In the past six months or so, Li Guo has made considerable progress in reforming his firearms.

Transforming firearms is what Li Guo has been doing, and when he went north to investigate, he found that someone had already made a flintlock pistol at this time, that was Bi Maokang, and this Bi Maokang Li tied him up too early.

Li Guo knew that flintlock pistols were much more advanced than arquebuses.

At that time, the arquebus was an important equipment in the Ming Dynasty and Europe, but the arquebus had great shortcomings. Each musketeer at that time had to carry an arquebus several meters long on his body. Before the battle, they had to light the arquebus. When the weather is wet, the fire rope is extremely difficult to ignite.

Once it rains, the arquebus cannot be used.

The arquebus is also dangerous when lit, as if you are not careful, the spark will ignite the bullet belt on your back, causing an explosion that injures the musketeer himself, and the lit arquebus can easily expose itself at night, making it impossible to sneak up on the enemy at night.

Moreover, the firing process of the arquebus was very complex and slow. Qi Jiguang recorded 10 processes in the use of arquebuses in "Qi Jiguang's Art of War". And in Europe, in 1607 in Amsterdam Jacob. Morality. Gueye's published illustrated volume of Weapons Practice, which describes the firing steps of an arquebus, divided into 25 steps.

It can be seen how troublesome it is to fire a shot, the rate of fire is slow.

Therefore, there is a method of segmented shooting. However, if the army had not given such strict orders as Li Guo's team, the shooting effect would have been quite bad.

The flintlock pistol, on the other hand, has a flint in the jaws of the hammer and an anvil on the side of the fire hole, when firing if necessary. Pull the trigger, under the action of the spring. Hit the flint the edge of the fire door, and sparks appeared. The gunpowder is ignited, and the bullet is fired.

In fact, in Europe, the flintlock pistol was invented decades earlier, but for various reasons, it was not equipped with troops.

Li Guo was determined to equip his soldiers with flintlock pistols.

However, the current flintlock pistol Li Guo still doesn't like it, and he wants to transform it.

Early this morning. Li came over to Bi Maokang's residence, and Jiang Fa followed.

Bi Maokang's family was eating, and when they saw Li coming, the whole family hurriedly stood up and saluted Li Guo. Now Bi Maokang's life is very comfortable, and Li Guo treats him very well.

"Sit, sit." Li Guo waved his hand, but no one dared to sit down.

Li Guo sat down by himself, "Oh, Lao Bi, your food is good!" ”

Bi Maokang hurriedly bowed down again: "This is all thanks to the blessing of the tiger master." That's what I do. ”

What Bi Maokang said was the truth, in the Beijing War Bureau, his annual salary was only a few dozen taels of silver, and when he arrived here, Li Guo was here. Li Guo gave him thirty taels of silver a month, three hundred and sixty taels a year. Moreover, the house was given for nothing. Anyway, he ate and drank Lazar and Li Guo, and he saved all the more than 300 taels of silver by himself.

Although this place in Beihai, Guangzhou, is much worse than the capital. But it's good to get used to it. And it's by the sea. The view is also good. In addition, Li Guo mainly runs here, and it is becoming more and more prosperous.

Although they all operate under the protection of the Tiger Army Guards, they are not free to move. But being hugged by people before and after, Bi Maokang is the first time, and Bi Maokang is very angry.

It's just that Li Guo is here, and Bi Maokang has lost his temper.

"Lao Bi, you're welcome, you can sit too, it just so happens that I haven't eaten, so I'll have a drink with you!" Li Guo saw that Bi Maokang was a little at a loss, so he pulled him to sit down.

Bi Maokang was flattered and hurriedly ordered his wife and children to scald the wine.

Bi Maokang's son smiled and took the wine jug and poured the wine for Li Guo, "Master Tiger, eat wine." ”

Li Guo nodded, "Well, yes, like a man, how old is it?" ”

"Thirteen." The boy replied.

"What's your name?" Li asked.

"Hui Hu Ye, my name is Bi Sheng."

"Well, that's a good name! Victory, victory, victory! Good name! Li Guo laughed, "When you reach the age of fifteen and become a person, can you come to our Tiger Army?" ”

"Master Tiger, I want to go to you to be a soldier now!" Na Bisheng replied.

Li Guo looked at Bi Maokang and said to Bi Sheng, "It's still early, and your father can't bear it." ”

Bi Maokang said: "How can you be reluctant? Master Hu, my mind now is completely different from when I just arrived here. Now I also understand that the world is in chaos, and the one who chases the Central Plains is none other than your tiger master. So, during this time, Bi Sheng pestered me, asking me to tell you to join your child soldiers, and I was about to go to you. ”

"Oh, that's right!" Li Guo nodded, "It's okay, anyway, our men here, when they reach the age of fifteen, either go to be a soldier or go to work, this is the rule." If you are willing to give up this child, then how about I let him be a child soldier now, and let him follow me? ”

"That's a good feeling! To tell you the truth, it's selfish for me to follow you. In the future, if you win the world, if you don't ask this child to be a marquis and worship the prime minister, it will be enough to be rich and prosperous for a lifetime. "Bi Maokang is now on Li Guo's thief ship anyway, and he is also out of the way. Moreover, Bi Maokang knew that being a child soldier by Li Guo's side would be of great use in the future.

And when Bi Sheng heard Li Guo's answer, he had already followed Jiang Fa and stood behind Li Guo.

Li Guo saw that this child was clever and his name was auspicious, so he liked it. Later, this Bi Sheng was really rich and noble.

However, Li came here not just to have a few glasses of wine with Bi Maokang. Li Guo ordered Jiang Fa to bring the gun in his hand and show it to Bi Maokang.

"This is the gun of Carlos, the former governor of Malacca, who gave it to me from Talina's father, the former governor of Malacca, and it is very rare. You make guns, come and see, what is the difference between this gun and ours? Li Guo handed the gun to Bi Maokang.

Bi Maokang took the gun, looked at it carefully for a long time, and replied, "Master Tiger, this gun is roughly the same as ours, but there is one thing that is different from ours, that is, the chamber of the gun!" The chamber is not flat. ”

Li Guo smiled, "Yes, the chamber of this gun is indeed different, there is a line groove in the chamber, the concave part is called the yin line, and the convex part is called the yang line, which is called rifling." ”

"Oh, but these foreigners, what are you doing with good guns like this?" Bi Maokang shook his head.

"yes, it always makes sense. But I won't tell you the use of this rifling for a moment, I just want to ask you, what is the range of our arquebuses and the flintlock pistols you are making now? That is, how far can you shoot! Li Guo asked rhetorically.

This kind of thing was difficult for Bi Maokang, and he said to Li Guo, "Our arquebuses and flintlock pistols can shoot a hundred paces away. ”

A hundred steps is about a hundred meters, Li Guo nodded, the arquebus and flintlock pistol at that time were indeed like this, Li Guo asked again, "But is our gun accurate?" ”

Bi Maokang smiled, "If you want to shoot accurately, at most within fifty steps, more than fifty meters, the projectile will start to fly wildly." ”

Li Guo nodded, "Yes, but Carlos's gun is very accurate, guess how far this gun can shoot?" ”

Bi Maokang shook his head.

"Okay, Lao Bi, then let's go and try it and see how far he can shoot." Li Guo picked up Bi Maokang and walked out. (To be continued......)