Chapter 23: Army Dressing
Looking at the people in disbelief, Huang Daxi couldn't help but start to reload gunpowder again, and he used a flowering bomb this time. As the cannon fired, a fuse-lit cannonball was fired at a rapid pace.
"Boom!" This time, the sound was even louder, and the effect of the explosion made everyone's jaws drop in shock, only to see that all the flowers and trees on the ground were shattered, and a large crater with a diameter of several meters was directly blown out of the ground.
"If a bunch of people stand there, I'm afraid they will be bombarded and there won't even be scum left!" Even Zhang Guanghua himself was afraid when he saw this power.
Just when everyone's eyes were attracted by the cannon, Zhang Guanghua suddenly remembered something.
Previously, he had only planned to focus on the development of arquebuses and cannons, but once Li Da heard him say this, he called him to the barracks on a drizzly day, and asked three soldiers to shoot with guns, bows and arrows, and crossbows. I saw that although the fire gun was easy to fire, it would be dumb if it didn't fire two shots in the rain. Archers, on the other hand, can shoot three arrows in ten seconds, and only need to take a break after shooting a pot of arrows. The final crossbowman, although it takes half a minute to reload once, can fire five arrows in a row, and the arrows fired are as powerful as shotguns, and the accuracy is excellent.
"Understood?"
"Understood."
Zhang Guanghua knew that this was Zhang Guanghua euphemistically reminding him not to ignore the role of cold weapons, he had been too enthusiastic about arquebuses before. He also finally understood that in fact, cold weapons and hot weapons now have their own advantages, and no one can replace the other. As long as smokeless gunpowder and automatic rifles were not invented, the bow and crossbow would never be withdrawn from the market, and before that it was too self-righteous to be self-righteous.
Thinking of this, he immediately gave a few words to the person behind him, and the man turned back and dragged a cart of things out of the warehouse again.
"General Li, I still have a little thing here, you might be interested." After each of them had tested two shells, Zhang Guanghua found Li Da again and spoke to him.
"What's good, huh...... Crossbow! Shen Li flipped through the red cloth, took out a weapon and looked at it, and immediately recognized it, but the difference was that it turned out to be an improved crossbow, with a shining steel bow body, and also a sight, shoulder rest, and trigger. The hand-drawn string, which used to be very primitive, has also been changed to a putter string.
"General Li, this is a single-shot crossbow, and there is also a repeating crossbow here." After Zhang Guanghua finished speaking, he took out another crossbow, which was similar to the previous one, except that the crossbow body was doubled in size, the arrow groove was also opened deeper, and the pushrod winding was changed to a hand-cranked gear rotation winding.
"That's good stuff!" Shen Li put on the strings, looked at the sky, and raised his hand to pull the trigger without aiming much.
"Whoosh......" As the crossbow arrow was fired, a sparrow was actually shot down.
"Good! I've got all of these weapons! Li Da, who was overjoyed, patted Zhang Guanghua's shoulder vigorously, "The county government will pay!" ”
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In the winter of 1354, the weather was sunny for the first time after a long snowfall.
Today is the day of the army's redress, and Zhang Guanghua, as a military advisor, and Shen Li, as a weapons supplier, witnessed this great moment.
As the old firearms, bows, and swords were all replaced, the soldiers received their new weapons one by one: collectively known as the "May Fourth Style". Watching them swear allegiance to the Congress together under the banner of the Sun and Moon Army, Zhang Guanghua seemed to see the situation when he swore an oath to the party flag when he was in college, and he couldn't help but feel full of pride in his heart, and he couldn't wait to follow them to the battle to kill the enemy and open up the territory.
"Strategist, there were many soldiers in the army who talked about you in private before, saying that you were the reincarnation of a demon, and that a demon magic was infinitely powerful, and I listened to it as a joke at that time. But now I have to believe it, but you are not a reincarnated demon, but a god! Li Da looked at the lively dressing scene, turned his head and said to Zhang Guanghua.
"I don't believe in immortals, but I believe in the truth." Zhang Guanghua put on a gorgeous pose, with a stinky face.
"You! Give a little color and open a dyeing shop. Hurry up and call Lu Yishan and your guards to teach the soldiers how to use new weapons. ”
After a few casual turns, Zhang Guanghua saw that no one was paying attention to him, and he ran away without a trace. I've been working hard for a few months, and it's time to give myself a vacation, isn't it?
On the school ground, with the assistance and guidance of Lu Yishan and several other members of Zhang Guanghua's guards, the soldiers immediately began new training after receiving their equipment. The first of these is the dismantling and reloading of arquebuses and crossbow machines.
At this time, the benefits of assembly line production are reflected. Although the current part specifications are not enough to be completely universal, as long as you can try a few more, you can always find a match. And now each weapon has a unique inscription number, and even each important artifact has the name of the craftsman engraved on it.
A sophisticated weapon needs to be accompanied by an elite soldier. And from now on, every weapon will belong to only one person.
The cold wind was cold, and when Li Da accompanied the soldiers to train hard, they didn't know that the weapons they had used had been packaged and secretly sold to Chen Youliang in Hunan under the instruction of Shen Li under Zhang Guanghua's instructions, and some of the excess materials were quietly sold to the Yuan army in Quanzhou. Hehe, there is no eternal war, only eternal interests.
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Outside the window, it was snowy, but the room was warm as spring, and on the big bed as soft as velvet, a man with red fruit slowly opened his sleepy eyes, looking at the two girls sleeping like cats on the left and right, the man smiled evilly, lifted the quilt, and moved his body down......
Just as the breath of Y was getting stronger and stronger, suddenly there was a "pop!" from the window. Syllable! There was a dense burst of gunfire, and the man fell off the bed violently in the flying of cotton wool.
"! Which one doesn't have long eyes to disturb Lao Tzu's dream! Zhang Guanghua, who was saliva, looked indignant, and the "Xiao Zhang" who was still high-spirited just now had already died down.
"Bang bang." The slapping outside the door continued.
"See if I don't scold you to death!" Zhang Guanghua hurriedly put on a coat and ran to open the door.
"Ahh ......" As soon as he opened the door, Zhang Guanghua saw a beautiful figure shouting, turned around and fled.
He looked down at his bare legs and muttered, "Isn't it necessary to react so much if you're wearing a pair of shorts?" ”
Zhang Guanghua finished dressing and came to the living room of the Chamber of Commerce to take a look. I saw a beautiful girl who was drinking tea with her head down, and her slightly powdered face was a little flushed, it was Li Xinlan, who she hadn't seen for a long time, she saw that Zhang Guanghua had already paced over, and her face seemed to be even redder.
"Why did Sister Xinlan come over, didn't she accompany the village chief today?" Zhang Guanghua sat down, took a cup of tea and said.
"Humph! Grandpa studied the law with Uncle Huang all day long, and it didn't make any sense at all, I wanted to go over to help him, and he actually said that I was a child. I can't do anything else, I can always copy and write, and I'll be seventeen after the New Year! Hearing Zhang Guanghua's question, Li Xinlan replied angrily.
"Oops!" Zhang Guanghua secretly said in his heart: "This girl must have some purpose." ”
Sure enough, seeing Zhang Guanghua bowing his head and not saying a word, Li Xinlan continued: "So...... I'm going to come and see if there's anything I can do here, and you must help me. ”
Zhang Guanghua had a black line on his face: "The factory is full of big men, shirtless and picking their feet all day long, which is where girls stay." ”
"I don't care! I'm going to stay with you. Brother Zhang, please, I've been bored to death for the past few months. ”
Looking at Li Xinlan's pleading and pitiful look, Zhang Guanghua was finally defeated. "That's it, when the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce can be done, it is better to do something easy with Xinlan, and take a vacation." He thought to himself.
The matter was promised, but how to do it made Zhang Guanghua worried. The development of the Chamber of Commerce began in July and lasted nearly half a year, from the initial training of craftsmen to steelmaking, burning cement and manufacturing guns, all of which were accumulated little by little by relying on technology. If you want to insert a person halfway, you can only start from the lowest workers on the assembly line, but obviously this will not work, and the girls' families, especially the girls of the village chief's family, can only be coaxed delicately.
"Let's go and talk to your grandfather." In the end, Zhang Guanghua, who had no choice, could only pull Li Xinlan to find the village chief again, wanting to see if he could get rid of this burden.
Nowadays, the county government has been renovated, in addition to the main hall, the ancient style has been preserved, and the dormitory building and garden in the backyard have made extensive use of the steel-concrete structure produced by the "Conch Cement Factory".
I found the village chief, who was waving a book in his study.
"Mr. Zhang is here, sit, Lu Zhen, go pour Mr. Zhang a cup of tea." Looking up and seeing Zhang Guanghua, the village chief stopped what he was doing and said.
"No, it's all your own. Zhen'er, no need to go, I'll do it myself. Pouring tea and going around Lu Zhen, Zhang Guanghua couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Don't look at General Lu being tall and burly, but his nephews and nieces are handsome and chic, and the other is beautiful and lovely." Although Lu Zhen is only fourteen or fifteen years old, she is already slim and has a bumpy figure. ”
As soon as Li Xinlan and Lu Zhen met, they went to the garden to play. And Zhang Guanghua chatted with the village chief without a word.
"Village Chief, how old are you?"
"A handful of old bones, they're in their seventies."
"But I see that the village chief, you are getting younger and younger, you are not only looking good lately, it seems that you don't even have a crutch!"
"Don't say it, it seems to be a bit of a thing. Let me think about it, by the way, thanks to your "National Code", I will study and study the law now when I have time, and accompany Huang Shangshu to deduce the ancient and modern ......"
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