Chapter Fifty-Eight: Fire Intimidation
058 Frightened local generals
This drill with real swords and guns didn't take half an hour to end, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was about to lead the cavalry team to attack on both sides, didn't even find a chance.
And the local generals who stood on the high platform to observe, except for Sun Chengzong, everyone was frightened.
Daniel Zhang looked up at the winter sky that had already subsided, and the whitish sun that had just emerged from the dark clouds could not bring him a little warmth, and even looked directly at it, and these generals seemed to feel that the sun was their future.
The cold wind blew, and he even shivered as he walked in the flesh and corpses.
These generals saw with their own eyes that the light barbed wire fence that could be transported by a horse-drawn cart became a nightmare for field cavalry. They even quickly formed several better uses in their minds, taking the abilities of these evil barb-filled monsters to the extreme. As long as I am given a thousand, preferably two thousand steps of barbed wire, I can hold anywhere.
The group of generals did not wait for the roar of the artillery they were familiar with, and behind the artillery, several catapults, which were lighter but more farther to throw, threw one earthen pot after another into the cavalry group. Then there was the volley explosion in the crowd, which swayed countless flames. Walking on the battlefield today, you can still smell the smell of barbecued horse meat.
This group of generals even saw with their own eyes that even so, nearly half of the Jiannu fell off their horses, still brandishing knives and trying to step on the corpses of their comrades and climb over the barbed wire. They were greeted by whistling and waving chain bullets.
Then there were three rows of black-clad soldiers standing behind the barbed wire fence with bird guns.
Rows and rows skillfully rolled and shot like waves, and in front of them were countless lead bullets at a gallop, and what was even more terrifying was that these lead bullets kept going back and forth. The whole team seems to have become a shooting machine, and as long as there are enemies in front of them, they are reloading, firing, backing, cleaning, reloading, and never ending.
They were full of respect as they passed by the squad that had been punished for a soldier's mistake. Then, like a walking corpse, under the settlement of Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua, he began to organize and deliver his own team.
Stationed in the army military academy above the guerrilla level, one of them wore a black soldier's uniform, and he had no rank or rank. The remaining soldiers were taken away by the existing soldiers of the official academy in groups of fifty and bathed first.
Sun Chengzong's court of the official academy only left Zhu Youzhen and Old Man Sun.
"Today you have more gunpowder buried under the barbed wire." Zhu Youzhen sat boredly on the old man's chair, playing with the old man's gun.
"That is, more than 50 explosive points were buried, more oil bombs were buried, and the remaining three cylinders were buried." The old man had a pile of paperwork to deal with on the table in his hand, but he could only endure the emperor playing on his desk.
"Where's the bird?"
"Sixty of the three hundred were selected, and it looked like this, and three were damaged in this battle."
Sun Chengzong was a little strange and asked, "Your Majesty thinks that you can't coax those famous generals who are coaxed by cowhides?" ”
"Not really," Zhu Youzhen put down his musket, he had been running back and forth in the past few days, and he was a little tired. He rubbed his cheek with his hand, "Sir, I'm worried that I'm going to freak them out. ”
"Hahaha......" Sun Chengzong smiled heartily, and at this time the old fox also realized that his majesty was also a normal teenager.
"Your Majesty is too worried, and if you can't keep up, you don't have to keep up. As long as His Majesty's mind is there, there are still few talents in this heaven and earth? But turning his head, the old man asked hesitantly:
"Your Majesty, do you think it's possible for us to really have such a powerful weapon on the battlefield?"
This time it was Zhu Youzhen's turn to laugh at him.
"What's that power?"
Zhu Youzhen is a real man who has seen the torrent of steel.
"Finally one day we will have a cannonball, and when we throw it out, all the people will die."
Sun Chengzong ignored the whispers of the young son of heaven, he was used to it. "Your Majesty, you say, how good it would be that we really had such a weapon."
Zhu Youzhen said: "As long as there is a beginning in the development of weapons, there will be endless exploration, endless development, and then there will be no end to power." Sooner or later, the cannonballs thrown will be a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times more powerful than they are now. ”
Sun Chengzong nodded: "I will go back to the military department tomorrow to find Xu Guangqi, his research institute can't just look at the weather and festivals, these will wait for the world to be peaceful, if you want money, the old minister will go to the cabinet to fight a lawsuit." ”
After hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was relieved, he knew that the old man was a very hard-working person, and he said that if he went to keep an eye on the Academy of Sciences, he would definitely be able to keep an eye on the Academy of Sciences.
"The military department also has to control those foreigners. I gave them 100,000 silver to build a church in the garden of my palace. They have to work with my money, and they can't wander around all day long. Zhu Youzhen said solemnly, those people in the Academy of Sciences are unreliable, and we still have to find someone who can squeeze out the last drop of these foreigners' hard work.
"When the ten-year appointment arrives, we will fulfill our promise and send them home."
After speaking, a group of people rushed in to discuss military affairs with Old Man Sun, and sent Zhu Youzhen, who had nothing to do, politely out. He walked to the canteen of the official school, asked Wang Chengen to go in and kicked a dozen buns, and then went to the county office next door to find Lu Xiangsheng.
It is a common practice to be an official and not to repair the yamen. So the county government of Changping County looked tattered.
The whole yamen went out, and only an old man sat in the gatehouse and snoozed around the iron stove. When Zhu Youzhen asked, he learned that Lu Xiang had already taken people up the mountain to repair a small reservoir before dawn.
In more than a month, more than 5,000 households and more than 20,000 people from Changping came back from the surrounding areas and with the help of Jingshi. According to the natural form, Lu Xiangsheng sorted out a piece of farmland with enough farmland to settle a large village of 200 households and 7800 people. Each of the five villages will have a core of the Enlightenment County School and Trading Market.
This year is too rushed, and many people are still living in various houses and stables on the original ground. In order to give these people confidence, Lu Xiangsheng also borrowed 10,000 loads of grain from the imperial court and piled it up in the warehouse behind the county government. With this, he led all the villagers who came back to start repairing small lands, rivers, and waterwheels.
As soon as they thought that there was food still pressed in the government, the villagers were full of confidence.
When Zhu Youzhen found Lu Xiangsheng, he was squatting at the bottom of a small reservoir. Seeing that Zhu Youjian had arrived, he ran up stepping on the small nest by the pit.
"I heard that you don't receive the salary and silver of the Changping County County Decree specially approved by the imperial court?" As soon as they met, Zhu Youzhen asked. didn't forget to take out a few buns from the jar that Wang Chengen wrapped in a quilt and gave them to Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng grinned, broke a dead branch next to him, scraped the yellow mud on his hand, and just took it and ate it.
"You know what you are doing, but what you did wrong in this matter has led to a bad head."
Lu Xiangsheng swallowed desperately, and then replied: "What does Your Majesty mean? ”
"It's nothing more than fighting the law with morality, you think. I've figured it out to find me. With that, he waved his hand to Lu Xiangsheng and got into the sedan chair behind him.