Zhang Han is half a bottle of vinegar in this matter...... Even half a bottle of vinegar doesn't count, only after reading some simple biography books, you dare to call yourself half a bottle of vinegar? If he really understood, with Zhang Han's attention to cavalry, I am afraid that these cuirassiers would have been trained a long time ago.

A hundred years later, the French and Spaniards used cuirassiers to charge with firearms on a large scale, using this kind of cavalry to deal with the pikemen phalanx, suppressing the phalanx firepower, using mobility to constantly destroy the logistics supply of the phalanx and cooperate with each other, and finally the French won, they used cavalry to solve the Spanish phalanx, in the final battle, the French killed and wounded 4,000 people, the Spaniards killed and wounded 15,000 people, and the Spanish phalanx finally withdrew from the stage of history, Spain also went from being an empire to a second-rate country.

In addition to Zhang Han himself, the soldiers in the He Yusheng system also had high hopes for the cuirassiers.

In the vast grassland, the pure infantry formation is really too bad, although it wins once it is won, but not once it is the initiative, it is all waiting for the enemy to come and attack at some point, and then beat the enemy away, but there is almost no way to pursue...... Pursuing cavalry with infantry, unless it is a multi-way army attacking, sweeping its grassland station, forcing it to fight, or there is uninterrupted logistics supply, multi-way advance, cross-sweeping, otherwise, it is too difficult to ration the current forces with Yusheng on the grassland.

"Here we are." Zhu Dayong nodded at Li Xuan and Yang Sisun, and said with a smile: "These two bureaus are fully equipped with iron armor and flintlock riding spears!" ”

"The flintlock pistol is finalized?" Yang Sisun's eyes lit up and his face showed surprise.

Zhu Dayong smiled: "Well, the gun is decided first, and the rifle still has to wait, but it's also fast." ”

Yang Sisun hurriedly said: "Hurry up and give me a look!" ”

Zhu Dayong laughed and handed the riding gun in his hand to Yang Sisun.

"Weigh five catties...... Yang Sisun first weighed the weight of the gun, and then crossed his shoulder, feeling the streamline of the gun body, he stroked the handle of the gun, the butt, looked at the trigger and the fire door and other things, and watched the metal parts exude luster.

"Let's take a shot." Zhu Dayong saw that Yang Sisun really liked it, and handed over the primer bottle and the bullet on his body.

Zhu Dayong said again: "The flintlock rifle weighs seven catties, the barrel is longer than that of the riding gun, the accessories are slightly larger, and the firing range is much farther. ”

"It's already light." Li Xuan said: "The earliest bird guns were lengthened and thickened, weighing eight catties, and it was really difficult to put them away. ”

Yang Sisun was already loading, and when he heard this, he said: "I heard that Taixi has an arquebus weighing more than ten catties, which is really heavy, and it needs to be put away with a fork stick." ”

Li Xuan said: "It's not that we don't have a Ming Dynasty, it's too bulky, it's better to use a small cannon." ”

Although flintlock pistols were already in use in Europe at that time, arquebuses were still the mainstream, and even nearly a hundred years later, arquebuses were still used on a small scale.

At this time, the most powerful arquebus Mustek was also made by the Spaniards, weighing more than ten catties, with an effective range of more than 200 meters, which could shoot through the heavy armor worn by cavalry.

Li Zhuang's firearms bureau did not take this road, no matter how the arquebus increased its power, there always had its fixed and unavoidable shortcomings, Zhang Han firmly took the road of flintlock pistol, did not use too much money and energy on the arquebus, and now the flintlock pistol was finally finalized, which also made Yang Sisun and others greatly relieved, and very happy.

Tan Tai and the others had already slowly returned again, and they saw that Yang Sisun was reloading and did not light the fire rope, and everyone had a look of surprise in their eyes.

Yang Sisun in his hand is the standard flintlock smoothbore musket, Yang Sisun first pulled the dragon head, feeling that the spring force is heavier, you need to increase the hand force when pulling away, in front of the dragon head is the fire door cover, after opening, revealing the iron hole, he injected the tip of the primer jar into the fire door pool, poured some primer medicine, and then put down the fire door cover, the dragon head is facing the square small iron piece, before this he has pressed the projectile and projectile with a strip, then he aimed the musket at the rear.

Almost everyone was watching Yang Sisun's movements, especially the people of the Bird Gun Banner Team, whose eyes were the most concerned.

"Crackling ......"

The gun was fired, light smoke came out of the back of the fire pool and the muzzle, and people saw the projectiles flying out of the muzzle and finally landing not far away.

"Measure how many steps." Li Shouxin hurriedly called a bird hand to measure the steps, and everyone watched as the bird hand walked towards the projectile landing point step by step, and finally the man shouted from afar: "Seventy-seven steps!" ”

Li Shouxin sighed, his face was very tense, he felt that the range was a little too close, he put seventy-seven steps to land, fifty steps to effectively kill, I was afraid that it would take about thirty steps to break the armor.

Tan Tai and Shu Mu glanced at each other, they were both a little afraid of this kind of firearm that didn't need an arquebus, but they were both relieved to see that the range was very close.

Shu Mu said: "The Ming people are still a bird-like, heavy firearm, how can this thing be as good as a bow and arrow!" ”

Shu Mu didn't mean to belittle, he was born in a white armor, he could fire arrows continuously within a hundred steps, and he could shoot people with heavy arrows almost a hundred times, and this fire gun was far from his opponent.

Yang Sisun took out the strip from under the barrel, cleared the chamber, and then returned the musket to Zhu Dayong, saying: "Pay attention to the dosage when releasing the priming medicine, otherwise it is easy to fail to discharge. In addition, the power is a little smaller. ”

Zhu Dayong squeezed his eyes and said with a smile: "It's related here, let's talk about it later." ”

"Oh, I see."

Yang Sisun breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the cavalry officer was hiding something, otherwise he would have exposed all the hole cards. Although the Jurchens and Mongols in front of them are allies, they should be more careful when they should be on guard.

Even more dangerous than the enemy are their allies.

Tan Tai and Shu Mu, as well as Zai Sai and others, have shifted away from the focus on flintlock pistols, and they are not interested in the firearms of the Ming Kingdom, mainly the firearms of the border army...... The power is small, the training is poor, the firearms of the nine sides are almost all miscellaneous fish except for artillery, and the status is not much higher than that of the pikemen in the border army, and the Jurchens and Mongols, who are famous for their bows and arrows, have a contempt for muskets for granted.

Tan Tai and the others paid the most attention to the cavalry of more than 200 people in front of them.

The iron helmet wrapped around the neck, the shiny silver front and rear breastplates, and the incomparably fine saber in his hand...... Everything is surprising and enviable!

Even if it is the white armor of the Jurchen people, the silver armor on their bodies is also scale armor, but it is solid, polished and polished, and it feels very shiny when worn on the body, but compared with the one-piece cuirass on the cavalry, this kind of silver armor is obviously much worse in terms of protection, and the beauty is far worse.

Each cavalryman feels like an iron beast, and he is awe-inspiring.

The Mongols and Jurchens were almost breathing fire in their eyes, and they felt that they were like a group of flowers compared to this group of cavalry.

Zai Track: "It seems that we won't need to help in the future, your cavalry is so mighty, Su Nang Taiji has been beheaded, only Bu Bao and some remnants of the defeated generals remain, it is easy to deal with." ”

Zai Sai said that it was very easy, but in fact, there was still some contempt in his eyes, no matter what, he felt that these Ming cavalry were fancy shelf, these Ming people, with silver piled up an infantry mainly with firearms, cavalry He also wanted to fight with the Mongols?

Not only Mongolians think so, but Tan Tai and others actually think the same way.

There are some elite cavalry in the border army of the Ming Kingdom, no worse than the Jurchens and Mongols, but it is the general's family, a small number of strong soldiers who have only been trained for more than ten or twenty years, and the cavalry in front of them has only been trained for a few years, and it is still trained by businessmen, and Zai Sai and Tan Tai are not optimistic.

The formation of cars behind began to move forward, and all eyes were on that side.

The hundreds of big cars in front of him are the most important, and even Zai Sai's gaze brings a little awe.

This is the symbol of strength, wealth, power, status, everything is on these hundreds of carts in front of you.

Zai Sai muttered, "Zhang Han Zhang Dong, the vehicles he owns may be thousands. ”

"Anyway, I can catch up with the emergency." Tan Tai knew that this year's weather was still not good, and next year would only be worse, he rubbed his hands, his face was full of relief.

In front of the convoy from Inner Khalkha to Korqin, Houjin will send a large number of people to drive horses and cattle to meet it, of course, these goods will be digested by the Mongolian ministries will also digest a lot, but as long as there is a convoy coming in every day, it can always make up for the small material gap in Liaodong.

Tan Tai did not know, and of course no one knew, that in the second year of the Apocalypse, the fourth to fifth year of the Apocalypse, and for several years in a row there were extremely terrifying natural disasters, and the harvest of crops under the Xiaoice period was almost impossible to harvest even seed grain, and the acres of land in many places in Liaodong and Mongolia were all out of harvest, and the highest price of one stone of grain was sold at twenty taels, and the normal price was also four to eight taels, which was about ten to twenty times the price of Daming Nei Town. The price of grain on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty also reached 221 stone, but the Jingshi to Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, including the Xuanda area, there has never been a large-scale food shortage, the grain from the south has been continuously sent to the north along the canal, and the civil uprisings in northern Shaanxi and Shanxi and Henan are not so much natural disasters as more serious man-made disasters.

For Zhang Han, for Zhu Dayong and Yang Sisun in front of him, everything on the grassland has just begun.

……

"It's snowing." Sun Jingting stood in front of the window in Zhang Han's office, looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and muttered: "It's the time again, this thief." ”

Outside the house is full of snow, in a short period of time is to dye the world into a piece of snow white, just arrived in the middle of October of the first year of the Apocalypse, Xuanda has been snowing many times in a row, Li Zhuang here has three snowfalls, the snow has not melted a few days ago, the sky changes in the morning, and another heavy snow falls from the sky!