Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is late September, although it is close to the autumn day of the trees, but the raging autumn tigers still roast the heaven and earth to make people breathless.

At this moment, Hanzhong has become a military city, full of a tense atmosphere of slaughter, just like this hot day, just like a fire can be lit. The three battalions of the Kuizhou Army, Fenglin Fire, gathered in the city to reorganize their armies.

After Haoge's first battle to harass Sichuan, Wang Huan modified the size of each battalion, and expanded the number of people in order to adapt to the increasingly grand scale of the war.

Each battalion originally had three thousand-man teams, totaling 3,000 people, and on this basis, Wang Huan promoted the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the previous battle to captain and captain of 100 people, and each battalion added three thousand-man teams, and each battalion increased to 6,000 people.

The additional 3,000 men, 1,000 are the same as the original 1,000 troops, which are infantry battalions, which should be organized according to regulations, and are completely consistent with the original.

The other two thousand-man troops, one of which was all cavalry, selected Li Dingguo's men and horses to be elite, got 3,000 elite soldiers, broke them up and reorganized them into three teams, and arranged them into three battalion heads, as the most powerful striking force, and played a decisive role in the final decision once the battle was scorched.

There is also a thousand-person team, which is a car battalion, equipped with a four-wheeled cart of a water, the four-wheeled cart is modeled in the style of the partial van, with the newly made thunder of the Kuizhou Military War Bureau, it can be loaded with supplies and supplies when marching, it is considered a baggage battalion, and the four-wheeled cart bracket is put down in wartime, and the carriage board falls down, it becomes a fixed city wall, becoming an unbreakable rear barrier, and the thunder can be carried to the battlefield, with terrifying firepower to the enemy devastating killing.

Originally, Wang Huan also wanted to use a cart to pull the Furlong cannon, but the effect of the solid projectile in the field was not very good, unless a large number of equipment salvo, otherwise the lethality was far from the thunder, and the weight of the Furlong cannon was much heavier than the thunder, so before the development of a new cannon, Wang Huan gave up this plan.

In this way, the three major war battalions of wind, forest, and fire under Wang Huan each have six thousand-man teams, including four infantry teams, one cavalry team, and one chariot battalion, with different equipment and different functions.

Since then, the combat mode of the Kuizhou army has undergone a qualitative change, and the previous moves that relied only on bird commanders, exterminating bullets and spear formations have become more varied and endless, and they can be selectively and targeted according to the opponent's position.

The newly recruited soldiers should seize the time to carry out basic queue training, strengthen the sense of teamwork and obedience, especially to enhance their courage and complete the transformation from civilians to soldiers; Veterans should improve their tactical literacy and further improve their mutual understanding and combat ability.

And the bird commanders, still under the leadership of Yan Mingde, the head of the Kuizhou Army Bird Commander, practiced the posture of the gun and the accuracy of shooting, every lead bullet is precious, every two gunpowder is not easy to get, like the Ming Dynasty army indiscriminately shooting, no benefit.

Wang Huan was also mixed in the middle of the bird commanders, holding a bird commander, the front was on a crescent axe inserted in the ground, the left hand held the gun, the right hand held the grip, the index finger was on the trigger, and he was engrossed in aiming at a straw handle ten zhang away, concentrating, holding the gun steadily for a long time, before gently pressing down the trigger, and waiting until the moment when he held his breath and the whole body was the most stable, he suddenly buckled it.

"Bang!" There was a muffled thud, and the lead flew out.

Under the effect of recoil, the unified body rushed backwards violently, and Wang Huan's hand was uncontrollably driven up by the unified body, and under the guard, the bird almost flew out of his hand.

Fortunately, Yan Mingde, who had been staring at him beside him, was quick with his eyes, and stretched out a hand to grab the bird in time, so as to avoid Wang Huan from making a fool of himself.

Wang Huan was taken aback, this was the first time he personally changed the bird system with yellow gunpowder, and he didn't expect that the recoil force was several times greater than that of the bird system with black powder.

"My lord, the gunpowder of my Kuizhou army is extremely domineering, the charge has been reduced a lot, and it is still full of strength, the first time the preparation is insufficient, it is easy to happen just now, as long as you fight once, you can feel the strength of it." Yan Mingde was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so he hurriedly gave him the steps down and explained: "The last general will teach the bird to control the hand, you must first practice the strength of the hand, and when the hand strength can grasp the grip so that you can not get rid of the hand, you can practice shooting. ”

Wang Huan looked at the unscathed haystack in the distance, and said in his heart that he didn't know where this shot flew, and it was still rare?

He knew Yan Mingde's intentions, so he waved his hand and changed the topic: "In this way, the hand strength is gone, but it is a waste of time to train shooting, and it cannot quickly provide a large number of bird commanders." ”

Yan Mingde was puzzled, and replied hesitantly: "However, this is necessary, if you don't do this, you won't be able to grasp the handle at all, and it will be difficult to say accurate." ”

"The recoil is large, but the wrist strength is limited, and it cannot counteract the impact of gunpowder, which can be solved with this method." Wang Huan picked up the bird, looked around, picked up a flat wooden board from the ground, and connected it to the back of the bird: "Install a gun butt, shoot against the shoulder when shooting, use the shoulder to remove this force, the shoulder is the most stable part of the body, which can provide stable support before shooting, and can control the body not to fly after shooting." ”

"Butt?" Yan Mingde blinked, he didn't know why, it was the first time he heard this word.

Wang Huan told him again, so that he could understand what the butt of the gun was?

However, after he understood, his face changed greatly, he waved his hand again and again, shook his head and said, "No, my lord, this rifle butt can't be loaded?" ”

Wang Huan was a little surprised, the butt of the gun was a revolutionary invention in later generations, why couldn't it be installed?

"My lord, when this bird shoots, the sparks are splashed everywhere, hold the handle with your hand, and your eyes will be splashed with a pit when you aim far away from the medicine pool, and if you put on the butt of the gun and get closer to each other, the sparks will splash into your eyes, and this person will be wasted." Yan Mingde said bluntly: "Besides, the bird commanders have an indelible fear of exploding the chamber in their hearts, and when they shoot a gun, they can be a little farther away from the body, where do they dare to use their shoulders against the bird commander to pull the trigger, once the chamber is blown up, the person will be finished." ”

Wang Huan suddenly, I see, in the era of arquebuses, this is indeed a problem.

"But the butt of this gun is really useful, against the shoulder, no matter how strong it is, it can be controlled stably, but it's a pity." Yan Mingde clamped the wooden board on the tail of the bird, tried it against the shoulder nest, lifted the bird's nest and looked around, and said with feeling: "In fact, it is not easy for the bird's system from our Kuizhou Military War Bureau to blow up the chest, if there is a skillful craftsman who can solve the problem of spark splashing, it will be easy to do." ”

The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, Wang Huan's eyes lit up, he thought of a solution, and slapped Yan Mingde on the shoulder excitedly, and was about to say something, but he heard a person rushing to the edge of the school field, shouting in his mouth: "My lord, my lord, there is a will in Beijing!" ”

Will? Wang Huan frowned, what is the emperor going to do by himself? Do you want to marry a princess?

……

After a short rest, Wang Huan changed into an official uniform, and after bathing and changing, Shi Shiran walked into the lobby of Hanzhong Xingyuan.

The general army of Hanzhong Sichuan and Shaanxi was not in Hanzhong City, but built in a wilderness five miles outside the east gate of Hanzhong City, to put it bluntly, it was a military camp, with rough wood as a wall and a ditch as a barrier, and countless houses were built, plus a huge school field.

Wang Huan's lobby is one of the houses with extremely large wooden walls and grass roofs.

When Wang Huanmai walked inside, a member of the military department in the hall wearing a five-grade official uniform, was standing in the middle of the house with a shocked face, looking up and looking around, and his incredible eyes were full of the behavior of a general soldier who was an uncle of the dynasty and a dignified three-grade general soldier who actually placed his festival hall in a grass house, and he was puzzled.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Yuan Wailang stopped shaking his head, hurriedly turned around, and saw Wang Huan.

"Uncle Pingliang is polite, and the lower officials have seen the uncle." He bowed down to give a salute, although he came to announce the decree to send Kanhe and announce the orders of the imperial court, but the number of courtesies of the upper and lower levels should not be messed up, Wang Huan's status and official position are much higher than him, and he should give a salute.

Wang Huan nodded slightly, walked past him, sat down on the main seat in the center, and stretched out his hand to the side: "Polite, please sit." ”

Wailang often goes on business trips, and has seen countless generals from other towns who are more domineering than Wang Huan, but he didn't care, agreed, and sat down.

After he sat down, he didn't delay, he directly took out the documents of the Ministry of War, handed them to Wang Huan, and even said the meaning of the court with 1510, he used his words very decently, very cautiously, and carefully did not offend Wang Huan, after all, the town did not obey the order of the imperial court, and it has been a long time.

Wang Huan inspected the fire paint, opened the cover and hurriedly read it, and sure enough, Emperor Yongli bet on himself, wanting to let the northwest send troops, echoing Jiang Xuan, attacking from the north, disrupting the deployment of the Qing army, and making Dolgon at a loss in the north and south, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, and taking advantage of the chaos.

After carefully reading the Kanhe document, Wang Huan pondered for a moment, as if he was thinking.

The foreigner looked at him very worriedly, for fear that Wang Huan would open his mouth and put forward conditions, because he came this time, he didn't bring anything, no grain and grass from the court, no silver taels for rewards, so he asked Wang Huan to send troops with empty mouths and white teeth, this is simply a scoundrel.

"Okay, I'll prepare and send troops at the end of the month." Wang Huan put down the paperwork and said lightly, as if he was saying something that should be taken for granted and unshirkable.

Yuan Wailang almost couldn't believe his eyes, he looked at Wang Huan with wide eyes in astonishment, his body leaned forward a little because of surprise, and a shiny pendant on his chest inadvertently fell out of his collar and hung on his neck to shine.

Wang Huan was immediately attracted to attention, after all, it is rare for a man to wear a necklace in this era, he looked at the glowing thing, his eyes suddenly widened, and he was a little bigger than the eyes of the outsider.

Because what he saw was a statue of Jesus hanging from the chain that fell out of the collar of the man's coat!

The statue of Jesus, the symbol of Catholicism, and the spread of Catholicism in China is not widespread, specifically in the Ming Dynasty at this time, no less than the rarity of Buddhism in Europe, it is extremely unusual to see a Catholic hanging a necklace of Jesus.

In Wang Huan's mind, the names of the two people immediately exploded.

These two people, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, can be called unprecedented geniuses and national treasures that are rare in a century.

Wang Huan held his breath, tried his best to control his hand that was trembling a little because of excitement, grabbed the armrest of the chair tightly, and asked in a trembling voice with a slight stammer: "Dare to ask this lord, who is his surname and name, and in any position in the military department?" ”

Without waiting for others to answer, he couldn't wait for him to ask again: "But the surname is Xu?" But the surname Sun? ”

Yuan Wailang had already recovered from his surprise, and was bowing his head and secretly sighing that this Pingliang Bo was worthy of being a good minister loyal to the monarch and the country, and he agreed to send troops to fight without asking for anything.

So when Wang Huan asked in a strange tone, he looked up at Wang Huan, the face distorted because of excitement startled him, unconsciously shrank back in the chair, and replied in horror: "The surname, the surname Xu, the surname of the subordinate official is Xu, and it is Xu Erjue, a member of the staff of the Ministry of War." ”

Before the words fell, Wang Huan jumped up as if he had been in an evil spirit, pounced on him, pulled Xu Erjue up from the chair, hugged a bear over, and couldn't stop laughing wildly.

(End of chapter)