Seeing Min Yuan's admiring eyes looking at the bird gun in his hand, Shen Yong also looked proud and proud: "The gun weighs seven catties, the gun tube is three feet long, the total length is five feet, the sub medicine is four taels, and the lead bullet is three taels, within 100 steps, the shot can penetrate the human body, break the wooden board, and the power is much smaller, but if there is no protection, most of them will still be injured." One hundred and fifty paces away, it's almost useless. ”

Min Yuanqi didn't make a sound, and only beckoned to Shen Liang.

Shen Liang understood, strode forward, connected the machine, and then everyone walked to the shooting range of the firearms workshop, and everyone stood apart, waiting quietly.

Zhu Wanchun and the others all took a few steps back, but Min Yuanqi stood side by side with Shen Liang, looking at the fire gun Bai Zong Loading Shi Wei.

Seeing this, Shen Liang didn't say anything, just grinned at Min Yuanqi.

Shen Liang's body was all hung up, first took the medicine jar, then filled the gunpowder into the small bamboo tube, then lifted the bird gun upright, and then poured the gunpowder in the bamboo tube into the gun tube.

This is followed by the use of a squeeze to compact the gunpowder, which is the most important part of the firecracker's training.

It should not be lightened, nor heavy, because if it is heavy, it will fail to be released, and if it is lightened, the gunpowder will erupt easily, wasting kinetic energy.

Then press the round lead bullet into the barrel with a bar, this action is the same as the previous action, it also needs to be carefully careful, it needs to be pressed to not light or heavy, and the pressure is too real and too light is unqualified.

Shen Liang's own movements are of course beautiful and skillful, with almost no flaws.

If it was on the training ground, those new firecrackers in the camp would make nine mistakes out of ten, and Shen Liang could be heard scolding and even beating people with rattan for several miles.

Other battalion soldiers made mistakes, and they could summarize the punishment afterwards, only the firecracker couldn't stop his action when loading, and Shen Liang was still yelling on the side, which was originally right and made him shout, and it was inevitable that he would make a mistake.

The next thing is to scold and whip the rattan, and the action is even more wrong.

Originally, Li Junsun and others were also a little dissatisfied with Shen Liang, thinking that he was too harsh on his subordinates, especially because there were many flag soldiers under hundreds of households who were acquaintances, but they were humiliated and whipped every day by Shen Liang, an outsider, and they didn't dare to find Min Yuanqi to complain, but Li Junsun was a pro-army flag captain who was privately found by the flag army several times.

Li Junsun originally had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, but after seeing Shen Liang's movements at this moment, he also shook his head gently.

Those who complain are indeed far from each other in terms of skill.

If you are dissatisfied, after you have practiced to be similar to Shen Xian in the future, and then think about the level of those guys, Li Junsun has also made up his mind, he will not talk too much about such things.

Min Yuanqi's temper is almost touched.

Lord Min doesn't like to put on a show and talk about those false and vulgar rituals. I don't care about gold and silver goods, I really use as much as I earn.

Prestige is not something you can have, whether it is a civilian household or a military household, literate or illiterate, as long as it is not something that cannot be touched, but what you see every day in reality, how is it a person, whether it is really for the good of the place or deceiving the world and stealing fame, everyone has a pole in their hearts, and after weighing, Min Yuanqi's prestige is increasing day by day.

Everyone also didn't know that in less than a year, the south was in turmoil, many places in the south of the Yangtze River were slaughtered, the Qing army went all the way south, half of Huguang and the entire Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places fell, and then Sichuan, Huguang, Fujian, Guangxi and other places were in the midst of war, if the war was counted as the end of the fall of the Great Western Army and the Yongli regime, the entire south would have to fight for decades before it was over.

Under the general trend of history, if individuals cannot go against the trend, they are really not as good as ants under the tide of the times.

Min Yuanqi's early plan was just to accumulate wealth and flee south, but he also knew that the sea was full of pirates, and the south would continue to be at war.

Later, Min Yuanqi's plan was to accumulate wealth, and at the same time train a group of henchmen to protect himself to take refuge at sea.

As a result, we are trapped in the current cycle, where there is no stronger army without investment, and stronger army needs more investment. At the same time, in order to recruit the army, it is necessary to strengthen welfare, and the attached workshop, Yanchi Farmland, and the military households used by these ordinary people must also be given certain welfare benefits, so that the local spirit can be gathered, and Min Yuanqi will have more manpower and material resources available......

It was originally a fairly normal plan, but since it has evolved, it is normal for everyone to respect and admire, and the side effect is that whether it is Zhou Lianggong, Huaiyangdao, or Zhu Wanchun, a business partner, or Li Junsun and other loyal subordinates, they all think that Min Yuanqi has great ambitions, and in addition to protecting the country and the people, he is also working hard for his own future.

This understanding of course makes Min Yuanqi's prestige higher and his image much higher.

No one wants to follow a waste without great ambitions, which is very different from Min Yuanqi's original idea of keeping a low profile.

But after thinking about it, this is indeed the reason, Daming Taizu was born extraordinary, not long after he voted for Guo Zixing, he was the captain of the pro-army, and then repeatedly made military exploits, and after being excluded, he took Xu Datang and more than 20 people out, and directly accepted more than 10,000 bandits as subordinates, and directly had his own foundation.

Then take Taiping Jiqing, all the way from a small soldier to a marshal, and always have a domineering atmosphere.

In the past, the little friends were all directly subordinate to Taizu, and many powerful local forces came to serve Taizu in a few words.

Why?

Taizu speaks and acts, has rules, opinions far beyond ordinary people, and has perseverance, determination, and indomitable spiritual will. Such a person, in the eyes of ordinary people, is a hero who can become a great thing sooner or later, and such a person is worth following.

In troubled times, those who can rise to achieve a force have some characteristics worthy of people to follow.

In the eyes of people, Min Yuanqi is almost such a figure worth following, some selfish intentions, or behaviors that do not conform to the collective upward dragging, are automatically denied in people's hearts, and few people really make trouble with the irregularities in front of Min Yuanqi.

If Min Yuanqi knew about it, he should be proud of it.

A mediocre man who originally wanted to flee south, a group of ordinary military households who were originally unknown in history, and the ant-like servants under the future Qing regime, are now working hard with a higher future and career.

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Shen Liang then took a smaller medicine tube, poured all the gunpowder into the fire door, so that the primer could be connected to the shot in the gun tube, and then covered the fire door cover, and then clamped the fire rope on the faucet, before clamping the fire rope, took out the fire fold on his body, blew the open flame, and lit the fire rope.

Even if there is a strong wind, it will not blow away the primer in the fire door, so that the fire rate of the bird gun is also greatly increased under the bad weather such as cloudy days and strong winds.

At this point, the reloading action is complete.

Shen Liang turned his head to glance at Min Yuanqi, and seeing that Min Yuanqi nodded slightly, Shen Liang no longer hesitated, put the bent gun on his shoulder, and began to aim at the wooden humanoid target seventy steps away.

This distance is also the most suitable distance.

Min Yuanqi knew that the Qing Bow had lethality within a hundred steps, but the score was either A or no Armor.

A hundred steps away, even the heavy arrows shot by the heavy clear bow will be fluctuating and weak, easy to fall crookedly, and the lethality will be sharply reduced, even if it is unarmoured, the threat is much smaller.

There may be some Eight Banner Archers who use heavier and stronger bows, and they have lethality at one hundred and twenty or even one hundred and fifty steps, but such elite strong archers are a minority after all, and they don't have to be regarded as the norm.

A normal clear bow shooter, that is, has lethality within a hundred paces, and if you want to break armor, you must have a distance of about sixty to seventy paces.

The heavy armor-piercing arrows shot by the powerful Qing Bow could still penetrate the cotton armor even at a distance of sixty or seventy paces, and the threat of killing was still extremely great.

If there is no armor or shield, within a distance of dozens of steps, the arrow is like a flying locust, breaking through the body, and the lethality is also extremely amazing.

In several wars, the Ming army was shot by the Eight Banners archers with heavy arrows and could not raise their heads, and after breaking the formation, they used light arrows to shoot continuously, and a large number of Ming troops died under the rain of arrows.

The bow and arrow are still the strong weapons of this era, even in Europe at the same time, even the flintlock pistol was made, but in the eyes of many conservatives, the musket is still inferior to the bow and arrow.

The lethality is not as good, the accuracy is not as good, and in terms of shooting on the battlefield, the firearms are far less fast than those elite shooters.

When a shot was fired, light arrows had been fired several times on the opposite side, and a volley of muskets was fired, and the arrows had fallen all over the battlefield on the battlefield.

But the musket was easy to manufacture and train, and it was up to the fact that all archers, even those of England, were eliminated completely.

Here in the Ming Dynasty, the quality and training of the fire gun is insufficient, so that the Eight Banners shooters take advantage of it, even within the Ming Dynasty, it is generally believed that the fire gun is not as good as the bow and arrow, the so-called Manchurian cavalry armor in the world rumors, is at this time spread in the world.

Min Yuanqi wants to equip all his subordinates with armor, and if the armor is insufficient, use chain mail, and if the chain mail cannot be solved, it must also be equipped with cotton armor.

Even if it is a bubble nail cotton armor, it is enough to defend against bow and arrow damage at about 100 paces, at least to make the arrow not lethal enough.

When it comes to a distance of sixty or seventy paces, even a heavy arrow on the opposite side of the armor is enough to take advantage of it.

At this distance, the firearm volley must be equal to the opponent's heavy arrows, and the lethality must exceed that of the light arrows of the Eight Banners archers.

Daily training should be more rigorous, not expecting every gun to hit the target, but at least the entire flag team of musketeers should be able to aim and fire a volley in order to achieve maximum damage.

It is impossible to aim and shoot with a firecracker, and then the accuracy rate is more than that of the bow and arrow, but at a distance of about 70 steps, the lethality is not inferior to the heavy arrow shot by the opponent, and even the victory, even if it is to exchange the life of the opponent, it is also to achieve this goal!

As for the formation of suppressive firepower, the lethality exceeds seventy steps, and even reaches the range of killing, at present, there are not many means available to Min Yuanqi.

The casting of Hongyi cannons is not a day's work, and it is difficult to mass produce it with Min Yuanqi's current financial resources.

Small cannons such as the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Mouth Cannon are easy to cast, but the limited damage is only within fifty steps, and the killing distance is too weak.

Under Min Yuanqi's gaze, Shen Liang didn't aim for too long, he pulled the trigger, and the runner rotated to reveal the fire door, which is the core technology of the machine, the runners on both sides have no springs and are not equipped with flints, and the appearance looks a bit like a flintlock pistol, but in fact, it is just a wheel rotating to block the fire door medicine pool.