A few days later, Miao Shao and Xu Ming finally selected the men for the Ye Bu Shu team. The two of them selected a total of ten people from all the Dunjun troops in Dapanbao. It can be said that these ten Dunjun troops are the most powerful among all the Dunjun troops. Good seedlings.
So Miao Shao and Xu Ming gathered the ten Dunjun soldiers in a woods outside Dapanbao, and began to train Dapanbao all night long.
As for the remaining vacancies in the other teams, Liu Yan had no choice but to select ten more barely useful men from the military households to supplement them. This ensured the integrity of the numbers in each team.
If you don't collect them this night, you are a scout. They are set up along the border, along the coast and in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the soldiers selected by Ye Bushou in the Ming army were strangers who could fly over eaves and walk over walls, or had all kinds of murderous and arsonist skills. They even asked for those who knew astronomy and were good at fortune telling. In the Ming army, in addition to going out to scout, Ye Bushou often took on various tasks such as burning wasteland, making surprise attacks, or robbing camps due to his superb skills and familiarity with geography.
In the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, there is a kind of more elite sentry than Ye Bushou. These sentries often go far beyond the fortress, traveling thousands of miles to detect the enemy's situation. They stay in the enemy's territory for several months, and the places they visit are inaccessible. area, so it requires alert, strong and courageous people.
In addition to their superb skills, many of these soldiers in the Ming army were proficient in several foreign languages. For example, brothers Miao Shao and Xu Ming were proficient in Mongolian. In addition, they also knew some simple Jurchen language.
According to later generations, the Ye Bushou and Jianshao in the Ming army at this time were the special scouts in the army of later generations. They were the most elite existences in both the guard army and the camp, even better than some generals' subordinates. The servants are even stronger.
If these people are well trained, Liu Yan will have a group of outstanding sentinels and intelligence eyes and ears. The elite Ye Bushou can often play a decisive role on the battlefield. Of course, Liu Yan strongly supports this. It can be said that When you ask for people, give people, and when you ask for money, give money.
It's just that the foundation of the Dunjun in Dapanbao is too weak at this time. There are no very strong soldiers at all, and there are no strange people. There are only a few dozen people in total, so Miao Shao and Xu Ming can only do it. It is unrealistic to be tall among the dwarfs, and it is unrealistic to train such powerful elites as the frontier army in one fell swoop.
At this time, a total of twelve members of the Ye Bu Shu Team began to train. Liu Yan also rushed over to observe with great interest, preparing to see how Miao Shao and Xu Ming trained their subordinates. It was eye-opening.
Miao Shao and Xu Ming first checked and got to know the ten subordinates, and found that three of them were suffering from night blindness. Liu Yan knew that the cause of night blindness was too little protein intake on weekdays.
So without saying a word, Miao Shao and Xu Ming found several pairs of raw chicken livers, raw pig livers, and even a dozen lively tadpoles for the three of them to swallow alive.
The three of them looked at the bloody chicken livers, pork livers, and the dozen or so black, soft and waxy tadpoles. Their faces turned pale and they were a little hesitant. The other seven Dunjun soldiers next to them also looked disgusted when they saw it. expression.
Liu Yan was slightly stunned when he saw this, and then he understood the reason, and he couldn't help but look at Miao Shao and Xu Ming with admiration. It's just that it's one thing to understand the reason, but it's another thing to accept it. Watching the three Dunjun soldiers resist the urge to vomit and swallow the chicken liver, pig liver and tadpoles, Liu Yan's face also changed. Not very nice.
Over there, Miao Shao said sternly: "We don't collect our troops at night. We often go to various places to scout at night. From now on, we often choose brave soldiers to attack enemy camps at night. If you can't recognize objects at night, how can you follow them?" Should I go out to spy? If I attack at night, wouldn't I die in vain?"
Then, Xu Ming stood up and forced the three of them to swallow the remaining tadpoles and other things alive until they were all eaten. The two Dunjun soldiers next to him immediately started retching, and Liu Yan couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw this.
After seeing these training methods, Liu Yan was completely relieved. Miao Shao and Xu Ming were both rare talents. It seemed that he had met a treasure. He could safely leave the training here all night long to them. Miao Shao and Xu Ming.
So Liu Yan said goodbye to everyone and returned to Dapanbao first. After that, Miao Shao and Xu Ming led the ten Dunjun Shenlongs without knowing where they were going. Miao Shao and Xu Ming even gathered their men in the middle of the night, and everyone went out to train in the cold night wind.
However, Liu Yan felt free to let Miao Shao and Xu Ming train him, and did not interfere at all with their training methods.
At the same time, the rest of the Dunjun troops in Dapanbao have undergone rigorous training and have made great progress.
After a few days, Liu Yan decided to add new training content to them.
Liu Yan currently has only three types of soldiers: sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, and fire gun soldiers.
At this time, after a period of training, they have developed a certain tacit understanding in team formation, fighting each other, and cooperating. So after the team training every night, Liu Yan trained their personal technical abilities.
According to the Qi Jiajun's performance appraisal, the Dunjun skills are divided into nine levels. At present, Liu Yan's army has just started, with only a few dozen people. There is no need to roughly divide it into four levels: upper, middle, lower, and unqualified.
Each level has different treatment, rewards and punishments: Those in the upper level will have meat to eat every day, and can also sit on an equal footing with Chen Xun and other small flag officers. When meeting several small flag officers, they only need to bow and do not need to kneel down. . For those who are moderate, eat meat once every three days. The lower class only eat dry food every day. Those who fail each test will be given ten blows with the military stick. Those who fail the test five times will be given thirty blows with the military stick and will be expelled from the Dun Army and no longer enjoy military pay.
Liu Yan set the rule that there will be one test every two months in the future. The fourth grade can be promoted or lowered indefinitely, the middle and lower grades can be promoted, and the upper grade can also be demoted to the middle and lower grades. If there are those who stay still, there will be corresponding punishment measures. If you stand still once, you will be exempted from liability; if you stand still twice, you will be beaten with a five-army stick. Three times he stood still and beat the Ten Army sticks. Anyone who refuses to make any progress more than five times will be beaten with thirty army sticks and expelled from the Dun army. Of course, if you get top grades every time, it doesn't count as standing still.
In terms of the performance of the Dunjun Army, if each team regresses or has a large proportion of unqualified players, even the flag officer who leads the team will be punished.
Take the sword and shield soldiers as an example. When holding a shield, they are inferior if they can move it to cover themselves. Being able to test the sword and rush into the spear formation is considered medium. Let them fight with the pikemen with cards. If the opponent cannot beat the opponent with a backhand, it will be superior. Liu Yan also recently made a batch of javelins for use by sword and shield soldiers.
From now on, the sword and shield soldiers will hold javelins and take twenty steps as the standard. If they can hit the three copper coins hanging there. One in the middle is inferior, two in the middle is medium, three in the middle is superior. If you miss one, you will be deemed unqualified and will be beaten with a military stick.
This standard is far lower than Qi Jiajun's performance appraisal exercise, but Liu Yan is not in a hurry and takes his time. In the future, he will definitely be able to build a strong army comparable to Qi Jiajun.
The same is true for pikemen. When they practice spears, they also set up a human-shaped wooden handle twenty steps away, with five holes for the eyes, throat, heart, waist, and feet, with an inch wooden ball inside each.
When the drums were beating, they would fly forward with their spears and poke any hole they wanted. After five times of poking, if they could stab the wooden ball in the hole onto the spear three times, it would be the top hit. twice, medium. Once, wait. Not even once, and if the technique, footwork, bodywork, advance and retreat methods are not rigorous when testing the gun, then it will be deemed unqualified and the military stick will serve.
After this graded reward and punishment system came into being, each Dunjun had a certain sense of crisis, and everyone in the team was regarded as a competitor. However, this kind of healthy competitive atmosphere was what Liu Yan was happy to see.
In ancient times, cold weapon combat mainly relied on the use of waist strength. In order to exercise everyone's waist strength, Liu Yan also ordered the craftsmen to make a batch of stone locks, so that these military households must exercise dozens of times every day. However, it is easy to practice sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, but it is more difficult to practice fire gunners.
They were good at practicing swordsmanship, but the main reason was that gun shooting training was difficult, not because everyone couldn't hit, but because of the cost of training firearms.
In this Ming Dynasty, even if it was a fine bird gun, the service life of the gun tube was only dozens of times. After several dozen shots a day, a blunderbuss tube will be scrapped after more than ten days, and it will take at least a month to make another blunderbuss tube. Consuming such a large amount of money required a lot of money. Even if Liu Yan had the financial resources of the soap workshop, it would be difficult to support it. Moreover, the speed at which Liu Yan could make the blunderbuss was far faster than the amount of money consumed. This was Liu Yan's unacceptable.
Moreover, this shooting training should not be thought of without a large amount of ammunition. You can ask the craftsmen in the fort to make some lead, but the saltpetre that Liu Yan now uses to make gunpowder is basically purchased from outside. Problems with funds and gunpowder raw materials severely restricted the development of Liu Yan's firearms.
Liu Yan planned to wait until the Dapanbao was finally completed and then start solving the problem of gunpowder raw materials. These were not problems for Liu Yan, but he just couldn't spare them now.
Liu Yan has a way to solve this problem. Liu Yan still lets the gunmen in the army practice to their heart's content.
At dusk that day, in the still very crude fighting field outside the fort, the sound of firing guns was endless.
Liu Yan was standing in front watching several cannon soldiers shooting. Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, and Wang Bo were all surrounding Liu Yan and watching.
Chen Xun was explaining the loading essentials to several gunners. At this time, Chen Xun's talent for firearms also appeared. He loaded the gunpowder lead bullets very skillfully, then aimed at the star, aiming at the five stars in front of him. Ten steps away, the trigger of a target was pulled. There was a "pop" sound, and the lead bullet hit the bull's-eye.
Then Chen Xun fired two more shots, both of which hit. Everyone shouted "Hello" when they saw it.
Liu Yan did not dare to compare with Qi Jiajun now. When training his gun, he just set up a target fifty steps away. However, the training standards are the same. Those who hit all three shots are considered superior, those who hit one out of three shots are considered average, and those who hit six times and one hit are considered inferior. If you shoot six times and miss once, you will be deemed unqualified.
Liu Yan immediately rewarded Chen Xun with a silver coin as an incentive to those gunners. As long as everyone can practice to Chen Xun's level, they can also get their reward.
Then Liu Yan went around the arena to watch the Dunjun training, while thinking about a question in his mind.
Now Liu Yan has formulated a series of reward and punishment systems for the firearms craftsmen in the fort. Most of the blunderbuss made by Tan Xiaoda and the others are qualified, and the customized size of the blunderbuss mouths basically have certain standards. The excellent quality allows gunsmiths to safely hold the body of the gun and aim carefully close to the tail during training, which greatly improves the hit rate of the gun.
But despite this, the shooting and reloading speed of those gunners is still slower. With Chen Xun's rate of fire, it would take nearly a minute to fire one round, and other gunners' shooting rates were even slower.
At this time, the steps for shooting the Ming Dynasty bird gun include pouring the powder, charging the powder, pressing the fire, loading the bullet, and loading the match rope. If you want to break it down in detail, the steps will even take more than 20 steps. Skilled shooters usually only shoot one shot per minute. Some ordinary gunsmiths are in a hurry when they arrive on the battlefield, and they are fine if they can shoot one shot in two minutes.
Although there is currently no way to make a flintlock gun, we can think of ways to improve the reloading speed of the bird gun.
So Liu Yan thought of fixed ammunition.
"It seems that after the Dapanbao is finally completed, not only will the problem of gunpowder raw materials have to be solved, but the research and development schedule of collision ammunition will also have to be upgraded."
