open sea

Chapter 115
Deng Macao.

Chen Mu made a lot of preparations, all for this purpose, to go to Macau.

But he did not directly agree to Zhou Xing.

Before going to Australia, there is one more thing that he must do.

After Xiangshan County sent an order to invite Chen Mu to go with Zhou Xing, the entire Xiangshan Thousand Households went into full preparation for the battle.

Entering July, the Banner Army has been practicing for more than two months, and the first [-] banner troops from Gou, Xiangshan County have been practicing for nearly three months. Whether it is the battle formation, orders, and the mastery of the formation, or the mastery of Long Junxiong and Tianshi Monk The rapid-fire gun bayonet hack has already taken shape.

The only thing I owe is a battle.

"Qianhu, the gunpowder made by the new gunpowder craftsman is different from the lead pellets..."

Guan Zunban was in charge of the gunpowder depot, and now that the Qianhu Banner Army was about to set off, there was a mistake in the gunpowder, which made Guan Zunban feel that he had failed Chen Mu's trust, blushing and bowing his head like a big quail.

Chen Mu was estimating what supplies his banner army was in short supply. It was the first battle of Xiangshan Thousand Households to conquer Huangliangdu's local bandits.

In the past three months, in addition to teaching the Banner Army's battle formation orders and routine queue drills, he also taught the Banner Army how to pack a marching backpack 400 years later in memory, and made some changes according to local conditions. Yu Dingzhong selected female red tailors who were good at tailoring, and made simple carrying tools for each banner army.

The marching belt that can distribute the weight on the shoulders, chest, and waist is used to connect dry food bags, water bags, thin quilts, leather felt pads, and small backpacks, as well as medicine pots and lead pellet belts that are only carried by gunners.

This seemingly insignificant improvement can actually bring a great improvement to the banner army's combat power, not to mention it is Chen Mu's helpless move.

As an independent combat unit, the Xiangshan Qianhu Office did not have a special supply unit to carry a huge amount of supplies for them. They only fought against the local bandits in Huangliangdu, and even if they reported this request, they would not be granted.

It wasn't that Chen Mu couldn't let the Six Hundred Banners Army serve as a supply unit to provide food for the Three or Four Hundred Banners Army, but that obviously couldn't achieve Chen Mu's goal of minimizing casualties and training troops.

Part of the luggage was directly carried by the Banner Army. To attack Huangliangdu, it only needed to organize 50 people from Yu Dingzhong to escort a small amount of food, grass and military tents, and [-] carts could complete it.

Of course, this is also because the distance is relatively short. Even if the attack on the mountain is frustrated, the battle will not be delayed for too long, otherwise the supply troops will need more.

There is no need for Chen Mu to order leggings. In this era, leggings are called Xingzang, and the flag army prepares them by themselves. It is nothing more than the color regulation is not neat.

After much calculation, Chen Mu felt that his flag army still lacked some things, for example, each small flag was equipped with a military shovel for earthwork, but he couldn't afford to arm it for a while, so he had to give up.

After the new iron workshop is built and the hydraulic hammer is installed, we can think about making these utensils independently.

"Is there something wrong with the gunpowder?"

Chen Mu was stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Guan Zunban bowed his head and said: "Today, the gunpowder maker said to make gunpowder and let his subordinates go to test it. As a result, the gunpowder he made was like this, like beans. A piece of cloth was added to the dissolved lead pellets, and he also said that he could make the gunpowder The pill was stuffed into the gun and couldn't come out, so the villain didn't dare to delay, so he quickly reported it."

like beans?
"Bring me... Forget it, let's go! Go to the powder room."

Chen Mu felt that what was waiting for him should be surprises. Don't say that gunpowder is like beans, even if gunpowder is like stones, wouldn't it still burn?What's more, a little cloth strip on the lead shot pad can indeed block the gap between the inside of the gun barrel and the lead shot, increasing the airtightness.

Guan Zunban didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly followed Chen Mu out of the Qianhu yamen and walked towards the gunpowder house.

The freshness is not over yet, and most of the flag troops don't have armor, so it's still a thing to wear carrying equipment. If you wear armor and hang this one, it will look a little bloated.

There is no other way to do this, the set of carrying equipment is not fully prepared for all the initial creations of Xiangshan Qianhu, not to mention that there is an element of experimentation in Chen Mu's mind.

If this set of equipment can adapt to the war of this era, Chen Mu intends to send people to Jizhen to bring them to Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou who will return to Guangdong soon.

Before entering the gunpowder room, I heard a young man shouting inside: "Let go of me, I want to see Qianhu, if he doesn't try these things, let you take me, let me go, I want to see Qianhu household!"

Chen Mu turned his head and glanced at Guan Zunban, without saying a word, stepped into the courtyard and saw several craftsmen tied up a young man sitting in a corner, seeing him coming in, the craftsmen saluted one after another, and the young man struggled to get up, but looked Chen Mu dared not speak.

Although he was shouting vigorously, he had never met Chen Mu, and he didn't know the origin of this young man who could make Guan Zunban, the head of the craftsman, follow him.

"Let him go."

Chen Mu said something to the craftsmen on the left and right, then turned to Guan Zun's class and said, "Bring me the gunpowder and the blunderbuss."

After finishing speaking, he pulled out the short gun around his waist, took out the cleaning rod to clean the gun chamber, and buckled the wooden medicine tile embedded in it from under the wooden handle.

After he finished these, Guan Zunban had already walked out of the room, took a few projectiles and the gunpowder in the medicine pot, and handed them to Chen Mu. Chen Mu only glanced at it, and asked the young gunpowder maker: "How did you melt this lead shot, bring your tools and let me see."

Several lead pellets are the same size, and each lead pellet has a small cloth towel two fingers wide in the middle, which is directly dissolved in the lead pellet.

This idea is unusual.

In the past, Chen Mu's lead pills were made of round scissors and cut directly from long strips of lead since he was Qingyuan Wei Xiaoqi, and extruded into shapes, but obviously these few lead pills were all melted.

"Yes!"

Xu Erjin had some guesses about the identity of the person in front of her, but when she heard what Chen Mu said, she ran to the side room in response.

Chen Mu smiled when he saw his back running away, this craftsman also knew that playing with fire is not allowed in the gunpowder room!

The scale was marked on the wooden medicine tile, and an appropriate amount of gunpowder was poured out from the medicine pot. The medicine was indeed in the form of granules, as Guan Zunban said. Slightly flicking the mouth downwards will not allow the projectile to loosen and slide down.

What the gunpowder maker said was true, which made Chen Mu want to try the performance of granular gunpowder even more.

Walking a little far away from the gunpowder room, Chen Qianhu didn't bother to look for the wooden target. He cocked the gun and aimed at the wooden fence twenty steps away and pulled the trigger.

The sound of the blunderbuss was not the dull bang sound of the past, but a crisp and loud sound similar to a pop. The charge of the gun was slightly less than that of the long blunderbuss, but it burst out with huge force. Chen Mu was caught off guard by the shock. Aim a little higher.

Even though the muzzle was raised a little, the wooden fence was still high enough, and the lead hit the fence to stir up debris, and when he walked over rubbing his wrists, he still hadn't touched the lead with his half-finger.

Twenty steps away, the pistol almost pierced through the arm-thick fence.

The power is at least [-]% higher!
Putting the gunpowder back into his waist, Chen Mu pointed to the gunpowder room and said, "What's the name of that gunpowder maker? Let him write this down, and dictate it if he doesn't know how to read. He is a second-class craftsman!"

　Woke up late, really sleepy.

　　Good morning!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)