At this time, Zhuquan had been surrounded by Zhang Shicheng's brother Zhang Shixin and the general Lu Zhen for several days, and the guard general Xie Zaixing frequently sent messages to express urgency. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This guard general is Zhu Wenzheng's cheap old man, who originally wanted to marry his daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang and liked to visit the Qinglou. He was kicked by Zhu Yuanzhang to the city gate of Zhuquan, and it didn't take long for Zhu Yuanzhang to remember that he had followed him for many years and was Zhu Wenzheng's father-in-law, so he was promoted to be the general of Zhuquan.

After receiving Xie Zaixing's urgent letter, Zhu Wenzhong immediately sent an army to support, but in the face of the 100,000 army led by Zhang Shixin and Lu Zhen, this small reinforcement was simply a drop in the bucket and to no avail. Zhu Wenzhong could only ask for support again. But at that time, the generals decided to fight Jiangzhou first and then relieve the siege, so there were no soldiers to send. In order not to let the soldiers lose confidence, Zhu Wenzhong had no choice but to lie to the outside world that Xu Da and Chang Yuchun each led 50,000 troops and would gather all the troops in the near future.

Zhang Shixin and Lu Zhen were suspicious when they heard the news, and they knew that Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were powerful. Especially Zhang Shixin, he was a defeated general under Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, and was captured by the two, if it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang to exchange him for Gu Shi and others, I am afraid that he would be a short-lived ghost like his brother Zhang Shide. At this time, when he heard the names of the two people, his scalp was worried, and the two forces were trembling, lest as soon as these two fierce generals came, all of them would join forces inside and outside the city, so they hurriedly retreated from the camp for several miles to watch the battle.

Zhu Wenzhong didn't dare to get too close to the city, so he camped thirty miles away to prepare for battle. While encouraging morale, he waited hard, almost looking for it, and finally waited for reinforcements, but the reinforcement generals were neither Xu Da nor Chang Yuchun, but Zhu Wenzheng.

As soon as the two brothers met, they immediately hugged each other excitedly.

Zhu Wenzheng punched Zhu Wenzhong in the chest, "Good boy, you're actually stronger than me." He sniffed and looked up and down, "What does it smell like? How long has it been since you kid bathed? This smell can smoke mosquitoes to death." ”

Zhu Wenzhong rubbed his neck, took a lump of gray lumps, and said with a smile: "We don't even dare to close our eyes, how can we have time to take a bath." Don't talk nonsense, Brother Wen Zheng, you came this time, what good things did you bring to me?"

Zhu Wenzhengqi said: "I'm just leading the troops to relieve the siege of Zhuquan, what good things will I bring you?"

"I don't know about the others, but if the generals are you or Mu Ying, there must be good things to bring, otherwise how can the stepmother be relieved to boldly put our brothers together?" Zhu Wenzhong smiled very happily after his mouth was cracked to the root of his ear. The armor and weapons on their bodies were all carefully made by Ma Xiuying's specially ordered craftsman battalion, which was both light and strong. Not only that, before each brother set out for the expedition, Ma Xiuying would also give them some life-saving weapons, sometimes a seven-shot sleeve arrow, sometimes a few thunderbolts the size of walnuts improved by explosives packets. I heard that Ma Xiuying is tinkering with some "landmines" again, and I don't know if Zhu Wenzheng brought this time.

"You kid, I know I can't hide it from you. Zhu Wenzheng shook his head and laughed, and then beckoned his subordinates to bring in a firecracker, "This is a good thing." ”

Zhu Wenzhong frowned and looked at this firearm, and was a little disappointed when he saw that there was no difference between the usual firecracker, "Although this thing is powerful in killing, it is easy to explode, and it is too time-consuming to load ammunition, it is not as light as a bow and arrow, and it cannot be used normally on rainy days." Even if my subordinates had seized it, few of them would have wanted to use it. ”

"Look at you falling behind, children, we have to keep pace with the times, in the future battlefield, hot weapons will gradually replace cold weapons......" Zhu Wenzheng smacked his lips with a hippie smile. In fact, he also had the same opinion as Zhu Wenzhong when he got the firecracker, although he admitted that the firecracker was more powerful than the bow and arrow, but this thing was not easy to use, if it wasn't for Ma Xiuying telling him the correct use of the firecracker, he would have disdained to recommend this chicken-ribbed weapon to Zhu Wenzhong.

Zhu Wenzhong couldn't cry or laugh, "My eldest brother, please don't learn from your stepmother's tone, tell me what is so good about this thing." "Since Ma Xiuying asked Zhu Wenzheng to bring the firecracker, there must be some truth. He can't wait to find out what is going on, Zhu Wenzheng still wants to sell the guanzi, he is really anxious!

Zhu Wenzheng put away his smile and said with a straight face: "The fire gun does have the shortcomings you said, but its range and lethality are also incomparable to that of bows and arrows. If you get the hang of it, you'll be able to get the most out of it. The stepmother said that the fire gun will eventually replace the bow and arrow, and if we don't get used to using it, we will be the ones who will be beaten sooner or later. ”

Zhu Wenzhong raised his eyebrows and was noncommittal, "So you have mastered the know-how to use it?"

"Find someone to test it out. Zhu Wenzheng continued to sell Guanzi, taking several firearms and two small groups of soldiers to the woods next to the camp.

Zhu Wenzhong naturally had to witness it with his own eyes, not only him, but also the other generals in the camp who followed curiously.

Ten meters away from the woods, Zhu Wenzheng ordered the soldiers of the first team to each take a fire hammer and shoot ten at the trees in front of them at the same time. After shooting, he changed another tree, divided the second group of soldiers into a group of three, and whispered a few words, and also asked them to shoot ten numbers at the tree in front of them.

“…… Eight, nine, ten, stop!" As soon as the number of ten arrived, Zhu Wenzheng ordered to stop shooting and ordered someone to count the bullet holes on each tree. There were only a few bullet holes in the trees of the previous shot, and the trees of the second shot were completely devastated, and this was going to shoot people into bodies, not to shoot people into a sieve.

Zhu Wenzhong's pupils dilated suddenly. Why are they all using firearms, and there is such a big difference between the first time and the second time?

Zhu Wenzheng patted him on the shoulder and called him back to his senses, "Do you see something?"

"What did you tell them?" Zhu Wenzhong did not answer, he guessed that the reason for the difference in the effect of the two shots was what Zhu Wenzheng said to the soldiers later.

Zhu Wenzheng beckoned and summoned a three-person queue over, "Tell General Li, what did I explain to you when you shot the second time?"

The first soldier said: "General Zhu instructed the villain to shoot at the trees, and after shooting the ammunition, he handed the musket to his companion behind, and at the same time took the ammunition from him. ”

The second soldier said: "The little man takes the fired musket from the hands of his companion in front and hands it to the back, and at the same time hands the loaded musket of his companion in the back to the front." ”

The third soldier said, "I am only responsible for loading the ammunition in the musket, and when it is loaded, I will give it to my companions in front." ”

Zhu Wenzheng nodded with satisfaction, "See, the speed at which the three of them cooperate to fire ammunition is much faster than the soldier who is equipped with ammunition and shoots alone." This is what the stepmother said, 'flow operation, cooperate with the operation'. And because it is the same person shooting, the aiming rate is high, and the hit rate is also improved, avoiding the time difference and error of everyone looking for the target again. ”