Chapter Seventy-Four: Trying

In the gently swaying carriage, I restarted the journey

In this strange world, after flowing for more than half a year, there was suddenly a companion from the same space, and it was also a mysterious creature with the appearance of Yin Luo, which couldn't help but make people sigh with joy and sorrow, and the fate of the world made people or something.

And then I am glad that while I am not alone, there is at least one person who can communicate normally, and even confide in me. Even spiritually and mentally, snuggling up to each other for warm spiritual comfort.

But at least she looks younger than me, but at the beginning of this world, she looks much earlier than me, and has more advantages than me in all kinds of daily life and information, which is exactly what I am short about at present, although trust and reliability are still up for debate.

But at least I don't have to collect information alone, and at the same time find a way to step on something to maintain a basic sense of security. At the same time, my travel companions have increased considerably.

Like Yu Hou Feng Roll Banner and his small team of men and horses, I named them to stay and continue to walk, for which he was grateful to saddle up and run non-stop.

Another potential piece of good news:

Han Liangchen or classmate Han Shizong also acquiesced to a certain fact, and planned to go south with me to take a look first, so that I can finally be regarded as a historical military general with empty gloves and white wolves, although his personal prestige and relationship are only around friendliness, and his loyalty is also around 6 or 70.

You must know that under ordinary circumstances, a famous person like this with a mature historical outlook and background power is not so easy to get started or change his position, relying on kindness or something alone is not enough to trap and bind a person's position for a long time, but also to give him to meet the basic demands, to have enough space for development, and even to realize the concept and show his talents, etc., other reasons worth following are the way to support each other for a long time.

But obviously, along the way, there is no chance for them to make a move.

There is such an elite template plus the aura of the escort guard, basically eliminate most of the risks and hidden dangers on the way, not only along the way there are local officials and garrisons, hospitality and send-off, and basically do not have to worry about not giving the problem.

And the only time they struck was to disperse the unknown crowd blocking the road with a salvo and volley, like cutting straw, leaving a large pool of corpses and blood, and scattered in a hurry.

What's more, the journey is accompanied by red sleeves, although this red sleeve is too young. It's just that after she successfully invited Mrs. Chen to the special carriage, she often stayed together, and she looked quite satisfied.

My trip, all the way through the state and county, through Muzhou, Hengzhou, into Mrs. Chen's nominal maiden home - Raozhou, but did not stay long, and then continued to Fuzhou, and then to Jizhou, through Luling, Taihe, into Qianzhou, arrived at Qianhua, even if it arrived at the Ningdu Zhizhi of the southeast division of the Southern Dynasty.

The topography along the way has also changed from the original endless water network plain to undulating scattered hills, and then the hills become more and more dense, and then become between large and small mountains, large basins and open valleys.

Therefore, an additional 100 government soldiers and 200 military service miscellaneous envoys were sent from the local area to open the road and pass the obstacles and build bridges along the way.

It's just that the farther you go, in addition to the scenery along the way, there will inevitably be a unique landscape.

Because on the road that is still in good condition, the most common is the people of Nantou who are full of roads, and the dynasty has been in turmoil for a hundred years, not to mention the northern land that has been beaten into a bucket of paste, even the most elite southeast and Jingchu regions, there are also large and small wars.

Therefore, throughout the year, there is no shortage of these people who embark on the road to Nantou because they are desperate, or have other visions and dreams.

At least in the areas outside the Lingwai and under the control of the Southern Dynasties, there is still basic stability and peace that have not heard of Bingge for decades. In addition, in order to compete with Luodu for some kind of propaganda and public opinion war, it is inevitable that the subordinates of the Southern Dynasty will be boasted of being displaced from the north, and there will be heaven on earth in stark contrast.

Therefore, over the years, the people of Nanben have been endless all year round, but the number is only according to the season and the current situation. Because of hunger, because of the weakness, because of the unsuitable climate, there are not a few people who died on the road, so there is no lack of mounds along the way that are said to have buried the bones of the corpses, and there are also Buddhist shrines set up by monks to summon spirits and carved and pecked by the mountain.

With the sound of whips and knights galloping past, the convoy suddenly stopped,

"Ahead is the Meiling Ancient Road."

The wind swept the flag and preached to me.

"You have to stop and rest for a while......

The so-called Nanling Or, in fact, is Yuecheng Ridge, Du Pang Ridge, Mengzhu Ridge, Qitian Ridge, Da Yu Ridge, constitute Hengduan Southern Wilderness, stretching endless Wuling Mountains. The Meiling Ancient Road is located in the middle of the Great Yuling Ridge.

The altitude is not high, there is a large road half waist of the mountain, but it is artificially 20 zhang long, 3 zhang wide, 10 zhang high mountain recess, opened a mountain avenue more than one zhang wide, more than 30 miles long, become the golden channel connecting the Yangtze River and the Pearl River.

It is because of the enrichment of business and travel here, relying on the ancient post station at the foot of the mountain, forming a fairly large Anyuan Town, but these have all gone with yesterday's yellow flowers, leaving only a peripheral checkpoint, a small military camp with a sparse and oblique banner, showing their laziness and idleness as a second-line army.

And whereas,

Behind the towering mountains, there is the Lingnan Zhudao region, which is called Lingwai, or the Southern Dynasty, which was originally gradually annexed by the Nanhai Governor's Office, and the Lingnan Prefecture Jingluo Envoy, plus the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate and the Qianzhong Dao, and finally expanded and divided into seven land roads and two major sea roads.

It has the vast territory of Guangdong, Hainan, most of Guangxi and Yunnan-Guizhou in later generations, as well as most of the Indochina Peninsula, plus many sea and land domains and subject countries.

Since ancient times, the land of Lingnan has been known for its complex landforms of mountains, hills, plateaus and plains, and because there are many mountains, dense rivers, wild land, dense forests and waters, it was the first place of misery that was used to flow people after the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Although the Qin Dynasty has been established in the South China Sea, Guilin, Xiang County so-called "Lingnan three counties", but the evolution of the past dynasties has changed limitedly, the real enlightenment, but in the Kaiyuan Dynasty Zhang Jiuling, after the Meiguan Ancient Road was dug in the Great Yuling, the Lingnan area was gradually developed.

Then, after the Qianyuan and Taixing periods, in order to support the great development of the South China Sea and the endless tributary system all year round, the military and civilians opened up mountains and rocks at any cost, and opened up a number of cross-ridge roads and transshipment waterways from the lofty mountains of Wuling.

Then there was the influx of military and civilian household registration, the development and operation of the two hundred years outside the mountains, and the fundamental land of large-scale construction after the establishment of the Southern Dynasties, so that there is now a corner of the Lingnan Mountains.

In between, there are both majestic mountains and plains with water networks; There are not only karst caves, but also the wonders of the river gorge and the dangerous shoals, and the harbor scenery of the sea and the sky.

In addition, it can also be counted that the Southern Dynasty set up a five-way recruitment division in the Lingbei region, in Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi, Jinghu to Xishu, part of the territory controlled by Yungui. However, in the more than 100 years since the establishment of the Southern Dynasties, the current pattern was formed after several failed or partially successful expeditions such as the Yongjia Great March and the Ningyou Northern Expedition.

The time I spent overnight in Anyuan Town made me sigh at another discovery.

Because of the relative stability, which brings the need for daily maintenance, the straights of the hardened pavement and the forest of telegraph poles, which represent the products of the construction achievements of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, finally appeared in front of us again.

It is said that after being called Qianyuan and Taixing Zhongxing, in the golden age of the Tang Dynasty, the successive emperors wanted to make commendable achievements, which were to desperately invest in construction and expansion.

Therefore, in the most powerful era of the authority of the central authority of the imperial court,

Relying on these cobweb-covered communication lines, it is in the center of the Tang Dynasty between the two capitals, and in a very short period of time, it can convey and feedback the decrees in the 27 provinces of the world, the nine major capitals, the more than 600 state capitals, more than 5,000 county governance, and hundreds of feudal subordinates and princes, and make corresponding countermeasures and responses to news from the most remote or frontier areas.

With these direct roads extending in all directions, the Tang Dynasty's army and money and grain could pass through the most efficient mobilization and mobilization system in the entire feudal era, to slowly pacify those areas and populations that suffered from famine, or to nip the signs of rebellion in the bud.

In the aftermath of the Ulwei Rebellion, the so-called Great Collapse, the entire northern or southern part of the straights and routes were destroyed by the war-torn grinding discs, and the dust rotted in the overgrown weeds.

It was only by taking the opportunity to annex the entire Lingwai region and the Nanhai Prefecture under the Nanhai Domain from Guangzhou that most of the infrastructure was preserved, and the repair and repair are still in use today despite the massive loss of technology and craftsmanship.

Taking advantage of this time of stay, Yuwen Luoluo also came over to chat with me for a few words, and then gave me a small surprise, taking out a delicate firearm from the mezzanine box, which belongs to the standard of riding the guards.

This is her pretending to be a novelty, and begging for a replacement from Mrs. Chen's cavalry guards for me as a pleasure.

The main parts of it were dismantled by me, and the wrapped holsters, flannel, and suede and cotton rods used to test were neatly stacked together.

This is a rather primitive suifeng pistol, with a thick smoothbore short barrel and a necked mouth, a half-curved finger grip, an elaborate spring clip and a carefully selected flint, carved with some kind of pegasus treading cloud ornamentation, full of some kind of ingenuity and relics left by the predecessors of the traverser, but this is also the Cheng dù.

I picked up the wooden medicine bottle and the cloth bag containing the lead pills, as well as the supporting tools and checked them, the lead pills were melted and polished by hand, and the counterweight could only be mastered by myself.

I poured out a little powder and rubbed it on my fingers, the composition of the gunpowder is unknown, the particles are quite delicate, and the preservation is also very good, there is no compaction and moisture, and the lid of the medicine bottle is also a tool for weighing gunpowder, with a waxed forehead seal, which seems to have a certain waterproof ability.

According to this process and materials, it is estimated that it is also specially equipped in a small area, and the promotion is enough to bankrupt the quartermaster and logistics maintenance personnel.

In this case, I expected that the all-firearms unit would be far from the same, and could only be used as one of the long-range suppression and auxiliary arms like a bow and crossbow, and play a role in large-scale cold-weapon battles.

But on the other hand, there is more room for equipment and tactical improvement, which also means that my opportunities and prospects depend on how I operate and take advantage of these knowledge gaps.

Thinking of this, I stepped out of the carriage and said a few words to the wind-swept banner that was arranging the tent,

"What, do you want to try your hand when you join the army? ……”

Although he was a little surprised, he still found me a vacant space on the mountain, and carefully found a wooden sign and drew a circle to use as a target.

After a while, there were also curious riders coming from the guards, with the intention of seeing my excitement. Because I didn't have a three-point-and-one-line crosshair or something, I could only stand twenty paces away and use the ridge of the barrel to roughly align it.

There was some laborious pulling, almost after delaying the stroke of half an exhale, before hearing the sound of the touch and the vibration in the hand, with the white smoke spewed out from the muzzle, startled a small flock of birds, and also attracted more bystanders who probed their brains

Smelling the choking smell, I frowned, the smoke was still a bit big, the burning was not so sufficient, and there was a lot of room for improvement in gunpowder.

I looked at the chamber again, and there was a bit of residue in it, which also meant that it was necessary to clean it up frequently, and by extension, it was necessary to cut off the continuous firepower of the battlefield.

I don't know where the first shot went, but it wasn't a big deal, and I started to fill the charge again, and finally stuffed the eggs, and then reset the flint to be ready to be fired, just like I had done it repeatedly before.

I didn't know where to fly when I fired a shot, but I didn't get angry, so I found a wooden stick to make a bracket and held the gun, and this time hit the mountain wall next to the target, splashing a puddle of sand and stones.

Against the target I brought back, I estimated the trajectory and deflection distance, and then walked to the bullet hole, a small piece of weathered gravel was knocked down, and the deformed lead projectile, embedded in the broken nest, the penetration and impact were okay, at least I could deal with people in light armor at close range.

I tried firing more than a dozen rounds in one go, and finally found the real initial feeling, and the last few shots almost hit the target, causing an irrepressible exclamation.

After all, according to the Wind Scroll Flag, this kind of thing is known for its delicate and delicate condition because of its cumbersome operation and use, so it is also a kind of high-end atmosphere in the Southern Dynasties.