Volume 1 Little Yuanba Chapter 54 Brother Dan Tries the Firearm
"I'm just afraid that he won't dare to come!" Tan Zhongxiao said and left with a loud laugh.
A farmer who has never seen blood becomes accustomed to beheading his enemies, and then becomes happy when he hears a battle.
Li Dan touched his bare chin, knowing that these people could now be dragged out and face to face with the old bandits!
He summoned a few messengers to whisper a few words, and everyone followed the order and dispersed.
Li Dan himself took Hei Laosi (Li Dan named him Hei Mu) towards a camp surrounded by a pond outside the east wall of the temple.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard someone inside shouting a command: "Emission!" Then there was a burst of "click, click" and "bang, bang" more than a dozen times in succession.
Li Dan knew what was going to happen. The unsuspecting Heimu was so frightened that he jumped behind a tree, and was pulled out by Li Dan with a smile.
"You, slow down! And you! I said we have to do it together, understand? Together! Others have fired, why don't you two pull the trigger?"
"Big, big, sir, I, I'm afraid of this pipe. What if it explodes?"
"Fart!" followed by the sound of a whip whistling.
When Li Dan walked into the guarded gate, he saw a group of people with their backs turned to him and Liu Hongsheng, who had an ugly face and hurriedly came towards them.
"Hey, what's going on? Someone made Coach Song angry?" Li Dan asked Liu Hongsheng with a smile.
"Sanlang... defense, this, this guy named Song has such a bad temper, he will really hit anyone who moves slower!" Liu Hongsheng whispered dissatisfiedly, obviously coming to complain.
"If you are not strict, they will act haphazardly on the battlefield. If you cannot kill the enemy, how can you sit on the ground as a Taibao to stop hundreds of bandits? Instructor Song is Instructor Song, where is the word 'Song'?"
Li Dan glared at him, and Liu Hongsheng licked his lips and did not dare to say a word.
At this time, a man wearing a military flag uniform strode over, cupped his hands and said: "Song Zhou has seen defense! Don't blame Liu Duizheng for defense. Song is indeed a bit harsh, but this is for their own good!"
Otherwise, when you go to the battlefield, you will be in a hurry and harm the brothers around you. If you can't kill your opponent, he will rush to you and you will die. Such people harm themselves and others, so they don't have to join the musketry team!"
After hearing what he said, Li Dan smiled and nodded without saying anything. He walked to the front of the team and looked at the four rows of brothers from the front camp who were wearing big bamboo hats and military cloth face armor.
These people were all selected from among the one hundred and twenty people who were born in Yugan County. There were fifteen people in each row. Li Danding in the middle was named "platoon leader".
People are squad leaders.
The first row held the unique square wooden shields of the front camp, Yanling knives for close combat, and a machete or short ax on their back waist.
In addition to the Yanling Sword, each person in the three rows at the back holds a weapon that is rare in this era - a fire gun, or to be precise, in Li Dan's mind it should be called a fire rope bird gun.
In Li Dan's mind, the matchlock gun appeared in Europe in the 15th century and was only widely used in China in the 17th century.
The history of this world was normal until the Tatars came to dominate the Eurasian continent, but it became chaotic after the former dynasty Gutu Khan.
Zhu Yuanzhang went somewhere unknown. The Taizu of this dynasty started his career as an envoy of the Bozhou regiment, joined forces with Liu Futong, and was honored as the emperor's uncle by Han Lin'er, who was called the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
The result was different from what Li Dan knew. Han Lin'er and Liu Futong failed to escape in Anfeng, but were attacked and killed by Zhang Shicheng's generals. The Taizu of this dynasty ascended the throne in Shu County in the name of the descendant of Song Shenzong's youngest son, Yue King Zhao Si.
However, the subsequent story trend is somewhat similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. After the death of Taizu, the prince, the governor of the country, refused to "rule from the top" in the direction designated by the literati court. Fortunately, he was short-lived and inexplicably died in ten years before he could officially ascend the throne.
It "collapsed" a month later.
The eldest son of his concubine ascended the throne as Emperor Longzhi. This man actually listened to the advice of the literati, suppressed Wu Xun and the wealthy families, and exiled three hundred thousand powerful families from the south of the Yangtze River to Yong, Gan, Liang, Qing, and Longshi.
As a result, Taizong raised an army against the emperor's uncle, and the two sides fought for three years. In the end, the intellectuals could not resist the Wuxun Group, and the war ended with a truce. Emperor Longzhi left Nouchi to become a monk, and Taizong entered Jinling and ascended the throne.
Later, Emperor Renzong, the eldest son of Taizu, reigned for eleven years, and Emperor Xuanzong, the eldest son of Renzong, reigned for six years. The current one who reigns is Xuanzong's eldest son, with the reign name Jingwu.
Calculated by year, we are now entering the mid-to-late fifteenth century.
But Li Dan was shocked when he saw the matchlock gun for the first time. He didn't know what else in this time and space was different from his previous life memories, and what different adventures he would experience?
Apart from being uneasy, he was also glad that this thing appeared. It's not that you have it, it's that you don't have it.
If you have it, you can use it, imitate or transform it. If you don't have it, you can make it out of thin air. Just like a pencil and a carriage steering gear, it can be used once or twice. If you have too many, it will be a bit confusing.
Now Li Dan is standing in front of everyone, and he understands everyone's mood very well. He has never seen it before, and he has never used it before. It is fire and loud, and it is much louder than the firecrackers set off during the festival.
Who wouldn't be afraid of a group of farmers who had never experienced a big battle? He looked at the frightened people who had just calmed down.
He looked back at the target covered with a dozen pieces of white cloth standing fifty steps away, and waved. Liu Hongsheng's soldiers emerged from a pit over there.
"Let's see how many we hit?" Li Dan asked loudly.
The soldier crawled out on his hands and knees to look at each one one by one, and then reported loudly: "Defense, hit three!"
Li Dan turned around and asked a gunman to load his gun, then took it and glanced in front of him and said: "The third one from the right." He raised the gun, closed his left eye, took aim, and pulled the trigger.
The trigger was tighter than he thought. It seemed that there was a pause before he heard the "click" sound, and another half breath before there was a "bang" flash. The recoil made his right elbow shake back.
The soldier who threw himself on the ground quickly got up and ran over to look at the third piece of white cloth on his right hand. Then he shouted in surprise: "Congratulations, sir, you hit the target with one shot, you're a great shot!"
Suddenly everyone behind him cheered and applauded. Even Coach Song clasped his fists in surprise: "Good defensive skills!"
It turned out that when Li Dan first saw the fire gun, he was shocked for a moment. After that, he went to the army and asked who had used this thing before, only to find out that this thing is still a rarity today.
This Song Xiaoqi had been used in the guard post before, and he actually knew that three-stage shooting could produce continuous firepower.
Li Dan personally asked General Sheng to be the instructor in order to teach Liu Hongsheng and his team how to use it, so that it could come in handy when dealing with You Sanjiang.
They have been studying here for three days. Li Dan felt that the day was approaching, so he came here to see how it was going.
He lowered his head and played with it, and found small characters engraved on the back handle of the gun: In the third year of Jingwu period, it was made by Li Yue, a vassal vassal of southern China, in the East China Sea.
Hey, this thing was actually made by Nanjiao. Is that...? He was not sure whether this Nanjiao was the same as the Jiaozhi mentioned in his previous life.
"Where did this come from, and how did it end up in Geyang County?" he asked.
"I don't know about defense. Nanjiao is famous for making these precision fire guns. Our court ordered it to pay tribute to the capital of 300 guns every year. In addition, Nanzhili purchased 300 guns from Nanjiao every year.
I guess this was sent from the Arsenal Department of the Nanjing Ministry of War. I also used the fire blunderbuss they made in the guard station, and they were better than the ones we made ourselves.
It’s not easy to blow up the chamber, the parts can be repaired, it’s easy to maintain, it doesn’t have many bells and whistles, and it’s most practical.”
"That's it!" Li Dan nodded, turned around and returned the gun to the gunman, and then said to everyone:
"The principle of the fire gun is very simple. The trigger causes the faucet to fall, and the match rope on the faucet ignites the gunpowder in the medicine pool. After the gunpowder is ignited, the pre-pressed projectiles are ejected.
Some people were just worried about the gun tube exploding, but look at how thick the tube wall is and where it is so easy to explode?
Generally speaking, the barrel of a good blunderbuss can be used for dozens of rounds before it needs to be replaced. After a battle, you can fire eight or nine rounds, which is very good. Sometimes, after only three rounds, the enemy will be close, and everyone needs to draw their swords.
Instead of continuing to use firecrackers.
Some people say that swords and guns are very useful, why use firecrackers?
Because we cannot let the enemy rush forward easily, it is best to kill and injure them while they are running, so as to lower their morale, protect our brothers, and give others a chance to prepare for battle.
Someone may ask again, then why not use bows and arrows? Of course bows and arrows can be used, but it takes one or two years to train archers, but it only takes a few days to train archers.
Ordinary bows and arrows can only shoot one hundred to one hundred and fifty steps, but fire guns can easily reach one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty steps.
You see, this is the difference between firecrackers and bows and arrows."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the crowd who were buzzing in surprise or astonishment. After Liu Hongsheng and Coach Song scolded everyone, everyone fell silent again. Li Dan continued:
"We are about to fight face to face with the insurgents.
If you can learn how to load, shoot, and change positions quickly with fire blunderbuss, it may directly affect the success or failure of our army. Whether we return home victorious and show off our power, or whether we become the victim of those bandits, all depends on the results of everyone's efforts now.
Just now your team was complaining that the coach was too strict, but I don’t think it’s too much! If you are strict today, you will bleed less and survive tomorrow!”
He spoke loudly, glanced at Coach Song and Liu Hongsheng, and then said:
"You are all my brothers, Yu Gan. When that day comes, I will stand with you and fight, and my life will be in your hands!
You just need to load, launch, and change positions, and leave the rest to me. I will definitely let you see your family again!"
After that, he introduced to everyone his experience in using fire guns and some key points of aiming and shooting.
Waving to Coach Song to come over, Li Dan said softly: "You can teach me a lesson, but don't hurt me. If you beat me away, I will be heartbroken. Then my brothers in the battalion will not be easy to lead."
Coach Song laughed sheepishly: "We actually tried to scare them, but we didn't even beat them hard."
"There are ways to punish people." Li Dan smiled slightly: "If one person makes a mistake, the whole class will be punished. They will do squats with a gun on their back, and the rest will be counted.
Methods like this make people remember them longer, right?"
"Oh! Yes, yes, your defense is excellent, teach me!" Coach Song bowed and clasped his fists.
Li Dan patted him on the shoulder and asked Coach Song to continue leading everyone in training. Liu Hongsheng arrived at the gate of the village and said, "I didn't expect Sanlang to know much about Western firearms."
"Do you still remember the two Thai and Western books that Sai Kuixing saw from Yang Baihu and gave to me? There are records of these things there. I finally used them for the first time today." Li Dan chuckled.
"You did it for the first time? You hit the target?" Liu Hongsheng looked at him in disbelief.
"Everything has a skill in using it. It only works if you use the right tool! Let everyone practice the points I just mentioned so that you won't panic when you go to the battlefield." After Li Dan finished speaking, he looked around:
"There are a total of forty-five people in training, and they are all treasures. The other fifteen people in your team must also learn to use it. In case someone is injured or killed on the battlefield, the alternates can take over immediately!"
Liu Hongsheng suddenly understood and immediately agreed.
At this time, Li Dan saw two messengers standing far away, so he separated from Liu Er and quickly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Defense, I have informed the right camp, and they have sent people out to find Zhou Yingzheng to send a message."
"Okay." Li Dan turned to the other person.
"For defense, I have found the Tanma who was left by Shanda people in Dongtang. He heard what was said here and has gone back to report to Shanda people."
"Very good!" Li Dan clapped his lap happily: "As long as Shanda people act according to the plan, and You Sanjiang has repeatedly won and looked down on the army, he will definitely try to seize and divide his troops and go north. Then it will be his time to die!"
Then he asked: "How many brothers who went to war have returned now?"
"Dozens of people from the left camp came back with Mr. Zhu, and all those who followed Zhou Yingzheng came back. There were about three people from the right camp who came back, saying that Zhou Ying is leading people to clean up the aftermath, and it will probably take another hour before they can come back."
Li Dan knew that Zhou Qin was acting as agreed. He wanted to demolish the dam again, and after all the people and tools were withdrawn, he had to return the borrowed boats to the people and pay them twenty kilograms of rice per household.
As long as we can defeat this group of bandits and successfully transport the grain to Shangrao, it doesn't matter if we report some losses.