Zhu Jie said helplessly: "So what, now I have you people at hand to be able to take charge alone, for the time being, even if I want to send someone to Shandong, who can I send?" Not only Liu Zeqing, but even Governor Fang Dayou is not a good thing, I already knew about his notoriety when I was in Beijing. ”

Zhu Jie is now full of helplessness, there is no way, he has just ascended the throne, the court has been created, there is a shortage of people in all aspects, the capital has fallen, the officials in the court, some have been martyred, some have been killed, some have surrendered, only a small part of them have run to Nanjing City, Shandong is far away from Nanjing, even if he wants to control it, it is not a moment to be able to control it, what about the candidates?

"Your Majesty, the minister means that even if there is no suitable candidate, we can't let Shandong go, after all, Shandong is too close to Beijing, and there is no reliable person, we are really not at ease......"

Sun Chuanting said in a deep voice.

Zhu Jie nodded and replied: "Brother Baigu, then you can take some time to discuss with the cabinet ministers to see who is suitable to let Shandong sit in town, let's go, let's not talk about anything else today, let's go to Zhongshan together to see how Zhao Zhenghang's musket battalion is trained, the big battle is coming, and there is really not much time left for him!" ”

Accompanied by Sun Chuanting and others, Zhu Jie drove to the musket camp in Zhongshan, which was originally a camp of Yulinwei, because of the reorganization of the 14th Guard in Nanjing, the camp here was vacant, and it was Zhu Jie who used it to train musketeers, and it was Zhu Jie's favorite general Zhao Zhenghang who was in charge of the musket battalion.

Zhao Zhenghang reflected everyone into the Musket Battalion Office, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, you came to the firearms camp today, I don't know if it is for ......"

"What else?"

Qin Mufeng said, "Of course, let's see how your firearms camp training is!" It's been a month since the firearms battalion was established, brother, our three towns in Nanjing have transferred all the elites under our command to you, if you can't make a look, we're not done with you! ”

Zhao Zhenghang's 3,000 elites were all transferred from the three towns of Nanjing, Zhao Zhenghang took Zhu Jie's order, desperately poached people in the three towns, and the people who poached were all elites, Qin Mufeng and Zhong Yue felt distressed, but there was no way, the adult's general order was in hand, who dared not let go?

Zhu Jie asked, "Zhenghang, how is the musket battalion now?" ”

Zhao Zhenghang said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, you still don't know my Zhao Zhenghang's ability?" Now that the 3,000 muskets were in place, in twenty days, just to train their shooting speed and crosshairs, the minister had put in 120,000 projectiles, although it could not be said that 100 shots were 100 shots, but he had completely mastered the method of using muskets. ”

"In that case, General Zhao, then gather people and let the emperor see how the results of the training are?"

Sun Chuanting said with a smile.

Zhao Zhenghang hurriedly bowed down and said, "Yes, Lord Ministry!" ”

Soon, a sentry musket battalion gathered together, stood in three rows, stood with guns in hand, and the sentry commander quickly ran in front of Zhu Jie, knelt down on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "Start the emperor, the first post of the musket battalion Tianzi battalion has been ordered to complete the formation, please show the emperor!" ”

Zhu Jie nodded at Zhao Zhenghang and said with a smile: "Zhenghang, you are the chief general of the three armies, you are the commander!" ”

Zhao Zhenghang bowed and said, "Chen Zunzhi!" ”

Zhao Zhenghang turned around and shouted, "Reload the bullet!" ”

"A platoon prepares, shoot!"

"Second platoon ready, shoot!"

"Three rows of shooting!"

As Zhao Zhenghang's orders were issued one after another, one hundred and twenty officers and soldiers at each post kept loading bullets and shooting in turns, and in the blink of an eye, six rounds of shooting had been completed!

Bang bang......

A series of gunshots rang out, deafening, the moving targets in the distance were shot one after another, there were more holes on the target, more than 200 people, each carrying a gun target in dozens of steps away from the rapid running, more than 200 gun targets, all of them were shot, some have even been shot three times, if the target is changed to a human, then more than 200 people, will all become corpses or seriously injured.

"Good, good! That's great! ”

Sun Chuanting's eyes were shaking, how long has it been? In the blink of an eye, the more than 200 targets in front of him have all been hit, on the battlefield, this means that more than 100 musketeers, in less than a moment, have defeated twice their own troops, absolutely defeated, and may even wipe out the opponent's army!

Even if it is replaced by cavalry, the opponent's result will not be much better, Sun Chuanting and Zhu Jie are holding a Western pocket watch in their hands, the interval between each row of shots is less than ten seconds, ten seconds, even if it is a cavalry with all its strength to assault, it is impossible to cross the distance of two hundred meters in ten seconds, that is to say, the cavalry from two or three hundred meters away, launch an assault, before approaching the musketeers, it needs to withstand two or three rounds of musket fire, before being able to get close to the musketeers, two or three rounds of shooting, for the cavalry blows, It was obvious that in the face of huge casualties, even the elite cavalry could not contain the fear in their hearts, and then collapsed!

Zhu Jie shook his head and said: "Zhenghang, it seems that your musketeers have indeed put in a lot of hard work, but this is still not enough, you must ensure that the interval between each round of shooting is not more than five seconds, well, that is, the needle of this pocket watch beats five times, five seconds of time, enough for the elite cavalry to impact us at a distance of one hundred steps, the distance of three hundred steps, is only fifteen seconds, three hundred steps, just to ensure that the musket in our hands maintains the limit distance of lethality, fifteen seconds, if only two rounds of shooting can be guaranteed." , still not enough to guarantee the destruction of the enemy in front of you, five seconds, this is my request to you, that is, the demand for a period of time in the future! Must be reached! ”

Zhao Zhenghang's face shook violently, five seconds, that means that on top of the current shooting speed, reduce the time by half, wipe it, where is it so easy, even if it is difficult for himself to reach such a fast speed!

"Your Majesty, if you want to accomplish your goal, I think it is impossible to shoot with a front-loading gun, and it is only possible to invent the rear-loading musket you said......

Zhao Zhenghang said with a wry smile.

Zhu Jie took a deep breath and asked, "Then has your research made progress now, one is the problem of rifled barrels, and the other is the problem of rear-loading gunpowder, which must be solved in the near future!" ”

"I'm about to start playing for you!"

Zhao Zhenghang said with a smile: "Although the problem of rear-loading gunpowder has not been completely solved, but the problem of rifled barrels has been solved, according to the plan you said, we have tested several times, and finally determined the model of the machinery, at least now we have solved the problem of chiseling the barrel rifling, which is more than ten times faster than the previous hand-made rifling!" ”

(End of chapter)