In the city of Huating County, all the bureaucrats of Huating County and the main personnel of the Xu clan were concentrated here, discussing the matter of the Zhennan Army blockading the county seat but not attacking it outside the city.

"These people surrounded the county town and divided their troops again and again, what is the intention of this? Master Xu, haven't you already asked people to negotiate with this army? How so? ”

The Huating County Commander looked at Xu Youqing suspiciously.

"Well, I really don't know, what are they going to do? Want to trap us in the city? There is water and food in the city, enough for us to last a year, and even if they surround it for a year, it won't work? ”

Xu Youqing had some ominous premonitions in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.

"What's that for? This...... This...... Master Xu! Look! That's a firebolt! It's a firecracker! What a big firebolt! ”

The Huating County Commander pointed to the city with a panicked face, and Xu Youqing looked outside the city and was immediately shocked.

Five huge cannons emerged from the barracks of the Zhennan Army, and the cannon was full of strength, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was facing the gate of Huating County, which had been blocked, and it was full of deterrence.

"They're going to attack the city?"

Huating County Ling was shocked: "Master Xu, there are only three hundred soldiers and horses in the city, even if there are guards from various families, there are less than a thousand, and there are enough troops outside the city...... This...... That's at least five thousand, and that big firebolt, this ...... We...... How are we good? ”

The Huating County Order is usually the echo worm of the Xu family, basically a puppet posed by the Xu family, pretending to show the people, all county affairs and even things in Songjiang Mansion are discussed by them, and the interests of the Xu family are absolutely protected.

Therefore, a few years ago, the little official who was just admitted to the Jinshi and was released to be a county magistrate also wanted to hug the thigh of the Xu family and ask for a step into the body.

He naturally has a very poor level, and he panics directly when he encounters something.

"Don't panic, even if they want to attack the city, they must have an explanation, I will send someone out to talk to them, even if the negotiation breaks down, there must be an explanation!"

The foreboding in Xu Youqing's heart became stronger and stronger.

Shao leaned, an old-fashioned trebuchet came out of the Zhennan Army barracks, and then Xu Youqing saw the soldiers of the Zhennan Army under the city tossing around the city for a long time, and then put a cloth bag in the frame of the trebuchet, and then directly smashed the cloth bag into the trebuchet.

The cloth bag crossed a graceful arc and smashed directly on the city tower, scaring a group of young and old people enough.

When they found out that it was not a weapon but a simple cloth bag, they were puzzled, and the county commander instructed his men to open the cloth bag and ......

"Ah!!!h

The screams were incessant.

Even Xu Youqing, who had slept with the emperor, was shocked by this.

Because he saw Xu Nianzu, he was in this cloth bag!

And it's not complete!

At this moment, in the barracks, Zheng Ying was inspecting a batch of munitions from Myanmar that had just arrived from the sea an hour earlier.

There are bird guns, and there are all kinds of artillery, such as the super firearm that Zheng Ying has been coveting for a long time, the Hongyi cannon, a total of five, specially sent for Zheng Ying to attack the city and threaten the enemy.

This batch of weapons sent is basically firearms, a large number, enough for Zheng Ying to use next, but there is a small number of firearms in this batch but very special firearms, this batch of ten flintlock guns came with a craftsman, this craftsman carried the token of Xu Guangqi, the head of the Burmese Firearms Manufacturing Bureau, so that he could find Zheng Ying as soon as he landed.

"Xu Guangqi? Didn't he make firearms in Burma? Why did you find me? ”

Zheng Ying asked the craftsman strangely.

"That's right, what Director Xu means is that this batch of flintlock guns is the latest product, and the soldiers on the battlefield need to try it out and test the performance, not only you here, but also in Hanzhong and Xiao Dashuai, we have arranged for someone to send it."

Zheng Ying curiously picked up a flintlock and looked at it.

"It's really beautiful, this carving, you have to be a master to make it, right?"

The craftsman said depressedly: "General Zheng, this is not for ornamental use, this is the latest flintlock gun that our Firearms Manufacturing Bureau has worked hard to produce for two years, and these flintlock guns are rifled!" ”

"Oh? Rifling? ”

Zheng Ying paid attention to it at this time, and looked inside the barrel, and sure enough, there was rifling.

"There are only more than 2,000 rifled flintlocks in our whole army, most of them are in the marshal's personal guards, we only have a few here, and I only have 200 under my command, you ...... Too little, right? Only ten? ”

Zheng Ying looked at the craftsman complainingly: "Your Firearms Manufacturing Bureau eats a million taels of silver every year, right?" Can you get a little more of this? This thing hits accurately, it's still far away, our general gun is only fifty steps, fifty steps away I don't know where to fly, this thing can fight more than a hundred steps, if there is a soldier on the battlefield, I can knock the enemy down with a salvo! Give a thousand children and eight hundred, and I will be good for the brothers! ”

The craftsman almost didn't fight with Zheng Ying.

"General Zheng, I'm not joking with you, an ordinary rifled flintlock has to use up twelve taels of silver! A thousand is 12,000 taels, and if there is no scrap, do you know how much effort our master has to use to make a rifled flintlock gun?

It takes almost ten days for three or five skilled masters to get one out together, how difficult it is to get rifling, and no one dares to say that it must be a good product that can go to the battlefield! ”

Of course, Zheng Ying also knows that this thing is not easy to handle, so it is less, he is just playing.

So he smiled.

"I know, I know, joke! And then what? What did your director send you here for? Specially sent ten flintlocks to my army of 50,000? Made of gold, this gun? ”

The craftsman shook his head busily, then pulled out a wooden box from the munition pile.

As soon as he opened it, Zheng Ying saw that it was full of oiled paper bags, and took out a bag and put it in his hand, which was heavy.

"What's that? Buckshot projectiles? ”

"Be careful!"

The craftsman brought the oiled paper bag and opened it carefully, Zheng Ying leaned in to take a look: "Isn't it a lead projectile?" It's as good as silver...... Huh? Why is this buckshot not right? How is it this shape? ”

The lead bullet that Zheng Ying saw was not the round bullet used in the bird gun he had seen in the past, nor the larger round bullet used by the rifled flintlock gun that required a hammer to hammer into the chamber, but a small lead bullet with a cylinder on the lower body and a conical shape on the upper body.

"What kind of buckshot is this? How does it look so ...... Ouch, and oil? ”

Zheng Ying couldn't help but be curious, and took one to look at it.

"General Zheng, this is the purpose of my coming here to find you, I need you to find ten of the best soldiers who use guns, give them this guns and this new type of lead, and let them try to shoot at a distance of three hundred paces."

Zheng Ying was stunned for a moment.

"What? Three hundred steps? That's almost time for the Furlong machine! How can it be? ”

"Nothing is impossible."

The craftsman picked up a lead bullet and said: "These guns and these lead are our two years of hard work, after Director Xu came, he took us out with a batch, before I set off, we tried, the farthest one hit three hundred steps away." ”