Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 397 Big nephew, you don't care!

Zhu Yunxi stood aside and listened to the dispute between the two. Even though he always felt that his third uncle was a bit silly, he had to admit that this guy had a point.

Compared with traditional bows and arrows, the biggest advantage of the firecracker is not its range, but its low-cost training mode.

It is too difficult to train a qualified archer, at least it will take more than three to five years to train.

The reason why the prairie nomads beat the Han people back steadily is because the prairie people have practiced riding and archery since they were young, and everyone is a soldier.

Relatively speaking, the people of the Han nationality spend more time studying how to farm the land, so how can they have the leisure to practice bow horse riding and archery?

However, the popularity of firecrackers just made up for this.

The training time for firecracker shooting is short and the effect is quick. No matter the old or weak, women or children, just give them a firecracker and teach them to shoot three or five times, and they will be able to grasp the key points.

It is precisely because of the popularity of firearms that grassland nomads learned to coexist peacefully with the Han people.When the subsequent machine guns appeared, the nomads became hospitable and able to sing and dance.

Seeing that the two were still arguing, Zhu Yunxi immediately stepped forward to persuade them.

"Second Uncle, Third Uncle, stop arguing, you two, you will know when you see the power of my Fire Gun Battalion."

Zhu Xi snorted coldly when he heard the words, sat back on the chair angrily, and ignored Zhu Yan and Zhu Yunxi.

Seeing this, Zhu Yan also showed a contemptuous expression, and said to his eldest nephew.

"Eldest nephew, behave well in a while, and give your third uncle some credit!"

Zhu Yunxi replied with a smile.

"okay!"

While a few people were chatting and laughing, all the guards of the Beijing camp and the vassal king had finished their drills.

As the saying goes, there is no first place in literature, and no second in martial arts.

The ranking of the army's martial arts performance is clear at a glance, and no one can fake it.

In the end, Zhu Yan's guard team became the champion of this military exercise with the first score in shooting and the second score in the queue.

As for the second, it is naturally Zhu Xi who is holding back his energy.

In fact, Zhu Di could win the first place if he worked hard, but he didn't want to stand out too much, and he didn't want to steal the limelight from Zhu Xi and Zhu Wei, so he could only come in third.

After the first three ranks, the ranking behind is not important, just wait for His Majesty's punishment.

The last is the military exercise of the Jing Navy under the name of Zhu Yunxi, which is not included in this ranking.

When Mei Yin, who presided over the military exercise, stood on the high platform and announced that Jing Haijun would be on the field, all civil and military officials lay on the city wall in unison. Leaning on the battlements with two crutches, he wanted to witness the miracle of Jing Haijun himself.

He and Fu Youde helped Zhu Yunxie to train soldiers.Although Zhu Yunxi had prepared military training textbooks a long time ago, the two of them only needed to follow the instructions step by step.But the two are also witnesses of the whole process, participants of Jing Haijun's training.

Now it's time to review the results, and the two of them are more excited than anyone else.

When Tang He was lying on the battlements and looking nervously at the martial arts arena, Fu Youde was pulling the reluctant Sapphire up the city wall.

Ever since Sapphire was deprived of her title, she has been decadent.Even if Zhu Yunxie gave him a shark suit and hired him to be the vice president of the military academy, he couldn't even arouse the slightest interest.Shut himself at home all day, acting like an old otaku in Hongwu's last years.

He didn't want to come to the military exercise today either, because there was nothing to see, and because it was disgusting and embarrassing.

He is the only one who is full of civil and military honors all over the city wall, so where does Lan Yu, who has been so strong all her life, put her face?
"Old Blue!"

"Come and take a look, the Emperor Taisun's Jing Navy is very strong and can affect the battlefield for the next hundred years!"

"Ugh!"

"Just brag for him, don't pretend we don't know, that kid said he was training soldiers, but he hasn't even been to the barracks a few times, and the names of the generals and schools under his command are incomplete. It's hell to train any good soldiers just like this Mile!"

"Just now I want to drag the old man to some military academy. Fortunately, the old man asked someone to inquire. If you dare to ask someone, the academy has only one brand, not even a decent school building, and the students and teachers are even more useless. If you can do everything you can, you will be a bare-handed general... ..."

When Fu Youde heard this, he was also amused.

The grandson of the emperor really has such a problem of being very happy. No matter what he does, he is very grandiose. In fact, he often puts up a "sign" to scare people.

If the two of them knew that Zhu Yunxi had already restrained himself, and that there were still many ideas that had not been implemented in time, the two of them would probably jump off the city wall directly.

While the two were tugging on the city wall, everyone on the viewing platform of the Imperial College under the city wall stretched their necks to watch.

Although they, the Imperial College Supervisors, could not get the privilege of watching the excitement on the city wall, His Majesty the Emperor still found a suitable viewing spot for them at the bottom of the city wall.

However, these students don't like to watch this kind of fighting scene, they feel that this thing is degrading.

But there are some exceptions. For example, Han Qing, a newly promoted student from Huizhou, watched very seriously. In order to see more clearly, he even took out a clairvoyance, which attracted everyone's attention.

There is only one reason for everyone to look at him, that is, they were shocked by Han Qing's local tyrants.

Clairvoyance is sold at supply and marketing cooperatives in the capital, and it costs 1000 taels of silver.

Therefore, after Han Qing took out the object, the students beside him stopped looking at the martial arts arena, and all looked at him in unison, hesitating how to speak, and borrowed it from him for fun.

Han Qing didn't like military exercises either, but in order to understand the strength of the Ming army, he could only watch patiently.

Of course, he was also very curious about the strength of Zhu Yunxi's Jing Navy.

Although the strength of the Jing Navy cannot represent Zhu Yunxi, the performance of the Jing Navy can still infer Zhu Yunxi's military level.

Apart from Han Qing, the Nine Great Merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were the ones who cared more about the Great Ming Jing Navy.

They didn't dare to go to Beijing blatantly, but they sent their ears and eyes to watch the ceremony one after another to find out the true level of the Jing Navy.

This is also the only chance for them to know the level of Jing Haijun through legal channels. Normally, when their people are close to Jing Haijun's camp, they will be arrested as spies and tortured.

On the city wall, Lao Zhu saw that the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were so concerned, and then looked at the envoys of the vassal states in the lower left direction, who were also lying on the battlements, with a smug expression on his face.

As the emperor, he naturally knew more about the inside story than others. He had already called Fu Youde and Tang He into the palace and asked them about Jing Haijun's training level.

The two veterans can be regarded as people who have seen the world. When Jing Haijun was mentioned, they both gave extremely high evaluations.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel very confident, so he put Jing Haijun in the finale position.

Following the order of the commander-in-chief of the military exercise, Mei Yin, the First Battalion of the Jing Navy Firearms Battalion walked out of the formation with a neat pace, carrying a long gun.

Battalion Commander Zhang Jianghe chanted slogans, led the crowd to the edge of the white line, and immediately called to stop.

"stop!"

"No progress……"

As everyone shouted uniform slogans, the original marching queue was quickly adjusted and turned into a shooting queue.

A hundred steps away from the gate, there are a hundred scarecrows neatly arranged.

The scarecrow has a target painted on its body, and a clay pot the size of a fist is stuck on its head as its head.

In principle, as long as the target is hit, it is considered a "hit". If the pot is shot and the pot is smashed, it can be called a magic shot.

The reason why Zhu Fen's guards were able to defeat Zhu Fen was because Zhu Fen's guards shot the most pottery pots, reaching more than 30.

Hitting a fist-sized clay pot from a hundred paces away is already an incredible achievement, enough to be called a magic shot.

As for shooting copper coins, willow trees, etc., that can't be called nonsense, but it doesn't pay much attention to this in the army.

Because it is too difficult and not adaptable.

For the members of their army, being able to shoot a clay pot from a hundred paces away is considered a master.

When the Jing Haijun below was preparing for the shooting, the gambler Zhu Xun made a bet with Zhu Xun.

"Second brother, how many targets do you think Jing Haijun can hit in the first round?"

Zhu Xi's army was also equipped with firecrackers. Knowing that the performance of this thing was too unstable, he stretched out a finger on the spot.

"It's his luck to hit [-]% of the targets!"

"One percent?"

Zhu Yan rolled his eyes when he heard the words.

"During the Chinese New Year this year, when General Lan and I fought against the Tartars in Datong, we were able to hit at least [-]% of the targets."

"Now in the past half a year, Zhu Yunxi has improved several times, at least it can be improved by [-]%!"

"Eighty percent?"

Zhu Xing also showed the same exaggerated expression as Zhu Xing.

"Third brother, it's not the second brother who is talking about you. If you really hit the target [-]% of the time, the second brother will jump off the city wall on the spot!"

Zhu Yan heard the words and smiled.

"If it's [-]% possible, there's no need for the second brother to jump off, just give me a thousand sets of armor!"

Zhu Xun looked at Zhu Xun unkindly.

"What if you miss [-]% of the shots?"

Zhu Xun said with pride.

"I'll give you two thousand armor!"

"it is good!"

When the two were betting, Zhu Di and Zhu Xi also came over.

"Second brother, third brother, take me and fifth brother with you when you two are playing!"

"Everyone is welcome, who are you two going to bet on?"

"I can't bet!"

"I can't bet either..."

The other feudal lords saw that they were having fun here, so they also came over to join in the fun.

"Third brother, do you buy one and get two back?"

"Yes!"

"Then I'll bet five hundred armors!"

"I bet three hundred..."

When it was Zhu Chun and Zhu Bo's turn, they made a decision contrary to everyone else's.

"The two of us will offer five hundred sets of armor to bet on the third brother!"

Hearing what Zhu Chun said, Zhu Fen immediately gave the two of them a thumbs up.

"Have courage!"

Zhu Chun asked with a smile.

"Third brother, don't just play tricks, quickly calculate how much the odds have risen to?"

Upon hearing the words, Zhu Yan immediately began to settle the accounts. Zhu Chen, Zhu Di, and Zhu Yan all had one thousand, and the other vassal kings had five hundred or three hundred, totaling [-] sets of armor.

"It's less than one to three. If we win, you two will pay one to three, and the rest will be mine, hahaha!"

"Third brother is so powerful!"

At this moment, Lao Zhu heard the noise behind him, and looked back displeasedly, so frightened that Zhu Yan, who was sitting in the manor, shrank his neck on the spot, and waved his hands to his younger brothers, telling them to stay away from him.

Seeing that the crowd had stopped, Lao Zhu gave Lao San a displeased look, and was about to reprimand him a few words, when suddenly there was a burst of gunfire from under the city wall, which made him turn around to look in surprise.

However, Lao Zhu just looked at it.

At his age, he can see a scarecrow in the distance clearly, but how can he see the target clearly?
Zhang Jianghe shouted loudly on the spot after the first sound of the gunfire.

"retreat!"

The soldiers who had shot in the first row immediately retreated to the last row after hearing the military order, and the soldiers in the second row stepped forward.

Zhang Jianghe didn't order the soldiers in the second row to shoot, but gave them an order to stand still, and then ran to Mei Yin's place to report.

"Report to the General, the first round of shooting is over!"

"Put away the guns and wait for the target report!"

"promise!"

The soldiers in the tunnel crawled out of the tunnel after receiving the military order from Mei Yin to report the target, and checked the targets on the scarecrow one by one.

However, after checking it once, everyone checked it again in disbelief, and did not report to Mei Yin until after repeated confirmation.

"Report to the general, Jing Haijun's first round of cavalry shooting with a hundred men, everyone hit the target!"

"Huh!"

Even though Mei Yin could vaguely see the results on the target, when he heard Xiao Bing say this, he still felt a shock in his heart.

A hundred gunfire soldiers all hit the target?
This level of achievement is already much better than Zhu Yan's personal guard battalion!

"Did you make a mistake?"

"Will there be a few missing?"

"Reporting to the general, there is nothing wrong. I have checked it three times, and it is true that they all hit the target!"

Mei Yin heard the soldier's repeated confirmation, jumped off the platform on the spot, rode a fast horse and ran to the city wall to announce the good news to the emperor's father-in-law.

"His Majesty!"

"Happy event!"

When Lao Zhu heard Mei Yin's announcement, a smile appeared on his face.

Needless to say, it must be that Jing Haijun's grades are very impressive, which attracted the kid Mei Yin to come up in person.

Standing on the city wall, Zhu Bian roughly counted, and knew that it was more than [-]%, but it was too far away to see clearly, so he didn't know how much more.

Therefore, when Mei Yin came up, he, Zhu Chun, and Zhu Bo looked confident, waiting for Mei Yin's report with full expectation.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Xi, Zhu Di and others were completely shocked.

Although it is impossible for them to see every target clearly, the number of targets that they can see clearly exceeds [-]%.

Such a strong accuracy rate has a subversive perception for them, and even makes them feel a burst of fear.

Originally, these vassal kings were at a disadvantage, but now that the eldest nephew possesses such magical weapons, in the future, if the old man kicks his legs, they hard-working vassal kings will not be bullied to death by the eldest nephew!

Now they only pray for one thing, and that is that the rate of fire is not fast enough, and this kind of firecracker is expensive, and only a small number of soldiers can be equipped with it.

Compared with the fear of the Ming dynasty vassals, the southwestern chieftains and vassal envoys who watched the excitement on the east wall were even more frightened.

Because Daming can be more polite when beating feudal lords, but beating them is really impolite, and beating them as hard as possible.

Now that Daming has developed such sharp firearms, will they still have a good life?
As soon as Mei Yin ran up the city wall, he was locked on by the eyes of all the vassal kings and envoys of the vassal state.

Lao Zhu was also very curious about what kind of achievements Dasun's men had made to attract Mei Yin to climb the city wall himself.

"Mei Yin doesn't need to be too polite, let's just talk about the target result!"

May Yin said out of breath.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations to Your Majesty, Jing Haijun is holding a new type of firecracker developed by the emperor's grandson, and no one missed the target in the first round of shooting!"

"what!"

As soon as Mei Yin said this, the sound of gasping was heard all over the city wall.Zhu Xi even rushed forward, grabbing Mei Yin's collar and questioning.

"Meym, you didn't lie, did you?"

"There were hundreds of people in the first round of shooting, how could everyone hit the target?"

"Such a result, even the solitary guards can't do it!"

Zhu Fen very much hoped that his eldest nephew, Jing Haijun, would achieve good results, but when he heard that no one missed the target, he became confused.

However, his messiness was different from Zhu Xi's. What he was angry with was Zhu Yunxie, a little guy who even kept his uncle from him!

"Zhu Yunxi, when did you improve the firecracker again, why didn't you say to give the third uncle a sample for fun!"

Zhu Yunxi had not paid attention to the improvement of firearms for a long time. He threw the blueprints of flintlock muskets, matchlock muskets, and rifles to the workshop one after another, asking them to study according to the blueprints.

Anyway, the firecracker assessment process has been determined long ago, so he doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Therefore, now he does not know which generation of firecrackers Jing Haijun uses.

"Third Uncle, don't worry, I'll order someone to send you a few later!"

Old Zhu was also very excited after hearing Mei Yin's report. He had been listening to his grandson boasting about the power of the firecracker before, and he had also heard his subordinates talk about the power of the firecracker.But he had never seen it with his own eyes, and thought that his subordinates deliberately spoke good words to the emperor to coax him in order to curry favor with him.

However, now that he saw and heard it with his own eyes, he couldn't be more excited.

If the firecrackers had such a high accuracy rate and a range of more than a hundred steps, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty's million soldiers sweep the world?

Lao Zhu stopped the noisy crowd immediately, and waved to Dasun.

"Big grandson, come here!"

"Ugh!"

"Tell us, what is the rate of fire of your firecracker?"

"The rate of fire..."

"Let Grandpa Huang see for himself!"

When Lao Zhu heard Dasun's confident words, he laughed happily on the spot.

"it is good!"

"Then let's see for ourselves!"

"Mei Yin, send an order to let the subordinates continue the drill!"

"promise!"

Mei Yin didn't go down to the city anymore, she directly took out two small flags from her sleeves and waved them on the city wall.

Not long after, the firearms battalion under the city wall fired again.

After a salvo, the soldiers in the first row retreated again, giving way to the second row.

Then there is the second row of shooting, and so on and on and on.

The three-stage shooting method is not new in Ming Dynasty, and Mu Ying used it when he suppressed the rebellion.

However, the segmented shooting that can be seamlessly connected is unheard of and unseen by everyone.

Lao Zhu listened to the sound of firecrackers firing densely below the city, and felt that this was the most beautiful music in the world.

In his mind, the spectacular scene of Beiyuan iron cavalry lining up to eat blunderbuss had already emerged.

Teams of Northern Yuan cavalry fell under the gunfire, and Daming went from one victory to another.

Sapphire, who was dragged up to the city wall by Fu Youde, also showed horror on her face when she saw the dense firecracker shooting scene under the city wall.

It's no wonder that Fu Youde had to drag him over, this fellow has long known that Zhu Yunxie's improved firecracker is sharp!
But, how did this kid improve the firecracker, and how did he manage to fire it continuously?
You must know that charging this thing is very troublesome. First, you need to clean up the gunpowder residue in the gun barrel with iron bars, then pour gunpowder into it, throw lead bullets in, and then press it tightly with iron bars.

Only in this way can the firecracker exert sufficient power when fired.

But in this way, the time will be delayed. The time for them to change the medicine is enough for skilled archers to shoot several rounds of arrow rain.

However, the soldiers of the Jing Navy below only lined up five rows, and they were able to shoot non-stop, and they were very calm, which was surprising.

Lu Song, the Korean envoy, greedily looked at the Ming soldiers who were shooting, wanting to take these sharp weapons for himself.

If they had such firearms in North Korea, even if they couldn't counterattack Daming, it would be enough for them to tear off the fat of Liaodong from Daming.

The Vietnamese envoy Ruan Zongliang also saw his eyes burning. This is really a magic weapon.

It doesn't take much training time to create an army that makes the cavalry fearful. Is there such a thing in the world?

When everyone was amazed at the sharpness of the firearms, Zhang Jianghe gave an order to the soldiers of the No. [-] Firearms Battalion.

"Attention everyone, the clay pot on the scarecrow's head!"

Following his order, another round of firecrackers was shot, and the people standing on the city wall only heard a crisp "click" sound, and hundreds of clay pots were all smashed to pieces!

As soon as this scene happened, everyone on the city wall fell silent.

If it is an exaggeration to say that hitting the target from a hundred steps away, the current scene is simply a miracle.

Because it is extremely difficult to train a few sharpshooters in a [-] army, how can it not be frightening for a small battalion of soldiers to have a hundred sharpshooters?
Just imagine, on the battlefield, as soon as the main general showed his head, he was locked by a hundred sharpshooters, and then a round of firecrackers smashed the main general's head...

After seeing such a scene, Lao Zhu's face also became gloomy.

What he thought of was another thing, that if the firecrackers were leaked out, it would pose a threat to his life!

"Big grandson!"

"How many craftsmen are there who can make these firecrackers?"

"There are less than 1000 people in total..."

"Then they will all be brought under the management of the inner court, and all their families and clans will be registered and recorded. Anyone who dares to disclose such firearms privately!"

"Clan Execution!"

Zhu Yunxi didn't care about authenticity.

"Grandfather, this move is too much, right now Huozhu is still very immature..."

When the people standing behind Zhu Yunxi heard this, they were all so angry that they cursed their mothers in their hearts.

Taking someone's head from a hundred steps away is like picking something out of a pocket, yet you still say that you are immature!
Lao Zhu was also thinking the same way. He felt that Dasun's words were too irritating, and he wanted to slap him a few times.

"What else do you want?"

"I don't think about it, I just feel that the range of this thing can be farther, and the speed of fire can be faster..."

"For example, increase the effective range to [-] steps, and the rate of fire can reach the level of continuously spraying guns..."

When everyone heard this, they all clicked their tongues secretly, and the grandson of Xindao Huang Dao really dared to think, he wanted to rise above [-] steps, and wanted to spit gunshots continuously, why didn't he go to the sky, the sky has everything!

Everyone was slandering, but everyone was subconsciously thinking about how to defend themselves.

Someone thought of a shield, someone thought of armor.

The feudal lords of the Ming Dynasty were even more fortunate that they had purchased a batch of armor some time ago, which happened to be used to resist the firearms of the Jing Navy.

However, just when everyone was thinking this way, the conversation between the grandfather and grandson directly plunged them into an abyss.

"Da Sun, how powerful are these firearms?"

"so so!"

"At present, it can only be said that it is barely enough, and it is still far from the grandson's goal!"

"What is enough?"

"Armor can be pierced within fifty steps!"

"hiss……"

When Lao Zhu heard this, his two longan eyes widened on the spot.The group of emperors behind him were even more frightened and their hearts skipped a beat.

Armor break?

Can break armor at a distance of fifty steps?

Lao Zhu finally understood why the grandson didn't take armor seriously. This grandson was right, the pattern of future wars has changed!

After being astonished, all the princes were so angry that they almost vomited blood. When they looked at Zhu Yunxi, they wished they could swallow him alive.

This damned Zhu Yunxi, fooled them into buying a bunch of armors, and then turned around and researched a firecracker that could pierce the armors. Isn't this taking them as a prey!

At this time, there is only one thought in their minds, and that is to return the goods!
"Nephew, you are not particular, we want to return the goods!"

"Hurry up and take back all the armor, and replace us with such firecrackers!"

"A pair of armor for a gun!"

(End of this chapter)