While giving instructions on improving protective gear, Chen Shuren took off his deerskin gloves, wiped the black dust from his hands, and then added the lesson leisurely:
"Also, the basic training of these soldiers before was too incomplete. Even if they don't aim and just estimate the shot casually, they won't miss that far. In the future, they will have to practice shooting based on feeling!
Most of the musketeers in our army have been in the army for three years. After three years, there have been several large-scale actual battles. Haven't you found the feeling yet?"
Officers such as Zuo Zixiong and Lu Datou, of course, could only fully accept this criticism, but they also expressed euphemistically that they also had difficulties:
A large amount of live ammunition training is too expensive. If you don't encounter actual combat, who can waste ammunition to get the feeling of a gun? It would be great to be able to practice today's aiming and shooting well.
Chen Shuren thought for a while and sighed. He also knew that this was a fact. He could not let the troops waste a lot of money and materials on target shooting. He would rather hone his skills in actual combat, so that all the ammunition he fired could kill people.
to the enemy.
So he added: "Let's start from now on. First, select soldiers in the army who are good at riding and shooting and have a foundation in equestrian skills. Then each of them will shoot three to five times. Select the best among the best, and select the ones with the best gun feel and the best waist.
The one with the best shooting talent.
In the future, we can form a separate army and organize a unit that can shoot from the waist during a charge. Fortunately, our army does not have many short-barreled breech-loading guns. If we only train a few hundred elite soldiers, we will not spend much ammunition -
Also, don’t use wax-cased bullets during high-intensity training! Remember to use paper-cased bullets or loose ammunition. Anyway, you don’t have to worry about slow reloading during training, so just use cheap bullets.
Let Song Yingxing make another batch of muzzle-loading guns with the same length as a double-barreled breech-loading gun, with no air leakage at the tail, specially used for training. This way, there will be no wax shell bullets, and there will be no fear of air leakage and fire at the rear of the gun.
Severe burns."
Zuo Zixiong, Lu Datou and others were filled with admiration after hearing this. They immediately realized that Mr. Futai's plan was very well-organized - training costs are high, but it is possible to find a solution! Specially create some low-cost training bombs, and then specially cooperate with them.
The gun is used for training, so you can practice shooting accuracy.
After Chen Shuren finished his instructions, he asked all ministries to continue the drill.
After the short-barreled breech-loaded spray drill has been completed, let the revolver team come forward to demonstrate.
There was another burst of gunpowder, and each of the two hundred pistolists fired six bullets one after another. Chen Shuren observed carefully from the side. The pistolmen could ensure that they held the pistol level with one hand and took a rough aim before shooting.
The accuracy and hit rate within twenty or thirty steps are still very impressive. At least there will be no obvious error in the general direction. Coupled with the fact that these pistols are also spray guns and have several bullets, the covering firepower is very fierce.
Therefore, Shen Shuren did not criticize the pistol drill, and there was no need to select soldiers to form a pistol cavalry team. His main opinions today were focused on the rear-mounted double-barreled spray gun.
After reading it, Chen Shuren said: "Okay, we will use these soldiers for the pistol cavalry. We will first form two hundred cavalry to strengthen their equestrian skills. As for the double-barreled cavalry, we still have to select the best from the best. Each battalion can recommend its own elite.
"Anyone who thinks their marksmanship is good can try it. Each person will try two bullets. They are not allowed to aim, just shoot from the waist. The one with the best results will be trained."
Zuo Zixiong immediately began to carry out the execution and ordered each battalion to recommend themselves and select the soldiers who felt they had the best marksmanship——
Of course, the test cannot be in vain. If the selected soldiers cannot even reach the average level and the basic hit rate cannot be guaranteed, then they will have to deduct a few days of military pay and receive corporal punishment.
In the same way, if you perform well, you can be directly incorporated into a new army, your military salary will be increased, and your food standards will also be improved.
Otherwise, everyone will be overconfident, and the selection will have to wait until the year of the monkey, and there will not be so many wax-cased bullets to waste in a short period of time. We will have to wait until the cheap training bullets and training guns are in place in the future before we can open the selection at a low cost.
After hearing this order, all the battalions were really excited. Some soldiers who felt that their marksmanship was good, and even junior officers of the musketeers at the general and corps leader level, all volunteered to try two guns.
Zuo Zixiong organized these people into a team of two hundred, fired at their respective targets in front, and then counted the bullet holes on the target stack. The competition went on in an orderly manner, and he really selected some elites who were good at waist shooting.
, which made Shen Shuren quite satisfied.
It seems that the troops using new weapons will soon be able to formally form combat effectiveness.
However, as he looked at it, he suddenly discovered something unusual.
As the exercise passed halfway, the double-barreled musketeers had selected about three to four hundred candidates. As another team of musketeers came on the scene, opened fire, and counted the results, the data was obviously higher, which surprised Chen Shuren.
"Whose subordinate is this? Which battalion is it from? You feel good about shooting from the waist. You must summarize the training methods! Find me the officer in charge!" Shen Shuren attaches great importance to summarizing experience and lessons. Whenever he sees something worth exploring,
, promote it, immediately get to the bottom of it.
After a while, a slightly weird-looking officer in his twenties actually came up and saluted Chen Shuren.
"Are you... a local from Liaodong?" Shen Shuren looked around and was not sure.
The other party reported his family name: "Li Yu, the last general, was temporarily serving as the commander of the North Korean gunman camp. A month and a half ago, he led the team to abandon the secret and surrender to the bright side in the Battle of Beacon Mountain. My father is the North Korean military commander Li Shibai."
Chen Shuren heard that he was the North Korean surrendered general, and nodded politely. Chen Shuren also heard about the current situation of North Korea's top leaders, but now is not the time to talk about this. He is now eager to find out the training methods of gunners.
So he asked directly without any politeness: "Then tell me, why are the gunners in your camp not so accurate in aiming and shooting from the waist? I have looked at the statistics and found that on average, each shot fired at the target can have more
One or two marbles. How did you practice?"
Li Yu was also a little embarrassed. He had only been in Ming Dynasty for a few months and he still admired Ming Dynasty's strength.
The Koreans in the late Ming Dynasty were not as arrogant as the Koreans in later generations. They also thought that the Ming Dynasty was a celestial country and that everything was awesome.
Therefore, Li Yu explained very modestly: "In the Korean army, we do attach great importance to bird gunners, but there seems to be no secret method in training... It may be that we are more strict in the selection of soldiers, and we can select Orions to join the army as bird gunners.
, and these hunters use bows, arrows, and muskets all year round, so their shooting skills are excellent."
After hearing the first half of the sentence, Shen Shuren didn't think anything of it. When he was in Huangzhou, he also tried his best to recruit Orions as long-range soldiers. Orions had a basic bow and arrow, and if they used muskets, they would be more accurate than farmers and miners.
But the second half of Li Yu's sentence made him discover a blind spot: "You mean, in North Korea, ordinary hunters can also come into contact with bird guns before they join the army? There is also a long period of daily use training? Is it used for hunting?
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Li Yu was stunned: "The hunter uses a blunderbuss, so of course he is hunting... The general will not understand what you mean."
Chen Shuren: "I mean, you, the leader of North Korea, don't prohibit civilians from holding gunshots?"
Only then did Li Yu know what the other party was focusing on, and quickly explained:
"North Korea used to have few civilian guns, but since the Japanese Rebellion in Wanli Period, in more than 40 years, our country has fought against the Japanese twice and twice against the Tatars. The officers and soldiers were unable to fight, and the rebels in the occupied areas were often needed to kill the Japanese.
Tartars, so the people's cannons were rampant. When our king saw that the rebels could drive out the Tartars, he was happy to see the success and did not tighten any more strict control."
Chen Shuren: "The leader of North Korea is not afraid that there will be too many blunderbuss among the people, and some people will usurp and cause chaos?"
Li Yu was stunned for a while: "... In our land of Three Koreas, no civil rebellion has been successful since ancient times. Since the Han Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there have been only three major dynasties in our land of Three Hans, some scattered and divided. The previous dynasty was not ruled by
When foreign enemies are attacked and destroyed, the vassal town is able to bring order out of chaos, and the common people have never successfully rebelled——
What's more, Korea was just a vassal of the Ming Dynasty before. If there is a usurpation, the Ming Dynasty will naturally help to suppress the rebellion. We only need to deal with foreign enemies first. The Tatars are afraid that they will not be able to deal with the Japanese pirates, so what is the use of being wary of the common people?
Even if we have to be wary of the inside, we are actually wary of the side branches of the clan... Whether the side branch of the clan can be 'Qingjun's side' or not, and whether it can succeed, has nothing to do with whether the common people have weapons or not."
Li Yu's words not only opened up a new perspective for Shen Shuren, but also refreshed their understanding of the group of old and rough military generals beside him who didn't know much about history.
If the history of Japan is equivalent to the history of China at 0.2 times speed, then the history of the Korean Peninsula is also the history of China at 0.5 times speed.
Not to mention the Jizi Korea and Weiman Korea before the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, the Central Plains unified Korea during the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty fell to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Korean Peninsula was fully re-established. From then on, there were three countries: Goguryeo, Goryeo, and Joseon.
dynasty.
Goguryeo is equal to the entire Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Central Plains plus the Sui and early Tang Dynasties, Goguryeo is equal to the late Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms plus the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and Korea corresponds to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
There were three dynasties in total, with two dynasty changes. On average, the two long-term unified dynasties in the Central Plains only changed once on the peninsula. This meant that they did not have to worry about peasant uprisings at all.
There were no Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Zhang Jiao, Huang Chao, and Li Zicheng there. If the peasants couldn't survive, the best they could do was fight against the tax and segregate their own rule. In the end, someone else from above would be the one to issue the imperial edict.
On the other hand, during the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the Koreans were very wary of treacherous coups within the Li family. The clans always killed each other, because that was the biggest threat to the rule. Yi Sun-shin was from the royal family because his surname was Li.
A distant relative, he was greatly jealous after repelling the Japanese pirates and was dismissed for several years.
"Well, it seems that this depends on the national conditions. There is really no way to learn this trick. We can't let the Ming Dynasty also lift the ban on bird guns and allow civilians to use bird guns for hunting... This Ming Dynasty does not prohibit bows and arrows, but iron armor and crossbows
But you are not allowed to talk about weapons and firearms..."
Chen Shuren thought about it again and again, and felt that he still couldn't imitate it casually.
This is the land of China. If we relax on the ban on guns, we will be in big trouble. How can we take it back in the future?
Moreover, Chongzhen is not dead yet and has more than a year and a half left to live. Even if Chongzhen's control over the local area has declined, if Chen Shuren dares to impose a firearms ban in Huguang, he will definitely be impeached by the people of the world to the point of eternal destruction.
Maybe other local warlords will think he is a rebel and directly attack him.
This problem still cannot be attempted in the Central Plains where rogues have a strong foundation.
However, the mind must be liberated. Just because Korea is a country of Dongyi, it does not mean that there is nothing to learn from. Even if it is far inferior to Ming Dynasty in other aspects, if there is anything to learn from in this regard, we must learn from the foreigners and learn from them.
Control the barbarians.
In the end, Shen Shuren had no choice but to eliminate the bad and save the good, selectively absorbing it, and told Zuo Zixiong: "In the future, when producing training bombs, iron bullets can be produced, lead bullets are not allowed, and then organize a musketry team to use iron sand bullets for cross-country shooting and hunting.
Lead bullets are fragile and the residue is poisonous. You have to cut off a lot of meat from the prey. If it is not handled properly, it will harm the body. It doesn't matter if you shoot the prey with iron sand. Just remove the iron sand.
If you just rely on spending money to train in vain, there are not so many bullets to waste, you still need to learn and use it, and find the gun feel while hunting - of course, only for troops who need intensive waist shooting training. For old-fashioned bird gunners who aim and shoot,
There is no need for cross-country hunting training.”
Zuo Zixiong, Lu Datou and others thought about it and were all convinced. They felt that Mr. Futai was thoughtful.
The day's musketeer drill ended quickly, followed by repeated competitions and selections. One thousand, two hundred soldiers suitable for using double-barreled breech-loading guns were quickly selected, and they will continue to practice in turns from now on.
After re-selection, many of the 1,200 people were veterans who had withdrawn from Liaodong, and the original proportion of the Huangzhou Army dropped further - which is actually normal, because Shen Shuren planned to use this unit as a
Used by mounted archery troops, they must fire before charging, and equestrian skills are also very important.
Many of the veterans who survived the great waves in Liaodong were from cavalry units, and even a few were from Guan Ning cavalry. They naturally have a good foundation in riding skills. If they also have a basic foundation in marksmanship, it is easy to be selected.
Because the war may not start within this month, based on one month's allowance, the Shen Army may still have 600 new breech-loading guns by the time the war begins. New equipment is expensive and difficult to purchase, so it can only be done by people.
Waiting for equipment, you cannot equip and wait for others.
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After completing the training and review of the army, half a day had passed. Zheng Chenggong, who had been following quietly without interfering, came over just in time to remind Shen Shuren whether to arrange lunch, and then look at other things in the afternoon after rest.
Shen Shuren was also very close to the people and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. He said that he would eat in the military camp and take advantage of lunch time to visit the wounded who were evacuated from Liaodong.
Now these troops have only been resting ashore for half a month. Even if the more than twenty days of wandering on the sea and the Yangtze River are added, only forty days have passed since the wounded and sick were injured in the Battle of Beacon Mountain.
During that time at sea, the recovery efficiency was still relatively low. It was always bumpy and the nutrition could not keep up. Many people's injuries even worsened. When they stayed on the shore, the medical conditions were upgraded and the nutrition kept up, and they recovered quickly.
After a hundred days of breaking muscles and bones, for seriously injured patients with broken muscles, fractures and internal organ injuries, only one-third of the recovery can be achieved in forty days. Many people are still unable to get out of bed. Those with flesh injuries
The lightly wounded have recovered.
During the review at the school grounds today, only the lightly wounded who had just recovered participated along with the normal soldiers, while all the seriously wounded were still in bed.
As a person of later generations, Shen Shuren must have a much more equal mind than the people of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also more humane. The president of any country in later generations would have to make a show of visiting the wounded during a war.
Therefore, Shen Shuren's level of concern for wounded soldiers was certainly unmatched by other Ming Dynasty civil servants and generals.
There is no need to pretend, as long as you use the experience of inspections by chief ministers on later TVs, you can crush them directly.