In the school field of Beizhuang in Weicheng, two young men wearing helmets held eight-foot long sticks, bowed and bowed, and stood opposite each other. The top of the pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info long stick is wrapped in gray cloth and stained with white ash, so you can see that it is actual combat training at a glance.

With the arbitrator, Han Zhong shouted: "Attack." ”

Two long sticks quickly approached and attacked each other - bang The popping beans also seemed to hit several times, the figures were staggered, and a teenager fell on his back. When the boy got up, there was a clear white spot on his left chest.

The victorious boy folded his stick on the ground and stood on his legs, waiting for the next command.

Zhang Fang, who was watching the battle under the pergola of the school field, nodded: "Battle." ”

Han Zhong put on a triangular red flag, raised his hand, and nine teenagers came out of the ranks, side by side with the victorious boy, and put on helmets. Then ten more teenagers came out of the ranks, wearing helmets and sticks, facing each other.

"Attack!"

The school field suddenly thundered, the figures were churning, and the smoke and dust were filled. People are constantly falling to the ground, sticks falling or flying. In just a few dozen breaths, the victory and defeat have been divided, one side is completely destroyed, and there are still four people left on one side.

"Team A wins." Han announced the results loudly.

Zhang Fang let the victorious side approach, and he noticed that the winning young man who had been singled out earlier was also among them, and there was only a white scratch on the outside of his left arm on his body, which showed that his skills were quite good.

Han Jun, who was standing beside Zhang Fang, said loudly: "Jin see the head of the family, take off your hood." ”

The helmet was removed, revealing sweat-stained young faces, some of which looked smaller than Zhang.

Zhang Fang asked the victorious young man who looked seventeen or eighteen years old, "What's it called?" Who's the people? ”

"Liu Feng, a native of Xie County, Hedong."

"It's actually the Liu family, can it be related to the royal family?"

"If you go home, your ancestor was a prince in the Jingwang Mansion in Zhongshan and was given the surname Liu."

"I see." Zhang Fang nodded and said, "Looking at your skills, it doesn't look like you've only been training for a year, have you practiced before?" ”

Liu Feng suddenly said: "My father is a ranger in all directions, and he has his own inheritance, and he has the guidance of Ganhou, and he will gain every day." ”

Han Jun also helped on the side: "Liu Feng is strong, calm and measured, and he is the leader of the Hu Guards. ”

Zhang Fang doesn't care much about the affairs of the Hu Guards, he tells things to go on, he has someone to do things, he only needs the result, regardless of the process. Encourage yourself at the moment and let Liu Feng and the others return to the team.

Next is the long-range shot of the crossbow. The crossbow is a controlled weapon, but if you only practice the crossbow with the closest stone, you can still play a sidekick. The shooting results of the guards are not bad, naturally far from being compared with the coach of the sixth year of junior high school, but it is not bad to have this result in just one year.

The sixth junior high school also took four proud disciples to perform galloping skills, and the arrows hit the target, winning the applause of the teenagers.

Galloping is a difficult technique, and half a year is only enough for teenagers to learn to ride horses, and it is impossible to learn galloping. Only four of the teenagers have a foundation in riding and archery, and they have been trained hard for half a year under the sixth year of junior high school.

Zhang Fang also knew that this matter was in a hurry, even if he was himself, his riding skills killed the young people in the capital in seconds, and his archery skills were also remarkable, but the combination of the two may not be as good as these teenagers.

Compared with the dignified array of the teenagers, the drill of the female guards led by Qingyan took the route of skill. The female guards are also teenage girls, all holding double daggers, fighting closely, wiping their throats, shaving their wrists, poking their hearts, and piercing their eyes...... The moves are vicious and terrifying.

Zhang Fang was very suspicious, even if he was wearing a metal leather protective helmet, a protective leather vest, and a wooden dagger. Such a ferocious style of play will also end up bruised......

After the inspection, Zhang Fang was quite satisfied, this young guard unit has been training for a whole year, doing nothing, just training, everything is according to the standards of a professional army. has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and finally has a bit of a look.

However, at present, this young guard team is not yet useful, considering that they will be used in the future outside the Saiwai, Zhang Fang particularly emphasized that everyone's riding skills must pass the test - not everyone is required to be good at riding and shooting, but all team members must meet the riding skills. What does it mean to meet the target? It is to be stronger than his master. If you are weaker than your master, who will protect whom?

At least a year to spare.

Zhang Fang dropped a sentence: "Give me to practice to death!" Adopt the last punishment system - the last place, wash the boots of the whole team. ”

The Han brothers and the junior high school and others heard that their scalps were numb, and after a day of training, they knew best what the boots smelled like, and they were sour...... This is an order, I guess these boys are going crazy in training.

After inspecting the training, Zhang Fang entered the back mountain, where there is a big cave, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature is pleasant. Of course, Zhang Fang did not come to cool off, but to check the gunpowder reserves.

The imperial court had already obtained the gunpowder formula and developed it, but because Zhang Fang was still guarding the system at that time, he could not come to guide in person, and the result was tragic. The gunpowder exploded, killing one person and injuring three others, and one of the three injured died of his wounds.

This caused a certain panic, and the master craftsman in charge of making gunpowder pleaded guilty. There is even a subordinate who impeached the Marquis of Fuping, believing that his dedication was unknown and that he should be punished. Fortunately, Zhang Fang was still defending the system at that time, and Gan Yanshou and Chen Tang wrote to defend it, and Emperor Yuan didn't want to attack his nephew at this time, so he issued an edict to suspend development. So, the matter was closed.

As far as Zhang Fang knew, so far, the imperial court has not had a single real gunpowder weapon.

"It's been too long." Zhang Fang couldn't help it except sigh. He couldn't be clearer that the catalyst of weapons is war, and without the force of war, it is difficult to get the expected response if it breaks the sky.

Zhang Fang can actually take out a homemade gunpowder weapon to open the eyes of the Han monarchs and ministers and make them realize that this is a weapon of war. But after thinking about it, he didn't want to take this risk - just offering a formula, he was almost punished, if he really showed this big killing weapon in front of the Son of Heaven, would he be impeached afterwards with bad intentions? Don't forget, the first eunuch of the two Han people in power right now, that is a guy who can kill people with his tongue invisibly.

The imperial court gave up research, but Zhang Fang would not give up, he not only hoarded a large number of raw materials, made a large number of explosives, but also continued to research and improve. His inspection of the guards today was just incidental, and his main purpose was actually to improve the gunpowder.

As soon as he entered the mountain road, he saw a man in his forties, dark and thin, with deep wrinkles on his face and hands, approaching and saying respectfully: "Ji Meng has seen the head of the family. ”

Ji Meng is Qingyan's brother who is Yanli, the son of the elderly. is different from Qingyan, the righteous daughter, this is the elder son's own son. Therefore, the brother and sister do not have the same surname, the age gap is also large, and the appearance is not half similar. In fact, Ji Meng is only in his early thirties, but the long years of hard life make him look old.

Zhang Fang has the virtue of revenge against the elderly, and the grace of taking in Qingyan, not to mention changing Ji Meng's entire tragic career. All this makes Ji Meng's loyalty no less than that of his sister. After investigation, Zhang Fang arranged for him to enter the gunpowder workshop.

Perhaps because of his perennial relationship with minerals, Ji Meng was very interested in gunpowder, and slowly showed his talent in his work.

"Master of the family, the particle method you mentioned last time, after months of exploration, has an eyebrow." Ji Meng rubbed his hands excitedly, "We have already made the first batch, so we reported to the head of the family, but I didn't expect the head of the family to come in person, it was really ...... Hey hey ......"

The change of gunpowder from powder to granules is definitely a qualitative leap, Zhang Fang is anxious to see the results, and does not allow Ji Meng to be polite, and directly ordered the test.

Everyone came to an open field, spread out on both sides, and saw Ji Meng take out a bamboo tube about three feet long, cut it in half, dredge the joint, lay it flat on the ground, and slightly raise it to make it tilt. Then, first pour half a catty of gray-black powdered gunpowder on half of the bamboo chips, and then pour the same amount of rice-grained granular gunpowder on the other half of the bamboo pieces. After that, plug in the leads separately and retreat to a safe distance.

Ji Meng held the coals in his hand, asked for instructions with his eyes, and saw the head of the family nodding and igniting the two fuses respectively.

The sparks flashed and soon burned to the end, and then an astonishing scene appeared: the granules of gunpowder slammed lightly, but in the blink of an eye, they burned from beginning to end, three feet away, and it was only a matter of one or two breaths. Such a high speed of combustion is truly impressive. On the other hand, powdered gunpowder burned unhurriedly and slowly, and it took five or six breaths before it burned out......

Although they do not understand the principle that the faster the combustion rate, the greater the energy released per unit time, it is not difficult to judge which is better or worse in this intuitive and obvious comparison.

Zhang Fang took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "We can finally make a real thunder cannon." ”

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(Thanks to Feng Meng, Caizhu, Bookworm - Cancer Snow Hare, DSBGHOST, Foolish is Sin, Nico88, Empty Memories Wu Hook, FDGHFFG, XATHENA) (To be continued.) )