Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1675 Military Parade Inspection Results

  The imperial envoy greeted him, and the money was handed over. It was time to go back to continue training. Zhu Ping bid farewell to his colleagues in the Yamen, and returned with Liu Dadao and others.

But before leaving, Zhu Pingan visited Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang again. Now that the battle to suppress the Japanese is about to start, if Xu Wenchang can be invited to help, it will be even more powerful. Unfortunately, Xu Wenchang said that the township examination is about to begin. To concentrate on preparing for the exam, Zhu Ping'an's invitation was rejected.

Seeing that he was really concentrating on preparing for the exam, Zhu Pingan had no choice but to give up. The twisted melon is not sweet, and he can't be forced to cut off his future. Before leaving, he left him twenty taels of silver, and returned to the Zhejiang Army with Liu Dadao and others It's camp.

After returning to Taohuaji Town, Zhu Pingan went to the house to sit with Li Shu for a while, listened to the fetal movement, and didn't even care about eating, so he returned to the Zhe Army camp without stopping, and the curtain of suppressing the Japanese was about to begin , Training can not be delayed.

Especially a few days ago, I got a hint from Governor Zhang that Governor Zhang intends to assign the Zhejiang Army to sit in one side. It is estimated that it is a small and medium-sized city in the Suzhou-Hangzhou area. The Japanese infestation is the most serious in this area, and the Zhejiang Army must form combat power as soon as possible. just do.

The curtain of suppressing the Japanese is about to start, and the war is about to start. Even with Governor Zhang's steady temper, he will wait until the wolf soldiers arrive and everything is ready before they will fight the Japanese with great fanfare. However, during this preparation period, some Small-scale battles are unavoidable, especially after taking control of one side, keeping one side peaceful will require hand-to-hand combat with Japanese pirates, so there is not much time left for the Zhejiang army.

  Training 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. Before the start of the war, the problems of the Zhejiang army are discovered, and it only takes a little time and effort to correct them.

  If the problem is exposed during the war with Japanese pirates, the price to pay is blood and life.

  So, the first thing Zhu Pingan did when he returned to the Zhejiang Army camp was to inform the whole army to start the military parade immediately.

"Once you know all the battalions in the army, each battalion has its own ranks, the military parade will start immediately. The winners of the military parade will not only receive extra points in the performance appraisal, but also a lottery. For the three corps, the corps leader will record merits, and each person will be rewarded with 3 liang of silver, and a banquet will be given after the military parade; the best post in the military parade will expand the army in the future, and the officers and soldiers of the troops will have the priority to be promoted under the same conditions."

  After the military order was issued, in less than half a cup of tea, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Zhejiang Army had assembled neatly in the school grounds.

  The whole army of Zhejiang Army has been equipped with cotton armor. With the equipment battalion, the production efficiency of cotton armor has been greatly improved. In particular, the equipment battalion is grateful to Zhu Ping'an for the preferential treatment. It has worked overtime day and night continuously, and has produced more than 2,000 pairs of cotton armor with high quality and quantity.

  Put on the cotton armor, and the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army also accepted the equipment battalion in their hearts. A good pair of armor is equivalent to several lives.

  In addition to the cotton armor, the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army are equipped with an animal skin water bag, an iron gunpowder box, an iron lead ammunition box, and a first-aid kit. The iron gunpowder box contains granular medicine wrapped in oil paper, which can greatly improve the loading efficiency of the firecracker. An iron lead bullet box contains lead bullets, and a first-aid kit contains secret magic knife medicine and gauze. , Originally there was a small gourd of highly distilled alcohol for disinfection, but soldiers often drank it secretly, so I made fun of it for the time being.

Seeing the whole army quickly assembled and lined up in half a cup of tea, dressed in uniform equipment, with high-spirited faces, Zhu Pingan nodded in satisfaction. From the perspective of spirit, the Zhejiang army is barely a bit strong. look like.

  The military parade begins.

  Basic skills such as formation, formation, semaphore, advance and retreat, etc. were inspected during the process of marching around the school field by the soldiers of each battalion.

  Zhu Pingan inspected one by one in the school grounds, and Liu Mu also led the monitoring battalion to make records of the performance of the soldiers of each battalion.

  The soldiers of all battalions performed well, especially the recruits from Yiwu. Although the training time was not long, the queue performance was even two points better than that of the veterans. The conscripts were hardworking and obedient.

  The next step is the focus of the military parade—shooting.

  Through Zhu Pingan's unremitting efforts in many ways, coupled with the fact that the Ming army did not pay enough attention to firearms in this era, Zhu Pingan obtained firearms from various sources, and the penetration rate of firearms in the Zhejiang Army has already been greatly improved.

   Shooting review takes whistle as the unit, and fire guns 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 the other is a 200-meter shooting range.

  The inspection of the three shooting ranges started at the same time, and live ammunition shooting was carried out on the three shooting ranges in turn.

  Due to the limited accuracy of firecrackers in this era, and in order to test the rate of fire of firecrackers, Zhu Pingan ordered each soldier to shoot three live ammunition shots at each shooting range. Three shooting ranges meant nine live ammunition shots.

  Zhu Pingan ordered Liu Mu's monitoring battalion to record the number of targets shot by each officer, the shooting time, shooting proficiency, etc., and score different points accordingly.

  Zhu Ping'an also went back and forth between the three shooting ranges to gain a thorough understanding of the shooting situation of the entire Zhejiang Army.

   "Come on, Erlang, aim and shoot again. If you hit this one again, you've hit all nine."

   "You son of a 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 deal with you!"

   "Don't worry, Wang Xiaoer, you've already got a top grade in Form 6 in eight rounds, and you can perform normally in this round."

   "The iron rope is awesome, and he hits all nine shots. He is worthy of being the sharpshooter of our team. Let's see who else is not convinced."

  The shooting range was full of voices, and the soldiers who had finished shooting cheered for the soldiers who were shooting on the field, and the cheers continued.

  Zhu Pingan 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 passing line, and many of them have shown the potential of marksmen. With the backward and inaccurate firecrackers of this era, their shooting hit rate has reached An astonishing nine shots and more than eight hits.

  By inspecting the shooting of the soldiers, Zhu Pingan had a more intuitive judgment on the level of firearms of the Zhejiang Army.

  The power of the firecracker is acceptable, but the range and accuracy are still somewhat insufficient.

  The gunpowder of the Zhe Army has already used improved black powder, which is almost twice as powerful as the previous gunpowder. As long as it hits, it can cause quite lethal damage, which is incomparable to 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 firecrackers are somewhat insufficient.

Zhu Pingan estimated that within 70 meters, the hit rate of the Zhejiang army's firecrackers was about 55 percent; within 150 meters, the hit rate of the firecrackers dropped to about 35 percent. and 200 meters away, the hit rate of the Zhejiang army's firecrackers has dropped to about 25%.

  Zhu Ping'an also picked two whistles and asked them to test fire at a distance of 300 meters, and found that the hit rate was only about 15%.

  (end of this chapter)