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"Then I'd rather die more enemies." Without the slightest hesitation, Linglong had an answer: "The people of our Great Zhao Empire are also our own people." ”

"Okay, that's how it should be." Zhao Zhe happily stroked her hair.

"But why did this foreigner come to invade us? Isn't it good for everyone to live peacefully? Linglong said a little faintly.

"Hehe, this person's heart will never be satisfied." Zhao Zhe hugged her in his arms and said softly: "If my big Zhao is strong, then they will all pay tribute every year and come to the court every year." But if my Great Zhao Empire is stormy and crumbling. Then they will see the opportunity to attack them and eat our flesh and blood. However, I don't blame them, natural selection, the law of the jungle is the way of heaven. That's why I want to reorganize the army and develop armaments. I just want the Great Zhao Empire not only not to be bullied, but also to bully and bully others from time to time. ”

"Well, bad guys, you do like to bully."

"Linglong little girl, I see that you also like to bully me, hehe."

"Ah, you're bullying me again?"

"The night was long, and I didn't want to sleep. It's better to bully you a few more times. ”

"You bad guy...... Woo~"

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It has been a few days since I came back from the Beishan Organ Division. This trip is still quite rewarding, not only eating Linglong. I also saw the hope of the Great Zhao army, Linglong has figured out the principle of the flintlock pistol, and I believe that soon, we will be able to see the sample gun. Not long after returning to the capital, Zhao Zhe, accompanied by a military attache in the Governor's Mansion of the Later Army, went to the western suburbs to visit the garrison of the musketeer guards that had been made out of novelty.

It was the old emperor before, and the musketeer guard approved before his death in his later years, only more than two years ago. The 10,000 muskets used to build the musketeers were purchased from foreign merchant ships for 100 taels of silver, and an additional 300,000 taels of gunpowder and bullets were spent.

Loss, loss is a mess. Zhao Zhe knew that these arquebuses had long been eliminated in Europe. Nowadays, at least they use flintlock pistols and the like. Europeans like to play this game, taking out backward technology and selling it at a sky-high price. Zhao Zhe remembered that their favorite thing to do was to fill the glass beads of a fleet and go to Africa to exchange for gold and diamonds.

How is that broken gun worth a hundred taels of silver? Not to mention gunpowder and bullets, Da Zhao can produce them himself, and they do better than what they sell. In this way, the total cost of all the miscellaneous expenses of the musketeers established is about to reach 1.5 million taels, which is simply outrageous. At the same price, it is already possible to build a heavy armored cavalry army of more than 20,000 people, and it can still support them for a long time.

And when the men of the Governor's Mansion saw that the musketeers were not as powerful as they imagined, they were not as powerful as a group of people with crossbows. Disillusioned, he sent the musketeers into the cold palace. Falling from the sky to the ground also demoralized the musketeer guards, and the daily training was also coping. Originally, each of them was selected from the rear army. Now it's good, and it's become a chicken rib that tastes good to eat and a pity to discard.

Even a group of bigwigs from the Governor's Mansion of the Rear Army drove to the garrison of the musketeers, and the left and right commanders of the musketeers commanded the army to line up to welcome them. The phalanx of 5,600 people also looked weak and depressed, and it was powerless to shout the two slogans. Huang Zhen'an, the left governor of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, was embarrassed and a little annoyed. You must know who he is accompaning, but the emperor. He also didn't know why the emperor suddenly came to visit the musketeers on a whim.

Zhao Zhe didn't care at all, he had already heard of the low morale of the musketeer guards. So he asked the musketeer guard to send Hong Jie over and asked him to arrange a visit to the shooting training subject. Hong Jie didn't receive the news that the emperor was coming to visit at first, but now when he heard it, he was immediately taken aback, kneeling on the ground and shouting long live.

When the musketeers heard this, they all knelt down and shouted long live. One by one, they were worried because the emperor arrived.

Zhao Zhe had a solemn face, waved to them, and said loudly: "All the generals have worked hard, get up." ”

After they thanked each other and got up, their spirit and spirit improved a lot compared to before, and even Hong Jie, the left commander of the musketeer guard, also became a little dragon and horse spirit. He is not a fool, he knows that the emperor cannot come to visit a military place casually. According to the emperor's face and speculation, the probability of good things far outweighs bad things.

After receiving the order, Hong Jie rushed back, and immediately shouted the command to command the musketeers to come out of the three columns first, and called a group of people to erect the target. They were all humanoid targets, standing about thirty meters in front of the team.

"Ammo reload~" With his command,

The three musketeers immediately untied the muskets they were carrying and took out gunpowder, bullets, iron bars, fuses, and other things from their pockets. Zhao Zhe could see from their movements that they should have trained hard. The action is fast and organized. But even if it was fast, it took more than half a minute to reload the ammunition.

"The first column aims~" Hong Jie shouted affectionately and solemnly: "Fire~"

Following the order, the first column of musketeers lit the arquebus, the fuse was short. After less than a second, the sound of thumping fire could be heard. Zhao Zhe listened attentively, and felt that it was quite neat, and it should be a gun that was finished in one second. Immediately after the first group of musketeers had finished, they crouched down and began to reload their ammunition at a rapid pace.

"The second column aims ~~~~ and fires." Bang bang

In such a cycle, a continuous firing process is completed, which is called a three-stage continuous emission. Maintain a certain rhythm so that the musket is in a continuous firing. Zhao Zhe estimated that the firing frequency of each shot was about three seconds. The arquebus, on the other hand, is extremely slow to reload, taking about half a minute, and simply does not achieve the cyclic effect of continuous firing. And to carry out continuous firing at this rate of fire, it takes at least ten consecutive shots.

Hong Jie sent a team of people to carry the target back, let him look at it one by one in front of Zhao Zhe, and sang about the target's hit. Of the 80 targets, most of them hit three shots, and only a few missed. However, this result is also normal, although the arquebus is certainly far inferior to the modern musket, but the target of only about 30 meters can still maintain accuracy.

But the problem is that at a distance of thirty meters, even if the hoplites sprint, it only takes six or seven seconds. No one could have a chance to fire a second shot. It is precisely because of this that this expensive musketeer guard is refrigerated.

Zhao Zhe began to let them shoot at a distance of fifty meters, eighty meters, and one hundred meters. As a result, the hit rate dropped sharply from 50 meters, with less than 30 percent of hits from 80 meters away and only 20 percent of 100 meters.

Zhao Zhe furrowed his brows and secretly calculated. Linglong's redesigned musket was originally based on this arquebus. Since there is no improvement in the rifle, the hit rate does not change the revolutionary surname. But the speed of loading ammunition is far from being comparable to that of this arquebus. Excluding the speed of the magazine change, the speed of the fire will not exceed three seconds with the time it takes to aim and shoot. Theoretically, if the entire musketeer guard were equipped with the new musket, it would increase the ranged strength of the current musketeers by a factor of ten.

This also makes the entire musketeer guard no longer an accumulation, but a real ace guard, a killer on the battlefield.

Huang Zhen'an, the left governor of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, and Hong Jie, the left commander of the musket guard, saw that Zhao Zhe was frowning and thinking something. Cold sweat began to break out on their heads. Although the musketeers have been training very hard, due to the congenital defects of the arquebus, the combat power of the entire musketeers is still not strong. What Huang Zhen'an was afraid of was that the emperor would come up to settle old accounts, after all, this musketeer guard was proposed by him to the first emperor and prepared for the later army. Hong Jie, on the other hand, was afraid that the emperor would be angry and withdraw the musketeers. Then all their efforts have become a failure.

"From this day onwards, the Musketeers are no longer under the command of the Governor's Office." Zhao Zhe pondered for a moment, then solemnly ordered: "Hong Jie, start today." All the officers and soldiers of the musketeer guard were paid one level higher, and they were upgraded from the pro-army of the Governor's Mansion to my pro-army, and I personally commanded the musketeer guard. ”

What the? Huang Zhenan and Hong Jie exclaimed in surprise. It's like going from hell to heaven all at once. Although the musketeer guard is still nominally a pro-army directly under the Governor's Office of the Later Army, due to the loss of glory and favor, the treatment is not much better than that of a local guard. Now, all of a sudden, he has become the emperor's pro-army and has become one of the top armies in the world. This, this made Hong Jie really ecstatic in his heart. With a bend of his knees, he knelt down in front of Zhao Zhe, and kowtowed again and again: "Thank you, Lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

"Hong Jie, don't thank me first. Becoming my pro-army is certainly soaring, and the future is limitless. But if you don't do it well, the future of this life may be buried in my hands. Moreover, I want to use you, not to let you stay in the capital to protect my safety. Instead, you are asked to go to the battlefield, where the most dangerous place is? Zhao Zhe put his hands behind his back and didn't tell him to get up.

Hong Jie, who was kneeling on the ground, his face was stunned at first. But soon, his face became resolute, and he knocked three times before he said loudly: "A good man should make immortal miracles, and the last general is willing to break his bones for the emperor and kill all the enemies." ”

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(To be continued)