Guo Shao received a report from the Hedong Branch of the Military and Caosi. Reinforcements from the Northern Han Guoshi, Fen, Xian, Xin and other places arrived one after another on the northern bank of Fenzhou, Jinyang City, and the Liao army returned to the north.
At this time, the wars in Liaozhou were frequent, and the Hedong Branch's headquarters was secretly located in Xingzhou in the east. Although it was further away from the Northern Han border, it was safer.
After reading the report, he turned to Jingniang and said: You ordered the Hedong Branch in the name of the Military and Cao Si. Any information about military information in the Northern Han Dynasty should be copied directly to Fu Zhaoxu Camp.
Jingniang took the Poyu over and bowed with her fists.
Guo Shao read another memorial from the military weapon supervisor Zou Jurun, and immediately touched his abdomen and said: It's time to move.
In the past two days, Guo Shao suddenly realized that the muscles on his stomach were not very touched, but they had some softer flesh, and he felt a little depressed.
He is only twenty-four years old, but he feels like he may gain weight if he continues like this!
If you sit in the office all day and live a good life and eat well, it is inevitable that you will grow fat; even the more muscle people used to grow, the easier it is, this is why many athletes will get fat after retirement.
The martial artists of this era don’t care about gaining weight, but Guo Shao himself doesn’t like gaining weight very much. 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 go out of the palace and take a look at the workshop city by the Bianshui River.
The itinerary was temporarily decided, with personal soldiers and horses guarding him, and the gate to the imperial city was also chosen at will, and then he ran straight out of the city without stopping.
This kind of random route and random time that is temporarily chosen is difficult to seize the opportunity even if there are assassins... Moreover, with the spy level of this era, even if there are spies, they need to get news of the emperor's travel under the surveillance of the Imperial City Bureau of the Interior, Guo Shao felt that it was unlikely.
There was no emperor's ceremonial guard at all this time, and Guo Shao actually didn't like that show. Sometimes he was still impatient and felt that pretending slowly was a waste of time.
He put on a pair of plate armor, and the joint was made of refined chain mail. This pair of armor was very heavy, more than 60 kilograms; but Guo Shao still turned his back on the horse and acted very agile.
A team of armored cavalry left the city from Xihuamen, and then walked south on Yujie.
After leaving Tokyo City, run south for half an hour. A building complex by the Bianshui River is the workshop area.
At this time, the workshop had been expanded into a small city, and the larger the scale, but unlike ordinary cities, there were no civilians living in this city, and even barriers and patrols were set up within a radius, so civilians were not allowed to approach.
Even the workshops for the manufacture of firearms were built here.
There are separate workshop areas, military garrison areas, craftsmen's residential areas, schoolyards for testing military weapons, and cultivated land for growing vegetables... Every day, there are also people summoned by military weapons supervisors from the Bian River to use water from the Bian River to enter the city.
This place is like an industrial area without machines. Because Guo Shao holds the country's resources and power, it is not difficult to create such a city.
Before Guo Shao entered the city, he heard the cannons. He heard that some people were selected from the left wing of the Hu Ben Army to train firearms in the schoolyard. He immediately took the guards and officials to the schoolyard.
When we reached the open ground of the school ground, we could hear the crackling sound of gunfire, and smoke rose up everywhere, and hundreds of people were lined up to train there.
At that time, the Dragon Owl Cannon was slightly improved, but it was found that the barrel of the gun would not be lengthened after the blasting was lengthened, and hundreds of doors had been cast!
In addition, a gun ear was made. This gun ear was not used to aim, but marked the height (the middle can be raised at a specific position to adjust the inclination of the muzzle, thereby adjusting the range.)
The structure of this kind of gun is very simple. The gun body is a thick and short gun barrel with thick wall cast iron, with a small hole drilled at the bottom (lead wires); then there is a wooden base and a wooden stake that fixes the gun body, etc.
The technical content of casting is not high, and craftsmen who can cast bells will cast guns, that is, they should pay attention to eliminating and recasting some sand holes that are too big and too rough; because the gun barrel is thick and short, the diameter is large, and the airtightness is not good, even if the pig iron pipe wall is not very smooth and fine, it will not explode.
The efficiency of casting dragon roar cannons is not the casting process, but they are too heavy and require a large amount of raw materials, so the speed of transporting iron can't keep up, which limits the scale.
There is a square array of about a hundred people nearby, standing in three rows, with a tiger-embroidered flag on the side, and the words "Shenhuodu".
Zan Jurun said from the side: The Military Weapon Supervisor and General Li Chuyun of the Palace Front Office had contacted him and asked the Palace Front Office to send someone to train and take over the firearms.Li Chuyun came here in person. After seeing the power and usage of the firearm, he sent such people, most of whom were recruited by the Palace Front Office this year, and he did not know how to arch and horse martial arts...
Anyway, it is useless for those who can shoot arrows with firearms.Guo Shao said casually.
So he immediately stepped forward to watch. Zan Jurun advised Guo Shao to stay away from fifty steps, for fear of being injured by accident... because the effective range of this kind of musket is only forty steps, and the killing of those wearing armor is even only twenty steps.
There were hundreds of people in each, divided into three rows. At first glance, their tactics were to take turns to shoot in three sections. This was a tactic that Guo Shao used when he had no firearms.
The system of Yidu has also changed according to tactics. Yidu has only three teams, and each ten generals are under the control of more than 30 people (the original first team had more than 20 people).
All the soldiers wore four pieces of plate armor: helmet, shoulder armor, breast armor, and arm armor.
Because these parts can be forged in batches in Zaojiafang, it saves manpower than chain mail.
In addition to the key parts, the only protection in other places is leather armor.
There were also many small bamboo tubes tied with ropes hanging on them. At this time, a general on the side raised his hand and shouted: Step 1!Check the fire cup.
All the soldiers pulled out an iron cup from their waist bags, which were wrapped around the cups with wet cloth; everyone pulled out the wooden lid with breathing eyes and looked at the charcoal inside.
Some of them were extinguished, so they quickly raised their hands to signal. The deputy generals and ten generals in the row quickly carried a ceramic container and used tongs tongs to replace the soldiers with burnt charcoal.
Then the general shouted: Step 2!Receiving ammunition, everyone pulled off a bamboo tube from the string of bamboo tubes hanging diagonally on their bodies, and then they hurriedly pulled out the straw paper blocking the mouth of the bamboo tube, pouring all the gunpowder into the thick and short bronze muzzle; the bamboo tube was not thrown away, but stuffed it into a cloth bag around their waists.
He took out a lead ball wrapped in straw paper or rag from the cloth bag and stuffed it into the muzzle.
Step 3!Use wooden strips.The soldiers pulled out a wooden strip from their waists, poked the lead ball wrapped in paper, and carefully compacted it.
These steps were designed by Guo Shao instructed the military weapon supervisor. They changed them according to the actual situation, but Guo Shao knew why he did it... The lead balls were wrapped in paper, and they needed to stab them in; but they could be filled tightly at the bottom of the musket, and neither gunpowder nor projectiles were easily poured out.
Step 4 in the first row!Everyone took out the leads and stuffed them into the small hole behind them.
The general who issued the order pulled out his waist knife and shouted: Get ready!
The scene at this time was very strange. More than thirty people in the first row picked up the bronze rod like a mace, and stood waist-length.
There is a wooden handle behind the mace. Everyone clamps the wooden handle with their right elbow and holds the top of the wooden handle with their right palm upwards to stabilize the musket.
Then pull out the cup from the waist bag with your left hand and bite the plug open with your teeth.He held a can with hot charcoal in his left hand.
The general looked at it, waved his sword and pointed at the target in front of him, and shouted: Let it go!
More than thirty people lit the leads with the charcoal in the fire pot, and then they heard crackling and bursts, and a row of white smoke filled the air.
The general didn't care whether he hit or not, and shouted straight: Change teams!Go to the first row to the end, remember to stuff the fire cup first and don’t get out of the fire!Prepare for the second row!
When the three rows were all finished, the general shouted: Kill!Everyone carried bronze guns like maces, followed the general holding the sword and rushed forward with shouts. When they arrived in front of some piles of earth, a group of people rushed to hold the maces in their hands and beat the piles of earth.
After seeing this, Guo Shao's face was unstable and he couldn't tell what it felt.No wonder Li Chuyun sent some new recruits and miscellaneous soldiers to come after seeing it. The musket seemed to be quite useless.
It looks very troublesome, but it is not completely useless.
At least people who don’t know any martial arts can be used as long-range troops as long as they are well trained, and they can fight at least twenty to forty steps. They have never seen a spear that is dozens of meters long... There is another advantage. Although there seems to be many steps, each step is simple and does not require skills, and it does not take much physical strength.
But it can be imagined that if such soldiers approach the cavalry, or even if the infantry is connected in close combat, their combat effectiveness may be very poor... The mace is an antique weapon that has long been eliminated by war and is not easy to use.
Guo Shao didn't want to equip too many musket soldiers for a while, so he just used all his troops for practical exercises.
At this time, the wars in Liaozhou were frequent, and the Hedong Branch's headquarters was secretly located in Xingzhou in the east. Although it was further away from the Northern Han border, it was safer.
After reading the report, he turned to Jingniang and said: You ordered the Hedong Branch in the name of the Military and Cao Si. Any information about military information in the Northern Han Dynasty should be copied directly to Fu Zhaoxu Camp.
Jingniang took the Poyu over and bowed with her fists.
Guo Shao read another memorial from the military weapon supervisor Zou Jurun, and immediately touched his abdomen and said: It's time to move.
In the past two days, Guo Shao suddenly realized that the muscles on his stomach were not very touched, but they had some softer flesh, and he felt a little depressed.
He is only twenty-four years old, but he feels like he may gain weight if he continues like this!
If you sit in the office all day and live a good life and eat well, it is inevitable that you will grow fat; even the more muscle people used to grow, the easier it is, this is why many athletes will get fat after retirement.
The martial artists of this era don’t care about gaining weight, but Guo Shao himself doesn’t like gaining weight very much. 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 go out of the palace and take a look at the workshop city by the Bianshui River.
The itinerary was temporarily decided, with personal soldiers and horses guarding him, and the gate to the imperial city was also chosen at will, and then he ran straight out of the city without stopping.
This kind of random route and random time that is temporarily chosen is difficult to seize the opportunity even if there are assassins... Moreover, with the spy level of this era, even if there are spies, they need to get news of the emperor's travel under the surveillance of the Imperial City Bureau of the Interior, Guo Shao felt that it was unlikely.
There was no emperor's ceremonial guard at all this time, and Guo Shao actually didn't like that show. Sometimes he was still impatient and felt that pretending slowly was a waste of time.
He put on a pair of plate armor, and the joint was made of refined chain mail. This pair of armor was very heavy, more than 60 kilograms; but Guo Shao still turned his back on the horse and acted very agile.
A team of armored cavalry left the city from Xihuamen, and then walked south on Yujie.
After leaving Tokyo City, run south for half an hour. A building complex by the Bianshui River is the workshop area.
At this time, the workshop had been expanded into a small city, and the larger the scale, but unlike ordinary cities, there were no civilians living in this city, and even barriers and patrols were set up within a radius, so civilians were not allowed to approach.
Even the workshops for the manufacture of firearms were built here.
There are separate workshop areas, military garrison areas, craftsmen's residential areas, schoolyards for testing military weapons, and cultivated land for growing vegetables... Every day, there are also people summoned by military weapons supervisors from the Bian River to use water from the Bian River to enter the city.
This place is like an industrial area without machines. Because Guo Shao holds the country's resources and power, it is not difficult to create such a city.
Before Guo Shao entered the city, he heard the cannons. He heard that some people were selected from the left wing of the Hu Ben Army to train firearms in the schoolyard. He immediately took the guards and officials to the schoolyard.
When we reached the open ground of the school ground, we could hear the crackling sound of gunfire, and smoke rose up everywhere, and hundreds of people were lined up to train there.
At that time, the Dragon Owl Cannon was slightly improved, but it was found that the barrel of the gun would not be lengthened after the blasting was lengthened, and hundreds of doors had been cast!
In addition, a gun ear was made. This gun ear was not used to aim, but marked the height (the middle can be raised at a specific position to adjust the inclination of the muzzle, thereby adjusting the range.)
The structure of this kind of gun is very simple. The gun body is a thick and short gun barrel with thick wall cast iron, with a small hole drilled at the bottom (lead wires); then there is a wooden base and a wooden stake that fixes the gun body, etc.
The technical content of casting is not high, and craftsmen who can cast bells will cast guns, that is, they should pay attention to eliminating and recasting some sand holes that are too big and too rough; because the gun barrel is thick and short, the diameter is large, and the airtightness is not good, even if the pig iron pipe wall is not very smooth and fine, it will not explode.
The efficiency of casting dragon roar cannons is not the casting process, but they are too heavy and require a large amount of raw materials, so the speed of transporting iron can't keep up, which limits the scale.
There is a square array of about a hundred people nearby, standing in three rows, with a tiger-embroidered flag on the side, and the words "Shenhuodu".
Zan Jurun said from the side: The Military Weapon Supervisor and General Li Chuyun of the Palace Front Office had contacted him and asked the Palace Front Office to send someone to train and take over the firearms.Li Chuyun came here in person. After seeing the power and usage of the firearm, he sent such people, most of whom were recruited by the Palace Front Office this year, and he did not know how to arch and horse martial arts...
Anyway, it is useless for those who can shoot arrows with firearms.Guo Shao said casually.
So he immediately stepped forward to watch. Zan Jurun advised Guo Shao to stay away from fifty steps, for fear of being injured by accident... because the effective range of this kind of musket is only forty steps, and the killing of those wearing armor is even only twenty steps.
There were hundreds of people in each, divided into three rows. At first glance, their tactics were to take turns to shoot in three sections. This was a tactic that Guo Shao used when he had no firearms.
The system of Yidu has also changed according to tactics. Yidu has only three teams, and each ten generals are under the control of more than 30 people (the original first team had more than 20 people).
All the soldiers wore four pieces of plate armor: helmet, shoulder armor, breast armor, and arm armor.
Because these parts can be forged in batches in Zaojiafang, it saves manpower than chain mail.
In addition to the key parts, the only protection in other places is leather armor.
There were also many small bamboo tubes tied with ropes hanging on them. At this time, a general on the side raised his hand and shouted: Step 1!Check the fire cup.
All the soldiers pulled out an iron cup from their waist bags, which were wrapped around the cups with wet cloth; everyone pulled out the wooden lid with breathing eyes and looked at the charcoal inside.
Some of them were extinguished, so they quickly raised their hands to signal. The deputy generals and ten generals in the row quickly carried a ceramic container and used tongs tongs to replace the soldiers with burnt charcoal.
Then the general shouted: Step 2!Receiving ammunition, everyone pulled off a bamboo tube from the string of bamboo tubes hanging diagonally on their bodies, and then they hurriedly pulled out the straw paper blocking the mouth of the bamboo tube, pouring all the gunpowder into the thick and short bronze muzzle; the bamboo tube was not thrown away, but stuffed it into a cloth bag around their waists.
He took out a lead ball wrapped in straw paper or rag from the cloth bag and stuffed it into the muzzle.
Step 3!Use wooden strips.The soldiers pulled out a wooden strip from their waists, poked the lead ball wrapped in paper, and carefully compacted it.
These steps were designed by Guo Shao instructed the military weapon supervisor. They changed them according to the actual situation, but Guo Shao knew why he did it... The lead balls were wrapped in paper, and they needed to stab them in; but they could be filled tightly at the bottom of the musket, and neither gunpowder nor projectiles were easily poured out.
Step 4 in the first row!Everyone took out the leads and stuffed them into the small hole behind them.
The general who issued the order pulled out his waist knife and shouted: Get ready!
The scene at this time was very strange. More than thirty people in the first row picked up the bronze rod like a mace, and stood waist-length.
There is a wooden handle behind the mace. Everyone clamps the wooden handle with their right elbow and holds the top of the wooden handle with their right palm upwards to stabilize the musket.
Then pull out the cup from the waist bag with your left hand and bite the plug open with your teeth.He held a can with hot charcoal in his left hand.
The general looked at it, waved his sword and pointed at the target in front of him, and shouted: Let it go!
More than thirty people lit the leads with the charcoal in the fire pot, and then they heard crackling and bursts, and a row of white smoke filled the air.
The general didn't care whether he hit or not, and shouted straight: Change teams!Go to the first row to the end, remember to stuff the fire cup first and don’t get out of the fire!Prepare for the second row!
When the three rows were all finished, the general shouted: Kill!Everyone carried bronze guns like maces, followed the general holding the sword and rushed forward with shouts. When they arrived in front of some piles of earth, a group of people rushed to hold the maces in their hands and beat the piles of earth.
After seeing this, Guo Shao's face was unstable and he couldn't tell what it felt.No wonder Li Chuyun sent some new recruits and miscellaneous soldiers to come after seeing it. The musket seemed to be quite useless.
It looks very troublesome, but it is not completely useless.
At least people who don’t know any martial arts can be used as long-range troops as long as they are well trained, and they can fight at least twenty to forty steps. They have never seen a spear that is dozens of meters long... There is another advantage. Although there seems to be many steps, each step is simple and does not require skills, and it does not take much physical strength.
But it can be imagined that if such soldiers approach the cavalry, or even if the infantry is connected in close combat, their combat effectiveness may be very poor... The mace is an antique weapon that has long been eliminated by war and is not easy to use.
Guo Shao didn't want to equip too many musket soldiers for a while, so he just used all his troops for practical exercises.
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