Zhu Hongsan watched the artillery fire, about two rounds a minute, and several artillery pieces could fire three rounds. That's pretty good already.

Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Yong: "Let's take a look at a few live bullets." Qian Yong took the order.

Peng Ershu at the head of the city just found that the artillery on the opposite side only sounded, but no cannon shot out. Peng Ershu was just about to show his head to take a look, but he didn't expect a live bullet to hit a battlement less than ten meters away. The stones were splashed, and an unlucky soldier on the side was hit by the stones, and his face was full of flowers, howling and rolling all over the ground, and he saw that he was not alive.

Peng Ershu dared to raise his head when he saw this, and shouted in fright: "Go out from the south gate quickly, and ask Master Li of the Patrol Road when he can come over?" ”

The family on the side hurriedly went down to give the order.

Zhu Hongsan, who was outside the city, saw that five live ammunition were fired this time, three of which hit the city wall, and two entered the city. The three shots that hit the walls worked well. One shot shattered the bricks on the outside of the wall, revealing the rammed earth inside.

However, Zhu Hongsan knew that if he wanted to collapse the city wall only by relying on solid bullets, he didn't know that it would take the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, so it seemed that he would have to develop flowering bombs.

At this time, the officers and soldiers were already equipped with old-fashioned flowering shells, but the design ideas were very backward. The fuse used for detonation is usually a hollow reed tube with a built-in twist, which is cut to a corresponding length according to the distance to be shot before loading, and the fuse on the shell is lit from the muzzle before the gun is fired, and then the fuse on the fire door is lit to fire.

This firing method is very dangerous, igniting the flame generated by the firing * charge from the gap between the shell and the barrel to the front of the shell, which is very easy to ignite the rest of the charge twist, resulting in an early explosion or even a bore.

Therefore, the disadvantages of the old-fashioned flowering bullet are very many, not only is it unsafe, but it is time-consuming and time-consuming to process according to the current technical level, not only the officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty do not like to use it, but even the Western army is not commonly equipped.

Now the popular is still solid bullets and shotguns, and the popular in naval warfare is chain bullets, that is, two solid bullets are connected by iron chains, and when launched, they will interrupt everything encountered, including the mast and the human body, which is very domineering.

However, Zhu Hongsan does not have a navy now, so there is no need to get such a thing as chain bombs, and it is enough to deal with cluster target shotguns. As for the flowering bombs, Zhu Hongsan planned to use the flowering bombs that were popular in Europe and the United States in the eighteenth century. That is, a hollow shell is loaded with lead bullets and gunpowder, leaving a small hole in the top, sealed with wax.

The body of the bullet is not fundamentally different from the flowering bullet used by the Ming army, but Zhu Hongsan intends to use two epoch-making inventions, that is, the wooden conical letter tube and the wooden bullet butt technology that were only invented in the 18th century. These two techniques seem very simple, but it is this simple technology that makes the flowering bomb into practical use, and there will be no more explosions.

The wooden letter tube prevents the firing of the gunpowder in the letter tube, and the bullet butt can effectively seal the gas leakage, and can also play a buffering role for the hollow grenade when launched, and the grenade launched will cause the "badminton principle" self-stabilizing structure due to the light wooden support, which makes the trajectory more accurate.

The famous Hotchkiss grenades and shrapnel during the Civil War were built in this way, of course, the wall thickness of the shrapnel was thinner, the manufacturing requirements were higher, and the structure was more complex, and it was not yet possible for Zhu Hongsan to make it.

After thinking about it, Zhu Hongsan took the notebook in Ma Shaoguang's hand, drew a simple structure diagram of the flowering bomb on it with a carbon bar, and then said to Ma Shaoguang: "Go back and give this to Tie Niu and let him experiment." ”

Ma Shaoguang nodded and put away the drawings.

At this time, after the live firing was completed, Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong came to the front and asked about the next steps of the exercise. Zhu Hongsan said: "Experiment with the anti-cavalry formation. ”

In order to deal with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan paid great attention to the formation of anti-cavalry in the field from the beginning of the army. In the past, when dealing with the Liukou in Henan, it proved that the spear formation was very suitable.

Now that we are changing to new weapons, our tactics will naturally change. What Zhu Hongsan handed over to them was very simple, it was a square formation. This formation is based on battalions. Outside were five layers of musketeers, in the middle were artillerymen and commanders.

Looking at the six huge square formations below, Zhu Hongsan nodded, a little bit of a look. This formation can be expanded, and the more people there are, the more powerful it is. When a regiment formed a square formation, Zhu Hongsan estimated that it could withstand the frontal charge of 5,000 cavalry in the field.

Just when Zhu Hongsan's team was rehearsing the formation, a group of officers and soldiers came from the south of the city, about 1,000 people, and immediately entered Xin'an County after seeing Zhu Hongsan and his party from a distance.

These are the reinforcements sent by Nantou Shuizhai, led by Li Zhi of Guangdong Patrol Sea, he brought 1,200 people, which is already most of the combat strength of Shuizhai, and you must know that there are only more than 2,000 people in the entire Shuizhai.

After entering the city, Li Zhi hurriedly found the county magistrate Peng Ershu and asked, "Lord Peng, where did the people outside come from?" ”

Peng Xianling said: "I don't know, I didn't hear that there is such a big group of bandits around. The clothes he wore were not the color of the official uniforms, and he looked similar to the ones worn by the trench mirror Franc machine. ”

Li Zhi was stunned, if it was a Francophile, it would be troublesome. Li Zhi said: "Let's go, let's go to the city wall and have a look." ”

Peng Ershu, who had just escaped from the city wall, heard that he was going up again, and he didn't want to go up, but Li Zhi's official position was above him. There was no way, Peng Ershu followed Li Zhi and walked up to the city wall again.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan no longer fought * guns and began to practice in the queue. Li Zhi and the two looked at it for a while, and Li Zhi said: "I don't look like a Franco, but a bit like a Han man." ”

Peng Ershu said: "Master Li, you can't. There are six or seven thousand people, and there are not so many troops in the two hundred miles around Nanhaiwei. They looked neatly dressed and didn't look like bandits. ”

Li Zhi said, "Master Peng, did you send someone to ask where they came from?" ”

Peng Ershu said: "At that time, the situation was critical, and the lower officials did not send anyone out. ”

Li Zhi said: "Send someone out to ask, I don't think they look like a siege." ”

"It's not like a siege, the cannon just fired and almost killed me", but Li Zhi's words Peng Ershu didn't dare not listen, and sent a small soldier out of the city to take a look.

Zhu Hongsan was watching the drill here, and Wang Jinbao came over to report: "Sir, a person came out of the city and asked us if we were the army of that place, what are we doing here?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Take my seal letter to him and tell them that the county order is that the king of Chu is here to train the three guards." ”

Wang Jinbao took the order. The little soldier returned to the city with the seal of the king of Chu and handed it to Peng Ershu and Li Zhi.

Li Zhi took it and looked at it, was furious, and said: "It turned out to be the king of Chu, now that His Majesty has just ascended the throne in Nanzhili, this king of Chu has trained so many guards, what does he want to do?" Want to rebel? ”

Peng Ershu read the letter on the side, but put his mind at ease, as long as it is not a bandit attacking the city, it is easy to say, the king of Chu can make trouble as much as he wants, anyway, he will have five years in another year, and he will be transferred away.

Li Zhi said angrily: "Master Peng, let's go out of the city together and ask this King of Chu, what does he want to do?" ”

Peng Ershu really didn't like to wade into this troubled water, and said: "My lord, this King of Chu heard that he was just a clan before, and he probably didn't know what etiquette was, so it was not beautiful to fold his face, so it was better to write to the new Governor of Liangguang, Feng Zhitai, and let Lord Feng take care of it." ”

Li Zhi said: "Now there is only half of the imperial court, if there is another rebellion of the king of Chu in Guangdong, you and I will be sinners through the ages." If Master Peng doesn't go, I will add your name to the excerpt of King Shenchu. ”

Peng Ershu scolded in his heart: "Your mother, you have to be in the limelight and have to do my shit." "Scolding and scolding, but there is no way, who called this Li Zhi's position one level higher than him.

The two of them took more than a dozen guards, opened the city gate and rushed to Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan was watching the drill, and Wang Jinbao came to report again, saying that Peng Ershu, the magistrate of Xin'an County, and Li Zhi, the governor of Guangdong Patrol Road, asked to see him.

Zhu Hongsan didn't want to see him, but he thought that he had to have a good relationship with the local bureaucrats, so he couldn't ask Wang Jinbao to bring them over.

After a while, the two adults were brought to Zhu Hongsan by Wang Jinbao. Zhu Hongsan looked at the two of them. The person wearing the county uniform is a middle-aged man in his thirties, who should be the county magistrate Peng Ershu. At the front is a middle-aged man in his forties, probably Li Zhi, who patrols the sea.

Li Zhi led Peng Ershu forward, and when he saw that Zhu Hongsan didn't salute, Li Zhi asked directly: "Your Highness, why did you lead people to attack Xin'an County for no reason?" ”

When he arrived in Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan saw a lot of such officials, and they all looked at themselves as if they had some deep hatred, so he didn't blame them for seeing that the two of them didn't salute.