The imperial inspector welcomed, the silver paid, it is time to go back to continue to practice, Zhu Pingan said goodbye to the Yamen colleagues, with Liu Dazhou and other people to return.
However, before leaving, Zhu Pingan went to visit Xu Wei Xu Wenchang, now the war against the Japanese will start, if you can ask Xu Wenchang to help, it will be like a tiger to add wings, but unfortunately, Xu Wenchang said that the countryside exams will soon begin, he has to concentrate on preparing for the exam, refused the invitation of Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan see he really concentrate on preparing for the examination, had to give up, forced melon is not sweet, can not be forced to cut off people’s future it, before leaving to leave him twenty two silver, will take Liu Dazhou and other people back to the Zhejian army camp.
After returning to Peach Blossom Town, Zhu Pingan went to the mansion to accompany Li Shu sat for a while, listened to the foetal movement, even the meal did not care to eat, then non-stop return to the Zheijiang army camp, will soon be opened to eliminate the Japanese curtain, practice can not be delayed.
Especially some days ago got a hint from Governor Zhang, Governor Zhang intends to assign the Zhejiang army to sit out one side, presumably a small and medium-sized city around Suzhou and Hangzhou, this area is the most serious Japanese, the Zhejiang army must be formed as soon as possible to be able to fight.
The Japanese curtain will soon be drawn up, the war will also start, even if Governor Zhang’s prudent nature, to wait until the arrival of the wolf soldiers, everything is ready, will make a big fanfare to raise heavy troops to eliminate the Japanese, but this preparation period, some small-scale battles can not be avoided, especially when the town of one side, to ensure the tranquility of one side, it is inevitable to fight with the Japanese, so the Zhejiang army time is not much left.
Practise, can not be delayed.
However, zhejiang army practice has been several months, volunteer soldiers also come half a month, it is time to test the effectiveness of practice, in the war before the start of the zhejiang army found problems, corrected but cost a little time and energy.
If the problems are only exposed in the battle with the Japanese, then the price to pay can be blood and life.
Therefore, the first thing Zhu Pingan did when he returned to the Zhejian army camp was to inform the entire army that the parade would begin immediately.
“Notify all battalions of the whole army, each battalion and each unit, to start the parade on the schoolyard at once. Parade winners, in addition to performance appraisal points, there are prizes, parade optimal ten soldiers were given a battalion commander’s command sword; parade optimal three Wu, Wu leader credit, each person rewarded 3 silver, after the parade rewarded banquet; parade optimal one post, the future expansion of the army, the Ministry of the officers and soldiers in the same conditions, enjoy the right to prioritise the right to promotion ……”
After the military order was issued, less than half a tea time, zhejiang army army more than two thousand generals have been armour neatly in the school assembly.
The whole army of zhejiang army has already installed cotton armour, with equipment battalion, cotton armour production efficiency greatly improved, especially equipment battalion thanks to zhu pingan preferential treatment, continuous day and night overtime rush, quality and quantity of more than two thousand pairs of cotton armour production.
Wearing cotton armour, Zhejiang army generals also accept the equipment battalion from the heart, a good armour is equivalent to a few more lives ah.
In addition to cotton armour, Zhejiang army generals are also equipped with an animal skin water bag, an iron gunpowder box, an iron lead bullet box, a first aid kit. Iron gunpowder box is put inside the oil paper wrapped granular medicine, can greatly improve the efficiency of the cannon loading, an iron lead bullet box, which placed lead bullets, a first aid kit, which puts the secret method of knife wound medicine, gauze, originally also put a small gourd for disinfection of the height of distilled wine inside, but often generals sneak to drink, so for the time being to make fun of it.
Seeing the entire army quickly assembled and lined up within half a tea, dressed in uniform style equipment, an uplifted face, Zhu Pingan nodded his head with satisfaction, from the spirit of the spirit of the Zhejian army, there are barely a few moments of a strong army’s modelling.
The parade began.
Basic skills such as formation, formation, semaphore, advancing and retreating, etc. were reviewed during the march of each battalion’s generals around the schoolyard.
Zhu Pingan inspects each of them in the schoolyard, and Liu Mu also takes the monitoring battalion to record the performance of each battalion’s generals.
The performance of all battalions is good, especially the Yiwu recruits, although the training time is not long, but the performance is better than the veterans and even two points, the characteristics of the conscripts who are hard-working, honest and obedient are clearly visible.
Next is the focus of the parade – shooting.
Through Zhu Pingan’s unremitting efforts, coupled with this era of the Ming army is not enough attention to firearms, Zhu Pingan from all sides to obtain firearms, Zhejian army’s cannon penetration rate has been a large sword manpower a cannon.
Shooting parade to the post as a unit, a post a post for the live firing of the cannon.
Zhu Pingan set up three ranges, a seventy-metre range, a 150-metre range and a 200-metre range.
The three ranges started to review at the same time, with one post taking turns to fire live rounds on the three ranges.
Due to the limited accuracy of the cannons in this era, and also to test the speed of the cannons, Zhu Pingan made each soldier to fire three times in each range, and the three ranges were nine times of live firing.
Zhu Pingan made Liu Mu’s monitoring battalion will be the number of live-fire targets as well as shooting time, shooting proficiency and so on one by one record down, corresponding to play different scores, the last nine live-fire down the summary of a score.
Zhu Pingan also toured back and forth between the three ranges, mapping the shooting situation of the entire army of Zhejiang.
“Erlang cheers, aim and shoot again, this one shot again, you can be all nine shots.”
“Dog egg you damn can’t be reliable, eight rounds and hit three, this time if off-target again, see how I shell you!”
“Wang Xiao Er don’t worry, you’ve already hit six out of eight, this one you’ll just play normally.”
“Tiesuo bull, nine rounds all hit, worthy of our Wu’s sharpshooter, see who else is not convinced.”
The range was abuzz with people, the generals who had finished shooting cheered for the generals who were shooting on the range, and the cheering continued.
Zhu Pingan inspected the generals shooting on the range, sometimes nodding his head and applauding, sometimes gently frowning and shaking his head, but overall he was satisfied. The shooting proficiency and shooting accuracy of the whole battalion has reached the qualified line, among them, there are many generals who have shown the potential of marksman, with the backward and lack of accuracy of this era’s cannons, their shooting hit rate has reached an amazing nine shot more than eight.
By inspecting the generals shooting, Zhu Pingan has a more intuitive assessment of the firearms level of the Zhejian army.
The power of the cannons is not bad, but the range and accuracy is still a bit lacking.
The gunpowder of the Zhejian army has been improved with black gunpowder, the power is almost doubled compared to the previous gunpowder, as long as it hits, it can cause quite fatal killings, which is not comparable to cold weapons such as bows and arrows.
However, due to the limitations of firearms manufacturing technology in this era, the range of the cannons and the accuracy is somewhat insufficient.
Zhu Pingan estimated that within seventy metres, the hit rate of the Zhejiang army’s cannons was about 55%; within 150 metres, the hit rate of the cannons was reduced to about 35%; and two hundred metres away, the hit rate of the Zhejiang army’s cannons was reduced to about 25%.
Zhu Pingan also picked two outposts and made them test fire at a distance of three hundred metres, and found that the hit rate was only about fifteen per cent.
