Xu Xingxia left the officers of the White Clothes Army behind, mainly to announce his plan for the reorganization of the White Clothes Army. According to the development of the situation, Xu Xingxia decided to make some adaptations to the white-clothed army to better meet the needs of the battle. The arrival of Mo Yuegen made Xu Xingxia deeply feel that Ningxia Town was too unsafe. If he didn't have a strong combat force to protect him, even if his archery skills were a hundred times more powerful, he would have been killed by the human sea tactics.

The battle in Karon Mountain made Xu Xingxia realize a lot of things. The main thing is the understanding of rifled guns. The rifled guns currently produced by the craftsman's workshop have not yet met the requirements of sniper rifles in terms of accuracy. Therefore, if you want to accurately hit long-distance targets, you have to continue to work processing technology. For the time being, the Moon Gun must be used intensively and shoot at dense targets in order to inflict the best lethal effect.

Obviously, battles like the one in the Caron Hill Fortress should be rarely used in the future. This kind of terrain is definitely not available in every place, and it is not encountered in every battle. If Mo Yuegen hadn't entered Ningxia Town in a hurry, he would not have launched a strong attack on the Beacon Pier of Kalong Mountain, thus bringing huge losses to himself.

More often than not, the musketeers, or the white-clad troops, are supposed to be in the plains, encountering a large number of enemies. At this time, how to exert the power of the moon gun is very exquisite. Generally speaking, the use of smoothbore guns is in a linear queue, which is commonly known as a queue shooting. It is said that the moon gun is a rifled gun, do you have to take a line to shoot it? All of these require actual combat experience.

In order to better test the use of rifled guns, Xu Xingxia decided to form a new musket team. This new musket team, also with an establishment of about 50 people, was temporarily named the Xiongqu Army Detachment. The commander of the Xiongqu Army detachment was Lin Dacheng, and the deputy commander was Chen Shouwang. All the members of the Xiongqu Army squad are equipped with the Yue Yue Gun.

The commander of the musketeers does not need to be very brave. They only need mechanical execution discipline. In this regard, Lin Dacheng and Chen Shouwang are both such talents. They have no culture, and they don't have the thinking of creating surnames, but they always carry out Xu Xingxia's orders to the letter, and never ask why. The most important thing is that the upcoming training method of the Xiongqu Army squad has a lot to do with the surnames of the two people.

Xu Xingxia has already decided that the two musket teams of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Xiongqu Army will adopt different training methods. The Tiger and Par Ride, which is mainly used in dispersion, pursues one-on-one accurate shooting, somewhat similar to the training of sharpshooters. The Xiong Qu Army, on the other hand, is used intensively, pursuing a salvo in a queue, and is a standard queue shot. Xu Xingxia wants to test through practice what kind of training method can achieve a stronger killing effect.

"Your Excellency, you understand us so well!" As soon as Xu Xingxia's order was announced, Gao Meng and Zhang Feng grinned happily. Apparently, they prefer a dispersed approach to firing. They generally believe that the lone ranger-style combat style is more conducive to their combat performance and can create greater results.

In fact, most of the members of the Haw Par Cavalry detachment have the potential to become lone rangers. They are quick to react, flexible in their actions, and relatively experienced on the battlefield. They don't need instructions from above, they know what they should do. Xu Xingxia's order did take into account their main characteristics. If you forcibly tie them up in a queue, it's not beautiful.

Due to the limitations of processing technology, at a range of 200 meters, the accuracy of the moon gun is uncontrollable. Even the most astute sharpshooter will have a hard time shooting directly at the target. However, within a range of 100 meters, the accuracy of the moon gun is quite good. Previous tests have shown that at a distance of 100 meters, the deviation range of the Mini bullet is about 10 centimeters. Such a deviation is not very large. As long as you continue to sum up your experience and train hard, it is not impossible to kill with one blow.

In real history, there were clever snipers who could even use a smoothbore gun as a sniper rifle. The British admiral Nelson died at the hands of a smoothbore sniper. And Washington, the founding president of the United States, almost died at the hands of a smoothbore sniper. Even if the processing technology of the rifled gun is not good, in terms of accuracy, it is still much better than the general smoothbore gun. It is entirely possible to be fatal with one blow at a distance of 100 meters.

Compared with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry detachment, which is scattered and flexible and pays attention to individual skills, the members of the Xiongqu Army detachment are much more serious and rigid. For this musket team, which mainly queues up to shoot, what Xu Xingxia needs is definitely not a surname, and it is definitely not a skill. What he needs is iron discipline, unconditional obedience, and a good psychological quality that does not change his face when Mount Tai collapses in front of him. They must be able to face death without fear. Without an order to retreat, even if the enemy's cavalry, rushing into their ranks, they must not be able to retreat half a step.

Obviously, in order to do this, it is necessary to work on the quality of the soldiers. It's like Qi Jiguang's conditions for choosing soldiers at the beginning, the members of the Xiongqu Army detachment had better be stupid, but not too stupid. It's better to be a little more rigid, but not too rigid. It's best to be a little afraid of the government, but not too scared. It's best to have a slightly wooden surname, but not a real wood.

Specifically, it is not necessary for the slippery people in the urban and rural areas, the oil of the veterans, the city people who are accustomed to seeing the government, and the people with white faces, fine skin and tender meat. As long as the black and stout, the government has a timid sense of the country, the rural people and the miners are the best. In a word: honest and sturdy redneck. The easiest way to choose is to ask them to stretch out both hands. Only those with calluses on their hands can be selected.

Every time he ponders this recruitment standard, Xu Xingxia can't help but think of the famous Gurkha mercenaries in the later period. They are indeed very good soldiers, obedient, rigid, and loyal. If you have the opportunity to recruit them in advance, it must be a good choice. It's a pity that Ningxia Town is indeed too far away from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is estimated that in the next few years, there will be no opportunity to contact the people of the Gurkha tribe.

Another mercenary group that is famous in history should be the Cossacks. At a time when the Tatars were strong, the Cossacks had not yet shown their strength. However, with the gradual decline of the Tatars in the later period, the fierceness of the Cossacks gradually manifested itself. There is no doubt that in the future, as long as the white-coated army marches westward, a showdown with the Cossack cavalry is inevitable. At that time, it will definitely be a series of fierce battles.

According to Xu Xingxia's recruitment standards, the white-clothed army was in Weizhen Fort to select personnel. This time, Xu Xingxia expanded the recruitment criteria to those over 15 years old and under 35 years old, which was greatly relaxed compared with the original scope of recruitment, and immediately attracted many people to participate. In addition, Xu Xingxia also lowered the standard of physical fitness tests. As long as you are not a person with very poor physical fitness, you can basically pass the physical fitness test.

The purpose of this is, of course, to recruit more qualified soldiers. The population base of Weizhenbao is not large after all, and if there are only more soldiers under the age of 25, and the requirements for physical fitness tests are so high, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recruit enough soldiers. In addition, the requirements for musketeers are indeed inferior to those of mounted archers. Even if the conditions are relaxed, there is no problem.

Why did firearms eventually replace cold weapons? One of the key reasons is that firearms use mechanical power, chemical power, rather than mere human power. Human power is exhausted, but the power of machinery and chemistry will not be exhausted. In a protracted war, sustainable strength is obviously crucial.

Under normal circumstances, an archer, after firing twelve arrows in a row, will feel very tired and must get enough rest before continuing to fight. And a musketeer, even if he fires hundreds of rounds in a row, as long as the firearm does not malfunction, there will be no problem with the personnel themselves.

In addition, the biggest feature of the musketeer is that he can be faster than the mounted archer. Even those who had never been exposed to muskets before were able to shoot with muskets proficiently after three days of basic training. The shooting of the musket, back and forth, is those few steps, as long as you are not a fool, you can quickly master it. After three months of rigorous training, the combat effectiveness is not bad, and basically five rounds of mini shells can be fired in one minute.

Of course, these are the most basic trainings. Being able to shoot, or even shooting fast, does not mean that they will perform well on the battlefield. Frankly speaking, the training ground and the battlefield are fundamentally different things. A lot of people who perform well on the training ground may not perform well on the battlefield. In the same way, people who do not perform well on the training ground may not be completely vulnerable when they reach the real battlefield.

In fact, it is still a bit difficult to really enforce the ban. Any kind of dangerous situation can arise on the battlefield, and it is absolutely impossible to have a smooth sailing. The enemy is not a target, so he stands there stupidly and is shot. Since you have to line up to be shot, you have to face death bravely. In the era of shot-to-head guns, the competition is actually about who has the stronger psychological endurance on both sides. If anyone can't bear it and hasn't entered the effective firing range, they will shoot one after another, and what awaits them must be the other side's crazy counterattack.

Are the thunderbolts, birds, and three-eyed guns commonly used by the Ming army very powerful? Of course not. At a distance of fifty meters, the power of these firecrackers is also considerable. Platoon guns fire, people within range, either dead or wounded. It's just that there are not many Ming troops who can endure to shoot only when the enemy enters within fifty meters. This is the most critical reason for the repeated defeats of the Ming army. In the final analysis, it's a problem of people, not guns.

(To be continued)