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Chapter 247
At the celebration banquet that night, Shen Shuren didn't directly ask people to "summarize the experience of victory" in an unflattering manner, but wisely mentioned the military as little as possible.

It was Huang Degong who praised him from the bottom of his heart, and he only replied a few sentences in a percussive manner, but it was limited to point and stop.

Shen Shuren knows very well that when a drunkard like Huang Degong fights a war, he fights a war, and when he is having a good time, he is having a good time. When drinking, don't talk to the leader like a company team building.

To conquer people's hearts and use different types of talents, you must have an emotional intelligence that adapts to people's conditions.

You can talk about the mission, vision and values ​​with your advisers, and you should have a big bowl of wine and a lot of meat with those who work hard.

In the end, Huang Degong also returned drunk from the pain, and slept until noon the next day with a hangover.

Shen Shuren didn't raise his account to gather generals in the morning, everything was agreed three chapters in advance before drinking last night, so that all the generals would open their mouths to drink.

Although this order actually benefited Huang Degong the most, at least on the surface, the waters are flat and the military discipline is treated equally, so it is not a small problem for someone.

Shen Shuren himself was very strict with himself. Although he also drank a little too much, he still insisted on getting up at the right hour (eight o'clock in the morning), which was only an hour later than usual.

After breakfast, he personally patrolled the city to inspect the defense, walked around the four walls of Shangcai County, checked the damage and maintenance progress of various fortifications after the war yesterday, and stopped when he encountered problems Give pointers and urge.

Shangcai City is not big, the perimeter of the city wall is only a dozen miles, and even walking with inspection instructions, it can be done in less than two hours.

After working until noon, Huang Degong hurried over, followed by several generals: "Master Futai! It's late in the future, forgive me. What's wrong with defense?"

He was actually woken up by his subordinates who reminded him that Governor Shen had gotten up early and personally inspected the city's defenses. Huang Degong was embarrassed, so he quickly put on his clothes and came to obey orders without eating breakfast.

Shen Shuren smiled lightly, didn't take it seriously, and said kindly: "It's okay, the officer said that there is no need for an early patrol today. I have finished the tour just now, and I am a little tired. I am about to sit down and have some lunch. General Huang together?"

As Shen Shuren said, he took a few donkey meat from his confidant Shen Fu in a down-to-earth manner, and gave two of them to Huang Degong.

Donkey meat is the meat of grain-carrying animals that were killed in battle, and it would be a waste if not eaten.

On Shangcai's side, a small number of donkeys and horses died every day because of scout warfare and grain transportation harassment and confrontation.The loss of donkeys is actually less than that of horses, but horse meat is unpalatable, so Shen Shuren distributed the killed donkeys to civil servants and generals, and the horse meat to lower-level military officers, and no one thought it was wrong.

Huang Degong took it immediately. Although it was cold, it was still delicious for those who didn't have breakfast.

As he ate, he felt a little embarrassed, and finally humbly asked about military matters to make up for his embarrassment of being absent from work.

In addition, when the two of them were eating, they happened to be sitting next to a horse-faced fort on a city wall, so Huang Degong naturally asked for advice on the pros and cons of the artillery deployment yesterday.

I saw Huang Degong said with a face of shame: "To be honest, we don't have much contact with this kind of Flang machine. It was the first time I saw it after I rushed to Ruyang. At that time, I thought it was an ordinary Flang machine. There were not many people. be careful.

Later, seeing that your lord specially ordered the cannons to be deployed horizontally before the battle, we were also a little surprised. Although we were puzzled, we didn't ask any more questions.It wasn't until the battle that I realized that the ammunition was all weird.

My lord is really a fantastic idea, how can I think of shells that are packed and stuffed in a wooden tube, and then loaded into the gun.Today I am going to ask my lord to allow us to disassemble a few pieces, and to ask for more tips on how to use them. "

Huang Degong was rather reckless in fighting, and he knew how to use firearms, but he didn't have any additional unique skills.When encountering this new weapon, it is inevitable that there will be negligence, which was not paid enough attention before.

So much so that after the first battle, I only thought of checking for leaks and filling vacancies. The learning attitude towards technology is really slow.

Shen Shuren has also noticed this after getting in touch with him recently.Originally, his impression and positioning of Huang Degong should be similar to that of Liu Guoneng——

Both of them came from bitter backgrounds, nothing more than Huang Degong killed Tartars in Liaodong when he was a child and exchanged their heads for money, while Liu Guoneng was a thief when he was young.

But after in-depth observation, Shen Shuren found that the two people's attitudes towards learning were very different.

Although Liu Guoneng is a thief, he knows good and bad and is willing to learn.He also admires scholars in his heart, but hates himself for being humble and unable to be a gentleman.

So Shen Shuren sent his only son to Nanjing Guozijian, and cast him under the gate of Wumei Village. He didn't put on the airs of a Jinshi and made friends with him sincerely. Liu Guoneng was very grateful and vowed to repay his kindness to the death.

And Huang Degong doesn't admire literati at all, and he doesn't like to study. He is just pure reckless.If Shen Shuren wants to subdue such a person, it is not enough for Shen Shuren to rely on courtesy and virtuous corporals, so naturally it will be slower.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren was not in a hurry. For example, at this moment, when Huang Degong's spontaneous curiosity flared up, he could give him some advice.

Shen Shuren waved his hand, motioned for Shen Fu and several other soldiers to bring over a small Francophone weighing three to four hundred catties, took out the sub-gun, and then showed the ammunition loaded inside to Huang Degong for careful observation, while explaining .

"This kind of ammunition contains a nest of lead bullets inside and a wooden barrel on the outside. In order to be airtight with the gun bore, we first painted wood paint.

Later, during the Dongting Lake battle three months ago, Shen Lian and Li Yu came back from using it, and reported that the glue paint could not burn cleanly when excited. Although the airtightness is good, sticky residues tend to adhere to the inner wall of the gun bore.

After shooting, you have to wipe the inner chamber with a wooden stick wrapped in a damp cloth, and then wipe it again with a dry cloth wooden stick, so as not to cause the gun bore to become narrower and narrower, and not to get wet with gunpowder.This is too troublesome, not much faster than the old ammunition Francophone.

So after I came back, I asked Zhifu Fang and Director Song to think about it and optimize it, and only then did I have the current version.Now the adjusted coating of the shell of the wooden barrel shell fits the inner wall of the barrel more closely, which can ensure that the shell does not fall out at a greater depression angle, and can fully burn without residue, and the second round can be fired without clearing the chamber. "

Huang Degong listened patiently to the explanation, and only iterated to the current version after he had a deep understanding of the development of this weapon and what problems he had solved in actual combat before.

Huang Degong couldn't help but admire Shen Shuren's "project management" ability even more.

Because he only discovered now that this weapon was not thought of in a flash of inspiration, but was optimized step by step by seeking truth from facts, solving problems when encountering them.

A flash of inspiration may be due to good luck, and the product strength of repeated iterations is definitely the hard power of R&D and project management personnel.

"Master Shen is very good at managing workmanship," this is Huang Degong's new impression after listening to it.

At the same time, Huang Degong remembered that Shen Shuren mentioned last night that he originally had more trump cards to use this kind of artillery, but he hadn't used them yesterday.

Now that we have reached this point in asking for advice, Huang Degong is also very modest and wants to continue learning, so he asks respectfully.

Shen Shuren didn't hide it either, and pointed directly at the cannon and said, "I do have a lot of tricks, but I have a lot of ideas at the moment, so let's pick the most obvious threat——

Didn't Tian Jianxiu change from attacking ordinary wall sections to attacking the horse's front after seeing our artillery's lateral bombardment yesterday?Yesterday, it was because of General Huang that you were brave, used your life as a soldier, and pushed the enemy back in close combat.But in fact, there are other ways to solve it, which will be more secure, just need to optimize and adjust the shape of the horse face.

Originally, the front of the horse face was parallel to the city wall, and other horse faces could not cover the front of the attacked horse face, and there was a dead angle for shooting.

If we modify the horse face, change the front from a straight wall to two walls with retracted sides, forming a protruding sharp corner in the middle, that is, change the quadrilateral horse face into a pentagonal horse face noodle.

Then, the side-mounted Fran cannons on the adjacent horse-faces on the left and right can also successfully bombard the front of the horse-face next door. Even if the enemy only attacks the front of the horse-face and does not attack at all elsewhere, they will still be bombarded in vain. "

While Shen Shuren was talking, there was no pen and paper on the city wall, so he pulled out his sword and directly drew a few lines on the rammed earth as a schematic diagram.Combined with geometric figures, Huang Degong naturally understood it immediately.

Shen Shuren's painting is actually a bastion that has already appeared in the west at the same time. Of course, it is not a complete bastion, but more like a temporary building on the basis of a traditional city wall that has been transformed to eliminate shooting dead ends. Bastion.

(Note: The prototype of the bastion appeared in the West in the Battle of Metz in France in 1552, but it was not a complete bastion at that time, but outside the traditional city wall of Metz, some annexes were added to eliminate shooting dead ends)

Huang Degong looked along the straight line indicated by Shen Shuren, and he found that after the transformation, the cannons on the left and right horse faces could completely hit the front of the middle horse face, as long as the cannons were placed at a slightly skewed angle.

However, Huang Degong soon discovered that there seemed to be two problems in order to realize this tactic.

He pondered for a while, and then asked humbly: "My lord, this kind of horse face is indeed good, but the direction of the gun barrel when the Francophone bombarded the horse face is still not completely consistent with the direction when bombarding the side of the ordinary city wall. It is not easy to adjust the muzzle orientation at any time, right?
In addition, these Frang machines were all shotguns in battle yesterday. Shotguns are powerful in killing people, but they can't reach far.The distance between each horse face on the city wall is no more than [-] steps. To reach the center between the two horse faces, the shotgun only needs to fly [-] or [-] steps away, and it can still cause great damage.

But if you want to blast to the opposite horse's face instead of halfway between the two horses' faces, the required range will suddenly double.It may be very difficult for the Francophone to fire shotguns with such power two hundred paces away. If you use slugs when bombarding your neighbors and horses, the power will be greatly reduced, and each shot will not kill too many people. , how to choose between these? "

Shen Shuren showed a rare expression of approval, this reckless man finally began to really enter the state of learning.

Shen Shuren didn't hide his secrets, and answered directly: "The first problem is easy to solve. Our army has been researching and developing new gun mounts. Wuchang Fang Zhifu made several models. It was just unnecessary to install the guns in yesterday's battle. After all, it is not as stable as placing it directly in the groove on the ground of the fort.

But as long as there are blueprints, just find some carpenters, these wooden frames can be ready in two or three days, and then you can flexibly adjust the shooting angle in a small range.

As for the second question, can we continue to use shotguns at a distance of two hundred paces... This depends on the second type of shells we prepared for the thieves. "

(End of this chapter)