Chapter 101 Big Data Training
When I came to the school field on the second day, a shooting range was opened next to the school field where the exercises were originally held. This was a place for gunners to practice shooting.
Lin Mojun has been very distressed recently.
Before Su Ze went to the county town, he gave her the gunshot skills to practice.
Lin Mojun trained with these gunmen every day, but the problems that arose every day made her very anxious.
After finally practicing the reloading movements of these gunners, the hit rate of live ammunition made Lin Mojun's blood pressure rise.
Lin Mojun had seen Su Ze shoot before. In comparison, the shooting rate of the gunners in the guard station was very low. Every time they shot, there would be misfires, jamming and other problems.
Su Ze arrived at the shooting range and did not directly interfere with Lin Mojun's training.
Lin Mojun is a very qualified general. She trained these gunners meticulously according to the training outline left by Su Ze before he left.
First there is the formation training, then there is the practice of shooting movements, and then there is live ammunition shooting.
The bird gun is a kind of matchlock gun. It is still in the early stage of the development of firearms. The operation steps are cumbersome. With Su Ze's current level 3 shooting skills, he can only fire twice per minute.
On the ever-changing battlefield, time is life, so the reloading action must be engraved into the gunman's body during daily training.
Lin Mojun did a good job in this part of the training, and now these bird gunners can complete the loading and shooting action under her command within one minute.
However, the accuracy of live ammunition shooting is really poor. The hit rate of a hundred-step shooting is quite tragic. Ten people can only hit one or two.
After watching Lin Mojun's training, Su Ze was not in a hurry. He asked Lin Mojun and the soldiers to gather under the pergola and start solving the problems Lin Mojun encountered during the training.
"Baihu, you think the training effect is not good. It's not that everyone is not training hard, but that your training is in the wrong direction."
Lin Mojun said doubtfully: "The training is in the wrong direction?"
Su Ze nodded and said, "Baihu What do you think a gunman is?"
Lin Mojun thought for a while and said, "Archer?"
Su Ze shook his head and said, "That's why Baihu thinks the training effect is not good, but I think the effect is very good."
" Musketeers are not archers, but a new type of soldier, a type of soldier that can form an independent formation."
Wherever firearms were invented, muskets were used as a substitute for archers.
Including Qi Jiguang's method of using the gunman in the Yuanyang Formation, the gunman is used as the long-range attack firepower point in the team. If there is no gunman, archers can be used instead.
This is not to say that Qi Jiguang's military ideas were backward, but that Eastern and Western military strategists of this era all used firearms as archers.
Including Lin Mojun, everyone uses the bird gunner as a firepower supplement for the army, and does not think that the bird gunner can fight alone.
In fact, both East and West were the same at this time. When Western musketeers first used them, they were also used as a substitute for longbowmen.
In the West, musketeers were initially used in conjunction with pikemen. The pikemen protected the musketeers, and the musketeers shot from behind.
Only after summarizing countless battles did Chinese and Western military strategists discover that the musketeer unit could completely replace other infantry units and become a separate unit.
And on this basis, tactics suitable for musketeers were developed.
But these are just general principles. It's just like Su Ze has practiced superior internal strength secrets, but still needs to practice martial arts moves every day in order to display his internal strength.
The martial arts techniques that brought out the power of modernized musketeers were arithmetic (mathematics) that the Ming Dynasty began to gradually lag behind the rest of the world.
To be fair, the decline of mathematics in the Ming Dynasty had nothing to do with the old Zhu family.
The turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty caused faults in many technologies of the Ming Dynasty, and arithmetic was the most serious fault among them.
This is also reflected in the calendar. The "Time Calendar" compiled by Guo Shoujing in the Yuan Dynasty was only renamed "Datong Calendar" in the Ming Dynasty, and then it was used in this way until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that the calendar needs to be revised every once in a while, otherwise as time goes by, the actual meteorological and astronomical errors will become larger and larger, and the most important function of the calendar, guiding farming, will have deviations. It may even affect the agricultural production of the entire country.
You must know that throughout the dynasties, when things settled down, the calendar had to be revised. The Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties could all revise the calendar, but only the Ming Dynasty did not come up with a "Shixian Calendar" until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
What is even more embarrassing is that the Shixian Calendar of the late Ming Dynasty was compiled under the leadership of the Western missionary Tang Ruowang.
This shows the technical faults of the Ming Dynasty in mathematics.
The most important "trick" to exert the combat effectiveness of firearms is mathematics. Because of the gaps in mathematics, although the Ming and Qing Dynasties were equipped with firearms, these firearms were only pure technological revolutions and did not lead to the advancement of war doctrine.
Looking at the seventy gunners on the shooting range, Su Ze first divided them into groups of ten, and then started shooting one by one.
Su Ze took out the paper and began to record the results of their target practice.
Lin Mojun came close to Su Ze, but saw that the symbols he wrote on the paper were like heavenly scriptures. She couldn't understand them at all, so she had to focus on the shooting gunman again.
Su Ze did not simply ask them to shoot at the target, but he divided them into groups of ten and shot at positions of 300 steps, 150 steps, 100 steps, and 50 steps respectively.
Su Ze recorded the number of hits made by the soldiers, and then changed to the next group and fired again. After filling the whole sheet of data, Su Ze had a deeper understanding of the accuracy of this batch of bird cannons.
The accuracy of the blunderbuss is much worse than that of modern firearms, but the hits at close range are still quite impressive.
50 steps, (one step is 1.5 meters), that is, within 75 meters, the hit rate of ten people shooting can reach more than five people. That is to say, when shooting at a distance of fifty steps, the enemy's casualties can reach more than half.
But at one hundred steps, that is, one hundred and fifty meters, the hit rate dropped to 30%.
At one hundred and fifty steps, which is 200 meters, the hit rate is only 20%.
Su Ze fitted an optimal curve and fired between 50 and 100 steps to get the best injury effect.
This is the accuracy of static shooting. In normal combat, the gunner will still move forward. Su Ze also brought in the variables of the advancing speed and loading time of both sides, and determined that the first shot would be fired at 100 steps, and the first shot at 50 steps. The second shot fired from step has the best killing effect.
The combination of these three factors, accuracy, reloading time, and pace speed, can effectively estimate the damage caused to the enemy during the advancement of the gunner.
Similarly, one's own casualties can also be inferred through the enemy's equipment level and combat literacy.
Commanders in the age of firearms are no longer the same as those in the age of cold weapons. Brain power is more important than personal bravery. In the age of artillery, artillery commanders simply became human computers. Their daily job was to solve parabolic equation calculations and use artillery shooting elements to calculate the impact point of artillery shells and the range of enemy artillery.
By that time, if you can't learn math well, you will be too embarrassed to have sex.
【Range Calculation, you can learn the skill "Mathematics", do you want to learn it? 】
Math skills!
Su Ze went to the county town this time and tried many methods but failed to learn mathematical skills. Unexpectedly, when he returned to Changning Guard, he learned mathematical skills on the shooting range.
"Study!"
[The host's original mathematical knowledge is detected and rated as Lv3. 】
It’s still too late to time travel. If you time travel after the college entrance examination, you will be rated as Level 5 in mathematics.
With Level 3 math skills, many vaguely remembered formulas came to mind. Lin Mojun felt that Su Ze was faster, and in a short time, the whole paper was filled.
After roughly calculating the most suitable marching speed and shooting distance for bird guns, Su Ze asked the soldiers to load different weights of gunpowder to determine the most suitable loading weight.
This is the role of mathematics. There was a detour in the use of firearms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, that is, there was no quantitative analysis of the filling amount of gunpowder and shooting power. The generals who used firearms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties blindly believed that loading more gunpowder would make the firearm more effective. The more powerful it is.
They even invented the "double filling method", a combat method in which more is better.
But in fact, more is never better in this world.
The double-filling method greatly increases the probability of the firearm exploding, and doubling the amount of gunpowder does not bring twice the lethality. The lethality of the bird gun is not only related to the kinetic energy provided by the combustion of the gunpowder, but also to the kinetic energy provided by the burning gun. Caliber, lead bullet weight, and bore length are all relevant.
And Su Ze wanted to use mathematics to accurately determine the amount of gunpowder that was originally determined by experience and intuition to a more scientific amount, so that the gunpowder could be utilized to the maximum extent.
By collecting these shooting data, Su Ze can formulate more scientific combat methods and design more scientific firearms.
After Su Ze finished the calculation, Lin Mojun couldn't bear it anymore.
Didn't you agree that you would come to help you train your troops? Why did Su Ze write and do calculations as soon as he came to the shooting range? He wasted so much ammunition. Seeing that it was almost dark, Su Ze didn't even say a single suggestion for improvement.
Lin Mojun also knew in his heart that military training could not be accomplished overnight.
But when she thought that King Lu had arrived at the outer sea, Lin Mojun couldn't help but become anxious.
The enemy who killed her father is on the other side of the sea. Originally, Changning Wei had absolutely no chance of revenge, but Su Ze gave her hope.
After having hope, he would naturally ask for more. Lin Mojun just hoped that Su Ze could perform the "miracle" again like before.
Before Lin Mojun could speak, Su Ze said:
"Baihu, I already know the problem."
Lin Mojun was stunned, do you know? Is this the end?
The gunners of Changning Guard also looked at Su Ze. After tossing everyone for so long, no one knew what Su Ze was going to do.
Su Ze raised the paper in his hand and said, "I already know the problems. Now let's start to correct them one by one." "
The first is the issue of close range shooting. Because of the recoil of the gun, the muzzle of the gun will rise upward when shooting flatly. At fifty When shooting, don't aim at the chest, but at the enemy's feet."
After saying this, Su Ze randomly selected ten gunshot players, asked them to stand in front of the straw man target, and started a round of shooting.
When the fire and smoke dissipated, only six straw man targets were seen with large holes in their chests, and the other four straw men also had injuries on their arms and arms.
Lin Mojun was stunned. The problem of close range shooting accuracy had been bothering her. Su Ze solved this problem with just one sentence?
Lin Mojun knew that Su Ze was powerful, but was this too amazing?
Su Ze took the paper and continued:
"The next step is the formation during the march. According to my calculations, the hit rate of shooting 200 steps away is close to ten misses. To effectively kill the enemy, one must be within range. The enemy should shoot again within two hundred steps."
"And counting from two hundred steps, including your marching time and reloading time, before fighting the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, everyone only has two chances to shoot." "Everyone
remember Seize these two opportunities to shoot. These two opportunities are crucial. To defeat the enemy's morale within these two times, you must arrange the shooting distance reasonably."
Su Ze called the names of two more people. They were all those who had recently achieved outstanding shooting results. Su Ze divided the 70 people into two platoons and appointed two of them as platoon leaders.
Su Ze pulled the two men aside and said:
"Next, follow my orders. All gunners will be divided into two rows. The two rows will take turns to fire at 200 steps, 150 steps, 100 steps and 50 steps. Shoot again when the time comes, understand?"
The two newly elected platoon leaders nodded immediately, and Su Ze divided the cannons into two rows, and asked people to fill up the straw man targets again, and stand them all in the shooting range.
By this time, the training at the school had ended, so everyone came to the shooting range to watch the gunners training.
Lin Mojun has been training at the shooting range these days, and the Changning Guardsmen on the school field are a little dissatisfied.
Compared with the gunmen selected from the remnants of the army and civilians, the regular soldiers of Changning Guard felt that they were the main force.
At this time, they gathered around the shooting range just to watch the jokes of the gunners.
Seeing the weak long-wing formations of the two groups of gunners, the soldiers even burst into laughter.
Wouldn't such a weak front be broken in one rush? Without the protection of infantry, the gunman is too weak!
The pitiful hit of the bird gun also made these soldiers feel that it was not worth the effort to train them.
Su Ze did not drive away the onlookers, but let them watch from the side.
The gunmen were divided into two rows. Su Ze gave an order and began to advance crookedly.
The whole team was very funny, and the soldiers burst into laughter.
Su Ze concentrated his attention. When he was 200 steps away from the target, Su Ze shouted: "First row, shoot!"
After the gunfire, Su Ze ordered the first row to continue to move forward and reload, and the latter row walked 150 steps to the target. At that moment, Su Ze asked the people behind him to shoot again.
Shoot at 100 steps, shoot at 50 steps.
The smoke cleared from the shooting range, and the two rows of gunners had lost their formation due to the chaotic pace.
The soldiers laughed loudly, and Lin Baihu also looked at Su Ze. Is this his tactic?
At this moment, a sharp-eyed soldier shouted: "Target man!"
(End of Chapter)