After dealing with this matter, Chang Wei asked Gao Wencai to immediately take his men to Lanzhou to cut down the domain, so as not to cause any trouble from King Su. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info also sent Zuo Fu and Right Bi south to Yinchuan Mansion, with silver and Sanwu and others along the way to comfort the border army officers and soldiers, and promised to give the reward to everyone; Wang Monk, Wang Zuogui and Jinyi Wei Qianhu Lu Ping took most of the food and salary between the inner and outer Great Wall, and returned to Fugu to appease the people.

Qingwangfu has seven million taels of silver, six million stones of grain, and 18,000 hectares of fertile land, this time Chang Wei is not ready to hand over these things, only report the specific amount to the emperor, most of them are transported back to Chang'an City, used to restore the people's livelihood in Shaanxi, build factories, and a small part of them are sent back to Fugu to do big things, anyway, he is not greedy at all for these things, and they will eventually be attributed to the name of the imperial court and the Machinery Bureau, and the emperor should not object!

Shaanxi has 40,000 border troops, one person ten taels is 400,000 taels, but also to reward the soldiers who participated in the war, plus officers, imperial history, eunuchs, about 500,000 taels, it seems to spend a lot of money, but in this army is panicked at any time when someone follows the thieves to rebel, it can play a great role in stabilizing people's hearts.

Chang Wei also wrote to Yang He, the new governor of Shaanxi, the governor of Shaanxi, and the three divisions, telling them that they should recruit displaced people nearby, and distribute the 1.8 million mu of fertile land of King Qing to the displaced people and the poor people.

Chang Wei thought very well, thinking that this 1.8 million mu of fertile land could solve the problem of displaced people in Shaanxi, but after checking, he was speechless for a long time. Shaanxi originally had a population of about 5 million, but less than 3 million are registered so far, that is, at least 2 million peasants have lost their land and gone into exile!

No wonder thieves can stir up the storm and turn the world upside down, there are so many homeless people, just erecting a flag can recruit tens of thousands of people!

This bit of land alone cannot solve the problem, and if we want to solve the problem of thieves at the root, we can only rely on industry! Chang Wei immediately sent Fang Huan'er to take people to Chang'an City to pick up Song Yingxing, Zhang Jimeng, Tang Jinyi, Han Chai, and others.

After doing these things, Chang Wei originally wanted to leave, but the sentry sent by Zhenyuan Pass found that the Tatars were gathering a large army, and a day later, more than 20,000 knights gathered near the mountain path.

The forts along the Great Wall were all tense, but the Tatars did not attack immediately, and after three days they had gathered 50,000 knights, and the battle began!

Chang Wei did not gather too many defenders, but still intercepted the 15,000 people of King Qing plus 1,500 people of the Volunteer Battalion, relying on the path into the mountain, the flintlock pistol array of the Volunteer Battalion, which caused extremely serious damage to the Tatar cavalry.

The mountain pass can only accommodate two horsemen in parallel, the volunteer battalion is condescending, any round of guns can shoot down a piece of people, this five or six miles into the mountain path immediately became a flesh and blood slaughterhouse, in the face of the Tartar Chang Wei and the soldiers of the volunteer battalion did not have the slightest mercy, at least 500 people were killed in one day.

The next day, the Tatar cavalry found a large iron shield and rushed wildly, and this time the powerful vanguard was able to kill in front of the musket array. Chang Wei ordered the gun array to move back ten steps, and paved a position with stones more than a foot high, and the musketeers condescended to fire more fiercely.

And the defense line of the mountain pass is composed of Chang Wei and Wang Ziyong, Feng Lu, Leng Xin, the four top masters, the five sons of the Big Dipper, Chang Li and others, and they are personally guarded.

Wang Ziyong is a famous master in the north, and is known as Zijin Liang. Zijin Liang is the latter in 'Optimus White Jade Pillar, Purple Gold Beam of the Sea', which belongs to the general character of Optimus Giant in the storytelling. At this time, a big knife danced, it is really majestic, the blocker is invincible, and there is no one under him!

Feng Lu and Leng Xin retreated in the previous battle to kill King Qing, if it weren't for Qin Taibao and Wang Ziyong's desperate efforts, they almost let the four heroes of Longyou turn the tables, but afterwards Chang Wei did not blame them, but rewarded five thousand taels of silver tickets as a commendation.

Although the two of them are mercenaries, they have the dignity of the top masters, and they are quite ashamed in their mouths, at this time, they are ashamed and brave, and they want to get back to the field with a knife in one hand and a palm and a seal in the other, and the speed of killing is faster!

Guo Jinmi, Chu Qijue, and Chang Li, the three of them, are fierce and cruel people by nature, this time the three of them fought side by side with knives, and they were even more energetic, like a game to kill people, to see who was ruthless and fast enough, and the enemy who rushed in front of them died in a miserable manner.

The Five Sons of the Big Dipper look like they are lightweight, they are responsible for protecting Chang Wei's flanks, they look inconspicuous, but they definitely kill no fewer people than anyone else.

Among this group of masters, the most dazzling is Chang Wei.

The Great Army Battle Sword cannot be used as a conventional weapon to avoid damage. Chang Wei changed to a heavy, long-grown thick-backed mountain knife, and with the support of a steady stream of super internal force, every time the fierce knife drawing technique was cut out, three or four people were cut into two sections, and the stumps were broken and flew around, and the flesh and blood and internal organs were sprayed indiscriminately.

Seeing that the Lord will be so brave, the morale skyrocketed, and when Chang Wei cut out every knife, there was a neat "killing" sound in the valley, and for a time the sound of killing was like thunder, and the sound of joy shook the sky!

The Tatars are not without masters, but they basically can't rush up, because Hu Yang, Liao Shun, Yin An and other sharpshooters, high on the cliff, set up rifled rifles, act as snipers, as soon as they find that the fast and powerful people rush up to fight with Chang Wei and others, they immediately greet them with a few shots, even if they can chop the bullets, they will be hacked to death by the masters.

The maximum range of a flintlock pistol, which is a front-loading smoothbore gun, is within 130 paces (1 step = 1.5 m) (200 m) and an effective range of about 60 paces (100 m), while the rifled gun has a minimum range of 130 paces and an effective range of more than 150 paces (400 m) and a maximum range of 530 steps (800 m).

The so-called effective range is the distance at which you can aim and shoot accurately. The flintlock pistol can be aimed at enemies within a hundred paces for accurate fire, but this refers to the range.

On the battlefield, due to enemy movements, undulating terrain, smoke, wind, clogged barrels, etc., the shooting accuracy decreases. Therefore, a range distance of 100 meters is definitely not enough, it must be traveled to a close enough distance.

In the 'Seven Years' War on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, Britain and France in North America were equipped with the most advanced flintlock pistols on earth, but unfortunately the lethality of a salvo from a distance of 30 meters was very limited, so that the British army chose to fire a salvo at a distance of 18 meters. What is this concept? It's almost a face-to-face salvo!

Therefore, there is the emergence of this tactic of queuing to shoot, this perfect tactical queue can give full play to the advantage of firepower, can play a rainstorm of continuous barrage, as long as there is a wide enough front, the long horizontal column can completely cover the enemy's position, and carry out terrifying barrage shooting.

The difference in range between smoothbore guns and rifled guns is due to advances in metallurgy and processing technology. The steel of the barrel of rifled guns is much more accurate than that of earlier smoothbore guns. Its caliber, barrel length, processing accuracy, charge, bullet weight, and air tightness of the gun body are more perfect.

The instantaneous flame of the rifled gun is large, the ignition hole is smaller than that of the smoothbore gun, and the air tightness is better; the spherical lead bullet used for the rifled gun rolls irregularly after being fired, and the accuracy is poor; the conical bullet used for the rifled gun rotates stably after firing and has high precision.

The smoothbore gun can hit the human figure at a distance of 90 meters, and within 150 meters, it has a good hit rate against large targets such as infantry phalanx or cavalry. Of course, not being able to hit accurately does not mean that it is not lethal, and the stray bullets flying indiscriminately from the smoothbore gun can still kill the enemy at a distance of 200 meters, but this enemy has to be particularly unlucky.

In conclusion, the accuracy of a smoothbore flintlock has a lot to do with the experience of the user and the performance of the gun itself. Because, during the ejection of the gun, it will be in contact with the inner wall of the barrel, resulting in the last point of the ejection can not be determined, and the gun will be ejected with irregular left and right deviation (direction deviation) or up and down deviation (distance deviation), and the bullets fired by the same musket are all this effect, not to mention different guns.

Sharpshooters like Hu Yang, Liao Shun, and Yin An aim with their familiarity with guns and their own experience, but only a small number of people have this talent, so individual experience on the battlefield does not play much role, and the barrage of group salvo is decisive, therefore, a very close distance and a wide frontal queue are required.

The general front-loading rifled gun can accurately shoot at the human form within 300 meters, can extend the war distance beyond 200 meters, and can hit group targets within 500 meters, and sharpshooters and better rifled guns can accurately hit the enemy within 800 meters.

Although rifled guns have many advantages, their rifles wear out quickly, and the pressure on logistics support is huge, and at the current industrial level, it is simply not enough to support large-scale combat of this kind of guns.

Therefore, Chang Wei is not ready to equip rifled guns on a large scale, because, in this era, flintlock muskets that line up to shoot are enough, and rifled guns will only be equipped with sharpshooter squads!

In addition, rifled guns also need to be equipped with new bullets, because the bullet of the rifled gun is tightly combined with the barrel, so it is troublesome to load, and if you use paper shell lead bullets, you need to use a hammer to break the strip to load the bullet into the barrel.

This new type of bullet is the famous mini bullet in the history of war, which creatively solves the problem of loading front-loading rifled guns, and greatly improves the rate of fire.

The diameter of the conical warhead of the Mini bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the breech, so it is very convenient to reload, just drop it and pound it with a strip. There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead, a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole, and when firing, the gas presses the wooden plug to squeeze into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand, close to the rifling, and close the gap between the warhead and the rifle, so that the gas cannot leak out, and can make the warhead rotate at high speed under rifling pressure. The Mini bullet solves the problem that the front-loading rifled gun is difficult to load, and the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun are too low.

In the history of warfare, rifled guns equipped with mini shells have made rifles surpass artillery and become decisive weapons on the battlefield, thus allowing artillery to retreat to the rear of the queue and becoming auxiliary weapons from decisive main attack weapons, rifled guns and mini bullets have far more impact on war than airplanes and tanks!

But the Mini bullet also has some unsolvable problems, it can only be made of a very soft alloy such as lead, so that the warhead can be easily expanded. The warhead is soft, it deforms immediately after hitting the target, the stopping effect is good, but the penetration is too weak. Similarly, in order to rapidly expand the warhead to lock the chamber, the propellant can only use fast-burning gunpowder, and the trend of propellant is to burn slowly so that the warhead can be evenly accelerated in the chamber for a long time to increase the muzzle velocity.

In the Volunteer Battalion, everyone called this kind of bullet - Dingyuan bullet!

The Tatars fought for three days in the mountain trail, leaving behind at least 2,000 corpses, but by this time the musketeers were running out of bullets, and the masters were exhausted and had no ability to continue the battle.

Chang Wei decisively ordered to retreat to Zhenyuan Pass, which was twenty or thirty miles away, and I retreated to the enemy, and after the Tatar knights chased along the mountain road to Zhenyuan Pass, a bigger nightmare came. Zhenyuan Pass guards the Yellow River and the black mountain pass of Helan Mountain, and the terrain is dangerous.

Closed the artillery, feathered arrows, rolling logs, stones, and arquebuses in unison, and for the next seven days, the Tatars could not threaten the safety of Zhenyuan Pass at all, but suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

He Wenlie was curious, "Are these Tartars here to take revenge or to send them to death?"

Hu Wenqing was even more curious, "It stands to reason that the Tatar nobles should be very happy after the death of the Great Khan!"

This statement is understandable, as soon as Lin Dan Khan dies, his subordinates and descendants can compete for the position of Great Khan, and the new forces will rise, so it is no wonder that they are unhappy! But they don't know what the Tatars have lost!

This is not to blame Lin Dan Khan, his original scope of activity in Beijing, Xuanfu, Chahar north of Datong, Guihua (Hohhot) grassland, but under the joint attack of Houjin Nurhachi, Huang Taiji father and son, and Chahar and other departments for many years, he was forced to retreat to Xihetao in the north of Ningxia, and has already become a frightened bird. Therefore, as the last artifact to rely on, the jade seal of the country must definitely be carried with you, so as not to be coveted by traitors.

finally hooked up with King Shangqing, ready to make some trouble, but who knew that he was unlucky and was strangled by Chang Wei and rifled guns, and lost the head and the jade seal of the country. Chang Wei knew in his heart that the reason why the Tatars were so crazy to die was not to avenge Lin Dan Khan, but to regain the jade seal of the country!

On the eleventh day, without waiting for the Tatars to launch a self-killing attack, Chang Wei stood proudly at the far end of the town and shouted: "Listen to the Tatar warriors, the divine treasure you lost was sent to the Forbidden City ten days ago. Now, it has long been placed before the case of my Emperor Dragon! Don't say that you can't break through the Zhenyuan Pass, even if you can break into the Great Wall, you won't get that divine treasure, so let's die!"

This sentence immediately became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Tatar high-ranking officials and nobles began to make noise and shout and curse, and then some began to withdraw their troops, and some people wanted to fight to vent their anger, and the scene was chaotic.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, they turned off the guns and killed the last of the Tatars' courage, and they fled in confusion before they even had time to collect the corpses.

Chang Wei immediately ordered a pursuit, which lasted for most of the day, until the Tatars left the mountain trail, retreated to the plains, and withdrew to the steppe, and then stopped the pursuit. After the war, the soldiers cut off their heads one by one, and they actually beheaded 2,236 levels!

It was a great victory, of course, and its own side also suffered more than 200 casualties, including Chang Wei's No. 2 gunner Li Hong and his six brothers, all of whom were killed because of the artillery explosion, and more than a dozen border soldiers were killed together.

This episode also sparked mutual recrimination between the Volunteer Battalion and the defenders of Zhenyuan Pass. The Volunteer Battalion said that the artillery of the border army was too bad and the gunpowder formula was too backward, while the defenders said that Li Hong and others had the wrong method of operation and that there were too many charges.

It is not uncommon for the cannon to explode, Hu Yang and the guards of Zhenyuan Pass each restrained their manpower to suppress this matter, anyway, with Chang Wei's boldness, he will definitely vigorously compensate the dead soldiers, and will not make everyone suffer.

Chang Wei snickered in his heart, Li Hong, the secret agent of the Jinyi Guard, was finally killed, and no one knew what the truth about the cannon explosion was!

Killed and wounded more than 5,000 Tatars, beheaded 2,236 ranks, this kind of combat feats are simply rare, at the moment, the first level was loaded into a cart, the border army and the volunteer battalion sent people to plant the flag, all the way south to report the victory, to the Beijing division to pay the first meritorious service!

At the end of the war, Chang Wei asked his subordinates to reward the soldiers with silver, and led the team back to Fugu five days later, at this time, Song Yingxing, Zhang Jimeng, Tang Jinyi, Han Chai and others also arrived with supplies and manpower!

Song Yingxing has already inspected the oil fields in Yanchang County and sorted out a set of reliable methods for oil recovery, and Zhang Jimeng has also planned the direction of development in the future.

After five days of intense preparation, Ma Yuan and Qin Taibao rushed back!

"Congratulations to Grandpa!"

Hearing this title, Chang Wei was surprised and delighted, "Grandpa, has the emperor named me the Duke of the Kingdom?" )