Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 660

Everyone drank the meal very happily until late at night. Everyone went home drunk and happy.

After Lu Xiangsheng left, Bao Chengxian couldn't wait to come out from the back hall, and asked Fan Yongdou: "How is it? Did you get it?"

Fan Yongdou said: "I got it, but the surname Lu is too stingy. After talking for a long time, he only sold us two hundred sticks."

Wang Dengku said: "People named Lu have a very strict tone of voice and are not easy to fool."

Fan Yongdou said: "If he doesn't even have this ability, how can he climb to this position? Do you think that his current position is all due to fighting?"

Bao Chengxian became impatient: "Don't say these are useless, what about the firecracker? Show me!"

Fan Yongdou said: "Let's talk in the inner hall!" He led everyone into the inner hall, and after making sure no one was eavesdropping, he got a flintlock gun and handed it to Bao Chengxian.

Bao Chengxian reached out to touch the barrel of the gun, and took a deep breath.He used to be a general of the Ming Dynasty Frontier Army, and he had a lot of experience with firearms. He knew very well about the Ming army's firearms, but he knew that this flintlock was much better than any firearm he had ever seen before. The tube is heavy and smooth, making it slippery when a fly lands on it. It makes you feel at ease just looking at it. How can it be compared to the garbage that explodes as soon as it is fired?He studied it over and over again, and always felt that something was different, but he couldn't tell what was different, so he frowned and said, "This firecracker is very different from the firecrackers used by the Tianxiong Army..."

In the battle of Dalinghe, the Tianxiong Army suffered heavy casualties. Although they tried their best to recover the muskets left by the dead and wounded soldiers on the battlefield when they retreated, hundreds of them still fell into the hands of Houjin.Bao Chengxian studied those muskets and found that these muskets were no different from the normal quality muskets of the Ming army, except that they used pointed bullets and granulated gunpowder. They were still accurate within [-] paces. This is also the reason why Tianxiong army musketeers have to endure huge casualties every time they fight, and they don't raise their guns until the front thirty steps of the Houjin army.To put it bluntly, the muskets used by the Tianxiong Army at that time were only more reliable and more powerful than the rubbish used by the Ming Army. There was no difference, but this flintlock gun was different in every way. The most obvious point was that It has no match!
How do you get angry without a match?
Fan Yongdou gave the answer: "This firecracker is different from other firecrackers. There is a flint inside it. Pull the trigger and hit the flint with a hammer. Sparks will spark the gunpowder and shoot the lead out. Convenience... have you seen the threads in the barrel? This is the key to the Tianxiong Army's control over the world!"

Bao Cheng first touched the rifling with his fingers, and asked, "But why?"

Wang Dengku rushed to say: "This thing is called rifling. After firing, the lead will rotate against it at high speed and be shot out of the barrel of the gun. It can shoot farther, more accurately, and more powerful than without rifling. Even if it is triple armor, Can't stop it from shooting!"

Bao Chengxian had some doubts: "Is it really so powerful?"

Fan Yongdou said: "I'm afraid it won't be fake. According to the news from Yingzhou, there are only a few hundred people in the Yingzhou garrison, but they rely on hundreds of muskets to beat the [-] Mongolian army. As soon as they got close to the city wall, bullets rained down on the city wall, knocking them down as if they were cutting wheat. Coupled with cannons and thunderstorms, countless Mongol attacks were crushed by them. It is said that even the chariots could not stop them Stop their guns!"

Tian Shenglan said: "It's not rumored, it's really unstoppable! I sent people to Yingzhou to see, those carts were hit by lead bullets like a sieve, and two green bricks put together so thick a giant board was shot twice. Eye!"

Everyone gasped!The armor defense ability of the post-golden warriors is no stronger than the chariot. The firecrackers of the Tianxiong Army can penetrate the chariot with one shot. It is not the same as playing through their armor!
Bao Chengxian said: "Lend me this firecracker to study for one night. Tomorrow we will try to go out of the city to hunt and try its power... Shopkeeper Fan, please urge Lu to buy the firecracker as soon as possible. I will try to bring a pair of firecrackers." Some of them went back to Shenyang!" Holding a flintlock gun, he gritted his teeth and said, "The man surnamed Lu relied on his sharp firearms. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, such sharp weapons. After Da Jin imitates the same firecracker, his doomsday will come! Yang Menglong, Lu Xiangsheng, don’t even think about escaping!”

In the end, this man's face was distorted and ferocious, and when he mentioned Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng, his eyes glistened, clearly the deep-seated hatred!

Yes, hate!
He started from a small general, and climbed up to his current position step by step. How easy is it to become the important minister of Emperor Houjin?In his dreams, he always hoped that the Houjin would destroy the Ming Dynasty, and he would become a great official of the frontier with his achievements from the dragon. eager!But now, the damned Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng have risen strongly, and there is a faint momentum to defeat Houjin and make all his plans go to waste. How can he tolerate it!Cutting off one's money is like killing one's parents, and taking one's future is an even more mortal feud. He hates these two so much, he only hopes to bring the flintlock gun back to Shenyang to imitate it quickly, so that Hou Jin can also have this Wait for the invincible firearm to kill Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng and bring everything back on track!
Traitors are more stubborn than devils, that's probably why.

However, Lord Bao didn't know that things were not as simple as he imagined.The production process of rifled flintlock guns has made countless skilled craftsmen feel sad, and a simple rifling can kill the craftsmen of Houjin.Even if they are good enough to solve the problem of rifling by first engraving rifling on the iron sheet and then rolling it up, the ammunition will become an insurmountable difficulty: rifled flintlock guns need to use gun cotton Only smokeless propellants with very little residue can exert their power. Use black powder?Just cleaning the barrel can annoy people to death!And nitric acid is needed to make gun cotton. Where can they get nitric acid?To put it bluntly, this rifled flintlock is the epitome of a relatively complete industrial system. Without the same industrial system, it is impossible to play.And even if they can solve all the above problems and install a large number of rifled flintlock guns, at most everyone will line up and shoot people to fight for their lives. Even if Hou Jin completely squeezes out his military potential, he can only make up 14 troops. , Can you beat Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng who have resources in several provinces?

From the moment the flintlock gun came out, their fate was already doomed, but they still didn't know it.

The next day, Fan Yongdou, Bao Chengxian, Tian Shenglan, Wang Dengku and others took a few flintlock rifles and left the city on the pretext of hunting and ran to the inaccessible suburbs.Of course they were not in the mood to hunt, they just wanted to try the gun.Fan Yongdou and others were extremely wealthy businessmen, so it was too easy to get some living animals to test their guns. With an order, someone sent them several strong bulls and camels for Bao Cheng to test his guns first.Bao Cheng first loaded the bullet and fired at the bull's head. With a gunshot, a bloody hole exploded in the bull's head, and it collapsed without even having time to scream.He shot another bull in the belly. A large bloody hole also appeared in the bull's belly. Blood mixed with feces gushed out. The bull shook a few times and then fell. It could not survive.

Bao Chengxian's complexion began to turn pale, and he asked someone to wrap three layers of tanned and hardened cowhide on the belly of a bull, and then opened fire. As a result, the bull fell to the ground in response to the gun, and the three layers of thick cowhide failed to provide it with any protection.

Bao Chengxian sat down on the ground and stared at the bull twitching in a pool of blood. His face was pale and he was speechless.The three layers of tanned cowhide can already block the heavy arrows shot by Hou Jinbaijia soldiers, and they are still killed by a single shot. A samurai is almost like running naked in front of Tianxiong Army Musketeers!
What a domineering fire gun!

After being stunned for a long time, he suddenly jumped up, grabbed Fan Yongdou, and let out a low growl in his throat: "Try to buy more, try to buy more, Dajin needs such weapons!"

Several Shanxi merchant giants nodded.This musket is too domineering, if Houjin doesn't equip some, it will be very difficult to meet the Tianxiong army, even if it's just for the sake of their own wealth, they have to find a way to smuggle more to Houjin!

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Although he was not very happy, Lu Xiangsheng still fulfilled his promise and delivered two hundred rifled flintlock guns on the third day. He repeatedly told Fan Yongdou and others to keep them properly and never lose or transfer them to others, let alone Sell ​​it to Jiannu or Tartars, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.Fan Yongdou and the others fully agreed, but they were quite disapproving in their hearts. Why would we want this thing if we didn't sell it to Jiannu or the Tartars?As for the serious consequences... things that can be settled with money are not serious, and there are not many things in this world that they cannot settle with money.

A few days later, the situation on the grassland had gradually stabilized. Fan Yongdou went to Wen Yiming, saying that he wanted to sell a batch of tea and peace silk to naturalization. After making money, he would buy war horses and come back. Naturally, Wen Yiming signed and let him go. , winter is coming, and merchants have to take advantage of this last window of time to make up for the losses they have suffered due to the war. He can understand it.So, soon, a caravan escorted by more than 100 men carrying flintlock guns drove out of Datong City and walked deep into the grassland.

After walking hundreds of miles in one go, they were far away from the area controlled by the Tianxiong Army. The caravan stopped. There was a whistle and the sound of hoofbeats. Bao Chengxian led dozens of Houjin cavalry and galloped from the depths of the grassland. When they met, he asked: "Where are the things? Have you brought them?"

The person in charge of this trip was Fan Yongdou's grandson Fan Xiaodou. He was not surprised at all by Bao Chengxian's appearance. These were all their plans.Bao Chengxian had left Datong a few days earlier and was waiting on the grassland. They took more than 100 flintlock muskets out of Datong City and handed them to him under the pretext of taking away the goods. They then told the Tianxiong Army that they had encountered horse thieves and muskets. All were snatched away.As for these guys, they must be silenced, and the dozens of Houjin cavalry brought by Bao Chengxian came in handy.He said: "We brought it, but because we were afraid that people named Lu would become suspicious, we only brought half of it."

Bao Chengxian said: "Let's take half and half, give it to us!"

Fan Xiaodou muttered, and the guy carrying the musket grinned and handed the musket to the rear golden cavalry...they didn't know what kind of terrible fate they were about to face.

After the golden samurai took over the musket, he put it away carefully and carefully, and the painting style is extremely harmonious...

However, when the muskets were halfway through, the ground suddenly shook, and Bao Chengxian's face changed drastically, and he shouted: "No!" The knight's cloak and helmet fringe fluttered like flames. If it's not the Tianxiong army, who is it?
Fan Xiaodou's face turned pale, and he exclaimed in shock: "It's been tricked!"

Nonsense, all idiots know they've been tricked!
(End of this chapter)