Chapter 292: Great Change

Early in the morning, the sun rose, and Seropun rushed to the south gate of Tianjin at four o'clock with two marine squadrons, the 206th and 207th.

The prosperous place of Tianjin is not in the city, but in the northwest outside the city, on the west bank of the Haihe River. A corner of the southeast of the city, because of the low-lying terrain, repeatedly flooded, very desolate, Kangxi thirteen years, Zhao Liangdong, who was then the general soldier of Tianjin, because of the gunpowder hidden in the city tower of Tianjin, and forced all the houses near the city wall to be demolished, and built a sluice gate in the southeast of the city to divert water into the moat, the southeast corner is more desolate, uninhabited, Yinzhen proposed to hold a military exercise outside the city, is to fancy the emptiness here, watch on the city wall, extremely convenient.

Ceropen learned about the location of the exercise yesterday, and conducted a survey on the spot, the military exercise is absolutely no problem, but wanting to assassinate Kangxi is tantamount to a fool's dream, the exercise site of artillery and muskets is only five hundred yards away from the city wall, and the musket is not within reach, his artillery is absolutely no problem, and it can shoot quite accurately, but at such a close distance, every move, including entering and exiting the venue, is definitely under strict surveillance, and there is no chance at all.

After the troops were assembled at the south gate, he looked around boredly, but saw that since the city gate was three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, standing with nails like soldiers has been discharged far away, there are many cavalry patrolling around in the distance, seeing such a strictness, he can't help but laugh at his delusional thoughts, no knowledge, he smiled to himself and looked back at the guards on the city wall, the same is the guard, look at the attire, it should be a pro-military camp.

This is still before Kangxi arrived, waiting for Kangxi to arrive, it will be tighter, Seroben retracted his gaze happily, but inadvertently caught a glimpse of the sky and didn't know when a cluster of colored clouds formed, and couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and was looking at himself, but he was listening to the soldier next to him remind: "The dean is here." ”

As soon as Sero Ben turned around, he saw Yinzhen riding on a horse, looking at him condescendingly, and immediately trotted to the horse in a standard military posture, and saluted: "Report to the dean, all the cadets of the Marine Corps have arrived at the assembly site on time, please instruct." ”

Yinzhen was dressed in court clothes, nodded on the horse and saluted: "There is still half an hour before the military exercise begins, let the soldiers rest in place." ”

"Yes." Cerro Ben Lang answered, and when Yinzhen rode away, he turned around, and saw the Spanish musketeers in red and white military uniforms and the musketeers in blue naval uniforms coming side by side, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny.

At the end of the day, Kangxi led the kings, Baylor, Beizi, Gong, and the ministers of civil and military affairs to slowly climb the city wall, glanced at the marines in the exercise, the navy, the Spanish musket team and the guards guarding it, and then glanced at the target area, nodded with great satisfaction, and then said to Yinzhen: "Let's start, let me see the power of the artillery in the land battle." ”

"Honorable." Yinzhen got up and shouted: "Blow the trumpet, the drill begins." ”

With the short and loud sound of the horn, the artillery of the Marine Corps immediately became busy in an orderly manner, and the artillery Yinzhen of the Marine Corps basically copied the Napoleonic cannon, but in the eyes of Kangxi and other experts, that is, the gun wheels were a little bigger, and a fixed tail pile was added, in terms of the overall shape, it was not as good as the coordination of the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon and the Weiyuan General Cannon.

The Marine Corps is equipped with eight men as standard for each artillery, and under the command of Seropon, they skillfully prepared for the guns, and the first batch of 12-pounder guns was fired, and with a muffled sound, the shells burst accurately at a distance of 1,800 yards of 10 rows of humanoid targets, and many wooden targets were shattered or blown away, and some of them were more or less inserted with shrapnel.

The crowd was already numb to the far accuracy of the naval artillery, followed by the roar of the artillery, but it was ten nine-pounder guns aimed at the wooden target at a distance of 1,200 yards, the same flowering shell, the same accurate explosion in the wooden target group, followed by the shelling of the six-pounder gun on the wooden target of 800 yards. ..., when the sound of artillery stopped, Yinzhen explained: "Under normal circumstances, the cavalry charge, rushing to the front from 1,800 yards away, has to go through at least eight to ten rounds of artillery shelling, and the ones that can rush to the front are already very small, and the musketeers are enough to solve them." ”

Listening to this explanation, everyone was shocked, this is facing the cavalry, isn't the infantry even worse? No wonder the fourteenth elder brother said that this is the age of firearms, and this kind of long-range and accurate artillery is really terrible.

Kangxi asked keenly: "These guns are obviously more accurate and farther than the guns on the battleship, why?" ”

"Back to Emperor Ama, this is specially made." Yinzhen smiled and explained: "These are wrought iron cannons, don't look at the distance and accuracy, but they are less than a hundred cannons, and the barrels are too brittle and easy to crack." ”

Kangxi frowned, even so, this artillery has no value at all, what does the old fourteen mean by doing this?

Seeing Kangxi frowning, Yinzhen then explained: "This batch of cannons was specially made by Dai Zi for research and comparison of the performance and quality of artillery, and when he came to Tianjin, Erchen had already planned to hold this military exercise, so he brought it to show the prospect and power of artillery for Huang Ama, and in another three or five years, it will definitely be able to develop suitable steel for casting artillery, and it is urgent to vigorously improve ironmaking and steelmaking." ”

Kangxi nodded thoughtfully, this old fourteenth, the military exercise did not forget to remind that the importance of ironmaking and steelmaking seems to be a great encouragement to craftsmen, and this powerful artillery is indeed a big killer.

Soon, Kangxi's eyes were attracted by a group of horses brought by the Marine Corps, what kind of novelty is this? When he saw the artillerymen quickly remove the parts from the horses and assemble them into a cannon, his eyes immediately lit up, and he watched with a telescope, and the parts on three horsebacks could be assembled into a cannon, which was a short-barreled, large-caliber artillery.

Soon the six twelve-pounder mountain howitzers were assembled, and then the shelling began, Kangxi silently estimated before asking: "The range is a thousand yards?" ”

Yinzhen explained with a smile: "Yes, this is a gun specially used for mountains and cavalry, it is light and can be decomposed, and the only weakness is that the firing range is shorter." ”

"Enough, enough." Kangxi said with a smile: "The cavalry is equipped with this kind of artillery and musket, and three or five thousand people are enough to sweep through the northwest." ”

Before Kangxi's laughter was gone, everyone suddenly felt their feet soften, and they couldn't help but look at each other for inquiry, but before they could react, they saw the table swaying and the entire city wall shaking.

"Earthquake! There was an earthquake! I don't know who shouted loudly, and there was immediately a panic on the city wall!

"Help!" Yinzhen shouted violently, and at the same time yelled at a group of hairy guards: "What else? Open the way! ”

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