"Mars is bleak, stinky boy, your brother Liu Qi is afraid that he will suffer a catastrophe."

When the shopkeeper looked at the roof and said cold words, Liu Xing and his party, who had rested for two days, were about to rest for one last night and set up a tent next to the abyss of Surabaya to get ready to sleep, Hui Li flew down from the top of the mountain not far away and shouted at Liu Xing.

Hearing his shout, Liu Xing was startled at first, but then quickly calmed down, nodded and smiled: "No wonder, no wonder the source of the master's faith is blocked, sure enough, those thieves in Ningxia in the western Xinjiang are going to make trouble with the master here." ”

"Liang Xing." Before the words fell, before Hui could speak, Liu Xing had already turned his head sharply and summoned Liang Xing, who was busy setting up a tent not far away.

Liang Xing heard the summons, turned around and jumped in front of Liu Xing, lowered his head and hugged his fists, and said, "What do you command?" ”

Just as Liu Xing was about to speak, suddenly an Eagle Yang School followed Liang Xing from a distance and stood in front of Liu Xing.

"Qiyu Taifu, Liang Futai, and the deputy of the sect all make an urgent report."

The eagle Yang Xiao stood still, and immediately said after the secret report was submitted: "In Guazhou City, the old general Xiao Hebu of Western Xia is plotting to assassinate Liu Qi and Liu Zhitai. After the deputy capital of the sect made our military intelligence spy report on the secret, he asked Taifu and Liang Futai to allow him to use the Thunderbolt Battalion of the Military Intelligence Division to go to Ningxia to protect Liu Zhitai. ”

Hearing this, Liu Xing smiled and smiled brightly.

"Good, good, very good."

After three successions, Liu Xing looked at Liang Xing and said, "It seems that Zong Ying is up to the task and can replace you." Hehe, this young master just wanted you to transfer the Shenji Battalion to Ningxia, but he first got an accurate secret report and then took the initiative to ask for permission. It's just great. ”

Hearing Liu Xing's words. Liang Xing bowed his head slightly and said, "The wisdom of Young Marshal Zong." In fact, his subordinates already knew everything. His intellect is very good, but he lacks experience in many things and is a little uncertain. If he was really so determined every time he encountered an incident, his subordinates would have pleaded with Taifu to hand over all the affairs of the Military Intelligence Department to him. ”

"Well, I know that you have a close personal relationship with him, and I believe that you will not judge him for selfishness."

Hearing his words, Liu Xing smiled indifferently: "Since you think that his experience is still insufficient, then let him practice more." This time, let him personally lead the newly formed Shenji Battalion to Ningxia, not only to protect my ninth brother, but also to take the opportunity to let him experience it. ”

He nodded heavily. Liang Xing said: "In addition to the Thunderbolt Battalion, Taifu, my subordinates also want to send out the Iron Guard Battalion at Yingyang to go together." Guarding the periphery of Liu Zhitai with the Shenji Battalion, and serving him with the Iron Guard Battalion, can ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

The Perak Camp was a new elite division that Liu Xing spent a year and a half in the Hunter Valley, almost put all the most elite firearms of the Great Song Dynasty into it, and the barrels of the guns and bullets were enough to shoot and the shells were fired at will, and he invested a lot of money to secretly train a new elite division.

Its troops were not large, only ten battalions, and they were personally led by a fellow of the former Tiance Guard. But a few days ago, that Tongzhi was appointed to be the Hubei Patrol Envoy, and now it is Zong Ying who is in charge of that elite division.

Of the 3,500 men in the Perak camp. There were two battalions of Thunderbolt Fire Cavalry, all of which were made of steel, iron, copper and other metals using the alloy method taught by Liu Xing.

It was a musket, not a musket. Because both from the internal structure. In terms of the firing principle and the production of projectiles, they are completely different from the current two types of firecrackers and muskets. Its structure is completely the only rifle structure in later generations, and its firing principle and projectile production are all rifle principles and processes in later generations.

The kind of repeating musket, Liu Xing called it a thunderbolt. It fires a projectile of two and four, and has a maximum range of 200 paces. The barrel has four double lines, is a rotary rear puller, and the manual operating principle of the front bolt and tenon lock is the biggest difference from other existing muskets and guns.

Although the firing range of this thunderbolt gun is nominally 200 paces, in the previous rewards that Liu Xing received, no less than 10,000 times he saw the return of shooting prey from 400 paces away. In other words, the Thunderbolt that is not technically mature enough, but is actually completely based on a certain rifle set up in later generations, can already be called the absolute number one killer weapon in the musket of the world......

With the Thunderbolt Cavalry, there are naturally Thunderbolt Infantry. Infantry and cavalry coordinated combat has always been the basic tactic that Liu Xing is firmly implementing.

So what is the configuration of the infantry of the Perak battalion? Its configuration was 2,500 men and five battalions. All of them were equipped with muskets named Thunderbolt by Liu Xing, and each battalion also brought fifty carriages.

On mountain roads and rough terrain, the infantry could rush with their loads on a flying track. When they reached a flat place, the 2,500 infantry were all able to be carried by horse-drawn carriages to achieve the combat goal of traveling 200 miles a day and attacking a certain city.

Unlike the rest of the horses, neither the Thunderbolt Cavalry nor the Thunderbolt Infantry had any armor on them. It's just that all of them wear heart goggles made of cold iron in the close-fitting places, as well as super strong armor specially soaked in rhinoceros leather.

With infantry and lightly armed fire cavalry, as a military fan in later generations, Liu Xing certainly knew very well that infantry and artillery coordination was far more important than infantry and cavalry coordination.

Therefore, the three battalions of the Thunderbolt Artillery Battalion are in fact the absolute main combat force of the Thunderbolt Battalion.

So what is the difference between the Thunderbolt Cannon and the Shenwu 1 and Shenwu 2 styles? That kind of thunderbolt cannon is a new type of artillery that Liu Xing used to smelt and create after taking Suiyuan and obtaining a large number of cold iron.

The thunderbolt itself weighed only 240 pounds, and it was led forward by two horses. The cannon was mounted on the gun carriage and could not be dismantled, and the accurate firing range reached 1,200 steps, and the maximum firing range reached 2,100 steps.

Why does the Thunderbolt have such a long range? There are three reasons, one of which is that all the contents of the Thunderbolt cannonball are Liu Xing's exclusive secret recipe, yellow powder made by the private gunpowder workshop in the Hunter Valley. The second is that the breech also has a compound line, and it is also a spiral rifling. The third is that its ammunition and artillery itself are very light, which reduces the resistance of the shell when fired.

Combining these three points, many of the soldiers of the Perak battalion once vividly gave the new type of artillery a figurative nickname, "firewheel cannon".

Once the thunderbolt is fired, it can be reloaded one after another without interruption, and then continuously fire at the enemy.

When the shells run out, he will not be able to stop. As long as the shells don't run out, it can only be a silent mourning for the enemy, and it will continue to spray anger and blow the enemy to the ground. (To be continued.) )