At dawn, the Xibianmen, which had been closed all night, opened again, and people began to enter and leave Beijing through the city gate.
It was obvious that the number of people entering the city was far more than those leaving the city.
Many people still drove ox carts with their families and a large amount of luggage.
The items were brought by wealthy families from villages and towns outside Beijing to take refuge in the city.
The news that the Qing soldiers were going south spread quickly.
The coal truck was parked at the Chen's Coal Yard all night and was dragged by the porters toward the west gate.
This time, the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not stop it or conduct any more checks, and allowed the coal truck to pass through Wengcheng and go into the city.
All coal trucks will go to Chen's coal yard, where they have been stored.
This is the agreement reached by Chen Yue and the coal merchants.
At this moment, Chen Yue did not appear at the city gate, but led the servants to start a ten-kilometer long-distance running practice in the morning.
After more than half a month of training, the servants have adapted to this intensity of training.
There are very few runners left behind.
Yang Zhengping has been driving the empty carriage back to camp alone for several days.
The three flag officers were very conscientious and conscientious.
Whether it was running or training in formation combat skills, they did their best to encourage their brothers so that no one would fall behind.
Chen Yue saw more than once that during breaks, Chen Ping, Chen Mo, and Chen Yan took their subordinates who were lagging behind and took the trouble to demonstrate the essentials of the movements.
Seeing that everyone can adapt to this intensity of march, Chen Yue canceled the rule that the last person was not allowed to eat breakfast, and only rewarded the first flag to complete the run.
The reward was still an egg for each person.
Intense training and rich food have significantly improved the physical fitness of the teenagers, and they no longer look like the pitiful yellow-faced muscles they had when they first arrived.
Now that his physical fitness has improved, Chen Yue also quietly increased the weight for the ten-kilometer training to ten kilograms.
In addition to the sandbags weighing ten kilograms tied to their legs, the servants also had to carry their own weapons during the march.
Of course, Chen Yue led by example.
In addition to the sandbags on his legs and the pewter gun on his shoulders, he also carried his own set of chainmail, with a total load of more than thirty kilograms.
In the past half month, in addition to the two bird guns that Chen Jianghe worked tirelessly to make, through private orders, Beijing craftsman Lao Zhang and others also secretly made ten bird guns for Chen Yue.
Now the number of bird guns has reached ten.
Eight of them, eleven of them were equipped on Chen Ping's small flag, and the other one was on Chen Yue's back, carried together with the chainmail.
There are three small flags, one small flag is equipped with a cannon, and the other two small flags are all equipped with spears, which are suitable for long-range and close combat, and the arms are relatively complete.
In order to improve the defense, Chen Yue asked someone to get dozens of square shields from the Beijing camp warehouse.
Each spearman issued one and carried it on their backs.
It is definitely true that the Qing soldiers are going south this time.
The war is not far away.
Chen Yue is doing his best to arm his servants and has spent hundreds of taels of money on weapons.
But having a bird gun is not enough.
To become a qualified fire gun player requires strict training.
To develop combat effectiveness, it will take at least two or three months.
The firecrackers of this era were different from the guns more than three hundred years later, and the loading steps were extremely troublesome.
Chen Yue's servants were private soldiers, not official Ming officers and soldiers, and although most Ming armies were not willing to use weapons such as firecrackers, they were still controlled weapons.
Private soldiers and servants were generally not allowed to equip them, and outside the city walls It is impossible to train firecrackers in the coal yard.
If it caused a commotion between the soldiers and civilians in the city, and was mistakenly thought that Qing soldiers were coming to kill him, Chen Yue would be guilty of a big crime due to the sensitivity of the court.
So there was no choice but to train shooting somewhere far away from the city walls of Beijing.
This time the team did not march southwest toward Gongbei City.
Instead, they marched all the way west and jogged ten kilometers to a bend in the Yongding River before stopping.
The Yongding River flows from the northwest to the southeast, where it turns a small bay.
There used to be five or six houses in the bay, which was a small village.
Now the village is obviously deserted.
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It is time for breakfast.
There was not a trace of smoke over the village.
After the team arrived at the river bend, Chen Yue ordered to rest on the spot and prepare for breakfast.
The carriage driven by Yang Zhengping was loaded with a lot of supplies, including dry food, dried meat, iron pots and salt.
Chen Yue sent Chen Mo Xiaoqi to search in and around the village to see if there were any suspicious people waiting nearby.
Chen Yan Xiaoqi was responsible for unloading the things from the carriage, and then collecting firewood to make a fire for cooking.
Since there were no dedicated cooking soldiers, he had to do everything himself.
Chen Ping Xiaoqi took off the gun from his back and began to clean the familiar weapon.
The purpose of this long-distance training is to train gunners, and they do not need to participate in specific general affairs.
Chen Mo came back with his people and reported that there were no suspicious people around the village.
He also found a few leftover tables and chairs from several houses, which was just convenient for everyone to have a meal.
The dry firewood was burning fiercely, and the red flame was licking the iron pot above.
The rice porridge in the iron pot had already started to boil.
Several servants put chopped dried meat and salt into it, and the rich aroma filled the entire fishery.
The sky over the bay is filled.
On the table found were two large dustpans and cooking cakes, both purchased from the city yesterday.
Among the three small flags, Chen Ping and Chen Mo, the small flag servants, took out their wooden bowls, lined up to scoop out a large bowl of rice and meat porridge from the iron pot, and then squatted in the yard with two cooking cakes and started chewing.
Chen Yan Xiaoqi was sent outside to guard everyone, and it was their turn after everyone had eaten.
Now that an enemy situation has emerged, Chen Yue dare not relax about the safety of his team.
Whether he is marching or camping, he will send out special sentries to be responsible for everyone's safety.
After breakfast, the gun training officially began.
Chen Ping Xiaoqi's servants lined up by the Yongding River, each holding their own gun in their hands, and started training on ammunition loading under Chen Yue's teaching.
In fact, Chen Yue has never played with muskets of this era, but as a policeman in later generations, he has played with pistols, rifles and submachine guns.
The firing principle of these things is basically the same, but the loading of ammunition these days is much more troublesome.
Unlike later generations of guns, the ammunition is integrated and the bullets contain propellant.
These days, the ammunition is completely separated, causing great trouble for loading.
The guns are all front-loading matchlocks.
You need to pour the gunpowder from the muzzle, then push an iron rod through the muzzle to crush the gunpowder, and then load the bullets into the muzzle.
The projectile is a round ball made of lead.
Because of its spherical shape, the initial velocity of the projectile is very slow and the range is short.
The effective range is only thirty or forty meters.
Since there is no rifling in the barrel of the gun, the accuracy is very poor.
In many cases, it cannot even hit an enemy ten meters away.
There is no other way.
The gunmen these days use the tactic of lining up to kill, which is to use dense rain of bullets to kill.
Make up for the lack of accuracy.
After loading the gunpowder projectiles, fix the lit match rope on the match rope clip.
When igniting, the trigger is pulled, the gunpowder pot lid is opened, the match rope ignites the gunpowder in the gunpowder pot, and the projectiles are launched.
After firing, it is not over yet.
The detonator hole and gun chamber must be cleaned quickly.
Generally, the gunpowder residue in the gun chamber is wiped with a damp cloth wrapped in an iron bar to prepare for the next loading of gunpowder.
Chen Yue specifically consulted the gunners in the army for advice on the entire process.
Zhou Wen, the flag officer who worked in the coal yard, was a gunman and he personally demonstrated the entire launch process to Chen Yue
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