In the spring, the world is full of green, and the flower fields are like the sea, a vibrant scene. Jin Yiwei had no intention of watching, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, hurried to chase slowly, and went to the southwest.

Although he was anxious, Zhu Youcheng still paid attention to controlling the speed of the march and did not hurt his horsepower because of the momentary speed. In the last battle of Juehua Island, a large number of Jiannu war horses were captured, not to mention one person and two horses, even if it was one person and three horses, it was more than enough. However, Guizhou is a mountainous area, and the roads are rugged and steep, which is not conducive to galloping, so Zhu Youcheng did not bring a replacement horse, but one person and one horse.

Like King Xin, Zhu Youcheng and Jinyiwei also sang all the way, and the garrisons along the way thought that this was a group of young master soldiers, but when they saw their strict military appearance and murderous aura, their hearts sank, and they knew that these soldiers might not be easy to mess with. And the camp set up by the Jinyi guards is even more heavily defended, whether it is in the wilderness or next to the bustling market, it is the standard of wartime, not to mention spies, even flies - well, that can still fly in. Yu Jiayan has been plagued by flies lately. His scalpel was stained with too much blood, and if you didn't pay attention, there was a layer of flies on it. Spring has arrived, everything has come back to life, and all these pests hiding in the corners have escaped. Just like Ahn Bangyan, although it is not very lethal, it is also very annoying.

There is a toll road from Beijing to Huguang, which he and the Lord of Beijing jointly built, the road is flat, there is a post station next to it, and the supply is very convenient. Jin Yiwei did not suffer any sin along the way, and the speed was very fast, and sometimes, he could run 120 miles in a day.

The good times didn't last long, and after Changde, the toll road was gone, and only the official road remained. Although the official road is spacious, the road surface is uneven, and the sky is full of gray on sunny days. Muddy on a rainy day. The horses were fine, but the carriage was in trouble, not only did the speed drop, but it was also very bumpy, and people were afraid that the carriage would fall apart. Fortunately, the car had already been reinforced by the blacksmith, otherwise it would have been necessary to go all the way. Repair all the way.

Zhu Youcheng knew that the roads in Guizhou were difficult, but he didn't expect that before he arrived in Guizhou, the roads would be rotten like this. Just in case, he took a hundred craftsmen with him, ready to repair weapons, carriages, and so on on the road. These craftsmen were all rescued from Jiannu, they had already cut off the pigtail horses on their heads, and now their hair has not grown together, and everyone has a hairy head, like a little hedgehog on their heads.

With craftsmen. Zhu Youcheng is not afraid, anyway, all the way to the past, these craftsmen can use axes and saws to make a mobile car, now that the tools are complete, can't they still repair the carriage?

However, God doesn't seem to see Zhu Youcheng being idle, and it has created new troubles and fatal troubles for Zhu Youcheng.

When I arrived at the Yongshun Xuanwei Division (today's Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture), it began to rain. Rain cats and dogs. Zhu Youcheng was trapped in the city and could not move forward. Since Zhu Youcheng arrived in the Ming Dynasty. I haven't seen such a heavy rain yet. He immediately realized that it seemed that the prelude to the troubled times had finally begun, and the time when the Xiaoice River period was the strictest had finally arrived.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it seemed that the heavens were about to destroy the Ming Dynasty, and the temperature in the whole of China was lower than now, resulting in a flood in the south. There was a great drought in the north. As a result, the economy of the Ming Dynasty finally collapsed during the Chongzhen period, and the peasant uprisings came one after another. dragged China into the abyss of backwardness, and finally became a funeral object for Jiannu.

Zhu Youcheng knew that it was rainy in the south, so he prepared a coat for every Jinyi guard before leaving Beijing, but the rain was too great for the clothes to stop. In addition, the road surface is muddy and slippery, and it is easy to cause traffic accidents if you have to brave the heavy rain to walk on a steep mountain road. Zhu Youcheng asked the soldiers to rest for two days in the small town of the Yongshun Propaganda Division.

The heavy rain blocked Zhu Youcheng's two-day trip, which didn't matter, just walk for a few days in the future. On the third day, the sky finally cleared and the sun was shining.

Zhu Youcheng was about to lead the soldiers to set off, Chen Guoqi suddenly walked into the handsome tent angrily and said, "Lord Zhu, something is wrong!" ”

Zhu Youcheng was taken aback and asked, "Could it be that the Miao people want to rebel?" ”

"What, the Miao people want to rebel? How did I not know this? ”

Zhu Youcheng put his mind at ease, as long as the southwest is peaceful, otherwise it will be too sad to eliminate a thief and another thief.

He took a sip of tea and taught Chen Guoqi a serious lesson, asking him to have the demeanor of a general, not to make a trivial matter like falling to the ground, completely forgetting who saw the wind and rain just now, and guessed there.

Chen Guoqi didn't dare to make a sound, and when Zhu Youcheng finished speaking, he said, "My lord, something really happened." None of our firearms can be fired. ”

With a "bang", Zhu Youcheng fell from the chair, and Chen Guoqi hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Quick, quick, take me to see it."

Chen Guoqi brought Zhu Youcheng to the army, and sure enough, the soldiers were all sad. They took the musket and aimed it at the target and pulled the trigger, but there was no reaction at all. A few of the brave ones took the fire guns and put them in their eyes, hoping to see that something was wrong.

Zhu Youcheng frowned, and Chen Guoqi's face turned red. This time he was embarrassed and embarrassed, Zhu Youcheng had already said that no matter what went wrong with the firecracker, he was not allowed to aim at himself or his comrades.

Chen Guoqi shouted: "Law enforcement team, drag out those fools who aim their guns at themselves, and beat twenty military sticks." ”

Several brocade guards with red armbands stepped forward and dragged out the soldiers who didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

Zhu Youcheng asked, "What happened?" ”

"My lord, this morning, Wang Feng found that there was a tiger outside the city, and he thought about shooting a tiger to offer to his lord, but as soon as he released the gun, he found that the bullet could not be shot. Even changing three bullets, it didn't work. He borrowed someone else's firecracker, but found that he couldn't get out. Our soldiers of the Thousand Households thought it was strange and tried to test the firecracker, but none of them could make a sound. A clever soldier replied.

Zhu Youcheng took a firecracker, opened the back cover, poked out the bullet stuffed in it with a strip, replaced it with a new bullet, and then closed the back cover. He picked up his firebolt, aimed at the wall, and pulled the trigger. There was no sound, nothing happened except for a crunch of the trigger.

Zhu Youcheng thought that the soldiers loved the firearms like their own eyes, and they did not leave them for a moment, and the possibility of destruction by outsiders should be ruled out. Besides, how long will it take to destroy all the firecrackers? And this is a new type of firecracker, and outsiders get it. Not even a gun, let alone sabotage.

Zhu Youcheng opened the back cover, poked out the stinky bomb, carefully looked at the back of the bullet, and found that the bottom of the bullet was a little damp.

He had an oil lamp taken and a bullet in his chopsticks. The bottom of the bullet was roasted on the lamp for a while. The bottom of the bullet is coated with a primer that is very easy to ignite, and under normal circumstances it would have caught fire long ago. After a few more moments, the primer of the bullet finally caught fire, igniting the bullet with a crisp popping sound. Because the outer bread of the bullet is oiled paper, the gun tube is usually used to form a confined space and produce an explosion. Now the bullet was taken out, and although it burned violently, it did not explode.

"The reason has been found. The rain soaked the bullet bag, and the primer of the bullet became wet, so the fire could not be fired. Zhu Youcheng threw away his chopsticks and said.

He ordered a soldier to come over to a baggage truck to get some bullets that were not damp.

It's a pity that a bullet that is not damp still has no way to fire.

There is no problem with the bullet, then the problem is with the firearm. He opened the back cover and pulled the trigger, which made a crisp tapping sound. No problem. No, the current firecracker is the original firecracker. The principle is to use sparks to ignite the primer, then pulling the trigger will definitely sparks. Without Mars, of course, bullets cannot be fired.

Zhu Youcheng finally understood where the problem was, and it rained heavily in the past two days, and the rain soaked the muskets and bullets, and as a result, the new muskets could not be fired. God's power is really not to be underestimated, his rear-loading rifling firearms are powerful, and he is blind like heavy rain.

Zhu Youcheng had a headache. What Jin Yiwei is most proud of is his long-range attack ability, whether it is a rear-loading rifled firearm, a grenade, or a tiger squat cannon, or a nine-section steel cannon, he can beat the Yiren to the ground, which is why he dared to take 5,000 men and horses to aid Guiyang. But the firecracker could not be used. Shengsheng abolished the combat power of Jinyi Wei Bacheng. But happily, the Yiren's bow and arrow could not be used in wet weather, and everyone evened out.

Jinyiwei is not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, before there is no horse, the training is the infantry spear phalanx with the coordinated attack, and after the cavalry, the training is the cavalry impact and chiseling tactics, if five thousand against five, the Jinyi guard will win easily. But what about five thousand versus one hundred thousand?

Zhu Youcheng returned the firearm to the soldier and paced back and forth. The most famous battle of winning more with less is the Battle of Weishui in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Fu Jian led a million army to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty met the enemy with 80,000 troops, but the million army was defeated, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty won both clean and beautiful. The reason for Fu Jian's defeat was that there were too many miscellaneous troops in the army, which affected the combat effectiveness of the elite soldiers, and the result was a complete defeat.

His heart moved, why wasn't it like this? An Bangyan gathered 100,000 troops to besiege Guiyang, and did not advance an inch for ten months, which shows his combat effectiveness. The Yi people are different from the Jiannu, the Yi people are mountain people, and they are a rabble when gathered; Jiannu is a bandit, and when they are gathered, they are a group of bandits. The combat effectiveness of the two is not the same. Therefore, 5,000 Jinyi guards will lose very badly against 100,000 Jiannu, but 5,000 Jinyi guards against 100,000 rabble, then the result will be very different. Otherwise, during the Mongol and Yuan periods, the Mongolian iron cavalry would not have been able to sweep the southwest. The reason why it is difficult for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the rebels now is mainly because An Bangyan drilled the ravine when he saw that the situation was not good, so that the Ming army could not find his trace. If it had been a serious duel, he would have died hundreds of times.

The worry on Zhu Youcheng's face disappeared, and he said loudly: "All the brocade guards pay attention, open the back cover of the fire gun, and dry it on your back, as long as the weather is sunny for a few days, the inside of the fire gun will naturally dry in the shade, and then you can use the fire gun again." Brothers, now is the time for the Heyi people to use swords and guns to divide the superiority, are you afraid? ”

"Don't be afraid!" Jin Yi Weishan replied like a tsunami.

"Yes, don't be afraid. The Yi people are all rabble, although there are many people, but their combat effectiveness is scum. We need to teach them what an army is and what a battle is. ”

Jinyiwei shouted again.

Zhu Youcheng led the soldiers to embark on the journey again, losing the firearms, and the Jinyi Guard and the Yiren melee battles, although they would lose some soldiers, but the soldiers tempered by blood and fire in this way are the best soldiers among the elite soldiers.

What a whetstone. With them, Jinyiwei can grow faster and become the natural enemy of Jiannu's natural enemies, a nightmare of nightmares. (To be continued......)

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