Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 22 MLE1842 percussion rifle
Everyone was moved when they heard this.

Attracted by the grand blueprint described by Li Yi.

However, there were still people who remained awake, and Fourth Uncle Li Sheng asked.

"What if we lose?"

Li Yi still spoke slowly.

"Lost?"

"It's nothing more than living and dying together."

"Anyway, I'm already a traitor. You're all on the list of nine clans to be executed. No one can escape."

"No matter how bad things are, they can't get any worse than this!"

Li Yi once again silenced everyone with a critical hit.

As for capturing Li Yi and handing him over to the authorities in order to atone for his crimes?
It’s not like no one has thought of this.

But the problem is that Li Yi didn’t come back alone this time.

He came back with members of the God Worshipping Society.

Now Chen Picheng and Wang An are guarding outside Li's mansion with knives.

If they dare to attack Li Yi, these followers of the God Worshipping Society will not be pushovers.

Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat tense, Li's mother, Zhao, spoke in a gentle manner.

"We all have the last name Li, we all have the same ancestor, and we are all brothers in the same clan. Blood is thicker than water, so we should naturally share weal and woe, and wealth. Why do we have to make things so awkward?"

After Zhao finished speaking, an uncle spoke up.

"Now that things have come to this, Li Yi, just tell me what you need."

"The tribe fully supports you."

They also realized that they had no other choice but to agree to Li Yi's request.

Upon hearing this, Li Yi nodded immediately.

"I need one male from each family in the clan, and then we can gather together to form a group camp."

"I need people in the clan to contribute money and manpower to raise food, wages, weapons, and other necessary supplies..."

Seeing this, the elders of the Li family could only nod and agree.

Each company has begun to express its willingness to contribute money and manpower.

Soon, everyone gathered on the threshing floor.

With the assistance of Wang An, Li Yi began to count and group these people.

Lijiazhuang was originally just a small village, not very big, with only about a hundred households in total.

Even though every family was eager to send people, in the end only more than 130 people were gathered.

There are five people in a squad, and the squad leader is elected by the soldiers themselves.

Five groups are divided into two, and the two Simas are selected from the backbone members of the clan who are highly respected and virtuous.

Li Yi organized more than 130 people into two corps, each with more than 60 people, which was not full.

But the frame was put up barely.

Afterwards, Li Yi and Wang An began to lead the basic training of the two new soldiers in Lijiazhuang and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believers who had been organized into regiments and camps.

Although Lao Wang is a fake, he has been a captain of the Green Camp after all, so he has some experience in how to manage and train the army.

Li Yi’s suggestion for drills is also very simple, which is to practice queues first.

In his opinion, drill training is the lowest cost and fastest effective way of training for an army.

There are many benefits to training a team, for example, it can improve the team's discipline and cohesion, and whether or not a team has discipline and cohesion is one of the most important factors that distinguish an army from civilians.

In addition, the physical fitness of the troops can be improved by training in formations.

And because the amount of exercise required for marching is relatively small, there is no need to worry about insufficient nutrition due to excessive exercise during training, which will end up ruining the person.

In addition, after firearms became the main military equipment of the armies of major countries in the world, firing squad has become the most important combat method for the armies of this era, without a doubt.

Whether the army can march in an orderly manner is the most direct reflection of whether the execution by line-up can be carried out well.

Therefore, in Li Yi's opinion, there is nothing wrong with the military training in formations first.

While the regiment was training, Wang An went back to Wangjiaao and brought nearly 200 members of the Wang family to Li Yi, who also joined the regiment.

After these two hundred people joined the team, the brigade under Li Yi was almost reorganized.

From now on, Li Yi, the brigade commander, can be regarded as a real brigade commander.

As for what to do with the weapons needed to organize a regiment and camp?
Well, this is Guangxi.

The clan power is deeply rooted, the contradictions between the natives and the Hakkas are deep-rooted, the ethnic composition is extremely complex, and it is also located on the China-Vietnam border, so we must always be careful of war...

In addition, conflicts of varying sizes would arise among the people themselves due to disputes over land, water sources, etc.

The people in Guangxi are very tough.

Everyone was an old hand at fighting with weapons. Almost every household had rifles, swords and spears hidden under their beds. Some large clans even had a number of homemade cannons in their ancestral halls.

In Guangxi, as long as you can gather people, there will be no shortage of weapons.

It is worth mentioning that the muskets, swords and spears made and used by these Guangxi compatriots are generally of much better quality than the standard weapons distributed to the Green Camp by the Qing Dynasty.

The reason for this is very simple. One is for one's own use, and the other is for submission to the public. How can they be the same?

In addition, Li Yi also purchased a batch of "foreign guns" from the mall to equip the regiment and camp.

Two hundred Charleville Model 1842 percussion rifles, to be exact.

This percussion rifle was finalized and put into mass production in 1842. It is currently the latest main weapon equipped by the French army.

At this stage when breech-loading gun technology is still being explored and most of the guns are still prototypes, this new weapon, which the French army has just begun to equip not long ago, can definitely be called cutting-edge.

More importantly, this type of musket is a mature product that already exists in this era, so the price is not expensive.

Each one cost five taels of silver, and came with twenty rounds of rifle bullets and a bayonet.

This price is even much lower than the French army's purchase price.

The reason why Li Yi did not simply buy a batch of breech-loading rifles from the mall to equip the army.

One reason is that most of the breech-loading rifles of this era are still in the stage of technological exploration. Although Li Yi can buy mature ones from the mall, the price will be very high.

With his current wealth, even if he could buy a small portion, he would not be able to equip the army on a large scale.

Breech-loading guns are not practical!
The second reason is because it is abrupt.

When everyone was using a shotgun, you chose to use a breech-loading rifle.

So where did you get your breech-loader?
At present, foreigners are still in the exploratory stage of breech-loading rifles, and it is impossible for them to be brought to the East for sale on a large scale.

Not to mention selling it to the mountains of Guangxi!
But if it is a muzzle-loading rifle, it would not be so abrupt to use, because no matter whether it is a foreign rifle or a local rifle, as long as it is muzzle-loading, the usage is almost the same.

Unless you look closely, you generally won't be able to spot it.

To put it another way, it doesn't matter even if we get discovered.

Foreigners of this era sold a lot of various arms to China. Every year, a large number of foreign guns and cannons poured into the mainland through the five ports of "Guang, Xiamen, Fu, Ning, and Shang".

It is understandable that Li Yi was able to get a batch of muzzle-loading rifles.

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