Dengao.

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

But he didn't directly agree to Zhou Xing.

There was one more thing he had to do before he got to Ao.

After Xiangshan County ordered Chen Mu to accompany Zhou Xing, the entire Xiangshan Thousand Households Institute entered full preparations.

Entering July, the flag army has been practicing for more than two months, and the earliest Xiangshan County hooked the 300 flag troops to practice for nearly three months, whether it is the battle formation, orders, and queues, or the quick gun bayonet chopping by Long Junxiong and Tianshi monk professors, they have all taken shape.

Only a war is owed.

"Qianhu, the gunpowder made by the new gunpowder maker is not the same as the lead pellet......"

The matter of the powder magazine was managed by Guan Zunban, and now seeing that the banner army of Qianhu was about to go on the march, there was a mistake in the gunpowder, which made Guan Zunban feel that he had betrayed Chen Mu's trust, and bowed his head with a red face like a big quail.

Chen Mu is calculating what kind of utensils his subordinates are still in short supply of the banner army, and the conquest of the Huangliangdu thieves is the first battle of the Xiangshan Thousand Households, not only can not lose, but also try to avoid accidents in the subordinate banner army, and fight a big victory!

In the past three months, in addition to teaching the Banner Army's battle array orders and regular queue drills, he also taught the Banner Army the techniques of beating the marching backpack four hundred years later in his memory, and made some changes according to local conditions.

A marching belt that can be used to attach dry food bags, water bladders, thin quilts, felt pads, and small backpacks, as well as medicine pots and lead pill belts that can only be carried by the hand.

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

As an independent combat unit, the Xiangshan Qianhu Institute did not have a special baggage unit to carry a huge amount of baggage for them, and only waged war against the Huangliangdu bandits, even if this request was reported, it would not be accepted.

It's not that Chen Mu can't let the 600 Banner Army act as a baggage force to supply the food needs of the 3 or 400 Banner Army, but that obviously can't achieve Chen Mu's goal of minimizing his own casualties and training troops.

Part of the baggage was carried directly by the banner army, and to attack Huangliangdu, it was only necessary to organize 50 people from Yu Ding to escort a small amount of grain, grass and military tents and other equipment, and 30 carts could be completed.

Of course, this is also because of the close distance, even if the attack on the mountain is frustrated, it will not delay the battle for too long, otherwise the baggage troops will need more.

The leggings don't need Chen Mu's orders, the leggings in this era are called Xingtang, and the flag army has their own preparations, but the color regulation is not very neat.

After doing the math, 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 be armed for a while, so he could only give up.

When the new iron mill is built and the hydraulic hammer is installed, can we think about making these tools ourselves.

"Something went wrong with the gunpowder?"

Chen Mu was stunned for a moment before frowning and asking, "What's the matter?" ”

Guan Zunban bowed his head and said: "Today, the gunpowder craftsman said to make gunpowder and let his subordinates test it, but the gunpowder he made was like this, like beans." A cloth was added to the dissolved lead shots, and it was said that the lead shots could be stuffed into the gun and could not slip out, but the villain didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly reported it. ”

Like beans?

"Bring me ...... Forget it, let's go! Go to the gunpowder store. ”

Chen Mu felt that what was waiting for him should be a surprise, not to mention that gunpowder is like beans, even if gunpowder is like a stone, can't it still burn? What's more, a little cloth strip on the lead shot can indeed block the gap between the gun tube and the lead shot and increase the air tightness.

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

The freshness has not yet passed, and most of the flag troops do not have armor, so it is still like that when they wear carrying equipment, if they wear armor and then hang this body, it will look a little bloated.

This is also something that can't be helped, all the grass creations of Xiangshan Thousand Households, this set of carrying equipment is not fully prepared, not to mention that there are experimental ingredients in Chen Mu's mind.

If this set of utensils can adapt to the war of this era, Chen Mu plans to send them to Jizhen, and give them to Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou, who will return to Guangdong in the near future.

Before I entered the gunpowder room, I heard a young man shouting inside: "Let go of me, I want to see a thousand households, he won't try these things, let you take me, let me go, I want to see a thousand households!" ”

Chen Mu turned his head and glanced at Guan Zunban, did not speak, and when he stepped into the courtyard, he saw several craftsmen tied up a young man sitting in the corner, and when he saw himself coming in, the craftsmen saluted one after another, and the young man also struggled to get up, but looked at Chen Mu and did not dare to speak.

Although he shouted energetically, he hadn't actually seen Chen Mu, and he didn't know what the young man who could get the craftsman Guan Zunban to follow behind him was coming from.

"Let him go."

Chen Mu said a word to the craftsmen on the left and right, and then turned to Guan Zunban and said, "Take the gunpowder and guns for me to see." ”

After that, he took out the short gun on his waist and took out the whole strip to clean the barrel, and buckled the wooden medicine tile inside from under the handle of the wooden handle.

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

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

The idea is not ordinary.

In the past, since Chen Mu's subordinate lead pills were still Qingyuan Wei Xiaoqi, they made round scissors and cut them directly from the long lead blocks and extruded them, but obviously these lead pills were all dissolved.

"Yes!"

Xu Erjin had some guesses about the identity of the person in front of him, and when he heard Chen Mu say this, he should pull his legs and run to the side room.

Chen Mu smiled at his back as he ran away, this craftsman also knew that you can't play with fire in the gunpowder room!

There is a scale on the wooden medicine tile, and an appropriate amount of gunpowder is poured out of the medicine pot, and the medicine is really granules as Guan Zunban said, and after being poured into the medicine room, the cloth is wrapped in a piece of lead and stuffed into the gun, and the whole strip is compacted, even if the gunlet is thrown downward, the projectile can not be loosened and slided.

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

Walking a little far out of the gunpowder store, Chen Qianhu didn't bother to look for the wooden target, and the gun machine was wound and aimed at the wooden fence twenty steps away and pulled the trigger.

The sound of the gun was not the dull bang of the past, but a crisp loud sound that was close to a snap, and the charge slightly less than the long gun burst out with huge power, and Chen Mu's wrist was pushed against the shock, and the point of the lead bullet was obviously slightly higher than the aim.

Even though the mouth of the gun was a little higher, the wooden fence was still high enough, and the lead hit the fence and stirred up debris, and by the time he rubbed his wrist and walked over, he had not yet touched the lead with half his fingers.

Twenty paces apart, the handcuffs almost pierced the arm-thick fence.

The power is at least 10% higher!

With the handcuff back in his waist, Chen Mu pointed his finger at the gunpowder room and said: "What is the name of that gunpowder maker, let him write these down, and dictate them if he doesn't know how to read, he is a second-class craftsman!" ”