Valley Emperor

Hearing Li Xuan talking about handguns, and that he wanted to equip the Guards with handguns on a large scale, made Zeng Ziyun a little surprised. He was not surprised that Li Xuan knew about handguns, nor that Li Xuan let the Guards. Equipped with handguns, he was surprised that Li Xuan wanted the Guards to equip handguns on a large scale.

Although firearms have been widely used as early as a hundred years ago, in today's Ming army, the proportion of firearms equipment has reached more than 10%, but it is only limited to this. This 10% ratio also includes most of them. As for the artillery, the 'handgun', which is often referred to as the individual musket, is actually only a minority.

The Ming army wanted to equip individual soldiers with muskets on a large scale, and that was after the introduction of bird guns into China.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Li Xuan intends to equip the army with handguns. However, Li Xuan said that it is a bit abnormal for the army to equip a large number of handguns. This makes Zeng Ziyun feel that the young fake emperor in front of him is A little bit smart, but clearly too smart.

Firearms are powerful, but there are also many restrictions on the use of firearms. Not only is it limited by the weather, but apart from the heavy artillery, the power of the handguns used by individual soldiers is not that great. The three-eye guns commonly used by the Ming army today, More often, the Ming army used it as a mace, and it was much more reliable to directly hold the three-eyed gun to smash the enemy than to fire bullets.

Immediately, he said with confidence and even disdain: "Hand guns can injure the enemy from a hundred paces away, but if the enemy enters a hundred paces, they will not be able to set fire. Undoubtedly defeated"

Speaking of which, Zeng Ziyun paused the meeting and said with a firm tone, "Even if the handgun can hurt the enemy at a hundred paces, it is still far inferior to a strong bow!"

Hearing Zeng Ziyun's words, Li Xuan turned his head to look at him, secretly thinking in his heart, this person has some skills and knows the shortcomings of firearms.

Li Xuan naturally knew that the firearms of these years were unreliable, but he didn't say that he wanted to equip those three-eyed guns in the Ming army. What he really wanted was a well-developed arquebus, or even a flintlock gun.

And even if he was equipped with a flintlock gun, he never planned to let the army under his command be all musket teams, and he would still train ordinary cold weapon troops to use them together.

"It seems that General Zeng knows a lot about firearms. I don't know if you've ever heard of bird guns?" Li Xuan continued to pick up Zeng Ziyun's details.

Zeng Ziyun said, "Bird gun? I've heard about it in the past two years. I heard that Japanese pirates on the coast often use it!"

The bird gun, also known as the bird gun, was the standard musket mass-produced and equipped by the Ming army after the mid-Ming Dynasty, and it was also the standard musket of the later Qing Dynasty.

But now it seems that Zeng Ziyun has only just heard of this kind of musket, and the Ming army has not yet introduced and equipped it on a large scale.

Li Xuan said: "I heard that the bird gun is light and powerful, I want to have craftsmen make it!"

Zeng Ziyun didn't show a disdainful tone at this time, but he felt that this fake emperor Li Xuan had some knowledge.

He has heard of the bird gun. It is said that it is not only light, but also powerful, far superior to all kinds of guns currently in the army, but he is curious, how does Li Xuan plan to build it?

You must know that even the imperial court has not been able to master the manufacturing method of bird guns. The rebels in the valleys and valleys of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty can actually make bird guns?

He doesn't believe it!

The mere rebels, and there are only a thousand rebels, and there are probably not many blacksmiths in them, so they actually want to create a weapon that the court can't create today?

I wouldn't believe it if I beat him to death!

But it didn't take long for his idea to come up when he saw Li Xuan as a personal guard walking up, and this person was holding a strangely shaped iron rod in his hand.

No, this is not an iron rod. Its slender iron tube is hollow, with a curved wooden support at the back. This shape seems to be very similar to the bird gun used by the rumored Japanese pirates. Even if it is not a bird gun, then this The object of this shape is also very likely to be some kind of fire gun.

If he was not too sure when he first saw this fire gun, then when he heard Li Xuan say, "General Zeng thinks about this fire gun?"

Hearing Li Xuan himself say that the musket was a bird gun, Zeng Ziyun's expression was slightly surprised, and he thought to himself: "Where did these fake Tang rebels get the bird gun?"

At this moment, Li Xuan said to the bodyguards beside him: "Try one or two shots, let our guests see!"

Immediately, the guard beside him filled it with a bird gun. Perhaps this person wanted to show off in Zeng Ziyun. The filling action was extremely fast, but this person was obviously not skilled enough in the business.

When reloading quickly, there are consecutive mistakes, and when I make a mistake, I get a little nervous, so I can't reload it for half a day.

This made Li Xuan look black at the side!

Nima, this shame is a bit big, and it is still shameful in front of Zeng Ziyun.

Li Xuan was still thinking of showing off the guards and bird guns in front of Zeng Ziyun, in order to intimidate and win over Zeng Ziyun, but now that he has such a big basket, Li Xuan's face can't be hung.

He secretly swore in his heart that when he turned around, he would punish the guard not to eat dinner.

It doesn't matter if you make a mistake, but it doesn't matter if you embarrass Lao Tzu.

However, although he thought so in his heart, he naturally wouldn't show it. Instead, he said kindly, "Don't worry, take your time, there's more time!"

Maybe it was Li Xuan's comfort that worked. Maybe after making several mistakes in a row, the guard also found the trick. After a full ten minutes, he finally filled it up.

At this time, Li Xuan, whose old face was almost unable to hang himself, finally breathed a sigh of relief. If the guard failed to refill, he swore that it would not be as simple as punishing him with a dinner, at least three days without giving him a meal. eat!

Even if it's an arquebus, you can't reload it in ten minutes, and you've practiced for two days in private!

After seeing Li Xuan nodded slightly~www.wuxiax.com~, the guard opened the fire door, lit the match, and then lifted the gun in both hands, and put the wooden support on his shoulder.

As he pulled the trigger, everyone heard a loud noise, and a cloud of white smoke rose in front of them!

At the same time, a big hole was punched in a thick wooden board that was 'ten steps away' in front!

Seeing that the bird gun was successfully fired, several people around Li Xuan shouted in unison, "Okay!"

Li Xuan turned his head to look at Zeng Ziyun at this moment: "General Zeng, the power of this bird's gun is not bad!"

I have to say that Li Xuan's words are showing off. You must know that he has spent two or three months before and after for this bird gun. When he was training the guards, he just wanted to use the arquebus. Even flintlock guns come out.

It is a pity that he is not an expert on ancient firearms. He only knows about modern muskets. After repeatedly spending a lot of drawings, he turned over all the memories of modern muskets in his mind, and then he came up with such a match. gun.

It was only after several months of research by a few blacksmiths in Huangzhushan that such a prototype gun was made.

This has successfully created the matchlock gun. Naturally, the matchlock gun cannot be dusted. After the test was successful a few days ago, he took it out today.

The main reason is to show off in front of Zeng Ziyun and let the prisoner Zeng Ziyun see the advanced nature of their Tang Dynasty, thereby increasing his recognition of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, it's impossible to make Zeng Ziyun surrender with just a musket, but it's okay, anyway, it will last forever, take your time and grind it a little bit!

Based on Li Xuan's observation of Zeng Ziyun, he knew that this person was tough-mouthed, and he was still afraid of death. As long as he insisted on threats and inducements, over time, he was not afraid that he would not give in!