"Second column, come forward! Lie down, load, shoot! ”

With the ruthless command of the leading officer, hundreds of musketeers of the Nanyue Army, who were also hideous-looking, stepped forward in unison, lay down neatly on the ground, and neatly loaded the muskets in their hands, and then pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, the flames from the mouth of the gun continued to form a chain of fire. White smoke rose in an instant, forming a thick wall of smoke above the firecracker's head.

"Reload! Shoot! ”

In the smoke, the voice of the officer leading the team without any good life came out. In the blink of an eye, the firecrackers who were lying on the ground fired the projectiles in the firecrackers again!

The Ottoman army that fought against these firecrackers, under the barrage composed of this endless firecracker, the corpses were all over the field, and the blood under their bodies flowed out, gradually converging into a crimson stream. Koplulu was also dying lying in the pile of the dead, breathing in the air with a thick smell of blood on his back facing the sky, "O true god! Forgive me! ”

Several soldiers of the Nanyue Army examined the corpses with fire hammers and sent the thorns into the bodies of the dying wounded, so that they could go to Allah and enjoy the seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

The two soldiers smirked and raised the thorns in their hands and stabbed at Koplulu!

"Ahh

Koplulu was so frightened that he screamed and woke up from his nightmare!

The cold sweat on his face told him that I was dreaming, that I was the Grand Governor (Prime Minister) of the Ottoman Empire, that I was an ally of Li Shouhan against the infidels of Europa, and that I was in this position as the best friend of the monarch of the Eastern Empire! He kept repeating the thoughts in his mind. Several beautiful slave girls who fell asleep at the foot of his splendid bed, heard the exclamation of their master's nightmare, hurriedly got up and comforted with kind words, and brought **** to calm the prime minister.

Took two sips of ****. Koplulu calmed down a little, but his mind was still composed of fire, smoke, and projectiles from the continuous firing of firebolts. That scene more than ten years ago has become his nightmare.

On the same day, at the test site of the Ha Tinh military industry.

He Chaowen, the battalion officer of the Navy Army Battalion, who first proposed the concept of making the Franco machine, had already swept away the obscurity of many years, and lined up neatly with his own team with a heroic and red face. Waiting for Li Shouhan's arrival.

His battalion of men, as the experimental unit of Ha Tinh Military Industry, was already equipped with prototype guns of the Franc machine gun, and the officers above the first rank were one-color double-barreled short guns, which also fired projectiles in the form of breech loaded into the sub-guns. This made this group of men who had no advance or retreat and fought for their lives at sea quite excited, and they agreed with it.

It is important to know that they are often only a breath away from the dead. Being able to reload the projectile without any effort is enough to insure one's life.

He Chaowen took the fire gun from a soldier's shoulder, took off the flint, and handed it to Li Shouhan with both hands. "Please take a look!"

At first glance, there is not much difference between the brownish-red butt of this gun, which still slightly exudes the smell of gunpowder after burning, and the style of firecrackers similar to brown basses that are widely installed in the Nanyue Army at present, and the weight is about the same. However, when Li Shouhan opened the back cover of the magazine with the help of He Chaowen, he found that there was something else.

The design of the fixed magazine, which was originally intended to be used, has been greatly improved. The brass-made sub-guns were replaced by the chambers that were originally intended to be fixed in the magazine.

Studying this new firearm from a distance, Coplulu found that this firecracker, which Duke Li couldn't put down, seemed to have some similarities in style to the Lumi gun he had equipped. If there are some delicate and complicated carved patterns on the butt and gun body. He was almost sure that the new gun was an improved version of the Rumi gun.

However, Feng Jing is Feng Jing. Ma Liang is Ma Liang. At first glance, they do look similar, but the difference between the two is also very big!

I didn't know what Li Shouhan said, so He Chaowen quickly ran to the side, and kept issuing orders in his mouth, and his troops were quickly separated according to the formation and formed into four small squares.

"The first column. Advance! Get ready to shoot! ”

After many years, Kopluru was already the most powerful regent in the Ottoman Empire (this is a paraphrase, and the transliteration should be the Grand Vizier. ), but it is also a scene of cold sweat when I often dream back at midnight.

The one hundred and ten musketeers had apparently already been loaded, and after giving the order, they pulled the trigger on the grass target set up in the open field, although there were no projectiles. But it's still impressive.

According to people's habitual understanding, after a fight, the soldiers should stand up to clean the gun pipe, and then reload the ****** and projectiles, although there are big people like the lord Li Shouhan, it is unlikely that they will be allowed to load the projectiles, but there is still a link to the loading ******.

"Take three steps forward! Reloading! Shoot! ”

Since He Chaowen developed this rear-loading flintlock pistol, he has been working with several instructors in the martial arts hall to repeatedly deduce how this new gun should be used on the battlefield and how to act.

Unlike the inland officials and armies, where the generals have the final say, the emperor draws a formation map in the palace and gives it to the generals to arrange the troops, and then the generals refuse it on the grounds that "the generals will not accept the orders of the foreign monarchs" and "the magic of use is in one mind". The Nanyue Army has always been an exceptionally harmonious combination of general orders and military democracy.

In the battle plan formulated by Li Shouhan and the General Staff Headquarters, no general dared to resist. However, in the specific implementation process, the generals are allowed to have the power to make decisions on the fly. In the same way, even an ordinary soldier can fully express his opinion, the so-called knowledge of everything is endless, and those who say it are not guilty and those who hear it are full of caution.

This set of tactical moves that dazzled Koplulu was that He Chaowen led his subordinates and the instructors of the lecture hall to toss around on the playground for several months before it began to take shape. Today, these people under him knew that they were going to demonstrate in front of the lord, so naturally they were all holding back their strength.

With the sound of He Chaowen's command, the soldiers took out the yellow and clear Zi Gong from the cowhide medicine box on their waists, compared to the Zi Gong that was not loaded with projectiles, this is a real thing! The pointed round projectile that was shelled by the soldiers of the Nanyue Army outside the city was sealed in a layer of yellow wax. The firecrackers quickly took out the empty guns. Reloaded, the trigger was pulled, and the projectile in the gun was pushed to the grass target in the distance by the tremendous force generated by the gunpowder. The head bombers with strong emotions vented all their hot grievances on the target, and the straw on the target flew everywhere, and soon smoke and burned.

"Keep shooting! Rapid fire! ”

Perhaps it was because he sincerely wanted to give a little color to these outsiders, and He Chaowen gave another shocking order.

Everyone was intent on showing off in front of Li Shouhan. Take the gun, open the magazine, retreat the empty gun, reload the gun, close the magazine, and aim and shoot the whole process like a cloud of water. The continuous gunfire rang out like beans in the ears of Li Shouhan and others.

Seeing that the dense grass targets that were imaginary enemies not far away were staggered in the continuous rain of bullets, turning into burning torches, Kolluru and a few relatives couldn't help but feel bursts of urine coming frequently. None of them were laymen, and they knew a little about the firearms and tactics of the Ottoman army. It's not the kind of mouth cannon that only knows how to talk about it. However, the more expert you are, the more you know the depth and shallowness of the water.

Copleurus peeked at the pocket watch inlaid with gold wire and precious stones in his hand, and from the first sound of the gun fired from the lying position, to the last sound, the five rounds of fire were completed, which was worth a minute! This rate of fire is enough to crush an army with the same force and equipped with flintlocks! You must know that the breech gun also has three rapid fire in a minute. And the fastest shooter can reach 46 seconds. But after three shots, it is necessary to rest for at least a quarter of an hour to cool the barrel. Here is the collective achievement of the formed firecrackers, five shots. It takes a minute!

"Get on the bayonet! Charge! ”

It seems to be to talk without being shocking and endless. In the case that people were already urinating, He Chaowen issued a new order. The soldiers, who had just stood up, quickly took out the spurs from their waists and stuck them in the bolt position on the nozzle.

Led by their respective officers, they roared and swooped down on the imaginary enemy in the distance, who were also wielding spears and halberds with bayonets.

However, he had just rushed out only a few dozen steps, but he all fell to the ground under the command of the sentry. Continuing with the scene just now. Closer distance, stronger power, the grass targets that were lucky enough to survive the baptism of bullets just now, this time they were all ignited!

Faced with this situation, Coplulu's jaw dropped in surprise. or fell to the ground in fright, it can be regarded as a normal reaction. However, his old man accidentally wandered. He seemed to follow the usual strange route from the starting point to Chaldiran. In this place, the Ottomans defeated the god-like king of the Safavid dynasty, Shah Ismail I, with artillery and smoothbore guns, a figure who took about ten years to restore Persia and conquer the east and west, laying the foundation for half of the Shiites. Through the storms of history, Copleurus seemed to see his stunned and helpless eyes, and seemed to see the scene of his desolate ordering a retreat. Then, as if he were standing in Shah Ismail's position, opposite the Nanyue army, they slowly rushed up......

No, no, no, this is definitely an illusion, and Koplulu hurriedly stopped the crossing of his mind and tried to face himself with reality. Yes, first of all, His Royal Highness is a good friend of our Ottoman Empire, and they have taught us all the tricks of the cage policy and the iron-walled regime to go to the countryside. Since I can see such a sharp weapon today, it shows that His Royal Highness the Duke is not defensive against us. Secondly, this thing was not used in large-scale warfare, but only experiments, indicating that either the production was not high, or it was expensive. Third, His Royal Highness the Duke has an army, my army can also have it as long as the price is sufficient, and the army of the Ottoman Empire can also have it, as long as I give the Duke enough benefits, I am afraid that there will be no such sharp weapons?

Thinking of this, Koplulu showed the common smile of an old fox, and he said to Li Shouhan: "In the past, someone in my country came in to offer firearms, boasting that they could make five rounds in an instant, and wanted me to buy them with gold and gold, I thought it was bragging, and they drove that person away. I didn't expect to see such an artifact in person in Shangguo today. It's a pity that the man is nowhere to be found, so he can only regret it. Li Shouhan almost wanted to smack this old guy in the face, I'm sorry, who are you fooling? If this rifle follows the trend of history, it will at least be a product of a hundred years later, and you will return your strange people? Although there is a lot of braggart in this world. For example, Greece is the center of civilization without pants, and the medieval harvest is slightly more than the seeds of a powerful agricultural empire, but you can't just look at the trolls with six tubes and call them Gatling, right?

However, Li Shouhan thought about it, this product has nothing to brag about, it seems that he wants to get some, to say that technology is a good thing. But it also costs money, and the so-called various new machines are actually pit tyrants to return to their roots. Since you've stretched your neck, don't blame me for stabbing me.

So, Li Shouhan smiled slightly and said: "I didn't expect the Ottomans to have such strange people, your country is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger." However, his asking price of 10,000 gold is a bit expensive, and although the price of my fire gun is very expensive, it is only 40 taels of gold a piece. ”

Li Shouhan's performance suddenly made Feng Mofeng, who was accompanying him, almost bite off his tongue! He secretly exclaimed in his heart, "My lord. Just now we have explained to your old man the cost of this new gun, because all kinds of costs in the early stage have to be spread in it, so each gun is roughly equivalent to silver, and the material and labor costs are seventeen yuan and eight hundred wen (seventeen taels and four yuan). Moreover, He Chaowen's department is equipped with prototype guns, which have not been optimized, so they are naturally expensive. But you always have a lion there with his mouth wide open, and he will ask for forty taels of gold at once? You know, if our firearm is optimized for large quantities. The cost will be greatly reduced, and no matter how expensive it is, it will not exceed ten silver dollars! ”

The Southern Yue Army was equipped with a large-scale production of firearms during the Apocalypse. Thanks to the combined production of coal and iron, ductile iron and assembly line production methods, the cost of coal and iron has long been reduced to the level of a silver dollar. This cost is almost the same as the brown bess made by Yingyi in history with a large number of equipment. (A standard short brown bass sells for £2 and 4 shillings, and the Indian model costs half as much.) Considering Yingyi's corruption problem, it is estimated that the cost of the short brown bess should only be a little over 1 pound. The Indian model is estimated not to even cost 10 shillings. You must know that almost at the same time, the Qing court made the Zambala firecracker, which is the so-called "palace building", and its materials, food, silver, that is, the cost is only one tael, three coins, six cents and six cents of silver! ）

Forty gold coins in Nanzhong? Coprulu almost wanted to come over and say that I had all these firecrackers. But immediately a thought crossed Kollurus's mind like lightning: "The Seris are also very cunning, and this must be a sky-high asking price." As a result, the future regent of the Ottoman Empire, Kollulu, was entangled. Is it to be cheeky to bargain, or to accept the sky-high asking price of His Royal Highness the Duke, what if His Royal Highness the Duke is angry and does not sell? This question is as eternal as Hamlet's question of survival or destruction.

In the end, the pain of money overcame face, and Koplulu said with a wry smile: "Your Royal Highness, you are wise and wise, and you know that our country is barren in Ottoman land, and it has always been a relatively poor country, the land area is not large, the population of the capital is also small, the taxes are less, and there are often rebellions in various places. Therefore, the price of forty gold coins seems a bit expensive. Look at it, and then it will be a two hundred silver dollars. But now these firecrackers are going to buy some back for the soldiers, so that the ministers will give a 500 silver dollar, which can be regarded as a reward for the hard work of the craftsmen, what do you think, Your Highness? ”

Li Shouhan patted him on the shoulder with a hearty smile and said, "Lao Ke, you are too polite, your Ottoman territory is vast, and in terms of shipping routes and passages, you have always been prosperous and rich, and the treasury is sufficient. You don't have to cry poor with me, so let's do it, it's not difficult for me to be for you, a three hundred silver dollars, now these are not easy to build, give you a discount, eight hundred silver dollars. You and I are friends, and if you talk too much, you will see the outside. ”

Hearing Li Shouhan's words, Koplulu almost cried, don't pay for it, if I don't see it, who will pay for it? In the end, the two sides agreed to supply 250 silver dollars each for a long time in the future, and now these prototype guns are sold to 200 silver dollars for his guards at the price of 800 silver dollars.

However, Koplulu put forward an additional request, the delivery should be delivered in large quantities at one time, and it should be kept secret, a total of 5,000 were ordered, and Nanzhong was required to strive for delivery within two years, and to be responsible for training. Repeated demands, in addition to the messenger of Koplulu holding his token and the code agreed with Li Shouhan and the two, that His Majesty the Sultan came in person, and he also categorically denied the existence of this deal!

Li Shouhan didn't have an opinion on this, but it was a little strange, and he avoided talking about it after asking Koplulu several times, so he had to give up. Until a few years later. When the war broke out between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire again, Koplulu commanded an army of 40,000 composed of mountain people in the Balkan Mountains and mercenaries from the Japanese State, and defeated the 250,000 soldiers and horses of the Safavid Empire with 5,000 new muskets. Then, in view of the change in the difficulty of the dungeon, it was sold to the Safi Empire for 2,000 pieces at the price of forty taels of gold.

With the fear of Koplulu and the others, there was a bit of rejoicing. The two legs kept trembling and looked at the line in the distance in front of him that kept spitting fire and white smoke, and secretly congratulated himself in his heart that he was an ally of this army. Yin Lei and Shang Feng, several descendants of Yin Shang, were full of tears of excitement when they faced the powerful firepower commanded by He Chaowen.

Different from the mentality of the people who are full of flavor in the city of Kollu, Yin Lei Shangfeng feels a huge sense of happiness and a sense of loss. As the saying goes, the rich do not return to their hometowns, such as brocade clothes walking at night. Then understand the other way around, if you don't mix well, then you definitely don't want to go back to your hometown. Now the two of them are also returning to their hometowns. As a result, when I saw that my distant relatives were all rich and handsome, and I was short, poor and ugly, I suddenly had all kinds of bad tastes. Although the distant relatives did not say that they neglected themselves, the loss in their hearts was still difficult to let go.

However, the two of them are also heroes in the tribe, and now they are both officially appointed officials of the Nanyue Army, so they naturally have different knowledge. quickly let go of the loss in his heart, since distant relatives don't dislike us, we have to take this opportunity to do a good job. You can't be like some faceless people. When his life was better, he showed off in front of his brothers, and took the eliminated electronic watches, plastic flowers, polyester and cardinal cloth everywhere to swindle. As a result, when I woke up, I found that the so-called country cousins I looked down on back then had become local tyrants in the blink of an eye, and I was so disappointed in my heart! Immediately, he changed his face, and his relatives came to his house to play, and when they came to buy things, their noses were not noses, and their faces were not faces. As a result, the relatives gradually stopped coming to the door, and ran to the parents to make trouble. Going around yelling that these relatives don't respect him, don't treat him as a family member, etc. Even some unsuccessful cubs in the family colluded with outsiders to clamo for a separate family.

So, Shang Feng discussed it with Yin Lei, and wanted to discuss it with Grandpa Guo. Let's see if we can discuss and buy some knives, guns and guns first, it doesn't have to be like this, even arquebuses for immigrants everywhere.

Li Shouhan also had a pair of sharp eyes, although he couldn't understand what the two new Qianhu from Fusang's hometown were discussing, but from their demeanor, expressions, movements, and the two pairs of eyes staring closely at the fire gun in the hands of He Chaowen's subordinates, he also guessed a few points.

At that moment, he called the two people who were embarrassed to speak in front of him, and asked with a smile: "Originally, they were two good men, and they were invincible to capture the flag on the battlefield, how can they be children today?" Why is that? "Now that the Lord has spoken publicly, Shang Feng and Yin Lei have no scruples, and they will immediately reveal their inner thoughts and thoughts." At present, the southeast area is still rampant with Spaniards, and the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Route Army of the Great Shang Eastern Expedition are in dire straits and urgently need to be rescued. In particular, before coming back, I heard from my relatives who had crossed the sea from the south that it seemed that the Southern Route Army had a Maya army, who had fought against the Spaniards for decades, and now they were trapped in several fortresses and were isolated. So we want to go back with the weapons of our homeland, and use these weapons to take the villagers south to beat the Spaniards. ”

For the requests of distant relatives such as Yin Lei and Shang Feng, Li Shouhan certainly had no reason to refuse, and even asked rhetorically, "How much do you plan to want?" "Nowadays, the combined production and manufacturing of coal and iron in various parts of Nanzhong has reached a new height, and iron farming tools have been basically popularized in the villages under the jurisdiction of various provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties in Nanzhong. It is the newly opened up areas of Taiwan, where the Han and Turen are mixed, that iron farming tools are gradually popularized. At present, a large number of iron tools have been packed into boxes and stuffed into the cabin, and it is not difficult to go to Fusang with the Wa Kingdom, to the Ten Prefectures, etc., and to Fuso. You must know that at present, only one of the main sites of Hejing Military Industry can produce tens of thousands of guns in a year. If the iron industry in Foshan recovers to about 60 percent of the level of that year in the future, then the steel production and processing capacity and military industrial capacity of the Nanyue Army will be doubled.

It is precisely because of such production capacity as a foundation that Li Shouhan's confidence has always been sufficient. However, if there is no strong and developed agricultural production capacity, it is impossible to provide enough food and meat for these non-agricultural populations.

However, Shang Feng and Yin Lei, two simple Indian men, did not know this, they only saw that as soon as they returned to their hometown, the lord not only made himself a big official, but also issued cotton armor and helmets to more than 100 people who returned from his trip, holding a mourning gun in his hand and a desperate knife hanging from his waist. Even under the feet, they are all pedaling the same combat boots sewn with cowhide and cow tendon as the Nanyue Army, and I really don't know how the people in my hometown make it, but I can sew the cow tendon into the bottom of the boots. This set of equipment is enough for Yin Lei and the others to return home and show off to their clansmen. Not to mention the Shoshone, even the Spaniards could not have all 100 of them with such armor, knives and guns. However, now that he has asked the lord for swords, guns and armor, how can this make these two men speak?

"If it weren't for the long distance blocked by the sea, the soldiers and horses would be difficult to travel, and this king should personally lead the army to conquer the Spanish rebellion. But since you can't go now, I'll leave the matter of the rebellion to you for the time being. What's a little bit of swords, guns and armor?! But now the Spaniards are still strong and should be careful. After returning home, you should ask Governor Xu for instructions on everything, and discuss with the chief of Ruoshui. When you are well prepared, you should first contact the people of the Southern Route Army, do enough to fight for it, isolate the Spaniards, and finally concentrate your forces on the crusade. ”

Li Shouhan was very generous, and ordered Feng Mofeng to take two new firecrackers and reward them to Yin Lei and Shang Feng. The fire gun that exuded the smell of grease was shining with a lovely blue light in the sun, and the two Yin Lei Shangfeng, who had seen the power of this fire gun just now, were suddenly happy like two children who had just gotten their favorite toy, holding on tightly and not letting go, even He Chaowen planned to teach them how to operate and use this new gun, they were quite reluctant, lest they would kidnap their new baby.

"This is the king's reward for you. One can fight some bison and beasts, and the other can also fight Spanish white pigs. Help our brothers in the Chinese lineage out of the sea of suffering! ”

Li Shouhan has already made up his mind, and when Xu Huanshan takes people to his post, he can bring as many armor and weapons as he can in the fleet, and all kinds of production tools are also stuffed into it! He didn't believe that those Pizarro's successors would be able to survive a few rounds under the crush of their own industrial products?

"Lord, you're not right!" Yin Lei responded to Li Shouhan in stiff Chinese.

"Fight the Spanish white pig first, then the bison beast!" (To be continued.) )

PS: After two busy days, I was finally able to recover. What, send a few tickets if you have them.