"What's the use of this?" After circling around the roaring primitive steam engine for a long time, Ruan Zhi finally expressed the confusion in his chest.

"Whoa! The secret is all here, you take it and study it, and make this kind of machine as soon as possible, what this son said is the kind of ...... that can be used for practical purposes."

After hurriedly explaining to Ruan Zhi, Zhang Yun immediately turned around and left, presumably with a physical reference, plus that stack of information. Ruan Zhi should have no doubts now!

And when this steam engine can be used for practical purposes, the army should not encounter that scene in Yingtianfu again in the future......

If there is a breech-loading rifle, no matter how advanced the gun is, even if it is only a bolt, it will definitely be able to hang any armed force of this era.

Because this era was originally a worse era, at least in the Ming Dynasty. Maybe the pirates in the West are on the rise, and it seems that they can beat the whole world, but in the past, loading guns versus loading guns, if they can still succeed, Zhang Yun feels that he can also be killed by a head-on!

Therefore, it is imperative to try to recall the information of the rear-loading guns......

Zhang Yun has never regretted it for a moment as he does now. I didn't take advantage of the fact that I was in the era of the information explosion to keep all kinds of declassified materials in my mind.

Of course, no one knew that he would have crossed over the day, so in addition to being annoyed, Zhang Yun had to work hard to recall the shape and basic structure of those guns......

And just as Zhang Yun, who was struggling, was desperately thinking about the gun information in his previous life, Liu Mingguo and others, who received the order to go south, finally began to leave.

And this was the beginning of the troubles, the seven regiments that had successfully completed the expansion of the army, plus all kinds of miscellaneous personnel, that was a large army of more than 20,000 men.

With so many people, it was obviously unrealistic to take the land route, and in the end, Liu Mingguo and the others weighed it again and again, and decided to take the risk of taking the water route. Anyway, the water power of the Ming Dynasty has already been almost emasculated by themselves!

However, whether it was Zhang Yun or Liu Mingguo and others, they all underestimated Wanli, and also underestimated the energy that this huge empire could exert after being fully mobilized.

……

Yangzhou Mansion.

"What should I do?"

"Lao Tzu still wants to know what to do, who leaked the news?"

“……”

Liu Mingguo and the others looked at the several iron locks across the river in front of them, and after a quarrel, they completely fell into a dumbfounded state. However, the people on the shore don't care what state Liu Mingguo and the others are in?

After a wave of shocking drums, thousands of large and small boats suddenly appeared on the riverside......

"Let's go ashore and break through, anyway, in this wilderness, it is estimated that few Ming troops can block our platoon gun attack!" Liu Mingguo, who was stimulated by this scene, muttered to himself at this moment.

However, no one paid attention to it at the moment, and Yang Zhen had already begun to order people to put down the boat, carrying a few powder kegs and preparing to blow up a way out. Seeing this, Luo Zhongbiao and the others finally reacted to what they should do!

At present, there is no other way for their own side to survive except to concentrate their firepower to cover a few small boats that act as vanguards to blow up the iron cables.

If they listened to Liu Mingguo's advice, Luo Zhongbiao and the others could almost imagine how ugly Zhang Yun's face would be after they arrived on Qiongzhou Island!

As long as they thought about the price they needed to pay to break through ashore, Luo Zhongbiao and the others shuddered. No matter how bad the Ming Dynasty army is, it is always possible to hold on to its own non-combatants!

The regular army may be able to break through, but that means nothing. You must know that among the ships in the rear, there are 20% of Zhang Yun's entire worth......

Although Yang Zhen's plan is very good, he is also decisive enough. However, if the Ming army wanted to block the fleet going downstream, it was naturally impossible to let a few iron companies go and let the bandits destroy them!

Therefore, the death squad sent by Yang Zhen was surrounded by several times the enemy before they reached the first iron cable. For this situation, some Yang Zhen and others, who are beyond the reach of the whip, can only jump on the big boat!

It's not that you can't send more small boats, but it's just that you can't fight with the thousands of enemy ships floating on the river at the moment, it will only be self-inflicted, and when this scene fell into Liu Mingguo's eyes, he was overjoyed......

"Just now I proposed to leave everything behind and go ashore to break through, although a few colleagues did not say anything to mock, but a few colleagues did not accept it, Liu Mingguo still feels a little embarrassed, and now is not the opportunity for his own performance?" Thinking about this, Liu Mingguo immediately turned around and whispered to Lu Chengliang, the personal guard behind him, for a while.

After receiving the order of his benefactor, Lu Chengliang squinted his eyes and glanced at the battle situation at several iron locks, and immediately nodded to Liu Mingguo.

"Good! Lao Tzu knows that you are not a bad breed, so Lao Tzu will give you 200 men and horses, and you will teach Lao Tzu how to behave in those officials and soldiers. ”

Seeing that Lu Chengliang really did not hesitate and did not live up to his expectations, Liu Mingguo immediately waved his hand while being happy......

……

"I think I'm just because I often hunt, so I'm quite talented in shooting, even if I hold this smoothbore musket, I can do it within 50 meters, so after I was trained in the new barracks, I was immediately favored by Liu Mingguo and took a shortcut."

But that wasn't enough, a guard seemed to be much stronger than the average big soldier, but he also lost the opportunity to be on his own. Now, these iron locks, as well as the ineffective ...... of Commander Yang's subordinates, "A swallow turned over and flew into the boat, and Lu Chengliang, who was on the boat, was hot in his heart at the moment.

After all the 200 or so people assigned to his command by Liu Mingguo boarded the boat, Lu Chengliang immediately waved his hand!

Bang! After another gunshot, a Ming army officer ten zhang away fell in response, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the river.

Then he habitually touched the powder bag hanging on his waist, but his hand was empty, and then he remembered that the last gunpowder had been used for this gun just now, and then the belt containing gunpowder was thrown into the river by himself......

At this moment, even in the fierce battle, Lu Chengliang was shocked!

For oneself, the absence of gunpowder is like a toothless tiger, although everyone has a bayonet and carries it with them. But that thing and the spear of the Ming army, isn't this killing people?

And seeing that he was gone, how could he be suppressed by the marksmanship of a hundred shots, and the dense Ming army boats around him were all in good spirits, shouting and rushing over desperately, at this moment, Lu Chengliang had such an impulse, why not plunge into the river and flee for his life?

"Hey! Lv guard, give. Just as Lu Chengliang was looking around for a way out, someone behind him suddenly patted him on the shoulder and handed him half a bag of gunpowder.

"Don't shirk the Lu guards, only your marksmanship can suppress ......" Seeing that Lu Chengliang hesitated a little, the bandit minions behind him hurriedly spoke up again.

Stimulated by this, he thought of something as if Lu Chengliang finally ended his state in a daze, and said: "We don't want to shirk, but I am alone, with a gun." How far can this be done in this case? ”

After opening his mouth to explain to his companion who kindly handed him gunpowder, Lu Chengliang yelled at his companion who was still firing in a hurry.

"Everyone, listen, there's no need for everyone to fire, so let's form a group of three people and pick out someone with good marksmanship to be responsible for shooting......"

As soon as Lu Chengliang's words fell, a group of bandits did as if they had just woken up from a dream, and at this moment, the bandits' firepower was instantly strengthened, and there was almost a qualitative change.