After a few rounds of shooting, the smoke filled the air, and Dorgon choked and coughed twice, and immediately waved his hand to stop. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After watching these rounds of shooting, Dolgon frowned slightly, feeling that the shooting speed was not fast, and the interval between each round of shooting was relatively long, not at all like the Ming Dynasty firearms unit that he had encountered in Tianjin Wei.

The other people's shots were one after another, round after round, one after another, and if their cavalry charged head-on, there was basically no chance.

How so?

Dolgon frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Why do you have to stop for so long between each round of shooting, it's enough time to breathe, no!" ”

The Manchu general next to him explained: "Master, arquebus is like this, after each shot, you have to clean the barrel, load gunpowder, load iron pellets, load the fire rope, and then ignite, and then aim and shoot, it does take so long, it used to be slower, after training for so long, the speed has increased a lot, and it is already the fastest speed." ”

Dolgon said dissatisfiedly: "I don't care, find a way, you must increase the shooting speed, otherwise, it will be chicken ribs at all." ”

Increasing the rate of fire is as hard as it gets!

The Manchu generals next to him were silent, because everyone knew that this was difficult to do, Dolgon snorted heavily, and said with extreme dissatisfaction: "Waste, it's all a bunch of waste!" ”

Seeing that Dolgon was angry, a Manchu general seemed to be of a high rank, and said boldly: "Master, or we don't want to get any firearms battalions, what we need to pay attention to is cavalry, train strong cavalry, and develop our iron cavalry." ”

Dolgon said: "The firearms battalion cannot be abandoned halfway, it must be carried out. ”

Seeing that Dolgon insisted, another Manchu general said: "Master, I have a way, maybe it can be done." ”

Dorgon said, "Say! ”

The Manchu general said: "Master, just now we were shooting in a three-stage style, should we change it to a four-stage, or five-stage, or even six-stage shooting?" ”

The eyes of many Manchu generals lit up, and after thinking about it, Dolgon also nodded and said, "I think it's okay, so I'll do it." ”

So, the experiment began immediately, and through the test, this Manchu firearms battalion adopted a six-stage shooting method, when shooting, there were six teams, the first team shot and finished retreating and loading, the second team stepped forward to shoot and then retreated and loaded, the third team stepped forward, then the fourth team, then the fifth team, the sixth team, and the cycle began over and over again.

In this way, of course, it can provide continuous firepower, and shoot round after round, the disadvantage is that the number of people involved in each round is greatly reduced, the same is 3,000 people, in the case of three-stage shooting, 1,000 people in each round, and in the case of six-stage shooting, there are only 500 people in each round.

However, in the case of primitive arquebuses without flintlock pistols, continuous fire was only possible with the six-stage firing method.

As a result, the first firearms battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty began training every day, practicing their six-stage shooting method every day.

Zhang Feng knew less about the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was far away in the northeast, while Zhang Feng was in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two were geographically thousands of miles apart.

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General Military Office.

Wang Chaoyong was talking to Zhang Feng, because there was no third person, Wang Chaoyong returned to his "true colors", Wang Chaoyong was smiling, "Lord General Soldier, you are so unfair, their navy eats and drinks spicy, and the sea battle is so enjoyable that our eyes fall out with envy, you must always level your bowl of water, our division has not been war, everyone has faded out of a bird." ”

The naval battle of the Navy in Naha has spread among the middle and senior officers, and after listening to some colorful descriptions, where can Wang Chaoyong sit still, no, he went to the General Military Mansion to "complain".

Seeing Wang Chaoyong's appearance, Zhang Feng laughed and asked, "Senior Commander Wang, you want to go to the battlefield and show your hands, right?" ”

Wang Chaoyong hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, yes, my hands have been itchy for a long time, and I have long wanted to go to the battlefield." ”

Zhang Feng asked, "How are you training?" ”

Wang Chaoyong patted his chest and said: "Everyone trains hard every day, and now they are just about to go to the battlefield." ”

Zhang Feng thought for a while and said, "I want to go to the battlefield, I want to fight, right?" ”

Wang Chaoyong hurriedly said: "Yes, yes." ”

Zhang Feng said: "It's the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, wait a few more months, and after the spring of next year, I'll take you outside for a spin." ”

Wang Chaoyong said curiously: "Lord Commander, where are you going?" ”

Zhang Feng slowly stood up, walked to the huge world map hanging on the wall, and nodded heavily in Japan: "Let's go here, go to the Satsuma Domain of the Wa Kingdom, and teach them a lesson by the way." ”

"Ahh Wang Chaoyong was startled at first, and then he became happy, rubbed his hands happily and said: "Lord Commander, great, wait a few months, we will go to Satsuma Domain!" ”

This is not Zhang Feng's whim, Zhang Feng estimates that this time Shimazu Nobuyoshi has suffered such a big loss, and he will definitely take revenge on himself, rather than letting Shimazu Nobuyoshi find them, it is better to take the initiative and find it himself, and go to the Satsuma Domain for a walk.

Shimazu Nobuyoshi has lost so many warships, it is impossible to come to Naha to retaliate in a short time, and it will take at least a year and a half to repair the new warships, so Zhang Feng is ready to do it first, and after the spring of next year, he will personally lead a team to the Satsuma Domain.

Wang Chaoyong looked at the map, looked excited, and said happily: "Lord Commander, it's good to go to Japan, great, in the past, the Japanese invaded my southeast coast, this time we should go to the door to collect a little interest." ”

Zhang Feng nodded a little and said to Wang Chaoyong: "Do a good job of training, and after a few months, wait to go to the battlefield." ”

Wang Chaoyong said loudly: "Yes! Commander-in-Chief! ”

Watching Wang Chaoyong leave happily, Zhang Feng thought in his heart, the expedition to Japan is a big move, and it takes a lot of preparations, training is only one of the aspects, and more importantly, it needs a lot of warships and transport ships.

A division of the army, even if it is not an independent brigade, has 10,000 thousands of people, and to go to Japan, at least a dozen or even more than 20 3,000 transport ships are needed, and this requires the Shanghai shipyard and the newly built Ningbo shipyard to build ships at full capacity.

However, Zhang Feng did not think that his expedition to Japan could not be realized for the time being, because after the beginning of spring, a major event occurred in Liaodong, which completely disrupted Zhang Feng's plan.

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Changzhou Mansion, harvest grain number.

The harvest grain chain has opened 16 branches, the head office is naturally in the city of Songjiang Prefecture, the area is also the largest, and the other branches are all over Songjiang Mansion, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, and even opened to some of the following counties.

Xu Liangyi accompanied Zhang Feng and was looking at a newly opened store, which is located in the north of Changzhou Fucheng, and on the first day of opening, business was as good as usual.

In the last battle of Naha, Zhang Feng seized about 100,000 stone of grain, as well as some sugar, cotton and linen, etc., which were naturally sold in various stores.

After the opening of Zhangfeng's 16 grain stores, the grain prices in Songjiang, Suzhou, and Changzhou finally stabilized, and the price of grain per stone dropped to about 225 yuan of silver, which was already a normal price, which was much lower than that in the northern region.

Zhang Feng was dressed in casual clothes, almost no different from ordinary rich boys, and Xu Liangyi was dressed as a businessman, and the two were in the store, and no one recognized them.

"This rice is delicious, good and cheap, I want to buy more and go back."

"Look, there's sugar, it's really rare to see such white sugar."

"Man, bring me twenty pounds of this rice."

“……”

The store was lively, several guys were very busy, seeing this, Zhang Feng smiled happily, thinking in his heart, with these grain stores, his financial situation is further abundant, basically do not have to worry about silver.

After looking at this grain store for a while and explaining a few words to Xu Liangyi, Zhang Feng took an entourage (a guard in civilian clothes) and a group of two people out of this grain store and wandered around the streets of Changzhou.

"Oh, there's a shop over there that seems to sell rouge, go check it out." Zhang Feng thought so in his heart.

When he came to Changzhou Mansion, Zhang Feng wanted to buy some things for Chen Yuanyuan to take back, such as good rouge, etc., obviously, this store is good, the store is relatively large, and the decoration is also good.

As soon as Zhang Feng entered the store, the guys in the store greeted him warmly, "Hello guest officer, welcome to Liang Ji old store, we are a time-honored brand with a history of 100 years, mainly ......"

The guy enthusiastically introduced, Zhang Feng said: "I'll take a look for myself." ”

Zhang Feng looked in the store, and saw a delicate small wooden comb, and selected a box of good rouge, ready to buy it back as a gift for Chen Yuanyuan.

"Oops!" There was a coquettish cry, and then I heard the sound of something falling to the ground and shattering.

Zhang Feng felt that someone had bumped into him, turned his head to look, and saw a girl in a strong suit screaming, a delicate small mirror in her hand fell to the ground, and then shattered.

Zhang Feng even recognized that this exquisite little mirror was a product produced by his own glass factory, and such a small mirror would sell for at least one or two pieces of silver, but now Zhang Feng was not concerned about this broken small mirror.

The girl in the power suit said coquettishly: "You are blind! bumped into this girl, and a mirror that you finally liked was also broken by you. ”

For a while, Zhang Feng couldn't cry or laugh, and thought in his heart, I didn't move when I stood here, because you didn't pay attention to whether it was good or not to bump into me, but Zhang Feng knew that looking at the other party's posture, he wouldn't reason with himself at all.

Zhang Feng usually doesn't care about a woman, and it looks like the other party is only fifteen or sixteen years old, so Zhang Feng smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, otherwise, this mirror will be counted in my account." ”

Qin Xiaoyu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, a typical little pepper, with a straightforward and fiery personality, and the small mirror that finally caught his eyes was broken, and there was nowhere to get out.

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