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Although compared to other villages, this village is the largest village within a radius of ten miles, with thousands of households and a population of several thousand. There is also a one-zhang high village wall, and there is a river outside the village that flows around the village.

It's just that if Zhao Zhuang guards against bandits and thieves, or even a hundred Goguryeo cavalry, it is no problem, but if he says that he guards against 40,000 Goguryeo cavalry, then it will be very pale.

Anyway, now Zhaozhuang is not only the thousands of people in the village, but also nearly 30,000 Tang troops.

"The weather was nice."

Li Chao was wearing iron armor and a fur coat on the outside. The thistle in February is still very cold. Fortunately, in this originally rainy season, it has been sunny for the past few days. Especially today, there was a lot of fog in the morning, and then now it's a big sun.

Such good weather made Li Chao sigh about his luck. To deal with 40,000 Goguryeo cavalry, the Tang army had to rely on firearms.

If it rains, it will be quite troublesome for the Tang Army.

Standing on the wall of the village, which was not thick, Li Chao did not need a telescope to see the Goguryeo people outside the village clearly.

They had already pushed two hundred paces away.

At this distance, there are only a few heavy crossbows in the village that can shoot at the enemy, but Li Chao's heavy crossbows are not many. If these Goguryeo people dared to force so close like in Loufuguan, Li Chao would have to use thousands of heavy crossbows and mine-throwing vehicles to make these sticks understand what heavy firepower is.

It's a pity that this time the reinforcements came in a hurry, and there were not many heavy crossbows and artillery carriages in the army at all.

These Goguryeo people were crazy and arrogant.

They surrounded Zhuangzi, as if they thought that the Tang army was about to be annihilated by them.

A cavalry rode forward.

The man who showed off his riding skills circled in front of the village, and then stopped twenty paces away.

"The people in the city listen, our Yuan Shuai sent a message to Li Chao, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Yuan Shuai remembered that Li Chao was also a generation of heroes, and he couldn't bear to let him die a tragic death here. Now, as long as Li Chao leads his subordinates to surrender, then Yuan Shuai will spare him from dying, and also ensure the lives of these soldiers and the people in Zhuangzhong. ”

These triumphant words seemed to be charity.

Li Chao only smiled slightly when he heard this.

The cow next to him couldn't listen to the tiger anymore, damn it, he dared to brag about such a bull before he beat it.

"Bring me my gun!" The cow saw the tiger and shouted.

The soldiers behind him immediately took off one of the muskets from their shoulders.

This is an arquebus, a real arquebus, with a bolt mechanism, an arquebus ignition.

It was made by hand by a military craftsman, and it took a lot of time to make it, and it took a lot of materials and man-hours to make a gun. If you really want to calculate the cost, a arquebus like this will have to be at least ten times.

Ten runs and one handful, and it can't be mass-produced.

However, in addition to the advantages of spending such a large amount of muskets, that is, the range is long and the accuracy is quite accurate.

This gun, there is a door in the back, there is a crosshair in the front, the gun is ejected, the hands are not moving, aiming at the millimeter, and the order is both inches and inches, and the barrel is long and gathered, which can be more far-reaching and strong.

Compared with the three-eyed gun and the Great Wall type musket, this kind of bird gun has a longer body barrel, a smaller caliber, and fires a round lead bullet of the same caliber, with a longer range and stronger penetrating power.

He does not need a hand to ignite, but a bolt to fire.

The handle of the gun is still a curved wooden support that holds the barrel.

Although Niu Jianhu is a fierce man, he has a soft spot for firearms.

After the experimental bird gun came out, Li Chao did not plan to produce it on a large scale, because the cost performance could not be drawn, and the production capacity could not keep up. This is the same as the horse lance, which is not destined to be a weapon for small soldiers.

However, Niu saw that the tiger was rich, and Li Chao asked the craftsmen to build a batch.

Not to mention, Niu Jianhu seems to have a lot of talent for birds. It didn't take long to practice, but this new weapon, which mostly relied on luck, was able to shoot down the birds.

In the words of the bull and the tiger, this is not unusual. The bow and arrow haven't been on the crosshairs yet, but after practicing for a long time, they can still penetrate the yang in a hundred steps. Although the musket is difficult to hit, as long as you practice for a long time, you will naturally have a feel, and when you pick up the gun, you will naturally know it.

Seeing Niu Jianhu lighting the arquebus and clipping it to the bolt, he still kept smiling.

The Goguryeo people persuaded them to surrender, and they were still so arrogant.

They may not really want to persuade them to surrender, but they are actually undermining the morale of the Tang army. Niu saw the tiger holding a gun, and Li Chao didn't stop him. If it is really difficult to kill this Goguryeo with a shotgun, it is also a way to boost morale.

As for the two countries fighting each other, if they don't cut this method, in fact, Li Chao doesn't take it too seriously. This is before the battle, and it is not a real state envoy.

The arquebus was lit, and Niu Jianhu held the gun in front of him and the handle of the gun in the back of the other.

This way of holding the gun and shooting can hold the gun more stably for aiming and improve accuracy.

This musket is called a bird gun because the bolt is shaped like a bird's beak and can shoot down birds.

This shotgun, which is composed of a barrel, a powder pool, a bolt, a front sight, a gun handle, etc., drives the fire rope to ignite the compacted gunpowder in the powder pool by pre-igniting the fire rope and pulling the bolt when used, and with the explosive power of gunpowder gas, the lead bullet in the barrel is ejected to kill and injure the enemy.

Niu Jianhu is the number one master of muskets under Li Chao.

Watch him operate the musket, very smoothly.

First, take out a fixed paper bullet from the gunpowder backpack.

This can be regarded as the benefit brought by the traverser Li Chao, and he does not have to take many detours. The normal development of muskets was originally separated from gunpowder and lead bullets, a gunpowder jar was filled with gunpowder, before firing, the gunpowder was poured into the medicine tube, and a powder tube was just fired a bullet, and then the gunpowder was poured into the barrel from the powder tube, and then the fire was pressed, and the gunpowder was compacted with the gun's throughstrip, which was also exquisite, not too tight, nor too loose, otherwise there would be problems.

Then load the bullet and compact it again.

To fill the propellant, pour another formula of propellant into the fire door of the medicine chamber, and then close the fire door cover. Reload the fire rope and put the fire rope into the faucet clamp of the trigger and prepare for ignition.

Once you've done all that, you're ready.

When firing, open the fire door cover, light the fire rope, and aim and fire in a crouched or standing position.

It was originally such a set of actions.

In this way, the preparation time is too slow.

Therefore, Li Chao directly took a shortcut and took out a fixed ammunition. There is no need to measure it again, but directly weigh the gunpowder and lead bullet and wrap it into a cylindrical shape with oil-soaked paper, so that when you use it, you can directly bite it open a little, pour some gunpowder into the barrel, and then use a strip to poke the lead bullet into the paper shell.

In this way, several hand sequences are missing.

Even the bolt has been improved. The use of the later mature automatic fire door opening and closing technology, the trigger is sold, the fire door cover will be automatically opened, and there is no need to open the fire door cover first, and then pull the trigger.

Two improvements, the fixed paper bullet and the automatic fire gate, allow the preparation time for the loading and firing of the musket to be greatly reduced, and on the battlefield, this reduced time can bring a decisive effect.

Load the paper bullet and pour the propellant into the fire door, and the action is in one go.

Niu Jianhu stood sideways on the wall, holding the gun in front of one hand and the handle of the gun in the back of the other, the end of the gun was very high, and the butt of the gun was just attached to the gills.

The Goguryeo knight shouted below for a while, and when he saw that no one in the city answered, he thought that the Tang people were afraid.

simply stood directly on the saddle, then took off his pants and peed on Tang Jun.

"Grass, Lao Tzu must not bear it, since you love Lu, then Lao Tzu will make you want to dew in the future. Ladies and gentlemen, look at it, Lao Tzu wants to shoot his birds, and if he says that he will shoot birds, he will not shoot his eggs. ”

A group of generals and colonels around laughed.

Hold your breath.

Niu Jianhu looked at it for a while, then pulled the trigger, the dragon head fell with the fire rope, the fire door cover opened automatically, and the burning fire rope pierced into the powder pool.

The gunpowder is ignited and the powder chamber is connected.

There was a loud bang.

A puff of smoke emanated from the muzzle of the gun.

Li Chao had already picked up the telescope when Niu saw that the tiger was about to shoot.

The telescope was aimed at the ugly thing.

The Goguryeo knights were still on their horses, and a column of water was endless.

Then, Li Chao saw a shadow fly in, and then the man was beaten with chickens and eggs.

Niu Jianhu said that he would not beat the eggs, but this shot still hit the eggs.

Twenty paces apart, Niu Jianhu is a master of using a gun, and he also uses a bird gun with a higher range and power, the power of the round lead bullet is very strong, and the strongest lead bullet is that he is soft, so he has a great stopping force.

After the buckshot hits the target, under the impact of high speed and the impact of the target, it will flatten from the round buckshot and even split apart.

If it's a steel bullet, it might have a very strong penetrating power, one hit at a time, but buckshot won't. He would create a large wound, even a lead bullet that would burst open, creating a terrifying cobweb-like wound.

Another point, lead bullet he is still poisonous.

Niu Jianhu did only aim at the bird, but unfortunately if he hit the bird at this distance, the egg must have been shattered.

Chickens fly and eggs are beaten.

Appalling.

Li Chao glanced at it, put down the binoculars, this shot, not only the chicken and the egg were beaten, but also this Goguryeo soldier would die.

"Hit!"

"General Niu is mighty!"

Over there, Li Gan also put down the binoculars and was still raising the bar.

"It's a little bit worse, the egg is broken, both are broken, your marksmanship is still not enough."

The man had fallen from his horse and was lying motionless on the ground.

Niu Jianhu picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it a few times, his face was gloomy and he didn't speak. said that it was good to shoot a bird, but the chicken flew and the egg was beaten.

"Damn, this Goguryeo dog is too unbeaten."

Li Chao said with a smile, "Twenty paces away, it must be a chicken flying egg." ”

Zheng Rentai, the god general on the side, looked at Niu Jianhu and the bird gun in his hand, and his eyes lit up.

This firebolt is stronger than a bow and crossbow.

"Xiangguo, this bird gun is much more powerful than the three-eyed gun and the Great Wall style, let's build a batch for our Shenji Battalion. If everyone has one hand, it is not like slaughtering the Turks and destroying Goryeo. ”

Li Chao smiled and poured cold water on him.

"You're thinking too much. This kind of bird gun costs ten times. ”

"It's a little expensive, but it's worth it." Zheng Rentai said boldly.

"It's not just expensive, the most important thing about this gun is the barrel, in order to ensure the service life and prevent the explosion, we not only use the best steel, but also use the most advanced drilling technology, to drill out of the barrel little by little. A bore machine can't drill a few in a month. Even if you have 50,000 yuan, you can equip all the 5,000 soldiers of your Shenji Battalion with bird guns, and it is estimated that it will be the year of the monkey. ”

"Ah, so hard? Can't we do it any other way? Isn't it just a barrel, you can use other methods, such as rolling a barrel? ”

"What you said, it's okay to make a simple fire door gun, that gun has a short barrel after all, but the barrel of this bird gun is long, and it is very easy to explode if you hit it this way, and its life is extremely short, so it is not cost-effective."

"Is there no other way?" Jung In-tae is still a little unrelenting.

"Not yet."