Chapter 14: Quasi-arquebuses
On the contrary, the next day, a large number of notices were posted in the barracks and in the city, publicizing the policy of Li Lu's army not to disturb the people, and also announcing the official appointments of Zhang Guanghua, chairman of the Central Military Commission, Li Da, commander-in-chief of the army, Lu Guangfu, deputy commander-in-chief, 1,000 households and 10 households in the army, and officials of the county government.
You don't have to think about it to know that the chairman and commander were made by Zhang Guanghua, who we love to spoof. At that time, Li Dazhu was struggling with what kind of position should be given to the army leader who was ostensibly controlled by Zhang Guanghua and Zhang Guanghua, the nominal leader, and the original positions of the Yuan army could not be applied at all. When Zhang Guanghua said what the chairman and commander said, they immediately felt that it was very appropriate. the chairman, i.e., the person who sits at the head of the table; Commander: The person who gives the command. It was so apt that the official name was decided.
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In the blink of an eye, Xianyou City spent two days in a calm atmosphere. It's time for Li Lu's army in the plan again, and now it's the day for the emperor's ** team to go to Dehua County. Although the "National Code" was not yet completed, after that night's conversation, everyone began to regard themselves as the country, and in order to show that the rebel army represented both the country and the emperor, Zhang Guanghua officially changed the name of the army to "Emperor ** Team" in the usual spoof spirit.
"Strategist, good news!" Finally arrived in front of Zhang Guanghua, who was about to set out, Shen Li, who rode all the way from Anxi, was out of breath.
"What's the good news, Shopkeeper Shen, you're coming like you're on fire?" Zhang Guanghua made a rare joke.
"The arquebus you told me to make will work."
"What? Check it out! Hearing what Shopkeeper Shen said, Zhang Guanghua immediately became excited.
After taking a shot, Zhang Guanghua found that it was a quasi-arquebus modified from a Yuan Dynasty firecracker. Because the barrel of the fire gun is cast in iron, not made of stainless steel, and the fire rope is also made of fuse, this kind of gun is not good at a glance, and it is estimated that it cannot be used for actual combat, but it is enough to train its own guards. Although he knew that the power was limited, Zhang Guanghua was still very happy, and now he finally had the tools to let the guards train the three rows of firearms to shoot in a row.
"How many strokes are there?" Thinking of this, Zhang Guanghua asked again.
"Not much, just ten strokes." Shopkeeper Shen smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's indeed a little little." ”
"Nope! Just about. It seems that Shopkeeper Shen knows what I think. By the way, it's up to you to give the artisans a little reward. In the future, we will reward the craftsmen who have made achievements, and we must form a routine. ”
"Okay." Shopkeeper Shen replied respectfully.
Putting ten quasi-arquebuses on the carriage, Zhang Guanghua went back in high spirits and began to experiment.
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Huang Er, the younger brother of the Huang brothers who had previously assisted Zhang Guanghua in blasting the city wall, went out with Li Da to continue the attack on Dehua and Yongchun, and Zhang Guanghua decided to wait for the army to break through these two county towns, and then let Huang Er return to Anxi with the army.
With Huang Er's blasting skills, the suspense of breaking the city is not big, and Zhang Guanghua is not ready to go out with the army, but plans to return to Anxi directly and make a real arquebus as soon as possible.
The elder brother of the Huang brothers, Huang Da, was left by Zhang Guanghua. He is smart and studious, loves experiments, and is good at recording and summarizing, and is a rare research-oriented talent. After getting along with Zhang Guanghua in the past few days, he has mastered some of the essence of airtight blasting.
However, this time, in addition to researching the explosives bag instead of the "explosive coffin", he also had another task: to study anti-personnel grenades that can be thrown from a distance.
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"Strategist, it's too tiring to travel like this, can we change it?" Huang Da, like other soldiers, did not call him "chairman" as before, but called him "military advisor" as before, after all, everyone was still slow to accept new things.
Zhang Guanghua looked at the uneven horse road in the dust, smiled slightly, waved the horsewhip and said, "Isn't it quite good to ride in a carriage?" Why do you want to change. Don't forget, the car is full of explosives that you can see heavier than your life, and it's up to you to research our explosives packs. ”
After speaking, Zhang Guanghua touched the mane of the mount under him lovingly, and continued: "Don't say that Huang Da, your BMW is quite easy to ride. Drive! ”
Looking at the galloping military advisor, Huang Da shook his head helplessly, so he lay back on the carriage to continue his bumpy journey, he also got a bounty after breaking the city, advocating freedom, he immediately bought a good BMW, but before he started riding, he was rushed by the military advisor to exercise equestrian skills.
Shen Li and several other guards also rode forward in the carriage together, and they were left far behind by Zhang Guanghua in a few breaths.
All the way forward, Zhang Guanghua came to Lu Yishan, who was opening the road in front, but he did not stop, but went straight to Lu Yishan and rode to the front to breathe fresh air. Since learning to ride a horse in the past few days, Zhang Guanghua has gradually fallen in love with this sport, riding a horse can not only exercise the body, but also avoid being a vacuum cleaner behind the horse's butt on the carriage.
"Yishan, there's nothing ahead!" After running around again, Zhang Guanghua asked casually.
"No! The front is very calm, and it is estimated that we will be able to return to Anxi at noon. Seeing Zhang Guanghua rushing over, Lu Yishan deliberately slowed down the horse's speed.
Seeing that there was nothing to do, Zhang Guanghua chatted with him and imperceptibly instilled some modern military and political knowledge in him.
I don't know how long we talked, but suddenly there were some noisy shouts in front of me.
"I'll take a look." After Lu Yishan finished speaking, he galloped away.
Soon Lu Yishan returned to Zhang Guanghua, saluted him and said, "Military advisor, a village on the side of the road ahead found a lot of villagers gathered together, but it shouldn't be aimed at us, there is no threat. Do we need to bother? ”
Originally, Zhang Guanghua shouldn't have seen this kind of bustle, but he became interested, and he hadn't officially visited other villages in the Yuan Dynasty for so long. So he told Lu Yishan, beckoned a few other guards, and ran to the village together.
"Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Zhang Guanghua As soon as they arrived in the village, they heard extremely excited shouts from inside. Zhang Guanghua and Lu Yishan looked at each other, and rode their horses to the village together.
As two soldiers with sabers and firearms on their backs arrived on horseback, the villagers who had just been boiling with blood instantly fell silent, and scattered to make way for a passage, and at this time four or five more people also came on foot, still fully armed.
When the villagers dispersed, a man lying on the ground was revealed.
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Amaridine raised his head, opened his blood-soaked eyes and looked at the people who had suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Finally, I don't have to die." He thought to himself. He regarded Zhang Guanghua and his group as reinforcements from Quanzhou Mansion.
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"The little one has seen a few military masters, but I don't know what a few military masters are talking about?" Among the three people in the crowd who did not retreat, a middle-aged man led by him stepped forward and asked after making a gesture at Zhang Guanghua.
"We didn't come here on purpose, but we heard a lot of noise in the village when we were passing by, so we stopped by to have a look." Zhang Guanghua did not tell them the truth, but made up an excuse at random.
Hearing Zhang Guanghua say this, and it was obvious that he didn't know the people on the ground, the middle-aged man also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Seeing that Zhang Guanghua was curiously looking at the bloody man on the ground, the middle-aged man went on to explain: "This Persian is a merchant in Quanzhou Prefecture, and he trampled on a horse and destroyed a lot of our crops, so we tied him up and punished him." ”
"Persians?" Zhang Guanghua was taken aback, it was the first time he had seen an ancient foreigner, and he carefully looked at the people on the ground, and sure enough, his hair, skin color and clothes were quite similar to the people from the Western Regions on TV. Although he knew that the reason for the Persian's capture would not be as simple as trampling on the crops, he was more interested in the foreigner himself.
"Hey! What is your name? At this time, Lu Yishan also stepped forward and kicked the Persian, expressing his sense of existence.
At this time, Amiriddin, who finally saw the costumes of several soldiers, suddenly felt a half chill in his heart, it turned out that it was not reinforcements, but a peasant rebel army! I've really been moldy for eight lifetimes.
His chamber of commerce was in serious financial trouble because the rebels had choked the waterways in the two county towns, and a large number of goods were backlogged, trapping the little liquidity left. This time, he heard that the Quanzhou government had sent several teams of Yuan army scouts out of the city to investigate the intelligence of the "rebellious party", and he also decided to go out of the city with the team to explore the waterway situation in the two counties to see if there was still any possibility of opening up. It's just that he didn't expect to be caught by these fierce villagers and suffered a severe beating.
"In Lower Amiridin." In desperation, he could only answer honestly.
"Amiriddin? Quanzhou Mansion? Persian? Zhang Guanghua was taken aback when he heard his answer. Could it be that this person in front of him is the leader of a famous foreign rebel army in history?
Historically, there were many small-scale peasant uprisings in Fujian, and although they all failed in the end, they also succeeded in igniting the spark of peasant uprisings in the province, and in the following years, Fujian Province fell into an increasingly chaotic situation. Because of the chaos in society, Quanzhou, one of the world's largest treaty ports at that time, was completely paralyzed, and the merchants suffered heavy losses, and they also fell into a food crisis. So in 1357, Amari Din led the predominantly Muslim Yisba Xi army to launch the Yisba Xi rebellion and successfully captured Quanzhou. It was not until 1366 that he was executed for being defeated by the Yuan army.
Zhang Guanghua knew that the person in front of him did not hate the rebel army, nor was he loyal to the Yuan army, and he only had naked interests in his eyes. And such a person is exactly what he urgently needs now, and it seems that he must be saved. Although Zhang Guanghua knew that even if he didn't do anything, Amiriddin's life would not be in danger, otherwise there would be no rebellion in history, but how could he let go of such a good opportunity to attract talents.
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1. Regarding "quasi-arquebus", quasi, it means that it is about to approach, but it is not, such as the chemical term "quasicrystal", or the "quasi-four-star" in the hotel introduction.
2. Persia, at the junction of present-day Asia, Africa and Europe, that is, Iran in the Middle East.