Ten tunnel guns with double-barreled barrels lined up, their jet-black barrels shining with oil.

Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youxiao and many bigwigs in the imperial court stood in the distance, watching the internal exercise army test guns.

The internal exercise army is composed of young and strong internal attendants, with nearly 10,000 people and is equipped with various hot and cold weapons. For them, the musket is also considered a conventional weapon.

The 10 chamberlains who participated in the test were all selected from nearly 10,000 internal drill troops to be good at using muskets. They, with the cooperation of their assistants, quickly launched the charge.

"Their operation must be the most popular musket firing process of this era, right?"

From afar, Zhu Youzhen carefully observed the musket firing steps of the attendants through the binoculars.

The operation of the 10 chamberlains is basically the same, all of them are to pour gunpowder into the barrel - through the compaction - into the projectile - through the compaction - raise the gun - pour gunpowder into the powder pool - aim - fire.

It seems that this is the standard firing process for this tunneling gun. It is estimated that if it is the original arquebus of the Ming Dynasty, two steps need to be added to the steps: lighting the arquebus and hanging the fiery rope on the bolt.

Zhu Youzhen could see from the actions of several chamberlains that they were indeed veterans of muskets. The chamberlains did every reloading and loading action calmly, without the slightest nervousness and anxiety.

However, even if the attendants seemed to be so skillful, it took nearly 5 minutes to shoot 5 shots in a row.

This time alone seems to be very fast. can compare this time with the shooting speed of the modern army in the previous life, Zhu Youzhen immediately felt the gap. In the previous life, the Prussian army could reach 5 shots a minute at the fastest, and this gap is also huge, right?

"I'll go, you still have a face to be proud of at this rate of shooting."

Looking at the waiter with a proud face after 5 shots, Zhu Youzhen complained silently in his heart. If he were to score the attendants, they would all fail. Maybe it's because of preconceived ideas, in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, the operation of the attendants is really full of slots.

Putting aside the relatively slow reloading speed of the inner attendants, they themselves couldn't feel the mutual interference caused by the different charging habits of the inner attendants?

In addition, except for the first salvo, the 10 people were all fired one after another, and there was no salvo with a uniform pace. Is this quality also embarrassingly called well-trained?

What makes Zhu Youzhen even more incomprehensible is that with this extremely poor shooting level, a group of people still have a proud and complacent demeanor, how cheeky it must be to do it.

This is the internal exercise army engaged in by Father-in-law Wei? It's really a bit out of the table! Zhu Youzhen really looks down on such an internal army.

"Your Majesty. The firing speed of this gun is like lightning and lightning, but the power is amazing. The internal exercise army is so well-trained, and with the help of this divine weapon, it will definitely be able to exterminate the Houjin Tartars in the future, and capture the Houjin slave alive and sacrifice it to His Majesty. A loud voice sounded in his ears, and the loud voice startled Zhu Youzhen.

"Who is this? So good at saying auspicious words? Zhu Youzhen, who paused to complain, looked at the voice.

"Yo, how can it be the British public Zhang Weixian? Hasn't he always claimed to be a real soldier? Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the person who said auspicious words.

"Isn't this kind of auspicious words, full of praise and sycophancy, supposed to come from the mouth of Gonggong Wei? British duke, you are a noble prince of the country, how can you be embarrassed if you rob the duke of Wei? Hearing Zhang Weixian's auspicious words, Zhu Youzhen was very upset for Father-in-law Wei in his heart.

"Where, where, the British have won the prize. The children are not yet able to be called trained. But with such a magic weapon in hand, I believe that with more training, the children may be able to do what the British public says in the future. Wei Zhongxian said with a serious and modest manner. can see the smile on the corners of Wei's father-in-law's eyebrows, you can know that he is already extremely satisfied in his heart.

"Wei Zhongxian can't hear it, is Zhang Weixian talking back?" Zhu Youzhen felt very strange.

When he saw everyone around him, with a happy and satisfied expression on his face, Zhu Youzhen's mind was confused for a while, "Is the firing speed of these shots really fast?" ”

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and tugged at the robe of Zhang Zhidu, the commander of the guards, and asked in a low voice: "Third Brother Zhang, what is the launch speed of the bird gun in the army?" ”

Zhang Zhidu maintained his posture unchanged, and only replied softly in a thin voice: "Generally, the time for the bird to fire 5 shots is close to 1 quarter of an hour, and the battle will be slower. ”

"What? 5 shots should be close to 1 quarter of an hour, and the average shot should not be close to 3 minutes. Oh my god! How slow is the bird's fire? Zhu Youzhen was shocked for a while, and couldn't help but turn his head and stare at Zhang Zhidu.

Seeing King Xin's turn of head with such a big move, Zhang Zhidu was very distressed in his heart. If people see the behavior of His Royal Highness the King of Letters, the crime of dishonoring a king will not be able to escape. Of course, His Royal Highness King Xin will definitely not care about this kind of petty crime, but he has to care.

"I heard that Grandpa Qi's elite soldiers can reach the speed of 3 guns and 1 tea, which is the fastest speed in the army. My Highness, don't you hurry back. Zhang Zhidu quickly added, and then urged Zhu Youzhen to turn back quickly with a nervous face.

Fortunately, the surrounding bigwigs were all here one after another at this time, patting the Emperor of the Apocalypse's ass, and no one paid attention to Zhu Youzhen and Zhang Zhidu's small actions for a while.

Listening to Zhang Zhidu's urging, Zhu Youzhen turned his head stupidly.

Big brother is really, just trying out the gun? That's enough to engage in such a big battle, and it's all in time for the big court meeting. There is no sense of secrecy at all.

Having said that, if it is really as Zhang Zhidu said, even the elite soldiers trained by Grandpa Qi have only reached the rate of fire of 3 shots and 5 minutes, then the 5 shots and 5 minutes of these attendants are really fast. But why do they always feel like they're slow? Zhu Youzhen thought distressedly.

However, thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen didn't plan to come out at all.

It's just a private test gun, and now that so many ministers are present, he doesn't dare to dictate the training of the internal drill army. It's not that he doesn't know how many impeachments Wei Zhongxian has been made for this internal army. Most of Wei Zhongxian's charges of usurping power and rebellion were caused by this internal army.

"Big brother, it's just a test gun, why do you want to engage in such a big battle?"

As soon as Fang returned to Changchun Palace, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask.

Zhu Youxiao smiled bitterly and asked: "Xiao Wu, don't you just want to make a few good guns and play with them, right?" ”

"Of course! I want our royal army to have one of them and wipe out all the unruly ministers in the world. Zhu Youzhen shouted loudly with a righteous face.

"Little Five has good ambition." Zhu Youxiao sighed in passing, and continued to explain to Zhu Youzhen: "If you want to make this kind of gun in large quantities, you have to let the courtiers see the real benefits." How can they recognize it if they don't see it with their own eyes. If they don't approve of it, how can I replace the muskets in the army in large numbers. ”

After a pause, Zhu Youxiao continued with a sarcastic expression: "As far as the current situation in Liaodong is concerned, there are still Wenchen who have written to ask me to cultivate literature and re-establish morality. In their opinion, only then can the four sides come to the court, and the world is peaceful. As far as I can see, their minds are completely stupid when they read books. ”

Listening to the eldest brother's ridiculed words, Zhu Youzhen could feel the helplessness in the eldest brother's heart.

The Son of Heaven is not free!