Chapter VI Test firing
The gun is no more than a meter long, the properly decorated wooden handle has no unnecessary decoration, and the original trigger and fire rope all bring Chen Mu a feeling of visiting antiques, even if the gun tube is rusty, you can still clearly feel the solid quality of the short gun in your hand.
Chen Mu guessed that this bird gun should be the Tanegashima gun imitated by the Japanese people themselves after the Western guns brought by the Ming pirate Wang Zhi to the Portuguese more than 20 years ago, and the Japanese archipelago across the sea is called the 'iron cannon', which has not received much attention due to the rate of fire, weather restrictions and other reasons, but within ten years, it will be massively armed with the armies of the daimyo in various places and become the backbone of the war.
Maybe it's because of Long Wangshu's mentality, compared to the bird gun in his hand, Chen Mu paid more attention to the mount of the Bai family's own soldiers, which was a low-looking inferior horse, with a shoulder height of more than one meter, but the rider on the horse was not as tall as Shao Tingda, but it also complemented each other. The rider didn't be polite to Chen Mu after handing over the bird, turned over and whipped away, leaving the dirt dragon on the country road all the way up, but it made Chen Mu's eyes hot.
Down!
If you think about it as common sense, how can a person who is used to driving a car think that riding a bad horse mixed with northern breeds on a country road is majestic? But that's really not the case, the sense of superiority is comparative, and the people around you will naturally not feel that BYD is majestic, but what if the people around you are all 'legs'?
I feel majestic when I drive a Santana!
"Phew! Contains a bird and a monkey! Proud of what. Shao Tingda, who was holding a rake in the field, saw Chen Mu covered his face from a distance with the dust raised by the horse's hooves, and the swear words jumped out of his mouth, and while scolding, he put down the rake and turned over the ridge of the field in three or two steps to this side, "Brother Mu, don't fight with that stupid dick, you can't even say anything...... This is the bird of Baihu and his brother? Put a hammer and let the brother hear it, what is this written? I'm going to call the storyteller to read and write! ”
Its storyteller's name is Shi Qi, Jiajing was born in the third year, although he is also in his forties, but he is thin and short, so Chen Mu did not count him as the main force of Tuntian yesterday, but if he encounters a fight, he should be a good hand. No one could have imagined that this scholar, who used to tell stories in the teahouse outside the city of Ningguo Mansion in Nanzhili, was confiscated for thousands of miles because of the crime of murder, and was reduced to Qingyuanwei, the capital of Guangdong, to be a military household.
The scholar has few words, no matter what skills he has, even if Chen Mu wants to contact such a person to escort his future, he still has a lot of resistance to the murderer in his heart, and immediately waved his hand to stop the fiery Shao Tingda, pointing to the words engraved on the handle and said: "I didn't fight with him, sooner or later I will ride a taller and stronger horse than him." You don't have to call the scholar, I recognize these words. ”
Seeing Chen Mu's disgusted expression, Shao Tingda licked his lips and asked, "What is crooked at this moment?" ”
"Hachiman, Great Bodhisattva." Although the owner of this body has been taught by Mr. Weisuo, he doesn't know too many characters, but because the Ming characters are similar to the traditional characters, the current Chen Mu can read and guess most of the characters, and the Japanese characters on the handle can naturally be read, because this is basically the Ming characters, "This is the fire gun used by the Japanese Kou, they are the Hachiman Pirates." ”
The official name of the Hachiman pirates is the Kumano Suigun, and these naval forces entrenched in the Kumano region of the Ise Peninsula are named after the Clippers flying the Hachiman Daiboku flag. A considerable part of the Ming Dynasty's maritime activities were among the Wako, and their clippers were also called Hachiman ships by the Ming people.
The short wooden handle in Chen Mu's hand was crookedly engraved with the words of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman, and it was hard to imagine that this exotic firearm that had crossed the ocean had turned around a few masters before it fell into his hands.
"It's a dog-snatched robber again!" Shao Tingda didn't know what the eight and nine hats were, so he just scratched his head and scolded casually, and then said worriedly: "The knives of the Japanese are not used, their guns, Brother Mu, you have to be careful." ”
Chen Mu weighed the bird's gun, but one meter long weighed eight or nine catties, the gun tube was very thick, it looked strong and durable, and he was not too worried about exploding, but he was holding the whole strip to dredge the gun, and asked Shao Tingda casually with some surprise: "The knife is bright and fast, it should be very easy to use, how can it be unbearable?" ”
Bai Yuanjie said that Chen Mu's original master would know how to use the arquebus, and Chen Mu knew how to use this arquebus when he carried the firecracker, but the movements were rusty, obviously Chen Mu had not used a bird like this in the past a few times, but as long as he knew how to use it, as for proficiency, Chen Mu would have the opportunity to be proficient in the future.
"Woke, I listened to what the warmaker of the guard said, the Wa people paid tribute to two ships of 90,000 Wa knives, and none of the knives that flowed into the Jia people market were good knives, and as for the ones seized from the Wakos, they were even worse, and they couldn't be cut off a few times. If you want to say that there are good knives, Bizen and Yamashiro are good knives, but I heard that the market is very expensive, and we can't use it. Shao Tingda said and patted the Yanling knife with a rusty handle hanging from his waist and grinned: "What can kill people is a good knife, not that all the knives of the Japanese people are good, I don't believe that my brother went to the warmaker to ask, maybe one stone of rice can be exchanged for a Japanese knife, they have it, I have seen it." ”
Chen Mu nodded and chuckled, and asked Wei Balang to run thirty steps to set up a wooden sign. He also felt that what Shao Tingda said was reasonable, there are good knives and bad knives everywhere, even if there is a difference in the iron-smelting process, it cannot determine the merits of the Ming knife and the Japanese knife. What really makes the Ming knife invincible to the Japanese knife is the knife type system, not the excellent blade...... Ming Guo single knife, where can it be compared to the two-handed wild knife?
The ills of the Ming Dynasty were said by the ancestors as early as thousands of years ago: if you enter, you will not be able to get rid of your family, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish.
The bird was sealed in the warehouse of the guard for at least half a year, and the rust in the barrel made Chen Mu stab it with a strip for a long time, and from time to time there were rust chips poured out, and it was finally cleaned up, stuffed into the medicine, and the lead pellet was compacted, and the fire rope tied to the forearm was ignited, ready to shoot, but he saw Wei Balang in the distance set up a wooden sign like a little fool covering his ears and standing next to the wooden card waiting to hear the sound.
"I really trust Chen, call him over!" Let Shao Tingda, who had a loud voice, call Wei Balang back, Chen Mu blew the ends of his hair angrily, "Who knows if this gun is accurate, if this small flag is crooked, there will be five flags left." ”
Waiting for Wei Balang to run over from the opposite side, before he could cover his ears, he heard a loud noise.
"Bang!"
A huge amount of smoke erupted from the gun's mouth, and the lead bullet flew out at a speed invisible to the naked eye, accurately dodging the target, and did not know where it flew.
Chen Mu was not discouraged, he fired more than a dozen bullets one after another, and the chance of hitting was getting bigger and bigger, when he pierced the thick wooden board fifty steps away in the evening and hit the edge, the lead bullet penetrated the wood chip and shattered the corner of the wooden board, and he finally shouted with joy.
He's finally learned how to use the ranged weapons of this era!
Note: Stupid - from the Yuan song "Li Sulan Fengyue Jade Pot Spring", the original words are stupid.