Chapter 158: Bright Flowers
At the same time, in the yamen under the command of the Jinyi Guard in the Heavenly City, Jiang Xian was pacing back and forth, listening to the return of a hundred households under his command.
The sturdy brocade-clothed Wei Baihu bowed down and said: "The subordinates respectfully follow the military orders of the adults, and have investigated clearly, Sun Xu and other scholars learned about this matter from a scholar in the same province Li Feng, and the subordinates have brought that Li Feng back to the guard, and under severe torture, this kid has already confessed, but he learned about King Yan from a distant cousin, and His Royal Highnesses King Ning will go to study in the Guozi Prison today." ”
Jiang Xian asked in a deep voice, "Who is this cousin of Li Feng?" Where is it now? ”
Hearing him ask, Jinyi Wei Baihu replied softly: "According to Li Feng's kid, his cousin's name is Li Zhen, and he is the housekeeper in the mansion of Lord Fang of the Criminal Department. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head slightly and looked at the commander of the brocade guard in front of him. It turns out that Fang Fang Liang in this criminal department is a figure who is a positive five products and holds real power. It is not an ordinary low-level official, because he does not dare to act rashly, so he has come to report to Jiang Xian and let the commander make a decision himself.
Jiang Xian heard that this matter actually involved important members of the Criminal Department, his heart moved, he turned around and picked up a piece of paper on the table to take a look, and the first name that caught his eye was Sun Xu, a Jiangxi scholar who had just taken the lead in making trouble outside Guozi Prison. It turned out that there were a huge number of prisoners in the Guozi Prison, and there were already Jinyi Wei secret agents lurking in them, and it was easy to investigate the situation of these scholars, and the paper described in detail the details of more than 20 scholars headed by Sun Xu.
Seeing this, Jiang Xian's mind recalled the scene after today's dispersal of the dynasty, and he happened to hear in the conversation between the two civil officials that the students of Guozijian were dissatisfied with King Yan and King Ning's support for killing those scholars who accepted the banquet. The two princes are going to study in Guozijian this morning. These two officials also happened to be Lang Zhong and Wai Lang of the Criminal Department. And this ventilated report, Li Feng's cousin Li Zhen is also the housekeeper of the important members of the Criminal Department. He never believed that there was really any so-called coincidence in this world, so he snorted lightly in his nose and smiled: "Think of a way, while this housekeeper is out of the house, invite him to the guard to meet the tortured nephew, see what can be taken out of his mouth, ask him what happened, and then let him go, be careful not to startle the snake." .com" After a slight pause, he said in a low voice: "As for that Li Feng, you know what to do." Then he turned and left.
Hearing this, Jinyi Wei Baihu understood it, looked at the back of the chief in the distance, and showed a cruel smile on his face. Extorting confessions by torture, coercion and inducement, this is one of the methods that they are best at. No matter who comes to this brocade guard, there is only a bamboo tube to pour beans, and it is fast to spit out. And this Guozi Jian scholar Li Feng, who was secretly captured for himself, because of his special identity and the fact that he is the most hated by the commander, the scholar who raps all day long has no possibility of leaving this place, and will only disappear from this world without a trace.
When Zhu Quan rode his horse into the military field of the school, he saw many people standing solemnly in the center of the wide field. When I came closer, I saw Zhu Di, the king of Yan. Everyone in the field saw the arrival of His Royal Highness King Ning, and they also stepped forward to see that the civil official was Qi Tai, the squire of the military department, who was in charge of firearms, bows, crossbows, and armor. The generals include Lan Yu and Yan Wang's henchmen Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng. There was only one general with a resolute face, about forty years old, half a head shorter than Lan Yu, who took vigorous steps to lead Zhu Quan in front of him, bowed down and said, "The last general, Mu Ying, see His Highness." It turned out that he was the official worship of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and a few years ago he followed Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, pacified Yunnan, and governed the local Xiping Marquis Muying.
Zhu Quan couldn't help but look at him a few more times when he heard this, only to see that his eyes were bright, his demeanor was neither humble nor arrogant, he only looked at his bearing, and he was not inferior to Xu Da, Feng Sheng, and Fu Youde. I secretly thought to myself in my heart: Looking at the words and feelings, his son Mu Chun is also a character, this Mu Ying's family guarded Yunnan in the era, and it seems that it has come to an end with the Ming Dynasty, it seems that this family is not only old, but also sons and grandsons are not ordinary people. Thinking that he was the prince Zhu Biao's descendant, his heart couldn't help but sink. East $ square $ .com
At this moment, a low roar was heard in everyone's ears, like a hungry wolf seeking prey but not getting it. Zhu Quan turned his head to look, only to see Yongchang Hou Lanyu holding a steel knife with a flickering cold light and a slight arc, swinging it again and again, viciously chopping towards a wooden stake tied to the armor, as if he wanted to vent all his energy on the armor.
Standing aside and watching, Li Tingsong, the head of the armor division of the Ministry of War, who was also Zhu Quan's old acquaintance, saw Lan Yu venting his armor as an enemy, and couldn't help but feel a little pain in his heart, and his face was sad.
Lan Yu glanced at Li Tingsong and said coldly: "These armors are related to the lives of my Ming sergeants, if you don't get a few real knives and guns, who knows if they are reliable or not." After slashing a few times, he was still unsatisfied, and ordered his guard Wang Erhu to bring his beloved jujube red horse, turn over the horse, turn around and run out of more than ten zhang, and then gallop back, swing the knife to the armor tied to the stake, and gallop back to Mu Ying, and said with a smile: "General Mu, your knife is good for foot combat, and it is not very easy to use immediately." After that, he jumped off the horse, and asked Wang Erhu to take a row of rather strange-shaped swords on the weapon rack and cut the armor.
Mu Ying smiled when he heard this: "What General Lan said is very true, just because the land of Yunnan where I am located is not compared to the Liaodong Plain, and many terrains are not available to cavalry, but these swords are improved by the last general, so as to facilitate the use of foot soldiers." ”
Zhu Quan and Zhu Di saw that the swords on the weapon rack were very different from the war knives commonly used in the Ming army's foot soldiers, and they couldn't help but be curious, and they both stepped forward and took off one of them to take a closer look.
Mu Ying came to Zhu Quan's side, pointed to the unusually sharp knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "This is the Dai knife, this kind of knife is extremely sharp, it is not only a labor tool for the last general, but also a weapon for practice and self-defense. After that, he turned his head and pointed to the knife in Zhu Di's hand, and said: "This blade is called Jingpo sharp knife, there are several varieties, the knife shape is straight, curved, and there are blood grooves. The tip of the blade is oblique and has different inclinations. The third type is the Lili scimittal knife, which is not big, the blade is approximately straight, the tip of the blade is bent and concave to the back, and the blade is sharp. The handle is slightly curved and convex to the back and is made of wood or angle. The length of the knife is no more than one or two feet, and the target length is three or four inches. Weaving fine vines and entwining them. The end of the target is inserted into the white horn piece of more than one foot, such as the tail of an osprey. Tibetan knife, also known as "Spanish knife". The blade is short and sharp. The scabbard and handle are often beautifully decorated. It is used for assault and stabbing, turning the wrist to change the edge, or forcing the body to snatch, so that people are unable to defend themselves. Commonly used moves are "yak into battle", "eagle pecking hooves", "tricking horses to cover the top", "lama sacrificial knife", "raising sheep posture", etc., during the drill, the knife wind swishs, shouting and scary. The fifth type is the Yi short-body insertion knife, which is a curved short knife with a handle and a silver scabbard. The back of the blade curves outward, the blade edge is on the inner surface, and the tip of the blade is slightly outward and convex again, and the handle and blade are the same curvature. The shape of the knife is exquisite, high-quality, and extremely sharp and sharp. ”
After Zhu Quan personally experienced the battlefield fighting, he knew that in this era when firearms could not completely replace swords, bows and crossbows and other cold weapons, the role of swords in the confrontation was still extremely important. ”
Mu Ying smiled when he heard this: "The land of Yunnan guarded by the last general, all ethnic groups are mixed, the people are fierce, and all kinds of sharp blades emerge in an endless stream, so the last general chooses them to be used when the foot soldiers fight, and improves and equips my soldiers." ”
At this moment, Zhu Quan saw Lan Yu take a firearm that Wang Erhu had loaded, and he was eager to shoot, so he hurriedly retreated a few steps with Zhu Di and the others to avoid accidental injury.
When Lan Yu pulled the trigger, everyone heard a deafening loud noise. Lan Yu also shook her arms numb from this huge momentum, and took two steps back. In the drift of black smoke, there was a pungent smell of gunpowder in the air, Fan Wengang, the director of the Firearms Division, walked to the stake, stretched out his hand to lift the armor to watch, only to see that the lead emitted by the firearm not only penetrated the armor, but also deeply fell into the stake behind, overjoyed, turned his head to Zhu Quan and smiled: "Your Highness, after the improvement of this firearm, the power has increased a lot." ”
Seeing that they were ruining their beloved armor like this, Li Tingsong, the head of the armor division, couldn't help but snort coldly, and said angrily: "You old man, why don't you just bombard the cannon at the armor?" It is guaranteed that if one shot goes down, there will be no scum left. He also followed Feng Sheng's army on an expedition to Liaodong, and he was dissatisfied with Lan Yu's bad armor, but he didn't dare to provoke this rampant person, so he had to talk about his friend.
Lan Yu handed the fire gun in his hand to Wang Erhu to tinker with it, reached out and kneaded the arm that shook the fire gun, waved his hand to Fan Wengang, who was standing next to the armor and watching, and said impatiently: "Hurry up and dodge it, wait for me to try again." ”
Mu Ying saw that Wang Erhu hurriedly cleaned up the firecrackle from the back and then loaded the ammunition, and after a while, he handed it to Lan Yu, and fired again, so he couldn't help but be curious, and asked Fan Wengang: "How can this firecrackle shoot again, can it be so fast?" ”
It turned out that the guns used by the Ming army in the past were loaded from the front, and after the barrels had to be cleaned, they were slowly filled with gunpowder and lead, which was not only time-consuming and laborious, but also often blew up the chamber if they were not careful. At this time, Mu Ying couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when she saw that the speed of the two consecutive launches of the same blue jade fire gun was much faster than before.
Fan Wengang took the firearm in Lan Yu's hand, and while demonstrating how to clean the gun barrel and load the ammunition, he said with a smile: "Last time, when His Royal Highness King Ning was on an expedition to Liaodong, he and I and Wei Ming of the Bow and Crossbow Division improved this firecracker, and now we are using a flintlock firearm that loads ammunition from behind, and it can be fired by simply pulling the trigger, not only can it be fired when it rains, but the speed of the second launch is also much faster." ”
Zhu Quan saw that the painstaking explanation to the three old men last time had achieved results, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and Mu Ying each got a firecracker, pretended it according to Fan Wengang's words, and shot forward.
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