The mountain breeze of Wangjing Tower blows in the night, the high mountain of more than 300 zhang is enough to take in everything around, the surrounding is dark, only the lights of ten thousand homes in the south reflect the hazy red in the distance, although it is not thorough, but there is a sense of beauty.

Chen Mu didn't climb the Wangjing Tower until the night, he thought that Qi Jiguang, a general who had made countless meritorious achievements, would sit alone in the Wangjing Tower at night, overlooking the Great Wall he had built, looking at the Beijing Division, drinking a bowl of wine, and expressing the loneliness of the cold.

He thought too much.

The upper floor of Wangjing was very lively, there were several Qi soldiers who held binoculars in the watchtower all night to observe the north, and some people stared at the countless enemy platforms on the Great Wall, and wrote down in books the illegal border guards who still lit bonfires.

Surrounded by the crowd, Qi Jiguang, who was in charge of the prime minister's military affairs, walked over with his helmet on his head, looked at Chen Mu with a smile, and arched his hand: "You are General Chen, I am Qi Jiguang, such as a dragon, Qi apologized to you on his behalf, and I hope you don't mind, general." ”

"Qi Shuai said seriously, building artillery and sending artillery to northern Xinjiang to protect the border is what should be done." Chen Mu looked at Qi Jiguang a little distracted, came back to his senses for a moment in doubt, bowed his hand, and said, "Even if it's just to be able to come to see Qi Shuai, for the generals, it's worth it." ”

For Chen Mu, at this glance, the statue, the story and the person match.

"In fact, the younger generation has always regarded General Wang as a brother, in Xinjiang he saved the life of the general, Guangcheng has been guarded many times with his merits, I respect him very much."

mentioned Wang Rulong, although Qi Jiguang did not speak, his expression was still worried, but it was only for a moment, and he smiled: "Yu Shuai is okay?" ”

"Okay, Guangxi Wei Yinbao rebelled, and General Yu went to quell the rebellion, thinking that it would be another big victory."

Qi Jiguang nodded, the conversation seemed to be unexpectedly smooth, he simply handed the telescope to Chen Mu, pointed to the north and said: "This is what you did, the military department imitated it and assigned it to the generals of Northern Xinjiang, which is very useful, and it can often anticipate the enemy first-there is Warat, you see the sparks, it is the house of the Mongols on the border." ”

"House?"

Chen Mu has the impression that the Mongols shouldn't all sleep in felt tents, one tribe after another?

"Yes, the house, it's a little better here, the farther west, the more Han people who fled across the border to Mongolia, they farmed there, farmers, herdsmen, craftsmen, and Tumochuan all built fortifications." Qi Jiguang shook his head slightly, and said: "After Zhao Quan, who made trouble in Shanxi, ran over, he helped Tumut govern the tribe, which was extremely harmful. ”

"I've heard of you, many times, from Wang Rulong, Yu Shuai, and Tan Shuai, they have praised you a lot, saying that you are a soldier and a skill, but everyone says something different."

Seeing Chen Mu put down the binoculars, Qi Jiguang smiled and said, "Rulong said that you are very similar to Qi when you were young; Yu Shuai sent a letter saying that you marched and fought to break the skill, and you didn't use any firearms for sailing, and the big ships were full of wolf machines, and you only bombarded them and killed all the Japanese invaders; Tan Shuai said that you are quite good at making weapons, and you will discard all firearms, only make birds and artillery. ”

Chen Mu was embarrassed to say it.

"Today, Qi is in military affairs, you can't accompany him for a long time, tomorrow we will set up a banquet for you to drink, and then adjust the artillery." Qi Jiguang said and sat down with Chen Mu, and said: "If the artillery is combined, in the future, the general will need to send a message to Nanyangwei and transport more artillery fire for the use of Jiliao." ”

Qi Jiguang is very interesting.

Chen Mu understood that this is to pull the relationship first and then do the right thing, while Chen Mu likes to pull the relationship in the middle of the business, because he can do things well, and do it well, hugging his fists and saying: "Qi Shuai is busy with military affairs, how can the generals not distinguish between the important and the serious, Junxiong!" ”

Chen Mu opened his mouth, and Long Junxiong, who was standing on the side, led the soldiers to present two large and small wooden boxes, and placed them in front of Qi Jiguang, Chen Mu got up and hugged his fists and said: "Qi Shuai doesn't have to worry too much, the inside is neither gold nor silver, but the two handcuffs and a pair of armor are also made by Nanyang Wei." ”

"Oh?"

Qi Jiguang has seen a lot of things over the years, he has seen the layman who gave gold and silver, and he has also seen the wonderful person who sent beautiful maids and swords, and he has never seen someone like Chen Mu who put two wooden boxes and said that there were two guns in it.

The wooden box is exquisite, after Qi Jiguang opened it, there were two handguns with exquisite workmanship in the woodcarving, the guns were one foot long, the carvings were exquisite, with ten bamboo tubes of the same size, the bamboo tube Qi Jiguang was very familiar, the handcuffs were not familiar, there was no fire rope, and the flint was sandwiched on the snake rod.

"This gun seems to be the same as the Guangdong Xianjing Division?"

Qi Jiguang is knowledgeable.

"Yes." Chen Mu said after arching his hand: "The cost of the wheel gun is high, and its internal machine is complicated, which is twice as high as the bird gun, but the flint gun is not, its cost is similar to that of the bird gun, but its internal reed is difficult to make, and the trigger is light or heavy if it is not suitable for use." ”

"These two handcuff reeds are made of southwest Burmese iron, the size is the same, the strength is equal, and it is not valuable, and Qi Shuai defends himself."

Chen Mu said, Qi Jiguang noticed that Chen Mu also had two handcuffs inserted in his waist, and the generals did not dislike weapons, especially Qi Jiguang, who knew the performance of firearms, he looked at the handcuffs for a moment, picked up the cartridge and filled it inside, and his movements were even more proficient than Chen Mu, Chen Mu hurriedly said: "Qi Shuai is not in a hurry, there is this!" ”

opened another slightly larger wooden box, and there was a front and rear breastplate without carved patterns lying inside, and said: "Please also ask Qi Shuai to look at this armor first, only protect the chest and back, the whole pair of eleven or twelve catties, Qi Shuai does this have a northern bow?" ”

Qi Jiguang looked at the entire breastplate, stroked the curved edge in the middle, waved his hand to order someone to take a bow, and said: "There is a bow underneath, and there is our bow above, and the bow strength is about the same." ”

"This is a piece of lined armor, it does not protect the arm, it is lighter than the lined chain mail, the northern army has iron arms to protect the chest, abdomen and back, and even as long as the front is not the back, it is only eight catties."

Chen Mu said and took the bow and arrow, tried the bow, the bow force was a little big, let Long Junxiong take the cuirass twenty steps away, Zhang Gong shot an arrow, a crisp sound sounded in Wangjing Tower, and the feather arrow was bounced away.

Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief, he was still very confident in the protection of the cuirass, just because the bow strength was different from his usual practice, and he was worried that he would be embarrassed if he couldn't shoot.

Fortunately, the sky pays off, and practicing bow horses all day long is still rewarding.

When Long Junxiong brought the cuirass again, there were only three points of dents left on it.

Qi Jiguang could see clearly that this dent did not affect the wear, and even because of the bulging shape of the breastplate, it could not resist the impact on the wearer, and only a thick cotton coat was needed to wear it inside to make the attack invisible.

Long Junxiong put the cuirass thirty steps down again under Chen Mu's instructions, and Chen Mu made a look of invitation to Qi Jiguang with a satisfied smile, and said: "Qi Shuai, the killing of the handcuff in thirty steps is not high, you can try it with the bird." ”

Qi Jiguang was happy to see the hunt, but he waved his hand silently, slowly poured the gunpowder in the handcuff back into the cartridge, and thanked Chen Mu with a fist: "It's late at night, let go of the gun to frighten the soldiers and delay the rest, try the gun again tomorrow when the gun is tested, Qi Mou thanked the general for the gift, and today he will rest on the Wangjing Tower, and Tan Shuai will have other arrangements for the general in the future." ”

On the night of Wangjing Tower, Chen Mu wrote and drew in his notebook, and he learned a lot.