Time unconsciously entered the summer, although the capital is located in the north, but the same heat wave is rolling during the day, in such a hot day, the school field of the Shenji Battalion is waving flags, 1,000 officers and soldiers lined up in a neat formation, standing in the center of the school field, although sweating profusely, but not moving.

It turned out that Qin Liangyu took Lu Xiangsheng and them to train for several months, and finally practiced a more practical formation, called Stacking Waves, that is, to make the soldiers stand in a phalanx of more than three rows, and command the soldiers to move back and forth like waves according to the battlefield situation. If the enemy has a tendency to rout, the front row will quickly step forward and shoot and then reload on the spot, and the rear row will quickly forward and shoot in turn.

Hearing that the battle formation was almost mature, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but come to review, at this time he had already sat on the south platform, and when he saw that the formation had been lined up below, he shouted excitedly: "Begin." ”

When Qin Liangyu next to him heard this, he immediately raised the order flag in his hand, and Lu Xiangsheng on the school field immediately raised his right hand when he received the signal, and said loudly: "The first row raises the gun and aims." ”

With an uproar, the two hundred soldiers in the first row immediately raised their flintlock pistols in their hands, rested their heads on the butts, and aimed ahead.

Lu Xiangsheng waved his right hand downward and shouted, "Shoot." ”

There was a loud "pop", and two hundred flintlock muskets almost simultaneously emitted a wisp of white smoke, of course, this was a drill, not a real battle, so they only loaded gunpowder, not bullets.

Lu Xiangsheng then ordered: "The first row is loaded on the spot, and the second row is ten steps forward, raise the gun, and aim." ”

The soldiers in the first row at the same time slammed the butts of their guns to the ground, pulled out gunpowder and began to reload; The second-row soldiers quickly passed through the gap between the first-row soldiers, sprinted forward ten steps, and then stood, raised their guns, and aimed.

Lu Xiangsheng then ordered: "Shoot." ”

"Bang" was another loud sound, Lu Xiangsheng kept ordering three platoons, four platoons, and five platoons to step forward and shoot, and a thousand soldiers advanced forward like waves, advancing two hundred steps in less than a tea time, at such a speed, if there is infantry in front, it is basically a butt beating, and you can't run away. Of course, if there is cavalry in front, such a speed cannot catch up.

This kind of improvised flintlock pistol was originally used against the peasant rebel army, and this method of warfare was naturally perfect for those peasant armies who were not even fully armed. But what to do in the face of the Houjin cavalry? When Zhu Cijiong was thinking about how to deal with the cavalry, the voice of a system beauty suddenly sounded in his mind:

"Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the fourth survival mission, and now we will start distributing rewards, flintlock grenade blueprints."

Zhu Cijiong felt a little dizzy again, and there were two more sets of drawings in his mind, one was an exploded drawing of a flintlock grenade, and the other was an exploded drawing of a flintlock mine.

Before he could take a closer look, the voice of the system beauty continued:

"Ding-dong, please note, new mission reminder.

Your fifth survival mission: survive this world for a year.

Reward: New flintlock pistol blueprint. ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this reward, he almost jumped up from his chair with joy, the new flintlock pistol was finally coming, and the musketeers would be able to compete with the Houjin cavalry in the field.

He was happy for less than two seconds, and the system beauty immediately poured down a basin of cold water: "Friendly reminder: The Houjin cavalry is about to sneak attack the capital, please get ready!" The tip is over, and I wish you a happy game. “

Zhu Cijiong collapsed before he jumped up, and the Houjin cavalry came to attack at this time, isn't this fatal? He's not ready for anything!

What to do, what to do? This time Zhu Cijiong really panicked, it was not a joke for Hou Jin to commit it, this is a war between two countries, it is extremely cruel, either win or lose, there is no mercy at all, and there is no room for maneuver!

After watching the battle drills, he hurried back to the palace and began to meditate on the map to see how to survive this crisis.

In fact, he had long known that Houjin would bypass the Ningjin defense line and sneak attack the Jingshi, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly. Now the training of the Beijing camp has just begun, except for the 300,000 troops in Liaodong, the other armies of the Ming Dynasty do not have the strength to fight with the Houjin Iron Cavalry at all.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the Great Wall stretching for thousands of miles from Jizhou Town to Xuanfu Town on the map, how can people defend it, even if 100,000 troops stand up, less than one person in ten steps, it is meaningless at all. It seems that it is impossible to hold the Great Wall, unless there are more than two million troops like in the early days of the Ming Dynasty.

He can't remember exactly where the Houjin army broke into the pass, probably near Zunhua, in order to make the Ming panic, Huang Taiji will definitely lead the army to the capital, from Zunhua to all the cities along the capital are in danger of falling.

Zhu Cijiong calculated the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized along the line, plus the more than 50,000 Praetorian Guards in Beijing were only more than 100,000 in total, and the army of the Houjin invasion was also more than 100,000.

Of course, you can also transfer all the Liaodong troops in Liaodong to fight to the death with Houjin, but as soon as the Liaodong army moves, it is difficult to say whether Huang Taiji will attack the Jingshi or the Ningjin defense line, in case he takes advantage of the emptiness of Liaodong to seize the Ningjin defense line, then the Ming Dynasty will not be far from the country.

Zhu Cijiong vaguely remembered that some historians in later generations analyzed that the goal of Huang Taiji this time was actually Jizhou Town between Jingshi and Liaodong, and he mainly wanted to cut off the land passage between Liaodong and Jingshi, so that Liaodong would become a lonely enclave. He never thought that he could take down the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why he rushed to the capital was to mobilize all the mobile forces of the Ming Dynasty near the capital, and then he turned around and rushed straight to Jizhou Town, and he could easily take a few cities near Zunhua.

This is a typical tactic of attacking the east and the west, but the army of the Ming Dynasty still had to be led by his nose and run, no one can afford to lose the sin of the capital, and whoever dares to hesitate Chongzhen will take his life!

Judging from the current situation, Jizhou Town really can't be saved, if all the troops of King Qin are gathered near the capital, in case Huang Taiji's brain is hot and he desperately attacks the capital, then the Ming Dynasty will be completely finished.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the map for a long time, but he really couldn't find a perfect solution, he couldn't help but close his eyes tiredly, wanting to rest for a while and look again.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he suddenly remembered that he still had drawings of flintlock grenades and mines in his mind, and he couldn't help but take a closer look at them.

I don't know if I don't see it, I am shocked when I see it, this flintlock grenade and mine are too poisonous!

Although limited to the power of gunpowder, the explosion damage of flintlock grenades and mines is not large, but there are countless steel needles mixed in it, and this explosion is simply a rainstorm pear flower needle, and people and horses within a few meters of the vicinity are estimated to be pierced into hedgehogs!

Zhu Cijiong took a look at the structure of the grenade and the mine again, in fact, it is not complicated, that is, the flintlock device of the flintlock pistol has been changed to a vibration excitation, as long as the safety pin of the grenade and mine is removed, the shrapnel inside will be smashed into the steel plate of the medicine room with the flint as soon as it is shaken, which is the same as pulling the trigger.

This steel needle is also very easy to do, use a bamboo skewer to fill the holes densely on the solid fine sand, pour the molten steel up, no matter what the needle looks like, anyway, it is not used for embroidery, it is used to hurt people, the rougher the better, you don't need to grind, take it out and wash it can be used.

With such a vicious 'Rainstorm Pear Flower Needle' Zhu Cijiong's mind is alive again, this thing may not be able to withstand Houjin's cavalry shooting when used in field warfare, but if it is used to defend the city, the effect! A grenade can injure at least ten people, unless the enemy is all iron, otherwise ten times the number of troops will not want to capture a city!

With this sharp weapon, there is hope for holding Jizhou Town.