NovelBonte Chapter 181 Training Musketeers (Part 1)
Chapter 181 Training Musketeers (Part 1)
Chapter 181 Training the Musketeers (First update)
Although the barrel poured in this way is incomparable with the special steel forged and mechanically bored firearms of Xiao Qi's previous life, it is incomparable in terms of material and quality.
But these poured gun barrels are fired with black powder and iron balls, and the requirements for the barrel are much lower than those of the guns in the previous life.
In Xiao Qi's previous life, no one would be able to use such a gun for shooting rabbits. It has a short range, poor accuracy, and is very bulky.
But for Xiao Qi, the manufacture of these gun barrels is the first step to the success of his long-cherished mission. With long-term casting, this thing will soon be perfected and improved by the craftsmen.
Barrels are getting better and better, that's for sure.
Everything has its own law of development. Everything that is manufactured will make progress little by little. Even if progress cannot be made due to constraints, shortcomings will be gradually made up for.
Xiao Qi knew very well that the shooting range of muskets today was not as far as that of strong bows in this era, and that it would take a lot of time to reload gunpowder and projectiles after firing.
In this way, the musketeers are vulnerable to enemy arrows, and even rushed to the front for hand-to-hand combat.
Therefore, Xiao Qi designed a new style of gun barrel for Tao Ding, but did not make other changes, only added a slot in front of the barrel, and he also gave a design drawing of a bayonet.
The total length of the bayonet is nearly three feet, the blade is two feet long, the handle is one foot long, and there is a ring at the interface between the handle and the blade.
Usually, the bayonet with scabbard is hung on the soldier’s waist and can be used as a waist knife. In wartime, the bayonet is mounted on the front end of the barrel, the end of the handle is inserted into the slot of the barrel, and the ring on the bayonet is set on the barrel.
This can perfectly fix the bayonet and the barrel together. In hand-to-hand combat, the musketeer can also use the gun as a spear to assassinate the enemy.
The [-] brave troops who abandoned their horses and came as infantry became the perfect source of musketeers, because they had all learned some sword styles taught by Xiao Qi, and they fought bravely and were not afraid of death.
Xiao Qi gathered these 3 people and began to teach them the various formations of muskets to defend against the enemy, and the fighting methods of bayonets.
In this era of musket defense against the enemy, there are actually only two forms. One is the method of defense when facing the opponent's attack.
That is, the upper, middle and lower rows in the front, after firing at the enemies rushing towards the other side, they quickly retreated from both sides of the team to the rear of the team, cleared the gun chambers and filled them with gunpowder and projectiles.
When they met the enemy, the comrades behind them stayed still. After they turned from the sides to the rear, they formed three rows of upper, middle and lower rows to fire at the enemy, and so on.
This seemingly retreating formation can effectively keep a distance from the attacking enemy, delay the time of hand-to-hand combat, and more effectively take advantage of the musketry.
The other type is the queue during attack.
That is, the queue is firing while marching. When the queue is marching, the officer leading the team gives an order, and the team stops, and the front row is quickly divided into three rows of upper, middle and lower rows to shoot.
After they finished shooting, they loaded ammunition on the spot, and the three rows behind quickly passed through them to shoot in front, so that they advanced while shooting until they defeated their opponents and then launched a charge.
Of course, Xiao Qi was very attentive to the musketeers' defense, which was easy to be attacked. He ordered the barrels of those gun barrels that failed to be poured to be melted and made into thin and light plate armor.
The weirdest thing is the helmet of these Musketeers.
This helmet is designed with a visor, and when the visor is put down, the helmet will tightly cover the entire head, only revealing the three-inch-long and one-inch-wide observation port left for the eyes of the visor.
Moreover, the armor of the musketeers even had light armor protection for their legs. It can be said that wearing this armor would cause internal injuries when attacked by heavy weapons. Basically, those swords and arrows could no longer attack the musketeers in the armor.
Because these are good steels that have been forged and refined many times, although these armors are light and thin, their defensive power is not inferior to the heavy armors of this era.
And because the armor is light and thin, it can not only effectively provide protection, but also facilitate the musketeers to fight flexibly.
In addition, these brave troops used to be cavalry troops, and they were equipped with horses in the future. They rode on horses and held muskets with bayonets to chase down the enemy's rout.
Xiao Qi postponed the time to attack Dongpu, and concentrated on training his first musketeer army.
Now that the musketeers and armor have not been forged, Xiao Qi ordered to build a thousand sticks for these musketeers.
Let these Musketeers, with a team of thousands of people, start to practice shooting formation with these wooden sticks, fighting with bayonets.
These [-] brave soldiers who were suddenly assigned to the Musket Army were very confused about how they could suddenly become a Musketeer Army that they had never heard of before.
Of course, because Xiao Qi personally trained them, although they were dissatisfied with being replaced by the Musketeers from the most powerful heroic army in the Song Dynasty for no reason, no one said that they would not stay here and go back to the heroic army.
But when the first batch of one hundred musket bayonets and ten sets of armor were sent to the barracks, these people went crazy!
All these [-] people lined up to touch the ten pieces of armor hanging on the rack.
Marshal Xiao said that everyone has such a powerful and beautiful armor. It’s so awesome!
Qin Tu, Lin Zheng and the other four bosses don't have such awesome armor, and now I'm about to have it, wow quack!
Xiao Qi saw that these guys only had those ten beautiful armors in their eyes, and after seeing the armors, they went to look at the hundred muskets with bayonets, feeling very speechless.
After all these guys had finished reading, call them together and give them a lecture.
"You actually don't know what is most important now. Why is this army called the Musketeers Army?
Muskets are the foundation of this army!Those armors are very powerful and beautiful, but the muskets are the soul of this army!
Without muskets, don't even think about wearing those armors on your body! "
Then Xiao Qi reiterated the military regulations to them again, that is, no one is allowed to disclose everything about the musketeers to anyone other than the musketeers.
Anyone who violates the military regulations will be beheaded, or driven out of the Musketeer Army and will never be hired.
These guys have already begun to fantasize about wearing that mighty armor and carrying a musket to show off in front of their former comrades-in-arms. Who would want to be kicked out of the Musketeer Army!
They all decided in secret, even if their parents asked about the musket, they would not tell it.
As muskets and armor began to be produced continuously, batches were sent to the musketeer camp.
The matching gunpowder and projectiles have also begun to be distributed to the Musketeers.
After watching the Musketeers' first live ammunition shooting training, Xiao Qi found that it took too long for them to finish firing and reload gunpowder and bullets.
Moreover, because those soldiers were not familiar with it, the amount of gunpowder loaded was different. When loading gunpowder, a lot of gunpowder would be spilled on the ground.
Xiao Qi felt that this was not enough, these soldiers were in such a panic now, and it would be even more troublesome when they were nervous on the battlefield and pretended to be too much gunpowder to explode their chests.
After thinking about how to decide for a long time, Xiao Qi suddenly slapped himself on the head. How could he forget such an important thing? In his previous life, he watched those Western war movies of the [-]th century. Didn't those soldiers have all the rules?
So he quickly drew up the drawings and ordered the craftsmen to make a large number of cleaning rods immediately.
He also asked these soldiers to familiarize themselves with the amount of gunpowder first, and then gave each of them a lot of cut paper, asking them to pack the gunpowder into small packets according to the amount of one shot, for future use.
Put those paper bags into the gun barrel and compact them, then poke the paper bags with a blower and then put the projectiles into the gun barrel for compaction, and then light the fuse inserted on the musket with a matchlock to complete the launch.
After implementing this, Xiao Qi found that the time for soldiers to load ammunition and launch was shortened by more than half!
Xiao Qi ordered them to practice with live ammunition every three days with empty guns. Although this will consume a lot of ammunition, no strong army that uses firearms is fed with ammunition.
For this reason, Xiao Qi also sent a ship to return to Song Dynasty to buy a large amount of paper. Of course, this kind of paper doesn't need to be very good, as long as it can be used.
In order not to make this thing a restriction, Xiao Qi also sent a message to Zhang Xiu, asking her to gather a large number of craftsmen in Song Dynasty to make paper.
In the future, there will be more and more musketeers in my army. Paper, gunpowder, and bullets will become the fastest-consuming munitions, and none of them can be restricted.
The production of gunpowder and projectiles has long been controlled in their own hands, and the peninsula does not know how to produce paper. In the past, they were all purchased from Daikin, or from the Song Dynasty bought through Daikin.
Because even Dajin's papermaking was just learned from Song people, and the real papermaking power is Dasong.
Chapter 1 is here, ask for a ticket!
When writing this chapter, the author has a little feeling. I hope that everyone will encourage your boyfriend, girlfriend or children to make more mistakes when they try to do things they didn’t do. Be tolerant and don’t blame them, which will stop them from moving forward. .People grow up through repeated failures and losses.
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