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After leaving the military workshop, Xiao Ming went directly to the Qingzhou camp with a rifled gun.

Compared with the previous lively training scene, the Qingzhou camp at this time was a little deserted, after a part of the Qingzhou army was stationed in Ryukyu and another part of the Qingzhou army went to Yunzhou, only 5,000 soldiers were stationed in the Qingzhou camp to be responsible for guarding the safety of Qingzhou.

However, in addition to the current 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers, there are also remnants of soldiers who escaped from Chang'an in the current Qingzhou camp, a total of 3,000 soldiers, who were placed in the west side of Qingzhou.

When he arrived at the Qingzhou camp, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army were undergoing the previous reloading training, and Luo Hong and other generals from Chang'an were looking at the Qingzhou soldiers in neat military uniforms and carrying flintlock pistols with bayonets on their backs.

Compared with the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army, the firearms battalion from Chang'an seems out of place.

"Your Highness."

Xiao Ming's arrival quickly alarmed the generals who were observing the training, and Luo Hong took the generals of the firearms battalion to salute Xiao Ming.

"No courtesy." Xiao Ming helped Luo Hong up.

Luo Quan rejected him that day, and then Fiji told him the reason, which made Xiao Ming deeply feel that Luo Quan understood the righteousness, and it is no wonder that Luo Quan's position in the court has been very stable over the years.

Niu Ben also came over with Lu Fei, Luo Xin, Qi Guangyi and other generals at this time, and after saluting, Niu Ben said: "Your Highness, we are demonstrating the musket array to them. ”

When he came in, Xiao Ming could see what they were doing, and he said to Luo Hong: "What do you think of our Qingzhou Army? ”

"The training of the Qingzhou Army is only afraid that the firearms battalion will not be able to reach it, and the muskets equipped by the Qingzhou Army seem to be different from the firearms battalion." Luo Hong shook his head.

Speaking of this flintlock pistol, Niu Ben and Xiao Ming were suddenly a little embarrassed, when he sold the arquebus to the imperial court and other vassal kings, the secret of this flintlock pistol has been kept secret, and now Luo Hong is stationed in the Qingzhou camp and finally sees the cat.

However, he mentioned it very tactfully, but he must have had a plan in his heart, knowing that Xiao Ming had left a hand back then.

"In fact, the gap between the flintlock pistol and the arquebus is not very large, but one is a flintlock and the other is an arquebus, there is almost no difference in range and accuracy, the only difference is the stability of the shot, and another difference is the bayonet on it."

Now, he no longer has the need to hide the flintlock pistol, so he tells the story of the flintlock pistol.

While speaking, he asked Niu Ben to bring a flintlock pistol, and then brought an arquebus from the firearms battalion, and showed Luo Hong the firing and bayonet parts of the two.

Holding a flintlock pistol in one hand and an arquebus in the other, Luo Hong called two soldiers to experiment with an arquebus and a flintlock pistol respectively, and found that the flintlock pistol was slightly faster than the arquebus except for the speed of loading to complete the shooting, but there was really not much difference.

After such an experiment, he didn't think that Xiao Ming had deceived Xiao Wenxuan, because it didn't make much difference in his opinion, after all, whether it was an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, as long as the enemy rushed in front of him with bullets, he had to fight hand-to-hand.

Relatively speaking, he felt that the bayonet was very important.

But even so, he was looking at the flintlock pistol with a blank eye, and the meaning was self-evident, even if the gap was small, but who wouldn't want a slightly better one?

"Your Highness, the last general will lead all the soldiers of the firearms battalion to pledge allegiance to His Highness."

Compared with Luo Xin's flamboyant tongue, Luo Hong is calmer and more wooden, but no matter how honest a person is, he has a heart, and Luo Hong directly expressed his position to Xiao Ming in front of the generals of the Qingzhou Army.

"Ahem." Xiao Ming looked at Luo Hong and a group of firearms battalion generals who were kneeling on one knee and said: "Everyone, please get up, since you are willing to follow this king, this king will naturally not treat you differently, I hope you can help this king in the future." ”

Luo Hong didn't get up, but said: "The last general heard that His Royal Highness is going to conquer Pengzhou to punish the King of Wei for the crime of rebellion and rebellion, if His Highness believes in our firearms camp, we are willing to go for His Highness." ”

"This ......" Xiao Ming's heart rippled slightly.

Luo Quan said this because he was still worried that Xiao Ming would not be at ease with these generals, so he wanted to use his military exploits to prove his loyalty.

As for Xiao Ming, he was really a little tempted.

The armies of Cangzhou, Laizhou, and Yizhou were only more than 15,000 people, and now the firearms battalion has joined 20,000 people, which has reduced the gap with the defenders of Pengzhou in terms of numbers.

After all, Pengzhou is the northern gateway of Wei, and the king of Wei has a large number of people, and the number of troops in his hands is more than four times that of him, and this does not include the private soldiers of the local wealthy families, not to mention that once it enters a state of war, it is impossible not to fight to the death.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ming said: "Since this is the case, this king will not shirk, after all, since you are the king's army, you should be treated equally, and now this king is the time to use troops, and this battle of Pengzhou will be counted as your share." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." Luo Hong was overjoyed when he heard this, and the other generals of the firearms battalion were also overjoyed, Xiao Ming's words were tantamount to accepting them.

Shaking his head, Xiao Ming asked Luo Hong and the others to get up, since Luo Hong mentioned the matter of conquering Pengzhou, Xiao Ming took the opportunity to ask: "Governor Niu, have the armies of these three states been notified?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the last general has issued a military order to dispatch the Cangzhou army and the Pengzhou army to Yizhou to converge, plus this grain and grass, it will take about twelve years to set off to Pengzhou, but this equipment?" Niu Ben stopped talking about this.

Xiao Ming knew that Niu Ben would mention this matter, and he said: "This king has just returned from the military workshop, Song Changping will give priority to providing weapons to the soldiers of Sanzhou, and at least half of the soldiers can be satisfied in a month, besides, there is no way to fight without muskets?" How did we fight the barbarians in the battle of Cangzhou? ”

Niu Ben was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that the whole army now has some blind worship of muskets, and forgot his original ability, he suddenly understood, "The last general understands, and the last general will transport the plate armor and sword to Yizhou in a while." ”

Xiao Ming nodded lightly, it is very dangerous to forget the skills of cold weapon fighting in the era of rampant muskets, in fact, the mainstream of the current world is still a musket, but on the battlefield is often a few rounds of salvo fire followed by a bayonet charge hand-to-hand combat.

For example, the most prestigious British Red Shirts of our time, the way of fighting is still to shoot a volley of nearly 50 meters, and then launch a charge.

Because of this, Xiao Ming was not so arrogant that he thought that he could single-handedly take on the Great Yu Kingdom with a flintlock pistol, after all, strictly speaking, he is still in the stage of alternating hot and cold weapons, and he needs to be careful in the face of every war, and he can't be sloppy in the slightest.