After finishing the planning of the new city, Zhu Cixiang began to check the training situation of the Yongwei Camp. Since he went to the Yongwei Camp last time and asked Huang Degong to change the daily training, he rarely visited it and did not know how the training was going.

The Yongwei Battalion has been patrolling the refugee areas during this period, and there has been no normal training for seven or eight days. During the construction of the city, most people were busy building their homes, and the Yongwei Battalion no longer needed to patrol, and the Yongwei Battalion began to return to normal.

training plan.

The training of the Yongwei Battalion, like that of the East Palace Guards, is strictly in accordance with the "Training Code" written by Zhu Cixiang. This was written by Zhu Cixiang based on the training of later generations of armies and combined with the training methods of the Qi family army. It can be regarded as a combination of ancient and modern times.

The "Training Drill Code" mainly includes formation training, physical training and tactical training. At the beginning of the formation training, some soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion couldn't tell the difference between left and right and made a lot of jokes. However, within a few days they basically became like imitators.

Pretty decent.

While training in formation, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion also need to practice standing skills and sun protection, which means the whole battalion stands still in the sun for a long time.

During this period, no movement or talking is allowed. If anyone violates the rules, he will be punished with twenty military sticks first, and then will be punished for extra time. The time will be gradually increased from one and a half hours on the first day.

At the beginning, at the end of April, the weather was not hot yet, and the soldiers stood outside and felt like they were basking in the sun without any pressure.

When we enter the end of May, summer is coming, and the weather is slowly getting hotter. Especially for a few days, the temperature once exceeded 30 degrees. The scorching sun at noon is shining on the body, and the skin feels hot after a long time.

At this time, the soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion realized the power of this kind of training. Several soldiers couldn't stand the intense heat and fainted. The guards of the East Palace who were supervising them dragged them down, took cold water, and placed them in the shade.

Some soldiers who were born into wealth and came in through connections couldn't stand it, so they rushed out of the queue, shouting that they couldn't stand it anymore and stopped practicing. When these soldiers made trouble, a commotion soon appeared in the Yongwei camp.

Without saying a word, Huang Degong went up and kicked one of them to the side, shouting: "You cowards and trash, get out of here as far as you can. I don't want trash in the Yongwei camp. Anyone else who gives in can get out!"

Huang Degong looked coldly at these soldiers who gave up voluntarily, and then at the entire battalion on the field. He had a high prestige in the army. Wherever he looked, the commotion immediately disappeared, and the whole battalion continued to stand on the field maintaining their posture.

Huang Degong followed Zhu Cixiang's request and did not punish these people. According to Zhu Cixiang, these people have poor discipline and willpower and will be difficult to achieve in the future. Forcibly punishing them and staying in the Yongwei camp will only affect other people.

In the following days of physical training, hundreds more soldiers were kicked out of the Yongwei Camp because they could not stand the training.

If it wasn’t because they couldn’t bear it, no one would have a reason to leave. The treatment in the Yongwei Camp was the best in the entire Ming Dynasty army. The equipment was the best, and the monthly salary was five taels. Not only was the food sufficient, but there was also meat every day.

eat.

Moreover, as the direct subordinate of the Crown Prince, he will be a member of the Dragon Army in the future. Even if he is a small soldier now and casually plays with his qualifications, he will be able to work hard wherever he goes in the future. No one is willing to leave easily.

As a part of the Beijing camp, the Yongwei camp is composed of the most elite soldiers in the Beijing camp, but there are also many people from rich families who came in through connections. Most of these people are just hanging around, how can they endure such hard training?

This is also Zhu Cihong's purpose, to eliminate such people.

The physical training of the Yongwei camp includes five kilometers of armed cross-country every day, one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, one hundred high-leg runs, and one hundred weightlifting frog jumps.

These physical training are not too tiring and can be completed in an hour, but if you persist for a long time, your physical strength will be greatly enhanced.

After the physical training, in the remaining time, each branch of the army will conduct tactical training respectively. The infantry will train on musket shooting, the cavalry will train on equestrian skills, and the artillery will train on artillery strikes.

Zhu Cixiang also created a firearms storage system for firearms. On weekdays, muskets and artillery must be cleaned and maintained on time. Zhu Cixiang did not understand cavalry training, so he could only leave it to Huang Degong and other lieutenant generals to do it themselves.

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Between the east of the new city and the south of Tongzhou, there is a flat wilderness and a winding Liangshui River. There is no resident within ten miles, so it is a restricted area. Yongwei camp is set up outside Beijing.

here.

Zhu Cixiang arrived at the main camp of the Yongwei Camp surrounded by a group of personal guards. Training was in full swing at several training grounds around the camp. There were cavalry training equestrianism, artillery rehearsing attacking fixed targets, and musketeers.

Do shooting training.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

In the musketeer's training ground, there was loud gunfire and smoke filled the air. Only bursts of roaring could be heard in the distance, and a hole as big as a tea cup was punched through a three-inch-thick wooden target a hundred paces away.

Of the 3,600 infantrymen in the Yongwei Battalion, more than half are now equipped with Lumi muskets, and a smaller half are equipped with flintlocks imitated by Sun Heding.

The manufacturing factory under the Bingzhan Bureau can currently only produce more than a thousand flintlock muskets a month. As the number of craftsmen gradually increases, the output also gradually increases.

The Rumi gun can penetrate a layer of iron armor within a hundred steps. If it wants to penetrate the Jiannu Eight Banners Army wearing triple thick armor, it is estimated that it will take at least 70 to 80 steps. The effect is still very good, relatively

Compared with Bird Gun's fifty steps, it was much advanced.

Not to mention flintlock guns, their performance was better than Lumi gun, so Zhu Cixi asked the Bingzhan Bureau to mainly produce flintlock guns, which was also the main development direction of firearms in the future.

"stop!"

Following Huang Degong's order, the musketeers also stopped firing and came to report their results to him.

Among the soldiers who used Lumi guns, the soldier who fired the fastest shot eight times, or at least five times, in three minutes. The soldier who used a flintlock shot more than ten times in three minutes.

This shooting exercise was timed by a self-ringing bell brought by Zhu Cixiang. This self-ringing bell was presented to Emperor Wanli by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci. There were originally two, one big and one small. The big one was more than thirty years old.

Years ago, it has long been damaged, leaving only this small self-ringing clock.

Zhu Cihong knew the future development trend of the army, so he attached great importance to the training of musketeers. The training plan for musketeers was formulated by Zhu Cihong, Huang Degong and Sun Heding through consultation.

Zhu Cixiang knew that the current flintlock guns and Lumi guns had limited accuracy because they did not have rifles. Therefore, Zhu Cixiang did not pursue the hit rate of the soldiers, but only required the speed of the soldiers to reload and fire. The faster the better.

Every day, soldiers hold empty muskets and practice a series of actions such as clearing the barrel, filling the gun, compacting it, and lighting it, until they can successfully complete this series of actions with their eyes closed. etc.

After you are familiar with this set of movements, you can then conduct live-fire training.

Now Zhu Cixi is in charge of the military affairs department, and all firearms and ammunition are strictly used by the Yongwei Battalion. Therefore, the training volume of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion is much greater than that of any firecrackers team before the Ming Dynasty.

After such repeated practice, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion became increasingly proficient in their movements, and their shooting speed increased from two or three shots in three minutes at the beginning to the current level.

Huang Degong was very satisfied with such results and believed that even within the entire Ming army, the results of Yongwei Battalion were considered outstanding.

Huang Degong was very proud, even a little arrogant. When he saw Zhu Cihong coming to inspect, he excitedly ran to report that the current musketeers had extremely strong combat effectiveness, and his face was filled with pride.

Zhu Cixiang looked at his arrogant look and didn't say much. He just asked him to prepare. Two days later, the Yongwei Camp would hold an army drill, and he wanted to go and test it himself.
Chapter completed!