Guo Shao received a report from the Hedong Branch of the Military and Caosi. Reinforcements from the Northern Han Guoshi, Fen, Xian, Xin and other places arrived at the northern bank of Fenzhou, Jinyang City, and the Liao army returned to the north. At this time, the wars broke out frequently in Liaozhou, and the Hedong Branch's headquarters was secretly located in Xingzhou to the east. Although it was further away from the Northern Han border, it was safer.

After reading the report, he turned to Jingniang and said, "You ordered the Hedong Branch in the name of the Military and Cao Si. Any information about military information in the Northern Han Dynasty should be copied directly to Fu Zhaoxu Camp."

Jingniang took the Poyu over and bowed with fists.

Guo Shao read another memorial from the military weapon supervisor Zou Jurun, and immediately touched his abdomen and said, "It's time to move."

In the past two days, Guo Shao suddenly realized that the muscles on his stomach were not very touched, but they had grown some softer flesh, and he felt a little depressed. He was only twenty-four years old, but he felt that he might get fat if he continued like this! If he sat in the office all day long and lived a good life and ate well, it was inevitable that he would grow fat; even the more muscle people used to grow, the easier it would be for many athletes to grow fat after retirement. The warriors of this era did not care about gaining weight on their bodies, but Guo Shao himself did not like to gain weight very much. He gained weight in the past few months and always felt that no matter what he did, he was not as easy and flexible as before.

He decided to go out of the palace and take a look at the workshop city by the Bianshui River.

The itinerary was temporarily decided, with personal soldiers and horses guarding him, and the gates to leave the imperial city were also chosen at will, and then they ran straight out of the city without stopping. This kind of random route and random time temporarily selected, even if there are assassins, it is difficult to seize the opportunity... Moreover, with the spy level of this era, even if there are spies, they have to get news of the emperor's travel under the surveillance of the Imperial City Bureau of the Imperial City Department, and Guo Shao felt that it was unlikely.

There was no emperor's ceremonial guard at all this time, and Guo Shao actually didn't like that. Sometimes he was still impatient and felt that pretending slowly wasting time. He put on a pair of plate armor, and the junction was made of refined chain mail. This pair of armor was very heavy, more than 60 kilograms; but Guo Shao still turned his back on the horse and acted very agile.

A team of iron-armored cavalry left the city from Xihuamen, and then walked south on the Yujie Street.

After leaving Tokyo City, half an hour later, a building complex by the Bianshui River was the workshop area. At this time, the workshop had been expanded into a small city. The larger the scale, but unlike ordinary cities, this city was not inhabited by civilians, and even barriers and patrols were set up within a radius, so civilians were not allowed to approach.

Even the workshops for making firearms are built here. There are separate workshops, military garrison areas, craftsmen's residential areas, schoolyards for testing military weapons, and cultivated land for growing vegetables... Every day, there are people gathered by military weapons supervisors from the Bian River to use water from the Bian River. This place is like an industrial area without machines. Because Guo Shao has the power of the country, it is not difficult to create such a city.

Before Guo Shao entered the city, he heard the sound of cannons. He heard that some people were selected from the left wing of the Hu Ben Army to train firearms in the schoolyard. He immediately took the guards and officials to the schoolyard. When he reached the open ground of the schoolyard, he heard the crackling sound of guns, and smoke rose everywhere, and hundreds of people were lined up to train there.

At that time, the "Dragon Roar Cannon" was slightly improved, but it was found that the barrel of the gun would not be lengthened after the breeze was blown up, and hundreds of shots had been cast! In addition, a gun ear was made, which was not aimed at, but marked the height (the middle can be raised at a specific position to adjust the inclination of the muzzle, thereby adjusting the range.)

The structure of this kind of gun is very simple. The gun body is a thick and short-short gun barrel with a thick wall of pig iron, and a small hole is drilled at the bottom (leads); then there is a wooden base and a wooden stake that fixes the gun body, etc. The casting is basically without technical content, that is, you should pay attention to eliminating and recasting some sand holes that are too big and too rough; because the gun barrel is thick and short, with a large diameter, and poor airtightness, even if the pig iron pipe wall is not too smooth and fine, it will not explode.

The efficiency of casting dragon roar cannons is not the casting process, but they are too heavy and require a large amount of raw materials, so the speed of transporting iron can't keep up, which limits the scale.

There is a square array of about a hundred people nearby, standing in three rows, with a tiger-embroidered flag on the side, and the words "Divine Fire City".

Zan Jurun said from the side: "The military weapon supervisor and the general of the Palace Front Office, Li Chuyun, asked the Palace Front Office to send someone to train and take over the firearms. Li Chuyun came here in person. After seeing the power and usage of the firearms, he sent such people, most of whom were recruited by the Palace Front Office this year, and he did not know how to arch and horse martial arts..."

"Anyway, it's useless for those who can shoot arrows with firearms." Guo Shao said casually. Then he rushed forward to watch. Zan Jurun advised Guo Shao to stay away from fifty steps, for fear of being injured by accident... Because the effective range of this kind of musket is only forty steps, and the killing of those wearing armor is even only twenty steps.

There were 100 people in each row, and they were divided into three columns. At first glance, their tactics were to take turns to shoot in three sections. This was a tactic that Guo Shao used when he had not had a firearm. The system of the two counties also changed according to the tactics. There were only three teams in each counting more than 30 people (the original team had more than 20 people).

All the soldiers wore four pieces of plate armor: helmets, shoulder armor, breast armor, and arm armor. Because these parts can be forged in batches in the Armor Forum, it saves manpower than chain mail. In addition to the key parts, the protection in other places is only leather armor.

They also had small bamboo tubes tied with ropes hanging on them. At this time, a general on the side raised his hand and shouted: "Step 1! Check the fire cup."

All the soldiers pulled out an iron cup from their waist bags, and the iron cup was wrapped around them with a wet cloth. Everyone pulled out the wooden lid with breathing eyes and looked at the charcoal inside. Some of them were extinguished, so they quickly raised their hands to signal. The deputy general and ten generals in the row quickly carried a ceramic container and used fire tongs tongs to replace the soldiers with burnt charcoal.

Then the general shouted again: "Second Step! Loading Ammunition." Everyone pulled off a bamboo tube from the string of bamboo tubes hanging diagonally on their bodies, and then hurriedly pulled out the straw paper blocking the mouth of the bamboo tube, poured all the gunpowder into the thick and short bronze muzzles. The bamboo tube was not thrown away, but stuffed it into the cloth bag at his waist. He took out a lead ball wrapped in straw paper or rag from the bag and stuffed it in from the muzzle.

"The third step! Use wooden strips." The soldiers pulled out a wooden strip from their waists, poked the lead balls wrapped in paper, and carefully compacted them. These steps were designed by Guo Shao instructed the military weapon supervisor. They changed them according to the actual situation, but Guo Shao knew why they did it... The lead balls wrapped in paper are relatively large, and the wooden strips need to be poked in; but they can be filled in tightly at the bottom of the musket, and neither gunpowder nor projectiles will be poured out easily.

"Please take the fourth step in the first row!" Everyone took out the leads and stuffed them into the small hole behind.

The general who issued the order pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "Prepare!"

The scene was very strange at this time. More than thirty people in the first row picked up the bronze rod like a mace, and stood waist-length. There was a wooden handle behind the "mace". Everyone clamped the wooden handle with their right elbow, and held the top of the wooden handle with their right palm upwards to stabilize the musket.

Then pull out the cup from the waist bag with your left hand and bite the plug with your teeth. Hold the jar with charcoal in your left hand.

The general looked at it, waved his sword and pointed at the target in front of him, shouting: "Let it go!"

More than thirty people lit the leads with the charcoal in the fire pot, and then they heard a burst of "crackling" sound, and a row of white smoke filled the air.

The general didn't care whether he hit the target or not, and shouted straight: "Change teams! Go to the first row to the end, remember to stuff the fire cup first, don't go away! Prepare for the second row!"

When the third row was finished fighting, the general shouted: "Kill!" Everyone carried bronze guns like maces, followed the general holding the sword and rushed forward with shouts. When they arrived in front of some piles of earth, a group of people rushed to beat the piles of earth with their hands holding maces.

After seeing this, Guo Shao's face was unstable and he couldn't tell what it felt. No wonder Li Chuyun sent some new recruits and miscellaneous soldiers to come over after seeing this. The fire gun seemed to be very difficult.

It looks very troublesome, but it is not completely useless. At least people who don’t know much martial arts can be used as long-range troops as long as they are well trained. They can take at least twenty steps and forty steps away. They have never seen a spear that is dozens of meters long... There is another advantage. Although it seems that there are many steps, each step is simple and does not require skills, and it does not take much effort.

But it can be imagined that when such soldiers approach the cavalry, or even if the infantry is connected in close combat, their combat effectiveness may be very poor... The mace is an antique weapon that has long been eliminated by war and is not easy to use.
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