Half an hour later, the shooting test was over, and all the students entered the training room and sat down, waiting for the theory test.

Xu Mingwu was sleepy-eyed, yawning and coming over slowly, looking very dragged.

Feng Jiaoxi, who was at the door, recognized him, pointed at him and shouted: "What are you doing, come in quickly!" Isn't it just a full ring? You're not the only one who is full of rings! Give Lao Tzu some spirit, and take the exam in a while! ”

Is there anyone else playing full rings?

Xu Mingwu, who was still full of anger just now, suddenly deflated, and secretly said that the Emperor Ming Military Academy was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!

Entering the teaching room, sure enough, no one praised him as a big guy, and he sat in a standard posture, and there was no one who came up to say hello, as if everyone was a big guy.

After a while, the instructor came with a stack of test papers and handed them out to each student.

Xu Mingwu opened the test paper and saw that it was a picture of homework.

The map shows a large river from north to south, a sandbar and a high ground, and on the east and west banks of the river are strong camps, and the barracks stretch into the river.

Following the mark on the map, the enemy's sailors were anchored on the river between the two battalions, and could respond left and right.

There are five batteries painted on that high ground, identified from north to south as Batteries 1-5, which are condescendingly and their fire supports each other, forming a fire coverage area that is several miles wide.

Blue flags were planted all over the forts, indicating that it was the Blue Army, including the two large battalions and the naval division in the river, all of which were planted with blue flags.

The attacking side was the Red Army, which was camped on both sides of the river to confront the Blue Army, and several warships in the river also planted red flags, indicating that the Red Army also had surface troops.

Obviously, this is a blue-defended red-offensive map job!

The map shows that the Red Army's land forces were to the north of the Blue Army, and the surface troops were to the south of the Blue Army, apparently coming from the southern estuary.

Moreover, the surface forces of the Red Army were very strong, the landing force consisting of several battleships and laughing gunboats, equipped with various landing equipment.

The attacking Red Army had a total of 8,000 land and water troops, while the defending Blue Army had 50,000 troops, and the question was how the Red Army would win.......

"it, with a small force to fight six times the enemy who is ready to work? How the fuck is this fighting? ”

Xu Mingwu's mind was chaotic.

There was a rustling of writing all around, and the students were all immersed in answering the papers, Xu Mingwu frowned, and carefully reviewed and analyzed the questions again.

When he saw that there was still an army of war elephants in the blue army camp, Xu Mingwu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and judged that the battlefield on this map was in Burma, which may be a simulation of the upcoming Ming-Burma War!

But he was worried again, even if the Ming army was elite, it would be difficult to win with a weak force when the enemy army was in the right place and the enemy!

First of all, the water between the two battalions of the Burmese soldiers was turbulent, and there were sandbars, so the Ming warships could not advance at all.

If the Ming army attacked the Burmese army camp on both sides of the strait, the artillery on the Burmese army on the high ground would cross the attack, and cooperate with the Burmese army's attack out of the camp, and the Ming army would have to kill many people if they wanted to take it.

Xu Mingwu thought of the historical Qing-Burma War, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Tatar Qing fought a war with Burma for several years.

However, Xu Mingwu did not gain feasible experience from this war, because that battle was fought too badly!

First, the counselor Zhu Rune committed suicide, and then the general soldiers Hu Dayou, Hu Bangyou and others were killed in the battle, and many people below Yang Chongying were captured, and the rest of the Qing army fled back to Yunnan.

Later, Wang Yuzhu, the chief soldier of the Eight Banners Army, was killed, even the commander Mingrui was killed, the general Wu Shisheng, the deputy general Aligon, and the admiral Ye Xiangde of the navy division died of illness successively, and even Qianlong's brother-in-law Fu Heng was also sick and bedridden.

In the end, both sides were exhausted and war-weary, and Burma, which had suffered even more heavy losses, wrote a letter demanding a truce.

The commander of the Qing army, Fu Heng, accepted it when he saw it, and wrote to his brother-in-law Qianlong that our army suffered heavy losses and could not fight anymore, and finally Qianlong agreed to a truce, and the two sides negotiated and agreed to draw a pledge, give gifts to each other, and formally ceased the war.

It is useless to rely on history to cheat, Xu Mingwu has to think about a good strategy for himself, how to fight this battle beautifully!

After a while, he took the pen to heart, took a cursory look at the test paper again, and wrote the letter pen, thinking of where to write.

In just a quarter of an hour, Xu Mingwu got up and walked to the door with the paper in his hand, and handed it to the invigilator: "Feng Jiaoxi, I'll hand in the paper!" ”

"So fast?"

Feng Jiaoxi's face was surprised, the stipulated time for this exam was half an hour, and Xu Mingwu only took a quarter of the time to complete it?

"Feng Jiaoxi, it's almost enough, I don't want to get a full score."

Xu Mingwu said, and the person had already walked out of the classroom.

As soon as he took five or six steps, he heard a shout behind him: "Wait! ”

Xu Mingwu was shocked, and when he looked back, Feng Jiaoxi chased after him with the test paper, pointing to the test paper, with an incredulous expression: "Are you sure you want to hand in the paper?" ”

"Of course I'm sure, I've already completed the exam and signed it!" Xu Mingwu walked and said.

Feng Jiaoxi grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Xu Mingwu, you must know that your brother Xu Jiaoxi is not in the courtyard, if you fail the exam this time, you may be expelled......

Xu Mingwu was very confident in his answer, so he turned around and smiled: "I know, thank you for the reminder!" ”

.......

Xu Mingwu didn't go to the dormitory, but ran to the ammunition arsenal and the repair institute in the north, he had to do a big thing!

He discovered the shortcomings of the Wu Shi rifle from the shooting assessment, and Xu Mingwu decided to improve the bullet of the rifle and replace it with metal, so that it could become a real cross-era weapon, and the face of the Pingyang Hou Mansion would be long!

The bullet is composed of a warhead, a cartridge case, and a primer, the cartridge case contains gunpowder, and when firing, the firing pin hits the primer, igniting the gunpowder, and producing a gas to push the warhead.

The next shot requires a manual pull of the bolt to reload the shell.

At present, the Wushi rifle in the Ming army uses a paper shell for the cartridge shell, which is obviously inconvenient to draw the shell, unable to carry out the next shot smoothly, and even jammed.

The material of the bullet is directly related to whether the shell is smooth, and the bullet material of later generations is basically made of copper, because the copper is soft, easy to process, has strong self-lubrication, and the shell is smoother.

Xu Mingwu knows that China has few copper reserves since ancient times, and after the establishment of New China, in order not to be controlled by others, China began to develop steel bullets, and painted and plated copper in steel bullet shells, which perfectly solved this problem.

Perhaps because of the lack of copper resources, Daming has not used copper bullet shells to replace paper shells, or the technology is not good.

The Repair Institute of the Huangming Military Academy also has the research and development work in the hospital, but the military academy is mainly to learn military strategy, and basically no one is interested in this kind of military research, and the research and development projects of the Repair Institute are basically abandoned, and only a few military craftsmen are idle to play chess to kill time, and occasionally repair firearms.

After the shooting assessment, Xu Mingwu got some black powder and copper materials through "connections", and spent some money to hire a few idle military craftsmen, preparing to do research in the repair institute, and by the way, tinkering with the big killer he dreamed of - Gatling!