Listening to Zhang Hong talk about the experience of meeting Zhang Xianzhong, Qian Bangxin looked quite annoyed and said: "My lord, this Zhang Xianzhong dug the emperor's tomb and killed the four princes of the Ming Dynasty, among which the king of Shu is the father-in-law of the adult."

Why did the lord take the risk of sending a messenger to see Zhang Xianzhong, if those imperial histories knew about it, he would definitely impeach the general. ”

Yang Lin laughed and said to the left and right: "This time I sent a messenger to see Zhang Xianzhong, just to prepare after Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated. ”

Qian Bangxin shook his head and said, "For the sake of the defeat, what is the reason? ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "The decline of the Great Western Army is fully revealed, and now it is powerless to return to the sky under the siege of our Ming army on all sides.

This Zhang Xianzhong is cruel and easy to kill, if I don't stop talking, I'm afraid that he will destroy my provincial city and slaughter my people. ”

Everyone knows Zhang Xianzhong's character, and now when Yang Lin mentions it, everyone sighs.

As reported by the scouts, after the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong, he carried out a large-scale purge of his Great Western Army, and now at a time of crisis, Yang Lin decided to lead his troops to the city capital to force it to stop its atrocities.

Genting City is only more than 100 miles away from the capital, in order to stop the atrocities of the Great Western Army, Yang Lin led the army out of Genting City and killed the capital.

In the past year, the Volunteer Army has won successive battles, and the regimental structure has already been established in the army, and in consideration of future development, the regimental level establishment was officially promulgated before departure.

A full-fledged infantry battalion has 550 people, including 4 brigades (116*4=464), battalion headquarters (12 people), 2 tiger squat artillery squads of 20 people, 2 escort squads (24 people each), and 1 baggage squadron (30 people in total).

In the future, it will include two regiments, A and B.

Among them, the full strength of the A regiment is 2,600 people, including four infantry battalions (4 * 550 = 220) people, plus 380 people directly under the regiment headquarters.

Among them, there were 120 people in the baggage brigade (40 two-wheeled carriages), 116 people in the escort brigade, 60 people in the Franc machine gun brigade (6 large Franco machine guns), 30 people in the cavalry squadron, and 30 people in the field branch.

There are 24 people in the battalion headquarters (including 1 guerrilla general, 1 sub-supervision army, 1 chief of staff, 8 staff officers, 8 personal guards, and 5 service soldiers).

Compared with other Ming army establishments, the establishment of the Volunteer Corps is the same as that of other Ming military camps, and Qi Jiguang has more than 2,700 people in the Ming Dynasty Che Battalion, which is larger than the establishment of the Volunteer Army.

The B regiment consists of three infantry battalions, and the full strength of the regiment is only 2,000 soldiers.

Although the scale of the Volunteer Army swelled rapidly after surrendering and accepting rebellions, only the escort regiment was really close to the formation of the A regiment, and the other regiments were mostly close to the establishment of the B regiment.

Considering the large number of the Great Western Army and the fact that the main force of its troops was still there, in order to avoid being ambushed or unfavorable in the field, this march can be said to be painstaking.

The daily march was no more than thirty miles, and the army slowly approached the capital to put pressure on the other side and stop the other side's atrocities.

The march and camping were kept within a range of 30 miles, and in the process of camping, everyone was required to dig deep trenches and send soldiers and horses to guard them, so it can be said that they were camping step by step.

The whole army was divided into four groups, and at the forefront was the 3rd Regiment of the Dragon Frame, the Wang Zhibang Independent Regiment, which served as the vanguard to open the road and build bridges.

On the left flank were Yang Bingyi's 5th Regiment and Jing Keqin's 6th Regiment.

On the right flank were Feng Youqing's 7th Regiment and Ma Mingluan's 9th Regiment.

Yang Lin personally led the escort regiment, Yang Cheng's 1st Regiment walked behind, and the Buning Guo Chonglie Cavalry Regiment provided support to the army at any time.

In the rear, He Dou led a battalion of sailors to garrison Huaikou Town to ensure the safety of the pontoon bridge, and Wang Shuji led part of the army to garrison important rear towns such as Yunding City and Qingquan Town to ensure the safety of grain and grass.

Wang Shuji's troops and Hedou's sailors were stationed in Huaikou Town and Yunding City to protect the safety of the grain road.

In this way, it took two days, and the front army reached Hexingchang, thirty miles north of the excavation city, and the army took the field as the center and dug deep trenches and fortifications along the line of the Xijiang River to put on a solid posture.

Hearing that the former army was stagnant and digging deep into the fortifications, Ye Dabin looked puzzled and asked: "My lord, now that the Great Western Army has been defeated, Zhang Xianzhong has also purged the officers and soldiers of various departments, this is the weakest time for the Great Western Army, why did your Excellency stop?" ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "The rogue has been dominating the world for more than ten years, and he has rarely encountered an enemy, and the generals of the Great Western Army are quite conceited, and they will be furious when they see me approaching alone.

Our army is fifty miles away from the city, just half a day of cavalry, and a day's journey of the infantry army, which must have made Zhang Xianzhong very uncomfortable.

If I come to attack and worry about the other Ming armies and the people in the city, if I ignore them, I can send troops to attack other surrounding states and counties, or lead my troops to approach the capital.

It is now July, and the geographical rice is not yet ripe, no matter what happens in the future, the Great Western Army will inevitably want to harvest this season of rice, if our army is deployed along the Xijiang River, the Western Army will want to rob the common people of grain and grass again. ”

When everyone heard this, they all said yes.

Yang Lin ordered each battalion to dig trenches, build fortifications, and do a good job of defense.

Soldiers were sent to various towns and villages in the vicinity for more than 20 miles, and with the cooperation of the local gentry, they punished the scoundrels and restored local order.

In order to avoid the attack of the Great Western Army, scouts were sent to patrol more than 30 miles away to prevent a sneak attack by the Great Western Army.

Nowadays, each regiment has a cavalry system, although the number is small, but it is often used for reconnaissance, or to transmit news, so as to ensure the smooth flow of information for the army.

Each regiment is equipped with watchtower cars and lookouts during the Song Dynasty.

There are wheels under the car that can be pushed back and forth; There are pedglings on the poles for the sentries to climb up and down; The side of the vertical rod is fixed with a thick rope diagonally; The watchtower itself is equipped with a rotating shaft, which can be rotated on all sides for observation.

It is 8 zhang high, the top is placed in the plate layer, the square is 5 feet wide, the content is included in the white flag to watch the enemy's movements, and the soldiers below are informed of the enemy situation with a simple flag language.

Roll up the flag to indicate that there is no enemy, and open the flag to indicate that the enemy is coming;

If the flagpole is stretched horizontally, the enemy is close, and if the flagpole is vertical, the enemy will reach;

The enemy retreats and slowly raises the flagpole, and the enemy has retreated and rolls up the flag.

When marching and camping, observers should be assigned to carry telescopes to watch in the car, so as to discover the enemy's situation and dispatch various units.

In order to avoid the slackness of the troops of all departments, after entering the plain of the city capital, Yang Lin rode a war horse to inspect the battalions every day, and sometimes inspected the open and dark posts.

When everyone saw Yang Lin like this, everyone didn't dare to be too sloppy.

It is the height of summer, and due to the abandonment of a large area of land, a lot of dead grass is soaked, and there are many mosquitoes at night.

After setting up camp that night, after the lights went out, Yang Lin took a team of guards to check the night as usual to prevent the people below from slacking off.

In the middle of the night, when I returned to the big tent, I saw a glimmer of light in the tent from a distance, and my brows were slightly furrowed, and I lifted the tent and walked in.

It turned out to be Fan Mingshan of the logistics department, who was lighting a lamp on the table, and now he was writing something on the desk, and he didn't show an embarrassed smile until he sat behind him.

took the coffee table handed over by the orderly, blew it, and handed it to the other party and said: "Brother has really worked hard along the way, you are a dignified martial artist, watching others go into battle to kill the enemy every day, and you help cast cannons, it is really not easy." ”

After taking the coffee table, Fan Mingshan said with a smile: "I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a person in a troubled world, who is easy in this troubled world?"

Ru Zhen has great ambitions and has been imprisoned twice in order to save Li Min, but I am stupid and can't understand the great ambitions of adults, and his insight is not as good as that of my little sister.

The second time the adult fell into prison, we can only sigh and be weak, the poor little sister sold the jewelry and exchanged it for silver two trustees to give to the adult.

But the Ji people have their own bad appearances, and before the silver is delivered, the adults have already escaped from prison. ”

Fan Mingshan's ancestors were the right people of Benhuai, and in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, he followed Fu Youde into the four Chuan, hereditary military attachés, and his father was not good at fighting in the battle against Liukou.

His mother, Wang, was initially quite satisfied with Yang Lin, but when she saw that she had put down her good future, she actually abandoned her literature and martial arts, and resolutely disagreed with her little daughter Fan Daiyun.

Especially after being unjustly imprisoned again, Fan Mingshan and others were not allowed to come to the rescue.

Everyone knows this, now seeing that the other party dominates one side, and his generals are promoted one by one to make a fortune, and he is from a martial arts background, he can only build weapons, and his inner grievances can be imagined.

Now I heard that Fan Mingshan intentionally or unintentionally brought up Fan Daiyun's sale of jewelry, and was quite surprised at first, but then I figured it out, and the eldest brother thought that he was deliberately snubbing him.

Smiling, Yang Lin waved his hand and asked: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and it has been really difficult for you in the past few years, first to build knives and spears, and then to build ships and birds, and now to build tiger squat guns."

This time, it was not easy to bring more than 100 large Franc cannons and more than 1,000 well-trained gunners. ”

Hearing what the other party said, Fan Mingshan shook his head and said: "These things are nothing, they are just miscellaneous things, not like going into battle to kill the enemy and leading troops to fight, then it is ......"

Hearing that the other party intended to lead troops to fight, Yang Lin smiled and said: "I know what you mean, watching colleagues gallop across the field, many of them have become famous heroes, of course in their hearts."

Our volunteer infantry has big sticks, wolf and birds, self-generated birds, coarse birds, and big birds, and the navy has flying tiger warships and sampans, and the artillery has tiger squat guns and Franco machine guns. ”

His expression was obviously gloomy, and Fan Mingshan sighed: "My lord, do you want to cast a red-clothed cannon?" ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "On the battlefield, the most important thing is to destroy the opponent's formation and destroy the opponent's commander's combat intent, and artillery will be an important means in the future."

I understand your intentions, and when the red-coated cannon is cast, I will form an artillery regiment, and you will lead it.

In the past two years, I have been asking you to build weapons and cast artillery, but I have not used you, mainly because the time is not ripe, and after the redcoat cannon is cast, you are the most familiar with artillery in the army. ”

Fan Mingshan was overjoyed and immediately knelt down to express his gratitude.

He picked it up, pointed to the books on the table and said, "Brother reads at night with candles, I don't know what books I read?" When I got closer, I didn't notice it. ”

Fan Mingshan handed over the book, and Yang Lin saw that it was actually "Wubei Zhi", which recorded all kinds of strange weapons of the Ming Dynasty.

Pointing to the book, he smiled and said: "As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, in fact, the same is true of everything."

If you want to build weapons, you should know the level of contemporary famous weapons, and then learn from the strengths of others, combine what you have learned, and cast new weapons.

I know that people are reluctant to build weapons, and think that building weapons is a menial job, but I don't know that many of the very useful things of our predecessors have not been handed down.

Just like a self-generated bird, Bi Maokang has long proposed it, and it is not difficult to manufacture, but many people just don't want to use it.

There is also this spur, which was proposed and used decades ago, but it has not been circulated. ”

Fan Mingshan said with a smile: "The lesson of the adults is that the adults are indulging in martial arts and have extraordinary opinions, which are far beyond the comparison of my generation.

The last general is working on this shell. ”

Handing over the cannonball, Fan Mingshan smiled and said, "My lord, this one is completely solid, and the other one is different, just like the earth-shaking thunder, when it lands, it will explode again." ”

Yang Lin was shocked, isn't this a flowering bomb? Looking for it, I didn't expect that there were flowering bombs in the Ming Dynasty, I took the book and looked at the real thing, and shook my head secretly, this is probably the most primitive.

Listening to Fan Mingshan's introduction, the launch is very cumbersome

The old flowering shell, there is no such advanced fuse, the fuse used to detonate is usually a hollow reed tube built-in twist, before loading according to the distance to be shot according to the corresponding length, before firing the gun, first from the muzzle to ignite the shell fuse, and then ignite the fire door fuse to fire.

When firing, the gunpowder is first loaded into the medicine chamber, with wood in between, and an inch of soil is added, and then the shell is put into the breech, the shell is filled with gunpowder, and then separated by a layer of wet soil, and finally the muzzle is sealed with wax.

When firing, the fuse on the shell is first lit from the muzzle, and then the fuse on the fire door is quickly ignited.

According to historical records, many generals exploded when they fired this old-fashioned flowering bomb, and the soldiers didn't like it very much, except for the records in books, or a small number of physical objects, they didn't really know much.

Listening to Fan Mingshan's introduction, Yang Lin slowly figured out the principle, shook his head for a long time and said: "Brother, you have also seen that although the scattershot is scary, it has no crosshairs when it hits closely, but to be honest, the lethality is very weak.

Although this solid bullet can destroy the foundation, crack the brain and cripple the body of a person, but it is like throwing a stone, and the real effect is quite limited.

The future of artillery is, of course, this flowering shell, and of course our flowering shell is still very old-fashioned.

But as long as we continue to improve, as long as we can control its ignition of the lead in the barrel of the gun, and control the ignition of the fire signal during the flight, this flowering bomb will inevitably be generous and brilliant in the future. ”

Fan Mingshan nodded again and again: "My lord's lesson is that now we use iron mold casting, iron-core copper artillery, cooling many times during the casting process, the surface of the cast artillery is as smooth as new, and it is very difficult to blow up."

In the future, we must use more flowering bombs. ”

After thinking about it, Yang Lin said with a smile: "Now the iron core copper cannon cast by iron mold, due to the use of water cooling many times in the casting process, the artillery is very difficult to blow up, some time ago everyone pulled out a test, fired 50 rounds in a row, the entire barrel was red, and there was no explosion.

Solid bullets are used now, scatter bullets are of course the case, and in the future, flowering bullets may be used in a slightly different situation.

You can gather the soldiers, how to avoid the explosion, as long as the method is obtained, everyone is convinced, can avoid the explosion, can reduce the casualties of the explosion, we can all reward the reward.

Also, the problem of the fuse, the problem of the firing of the shell, and so on, all of which need to be studied attentively.

Tell the brothers that as long as you are willing to study, I can give you money to study, and after the results of your research, I will give him credit. ”

When Fan Mingshan heard this, he rubbed his hands again and again and said, "My lord, you are too good to your brothers.

In the past, people looked down on people at all when they were soldiers and ate food, but now all localities are enthusiastically joining the army, not only are they paid enough food and food for soldiers, but as long as they make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, their parents can also hold their heads up in the village.

My lord is thinking about the soldiers, and it's too late for everyone to be grateful, so why do you want adults to remember their merits. ”

Yang Lin patted Fan Mingshan on the shoulder to express encouragement, and then talked about the red-clothed cannon again.

After communicating like this for an hour, and then returning to his Chinese army tent, he still felt unsteady, climbed into the watchtower car to observe the half-pillar incense kung fu, and then slept with his clothes.