On June 20, in the drizzle, Li Zhi motioned to the soldiers in front of him to start using rainproof equipment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The news just came a few days ago that the Chuang army had taken down the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi. The Son of Heaven urgently transferred the 80,000 border troops of Datong, Xuanfu and Jizhen into Shanxi to defend and defend the last fortress of Shanxi. The soldiers and horses near the capital were empty, and there were no large numbers of soldiers and horses except for the new army in Beijing.

Because of the chaos in Korea, Li Zhi needed to divide his troops to the north, and he was temporarily unable to fight a decisive battle with the breaking army. However, Li Zhi still hoped to hold back Li Zicheng's main force in Henan to prevent the intrusive army from taking advantage of the victory to attack Shanxi. If the three provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi all fall into the hands of thieves, Li Zicheng will have the strength to sweep the world.

But Henan has been raining abundantly this summer, with drizzles from time to time. As soon as it rained, the Tiger Ben army who went out could only retreat in embarrassment. The Chuang army thought that the Tiger Ben Army did not dare to leave the waterproof camp to attack the state and county, and did not take the 30,000 Tiger Ben Army West Route Army in their eyes at all. According to Li Xing's report, only 100,000 people remained in the army to confront the Tiger Army.

Only by solving the problem of waterproofing firearms can Li Zhi's Western Route Army entangle the main force of the intruding army.

So Li Zhi made a complete set of waterproof equipment and conducted experiments on the shooting range.

The soldier first took off the hemispherical steel rain shield he was carrying on his back, took out the rifle hidden under his military uniform to hide from the rain, and stuck the rain shield on the rifle's fire door. The rain shield is about the size of a vegetable dish and has a hemispherical shape, completely shielding the fire door from rainwater from drifting into the bolt.

Then, after wiping his hands on his uniform, and after making sure that there was not a lot of rain on his hands, he took out a small bag of fixed ammunition from under the hem of his military jacket.

The soldier's military tunic was specially modified with a cowhide hem on the right side of the tunic. The hem of this cowhide just protects the ammunition pouch containing bullets and gunpowder, and even if it rains lightly, the rain will not get wet. And because of the natural sag of the hem, the ammunition pouch still does not get into the water when the soldier takes the bullet.

After the bullet was removed, the soldier bit through the fixed load and poured some gunpowder into the protected fire door.

Then the soldier pressed the muzzle of the rifle with his left thumb to prevent the rain from drifting into the muzzle, and tilted the rifle 45 degrees. Because the rain shield on the fire door is spherical, the rain shield can still protect the fire door from rain. After tilting the rifle, pour all the excess gunpowder from the fixed load into the chamber and cover the chamber with the thumb of the left hand again.

The soldier took out the strip and wiped it twice on a dry towel sewn on the crotch of his uniform. The crotch is the hardest part to get caught in the rain, and the towels sewn here are not afraid of ordinary light rain. The soldier wiped the strip and compacted the gunpowder in the chamber with the strip. Stuff the fixed cartridge into the chamber and compact it again.

It took the soldier twenty-five seconds to complete this series of reloading steps, aiming at the target 200 meters away.

With a "snap", the soldier's rifle successfully fired. In the drizzle, a humanoid target two hundred meters away fell.

One shot was not enough to tell the story, and the soldiers who test-fired continued to reload and continue to shoot. Five shots were fired in a row, knocking over five targets.

Li Zhi smiled and nodded.

The experimenters on the shooting range were suddenly jubilant.

This set of rainproof equipment was learned by Li Zhi from the Japanese. Before crossing over, Li Zhi came across a samurai biography called Musashi Ukisei, which recorded that a low-ranking samurai during the Tokugawa shogunate used this method to protect his arquebus from the rain. This waterproofing method is a valuable piece of knowledge accumulated through the experience of several generations of Japanese arquebusiers.

Li Zhi did the same and applied this method to his own rifle.

The real-life test proves that this method is feasible.

Of course, Li Zhi did not expect this set of facilities to protect the gunpowder in the pouring rain, and the only thing the firearms unit could do in such a heavy rain was to retreat. But after all, there are very few times when it rains heavily, and most of the time it is light rain in Henan. Li Zhi hopes that such a facility will help the troops overcome the light rain and ensure that the rifle can still shoot in the light rain.

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On July 17, Li Xing used a telescope to look at the 100,000 intruders hanging in the distance and took a spit.

"The thieves despised us so much that they sent only 100,000 men to follow us." After a pause, Li Xing said: "And there are only 30,000 horse soldiers among these 100,000 people, and the others are foot soldiers." ”

Li Laosi looked up at the sky and said, "The army seems to be waiting for the rain. It is estimated that once it rains, the intrusive army will rush up and force us. ”

Li Xing asked: "Do you say that before we go to Suizhou, will it rain on a rainy day?" ”

Li Laosi said: "Look at this dark cloud, it seems that it is going to rain. ”

This time, in order to entangle the main force of the Chuang army, the Western Route Army left the camp and took the initiative to attack Suizhou City, which was the Chuang army. The Western Route Army wanted to prove that it had the strength to sweep the whole of Henan, force the main force of the Chuang Army to return to Henan for defense, and force Li Zicheng to give up his plan to go north to Shanxi.

Before Li Laosi's words fell, a muffled thunder suddenly sounded in the sky, and small raindrops drifted down.

Li Xing suddenly became agitated and refreshed. As soon as he waved his hand, the flag commander immediately waved the flag. The 30,000 Tiger Ben Army's Western Route Army immediately took down the rainproof shield that had just been transported from Fanjiazhuang and installed the hemispherical shield on the fire door.

The rain began to pour down more and more, and gradually the ground was soaked. But with the protection of the guards, the rifles of the Tiger Army did not lose their combat effectiveness.

The intruders in the distance did not realize this change, and when they saw the rain, they became excited.

The last time the Western Route Army marched westward, it was beaten by the intruding army on a rainy day and fled in embarrassment. The Chuang army has already made up its mind, and the Tiger Ben army is afraid of water.

The trumpets of the Chuang army were loud, the drums were rumbling, and the 100,000-strong army set up an attack formation and attacked the Tiger Ben army.

Of course, the intrusive army did not form a strict team, but rushed up in a rush. The Chuang army didn't think that they would fight the Tiger Ben army in a short fight. The Tiger Ben army was well-disciplined and well-trained, wearing steel armor and bayonets in hand, and had the fierce morale of fighting to the last man. If the 100,000 troops are hard to fight, hand-to-hand combat may not be able to win.

What Chuang Jun knew was that the Tiger Ben Army had always avoided the meat battle, but he just hoped to use the rainy weather to force the Tiger Ben Army to flee and force the Tiger Ben Army back to the camp in Ningling County.

The 30,000 intruding horses rushed to the front, and there was a bit of a disconnect with the intruding soldiers behind.

These horse armies were very arrogant, howling as they charged, trying to intimidate the Tiger Army from the momentum and force back this warlike army.

They rushed to within 400 meters of the Western Route Army in the drizzle, and galloped left and right in front of the formation, their hooves raising billowing smoke and dust.

However, in the continuous rain, they did not see the Tiger Ben army fleeing. Instead, they saw a myriad of rifles aimed at them.

The faces of the thieves and horses all had an incredible expression, it was obviously raining, why did the Tianjin people still take out the firecrackers and use them?

A swan sound echoed throughout the battlefield, and five thousand rifles with scopes on the north side of the Circle opened fire in the rain.