It was dim and the birds on the fruit trees in the yard were already chirping and making noise. From time to time, the crowing sounds of roosters came from afar.

After slowly turning over, Liu Rushi touched the person next to her, and suddenly opened her eyes and sat up. The peaks in front of her were swaying with her movements.

"It turned out to be just a dream..."

That dream only made Liu Rushi feel ashamed and said angrily.

"You little slut, you are full of random thoughts all day long..."

After spitting out, she lazily stretched her waist, but during the movements, she felt the underwear was wet and cold. The scene of the dream last night accidentally came to her eyes. Thinking of her behavior in the dream, Liu Rushi's cheeks flushed, and a desire deep in her body surged into her heart again.

"When the master comes back..."

She thought that when she mentioned the master, she would think of the master and would fade away this strange feeling, but another person appeared in front of her. Her heart suddenly trembled, and her face turned shy, and she even grabbed the cloth sheet on her body nervously.

"What are you thinking about? You are married as a wife, and even if you are as good as a willow, you are not enough to serve as a broom..."

He spoke softly, and when he picked up the men's clothing, Liu Rushi couldn't help but look as stupid as he occasionally looked at her. The obsession in his eyes only made her feel a little happy. After a moment, another worry flashed between her eyebrows.

"Why,"

After sighing for a long time, after a moment of struggle, Liu Rushi looked at him in a daze. After a moment of loss of consciousness, he said lightly again on his lips.

"It's all you are a villain, you have to slap them... But since they have married into a wife, it's impossible for you to get what you want..."

After talking to herself, Liu Rushi's "face" turned red. Realizing that she was confused, she quickly took a deep breath, and then said to herself as if nothing had happened.

"This, I will never see you again in the past few days..."

As he said this, Liu Rushi thought in his heart, if he came to see him, would he see him or not? For a moment, Liu Rushi's heart struggled and even struggled.

Of course, for Zhu Mingzhong, who was on the wall of Changzhou, he had a good night's sleep last night and never thought about Liu Rushi. Early in the morning, he hurried to the wall as soon as he got together.

cannon!

Red Cannon!

For Zhu Mingzhong, the most important thing in Changzhou City was not the tens of thousands of taels of silver donated by the former prefecture in the treasury of the city from Changzhou gentry, but the sixteen red cannons on the top of the city.

Perhaps, three hundred and fifty years later, these dozen so-called cannons were just large "earth cannons" that fired solid iron projectiles, but in this era, for Zhu Mingzhong, these sixteen cannons were the weapons he urgently needed!

For the Zhongyi Army, which has almost no long-range weapons, with these sixteen cannons, it means that they will not be in a passive position at medium and long distances!

Hey!

Why is this cannon so small?

The man just arrived on the city wall and saw the legendary "Red Barbarian Cannon", Zhu Mingzhong was shocked, not because it was big, but because the cannon was too small!

The legendary red-clothed cannon is only more than one meter long, and the iron solid shells on the side are only the size of a fist.

"General, this cannon is 200 kilograms, the cannon weighs 200 kilograms, the cannon is 4.3 feet long, 1 kilogram of medicine, 2 kilograms of ammunition, 2 kilograms of one kilogram of taels of five qian..."

Gao Jiming, who had been promoted to commander of the rear army, noticed that the general's face seemed a little wrong, so he explained specifically.

"General, he was really incompetent. When the Qing barbarians were about to dispatch troops, there were still 6,800 kilograms of red barbarian cannons in the city, and two,300 kilograms of red barbarian cannons, but they were all transferred by the Qing barbarians. There were only sixteen small cannons left in Changzhou. The big one was only ten, seven hundred red barbarian cannons, and the small one was only these two hundred kilograms of cannons..."

After criticizing himself first, Gao Jiming's words changed again.

"But although this cannon is small, it is most suitable for followers, especially the 200-jin cannon. Although it is small, even if it is added with a cannon cart, the weight will not exceed 400 jin, which is extremely light..."

In fact, these 200-jin cannons were not used to defend the city, but were used to follow the army. Now they are used to defend the city, and they are barely used. When Gao Jiquan mentioned that there were still 700-jin cannons, Zhu Mingzhong raised his eyebrows and asked.

"There are 700 kilograms of cannons? Where are the cannons? Let's take a look."

Although it was only 700 kilograms of cannons, Zhu Mingzhong finally found some cannons when he saw the cannon body that was more than two meters long. The previous 200 kilograms were called cannons, but rather large muskets.

"...The gun weighs 700 kilograms, 6.8 feet long, 2.5 kilograms, and the iron bullet weighs 5 kilograms..."

When Gao Jiquan explained the performance of the 700-jin cannon, Zhu Mingzhong bent down and carefully checked the 700-jin cannon in front of him. This cannon is not heavy! It can even be said to be very light. Of course, his shells are also very light, but only 5 jin.

But for Zhu Mingzhong, this is exactly what he needs!

What he needed was not a "giant cannon" weighing thousands of pounds, but a cannon weighing only a few thousand pounds or at most a thousand pounds. What he needed was a field cannon! It could marching with the troops and provide fire support to the troops during war!

5 kilogram shells...

Take out a cast iron shell from the side, and Zhu Mingzhong weighed it, but it was only about three kilograms. It was converted into English, which was 6 to 7 pounds. This cannon is a little smaller, so it cannot be compared with the legendary "Twelve-pound Napoleon", but... 700 kilograms are light enough. If installed on a gun stand, it can move with the army like the field cannons of later generations.

Looking at the four-wheel gun mount that was equipped with artillery, Zhu Mingzhong raised his eyebrows slightly and asked out loud.

"If I were with the army, would I also carry such artillery carts?"

"Return to the general, these red cannons are often too heavy to follow the army. For example, those with three thousand kilograms and four thousand kilograms are often transported on large-wheel cannon trucks pulled by oxen. When they arrive at the place, the carpenter camp will then rush to build such a small four-wheel cannon truck to be fired. Although the cannon is light, the same is true..."

Gao Jiming's words made Zhu Mingzhong realize that what he said in history books was true. The Red and Blade cannons in the late Ming Dynasty originated from European naval cannons, and their artillery cars were also imitated four-wheel cannons. Moreover, the Ming army rarely used Red and Blade cannons for field battles, but they used them to defend the city. During field battles, they preferred to use small cannons worth dozens of kilograms, that is, attacking Rong cannons. However, such small cannons do not require artillery cars. They only need to lay anchors and buried soil before firing. Influenced by the Ming army, the same was true for the Qing army. Even when it was the Hunan Army, the "Shan Pi Cannons" used by Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army was just a variant of attack Rong cannons.

The Red Cannon...the key is to become a field war!
Chapter completed!