They had to take a shower every day and wash their uniforms for two or three days. Four noble children protested. They said they had never heard of such training. Claude shut them up with just one sentence.
Liaozui: This kind of training can help you save your lives on the battlefield...
Facts have proved that it is actually a big mistake to equip the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun, also known as the crooked neck musket, to the so-called veteran combat teams with strong combat effectiveness. The thinking of those veterans has been finalized, and long-term training has made them accustomed to platoon fighting.
They advance in formation and fire in unison. The precision of the crooked-neck muskets is not important to them.
Although they admitted that using a crooked-neck musket could improve the accuracy of shooting, they were not used to moving these accessories such as the pill box, plate cover, and matchlock clamping handle to the right side, and thought they did not look as good as on the front of the back of the barrel.
The large piece protruding from the right side of the barrel looked very uncoordinated and particularly annoying, so they were unwilling to use this crooked-neck musket.
However, Claude's new recruits have basically no experience in using muskets. For them, it is not important whether the muskets look good or not. What is important is that after they have mastered the aiming and shooting method of this crooked-neck musket, every time they use it,
Hitting the target during training will bring a sense of satisfaction and pleasure to their body and mind. Even the four noble children are no exception. With their family's decline, they cannot afford to play with muskets at home, even if they are at home.
Even if the muskets are hidden, they will not be allowed to take them out to practice shooting.
The only thing that made them unhappy was the practice of loading and charging. They had to either lie on the ground or hide in a pit, or hide behind a big rock. It was indeed very difficult to load and charge the musket under such circumstances.
. But Claude held on to this one the tightest. He often stood by with a whip and counted, and if the time exceeded his prescribed time, he would be whipped off.
Although other recruit teams in the military camp were trained to stand and load their muskets, everyone had seen it. But Claude said that it is his business if others are willing to stand and serve as targets for the enemy, and you are my subordinates.
, I have to be responsible for your lives and not let you die easily on the battlefield. But not dying doesn't mean you don't have to destroy the enemy, and hiding doesn't mean you can escape...
After hearing this, everyone understood the meaning of why Claude asked them to train like this. Their own shooting training made them understand how stupid it was to stand and serve as a target for the enemy. It was better to lie on the ground and load the muskets.
It's troublesome and inconvenient, but it doesn't mean that you can't load the musket. In addition, if you lie down on the ground and hide in the tunnel, the target is small, and it is difficult for the enemy to hit you, but you can hide and slowly aim and shoot while standing in the field of view.
enemies...
Before the rainy season arrived, Claude asked the soldiers to tear down a fence in the yard, and then asked the soldiers to build two large sheds, about a hundred meters apart. In order to build these two wooden sheds, Claude went to the logistics department
After talking nonsense with Captain Kantaya for a long time, the necessary building materials were finally allocated in the name of training supplies.
These two wooden sheds were indeed built for training. The big shed was used for soldiers to train on loading ammunition and aiming and shooting, but all of them were done while lying on the ground covered with straw mats. The small wooden shed was used to display targets.
, all the original human-shaped targets were purchased by Claude at his own expense. He went to the city of Conigada to print nearly a thousand pieces of red-heart target paper with large traps and small circles. He also used the leftover wood from building wooden sheds to make about twenty human-shaped busts.
Just stick target paper on the target and all the training items are ready.
During the April rainy season, most of the Blue Feather Legion's recruit training has stopped. The soldiers are hiding in the camping tents, playing cards and war games, waiting boredly for the rainy season to pass. But in the large yard behind the treatment center, Claude is in charge
The recruit training is still in full swing, with bursts of musket fire from time to time.
If you don't light the match rope, although it is difficult and troublesome to lie on the ground to load the ammunition and powder, there is no possibility of misfire. But on the battlefield, the match rope is basically lit. At this time, standing up to load the gun and powder, on the one hand
It is convenient and fast, and on the other hand it is safe. Even if there is a possibility of misfire, the gun will fly into the sky.
But Claude asked the soldiers to lie down on the ground to load their muskets, and to pay special attention to where the muzzles were pointed when the match was lit. What Claude asked was to aim at the open space in the yard in front, and to cultivate the habit of not setting fire horizontally.
Use your gun to avoid misfiring and hitting teammates next to you.
At the end of April, Second Lieutenant Most came to visit the treatment center. Claude's shooting training for his soldiers had alarmed the battalion. The consumption of gunpowder guns was three to four times that of other combat teams. This made
Second Lieutenant Most had to come and find out.
"Your soldiers have more than fifty shooting trainings a day?" Second Lieutenant Most was very surprised. He looked at the gunpowder consumption form registered by Claude and the soldier's performance registration form for each shooting training. Second Lieutenant Most
Expressing disbelief.
You must know that other combat teams only conduct marching and firing training, and the number of fires does not exceed 20 times a day. Claude's soldier has to conduct more than 50 shooting trainings a day, which is incredible. Especially
The people above him all know what kind of rubbish the new recruits on his side are.
"You can go and see the results of my soldiers' training." Claude said with a little pride.
So Second Lieutenant Most followed Claude to the large training yard. After the shooting, Claude asked Belklin and McJack, who were staying in the small wooden shed in front to check the shooting results, to put on their ponchos and put on the clothes they had just changed into.
The new target paper was sent over for Second Lieutenant Most to check.
"Eleven nine-rings, five ten-rings, three eight-rings, and one seven-ring, what do you think of these results?" Claude said.
This time it was not just the nine-man normal squad and the eight-man slow squad that shot, but also Aboyev, Muriel and Diavid. The one with the worst score was Aboyev, and he was the one with the seventh ring.
Beaten.
Second Lieutenant Most looked at the red-heart target paper in front of him curiously, and the question he asked had nothing to do with the shooting results: "Why did you let all these soldiers lie on the ground and shoot? Why did you let all the members of the stretcher team stand?
In the back, why are they standing here without weapons? And where did these target papers come from?"
Claude had to explain to him that these soldiers could not train to march in formation and fire in unison. As for the stretcher team, Claude asked them to stand behind the wooden shed mainly to let them get used to the sound of muskets, so that they could
People on the battlefield will not run around in panic. They were originally going to conduct stretcher-carrying training, but it had to be suspended due to the rainy season.
These target papers were printed privately at my own expense. They were not expensive and cost just over a gold crown. Although Second Lieutenant Most was very interested in the target papers privately printed by Claude, he did not introduce them to the military camp for training.
The idea is very simple. Human-shaped wooden targets are used for volley fire while marching in formation. In this way, the coverage rate of each volley fire can be estimated based on the bullet marks on the target. The maximum range of the musket is used to target the enemy.
The range of damage caused does not require shooting accuracy.
"These soldiers of yours have very high shooting accuracy. As a security team for the treatment center, they have met the requirements. I personally think you can stop shooting training for them. There is no need to waste the gunpowder from the battalion headquarters. The logistics department's
Second Lieutenant Carlos, the officer in charge of gunpowder, has made two reports, asking us to thoroughly investigate and punish you for wasting gunpowder and guns..." Second Lieutenant Moste summed it up tactfully and warned Claude.
Since everyone knew that behind Claude there was Baroness Maria, who was deeply trusted by His Majesty the King, most of the officers in the battalion were unwilling to deal with Claude for fear of inadvertently offending Claude.
This caused concern among the army leaders.
Otherwise, Claude and Captain Cantaya's request for building materials to build two wooden sheds would not be easily approved. In addition, every time they apply for gunpowder from Second Lieutenant Carlos, they will be satisfied. The main reason is that they are not willing to pay for this.
He was penalized for offending Claude over a trivial matter. Besides, Claude had a very valid reason for asking for these things. It was to train soldiers, not to line his own pockets. The results were here, and no one had anything to say.
Claude could only smile bitterly. Why is it so difficult to do something? But this is also a helpless thing. There are no sharpshooters in the minds of soldiers in this world. They all rely on bullets. Oh, here they rely on gunpowder and guns.
The concept came out. They are accustomed to the war mode of lining up to shoot. They rely on the queue to march within the range and shoot in unison to inflict damage on the enemy. Then they face the enemy's artillery fire with the lives of their soldiers and stride forward until they launch a charge and fight to the death with the enemy.
hand-to-hand combat to win.
Victory in every war means that countless young soldiers died on the battlefield and became cannon fodder that no one cares about. The winner can also count how many soldiers have been sacrificed on their side and how many families need pensions. The loser only has
If you can estimate how many troops you have lost, the names of their families are not important. Sometimes, in order to evacuate, the archives of these fallen soldiers are even burned, so that these war dead can completely disappear from this world.
Claude also wants to work hard to at least change the stereotyped war model in some people's minds: "The shooting training I conducted for them is not just to let them take on guard and patrol tasks, but to make them
They have strong offensive and defensive capabilities. If you don't believe it, Lieutenant, then when the weather is clear, we can conduct a field confrontation exercise to test the offensive and defensive capabilities of my soldiers..."
Second Lieutenant Most became interested in what Claude said about the field exercise: "You mean, if we let you soldiers conduct a confrontation exercise with a combat team, are you confident of winning?"
Claude shook his head: "You are wrong. It is not a combat squad, but a squadron. It is best if they are equipped with an artillery."
"Are you crazy? There are only about twenty of you, not even enough for two full squads. How do you get such confidence?" Second Lieutenant Most was shocked.
"I am confident of victory. You can test it to see if I am lying. But I have a condition. Before the actual confrontation exercise, you ask Second Lieutenant Cross to meet the gunpowder and gun requirements for shooting training that I need.
Share. If the field confrontation exercise fails, I am willing to use my own money to compensate for the cost of the gunpowder and guns we have consumed." Claude promised.
Second Lieutenant Most looked into Claude's eyes and found that his eyes were firm and confident. The Second Lieutenant nodded slowly: "Okay, I can convey your request to Second Lieutenant Carlos, but after the weather clears, we will conduct a field confrontation drill
I will ask the battalion headquarters to proceed, and I hope you won’t let me read the joke.”