Chapter 391: Musket

Ximen Qing led a large army back to Song to attack Zhao Yunzhen. The angry Zhao Yunzhen sent Gao Qiu to lead 200,000 troops to conquer.

Ximen Qing's army headed south and soon arrived at the Liangshan boundary. Knowing that Gao Qiu was attacking, Ximen Qing did not continue to move south, but instead transferred the army back to Liangshan Shuipo, preparing to resist Gao Qiu in Liangshan Shuipo.

After garrisoning the army beside the water poles, Ximen Qing and many leaders returned to the water poles of Liangshan. Zhu Wu, Zhang Qing, Li Kui and others had already gone down the mountain to wait and prepared a banquet. Everyone talked in front of the Golden Sand Beach, then went to the mountain village and began to drink and celebrate.

In the hall in Juyi Hall, Ximen Qing stood up and held up his wine glass, shouted at the people who were watching him: "Brothers, since we gathered in Liangshan three years ago to gather together in Dayi, we have experienced too many changes during this period. We have both hard construction and resistance to the invasion of the court, and accepted recruitment and endured the bullying of the court. Then we went north to fight against Liao, and fought Liao dogs and fled in panic, occupying their four places, Tanzhou, Jizhou, Bazhou, and Youzhou, and defeated Liao.

The dog dared not respond to the battle, which completely exaggerated the might of our Liangshan army! Now that Zhao Yunzhen is planning to seize the throne, it just gives us the opportunity to conquer. As long as we can defeat Zhao Yunzhen, the entire Song Dynasty will be within our control. Then, the entire Song Dynasty will have the opportunity to undergo earth-shaking changes! Then it will be a new era! Brothers and I fight side by side, this era will belong to us! Everyone present, so the brothers of Liangshan!”

As he said that, Ximen Qing raised his wine glass and shouted: "Brothers, cheers!"

"Brothers work together to create the era!" Everyone shouted, then raised their heads and dried up the wine in the glass.

After drinking, many leaders sat down.

Lin Chong said, "Commander, Zhao Yunzhen was so angry that his mouth was tilted and his nose was crooked. He actually sent Gao Qiu to lead a 200,000 army to fight us in person. Haha, I'm really overestimating my abilities! I think Gao Qiu was not here to wipe us out, but to send troops to us! Haha..."

The other leaders laughed.

Guan Sheng stroked his beard and shouted: "That's right! Gao Qiu dares to come, so he will let them escape in panic! Two hundred thousand army, tsk, if he can swallow it, then my Liangshan will have plenty of troops!"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "That's right, except for Yang Zhi's Modao Camp, Yang Xiong Shixiu's Shield Camp, Jie Zhen Jie Bao's Sect Camp and Zhu Tong Leiheng's Assault Camp, all other battalions gather here! Although there are a lot of people, there is still a gap in fighting Zhao Yunzhen, who is now ascending the throne and holding hundreds of thousands of troops! However, God always helps us and let Gao Qiu send the 200,000 army! Brothers, let's face the enemy next. Our main purpose is not to kill the enemy, but to capture the enemy and take the enemy for your own use!"

Wu Yong smiled and said, "The commander is right! It is said that in order to break through Liangshan, Gao Qiu adopted a land and attack. On land, the deputy commander Gao Lie led 150,000 to attack, while Gao Qiu was in charge of the water and led fifty ships to attack. Gao Qiu seemed to be coming in a fierce manner, but to us, he was simply a lamb in wolf's skin. Why do you say that? On land, our Liangshan army is familiar with the terrain and knows how to use the right time, place, and people, Gao Lie came.

If you attack, you will definitely not get good results. And on the waterway, it is even more unlucky. Gao Qiu claimed that he had fifty large ships that could capture Liangshan Shuibo, but he didn't know that our Liangshan Shuibo had powerful Linglong artillery specializing in dealing with his large ships, and we also had dozens of large ships in Liangshan Shuibo, so we were not afraid of them when we fought head-on! So this war was only allowed to win and not defeat! But we couldn't be proud either! Yes! Haha..."

Many leaders also laughed.

At this time, Ximen Qing said: "That's right, although we have the advantage and the enemy does not know, we cannot be proud. The arrogant army will be defeated. We must not be bitten by the enemy because of carelessness. And it is difficult to ensure that Zhao Yunzhen does not send powerful figures to follow Gao Qiu. Since the brothers are reunited now, we will formulate a strategy. Wu Yong, you are in charge of Liangshan River and lead Li Jun and Zhang Heng and other eight major water camps to deal with Gao Qiu who came from the water to protect the safety of Liangshan. And I led Guan Sheng, Lin Chong and others to fight Gao Lie. According to Yue Fei's exploration, the enemy can arrive in five days, so we will send troops to Zhujiazhuang in two days, and we will wait there. Other people who do not go out to fight and build weapons to prepare for the battle."

The leaders all clasped their fists and shouted, "Get orders!"

Then, everyone started drinking again, celebrating extremely happily.

After drinking, Ximen Qing met Ximen Chuxue and Zhang, and then came to the courtyard. When he arrived at the large bedroom in the center, Ximen Qing pushed the door open and saw that the nine girls had been waiting for a long time. Ximen Qing suddenly felt his body trembling, and then thought of the scene of the night he left Liangshan last time. He sighed secretly that he was working hard, and Ximen Qing then closed the door and took off his clothes.

On the second day, Ximen Qing got up from Wenrou Township and walked towards the firearms department.

Since Ling Zhen improved the artillery and invented the Linglong artillery, Ximen Qing has attached more importance to thermal weapons. The lethality of cold weapons is that they are not as powerful as thermal weapons. How can they resist the offensive of guns and cannons? This future era is hot weapons after all. Whoever can master thermal weapons will have a great advantage and thus achieve an overwhelming victory in the war!

For example, attacking Jizhou City and Youzhou City. If you rely solely on soldiers to attack the city, you will lose thousands or even tens of thousands of people and you will probably be able to capture it.

But what about the bombing of artillery? The Liao army was unable to stop it. In the end, the Liangshan army easily captured two cities. This was an effect that was difficult to obtain by soldiers alone.

Therefore, Ximen Qing was very eager to invent weapons. If he could study muskets, then forming a musket battalion would be majestic. Although it could not cause large-scale damage to the cavalry, it was a huge deterrent to the enemy's morale.

So on the second day after returning to Liangshan Shuipo, Ximen Qing went to Ling Zhen to see if he had developed a musket.

When he arrived at Ling Zhen's firearm, Ling Zhen was making a long, hollow cylindrical small iron rod.

Seeing the musket's body, Ximen Qing was immediately overjoyed, hurried in, and asked, "Old Ling, how was the musket developed?"

Seeing that it was Ximen Qing coming, Ling Zhen hurriedly smiled and said, "Why is the commander here?" Then he pointed to the pile of parts on the table, and then smiled and said, "The research has been done, but I have not tried it!"

Ximen Qing hurriedly said, "Come on, tell me!"

Ling Zhen nodded, then picked up a drawing, then picked up the parts on the table, and said, "General, according to your ideas, I divided the production of the musket into three parts, one is the gun chamber, but the medicine chamber, and the third is the tail mouth. The cross-sectional area of ​​the three parts is circular and is made of iron. In addition, I also conducted accurate measurements and experiments between the musket caliber, gun length, barrel length, medicine chamber length and other components. I found that the medicine chamber must have a bulge-shaped lantern cover, with the inner and outer diameter greater than the inner and outer diameter of the gun chamber.

, This is the only way to make the medicine chamber have a larger volume and cross-section. This structure can make the gunpowder burn rapidly in the medicine chamber with a larger area, and improve the instantaneousness of combustion, and instantly generate large amounts of high temperatures with larger air and strong air, so that it can be squeezed into the small cross-sectional chamber, so that the projectile can be fired out and has a powerful speed and power. As for how to ignite, I also installed a loaded ignition device at the tail entrance according to your idea, which can quickly ignite the gunpowder in the medicine chamber and shoot out the projectile... "

Ling Zhen talked quietly and quickly told the musket he set up.

Ximen Qing nodded secretly.

The muskets involved in Ling Zhen are similar to those of the Yuan Dynasty, and they are very similar in structure. However, he improved the ignition device, improved the size of the medicine room and the reload of gunpowder, which greatly increased the power and launch speed.

However, although it has improved a lot, its range is only within a hundred meters, and it is still a single launch, requiring continuous gunpowder and projectiles.

Although such muskets cannot be compared with modern Chinese muskets, in the Song Dynasty, their craftsmanship quality was far superior to that of the world. And Ximen Qing believes that with Ling Zhen’s professional craftsmanship of making such things, how could it not be improved?

Ximen Qing did not expect Ling Zhen to build aircraft and tanks, but at least he had to make a musket into a firing type, and the range must be increased within a hundred meters. Only in this way can he have the aggressiveness of a long spear.

Ximen Qing and Ling Zhen chatted again, and Ximen Qing raised the shortcomings of the musket and asked him to find ways to improve it. It was not until noon that Ximen Qing left the Fireworks Hall and came to Juyi Hall.

When I entered the Juyi Hall, I saw Yue Fei fiddling with a pile of mud, and there were leaves and grass on the table.

Ximen Qing was stunned and then smiled and said, "Yue Fei, good boy, you are so smart. You actually know how to design real scene-level terrain maps!"

Yue Fei was also stunned, then scratched his head and asked, "Commander, do you know what I am doing?"

Ximen Qing said: "Of course I know! Do you want to use mud to make a topographic map! Leaves represent trees, small grass represents grass, small stones lead huge stones, cloth belts represent rivers, the upward places are peaks, and small flags represent buildings..."

Ximen Qing pointed to the topographic map made by Yue Fei and said one by one.

Yue Fei was stunned, then raised his thumbs up and said, "The commander is amazing! I thought about this idea for a long time before I came up with it. I didn't expect the commander to know it long ago!"

Ximen Qing smiled and said, "Although this shrinking real-life topographic map is wonderful and conducive to the arrangement of troops, it has excellent requirements for the environment. You need to understand every grass and tree in the environment, every path and fork in the road, so as not to affect command. I originally thought about making this kind of thing when I was attacking Liao, but because the requirements for the environment were too harsh, I gave up. I didn't expect you to make it today!"

Yue Fei said: "Hehe... I also had an idea. Now I am dealing with Gao Qiu's army around Liangshan, and I know the surrounding environment again, so I want to design this kind of real-life map that allows the commander to take charge of the camp and easily wipe out the enemy!"

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