Zeng Ziyun looked at Li Xuan, his face changed slightly, and he said after a long time: "It's just ten steps away, a little farther away, I'm afraid you won't be able to hit!" ”

After hearing Zeng Ziyun's words, Li Xuan nodded slightly to the guard, and immediately the guard holding the musket reloaded again, and someone moved the plank in front of him to a distance of about 100 meters.

This time, the guard was much more proficient in loading, and it took only about two minutes to complete the loading, and when he raised his musket to shoot, he was obviously much more attentive and took careful aim.

The target is 100 meters away, and if you don't aim at it, you can't hit it, and even if you aim at it, it's two things to say whether you can hit it.

This time, however, he was clearly lucky, and as the gunshots rang out, white smoke rose and a bullet hole appeared in the plank in front of him again.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan couldn't help but feel very pleased, this hand-made, only one in the entire Tang Dynasty, and the bird gun with great historical significance finally did not disappoint him.

After seeing this scene, Zeng Ziyun's face became very exciting, but he still said with an embarrassed face: "Although the power of the bird gun is acceptable, but it can't be launched, once the enemy is close enough to send a hundred steps, how many rounds can it be fired?" And the archer can send multiple branches in an instant, which is far stronger than the bird's gun! ”

Li Xuan smiled and said, "It takes years to train an archer, but this firecracker, three months is enough!" ”

The debate between bows and muskets is not a new topic, and the European side has been arguing for so many years, but in the end it was the muskets that completely eliminated the bow and arrows.

This is not because the early muskets surpassed bows and arrows in terms of rate of fire, power, accuracy, etc., but because the cost difference between the two is too great.

The musketeers only need to find a random peasant to train for a few months, and then they can be pulled into battle, and the performance is not too bad, barely usable.

But archers can't do without a few years of training, for example, British longbowmen are trained from a young age, and it takes decades to save thousands of longbowmen.

The cost performance of the two is incomparable!

Facing Li Xuan's words, Zeng Ziyun raised his head and disdained to answer!

Li Xuan didn't care about Zeng Ziyun's reaction, anyway, today's purpose was achieved, presumably after Zeng Ziyun went back, he would definitely ponder the advantages and disadvantages of the bird gun repeatedly, and this was enough.

After being escorted back by Zeng Ziyun, Li Xuan did not stay on the playground for long, but went to the only iron workshop on Huangzhu Mountain, well, it was also the only weapon workshop in the Tang Dynasty.

The population of the Tang Dynasty was small, and there were naturally fewer blacksmiths and other technical talents, and there were only three blacksmiths at full count, one of whom was still a teenage apprentice.

In addition to building weapons, their main work on weekdays is also to build farm tools or something, anyway, the three blacksmiths are all responsible for iron-related things.

After arriving at the weapons workshop, Li Xuan opened his mouth and began to seal the official and make a wish, and the official did not want money to send it casually.

Two middle-aged blacksmiths directly sealed the title of the Ministry of Works, one left and one right, and the remaining apprentices did not fall, and also got the title of a Ministry of Works.

It's a pity that these three illiterate blacksmiths don't know that they have become the highest-ranking blacksmiths in history, and what really makes them happy is that Li Xuan rewarded them with a lot of rice grain.

This rice grain is much more practical than an official position!

After the three elated blacksmiths repeatedly said that they would find a way to build more bird guns as soon as possible, Li Xuan returned to the palace with a satisfied expression.

It has been more than half a year since he came to this era, and there is usually no place for Li Xuan to reflect the superiority of this traverser.

He knows a lot of things, but he can't use it much in this era, especially in the Tang Dynasty.

Nowadays, the most important thing in the Tang Dynasty is farming and fighting.

He doesn't know anything about farming, and it's not easy to distinguish between rice and wheat, so let him teach these bandits to farm, he is afraid of flashing his waist, so he can't interfere in agricultural affairs at all, and he can't even do better than Liu Bagou, a person who is stupid in reading.

He has limited knowledge of such things as the army fighting, at least he doesn't know how the cold weapon army should fight.

Thinking about it, he can only work invention and creation.

For today's Tang Dynasty, the most important invention is naturally the musket!

As far as the weak strength of the Tang Dynasty is concerned, if there is no obvious advantage, the next time the Ming army comes to attack, the Ming army does not need to work hard, as long as a general with a normal IQ is sent into the mountain with a few thousand people, the Tang Dynasty will be finished, and he Li Xuan will either have to escape or die.

And the arquebus, and even the smoothbore gun he imagined, was the biggest hole card he used to fight against the Ming army.

The smoothbore gun is not very realistic for a while, but it is not a problem to get the arquebus out, after all, the arquebus has no technical content, and people have been using it in the West for many years, even the Japanese have been using it for several years.

Now that the arquebus has been made, with the heritage of Huangzhu Mountain, I dare not say more, but it is not a problem to spend a few months to build a dozen or so.

Although the number is still not much, but it is good to get started, as long as you persist, maybe in a few years you will be able to save 18,000 arquebuses, and it is not a dream to beat the Ming army at that time!

Just when Li Xuan was busy with arquebuses in the rear, recruiting Zeng Ziyun and other messy things, Fang Dongquan and the others also encountered the men and horses of the Black Tiger Village.

It's not right to say this, to be precise, it is the coalition army of Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan.

Looking at the Black Tiger Village and Huangguishan coalition forces with a scale of more than 300 people in front of him, Fang Dongquan's face was a little unpleasant: "When did they unite together, didn't you say that everything was normal on Huangguishan's side before!" ”

Huang Xueren said: "Although our spies are staring at them day and night, but Huang Guishan is so big, it is normal for one or two spies to not be able to see it." ”

At this time, Butcher Chen stepped forward and said: "They are here together, we will save trouble, we can get them at one time, and we will have to make one more trip!" ”

However, Fang Dongquan said: "There are quite a few of them, more than us, I'm afraid it's a bit troublesome to fight!" ”

"Troublesome fart, wait a minute, it's still the old rule, Lao Tzu rushed up with people, I don't believe they can stop it!" Butcher Chen was as arrogant as ever, and the fierce pig-killing temperament on his body made others shudder.

Fang Dongquan glanced at Butcher Chen, and a trace of dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes.

He is the one who has full authority to supervise the thieves this time, these people are just assisting their subordinates, but now there are subordinates there, and none of them take themselves seriously.

However, he has been a bandit boss for so many years, and he has secretly fought with Huang Xueren for several months in the Tang Dynasty.

After holding back the anger in his heart, he turned his head and asked Qian Mengjiu: "Prime Minister Qian, you are a prison army, tell me how to fight!" ”

Qian Mengjiu looked around, swept everyone one by one, and said: "I am a civil servant, and the affairs of the military family are not my specialty, what I can do is to beat the drum for the generals!" ”

After saying this, he saw him pause, and then said with a straight face: "But this battle is related to the rise and fall of my Tang Dynasty, and I hope that all the generals will work together to defeat the thief army, so as to live up to Your Majesty's imperial grace!" ”