Wanli 1592

Chapter 634 Xu Guangqi suddenly felt ashamed and panicked
Xiao Ruxun expected that the northern captives would run to the north, so he deployed his own firearms team of the Zhennan Army in the north, with a thousand muskets ready to go, a thousand gunners and a thousand shield soldiers in formation.

Wang Hui watched Li Rusong lead the cavalry to fight happily, earning countless first-level credits, and he was also very envious in his heart, but the characters Xiao Ruxun gave him were also very good. The escaped captives were intercepted and killed,

Wang Hui never doubted Xiao Ruxun's orders. This was the instinct he had cultivated as a general in the army. Those who were born in the army had a kind of instinctive obedience to Xiao Ruxun. Compared with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, they were Xiao Ruxun's real For private soldiers, Xiao Ruxun's orders are more effective for them than the emperor's imperial decree.

In the Zhennan Army, Xiao Ruxun kept promoting excellent soldiers as his own soldiers, and after a while, he sent them back to the army to serve as low-level officials. In the name of gaining knowledge by his side, he was actually buying people's hearts .

Instill in these soldiers the idea of ​​being loyal to themselves, and then throw them back to the base of the army, making sure that they have mastered the entire army from the base.

That's why Xiao Ruxun was able to use abnormal means to leapfrog command of a certain unit repeatedly. The troops have become accustomed to obeying Xiao Ruxun's orders instead of the orders of the commander in chief. This is one of Xiao Ruxun's greatest achievements to the army in the past three years.

There is no way, this is forced, Xiao Ruxun is not Qi Jiguang, he has no power to fight back against the liquidation of those civil officials in the court, Xiao Ruxun will not be like Qi Jiguang like Qi Jiguang.

If the civil servants plan to do something to him, he will definitely fight back. Therefore, this rare army must be firmly controlled in his own hands. They are the foundation of his resistance to the civil servants. Don't panic.

With Xiao Ruxun's order, after Wang Hui ordered the artillery to bombard the encirclement of the northern captives to open up the situation for the cavalry, he led his troops directly to the back of Datong City to form an array.

After setting up the large array of firearms, let the soldiers load the ammunition, then load the extra guns with ammunition, prepare the fixed paper bags, check whether there is no problem with their guns and ammunition, and then wait in the formation.

When the spies sent to the front came back to report that the Beilu's broken soldiers had fled here with their families and their mouths, Wang Hui immediately ordered the soldiers to light Huoshen.

A faint smoke and subtle smell permeated the world, and Wang Hui didn't know how Xiao Ruxun knew that soaking the matchstick in urine and then drying it could increase the use time of the matchstick and make it burn slower.

Xiao Ruxun never explained it, but it was indeed like this when using it, so he didn't care about it. Anyway, if you are a little flirtatious, you will be a little flirtatious, and you don't urinate much, right?They are all big men who don't pee every day?

The matchlock was caught on the shelf by the soldiers while it was smoking, and it was aimed at the mouth of Mars. As soon as Beilu appeared in front of him and Wang Hui gave the order to shoot, they would use the well-trained three-stage strike method to their fullest display. come out.

Wang Hui was staring at the front of him, suddenly Xiao Ruxun's voice came from behind.

"How, is the Beilu here?"

When Wang Hui turned his head and saw Xiao Ruxun and Xu Guangqi standing behind him, he was shocked.

"Shiro? This... here will be a battlefield soon! It's very dangerous!"

Xiao Ruxun laughed: "It's okay, Mr. Xu wants to see how our musketeers fight, so I'll take him to see, and besides, I can help you a little with these three hundred flintlock musketeers, right? The flintlock team obeys the order! Choose the appropriate terrain and prepare to kill the leading officer of the northern captives!"

"promise!"

Xiao Ruxun's three hundred flintlock gunners shouted in unison, and then quickly dispersed, each choosing their favorite position and making preparations for the design.

Wang Hui could only order his own soldiers to protect Xiao Ruxun and Xu Guangqi.

"Governor Xiao, is this flintlock really more powerful than a bird gun?"

Xu Guangqi asked curiously.

"It's been a long time since I gave you that gun and you haven't tried to shoot yourself?"

Xiao Ruxun smiled.

"The subordinate is preparing for the exam in the capital. If he suddenly shoots and disturbs the neighbors in all directions, they will report to the official. What should the subordinate do?"

Xu Guangqi looked at Xiao Ruxun complainingly.

Xiao Ruxun was taken aback when he heard the words, and then laughed loudly: "Hahahaha! That's right, the governor didn't think carefully, hahaha! The cost of this flintlock is more than three times that of the bird's gun. Naturally, it is more expensive to use than the bird's gun." Much better, not just because of the flint and the fire, but because of the rifling in it."

Xiao Ruxun took a flintlock and pointed the muzzle at Xu Guangqi's eyes.

"The person sent by Bendu should have told you about this rifling, right?"

Xu Guangqi nodded: "The people sent by Governor Xiao said that this rifling can make lead bullets hit farther and more accurately, but the bird gun can't do it."

"Yes, the lead bullets of the bird's gun are slightly smaller than the muzzle, and can be easily stuffed in. After being compacted with gunpowder, they can be fired out of the barrel, but the lead bullets are smaller than the muzzle, and they come out of the barrel. At that time, you didn't know where he was flying, it was possible in the southeast, north, south, and the accuracy could be guaranteed a little between thirty and fifty paces, but after that, only God knows where he will fly."

Xu Guangqi took the flintlock and nodded repeatedly.

"So that's why the rifling is to make the lead bullets fly forward instead of flying randomly?"

"Yes, the rifling is one point, and the lead bullets used in the flintlock are also slightly different, slightly larger than the muzzle of this gun."

Xu Guangqi was taken aback: "Slightly larger than the muzzle of the gun? Then how do you put the lead bullet in?"

Xiao Ruxun took out a small gavel.

"Hammer it in."

"what?"

Xu Guangqi stared dumbfounded as Xiao Ruxun wrapped a lead bullet in a small piece of rag, put it in the muzzle of the gun, and then hammered the lead bullet into the barrel with a hammer, and then compacted it with a cleaning rod.

"That's it, this is how it is loaded, because the lead bullet is soft, much softer than the barrel made of refined iron, you can knock it in with a hammer, fit the lead bullet to the rifling, and then you can shoot , so the accuracy of the flintlock is high, but the shooting speed is about the same as that of the matchlock gun, and sometimes it is even more difficult.”

Xu Guangqi nodded.

"So that's the case, then...then why not just make the lead bullets so that they can be put in directly, wouldn't it save a lot of time?"

This time, before Xiao Ruxun could speak, Wang Hui did.

"What you can think of, Governor Xiao can't think of it? Fran's robot can't think of it? Isn't it because the technology is not good enough and you can't make it? And even if you can make some, it can't keep up with the speed of soldiers' consumption. It's better to just hit it with a hammer." What’s more! What’s more, some lead bullets made may not be able to completely fit the rifling, and in the end they still have to be hit with a hammer, so why waste that money?”

Xu Guangqi suddenly felt ashamed and panicked.

(End of this chapter)