Chapter 111: Bird's Gun

Wu Fanhui was holding a bird gun in his hand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The length of the bird gun is about seven feet, and it stands much taller than a human body, and the slender barrel is estimated to be about a meter and a half.

Li Yong, Ma Jigang, Sun Kailin, Liu Fangheng and others have a soft spot for the captured war horses, and their eyes look different, and they are also surprised when they see the grain, but they don't look at the bird at all, as if this thing doesn't exist.

Bird guns are very common in the border army, and the strips and cloth bags are indispensable equipment for bird guns, the cloth bags are sealed gunpowder and lead bullets, and the strips are poured from the muzzle of the gun, squeezing the lead bullets, so that they are more powerful when they are fired.

The army of the Ming Dynasty fought mainly with cold weapons, but the role of hot weapons has been highlighted, and many history books have recorded that they are all showing how powerful the firearms of the DPRK are, etc., which also makes Wu Fanhui feel strange, since the firearms are so powerful, why do they always fail when fighting, at least they will win once when they hit the luck.

Wu Fanhui really didn't understand why Li Yong and the others didn't look at the bird, so he asked Li Yong to demonstrate and fired a shot with the bird, and now he understood why no one cared about the bird.

The process of launching is too complicated.

First of all, you need to pour gunpowder from the bottom of the barrel and the wooden bed, then you need to pour lead bullet from the muzzle, then you need to use a strip to reach through the muzzle, press the lead bullet, then take out the fire fold, light the straw paper, use the straw paper to light the fire rope, and wait until the fire rope ignites the gunpowder before it can be fired.

At such a rate of fire, in the face of a rapidly charging cavalry, the bird gun is almost the same as a burning stick.

It is no wonder that the Ming army is equipped with a large number of bird guns, but it is not an opponent of the Eight Banners.

This history book is really harmful, misleading people's children, what Ming army's firearms are powerful, powerful fart, such equipment, and still want to take the initiative on the battlefield, you should be a wooden man and sandbag in battle.

Wu Fanhui can't wait to throw away the bird gun in his hand, this thing is about the same as the most old-fashioned shotgun after a few hundred years, but the speed and accuracy of the launch are definitely not as good as the most old-fashioned shotgun after a few hundred years, the range cannot be very far, and the lethality cannot be very large, unless the other party is a fool, walk to a place not far from you, and watch you launch in a daze.

And compared with the oldest shotgun hundreds of years later, the biggest difference lies in the firing device, the bird gun needs the fire rope to ignite the gunpowder, the gunpowder burns to launch the lead bullet, the shotgun has the function of primer, and it can be fired by knocking the trigger.

How can such a situation be possible in a combat fight, people can allow you to light the arquebus and fire the first shot, how can it give you the opportunity to fire the second shot.

In Wu Fanhui's eyes, this bird gun is indeed similar to scrap iron.

But Wu Fanhui is a person who crosses, he knows that it will not be long, hot weapons combat will completely replace cold weapons combat, and now Europe, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries have begun to spend energy to develop guns, and the Hongyi cannon they developed once became the main firearm of the Ming army.

"Li Yong, this bird gun is too slow to shoot at a faster speed, it needs to be lit with a fire rope, and it doesn't have any effect in rainy weather, are there any other shortcomings?"

"Young master, there are too many problems with the bird, the number of shots is too much, the barrel is hot, you must stop firing, otherwise it will explode, before you attack others, you fell first, my subordinates once saw the sergeant shoot the bird, the chamber exploded directly, and the person who happened screamed and fell to the ground, and there is another point, that is, the lead bullet fired by the bird, the power is not as powerful as the bow and arrow and the crossbow, and it has no effect if it is a little farther away."

"I remember that hundreds of years ago, Emperor Taizu used firearms, why is it still like this now."

"Young master, Emperor Taizu's subordinates really don't know, if you want to say that this bird gun is good, it is rare to blow up the chamber, if it was the arquebus before, I don't know how many bombed ones, the sergeant didn't even dare to use it."

Wu Fanhui can only shake his head, it seems that the Ming Dynasty firearms are still in a low-level stage, this is not surprising, although a few years later, Nanjing Hubu right attendant Bi Maokang invented the flintlock pistol, but really rely on pulling the trigger to fight the rifle, but also nearly two hundred years later before the real birth, Bi Maokang invented the flintlock pistol, the imperial court can not take out the silver to develop it, but also can not improve, so that this advanced technology was shelved, and later the Qing Dynasty, is a complete ban on the development of flintlock pistols, they are afraid that the common people have firearms to rebel.

Later, Europe developed advanced artillery, ships, and flintlock pistols with a much faster firing speed, and knocked on the door of the East with strong guns, and the incomparably glorious East in history has since fallen into an era of passive beating and humiliation.

As long as you are Chinese, almost everyone knows this humiliating history.

Therefore, Wu Fanhui will not easily give up the bird gun in his hand, he needs to improve firearms on a large scale, although he does not understand very well, but some people in this era understand that as long as they are willing to spend silver, there will always be people who can develop more advanced firearms.

Wu Fanhui slowly put down the bird gun in his hand, he doesn't have the strength to develop firearms now, this thing is the investment of burning silver, he doesn't have strong financial resources, he doesn't have enough power, don't even think about it.

But Wu Fanhui will never give up the development of firearms, he knows very well what this means, no one has such a clear understanding as he has, as long as he really masters the sharp firearms, he can control everything.

1,212 stone of grain, 85 war horses, 28 carriages, 104 bows and arrows, 91 surrendered rogues, 72 women and children, and 24 large wooden boxes, this is Wu Fanhui's main harvest this time, and the cost is that four people were killed and three were seriously injured.

The problem of the seriously injured three people should not be very big, and the mashed cypress leaves, thousand needles and pampas with the child's urine, the effect of stopping bleeding is very good, and it can also kill the bacteria in the wound and prevent inflammation from appearing, you must know that many sergeants do not die of trauma after being injured, but die of later wound infection and inflammation.

Wu Fanhui did not plan to stay in Jiazhou, let alone go to Shenmu and Fugu and other places, the success of this battle lies in his precise deployment, in the rough combat ability of the rogue, and even more in the changes in the general situation.

Because the Houjin Tatars entered the customs, the Jingshi was in danger, and Emperor Chongzhen mobilized a large number of troops into King Jingqin, which directly led to the emptiness of troops in the north and the Central Plains, and could not draw enough troops to suppress bandits, and the army of King Qin, especially the border army, many mutinies, directly joined the ranks of the Liukou.

After the Jin Tartars withdrew from the Guannei, the imperial court also began to pay attention to the Liukou, but unfortunately, the dispatched governors of the three sides, and even the governors of the five provinces, were almost like rice buckets, either they were stubborn and self-serving, thinking that the Liukou were vulnerable, or they were merciful, thinking that the Liukou were forced to rebel, and they were still the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they should be appeased.

When the power of the Liukou really grew and the imperial court wanted to deal with it with all its might, the situation in Liaodong also began to get out of control.

The ending is very clear in the history books.

The rogues in Shenmu and Fugu and other places, although their combat effectiveness is not very strong, and it can even be said that they do not have much combat effectiveness, but they have a lot of people, unless it is a large-scale army, it is possible to defeat and exterminate them, with Wu Fanhui's one hundred and ten people, entering Shenmu and Fugu, there is a taste of death.

The harvest has been quite a lot, which prompted Wu Fanhui to make up his mind and immediately withdraw to Mizhi County.

"Ma Jigang, you take the five brothers, immediately rush back to Shilipu, contact Dai Nengxiang, what needs to be done, the letter is very clear, this matter must be completed as soon as possible."

Wu Fanhui looked at Li Yong, Sun Kailin, Liu Fangheng and others beside him, and continued.

"When we return to Mizhi County, we can't go to Shilipu, which will arouse the attention of all parties, and even the county government will intervene, and the people who followed us back to Mizhi County this time have more than 160 people, plus the original 96 brothers, the total number has reached 259 people, which is not small."

"What's more critical is more than 1,000 stone of grain, eighty-five war horses, and nearly thirty carriages, it is impossible not to attract attention."

"We moved to Ma'anshan Village, you have all followed me to Ma'anshan Village, the terrain in the village is quite flat, there are hillsides in front and back, and there are not many roads in and out of the village, it is relatively safe, and with the strength we currently have, no one dares to covet it casually, as for the county government, everything is up to me to deal with."

"After resting for two to three days in Jiazhou and packing up all our things, we set off and strive to rush back to Mizhi County and arrive in Ma'anshan Village within three days."

"We will stabilize for a period of time in the future, and during this time, we must step up the training of many brothers, especially the ninety-one people who surrendered and surrendered, such a large-scale sortie, I am afraid that it will be a long time later."

Tranquility and stability are everyone's wishes, no one wants to live a life of displacement, Li Yong and others are the same, they must be happy to hear Wu Fanhui say this, and the look on their faces has become much soothed.

On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

The original meaning of this day is that the dragon king in charge of clouds and rain in the sky will raise his head on this day, and since then the rain has begun to increase, and the golden season of spring plowing has also arrived.

However, the second day of February in the third year of Chongzhen is very special for Wu Fanhui.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month, he led his brothers to set off from Mizhi County, on the night of the thirtieth day of the first month, until the first day of February, he exterminated Zhang Miaoshou, and on the night of the first month of February, until the second day of the first month of February, he completely exterminated He Shuangquan, and the harvest was huge.

Maybe this day is really the day when the dragon raises its head, Wu Fanhui feels that he is a dragon, and after more than a year, he finally began to raise his head.

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