Heisenberg sighed, and like an old cat that only smelled fish, he circled around several large carts of gunpowder, but when he saw the little iron cannon, his brow furrowed slightly, and he seemed to have a little regret. But in his heart, he really praised the efficiency of this General Lee, and felt that the upcoming battle had a place to play, and this explorer from Germany in the West immediately felt a sense of enthusiasm, as if he had seen the scene of himself personally beating those barbarians.

Li Xin knew that the origin of these people was not simple, he engaged in embargoed materials in the town guard, and rudely confiscated the merchants' materials, and had already offended a group of Jin merchants, how could there be any businessmen who would send him carbon in the snow? stepped forward to thank them and asked them where they came from, but the steward just said a sentence back and forth, these things were entrusted by the second son, and it was inconvenient to tell them otherwise. asked in a hurry, and then dropped another sentence:

"The general will know in the future, why be embarrassed to be a villain!"

After the caravan unloaded several large carts of supplies, it hurried away without stopping even with men and horses.

This is a strange thing, but several carts of gunpowder and an iron cannon are real things, and there is no need to fake. Li Xin examined it carefully, and the gunpowder was also the best black powder. In any case, the captive army even picked up the belt, and it could be regarded as having artillery. Pointing to these things, he said to Heisenberg:

"Your Excellency Heisenberg, these things are handed over to you, how long will it take to officially enter combat status?"

Heisenberg pursed his lips and protested: "Your Excellency, our army is highly hierarchical, but there is a custom of generals using honorific titles for soldiers?" ”

Li Xin was exposed, people just didn't respect him enough, this product was good, but he thought he was too polite to him.

"Good! Heisenberg, Ben ordered you to pack up this cannon and make it sound before dark! ”

Heisenberg snapped his legs together, gladly accepted the order, and stretched out to pull the gunpowder away.

"Wait!"

"Your Excellency, General, please command!"

"You can speak Chinese within a month, and General Ben can't follow you as a translator at any time!"

"Yes!"

Heisenberg circled around the cannon again, looking pity. Li Xin saw that he seemed to be dissatisfied with something, so he leaned in and followed for a while, if it is said that the workmanship, this kind of iron thing is far from the accuracy of his previous life's machining, it is still rough and tight, but under a closer look, it is also decent and can't find a little fault.

"How? Is there something wrong with this iron cannon? ”

Heisenberg shook his head as he stroked the barrel of the cannon.

"It's a four-pounder gun, and although it's new, it's easy to blow up with the tail of the gun."

At the same time, Heisenberg explained a bunch of terms that even Li Xin was covered in clouds and mountains. In short, in a word, although the cannon is new, it is easy to explode.

This made Li Xin worried, if there was any problem with the range accuracy of the cannon, he couldn't accept it alone. Once the cannon is blown up, the gunners operating next to it will be injured or killed. The gunners who can skillfully operate the cannon are the top technical talents of this era, and if you die, you don't know when you will be able to train a well-trained gunner.

Although it was a pity, Li Xin still said categorically: "Since this is the case, don't use this iron cannon!" ”

Heisenberg continued to caress the cannon, as if his hand was not cold cast iron, but a graceful keto body.

"Your Excellency, although it is easy to blow up, it is a pity not to discard it, I will try my best to test a reasonable charge, so that the chance of exploding can be minimized. Of course, some range will have to be sacrificed. ”

The sacrificial range is much stronger than a time bomb that may explode at any time, and this result is acceptable to Li Xin.

"How far can the range be?"

Heisenberg pondered for a while before replying: "The exact range will require a series of tests to reach the final result, but based on previous experience, it should not exceed four hundred yards." ”

How far is the four worship codes? Li Xin had no idea about these Western units.

"How much should four hundred yards be converted into rice?"

"M?"

Heisenberg looked dazed, then shook his head a little ashamedly.

"It's embarrassing to say, I've never heard of a unit like rice!"

Aren't meters and yards both Western units of length, since this product is a captain in the Holy Roman Empire army, he should have a lot of experience, and it is impossible not to have heard of rice. Many doubts were not answered for a while, so Heisenberg had to test them first.

As soon as he said it, Li Xin immediately ordered someone to pull the iron cannon sent by the merchant out of the south gate together with the iron cannon found in the fort. On a flat land, you can experiment to your heart's content.

A vacant field temporarily designated as a test site was crowded with people, and the people of the town guards had not seen the cannon for several years, and now they saw the red-haired ghost operating the cannon himself, and many soldiers spontaneously watched.

Heisenberg's movements seem meticulous, and the steps are done in an orderly manner, which seems to Li Xin to be very steady, but in the eyes of some people it seems to be slow.

"What else is the red-haired ghost rubbing?"

"Where's the ball......

All kinds of words were so loud that Li Xin couldn't listen to it, but fortunately, Heisenberg didn't know Chinese, maybe he just thought that the Orientals were cheering for him.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

I saw puffs of white smoke coming from the muzzle of the cannon, and Heisenberg carefully recorded the various numbers on the side, and then repeated the previous action until the cannon fired. Each time the launch process is completed, the next reload speed becomes faster and faster, until the final speed is jaw-dropping. The soldiers had never seen such a fast reload in their lives.

In the end, Heisenberg came up with a rough limit of range, which was really no more than four hundred yards, and the best firing distance was between two hundred and three hundred and fifty yards. What makes Li Xin most entangled is this length unit, how many meters is one yard equal? If one yard is equal to one meter, how can there be a shooting limit of 400 meters.

However, it is obvious that this conversion method is inaccurate, according to common sense, those chaotic units in Europe categorically did not have a one-to-one conversion "Very good, with these two four-pounder guns......" Li Xin glanced at Heisenberg, "It's a four-pounder gun, right?" With these two four-pounder guns as a unit, Captain Heisenberg, General Ben orders you to form an artillery team in three days, ask for money for money, ask for people for people, ask for things for things! ”

Li Xin's superstition about firearms, especially artillery, was incomprehensible, and the military formation lacked long-range strike weapons, and there was not enough muskets and enough time to train a qualified musket team, so artillery was the best long-range firepower and deterrent.

In fact, muskets and artillery each have advantages that cannot replace each other, but at this time, Li Xin was concerned and confused, and he didn't understand it for a while.

Hearing Li Xin's grand wish, Heisenberg was not polite at all, and immediately made a request with a grim face. Not only must they pick people, but they must also raise the salaries of these qualified people, and they will be at least three times more than the ordinary phalanx infantry. Of course, he Heisenberg was among them, and at least three times as many as the chosen ones.

Lu Jiu next to him grinned when he heard it, "I said what kind of treasure, aren't you a lion opening his mouth and robbing while the fire is burning......" He was stopped by Li Xin just halfway through, "Don't talk nonsense, if you want to increase your military salary, you will also strive to be elected to the artillery team!" ”

Although Lu Jiu no longer made a sound, he still didn't think so, what kind of artillery, it was just something that hid behind the infantry army and only knew how to shoot a few shots, so what help did it do in the battle situation? How can you charge directly with cavalry and phalanx infantry in the face of the danger of the enemy?

Li Xin thought that Heisenberg's request was reasonable, because he felt that the technical arms should have higher salaries, and it was not without reason that artillery could sweep the European battlefield, so he had long believed in the theory of the supremacy of artillery.

For three days in a row, Li Xin was stationed in Xinping Fort to train the whole army, and Heisenberg really lived up to Li Xin's high expectations, and in the shortest possible time, trained 50 people and five squads of artillery. Although the firing speed is completely incomparable to Heisenberg's, they already have the basic ability to fire artillery. Moreover, each squad is able to fight independently, which means that once the artillery of the operating squad loses its combat capability, they can quickly make up for it.

While actively preparing for war, the scouts who were scouting around came back one by one, but they did not find any trace of the Mongol Tartars, and these people seemed to have disappeared in the vast steppe. Li Xin stared at the simple map with only a few simple lines for a long time, there were not a few Mongols in the Han Division, and it was impossible for them to disappear suddenly.

"Probe, report again!"

Now there is no way to make any guesses, so we can only send more people to find this group of Mongolian Tatars out of the vast snowfield. Only when they are informed of their movements can various active defensive measures be taken in time.

……

Eighty miles to the west of Zhenyuwei is the capital of Shanxi Province, Siyang and the Acropolis, and Yang Hewei and Gaoshan Wei co-govern here.

In an official office post in the Acropolis, a handsome man in a long robe stood with his hands in his hands, and the steward behind him stood silently behind.

"Second son, then Li Xin accepted our gift." Seeing that his son-in-law did not react, he continued: "The greed surnamed Li has deducted the wealth of our Huang family, and if we don't fall into the well with the Fan family, it will already be benevolent and righteous, how can we still give him such an important military weapon?" ”

"Uncle Fu's words are wrong, looking at the officials of Datong Mansion who really think about the Ming Dynasty, except for Li Xin, I really can't find a second one." Qing Yue's voice was not very loud, but there was an air that could not be refuted.

The steward still disagreed, "I only saw greed and knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow, such a ** Ming officialdom can't tolerate him, what else can you talk about supporting Daming?" ”

The young man of the long shirt sighed faintly, "The troubled times are coming, and the top and bottom are dark, maybe only the son of the evil son and the lonely minister can clarify the smoke and clouds of this troubled world!" ”