Chapter 42 42 Gunner

"Then there is no problem. If you train more than a hundred bird gunners, you can train them strictly and try to take the shortest time to load the bullets. With relatively intensive fire strikes, it is still OK to deal with the Tartar cavalry. As long as you are not too lucky, you will be surrounded by the Tartar brigade."

Hearing Wu Zhankui's words, Wei Guangde slapped his hands and said with a little excitement.

Wei Guangde thought about this year's Northern Expedition, even if his father went there, he would have a high probability that he would not encounter the Tartars brigade and would have a fierce battle, so he spoke more casually.

You know, not to mention in this era, even if he returns to his later generations, many elders still have many taboos about what he says, especially topics like life-threatening, which is even more taboo.

Whether it is feudal or superstitious, it is still very important to please the lottery when speaking.

"Since that said, I don't know much about muskets and bird guns. Do you think you need to mobilize all the gunmen from other hundred households? After all, they have some experience, which is much better than letting those big-headed soldiers start learning from scratch.

Well, my subordinates, I think we can get a skilled gunman of about a hundred people, and should the archers gather together and train them strictly?"

Since that's the case, Wu Zhankui had to think about how to train people as soon as possible, which was related to their own lives.

Drawing gunners from other hundreds of households has become his ideal operation method, and he can quickly gather a skilled gunner army.

It’s not that he didn’t know the difference between the archer and the gunman in this era. In fact, relatively speaking, the archer is more valuable than the gunman, because the archer can shoot more than a dozen or twenty feather arrows at the enemy in one breath, while the skilled gunman at the same time may only be able to fire a few shots.

However, the training of the archer is much more troublesome than that of the gunner, and it is not as fast as the gunner.

The archer doesn't mean that the arrow is finished just by letting it go. If you don't have a clear head and can't shoot the arrow into the required area as required, that's just a waste.

What the archers need most is arm strength. Nowadays, the soldiers now have no problem waving their hoes, but pulling the bow and shooting archery is a bit unsatisfactory.

Moreover, the maintenance of bows and arrows is much more troublesome than that of muskets. Wu Zhankui did not think he could collect enough bows and arrows.

Now it seems that the bird gun is at least sufficient in quantity. As long as you can take the lead in bringing these guns out of the ward warehouse, you will take some time to restore the strength of those gunmen.

That's what Wu Zhankui thought, but he didn't expect that his nephew would shake his head and object.

"Uncle, it's better to pick some people from the veterans of the garrison to train honestly.

I don’t know what the level of gunmen in other hundred households are, but most of the gunmen in our hundred households have already lost all the guys they eat.

In our fort, because we are responsible for maintaining the firearms, Tang San is quite familiar with those things. Other gunners, to put it bluntly, they may have never seen what the firearms look like."

Wei Guangde remembered that when he was learning guns before, he chatted with Tang San and learned about it.

The weapons in the garrison were supposed to be sent to the garrison soldiers, but they were all taken into the garrison warehouse.

Wei Guangde guessed that he was afraid that the soldiers would sell their weapons secretly for money, so his father did this.

Only those archers still retain their weapons. One is needed when hunting in the mountains, and the other is that Mr. Wei still hopes that his archers can maintain a certain combat power.

After locking the weapon, I wanted to move it out again. Well, I only moved it out half a year ago, but it seemed that Tang San said that those gunmen would have to teach them a few times before they could barely remember how to use it.

This is the gunman mentioned by my uncle, a skilled gunman.

Wei Guangde must have 120 people who do not agree with it.

However, after reading articles in later generations, he still vaguely remembered that it was this era when there was a military general in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, there were two. The most famous one was Qi Jiguang, and there was another one named Yu Da. The latter name Wei Guangde did not recognize it.

Wei Guangde was not very familiar with the one behind him. It seemed that few people in later generations evaluated him, and most of them were concentrated on Qi Jiguang.

And the fact that Qi Jiguang became famous was naturally due to the Qi family army formed by his subordinate Yiwu mine soldiers.

I remember the article I read at that time was talking about the people recruited by Qi Jiguang from the mine in Yiwu, but I vaguely remember that it was Qi Jiguang who recruited people because he saw the peasant fighting. Anyway, I felt a little conflicted, but the Zhejiang soldiers recruited from there seemed to be really good at fighting, so I created a Qi family army.

The last one of the Qi family troops was wrong. It seemed that they had fought with the Manchu Tartars. Although they were defeated in the end, they seemed to be defeated only after being besieged by others with superior forces.

The Qi family army seemed to be a unit with a high proportion of firearm equipment in this era, even surpassing the Westerners of the same period.

What does this mean? This shows that as long as the troops are well-trained and use the firearms of this era, they still have the opportunity to defeat the Tartars, who have a small gap in strength.

The real Qi family army not only needs to be strictly selected from the source of recruitment, but also worked hard in the subsequent training. At the same time, Qi Jiguang did not rely solely on bird guns to attack the world. In fact, the Qi family army is a combination of bird guns, cannons and chariot formations, which can make a great reputation on the northern grasslands.

However, Xiao He succeeded and defeated Xiao He, because the troops were too strong in combat, which directly led to the Mongolian Tartars being cowardly at that time.

Since the Qi family army was transferred to the north to suppress the Japanese and transferred to the north, several conflicts have occurred, and people have begun to avoid Qi Jiguang, which has completely lost the opportunity to make great contributions in the war. Because he did not have enough military achievements, he was unable to obtain a title until his death.

The so-called "those who are good at fighting have no great achievements" may be the reason.

At the same time, Li Chengliang raised the enemy's self-respecting, and once every once in a while, he accumulated military achievements and was finally granted the title of marquis during the Wanli period.

Wei Guangde naturally didn't know about these. In his impression, the great hero Qi Jiguang actually ended up in a bleak end.

He had no idea how the Qi family army won the battle, the chariot formation, and the mandarin duck formation.

Maybe in the future, he will find out.

Of course, it may never be discovered.

But at this moment, Wei Guangde mentioned the story of Qi Jiguang's election in his impression.

"You can lead troops from the entire Qianhu Office. Not only can you be in good health, but you can run and jump, but you must be honest and obedient, do things seriously and meticulous."

Wei Guangde carefully searched the pitiful inventory in his mind, "The soldiers are not honest, but when they see the limelight, they can't be like dad, uncle, you run faster.

That is to say, no matter how strong the combat power is, those soldiers must not be needed.

Then there is training. I will summarize my experience in playing bird guns. At that time, I will teach those gunmen and will definitely increase their combat power by several times."

Wei Guangde had never been a soldier and did not know how to train. However, for the most recent generations, he knew the history of the development of rifles. He also knew the several ways to improve the combat power of muskets. He even tried it when playing with guns and shooting birds. Naturally, he felt that he was the person in this room who had the most say in allowing bird guns to exert the maximum power.
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