Chapter 42 Three-stage shooting
The next morning, Emperor Wanli rushed to the National Palace to attend the military parade - it seems that the emperor really wants to collect Guocheng's little sparrow.
Guocheng gathered 114 Jinyiwei together and said "arranged". Jinyiwei immediately stood in two square formations, each with 8 rows and 7 rows. General flag Wu Huping and Chen Guoqi stood at the front of each square formation, one in a row. From the front, they could only see 7 straight lines, and from the side, they could only see 8 straight lines. The Wanli Emperor Li couldn't help but secretly praise Guocheng had a set of training soldiers. Just looking at the position of the soldiers, you can see that Guocheng used troops like a finger. How could he know that Guocheng came from later generations and was used to seeing the National Day parade, and knew that neat queues could blind people's eyes, so they had to stand at the beginning of the training and marched very strictly.
Emperor Wanli ordered a number of people for half a day and said, "Where is Guocheng, does your formation have a name?"
"Formation?" Guocheng said in his heart, "I don't believe that. What is the one-character long snake formation, the geese stacking formation, the Bagua formation, and the maze formation are not that powerful. It is just an exaggeration of the Romance novel. When the two armies face off, wisdom, calmness and courage are the decisive factors."
Guocheng shook his head honestly, meaning this is not a formation.
Emperor Wanli smiled and said, "I'll give you a name. This formation is called the horizontal seven vertical eight formation. Look at the horizontal line of seven soldiers and eight soldiers, haha..."
Guocheng looked at the team, seven people were in a row, eight people were in a row, hey, it was really in a row. If I had known, I would have recruited 64 people. Let's see how you laugh at me.
After Guocheng's transformation, the buildings of the Guogong government have basically been flattened and a large playground was rebuilt. A huge circular runway was paved in the middle of the playground. The parade platform was on one side of the circular runway. Guocheng asked Emperor Wanli and Zhu Youjian to stand on the parade platform to watch. He stood in the center of the playground, holding the red, white and blue three-color flags in his hand.
The Guocheng red flag waved downwards, and the Jinyiwei lined forward. There was no other sound at the scene, only the "cracking" sound of the armor rubbing. Looking at the team, the horizontal and vertical lines were not messy and the rhythm was neat.
Wanli sighed: "It's really a team that is so arrogant. If all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are like this, can our Tartars in the north of the Ming Dynasty be arrogant?"
When the Jinyiwei square formation was about to reach the parade platform, Guocheng waved the white flag upwards. The Jinyiwei's footsteps changed and changed to steadily. The neat footsteps of the audience rang out. The recruits looked to the left slightly, looked at the parade platform, and shouted slogans neatly: "Train hard, guard the royal guard Ming! Talking hard, guard the royal guard Ming!"
Wanli's mouth was so open that an egg could be stuffed into it. This pace fully reflects the mighty and majesty of the soldiers, making people feel the overwhelming momentum of the Jinyiwei and the invincible spirit.
The square formation left the parade platform, Guocheng's red flag stopped and waved it, the "papa" footsteps disappeared, and the "crack" sound of the clothes and armor rubbed again.
Wanli sighed: "Decades ago, I saw the training of the 'Qi Family Army'. I think it was the world's number one iron army. Flowers bloom and fall for a few years. Now the reputation of the world's number one beauty is about to fall on the 'National Army'."
Zhu Youjian said: "Brother Guocheng said that the new recruits of the Jinyiwei are now competent to deal with ordinary enemies, but if they want to deal with strong enemies, they may have to go through three to four years of training."
Wanli looked at Zhu Youjian suspiciously and asked, "Brother Guocheng?"
Zhu Youjian just said the words "Brother Guocheng" and was already nervous. When he heard Wanli's question, his face turned pale. He knelt down and kowtowed and said, "This is what I shouted randomly, it has nothing to do with Brother Guocheng."
After making a mistake in his busy schedule, Zhu Youjian shouted again, "Brother Guocheng".
Wanli helped Zhu Youjian up and said, "Forget it, when I was a child, I also hoped that there would be an older brother who could help me and take care of me. Unfortunately, I was very blessed. I didn't meet someone like Guocheng at that time. But you have to be careful not to let those censors hear it, otherwise I would be noisy again."
Lu Shou followed him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Guocheng was so grateful to the Dragon. If he had met the prince or grandson at the beginning, a political star would rise again. I heard that Guocheng and the grandson had a good relationship. The grandson often went to children's playground these days. If he changed to his family, his future would be limitless. However, Guocheng seemed a little stupid and loyal, and it was unlikely that he would be betray Zhu Youjian. Alas, it was a pity that his talent was full of talent.
Guocheng was training the new army wholeheartedly, but did not notice a scene on the parade platform. The new soldiers walked into the shooting range, Guocheng waved the blue flag, and the soldiers in the front three rows pulled their bows and shot arrows, and the arrows flew towards the target like a wind, and then quickly retreated. The three rows of soldiers in the middle stepped forward, and there was another wave of arrow rain. Then the three rows of soldiers retreated again, and the two rows of soldiers advanced forward, and another wave of arrow rain. At this time, the soldiers in the front three rows had prepared their bows and arrows, and went forward with a rain of arrows... Three rounds of this cycle, Guocheng waved the blue flag, and the soldiers took the bow back to the camp. A team of soldiers lifted the target and sent it to the parade platform.
When Emperor Wanli saw that there were dense arrows on each target.
Wanli said: "Your dear is good at training troops. The new recruits you lead have the right mind, the ranks and the shooting skills are really a rare iron army. If you are older, even if you are seven or eight years older, I would like to let you go to the Ministry of War for training."
Guocheng said: "I don't want to be glorious and wealthy, I just want to follow His Royal Highness and guard the safety of the Royal Grandson."
Zhu Youjian said: "Brother Guocheng and I are good friends, Grandpa Huang is not here to poach."
Wanli smiled and said, "Okay, okay. If you don't dig your friends, you'll be fine. By the way, Guocheng, why did you let the soldiers shoot in three sections instead of shooting arrows together?"
Guocheng said: "In the vision of Weichen, this recruit is a full firearm unit. It takes time to load ammunition, the barrel cools down, and the leads will take time to ignite. If it is fired at one time, it may not be able to cope with the enemy's counterattack. The three-stage shooting can maintain the continuity of shooting, prevent the enemy from counterattacking, and reduce the casualties of one's own side. Now there are insufficient firearms and cannot be equipped with the entire army for the time being, so it is replaced by a crossbow. But I think the principle is the same. After a good crossbow shooter fires fifteen to twenty arrows, he will be exhausted and cannot shoot again. The three-stage shooting can make the crossbow shooter at least thirty to forty arrows before he will be tired."
Wanli nodded and said, "Miao, Miao, Guocheng, you have never been to the battlefield, why are you so familiar with war?"
Guocheng said in his heart: "Will I tell you the knowledge I got from watching TV?" But he said in his mouth: "This is what Weichen saw when he reads books."
Wanli smiled and said, "I am very satisfied with this military parade. The little sparrow will be fostered on you for the time being. When I think of a new way, I will cut it off. Haha, you have to be careful."
Chapter completed!