Throughout the ages, ordinary people have been very interested in joining in the fun. During the Republic of China, the Sichuan army fought in Wuhan. The people of Wuhan actually went out of the city with benches and melon seeds to watch - the Sichuan army did not win.

The 'revolutionary army' conducted public military exercises to show its strength to the four directions. This excitement is a must-see, a must-see. So when the news spread ten, ten and hundred, countless people rushed in various ways - since the 'revolutionary army' occupied Tianjin, the local people felt that the days were really exciting, and the excitement that had not been seen for thousands of years came one after another.

The news of this martial arts performance even spread to Tongzhou, and Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Jiliao who was sitting in Tongzhou, was interested, and he also wanted to know how far the enemy in the south had developed? But he couldn't leave easily when he was in the center, so he asked Sun Yuanhua, who had been to Tianjin, to take a trip to investigate the military situation.

Sun Yuanhua ran through Tianjin once, and now he has become the 'anti-thief' of the Ming Court. He was often consulted in the imperial court on various policies toward the enemy. However, counseling is counseling, and it is not a different thing to use his advice. This time, Governor Xiong gave the order, and Sun Yuanhua also felt that the opportunity was rare. The 'revolutionary army's ability to govern the localities is irrefutable, but the combat strength of their army is still misty.

Sun Yuanhua wanted to go, and his teacher Xu Guangqi also wanted to go to the field to see. Because the north controlled by the Ming court now communicates very closely with Tianjin, and I have never heard of any insecurity. The highly efficient 'revolutionary army' was even able to supply the capital with a greater variety of goods than in the past—as long as it was paid, anything could be said.

So the teacher and student traveled lightly and went to Tianjin along the canal, but they happened to meet Lao Li Tou, who came to Tianjin to ask to see the marshal and give a gift. The high-ranking officials of the temple and the old farmers in the countryside gathered together, sat together, and watched the martial arts drama.

In the previous battle of Tongzhou, Liu Ling's tens of thousands of troops were beaten by the artillery of the 'revolutionary army' and suffered heavy casualties. The people who collected the corpses afterwards were all horrified, and the enemy's artillery was described with words like 'rotten places'.

Sun Yuanhua was interested in the art of making artillery, and he had long wanted to see what the enemy's artillery looked like. Today, it is really extraordinary - after the first battle of Tongzhou, the Guards found that the Type 1617 short-barreled heavy artillery originally used for emergency response was actually very well designed.

This kind of artillery imitating the 'Napoleonic mountain grenade' is very light, the whole gun is only more than 300 kilograms, and a four-wheeled carriage driven by two horses can be towed. The carriage can also sit an entire artillery squad and a base charge of shells, and it is really easy to maneuver on the battlefield. If the road is not easy to walk, the artillery can also be disassembled and transported by animal power, and it is not very difficult.

Zhao Ze is making slight improvements to this light artillery. He changed the barrel from casting to forging, lengthened the wall to 1.2 meters, and at the same time thinned it to reduce weight, and added a steering machine to facilitate operation. In this way, the maximum range can be increased to 700 meters, which is basically at the limit of visual distance. The improved artillery was named the '1617 A' battalion artillery and began mass production.

At this moment, the three infantry phalanxes on the martial arts field are exactly one battalion. Paired with a platoon of cavalry for communications, reconnaissance, detours and pursuits, as well as a platoon of two guns specially designed to deal with enemy phalanxes and fortifications, this is an independent combat unit.

Gao Daniu and others, who were also the regiment commanders, were now all demoted and kicked to command this kind of 'synthetic battalion'. Because their basic quality is too poor, these so-called 'high-ranking officers' have been training for several months, and their combat capability is still miserable -- don't count on mobile combat, and they will herd sheep as soon as they move, and they will not be able to control it at all. It's better to play honestly and line up to shoot.

It's just that Sun Yuanhua didn't know anything about these inside stories, and he just saw that these battalion light artillery could be pulled by a carriage, and he felt that it was an eye-opener. And the caliber of these short-barreled heavy guns is particularly large, in his opinion, this is the 'big general cannon' of more than 1,000 catties - the general cannon of the Ming Dynasty has no gun carriage at all, let alone a gun carriage. They are mounted on large wooden boxes.

Mobility is basically equal to zero.

According to standard tactics, the infantry phalanx was lined up in a line, and the artillery formed crossfire on both flanks. But there is no way to 'cross' today's martial arts. A cross fire, watching the lively people have to die a large area. In addition, for the sake of good looks, the two doors were placed at the front. The artillerymen got out of the car with shovels and dug pits on the spot to build firing positions - mainly to dig a ramp for the artillery to be reset.

If it was to be manually reset, the artillerymen would have to be tired and half dead.

For every move of the artillery of the 'revolutionary army', Sun Yuanhua watched closely. He couldn't help but sneak out a small notebook and try to record it. But his teacher Xu Guangqi shook his head slightly, meaning not to be too eye-catching, otherwise it would cause trouble.

In a quarter of an hour, the gun emplacements were built. There were already two mounds of dirt about three hundred meters away from the artillery, and this was the target. The artillery commander at the scene kept shouting, and the onlookers saw that the artillery began to load, and all the steps were clear and unchaotic.

Some of the onlookers shouted excitedly: "It's time to open a cannon, it's time to open a cannon." Open your eyes and keep an eye on it, this cannon is aimed at the big mound of earth in front of you, and you can hit it with one shot later. Absolutely beautiful! ”

Sun Yuanhua would have been able to go to the two heavy cannons in person and take a closer look at the details of these militaristic heavy weapons. He saw that the artillery of the 'revolutionary army' only easily turned a turntable to adjust the muzzle height and left and right direction, which was never available in the Ming artillery - Taixi's artillery did not have this ability now, and the aiming of the artillery was very complicated.

After loading and aiming, the on-site command sounded again. I saw that most of the artillerymen near the gun emplacements turned their heads and covered their ears to avoid the noise and loud noise of the guns when they were fired. Only the gunner in charge of the ignition inserted the ignition rod into the fire door at the rear of the gun - with a bang, the gun carriage drove the barrel to the recoil, sliding all the way down the solid slope to eliminate the recoil.

Wow......

The audience immediately shouted, and countless people were frightened by the movement of the cannon, and their hearts beat wildly, and their faces turned pale. Some people feel dizzy when they cover their hearts, and they can't even stand on their feet when they stumble. But the cannon was not finished, the scorching shells sprayed out of the barrel, jumped on the ground, floated for a while, and accurately hit the mound of earth three hundred meters away.

A packet of black powder had been buried in the mound of dirt, and it was hit and burst into flames on the spot. Another earthquake struck, and the mound exploded and fell apart. White smoke and dirt flew in all directions, covering a range of tens of meters. The surrounding people were already shouting in fright by the sound of shelling, and their throats were already in their throats. Seeing this explosion again, my heart really wants to fly out.

The live audio-visual effect is superb!

Some people are fascinated, some people are frightened, and some people are so frightened that they faint on the spot - without the baptism of film and television in later generations, a thunderstorm can scare people enough in these years, not to mention the close thunder and vibration.

Lao Li Tou just whined, and trembled with fright. Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua, both teachers and students beside him, were frightened by this mysterious explosion, and they also felt creepy and shuddered. In their opinion, the artillery of this 'revolutionary army' was too powerful, and it was not to mention that it could knock out a mound of earth with a single shot.

If this is a siege, wouldn't it be a matter of a few more shots? No one can bear it!

"This, this, this ......." Xu Guangqi turned his head to look at Sun Yuanhua like a stutter, panicked. Sun Yuanhua was also shocked and inexplicable, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to support his teacher, but he couldn't think of any comforting words.

One cannon was fired, and the other was fired again. The entire martial arts arena was full of exclamations and shouts, and everyone was too addicted. Everyone felt that today was not in vain, and the movement of this artillery fire alone was enough to let them go home and brag for a lifetime.

The two guns fired one solid round each and exited. Next came the cuirassiers roared forward, brandishing their sabers and slashing at some of the erected wooden targets. Because of the precedent of the artillery, these fierce cavalry made people feel that they were not powerful enough.

It's just that in the opinion of Xu Guangqi, who has seen the military exercises of the Ming Dynasty, if these cavalry of the 'revolutionary army' really go to the battlefield, they must be a force to be reckoned with. Whoever you play against, beware of the harassment and attacks of these terrible knights.

After the cavalry drill, the three infantry phalanxes, who had been standing still, began to march in unison. They entered the battlefield in front of the crowd, and then three rows of musketeers began to shoot in turn, targeting several rows of wooden targets within a hundred meters.

Bang bang, bang bang, dense and neat fire guns rang out one after another, and white smoke kept coming out in front ......of the queue. The wooden targets in front of the queue were scattered with debris and kept lodging. Sun Yuanhua counted with his heart, and found that these firecrackers could basically fight one round with twenty breaths, or three platoons of guns in one minute.

With such firepower, it is simply impossible to surprise it with cold weapons. Sun Yuanhua whispered to the teacher: "This 'revolutionary army' first broke the formation with artillery, then harassed with cavalry, and finally attacked with firearms. In this way, who in the world can be against it? Even if they rushed to the front of this phalanx with a large number of people, they still had two rows of spearmen in thick armor, and they were not afraid at all. ”

Sun Yuanhua hoped that the teacher could use his rich life experience to show him the way, but Xu Guangqi himself was confused by the artillery of the 'revolutionary army' at the beginning, so where else could he have any ideas? He even shook his head with a sigh, and even his eyes were moist and grief-stricken inexplicably, and he shouted: "I can't win, I really can't win." Xiong Du spent hundreds of thousands of silver taels in the imperial court, and he couldn't win. ”

Both the teacher and the student were in a depressed mood, and they didn't have the heart to continue watching. They didn't even have time to say goodbye to Lao Li Tou, so they went to find their servants in pairs, where they were going to come from and where they were going back. Anything else has been left unintentional.

Just waited for Xu Sun and the others to come out of the martial arts arena, but suddenly found that the crowd around them was crowded. In front of me came a woman with a delicate face, surrounded by a large number of servants and military police. Realizing that something was wrong, they quickly dodged to the left and right.

But the woman took the initiative to step forward, saluted slightly to the teacher and student, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Sun, the concubine Zhou Wen, on the order of my husband, I have come to invite the two talents to enter the mansion for a while. ”

was told that their names were broken, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua were both frightened and trembled, panicked. Xu Guangqi was calm, he saw that this woman was richly dressed and had a gentle temperament, so he hurriedly asked, "I don't know who Madame's husband is?" I don't have any friends in Tianjin. ”

The woman smiled: "My husband is Zhou Qingfeng, the commander of the 'Revolutionary Army', and he has been friends with the two gods for a long time. When Mr. Xu got up from Tongzhou and set off, his husband said that he couldn't let you go easily this time. The cars and boats along the way are all my husband's men. So please also ask the two of you to appreciate your face and accompany the concubine. ”

Ah......, I don't have to run now!