Without socialized large-scale production, we had to rely on small handicraft workshops, and it was quite time-consuming to build 500 sophisticated guns.

In order to ensure the quality of production and rush the construction period, during this period, the musket battalion led Dongsheng and worked all night. Zhang Hua recruited skilled craftsmen outside, and spared no expense to buy pig iron and steel, Lin Yi not only practiced martial arts every day and urged all battalions to train soldiers, but also frequented this secret arsenal.

After more than three months, the arsenal clanged, and finally the first batch of 500 new muskets was hammered out with sledgehammers and small hammers.

Each of the 500 muskets has undergone strict quality inspections through several passes, which means that all 500 of them are finished products with good quality, and there are no defects or defective products.

There is no need to worry about bullets, because of their tight size, the bullets of this gun are the same as those of arquebuses. With this firearm, a large number of arquebuses, including all kinds of firearms, were destroyed, which was equivalent to returning to the furnace to make something else.

The first musket team of 500 men was then equipped with these 500 guns, which of course were 500 men selected from Tokatsu's musket battalion.

Each person who was selected was given a pistol, they were elated with a new gun, they couldn't put it down, look here and touch there, I heard that this gun is different from the original gun, but it looks like that, the size and length, the appearance has not changed much, but I heard that there is no need to ignite, you can fire it with a pull of the trigger, this thing is really so magical?

Some of them also held two guns and put them together and compared them with each other, and the results were exactly the same in terms of size, length, appearance and weight. In order to distinguish them, the number on the butt is different, and in addition, you can write your own name on the belt of the gun.

After the crowd calmed down, the head of the crowd began to speak......

Lin Yi asked them to start training, because they had to change their guns and they had to be trained in order to form combat power.

Dongsheng led these 500 people to start training the musket battalion, and at the same time, the second batch of muskets began to be mass-produced again, also 500 units.

Before the production of the second batch of guns, in order to encourage their enthusiasm, Lin Yi not only cashed their wages in full, but also paid two taels of silver per person, so they were very happy, and then they were in full swing, because with the experience of the first batch, the next thing is to be familiar with the road, and they are more handy......

Lin Yi came to the training ground of the new musket battalion, Dongsheng was explaining to them the improvements and use of the new gun, and when they saw Lin Yi coming, they quickly put down the gun and saluted Lin Yi, and Lin Yi asked them to continue.

Dongsheng relied on his courage to let Lin Yi demonstrate to everyone. Many of the generals here have heard that their Lord Lin is a sharpshooter, but they haven't seen it.

Lin Yi did not shirk, took the gun, loaded the ammunition very skillfully, filled the medicine, then raised the gun, opened the safety to aim and shoot, these 500 generals watched intently, paying attention to Lin Yi's every move.

It wasn't until Lin Yi snapped a shot that he accurately hit the bullseye 240 meters away, and everyone applauded, no one doubted the magic of the flintlock pistol anymore, and even saw that their Lord Lin's sharpshooter was worthy of his reputation.

In the applause and cheers, Lin Yi did not stop, and fired the second and third shots, which obviously increased the speed.

It turned out that Lin Yi deliberately came in slow motion for the first shot, in order to let everyone see clearly, the next two shots were very fast, from loading, charging, opening the insurance, raising the gun to aim, pulling the trigger, hitting the target, the time was shortened by more than half, and the action was very skillful, like flowing water.

These three shots all hit the bull's-eye, and the sharpshooter who hit every hundred shots lived up to his name.

The slaps of the generals below were all red, and some of them shouted hoarsely.

Lin Yi threw the gun to Dongsheng and told them to practice well, because they were often muskets, but they had changed from firecrackers to unified flintlock muskets.

Therefore, Lin Yi gave them a very short training time, and they had to form an army in a month and a half, which was a death order given to them by Lin Yi.

A month and a half later, Lin Yi came to inspect the 500 musket battalion shooters. Lin Yi randomly selected ten of them and asked them to operate them on the spot, from loading the bullet, charging, opening the insurance, raising the gun to aim and shooting, all of which were in place.

There were nine people who hit the target, and only one missed, this soldier was frightened, Lin Yi didn't blame him, because it could be seen that this soldier was too nervous.

Lin Yi is very satisfied with the results of such spot checks.

In a month and a half, the second batch of 500 muskets was produced again, which was twice as efficient as the first batch of muskets produced in the first batch, and 500 people were equipped to continue to let them practice shooting.

At the same time, Lin Yi asked them to produce 1,000 muskets in the third batch, and Lin Yi only gave them a one-month construction period this time.

When this batch of muskets was produced, it was equipped with 1,000 troops, that is, a total of 2,000 new musketeers.

Several months have passed, if it is counted from Lin Yi's trip to Anhui, it has been nine months now, if it is counted from the day when Lin Yi He Renlong fell out with Sun Chuanting in Yichang, ten months have passed, and now it has come to August 1643.

In the past nearly a year, the imperial court has urged him to enter the army a total of nine times, and the first few times Lin Yi or Zu Keyong have found various reasons to prevaricate the past, and this ninth time it is Li Wenhai, the head of the military department, who has come to urge the war.

This Li Wenhai is now angry at both ends, but no one dares to take his errand, except for Li Wenhai, no one in the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty dares to come, and they all know that Lin Yi has a big temper.

Because Li Wenhai is quite familiar with Lin Yi, he has been dealing with each other for a long time, and he has been dealing with Lin Yi since Yang Sichang was there.

After Li Wenhai urged Lin Yi, when he arrived at the emperor, he was scolded, because Lin Yi did not raise troops, and after the scolding, Emperor Chongzhen had to let him come.

Li Wenhai didn't dare not come, after receiving the decree, he didn't dare to lose his temper in front of Lin Yi, don't look at her being angry in front of the emperor, don't do her minister, when he arrives at Lin Yi, he has to be coiled by the dragon, he has to lie down if he is a tiger, and he has to look at Lin Yi's eyes to speak.

Otherwise, he knows that the current Lin Yi is not what it used to be, and the guy who can ask him to eat can move with a bare eye, this guy can't even be provoked by the imperial court, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, Gao Qiqian, these people can't do anything about him, let alone his small head of the military department?

Li Wenhai is very self-aware, he ran a total of nine times, and his legs were really thin, but he just dared to complain halfway, and when he saw Lin Yi, he had to be kind and put on a smiling face.

Of course, Lin Yi knew what he was doing, and he was not rude to him, let him into the camp, let him sit down, and ordered someone to bring tea.

Li Wenhai said a few polite words to Lin Yi, and expressed the emperor's strong desire to let him send troops quickly, but this time he did not let him go to Sichuan to fight Zhang Xianzhong, but let him deal with Li Zicheng.

From Li Wenhai's mouth, Lin Yi knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty in more detail, and now the war in the Northeast has worsened. Following Zu Dashou, Hong Chengchou and Gao Qiqian also surrendered to the Tartars, more than a dozen general soldiers, those who died in battle, those who were wounded, all suffered defeats, Jinzhou Ningyuan was all occupied by the Manchu Tartars, and Shanhaiguan became the first line of defense.

Emperor Chongzhen was hit hard, and he never dreamed that Hong Chengchou and Gao Qiqian would be able to betray him, surrender to the Manchu Tartars, and become a shameful traitor. Emperor Chongzhen also thought that they had died in the line of duty, and personally held a memorial service for Hong Chengchou in the temple and gave a memorial speech, and at this time Hong Chengchou, Zheng claimed to be a slave kneeling in front of the emperor Taiji and kowtowing, which is too ironic!

Wu Sangui led more than 10,000 Guanning iron horsemen and retreated to Shanhaiguan.

In order to comfort Wu Sangui, Emperor Chongzhen crowned Wu Sangui as an earl, and built a large number of buildings for Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiangfu, who went to Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen's intention is obvious, you Wu Sangui must work hard and guard Shanhaiguan. If you are going to follow your uncle to betray the Manchu Tartars, then you have to wait to collect your father's body!

The situation in the customs made Emperor Chongzhen even more anxious. Zhang Xianzhong has already occupied most of Sichuan, and the official army is helpless to lose except for losing the battle. What worries Emperor Chongzhen more is Li Zicheng, not Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Zicheng occupied Nanyang, and after capturing Luoyang, he attacked Kaifeng in a big way. Sun Chuanting took 100,000 horses to aid Kaifeng, but Li Zicheng was injured in the eye by Kaifeng's guard Chen Yong, so he had to retreat. In the process of pursuing Li Zicheng, there were contradictions within the official army, Zuo Liangyu fled to Wuhan without a fight, and Zhu Dadian of Nanjing and Hu David of Baoding fell into Li Zicheng's hands again in the process of pursuit, suffered defeat, and rectified the men and horses in the area of Xiangcheng.

Now Sun Chuanting only took Gao Jie's men and Niu Chenghu's men and horses, as well as Chen Yongfu's Kaifeng soldiers to continue to chase Li Zicheng's men and horses.

Li Zicheng's men have now arrived in Nanyang. Sun Chuanting chased to Pingdingshan, and in order to completely eliminate Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting ordered Lin Yi to set off from Jingzhou to the north and intercept Li Zicheng.

Because now Sun Chuanting is the secretary of the military department, with the title of governor, as well as the sword of Shang Fang, and the governor of the world, so his orders also represent the will of the emperor.

Lin Yi felt that it was time for him to send troops, he had not fought for nearly a year, and now that the soldiers were well fed and equipped with 2,000 new musket teams, they were already ready to go.

According to historical records, there will be another eight or nine months is the day when Emperor Chongzhen hangs himself, the day when the emperor Lao'er withdraws from the stage of history, that is, when he really rises, the emperor can die, and the Ming Dynasty cannot be destroyed.

Therefore, Lin Yi said to Li Wenhai: "Master Li, go back with confidence, I will never let Your Excellency go on the tenth trip, and Lin will send troops."

Li Wenhai was really scared, and after saying a few words of approval to Lin Yi, he really said goodbye, but this time he didn't really leave, but watched Lin Yi's movements from a hundred miles away.

After Li Wenhai left Jingzhou, Lin Yi immediately ordered troops, leaving 10,000 horses to garrison Jingzhou, and let the deputy general Zu Keyong be in charge of Jingzhou, Lin Yi took this place as his temporary base and let them continue to cast firearms here.

Then he raised 50,000 troops, took the generals Hao Shaoqi and He Renlong, and left Jingzhou in a mighty way, and went to Yuan'an through Dangyang, and went straight to Xiangyang.

Li Wenhai in Jingmen saw that Lin Yi really raised troops this time, Li Zicheng had a hard time this time, and he should go back to restore his life, Governor Sun and the emperor must be satisfied this time, not to mention whether he will be rewarded after going back this time, he should not be scolded again.

Li Wenhai almost jumped up with joy and took people back to his life.