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The current arquebus of the Ming Dynasty is actually not easy to use, not to mention the slow loading speed, the accuracy is also a big problem, and it is also greatly affected by weather factors. Now the dry season is fine, in case it rains, the use of arquebuses will be greatly limited. The battle on the Liaodong front proved that at the critical moment, cold weapons worked.

If conditions permit, Zhang Zhun is ready to equip the escort team with cannons with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and the firing range is not far, about three kilometers is enough. The key is that the explosion should be powerful, and solid bullets and the like should not be. Of course, it would be better if it could reach more than five kilometers. The three types of artillery commonly used by the Ming army at present, Zhang Zhun was not very satisfied.

The caliber of the Tiger Squat Cannon is too small, the firing range is too close, the power is too small, it is not practical, and it needs to be improved. The Franc machine fires most solid bullets, and the power of the flowering bullet is not great, and it also needs to be improved. The red-coated cannon is very powerful, it can siege the city, it can kill the enemy, but unfortunately it is too heavy, and the war horse must be used to drag it. Sports warfare can only be used to siege or defend cities.

Zhang Zhun was still very familiar with black gunpowder, as long as there was enough miscanthus salt, sulfur and charcoal powder, he could prepare black gunpowder with different effects. As for how to prepare ammunition, that's no problem at all, expert level.

The power of primitive black gunpowder is not great, which is the main reason why firearms cannot completely replace cold weapons, but if carefully blended and some special ingredients, such as copper oxide, the power of black gunpowder can be doubled immediately. A pound of black gunpowder with copper oxide is enough to blow a bus to pieces.

Cannons made of copper oxide black powder are absolutely staggering in their lethality if flowering shells are used. One such flowering bullet is worth thirty soldiers armed with smoothbore guns. For dense enemies, the lethality is much greater than that of solid bullets. It is especially useful when defending the city, and it is absolutely effective to fire a cannon into the swarming enemy army.

In the battles of this era, the favorite thing was the tactic of piling up crowds, even when the Manchurian Eight Banners were attacking the city. The dense siege team, if it is blown up several times by explosives or something, the loss can be imagined. However, the conditions for making black powder are not available now, and Yangjiatun has no miscanthus and no sulfur, so it has to be put away temporarily.

The key for the convoy to solve the battle is to rely on the triangular thorn.

During this period of time, Zhang Zhun carried out an all-round ideological building of the escort team, and the time for two lectures a day was also extended by more than thirty minutes compared with before. The modern military attaches great importance to ideological indoctrination, and Zhang Zhun will certainly not ignore it.

There are two main ideas that he instilled in the convoy. One is the basic content of [***] military thought. One is Han nationalism. The former was to help the military households build confidence in the victory of the rebellion and overthrow the Ming Dynasty. The latter is to fight against the increasingly powerful Houjin Tartars and protect the Central Plains.

In terms of discipline, changing the "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" is an excellent decree. Because the soldiers of the escort were all really poor people who had suffered from the oppression of the government and the landlords, they did not feel ideological resistance when they carried out the "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention." On the contrary, they are proud of such discipline from the bottom of their hearts. This is one of the best features of the convoy.

In terms of discipline in the troops, Zhang Zhun put a lot of energy into it. A large part of the army's combat effectiveness comes from strict discipline. Qi Jiguang's troops are better able to fight than Yu Dayou's troops, because the discipline of the Qi family army is very strict, and if the whole team retreats, the whole team will be beheaded together, and there will be no mercy. At the same time, the march and battle, Duqiu did not commit any crimes, and won the support of the common people. Part of the army under the command of Yu Dayou could not do this.

In the official army of the imperial court, discipline was also a watershed in battle. Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, and Lu Xiangsheng's troops were all relatively capable of fighting, because the discipline was better and the rewards and punishments were stricter. Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, and the vast majority of the Ming army troops were loosely disciplined and worse than bandits, and it was obvious that such troops were in rebellion, infighting, and did not obey commands.

In the "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions", Zhang Zhun emphasized the first point:

All actions are under command.

The soldiers of the escort team are all from Yangjiatun, and they have no problem fighting for Yangjiatun. However, what if the battlefield expands in the future, and what if the future battle has nothing to do with Yangjiatun? Will they still be as active as they are now? This is a question for Zhang Zhun to consider. It is very necessary to instill in us the concept that all actions are commanded from now on.

The convoy also carried out a full-scale training of the platoon.

Queue training is not only for the sake of good looks, not just to exercise the willpower of the soldiers, but to cultivate a sense of collective honor, cultivate everyone's spirit of coordination, cultivate team cohesion, and cultivate the basic temperament of soldiers.

Five days have passed, and the escort team has basically formed a whole, and there are special people to follow all the work. For example, ideological and political work was also handed over to Zou Mingjia to emphasize again and again. In a relatively closed environment, it is very good to repeatedly instill a certain concept. Zhang Zhun only needs to put forward new theories, new viewpoints, and new systems when he lectures twice a day.

In terms of intelligence, it is mainly handed over to the rat to be responsible.

The sudden attack of the third son of the salt lord Lei made Zhang Zhun realize that it was not enough to pay attention to Fushan City, but also to pay attention to the reaction of Jimo County and even Laizhou Capital. The current convoy is only eighty people, and any wave outside may drown them all. Of course, with the current government strength in various parts of Shandong, it is not so easy to set off a monstrous wave.

But in any case, meticulous intelligence work is very necessary. At the very least, Renjiatun, Hou Nantun, Hou Beitun, Zhaojiatun and other places north of Yangjiatun should arrange eyeliner to closely monitor the movements of Fushan City, Jimo County, and even Laizhou Mansion. If these tuns had been arranged with eyeliner before, Lei Laosan's surprise attack would not have any effect.

At the same time, it should be time to find out all the details of Fushan City.

If you want to kill Wang Shixin, you have to attack Fushan City, that's for sure. Wang Shixin is burdened with a lot of blood debts, and he will definitely not be caught with his hands tied, there is no doubt about it. How to attack Fushan City must be carefully studied. The muskets of Wang Shixin's Ding team are not easy to deal with, especially when used for defense. After the capture of Fushan City, how to deal with the counterattack of the imperial court is also a problem that needs to be studied in advance.

Also, it is not only the poor military households of Yangjiatun who want to kill Wang Shixin. Yangjiatun is just a tun that is more prominent, and other tuns also want to share the benefits. Since you want to share the benefits, you have to copy the guys, rise up and resist, and attack Fushan City together. Waiting for the pie to fall from the sky, Zhang Zhun will not even give him a son.

The rat is familiar with the three sects and the nine streams, and there are many doors, so it is very necessary for him to quietly investigate the situation of other tuns and do some preliminary understanding. Zhan Yingwei was killed by Wang Shixin, and his former partners couldn't just watch him being killed. If each tun can organize dozens of people to participate in the attack on Fushan City, the momentum will be very immense.

"Mouse, ask more, listen more, talk less. Do you understand? ”

Zhang Zhun commanded.

"Brother Yulin, don't worry, I'm good at finding out the news."

The rat went confidently.

Sure enough, then there was a steady stream of information gathered to Zhang Zhun.

After Lei Laosan was eliminated by Zhang Zhun and others, Wang Shixin noticed that Yangjiatun was not easy to deal with, and in order to prevent accidents, he ordered the implementation of strict control over Fushan City, and the city gates were basically closed. Wang Shixin's family team, as well as other minions of the Black Panthers and others, patrolled the city at night, for fear of being attacked. Wang Shixin also organized the families of other officers, and also gathered some idle people, armed them, and defended them tightly, and actually gathered three or four hundred people in a short time.

Because of the strict access control, it is impossible for the rat and others to easily enter Fushan City. However, Fushan City can't be completely cut off from the outside world, and the rat still successfully found a lot of useful information. He also successfully arranged two internal responses in the city, and once Zhang Zhun launched an attack on Fushan City, they could cooperate to a certain extent.

"Well done!"

Zhang Zhun nodded and praised the mouse.

Now that the conditions are not ripe for attacking Fushan City, Zhang Zhun asked the rat to continue to work hard and develop more internal responses.

"Take Fushan City, you are the first class."

Zhang Zhun encouraged the mouse.

The rat went with a sense of accomplishment.

On the evening of March 15, Zhang Zhun was training the escort team when Yang Ruifeng suddenly came.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zhun asked.

"It's a bit of a hassle." Yang Ruifeng replied worriedly.

It turned out that no one came to buy the salt in Yangjiatun, and there was a serious backlog.

Yang Kaide convened the backbone military households to discuss and discuss, but there was never a good idea. Everyone had no way to solve it, so they had to turn to Zhang Zhun for help.

The salt before Yangjiatun was sold to the salt lord Lei Laosan, and everyone sent the private salt to Zhaojiatun in the northernmost part and handed it over to a person named Lei Tong, who paid the money with one hand and the salt with the other. Although it is only a few pennies per catty of salt, it is an income after all. Now that Lei Laosan is dead, no one will buy Yangjiatun's private salt, and the military households in Yangjiatun will have no income all of a sudden.

In fact, outside Zhaojiatun, there are still a lot of salt owl activities. However, the people of Yangjiatun did not dare to transport the salt outside, and there was also a shortage of soldiers outside, and the salt lords each had their own sphere of influence, as well as the salt Ding of the Salt Inspection Division, which was also fierce and vicious, in case they were encountered, things would be dangerous. Don't talk about salt at that time, even people are in great danger.

"Where do the salt barons usually sell the illicit salt when they buy it?" Zhang Zhun asked calmly.

"Jimo Camp." Yang Ruifeng replied.

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