In December, in the cold winter, in the heavy snow in Qingzhou City, Qiao Hong rode a donkey to approach the camp of the protection army's reinforcement camp.

Before dawn, Qiao Hong thought that the soldiers of the protection army must have not woken up, but as soon as he approached the camp, he unexpectedly heard neat footsteps coming from the camp.

Qiao Hong is a money master in Qingzhou City, specializing in managing the money and grain calculations in Qingzhou City. He should have been a technical position, but now the entire Qingzhou Prefecture is strictly preventing Kong Liang from coming to borrow food, and Qiao Hong was also from Qingzhou by Murong Yanda.

The government office came out and asked him to come to the protection army to strengthen coordination in the camp.

Murong Yanda still attaches great importance to Sun Xin's protection army. Before coming, Qiao Hong had accepted Murong Yanda's instructions and asked him to ensure that this team could obey Murong Yanda's orders when there was danger in Qingzhou City. At least

There is no such thing as defection.

After entering the camp, before getting close, I heard a "command!"

Qiao Hong was startled, and the local soldiers beside him were stunned. He quickly looked around in the dark, but he had no idea who was making a sound at them in the dark.

After a breath they saw a protective soldier suddenly flashing on the roof of the street next to them.

The soldier's figure flashed by, and then he didn't know who he was notified, and two more soldiers quickly turned out from the corner of the street.

"Who are you?" The soldier who came out pointed a long rifled rifle at Qiao Hong and the others.

Qiao Hong subconsciously felt fear of the black gun and hurriedly said, "I am Master Qianliang who was sent by Qingzhou Prefecture to contact General Shi."

Seeing that the Hu Baojun soldiers didn't say anything, he quickly added: "We are here today. We have already agreed with General Shi Xiu and your master Sun yesterday."

The soldier looked at Qiao Hong and the local soldiers who were guarding him, and then took the letter from the Qingzhou Prefecture Office and looked at it. He did not dare to open the cover and nodded and said: ωωw..net

"I'll take you in."

Qiao Hong and the local soldiers around him were a little scared.

This protective army has been in Qingzhou Prefecture for more than ten days, but it has been silent and even has few camps. Even as the money and grain master of Qingzhou Prefecture, Qiao Hong himself has never seen this protective team.

The soldiers of the army had the first time in close contact today. They found that the other party was so powerful, and they never dared to underestimate them again.

Following the soldiers who turned into bright whistles into camp, the sky was clearing little by little after a while.

In the mist of the early winter morning, Qiao Hong gradually saw the layout of the barracks that had never been known to outsiders.

The camp was much larger than he thought, and it seemed that after some rest and rest, some watchtowers and rammed earth houses had obvious signs of new construction.

In front of the barracks, groups of protection soldiers were queuing up to stand there.

The station squad is also a common training content among the township and imperial guards at this time, but Qiao Hong was still a little surprised when he saw the soldiers' combat squads.

He often deals with various military and horses who come to Qingzhou for money and grain. However, it was the first time he saw such a neat queue. The soldiers stood horizontally and vertically, and the queues seemed to be drawn with ink lines.

When he got closer, Qiao Hong found that these military dresses and appearances were even more scary, and the soldiers around him were all tall and big.

The soldiers of this reinforced battalion were specially selected, and their height was at least 1.8 meters above the standard proposed by Sun Xin, and their outfits were very different from other protection soldiers Qiao Hong saw outside.

Qiao Hong was taken to the leader of the battalion commander Shi Xiu and found that General Shi Xiu was also an extremely tall man with a well-proportioned and sturdy figure. He had a scar on his young face, but he didn't look too arrogant.

, instead, there is a clear and calm atmosphere.

"General Shi Xiu is early."

Shi Xiu smiled at Qiao Hong: "I am a member of the army and don't know much about etiquette. I hope Mr. Qiao will not be surprised."

“Where is where.”

Qiao Hong found that Shi Xiu was indeed not very talkative. He talked to him for a few words and then turned to look at the soldiers training, which made him feel a little disappointed.

Qiao Hong thought for a while and introduced himself, "The prefect sent me to contact the strengthening camp, and I am afraid that I will be stationed in the general's military camp in the future."

Shi Xiu nodded, "The owner of the manor told me that I have asked someone to prepare a clean house and sent two manors to take care of him."

After saying that, Shi Xiu turned to look at the training ground again. The meaning inside and outside seemed to be that he wanted Qiao Hong to go to see his dormitory first and not stay here to delay his work.

Qiao Hong was a little embarrassed. He was asked by Murong Yanda. He also wanted to see what kind of the protective army strengthened the battalion. Murong Yanda was also very curious about this team with more than 600 people.

When Qiao Hong came for the first time, he naturally refused to leave so easily.

So he stayed there and watched the people in the field train there with Shi Xiu.

When you look carefully, you can see the soldiers on the field walking forward listening to the beeping whistle. They all arrived in front of a large sand pit. Each of them picked up the big stone ball in front of the sand pit and held it on the back of their necks.

Then suddenly swing forward.

Those men seemed to have been practicing this kind of stone ball throwing for a long time, and they all moved neatly, and the stone ball actually flew out of a very long distance, landing at about the center of the sand pit, and then called "OK".

After the command, the men who threw the stone balls consciously went up and picked up the stone balls, moved them back to the edge of the sand pit, and then returned to the end of the team, and then threw the balls back and forth.

There were also a few who were not said to be "good". It seemed that the distance was wrong, so they turned into dust and walked to the other side, with more stone balls and a special officer there.

Explanation, a group of people were constantly practicing throwing there.

Qiao Hong was curious when he saw this. These guys seemed to be practicing throwing something, but they couldn't figure it out for a while, so he simply asked Shi Xiufa.

"I wonder what weapons are the general's team practicing to throw? Also, why is the dress of the general's team very different from other teams, the hat is particularly narrower and there is no brim of the hat."

Shi Xiu looked at the training camp for a while and saw Qiao Hong still there. He knew that this guy would probably not leave anymore. He felt a little irritated. However, he remembered that yesterday the owner of the manor sent someone to him and told him to entertain the people sent by Murong Yanda.

Try to tell him what he can say, so he calmed down.

"We are a specialized type of troops in the protection army. The ones you have seen before are musketeers or artillery soldiers. They use musketeers and cannons to kill the enemy, but we are another

A kind of called a grenade.”

Shi Xiu said as he picked up the grenade hat he placed beside him and put it on his head.

The shape of this hat is a bit strange, just like a cockscomb, and it is also like a magic hat worn by the Yellow Sect Lamas, but it looks smaller.

After wearing this exaggerated hat, it looked taller. The soldiers in this grenade reinforcement battalion were all tall and tall. After wearing this hat, they instantly gave people a visual feeling even taller.

When he looked far away, he didn't realize that he was standing in front of him, Shi Xiu was two heads taller than Qiao Hong, which made Qiao Hong take a step back subconsciously.

This deterrent force is exactly the original intention of the grenade hat design.

Shi Xiu couldn't help laughing when he saw Qiao Hong's reaction, and felt a sense of pride in his heart. He pointed to the hat on his head and introduced: "Hats like us are specially designed without hat brim, so we use them in this way.

When you throw the grenade out with your hand, you won’t have the brim blocking the head on top of your head.”

Qiao Hong saw Shi Xiu throwing grenades with his grenade hat, and instantly understood, but soon more questions arose.

"What is a grenade?"

Shi Xiu watched the soldiers training every day, knowing that they could practice well even without themselves on the sidelines. It was just that according to the rules, the battalion-level commander must also be present when he was on duty every day. At this time, he started chatting with Qiao Hong.

, he simply called a soldier to get a grenade.

The Supervisor has not yet developed a bomb fuse, so the grenade style for grenades is also very simple. It is an iron egg cast iron filled with gunpowder and a lead wire is added outside.

The size of this thing looks like an iron apple, but when I took it, Qiao Hong was shocked by the weight of this thing. This thing was heavy, and I could not imagine how heavy it was just looking at the size.

The first generation of lead grenades produced in Sunjiazhuang did not adopt the most common wooden handle grenade shape in later Chinese troops.

Grenades of different shapes have throwing techniques of different shapes. Whether the grenades can be thrown far has nothing to do with whether they have a wooden handle installed, but installing a wooden handle will definitely increase the cost. Before the invention of the lead, this design was exempted and produced.

An iron shell is the most economical way to get the grenadier to throw it out with pure arm strength.

Qiao Hong took the grenade and was confused. After knowing the weight of the thing, he looked at the ammunition soldiers who were throwing live ammunition in the distance. Only then did he understand how capable they were. He nodded and praised: "The general is really a subordinate.

A group of tigers and wolves."

Shi Xiu likes to listen to people praise the soldiers he has trained. When he heard this, he has a great impression of Qiao Hong and laughed.

Shi Xiu finally opened up and sincerely introduced his grenade squad to Qiao Hong.

"Mr. Qiao, don't think that our team is just lazy in the camp all day long. Our training is really busy. If we don't receive the order, we would rather spend more time training than go out and walk around."

Qiao Hong nodded, but he didn't know whether Shi Xiu was saying true or not. Shi Xiu saw that he was half-believing and half-doubted, so he called the sentry who had brought him in just now.

"Master Qiao, please look at his equipment."

When Qiao Hong walked into the camp just now, he saw that the sentry was full of clothes, but he couldn't see it clearly. At this moment, he found that the equipment on the soldier was really complicated. In addition to a rifle, the sentry's body was left.
Chapter completed!