The smell of meat buns almost caused a sensation in the whole village, there are nearly 400 people stationed in the hanging armor platform, this is the outermost core stronghold, the archers have advanced to the periphery for about half a mile, here is the core defense center, most of the elite veterans and archers are concentrated here, but after a long winter and miserable besieged life, the bandits who were once fierce and fierce are like groups of Hanako.

There are more than 200 buns, Zhou Daniu asked people to count the numbers, and in front of him were extremely hungry faces, even he felt that there was a small knife in his stomach.

"Take one for every two people, and half for each person, and behead those who dare to rob their companions on the spot."

Zhou Daniu's face was full of coldness, he clenched the Qi knife in his hand, the blade flickered, and no one dared to doubt his words.

After this winter, Zhou Da Niu has been polished like a piece of fine iron.

"Lao Yang, let's divide one."

Yang Chunhe originally wanted to take a few more for himself, but Zhou Daniu greeted him, so he had to come over with a wry smile and watch Zhou Daniu break open a bun, and even the meat filling was half per person.

"Second cabinet, why should we divide it like this, it's also the leader."

After a month's performance, Zhou Daniu became the second cabinet of this bandit without dispute, and his status was only below Yu Shiqian.

Zhou Daniu said: "Who complained to me about the big cabinet yesterday?" ”

Yang Chunhe smiled, swallowed half of the bun in one gulp, and whispered: "The second cabinet, you behave fairly, you will be punished if you have a mistake, and you will be rewarded for your merits, you don't kill people indiscriminately like the big cabinet, but everyone is more convinced of you." Now the big cabinet is shrunk in the military platform and doesn't come out, and when he comes out, he will go to the side of the thirty lidun to check the terrain, and he will run away at any time. Now there are many people down there who are expecting you to replace him. ”

Zhou Daniu said: "How many people are talking? ”

"Almost everyone is talking about it, but everyone is talking about it in private, who dares to put this on the table?"

"Fart." Zhou Daniu said a word expressionlessly, turned around and left, he saw that the disappointment in Yang Chunhe's eyes was very obvious, and he was faintly relieved in his heart.

For so long, doing things so hard, showing his ability, secretly fighting for power and profit, and winning over powerful leaders, isn't what you want is the scene just now?

Everyone is eating the buns, no one cheers or can be excited, half a bun will only make the stomach contract and cramp more intensely, everyone becomes more uncomfortable, and the pain seems to be doubled.

Many people looked at Zhou Daniu's calm figure, and more people stared at the abandoned military platform, where Yu Shiqian's big cabinet stayed.

……

After dark, Zhou Daniu came out to inspect, he asked his soldiers to follow from afar, and slowly walked into the abandoned mountain temple.

This temple is very small, there are land temples everywhere in the villages and towns in the flat land, the small land temple has only half a room, the house is also very low, the offering table is placed outside, there are more mountain temples in the mountains, the architectural style is also similar to the land temple, the same very small house, under the eaves of the green tiles that are not high, is the tribute table and incense burner that are placed on the tribute.

The mountain people have either run away or been killed, and this mountain temple has been abandoned, this temple is on the outskirts of the village, only a few archers live in a hut a few hundred steps away, and they will look this way, and when Zhou Da Niu came, he stopped by to see the guard point, and only a small leader yawned and looked at the dark and dreary wilderness with a dull gaze.

Zhou Daniu stood in front of the temple, as if he was contemplating, as if he was worshipping.

If there is an indication, there will be a note under the incense burner next to the tribute table, and Zhou Da Niu's eyes swept over it, and sure enough, he saw the note.

He bent down slightly, took out the note quietly, glanced at it, and stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed it directly.

The note was very simple, with only four words: launch the day after tomorrow.

Zhou Daniu swallowed the note, and his heart was relaxed.

……

The next day, Zhang Han ordered all the troops to continue to press forward, and the closest distance had already entered the place where the archers and bird guns could hit each other.

There was a skirmish between the two sides, and the bandits were overwhelmed by the birds.

"This is a new helmet sent by the Ordnance Bureau, which was pressed by a waterwheel hammer."

Liang Xing and the others were an official of the Military Administration Department in front of them, and he led people to trek over and deliver the latest military products.

This time, the intensity of the anti-bandit operation was unprecedented, and almost all the officers and soldiers were sick...... The best is also a cold, the logistics bureau urgently sent a large number of thickened tents, thickened woolen uniforms, cloaks, thickened velvet sleeping bags, even so, the night of about minus 30 degrees plus the mountain wind, still make the archers keep falling into colds and colds, there are also some frostbite, fortunately, the military medical bureau also sent a military doctor with the army, under the heavy money, there are still old Chinese medicine doctors willing to follow this hard work, they brought pills and prepared decoction, to the greatest extent to alleviate the condition in the army, Always keep the number of seriously ill people within an acceptable range.

The iron large-brimmed hat similar to the Ming army's hat style is not an iron helmet like a dough and a six-petal helmet, and there is no stop, in short, it is like an iron hat or a big hat learned from Meng Yuan.

There are straps on both sides of the helmet, which can tightly tie the iron helmet to the top of the head.

"This big-brimmed hat is exquisite." Liang Xing often communicated with the Military and Political Division, knowing the intention over there, he was holding an iron helmet, and there were some bandit archers on the opposite side who were only about fifty paces apart, and he didn't care, and only explained to everyone: "This is for the bird gunners and pikemen, the pikemen are to protect the bird guns, and the array is promoted, and the iron helmet is not too powerful, so simply use the same armor and helmet as the firearms team, the eaves of this iron helmet can protect the fire gate medicine pool in rainy days, and the success rate of sending it can be increased by at least fifty percent, which is very remarkable." ”

"It's really remarkable!" Sun Yao, the former flag captain of the Firearms Flag Team, said sincerely: "It would be better if we could solve the problem that the medicine pool is easily blown away by the wind on a windy day." ”

An officer said with a smile: "The Firearms Bureau is developing flintlock guns, how can you dream of such a thing." ”

Sun Yao also remembered this, and he nodded and smiled at the officer.

The director of this staff department was criticized at the beginning of his promotion, but the eastern front and the southern front blossomed, and the Yu Shicadres were sent away with oppression and blockade, and the eastern front was a multi-point breakthrough, blooming everywhere, when the plan was originally planned, many people were not optimistic, there were many reasons, lack of qualifications is the most important, which makes people full of suspicion about his plan, of course, there may be a faint jealousy or group consciousness, as long as it is not too much, Zhang Han, the coach, did not deliberately crack down on these, Sun Yao is now getting goodwill and recognition, Of course, it was the reason why he had established himself after the success of the plan.

At this time, people realized that Sun Yao, a miner, had reached the position of the chief officer of the first division in less than a year, and he was already one of the powerful figures that everyone had to look up to.

With the flintlock gun, the tinder jar and the arquebus door are not needed, the trigger is twisted when the hammer is fired, and the sparks hit by the hammer instantly splash into the medicine pool to stimulate the primer, such a process is as fast as a snap of the fingers, and there is no need to worry about being blown away by the wind, what you need to worry about is the success rate of the shot.

At present, the firing rate of flintlock guns that have not yet been finalized is only about 50 to 60 percent, which is far less than the success rate of arquebuses.

If it is a good weather without wind or rain, the firing rate of the arquebus is more than 90%.

Liang Xing pointed to the piles of shiny things in front of him again, and said with a smile: "There are also these chain mail, decent, no bright spots, of course the craftsmanship is very good, the quality of the iron used is also good, and the protection ability is not as good as the iron armor, but on top of the cotton armor, it's just that the anti-bird gun is not as good as the cotton armor, but the bandits don't have firearms, so all the members of the firearms team should be equipped first." ”

Zhang Han was in the middle of last year when he planned to give all members of the firearms flag team a supply of chain mail, this idea mainly came from Liang Xing's words, chain mail is a supplement to the regular iron armor, at least the heavy infantry or cavalry he saw in Liaodong are all covered with a layer of chain mail, only those new Ding or followers of the Eight Banners directly wear only one piece of chain mail, the number of chain mail is very small, the chain mail of the Eight Banners is rarely made by themselves, most of them are captured to the arsenal of the Ming army, and the chain mail of the Ming army is rarely made by the military town guard, and most of them come from the Beijing Division of Industry.

The Beijing battalion soldiers of the Beijing division are equipped with the most chain mail troops, mainly the silver light flashes when the armor is polished, compared to the silver iron armor of the white swing tooth horn, plus the interlocking can be effective anti-bow and arrow, the weight is not too heavy, much lighter than the iron scale armor, the most important thing is that if the trouble of the process is solved, the chain mail is much easier to make than the scale armor, a pair of scale armor takes at least two months to make, and the cost is also dozens of taels, a chain mail has a wire drawing machine for ten days to complete, and the cost is less than ten taels, With Zhang Han's current financial resources, he can deploy troops on a large scale, which is the most important thing.

"This is the first batch." The official of the Military Administration Department said: "Fifty leaders, the next batch of 150, and the next batch of 200, before returning to the division, our Military Administration Department can complete all the soldiers and soldiers." ”

"Where's East Road?" Zhang Han smiled: "Don't forget the East Road. ”

"I can't take care of the East Road for the time being." The military and political secretary official said with some embarrassment: "They are too fierce, the station is uncertain, it is difficult to keep up with the supply, and we and the logistics department have worked together to open up the supply channel to this side, and there is really no way to use the east road." ”

"Okay, I know." Zhang Han smiled and said, "Just kidding you...... Come, come over two flag teams, and show me the lineup! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Yang Sisun, the general manager of the bureau, agreed, waved his hand to summon two flag teams, and selected fifty people to line up.

The firearms crew skillfully stood in three rows, and then each was given a piece of chain mail.

The remaining firearms team continued to keep pressure on the bandits, and there were still sporadic bird guns not far away on the opposite side and in the rest of the direction, and as long as there was a sound of guns, the bandits did not dare to take the lead at all, they were discouraged and completely lost the will to resist.

"Good, pretty!"

The three columns of people in front of him were all wearing chain mail, and Zhang Han's expression had changed from a smile to a little excited.

Not only him, but all the officers present felt the same way-

Happy New Year, happy family, good health, prosperous career, all make a fortune!