After Liu Jun used the three teams of Zuoqi to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, it really had a good effect. The three teams of each were beaten with twenty military sticks, and their butts were blooming. They lay on the bed for half a month.

In the half month when they were recovering from their injuries, none of the more than 100 people in the Jiutou Bird Cavalry Team dared to make a horse-shot song. They all obediently followed Liu Jun's training.

However, from the beginning of the three-step training, they were all kinds of misfortunes and could not tell the difference between the left and right. Half a month later, they were finally able to follow Liu Jun's command and listen to the drum beats, and they could complete the beautiful queue movements. With Liu Jun's command, they stood attentively, stepped in step, and ran forward in a good manner. Even during this period, they had initially mastered the banner and drum commands, knew the meaning of various sounds, and knew how to read the flag commands.

This is much better than Liu Jun expected. He originally planned to complete these trainings in one month, but now they have only taken half a month to master the most basics.

After a queue drill, Liu Jun generously rewarded the three best-performing combat troops and the three best-performing combat troops. Each team member received two liang, one liang and five qian respectively. Then the three best-performing individuals also received the same reward.

Yin Cancan's silver was handed over in public, and the team and individuals who called them came to the stage to receive the reward in public.

There are rewards and punishments. The three teams and three individuals with the worst performance were also punished. The three teams with the worst performance were each deducted five cents of silver and cleaned the barracks and toilets for one month. The three people with the worst performance were each fined five cents of silver and cleaned the horse shed for one month.

Next, Liu Jun began to ask them to continue training pace and queues in the morning, but began to carry out additional training content in the afternoon.

Every morning, I will first run a long-distance race. There were also long-distance races, but from now on, it was changed to long-distance races with weights. All soldiers wear their own ten kilograms of cotton armor and have to wear their equipment and swords and guns on them. In addition, they have to carry two kilograms of coconut scoops filled with water, five kilograms of dry food, a backpack with tents, etc. The combined weight of their bodies reaches forty kilograms.

This weight is actually lower than the standard weight load of the border troops in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the standard weight load of the border troops when they go out to fight is fifty kilograms.

The long-distance running with this full set of equipment is the first thing you can do after getting up every morning. At the beginning, Liu Jun set a task to run one mile with weight every morning, requiring the queue to pass the qualification without dispersing. Then the team disbanded and started running two mile with weight individually. In the future, he had to adjust it up on this basis. In the end, his plan was to run ten miles in one go, but the team did not disperse.

In the actual training, the practice of hand and foot strength is also listed as the most basic training requirements. When cold weapons, strength is an important basic condition. Without strength, you can use a big knife or a bow and arrow. Without strength, you can turn around and chase the enemy with swords, guns, food and armor. Even in this era, logistical support is often extremely weak, and the enemy also likes the method of attacking the food route the most, which leads to the army having to carry enough food and supplies when marching. If there are insufficient horses and vehicles, or even the road is not enough, soldiers often need to bear it.

After the long-distance running in the morning, the pace and queue training in the morning, and then the weapons practice began in the afternoon.

Weapon practice according to their respective positions in the team. Bird gunners practice bird guns and big swords, bow swords and big swords, while hook guns and rockets practice hook guns and rockets. The general team must practice swords and guns and arrows, and fire soldiers practice sticks and knives.

However, at the beginning, Liu Jun did not ask them to practice with real swords and guns, but instead made a batch of wooden swords and guns for them to practice. The archers got a purely crafted bow, and they opened the hard bow again and again to practice arm strength. The bird gunsmen practiced various postures with bird guns, and Liu Jun even used a rope to hang a brick for their muzzle.

In short, to what Liu Jun said to Li Chunjiang, that is, they must first be able to truly familiarize themselves with their weapons, and then start real-life practice.

Every evening, there is another training subject, which is horse riding. But the same is true. There are no real horses for them to train. Instead, they have made more than a dozen wooden horses on the playground, and asked the village warriors to use this horse to practice riding and riding postures, etc. Only when they meet the standards in the practice of the Trojan horse can they be qualified to ride real war horses.

After all, there are only 120 war horses, and only one person is one. Such expensive horses cannot be used to waste. Good steel must be used on the steel blade.

The most difficult thing to practice among all kinds of weapons is the bird gun.

Compared to bows and arrows, the bird gun is the easiest to start with. It doesn’t require too many skills. Any ordinary person can almost shoot if he teaches it twice. However, it is easy to get a bird gun, but it is the most difficult to get smart.

It is difficult to learn things like bows and arrows, but they can learn skills as long as they are a certain amount of time. There are even many hunters in the folk who can use bows. Even if their bows are just ordinary hunting bows, they can quickly grasp the differences and use their archery skills.

The bird gun is different. This thing is easy to shoot, but it is difficult to hit. The bird gun is a relatively accurate firearm in the late Ming Dynasty. An excellent bird gunner can hit the target at 80 steps, while a target outside 80 steps is wearing two layers of wet blankets, as long as it is hit, it will be seriously injured even if it is not killed.

However, it is difficult to master advanced firearms with such a long range. Most soldiers have a sense of repulsion for firearms. They are afraid of the loud sounds and smoke of firearms, and are afraid of the firearms exploding. At the same time, a bird gun fires and loads them with more than a dozen steps, which is quite troublesome and complicated. On the battlefield, many gunners will sometimes make mistakes when they are nervous, either miss a step or repeat the movements.

Some people put several lead bullets into their guns, some people don’t even remember to take them out, or they put too much gunpowder into place, and various problems.

This is mostly due to the corruption of the court, which caused the craftsmen to cut corners. Originally, a gun barrel could fire hundreds of shots, but in the end it could only fire dozens of times, or even twenty or thirty times were scrapped. Some gun barrels were too thin, and if they were charged according to the standard, they would explode if they were accidentally charged.

In addition, lead bullets and gunpowder are often unqualified, resulting in the bird gun being unreliable at the end. This is why the northern border troops would rather use the older three-eyed fire gate gun than use the advanced mesh rope gun bird gun.

Now Liu Jun wants his bird gunners to overcome these fears. First of all, they must be familiar with the bird gun first, break down the loading and firing actions one by one, and let them remember them repeatedly, and then practice real guns and carry out live ammunition shooting. At that time, everyone will no longer be blindly afraid of the bird gun.

Although bird guns have various problems, complex loading, low shooting accuracy, and often cannot be used in windy and rainy days, the historical trend is that firearms will replace cold weapons.

An excellent archer and knife hand may require more than three or even five years of training to be proficient in long swords and bows. Even the simplest sapter soldier will have to be at least one or two years of training.

As long as a bird gunner has no problem with equipment, it does not need any natural strength or a tall gunner. Even if it is a woman, as long as the guns and powder are not a problem, it will be properly trained for half a year, even if it cannot become a sharpshooter.

But as long as you line up a bird gun line and place the bird guns in succession, you can still achieve a more powerful blow effect than a crossbowman.

During this period, Liu Jun has been silently training the use of shotguns.

After more than half a month of practice, with his original archer's bow shooting level, he has now initially controlled the ability of firearm shooting. After all, in modern times, he has been a soldier for seven years and has not known how many bullets he has fired. Although he is now using the original medley gun, it is also considered to be the same.

Liu Jun took a bird gun and walked to the twenty-four gunmen, "You guys are ready. The bird gun has been trained, which is even more powerful than the bow and arrow."

He brought a standard firearm equipment for a bird gunner, a bird gun, and a snatch, which is a sling. Two gunpowder jars, one filled with induction powder, and the other filled with firing medicine. Five fuse ropes, thirty medicine tubes, and three hundred lead bullets.

"You guys are optimistic about my order of action."

Liu Jun first poured an appropriate amount of granular firing medicine into the gun barrel, either too much or too little. If there is too much, there is a risk of explosion, and if there is less, the lead bullet will not be far away. Therefore, the quantitative amount of gunpowder must be poured into the medicine barrel in advance. The thirty medicine tubes in the gunman equipment that Liu Jun took out were quantitatively filled gunpowder, and each tube was exactly one shot.

In this way, Liu Jun just took a tube and poured it into the barrel, so there was no need to worry about any problems.

After pouring the gunpowder, insert the gunpowder into the gun tube with a strip of strips to press the gunpowder evenly, then put a lead bullet in it. Also, use the strip of strips to push the lead bullet to the bottom of the chamber to press the launching medicine to ensure airtightness.

Then, the fire door cover was opened, the powdered gunpowder was sprinkled into the medicine pool, and then the fire door cover on the medicine pool was covered, and the fuse was ignited, tied to the faucet, and the other end of the rope was wrapped around the gun.

After completing this set of actions, Liu Jun said, "I'm sure you'll open the fire door cover at this time, pull the trigger, and the lead bullet can shoot out of the cloud."

A fuse can be fired multiple times without extinguishing, but the explosion of gunpowder can easily cause the fuse to pop out of the faucet and have to be reinstalled every time.

To complete the loading and shooting preparations, a skilled gunman takes half a minute, while an ordinary musketeer takes at least one minute, or even many bird gunmen in the Ming army takes two or three minutes to fire a shot.

Moreover, there are many restrictions on the use of bird guns by cavalry. The recoil of the bird gun is very strong, so it is basically difficult to shoot with bird guns on the horse's back. Most of the time, the bird gun cavalry only rides a horse and has to dismount when shooting.

However, the range of the bird gunner is much longer than that of the three-eyed gun.

Liu Jun made a standing and shooting position and aimed at the target eighty steps ahead. The target was originally the step that archers trained to archers.

"Look!" Liu Jun shouted suddenly.

Then pull the trigger.

A "bang" sounded violently, and a burst of smoke rose.

Then the lead bullet in the gun barrel ejected out, and the sound of the arrow target, eighty steps away, was accurately hit by the lead bullet.

"I've been beaten, I've been beaten!"

Many sharp-eyed people saw the lead bullet trap on the target that was deeply trapped.

Liu Jun pulled away his gun, reached out to wipe his sweat, thinking that he had not missed, otherwise he would have lost all his face. Although he had been practicing hard for so long, he had eighty-step targets, even with such a very accurate customized version of the bird gun, Liu Jun's usual grades were at most 10 shots. No matter how accurate he aimed, there would always be one or two shots off the target in the ten shots.

Everyone looked at Liu Jun with admiration, especially the twenty-four bird gunners. Before, most of them were hunters and had good archery skills. They were arranged to be gunners, and they were a little dissatisfied.

But today, when Liu Jun personally shot the bull's eye with a shot from eighty steps away from the bird gun, they suddenly felt that the bird gun was so powerful. Although the bird gun was loading slowly, it didn't take much effort. The bow and arrow shot a dozen arrows and his arms were almost terrible. However, as long as the bird gun had a chance, it would not be difficult to fire twenty or thirty guns.

"The bird gun is good, no worse than the bow and arrow. As long as everyone is willing to work hard, they can be the same as me. Let me tell you again, I didn't know how to use the bird gun at all, but after only half a month of practice, I can pass through the sun a hundred steps. Today I will give you a reward. In a month, who can get eighty-step targets, five out of ten, five out of ten, six out of ten, six out of ten, then I will give him two taels of silver. And, in the future, I will test it once a month, as long as you can get more than five out of ten, there will be rewards."

When they heard this, the bird gunmen were really excited. Even if they were five out of ten, they would have five cents of silver. Five cents of silver is a lot. When they were at home, they could not even earn five cents of silver in a month.

But in this way, the bow and knife players and the hook gun players are not happy. Why are the bird gun players treated so well?

"Don't envy or jealous, I treat you equally. Today I will give you a reward if you have more than 5 out of 10 bird gunners. The same goes for archers. If you have more than 5 out of 10 steps away from 80 steps, you will also have a reward if you have more than 5 out of 10 steps. The rewarding standards are the same as the bird gunners. In addition, as long as the hook gunners are running right away, they will also have a reward if you have more than 5 out of 10."

Liu Jun's words made the villagers' enthusiasm for training immediately.

"Well, next, we can start to train them with real weapons." Liu Jun was very satisfied with the atmosphere.

Not far away on the other side, Li Chunjiang was watching the field with Qian Gu, Mao Gui and Wang Zhi, three Li Jiajia, who had been recovering from injuries after being beaten.

He exclaimed, "You are also considered veterans who have fought in Liaodong. Tell me, can the nine border towns in the Ming Dynasty train a group of people into this atmosphere in half a month?"

Qian Gu looked at the warm atmosphere on the field and the murderous aura that had already been revealed, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "When we were consuming wages in Liaodong, we often recruited new recruits. However, the recruits recruited could not reach this atmosphere without half a year of training. Liu Jiye didn't expect that he was young and a young martial artist had this ability. I underestimated him at the beginning."

Li Chunjiang smiled, "So don't always get along with Jiye. As the saying goes, the masters are at most powerful soldiers, and they can be regarded as generals. Learn more from the future. At the beginning, I thought he was not simple, but I didn't expect that I really picked up a treasure. With Liu Jiye helping me train this horse team, it may have been pulled out to fight the thieves in less than three months."

"Young Master, you are a precious scholar, why bother mere thief?"

"A friend of mine once said to me that every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Do you understand? Even if I can't protect the country, I have to defend my hometown. Otherwise, I will be in vain to read the books of sages for so many years. Qian Gu, Qian Gui, Wang Zhi, you three will come back to follow me as servants. I will arrange for someone else to be the team leader at Zuoqi."

The three of them nodded dejectedly, "Yes".

"Pack up your stuff now and go out with me."

“Where are we going?”

Li Chunjiang replied, "Yebushe has discovered some traces of the thief. Let's dig him out."

"Then here?"
Chapter completed!