Jun Sanwu claimed that "you only need to glance at it to judge the distance between the enemy and yourself", which immediately aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's interest, you must know that this is not a small skill!

In later armies, there is a type of army called "rangefinder", this type of army is usually deployed in the artillery company, or on the battleship, what they have to do is to constantly report the enemy's distance and direction to the artillery, so that the artillery can accurately grasp the enemy's position, so as to aim more quickly. It is no exaggeration to say that the rangefinder is the eyes and ears of the artilleryman.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the most common mistake made by the firecrackers was that the enemy opened fire in a hurry before he had even entered the firing range. For example, in the defensive battle of Huanglong Cottage, Zhu Yuanzhang once challenged the sense of distance of the fire soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and successfully lured the fire soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to release the fire guns, which reinvigorated the morale of the thieves.

In fact, the first thing Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to teach the firecrackers was to accurately grasp the distance of the enemy's army, if they couldn't visually measure the distance, the firecrackers would not be able to exert the most ideal combat effectiveness! It was too far away to fire, and it missed. If you fire too closely, you will be suppressed by enemy archers.

The firing distance of a firecracker unit determines the elite level of a firecracker unit! It would be great if you could assign a rangefinder to the Musketeers! It's just that there is no rangefinder in this era, and Zhu Yuanzhang originally planned to let the gunners slowly get used to judging the distance with the naked eye in repeated practice, but now that there are ready-made rangefinders available, wouldn't it allow the gunners to enter the situation faster?

Zhu Yuanzhang beckoned to Jun Sanwu: "Come here!" Can you accurately measure distances with your eyes? ”

"Yes! The villain is a unique job that has been practiced since childhood, and you can know the distance at a glance! "Jun San is humble and authentic.

"I'll have to give you a try!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and left, and after walking dozens of steps, he turned around and said, "How far am I from you now?" ”

Jun Sanwu immediately replied: "Eighty feet!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang found it interesting, so he asked a soldier to bring a long rope, first put the long rope between the two, marked the length of the rope, and then measured it with a ruler one by one, it took a lot of time, and finally measured the result, sixty-two feet! The distance from Jun Sanwu was only two feet away.

It's amazing!

Zhu Yuanzhang walked into the distance for a while, then took a few steps sideways, and then deliberately walked a few steps diagonally, trying to destroy his sense of distance, and when he stood still, he asked again: "How far am I from you now?" ”

"One hundred and thirty-five feet!"

The soldier with the rope and the ruler ran over and measured his head in large quantities for a long time, and the result was one hundred and thirty-four feet, this time only a foot apart.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart: Talent! You can really measure the distance directly with your eyes, how much hard work does it take to do this?

"How did you develop the ability to measure distance?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask.

"The villain loves to play with slingshots since he was a child, and when he grows up, he likes to play with bows and arrows, and later joined the army, and when he arrived in Liaodong, he was issued with a firecracker, and the villain fell in love with playing with firecrackers...... These things need to master the distance of the enemy to play well, so the villain slowly practiced this skill. Relying on this ability, the villain killed three Tartar soldiers...... Hey...... It's a pity that after being blind, the border army doesn't want villains, and it's been really difficult these years...... Ask Brother Zhu to eat a meal...... The villain can definitely teach these recruits to be the right firecrackers! ”

Tut! It's a pity that such a talent was abandoned by the border army because he was blind in one eye and became a down-and-out man called Huazi, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask: "Are you really blind in one eye?" If a person is blind in one eye, the sense of distance will be abnormal, right? ”

"Oops, if it weren't for the villain being blind in one eye, there would be no error! I guarantee that there will be ......no difference of even one foot in the report," Jun Sanwu sighed and said: "Now that I only have one eye, I can't measure it accurately, the first time I saw it was two feet off, and the second time I saw it one foot off......"

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, thought for a while, waved his hand and said: "Okay, then you stay, from today on, I will appoint you as the captain of the Fire Gun Team, directly under the command of the leader of the cold wind, and these one hundred and fifty recruits will be in charge of you...... "After seizing the city this time, due to the drastic increase in the number of recruits, Yang Hong, who is known as Leng Feng, has been stuffed with 2,000 recruits under his command...... This stuffed him with another hundred and fifty firecrackers, and Yang Hong was not surprised.

"Wow? It's true? Jun Sanwu was overjoyed immediately: "Is it to be the captain?" Isn't it to be a leader? ”

"That's right, Captain, not the head of the sect!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "These soldiers are all yours, bring them to me well." ”

The difference between the captain and the head coach is very different, and the status of the head coach is very low! For example: Lin Chong is the head of the 180,000 forbidden army, it sounds awesome, the 180,000 forbidden army all follow him to learn martial arts, but what about ...... He had no power at all, he could only teach the soldiers martial arts, but he could not make the soldiers listen to his orders. If the 180,000 forbidden troops are his soldiers, he will not dare to provoke him with a thousand guts in Gao Yanei.

And the captain is different, although it doesn't sound awesome, Zhu Yuanzhang only gave him one hundred and fifty recruit eggs, but this position is equivalent to one hundred households, and it is also a hundred households with real power that can command one hundred and fifty soldiers, which is not the same level as the kind of false title hundred households that can only bring a few pro-soldiers.

Jun San Wuzhen was really overjoyed, he was not valued in the border army of the imperial court before, and was even abandoned after being blind, but he didn't expect the thieves to easily give him one hundred and fifty subordinates, this time it is really a sparrow flying on the branch and becoming a phoenix! The most important thing is that he can also turn over as Hanako.

He knelt on the ground with a "poof" and kowtowed a few times: "Brother Zhu, thank you so much...... The little ones will always do a good job in the future, and they will definitely bring these soldiers well. ”

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang is also very happy, the leaders in the cottage are limited to the problem of origin, and none of them know how to play with firearms, which makes the candidate to lead the firecrackers can only be served by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

Although he himself knows how to train firecrackers, and can even use the knowledge he has learned in the sky for hundreds of years to train firecrackers who are more advanced than the concepts of this era, he is a very busy person, and he has to manage not only the military, but also the economy, as well as the overall strategy...... In the case of so many things to worry about, it is very difficult for him to personally train the firecrackers, or to personally command the firecrackers when he fights in the future, I don't know how much work to delay, now there is an old gunner who has retreated from the border army to help train, it is a good thing, he only needs to take a small amount of time, and first tell Jun San Wuyan some of the ideas of the later generations, and then let him transfer to the guns.

"By the way, will the cannon be used?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"This ...... No! "Jun San is honest.

"Hmm...... Then it's okay, Leng Feng, you can take Jun Sanwu away! ”

"Okay!" Yang Hong took Jun Sanwu over, walked to the corner and whispered, probably to tell him some simple military discipline and arrange where he would live for the time being.

Just after arranging the affairs here, a soldier suddenly squeezed in from the periphery and said loudly: "Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu, the desperate big brother Sanlang stationed in Chengcheng sent me to send you a message...... It's said that something is wrong on the other side of the Yellow River! ”

"On the other side of the Yellow River?" Zhu Yuanzhang chewed on this sentence and immediately understood, Chengcheng is the easternmost county in western Shaanxi, next to it is the rolling Yellow River, and to the east of the Yellow River is the boundary of Shanxi Province...... Chengcheng is only separated by a river from Shan*xi, so it is easy to get the news from Shan*xi.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"This ...... Brother Saburo didn't say anything, he only asked me to convey the situation. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly, he couldn't tell the soldiers the news? That is to say, this news is very important, if the soldier leaks it, it will create a sincere and benevolent fear, which is not conducive to the morale of the army, so desperately Saburo asked the soldier to spread the word cryptically. As for why Desperate Saburo didn't come to see him in person and say this, it means that he has no skills and must now sit in Chengcheng......

If you analyze it in this way, something big must have happened on the west side of the mountain......

Zhu Yuanzhang perked up, and hurriedly said to Ma Xiaotian beside him: "Prepare for the horse, I want to go to Chengcheng to see the desperate San Lang!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang's face was a little gloomy, Ma Xiaotian didn't even dare to ask, and hurriedly asked the guards to prepare the horses. Since occupying the county seat, Zhu Yuanzhang's army has brought a lot of horses from far and near, some of which were originally prepared by the government, some of which were paid tribute by rich families, and some of which were taken from the guards......

Of course, there are less than twenty military horses that can be used to charge into battle, and each of the leaders will take one horse as a mount, and the soldiers will be completely useless, and the cavalry is still too extravagant for Zhu Yuanzhang to be formed.

In addition, there are dozens of horses, which can only be used as a means of transportation, or chariots and horses used to pull carts, this kind of horses usually run and run, but as soon as they go to the battlefield, they will be weak and scurry, afraid of moving forward, and they are unbearable to use.

While Ma Xiaotian was preparing for the horse, Zhu Yuanzhang called Wang Er and Xu Renjie again, and commanded in a low voice: "I'll go first, you two also have something to do." Xu Renjie, you go and gather 1,000 people from the old first team to the old tenth team, go out of the city in the name of military training, and then rush to Chengcheng and wait for my call at any time! Second Brother Wang, you are sitting in Baishui City, and you are also in the name of training the other two thousand veterans to keep the other two thousand veterans ready to attack, if you don't receive my follow-up order, forget it, you will be able to dispatch immediately after receiving my order......"

Wang Er and Xu Renjie nodded and slipped into the crowd.

After a while, Ma Xiaotian and others prepared their horses, Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiaotian rode their war horses, and the other thirty-five guards rode ordinary scooters, and more than thirty people went out of Baishui City together and rushed towards Chengcheng.

(To be continued)