Water Margin farming to become powerful

Seeing Fanxian County from afar from above the mountain road, Duan Pengju frowned after observing it for a long time. The gates of the city below were still open, and it seemed that there was no defense. a bit.

"It seems that the guards are bragging about the truth, and they don't have any skills..."

Before Duan Pengju came here this time, he also studied the Protectorate Army. The more he studied, the more he found that this army was very strange. It was completely different from the normal army in terms of military system, equipment, and tactics.

As the military commander of a state, Duan Pengju is not an idiot. He has seen the muskets used by the protection army and tried it himself. The first time he tried it, he was shocked.

In his opinion, this kind of firearm that can hit the target at a distance of dozens of steps is definitely an artifact used on the battlefield. The combat effectiveness of this thing is far beyond that of a bow and arrow. The key lies in the difficulty of training. You can hold the musket to aim for 1 minute and then shoot slowly , which gives the novice a lot of trial and error time.

In contrast, anyone who uses a bow does not need to practice for a long time. When you pick up the bow and arrow and aim at the target, you will shoot immediately. After a long time, you will lose your strength.

One can aim slowly and effortlessly, and one breath has to decide the direction of one's own arrow. This difference made Duan Pengju know at first glance that the real advantage of the musket lies in the training cost.

Even a young man who has just started can quickly organize an army capable of long-distance combat. After hearing that people who have been to Shandong explain that the guards only have muskets equipped with sleeves and bayonets, Duan Pengju is even more astonished. .

This shot of the musket instantly became a magic weapon capable of shooting from a distance and capable of hand-to-hand combat.

But this thing is really expensive. Duan Pengju himself found skilled craftsmen to imitate Shandong muskets in the state capital. The production of this musket is not difficult, as long as the airtightness can be done well, it can always be made.

The craftsmen under Duan Pengju didn't think of a way to use a boring machine to drill out seamless steel pipes, but they could be made after bending iron pipes and adding a lot of welding powder. The speed is also greatly reduced, but the manufacturing cost should be much lower in theory.

It's a pity that the industrial system of the Song Dynasty has not been specially sorted out. Duan Pengju calculated the production cost of the musket according to the salary he hired a craftsman to buy good iron. The price of copper coins is almost the same as that of the musket guns sold in Shandong.

After comparison, Duan Pengju thought that the profit of the musket was so thin, and immediately felt that the protection army would definitely not be able to equip it on a large scale. In fact, what he didn't know was that the Dengzhou Iron Works was improving the ironmaking process, and the machinery factory planned After the assembly line, the production cost of firearms has been greatly reduced. For example, the export profit of the inferior smoothbore gun he bought before can basically be 5.00%.

After calculating the cost of the muskets, Duan Pengju immediately believed that it was impossible for the protection army to be equipped with such firearms on a large scale. As for the guests who went to Shandong said that the protection soldiers all carried guns, he thought it was just for window dressing.These guests didn't have any, and they had fought against the protection army with real knives and guns on the battlefield, so naturally they didn't know what the true quality of the protection army was.

Duan Pengju couldn't help laughing as he looked at the unfortified city of Fan County from a distance, and the cavalry generals around him also looked quite proud.

He called Li Ping, who had been stunned to the birth of the Seven Buddhas, pointed to the distance with a whip, and said, "May I ask how the fighting power of the protection army, Mr. Li?"

Li Ping looked at the city below, but his expression was not as relaxed as that of Duan Pengju and the people around him. After feeling the atmosphere of the battlefield, his whole face was pale with fright, and he was ready to run away.

Hearing Duan Pengju's question, Li Ping quickly replied: "Students have seen the guards suppress bandits before, and they are very sharp."

"Oh, how did they fight?"

"I don't know exactly how, but at that time there were more than 100 gangsters outside Juancheng, who had caused disasters to the place for many years. The members of the Supervisory Committee wanted to stabilize the business, so they sent more than [-] guards into the mountains to suppress the bandits. Tian Tian wiped out all the bandits in the mountains, according to the guarantee from the village, no one came into the village, only heard the gunshots on the mountain all night, and burned the bandits' cottages the next day, it really has some skills."

Duan Pengju was quite surprised when he heard the words, "There are more than two hundred thieves. I'm afraid they are all infantry?"

"It's not just infantry, there are also horse troops, and there are also old thieves."

Duan Pengju was taken aback, but shook his head in disbelief.

"I am also in charge of the capital of a state, and I have seen battles, but it is hard to believe that more than 100 people entered the mountains and forests and suppressed more than [-] thieves."

"If the old thief is familiar with the mountain roads, these 100 people may not be able to meet the enemy. How can they be caught? It seems that the county magistrate has never seen it clearly and believed some rumors."

Li Ping repeatedly said no, but Duan Pengju couldn't believe it.

Li Ping pointed down the mountain again and said, "General, look at the field outside the county seat. The crops were harvested early and only a piece of white land was left. The supervisory committee must have taken precautions."

"The protection army often relies on hills and highlands for defense, but they just use their bronze cannons to hit people high."

Li Pingdao: "I've heard people say that their artillery is very sharp, and it can be destroyed for several miles. Now that the gate of the county is open, I'm afraid the guards thought that the city of Fan County is located in a valley, and the place is small and inconvenient to defend, so they only set up on the mountains on both sides. Ambushes, if this is the case, I am afraid that the city will be difficult to attack in a hurry, so I ask the general to be more careful."

Duan Pengju frowned again when he heard the words, and asked Li Ping what the combat effect of the artillery was, but Li Ping couldn't tell.

Duan Pengju thought that it was not just something like a catapult, he had also seen a catapult launch some firearms like ten thousand enemies, and the bombing was astonishing.

However, if he wanted to get there, he had to fight the infantry phalanx. Like now, he has [-] cavalry under his command, and the horses are coming and going. If the trebuchet hit the ground, their horses would have already rushed past them. How can they fight against the cavalry? Cause damage?

The task given to him by Tong Shumi is to take Fan County to celebrate his birthday.

Since he was sent to lead the cavalry as the vanguard, seeing that Fan County below was defenseless, it would definitely be inappropriate not to fight this battle. Even if the guards were indeed deployed on the hills outside the city, it would be a credit to be able to quickly rush in and occupy a county seat.

Duan Pengju made up his mind, seeing that the sky was about to brighten, they finally saw groups of people coming out of the city with the old and the young in Fan County below. If you have reached more than 3000 riders first, if you don't rush to kill him while the city gate is still open, how can you have a chance afterwards?

Duan Pengju immediately made up his mind and ordered: "Put on your armor and get ready to seize the city!" (End of this chapter)