It was now December, and two months later Yang Wu felt that Tian Yan and they were about to rebel, and Yang Wu would definitely lead his army to participate in the counterinsurgency. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to his intentions, the current black powder is mainly used to blast the city walls. In later generations, Jiangning City was so majestic and strong that it would be impossible for the Taiping army to break through the city by ordinary methods, but they came up with a good idea, that is, to use a coffin filled with a large amount of black powder for blasting, and blow out a gap more than two zhang wide in the front wall of Lion Rock, so as to break through Jiangning.

In history, An Renyi defended the lonely city of Runzhou for more than a year, and the army led by Wang Maozhang was never able to break through the city, which seriously slowed down the pace of Huainan's external expansion. If the blasting had been carried out with gunpowder, then the suppression of An Renyi's rebellion would have been much quicker.

"How's the grenade you experimented with?" Yang Wu continued to ask.

In addition to blasting, Yang also planned to create some explosive devices similar to the "grenades" of later generations, which were actually large clay pots filled with black powder and angular stones, ignited and thrown with a stone thrower, causing chaos among the enemy army.

"It has been made, but the time of the explosion is not easy to control, in order to prevent the grenade from exploding on the trebuchet or in the air, we can only make the fuse as long as possible, so that the grenade will leave enough time for the enemy to dodge after falling into the enemy!"

Yang Wu nodded, in fact, he didn't expect this grenade to cause many casualties to the enemy, he only expected to use it to create chaos, not to mention that this explosive weapon was used on the battlefield for the first time, so it may not be able to kill and injure the enemy in large quantities.

"I know this, you just need to make it, now you can test it for me to see if there is a good one?"

"Absolutely!" Ning Zhong turned to a craftsman on the side and gave a few instructions, and after a while, they were ready.

"Please come with me!"

After a while, they came to a test site, and saw an old stone machine standing in the distance, a grenade was loaded on the back end of the stone thrower, and at the command of the craftsman, more than two dozen soldiers guarding the place surrounded it, who were responsible for pulling the rope at the front end of the trebuchet.

"Ignition!"

The craftsman gave a loud order, and a soldier stepped forward to light the fuse of the grenade and quickly fled.

"Launch!"

More than 20 soldiers worked hard together, only to hear a "whoosh", the grenade was quickly thrown into the sky, flew in the air for about 300 steps and then landed, and it took about three seconds to hear "Boom!" With a loud bang, a cloud of white smoke rose into the sky, followed by a splattering stone that shot out in all directions.

"Let's take a look!"

When Yang Wu and his entourage came to the explosion site, they saw that a pit half a meter deep and more than three meters wide had been blown out of the ground, and black smoke was still rising on the ground, and the pre-loaded stones in the grenade were scattered within five meters around this big pit.

"Good!" Yang Wu nodded with satisfaction, the charge of this grenade reached ten catties, which was nothing in front of those bombshells in later generations, but it was an amazingly powerful weapon in this era, Yang Wu noticed that although the craftsmen and soldiers around him had seen it before, they were still shocked at this time; As for Cheng Xun and the other guards who came with Yang Wu, they were already so shocked that they couldn't speak for a long time at this time.

"The production of such grenades should be stepped up, and at least a hundred of them should be stockpiled in two months, can it be done?"

Ning Zhong thought for a moment, nodded and replied, "It should be no problem." ”

Then Yang Wu inspected their black powder reserves, and specially pointed out some points that needed to be paid attention to in the safety of the reserves, and then left satisfied.

However, weapons such as black powder are only external means and are used to return at critical moments, but the most important thing about an army is the combat effectiveness of the army itself.

After Yang Wu returned to the barracks yesterday, he asked Cui Su to take the lead, and Zhu Siqing, Qin Pei and others assisted as deputies, hoping to formulate a new military law and make corresponding provisions for various specific disciplinary violations, instead of being too rough as before, and too strict in some places, so that many behaviors that are not actually very harmful need to be divided by beheadings according to military law, which is too unreasonable.

After returning to the barracks again, Yang Wu first inspected the barracks around, and then returned to the big tent to meet Cui Su and others.

"How are you doing now to revise the new military law?"

"Returning to the prince, I have almost prepared, but there are some places that still need to be decided by the prince." Cui Su handed over a booklet, "Please take a look at it." ”

Yang Wu took it over and carefully inspected it, only to see that the entire military discipline was no longer full of the words "the offender will be beheaded" as before, but that each discipline violation was given punishments such as "confinement", "military stick", "whipping", "corporal punishment", and "beheading" according to the severity of the circumstances, and Yang Wu was satisfied with this.

What made him even happier was that although Cui Su was a scribe, when he revised military discipline, he wrote the text very straightforwardly and in great detail, and there was neither "small words" nor flowery rhetoric, as long as he was a literate officer, he could basically understand it. This is particularly important, if the officers who are specifically responsible for enforcing military law cannot understand it, then what is the use of this military discipline?

Yang Wu opened his mouth again and again to praise, and pointed out some things that were easy to cause ambiguity or not clear enough, and asked Cui Su to go back and revise it.

In addition to the previous articles, which were unanimously agreed upon by Cui Su and others, in some places Cui Su and several people had disputes.

For example, if he harassed the people, Cui Su advocated that he should be dealt with severely, no matter who dared to harass the people, those who did not kill the people would be divided by the "cane punishment", and the cases of people who died would be beheaded, just like when they were in Kunshan; However, Zhu Siqing and others believe that the sentence is too heavy and too general, and must be punished according to the specific circumstances.

After listening to everyone's disputes, Yang Wu finally decided to listen to the opinions of Zhu Siqing and others, after all, too strict military discipline is easy to be a lie, and it is difficult to implement it in practice. And now is not the future after all, most of the army in this era thinks that invading the people is not a big deal, and even Yang Wu, a person from the later generations, has to choose to compromise.

"You hurry up and set up the new military discipline, but then quickly apply it, as you did at the beginning, first let the officers know about the new military discipline, and then gradually let the soldiers know about it. In addition, today's military discipline is not as strict as before, and you must implement it in accordance with the law when you implement it, and you must no longer tolerate adultery, do you understand? ”

"The subordinates and others have all understood!"