Chapter 119: Weapons

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There were a total of 270 firearms brought by the Han army with the blue flag, and except for a dozen that were damaged in the battle, the rest were intact. Out of the importance of firearms, and has decided to convert the Taiping Battalion from a cold-weapon army to a hot-weapon army, so Zhou Shixiang let the trapped camp take on the test field of the Taiping Battalion's firearms. As long as the firecrackers trapped in the camp can be familiar with the use of firearms and master the tactics of battle, they will be able to serve as a seed instructor team equipped with firearms in the whole army in the future.

As for how to fight, Qin Zhisheng, Shao Jiugong and others all knew that as long as they taught a few officers who were trapped in the camp, the soldiers below would naturally follow. Zhou Shixiang also summarized some things that could be used on firearms when he was a soldier in his previous life, and also put forward the concept of segmented shooting in terms of tactics, which was several times stronger than the shooting of the Ming army or the Qing army, and the power and effect were also stronger.

Zhou Shixiang was very happy that he was able to apply the three-stage shooting he learned from foreign movies in his previous life to China's 17th century, but he didn't know that as early as two hundred years ago, the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty took the three-stage shooting to the extreme in the Shenji Battalion in the army. It's just that more than 200 years have passed, and one generation is not as good as the next, and the Ming Dynasty, which has been peaceful for a long time, has forgotten the best way to fight with this firearm.

Just as those high-ranking officials in the court forgot the huge fleet of the Three Treasure Eunuchs, so that the Ming army stared at the small boats of the Japanese on the southeast coast more than a hundred years later, and did not pay attention to the firecrackers. Forgetting the combat methods condensed by the blood of the predecessors naturally led to the fire guns that once crisscrossed the desert north into the current fire sticks. It's a pity, it's a pity!

Of course. Zhou Shixiang pondered these things that he would not be able to grasp if he fell into the camp for a while, and he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Although he really wanted to make the Fire Gun Soldier a killer weapon of the Taiping Army, it was useless for him to be in a hurry until he had enough training and combat run-in. At present, the decisive weapon that can actually solve the battle is still the broadsword and spear.

The distribution of weapons was decided, and the battalions quickly exchanged their weapons. Today's Taiping Battalion is not as shabby as it was when it was formed in Luoding, although it cannot be compared with the Qing army, which has a large family and a big business, it has also captured a large number of weapons through a few battles, at least it can ensure that all soldiers have weapons, rather than rushing forward with weapons in the past. The unarmed followed.

The soldiers of the first army are roughly equal, and the soldiers who first participated in the Taiping Battalion are not only really unbearable, but most of them have become small flags and sergeants, and these unbearable ones have also experienced several battles, although they have not made meritorious contributions, but they have also seen blood, and know how to fight this battle, so they can't command, but it is more than enough to lead the recruits in the army. Veterans lead new recruits, it has been a pattern throughout the ages. There is nothing to show Chen Lixin, he trains more on weekdays, and he commands properly in wartime. Tie your head to the waistband of your pants and spell it out.

The more than 400 recruits who joined Gao Yao were divided into each battalion, and the captured Gao Yao Green Battalion was also divided. After the whole camp is completed, whether it is a recruit or a prisoner, they are all determined, although it is really scary to cut off the head in public on the high platform today, as long as they do not escape. Even if you think about it, the knife won't cut your own head. For the officers, the rest was how to train the recruits and prisoners. Then lead them and the Qing army to the end, others. It's not interesting to think too much, just have food and meat to eat. In the future, it will be a thousand households to worry about.

Since Luoding, through the seizure and trading with Deqing Tang Sanshui, the Taiping Camp now has a total of 320 cotton armors in the whole battalion, most of which are "contributed" by the Han army with blue flags.

Although the cotton armor is not as strong as the iron armor, it has the upper hand against the unarmored soldiers, and often a soldier with armor can withstand the attack of three or five unarmored soldiers. During the battle between the Taiping Battalion and the Deqing Green Battalion that day, the strength of the Deqing soldiers wearing cotton armor left a deep impression on Zhou Shixiang and the officers, so after just finishing the battle for the distribution of weapons, the officers unanimously turned to quarrel around the distribution of cotton armor.

Every word you say to me, everyone is arguing, everyone wants to ask for more cotton armor to bring back, but everyone refuses to back down, when is this quarrel a head?

In the end, it was Zhou Shixiang who patted the board, and there were 320 pieces of cotton armor, and there were only more than 60 pieces of cotton armor in each battalion. Correspondingly, the Earthquake Battalion must be used as a vanguard in future battles, in exchange for the consent of hundreds of households in other battalions.

Zhou Shixiang patted the board, the hundred households, the trial hundred households naturally had nothing to say, the shock camp got so many cotton armor at once, Ge Zheng also patted his chest to ensure that they would be the first to go to the shock camp in the future war. That's it, whether you want it or not, the matter of cotton armor is decided. Ge Zheng, who was overjoyed, didn't even participate in the military discussion below, and went straight to get the cotton armor with two test hundred households and brought it back to the camp for distribution.

There are only 30 people in the whole battalion who can shoot arrows, and these 30 people are organized in the guard battalion as a separate team, which is called the bow team, and the captain is also a small flag shortage, but it is equipped with two sergeants as deputy captains. Zhou Shi explained very clearly to Jiang He, the archers must train weekdays, and must not be ignored because of the small number of people, and in the future, there will be new archers and bows and arrows to supplement, and the establishment must also be expanded, if there can be an independent bow battalion, it will definitely play a decisive role in the future war of the Taiping army.

Zhou Shi confessed, Jiang Hetian remembered them one by one, and when he turned around, he called the small flag of the bow and told him again.

There are dozens of people in the battalion who can ride horses, but most of them can only ride horses, and cannot fight on horses. There were more than 30 war horses captured before and after, and Zhou Shixiang organized a cavalry team in the guard battalion, mainly responsible for sentry and transmission of military information, and was not used for warfare.

After the reorganization of the five battalions, Zhou Shi had no interest in these so-called dead soldiers, so he let half of them go out of the camp and return to their hometowns, and the rest were organized into a team, with Chen Mo as the captain, still a small banner and not promoted. On weekdays, he also acts with the Guards Battalion, but he has another task, which is to serve as a murderer. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread can be), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued)