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The cavalry was armed with three-eyed guns, and the infantry was armed with muskets, and training began after the guns were distributed. But the officers were also confused about how to train soldiers to use muskets.

For this reason, Li Chao also deliberately spent a lot of time writing a book of musket drills.

Li Chao did not require the soldiers to practice their muskets with precision. After all, after these muskets were manufactured, Li Chao personally tried them, even if they were improved, there were gun drags, and there were crosshairs, but the accuracy was still limited.

Instead of practicing that accuracy, you should practice volleys.

After all, the musket still relies on the power of the salvo.

Li Chao didn't set up a target, but just set up an earthen wall in the field, and painted a horizontal path with lime, as high as a human chest, and one foot wide.

The soldiers formed a line, the captain blew a trumpet, and then a volley was fired. After shooting, retreat to the back, the second row comes forward to fire a volley, and then the third row.

In order to adapt to this kind of three-stage shooting, Li Chao deliberately changed the original team of five gangs to a team of three platoons. A platoon is exactly one row standing on the battlefield, and a team of three platoons can just shoot alternately, and three sections do not stop.

The purpose of this training was to train the musketeers to shoot at a low level and to fire a volley.

"Urging the front into battle, there are only three shots in front of the enemy. Therefore, when the battle is approaching, the musket also has no time to aim slowly, as long as the signs of the drill are not low or high, the critical point is put in order, and the rear is replaced quickly, the pretending is not mistakenly hit, the fight is not mistakenly pretended, and the practice is like rain, then the drill is considered to be successful. ”

"Therefore, our muskets, the most important thing is the array, which is the firepower. It must be fired in a volley, and the firepower cannot be broken, and the three-stage shooting must be practiced well. The captain's whistle sounded, and immediately a platoon of guns fired. ”

Striking the enemy with chest-high continuous and violent bullets is Li Chao's firearms combat method, and there is no other way.

Of course, when it comes to real combat, in order to protect the gunners, military formations will also be used, whether it is a hollow formation or a Pingliao formation, all in order to improve the gunners' continuous combat ability.

"Those who trespass and abuse will be punished by the captain; Those who are not as good as the law in charging and turning guns, the team will punish them. ”

Every day, on the edge of the Huanglong River, rows and rows of soldiers, under the beat of drums, practice queues. Rows of forward, turning, and reversing.

Then in the afternoon, it was live firing.

Although live firing consumes ammunition and damages the barrel, Li Chao believes that if a soldier shoots less than 100 rounds of live ammunition, then he will definitely not be able to shoot skillfully on the battlefield.

Loading and practicing medicine, shooting, and practicing the Pingliao phalanx and the hollow formation of breaking the captives, the river beach is full of gunfire every afternoon, and the air is filled with the smoke of the fog of war.

The cavalrymen began to be armed with three-eyed guns, which were much shorter than the Great Wall muskets, and were equipped with a curved handle, like a hand-barreled pistol, because it had three eyes, so it could shoot three shots.

The cavalry three-eyed gun training is also similar to that of the infantry, paying attention to salvo fire.

Slam your enemies with chest-piercing fire.

Li Chao stayed in his father's territory for two months.

At the beginning of May, the climate in the territory is cool, and it is still a little cold in the morning and evening, but by noon the sun is already a little powerful.

Fortunately, with the help of 20,000 soldiers, the main body of the castle of the Duke of Shangluo County has been completed, and the warehouses, barracks, schools, and shops in the castle are also under construction.

These tuns are not far from the castle and are the dwellings of the common people. After all, there is a limited space in the castle to accommodate everyone.

However, Tunzhuang also has a very high village wall, although it is built of rammed earth, but it also took a lot of thought. These tunzhuang, in fact, are the castle's forts, once wartime, can also play the role of defending the castle.

During this time, several more groups of immigrants came.

At present, there are more than 1,000 households in the territory, many craftsmen, and most of them are farmers. The people who moved here, each family was allocated a lot of land, although the castle was built this year, and it was impossible to farm, but those immigrants were still reluctant. The family members still opened some fields, planted vegetables, and planted some grain, although it was not much, but at least they could meet their own food rations.

The 20,000 Tang troops train every day, and the people have adapted to the habit, and they can even say hello when they meet.

Li Chao's military discipline is very strict, the people and the soldiers get along with each other, and there is no such thing as being a soldier to oppress the people.

There were, but that man was disciplined in public, and no one dared to commit it after that.

Running in the morning, lining up and practicing guns in the morning, helping to build the city in the afternoon, and attending classes in the evening, this kind of daily life has become a natural habit for the soldiers.

The people are also accustomed to getting up early every morning, listening to the wake-up call in the barracks, listening to those who are soldiers shouting and running in neat queues every morning.

Although it is outside the northern frontier and the Great Wall, these soldiers are there, and the people in the territory feel very safe.

The castle was built, and there was even a bazaar outside the castle.

Many merchants from the Central Plains came to trade goods, and many nearby Xi and Khitan people began to trade with goods.

At first, they were very afraid of the Tang army, and a few tribes that were close even migrated north.

But for more than two months, the Tang army has never taken a step north, nor has it threatened them. He even sent people to contact them, convey goodwill, and even gave them a lot of gifts, and invited them to trade in the south.

At first, I just sent a few people to test it, with a small amount of fur, and then found that the Tang people were really kind, they didn't embarrass them, and they were very fair when trading.

Gradually, more and more people were sent to trade, and more and more goods were delivered.

Up to now, people from many tribes no longer even need to come in groups, but directly come over with things to trade.

The market has a special tooth person, and there is also a special interpreter, who will help them introduce transactions and translate the language.

The furs, milk, meat, herbs, and livestock of the Hu people were all collected by the Han people. And many things that the Hu people want can be traded here, there are salt, tea, silk cloth, wooden bowls, iron pots, hemp rope, etc., and even knives for cutting meat, etc., all of which are very exquisite and cheap.

Anyway, it's much cheaper than what I bought in the past.

The reputation of the Shangluo County Princesses is getting more and more lively.

Among those Hu people who traded back and forth, there were also many spies who came to investigate the Tang army, including Xi people, Khitans, and even Goguryeo and Turkic people.

Some of the spies were discovered by Tang Jun, and some were not exposed, but as long as these people didn't do anything excessive, Tang Jun didn't touch them.

Tang Jun still runs every morning and exercises in the morning.

They were still lining up by the river to put their guns.

Even the newly established artillery carried 36 catties of tiger squat artillery for drills, and sometimes they would drag more than 1,000 catties of siege mortar for drills.

However, you can only watch from a distance, not close.

The neat queue, the loud voice, the crackling sound of the row of guns, and the loud roar of the artillery during the Tang Army's drill all made those spies secretly shocked.

More and more information came back, and Su Zhi, the big chief of the Xi Ahui Department, couldn't sit still.

"What did Vara say?"

When Su Zhi and the others who went to the Khitan returned, they immediately asked.

"Ohga Duro agreed to go south to meet with Li Chao."

Oga Dura, now the chief of the most powerful Oga tribe of the Khitan Eight Divisions, is also the Great Chieftain of the Eight Divisions Alliance. Although it is said that the Xi and Khitan have been separated for hundreds of years, the two ethnic groups have always been closely related and advance and retreat together.

Ah Hui Suzhi wanted to go south to see Li Chao, but he hesitated, and finally decided to pull the Khitan with him.

If the Xi people are with the Khitan, then there is some room for bargaining in front of the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, he wanted Li Chao to come north to meet, but the news he got recently made him unable to calm down. Li Chao sent someone over before, saying that he wanted to meet.

But after that, there was no news, he stayed on the border every day, practiced soldiers and horses all day long, and those new firearms were not hidden, but this made him even more calm.

Fortunately, Oga Tara finally agreed to go south to meet together.

Mid-May.

The Khitan chief Da He Duluo took his son Da He Mohui and 30,000 horsemen to the south. A few days later, Ahui Suzhi also took his son Ahui Kedu and 30,000 horsemen to the south.

60,000 allied troops were mighty.

At the end of May, he finally arrived at the Upper Lok County Lordship.

As soon as they entered the territory, Su Zhi and Luo Luo were a little uneasy.

It turns out that they have also been here, and at that time it was an ordinary mountainous area. But now, the Qinglong River is dotted with sailboats and wooden rafts flowing.

Fishermen and cargo carriers come and go.

On both sides of the river, the barren meadows have been turned into fields where crops grow after reclamation. Not long away, there will be a tunzhuang.

Chickens and dogs smell each other, and they are longitudinal and horizontal.

There is also a wide, well-groomed road by the river, and the road is full of cars and horses. Farmers and traders kept coming and going.

"Well, I was here last year, and it wasn't like that back then." Kedu said in surprise.

But when they walked a little further south, they found that this side was even more lively, especially the tall castle, which amazed them again and again.

Castles, tunzhuang, bazaars, and trading Central Plains merchants and Hu people.

The Tang officer who led the way in front said to them with a smile, "This is the fief of our Xiangguo's father, the Duke of Shangluo County, and the construction began this year, and it only took half a year to build the castle." Time is in a hurry, and the fort can't be repaired. ”

Su Zhi looked at the tall castle from a distance, is this still a little smaller?

"This fort is two miles in circumference, right?"

"The castle is one hundred and twenty zhang from east to west, north and south, and the city wall is four zhang high and two zhang wide."

Su Zhi sighed secretly, this is actually a castle with a circumference of nearly three miles, and the four-zhang high city wall is actually covered with bricks.

If you look closely, the castle still has a high-pitched foundation, so the city wall is equivalent to five zhang high.

And in these three miles of castle, there are six tunbao guards outside, and each tunbao has a high wall.

He estimated in his heart that if he wanted to attack this castle, as long as the castle had three or five thousand people, he would not be able to take it without ten times the number of soldiers.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a rumbling thunder and stepped off the war horse and neighed uneasily.

The Xi and Khitan coalition forces were in a panic.

"General Wang, could it be that this sound just now is your artillery?"

Wang Xuance smiled and replied, "Oh, that's just a musket. The sound of artillery is much louder than this, several, please garrison your soldiers and horses here, and the chiefs will follow me to the castle, where Li Xiang will be waiting for you. ”

At this time, there was another loud noise, even louder than just now, one after another, rumbling non-stop, like thunder in the sky.

The coalition army, which was already in a panic, was even more uneasy, and suddenly, there were war horses galloping. There were more and more frightened horses, and even if the knights shouted, there were still many frightened horses galloping, causing a chaos.

Looking at the chaotic military formation, Ah Hui Suzhi and Dahe Duluo both had very embarrassed faces and were too embarrassed. At the same time, I was secretly afraid that the firearms of the Tang army were too dangerous, and if they really wanted to fight, the Tang army would come with a burst of firearms, but I was afraid that their cavalry would collapse in fright.

It took a while to stabilize the military formation.

But just as it was stable, the cannon was fired again, and the war horse showed signs of chaos again.

"Twenty miles back and set up camp." Su Zhi had no choice but to order.

He also sent a letter and retreated twenty miles.

"Let General Wang see and laugh!" Suzhi Road.

Wang Xuance just smiled slightly, but this smile made Su Zhi and Lu Luo even more ashamed.