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After Xiao Tianjian scolded Gao Su, Gao Su got on the horse and followed Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian once again turned the topic to the battle, he asked Gao Su to explain the combat formation they used to himself in detail, when it came to the critical time, Xiao Tianjian simply dismounted, took out a notebook and a carbon pen from his arms, recorded the key points of Gao Su, and even ordered the team to stop, find paper, spread it on the carriage, draw the formation, and mark the location of various soldiers, And there will be a discussion about the use of firepower.

For example, Xiao Tianjian attaches great importance to the application of artillery, and has repeatedly mentioned the coordination between artillery and infantry and cavalry, and his opinion is that artillery must act together with infantry and even cavalry, rather than just letting the artillery be fixed and bombarded with the enemy, and these concepts even Gao Su feels novel.

And Gao Su is a little limited in terms of tactics, and his thinking can't keep up with Xiao Tianjian's thinking, after all, he belongs to a low-level officer of a mercenary army, and his experience in tactics is not very rich, when facing Xiao Tianjian's leapfrog advanced thinking, he can't keep up, and as a Portuguese, the special relationship between Portugal and Spain, some of Gao Su's thoughts are limited by what he has seen, you must know that Europe is not only a Spanish infantry, but Europe has also risen another super bull in this era, It is Gustav, and at the same time, there is also the Dutch general Morris, Xiao Tianjian knows a lot of tactical ideas, which also includes some of their things, so it is much more complicated than what Gao Su knows.

Xiao Tianjian's biggest weakness is that he does not see many things, but more things that he figured out by himself through paper talks, and in terms of practical application, compared with Gao Su, who had actually seen European infantry tactics, he lacked a lot.

Now that the two of them are together, Xiao Tianjian has seized this rare opportunity and worked hard like a sponge to absorb more nutrients from Gao Su.

And Gao Su is more and more afraid to despise Xiao Tianjian, for Xiao Tianjian's ideas, because of his one-sidedness, so from time to time there will be some arguments with Xiao Tianjian, the two of them walked along the way, discussed, and even argued, so that the two of them got off the horse, almost pulling their necks and collars to fight.

The Tietou and other guards couldn't get used to Gao Su and Xiao Tianjian's loud quarrel, and wanted to come up and beat Gao Su several times, teach this guy a lesson, and let him abide by the rules, but they were all immediately drunk and retreated to the side by Xiao Tianjian.

"So are the officers in your country's army now using telescopes?" Xiao Tianjian suddenly remembered a very important thing and asked Gao Su.

"Telescopes? I don't know what it is, I haven't seen it in the next! Gao Su shook his head and said.

Xiao Tianjian thought about it for a while, this is not strange, the invention of the telescope should be roughly this era, he can't remember exactly who invented it in which year, but it must have appeared, but this thing should still be a new thing, even in Europe, it has not been widely popularized, not to mention that it is just a low-level officer among the mercenaries of Gao Su, and it is not an incomprehensible thing to see this kind of advanced thing, and it seems that it is impossible to get a telescope by relying on Gao Su in a short period of time, then if he wants to solve this problem, he can only find a way by himself.

So Xiao Tianjian began to ponder the problem of telescopes again, want to make telescopes, the most important thing is to solve the problem of lenses, glass is the material for making telescopes in later generations, but now he has no place to engage in this kind of thing, even in the West, I am afraid that glass is also a rare thing, and China can be called glass, I am afraid that only glass, and glass this kind of thing, in general, will have color, and the manufacturing process is only known to the royal craftsmen, want to solve the problem of glass, I am afraid it is not easy, What's more, it's better to use colorless optical glass?

It's a pity that Xiao Tianjian only knows the raw materials of glass, how to make glass, he can say that he only knows seven tricks and only knows six tricks, if he arranges someone to test and fire glass, I am afraid it will be difficult to make it in a year or two, if you want to reach the level of optical glass used in telescope lenses, you don't know when.

To a certain extent, the war also pursues unilateral transparency on the battlefield, if the opponent can be discovered earlier than the enemy, then it can even play a very critical role in the victory or defeat of the war, Xiao Tianjian very much hopes to obtain something like a telescope, so that he and his Xingtian Army can gain more advantages when fighting the enemy in the future.

It is estimated that it is impossible to solve the problem of making lenses in a short period of time, so what can be done to solve the problem of this material? Xiao Tianjian sat on the back of the horse and fell silent.

Gao Su saw that Xiao Tianjian suddenly stopped discussing with him, and seemed to be in deep thought, so he didn't dare to speak anymore, pulled the reins of the horse, and fell behind.

Tietou urged the horse to follow Gao Su with a cold face, and said to Gao Su fiercely: "The surname is Gao, you have heard it to me, and then dare to let Lao Tzu see your disrespectful words to our general, Lao Tzu will break your legs!" ”

Gao Su shook his head and said to Tietou seriously: "Captain Guard, you misunderstood, you are discussing tactics with the general, not arguing with the general!" It's good for the Shogun! ”

The iron head scolded Gao Su viciously: "You red-haired ghost, why do you discuss it with our general? You must know that our general is a man of God, in fact, a red-haired ghost like you can compare to him? I don't care, if Lao Tzu sees you shouting loudly with our general again in the future, Lao Tzu will abolish you! ”

"Shut up Iron Head! I don't do Gao Su's business, I am asking him some questions, and I must not be rude to Gao Su in the future! Gao Su is our honored guest, we must respect him! After Xiao Tianjian heard the iron head threatening Gao Su, he grabbed the reins of the horse and turned his head to scold the iron head.

Tietou immediately bowed his head and replied reluctantly: "Humble obedience!" ”

Gao Su triumphantly raised his chin at Iron Head as if he were victorious, while Iron Head rolled his eyes and glared at him fiercely.

"Tietou, you send someone back to the village to find Jin Tong and ask, in our warehouse, is there a very transparent crystal! If there is any, let him pick it out and keep it, I will be useful when I get back! Besides, pass on my order to find the jade stonemason among all our craftsmen, and then arrange for him to go to the Lotus Village, and when I return, he will be useful! Xiao Tianjian has already thought of a way at this time, he has nowhere to get glass at the moment, but there is a thing that can replace glass and make telescope lenses, that is, crystals generated in nature, this thing is not rare, there are many places in China that produce this thing, rich families sometimes collect this thing, it is possible to find it now.

Therefore, he planned to find a jade mason to purchase some crystal stones and polish them into lenses to make telescopes, so that he could obtain the advanced 'weapon' of telescopes in a relatively short time.

Tietou hurriedly responded, and then immediately arranged for someone to return to Lotus Village to find Master Jin, so that Master Jin immediately began to search the treasury and look for crystal stones, and sent someone to take the first step to go to Shuangfeng Village, among the craftsmen in Shuangfeng Village, find craftsmen who can carve and grind jade, and send them back to Lotus Village for their lives.

After Xiao Tianjian put down this matter, he immediately thought of a new question, summoned Gao Su to his side, and asked Gao Su as he walked forward: "Gao Su, let me ask you one more thing, among your mercenaries, in addition to being equipped with arquebuses, are you equipped with flintlock pistols?" ”

Gao Su thought for a moment after hearing this, and then replied: "We mercenaries all use arquebuses, but flintlock pistols have also been heard of below, it is said that there is no need to use lit arquebuses to fire on muskets, it is based on a complex set of machines, it seems to be called a revolver musket, which is all used by the nobles, but I heard that the Prussian army used it, but the revolver flintlock is very expensive, we don't use it, only the handcuffs used by the officers, it seems that someone has used it!" But I haven't used it yet, I've just seen it! ”

"So that means you don't have a lot of equipment yet?" Xiao Tianjian continued to ask.

"Yes, we still use arquebuses! Only a few officers used this musket, but it is said that the Prussian army used this musket to defeat the Gauls in a war, and the Gauls were later equipped with this musket! I had not officially used this kind of thing before I came to your country. After thinking about it carefully, Gao Su said to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian nodded, although he thinks that the West should have used a large number of flintlock pistols, but because of the different equipment levels and equipment ideas of the armies of various countries, they should not have fully recognized the superiority of the flintlock pistol, so among the mercenaries where Gao Su was before, it was normal for him not to use flintlock pistols, but he was also somewhat disappointed, so if he wanted the Xingtian Army to be equipped with flintlock pistols in the future, then he would have to design the firing mechanism of the flintlock pistol himself in the future, in that case, but it's enough for him to keep busy for a while.

However, Xiao Tianjian is not very worried about this problem, with his mechanical knowledge, it should not be a difficult thing to design a suitable flintlock ignition mechanism, and he also understands some of the development history of flintlock pistols, Gao Su said that the revolver musket should be the prototype of the flintlock pistol, which is similar to a clock clockspring as a firing mechanism to provide the power of firing, the structure of the revolver is indeed very complex, the natural cost will be very high, the output will be relatively low, and the requirements for craftsmen will also be very high. This is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is because this kind of revolver type lighter is too delicate, the failure rate is high, and the excitation rate is very low, so until now, the West has not been able to promote the equipment, so Gao Su has not seen it, and it is not strange.

It is precisely because of these problems in the revolver type flintlock pistol, so the impact flintlock pistol will appear later, and the flintlock pistol is an important weapon for the infantry in the world army for a long time in the future, this trend is irreversible, the unique advantage of the flintlock pistol, will definitely eliminate the arquebus into the garbage heap of history, so he must make this flintlock pistol in the future, otherwise in the event of rain and wind, his musketeers will lose their due combat effectiveness.

When the enemy cannot fire, use the flintlock pistol to kill the enemy, it is estimated that on the battlefield, it will give the enemy a great deterrent, and it is easy to control the initiative on the battlefield, and the flintlock pistol also has an advantage, that is, it can be equipped with cavalry, so that the cavalry at least before the enemy, has one more chance to attack the enemy at long range than the enemy, and greatly strengthens the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, so the Xingtian Army will definitely be equipped in the future. However, at the moment, we have to eat one bite at a time, and we can't go to the sky in one step and directly engage in this kind of flintlock pistol, but we must start with the new bird gun at the moment and develop it gradually, otherwise it will definitely not be able to reach it quickly!

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