Cui Yue seemed a little restless.

This sudden change made him feel that things were not so simple.

But he still chose to compromise.

The King of Xiang is about to enter the capital.

Your Majesty's attitude is sincere and at least impeccable. It is a rebellious thing to die, but then again, even if a person is cold, he will probably melt his hard heart when he knows that his life is not long.

However, the King of Xiang’s entry into the capital made Qin Shaoyou start to worry.

Li Longji was killed by Qin Shaoyou himself. Although the prime minister Li Dan wrote a letter as soon as he "knows" the news, he cut off his robe and made a big statement with Li Longji, and talked about Li Longji as his crime, and even praised Qin Shaoyou, saying that when Qin Shaoyou was in danger, he suppressed the rebellion and killed the main evil, which was a model for the minister. But what is this person’s true thoughts about Qin Shaoyou?

Although Li Longji was adopted by Li Hong, he was Li Dan's legitimate son after all. Besides, the father and son had a very good relationship and had close contact. Even this rebellion, Li Dan, who was far away in Jizhou, might not be unaware of it. He was more like a brilliant flag bearer behind Li Longji, who used Li Longji's value to the extreme. Cheng Ze held the power of the world and ascended the throne in the dynasty, and was called a widow. However, once the matter was defeated, he could stay out of the matter.

But now, things have failed because of Qin Shaoyou.

Will Li Dan not hate himself?

His Majesty was soft-hearted at this time, and he was afraid that he would cause great trouble for Qin Shaoyou.

Fortunately, Qin Shaoyou is a free and easy person. The King of Xiang is still in Jizhou. What's the matter? Everything is unclear now, so why bother with nothing?

His mind was on the Tiance Army's artillery team.

The artillery team has 500 people, which seems to be a large number, accounting for nearly 20% of the entire Tiance Army. The Tiance Army is still expanding, but even so, it occupies about 10%. The leader is Wang Er. Wang Er has now become an old army, so the reason why he chose him is just because he is calm.

The artillery battalion was temporarily separated from the Tiance Army's military camp, one in Henan and the other in Hebei. Qin Shaoyou set out from Zhuangzi early in the morning every few days. He sailed across the river and then walked more than ten miles to reach the artillery battalion.

Ten miles away from here are not allowed to be approached. The people who maintain the order are the people who recruited the people. For the sake of need, Qin Shaoyou organized all the farmers into twenty pavilions and one hundred miles, each of which is about forty households. Every month, three or five strong men need to be transferred to be responsible for the civil defense below. However, this is different from the free requisition of the court. On the surface, the village is also requisitioned for free, but in fact, most of the farmers here have livelihoods. Although these people have to contribute to the farm, they are willing to release people in the workshop or other places, and the salary they should be paid is also paid. If you don’t work, you will be requisitioned as a civil servant, and if you work, it is also the money for production. Therefore, everyone is happy to serve. Many places are recruited. The young and strong people are robbed. After all, working is more boring.

Their main task is to carry out some simple exercises, maintain public order, or be responsible for the vigilance similar to that around the artillery battalion.

The drills of this artillery battalion are different from others. The physical strength requirements are actually not less than those of the Tiance Army. Because this "red-clothed cannon" that has been improved countless times is still relatively bulky. According to the plan of the village, only 150 are now made, fifty are used for storage and replacement, and 100 are used for training and combat. Five people served one cannon, including one gunner, two gunners, and two auxiliary cannons.

The gunman's responsibility is to check the maintenance of the cannon. Although this cannon was first trained with a hundred forgings, it is much worse than the steel in later generations. To achieve the maximum effect, maintenance is a crucial matter. The tea oil consumed by each cannon every day requires half a pound, and this tea oil that cannot be eaten, but can be specially provided for maintenance is low, only seven or eight yuan per pound, but storage and transportation cost a lot.

In addition, the gunner is also responsible for the storage of gunpowder and the training of gunners and auxiliary guns.

The gunner's responsibility is to calibrate and ignite fire. The auxiliary gun fills gunpowder and loads iron bullets. This is a very primitive artillery, heavy and rough. Because of this, the stability is not too high. If ordinary people use it, the amount of gunpowder is used too much, and it is dangerous to explode the chamber. However, once it is used less, the power is obviously insufficient. In addition, the calibration must also be based on experience. Therefore, the requirements for operators are extremely high. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, although firearms have begun to be used on a large scale, they are often not used as factors that determine the battlefield. The biggest of them is

The reason is that the Ming and Qing Dynasties were unable to cultivate a group of truly professional gunners, and they often sent out their missions casually and rarely formulated training plans. When they were in real combat, the gunners were either inexperienced, which minimized the effectiveness of the guns. As a military officer, because they were perfunctory and were not enthusiastic about the use of artillery, they did not formulate corresponding tactics. In addition, they were not well-maintained in their usual maintenance. In the end, the firearms became insufficient injuring people, but because of frequent blowouts, they became powerful tools to hurt themselves.

In this regard, the Tang army or the Zhou army were completely different. There were many military personnel in this era, and the people in the army were strong, and the people in the army were far from being as strong as later generations. They were strongly suppressed by civil servants, so that those who entered the army were often criminals or some military households, and almost no good family or common people were willing to enter such a low-ranking business.

As for the Tiance Army, the admiration of warriors has reached the extreme. Because Zhuangzi is rich and attaches great importance to the Tiance Army, he often can join the Tiance Army, and his salary is mostly generous and his treatment is excellent. He has good soldiers and sufficient food, but he has become an enviable target.

This is why, although the red cannon was imitating the Folang machine cannon, in the Dongfang at that time, he was far from aware of the sharpness of the cannon. On the other hand, because the Folang cannon was able to better use the firearm, he saw the sharpness of the firearm, so he conducted more in-depth research and finally stood out and completely left the Dongfang far behind.

Fortunately, there was no such atmosphere at this time, so Qin Shaoyou was not worried that the various disadvantages of firearms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties would appear in this era, but instead focused more on the improvement of artillery.

Every day when he arrives here, the artillery team often gets excited. After several hours of physical exercise, they immediately practice professional skills.

This is of course also what Qin Shaoyou is most interested in. Sometimes Yang Wulian would follow Qin Shaoyou to observe. The person's nearest direction is not artillery, but gunpowder. Because in many practices by the artillery team, he gradually discovered that the improvement of artillery can greatly exert its power, but gunpowder is also the top priority. To improve artillery, it must undergo repeated practices or actual combat inspections, and then make some corrections based on its shortcomings. For example, a few days ago, Yang Wulian discovered that the sealing of gunpowder gas is the key of the key, and the power of artillery is extremely effective, so he began to pay attention to this direction.

As for other attempts, he was quite involved, so he talked endlessly when talking to Qin Shaolou.

Today, the two were walking upstream of the stream not far from the schoolyard. Yang Wulian looked red. He almost didn't care that Qin Shaoyou was not interested in what he said, and seemed to be talking to himself: "Mr., originally, this hundred forged steel was used to cast the cannon. There are certainly some benefits, but there are many disadvantages. Once the operation is not good, there are dangers of blowing the chamber. I originally wanted to try it with copper. Although the cost of this copper was higher, if it could improve the problem of blowing the chamber, it would be worth the money. It's just a pity... This copper cannon was made, but

I found out that I was taking it for granted. The copper cannon is good, not easy to explode, but it is lighter. However, the copper is too soft. Every time I shoot, the muzzle will expand, and the shooting accuracy and range will drop very quickly. After almost a dozen guns, the inner wall of the muzzle began to change. Therefore, after thinking about it, the only way to solve the current problem once and for all is to make better steel. In fact, this is not difficult. It is just a hundred forgings to become thousands forgings. As for the others, I have to try again."

"The ratio of gunpowder is also a problem. If there is too much medicine, it is even less. There must be a degree. I asked the artillery battalion to try this degree many times. Only then did I know that the amount of medicine for one shot is the best for one pound of four taels and eight qians. The amount of medicine is difficult to measure. Does each artillery team gunman carry a scale?" Speaking of this, Yang Wulian smiled self-deprecatingly: "But there is no way to solve it. Why not make a workshop with a dosage, and then have someone to measure the dosage, and then wrap it in oil paper. A pack of medicine is one pound of four taels and eight qians, which saves the trouble of the artillery team and makes it easier to operate."

"besides……"

At the beginning, Qin Shaoyou was still listening quietly. After all, Qin Shaoyou was indeed very interested in it. However, when this guy met him, he kept talking endlessly, completely ignoring his own feelings. As a result, Qin Shaoyou couldn't bear it anymore, but he had to endure it and occasionally echoed.

Since Qin Shaoyou pretended to be the best listener, this unintentionally encouraged Yang Wulian's topic of conversation, so the conversation started and became even more rampant.

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Chapter completed!