Early the next morning, there were more than 200 carriages pulling countless broken firecrackers. Behind them were twelve ox-carts, pulling ten French machine guns. You could see them clearly on the city wall!

The handover location was right next to the city gate of Pyongyang. Hundreds of muskets on the city wall were ready to go. Some North Korean soldiers also prepared bags of gunpowder and tens of thousands of enemies. As long as one was bad, they would be thrown down.

It’s almost the New Year, and it’s really cold today. The north wind blowing on his face felt like a knife. Li Xiao was so cold that his tears flowed out. The white air he exhaled was instantly blown by the knife-like north wind.

Scratched away. Li Xiao felt that his body temperature seemed to have been taken away.

Fortunately, my men all have cotton clothes and trousers. They wear cotton hats with hoods on their heads, and professional earmuffs. They have cotton gloves on their hands, with fleece inside. They also wear cotton shoes on their feet.

, the cold protection effect is quite good.

The North Korean army was much worse. They all wore robes. Not only were they bulky, but the cold wind would also flow down their necks. Li Xiao discovered that as long as people can keep their necks from getting cold, it won't be too cold.

The hat plays a very good role. It was originally a folk thing in Northeast China. It is an elastic cotton ring that can be put around the neck to cover the mouth. The cold-proof effect is great!

But when he saw Lu Zhu's clothes, Li Xiao felt a little ashamed. Everyone was wearing mink cloaks, and even the driver was wearing a leather robe. Lu Zhu had an otter fur hat on his head.

The bright fur color shines in the sun.

Luxurious! What a damn luxury! I saw it in Tong Erbao Fur Store in my previous life. This fur cloak was worth hundreds of thousands. That otter fur hat was worth less than 8,000 and I was embarrassed to ask for it.

"It's strange that you are so afraid of death that you dare to go out of the city to take over the handover." Seeing Li Xiao leaving the city, Lu Zhu immediately sneered.

"I'm afraid of death, but I have to do it!" Seeing so many blazing guns, Li Xiao was not in the mood to argue with Lu Zhu.

The most important part of a muzzle-loading gun is actually the barrel. Mr. Yu once served as a supervisor in the Ming Dynasty, so he knew that the Ming Dynasty supervisor was very strict about the manufacture of gun barrels. Now these barrels are even the oldest in history.

It only lasted a few years. And if it fell into the hands of the Jurchens, it was likely that it had not been used. The wear and tear on the barrel was very small!

Those ten Folan cannons made Li Xiao very disappointed.

The so-called Folang machine gun is actually a front-loaded artillery piece. Not only is it bulky, but it also looks small in caliber. Since there are no actual cannonballs, Li Xiao doesn't know what kind of ammunition this thing can shoot. If only

There's no point in hitting solid iron lumps. Against cavalry, this thing is not as useful as a trebuchet.

At least the trebuchet is easy to make and very cheap.

I took a quick look and found that many of the firecrackers were rusty. However, it seemed that most of them could be saved, and not many were completely damaged. I had said at the beginning that any firecracker could be used.

"Have you finished looking at everything? Where is Jueluobai Mountain?" Luzhu asked immediately after seeing Li Xiao checking the artillery and muskets. He was in Li Xiao's team and did not see Jueluobai Mountain.

"Women have long hair and short knowledge. Look up!" Li Xiao pointed upward. Lv Zhu looked up and saw Jueluo Baishan being supported by someone and standing at the top of the city. There was a large basket tied with a rope next to him.

After getting up for a while, after the transaction was successful, I used this big basket to bring people down.

"Little man!" Luzhu was speechless at Li Xiao's caution.

"Don't talk about being young, even gentlemen don't want to hear the word. If you don't believe me, come tonight and I'll show you what it means to be big." In a good mood, Li Xiao was also happy to talk and take advantage.

"Go away! No ivory can come out of a dog's mouth!" Luzhu spat.

"Your teeth are as white as ivory."

"You!" If it weren't for the threat of muskets on top of the city, Lu Zhu would have wanted to give Li Xiao a knife right now.

"Pass the count!" Li Xiao ordered, and Ai Husheng immediately ran out with others.

In the past, Li Xiao had to do these things himself. Neither Man Gui nor Ao Canghai knew how to count. They could do the addition and subtraction of more than ten for half a day. Not to mention checking numbers of more than 20,000, these two

The difference in the goods can be wrong.

I checked three times in a row before I got the right number. There were dozens more than what Li Xiao asked for. It was always good to have more. Of the 20,000 gun barrels, if I could modify half of them, it would be a waste of time.

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Flintlock muskets once dominated the world of guns for two hundred years. It was not until the emergence of smokeless gunpowder that muskets that fired fixed ammunition, which people later often referred to as bullets, finally became available.

In fact, nitrocellulose is smokeless gunpowder. In theory, it can already produce bullets with primers. However, with the processing technology of this era, Li Xiao really cannot make a gun barrel that can be tightly closed. That requires precision processing. Without a lathe,

Don't even think about modern machinery like milling machines.

Seeing that it was almost noon and the weather was finally getting warmer, Li Xiao smiled and said, "Why don't you go into the city to get something to eat?"

"Get out! Let the person go when the count is over."

"The people must be released. Who is Ai Husheng? Drive all these cars into the city, and then bring them to our station." Li Xiao greeted, and Ai Husheng ordered his soldiers to drive the cars.

"Wait a minute! These ox carts and carriages belong to us!" Seeing that Li Xiao actually wanted to take over the carriages, Lu Zhu immediately became anxious.

"Oh! What's yours, what's ours! It's all peaceful now, and we won't fight anymore. What's yours and ours doesn't matter. You've all paid such a big price, and it's not like we're missing these few cars.

Hey! That Ai Husheng, free up a car. I don’t see that General Jue Luo Baishan is not in good health and can’t ride a horse, so why not unload that skinny horse!” Li Xiao pointed at Ai Husheng and yelled.

Lu Zhu was shocked by Li Xiao's shamelessness. She had never seen such a shameless person before. Even the carriage was cut off!

"Miss Lvzhu, look at how we don't have a carriage here. How long will it take to move so many things? You are too embarrassed to let our brothers work in this freezing place in the cold weather.

No. Just think of me, Li Xiao, as begging you." Li Xiao arched his hands, looking like a standard scoundrel.

"you……!"

Luzhu's lungs were about to burst with anger. The treaty did not mention carriages. Now that more than 200 carriages and ten ox-carts have been lost, how will they explain to the two blue flags when they go back?

"Ah...!" A cry like a slaughtering pig came from the top of the city, and Luzhu's head was heard. Then he saw that Jueluo Baishan had been put into the basket. I don't know if it was intentional or something. The basket was actually hovering.

He stopped lowering it in mid-air, and the wind blew like this. The basket kept hitting the city wall, and he didn't know where it hit the wound on Jueluobai Mountain. The old guy immediately screamed heartbreakingly.

"Li Xiao, you're doing well!" With Li Xiao in his hands, Li Xiao can do whatever he wants now. The main task this time is to pick up Jueluo Baishan. If anything goes wrong with Jueluo Baishan, he can go back alone.

There's really no way to explain it.

"Give them the cart!" Luzhu ordered, and Li Xiao's soldiers immediately occupied the horse-drawn carriage and the ox-cart. They shouted and drove towards the city!

Luzhu and the Tatar soldiers picked up Jueluobaishan. They put Jueluobaishan on the carriage and left immediately.

Fireguns were piled up in a yard, everywhere. Li Xiao was happy when he saw these fireguns. The processing of the barrels was the most difficult. Now there are so many barrels in vain. As long as the rifling is drawn out, it would be the best.

Flintlock guns. If you have enough weapons in the next spring, you can train your army on a large scale. While Nurhaci has not yet established a stable foothold in Liaodong, it is better to drive him out as soon as possible. You can also rescue as many people as possible who were captured by the Jurchen Tatars.

Han compatriots who were enslaved.

When he walked in front of those Pofolan cannons, Li Xiao felt helpless.

This thing seems useless. Apart from having a farther range than a trebuchet, it is useless at all.

Not only was it big, but it was also heavy. I finally understood why the Tatars had to use an ox cart to pull it, because the cart couldn't pull it at all.

The caliber is only a small one, so it is probably used to fire solid projectiles. It is just a big iron ball, and its lethality is really limited. I heard that there is something called a chain bullet to deal with cavalry, but I don’t know how it works. But it does no harm.

That's all the power!

How can it be as useful as the bomb I am using now? After the explosion, shrapnel flies everywhere. It has lethality at a distance of more than 20 meters in a radius! If you get too close, you may be shocked to death.

It would definitely be a shame for Li Xiao to drag such a bulky guy to Pi Dao.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xiao ran to the Joseon Palace to meet with Li Jie. He said that he was about to leave and wanted to have a performance before leaving and invite His Majesty the King to visit.

Li Xiao was still interested in Li Xiao's army. After all, it was this army that defeated the Tatar soldiers.

Choosing a slightly warmer weather, Li Xiao invited Li Zhu to come outside Pyongyang.

A high platform was set up in the open space outside the city. After accompanying Li Xiao on the stage, Li Xiao's men lined up in neat lines and passed through the high platform one by one to accept Li Xiao's review. The king of North Korea had never seen this before. This was the first time he had seen it.

Some people walk so neatly. There are more than a thousand people walking in the same pace, and there is no wrong step.

First there was a musket demonstration, and there was a burst of "crackling" firing from the musket. The horse that was the target was immediately shot to the point of blood gushing out. It fell to the ground and twitched a few times, then stopped moving.

Even though Li Zhu didn't dare to go to the battlefield, he was very interested in watching this kind of killing.

Seeing that Li Xiao was watching with great interest, Li Xiao asked someone to install a target about a hundred paces away. A row of gunmen holding flintlock guns began to shoot at the target. Every time a target was hit, the top of the target would be

Hanging a piece of white cloth with words written on it.

Six targets and six characters, His Majesty the King is a thousand years old!
Chapter completed!