On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the streets are very lively, with endless crowds, vendors pushing carts and carrying burdens and shouting loudly, people who greet the New Year are choosing to buy gifts, neighbors are talking to each other about auspicious New Year's greetings, and children in new clothes are running and frolicking in groups, holding sticks of incense and lighting firecrackers and throwing them everywhere.

A group of young men with flirtatious smiles on their faces, their eyes focused on the young woman in red and green, and they took advantage of the crowd to rush over......

"Young grandma, let's go back......" Ying Mei avoided the shoulder of a playful young man, and said to Xiao Yu with a frown.

"Does the little lady go back to her husband's house or to her mother's house? ......" The playful grinning face rubbed in front of Xiao Yu, stretched out his hand to pull her arm, "Let the villain see, what kind of gift is in his hand......"

A slap of "pop" fell on the splashy face, and Xiao Yu looked at his face coldly, his eyes full of disdain.

"Oh, hey, the little lady beat me......" The splasher made an exaggerated look of pain, rubbed his hand on the slapped face, and sniffed exaggeratedly under his nose.

"The little lady's hands are so fragrant...... "Splashy cried out with a wink.

"The little lady also gives the villain a ......" Several young men around him coaxed, and squeezed towards Xiao Yu and Yingmei in a chaotic manner.

"Hugh is rude! We are the ...... of the General's Mansion" Yingmei hurriedly stopped in front of Xiao Yu and scolded loudly. In the chaos, I don't know which splash pinched her ass, and she stomped her feet in anger, and tears were about to fall.

A sturdy man in a half-worn coarse cloth jacket stepped forward, carrying a ploppy neckline and pushing it, and the puffy man staggered back a few steps and fell to the ground.

"Okay, you guy, you dare to hit someone......" A few splashes next to him shouted while dancing their fists and rushed over, but where was the man's opponent, he was defeated in three moves and two styles, and he retreated far away one by one, leaving only the mouth to curse non-stop.

"Thank you for your help...... Xiao Yu blessed the man, his eyes fell on the man's face, and his heart didn't move, and the man in front of him seemed to have a feeling that he had seen it somewhere.

"The small barracks archer captain Xie Qingyuan ......" The man bowed to Xiao Yu and clenched his fists, with an indescribably complicated look in his unruly eyes.

It turned out that the other party was a sergeant. Xiao Yu nodded and said lightly, "Got it." ”

The man seemed to want to say something, but the sound of gongs sounded all the way on the street, and the two sergeants ran and shouted while beating the gongs: "The general has an order, all the sergeants return to the camp and assemble......"

Xie Qingyuan clenched his fists, then turned around and left.

When those few splashes saw this scene, they secretly screamed bad luck in their hearts, so they didn't know the women who had provoked the general's mansion, and in panic, they suddenly scattered, and they ran away without a trace one by one.

After this trouble, and there seemed to be something going on in the military camp, Xiao Yu was not in the mood to continue shopping, so she hurried back to the general's mansion with Yingmei.

Coming in through the corner door, Xiao Yu kept muttering in his heart. She was not familiar with the sergeants in the barracks, and she had never seen this person among the sergeants standing guard at the gate of the General's Mansion, but somehow there was a sense of déjà vu lingering in her heart.

When he arrived at the door of the weeping flowers, Xiao Xi heard Zhang Er's sister-in-law and a strange woman talking about something inside the door, and then, a middle-aged woman wearing a blue bijia walked out of the door, walking all the way, muttering in her mouth, seeing Xiao Xi just glanced at it, and passed all the way without saluting.

Xiao Yu looked back at the woman strangely, and asked the second sister-in-law Zhang who followed out of the door: "Second sister-in-law Zhang, who is this woman?" ”

"It's a relative and acquaintance of Grandma Xu, who came to the house on the first day ......of the Lunar New Year to worship what year, just to ask for some silver," Zhang Er's sister-in-law said with a disdainful face.

"Oh." Xiao Yu didn't want to care about Xu Ying's trivial matters, and walked up the steps.

"I've been here a few times, and each time my grandmother gave her a tael or two of silver. Today, Grandma Xu Shao followed the general to the barracks, and when she came, she didn't see anyone and muttered here for a long time, thinking that Grandma Xu Shao would not see her......" Zhang's second sister-in-law babbled.

"Sister Xu still has relatives in this city?" Xiao Yu asked strangely.

"I don't know this old body...... "Second sister-in-law Zhang said, "Grandma Xu is also very annoying, I didn't see her last time, so I asked the old body to hand her some silver and send her away......"

"Oh......" Xiao Yu groaned, and the conversation changed, "Isn't the first day of the military camp a holiday today?" What did the general do in the barracks? ”

"The old man heard Grandma Xu Shao say, it seems that someone from the Tartar is coming......" Second Sister-in-law Zhang's eyes showed a trace of fear, and then said: "Don't worry, Grandma Xu, the general is so capable, and this Tartar is also afraid of the general." No, I'm here to give gifts to the general today......"

"Tartar gifts? What to give? Xiao Yu asked.

"This ......" Second Sister-in-law Zhang knew that she was speechless, and suddenly hesitated.

In the west wing, Linglong held the pipa and played it slowly, and the melodious sound of the piano flowed from her fingertips.

The ink has entered the water, crossing a pool of blue and white flowers.

Pick up five red glows and go home picking bamboo.

……

After playing a song, Linglong always felt that some tones were not accurate, and she plucked the strings again and again.

"It would be nice to hear the general play it again......" Thinking of this, Linglong couldn't help but feel a little hot on her face.

"Sister Linglong, give you ......" Wang Cheng hurriedly ran in from outside the door, holding a string of rock sugar gourds in his hand and handing them to Linglong.

"Wang Xiaogongzi, I haven't come back until I went to play on the street......" Linglong got up and bowed slightly.

"Well, it's so lively on the streets today...... There were still a lot of soldiers running down the street just now...... Wang Cheng said happily.

"Wang Xiaogongzi, have you seen the general?" Linglong asked.

"No, it's all soldiers...... Wang Cheng said, "Sister Linglong, were you playing the pipa just now?" ”

"Slave maid...... The slave maid is fine, just play the ...... casually" Today Wang Cheng pulled Linglong to play on the street together, Linglong said that she didn't go because of something, but she stayed in the room alone to play the pipa, and now Wang Cheng asked, Linglong was a little embarrassed.

"Sister Linglong, you play the pipa so well...... Can you play it to me? ”

"The slave and maid didn't play well, which made Wang Xiaogongzi laugh." Linglong saw Wang Cheng's expectant eyes and gently plucked the strings.

The gentle sound of the piano flowed out, and Wang Cheng opened his eyes wide to watch the delicate white fingers moving dexterously on the strings, and he was stunned for a while.

"Sister Linglong, you play so well, much better than that Cailan." Wang Cheng said stupidly, "It's a shame that the general still wants Cailan to serve the piano today......"

Linglong's fingers trembled, and with a "ding" sound, a pipa string broke.

Coming back from outside the city and returning to the camp, Yang Ming had dinner with the sergeants in the barracks, which was regarded as a reward for the sergeants. Yang Ming is very satisfied with the performance of the sergeants today, at least everyone's morale and courage have improved greatly, as long as they can maintain this vigorous mental state and carry out appropriate military training in the future, their own army may not be able to compete with the Houjin army.

Xu Ying's worries about herself today moved Yang Ming very much, and when she came back from the barracks, as soon as she entered the Hanging Flower Gate, Yang Ming hugged Xu Ying's waist.

"General, you don't know how worried the slave family is about you......" Xu Ying snuggled in Yang Ming's arms, and there seemed to be lingering palpitations in her voice.

"It's okay......" Yang Ming kissed Xu Ying on the face, "Don't worry......"

"The slave family almost rushed out of the city gate at that time......" Xu Ying said, "That Huang Taiji is really insidious, he actually set up this kind of ambush ......"

"Soldiers don't get tired of cheating...... Yang Ming remembered the famous words of the ancients that Huang Taiji told him, and said in his heart, what are you doing rushing out, isn't that adding chaos?

"Oh, Xu Ying, the gun you were given last time ......" Yang Ming remembered that Xu Ying had a gun, "Have you tried it?" ”

"Where will the slave family use ......" Xu Ying with a hint of resentment, "That gun is different from Lu Mi Gong......

"Rumpy?" Yang Ming asked strangely, "Do you know Lu Mi Gong?" Have you used it? ”

In the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing (1548), the Ming army captured some Japanese and some arquebuses who were good at making arquebuses in the battle to recover Shuangyu (now southeast of Yinxian County, Zhejiang), which was occupied by the Japanese and the Portuguese. By Ma Xian, Li Huai and others, learned the method of making arquebuses, and on the basis of it, to study and improve, in the 37th year of Jiajing (1558) to create the first batch of arquebuses in China, "more exquisite than the West Fan", and the handwriting is very large, one is 10,000, which shows that the Ming Dynasty at that time attached great importance to the military equipment firearms.

Around the same time, the kingdom of Rumi (present-day Turkey) sent an emissary to China to pay tribute to arquebuses. Zhao Shizhen, a famous firearms expert in the Ming Dynasty of China, presented the emperor with a statement entitled "Eight Evils of Using Soldiers" in the 25th year of Wanli (1597), suggesting that the production of a bird gun paid tribute by the Lumi State should be submitted to the Beijing camp for trial production after the Ministry of War.

Zhao Shizhen was afraid that the Beijing camp would "make and release the two is not as good as the law", so he came to the door to ask Duo Sima, learned in detail about the manufacturing and use methods, and funded himself (Zhao Shizhen was a Zhongshushe from the seventh rank) to convene craftsmen for trial production, and finally in the 26th year of Wanli created an arquebus with a longer range than the beak gun, called the "Lumi gun".

The length of the barrel of this gun is more than 2 meters, the weight is 6 to 8 catties, the firing range is long (150 meters), the power is great, and it is better than the bird's beak gun in terms of structure. At the same time, the latest firearms at that time, the "electric switcher" and the "thunderbolt", the former had the advantages of both Western guns and Franc machines, and the latter had the advantages of bird guns and three-eyed guns.

In June of the thirtieth year of Wanli, the firearms developed by Zhao Shizhen passed the test of officials from the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Criminal Punishment and other departments, and the review report recommended that the emperor should send Zhao Shizhen's "style of chariot gun to the Beijing camp and make it according to law, and order the officials to teach and perform it, and spread it to all sides, so as to investigate its use to prevent border capture."

However, because it was extremely difficult to make and expensive to build, it was not equipped on a large scale in the Ming army, so Yang Ming was a little surprised when he heard Xu Ying talk about Lu Migong.

"Lu Mi Gong, the slave family has seen it before, and it can be regarded as extremely exquisite." Xu Ying said, "But the short guns and handcuffs given by the general, compared with the Lu Mi guns, are simply ...... in heaven and earth."

That's natural. This HK416 rifle and Glock 19 pistol, even before Yang Ming's crossing, the vast majority of countries in the world could not be manufactured well, even including some large countries with a population of more than hundreds of millions.

"Xu Ying, I'll teach you how to use ......a gun tonight," Yang Ming said, "Let's go now." ”

"Really?!" Xu Ying's peach blossom eyes shone brightly, "Is this gun difficult to use?" ”

"It's not difficult, it's much simpler than the Rumi Gun."

When Yang Ming was in the United States, he often saw some teenage girls, including Chinese girls, coming to the shooting range to learn how to shoot. Even if you have never touched a gun, you only need the coach to explain and demonstrate, you will shoot when you pick up the gun, and its accuracy is even good, so what's so difficult. Moreover, women are careful and calm, and when they first start to practice shooting, they often perform better than men.

The courtyard of the General's Mansion is very wide, about fifty steps from east to west, about 70 meters wide, although it is inferior to the width of one or two hundred meters in those mansions with higher specifications, but it can be regarded as a deep mansion compound.

It's just that in this backyard, rockery pavilions, ponds and flower beds and other facilities occupy a lot of space, and there is no space directly to the east and west courtyard walls.

"That's it. Hit the courtyard wall from here,...... Yang Ming said, hugging Xu Ying, "I'll go get some sandbags and pile them up on the side of the wall, so that the bullets don't go through the wall and hurt people." ”

"Can you punch through the wall?" Xu Ying asked in surprise.

"This ...... Be careful. "Rifle bullets can penetrate a concrete wall nearly 20 centimeters thick, and Yang Ming has never tried how thick the blue brick wall of the Ming Dynasty can penetrate.

Under the cross-illumination of the two emergency lights, Xu Ying held a rifle and stared at the wooden target in front of her, Yang Ming stood behind her, put his arms around Xu Ying's waist, and adjusted her shooting posture.

"Adjust the distance of the ruler, aim at the crosshair, aim at the bull's-eye at three points and one line......" Yang Ming stuck to Xu Ying's ear and told her the essentials of shooting.

"General, don't touch the ......slave's chest," Xu Ying said coquettishly, "Hindering the slave's ......"

"I'm going to ......," Yang Ming said brazenly with a salivating face.

Xu Ying turned her head, raised her face, and the lips of the two kissed together......

On the night of the first day of the new year, the streets and alleys of the city are filled with the sound of sporadic firecrackers. In the backyard of the General's Mansion, gunshots flew out around the pavilion and flower trees, and it sounded just a faint sound of firecrackers outside.

Draining the thirty rounds of a rifle magazine and the sixteen rounds of a pistol magazine, Xu Ying's shooting showed Yang Ming's surprise, she did not miss the target with every shot, and several shots hit the bull's eye.

"Xu Ying, you are so smart." Yang Ying kissed Xu Ying and said.

"The slave family has used to shoot arquebuses, and they have also shot three-eyed guns......" Xu Ying gasped in Yang Ming's arms.

"Your background?" Yang Ming grabbed Xu Ying's shoulders with both hands and stared into her eyes, "Can you tell me?" ”

"General, don't ask......" Xu Ying's eyes moistened, she hooked Yang Ming's neck and kissed him tightly.

"Don't ask the slave family, okay......" Xu Ying muttered.