Chapter 42 42 Gunners

"That's no problem. Train more than a hundred bird gunners. As long as they are trained strictly and the loading step is as short as possible, with relatively dense firepower, they can still deal with the small drum Tartar cavalry, as long as they are not too unlucky and surrounded by the Tartar brigade."

After hearing Wu Zhankui's words, Wei Guangde clapped his hands and said with a little excitement.

Wei Guangde thought that even if his father went to the north this year, there was a high probability that he would not encounter the Tartar brigade and a fierce battle would break out, so he spoke more casually.

You know, not to mention in this era, even if he returned to the future where he lived, many elders still have many taboos about what they say, especially topics like this that are life-threatening, which are even more taboo.

Whether it is feudal or superstitious, it is still very important to speak to please the good luck.

"Since that's the case, I don't know much about fire guns and bird guns. Do you think we need to mobilize the gunners from other 100-household units? After all, they have some experience, which is much better than letting those big-headed soldiers learn from scratch.

Well, I think I can gather about a hundred skilled gunners. In addition, should the archers be concentrated and trained strictly?"

Since that's the case, Wu Zhankui has to think about how to train people as soon as possible, which is related to their own lives.

Drawing gunners from other 100-household units has become his most ideal operation method, which can quickly gather a skilled gunner unit.

It's not that he doesn't know the difference between archers and gunners in this era. In fact, relatively speaking, archers are more valuable than gunners, because archers can shoot more than ten or twenty feather arrows at the enemy in one breath, while skilled gunners of the same period may only be able to fire a few shots.

However, the training of archers is much more troublesome than that of gunners, and they can't be formed into an army as quickly as gunners.

Archers don't just need to release arrows. If they can't shoot arrows to the required area, it will be a waste.

Archers need arm strength the most. The soldiers are in good condition now. They can swing hoes, but they are not good enough to shoot arrows.

Moreover, bows and arrows are more troublesome to maintain than fire guns. Wu Zhankui doesn't think he can collect enough bows and arrows.

Bird guns, it seems that at least there are enough to use. As long as they can get these guns out of the warehouse first, they can spend some time to let the gunners recover their strength.

Wu Zhankui thought so, but he didn't expect his nephew to shake his head and oppose.

"Uncle, it's better to select some people from the old soldiers in the garrison to train honestly.

I don't know what level the gunners in other garrisons are at, but most of the gunners in our Bengshan garrison have thrown away all their living tools.

In our fort, Tang San is relatively familiar with those things because he is responsible for maintaining firearms. To put it bluntly, other gunners may not have seen what a firearm looks like."

Wei Guangde remembered that when he was learning to use a gun, he chatted with Tang San and learned it.

The weapons in the garrison should have been issued to the soldiers of the garrison, but they were all stored in the garrison warehouse.

Wei Guangde guessed that his father did this because he was afraid that the soldiers would secretly sell their weapons for money.

Only the archers still kept their own weapons. One is that they need them when going into the mountains to hunt, and the other is that Dad Wei still hopes that his archers can maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

Once the weapon is locked, if you want to take it out, well, it was only taken out half a year ago, but I seem to have heard Tang San say that those gunners needed him to teach them several times before they could barely remember how to use it.

This is what the uncle said about gunners, skilled gunners.

Wei Guangde would definitely not agree with it 120 times.

However, when he read the articles in later generations, he still vaguely remembered that it should be during this era that the Ming Dynasty had a military general, actually two, the most famous one was called Qi Jiguang, and there was another one called Yu Da or something, and Wei Guangde didn't know the last character.

Wei Guangde was not very familiar with the latter one, and it seemed that few people in later generations evaluated him, and most of them focused on Qi Jiguang.

And the reason why Qi Jiguang became famous was naturally because of the Qi Family Army composed of his Yiwu miners.

I remember the article I read at that time said that Qi Jiguang recruited troops from the mine in Yiwu, but I vaguely remember that it was said that Qi Jiguang recruited people because he saw peasants fighting with weapons. Anyway, it feels a bit contradictory, but the Zhejiang soldiers recruited from there seem to be really good at fighting, so they formed a Qi Family Army.

The last one of the Qi Family Army is wrong. It seems that they also fought with the Manchurian Tartars. Although they were defeated in the end, it seems that they were defeated by the siege of superior forces.

The Qi Family Army seems to be a unit with a high proportion of firearms in this era, even more than Westerners of the same period.

What does this mean? This means that as long as the troops are well-trained, they actually have a chance to defeat the Tartars with a small gap in strength using the firearms of this era.

The real Qi Family Army is not only strictly selected from the source of recruitment, but also hard in the subsequent training. At the same time, Qi Jiguang did not rely solely on bird guns to conquer the world. In fact, the Qi Family Army is a combination of bird guns, artillery and chariots, which can make a great name for itself on the northern grasslands.

However, success and failure were both due to Xiao He, because the troops were too powerful, which directly led to the Mongolian Tatars at that time becoming timid.

After the Qi family army suppressed the Japanese and was transferred to the north, after several conflicts, people began to avoid Qi Jiguang. This also caused him to completely lose the opportunity to make great contributions in the war. Because he did not have enough military exploits, he was unable to obtain a title until his death.

Perhaps this is the truth behind the saying "Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements".

At the same time, Li Chengliang was self-respecting as a bandit, collecting wool every once in a while, but accumulated military exploits, and was finally made a marquis during the Wanli period.

Naturally, Wei Guangde didn't know this. In his impression, the great hero Qi Jiguang actually ended up miserable in the end.

He also had no idea how the Qi Jiajun won the battle. He had no impression of the chariot formation and the mandarin duck formation.

Maybe in the future, he will find out.

Of course, it may never be discovered.

But at this moment, Wei Guangde talked about what he remembered about Qi Jiguang's selection of soldiers.

"You can recruit soldiers from the entire Qianhu Institute. Not only must they be in good health and be able to run and jump, but they must also be honest and obedient, conscientious and meticulous in their work."

Wei Guangde carefully searched the pitiful inventory in his mind, "The soldiers are dishonest, and when the limelight is wrong, they may not be able to run faster than dad and uncle.

That is to say, no matter how strong the combat power is, those soldiers are absolutely unacceptable.

Then there is the training. I will sum up my experience of playing with muskets later. When the time comes, I will teach those musketeers, which will definitely increase their combat power several times."

Wei Guangde had never been a soldier and did not know how to train soldiers, but as a descendant, he was very clear about the development history of rifles, and he also knew several ways to improve the combat effectiveness of firecrackers. He even used guns to shoot birds. He also tried it when he was a child, and naturally he felt that he was the person in the room who had the most say in how to maximize the power of the gun.