8. The Difficult Road

Xiao Ruxun nodded, and immediately instructed Wang Hui to start preparing the wooden card and start the first round of drills, and by the way, see if he could select a non-commissioned officer with excellent marksmanship to be an officer. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements, there were ten gunners in one hundred households, which could be regarded as a mix-and-match, and Xiao Ruxun's idea was to train a gunman who was skilled in marksmanship, train into a team, form a strong and dense firepower, form an army alone, and cooperate with the main army to fight.

Moreover, even in the plains, as long as there are enough guns and firm formations, even if they face the enemy's heavy cavalry attack, they can still face the enemy, and the combination of arquebuses and long soldiers may have a surprise effect against the cavalry.

As for the after...... After Xiao Ruxun has a certain degree of achievement and fame, he will find a way to improve the arquebus, and people will begin to study the flintlock pistol, after all, the appearance of the flintlock pistol can be regarded as the dawn of the real firearms era.

The injury was just healing, Xiao Ruxun had been acting for a long time, and he already felt that his energy was low, but he still needed to watch here all the time, so he walked back, leaned on the side of the general's platform, and relieved a little pressure, Wang Hui noticed Xiao Ruxun's strange appearance, walked to Xiao Ruxun's side and said softly: "The general has just recovered from his injury, let's go back to the house to rest, there are subordinates here." ”

Xiao Ruxun shook his head slowly: "This matter is very important, I have to handle it personally, I don't care, I still stand, but I am afraid that I will not be able to stay in the military camp tonight, Ziheng, the military camp will be handed over to you at night." ”

Wang Hui nodded and clenched his fists: "No!" ”

From this time until the sunset, the sound of the bird gun was endless, and in the end, Wang Hui also pulled a group of soldiers from the reserve team to supplement the bird gun, and finally selected three hundred soldiers who could form combat effectiveness, Xiao Ruxun ordered to draw fifty people from the four hundred reserve team as the auxiliary soldiers of the bird gun, and sent the remaining one hundred and seventy-eight bird guns that could be used, and the method of training and cooperation would be practiced tomorrow.

Before returning home, Xiao Ruxun also checked nearly two-thirds of the unusable bird guns in Wang Hui's mouth, and found that not only was the construction method rough, but the barrel that should have been made of fine iron was actually a potholed thick iron, so it was strange that such guns did not explode! It is no wonder that Qi Jiguang sighed that the firearms were too rough and unusable when he was guarding Jizhen, and it was precisely because of this that the Ming army could not realize the army with such sophisticated firearms.

There was a big problem with the Ministry of Engineering of the Ming Dynasty.

"If this kind of bird gun can actually be transported out of the warehouse to the border pass, if it is not discovered early, in case it is needed in wartime, it is not a mistake in the military affairs! Look, can this gun work?! ”

Xiao Ruxun was furious, threw a waste bird gun on the ground, and then asked the quartermaster of the munitions warehouse: "You are the first person to contact this batch of bird guns, since you found that there is a problem with the bird guns, why don't you report it?!" ”

The quartermaster hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "General Mingjian, since there is a bird gun, the court has sent bird guns over the years, and it is a miracle that sixty percent of them can be used. ”

Xiao Ruxun looked at Wang Hui angrily, Wang Hui was the one who had managed the firearms unit in his army for two years, only to see Wang Hui with a look of shame on his face, and said: "It's not that the quartermaster deliberately concealed it, but it was our people who spoke lightly, these birds came out of the Ministry of Works' workshop, since there were birds, it has been like this for decades, and we are helpless, even if we report to the court, the court doesn't know how to solve it." ”

Knowing that what they said was the truth, and also knowing that there was a big problem with the craftsman system and process system of the Ming Dynasty, and now, all this is not something that Xiao Ruxun can solve, not to mention that he is a military general who cannot interfere in government affairs, even if he is a civil official, under the oppression of that powerful interest group, a fierce person like Rao Zhang Juzheng cannot change the overall situation, how can he change it now with a small general?

In the twentieth year of Wanli, in 1592, there are still fifty-two years before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, nearly a Jiazi time, in the end, can you do something, change something, and redeem the Ming Dynasty to the final end of the ruin? Even if the Ming Dynasty has tens of millions of mistakes, after all, it is a Han dynasty, there are mistakes, it should be dealt with by the Han people themselves, even if it is difficult to return, it is necessary to overthrow and establish a new dynasty, it should be decided by the Han people, and it should not be done, after the infighting, it lost the country to the Manchu Tartars!

Xiao Ruxun closed his eyes, and then opened them - he was familiar with history books in his previous life, and the only regret was that the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng failed to fulfill his duties, and lost face to the Manchu Qing in an instant!

Thief! Thief! What is the face of the king and the emperor?!

I was helpless in my previous life, but I still have a glimmer of hope in this life, so I must do my best to save the situation!

Looking down at the batch of defective products and trembling quartermasters in front of him, his fiery mood was immediately poured with cold water-I am afraid that this kind of road will not be a little better than the road to survival in the previous life......

Sighing, Xiao Ruxun had no choice but to leave this batch of waste products and set off for home.

Back in the house, Yang Caiyun has already prepared dinner and is waiting for Xiao Ruxun to eat together, the dishes are also very simple, but one vegetarian and one soup, the war is urgent, it is good to have such a meal, after Xiao Ruxun entered the house and changed into regular clothes, Yang Caiyun served a bowl of thick porridge: "Xunlang has just recovered from his injury, don't eat oil and meat, or eat some porridge and vegetables to nourish your body!" ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded and took the porridge, revealing a smile: "Caiyun, I'm sorry for you." ”

"How can it be considered trouble to do this for Kaoruro?" Yang Caiyun had a gentle smile on his face, and then a sad look flashed on his face: "Xunlang's face is not good, isn't it military affairs?" ”

Xiao Ruxun was stunned for a moment, then put down the porridge bowl, and nodded with a heavy face: "Rao is something that I have repeatedly guarded against, and I can't prevent things that rot from the roots, 1,200 bird guns, and there are only 478 of them available, less than 500, is the imperial court money wasted like this?" Misdeeds, mistaken armies, misguided countries! ”

Yang Caiyun had a worried face, and said softly: "When the concubine was young, I often heard my father say such a thing, one hundred taels of silver can be used for thirty taels, even if it is good, the wind of greed for ink in the court is unscrupulous, and it is a foregone conclusion that the upper and lower effects are effective, and the first assistant can't change this kind of thing." ”

"Alas......" Xiao Ruxun said slowly in a low voice: "They are greedy for ink, they shouldn't be, even the border military expenses must be deducted, the land of the nine sides is the key to maintaining the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, if the nine sides are lost, the capital is not guaranteed, the capital is not guaranteed, those corrupt officials and corrupt officials do not want to get benefits, the reason why they can still be unscrupulous in the court is that my soldiers on the nine sides fought bloodily to prevent the thieves from entering!" But they didn't even let go of the border army's military expenses, they really deserved death! ”

Yang Caiyun held Xiao Ruxun's hand and said softly: "Xunlang, don't say like that, whether it's now or in the future, no matter where Xunlang is, don't say like that." ”

Xiao Ruxun looked at Yang Caiyun's face full of melancholy, held Yang Caiyun's head and nodded: "Don't worry, this kind of thing, my husband will never say it outside, I am really angry today." ”

Yang Caiyun was slightly relieved.

On the second day, Xiao Ruxun put away all kinds of unhappiness yesterday, inspected the whole city with vigor, and then came to the barracks to inspect the army training.

In the barracks, three hundred gunners and fifty auxiliary soldiers have been fully equipped and waiting for training, as soon as Xiao Ruxun arrived, they spontaneously began to practice targeting, lead and gunpowder because Xiao Ruxun did not use much before, so there is a lot of stock, these three hundred guns and more than 400 bird guns no matter how to fight, they can't be consumed in a short time, and this kind of thing is to practice more to play the level, Xiao Ruxun is not stingy with lead and gunpowder, as long as they can hit the target, they can't hit, Then Wang Hui was already waiting with a black face and a few strong soldiers carrying water and fire sticks.

Today's requirements for Xiao Ruxun are no longer simple target training, this is not ordinary training, but firing line training, pay attention to a fast! In fact, with the rate of fire of the arquebusier, even the most skilled arquebusiers cannot guarantee that they can maintain uninterrupted firepower in the case of three-stage shooting, so at least six or even nine sections, but there are so many people now, and it is not realistic to engage in six or nine sections, so it is better to start with the most basic three-stage shooting.

The traditional three-stage shooting method contains two meanings, one is three rows of guns with three rows of guns, the front row hides behind to load ammunition, and the rear row follows and fires, and so on, which is the Ming Dynasty's tactics; On the other hand, only the front row is responsible for firing, the middle is responsible for transmitting, and the rear row is responsible for loading, maintaining continuous fire strikes, and it is the guns that move instead of the people, which is Oda Nobunaga's tactics.

Xiao Ruxun chose the first way.