Also on the 23rd day of the first month, Yang Zhen was accompanied by Zhang Degui, Zhang Chen, Li Lu, Yang Yan and others, and went to Baiyushan Camp.

The fire gunman.

The selected muskets are the leaders selected from the group camps of the Zhengdong Army and Jinhai, and the group camps under the jurisdiction of the two towns.

In addition to the relatively distant Songshan group camps across the mountains, other major group camps are selected by the gunmen.

Including the people of Yuanjin, Jinhai West Road, who did not set up a first -level group camp, the people led by Yu Liangtai to the Eastern Road, the Wu Chaozuo, the Bingxi Road, and the Weihaiwei who belonged to the coastal guard in the coastal guard

Cheng Shanwei also selected his respective shooting than Wu Wu's top ten muskets.

Among all the selected musket players, the number of people who originally belonged to the Yidong Army Warbers Camp is naturally the most.

If it wasn't for Zhang Degui to resolutely implement Yang Zhen's instructions and stipulate the limits selected by the group camps, then the number of Zhengdong Army of the Government Guard Lift Team of the Government of Zhenfu will exceed two -thirds.

Then, then

The Jiaozhi Camp Office of the Zhenfei Government gave 60 places for the Zhengdong Army Wolling Group, and gave 40 places with a large Antong Group camp. Other group camps, including Zhuanghe Group,

The Fuzhou Regiment, the Golden State Regiment and the Blze Corps of the Eastern Army and the artillery group camp gave them thirty places each.

Since entering the lunar month, the selected gunmen from various group camps have begun to reach Lishun.

Just three days ago, all the selected musket players arrived in total, and they were arranged to gather in the Baiyushan Camp outside the city of Lushun.

Yang Zhen originally wanted to visit them three days ago. After all, these people were members of the Government Government Lift Team that they selected formed, and they were elite elite.

However, in the early morning of the 20th of the lunar month, Yang Zhen again liked his father.

Although a little later than the due date, after all, it is the second child. The production process is smooth, and the mother and child are safe.

To this end, Yang Zhen put down the busy official duties. For three days, she rushed in the backyard of the General Town Government and accompanied Qiu Bihan.

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Of course, although Yang Zhen put down the official duties of preparing for the Northern Expedition, he did not let go of these muskets who have gathered in place.

Starting from noon on the 20th of the lunar month, until the afternoon of the 22nd of the lunar month, after two and a half days, the selected gunners who gathered in the Baiyushan Camp, under Zhang Degui, Zhang Chen's auspices, opened a new new newly opened new.

Delivery sorting.

This is of course Yang Zhen's idea.

Originally, he wanted to preside over himself, and wanted to take a look at the so -called magical gunmen recommended by the Major group camps and the various members of the Communist Party of China. Is it true?

It's not that Yang Zhen is suspicious, it is Yang Zhen who has seen too many unrealistic things.

Especially this time, he chose the best musket player in the best among people and horses. For the major group camps or the communist officers of the various roads, it is equivalent to the good players in their troops.

Pick away.

Yang Zhen is also worried that the generals of all walks of life have been dissatisfied with the lake, and they just recommend some of them who are indiscriminately charged.

Therefore, Yang Zhen naturally had to re-screen the Musketeers recommended by various ministries.

The screening activities entrusted by Yang Zhen to Zhang Degui and Zhang Chen were divided into two rounds.

In the first round, these musketeers were asked to use flintlock muskets or matchlocks that they were already accustomed to using. A chest target was set up at a hundred paces, with ten rings painted on it, and each musketeer had ten rounds of ammunition.

In the second round, these musketeers were asked to use the new nine-headed bird heavy musket that most of them had never used before, which is called raising the gun. A chest target of the same size was set up at 200 steps, and ten rings were still painted on it. The famous musketeer carries ten rounds of ammunition.

Of course, in order to prevent the results from the second round of screening from being too bad, Yang Zhen, at Zhang Chen's suggestion, asked all future gunmen to test-fire with the new heavy musket on the afternoon of the 21st of the twelfth lunar month. .

The Gun Factory of Lushun Beicheng Iron Works, under Yang Zhen's order, has made more than thirty prototypes of heavy muskets based on the style of the Nine-Headed Bird.

This new nine-headed bird has a total length of seven feet and five inches. The barrel is six feet long and twice as thick and long as an ordinary musket. The gun bed is thick and seven feet long. The crank handle is one foot and five inches long.

The total weight of the gun body is 27 kilograms, which is also twice the weight of an ordinary musket. During combat, an auxiliary is required to assist, or the front half of the gun body is placed on the auxiliary's shoulder to fire, or a stand is used to shoot with the help of the auxiliary.

As for why this heavy musket is called the Nine-Headed Bird, Yang Zhen asked several people when he was invited to inspect the gun factory in mid-December, but no one could tell clearly.

Including old men in the army such as Pan Wenmao and Zhang Degui, they couldn't explain clearly. They only said that it had always been called this in the army.

Yang Zhen originally wanted to change its name, but after seeing the prototype gun, he felt that since it was already a common practice in the military, he could continue to call it this name, and there was no need to change it to a new name for the time being.

In this way, the newly built heavy musket is far more powerful than before, both in terms of the well-made 100-smelted steel gun tube and the unified quantity of granulated gunpowder, but it is still called the Nine-Headed Bird, that is, Chongzhen Fourteenth Annual nine-headed bird.

At midnight on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, when Yang Zhen arrived at a gun range at the foot of Baiyu Mountain, he saw exactly this nine-headed bird.

In the severe cold of winter, Yang Zhen first inspected the three hundred selected musketeers in a neat queue with a solemn expression, and then randomly selected a tall but slightly immature young man from the queue in front of him, pointing at He said:

"You, get out of the queue!"

This young man with an immature face and a somewhat frail and delicate appearance looked out of place among a group of musketeers, most of them in their thirties and forties, who were big, rough and fierce.

Yang Zhen saw him at a glance among the quiet and solemn crowd.

When the young man heard Yang Zhen's instructions, he looked a little nervous and flustered. He answered loudly "Yes", then stepped forward with his left foot and stood upright with a "pop" sound. His hands naturally drooped with their palms facing inward. On the outside of the thigh.

Yang Zhen was stunned when he saw this, because with just this moment, he knew that although this young man looked immature, he had gone through the basic training of Jinhaizhen.

"How old are you?"

"Reporting to the Governor, I have reached the age of eighteen in this humble position!"

"Yesterday, you used the Nine-Headed Bird for target shooting. How many hits did you hit?"

"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, I hit nine shots in my humble position, with a total of eighty-seven rounds. I rank third in the Nine-Headed Bird Shooting List!"

"You played eighty-eight rings and you ranked third?!"

"Reporting to the Governor, that's right!"

Yang Zhen didn't expect that a young man who looked the most unreliable at random would be the third place in the Nine-Headed Bird Shooting Competition.

It is not easy to rank third among the 300 sharpshooters selected by each department.

Therefore, when Yang Zhen heard the young man's answer, he turned to look at Zhang Chen and Zhang Guogan who was following Zhang Chen and responsible for the shooting competition with suspicion.

Zhang Chen and Zhang Guogan naturally knew what Yang Zhen meant, and they nodded heavily at Yang Zhen together.

Zhang Guogan was still saying something, but when he saw that Yang Zhen had turned around, he curled his lips and swallowed the words in his mouth.

It was also at this time that Yang Zhen suddenly pointed at another stocky musketeer standing behind the young man and said:

"What about you, using a nine-headed bird and a 200-step target, how many shots did you hit, how many rings did you accumulate, and what's your ranking?"

The stocky musketeer who was still watching suddenly became excited, stood at attention and replied:

"Reporting to the Governor, Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao has never used the Nine-Headed Bird. Yesterday, he only hit four shots. He has accumulated twenty-nine rings and ranks 236th!"

This short, stocky man, about thirty years old, has a broken eyebrow over his right eye, a red and black complexion, and scars on it. At first glance, he looks like a veteran who has been in the military for many years.

Perhaps because he felt that he was not playing well, he was a little nervous and hesitant when answering Yang Zhen's questions.

"You come out too!"

"yes!"

Upon hearing this, the man immediately took a big step forward with his left foot and stood at attention behind the young man.

At this time, Yang Zhen turned to Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan and others behind him again and said:

"Arrange some nine-headed birds and prepare ammunition. I want to watch them two target shooting in person!"

After saying this, Yang Zhen turned around and strode towards the shooting position in the center of the shooting range. Zhang Degui, Li Lu, Yang Shen and others who were accompanying him quickly followed.

At the same time, Zhang Guogan went to arrange the manpower to deploy the nine-headed bird and the corresponding ammunition.

Zhang Chen immediately gave a loud order and led all the musketeers, shouting slogans, and ran in the direction of Yang Zhen and others.

The gun range of Baiyushan Camp is quite large and is surrounded by mountains to the west, north and east. Only the south is open and there is a small river not far away.

The shooting target position is located under a tall earth dam at the foot of the mountain to the north of the shooting range.

The earthen dam was full of potholes and the ice and snow had turned into black mud. It was obvious that it had been hit by gunfire and projectiles a lot in the past few days.

Under the guidance of Zhang Degui, Yang Zhen quickly came to the shooting position 200 steps away from the target.

The so-called shooting position is a shallow trench that is waist deep, and there is a layer of frozen hard sand bags piled in front of the trench.

"Commander, our brothers from the Baiyushan Camp usually practice shooting and target shooting. They are also here. Each battalion sentry comes in turn. This trench is also prepared according to our previous combat methods, except that the distance of the target is different.

That’s all.”

Arriving in front of the shooting trench, Zhang Degui introduced it this way.

Yang Zhen just nodded without saying a word, and then jumped directly into the ditch covered with black mud.

Fortunately, the muddy water in the trench had already solidified into solid ice. It looked dirty, but it was not contaminated by splashing around.

While Yang Zhen was standing in the trench looking around, Zhang Chen led the team to the rear of the trench, reorganized the team, and stood to watch.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Guogan also led a small team of people to carry three Nine-Headed Birds and several boxes of ammunition to Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen first ordered Zhang Guogan to arrange the gun positions and target positions according to the previous rules of the nine-headed bird shooting contest, and then turned around and called the two musketeers he had randomly selected to come to him.

When they jumped into the trench, Yang Zhen looked at the nervous two people and said to them with a smile:

"Listen, how you shot yesterday is how you will fight today. It's not that I can't believe your results yesterday, but I want to see with my own eyes the shooting method of the Nine-Headed Bird.

"So it doesn't matter what kind of results you get today, just perform well. Each of you has ten rounds. After you finish shooting, I will also shoot, and we will compete!"
Chapter completed!