The first batch of muskets were made and delivered to the army. . The fastest update

The cavalry was equipped with three-eyed guns and infantry was equipped with muskets. After distributing the guns, they began to train. However, the officers were also confused about how to train soldiers to use muskets.

For this reason, Li Chao also spent a lot of time writing a musket exercise book.

Li Chao did not require the soldiers to practice the accuracy of the muskets. After all, after these muskets were made, Li Chao personally tried them. Even if they were improved, there were gun drags and sightseeing, the accuracy was still limited.

Instead of practicing that accuracy, it is better to practice volleys.

After all, the musket depends on the power of a volley.

Li Chao didn't stand a target either, but just set up a wall of earth in the wild, a lime painting and a horizontal path, as high as a person's chest and only one foot wide.

The soldiers formed a team, and the captain blew a trumpet, and then a row of volleys. After the shooting, they retreated to the back, went forward to the second row and then went up to the third row.

In order to adapt to this three-stage shooting, Li Chao deliberately changed the original team of five groups into one team of three rows. One row is just standing on the battlefield, one line, one line of three rows, and it just happened to be able to shoot alternately, with three sections constantly.

The purpose of this training method is to train the musketeers to shoot at a low or high level, and to train them to shoot at a volley.

"We can urge the front to siege the formation, and we can't hit three shots when we are in the battle. Therefore, when we are in the battle, we have no time to aim slowly. As long as we practice the signs of not low or high, we can put all the points when we are in the matter, and then we can pretend to replace them quickly, and we can hit them without delay, and we can pretend to be more familiar with them, so we can be considered successful in the drill."

"The most important thing about our muskets is the array, which is firepower. We must have volleys, and the firepower cannot be cut off. We must practice three-stage shooting well. The captain sounds the whistle and fires immediately."

Hitting the enemy with a continuous and violent rain of bullets at chest level is Li Chao's firearm combat method, and there is no other way.

Of course, when fighting, in order to protect the gunmen, military formations will also be used. Whether it is the hollow formation or the Ping Liao formation, it is all to improve the gunmen's continuous combat capabilities.

"If you are unscrupulous and release yourself, the captain will punish you; if you are not in accordance with the law, the deputy will punish you."

Every day, row after row of soldiers on the edge of the Huanglong River practiced in line under the drum beats, advancing, turning, and retreating row by row.

Then in the afternoon, there was live ammunition shooting.

Although live ammunition is used to shoot, it also damages the barrel, Li Chao believes that if a soldier shoots less than a hundred shots in live ammunition, he will definitely not be able to shoot skillfully on the battlefield.

Recharge and practice medicine, shoot, practice the Liao Dynasty formation, break the liu hollow formation, and shoot the river beach every afternoon, and gunfire sounds are endless, and the sky is filled with the smoke of war fog.

The cavalry began to equip three-eyed guns, which were much shorter than the Great Wall musket, and were equipped with a curved handle, like a hand-tube pistol. Because they had three eyes, they could shoot three guns.

The three-eyed cavalry gun training is similar to that of infantry, and it pays attention to volleyball.

Hit the enemy with chest-length firepower.

Li Chao stayed in his father's territory for two months.

In early May, the territory's climate is cool, and it is still a little cold in the morning and evening, but at noon the sun is already a little powerful.

Fortunately, with the help of 20,000 soldiers, the main body of the Shangluo County Gongling Castle has been completed, and the warehouses, military camps, schools, shops, etc. in the castle are also under construction. Not far outside the castle, several villages have also begun to be built.

These villages are not far from the castle, and are homes for the people and others. After all, the castle is limited and cannot accommodate everyone.

However, Tun Village also built a tall wall. Although it was made of rammed earth, it also took a lot of effort. These Tun Villages are actually the castle guardings of the castle. Once wartime, they can also play the role of guarding the castle.

During this period, several groups of immigrants have come here one after another.

At present, there are more than a thousand families in the territory, with many craftsmen and farmers. Each household has a lot of land. Although the castle village was built this year and it was impossible to farm, the immigrants were still reluctant to leave. The families still opened some fields, planted vegetables, and planted some food. Although not much, it could at least solve their own food.

The 20,000 Tang troops trained every day, and the people had adapted to their habits, and even could say hello after meeting.

Li Chao's military discipline was very strict. The people and soldiers were living together, and there was no need to oppress the people as soldiers.

There was once, but the man was enforced in public military discipline, and no one dared to violate it again after that.

Running in the morning, queuing in the morning and practicing guns, helping build cities in the afternoon, and class in the evening, this day-to-day life has made the soldiers get used to it.

The people are also used to listening to the wake-up call in the military camp early every morning, and listening to the soldiers shouting the trumpets and running in an orderly queue every morning.

Although they are located in the northern border and outside the Great Wall, these soldiers are there, and the people in the territory feel extremely safe.

The castle was built, and there was even a market outside the castle.

Many Central Plains merchants came to traffic in goods, and many nearby Xi and Khitans began to come to trade with goods.

At the beginning, they were very afraid of the Tang army, and several close tribes even migrated northward.

But for more than two months, the Tang army has never taken a step north and has never threatened them. They even sent people to contact them, convey goodwill, and even gave them a lot of gifts, and invited them to go south to trade.

At first, I just sent a few people to test it, with a small amount of fur, and then I found that the Tang people were indeed very kind, did not make things difficult for them, and the transaction was very fair.

Gradually, more and more people were sent to trade, and more and more goods were also added.

Up to now, many tribes no longer have to come in groups, but just bring things to trade.

There are specialized people in the market and specialized translations, which will help them introduce transactions and translation languages.

The Hu people's fur, milk, herbs, livestock, and Han people all collect them. Many of the things that Hu people want can be traded here, including salt, tea, silk cloth, wooden bowls, iron pots, hemp ropes, etc., and even meat-cutting knives, etc., each of which is very exquisite and cheap.

Anyway, it's much cheaper than what I bought in the past.

The reputation of the Shangluo County Duke is becoming more and more lively.

Among those Hu people who traded, there were also many spies who came to inquire about the Tang army, including the Xi tribes, the Khitans, and even the Goguryeo and the Turks.

Some spies were discovered by the Tang army, while others were not exposed, but as long as these people did not do too much, the Tang army did not touch them.

Tang Jun still runs in the morning and practices in the morning.

They still lined up on the river to fire guns.

Even the newly established artillery carried 36 kilograms of tiger squat cannons for exercise, and sometimes dragged more than 1,000 kilograms of siege mortar cannons for exercise.

But you can only see from a distance and not get close.

The neat queue, loud voice, the bursting sound of the guns and the roar of artillery were shocked by the spies during the training.

More and more information was transmitted back, and Su Zhi, the chief of the Xi tribe's Ahui tribe, could no longer sit still.

"What do you say about Duro?"

After Su Zhi and the people who went to the Khitan came back, they immediately asked.

"Dahe Duro agreed to go south to meet Li Chao."

Dahe Duluo, the chief of the Dahe tribe, the most powerful Khitan tribe, is also the chief of the eight tribe alliance. Although the Xi tribe and the Khitan have been separated for hundreds of years, the two tribes have always had close relationships and advance and retreat together.

Ah Hui Suzhi wanted to go south to see Li Chao, but hesitated, and finally decided to pull the Khitan together.

If the Xi tribe was with the Khitan, then there would be some room for bargaining in front of the Tang Dynasty.

He originally wanted Li Chao to come to meet, but the news he received recently made him unable to calm down. Li Chao had sent someone over to say he wanted to meet.

But there was no news after that, he stayed on the border every day, trained troops all day, and did not hide those new firearms, but this made him even more uneasy.

Fortunately, Oha Duro finally agreed to go south to meet together.

Mid May.

The Khitan chief Dahe Duluo took his son Dahe Mohui and 30,000 cavalry to go south. He met with Ahui Suzhi on the banks of the Tuhuzhen River. A few days later, Ahui Suzhi also took his son Ahui Kedu, and 30,000 cavalry to go south together.

Sixty thousand coalition forces are in a mighty way.

At the end of May, we finally arrived at the Duke of Shangluo County.

As soon as they entered the territory, Su Zhi and Duluo were a little uneasy.

It turned out that they had been here too. At that time, this place was an ordinary mountainous area that could not be more ordinary. But now, there are sailing boats and wooden rafts flowing on the Qinglong River.

Fishing, cargo, and endless exchanges.

On both sides of the river, the deserted grasslands have become fields with crops after cultivation. Not far away, there will be a village.

Chicken and dogs hear each other, and the fields are crisscrossing.

There is also a wide and flat road by the river, and there are constant carriages and horses on the road. Farmers and vendors are constantly commuting.

"I've been here last year, but it wasn't like that at that time." Kedu said in surprise.

But when they walked further south, they suddenly found that it was even more lively, especially the tall castle, which made them amazed.

Castles, villages, markets, and traded Central Plains merchants and Hu people.

The Tang army officer who was leading the way in front of them smiled and said to them, "This is the fiefdom of our prime minister's father. The Duke of Shangluo County has started construction this year. It took only half a year to build the castle. Time flies, and the fort can't be built."

Su Zhi looked at the tall castle from afar. Is this a little smaller?

"The circumference of this castle must be two miles long, right?"

"The castle is 120 feet east, west, south and north, and the city wall is four feet high and two feet wide."

Su Zhi sighed inwardly that this was a castle with a circumference of nearly three miles, and the four-meter-high wall was actually covered with bricks.

If you look closely, the castle has a foundation that is 5 meters high. After a calculation, the city wall is equivalent to 5 meters high.

And there are six treasurys outside the castle in these three miles, and each treasury has a high wall.

He thought in his heart that if he wanted to attack this castle, as long as there were three or five thousand people in the castle, he would probably not be able to take it if he had no ten times the soldiers.

Just as I was thinking, I suddenly heard a rumbling sound of thunder and neighed uneasyly.

The Xi tribe and the Khitan coalition were in panic.

"General Wang, is it because the sound just now that was your artillery?"

Wang Xuance replied with a smile, "Oh, that's just a musket. The sound of cannons is much louder than this one. Please station troops here. Dear chiefs, please follow me to the castle, and Li Xiang is waiting for everyone there."

At this time, there was another loud noise, even louder than before, one after another, rumbling constantly, like thunder.

The already panicked coalition forces became even more uneasy. Suddenly, war horses were running. More and more frightened war horses were coming. The knight shouted, and many frightened war horses were still running wildly, causing chaos.

Looking at the chaotic military formation, Ah Hui Suzhi and Dahe Duluo both looked very embarrassed and too lost. At the same time, they were also secretly afraid that the Tang army's firearms were too powerful and if they really wanted to start fighting, the Tang army's firearms came, but they were afraid that their cavalry would be scared and collapsed.

It took a long time to stabilize the military formation.

But just as it was stable, the firecrackers were set off again, and the war horses showed signs of chaos again.

"Retreat twenty miles to camp." Su Zhi had no choice but to order.

Duluo also retreated twenty miles away from the letter.

"Make General Wang laugh!" Su Zhi said.
Chapter completed!