I want to be emperor

Chapter 42 The Return of the Officers and Soldiers
The intensive training of the artillery team does not actually refer to live ammunition training, but simulated training...

Because the gunpowder of the people in Sanshui Village is extremely limited, they were purchased secretly by the caravans from the outside a few times ago, just a little, and it is not enough for combat, so naturally it is impossible to use it in large quantities in training.

Therefore, the daily training in the artillery team can only be a routine simulation training. If you want to conduct frequent live ammunition training, you have to wait until there is more gunpowder in the future.

Don't ask why you can still buy gunpowder outside the mountain, let alone gunpowder, if you are brave enough and have enough money, you can buy artillery if you find the right channel. There are several artillery pieces on the wall of the Song Family Manor Woolen cloth.

Some of the sources were exiled from the rebels who looted the city, but more were exiled from the government.

The officials in charge of artillery production in the government, and the generals in charge of artillery in the army, they also have to support their families. Well, selling some artillery powder is a normal operation.

The premise is that you have to be willing to give money!
The successful trial production of the [-]-jin light cannon also made Luo Zhixue pay more attention to the weapon workshop. After finishing his daily business, he would go to the weapon workshop.

Today's weapon workshops are not only casting artillery, but also casting other weapons.

Such as muskets.

Muskets are not a problem for Song blacksmiths. After all, the Ming Dynasty has been using bird guns for decades. Song blacksmiths used to bring their two sons and several apprentices to make bird guns for officers and soldiers.

The musket that Luo Zhixue asked Song Blacksmith to lead was based on the Ming army's standard bird gun, with some improvements, mainly a wooden butt that was more suitable for shoulder shooting, and an extra bayonet.

To be precise, it is not a bayonet, but an iron spear. Because of the limited craftsmanship, the flaky bayonet cannot bear the force, and it is easy to bend and break when stabbed again.

For this reason, I simply made something the same as the spearhead.

Anyway, after the bayonet is installed on the musket, it is mainly used as a short spear. Due to the limitation of craftsmanship, it is not considered that the bayonet can be used as a portable short knife after being removed.

Nominally, Blacksmith Song was responsible for the construction of the muskets, but Blacksmith Song mainly focused on casting the cannons, so his eldest son, Song Dalang, was responsible for more of the work.

Although Song Dalang is only in his early 20s, he has followed his father Song Blacksmith to forge weapons since he was a child. He has already achieved certain accomplishments in the forging of various weapons and even the forging of firearms and artillery. Naturally, making firearms is not difficult for him.

According to Luo Zhixue's request, Luo Zhixue made a musket for people to try, not to say how good it is, but it is also useful.

But for the time being, there are only two muskets.

It also takes time to make this thing. It takes at least a month for a skilled craftsman to build a musket. Even if there are other craftsmen and apprentices to help Song Dalang, it will not be there soon.

The current production of muskets is too low, and the quantity is too small to be installed at all, so it is unreliable in a short period of time. The main weapons for fighting in Sanshui Village still have to rely on cold weapons.

Long-range firepower still has to rely on bows and arrows. After all, the six No.70 cavalry in Sanshui Village have two sets of bows and arrows, and both infantry and cavalry bows. Many recruits recruited at the same time, because they are all mountain people, many of them are hunting With experience, some of these recruits who were hunters could also shoot arrows.

Therefore, on the whole, the bow and arrow combat power of the anti-thief gang in Sanshui Village is quite good.

But those ordinary infantry are worse, they don't even have enough ordinary cold weapons now.

They originally had some stocks and some repaired cold weapons, but with the continuous recruitment, the original weapons were not enough, so they could only continue to build, otherwise the newly recruited recruits would not have knives and spears to use .

At the same time, Luo Zhixue also tried his best to produce as many armors as possible.
It's not about the kind of time-consuming and labor-intensive sophisticated armor, which is too troublesome and expensive, and it's not suitable for them for the time being.

The so-called armor that Luo Zhixue asked the weapon workshop to make was actually just adding iron pieces to the original cotton armor, and for the sake of cost control, there would not be too many iron pieces.

The protective power of the cotton armor produced in this way is only average, but it is better than nothing, and it is still possible to attach it to some small bosses.

When Luo Zhixue was in Sanshui Village, he was busy with camp affairs, farming, grain collection, making weapons, recruiting and training new soldiers, and many other affairs.

Also received news from Sun Chengli.

Sun Chengli sent people back to Sanshui Village and brought back news of the expedition. The people who went back and forth said in detail that after Sun Chengli and others went to the expedition, they first estimated that they would attract the officers and soldiers to go west, but they encountered a group of bandits on the way, and then deliberately sent the officers and soldiers Guided the thieves where they were, and sat and watched the officers and soldiers fighting with the thieves.

After Sun Chengli and the others were discovered and chased by officers and soldiers, Sun Chengli continued to take them around in circles to the west.

Sun Chengli's personal soldier said: "The general asked me to tell my husband that the general will continue to lead the officers and soldiers to the west, and wait until they are close to Lu's before completely getting rid of the officers and soldiers and returning. The general will return!"

After hearing this, Luo Zhixue nodded and said to Sun Jiancheng's soldiers: "It's been hard work all the way, go down and rest!"

After the people went down, Luo Zhixue thought that Sun Chengli must have decided to get rid of the officers and soldiers and return because he felt that the autumn harvest in his hometown had been completed.

At the same time, the purpose of leading the officers and soldiers to the Lushi area is to make the officers and soldiers mistakenly think that they have fled into the Lushi area, and to completely shift the officers and soldiers' sight from Funiu Mountain to the Lushi mountain area.

But the specific effect remains to be seen.

After all, although our own side concealed the news as much as possible, if the officers and soldiers still attached great importance to the Funiu Mountain area, they felt that even if the main force of the rogues entrenched in the Funiu Mountain area ran away, they still believed that there were rogues left in the Funiu Mountain area. Troops will be sent into the mountains to raid, and in this way, they will eventually be exposed.

But even if it is exposed, that is a follow-up matter.

Security in a short period of time should still be guaranteed.

In fact, Luo Zhixue's worries are not unreasonable.

Now Huang Guangmao is leading people back east, while sending a small team of sentries to Funiu Mountain to inquire about the situation.

The reason for him to make this decision is very simple, for food!

He felt that since there were rogues entrenched in Funiu Mountain before, it meant that there should be places suitable for rogues to live in Funiu Mountain, especially villages that could provide soldiers and food.

He plans to send people into the mountains to get a batch of grain...

He is very short of food now. Although he had wiped out Ta Tianhu and suspected the bandits before and got a batch of food, he had to eat food every day, and neither Chen Zhibang nor Tan Zhengling would give him much food.

The daily consumption of his troops stationed in Lushan County is basically self-financed, and the main way to obtain spoils is through suppressing thieves. On weekdays, he will follow the example of the thieves and collect food directly from the countryside.

But collecting food outside the mountains is not easy.

In the past year in Ruzhou, officers, soldiers and thieves have been on the move repeatedly. The ordinary villages have been robbed long ago, and they can't get much food through hard work. The remaining large quantities of food are the manors of some gentry.

The thieves in these manors can attack without any psychological burden, but Huang Guangmao can't.

It's not that the manors of these landlords cannot be attacked, but that it will not end well after the attack.

These manors with food are basically owned by gentry, and behind these gentry are often officials. If Huang Guangmao dares to move, they will kill Huang Guangmao in minutes through the power of the officialdom.

Just like the Song Family Manor before, all fools know that there is a mountain of food in the Song Family Manor, but Huang Guangmao doesn't have the guts to grab it, let alone him, even his immediate boss Chen Zhibang is not good at attacking the Song Family .

Unless they plan to be a traitor...

In Ruzhou outside the mountains, there is not much food that can be robbed, and where there is food, it cannot be robbed. This is also a headache for Huang Guangmao.

After all, his army consumes a lot of food every day.

And at this time, it happened that Funiu Mountain appeared.

Huang Guangmao thought that since there were rogues in Funiu Mountain before, there must be villages that could support rogues. After all, it is impossible for those rogues to really live in the depths of the desolate mountain.

At the same time, after attacking Ta Tianhu and his group of thieves, he also learned through cross-examination that these thieves were not from Funiu Mountain, but from Nanzhao County in the south. Many villages have obtained a large amount of food.

Huang Guangmao was not interested in who Tatianhu was, and he didn't even care if he hit the wrong person. After all, they were all thieves, and they would hit anyone. As long as they were captured, they would be fine.

After beating Ta Tianhu and his party, Huang Guangmao's biggest thought was that Ta Tianhu and the others could get these grains just after they entered the Funiu Mountain area. If he searched carefully, wouldn't he be able to get more?
Huang Guangmao, who had this idea in mind, even after he finished fighting Tatianhu, found that he had hit the wrong person, and found Sun Chengli and the others, he actually didn't take Sun Chengli and the others to heart. He just pursued them step by step. After Sun Chengli and the others fled to the Lu family, they stopped their pursuit.

Instead, he was full of thoughts about going back to Funiu Mountain to get food.

If this wave is done well, maybe the military rations will be available by next summer.

On the way back to the east, he sent sentries to Funiu Mountain to survey the terrain first, inquire about the conditions of the villages, and even concealed it from Wang Jida, planning to wait for Wang Jida to leave after leaving the mountain. .

But what I didn't expect was that Lushan County Zun Wang Jida was also very flexible, and he was aware of Huang Guangmao's dispatch of sentries.

After waiting for Huang Guangmao's subordinates to question him forcefully, Wang Jida learned of Huang Guangmao's plan.

Grab food?There is such a good thing?

Immediately, Wang Jida told Huang Guangmao that Funiu Mountain is also the land of Lushan County, and since there are many mountain people in the mountain, as the Lushan County Venerable, he naturally wants to bring these mountain people back under the rule.

That's what they said on the scene, but Huang Guangmao knew that this damn Wang Jida also had his eyes on the food in the villages of Funiu Mountain, and directly stated that he would take the five hundred county braves to Funiu Mountain to teach the mountain people.

In this regard, Huang Guangmao had no choice but to act together with Wang Jida, thinking that Wang Jida's popularity would not be too ugly.

Otherwise, Huang Guangmao was afraid that he couldn't help but cut him down.

Under such circumstances, before Sun Jiancheng returned to Sanshui Village, Luo Zhixue got the news: an unknown number of sentry officers and soldiers appeared on the outskirts of Funiu Mountain again, and they were about to go deep into the mountain!
(End of this chapter)