Chapter 102: Actual Combat
The fifty eunuchs and maids returned to the palace from their training, their guns hung in a special pocket tied around their waists. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
These eunuchs and palace maids include the four palace maids who served Tang Mo closely, and after the four palace maids returned to the palace, the four palace maids who replaced them left in the past few days.
Tang Mo's sense of perception could easily see the pistols they were holding, but Tang Mo did not feel unsafe, she trusted these palace maids very much, and would never shoot at her, and even if someone accidentally misfired, Tang Mo was confident that he could resist or dodge the attack of bullets.
After the first batch of eunuchs and palace maids got the pistols, Luo Qing brought news that the first batch of automatic rifles had also been produced, and a full two hundred were produced.
So Tang Mo sent 200 Praetorian Guards to be trained and taught them how to use automatic rifles.
Three days later, 200 Janissaries, armed with automatic rifles and loaded guns, returned to the palace.
They didn't abandon the original palace knife, but they just took an extra automatic rifle, the black automatic rifle with the shiny black armor on their bodies, they looked much more imposing.
The distribution of weapons began in a cycle, with pistols produced for the eunuchs and maids of the palace, and automatic rifles for the Praetorian Guard.
A month later, all the palace maids and eunuchs were armed with pistols, and the 30,000 Praetorian Guards were also armed with automatic rifles.
The scale of the workshop has also steadily expanded, and today it has 20 steel-making blast furnaces, 10 gunpowder workshops, and a large area of surrounding land, which has been bought by the workshop.
Now the workshop produces 1,000 pistols and 5,000 automatic rifles per day.
More than 30,000 pistols and more than 60,000 automatic rifles have been stored in the warehouses of the workshop.
Tang Mo's goal was to equip all of the two million troops of the Ming Dynasty with new weapons, and she invested a lot of silver for this, around 100,000 taels per month.
Of course, before the official outfit, Tang Mo also needs a war to prove the power of automatic rifles.
Tang Mo divided 10,000 from the 30,000 Praetorian Guards, led by Liu Wu, the deputy commander, and went to the border to change defenses.
This time they went to war and proved the superiority of automatic rifles.
Liu Wu was full of confidence, he was the group of people who had personally been trained by Miss Luo, and he personally shot and hit the target 1,200 steps away.
Such a distance far exceeds the range of the Huns' bows and arrows, which is completely crushing progress.
10,000 forbidden troops set out from the capital and went all the way to the border pass where they came into contact with the Xiongnu.
Ten days later, they came to Sunset City, which was a hundred miles away from the border pass, and if they went west, they could go to the destination of Black Wind City.
Black Wind City is a border city, and there are currently 50,000 Hun cavalry confronting the defenders outside Black Wind City, intending to break through Black Wind City and enter the pass to plunder.
There were 30,000 defenders at the border pass, barely holding back the Huns, but if the Huns sent more men and horses, the city of Black Wind could be captured.
"Guys, I'm about to arrive in Blackwind City, and I'd like to hear your opinions. In the Chinese military account, Liu Wu said to several thousand households under his hand.
"Commander Liu, this time we have automatic rifles, and when the time comes, we will go out of the city directly to slaughter, and there is no need for any strategy at all, and those Huns cannot be the opponents of automatic rifles. ”
Another person said, "Ma Qianhu, don't be reckless, we have to think in the long run, first observe the formation of the Huns, and then it's not too late to make plans." ”
"Suiqianhu is right, everyone, let's observe and observe first, and then decide. Liu Wu said.
Two days later, the forbidden army entered Black Wind City, and Liu Wu was greeted by Wang Heshan, the great commander of Black Wind City.
Wang Heshan was very generous, and when he saw Liu Wu, his expression was gentle, and he said with a smile, "This must be Commander Liu from the capital, you and I will hand it over, and then this Black Wind City will be handed over to Commander Liu." ”
Wang Heshan wished to change his guard as soon as possible, he was bitter and tired in the frontier, and he confronted the Huns all the year round, and his military merits were very few, so it was better to go back, if he could receive an errand to counter the rebellion, it would be very good.
Therefore, Wang Heshan's attitude was very attentive, hoping that he could change his guard as soon as possible so that he could leave the frontier.
Liu Wu wanted to fight with the Huns with real swords and guns, complete Her Majesty's task as soon as possible, and experiment with the effect of automatic rifles in actual combat.
The two hit it off, both with joy, and the handover was completed soon, Wang Heshan handed over the activities of the Huns, the intelligence collected by the scouts, the city defense construction of Black Wind City and other documents, and then held a handover ceremony, which was considered the end of the handover.
In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Heshan led his troops to evacuate Black Wind City, and Liu Wu arranged for his own people to climb the city wall to replace Wang Heshan's army.
After Wang Heshan left, Liu Wu personally climbed the city wall to watch the situation.
From a distance, the Huns were stationed several miles away, and the tents were lined up, and the Huns could be seen moving in the camp, but it was too far away to see what they were doing.
Liu Wu checked the city defense again, and after confirming that there was no problem, he left the city wall and went to the city lord's mansion, and now this is his territory.
Then came the days of peace, until seven days later, when the scouts came to report that the Huns had sent a force of several thousand men towards the city of Black Wind.
Liu Wu immediately ordered the city wall to send additional troops, and the number of people guarding the western city wall increased to two thousand in a short time.
The Huns kept advancing, they didn't know that Black Wind City had changed its guards, or as before, they were ready to go five hundred paces first, and then provoke again.
Three hundred steps is already the limit of the range of the bow and arrow, so five hundred steps is very safe.
Seeing the Huns approaching, Liu Wu raised his hand and signaled to everyone not to shoot.
When the Huns approached five hundred paces, a Hun barbarian who knew Chinese began to curse below.
It's nothing more than some shrunken turtles and the like, and the effect is not very great.
When the Huns were almost done, Liu Wu signaled to start shooting and fired the first shot.
At a distance of five hundred paces, the automatic rifle erupted tongues of fire.
Liu Wu aimed at the generals of the Huns, the other party was defenseless at all, and was shot in the head by Liu Wu's extremely accurate shot, and the Hun camp was stunned all of a sudden, and then the other defenders also began to shoot, and the bullets were overwhelming, and the Huns fell like cutting wheat.
The formation of the Huns was disrupted at once, and they began to retreat in panic, but in the rain of bullets, this dense formation was simply looking for death, and in less than a minute, tens of thousands of bullets were fired, and the troops of thousands of Huns were wiped out in an instant, and no one survived.
Looking at the tragic situation of the Huns below, Liu Wu couldn't help laughing, with this automatic rifle, he believed that the day when the Ming Dynasty would pacify the Huns was not far off.
None of the Huns fled, and after more than an hour, some Huns came to investigate, and they were also killed.
Gradually, the Huns did not dare to come this way anymore, and their camp changed, and they began to pull out the camp and retreat.