Chapter 65: The Expedition
Although the soldiers submitted to the obscenity of Chang Wei's brocade guards, they were clearly unimpressed by this new way of packing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's really not so easy to accept new things!" However, Chang Wei has his own way.
"Shoot a hundred shots at the same time, the fastest and most accurate one wins, and the winner will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!" When Chang Wei slapped a stack of silver tickets on the platform, the soldiers were boiling.
"A thousand taels of silver, I can't earn it in my life, count me in!"
"You can't, I'll come, my marksmanship is in the top ten!"
Due to the limited number of people, in the end, according to the results of the previous assessments, each army selected two people with the best marksmanship, and a total of ten people competed with Chang Wei.
The soldiers unscrewed the tube to pour the gunpowder from the mouth into the chamber, and then loaded the projectile into the chamber, and then pulled out the strip under the barrel to compact the gunpowder and the projectile.
Pour the primer into the primer pot to connect it with the gunpowder in the chamber, then cover the primer pot, load the fire rope into the faucet clamp of the trigger, ignite the fire, and aim the gun target through the crosshair and the illuminator.
Pull the trigger, and at the same time as the fire rope falls, the lid of the primer pot opens. The primer ignited the ******, the projectile was fired, and in order to avoid burning the eyes with the gunpowder, the gunners closed their eyes in unison at the last moment of the shooting.
Due to the explosive power of the primer, the fire rope was ejected after the shot. The arquebus needs to be re-lit and fixed, which is also a big reason why the arquebus shoots slowly.
Before the second charge, the soldiers used a small iron thorn to clean the fire hole and the primer pot, and blocked the fire hole with the residue of fire prevention and could not be fired, which is also a common problem with muskets.
Chang Wei was a little slower than ten trained sharpshooters to complete this series of steps, of course, this was intentional on his part, and if he used his fastest hand speed, he would be at least three times faster than them.
The speed of the ten sharpshooters was extremely close, and after firing ten shots in a row, because the barrel was overheated, they stepped back and replaced the muskets, at which time Chang Wei finished firing, but the ten sharpshooters needed to divide the next set of ten barrels of gunpowder.
Chang Wei didn't need this step, he pulled out a paper bullet, bit open the wrapped oil paper and paper shell, reloaded the shot, and after he fired three shots, the fastest gunner began to shoot the first shot.
When Chang Wei finished the fourth round, the fastest sharpshooter finished the third round, and after Chang Wei completed ten rounds of 100 shots, the gunners completed seven rounds of 70 shots.
"How can it be so fast? Lord Right Admiral is simply a man of God!"
"In the future, if we use this kind of paper shell bullet, the rate of fire of our bird gunners will reach one-third of that of archers, and the power will be much greater!"
"Haha, when the drill is done again in the future, the guys in the Fifth Military Camp will be unlucky. ”
Such an obvious gap made the soldiers excited, and the biggest problem of the bird gun was the slow rate of fire, and now Chang Wei's method directly solved this problem.
"The Right Admiral fired a hundred shots, and all of them hit!"
"Oh my God, it's unbelievable, Chang Daren's marksmanship is as accurate as Populus euphratica!"
After the soldiers watching the target loudly reported Chang Wei's shooting results, the soldiers turned their excitement into worship.
Hu Yang is the first sharpshooter in the Chinese army, and he is also the fastest one on the field except for Chang Wei.
Chang Wei's results were already unsurpassed, and the ten sharpshooters could only give up the last three rounds of shooting.
At this time, there is no need for Chang Wei to say, the soldiers of the whole battalion took the initiative to ask for the replacement of paper shells, and erecting prestige was only the first step, Chang Wei asked the cavalry to give up the three-eyed guns, and the artillerymen gave up those strange firearms with different ranges, great differences in rate of fire, and extremely poor accuracy, and specialized in tiger squat artillery.
Chang Wei secretly said in his heart: "It would be nice if it could be transformed into an artillery that can adjust the angle of fire, but unfortunately the time is limited." The worst thing is that the arquebus has too many shortcomings, and if you have time, you must make a flintlock pistol. ”
Because of the support of all parties, in just five days, each soldier of the Shenji Battalion had 1,000 rounds of paper shells, and Chang Wei changed the three-stage combat method of reloading and firing on the spot to a backward reload.
When the 3,600 bird gunners of the Shenji Battalion fought, 100 people were in a horizontal formation, lined up in 36 rows, the first three rows were shot in turn, squatted on the spot and loaded, four to six rows were fired in turn, and then seven to nine rows were fired in turn, and the soldiers in the back did not participate in the shooting, but were on standby at any time, and once the soldiers in the front row were sacrificed or the bird guns were damaged, they would be replaced immediately.
Chang Wei reformed into the first row lying down, the second row squatting, the third row standing, and the three rows of soldiers fired a salvo of 300 bird guns at the same time, suppressing them with powerful firepower.
After the first three rows finished firing, they immediately retreated from the empty passage in the middle to the last row to be reloaded.
Soldiers in the fourth to sixth platoons stepped forward to fill their positions, fired volleys, retreated, and reloaded. The advantage of having all the soldiers of the 36th platoon participate in the battle is that each soldier only needs to shoot once in about a stick of incense, which can greatly relieve fatigue, but also ensure strong attack power and continuous oppression.
However, this method of operation needs to be more powerful than the original, and the discipline of the soldiers needs to be strengthened, but fortunately, the Shenji Battalion is the elite, and it has been preliminarily familiar with the drill of the queue in three or five days, although there are occasional cases of soldiers in the front row being shot by the soldiers in the back row because they lie down and squat in place, but under the harsh requirements of Chang Wei, the soldiers slowly get used to it.
Wei Liangdong couldn't wait to send troops, for fear that the credit would be snatched away by others.
However, on the day of the dispatch, an urgent report came from Fengyang Mansion: under the encirclement of more than 20,000 Ming troops from Bo, Su, Ying, Si and Shou five guards, the Holy Mother Sect evacuated Fengyang City and won Sizhou City instead. Shou Sanzhou did not dare to fight again, the thief army got the two states of ordnance, money and food, and the prestige was great, gathering 50,000 soldiers to surround Fengyang City, Fengyang sent five letters for help in a day.
Seeing that the battle situation was as Chang Wei said, Liu Tingyuan's face was immediately frightened, and he no longer dared to show his poor military strategy, Wei Liangdong's enthusiasm for going out to pick up cheap immediately subsided, and the thieves were in full swing, and now the expedition not only did not reap the benefits, but could be defeated and killed, which was already a real chore.
So the task of going out to suppress the thieves really fell on Chang Wei and Fu Zhouzi, although the battle situation was erosive, Chang Wei was not afraid, the so-called "not afraid of god-like opponents, afraid of pig-like teammates" Without Liu Tingyuan and Wei Liangdong, pig teammates like Liu Tingyuan and Wei Liangdong will be more relaxed to fight, and the rabble of Our Lady Sect is not in his eyes.
Fu Zhouzi is even more afraid, he is a fierce general who kills with a knife and a shot on the battlefield in Liaodong, what is this little thief?
On the tenth day of the seventh month, Chang Wei and Fu Zhouzi led 5,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to sacrifice their flags.