Guo Yi took Shu Huzhuo and others to follow Liu Neng to the venue of the exercise, which was located in the south of Dongdaying. It's a low hill, but it's easy to set a target.

"General Guo, look, there is the artillery position over there."

Guo Yi looked in the direction of Liu Neng's finger, and on the highest hill in the mountain, more than ten artillery pieces were erected, but they were still a little far away, and the figures were blurry, and they didn't know what they were busy with.

"What are they doing?" Guo Yi asked, he saw that the group of soldiers were transporting things, but they didn't look like they could be used on the battlefield.

Liu Neng glanced at it and said, "What they are transporting are the materials needed for artillery?" ”

When he got a little closer, he saw the round shell in the soldier's hand and asked, "How much does such a shell weigh?" ”

Although Liu Neng is not the commander of the Five Guards, he and Chai Yun have always been outliers in the Quartet Army, but they know each other the most, and immediately replied: "The cannonball that the general soldier saw just now is a solid iron stray bullet, one is about twenty catties. There are also some flowering bullets and red lotus bullets in the army, which can be lighter, but there are also more than a dozen catties. ”

Guo Yi nodded and walked, and Xu An and the others who followed behind him were like countrymen entering the city, this also has to be seen, and that must be touched. When Guo Yi saw it, he didn't stop it, and let them look and touch it all the way.

Chai Yun was originally in the position of placing the last two cannons, and when he saw Guo Yi and the others coming over with Liu Neng, he stepped forward and said, "General Guo will be ready in a while." He didn't know where he had put his helmet, and the beads of sweat on his head were clearly visible.

"The competition is over, aren't you ready yet, it's too slow." Guo Yi didn't say anything, but Xu An blurted out such a sentence.

Guo Yi gave him a cold look, Xu An knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly said: "Chai Jiangjun, please don't take it to heart, I'm the stupidest." ”

Chai Yun waved his hand, didn't take this to heart, and said with a smile: "You are also telling the truth, the biggest chicken rib of my artillery is that it is heavy. ”

When Guo Yi heard this, he simply asked, "How bulky is it?" ”

"If you don't count the shells, gunpowder and other firing needs, but the artillery itself is already more than 400 catties?"

"More than four hundred pounds?" Xu An blurted out again, and the surprise on his face couldn't be hidden.

Although Guo Yi was also taken aback by this number, he could still stabilize his expression and asked, "Is it iron?" ”

"It's copper, Mr. Guo." Chai Yun replied, pointing to the last cannon not far away: "This barrel is one foot and one foot long, and the movement and transportation all depend on the wooden cart under the running tube, but in this way, it also takes five or six soldiers to move him." In addition, so many soldiers are needed to be responsible for aiming, filling medicine, carrying shells, etc. ”

"So the five guards and 2,400 people can only flexibly use 200 artillery pieces." Liu Neng added on the side.

Although the two did not shy away from exposing the biggest problem of artillery in front of Guo Yi as soon as they met, Guo Yi did not reduce his curiosity about artillery in his heart, but looked forward to what kind of power such a heavy weapon would have.

"I'm afraid it will take a meal to clean up here, so why don't you go and see the musket first, the musket is much lighter." Chai Yun said.

Guo Yi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll come back here later." ”

Liu Neng then took Guo Yi and the others back and forth on the way they came, and the musket exercise position was only about 100 steps away from here.

Guo Yi entered the musket position, only to see the prepared soldiers holding long muskets in their hands. At first, I didn't think it was from a distance in the tent, but now that I got closer, I suddenly felt that this musket was a little deformed.

Liu Neng took a musket from a soldier, handed it to Guo Yi, and said, "Chief soldier get started?" ”

Guo Yi took it with a smile, but he didn't expect that this musket seemed to grow up, but in fact it didn't weigh much, only five or six catties, I'm afraid it was because it was hollow. Guo Yi looked closely, and felt more and more that this musket looked like an elongated wild bird, especially the muzzle, which was too similar to the beak of a bird.

"Is there a name? These muskets. ”

"The official documents say it's called the Fire Gun, but people usually like to call it the Bird Gun."

"Bird gun," Guo Yi smiled and handed the fire gun in his hand to Xu An and Shu Huzhuo, who couldn't wait for a long time behind him, but continued in his mouth: "The muzzle of the gun is like a beak, and it is also an image to say that it is a bird gun." ”

Suddenly, a young man walked out of the team, walked straight to Guo Yi and the others, bowed his hand, and said: "The commander of the fourth battalion of the fourth guard of the Quartet Army, Zhou Dun, see General Guo, Commander Liu. ”

Guo Yi looked at the young man's upright posture, nodded secretly in his heart, and Liu Neng introduced to Guo Yi: "General Guo, this is the marksman of my four guards, who once killed sixteen enemies in half an hour. ”

Shuhu Zhuo saw Zhou Dun's belt full of small objects, with many strange-shaped things on it, and even a gourd.

"Hahahaha, okay." Guo Yi didn't seem to notice Zhou Dun's belt, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Then ask Camp Commander Zhou to demonstrate the power of this firearm for me!" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Dun returned to the team, took his musket, and led Guo Yi and his party all the way to the shooting range.

There were still more than a dozen people practicing in the field, and when they saw Zhou Dun and Liu Neng and Guo Yi with a smile on their faces, they all retreated to the edge of the shooting range and left the shooting range for Zhou Dun.

Zhou Dun walked to the middle position, and about a hundred steps in front of him, there was a wooden target, which was full of bullet holes.

"Go to someone, change the target!" Liu Neng said a word, and immediately two people ran to the target, one dismantled the old target, and the other put the new one on.

This target is actually a wooden stake with a layer of wooden shell, so that the target is easy to disassemble and the cost is much lower.

Seeing that the target was loaded, Zhou Dun didn't wait for Liu Neng to speak, and put on a posture to shoot. He first opened the medicine gourd around his waist, poured some gunpowder into the musket, and then compacted the gunpowder with the cane around his waist, and then filled it with round bullets, and then compacted it with the cane. Then a small ball of paper was stuffed and compacted with a cane.

Then he pinned the cane back to his waist, opened the lid of the fire, fed in the powder, closed the lid of the fire, took a fuse from the small wooden box that looked like a sewing box on his waist, and pressed it into the lid of the fire.

Finally, as he pulled the trigger, the bird shot a bullet. The sound was not very loud, it was not much worse than the sound of arrows from the magic tiger, but the flame from the muzzle of the gun was two or three feet long, and it seemed to be not weak.

Zhou Dun didn't stop working hard, but wiped the barrel with a small wooden stick with a cloth, and repeated the action just now, and shot out again.

Third, fourth, fifth...... After each shot, the wooden target in the distance swings. And those with extraordinary eyesight, such as Shu Hu Zhuo, can see the pitch-black holes on the wooden target.

Zhou Dun finished firing the tenth shot, the muzzle of the gun was still emitting white smoke, he put down the bird gun and said to Guo Yi: "Chief soldier, do you want to see the target?" ”