The demonstration of the arquebus gave the soldiers a glimpse of the power of this new weapon.

After Wang Lang fired a shot, he checked the gun and found nothing abnormal, and he was very satisfied with the shooting effect this time.

"This is the weapon you will use in the future, this thing will be more useful than a bow and arrow!" Wang Lang said to everyone.

Then Wang Lang asked the soldiers to line up to get the guns, and the soldiers touched the muskets in their hands, as excited as children getting new toys, holding the muskets and watching, from time to time to look at the muskets in other people's hands.

"Assemble!"

With Wang Lang's shout, the soldiers immediately became serious, immediately straightened their waists, and stood up straight.

After a long period of training, they have formed a conditioned reflex, and the phalanx of 100 people stands neatly.

Although Wang Lang gave them weapons, he did not immediately give them the method of shooting, twenty from the most basic gun-carrying formation training, this is the most basic, if you want these musketeers to become a modern army in the true sense, every detail must be strictly trained.

Hundreds of people must be trained as if they were one person, they are robots without their own minds on the battlefield, and they only need to obey the orders of their superiors to be qualified soldiers.

After paying attention to the forest bark of this army all the time, after the report of the tibial soldiers, they immediately rushed here without stopping.

Coming to this barracks, seeing these soldiers carrying a strange thing on their shoulders After group training, Lin Shupi hurriedly came to Wang Lang's side, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, is there something good again." ”

Wang Lang glanced at Lin Shupi and said, "Your news is quite fast!" ”

Lin Shupi said with a smile: "Your Majesty personally trains soldiers for such a big thing, how can the minister not pay attention to it, Your Majesty, what are those soldiers carrying." ”

"Muskets!"

Lin Shupi scratched his head and said, "Musket? What to do. ”

Wang Lang picked up the musket that was placed aside, threw it to Lin Shubark, and said, "That's it, let's see for yourself!" ”

Taking the musket, Lin Shupi was shocked and said secretly: "It's so heavy!" ”

After repeating the musket in his hand, he noticed that it looked very similar to the artillery.

"Your Majesty, how do you use this thing?"

Wang Lang took the musket and said, "You come with me." ”

Lin Shupi followed Wang Lang to the shooting range suspiciously, watched Wang Lang skillfully make some complicated operations, and pointed at the target in front of him, "Bang!" "It's a shot.

Looking at the pierced plank, Lin Shubark was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

"This... This... ”

Wang Lang smiled: "How is it!" ”

"Amazing, amazing, to be able to penetrate such a thick plank!" Lin Shupi walked to the target, looked at the pierced plank, and said in surprise.

However, Lin Shupi said in a flash: "Your Majesty, just now I saw that it took you a long time to shoot once, is this thing so slow?" Presumably, His Majesty is planning to replace the bow and arrow with this musket. ”

Wang Lang nodded and said: "It is worthy of being a veteran who has led troops for many years, I have this plan, although the rate of fire of the musket is not as good as that of the bow and arrow, but with the cooperation of each other, it can still play a good effect." ”

"Could you please elaborate on it?" The bark of the forest arched his hand.

This long-range weapon, I plan to use the archer's three-stage shooting tactics, which can make up for the slow rate of fire of the musket, and can continue to cause damage to the enemy, but the musket also has its limitations, this weapon cannot be used in bad weather, such as rain and snow, the musket cannot replace the bow and arrow at present, and the range of the musket is not as good as the bow and arrow, these muskets can only be used for training at present, and I am not ready to expand the musketeer after the performance of the musket is improved. Wang Lang said slowly.

Lin Shupi thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty is really thoughtful. Speaking of this, Lin Shupi said with a smile: "Your Majesty, if this musket is really equipped with the troops, can it be equipped with the forbidden army first." ”

Wang Lang said: "Your forbidden army should still use bows and arrows for the time being, and this heavy weapon should be equipped with the border army first." ”

Lin Shupi sighed secretly, and knew that Wang Lang was right, the real combat troops of the Xia Kingdom were the border troops stationed in various places, and when they really used their forbidden army, unless the Xia Kingdom was about to die.

"Your Majesty, can you give this musket to the minister?"

Wang Lang smiled: "Do you know how much it costs to build a musket now?" ”

"How much?"

"Thirty times!"

As soon as this number came out, Lin Shupi was suddenly shocked and said, "It's so expensive!" ”

A seven-rank official in the Xia Kingdom, a month's Yulu is only fifty guan, this musket is equivalent to a seven-grade official's half a month's lu, this hundred-person musket team just spent three thousand yuan on muskets, if there are thousands of people, it is an astronomical amount.

"At present, the Ministry of Industry has made one hundred and one muskets, and there is no more, so if you want a musket, you can only wait, and the Ministry of Industry has stopped producing this musket, so you can only wait for the new musket to be made." Wang Langdao.

Lin Shupi heard the new style of regret, looked at the beautiful musket in Wang Lang's hand, and was very envious in his heart, since he didn't, he didn't force it, but asked: "Your Majesty, even if this hundred-person musket team is trained, it can't go to the battlefield, what's the use of training them." ”

"These people are not used to fight, when the time comes to form a musket team, they are instructors, and these soldiers are seeds."

"Your Majesty really has a long-term view than the minister."

"Okay, you've seen the musket too, and when the real musket is made, I'll approve your forbidden army to form a musket team of 1,000 people." Wang Lang said slowly.

When Lin Shupi heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Musketeers training continues. During the day, Wang Lang spent most of his time in the barracks, training these soldiers, and at night, he had to approve those troublesome chapters, which couldn't help but be so, after being busy with these, Wang Lang also worked part-time as a carpenter, referring to the principle of the watch to design clocks, this period of busyness, so that Wang Lang can be said to be exhausted.

Harbour City, after more than two months of training, more than 1,000 explorers have basically mastered the technology of navigation, although there is no naval specialty, but it is not a problem to go to sea.

On this sunny day, Wu Gang personally saw off these explorers who were about to sail away.

On the harbor, the explorers performed simple rituals and prayed for a smooth voyage.

As an ordinary sailor, He Tie followed the large army with a weapon and boarded the huge ship.

The captain of the explorer was the chief of the navy, and after the two large ships lifted anchor, they raised their sails and slowly drifted towards the east by the sea breeze.

He Tie stood on the deck, looking at the coastline that was gradually moving away from him, and he felt a panic in his heart, facing the vast sea, he felt fear.

Before long, the land was gone in the eyes of the sailors, and the sea was as far as the eye could see.

After He Tie went through the initial fear, he sat on the deck boredly, as an ordinary sailor, his main task was to wipe the deck, and the rest of the time was to look at the sea in a daze with nothing to do.

At night, the night sky is exceptionally bright from the sea, the Milky Way in the distance hangs upside down in the sky like a streamer, and the cool sea breeze blows, which can't help but make people feel affectionate.

The captain called the sailors to observe the direction and determine his position, Xia Guo had already learned from the mouth of the dinosaur people that there was a small island hundreds of miles away from the harbor city, which was the only way for the dinosaur people to attack the Xia country, and the first stop of the expedition was to land on that small island and include it in the Xia country's own territory.

As for the fear that there would be a garrison of dinosaur people on the island, Wang Lang gave the answer that he would ignore it at all, he thought that after those sick dinosaurs fled back, if they landed on that island, for nearly a year, even if they didn't die, the remaining number of people would not be able to resist the attack of the human expedition team at all.

Ocean navigation is the same work every day, and even the surrounding scenery is unchanged, which makes He Tie even feel that the sea ship is not moving at all.

By recording the sunrise and sunset, he knew that it had been a month since he left his hometown, and he had not seen a single land in that month.

Luckily, however, the expedition did not encounter the legendary storm, which, according to the dinosaur people, was terrifying, and the huge ships were as fragile as duckweed in the water.

However, the expedition's good fortune ran out shortly, and in the second month after leaving the harbor, the expedition ran into trouble.

On this day, the sky was originally calm, but suddenly there were dark clouds, and the black and oppressive sky made people almost breathless.

There was no wind at all on the sea.

But the captain, who has more experience in offshore navigation, knows that the prelude to the storm at this time, looking at the posture, the intensity of this storm will definitely not be too small.

But there was not even a sheltered island around, which made the captains of the two ships anxious.

Soon after, lightning and thunder suddenly thundered in the cloudy sky, and the waves on the sea surface slowly became turbulent.

"Lower the sails, lower the sails!" The captain roared loudly.

Knowing that the situation was not good, the lookout on the mast quickly slid down the mast.

He Tie and the other sailors hurriedly lowered the sails, and it was very dangerous to raise the sails in the storm.

The sailors watched with horror at the lightning that whistled in the field, and this time they felt that death was so close to them.

"Boom!"

After a loud thunderclap, a strong wind blew on the sea, and a torrential rain poured down. Ships rise and fall in the rough seas, and are in danger of being destroyed at any moment.

The sailors clung to what was on deck to prevent themselves from being thrown overboard by the rocking ship.

In such weather, falling into the sea is tantamount to condemning one's own death.

The captain steered the rudder and tried to keep the ship balanced, and the mast creaked in the storm, as if it would break at any moment.

The captain was shocked when he saw this, and if the mast broke, even if he survived the storm, the ship would be completely scrapped.

"Go and steady the mast, go!" The captain roared hoarsely.

But his voice was soon drowned out in the roar of nature, and only the sound of waves and rain could be heard all around.

He Tiexin lay on the deck in fear, clutching the deck to avoid letting himself slide down.

He heard the captain's words just now, but at this moment he didn't dare to get up at all, looking at the mast shaking in the storm, his face was tangled.

"What the hell are you doing there, if you don't want to die, hurry up!" The captain roared.

He Tie gritted his teeth, roared and rushed in the direction of the mast, holding on to the cable.

Seeing this, the rest of the sailors also staggered over, trying to maintain the balance of the mast.

But it didn't take long for a stunned scene to appear, only to see a wave seven or eight meters high on the sea in front of me.

Huge waves rushed towards them like a wall of water.

He Tie was suddenly extremely desperate, his face was pale, and the only time he was going to die here was that he was going to die.

"Boom!"

The huge waves crashed heavily against the boat, and He Tie felt a huge force bombarding his body.

The body involuntarily wasted, and the seawater poured into his cavity, and a suffocation dared to frighten his soul to the sky.

I don't know what my body hit, He Tie felt a hot pain in his back, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

After the waves, the deck was littered with people.

He Tie coughed a few times in pain, and coughed out the blood-streaked seawater that had entered his lungs.

Shaking his head to sober himself up, he looked up, and He Tie was startled.

There were originally more than a hundred people on the deck, but now there are only about forty people left.

The captain was half-kneeling on the deck, his right hand grappling at the rudder, and pale, he looked back at the fallen crew.

roared: "If you are not dead, get up quickly, check if there is any leakage in the hull, go quickly!" ”

He Tie hurriedly got up and ran into the cabin, and the sailors inside, after checking, did not find that the hull was leaking, so He Tie breathed a sigh of relief.

The storm lasted for more than an hour, and in this more than an hour, the people on the two boats could be said to have passed away from the ghost gate.

When the clouds receded and the sun fell again, everyone had a sense of happiness for the rest of their lives.

He Tie lay down on the deck tiredly, at this moment he felt as if his body was falling apart, in order to grasp the rope on the mast, the subsistence of his two hands had been ground into a bloody blur, and there was a pain in his heart when he moved slightly.

The captain leaned on the railing tiredly, and saw that another ship was stopped nearly a kilometer away from him, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if the two ships lost contact in this sea, it was basically impossible to find it again.

After resting for a while, the captain got up from the ground, and he estimated that he might have deviated from his original course from the storm just now, and took out the binoculars in his arms and looked around.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he saw a small island appear in the field of vision of the telescope, and this discovery was undoubtedly good news for the fleet that survived the catastrophe.