Returning to the camp with the soldiers of the Sixth Company, the camp was still in full swing, full of workers carrying long logs or building sheds with them.

On the farmland outside, a hundred peasants were scattered across 1,200 acres of land, just as usual.

Because Wang Zhi blocked the news, most of the people in the camp didn't know about the attack of the official army, and only some people with a more sensitive sense of smell might detect something, but they couldn't do anything other than panic.

The prisoners who had been captured before were being gathered in an open space next to the camp, each with their hands tied with ropes, and guarded by heavily armed soldiers, who were quiet, not even daring to pant loudly for fear of attracting the attention of the guards.

Next to the captives, there were piles of the seizures, miscellaneous, not only the baggage of the officers and soldiers, but also the captured weapons, armor, horses, etc., and there were several documents walking through the captured piles, counting the seizures.

Wang Zhi walked over and asked a clerk, "How about this seizure?" ”

Hearing Wang Zhi's question, the clerk immediately took out the notebook he was carrying, and said according to the contents of it: "If you return to your lordship, there are a total of 223 horses and the same number of horse harnesses that have been seized so far, and 30 carts of baggage, including 16 carts of grain, 14 carts of horse material, and more than 1,000 weapons, including 831 broadswords, 1,721 spears, 131 bows, 250 strings, arrows, more than 200 guns, and gunpowder guns. ”

"There are also firecrackers, doesn't it mean that the army doesn't like to use firearms, show them to me." As soon as he heard that there was still a musket, Wang Zhi immediately became interested.

Many people who don't understand history may think that musket cannons were invented by foreigners, but in fact, whether this thing was invented by foreigners or us, it is not clear, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, China has begun to use musket cannons.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought at Poyang Lake in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's army used the most advanced firearms in China at that time, such as "artillery, fire milling, rockets, thistles, large and small muskets, large and small generals' barrels, large and small iron cannons, and divine arrows", creating a precedent for bombarding enemy ships with "naval guns" in water warfare. At the same time, in order to burn the enemy's giant ships, the incendiary firearm "helpless" was temporarily created.

By the time of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, he created a Praetorian Guard called the Shenji Battalion, which specialized in the use of gunpowder weapons. It can be said that it was the first firearms unit in the world. When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the warships were also equipped with cannons.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was even more "scholars who talked about firearms", which can show that there was already a high level of attention to firearms at that time, and the types of firearms at that time were also diverse. For example, a swarm of bees (rockets), 10,000 enemies (grenades), Qi Jiguang also invented a landmine when he was guarding the northern Xinjiang, called self-inflicted steel wheel fire, and he knew that this was a mine in the real sense when he heard the name.

In addition, the muskets of the Ming Dynasty are also varied, although many are imitations, but they do do it, there are fire guns, bird guns, Lu Mi guns, Franc machine guns, three-eyed guns, four-eyed guns, five-row guns, five thunder god machines, seven-star guns, ten-eyed guns, ten consecutive bead guns, Lianzi guns, immediately Franc guns, shock stacks, lead bullet swarms, fast guns, clamp guns, flying god fire poison dragon guns, etc.

Even the reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to defeat the Ming Dynasty was because they learned the manufacturing and use of artillery from the Ming rebel general Kong Youde, before that. A group of barbarians couldn't help the city walls at all.

In the early Qing Dynasty, there was still a class of musketeers in the army, and there was a policy of paying equal attention to bows and guns, as for why at the end of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people would think that the muskets of foreigners were demonic methods, this was not because the Qing Dynasty rulers were ignorant and complacent, but because they were smart. An ordinary farmer could kill a battle-fighting soldier with a musket after a few days of training, and the Qing rulers feared that when firearms became more prevalent, personal prowess would become less important. So can a foreign race with a population of less than one million still rule over the Han people with a population of 100 times that of him?

Therefore, under the intentional or unintentional suppression of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, firearms gradually disappeared from the land of China, and there was a kind of "Chinese people invented gunpowder but used it to set off firecrackers." And foreigners use it to make muskets and cannons".

However, at this time it was still the Ming Dynasty, and the musket was one of the standard weapons of the Ming army, and the composition of the Ming army was usually "milling ten, twenty knives, thirty bows and arrows, and forty guns". Firearms accounted for 10 per cent.

Although the data on the surface is like this, but the middle and late Ming Dynasty politics, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, there is no supervision in many places at all, the department that manufactures firearms in order to be greedy for ink, naturally cut corners, resulting in extremely poor quality of firearms, generally not a few shots will be exploded, and even the first shot will be blown up, many firecrackers did not die in the hands of the enemy, but died on their own weapons, and also affected the robe next to them, so many northern Ming troops do not use muskets, and the general troops will not bring muskets at all, That's why Wang Zhi was curious when he heard that there were muskets in the seizure.

Hearing Wang Zhi's instructions, the clerk immediately went over and took a few muskets over, and looked, good guy, almost a person is long, take a look at it, it turned out to be a flintlock pistol, Wang Zhi remembered that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Kingdom had been able to make homemade flintlock pistols, but the firing rate was a little touching, so it was not popularized, and it was actually seen in this inland area.

However, after a closer look, Wang Zhi found that this did not seem to be a flintlock pistol, because there was no trigger, but it was not a flintlock pistol, why was there a structure similar to the hammer of a flintlock pistol?

Full of suspicion, Wang Zhi took a closer look and found that this structure was not a hammer, because the top was thought by Wang Zhi to be the installation of flint, and it was found that the flint could not be fixed, so what is this for?

Wang Zhi didn't understand, but if he didn't understand, he had to ask, so he immediately found the paperwork, pointed to a small eye similar to the top of the hammer structure and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

"Go back to your lord, this is the dragon head that holds the fire rope in place." The clerk replied that because the imperial court attached great importance to firearms, they also knew something about firearms, just to vote for their favorites in order to win official positions.

-- Gunpowder and firearms, those who are now delusional about becoming a doctorate, everyone opens their eyes and writes books to dedicate ...... ("Heavenly Creations" Jiabing Gunpowder)

"It turned out to be a fixed fire rope, and I thought it was a fire rope that was inserted directly into the fire. medicine. Wang Zhi suddenly said that he had only understood the structure of the flintlock pistol before, and as for the backward things like the arquebus, he had not seen it at all, so he always thought that the so-called arquebus was a barrel fixed on the butt.

"Go get a fire. Pills are coming, I'm going to try the gun. Wang Zhi said, he started to play.

Seeing that Wang Zhi wanted to try the firecracker, the clerk hurriedly persuaded: "The official and military firearms are shoddy, and it is very easy to explode. ”

"Well, go pick a better quality gun!" Although Wang Zhi is not afraid of blowing up the chamber, it is always bad to really blow up the chamber.

Wang Zhi said this, and the clerk had no choice but to take the order, and soon brought a musket again.

After Wang Zhi took over, he found that the weight was much heavier than the previous ones, and the quality should be better. The process of loading ammunition Wang Zhi is still relatively clear, and he took the ammunition from the clerical hand and began to load, and used the whole strip to ram the fire. medicine and projectiles, and then attach the fire rope to the dragon head.

At this time, Wang Zhi found that the arquebus also had a trigger, but it looked different from the trigger we were familiar with, and the trigger of the previous one was too small, so it was ignored by Wang Zhi.

The trigger of the arquebus is connected to the faucet and the fire door cover at the same time, pull the trigger, the fire rope on the dragon head will fall, and the fire door cover will open at the same time, and the fire rope will ignite the primer in the fire door to complete the firing. Otherwise, as Wang Zhi thought before, directly insert the fire rope into the primer of the fire door, and at the moment of igniting the fire rope, the spark of the fire rope will ignite the primer, so it is better to ignite the primer directly, and what else do you want the fire rope to do.

After loading the ammunition, Wang Zhicai remembered that the test gun was to set up a target, but now he didn't have that time to spare, so he found a baggage cart full of grain bags, asked the people around him to walk away, stood eighty meters away from the grain truck, aimed first, and then lit the fire rope, closed his eyes and pulled the trigger, only to hear a bang on the ground, he smelled a violent smell of gunsmoke.

When he opened his eyes, Wang Zhi found that his front was covered by white eyes. The smoke produced after the burning of the medicine is too big, if you shoot a few shots, won't it be so full of smoke that you can't even see the enemy on the opposite side.

Really experienced the power of this ancient musket, Wang Zhicai sighed, the school city was really discovered in time, otherwise he would be using a steel pipe to flintlock the pistol now. But Wang Zhi would now rather let his subordinates fight with cold weapons than use this kind of smoked gunpowder, as for smokeless fire. Medicine, isn't it nitrocellulose, as long as you are not afraid of death, people who have studied high school chemistry can always figure it out, and it is worth noting the nitrogen content of cotton.

After trying the arquebus, Wang Zhi didn't have any expectations for the firearms of this era, so he rushed to this firing speed, and the power didn't need to be seen, just pass.

"If you send these muskets to the Ministry of Industry as iron, they are all rubbish."

For Wang Zhi, the only remaining value of these muskets is to rebuild them and cast them into axes.

"The rest of the weapons will be sent to the warehouse first." For other weapons, Wang Zhi is really difficult to deal with, he doesn't need these weapons that are not good enough, but he feels wasted when he takes them back to the furnace and rebuilds.

"Forget it, send these captured weapons, bows and arrows to the county seat, and see if the Zhang Zhifu is gone, give him these things if he doesn't leave, and give them to Hu Zhixian when he leaves."

It's still too much space to put in the warehouse, so let's send it to equip the little brother! (To be continued.) )

PS: Only after writing here did I understand the difference between the musket invented by China and the arquebus introduced, and I thought that the arquebus was the original form of the musket, and the initial form of the musket should be an arquebus without an arquebus, and the gunpowder was ignited directly with a firestopper.

In addition, the collection has been dropping, and the book review area is also very deserted and sad.

Originally, tonight's code four chapters 2K as an update for the next two days.,But it's written that you still have to look at the plot to find the chapters.,It's all 3,000-word chapters.。