boyutpedia Chapter 255 Firearms Camp
Chapter 255 Firearms Camp
A musket without a bayonet is no different from a fire stick at close range.
The foreman immediately opened a small box, which contained small daggers wrapped in paper.
He opened one and said, "Your Highness, please look, this is the close-range frequency dagger you are using."
Ning Yi frowned as he looked at the long, dark bayonet: "Still can't make a saber?"
The foreman smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, the saber you're talking about is too thin to break easily, and too thick to be too heavy. Therefore, a bayonet is the most appropriate."
Okay, Ning Yi threw the musket to them: "Try firing first."
There are special test soldiers coming from the base.
There are ten people in total, who are here specifically to teach these servants how to use it.
In a training ground of the military camp, ten test soldiers, each holding a small medicine jar, continuously loaded gunpowder into the musket, put in bullets, and then filled the cardboard with cleaning rods, and everything was done.
Ten people stood side by side, and at the command of the team leader, they opened fire together, "bang bang bang bang", followed by a cloud of white smoke.
The wooden target a few dozen meters ahead was clanging.
Qin Haifeng curled his lips as he watched them busy reloading their weapons. He muttered, "Your Highness, this thing is so useless! It's not as effective as a three-barreled gun."
It took them a long time to finally finish loading, then they opened fire and had to keep their heads down to reload. It was really troublesome.
Ning Yi shook his head slightly: "That's because you don't know. The true three-stage attack is formed. This kind of 10,000-man army is enough to slaughter 100,000 elite soldiers."
That's it? Qin Haifeng refused to believe it.
How can these musketeers, who are so slow in reloading, fight against a hundred thousand with only ten thousand?
Even the Mandarin Duck Formation is impossible.
The biggest advantage of the Mandarin Duck Formation is that it can fight a decisive battle with a random force, and can quickly eliminate the opponent, leaving them with no chance to fight back.
However, if a large-scale battle is fought between armies, such as a battle between 100,000 and 100,000 on a large battlefield, the Mandarin Duck Formation will still not be able to exert its great power.
After all, by then the army will launch successive attacks and advance in a mighty manner. Even the Mandarin Duck Formation will be unable to resist the forceful push of shields and spears.
This is because they have archers and crossbowmen behind their Mandarin Duck Formation, as well as musketeers, and are even equipped with Tiger Dun Cannons. Otherwise, a pure Mandarin Duck Formation would not have any advantage.
But in a skirmish, those ordinary soldiers would suffer a great loss.
As for the Long Fire Gun Army that the Sixth Prince mentioned, there is no apparent advantage at all.
Ning Yi first selected 800 people from the eighth batch of book boys to form the grassroots organization of the firearms soldiers and established a firearms battalion.
Another group of old servants with good performance were selected to serve as grassroots officers in the firearms battalion.
The first batch of book boys, the injured Wang Jinqin, served as the captain of the firearms battalion.
The eighth batch of book boys has been here for more than four months. In fact, another three months is enough for them to be transferred down.
But Ning Yi suddenly decided to select a group of soldiers from them to serve as the firearms battalion.
Many people don’t understand why he did this. Many armies are in dire need of servants right now. Why doesn’t His Highness release the eighth batch of servants?
Eight hundred people, including three musket companies, a material transport company, an artillery company, and a battalion headquarters.
There are five hundred musketeers, all armed with muskets. The material transport company consists of one hundred musketeers and one hundred mandarin duck formations. As for the artillery company, there are six tiger-dun cannons, and in addition to the gunners, there are dozens of guards.
Looking at Ning Yi's successive actions, such as forcibly setting up a firearms battalion, it is clear that His Highness is heading towards the field of firearms.
I also think that His Highness is using them as test subjects to see what the effect is.
Only Ning Yi knew that this firearms battalion was the seed of his future, and the army should develop in this direction.
After several days of hard work, it was finally completed. The more than 800 people just needed to train in this remote military camp.
Gunpowder was supplied in large quantities, enough for them to master firearms.
But after training for a while, Ning Yi came to watch and frowned: "What's going on? It's still so slow."
"How come so many muskets were destroyed? Are they of poor quality?"
The captain of the test squad, who was also here to help with the training, smiled wryly, "Your Highness, the quality of the muskets is absolutely passable, but some soldiers overloaded the gunpowder, causing it to explode easily."
Ning Yi carefully looked at the soldiers who were injured by the exploded guns, and after asking, he found out that they had overloaded.
Look at the soldiers lined up in a long queue, making a lot of crackling noises. After finishing one team, they squatted down according to the rules set by Ning Yi, and the second team of soldiers raised their muskets and opened fire again.
Then the third team.
The first wave was normal, but the second wave was much slower and it took a while to load.
Ning Yi frowned. The speed was too slow. It was not as powerful as a three-stage attack.
Qin Haifeng advised: "Your Highness, forget it. This speed is too slow. By the time you finish reloading, the enemy will have already rushed in front of you."
Ning Yi didn't say anything and continued watching.
Suddenly, a soldier in the second wave heard a "bang" and his gun exploded. He squatted on the ground, covering his face and screaming.
The soldiers nearby were all panicked.
Ning Yi came over and asked, "What's going on with you?"
The soldier covered his face with blood, and explained sadly that he had loaded too much in a hurry.
Wang Jinqin said helplessly, "Your Highness, this kind of training is simply not feasible. This musket is too unstable. We should ask the base to add some thickness to it, otherwise it will keep exploding and the students won't dare to fire."
They all started out as schoolboys, and according to Ning Yi's request, those who graduated earlier called those who graduated later "younger brothers."
Ning Yi looked at the exploded musket and shook his head slightly: "The quality of the musket is fine. If the thickness is increased, it will be a problem."
He looked at the servants beside him and asked them one by one, and finally knew the problem.
Many people will subconsciously add more gunpowder and have no sense of measure or control.
"Haifeng, go get some brown paper."
Qin Haifeng didn't know what the Sixth Prince wanted the brown paper for at this time.
After taking it, Ning Yi asked someone to cut it into small pieces with a knife.
"Now I will teach you how to charge gunpowder and use it."
Use a small piece of kraft paper and put a certain amount of gunpowder in it. In this way, every time the soldier loads gunpowder, he only needs to load the gunpowder in the small kraft paper bag into the musket.
There will no longer be problems of overloading and causing the barrel to explode, or loading too little and shooting too close.
Even the time it took for the soldiers to take out the small bottle and carefully pour in the gunpowder was greatly shortened.
After the soldiers had prepared a lot of gunpowder bags, they regrouped and opened fire again.
This time the speed was much faster.
Team after team, wave after wave, there were no more problems with barrel explosions or delays.
Wang Jinqin watched from the side and chuckled, "Sir, that's amazing! A small piece of brown paper solved such a big problem."
This is not a problem. Ning Yi said: "When you encounter a problem, you just need to use your brain more. It's nothing."
"Next, I need to train hard. As for kraft paper, just buy some. There's plenty of it on the market."
He now only has a firearms battalion with only a few hundred flintlock rifles, and many other standard supplies are not available.