Chapter 4 Bird Guns

Before Chen Mu could figure out how to get in touch with Bai Yuanjie of hundreds of households, Bai Yuanjie found him, and the execution was over, and he was dizzy and frightened, so he was beckoned by Bai Yuanjie to follow. At the same time as he set off, Yu Guang saw the soldiers of the other banners climbing the high platform, dragging the body of the untied rope away, and the young junior dragged the broken leg on the ground, saying something to each other with a smile.

Chen Mu didn't dare to look directly, his eyes widened unconsciously, and he was nervous and went around left and right, all this happened so fast, so fast that he couldn't react at all, and the living people were hanged in front of everyone like killing chickens during the New Year. Witnessing the execution is not too frightening, what really scares him is the difference between the soldier laughing at others and him, which makes him feel extremely frightened, because he is different, different.

Feeling lonely was what really scared him. In this world, in the sixteenth century, there were no family members who always bothered them, no relatives who asked difficult questions, no friends who always caused trouble, and no ...... Security. There are all kinds of military households around him, and they are so familiar that they can call everyone's name, but they are also so unfamiliar that they dare not speak.

"Why don't you speak?"

After walking a long distance behind Bai Yuanjie, Baihu, who was wearing a helmet and armor in front of him, suddenly turned his head and smiled a little sadly, "If you are dead, you can't be happy, it's not easy for an old lame man." ”

When he came back to his senses, Chen Mu found that he had followed him to the door of the hundred households, that is, Bai Yuanjie's official office, and Bai Yuanjie did not wait for him to reply, so he stepped into the threshold. The hundred households are in disrepair, but there are a few wings in the ordinary official office, where the servants who serve Bai Yuanjie live and live together, and the two Bai soldiers at the door salute Bai Yuanjie, and they don't look at Chen Xiaoqi who is following behind.

Passing through the shadow wall, Bai Yuanjie directly led Chen Mu into the inner house, and ordered the servants to sit in the first place after serving tea, and then casually pointed to the guest and said to Chen Mu: "What are you doing standing, it's not your head back, sit." Chen Erlang, a few days ago, Mo Chaoyu, a military general who was also in the military affairs of Lilian, Yang, Huai, He, Ying, and Qing, died without illness, and I will go to Guangzhou Mansion to mourn in a few days, and you will draw two people to prepare weapons and accompany you. ”

Chen Mu didn't have anything to say, so he followed his memory and hugged his fists and said, "It's all up to the orders of a hundred households." ”

"You don't have to be so angry, just call me Jingchen, the relationship between you and me is not those military households." Bai Yuanjie waved his hand indifferently, and when he put the tea on the table, Bai Yuanjie raised his two fingers and said: "Huguang Turen high mountain tea, taste it, I like to take two or two back." ”

After that, Bai Yuanjie said with a straight face: "Your flag is good, you will make the brothers of the Gong and Shao families make knives, and teach that little Balang more." The Fujian Japanese were cleared by the two generals Qi and Yu, and the few Japanese invaders fled to Guangdong, and the guards were lax for a long time, and they were unbearable to fight. The entire hundred households can not count on a few of our flag officers, at least five ...... Only two small banners can be a strong man. ”

Bai Yuanjie's eyes were bright, and he knew what the situation was in the Wei Institute, not to mention anything else, just talking about Chen Mu's small flag, there were a total of seven people, but there were fifty-eight years old with all their teeth lost, and there was a thirteen-year-old Wei Balang who was less than five feet, and in addition to Chen Mu and Shao Tingda, there was a Chen Guan who froze off three fingers the winter before last, and he couldn't even hold a knife when his thumb fell off, can such an army fight?

Chen Mu only then understood, no wonder there was a firearm in the house but no one else took it, and he would be able to shoot a firearm for a long time, and it was also a technical weapon!

In the early Ming Dynasty, the standard firecrackers were used until this time, and Chen Mu, who had a preconceived idea that the Ming Dynasty was full of birds, could not imagine that the iron pipe that looked like a gourd silk with a grip and a wheel was the main firearm of the guards. Now when he heard Bai Yuanjie mention it, he remembered that there was an iron pipe at home, and there was a medicine projectile next to it, which was like a two-shot cannonball. To tell the truth, Chen Mu was very afraid that this old object would not ignite the fire and blow up the chamber and turn into a thunderbolt in his hand, so he rubbed his hands and asked Bai Yuanjie: "Baihu, before going to Guangzhou Mansion, can you change a bird gun for your subordinates?" ”

The musket is a musket gun, which should be sandwiched under the ribs or used in pairs, with a low rate of fire, low range, and difficult to aim; The Bird Gun is an arquebus, which can be operated by a single person, with a slightly faster rate of fire than the Gun, a range of nearly 100 paces, and a more accurate sight to look at the mountain, because it can aim and shoot down birds in the woods.

Bird gun is a foreign product, Jiajing 27 years, the Ming army recovered the Japanese, the Portuguese occupied Shuangyu, obtained the bird gun and the good bird gun, the Ming court imitated. This firearm was more convenient to use than the native firearm, so it quickly entered the Ming army.

Chen Mu wanted to know if Qingyuanwei had a bird gun, and if he had an arquebus, he would prefer to use an arquebus that was heavier and longer than the arquebus.

"You want to use a bird's gun? Yes, yes, but the earth guns are easy to blow up the muskets and the soldiers don't want to use them, there are a few rods stored in the guard, go back and let people find out if there are any guns to send to you, although they can't compare to the size of the passion, but in the end it is stronger than the earth guns, and those stupid dicks without a queen in the Ministry of Industry do some mongrel things! ”

There are many kinds of bird guns, the West is the West, the small West is the Indian, British arquebus, the Atlantic is the Spanish, Portuguese arquebus, as for the Bai Yuanjie said that the fire gun is the fire door gun, the accuracy and speed are slightly lower, but now the Ming Dynasty has been able to create a similar shape of the bird gun, and developed a set of effective production technology. But now the best firearms are equipped with the troops recruited by generals from all over the country, and only a few of the inferior remnants that cut corners are sent to various health centers, and it is no wonder that Bai Yuanjie scolded the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

But when it comes to exploding, muskets and artillery throughout the world in the sixteenth century are banging and banging, and before entering the industrial age, all ordnance construction relied on handwork, and the advantages and disadvantages were neither better nor worse, and no one should laugh at anyone.

It's just a matter of not doing it seriously.

The officer's hatred is not the enemy, but the subordinate officials of his own court, Chen Mu pursed his lips and did not dare to answer, so he had to ask with a blank eye: "Baihu, where can I get the Atlantic gun?" ”

"Objects that have traveled across the ocean, can you get your hands on them? Not to mention my small 100 households, even 1,000 households, the commander will not have there, the good guns allocated by the Ministry of Industry are in the army of General Qi in Fujian, Qingyuanwei has not allocated weapons for several years, and the farm tools are given every year. Bai Yuanjie laughed self-deprecatingly, raised his hand to Chen Mu like a joke, and said: "If you really want passionate, there may be smugglers to sell in the Guangzhou Mansion Commercial Market, but there are no twelve or thirteen taels of silver, so don't want to buy it." With this money, it is better to spend it at your own expense, and make do with it! ”

Speaking of this, Bai Yuanjie clapped his hands and said: "It doesn't matter if you buy guns or not, but you have to practice well, and Bai Mou, who has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, does not ask for a lot. But whoever dares to fight is invincible in the end, and Bai Mou is also determined to save his life. But if you don't dare to go up, the ugly Bai will also say that he will be in front, even if he escapes and comes back, Bai will definitely not spare the lives of those who are greedy for life and afraid of death! ”

Chen Mu only nodded in response, and the military household was reliable because of fear. is like the old lame man of Qiding, who said that he would die and no one would help him. But the military household is unreliable, and Bai Yuanjie also knows it, otherwise there is no need to be so loud.

Chen Mu hugged his fists and responded, thinking of Shao Tingda's entrustment, and was also anxious to go to the cave to explore the cave, which is suitable for boiling salt, and immediately asked Bai Yuanjie: "Baihu, I will go with you when I go into battle, but the flag has not been trained, and if you can't even catch the knife, it will be in vain." In this rotation, can my subordinate Xiaoqi be on duty in the city, or with a little practice, the battle array can help hundreds of households? ”

Bai Yuanjie picked up the tea bowl and replied with his chin: "Since you should be like this, practice diligently, and Bai will not treat you badly." ”

Note: 'Silly Dick' - from Ma Zhiyuan in the Yuan Dynasty "Midnight Thunder Thunder Recommendation Blessing Monument"

'Hybrid' - from the poet Jiang Nan in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty "Essay on the Urn"