Seeing so many halberd hands in front of him, Gong Dingyu silently calculated and sighed.

Obviously, all three of them are here, as well as their deputies, battalion officers, and everyone is there.

Of course, so many officers did not come to the baggage and chariot artillery battalion for themselves, even if they were the prince's confidants, it would never be possible. There are clear boundaries between the Chinese military and the civilian officials will not dictate the territory of the military attachés, and the military attachés will not be stupid enough to befriend the civil subjects.

Both actions are extremely stupid and inexcusable.

No matter how good Gong Dingyu feels, he will not think that there are officers of the Pingyu Army who have a large number of votes to flatter him...... In that case, it seems that there is a lot of work in this camp.

As soon as they saw the scarlet-robed and jade-belted officials coming, the soldiers guarding the door were also very nervous.

They were ordered to keep strict guards, but the higher authorities didn't say what to do when they met such a big official. At the moment of hesitation, the garrison officer of the baggage battalion trotted all the way over with his hat, and took two breaths before arriving at the camp gate, and then gave a military salute to Gong Dingyu, and then said: "My lord, a few standard commanders have come to inspect the car and artillery battalion, may I ask my lord, do you want to look at it together?" ”

Although the artillery battalion was camped together with the baggage battalion, it was only for convenience. After all, although small-caliber artillery, it requires a lot of gunpowder and shells.

With so many things, coupled with the weight of the artillery itself, it is obviously unrealistic for the vehicle and artillery battalion to want to bear all the burdens on itself, so the action is as close as possible to the baggage battalion, but on the battlefield, it is obvious that it is necessary to cooperate with the infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion.

I heard that there are more and more complicated shells in the artillery battalion, what kind of solid bullets and high-explosive bombs or something, Gong Dingyu felt a headache when he heard it, let alone to find out.

"Oh, say hello to the three generals and everyone for me, and this officer will be gone." Gong Dingyu was so tired that he couldn't wait to sleep now, at this time the weather was twilight, and there were few people in many camps that had worked hard from afar, only a team of patrolmen carrying spears and halberds were patrolling back and forth, doing security work.

At such times, it is undoubtedly the best choice to go to the tent and sleep comfortably.

Gong Dingyu took a few henchmen with him, it was so cold, presumably the brazier in the tent was lit and the wolf skin mattress was also laid, when he thought of this, how could he go to see a group of men shooting?

But the moment he turned around, he heard bursts of laughter, and the soldiers near the camp gate were all talking to each other...... For no reason, Gong Dingyu was upset and angry for a while, and his sleepiness suddenly ran away without a trace.

"Wait a minute!" He stopped the officer who was guarding the baggage battalion, and said coldly: "It's already disrespectful to have guests come and not welcome, so this officer should go for a while." ”

"Huh?" The team officer was slightly surprised at first, and then saluted with his chest crossed, and replied loudly: "Yes, the last general will take the adults with him." ”

………… The laughter was indeed coming from the artillery battalion.

As a product of pure excess, the Artillery Battalion was a relatively unsuccessful test subject. At least, in Zhu Cihong's eyes.

The firearms on the body are usually the products of the Ming army in the past hundred years, including a large number of Franc machine guns, cannons and so on. The maximum caliber is no more than the level of a three-pounder gun, which is considered a bunch of large-caliber guns and small-caliber guns.

The caliber and power were denied by Zhu Cihong, and the craftsmanship was not good when casting cannons in the early days, the weight of the barrels of these small-caliber guns was not small, and they could only be loaded on large carts to act.

In fact, as long as the craftsmanship is passed and the quality is strictly controlled, the mixed car and artillery battalion and infantry and cavalry of the brigade also have extremely strong firepower output...... However, none of these Ming troops were available, so the record of the car artillery battalion on the Liaodong battlefield was really lackluster, which also led to Zhu Cihong's lack of interest in the car artillery battalion from later generations, and one of the reasons why he sent them to the Shandong battlefield early.

However, adhering to the style of doing things to be perfect, this premature car cannon battalion was built at a huge cost.

The bodywork has shock absorption and has been improved in the wheels and front-wheel drive system, and the main contributor to this is not the crown prince, but the Tessie visitors.

Because of the relationship between manpower and roads, Western horse-drawn carriage technology has been far above China. China's southern water network is dense, even in the north there are Grand Canal and some tributaries can be used to transport goods, in addition to shipping in the south is mainly small-scale rickshaws, the kind of small manpower carts that can sit a person and a few hundred catties of goods until more than 300 years later is still the mainstream of freight transportation in southern China and a few northern regions, which can not but be said to be a great sadness.

As for the north, the road conditions are not good, the manpower is also abundant, and the wheelbarrows are also popular. Moreover, commerce in the north was far less developed than in the south, so the demand for horse-drawn carriages was even smaller.

In addition, the flow of people is not close, and the demand for manpower transportation is also small, for various reasons, China's carriage industry has suffered a serious setback, and it is far behind in technology.

The horse-drawn carriages of the improved Carriage Battalion are now much faster, and it is not difficult to march at a speed of 100 miles or more every day, as long as the road conditions are not so bad that they cannot be passed. In addition, there is a certain amount of protection on the front and both sides of the body...... That is, some iron pieces are inlaid with some iron plates, and they have considerable protection against thrown small arms and bows and arrows, and that's it, and it is enough.

One hundred and thirty-one carts, each equipped with different light and heavy firearms, and the whole battalion was equipped with 150,000 catties of gunpowder and a large number of sub-ammunition, which was also an important reason why they needed to maneuver with the baggage battalion.

It was not the weapons of the artillery battalion itself that caused the commotion and laughter, the officers of the current Pingyu Army were no longer ordinary petty military attachés or mud-legged men of the past, they were well-informed, and it was impossible for them to lose their temper like this because of a few cannons and Franc machines.

"Bai Wenlu, you are really capable."

Cao Qing walked around Baiwen Road, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Four cannons, plus a hundred people in the artillery crew, were you kidnapped like this?" If Qian Yingguan knew, wouldn't he be able to spurt out a mouthful of blood? ”

"I guess I know by now." Bai Wenlu smiled facelessly, and said with a grin at everyone: "This time, I will send an artillery battalion up, and the manpower and artillery team will be decided, and these groups will be in a hurry to get into the room, and it just so happens that we are heading north, so I will bring these boys out." ”

Zhang Quanbin laughed for a while, but turned serious: "Privately lead the artillery team to the north, how many heads do you kid have to cut off?" ”

It was full of field officers, and while they came to visit, everyone deliberately ignored the officers and gendarmes of the Judge Advocate General's Department. But even so, there will be military judges in both the car and artillery battalions and the baggage battalions, and even if they have been concealed until now, they will be exposed sooner or later in the future.

"Such a small thing can cut off my head?"

Bai Wenlu shook his head and said: "This matter first depends on whether it is a public crime or a private crime, the public crime will be reduced by one degree, and the compensation for the theft of property in the army will be reduced by one level...... At most, you will be minted two levels, and then you will be fined silver. ”

The so-called casting level means that when it is time to be promoted in three years, it can be upgraded without mistakes, but if it is cast, then the three-year qualifications are in vain, and casting two levels is a waste of six years.

In other words, six years later, Bai Wenlu's guy is still a deputy battalion officer and team officer at most, and the silver star on his shoulder can only be one.

"You kid......"

Cao Qing didn't know what to say, so he just patted Bai Wenlu on the shoulder, then looked at those artillery crew members, and said loudly: "The Bai Battalion Officer took the trouble to bring you out, this time you are going to go into battle to fight, you can aim at the point, kill a few more Dongyu, I am afraid that I will also give the Bai Battalion Officer a few more credits, and save yourself a heavy punishment." ”

"Yes, I understand!"

A group of artillery crew members have a smile on their faces that can't be hidden, indeed as Bai Wenlu said, as soon as they heard that the army was transferred and transferred to the artillery crew, they all rushed to the room, each artillery group from the main gunner to the deputy gunner to the driver is a total of twenty people, the artillery commander is equivalent to the sentry officer, the ordinary artillery senior soldier is equivalent to the platoon commander, and the lowest-grade artillery is much stronger than the brothers of the infantry battalion.

As soon as you enter the artillery camp, it is five taels of silver, and now silver coins are issued, and all the gunners like to receive half a tael of one yuan of silver, ten yuan per month, plus food subsidies or something, this income is enough to be a small landlord in the countryside in a few years, this kind of generous treatment and a strong sense of collective honor in the heart, which artillery group is willing to be idle in the rear?

"Alas, you don't have to be too nervous......" Bai Wenlu, the party who seriously violated discipline, was not in a hurry, and shook his head at Cao Qing and said: "Four cannons, two six-pounder cannons, two nine-pounder cannons, even if the nine-pounder cannon is already a chicken rib no longer cast, but this is a cannon, not a chicken...... It will take two days to know that there are two chickens missing, and there are four guns missing, and I will know all about it before I leave the Qingjiang artillery battalion. They pretended to be confused because they were intended, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knew, at most they would smile and say that we are sincere in our meritorious service...... Hmph, those animals in the Department of Judge Advocate Advocate General's Advocate General do things according to the rules at most, what about them......"

"Alright, alright!"

Cao Qing, as a standard commander, can't criticize military law with a deputy battalion officer, this is a magic weapon released by the prince to deal with officers, and the military justice department gives everyone a headache, which shows that the prince's mind is not in vain, although he is a pure martial artist, he still understands this truth.

Besides, there is more than one military justice department to deal with senior military attachés, and the Internal Security Bureau under the Military Intelligence Department is not a vegetarian, and these messy things in front of him are just afraid that they will be placed on the desk of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince tomorrow night.

In that case, it's better to say less!

"My lord, can you try two shots?"

The four guns that had just been pushed out had been put in place, the black muzzles were facing the sky, and not far away, the gunners of the car artillery battalion were looking at this side with envy, jealousy, hatred...... This is a real artillery, four guns are placed on the gun carriage, each is pulled by four horses, the action is fast, the gun body and the car are perfectly integrated, it is already the best industrial product of this era!

(To be continued)