Chapter Fifty-Four: The Firecracker Demonstration

"His Royal Highness King Wu has arrived." Li Guofu's voice came from afar. Extremely penetrating.

A group of people who had been waiting here for a long time immediately lined up and stood up, saluting, "Meet Your Highness." ”

"No courtesy." Luo Rucai walked out of a soft sedan chair.

Although Zhang Xuan looked at Luo Rucai very well-looking, he also had to admit the fact that Luo Rucai was old.

Before Luo Rucai, he galloped wildly and never sat in a sedan chair. And at this moment, the distance from the palace to Xuanwu Lake, I actually sat in a sedan chair, which is already very revealing.

The years are unforgiving.

Luo Rucai sat on the high platform with everyone, and Luo Rucai waved his hand and said, "Tiger head, come here." ”

He Hutou came to Luo Rucai's side from behind Zhang Xuan, saluted and said, "He Hutou greets His Highness." ”

Luo Rucai said: "Get up." He looked at He Hutou and said with some embarrassment: "You look exactly the same as your father." ”

When He Hutou heard this, he lowered his head slightly, and his eyes seemed to be red.

Luo Rucai said: "You still call me uncle as before." ”

"Yes, Uncle Rob." He Hutou said.

"Listen to Zhang Xuan, the Fire Gun Team is trained by you." Luo Rucai said.

"Yes." He Hutou said.

"What do you think of the power of the Firecrackers?" Luo Rucai asked with a smile, it seems that it is not like the superior asking the subordinate, but it seems that the elder is asking the junior.

He Hutou took a deep breath and said, "You can use it." ”

As far as He Hutou himself is concerned, he didn't like the fire gun very much before, he was influenced by He Yilong, and he actually preferred to rush into battle. I like to see the blood with a knife. Although he has been following Zhang Xuan for a period of time, he has never let go of each of them, such as archery and horse archery, spears and knives, and even shield fights.

But after personally training the firecracker team, He Hutou had to feel that if this firecracker team could really be trained, the combat effectiveness would still be there.

It's just that the people around He Hutou are all Zhang Xuan's personal guards, and they can be said to be elite soldiers selected by the heads of each battalion, these veterans who have been on the battlefield, even if they are given a stick, they are also very effective and have a good psychological quality.

Therefore, they can do it without moving, obey orders, never fire in advance, and can also maintain the firecrackers, but whether the recruits can be trained to this extent, He Hutou has doubts in his heart.

But He Hutou has been by Zhang Xuan's side for so long, and he has been taken care of by Zhang Xuan a lot, so he naturally can't dismantle Zhang Xuan's platform. So that's all he can say.

"Okay." Luo Rucai said: "You can show me." ”

"Yes." He Hutou saluted.

He stood in the clearing, and as soon as he blew the brass whistle, a sharp sound rang out, and the three hundred firecrackers rushed over and ran

In the middle, the self-lined line, then lined up in three columns, first in a volley, and then in three columns in turn, the sound of muskets, although not very dense, but a sound of suppression. Continuous.

For a while, the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere, as if there was an extra white mist out of thin air, and it took a while for the sound of the fire to subside.

As soon as I heard the sound of firecrackers, I instantly felt that the sound of the water in Xuanwu Lake seemed to become louder.

"Let's go." Luo Rucai said.

The group got off the high platform together and came to the target.

On these wooden targets, there are many traces of lead, some of which are inlaid on them, some of which are small holes the size of thumbs, and some of which have simply broken into several pieces.

"Ying Yuan, what do you think?" Luo Rucai said.

The corners of Zhang Yingyuan's mouth twitched, and he said: "Look good, give me a hundred cavalry, and I will kick him." ”

Zhang Yingyuan didn't care about He Hutou's drill at all, in his opinion, he had a hundred ways to defeat He Hutou, not to mention anything else, if he swept in front of the formation at high speed like Qin Meng, he didn't believe that He Hutou's people could stabilize their position.

Defeating He Hutou's subordinates can stabilize their position.

So can a newly trained non-commissioned soldier?

"General Zhang, but I don't know how the recruits in Nanjing City are being trained?" Zhang Xuan couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Yingyuan's face darkened for a while, and he had nothing to say.

He also saw that the biggest advantage of the firecrackers was that they were easy to train. Compared with the psychological burden of face-to-face fighting, the psychological burden of firecrackers is much less. There is no need to contact hand-to-hand combat, but no matter how sparse the firecrackers are, it is good to resist the enemy with the city and the horses.

Zhang Yingyuan didn't speak, so he acquiesced, even though he didn't like the firecrackers, but he had to accept the benefits of large-scale training of the firecrackers.

At the very least, it can liberate the main force and delegate secondary objectives to the musketeers.

Luo Rucai saw that Zhang Yingyuan stopped talking, and knew that the opinions in the army were probably unified, and said, "Mr. Zhang." ”

Zhang Zhen said: "The minister is here." ”

"Is there a problem with the mass production of birds?" Luo Rucai said.

"No problem." Zhang Zhen said: "It's just that how much does Your Highness need?" ”

The scale of firearms production in the Ming Dynasty was very large, it can be said that there were millions, of course, scattered to such a large country in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, millions were not too much, and in the early Ming Dynasty, firearms were produced by the Jingshi Baoyuan Bureau.

However, after the middle period, more and more firearms were licensed to be produced locally, especially in the nine sides.

Although the Ming Dynasty strictly controlled the diffusion of firearms production technology, the general production of firearms has long been blooming everywhere, and Zhang Xuan's situation in the army that he can produce artillery by pulling a king cannon can prove it. Of course, the king cannon artillery technology is also very poor.

In particular, the bird gun is not a new technology.

There are no problems with mass production. I dare not say that there are many rods, but with the material resources of the entire Jiangnan to produce tens of thousands of rods a year, there should be no problem.

"Let's build 10,000 first." Luo Rucai said.

"Yes." Zhang Zhen said.

"The sooner the better, it's going to be used soon." Luo Rucai said.

"The minister also sent someone to clean up the inventory of the Nanjing arsenal to see how many qualified birds are in the Nanjing arsenal, which can definitely supply 10,000 rods." Zhang Zhen said: "Your Highness wants it, and the minister can bring it up immediately." Use it for training first, and it's not too late to get a new gun when you go into battle in the future. Zhang Zhen said.

In Nanjing's arsenal, there are indeed a lot of good things.

After all, Nanjing is the capital division of the Ming Dynasty and the center of the Ming Dynasty's military power in the south, how can there be some good things in it, but the quality of the Ming Dynasty is also a well-known thing. If you don't choose carefully, it is estimated that no one will dare to use it.

"Okay." Luo Rucai said: "Select soldiers from all over the country to enter Beijing and train firecrackers in Beijing. ”

"He Hutou." Luo Rucai said.

"The minister is here." He Hutou said.

"You are alone as the head of the fire gun, and the general leader is here to train the soldiers." Luo Rucai said.

"Yes." He Hutou said.

Mr. Zhang immediately allocated 10,000 firearms to the tiger head and prepared a training ground for the tiger head. When the tiger head is trained, the soldiers will be returned to all localities, and then the firecrackers will be trained in all localities, so that the supply of firearms and gunpowder must not be in short supply. ”

"Yes." Zhang Zhi's face showed a slight hint of difficulty. After all, such a large amount is not easy to raise.

But it's just that it's not easy to raise, gunpowder is not a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the official gunpowder workshop, just the folk gunpowder workshop abounds, otherwise the New Year, the Lantern Festival is full of fireworks, so where does the gunpowder of fireworks come from.

From fireworks, firecrackers, to gunpowder, it's just that the gunpowder formula is different.

That's the benefit of being in Gangnam. In the northwest, you may need to do everything yourself, but in Jiangnan, you can do a lot of things, and the only thing you have to worry about is that you have to have silver first.

Zhang Xuan was slightly happy in his heart when he heard this, he was happy for He Hutou.

Although He Hutou's position is not high, and this 10,000 soldiers is just training, Zhang Xuan knows with his toes that He Hutou will not just come back after the head of this firearms commander, and there is a high chance that he will lead an army alone.

Coupled with He Yilong's afterglow, it can't be said that he will be the future star.

Zhang Xuan treats He Hutou like a younger brother, and now he has a good future in He Hutou, and he is happy for him in his heart, but the only thing that is a little sad is that the three hundred firearms he trained are estimated to be taken away by He Hutou.

In a sense, Zhang Xuan is a more suitable candidate for large-scale training of firecrackers than He Hutou. But it is absolutely impossible for Luo Rucai to let Zhang Xuan take this position.

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