Chapter 1675 Military Parade Testing Results
The imperial envoy was welcomed, the money was handed over, and it was time to go back and continue training. Zhu Pingan said goodbye to his colleagues in the Yamen and returned with Liu Dadao and others.
But before leaving, Zhu Pingan went to visit Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang again. Now the war to suppress the Japanese is about to begin. If Xu Wenchang can be invited to help, he will be even more powerful. But unfortunately, Xu Wenchang said that the provincial examination will be held soon. It was about to begin. He wanted to concentrate on preparing for the exam and refused Zhu Pingan's invitation.
Zhu Ping'an saw that he was really concentrating on preparing for the exam, so he had to give up. He couldn't force someone to ruin his future. Before leaving, he left him twenty taels of silver and took Liu with him. Dadao and others returned to the Zhejiang Army camp.
After returning to Taohuaji Town, Zhu Ping'an went to the house to sit with Li Shu for a while. After listening to the fetal movement, he didn't even bother to eat, so he returned to the Zhejiang Army camp without stopping, and was about to pull The war against Japanese invaders has begun, so we can't delay troop training.
Especially since I received a hint from Governor Zhang a few days ago, Governor Zhang intends to assign the Zhejiang Army to one of the small and medium-sized cities in Suzhou and Hangzhou. The Japanese invasion is the most serious in this area, so the Zhejiang Army must form combat capabilities as soon as possible. Just fine.
The campaign to suppress the Japanese is about to begin, and the war is about to begin. Even with Governor Zhang’s steady temperament, he will wait until the wolf soldiers arrive and everything is ready before he will mobilize a large number of troops to exterminate the Japanese. but During this preparation period, some small-scale battles were unavoidable. Especially after taking control of one side, ensuring the peace of one side would require close combat with Japanese pirates. Therefore, there was not much time left for the Zhejiang Army.
Training troops is urgent.
However, the Zhejiang Army has been training for several months, and the conscripts have been here for half a month. It is time to test the effectiveness of the training. If the problems of the Zhejiang Army are discovered before the war begins, it will only take some time to correct them. energy.
If the problem was exposed during the war with the Japanese pirates, the price paid would be blood and lives.
Therefore, the first thing Zhu Pingan did when he returned to the Zhejiang Army camp was to notify the entire army to start the military parade immediately.
"We know that each battalion in the army has its own units, and the military parade on the school grounds will begin immediately. In addition to bonus points for performance appraisal, the winners of the military parade will also receive bonuses. The ten soldiers with the best results in the military parade will be awarded a battalion commander's command knife. To the three best corps in the military parade, the corps commander will record the merit and reward each person with 3 taels of silver. After that, they will be rewarded with a banquet; the best post in the military parade will be expanded in the future, and the officers and soldiers of the unit will enjoy priority promotion rights under the same conditions."
After the military order was issued, in less than half a cup of tea, the Zhejiang Army More than 2,000 soldiers of the entire army have gathered neatly in the school grounds with their armors on.
The Zhejiang Army has already installed cotton armor. With the equipment battalion, the production efficiency of cotton armor has been greatly improved. Especially the equipment battalion is grateful for Zhu Pingan’s preferential treatment. It has worked overtime day and night to produce two products with high quality and quantity. More than a thousand pairs of cotton armor.
Putting on the cotton armor, the Zhejiang Army officers and soldiers also accepted the equipment battalion from the bottom of their hearts. A good pair of armor is equivalent to several extra lives.
In addition to cotton armor, Zhejiang army officers are also equipped with an animal skin water bag, an iron gunpowder box, an iron lead bullet box, and a first aid kit as standard equipment. An iron gunpowder box contains granular medicine wrapped in oil paper, which can greatly improve the loading efficiency of firecrackers. An iron lead bullet box contains lead bullets, and a first aid kit contains secret knife wound medicine and gauze. , originally there was a small gourd of highly distilled alcohol used for disinfection, but soldiers often drank it secretly, so they made fun of it for the time being.
Seeing the entire army quickly assembled and lined up in half a cup of tea, wearing uniform equipment and high-spirited faces, Zhu Pingan nodded with satisfaction. Judging from the spirit, the Zhejiang Army It barely looks like a strong army.
The military parade begins.
Basic skills such as queues, formations, flags, advance and retreat were reviewed as the soldiers of each battalion marched around the school field.
Zhu Ping'an reviewed one by one at the school ground, and Liu Mu also led the supervisory battalion to record the performance of each battalion's soldiers.
The soldiers of each battalion performed well, especially the recruits from Yiwu. Although the training time was not long, the performance of the troops was even two points better than that of the veterans. The characteristics of the conscripts who endured hardships and were honest and obedient were clearly demonstrated.
The next step is the focus of the military parade - shooting.
Through Zhu Pingan's unremitting efforts and the fact that the Ming army did not pay enough attention to firearms in this era, Zhu Pingan obtained firearms from all parties. The popularity of firearms in the Zhejiang Army has been greatly reduced.
The shooting review is based on whistles, and firecrackers and live ammunition are fired one by one.
Zhu Pingan set up three shooting ranges, one is a 70-meter shooting range, one is a 150-meter shooting range, and one is a 200-meter shooting range.
The three shooting ranges started reviewing at the same time, and one whistle after another took turns to conduct live ammunition firing on the three shooting ranges.
Due to the limited accuracy of fire cannons in this era, and in order to test the firing rate of fire cannons, Zhu Pingan ordered each soldier to fire three live rounds at each shooting range. Three shooting ranges meant nine live fire firings.
Zhu Ping'an ordered Liu Mu's supervisory battalion to record the number of targets hit by each soldier's live ammunition shooting, as well as the shooting time, shooting proficiency, etc., and give different scores accordingly. The last nine live ammunition shootings were recorded. Aggregate a score.
Zhu Ping'an also patrolled back and forth between the three shooting ranges to get a thorough understanding of the shooting conditions of all the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army.
"Come on, Erlang, aim and shoot again. This time you hit again, you will have hit all nine shots."
"You bitch, can you be more reliable? You hit three out of eight shots. If you miss the target again this time, let's see how I can trick you!"
"Don't worry, Xiaoer Wang, you're already eight." The score of the sixth shot is excellent, so you can just perform normally with this shot.”
"The iron rope is awesome, all nine shots hit. He is worthy of being the marksman of our team. Let's see who else is dissatisfied."
The shooting range was full of people, and the soldiers who finished shooting were The soldiers who were shooting on the field cheered and cheered.
Zhu Ping'an inspected the soldiers' shooting on the school grounds, sometimes nodding and applauding, sometimes frowning slightly and shaking his head, but overall he was satisfied. The shooting proficiency and shooting accuracy of the entire battalion have reached the qualifying level, and many of them have demonstrated the potential of marksmen. Using the backward and inaccurate fire guns of this era, their shooting hit rates have reached An astonishing nine shots and eight or more hits.
By inspecting the shooting of the soldiers, Zhu Pingan had a more intuitive judgment on the firearms level of the Zhejiang Army.
The power of the fire gun is acceptable, but the range and accuracy are still somewhat lacking.
The gunpowder of the Zhejiang Army has used improved black powder, which is almost twice as powerful as the previous gunpowder. As long as it hits, it can cause quite fatal damage, which is unmatched by cold weapons such as bows and arrows. .
However, due to the limitations of firearm manufacturing technology in this era, the range and accuracy of the fire blunderbuss are somewhat lacking.
Zhu Ping'an estimated that within seventy meters, the hit rate of the Zhejiang Army's firecrackers was about 55%; within 150 meters, the hit rate of the firecrackers dropped to 100%. About 35%; and 200 meters away, the hit rate of the Zhejiang Army's gunfire dropped to about 25%.
Zhu Ping'an also picked two whistles and asked them to test fire from a distance of 300 meters, and found that the hit rate was only about 15%. (End of this chapter)