Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao received a report from the Hedong Branch of the Bingcao Division, and reinforcements from the Northern Han Dynasty, Fen, Xian, Xin and other places arrived on the north bank of Fenzhou, Jinyang city, and the Liao army returned to the north. At this time, there were frequent wars in Liaozhou, and the station of the Hedong Branch had been secretly located in Xingzhou to the east. Although it was farther from the border of the North Han Dynasty, it was also safer.

After reading the memorial, he turned his head and said to Jingniang: "You have ordered the Hedong Branch in the name of Bingcao Division. If you have any news about the military situation in the Northern Han Dynasty, you should send a copy to Fu Zhaoxu Camp."

Jingniang took Poyu over and bowed.

Guo Shao watched another memorabilia of military equipment supervisor Zan Jurun, and then touched his abdomen and said, "It's time for the activity."

In the past two days, Guo Shao suddenly discovered that the muscles on his stomach were not very tangible, but some softer flesh had grown, and he felt a little depressed. He is only twenty-four years old, but he feels that if this goes on, he might be blessed! If you sit and work all day and live a good life and eat well, it is inevitable to gain fat; even people with more muscles in the past are more likely to grow. This is the reason why many athletes are easy to get blessed after retirement. Wufu in this era doesn't care about the growth of flesh on his body, but Guo Shao himself doesn't like getting fat. He has gained weight in the past few months, and always feels that no matter what he does, he is not as relaxed and flexible as before.

He decided to leave the palace and visit the workshop city by the Bianshui River.

The itinerary was decided temporarily. There were guards and horsemen guarding. The gate of the imperial city was also chosen at will, and then he went straight out of the city without stopping. This kind of randomly chosen random route and random time makes it difficult for assassins to seize the opportunity... Moreover, at the level of spies in this era, even if there are spies, they must be monitored by the Imperial City Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau to get news of the emperor’s trip. Guo Shao feels unlikely.

There was no emperor's honor guard this time, and Guo Shao actually didn't like the pomp. Sometimes he was still anxious and felt that it was a waste of time to pretend to be slow. He put on a pair of plate armor, and the joint was a refined chain mail. This pair of armor was very heavy, exceeding sixty catties; but Guo Shao still turned straight on his horse, behaving very vigorously.

A group of armored cavalry went out of the city from Xihua Gate, and then went south on the Royal Street.

Out of Tokyo City, and half an hour to the south, a group of buildings beside the Bianshui River is the workshop area. At this time, the workshop has been expanded into a small city, the larger the scale, but unlike ordinary cities, this city is not inhabited by civilians, and even fences and patrols are set up within the radius to prevent civilians from approaching.

Even firearms manufacturing workshops are established here. There are separate workshop areas, garrison areas, and craftsmen living quarters, a school for experimenting with weapons, and arable land for planting vegetables... Every day from the Bianshui River, there will also be personnel called by the military supervisors to use water from the Bianshui River. Into the city. This place is like an industrial zone without machines. Because Guo Shao controls the country's resource power, it is not difficult to create such a city.

Before Guo Shao entered the city, he heard the sound of the artillery. He heard that some people from the left side of the Tiger and Ben Army were training firearms on the school grounds. At the moment, he took guards and officials straight to the workshop city school ground. As soon as the open ground of the schoolyard heard the crackling sound of gunpowder, gunpowder smoke was rising around, and hundreds of people were training in line there.

At that time, the only thing that the "Long Xiao Cannon" made a little improvement was that the barrel lengthened after it was found that it would not explode, and hundreds of them had been cast! In addition, a cannon lug was made. This lug is not used for aiming, but to mark the height (the height is raised at a specific position in the middle, and the inclination of the muzzle can be adjusted to adjust the range.)

The structure of this gun is very simple. The barrel is a thick and short barrel made of thick-walled pig iron, with a small hole drilled at the bottom (to put the lead wire); then there is a wooden base and wooden stakes to fix the barrel, etc. Casting basically has no technical content, that is, we must pay attention to eliminating and recasting some blisters that are too large and rough; because the barrel is thick and | short, with a large caliber, and poor air tightness, so the pig iron pipe wall is not good Smooth and fine, and will not burst.

It is not the casting process that limits the efficiency of casting dragons and guns, but that they are too heavy and require a lot of raw materials, and the speed of iron delivery cannot keep up, which limits the scale.

There is also a phalanx of hundreds of people nearby, standing there in three rows, with a flag embroidered with a tiger on the side, and the words: Shenhuodu.

Zan Jurun said to the side: "The military supervisor has contacted Li Chuyun, General Secretary of the Palace Front, and asked the Secretary of the Palace Front to send someone to train and take over the firearms. Li Chuyun came here in person, and after seeing the power and usage of the firearms, he sent it like this. These people, mostly soldiers recruited by the Dianqian Division this year, don't know how to bow horses and martial arts..." "It's useless to shoot arrows anyway with firearms." Guo Shao said casually. Zan Jurun admonished Guo Shao to stay away from him by 50 steps, for fear of accidental injury...Because the effective range of this kind of firecracker was only forty steps, and the damage to the armored person was even only 20 steps.

There are a hundred people in each, divided into three columns. At first glance, their tactics are three-stage shots in turns. This is a tactic that Guo Shao used with a crossbow when Guo Shao had no firearms. The organizational system of One City has also changed according to tactics. One City has only three teams, each of which has more than 30 people under the management of ten generals (the original team had more than 20 people).

All the soldiers wore four pieces of plate armor: helmet, shoulder armor, breastplate, and arm armor. Because these parts are all things that can be forged in batches in the armor building, which saves manpower than chain mail. Except for the vital parts, the only protection in other places is leather armor.

There are still many small bamboo tubes tied with ropes hanging on their bodies. At this time, a general on the side raised his hand and shouted, "First step! Check the cupping pot."

All the soldiers pulled out an iron can from their waist pockets. The iron can was wrapped in a damp cloth; everyone pulled off the wooden lid with a breath of air to look at the charcoal inside. Some of them were extinguished, so they quickly raised their hands to indicate that the first lieutenant and ten generals hurriedly carried a ceramic container over, took the charcoal with the tongs and replaced them with red-hot charcoal.

Then the general yelled: "Step two! Load ammunition." Everyone tore a bamboo tube from the bamboo tube skewer hanging on his body, and then he was busy pulling out the straw paper blocking the mouth of the bamboo tube, and all the gunpowder was removed. The stubby bronze gun was poured in; the bamboo tube was not thrown away, but stuffed into a cloth bag around his waist. Then he took out a lead pill wrapped in straw paper or rags from the cloth bag and stuffed it in through the gun.

"Step three! Use wooden sticks." The soldiers pulled out a wooden stick from their waists, poke the paper-wrapped lead pellets in, and carefully compacted them. These steps were designed by Guo Shao instructed by the military inspector. They changed according to the actual situation, but Guo Shao knew why he did that... The lead shot wrapped in paper is bigger and needs a wooden stick to penetrate it; but it can be tighter. Filled at the bottom of the firecracker, gunpowder and projectiles will not be easily poured out.

"Do the fourth step in the first row!" Everyone took out the lead and stuffed it into the small hole at the back.

The general who gave the order then drew out his sword and shouted, "Ready!"

The scene at this time was very weird. The thirty-something people in the first row picked up the mace-like bronze rod flat and placed it at waist level. There was a wooden handle behind the "Mace". Everyone clamped the wooden handle with the right elbow, and held the top of the wooden handle with the palm of the right hand upwards to stabilize the fire.

Then with his left hand, he pulled out the cupping jar in his waist pocket and bit the plug with his teeth. Holding a jar of coal in his left hand.

The military commander took a look, waved his knife and pointed at the arrow target in front, and shouted: "Let it go!"

More than 30 people lit the fuse with the charcoal in the cup, and they heard a "cracking" sound, and a row of white gunpowder filled the air.

Regardless of whether he was hit or not, the general shouted: "Change teams! Go from the first row to the end, remember to plug the cupping pot first, don't go crazy! The second row is ready!"

When the three rows were finished, the general UU reading www.uukanshu.com yelled: "Kill!" Everyone carried the mace-like bronze blunderbuss, and followed the general who carried the sword shouting and rushed forward. In front of the mound, a group of people rushed to beat the mound with mace in both hands.

After Guo Shao saw it, his face was cloudy and sunny, and he couldn't tell what it was like. It's no wonder that Li Chuyun sent some recruits and soldiers over after watching it. This fire|gun seemed to be very difficult.

It looks very troublesome, but it is not completely useless. At least people who don’t know how to martial arts can still be used as long-range arms after training. At least they can play 20 steps and 40 steps away. I have not seen a long spear that is tens of meters long... There is another advantage, Although it seems that there are many steps, each step is simple and does not require skill, and does not require much physical effort.

However, it is conceivable that this kind of soldier will encounter cavalry rushing in, or even if the infantry meets shortly, the combat effectiveness is probably very poor... Mace is an antique weapon that has been eliminated by the war long ago, and it is not very easy to use.

Guo Shao didn't want to equip too many "fire|gun" soldiers for a while, so he just used all his troops for actual combat drills.

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