Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 222 New Type of Hidden Weapon
After staying with Li Xuanying all night, Guo Kang didn't have time to rest.It happened that the old man was also on duty at the Yamen, and no one was in charge of the house, so he called Shang Bu Lei and others, and asked them to follow him to find Lama Wang.

"Young master, there are not many guards here. Once we leave, the rest of the people will not be able to see the house." In the porter, Bu Lei reminded him: "Do you want to keep more people so as not to lose things?"

"Don't worry, our family has never been so afraid of losing things, it's more like losing people." Guo Kang said speechlessly: "It's a bit strange about today, so we have to be careful."

"The more I think about it, the more worried I am. Will people be watching my actions? But if I don't get in touch immediately, I'm afraid there will be long nights and dreams. So I am wronged everyone to take a risk and go to Niangniang Temple with me. Tonight, We'll just live there."

"Of course we listen to you." Bu Lei and the others assured each other: "Usually the situation is special and we have to relax. We must be careful this time."

Guo Kang nodded.

He also made preparations, put on the soft chain mail given by his adoptive mother in advance, and put on a robe outside.But Bu Lei glanced at him and shook his head.

"Wait a minute." He turned around and shouted, "Chen Xiao, come here!"

"Come here." A young guard named Chen Xiao walked over quickly.

Bu Lei asked him to stand next to Guo Kang, and looked at the confused eyes of the two.

"My lord, please give him the robe." He said in a not-so-tactful tone.

Chen Xiao directly understood what he meant, and immediately took off his outer robe, revealing the armor inside: "My lord, I'll pretend to be you."

He also has an oriental appearance, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he is about as tall as Guo Kang.After wearing the helmet, it is really impossible to tell who it is.

"Uh, there's no need to be so exaggerated." Guo Kang said embarrassingly: "I mainly want to guard against people who may follow. If it really attacked me, I would have attacked me on the way back just now."

"It's hard to say." Bu Lei shook his head: "I don't know the specific situation yet, maybe you don't know it completely, right? So since we want to take precautions, let's take the safest way. I'd rather make a few more troubles now than come here Time to regret it."

As he said that, together with a few guards, he couldn't help but pull off Guo Kang's robe, and found a set of armor worn by the guards and put it on for him.

On the other side, Chen Xiao put on Guo Kang's robe, and took out two loaded pistols.He checked the matchlock, fastened the cover, and stuck it at his waist, then wrapped his robes and hid them.

This matchlock pistol was modified by Guo Kang himself.

Compared with the Huomen guns that are commonly used these days, the matchlock gun has no technical threshold.As long as you find someone to build the corresponding device, you can put it into use directly.

Guo Kang imitated the crossbow machine and made a device that linked the gunpowder compartment cover and the matchlock head.At the same time as the trigger is pulled, the curved lever will push the cover forward, and at the same time, the match will move down, deep into the cover, and ignite the charge.In this way, no matter how the pistol is usually placed, the gunpowder in the medicine pool will not be spilled, or it will not go off due to contact with the matchlock.

Outside the whole set of devices, a cover was made to imitate the shell of the Central Plains crossbow.It covers the matchlock and mechanism, preventing them from touching soft clothing or being damaged by external forces.

This thing is superfluous for muskets on the battlefield and hinders loading, but it is very useful for fighting in towns, especially at night.What everyone grabs is the first shot in a blind situation.As for after this, it is estimated that there will be no chance to reload.

The few guns made by Guo Kang were first given to the guards for trial.Bu Lei and others liked this kind of thing very much, and directly replaced the original hand crossbow.

Of course, Guo Kang himself has more advanced things.

"Where's the lightning bolt?" he asked.

"Here." Bu Lei opened the box next to him, took out two weapons that looked similar in shape, and handed them to him: "It's already packed."

"How's the test these days?" Guo Kang asked.

"I think it's okay." Bu Lei said, and asked again: "But this is a new thing, not only tampering with the trigger. Young master, do you want to change to a safer one? In fact, during the raid, these two things are used. It doesn't look like a big difference, it's all about pulling the trigger anyway..."

Guo Kang hesitated for a moment.

Although the percussion weapon looks very high-tech, the threshold is not high.In history, it can also be produced by hand workshops.

In his past world, such firearms appeared in the early 19th century.But later, Ding Shoucun, a firearms expert in the Qing Dynasty, developed a method to manufacture thunder silver without the need for modern chemical industry.

According to this method, only raw materials such as vitriol, saltpeter, silver, alcohol, etc., can be used to produce this sensitive percussion medicine with simple equipment in the middle ages.And with the flash cap made by it, the matchlock gun commonly used in East Asia can be used as a percussion gun with a little modification.

Due to the low threshold, in the past history, the Qing Dynasty was able to quickly popularize percussion guns, which was only less than 20 years behind the Europeans.During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the two sides have used a large number of percussion guns to fight.

Moreover, this material also provides the basis for other weapons.Ding Shoucun also made jumping mines and transformed the artillery at that time.Driven by a series of inventions, the Qing Dynasty almost suddenly skipped the entire flintlock era and directly entered the era of the leading percussion gun at that time.It can be seen that this process is possible to popularize.

Because of the poor record in history, this incident is not too famous.But this does not mean that this technology itself has no value.

For the performance of the Qing army, weapons were not the most important factor.Looking at the military industry alone, the situation of the Qing Dynasty before the Sino-Japanese War was better than that of Japan, and the number of self-produced bullets and shells it produced even surpassed that of Ottoman, and far exceeded that of some modern powers.But the performance on the battlefield is completely opposite.

It can be seen that the two should not have much necessary connection.

Guo Kang happened to have all the materials needed for this craft.So it is better to make this weapon directly in one step.After all, for a qualified chivalrous man, the use of convenient hidden weapons is also a part of martial arts.

But this is indeed a new thing, and it is hard to say if there is a problem in actual combat.Guo Kang thought for a while, put down one of them, and picked up a matchlock pistol.

"One and the same, so the head office will do." He muttered.

Bu Lei nodded and put away his weapon.After the others finished their clothes, they walked out of the gatehouse together.

Although on weekdays when standing guard, they were either bragging and chatting or watching a show, and even the weapons they carried were lassoes and iron forks, but these people really put themselves into actual combat, and they seemed quite capable.Outside, someone had already brought the horses, a dozen people got on the horses one after another, sandwiched Guo Kang in the crowd, followed the leader Chen Xiao, and set off on horseback.

There are indeed not many people left behind, but Guo Kang is not worried.In this place at night, there are often unidentified heroines haunting the place, and the thieves have to beat them first.

They do seem to overestimate the danger, though.Along the way, there were crowds of people running out to play and play in order to celebrate.However, seeing their posture, no one dared to stop them, and the group arrived at the Niangniang Temple smoothly.

When Lama Wang learned about the situation and came out to greet him, Guo Kang was taking off the guard's armor and taking his own robe.

"What's wrong?" Da Lama Wang was a little surprised: "It's three o'clock in the middle of the night, is there something urgent?"

"There was an accident. It has something to do with the gangsters in the city." Guo Kang replied briefly, "Can you lend me the 'Sword of Brother Tian'?"

"So serious? What kind of accident?" Lama Wang was even more surprised.

The "Brother's Sword" is a force subordinate to the church. Strictly speaking, it should be regarded as an armed policeman and prosecutor.

The Purple Horde did not have a tribunal with relatively centralized power like the Roman Church.Religious crimes and secular crimes are all under the unified Roman law and judged by the government.

Strictly speaking, the targets of the Khanate were all kinds of cults. These people could not only violate religious regulations, but would definitely be associated with crimes such as murder, kidnapping, and extortion.

In related trials, the church will generally send trial representatives to join the court to provide professional knowledge support to the presiding judge.For this, an understanding of Roman law and canon law is essential.Therefore, the church also has full-time judges and subordinate officials, but these people are mainly scholars who are proficient in secular law and do not care much about other things.

And if it doesn't involve secular crimes, or commits political crimes that use religion to incite the people, the Khan court generally doesn't care much.At the beginning, Guo Gai believed that doctrinal disputes were too trivial, and the two sides often engaged in useless arguments based on trivial matters or even topics that could not be clearly defined.The church is an important provider of talents for the Purple Horde Khanate. It would be too wasteful to struggle with these things every day.

Therefore, in the power of judgment, the church has only this degree of participation.

But on the contrary, in terms of detection and arrest, the presence of the church is much more conspicuous.

In this day and age, religion is the most basic form of organization.Those who want to swindle money or even directly rebel are often organized through religion first.

Churches at all levels are the most sensitive to these changes.

Therefore, the church often receives reports from various grassroots priests, warning that someone is plotting wrongdoing.In order to conduct investigation and identification more efficiently, over time, the church has formed a set of rapid response procedures and various incident response plans.It is also because of this that Wang Da Lama is also responsible for intelligence collection.

Similarly, in order to quickly ascertain the truth and control the situation, the church has also obtained the power to investigate and arrest suspects, and formed a capable team.Because their tokens are crosses and swords, the locals nicknamed it "Brother Tian's Sword".

As the Patriarch, Wang Da Lama has the power to urgently mobilize the "Sword of Brother Tian".But correspondingly, he had to give everyone a reasonable explanation afterwards.So it makes sense to ask a few more questions.

"Someone is planning a conspiracy against us, it may be related to a cult." Guo Kanglu has already thought up an explanation: "They should have colluded with the gangster organization in the city, and even borrowed the gang-controlled theater troupe to cover themselves, taking the opportunity to promote and criminal activities."

"In the past few days, the city is commemorating the victory. There are too many people and the situation is chaotic. It is just suitable for them to act and realize the conspiracy." He suggested: "Although the specific situation is not clear, I don't think this matter can be ignored. Let's investigate quickly."

Lama Wang is still skeptical.

"We don't know the current situation at all." He shook his head and said, "The investigation of the case requires a lot of preparatory work. It is necessary to find out the specific identities of the enemies, their communication channels, and their organizations. Only in this way can they have a general outline of their organization, and then it is time to collect the net and arrest people and interrogate them."

"If you don't know anything and go directly, you may be caught in the trap. At the very least, you will scare the enemy and let the really important enemy escape calmly."

"It's rare for me to see you in such a hurry. But no matter how anxious you are, it's not so urgent." He glanced at Guo Kang: "It's okay to be in a hurry, but we must pay attention to methods. The more urgent we are, the more we must pay attention to efficiency , and the less you can panic."

"You are still young, and you have not been exposed to too many things. I know you have a lot of ideas, but when you really do something, you still have to control your emotions first."

"You don't have to worry about this matter all the time, tell me the general scope, and then go to rest first." He arranged: "I will send people now to investigate the situation over there."

Guo Kang thought about it and nodded.

Lama Wang retreated the crowd and asked a monk to take them to rest.He himself came to the second floor with Guo Kang.

Seeing that there was no one around, Lama Wang asked, "Young Master Guo, is there any secret about this matter that cannot be disclosed publicly? Can you tell the old man about the general situation so that I can judge what to do? "

Guo Kang hesitated, and said, "I only know that it has something to do with the Ross gang. Other words..."

"It's okay, I don't need to say anything else. You are so anxious, I probably know what level of incident is involved." Da Lama Wang nodded with confidence: "In addition, your guess should be right. There must be many people behind. The Ross gang, I said that they planned a complicated conspiracy by themselves, do you believe it?"

Lama Wang is obviously rich in experience. Judging by his appearance, he should already have a general grasp of the situation.

However, his quick response really relieved Guo Kang.

"Hey, I can't help it." Guo Kang also complained: "These things are really troublesome. I understand why Dad keeps saying that there are many shits in the city. It's better to beat people on the battlefield..."

"It's okay, we have a lot of ways to deal with it." Da Lama Wang said, "Just listen to the old man and go to bed first."

"According to my experience, the real big head of this matter is yet to come. And this kind of thing, like fighting a war, consumes a lot of energy and energy. Therefore, you must maintain a good state-you want to work, the next few days There are things that keep you up all night."

Guo Kang felt that what he said was indeed reasonable, so he nodded.

Lama Wang yelled downstairs and asked a monk to take Guo Kang to take a bath first.Then, he remembered something.

"By the way, speaking of the people of Ross, there is one more thing that I planned to tell you tomorrow." He turned around and said, "Mrs. Irina replied to me, and she wanted to invite you and Tuhuan Taiji to have a talk again. .”

"What's the matter?" Guo Kang asked.

"It's also from Rus." Lama Wang said meaningfully.

(End of this chapter)