In the middle of October, Pang Gang led the military households to start their first autumn harvest in Wanghai Fort, in this year, they cultivated a total of 3,200 acres of wasteland, because it was the first time that the harvest was not very high, the harvest of wheat was about 3,100 stones, so that the most urgent food problem in Wanghai Fort was solved. This result also made these Pang Gang, who had been overwhelmed by the food problem, finally breathe a sigh of relief, and it turned out that the phrase "the people take food as the sky" is not just talking.

After the autumn harvest, the weather suddenly became colder, and Pang Gang finally understood what later historians said about the Xiaoice River period encountered in the late Ming Dynasty, Pang Gang was a typical southerner, and the sudden cold weather made him very uncomfortable. Frozen by this ghostly weather, he longed to spend the whole day at home on the fire, but in his heart he knew that now was not the time for pleasure, so he forced himself to train with the Tun army almost every day.

In Pang Gang's room, the fire in the brazier was burning vigorously, and the blue flames came out from the red-hot charcoal, baking the whole room warm like spring.

Pang Gang was sitting on a chair not far from the brazier, and he was still holding an arquebus seven feet (two meters) long and weighing about seven or eight pounds in his hand, and he was looking at it in detail. This thing is composed of a gun tube, a gun bed, a curved butt, a dragon head and a trigger, a fire door, a rail, a front mouth, a rear door, and an aiming device called Zhaomen and Zhaoxing, etc., because its bolt is shaped like a bird's beak, so the Ming Dynasty people called it a bird gun. There are many kinds of birds, and now Pang Gang is holding one of the most famous ones, and the name of this kind of bird is called Lumi.

The prototype of the Lumi gun is an improved arquebus that was paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty by the Turkish Rumi State (Sultanate of Rûm), and was later improved by the inventor Zhao Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty. It is also recognized by later historians and military enthusiasts as the best arquebus.

With a staggering range of 150 paces (about 200 meters), the Armie is slightly heavier than a regular arquebus, as it is basically an all-metal structure. It is characterized by a double-layer barrel, a small caliber, and a very high muzzle velocity, which is basically close to that of a modern rifle.

In "Wu Bei Zhi", it is said: "Bird gun: Weilu Mi gun is the farthest and most poisonous." ”

This is also the most advanced hot weapon that Pang Gang can now cash out from the "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons", of course, there are more advanced flintlock pistols, front-loading rifles and other hot weapons in the hot weapons chapter of the book, but the required conditions are for Pang Gang to scratch his head, cashing these things out of iron ore, wood actually need tungsten ore.

Although he knew that China was the country with the largest tungsten ore reserves in the world, Pang Gang vaguely remembered that it seemed that the time when tungsten ore was first discovered in China was somewhere in the twentieth century, and no one knows what tungsten ore looks like now, and Pang Gang's understanding of ore is almost zero, so the only hot weapon he can cash out is the arquebus.

However, after Pang Gang tested the Lu Mi gun, he was also shocked by its power, the longest range of this Lu Mi gun is one hundred and fifty steps, and it can shoot through the scale armor and cotton armor of the Ming army equipment at one hundred steps, and the end is very powerful.

This also made Pang Gang very puzzled, why the Ming army had such a powerful weapon, and it would be defeated again and again when facing Li Zicheng's rogues and Qing soldiers. Later, when he consulted a craftsman who made weapons, he realized that by the late Ming Dynasty, the disadvantages of the unreasonable system of treating craftsmen as a lowly status system had been completely exposed. Seven or eight out of ten of the bird guns manufactured by the Ming Dynasty Ordnance Bureau are unqualified defective products, and they often have explosion accidents when they are used, so the Ming army is more willing to believe in the knives and guns in their hands, and few troops are willing to use the bird guns. And the manufacturing cost of the bird gun is also quite high, like the Lu Mi gun in Pang Gang's hand, although the safety surname of this Lu Mi gun is good, and it has the advantages of small caliber, good airtight surname, gunpowder energy to push a small warhead, and strong armor-piercing ability, but there are few craftsmen who make it in the whole Daming Society, even if the people who can make it can only make one at most a month, so it is impossible to promote Lu Mi Gong in the current Daming.

The old craftsman's words made Pang Gang quite happy in his heart, didn't that mean that the Lu Mi gun in his hand now was the most advanced firearm in the entire Ming Dynasty?

However, despite this, so far, Pang Gang has only been able to cash out sixty, and the constraint on it is the ore problem. This problem has also been bothering Pang Gang, although it is written in the book that iron ore is used to cash things, but in fact, when Pang Gang really cashed out, he found that what the book said was pig iron, and a unit of iron ore was a pound of pig iron, which made Pang Gang, who was in a hurry at the beginning with a pile of ore to prepare for cashing, so angry that he almost vomited blood.

The consequence of this discovery was that Pang Gang almost hollowed out the last copper plate on his body in order to equip the troops with Lu Mi Gong. Fortunately, the lead bullets and gunpowder needed by Lu Mi Gong and the few craftsmen in Wanghai Fort could make them themselves, otherwise Pang Gang, who was no longer able to cash in the ammunition, could only let the soldiers use Lu Mi Gong as burning sticks.

When he was holding the Lu Mi Gong to study in detail, the guards at the door came in and reported, "Lord Qiqi, Wang Zongqi, Huang Zongqi and others are asking to see you in the hall!" ”

"Oh, they're no longer out training soldiers to familiarize themselves with the newly issued firearms, what are they doing here?" Pang Gang stood up with some confusion and walked quickly to the hall outside.

The hall of the hundred households where Pang Gang lives is made of rough wood, which is very simple, and the cold wind blows in from time to time in winter, but at this time, the conditions are limited, and naturally it can't be taken care of so much.

Now Da Zhuang, Wang Zhi, Li Xian, Li Yuan, Hua Yan and others are waiting anxiously in the hall.

As soon as Pang entered the hall, Da Zhuang, an anxious man, shouted loudly: "My lord, it's not good, Qianyue Fort was slaughtered by a group of thieves a few days ago!" ”

"What! Slaughter Fort! ”

"Yes, my lord, none of the old and weak women and children in the entire Qianyue Fort have been spared, it's really miserable."

Pang Gang couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it, that Qianyue Fort was a tunbao under Lingshanwei, but it was an almost abandoned fort, the walls of the castle were also very low, and there were very few military households living in it, only less than thirty households, led by a general banner, but I didn't expect that it was slaughtered by bandits just in winter!

After the late Ming Dynasty entered the Xiaoice River period, it was indeed a natural disaster [***], there were many bandits everywhere, and there were several bandits entrenched in the territory of Qingzhou Capital, but there was a way that rabbits do not eat the grass by the nest, and eagles do not eat under their feet, although those bandits in Qingzhou often do some murder, kidnapping, looting, etc., but there are still some bottom-line scruples, such as this slaughter of the entire village and the whole castle, it is really appalling.

Pang Gang suppressed the horror in his heart and said in a deep voice: "What the hell is going on, Da Zhuang, you tell me in detail!" ”

"Yes!"

Da Zhuang replied in detail before he said in detail, it turned out that there was a place called Inuya Mountain near Qianyue Fort, which was occupied by a group of bandits a few years ago, this group of bandits was mainly local ruffians and some old bandits, and some defeated or escaped soldiers joined, the leader of the bandits was a person named Zhou Youcai, I heard that he was actually from a military family.

Zhou Youcai led this group of bandits to do evil often and burned, killed and robbed all the year round, and looted all their belongings like locusts in various villages, as for kidnapping and ransom, robbing ** women and other things are even more commonplace. These people are extremely vicious, some time ago, after Wang Haozi, the bandit leader of Ziwangjiatun, was killed by Pang Gang, the thieves and soldiers scattered and fled, and more than 200 of them ran to Inuya Mountain to defect to Zhou Youcai.

After Zhou Youcai absorbed this group of thieves, he became more and more unscrupulous, more and more bold, and things became more and more excessive, and now he actually did the evil thing of slaughtering Qianyue Fort.

The reason is that Zhou Youcai fell in love with a beautiful woman a few days ago, Zhou Youcai was moved to inquire, this woman turned out to be the daughter of a general banner in Qianyuebao, Zhou Youcai was very arrogant and ordered to inform the general flag to dress up this woman and send it to the cottage to be his wife in the village. This move was rejected by the general banner, and Zhou Youcai, who was refused, was furious and led more than 500 thieves from the cottage to go down the mountain overnight to slaughter the entire Qianyue Fort, and did such a thing that lost his conscience.

After listening to Da Zhuang's explanation, Pang Gang was so angry that he was almost speechless, he really didn't expect that the bandits here would be so rampant and dare to do such a thing of personal anger!

Even Hua Yan on the side said with red eyes and trembling lips: "For the sake of some wealth, a woman actually wants to slaughter the whole castle, it is simply better than a beast!" ”

"Bang!" There was a loud bang, and it turned out that Pang Gang punched the table.

At this time, Pang Gang's eyes widened with anger, and he shouted loudly: "We must exterminate all these beasts who have lost their conscience!" ”

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