The second chapter is here, is it possible to collect it this time? Hey hey)

For the training of musketeers, his experience only comes from some previous online materials and scenes in film and television dramas, so after he sorted out his thoughts, he asked these selected musketeers to start practicing according to his understanding of the application of muskets.

First of all, he asked these people to keep practicing the loading of the firearms, and repeatedly asked them to repeat each loading action, so that they had to reach the level of instinct in the reloading steps, and the loading mistakes of the gang of goods in the province were on the battlefield, so as to prevent them from either loading too much gunpowder and exploding the chamber, or forgetting to load the projectile or forgetting to draw out the cane, and releasing a shot in vain, so that the training can also greatly increase the speed of reloading, at least to be able to reload twice a minute.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian also found a problem, that is, the gunpowder equipped with these gunpowder hands was all powdered gunpowder when poured out, which caused the uneven composition of the gunpowder, which seriously affected the performance of the gunpowder, and naturally also affected the power of the gunpowder.

In this era, there was no smokeless gunpowder, but as long as it was made into granular gunpowder, the power was considerable, so it seems that these craftsmen who made gunpowder either cut corners or did not master the method of making granular gunpowder at all.

Then there is the gunpowder of the gunner, which is packed in a horn, and many inexperienced people are easy to load more or less when charging, and the quality of the loading cannot be guaranteed at all, and it also affects the speed of reloading.

In Xiao Tianjian's view, even in the arquebus era, it is completely possible to use fixed gunpowder, which is divided into small containers in advance and poured directly into the chamber when used, so as to ensure that the quality of gunpowder is the same every time it is loaded, and greatly reduce the accident of exploding.

Xiao Tianjian belongs to that kind of activist, since he thought of it, he immediately took action, granular gunpowder is very simple to make, but it is to fully mix the powdered gunpowder, spread it on the basket, and then boil some glutinous rice juice, whether it is sprayed with a mouth or sprayed with a watering can, the glutinous rice juice is evenly sprayed on the powdered gunpowder, and then gently shake the basket, the powdered gunpowder will condense into granular gunpowder by itself, and store it after drying, and the granular gunpowder is considered to be completed. This granular gunpowder is much stronger than powdered gunpowder in terms of power, and it is not easy to shake when transporting the heavier sulfur in the gunpowder to sink, and the charcoal powder floats on the upper layer, and it can also effectively reduce the moisture absorption of gunpowder, which can be said to be more than one stone.

As for the distribution of gunpowder, it is simpler, as long as the gunpowder is divided strictly according to the amount of charge, whether it is wrapped in oiled paper or packed with a small bamboo tube, in short, it is convenient to take and fill, and it can also effectively prevent moisture, and its role is naturally self-evident.

He couldn't find the oil paper at hand, so he had to find some dried bamboo, cut it into sections, divide the gunpowder into these bamboo tubes, plug the mouth with cork, and finally seal it with wax to prevent moisture.

Then there is Xiao Tianjian also found a problem, that is, the lead used by these musketeers is a bit irregular, either large or small, the large one is not easy to load into the chamber when loading, and it is easy to explode, but the small one falls into it with a chirp, and the muzzle is slightly lower, the projectile will fall out, even if it does not fall out, it is also because of the deflating when the gunpowder burns, causing the projectile to fly far away and the power is greatly reduced.

So he had to ask a craftsman to melt the projectiles and recast them, and the specifications had to be matched to each gun so that it would not appear in the previous situation, and be as precise as possible, so that it could effectively match the chamber of the gun and increase the loading speed and power of the musket.

In just a few days, these sub-packs of gunpowder were equipped to these gunners, when they used it, they only needed to bite off the sealed wooden cork with their teeth, and directly pour the gunpowder into the muzzle, Xiao Tianjian also asked the women in the fort to sew a set of gunpowder belts for each gunpowder hand with coarse cloth, which was similar to the belt of the shotgun in later generations, and it was much more convenient to use.

On the other hand, under Xiao Tianjian's training, these firecrackers made rapid progress when loading, and the speed that could only be reloaded once in one or two minutes was greatly increased, so that the speed of reloading reached the speed of two pieces per minute, which made Xiao Tianjian much more satisfied.

In addition to letting these guys practice loading, Xiao Tianjian also forced these guys to practice aiming for a long time every day, everyone held the firecracker, and it was a long time to drag it, and the tired guys had unbearable soreness in their arms, which was not enough, Xiao Tianjian also hung a stone on each of their guns to increase the weight and exercise the stability of their guns when aiming, this method was commonly used by PLA in later generations when training recruits, Xiao Tianjian also experienced this kind of training, and the effect was quite good, otherwise, It was his first time shooting, and he couldn't have done that well.

It's a pity that the amount of gunpowder he has on hand is too small, although he really wants to use live ammunition to train these guys, but the shortage of gunpowder makes him unable to do this, plus the life of these bird gun barrels is very short, far less than the barrel life of later generations of firearms that can easily be thousands of rounds or tens of thousands of rounds, and one shot will be used less once, God knows when he will have the ability to make muskets independently, so he is really reluctant to use it like this.

The problem of making gunpowder is not a difficult thing for Xiao Tianjian, few people in later generations do not know the formula of gunpowder, but it is saltpeter, sulfur, and toner, and the ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty is quite mature, and there is basically no difference between the gunpowder ratio of later generations, but at the moment Xiao Tianjian does not have saltpeter and sulfur on hand, and wants to make homemade gunpowder, at least it is not realistic now, so the only gunpowder has become Xiao Tianjian's baby, in addition to equipping each firearm with thirty rounds of fixed gunpowder, The measly stockpile of gunpowder was only enough for the Tiger Squat Cannon to fire four or five times.

But even so, after a few days of practice, Xiao Tianjian still reluctantly let the gang come to a live shooting to test the training effect of these days.

"Start loading!" After Xiao Tianjian ordered them to line up, he ordered loudly.

More than a dozen gunners immediately put the handle of the bird gun on the ground, and with a very neat movement, they took out a bamboo tube containing gunpowder from their waists, bit off the wooden plug at the front end of the bamboo pipe, and instantly poured the gunpowder in the bamboo tube into the chamber, and then used a cane to insert it into the chamber to tame the gunpowder, took out a projectile in the projectile bag, stuffed it into the mouth, and smashed the projectile into the bottom of the chamber with a cane again, and tightly fit the gunpowder together.

Then they picked up the gun, opened the lid of the pool, poured the powder into the pool, closed the lid of the pool, lit the rope on the musket, and opened the dragon's head,...... Holding the barrel of the gun in both hands, he placed it upright in front of him, blew the fire rope with his mouth so that it would not be extinguished, and then shouted one by one: "Reloaded!" ……”

After several days of repeated training, these guys were already very familiar with the whole loading action, and in about half a minute, these people all completed the loading and reported loudly to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction, this kind of training is still effective, at least the reloading speed has really improved a lot, so he immediately ordered loudly again: "Raise the gun!" Aim! ”

After more than a dozen gunners excitedly loaded the gunpowder, they flattened the gunpowder together with a bang, raised their guns and began to carefully aim at the humanoid target set by Xiao Tianjian for them fifty paces away.

"Fire!" With Xiao Tianjian's order, these gunners pulled down the bolt together, only to hear a thumping gunshot, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke immediately rose in front of them, making it almost impossible to see the target's situation.

"Put down the gun! Clear the chamber! Xiao Tianjian then ordered loudly.

This row of musketeers immediately put down the muskets, immediately pulled out their canes, inserted them into the still smoking chambers, removed the remaining unburned gunpowder residues in the chambers, and quickly picked up the guns and cleaned the small holes leading to the chambers of the cartridges, so as to prevent the gunpowder from being unable to fire the chamber when the pond was used next time.

At this time, several people lying on their stomachs in the ditch on the other side of the target immediately got up and began to check the target.

"Target No. 1 hits the chest! Target No. 2 misses! Target No. 3 hits the head! Target No. 4 hits the leg......" Soon the gang screamed, loudly reporting the results of their shooting to the musketeers on this side.

The effective hit of the firecracker was immediately overjoyed, grinning loudly, just now when they shot was really worried that this guy in his hand would blow them up and kill them, but now they are very happy, fifty steps to hit the target, for them before they could not think of it, but now they have done it.

Those gunners who didn't hit the target were very unlucky, and they finally managed to get a live shot, but they also beat the lead to nothing, and these inaccurate gunners, one or two, were very frustrated, and felt very ashamed.

After listening to the target, Xiao Tianjian did the math, half of the twelve firecrackers hit, and half missed, although he was not satisfied with this result, but it was about the same, because this firecracker was poorly manufactured, and it was fortunate that it didn't blow up, and half of the hits were already quite good results, even if he was given a shot to hit, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to hit the target, so he nodded his head to say that he could accept it, and praised those who hit: "Not bad!" It seems that you guys are still working hard these days! Today's hitters will add a piece of meat to each person at night! Anyone who doesn't hit should not eat meat! It's called reward and punishment! Gun on the shoulder, turn left! March! ……”