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"No, Lord Qincha's detailed rules make it very clear that the sky is not dark, and this practice must continue. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Yang Rang replied without hesitation that he never bargained at this point.

Seeing this, the officer of the team stopped persuading, and hurriedly nodded yes, and went away in a huff.

The shelling continued, but there was a group of people on the position, which was a bit of a surprise.

Although these people also wore military uniforms, their military uniforms were different from others, and unlike the others, they also walked around with wooden tablets and pens, looking here and there, and sometimes talking to the officers, who were polite to them, and the conversations between them were also very fresh.

"My lord, is there something wrong with this smoothbore cannon?"

"There are a lot, it's too troublesome to load, especially gunpowder, which was originally filled with your gunpowder bag, which is indeed a lot more convenient than before, but the power is not as big as the bulk one, and the flowering cannon is not a small problem, one cannon goes down, the barrel is burned red......"

This complaining tone did not make these peculiar people show any embarrassment or dissatisfaction, they took the pen and wrote on the wooden tablet very seriously, recorded some of the shortcomings mentioned by the officers as they were, marked all the problems and causes, and then carefully collected the wooden tablet.

These people are the legendary firearms workshops, in the Ming Dynasty, firearms workshops are not allowed to be established at will, only one place is allowed, that is Lianzhou, so the entire Lianzhou has dozens of large and small firearms workshops, but even in Lianzhou, the supervision of firearms workshops is also very strict, not that anyone wants to build, in the workshop there are Jinyi guards and the government stationed, in order to ensure that these workshops will strictly abide by some rules of the imperial court.

Most of these workshops were built by big businessmen, and they cost a lot of money. Of course, their profits are also very large, their profits are mainly divided into two kinds, one is the sale of the vassal countries, because there are many disputes in the South Seas, so the countries are rushing to buy, the price of export is extremely high, the oil and water are abundant, it is the largest source of wealth for the firearms workshop.

As for the second source of finance, it is the purchase of the new army and caravans, especially the new army, a purchase is more than 100 guns, and the profit is also very large, plus the consumption of gunpowder and shells, these are all profitable business, but it is not easy to take on such a big business, although the firearms of the new army do not care about silver, but must require excellent firearms, your artillery has a longer range than others, higher accuracy than others, and greater power than others, so that you can take huge orders from the hands of the new army, but if you are inferior to people everywhere, Then you can only sigh with admiration.

Therefore, satisfying the requirements of the Forces nouvelles has become the goal of almost all firearms workshops, and what the Forces nouvelles need and what they want to improve cannot be ignored. Only those who are more advanced than other people's firearms can eat this piece of fat, and so, a special group was born, these people stood out from the ordinary craftsmen, extremely proficient in the principles of firearms, they enjoyed extremely high salaries, and gradually different from ordinary craftsmen, they no longer did the step-by-step training of steel and casting barrels, but jumped out of it, specialized in the improvement and design of artillery, they were the object of everyone's competition, almost everyone was the soul of each workshop.

Only by being more accurate, more powerful, and having a longer range than others can they defeat their opponents, and this is what these people do, no matter what methods they use or what means they take, they must be more far-sighted than others and have higher wisdom than others.

Although everything is inferior in these years, only reading is high; But gradually, because of the demand in the market, the social status of these people has been greatly improved, especially in Jiangnan, Lianzhou and other places, their salaries are often more than ten times that of scholars.

It was this kind of person who shuttled back and forth in the artillery position, and this so-called training was said to be a training of new soldiers, and for these people, it was not an opportunity to discover problems and find solutions, so they came with the army and obtained the permission of Lord Chincha, not only to observe the shocking power of firearms, but also to find out the direction of the improvement of artillery in actual combat.

Wherever the problem is, it will be solved, until it is farther, more refined, and stronger.

Driven by profit, these people seem to be more serious than others, and they think in their heads, using their various understandings of firearms to solve problems that arise, and even think of a cure for the problems that arise, and when they have finished these materials, and when the war is over, they will return to their workshops, and with the support of their owners, they will conduct experiments again and again with their surnames, and prepare for the manufacture of more sophisticated firearms.

For these people, military attaches and veterans are very respectful, after all, the whims of these people have made the sharp weapons in their hands, and more importantly, they are often very proficient in artillery, where there is a problem, they can immediately point out for the artillery battalion, and even some artillery battalion military attaches need to absorb some experience in their mouths when formulating tactics.

For the artillery battalion outside the city, this may be just a drill, but for the rebels in the city, this is a heart-rending torture, this kind of passive beating is not pleasant, a few hours down, under the continuous round of shelling, the defenders have killed and injured thousands of people, more importantly, there have been gaps in the city wall one after another, no matter how thick the masonry is, it can't stop the power of this siege weapon, especially the rumbling cannon, and the shocking scene of the cannonballs falling like meteors, Left too much shadow for the defenders.

However, King Ning's side could not let these defenders withdraw from the city, under the shelling, the removal of the defenders could certainly reduce the damage, but the question was what if once the defenders withdrew from the city wall, and the official army attacked the city on a large scale?

Therefore, even if the damage was extremely great, Zhu Junjin did not dare to take this risk, but gritted his teeth and desperately urged the military attaches to drive back the military horses that wanted to be withdrawn, and even killed a few deserters on the spot in the name of military law.

We must not retreat, once we retreat, it will be equivalent to completely giving Nanchang to the official army. But not to retreat is to be beaten passively, the whole Nanchang up and down, everywhere are complaints about King Ning, if it is said that in the past, there were many people who still had some love for King Ning, but now King Ning's order to drive people to do the target finally angered everyone, but most people still dare not be angry, but after the training of the new army in the evening, the entire Nanchang city was quiet, King Ning was to convene the rebel generals of the battalions to discuss countermeasures, and several rebel generals had the courage to put forward their own ideas.

"Lord Wang, the officers and soldiers have sharp firearms, today is a battle, we did not hurt a single person, but our damage is as high as a thousand, now the morale of the whole army is low, no one dares to get close to the city wall, even the people in the city have been rumored, frightened inexplicably, if the battle continues, the officers and soldiers are just blindly attacking the city with artillery, only afraid of ...... I'm just afraid ......"

Ning Wang Zhu Junjin smiled coldly, at this moment, he no longer had the same bearing as before, and it was obvious that he was also starting to be afraid. After losing his son, after the failure of the surprise attack, and after seeing the strength of the new army, Zhu Junjin obviously no longer had much confidence, and he now knew that these so-called defense and fortifications that he had fully prepared were vulnerable in the eyes of the officers and soldiers. In fact, the concerns raised by these people are not unreasonable, in the current situation, it is only a matter of time before the official army breaks through the city, and the shock left by the artillery battle is too great, although they know that firearms can exert great power when used, but only when they see this scene of ten thousand cannons firing at once, people can really see the power of firearms, this power is like a landslide, and it is no longer something that mortals can resist.

If they knew that the officers and soldiers outside the city were just training, they really didn't know what to think.

In fact, it is not only these people who are afraid of war, but also Zhu Junjing, why is this not the case? He has worked hard for so many years, originally thought that he could destroy the withering and decaying, but the result was a failure, and later he was confident that he could resist stubbornly with hard fortifications, but now it seems that the so-called fortifications are no different from paper paste, but now, what choice can Zhu Junjin have?

"Afraid of what?" Zhu Junjin looked at the person who spoke and said coldly.

"I'm just afraid...... 'M afraid...... Sooner or later, the city of Nanchang will be broken, the official army will enter the city, the surname of the prince will not be guaranteed, and the villains will ...... Therefore, the villain asked the prince to be gracious and surrender to the court, and after all, the court will remember the body of the prince's clan and will definitely deal with it lightly......"

This sentence said the voice of many people, it is delusional to resist stubbornly, and the only way now is to surrender, maybe there is a glimmer of life.

"Lord Wang, what General Zhao said is that since he is at the end of the road, it is better to surrender to the imperial court with the surname Suo."

"Yes, for the sake of thousands of Nanchang people, we can't resist anymore."

In the hall, the voices sounded one after another, and when these people saw that someone was making a bird, they were naturally willing to follow suit, hoping to win a chance to live.

Zhu Junji's face changed greatly, and then he couldn't help but become hideous, his eyes glared fiercely at these weak-willed subordinates, and then said coldly: "Come on, take down all these people!" ”

Outside the hall are King Ning's henchmen and guards, obeying King Ning's words, King Ning gave an order, and immediately rushed in dozens of guards with knives to come in, shouting, and these civil and military soldiers who stood up were arrested, so the sound of forgiveness sounded in the hall again.

(To be continued)