After about 20 minutes, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were gathered in the martial arts arena. To be honest, Zhu Houwei was very dissatisfied with this speed, these soldiers were in the barracks, but it took 20 minutes to gather, what if they went to the battlefield and encountered the enemy attacking the camp, this time was enough for the cavalry to run 10 kilometers. Looking at the soldiers on the field, the team is not neat, some of the queues are crooked, the soldiers standing near the high platform are still full of energy, but the two brothers standing on the high platform can see very clearly, the back is not so much a soldier, but a refugee, the clothes are shabby, there are many stains on them, and there are many holes in the clothes of many people. Many of them are slightly hunched and completely devoid of energy.

In the past, the military households from Shandong, Zhu Houwei knew from the information of later generations that they were basically farmers and workers, and they were not regular soldiers anyway, but the Shenji Battalion was different, he was the elite army of the Ming Dynasty, but he did not have a trace of the spiritual outlook that a strong army should have. The most important thing is that according to the establishment of the Shenji Battalion, there should be more than 5,000 soldiers and artillery in the entire battalion, but there are probably less than 3,000 people standing on the field. Thanks to their previous experience in Huangzhuang, the two brothers can now tell how many people there are when they look at the crowd.

Zhu Houzhao asked with a gloomy face, "There should be 5,000 people in the whole battalion, why are there so many?" Liu Neichen still replied unhurriedly, "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the rest of the personnel have gone to the border to defend the Tatars, so the number of people in the camp is not 5,000." Zhu Houzhao wanted to say something more, Zhu Houwei pulled his clothes, Zhu Houzhao looked back at Zhu Houwei, Zhu Houwei shook his head slightly. Zhu Houzhao turned his head to Liu Neichen, and a few words emerged from between his teeth, "Start training, you want live ammunition." ”

Then, the training of the Shenji Battalion began. First of all, the queue formation, the two brothers are boring to watch, these queues are ugly, even the students of the Zhu Mansion are better than them, what is lacking is only a slightly more complex formation. Not long after, the soldiers began a live-fire exercise with the firearms they had just taken out of the armory.

There are many kinds of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, there are no less than a dozen kinds of firearms alone, there are two main categories: the first type is the firearms that are put with hand-held points, their shape and caliber are smaller, and the general barrel is filled with lead bullets and iron bullets, etc., and its range is only tens of steps to 200 steps, and it is only 150 meters in the calculation of 200 steps. The second type is the artillery that is mounted on the pedestal and fired with a large caliber and shape, most of the barrels are filled with stones, lead, iron and other materials, commonly known as "solid bullets", and a few are loaded with explosive balls, the firing range is generally hundreds of steps to two or three miles away, mainly used for defending the fortress and attacking the city, and also used for field warfare, water warfare and naval warfare. However, those firearms with a range of two or three miles were not until the Jiajing Wanli period, after the introduction of imitations from abroad, and the current artillery is basically copper guns.

The shape of the copper gun is stout, and it looks like a large copper pipe divided into several sections, which is composed of a gun mouth, a gun chamber, a medicine chamber, and a tail hammer. The Bronze Flame Gun fires spherical projectiles made of stone or iron that are used to kill and injure enemies. Some of the large artillery pieces made in the Ming Dynasty are called "Great General", "Second General", and "General of Conquering the Gate", all of which belong to the tubular firearms of the copper firearm, and the Ming army is equipped with 180,000 large and small copper firearms. The bronze gun is a piece of anti-personnel weapon, and the general range ranges from tens of meters to 200 meters. To the Zhengde years, large rear-loading guns made with European technology were used, and flowering shells with shells were used! In 1537 the equipment reached 3,800 doors with crosshairs and illuminators. The effective firing range is 500 meters, and the firing range is 1 km when launched at an elevation angle of 45 degrees. The large one has a 250 cm body, the medium one has 156 cm, and the small one has 93 cm, and the shells are loaded from the rear, and the firing interval is short, and when firing a scattershot, one shell carries 500 rounds, which can block the front 60 meters wide, and the power is amazing. Because breech loading requires high casting technology.

There is basically nothing to say about the cannon, and the current copper gun is not yet on the table, even the low-level member of the cannon family, the Tiger Squat Cannon, will have to wait for decades in history to appear. However, the fire gun of the Ming Dynasty is worth talking about.

The first is the Three-Eyed Gun, which was an important individual gunpowder weapon for the Ming army, because it could be released continuously, constituting dense firepower, which was conducive to suppressing the fast-moving cavalry. Then there is the firearms, the early light firearms of the Ming Dynasty, which are well-cast and exquisitely designed, and compared with the firearms of the Yuan Dynasty, the gunpowder required is greatly reduced. In the Ming Dynasty, as a standard weapon, more than 90,000 were produced, and they were widely used in the defense of Beijing in 1449. It has a length of 43.5 cm and a caliber of 3 cm, and is launched in groups of 2 people, one person is responsible for bracket and aiming, and one person is responsible for ignition shooting, with a range of 180 meters. It is equivalent to today's rifle, the earliest standard. The ten-eyed gun is an experimental burst weapon in the Ming Dynasty, with a 10-section copper cannon body, a caliber of 10 cm, one round per section, and can be fired ten times, because of the short range and unsafe, it was replaced by the later crutch gun. It's only a few shots in the Divine Machine Camp. The last is to lift the gun, the Ming Dynasty "Tiangong Kaiwu" was the first to record its picture, with a triangular bracket and a rotating device, 3 meters long, weighing 12 kilograms, effective range of 200 meters, nicknamed "Nine-headed Bird", powerful, even the chariots at that time could not resist. However, this kind of firearm is very slow to reload, so there are not many in the Divine Machine Battalion.

In addition to these, there were many non-mainstream firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and the two brothers also saw this training, and a military attache next to them deliberately stood aside to explain, otherwise even Zhu Houwei, who has profound knowledge of firearms, will not recognize all of these.

The first is cluster rockets, the Ming Dynasty "Wu Bei Zhi" has a more detailed introduction to a swarm of bees, there were a variety of specifications at that time, from 3 consecutive rounds of divine arrows, to 100 consecutive rounds of a hundred tigers, all belong to this category. With a range of 300 meters, the repeating rocket compensates for the weakness of the ballistic instability of ordinary rockets. This weapon has been used on a large scale by the Ming army!

Then there is the Divine Fire Crow, and the military technologists of the Ming Dynasty also created two kinds of "winged rockets" such as the "Divine Fire Crow" and the spherical "Flying Flying Thief Earthquake Thunder" with wings. These two rockets are filled with gunpowder in the crow and spherical bodies respectively, and the gunpowder line in the gunpowder passes through and is connected in series with the gunpowder in the powder cartridge of the take-off rocket; When launching, the gunpowder line of the take-off rocket is ignited, so that the rocket flies to the enemy, and the gunpowder in the crow body and the sphere is detonated, killing and burning the enemy's men and horses, which is a sharp weapon for breaking the formation and attacking the city.

It is again ten thousand enemies, a large explosive incendiary weapon, weighing 40 kilograms, the outer skin is made of mud, weighing 40 kilograms, produced in the late Ming Dynasty, used to defend the city, in order to carry it safely, it generally comes with a wooden frame box, which can be regarded as an early incendiary bomb. In this live-fire training, the Shenji Battalion also released 2.

Finally, the fire dragon out of the water, the Ming Dynasty "Wubei Zhi" recorded the multi-stage rocket, with a paper paste tube tied to the first stage of the rocket, there is a second stage rocket in the dragon's mouth, after the shot increases the range to hit the enemy ship, for water attacks, the range can reach 1.5 kilometers.

This training does not talk about the personnel, nor the superiority of these weapons, Zhu Houwei was shocked by these craftsmen who have been far underestimated by history, this kind of imagination and creativity have to be admired.

The "ping pong" on the martial arts arena kept ringing, and it sounded very lively, as if firecrackers were set off with many people, but after a while, the training stopped. For the sake of the society? Something happened.

When shooting, Zhu Houzhao's brothers noticed that something was wrong, thinking that the soldier did not aim at all when shooting, but held it with his hand and put the gun as far away as possible. At first, Zhu Houwei thought that the soldiers were affected by the smoke generated when the gunpowder was fired, but now it seems that not only that, but also because the quality of these firearms is not up to par, and the chamber is blown up. Seven people were rolling on the ground and wailing, and the sergeant next to them was just looking at them sympathetically without being shocked, and it seemed that this was not the first time this had happened. The two Zhu Houzhao brothers looked very angry, the training stopped, the officials on the high platform lowered their heads and were silent, and only the wails of the seven people in the huge martial arts arena were even more abrupt and desolate.

Zhu Houzhao's brothers stared at the officials angrily, but no one looked at them, Zhu Houwei shouted, "What are you still doing in a daze, don't go and save people quickly!" At this time, these officials were relieved of the petrification and moved one after another, most of them walked like the audience, and there were only 2 ministers and 2 military attaches standing next to Zhu Houzhao's brothers.

Zhu Houzhao said with a calm face at this time, "Okay, let's stop the training." After speaking, he walked towards the outside of the camp, and Zhu Houwei and his party also followed. Originally, Zhu Houzhao wanted to go to the armory to get some firearms or something, so that he could play with them, but he was persuaded by Zhu Houwei, first, the quality of this firearm has been verified with his own eyes, and it would be bad if something happened to Zhu Houzhao. The second is that their identities are not suitable to go there, otherwise it will be interpreted as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Second Highness going to the barracks to check the accounts. The face of the Ming military camp is still passable, but once the layer of paper on the surface is pierced, the situation inside will be jaw-dropping, without ten thousand preparations, don't break it, otherwise at least half of the Ming army will be in chaos.

The two brothers asked Liu Neichen to take good care of the 7 people, and the silver would come out from them, but Zhu Houwei said meaningfully to Liu Neichen's eyes, "The silver will come to them." Liu Neichen immediately said respectfully, "Your Highness, rest assured, it will definitely be in their hands." "Cao Luo's matter has only been a few years, and a few days ago, several fathers-in-law in charge of Zhuang were silent, Liu Neichen knew that so many people disappeared, these two little ancestors made great contributions, and they can be said to be "father-in-law's nemesis", and they will not listen to the words of the two of them.

However, it was only 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the two brothers rushed to the capital in a carriage full of anger.