Chapter Seventy-Two: The Precious Reed Wheel

The city has arrived.

From the city to the city, the whole journey was along the southern mountain range and the northern mountain range, which also made many crew members who went to the mountain city for the first time sigh. Because this road is really the whole mountain, they admire the first and second batch of explorers in Dongshan Prefecture from the bottom of their hearts, and they can actually discover the Shan Plain.

If they were replaced, such a long coastline could be seen from the sea, and it was estimated that they would not continue southward.

Yesterday, when the Nanyang class sailed into the bay, Liu Yifeng knew that they were about to arrive at the city. He had seen the map from Song Yingxing, and probably guessed that the mountain was the northern section of the Rocky Mountains. In the later Rocky Mountains in the Maple Leaf Country, this side near the West Coast was still the highest altitude, and the plains did not appear until Vancouver.

The so-called mountain city is either Vancouver or Seattle.

These two cities are located at the southern end of Victoria Bay, which forms Victoria Island, and later generations of Angrosaxon immigrants built them here, which is a natural indication of how livable the area in which they are located.

When the crew was still amazed at the land on the left and right sides of the Nanyang class, and lamented that the same as Jishan Bay, it was a natural harbor, Liu Yifeng handed over the three dogs to Lao Wang and returned to the bilge.

"Are you all hidden?"

"Hidden." Feng Shuo and Kim Seung-woo said at the same time.

Then they asked everyone to walk up to Liu Yifeng one by one, and Liu Yifeng asked them to make some simple movements to check that the firearms and cartridges hidden on their bodies would not be exposed.

After pointing out a few people who were hiding in the wrong place, and the people who seemed awkward during the action went to hide again, Liu Yifeng looked at Li Hongji, who was standing aside and was obviously in a daze.

"Old Feng, what's wrong with him?"

Feng Shuo laughed and said, "This kid, we were startled when we took out the fire gun, and then the whole person was stunned. He wasn't from the Southern Army, so how could he be scared when he saw the firecracker. ”

Liu Yifeng patted Feng Shuo, motioned for him to continue the inspection, and walked towards Li Hongji.

Li Hongji looked up at Liu Yifeng, his eyes were extremely complicated: "How did you do it!?" ”

Liu Yifeng stretched out his hand and shrugged his shoulders, without explaining, but that indifference made Li Hongji, who had already been shocked to a complicated mood, even more complicated.

He found that the new big boss he had taken refuge in was really not an ordinary person, and it even made him feel a little scary.

With his wisdom, he could naturally guess that this batch of handcuffs was the one smuggled by the captain. But Liu Yifeng, a leader of the people, a person who has a certain status on the ship because he can cook good dishes but is definitely not comparable to the crew, can actually rob and hide so many handcuffs under everyone's noses!

This courage, this courage and this ability convinced him.

He asked himself if he exchanged himself with Liu Yifeng, he would never be able to do such a feat, at most he would just hide one or two sticks on his body.

Liu Yifeng deliberately did not explain, many times, after completing something as a leader, don't tell your subordinates how you did it, that sense of mystery is also one of the important means of the emperor.

"Now you won't worry about that fellow of yours anymore, will you?"

Who knew that Li Hongji shook his head, and after he muttered for a few seconds, his face returned to normal, and he quickly assumed his role: the instructor of the guards, and said:

"Not enough, that's not enough."

Liu Yifeng frowned and said, "Are you saying that the fire gun is not enough?" ”

"No, there are enough firecrackers, but not enough."

"What do you mean?"

Li Hongji walked up to Feng Shuo, asked for a fire gun from a Jurchen who had re-hidden the fire gun, and said: "The fire gun needs to be practiced, even if you are a reed gun, the fire rate is not too high." ”

"Rapid ignition, loading, and shooting, these are all things that need to be practiced, otherwise these handcuffs are no different from the almost one-time three-eyed guns, and they are not even as good as the scattering of the three-eyed guns, at least the scattering of the three-eyed guns doesn't need to be aimed."

"How to avoid the smoke squinting after the firecracker, how to make sure that the residual gunpowder after the firecracker will not explode, these all require practical training. But big boss, you have too little ammunition and gunpowder. ”

Liu Yifeng somewhat understood.

Reality is not a game, and it's not something you can use with a weapon equipped. Long-term mechanical training is a must, otherwise a fire gun is a burning stick.

And you need ammunition to practice!

After thinking about this, Liu Yifeng regretted that he didn't keep some of the ammunition when he sold it to Second Master Sun and Boss Liu. Anyway, with the ability of the two of them, it is estimated that it will not be difficult to get ammunition.

But for himself, it may be very difficult to get ammunition from the unfamiliar cities of Jishan City and Jinshan City.

Li Hongji took on the role very quickly, and he was still pouring cold water on Liu Yifeng: "Not only that, big boss, the fire gun needs to be maintained, especially if you are still a spring wheel." The reed wheel system is very expensive, and the reed wheel gun is not as good as the arquebus gun in this regard. The arquebus was shot more than ten or twenty times before it needed to be maintained, and the reed wheel gun was fired less than 10 times before it needed to be maintained, and I don't think there were craftsmen in Dongshan Prefecture other than the Maritime Safety Bureau who would maintain it. ”

Feng Shuo was a little dissatisfied, feeling that Li Hongji had said too much, but Liu Yifeng thought so.

He stopped Feng Shuo's scolding of Li Hongji and said, "Old Feng, what Lao Li said is right. Just like the horses you sell, make sure you have enough oats and soybeans to eat along the way, and ask the groom to groom the horses and clean their hooves from time to time. If you don't, you probably won't be able to sell your horses. ”

The example given by Liu Yifeng made the former horse dealer understand it as soon as he heard it, and immediately he knew that he had misunderstood Feng Shuo, and after holding his fists and apologizing, his face was as ugly as Liu Yifeng.

Li Hongji tried to give a suggestion: "Big boss, my suggestion is that this batch of handguns will be sealed first, and when there is a chance in the future, we will buy a firestring, and first use the simple-to-maintain arquebus to form a guard, and this batch of handguns will be used as a hole card at a critical time." ”

After going around for a long time, he still had to buy an arquebus, Liu Yifeng felt that fate was really playing tricks on people.

However, this batch of handcuffs was originally a windfall, and it had already helped him earn 1,600 taels, and he could see it, and after discussing a few more words with Li Hongji, he agreed to use this batch of handcuffs as hole cards.

"Then we can only form a cold weapon team first."

Seeing this, Feng Shuo said with excitement on his face: "Why don't you buy some horses and form a cavalry team?" I'll bring it! ”

Liu Yifeng glanced at him and said, "Horses must be bought, pack horses, pull horses must be bought, and war horses can also be bought for you." ”

"It's just one horse!?"

Feng Shuo wanted to say, "We have 1,600 taels, so we can buy one?" But he glanced at Li Hongji beside him, held back, and didn't get through in front of this newcomer.

Liu Yifeng glared at him and said: "Pack horses and pull horses are used to pull goods, if there are mules, I don't even buy pack horses and pull horses, I buy all mules." Buying a horse is for you, what are you dissatisfied with? ”

"No, how do you form a cavalry team?" Feng Shuo's face was full of discomfort.

"Lao Li, do you know how to ride a horse?"

Li Hongji shook his head, and Liu Yifeng shouted at the mature women and Koreans who were checking each other's fire guns and hiding, "Do any of you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all shook their heads.

Feng Shuo suddenly looked like a frosted eggplant.

You can't form a fart cavalry team on horseback......