Chapter 113: Routine training of Ming Dynasty’s first musketry unit! 【Please subscribe】
He stood on the stage in the school field, looked at the group of recruits below, and said loudly: "I heard that some people are not convinced because they train weightlifting every day. Is there such a thing?"
The soldier who was close below said: "Commander, it's not that we are unconvinced, it's that we haven't been allowed to touch muskets after we have been here for so many days. We are here to be musketeers, not to be trained like new recruits.
We have also fought several battles with Japanese pirates, but we are not new recruits. Isn’t it unreasonable for you to ask me to train like a new recruit every day? "
Some soldiers below echoed: "Yes, we have been on the battlefield after all and are not new recruits!"
"We have killed Japanese pirates before, do we still need to train like this? Just give us the muskets."
Maybe Mu Ying had really seen too many such things, so she didn't take it seriously and looked at these people with unconvinced expressions.
He shouted, "Ten brothers come out!"
Immediately behind him, ten people stood up, each standing upright and holding a firecracker.
Then Mu Ying shouted to the recruits below: "If any of you are unconvinced, please stand up, ten of us, and let's compete. Let's compete with guns. If the competition doesn't last that long, it will take half an hour."
If you people who stand up can defeat them, no, no, no, not to mention defeating them, you can hold the gun like them for half an hour.
From now on, you can do whatever you want. If it doesn't work, then listen carefully! Who dares to stand up? "
After Mu Ying finished speaking, no one really stood up immediately.
Everyone is not a fool. Seeing that Mu Ying is so confident, they all know that it will not be easy, so everyone is a little frightened.
In the beginning, when I was younger, it was easy to say anything, but now that people are serious about it, and in front of so many people, it's a bit hard to stand up directly.
Mu Ying smiled slightly after seeing this situation: "It seems that these people among you are not that smart. They were so loud just now, why don't they dare to say a word now.
A bunch of cowards! ! "
This sentence immediately stimulated the following recruits, and more than a dozen people immediately stood up together.
"Who said it?"
"Yeah, who are you talking about?"
"It's a competition, how can I still be afraid of you?"
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao stood on the observation deck and smiled slightly while watching this scene.
The following are indeed new recruits. They used to see such thorns when training recruits, but as long as they are made to obey such thorns, they will be the most obedient.
Mu Ying looked at them: "Okay, let's compete. Pick up the wooden stick and tie it with a stone weighing five kilograms."
Everyone is disdainful in their hearts.
It’s just a stone weighing five kilograms. The leather armor we usually wear weighs more than five kilograms. Can we still lift this weight?
"Underestimate us?"
"Yes, you are simply looking down on us. What will happen even if we are tied with a ten-pound stone?"
"Brothers, please don't lose our face by competing with them."
"That's right, if you can do it, why can't we?"
"Don't be afraid of them."
Encouraged by the brothers, these stupid young men picked up the wooden sticks on the ground.
"How do you compare?"
Mu Ying smiled and said: "It's very simple, just hold it up, just like what we taught you before.
Brothers, you too must be bound with stones! "
"Yes!"
Then, under the surprised eyes of all the recruits, the musketeers brought over by Mu Ying tied stones to the muskets.
But they knew that the musket was quite heavy.
Not to mention too heavy, it must weigh about five or six kilograms.
Plus a stone weighing ten kilograms, it must not be fifteen or six kilograms? "Are you letting off steam?" a recruit asked.
"Yes, you look down on us so much!"
"Let's compete with each other to see who is serious and you are just pretending!"
The Musketeers laughed: "That's not really the case. We are mainly afraid of bullying you."
"Yes, no need to say more, come on, if you can defeat us, we will call you Jiao Xi from now on!"
"Come on, recruits!"
Under such stimulation.
The recruits behind were all excited.
"Compare, compare with them!"
"Yeah, you can't lose. If you still lose despite being so heavy, then you're really a bastard."
Everyone's words to each other aroused the competitive spirit of these recruits.
So after Mu Ying's order, twenty people raised their guns at the same time.
A weight of ten or fifteen kilograms is really not too heavy for a normal person, and it is very simple to lift it.
But the difficulty is that it is not just as simple as lifting it up, but it also has to maintain the same position, on a horizontal line, for at least half an hour.
Not to mention lifting something weighing more than ten kilograms, you will be exhausted even if you lift it with bare hands.
However, the physical fitness of soldiers is much higher than that of ordinary people, so in the first moment or two, there was really no movement.
Zhu Yuanzhang and others on the observation deck showed a smile after seeing this scene.
These new recruits thought they could compete with others, but they didn't realize they had no chance.
Everyone is waiting silently.
The recruits below were watching.
Gradually they discovered a problem.
When one of the new recruits was holding a wooden stick, his hands began to shake.
Even sweat started to secrete on my forehead.
In the beginning, he was just a new recruit.
Then several more recruits began to shake their hands uncontrollably.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others knew that Mu Ying had achieved her goal.
Because the recruits below are starting to know what the problem is.
They were even talking about it.
"Those musketeers are quite powerful. They won't even move their weapons when they see them."
"What a good guy, he can still do this even though he can lift such a heavy thing. How did these people train?"
"How about saying that they are teaching and we are just recruits?"
"You are a new recruit. I have killed Japanese pirates on the battlefield?"
"Come on, are those Japanese pirates you killed? They were fugitives who were among the Japanese pirates."
Even though they said that, they really discovered that those guys were really motionless.
Even the sweat on my forehead is relatively less.
On the other hand, the recruits were simply miserable.
Each one of them had begun to stagger.
A stone weighing ten kilograms hung on the front end of the gun, putting an extra ten kilograms of pressure on the arm.
It is impossible for people who have not trained for a long time to lift for a long time.
It's like they are talking about what's going on.
But they didn't expect that such a simple thing would be so difficult in their hands.
They never dreamed that they could lose so easily in this , one person couldn't hold on anymore. He threw the stone aside with a bang, and then kept shaking his arm to relieve the pain.
After the first person took the lead, the recruits began to give up.
Even the last person didn't last long enough to burn an incense stick.
Just now they were still swearing that they could do it, but they didn't expect to be embarrassed now.
On the other hand, the musketeers did not move at all when the incense passed.
Even the sweat on the forehead is very little.
Moreover, when people lift weights that are five kilograms heavier than them, they don't even move at all.
He even took a long time to blink, his gaze was extremely determined.
You will understand that this person is a real master.
At this time, the remaining musketeers who did not take part in the written examination were all holding their heads high.
The pride and pride in his eyes cannot be hidden at all.
The meaning is obvious, what do you guys mean? It's just embarrassing for you to want to compete with us.
After all ten recruits were defeated one by one, this man, a musketeer, continued to hold up his musket.
Still motionless.
Now the voices of discussion below were gone.
Everyone was watching this scene quietly.
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled from the observation deck: "Mu Ying can still lead troops. She can shock the place without saying anything."
Zhu Biao smiled on the side and said: "In those days, the eldest brother used this hand to intimidate many of Lan Yu's arrogant soldiers.
Now among the middle-aged leaders, only the eldest brother can compete with Lan Yu. "
Zhu Yuanzhang showed a proud look on his face.
In fact, to be honest, if we really talk about the commanding ability, we still have to say that Lan Yu is more skilled.
Lan Yu is more like a genius.
But if you really want to take into account the overall quality, Lan Yu really can't compare with Mu Ying.
This guy Lan Yu is arrogant and domineering, with a personality that raises his tail to the sky when he is in power, which is really not likeable.
This would have been if Lan Yu was not really loyal to Prince Zhu Biao.
Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't tolerate Lan Yu.
On the other hand, Xipinghou Muying is not only much calmer, but her ability to lead troops in battle is no worse than Lan Yu's.
Mu Ying has been guarding Yunnan for almost ten years, and what she has done there is very popular and popular.
On the other hand, for Lan Yu, none of the civil and military officials in the court would bother him.
He only causes trouble all day long. He even dares to beat the censor. He deserves to be beaten by those scholars who treat him as a living target every day.
But because of Lan Yu's personality, Zhu Yuanzhang felt more at ease with this guy.
Because everyone knows that it is impossible for such a person to form a party, because no smart person will stand with him. Everyone knows that if there are no heroes like Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, who can intimidate him.
Anyone who is with him will be in trouble sooner or later.
The time is soon approaching half an hour, but the musketeers don't seem tired at all.
This time the recruits looked at each other in confusion.
They finally realized what the difference was between themselves and others.
This is not on the same level.
Seeing that no one is playing at all now.
Didn’t you all think it was very simple and easy just now? Doesn’t Bibi know it now? Didn’t you all just feel that you were not new recruits? Now let me see if you are new recruits?
See for yourselves.
"Are these people monsters?"
"You can't lift it for so long without moving?"
"They seem to be more than five kilograms heavier than our wooden sticks."
"No, how about saying that he is a really powerful person?"
"You just said there's nothing great about it?"
"Isn't that a joke? Now that I see someone holding it up for half an hour and it still doesn't move, I know that I misunderstood them."
Soon half an hour passed.
Mu Ying shouted, "Stop!"
The ten musketeers immediately threw the stone off the gun, put away the gun as if nothing had happened, and returned to Mu Ying's back.
At this time, Mu Yingcai said to the recruits below who had stopped talking: "I don't need to say anything more, you should be able to see where you are falling short!"
The recruits all lowered their heads.
Mu Ying spoke again: "The reason why we train you like this is to let you know that picking up a musket is not as simple as just pulling the trigger casually.
It doesn't take much effort to pull the trigger, but it takes a lot of patience to wait for the moment to pull the trigger.
Do you think every time the enemy can hit your gun like a fool? Do you think that's the only way to raise the muzzle and fire every time you fight?
madness! "
Mu Yingshou was very excited: "The reason why we need to train your endurance and your ability to raise a gun now is because we don't want you to have the ability to fight on the battlefield.
It is true that musketeers do not need to risk their lives with the enemy with real swords and guns, but you cannot shoot anytime and anywhere on the battlefield. The enemy may cut your neck first.
Being able to point the gun at the enemy at any time and then fire is not only a means of saving our lives, but also the real use of our musketeers.
Every training now is to give you the ability to protect yourself on the battlefield. "
After Mu Ying finished speaking, she looked at the recruits below again: "Anyone among you who despises this kind of training can definitely stand up. As long as you can defeat them, I will never make things difficult for them."
When this was said, no one spoke again.
This is naked contempt.
But this time they couldn't say a word.
Because Mu Ying had already destroyed their self-confidence with one move.
Then I don’t know who spoke first, but someone said: “We are willing to be trained!”
"I'm willing to be trained!"
"I'm willing to be trained!"
There is still some pride in being soldiers. After all, they were soldiers during the Hongwu period and had really fought on the battlefield.
He is not the kind of mediocre soldier who became an officer's slave in the middle and late dynasty.
They have their own pride.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he didn't have to look any further and asked Mu Ying to train these musketeers. He was relieved.
So Zhu Biao nodded to Mu Ying on the school field below, and left with Zhu Yuanzhang without saying a word.
Even without saying anything, it can be seen how satisfied Zhu Yuanzhang is at this time, Mu Ying still understands.
As soon as the monarch and his ministers came out of the military camp, news came from the Longjiang Shipyard that Jiang Yu sent out to check.
"Your Majesty, Longjiang Shipyard has completed the construction of the first Fu Ship. Your Majesty and His Highness are invited to come and inspect it together!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang and his son heard the news, their eyes suddenly lit up.
They didn't expect that the first sea-going ship would be built so quickly...
(End of this chapter)