"Bang!" The burning fire rope was transferred to the medicine pool, and the open flame ignited the primer, almost at the same time, the gunpowder in the medicine pool burned rapidly, igniting the projectile, and there seemed to be fire in the gun, and then the fire went all the way to the gun's mouth, but the fire burst out at the gun's mouth, and then the smoke was swirling, and the lead bullet that people couldn't see with the naked eye had flown out under the impetus of kinetic energy, hitting the wooden target seventy steps away.

After Shen Liang put it down, everyone looked at the opposite wooden target.

Almost at the same time after the bang, people saw that the sawdust on the opposite wooden target was flying sideways, the lead penetration was insufficient, and the thick wooden target could not be pierced, as if it hit the human body, it would not penetrate the body, but continued to rampage through the human body, tearing the skin and hitting the bones and internal organs, until the inside of the human body was torn into a ball of minced meat.

And the lead hit on the wooden target, it is to hit the wooden target sawdust sideways, swaying, seventy steps away into such a shape, which shows that Min Yuanqi's argument is quite correct, sixty or seventy steps away, the power of the fire gun is enough to break the armor and kill, even if the Qing army wears heavy armor, in the distance of sixty or seventy steps, the fire gun still has a fatal threat to it.

"Good fight." Min Yuanqi walked over, patted Shen Liang on the shoulder, and took the fire gun again.

Min Yuanqi wants to see the gun, after a round, the original brand new firearm exudes a sulfur smell, the blue gunner feels slightly hot, but the gun tube still gives people an incomparably solid and firm feeling, and the fine iron is carefully built, and it is still quite reliable in terms of quality.

Before Shen Liang was released, Zhu Wanchun and the others subconsciously took a few steps back, not because they were timid or hypocritical, but because they were conventional.

The quality of the Ming Dynasty's firecracker is too poor, the image is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there are many people who use birds to hunt with birds, and there are not many problems they face.

Exploding is the most common problem, once the bore is blown up, the blow up hurts the hand, and it is not uncommon for the burst gun to splash and hurt the bystanders, if you are not careful, it is unlikely to be seriously injured by the bore, but burn the cheek, or break the eye, what is this unusual?

Min Qiande also sent a batch of muskets before this, and several muskets had all been blown up in the training after the bandits, and each time they exploded, they made the musketeers afraid for a while, and if the new guns were not made, I am afraid that the next training would not be able to continue.

Another problem with the early firecrackers was that the barrel was too short, and the holder was not curved, but a straight piece of wood connected to the pipe.

It's hard to hold your hands and aim close to your shoulders.

Coupled with the fear of exploding and the lack of training, most of the Ming army's musketeers extended their muskets when they were in battle, and the farther away from the vital points of the face, the better.

This is not at all about aiming, let alone lining up for a salvo.

Min Yuanqi has recently read some battle reports of the Ming army, although the proportion of firearms in the Ming army is extremely high, and there are still many large and small Franc machines, tiger squat cannons and other artillery in the firearms battalion in Liaodong, but when the battle is approaching, the power of firearms is too small.

When the enemy cavalry is really approaching to release arrows, impact, and chopping, the firecrackers are either hurriedly loading, or they have begun to turn around and flee.

This is not an exaggeration, whether it is the Battle of Shaling or the Battle of Dalinghe, the performance of the Ming army is mostly like this.

Only the battle of Ning Jin, Man Gui led 30,000, Zhao led 30,000 soldiers, in Ningyuan and Jinzhou are each other's horns, both armies have a considerable number of elites, and the generals are fierce generals like Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao, even Zhu Mei and other partial generals are also the leading figures in the Ming army, plus Yuan Chonghuan is extremely strict with military generals, even local snakes like Zu Dashou have to fight hard, and there are many family members of the ancestral family, and there are many elite soldiers.

In this way, the Ming army not only did not retreat when the enemy was approaching, but also dared to take the initiative to form a formation and fight.

With a large number of battalions in formation, there are Hongyi artillery bombardment on Ningyuan and Jinzhou City behind to help the battle, with a small number of cavalry and Eight Banners cavalry to fight, the Ming army occupies the firearms and city defense location, and the command is excellent, so as to achieve extremely outstanding results.

When it came to the Battle of Songjin, the commander was a more outstanding civilian official like Hong Chengchou as the commander, although the general army under his command had Wu Sangui and Wang Pu such assumed goods, but there were also Cao Bianjiao and other leaders in the Western Army of the Ming Army, these Ming army generals even went straight to Huang Taiji's Daxu, and even beat away Ge Bush Xian in front of Huang Taiji, if it were not for some changes on the battlefield, Huang Taiji also had to give up his banner and turn around and run away, and even this shook his position and even failed miserably.

In the battle of Songjin in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army suffered heavy losses, the elite of the nine sides were lost, and the Qing army was not easy, and the casualties were also extremely heavy.

As a result, the Qing army was recuperating from its wounds in the following years, until it entered the customs in the seventeenth year.

Min Yuanqi was holding the combination gun, and he was in a good mood for a while.

Zhu Wanchun, Shen Yong and others also greeted him when they saw his face.

Everyone couldn't help but praise Shen Liang's excellent archery skills, and Shen Liang didn't care, but he also hugged his fists and thanked him.

This is a joke, a firecracker who enlisted in the battalion six years before Chongzhen, trained for several years and fought many times, was taught by a serious Portuguese, and it would be too embarrassing to hit a fixed target dozens of steps away or miss the target.

Min Yuanqi didn't care very much, it was not difficult to shoot a fixed target on the early bird gun, the name of the bird gun came from the discovery to the imitation, due to the breakthrough of the gun pipe length and gunpowder technology, the shooting distance was long, the accuracy was high, people found that this thing can be used to hit birds, the accuracy is really not comparable to the early years of the fire gun, the name of the bird gun comes from this.

Hitting a wooden target seventy steps away is really trivial, that is, Min Yuanqi hits and releases, and ten guns can also hit seven or eight guns.

Of course, hitting a moving target, being able to load as usual on the battle formation, firing smoothly, firing a salvo in a queue, and even in the rain of bullets and artillery bombardment, under the threat of the whistling and swords of the flanking cavalry, following the military flag under the leadership of the officers in the front row, keeping the queue on the undulating terrain, being able to hear the sound of drums, knowing how to follow the queue to master the fast and slow rhythm, after the officers in the front row and the partners around him fell, they did not hear the retreat order or continued to move forward with the musket, until they received the command order, Qi Shabu put the musket, Then they fired together at the sound of the command......

A musketeer who can achieve such a level, not to mention a former Ming army soldier like Shen Liang, even if it is a Portuguese, Spaniard, Dutchman, not to mention now, even the French, Prussians and Russians a hundred years later can't do it...... The best infantry in the world in the era of muskets was not these old continental powerhouses nor the emerging Americans, although they had defeated the British army, but there is no doubt that the best queue to shoot in the era of smoothbore guns was maintained by the British, and the best musketeers were not the old French guards who swept across the continent, although their level was quite close or partially exceeded, but the best smoothbore gunmen were the British lobster soldiers.

This is the only one, one of a kind.

"Very good, the pipe is solid, and it is worthy of spending a lot of money to make it all made of fine iron."

Min Yuanqi was quite satisfied with the fire gun in his hand, and praised Shen Yong, and clearly instructed the officers of the Chinese Military Division who followed him to record it, and recorded Shen Yong's merits twice, and Min Yuanqi would reward Shen Yong as appropriate.

This made the officers of the Central Military Division and even Li Junsun and others show a bright light of envy in their eyes.

No matter how tight the money is, Min Yuanqi does not hesitate to reward the craftsmen.

In other military towns, a master craftsman like Shen Yong has a so-called reward of up to five taels of silver or ten taels of silver, which is generous enough in the eyes of many craftsmen.

After all, it's not the Chenghua year, you can become an official if you are good at painting, you can be an official if you are good at writing, and you can also be an official if there are masters among the craftsmen.

Of course, this kind of official is not controlled by the civil officials in the field, which is the so-called herald official.

In fact, if people make the best use of it, it is not a bad thing that all those who have mastered various talents can become officials, but an emperor uses too many and too many officials, and it is inevitable that it will be wasted. The second is that the arrogance of civil officials cannot be violated, they even regard the tribute prison students as officials, and they can barely be regarded as half of the same way, and only those who are born as jinshi will be truly included in the system by these civil officials.

Before Yan Song broke the rules, even if the civil officials were infighting, they kept a certain bottom line, and rarely got to the point of asking for human lives, which came from the recognition of the system, and it was okay to fight with each other, but when the eunuchs, nobles, relatives and other enemies, the civil officials would subconsciously share the same hatred.

The so-called civilian-bureaucratic clique is a rather illusory thing, and basically it is to maintain the same stance in the face of foreign enemies, and even if they fight each other, there is a bottom line.

A craftsman like Shen Yong, not to mention the current level, even if he becomes a well-known skilled craftsman in the country, in the eyes of a civil official from a jinshi, he is just engaged in a cheap industry, just like a cat and a dog, the dog has a good housekeeper, and the cat has a particularly good-looking appearance, so is it because of this to be an official for the cat and dog, or entrusted with the important task of governing the country?

Of course, Min Yuanqi doesn't have this kind of messy statement here, even Wang Mingyuan, a talented minister, is honestly doing the odd work of the officials, and other so-called reading seeds are not used to it.

However, Shen Yong, who was originally the foreman of the workshop, accumulated two small merits this time, in addition to the silver reward of more than 100 taels, the rank of the position will also be improved.

The Department of Industry and Commerce has an I-word, according to Shen Yong's merits are estimated to be the deputy director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, this large workshop, in addition to the weapons workshop and firearms workshop, there are iron workshops, wood workshops, coal workshops, brick workshops, textile workshops, pulp and dyeing workshops and other workshops, from bricks and nails to furniture and clothing, shoes and hats have various workshops to manufacture and produce, Min Yuanqi is hoping to exercise a large number of skilled craftsmen in the near future, in the future with the old with the new, and then use the Huai River estuary with the characteristics of large water power, to see if it can be made into hydraulic workshop machines and looms.

At this stage, Min Yuanqi has no such plan, after all, no matter how good the hydraulic machine is, there is no large number of skilled workers, is the machine idle there? Jiangbei is not Jiangnan here, and it is not difficult to find a dozen or two hundred thousand textile workers in Suzhou, of course, these workers are also controlled by the official gentry family and wealthy businessmen, but it will not be taboo to find hundreds or thousands of workers at will, and it is not too difficult.

Here in Jiangbei, if you want to find hundreds or thousands of textile workers, even if Min Yuanqi lives now, how can there be ready-made workers to recruit him?

The so-called difficult at the beginning, difficult to do is probably in the beginning stage, it is really poor and white, and everything is difficult to start.