In Wei Zheng's order, all the subordinates sitting in the command headquarters mentioned it, but only he did not mention himself.

As the supreme commander of the Haw Par Army, Wei Zheng was not arrogant enough to continue training without leading his troops. Instead, there is a more important task for Wei Zheng to complete, and that is to form a firearms unit of the Haw Par Army......

Wei Zheng, who came from later generations, knew that with the passage of time, it was irreversible for firearms to replace cold weapons.

Not only that, but in the current battle, the role of firearms has become more and more significant.

In order to make the Haw Par Army under its command more suitable for future wars and let the Haw Par Army go further in future wars, it has become urgent to form its own firearms unit belonging to the Haw Par Army......

The six Tiger Zun cannons currently owned by the Tiger and Par Army are undoubtedly the basis for Wei Zheng to form a firearms unit.

Six Tiger guns, according to one Tiger gun with three gunners, plus a certain number of commanders, are enough to form the first artillery platoon since the establishment of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

As for the first gunners of the artillery platoon, they were all the archers of the original longbow platoon.

In Wei Zheng's eyes: as long as the firearms unit is formed, the archers will completely withdraw from the stage of history.

In this case, there is no need for Wei Zheng to waste the limited strength of the Haw Par Army on a branch that has no future.

Early the next morning, more than twenty archers in the longbow platoon were secretly gathered by Wei Zheng.

Seeing the archers in front of him who were still immersed in the joy of victory, Wei Zheng did not hesitate and bluntly stated his purpose.

"Brothers, soldiers, the battle is over...... For the longbow platoon in battle, to say a word from the heart: I am very dissatisfied. Of course, this is not to blame, after all, everyone has only been trained for a few days, and there is no comparison between them and the Tartar who played with the bow since childhood...."

After speaking, Wei Zheng directly pointed at the best longbow archery under a pair of puzzled eyes and asked: "Wang Shichang, you are the most exquisite in our longbow and archery......do you think how long does it take for everyone to train before they can shoot against the same number of Tartar archers and have the ability to fight......

Under Wei Zheng's gaze, Shi Chang replied in a heavy tone after a whole cup of tea and kung fu: "General, with the current archery skills of the brothers, they don't have a year of training, and they can't catch up with the Tartar archers at all. ”

Wei Zheng nodded and replied with an approving face: "One year to train...... That is, the longbow platoon will not be able to form combat effectiveness until a year later...... Don't you think it's too long? Our enemy Tartars, will they give us such a long time to train? ”

Although everyone didn't want to answer the question that Li Guosheng suddenly asked. However, as archers, they knew from the bottom of their hearts that archers were a very time-consuming and difficult class to form.

Therefore, the reaction that everyone can give Wei Zheng is silence.

After seeing a series of reactions from everyone, Wei Zheng suddenly changed his words and continued in a surprising voice: "Based on the above reasons, I have decided to disband the time-consuming and energy-consuming Longbow Platoon and establish the first firearms unit of the Haw Par Army. And you are the first soldiers of this firearms unit......"

For the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era, firearms can definitely be called a weapon that they love and hate in their hearts.

In the early and middle Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty army relied on well-equipped firearms to win foreign wars again and again, developing firearms to the extreme, and was deeply loved by soldiers.

However, as the contradictions and conflicts between the various classes at the end of the Ming Dynasty became greater and greater, cutting corners had unconsciously become the rule, and the quality of firearms produced in various places became worse and worse, just like the inferior arquebuses that they had just captured in the hands of the Tartars.

All cut corners, up to three shots, the barrel of different thicknesses will explode.

On the battlefield, the soldiers who used such inferior firearms did not fall into the hands of the enemy, but died in the boredom of their own weapons.

When more and more such things began to spread among the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers began to have a heartfelt fear of the explosion of firearms, and preferred to use broadswords and tartars to fight desperately and die in the hands of the tartars. They were also unwilling to use inferior arquebuses produced everywhere and died in the explosion of the chamber.

After a long time, the fear of arquebuses among officials and soldiers spread rapidly, and even the Ming Dynasty, like the common people and military households, knew that the arquebuses produced by the imperial court were unreliable, and at most three lead bullets were fired, and the barrels of different thicknesses would explode.

Therefore, the expression of silence lasted only for a blink of an eye on everyone's faces, and it was covered with a hint of heartfelt worry and fear.

Shi Chang, who had just spoken, stood up and asked with a heavy face: "General, I don't know what the firearms unit we want to form is...... If the brethren were to use the arquebuses of the captured tartars, it would be better for the brethren to be a common captain. In that case, we will die at the hands of the Tartars, not on the battlefield where we are suffocated by the explosion of the arquebus.

After witnessing the poor quality of the arquebus, Wei Zheng understood everyone's worries.

After nodding his head in understanding, he assured everyone: "Don't worry, since the formation of the Tiger and Leopard Army, when have you seen my Wei Zheng let the soldiers risk their lives." ”

"I didn't do it before, and I won't be able to defend it in the future..."

"Rest assured, before there is a qualified musket, our Wei Zheng will definitely not equip you with those inferior arquebuses that have captured the Tartars, threatening everyone's life and safety......"

At this time, the puzzled expression on Shi Chang's face in front of him became even thicker.

Facing Wei Zheng, he asked puzzledly: "General, if you don't equip the musket, what is the firearms unit you want to establish?" ”

Wei Zheng replied with a cheerful face: "Artillery, I want to use the six Tiger Zun cannons captured from the Tartars to form the first artillery unit of our Tiger and Leopard Army, and the artillery platoon will be blind with two artillery pieces." After more artillery is captured in the future, the artillery platoon will be expanded into an artillery team, or even an artillery battalion......"

After taking everyone into the artillery training ground that they had personally selected, the six Tiger Zun guns were already standing majestically in front of everyone. Not only that, at a distance of thirty to fifty meters directly in front of the Huzun Cannon, there were hundreds of scarecrows standing densely.

After glancing at the subordinates in front of him, his eyes lit up since he saw the Tiger Zun Cannon, Wei Zheng reminded with a smile: "Brothers, the Tiger Zun Cannon you are equipped with is in front of you. In addition, I will also provide you with 50 catties of gunpowder for training, and I hope that you will make good use of these 50 catties of gunpowder and train yourself as a real artilleryman in the shortest possible time. ”

"Next, I will personally fire a shot for everyone and do an experiment, everyone must see it clearly."

After speaking, Wei Zheng walked to a tiger cannon on the edge under everyone's gaze.

More than 20 soldiers who were about to become the first batch of gunners of the Tiger and Leopard Army also quickly gathered around Wei Zheng's own Tiger Zun cannon, staring at Wei Zheng's every movement with a pair of eyes, for fear that they would miss it.

Under everyone's gaze, Wei Zheng first picked up a brush and explained to everyone.

"Brothers, on the battlefield, there is a very important action to manipulate the Tiger Venerable Cannon, and that is what I will do next, clean the cannon chamber. If you forget this step on the battlefield, the artillery you are wielding is likely to explode in the same way as the inferior arquebuses. So, in my next step, you must remember that after each shot, you must clean the chamber before you can prepare to fire the second shot. ”

After schematically cleaning up the already clean gun chamber, Wei Zheng quickly picked up a tool to measure the amount of gunpowder, filled a certain amount of gunpowder from the powder keg, and poured all the remaining gunpowder into the barrel. Then, pick up a tool to compact the gunpowder inside the barrel. Then, the 100 lead bullets that had been prepared were stuffed into the barrel of the cannon and compacted. Finally, a solid iron ball of similar caliber to the barrel is placed into the barrel and compacted again.

After a series of preparations were completed, Wei Zheng spoke: "Everyone remember every action I just made!" After this series of actions is completed, it means that the Tiger Venerable Cannon in front of him has been loaded. After plugging in the lead, use the torch to light the lead, and this Tiger Zun Cannon can be fired......"

After speaking, Wei Zheng picked up a small section of the fire rope and inserted it through a hole in the tail of the barrel.

Clapped his hands and continued to the people behind him: "Okay, all the preparations are complete, and then it's all left to ignite and fire." I don't know which brother took the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of ignition and fire the first shot of our Haw Par Army. ”

"I'll ......"

As soon as Wei Zheng's voice fell, the chief who followed behind Wei Zheng spoke.

Before Wei Zheng could answer, he picked up a torch that had been lit a long time ago, and slowly stretched out to the fire rope that stretched out from the tail of the cannon with excitement on his face.