The black box is about a foot long, about a foot wide, and five inches inside, which looks a little heavy, but it is not heavy in the hand. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The guard brought the box and handed it to Li Qin, who reached out and pressed the buckle on the front of the lid of the box.

There was a crunch "click...... and the lid of the box was lifted, revealing the messy and soft thatch inside. Under the cover of these soft thatches, a large, slender musket lay quietly inside.

The appearance of this musket is very similar to the standard musket equipped in the army, but the length and weight are one size larger, and the caliber is also larger. In general, it is a product between the snatch and the musket.

This is a musket that Li Qin borrowed from the craftsmen of the Dongming School and built for himself at the expense of manpower and cost.

Although the barrel, the most important component of the gun, was still made of things that Li Qin had exchanged for from the main god and belonged to later generations, the parts other than the barrel, even the very technical springs and brackets, were all made by the craftsmen of this era and finally assembled in Li Qin's hands.

With a caliber of 15.84 mm, a total length of 2,214 mm, a barrel length of 1,200 mm, and a weight of 7.8 kilograms, this gun was naturally a behemoth in the hands of a soldier -- for Li Qin, too, the whole gun was a long way higher than Li Qin himself.

The gun was rifled, and the ammunition used was an all-metal fixed load made of bright gold brass.

After more than two years of farming, with the support of various knowledge and tools from modern times, it is inevitable that something far beyond the level of this era will appear.

In the laboratories of the steel mills, which are dedicated to the study of firearms, smokeless gunpowder has come out. The all-metal fixed ammunition was also finalized with the support of new gunpowder. Although it is not yet to the point of industrial production, it is still completely possible to supply Li Qin with dozens or hundreds of rounds.

In fact, this is how the gun in Li Qin's hand came about.

At that moment, Li Qin took the gun in his hand, opened the chamber, pressed five golden bullets into the magazine, and sat upright on the suspension bridge chain behind the moat that was three hundred paces away.

Jiangdu City is the southern capital built by Yang Guang. Since it is called a capital, there is a regulation of the capital. The number of gates, the height of the walls, and the depth of the moat are all counted.

The place where Li Qin is located is under the Chunming Gate in the east of Jiangdu City. This is one of the three eastern gates of Jiangdu City. Its name is the same as the East Gate of Chang'an in Xijing - in fact, many of Jiangdu's plans were modeled after Chang'an in Xijing.

If there is a ready-made title, use it, and people in this era know how to copy it all the way.

Three hundred steps, that is, four hundred and twenty meters. This distance is not short, and it is not easy to hit a wire that is only two fingers thick at this distance.

Fortunately, Li Qin is not very human. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at it for a while, and vaguely grasped the black iron chain that was gently swaying in the slightly smoky river breeze.

"Wind speed, 1.2 meters per second, wind deviation, southeast, target moving speed, zero, all things considered, muzzle up half a scale." Li Qin whispered and raised the spear in his hand slightly.

The gun was large, but it was not heavy for Li Chin. He is a person who is accustomed to wielding a hundred catties of giant axes, and how can he care about such a weight, under his grasp, the big gun is really like a copper cast iron, very strong.

When everything was settled, Li Qin pulled the trigger of the big gun hard.

......A crisp crash sounded, followed by a thunderous explosion. Li Qin only felt a huge force slam on his shoulder through the butt of the gun. However, the external force is coming, and the internal force is rising. Under the offset of the two, Li Qin's shoulders did not shake even the slightest, and he was still stable.

The explosive gunpowder propelled the heavy projectile along the spiral chamber and spun forward, breaking through the speed of sound in an instant. As a result, the orange flowers burst in front of the muzzle, making them look extremely beautiful.

But no one appreciates the beauty of the moment anymore. After everyone in the city and the city was taken aback by this roar, their eyes did not fall on Li Qin's body, but quickly moved to the side of the drawbridge. They all knew that Li Qin was heading for the drawbridge.

Can it be successful?

Three hundred paces away, knock off the chains of the drawbridge, and with such a strange weapon...... Can it be done?

People were skeptical.

But they soon stopped doubting.

Because in the next moment, after the gunshot, the result appeared in front of them.

The chains were broken, and the planks of the drawbridge hung crookedly, creaking with the pull of the chains on the other side. It seems to be a little overwhelmed.

"Smack!" The gunfire rang out again, the iron cable on the other side was broken, and the heavy drawbridge slammed down from the other end of the moat, making a loud bang and splashing a cloud of smoke.

"Yike...... The drawbridge came down. There was an exclamation from the castle tower.

"What should I do?" They became more and more panicked.

"Archery...... Archery! "The soldiers of the castle tower are ready to fight back.

A dozen soldiers stood up boldly and shot arrows at the city. However, Li Qin's soldiers were at least two hundred paces away, and the arrows shot from the city could not reach them even if they had a height bonus.

If you want to attack an enemy two hundred paces away, you must at least use a single heavy crossbow, and at this time there is not a single crossbow in the city.

That's not going to work!

The soldiers at the head of the city shot a few rounds, and found that they could not inflict damage on the enemy, and their hearts suddenly became depressed.

Actually, they know why.

However, the failure of this moment still made their morale plummet.

"Don't shoot! We'll stay on guard and wait until the enemy gets closer...... They are always going to enter the city, and when they do, we will attack them! "A clever tun commander stopped everyone.

"Okay!" In times of panic, if someone speaks, everyone will obey.

Eventually, the assault on the city stopped. The panicked soldiers' eyes widened under the leadership of the commander, annotating the actions of the enemies below.

Downstairs in the city, Li Qin's actions were proceeding in an orderly manner. He asked the artillerymen of Shenji Town to divide the artillery in his hand into two clusters: one cluster was larger, and a hundred artillery pieces were arranged. One by one, the black barrels of the cannon were raised and aimed in the direction of the city. The other group, a little smaller, with only forty guns, was shifted in the direction of the gates, and lowered their barrels to the dark gates.

When the defenders at the head of the city thought that Li Qin would send such things as siege rams and ladders to attack the city, Li Qin decided to show these ancient people how modern artillery broke the city.

Although the walls of Jiangdu City were too thick to be shaken by the power of the artillery that Li Qin now possessed, Li Qin had other ways.

The first is to completely suppress the defenders of the city.

When Li Qin gave the order, the rumbling thunder suddenly rang out, and a scorching cannonball burst out of the barrel under the advance of gunpowder, and smashed into the city with an alarming speed.

Gangdu Castle is very large, and the walls of Gangdu Castle are very high and wide, which is a huge goal. In the face of such a goal, it is also a rare thing for Li Qin, a strictly trained artilleryman, to miss his head.

Heavy shells swept through the city. And when the shells bombarded the tower, the infantry of Shenji Town also stepped forward.

Three thousand six hundred musketeers drew a long line of arrays and made four rows to the edge of the moat.

The moat of Jiangdu is about three zhang deep and ten zhang wide, and the distance from the moat is about 100 meters. This was already within the range of the bow and arrow at the head of the city. But the archers at the head of the city were busy dodging the sudden cannonballs, and they could not be cared for.

When one round of artillery fire had passed, and the next had not yet arrived, they peeked out half of their bodies from the battlements at the head of the city, drew their bows and arrows, and prepared to shoot downward.

However, when their bodies were revealed, the muskets in the hands of the soldiers of Shenji Town rang out. Nine hundred flintlock pistols spat out nine hundred deadly bullets in the gray smoke of gunpowder, crackling and making a little mark on the city wall.

Although there were not many soldiers who dared to peek out, many of them were shot under the fire of muskets like a storm.

Lead bullet is a soft thing, and after it enters the human body, it constantly turns over and transforms, making one opening after another in the human body.

Many fell to the ground and were incapacitated - they were a brave group of soldiers at the head of the city. Seeing that they were all so miserable, the remaining soldiers did not dare to poke their heads out.

Without the organization of the generals, the spontaneous counterattack of the soldiers in the city was not very powerful, and after encountering this round of lessons, they also knew that the enemy under the city was not so easy to deal with.

"Hide! If you come up, you're going to die. Such words spread among the soldiers, who quickly lowered their heads and did not get up again.

They were all scared.

The shrunken heads of the soldiers at the head of the city made Li Qin's actions under the city even more unscrupulous.

He ordered the remaining forty cannons to fire at the Chunming Gate.

The rumbling cannon fire sounded again, and the special loading method of the Franc cannon brought damage again and again to the gate of Chunming Tower at an extremely fast speed.

Under the penetration of more than 100 shells, the copper-clad wooden door with an iron plate as thick as five inches was completely smashed and smashed.

"Cavalry strike! Follow me! Seeing the Chunming Gate completely opened, Su Dingfang became excited, he waved his spear and rushed towards the Chunming Gate first, behind him, the four thousand cavalry of the cavalry town and the one thousand firearms cavalry of the Shenji town followed closely. For a time, the smoke and dust were flying, people were surging, and horses were galloping. Before the defenders at the head of the city could react, Su Dingfang had already rushed into the city gate.

Behind the city gate, there was already a straight street, and Su Dingfang rushed into it, and at a glance he saw a group of strong men panicking in the face of his arrival.

The group numbered about a hundred, and they held neatly aligned spears in their hands. They were not wearing uniforms, but judging from their temperament and the weapons in their hands, Su Dingfang was sure that they were all soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army.

"It's all a bunch of rebels! It was they who killed the emperor and caused trouble in Jiangdu! Su Dingfang thought hatefully.

Of course, Yang Guang has nothing to do with him whether he dies or not, the key is that these people are attacking their own people in the city, but Su Dingfang can't accept it.

In the early days, Su Dingfang joined the army, wasn't it to protect the people from thieves?

Later, he followed Li Qin and also accepted Li Qin's people-oriented viewpoint in his heart.

For this group of guys who had obviously just been looted back from some people, according to Su Dingfang's original intention, it was of course better to kill them all.

But considering Li Qin's original intention of wanting to take Jiangdu City, as well as the concept that the law does not blame the public, Su Dingfang still held back the anger in his heart.

He galloped towards them, reined in front of them, and shouted: "The general of Danyang Town came to beg for thieves and suppress rebellion, and you were all deceived by Yu Wenhua to make such a big mistake. Now that we are waiting for the rebel army to arrive, why don't we descend early? ”

Su Dingfang tried to persuade them to surrender.

This is to reduce the hassle and also to give them a way out.

This group of men glanced at each other, a little moved.

But there are still people who don't want to......

"Surrender? Don't be funny! Brothers, we are committing weapons now, and we will be slaughtered later! We're the ones who have entered the palace. The world is so big, who can tolerate us? Someone in the crowd shouted, "Fight!" Show your courage. If you want to return to Guanzhong in your lifetime, you will have to fight hard. ”

These words encouraged this group of people to extinguish the idea of surrendering, and they were also worried that Li Qin's side would settle accounts with them, so they decided to fight to the death.

"Kill!" Despite such a huge disparity in strength, the people who were forced to be anxious still forced by the panic in their hearts, let out an angry roar, and rushed towards Su Dingfang.

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead! Shenji Town, burst forward with guns! Cavalry Town, Defend the Wings! Shaking his head slightly, Su Dingfang quickly ordered.

Now the distance between the two sides is not far away, and it is obviously not so easy for the stopped cavalry to raise the speed again. This group of people obviously saw this and summoned up the courage to launch an attack on Su Dingfang. However, what they didn't expect was that there were still a thousand firearms cavalry belonging to Shenji Town under Su Dingfang's command.

Compared with ordinary cavalry who rely on the speed of swords and guns to attack the ground formation, the firearms cavalry of Shenji Town has one of the biggest advantages, that is, their killing and damage to the enemy is not brought by the speed of the war horse. They use firearms on horseback, which allows them to attack enemies at considerable distances.

Especially after Li Qin equipped these soldiers with all the revolver flintlock muskets, their attacks on the enemy at medium and long distances became even sharper.

Reach out, bend over, pick up a gun, shoot.

"Smack...... Syllable...... Syllable! With the sound of crackling gunshots, there were few men still standing in the group of men more than ten meters away.

As this group of rebels fell miserably, Su Dingfang led his cavalry to shout loudly.

"The Red Army rebelled, only punished the evil, and did not ask the rest of the followers!"

"The heavenly soldiers have arrived, you are waiting to descend!"

Loud slogans sounded, and more and more people knew the news that Jiangdu had been attacked by foreign enemies.