The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 32

Early the next morning after returning home, Huang Yizhou, who couldn't wait, took Huang Han, Hanzi and four servants to gallop towards Funing County with two horses.

Originally, I thought that I would spend the rest of my life working as a farmer in Jiulitai Village, but unexpectedly, I suddenly became the military officer I dreamed of when I was young. If this situation continues, I don't know if I can really become a general.

Huang Yizhou was also stimulated by the lofty aspirations of finding a prince immediately. Now that Daming is being invaded by the post-Jin army, this is of course the time for a good man to fight for fame on the battlefield.

The day before yesterday, he stabbed Jiannu's body with a red-tasseled spear, and Huang Yizhou still recalled the sourness to this day, and the cry of "I am from Penghao" lingered in my heart.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, in Funing County, there was constant laughter in the hall of the temporary residence of General Huang Weizheng.

Huang Yizhou sat cautiously as the general, accompanied by Han Zhikuan, and more than a dozen generals from the fifth rank to the third rank, talking and talking happily.

Huang Han and Hanzi got the chance to sit at the bottom of the table, while Yang Hanwei and the other four servants did not have such a good fortune, they could only eat a few bites of meat and drink a few bites of wine with a few generals and soldiers outside.

The Hou Jin army has become the nightmare of Ming Dynasty, and its combat power has been a myth. Huang Yizhou brought eleven levels of gains, including a Ba Yala, and Han Zhikuan was shocked.

The quality of Jiannu white armor soldiers' armor was top-notch, but Huang Han didn't plan to keep it because he thought it would be irresponsible for him to equip this pair of armor for his servants.

Because this set of shiny armor is too stylish and eye-catching, it will attract a lot of hatred when it appears on the battlefield. Presumably Jiannu will spare no effort to attack in order to save face, and the servants equipped with this set of white armor will die miserably.

This time when he came to Funing County to report his meritorious service, Huang Yizhou not only brought Jiannu's badge, but also a full set of armor and weapons from the White Armored Soldier. This item is really rare in Ming Dynasty, not only Han Zhikuan was petrified on the spot, When it was presented to the general Huang Weizheng, he also got a few surprises.

The atmosphere after that was more harmonious. Huang Wei was attending a banquet to celebrate Huang Yizhou's achievements. His servant team, full of thirty riders, brought the white armor and head of the slaves and galloped to Yongping Fucheng immediately. Of course he It is to rush to repay the merits as soon as possible.

Yongping Bingbei is responsible for the money, rations and performance appraisal of his team. It must have been such a brilliant achievement, and getting money, rations and rewards is no problem.

The achievement of the eleventh level not only excited the civil servants and generals in Funing, but also caused a lot of trouble in Yongping Mansion. The military master showed the genuine slave head and the shining white armor to the civil servants and military generals of Yongping Mansion overnight. Send a team of hundreds of fine riders to the capital to report victory.

After the imperial court talked up and down, the color of the Jin army changed. At this time, the real head of Jiannu will definitely boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the capital. Although there are only eleven ranks, the imperial court will definitely have a spring and autumn style of writing when it is announced.

For example, after a fierce battle day and night, thousands of Jin troops were killed and wounded. Although the Ming army won a big victory, there was only time to cut off dozens of heads.

It is impossible for ordinary people in Shengdou to understand the filth of the dignified scholar-bureaucrats. As long as they can see the heads with money rat tails, they will believe it and believe that the court has the ability to defeat the barbarians.

Huang Yizhou only lingered in Funing for one day, and when he came back the next day, he received a three-month full salary and horse feed silver for a cavalryman of the general banner, a total of more than [-] taels.

Huang Yizhou was not stupid, and of course he would not get all of it in his pocket. He gave Han Zhikuan 100 taels to chat with him, and gave 200 taels to the general Huang Weizheng as a tribute. He only dared to take more than [-] taels of silver.

With military exploits but still being so sensible, such subordinates are worthy of support, so Huang Yizhou didn't suffer much, not only received fifty mandarin duck battle jackets, but also ten pairs of cotton armor, a thousand feather arrows, Ten combined bows, five three-eyed guns, five bird guns and one hundred catties of black gunpowder.

With the experience of winning the battle this time, the training enthusiasm of the servants is even higher, and everyone is practicing hard.

Song Pengfei was extremely envious of Huang Han's perfect arrows. He saw with his own eyes how many Houjin soldiers were shot to death by his master. He also wanted to learn archery.

Huang Han knew that practicing archery was not something that could be accomplished overnight. If a person with no foundation wanted to practice at the level of an archer, he had to be talented and had to practice hard for three to five years.

He simply studied with Song Pengfei the five matchlock guns he just got. In this era, people in Ming Dynasty called matchlock guns bird guns.

This name may be named in praise of the matchlock gun's ability to shoot down birds.It may also be because the trigger structure of the matchlock gun is like a bird's beak pecking water when it is ignited.

Fan Jingwen, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and Dongge University scholar who died in the late Ming Dynasty, once described the bird blunderbuss in this way: "You don't need to abandon the handle to ignite the fire, and you don't shake it. Therefore, there are nine out of ten shots, that is, any bird in the forest can be shot down. , because it got its name."

It can be seen that as long as there are fine-crafted matchlock guns, there are still some matchlock guns. According to historical records, the quality of matchlock guns produced by the Han people is ahead of this era.

At this time, the inner walls of the matchlock guns made by European craftsmen were so rough that the gunner would stuff them into the barrel with wrapping paper and lead bullets to be able to tamp them tightly.

During the period of Qi Jiguang, the inner walls of the matchlock guns used in Jizhen were carefully polished by Han craftsmen, and there was no need to mix wrapping paper. The lead bullets can fit the smooth barrel better, so the hit rate at a distance of [-] or [-] steps has reached the ten rounds described by Fan Jingwen. Eighty-nine middle school.

In Huang Han's previous life, he had played with an air gun for more than ten years. He often secretly shot sparrows at home and roasted them. He had a good shooting foundation and excellent marksmanship. He could really shoot down small sparrows on telephone poles within 50 meters.

Shooting is interlinked, so after Huang Han became a cavalryman of the Ming army, the fusion of the two souls led to the improvement of archery skills without regressing.

Huang Yizhou didn't really trust firearms, but he had seven years of military experience and was no stranger to firing blunderbusses. He carefully instructed Song Pengfei to try to practice loading and firing.

The loading and unloading of bird guns in this era is too complicated. First, the fire hole and the primer pot must be cleaned, the primer should be poured into the pot, and the lid of the pot should be closed.

Hold the gun with the right hand, pour the propellant into the gun, then pull out the cleaning rod from the barrel, tamp the propellant, then take the lead bullet and put it in and tamp it, hold the match with the right hand, blow out the ashes first , put it in the faucet, keep your breath on the front star, and finally aim at the target and pull the trigger.

It doesn't matter if it is a little trouble, practice makes perfect after hard work, Huang Han used his brain to simplify a few procedures, and measured the gunpowder in a small paper bag, worried about the risk of bombing, he only dared to use [-]% of the approved amount.

It was too late to produce the blunderbuss by myself, so Song Pengfei, Zhao Kun, Liu Sihai, and Wang Gensheng could only use the five he had brought for them to practice adaptively, the most important thing was to practice loading, aiming and stability.

Huang Han himself is very busy with loading, aiming, and firing whenever he has time. He knows the historical process and understands that firearms will replace cold weapons.

(End of this chapter)