The day's training was over, and at sunset, Yue Xiang rode a horse and led his family to go back.

After a tiring day, everyone's footsteps were chaotic and procrastinating. He knew that some people were dissatisfied, but he couldn't help it. Now it's better to practice twice than not at all. He has said the truth of sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime for an unknown number of times. Of course, he also knows that he is only playing two games on the training ground now, and if he really waits until he goes to the battlefield, he will be able to fight without chaos and not be familiar with it at all for a year and a half.

Just like himself, he usually wears the armor on his body now, just to get used to it as soon as possible. Although this thing is bulky and cumbersome on the body, it is his body armor in this era of cold weapons. Although it was a hassle to put on, he spent an hour a day repeatedly practicing putting on and removing his armor.

There is also his weapon, which is the three-pointed two-edged knife that Ma Sandao and Li Shoucai take turns carrying for him in the back, and he picks it up and dances from time to time to feel his strength.

The style of this three-pointed knife is quite exquisite, the blade is one and a half meters long, it seems to be hardwood clad iron, the tail of the knife is half a foot long and a three-edged armor penetrating cone, and the length of the knife seedling in front is also close to one meter, using the best snow-bright steel, with a blood groove engraved with a cloud dragon pattern, the blade flashes with a penetrating cold light, and the weight of the whole weapon is about nearly forty catties.

Forty pounds of weapons is definitely not light, and Ma and Li take turns to carry them, like Zhou Cang next to Guan Yu. Yue Xiang had already brought these two back under his command, and he felt that he had the ability to subdue them. Since the two of them have a purpose, they can be used, and maybe they can play a role when they go treasure hunting in the future.

"The master is really a good skill, this big knife is so heavy that he can swing it freely." Ma Sandao followed Yue Xiang's horse, admiring as he walked. Yue Xiang did feel a little proud in his heart, it was difficult for ordinary people to lift such a heavy weapon, but when he held it in his hand, it felt as light as a wooden stick. Once he galloped on the playground, wielding a broadsword with both hands like a wind, winning the applause of the audience, and this was the first time he had seen the skill of his weapon.

"What is this, Master Guan's Qinglong Yanyue Knife weighs eighty-two pounds, and the iron broadsword made by Liu Ting and Liu Zhenshuai, the first great general of our Ming Dynasty, weighs one hundred and twenty pounds, and I am far worse than them."

Well, the tone is really not small. Some of the people around him who heard him stuck out their tongues. Master Guan, who is that, that's a martial saint, but no one dares to say that it's boring. When he walked to the door of Yue's house, someone suddenly came to report, saying that Li Liang's caravan had returned from Liaoyang.

"Really? That's great! Yue Xiang was overjoyed, turned his horse's head and went straight to the West Gate. Since he had been determined to receive assistance from the government, he had found a way to prepare his men for armament. In fact, the Yue family has a big business, and there are many private swords, guns and weapons. Some of these family members are also from the rivers and lakes, and they have their own guys. But the army is different from the rivers and lakes, everything must pay attention to unity, how much role can the Jianghu kung fu play on the battlefield Yue Xiang knew in his heart.

He uniformly stipulated that all self-prepared weapons should be reduced to alternatives, and everyone should mainly practice bows and arrows, guns, sticks, spears, and rattan Yanling knives, which is a dead rule. At the same time, he heard that there was a black market for armor and arms in Liaoyang, so he used the clan seal, withdrew almost all the cash of their family from the account office, and sent Yue Shan to lead people to follow Li Liang to Liaoyang to buy equipment.

When they came to the west gate, they saw the gate of the city open. A team leader led a group of officers and soldiers to guard the door, and there were large cars outside the door. It's a sensitive time, the time when the gates are opened and closed every day, and the rules are much stricter than usual. Merchants from other places basically do not dare to come to this side of Qinghe, and now outside the city, in addition to some Tuntian people, is the Ming army that is hidden from time to time to explore horses and ride, and the farthest are scattered to a hundred miles away, for fear that one day Jianyu will come over unguarded.

Yue Xiang is also a person with status now, he went up to the city tower and asked for a warrant to open the door from the city gate official, and ten big carts rushed in, and it was Li Liang and Yue Shan who rode in front.

"Fortunately, the situation in eastern Liaodong is tense now, and there are people everywhere who are searching for weapons to protect themselves. The price has increased by about 30% compared to the original, but I finally bought it. "Back at Yue's house, everyone began to unload the car, and Li Liang reported to Yue Xiang about this trip." This is the account contract, and the second master is invited to look at it. ”

Yue Xiang took it and looked at it carefully, anyway, he didn't understand the bookkeeping method of this era. He had already secretly asked Yue Shan just now, and the answer he got was that Li Liang did not have any abnormalities along the way, and he did his work with all his heart, and the silver taels on this account were consistent with what Yue Shan knew.

"It's been a hard trip. Lao Li, I already know what you meant last time. It is indeed a blessing for my brother-in-law to be able to find you as a helper. Yue Xiang's words also represented his meaning, Li Liang showed joy on his face, bowed down and saluted, and then led Yue Xiang to inspect the goods unloaded on the car.

"There are 417 good iron waist knives, 190 regimental cards, 266 collars of good iron chain nets, 50 crossbows, and 1,000 three-edged steel crossbow arrows. There were two hundred and nine bows of each stone, three hundred and seventy-seven strings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two heavy arrows, and three hundred and eighty arrow clusters. Five hundred iron spears and spears......" Li Liang pointed to the piles of iron tools like a few treasures, and he didn't need to look at the account books at all, obviously these numbers had been engraved in his heart.

Yue Xiang nodded secretly, it could be seen that this Li Liang was indeed a capable talent, if he could be brought under his command, he could be responsible for the logistics.

When he came to the last car, Li Liang stopped and said, "This car is loaded with munitions, so you must be careful to move it." There are 30 refined Japanese guns from the East China Sea, two short guns of Western Buddha wolf machines, a large handcuff at the mouth of the mouth, 100 catties of lead, and four barrels of gunpowder totaling 400 catties. ”

"And munitions?" Yue Xiang was surprised, it is not new to be able to get cold weapons outside the customs, the local products here are swordsmen, horse thieves, bandits, beards, and private weapons for self-defense is a common phenomenon, and the government can't manage it. But it was beyond his expectation that he could even get arms, which were offensive and defensive weapons, and they had always been built only by military workshops under the government, and it was strictly forbidden for the people to have them. There is a phenomenon of illegal possession of firearms by maritime merchants along the southern coast, but it is difficult for this kind of thing to flow into the north, especially outside the customs.

The Japanese gun is the bird gun equipped by the southern soldiers of the Ming army, and it is a first-class individual firearm in the current era. The only one that can outdo it is the Miru (Turkish musket). The Franc machine seems to be Portugal, and many of the main artillery pieces of the Ming army are imitations of the Franc machine artillery. These two kinds of weapons are mainly equipped in the southern army, and the border weapons on the nine sides of the north are mainly clamped fast guns, and now the Japanese guns actually appear in the Shenyang black market, it is really hard to imagine how vast the magical powers of these smugglers are.

"This is not new, as long as there is silver, even artillery can be bought. This is Liaodong, as long as the bid is high enough, whether it is a sword, gun, armor or an iron cannon, someone will sell it to you. I'm just picking up a leak, this time there is a big general cannon, I heard that the Kaiyuan Ma family bought a big general cannon at a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of silver and pulled it back. ”

"And the cannon?" Yue Xiang was completely stunned, to say that the small size of this shotgun was smuggled from the south, this big gun is a local product of China, and such a big cannon can actually be transported? Most of them are local.

"These soldiers sell weapons and buy arms privately, aren't they afraid that the commander will find out if they kill them?" Yue Xiang remembered that when he was a soldier, he paid attention to weapons and was the second life of a soldier, not to mention taking them out and selling them, and he felt very distressed when he touched and fell. Daily maintenance wipes, meticulous service. The soldiers here actually take out their weapons to sell, and such an army can still win the battle? Yue Xiang felt a sense of worry in his heart, if he relied on such a person, even if there were 100,000 people who were afraid that this Qinghe City would be difficult to hold, was he too optimistic?

"Check? Hum. Li Liang sneered, "What are they looking for?" They themselves are only afraid to sell more. If the soldier does not have the nod of his commander, how can he have the courage to take out the things in the barracks and sell them? It's just that now the imperial court owes too much, the soldiers are demoralized and neglected to train, and no one will use the cannon if they keep it, so it is better to sell it for some money and food, otherwise I am afraid that it will provoke a mutiny. In order to sit firmly in their positions, the commanders had no choice but to turn a blind eye. ”

"Can't even fire a cannon? That's also an officer and soldier, don't they practice on weekdays? ”

"If you can't even eat, only nerds have the heart to practice. How did the soldiers of Liaoyang cross our Qinghe. There was a voice behind him, Yue Xiang looked back, but it was Dong Mingchuan and Zhang Yuncheng, Yue Xiang arched his hand at them, Zhang Yuncheng smiled and said: "I heard that Ziyi has sold his property to buy armor, and his loyalty is commendable, let's see if there is anything that can help." ”

Yue Xiang knew that he must have come to investigate the truth on Zou Chuxian's order, and when he thought about it, he let him see it, so what was the big deal. Since Lao Tzu bought it, are you afraid that people won't be able to see it?

"Lord Zhang? I don't know what the adults just said? ”

"Hehe, when Ning Yuanbo guarded Liaodong in the past, Liaodong was a sharp cavalry, and the soldiers were full of food. It's just that later Gaohuai rebelled in Liao, brutalized the army and the people, and made Liaodong depressed, and the army has been declining since then. Liaoyang is located in the inner belly, and there has been no war for a long time, so the military is naturally lax. Qinghe, Fushun and Sanyang directly border Jianzhou; Kaiyuan and Tieling are bordered by Beiguan Yehe, Mongolian Zaisai and 24 Rabbit Battalions; Guangning borders on the Mongol Lin Dan Khan, and the perennial soldiers are naturally stronger than those of Liao and Shen. It's not me boasting, the iron cannons at the head of our Qinghe City are all loud! ”

"I see, my lord said this, I finally have some bottom in my heart......" Yue Xiang patted his chest exaggeratedly. His actions caused everyone to laugh, but the mood was relaxed. Dong Mingchuan said with a smile: "Ziyi, it's not my share to go and buy guys, let me see what rare guys have been brought in." ”

Yue Xiang smiled slightly, took out a rod of wolfs from the wooden box on the car, and held it in his hand. Zhang Yuncheng and Dong Mingchuan both widened their eyes. "This, isn't this a bird's gun? You've even got your hands on this guy? ”

Most of the shotguns in the northern army are called bird guns, and the south is called bird guns. Zhang Yuncheng Cong Yuexiang took it in his hand, weighed the weight very skillfully, took it up and aimed at it, and then checked the medicine room and the trigger clamp spring, the iron thickness of the Duanxiang barrel, and finally stabbed the barrel back and forth a few times with a cotton ball wrapped in a stick, probably testing the fineness of the barrel.

"Top-grade, this bird gun is definitely the top grade, even the bird gun in the army I can't see it. Ziyi, you've got a good guy this time. Zhang Yuncheng is a veteran, and he praised this pole repeatedly. Yue Xiang stood aside and couldn't cry or laugh, as if the other party praised it, but he himself thought that what he had just taken out was a burning stick.

Nothing else, just because this so-called shotgun was too far from what he imagined.

He has been a soldier on the front line of Laoshan, so he is naturally no stranger to firearms. Although I was prepared in my heart, this primitive musket would definitely not be like the five or six semi-automatic ones I used, but at least it would look like a gun. But when he took it out just now, he was still puzzled for a while.

This shotgun weighs seven or eight pounds, has no butt, is a long piece of wood with a groove on it, fixed an iron pipe, some small mechanisms at the back, the firing device is simple and primitive, and there is a primitive front sight. In these years, there is probably no concept of ergonomics, the wooden support below is rectangular and boxy, and the hand support is a little awkward, and there is no gun butt to shoot against the shoulder, and the craftsmanship is not as good as the earthen cannon used to shoot birds in the rural hometown that Yue Xiang has seen.

This is also called a gun? Seeing Zhang Yuncheng like a baby in his hand, he had a more sober concept. Feelings The firearms of this era are far from what people can imagine in the future, only read the book that said how many artillery and how many muskets there were in the Ming army at that time, in fact, after reading it with my own eyes, I knew that these things were very primitive.

It's good that this shotgun can shoot once a minute, but I don't know how far the range is, how powerful it is, and how accurate it is. And how far can the cavalry of the Eight Banners Army sprint in a minute? How many arrows can someone shoot in a minute? If you have the kung fu to shoot a shot, maybe six or seven arrows will come at you. Moreover, the Eight Banners Army is famous for its fine cavalry and archery, and the archers are innumerable, and the Ming Army has lost again in terms of accuracy.

It seems that this so-called firearm is not as god as it is legendary, unless it is used intensively on a large scale and may have some effect, and it is enough to fight alone. In addition, the Ming army was negligent in drills and demoralized......

Yue Xiang sighed imperceptibly, copied out another handful, and had the intention to put a shot to test the firepower. But I don't know how to put it, fortunately, there is Zhang Yuncheng, a veteran oilman, who took out the fire rope from the car and lit it and blew out the flames, leaving only a little smoldering like incense in front of the head, and the two ends were sandwiched on both sides of the clamp spring in the powder room, and then took out the wrapped firing gunpowder and tore the package, and poured it into the medicine room, which was a good amount, just enough for a launch.

Then take out the lead, wrap it in cotton, stuff it into the muzzle, and then tamp it with a strip, and finally the flat end of the chest is considered to be finished. Yue Xiang secretly calculated, this was definitely more than a minute.

"When the index finger pulls the trigger, the fire rope falls into the medicine room, and the medicine is sprayed. Keep your eyes on the front and back crosshairs, and keep your head sideways when you put it down. Zhang Yuncheng gave Yue Xiang a drill, but Yue Xiang was puzzled by the last sentence: "Why do you want to start sideways?" ”

"This gunpowder will spew smoke from behind, and if you don't avoid it, it will hurt your eyes, so you must aim first."

What is the reason, the enemy will move. If you aim first and don't aim when you fire, it won't be equally ineffective, dare to love this shotgun can only hit a fixed target, but it can't hit a moving target. Yue Xiang thought to himself what kind of thing this was, stood in the courtyard and aimed at a target painted on the courtyard wall sixty paces away for a long time, and finally twisted his face and pulled the trigger.

Tong! There was a muffled sound of gunpowder spraying, like the movement of a flash of lightning when it was sprayed, and a wave of heat sprayed on his face with a pungent smell of gunsmoke. Yue Xiang's hand shook, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that there was already white gunsmoke in front of him.

Missed the bull's-eye, the lead missed the target, but it did hit the target. Looking at Dong Mingchuan's excited shouting, Yue Xiang couldn't be happy. How many years he has played guns in the army, he has played such a result at this distance, which can only be said to be a problem with guns.

It's only sixty steps, and that's the error. If it's farther away, I really don't know where the bullet is going. Is this the shotgun that has been blown up on the Internet? Yue Xiang felt a deep disappointment in his heart.

It doesn't seem like you can get your hopes up too much for this thing......