Huang Chongwu, who was angry, was stunned by Chang Wei's wild laughter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"What's wrong? What's so funny?"

"Tie them together, cousin owes you to come up with this method!"

Huang Chongwu smiled and said, "I'm just talking casually, and I don't really want to tie them together." “

"No! just to tie them together!"

At that moment, Chang Wei asked people to buy hemp rope, and then asked the six hundred cavalry to form three columns in units of two hundred.

Each horizontal row of 200 people was divided into two teams, left and right, with 100 people in each team. There are more than 30 steps between the two teams (one step is equal to one meter five, and more than 30 steps is about fifty meters), and a team of people is shoulders against their shoulders, and the war horses stand next to the formation of the war horses, and the place occupied is also more than 30 steps.

After lining up, Chang Wei ordered to keep the queue standing for a quarter of an hour, which was a simple matter for the cavalry, and even easier for the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion, who were already tortured.

A quarter of an hour later, Chang Wei ordered the cavalry on the left to dismount.

For a moment, the cavalry team stood silently, the banner waved and the herald was heard, and the order soon reached the ears of every soldier, and the soldiers quickly dismounted and stood on the left side of the war horse.

It didn't take long for the training to have such an effect, which made Chang Wei quite pleased.

The order flag waved again, and the dismounted teams led the team to quickly come to Chang Wei to salute and stand by.

The subordinates sent bundles of hemp rope to each team leader, and carefully explained how to use it, and it was simple to take his soldiers to tie the right cavalry with hemp rope, and the war horses were also tied together, so that each horizontal row became a whole.

A soldier in the left formation takes care of a person and a horse in the right formation, and the soldiers who dismount first tie a circle of hemp rope around the waist of each soldier they take care of, and then tie two short hemp ropes on both sides of the rope circle and connect them with the left and right of the soldier, so that the soldiers of each horizontal team are connected into a whole.

A short hemp rope was tied on both sides of the bridle of the war horse, and the war horse and the adjacent war horses on the left and right were connected in series, so that the war horse also became a whole horizontal team like the soldiers.

In a very short period of time, the soldiers on the right were connected by hemp rope into a horizontal formation with a team as a unit, and the entire right formation, except for the officers and heralds in charge, were all connected into the horizontal formation.

After the tandem was completed, Chang Wei ordered the right formation to begin to advance in small steps, and the cavalrymen were familiar with controlling horses to walk in small steps, strides, small steps, strides, gallops, gallops, charges, and cross obstacles, but it was a march with the team rather than the whole team moving together in tandem at the same time.

So at the beginning of walking, it is still crooked, inconsistent, left and right, of course, the effect of series together is still obvious, at least the "shoulder by shoulder, horse head against horse's head" march is achieved under the forced action of the rope.

This made Chang Wei excited, Huang Chongwu was even more excited than him, the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion could finally march in a neat formation, looking at the strings of war horses walking in a neat pace, and at the same time the advance stopped making Chang Wei's heart full of a sense of accomplishment.

Although this is still far from the real line cavalry, the seeds have been planted, the foundation has been laid, and under the training of Huang Chongwu, an excellent instructor, one day it will bear fruit.

In addition to military training, Chang Wei also built the first laboratory in the Ming Dynasty, which was a feat beyond the times.

After coming into contact with muskets and learning the gunnery skills in the system, Chang Wei had a clear understanding of the black powder firearms of this era.

At the same time, the European-style cannon (that is, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty) made by the integral casting method with a longer body barrel and a higher body strength can accommodate a higher chamber pressure, compared with the Ming Dynasty's self-produced general cannons, exterminating cannons, attack cannons and other miscellaneous earth cannons, the combat effectiveness is almost a world of difference.

Just like the arquebus of the Europeans (the bird gun imitated by the Ming Dynasty) far exceeds the original fire gate guns such as the three-eyed guns, fast guns, and target guns produced by the Ming Dynasty.

The fundamental reason for the miscellaneous and unrefined weapons of the Great Ming Fire Weapons lies in the fact that they are made behind closed doors. The craftsmen are secretive among themselves, and the gunsmiths would rather lose their craft than pass it on to outsiders.

This gap is clearly pointed out in the European works translated by Ming scholars, "Fire Attack Essentials" and "Western Law Divine Machine".

Although these two works exaggerate the performance of Western firearms, the gap between the inferior manufacturing technology of Daming artillery, which is easy to explode, cannot withstand high chamber pressure, and the firing range accuracy is much lower than that of European artillery.

In addition to the advanced technology of artillery manufacturing, European artillery also has supporting gun carriages, ranging telescopes, and most importantly, ballistics. These are all incomparable to the Ming Dynasty.

Daming is not without experts, like Song Yingxing, who was invited by Chang Wei, he has mentioned in his work that the large amount of heat energy generated when gunpowder explodes is equivalent to the power of one or two thousand times the original volume of gas, and its description is very close to the situation when gunpowder explodes.

However, just a few Song Yingxing, Xu Guangqi, Zhang Jimeng, and Bi Maokang cannot change the status quo that there are no systematic disciplines in the Ming Dynasty.

In this era, Europe gave birth to masters such as Leibniz, Fourier, Newton, Kepler, etc., and gradually formed professional disciplines in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other natural sciences.

At this time, Europe was exactly the case: "The atmosphere of experimentation spread rapidly, and all laboratory personnel were busy devoting themselves to experiments. ”

These large numbers of inventors and scientists, as well as the entire social atmosphere that encouraged research and invention, laid a solid foundation for the military and indeed the entire civilization of Europe.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten!

This cautionary adage is always ringing in Chang Wei's heart, if you want to catch up with and surpass Europe, you must start with the most basic and most effective laboratory.

Chang Wei wrote all the technologies he knew: ballistics, blast furnace smelting technology, artillery standardization, artillery mobility, howitzers, cannons and other technologies, and promoted them in the laboratory......

"Stinky boy, are you addicted to military training? Do you really want to be a general? August 15 is coming soon, why don't you hurry up and go to Liuheng Island!" On the eighth day of August, Wan Shitong began to complain.

Chang Wei smiled: "Are you ready? Okay, let's go!"

Xue Qian has been in the Jinshanwei area since she was sensible, and after following Chang Wei, she shrank in Nanjing all day long, and this time Chang Wei took her to the sea, looking very excited, and at the same time a little puzzled.

"Master, why are you dressing me up like this?"

Xue Qian appeared in the Broken Snow Building as a shrewd and capable female shopkeeper, and after following Chang Wei, she didn't worry about survival, and the green onions and white water she raised were moisturized by Chang Wei's rain and dew, just like the young grandmother of a rich and noble family.

Wan Shitong squinted his eyes and asked, "Girl, don't you like to be a young grandmother?"

"I like it. Xue Qian couldn't hide the spring love at the corners of her eyes, but muttered resentfully: "It's a pity that it's not true." ”

Wan Shitong agitated: "What's so difficult about this? If you like it, ask him to take you as a concubine." ”

Xue Qian glanced at Chang Wei quickly, but lowered her head and didn't dare to speak.

She is just a woman of unknown origin, but Chang Wei is an official family, and the three brothers are officials in the same dynasty, and their status is too far apart. Even if you marry into the Chang family and become a concubine, it is difficult.

Chang Wei was thinking about the matter of Liuheng Island in his heart, and heard the conversation between the two in his ears, and said casually: "At the end of the year!"

Xue Qian was shocked and said, "What?"