In December, the cold wind on the banks of the Kowloon River howled, the turbid waves rolled, and the cold wind blew on the face with moisture, and the frozen people hurt.

Generally, at this time, the riverside will be inaccessible, and no one will have nothing to run here to blow the cold wind, if the wind and cold blow accidentally enter the body, it is terrible.

However, on this day, there were a large number of people on the bank of the Jiulong River about four or five miles south of Yuegang City, and there were hundreds of people in the black area.

Don't these people think that their homes are too warm and not easy to get sick, and they want to come here to blow the wind and see if they can catch the cold?

Of course not, just look at the outfits, you can know that they are the Ming soldiers in Yuegang City, they will definitely not run outside to wander around, so many people together, they should be here to perform some mission.

They lined up in a neat line, along the riverbank, striding forward, there were more than 20 horsemen in front of the team, and the leader was Zhang Bin, the governor of Fujian.

He brought people to test the guns, accompanied not only by Cao Wenzhao, Qi Yuangong, Cao Bianjiao and other military generals, but also by Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng, Sun Yuanhua and other civil officials.

In less than a month, they not only completed the improvement of the field tiger squat cannon and the new flintlock pistol, but also made five tiger squat guns and 20 flintlock pistols.

Zhang Bin saw the brand-new guns, naturally he was excited, these guns, but the key to defeating the enemy in the future, if you can equip your hands with enough muskets and artillery, then the Jin Tieqi is a fart, and the peasant rebel army is not worth it.

However, this gun must always be tested when it is made, otherwise it will be troublesome if there is a problem if it is loaded in a row.

Zhang Bin actually didn't want to come here to blow the wind, but there was no way, Yuegang New City was finishing, and the city was full of busy soldiers, so he couldn't let people all stop, bombard it a few times, and make the ancillary facilities such as roads and ditches that had been repaired to a pulp, and then ask someone to rebuild it.

Therefore, he could only bring people to test outside the city.

There are mountains everywhere near the Moon Harbor, and it is really not easy to find a flat land within a radius of a few miles, and near the Moon Harbor, this piece of land is the most flat, and it is just right to test the artillery.

After coming to the place, Zhang Bin immediately took out his binoculars and looked around, and after looking around, he waved his hand and said loudly: "Yuan Fu took a hundred people to the woods on the right to cut ten logs with a radius of one foot and about eight feet; Yuan Bi led people to clean up the ground in a radius of one mile in front of him, and all the stones, shrubs, and so on. ”

When Qi Yuanfu and Qi Yuanbi heard this, they obeyed the order, then turned over and dismounted, and walked away with the people.

Zhang Bin then ordered: "Yuan Gong, lead five teams of people to line up the artillery in front of you, ready to load ammunition; Change, take the two teams to familiarize themselves with the new flintlock pistol, and prepare to load ammunition. ”

When Qi Yuangong and Cao Bianjiao heard this, they also obeyed the order, then turned over and dismounted, and ran to the carriage behind with the people.

Zhang Bin then said to Bi Maokang, Cao Wenzhao and others beside him: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

With that, he took the lead in turning over and dismounting, threw the reins in his hand to Zhao Ru on the side, and then turned around and walked backwards.

This time they brought with them two flatbed wagons and five artillery wagons, one of which was loaded with ammunition for the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the other with twenty flintlock pistols and corresponding ammunition.

At this time, five artillery carriages and a carriage had been pulled to the front by Qi Yuangong with people, and the carriage with flintlock pistols was left behind.

Cao Bianjiao gave the flintlock pistols on the carriage to his soldiers one by one, and then cast a pleading gaze to this side, which means obviously, he doesn't know what to do next.

Seeing this, Bi Maokang, who was beside Zhang Bin, immediately ran forward, opened a wooden box, and asked Cao Bianjiao to distribute the shoulder straps inside one by one, and then walked to the two teams of soldiers and taught them how to fix the shoulder straps on their belts.

This shoulder strap is also the idea proposed by Zhang Bin, in fact, it is very simple, that is, a row of ten small cloth bags are sewn on the front of the shoulder strap, and all the flintlock pistols are inserted into the small cloth bags, which is convenient for the soldiers to use.

After the twenty soldiers had put on all the shoulder straps, Bi Maokang summoned them to both sides of the carriage, and personally took a gun from the shoulder strap of one of the soldiers, then picked up a special spoon in a powder keg, scooped a spoonful of gunpowder into the gun, and took a lead bullet and pressed it into the gun, and this gun was loaded.

Don't look at that little sub-gun, the technical content in it is quite amazing at this time.

First of all, the size is scary, the round lead bullet and the inner wall of the gun are just tightly matched, and after pressing in, you can't throw it out.

Then, the structure of the sub-gun is also quite precise, especially the dense circle of small holes at the bottom of the sub-gun, ordinary people will definitely not understand why there is a circle of holes on the sub-gun, are you not afraid of gunpowder leaking out of it!

This is specially designed for flintlock pistols, and the sparks splashed by the flint can be drilled into this small hole to ignite the gunpowder inside, and the gunpowder inside is a new type of granular gunpowder, which will not leak out at all.

There should be no problem with Bi Maokang's guidance here, and Zhang Bin led the group to the artillery in front of him.

At this time, Qi Yuangong had already led people to line up the artillery under the guidance of Sun Yuanhua, and they were also loading the guns.

The guns of this cannon are also made with the same precision, and the shells are also tightly attached after being stuffed in, and even if the mouth of the guns is pointed down, the shells will not fall.

There is also a commendable place is a small square welded at the bottom of the sub-gun, a small hole is opened in the middle of this small square, which is used for threading, and there is a square gap of the same size as this small square on the mother gun, when the child gun is stuffed into the mother gun, the upper block of the child gun is aligned with the square notch above the mother gun, which can not only position the child gun, but also facilitate ignition, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

This side is loading ammunition, Qi Yuanfu has already brought people over with ten logs, and Qi Yuanbi has almost finished cleaning up the field.

Zhang Bin ordered Qi Yuanfu to bury five logs at a distance of 100 paces and 5 logs at a distance of 300 paces, and the test site was ready.

At this time, just as Cao Bianjiao's side had already made preparations, Zhang Bin directly ordered him to command twenty musketeers to line up in two rows in front of the artillery, one row and a half squat in the front, and one row in the back upright, facing five wooden stakes a hundred steps away.

After everything was ready, Zhang Bin took out the binoculars again, and at the same time ordered: "Change Jiao, start shooting, ten rounds in a row, don't stop." ”

When Cao Bianjiao heard this, he immediately raised his hand and said, "Ready." At the same time, Zhang Bin raised his binoculars and looked at the wooden stake in front of him.

"Shoot", with a loud shout, "pop pop" A dense burst of gunfire remembered, and the stake in front of it suddenly splashed a piece of bark.

According to Zhang Bin's instructions, Cao Bianjiao kept directing his subordinates to shoot continuously, with gunshots on this side and sawdust flying there.

Zhang Bin looked at the binoculars for a while, and was quite satisfied with the damage effect of the flintlock pistol, and then he put down the binoculars and paid attention to the soldiers who were shooting.

The replacement speed of the letter bullet is quite fast, calculated in the time of the later generations, it only takes about ten seconds, and the two teams of twenty soldiers can be replaced, which is already quite terrifying.

However, Zhang Bin noticed that when the soldier pulled the trigger, there were always a few muskets that did not emit white smoke, which meant that the gunpowder in the gun was not lit!

At this time, Bi Maokang had already noticed this problem, and he had nothing to do for the time being, so he could only let the soldier who did not shoot the bullet continue to pull the flint and pull the trigger, and repeat it three or four times at most, and the bullet could still be fired.

After ten rounds, the new flintlock pistol was tested, the rate of fire and the damage effect Zhang Bin was quite satisfied, and none of the twenty guns appeared to explode, the only problem was that sometimes the sparks splashed by the flint could not ignite the gunpowder in the gunpowder.

This point, Bi Maokang specially explained, it was the position of the flint impact, and he would go back and modify it a little.

The flintlock pistol test is over, and Qi Yuangong's side has already been prepared, Zhang Bin directly ordered: "Yuangong, start, shoot five rounds in a row." ”

Qi Yuangong immediately raised his hand and shouted: "Light the fire." ”

The soldier next to the artillery carriage got the order, and directly lit the lead with the incense stick that had been prepared, and after about a flick of the fingers, "boom, boom, boom", the five tiger squatting cannons roared one after another, and the posture was really like five tigers lying on the gun carriage and roaring, and the tiger was vigorous!

Zhang Bin raised the binoculars and saw that two of the five wooden stakes in front of him had been smashed sawdust, and they fell out a few feet!

"Boom, boom, boom" There was another roar, the tiger squat cannon roared again, and another wooden stake was blown away.

In this way, for five consecutive rounds, the five wooden stakes in front of them all flew away, and the five tiger squatting cannons were only hot, and there was no explosion.

Zhang Bin secretly sighed, this power is enough, and the reloading speed is amazingly fast, but the lead delay is too long, if only it could be changed to a flint hair!