Gao Huan decided to attack Yuzhou. On the surface, he only had 4,000 elite soldiers, but as Zhuang Ding, there were actually more than 10,000 people.

Nowadays, it is another year of famine. It is reasonable for farmers to farm their own business, rob their side businesses, and generate more income from their careers.

It is not difficult to conquer Yuzhou now, but the difficult thing is how to gain a foothold in Yuzhou.

In the Central Plains, everyone must compete with the Central Plains, from south to north, and from east to west to attack Henan. They are very passive in strategic direction and are all enemies on all sides.

Over the years, there are really no one else who has achieved great achievements based on the Central Plains except Cao Cao and Prime Minister Cao.

The land in Yuzhou and Xuzhou is fertile and close to Fengyang. It is not easy to catch it and guard it.

After the last war, Gao Huan selected honest and reliable people from Zhuang Ding and the prisoners, joined the Chibei Army, and expanded his troops.

Now the Red Preparatory Army is mainly composed of swords, shield soldiers, spear soldiers, archers, and bird gun teams.

After being incorporated into many prisoners of the official army and as grassroots officers, Gao Huan's many ideas were implemented, and he could ask the Red Army to prepare for the military according to the "State Record of Military Training".

Qi Jiguang's training method was still outdated even in modern times. Considering the level of Chi Bei's army, Gao Huan did not use the skills of the Qi family's junior high school entrance examination to subdivided into ninth grades, and only divided into upper, middle and lower third grades. When the two assessments were lower, he kicked out Chi Bei.

Now Chi Bei is assessed every half month. He drinks broth, eats egg pancakes, and eats egg pancakes for medium egg pancakes. He can only eat dried biscuits for low-end times and also has to beat military sticks for five times.

Although Gao Huan captured many official troops, he did not have the talent to set up a large formation, so he could only require the soldiers' skills to be superb enough.

Taking the sword and shield soldiers of the Red Army as an example, in addition to protecting themselves with shields, they also need to use shields to rush into the enemy formation. In addition, each shield soldier is equipped with three jaws, which requires a target within twenty steps.

At this time, on the field outside the city, the sound of fire from the muskets was thumping.

Gao Huan stood aside, watching Zhang Yang leading a team of bird gunners, shooting. Liu Blacksmith and several officers stood beside Gao Huan.

After the last war, Gao Huan seized nearly 500 bird guns. After selection, he obtained three hundred bird guns, which were quite sophisticated, and formed a brigade of musket team.

After several days of training, the soldiers of the Musket Team were able to skillfully load ammunition, then aimed at the target fifty steps ahead and pulled the plate machine. The fuse fell down, and with a "bang", the smoke filled the wooden target, hitting the wooden target.

The generals around Gao Huan were all applauding.

After conquering Dengfeng County, Gao Huan asked Shi Ye Tang to register all the craftsmen in the county, and also made a simple division of the craftsmen, and then gathered together to create and repair weapons.

Gao Huan looked at the bird guns picked out by the workshop and did not see the explosion. He couldn't help but say with satisfaction: "The selected batch of guns are good. The bird guns built by the workshop in the future must meet the requirements and cannot explode the explosion!"

Liu Tiejiang said: "In fact, in addition to quality issues, the firearms are mainly overused. Generally, excellent gun barrels should be scrapped if they shoot hundreds of times, but they are very greedy in the army and are not replaced. In addition, the quality is poor, and the chamber may be exploded within a hundred strokes. If they are really made, they will explode. According to the Ming Dynasty law, they will be severely punished!"

Gao Huan only heard that it was easy to explode. He thought it was poor quality, but he didn't know about these reasons. However, after knowing it, he couldn't help but feel ache. The gunpowder consumed by shooting bird guns was originally very expensive. Now that the gun barrel has been fired for a long time, it has to be scrapped and replaced. That large amount of money is gone.

Sure enough, if you want to play with firearms, you must have strong economic strength and a certain industrial foundation, otherwise you will be unable to bear it just by training.

Gao Huan nodded and immediately instructed his subordinates to regularly inspect the muskets and eliminate the useless guns regularly.

At this time, Gao Huan was looking at the shooting bird gunners, feeling that they should be required to conduct stricter assessments.

In fact, for shooters, the focus has been on daily training and assessment, while on the battlefield, they only require them not to make mistakes.

On the battlefield, the heads obtained by the musket team and archers are not easy to count. Unless the sharpshooter shoots an enemy general with one arrow, tens of thousands of arrows will be shot at the same time, and thousands of guns will be shot at the same time, and arrows and projectiles will be the same. Whoever shoots whom cannot be as easy to count as melee troops.

Therefore, throughout the ages, if Sagittarius wants to be promoted, it depends mainly on his daily assessment.

Taking the "City Test" in the Han Dynasty as an example, this is an exercise held by the Western Han army every autumn. The main items are archery and riding and shooting. The rewards that are qualified are called "give labor" and the punishment for failure is called "defeat". Archers and crossbowmen with excellent achievements can be rewarded and promoted to the archery lieutenant and the powerful crossbow commander.

Of course, in addition to the usual assessment, the shooter will also pay attention to the battle. However, unlike the close combat infantry, when the shooter is in the battle, it does not mean whether he has made any achievements, but whether he has made any mistakes.

"The General Yao of Wu Jing" clearly records that "those who shoot arrows without waiting for the thief to step forward... and those who abandon more arrows... those who review the arrows when they are in front of the battle will be killed!"

Strict training and assessments in daily life, coupled with no mistakes on the battlefield, constitute a system of rewards and combat for shooters.

Gao Huan looked at it and the bird gunners shot pretty well. He nodded slightly, "Let the kitchen slaughter a sheep and give extra meals to those who perform well!"

The training of bird gunners is much faster than that of archers, and is a development trend.

After half a month of training, the Red-Bai Musketman was already decent, but the shooting and loading speed of each soldier still seemed to be slower.

Gao Huan observed carefully for a while and found that each bird gunner shot out after more than a minute.

At this time, Gao Huan had a way to increase the rate of fire of the bird gun, which was to use a paper tube fixed-load gunpowder.

The paper tube is fixedly filled with gunpowder, and the fixed amount of gunpowder and projectiles are wrapped in the paper tube in advance. When filling, bite the paper tube with your mouth and pour some gunpowder into the fire door. The remaining gunpowder and the projectiles are stuffed into the muzzle, which greatly simplifies the steps of pouring, loading, pressing fire, and loading.

This not only ensures that the power of each shot of the bird gun is not easy to explode, but also greatly reduces the reloading steps of gunpowder, which increases the rate of fire of the bird gunner. However, Gao Huan does not intend to use paper tube fixed-load gunpowder.

Because the Red Preparatory Army was too few, there were only 300 bird gunmen in total, and their power was too weak, and military technology spreads rapidly on the battlefield. Once you use it, others will use it.

Now Chi Bei adopts it, and it cannot improve much combat power. Once it is learned by the opponent and promoted it with the opponent's size, it will be troublesome for Gao Huan.

A few years ago, there were still advantages in artillery in the Ming Dynasty, but in recent years, artillery was not as good as the Qing Dynasty.

Paper tube fixed assembly is not a high-tech. As long as you provide an idea, most forces can create it now.

Paper tube fixed-load gunpowder cannot be used. If you want to increase the speed of fire and combat power of the bird gunner, you can only strictly implement the regulations of the Ming army bird gunner.

Gao Huan immediately ordered Liu Blacksmith to prepare thirty bamboo tubes containing gunpowder for each bird gunner according to the customization of the Qi family army, and all of them must be quantified.

"This is OK, but now the workshop is going to cast weapons and build muskets, so there is not enough manpower!" Liu Tiejiang said.

Gao Huan waved his hand, "This is not a problem. Let's arrange some kids to be apprentices for you. If you train one, I will give you five taels of silver."

Liu Blacksmith was overjoyed, but then said: "Young master, there is not much iron or carbon in the workshop."

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