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Volume 2: Journey to Jianghu Chapter 391: Musket

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    Chapter 391: Musket

    Ximen Qing led the army back to the Song Dynasty to attack Zhao Yunluo. The angry Zhao Yunluo sent Gao Qiu to lead an army of 200,000 to attack.

    Ximen Qing¡¯s army went all the way south and soon arrived at the border of Liangshan.  Knowing that Gao Qiu was attacking, Ximen Qing did not continue southward, but turned his army back to Liangshanshuibo.  Prepare to resist Gao Qiu at the Liangshan River.

    After the army was stationed by the water bank, Ximen Qing and many leaders returned to the Liangshan water bank.  Zhu Wu, Zhang Qing, Li Kui and others had already gone down the mountain to wait and prepared a banquet.  Everyone talked for a while in front of the golden beach, then went to the village and started drinking and celebrating.

    In the hall of the Juyi Hall, Ximen Qing stood up, raised his wine glass, and shouted to the people who were watching him: "Brothers, since we gathered in Liangshan three years ago to gather together in Yiyi, we have experienced too many changes during this period.  It involved hard work in construction, resisting the imperial invasion, and accepting the invitation and enduring the imperial bullying. Then he went north to fight against the Liao Dynasty, driving the Liao dogs to flee and occupying their four provinces: Tanzhou, Jizhou, Bazhou, and Youzhou.  The ground, the Liao dogs did not dare to fight, which completely weakened the power of our Liangshan army! Now Zhao Yunluo has rebelled and seized the throne, which just gives us the opportunity to win the conquest. As long as we can defeat Zhao Yunluo, the entire Song Dynasty will be at our fingertips  , then, the entire Song Dynasty will also 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 be ours! It belongs to everyone present, so Brother Liangshan  They!"

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

    "Brothers work together to create an era!" Everyone shouted in unison, then raised their heads and drained the wine in their glasses.

    After drinking, many leaders sat down.

    Lin Chong said: "Commander, Zhao Yunluo is so angry this time that he actually sent Gao Qiu to lead an army of 200,000 to conquer us. Haha, you are really overestimating your capabilities! I see, Gao Qiu is not here to destroy us.  Yes, they are here to send us troops! Haha"

    The other leaders also laughed.

    Guan Sheng stroked his beard and shouted: "That's right! If Gao Qiu dares to come, they will be forced to flee! Two hundred thousand troops, tsk tsk, if they can be swallowed up, then my Liangshan army 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 Thorn Camp and Zhu Tong Lei Heng's Assault Battalion that guard the four states of Liao Kingdom,  , all the other battalions have gathered here! Although there are many people and horses, there is still a bit of a gap against Zhao Yunli, who is now on the throne and has hundreds of thousands of troops! However, God always helps us and allows Gao Qiu to send  An army of 200,000! Brothers, let¡¯s face the enemy next. Our main purpose is not to kill the enemy, but to capture the enemy¡¯s troops and use them for our own use!¡±

    Wu Yong smiled and said: "The commander is right! It is said that in order to conquer Liangshan, Gao Qiu adopted a two-pronged land and water offensive. On the land route, the deputy commander Gao Lie commanded 150,000 people to attack, while Gao Qiu was in charge of the water route and led 500,000 troops.  The ships are coming to attack. Gao Qiu seems to be menacing, but to us, he is simply a lamb in wolf's clothing. Why do we say this? On land, our Liangshan army is familiar with the terrain and knows how to use the right time, place and people. Gao Qiu  If you come to attack with strong force, you will definitely not get good results. And it will be even more unlucky on the waterway. He, Gao Qiu, boasts that he has fifty large ships that can capture Liangshan Shuibo, but he does not know that our Liangshan Shuipo is powerful  His exquisite artillery is specially designed to deal with his big ships, and we also have dozens of big ships in Liangshanshuibo. We are not afraid of them in a head-to-head encounter! So in this war, we can only win, not lose! But we can't be proud! Right! Haha  "

    Many leaders also burst into laughter.

    At this time, Ximen Qing said: "Yes, although we have the advantage and the enemy doesn't know it, we can't be proud. A arrogant soldier will be defeated. We must not let the enemy bite us off because of our carelessness. And it is difficult to guarantee that Zhao Yunlan  No powerful people were sent to follow Gao Qiu. Now that the brothers are reunited, let's formulate a strategy. Wu Yong, you sit in Liangshanshuibo and lead Li Jun, Zhang Heng and other eight major naval camps to deal with Gao Qiu who comes by water and protect him.  Liangshan is in danger. I am leading Guan Sheng, Lin Chong and others to fight against Gao Lie. According to Yue Fei's exploration, the enemy will arrive in five days, so we will send troops to Zhujiazhuang in two days and station troops there to wait. Others who are not going to fight are here.  Waiting on Liangshan Mountain, building weapons and preparing for battle."

    The leaders all clasped their fists together and shouted: "This is your order!"

    Immediately, everyone started drinking and celebrating extremely happily.

    After drinking, Ximen Qing met with Ximen Chuixue and Zhang, and then came to the courtyard.  Arriving at the large bedroom in the center, Ximen Qing pushed the door open and saw that the nine girls had been waiting for him.  Ximen Qing suddenly felt his body tremble and thought of the scene the last night he left Liangshan.  Sighing secretly that he had worked hard, Ximen Qing immediately closed the door and took off his clothes.

    On the second day, Ximen Qing got up from Wenrou Village and headed towardsGo to the organ department.

    Since Ling Zhen improved artillery and invented the exquisite artillery, Ximen Qing has paid more and more attention to thermal weapons.  The lethality of cold weapons is not as powerful as hot weapons. How can flesh and blood resist the offensive of guns and artillery?  This future era will, after all, be dominated by hot weapons.  Whoever can master thermal weapons will have a huge advantage and achieve an overwhelming victory in the war!

    For example, attack Jizhou City and Youzhou City.  If we rely solely on soldiers to attack the city, we will probably lose thousands or even tens of thousands of people before we can win.

    But what about the continuous bombardment of artillery?  The Liao army was unable to stop them. In the end, the Liangshan army easily captured the two cities.  This is an effect that is difficult to achieve by soldiers alone.

    Therefore, Ximen Qing is very enthusiastic about the invention of weapons.  If one could develop muskets, then forming a musket battalion would be awe-inspiring.  Although it cannot cause large-scale damage to the cavalry, it is a huge deterrent to the enemy's morale.

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

    When we arrived at Ling Zhen¡¯s firearms department, Ling Zhen was holding a long, hollow cylindrical small iron rod.

    Seeing the barrel of the musket, Ximen Qing was immediately overjoyed. He hurried in and asked, "Old Ling, how is the development of the musket?"

    Seeing that Ximen Qing was coming, Ling Zhen hurriedly smiled and said: "Why are you here, Commander!" Then he pointed at the pile of parts on the table, and said with a smile: "The research is almost done, but I haven't tested it yet!"

    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: "Commander, according to your idea, I divided the production of the musket into three parts, one is the barrel, and the other is the barrel.  The first is the medicine chamber, and the third is the tail port. The cross-sectional area of ??the three parts is circular, and they are all made of hundreds of smelted iron. In addition, I also carried out the calculation of the caliber of the musket, the length of the gun, the length of the barrel, the length of the medicine chamber and other components.  Through accurate measurements and experiments over time, I found that the medicine chamber must be in the shape of a bulge, with the inner and outer diameters larger than the inner and outer diameters of the gun barrel, so that the medicine chamber has a larger volume and cross-section. This structure can make the gunpowder in a larger volume.  The large area of ????the medicine chamber burns quickly, and improves the instantaneity of combustion, and instantly generates a large amount of high temperature with greater air intensity, which can be squeezed into the gun bore with a smaller cross section, so that the projectile is launched, and has  Powerful speed and power. As for how to ignite the fire, I also followed your idea and installed a loading ignition device at the tail port, which can quickly ignite the gunpowder in the powder chamber and shoot out the projectiles"

    Ling Zhen kept talking and soon told about the musket he had set up.

    Ximen Qing nodded secretly.

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

    However, although it has been improved a lot, its range is still only within 100 meters, and it is still a single shot, requiring constant loading of gunpowder and projectiles.

    Although such muskets cannot be compared with modern Chinese muskets, in the Song Dynasty, its craftsmanship quality was far superior to many in the world.  And Ximen Qing believed that with Ling Zhen¡¯s professional skills in making such things, how could it not be improved?

    Ximen Qing didn¡¯t expect Ling Zhen to build airplanes or tanks, but at the very least he wanted to make the musket a continuous-fire type, and the range should be increased to within a hundred meters.  Only in this way can it have the offensive power of a long gun.

    Ximen Qing and Ling Zhen chatted some more. Ximen Qing brought up the shortcomings of the musket and asked him to find ways to improve it.  It was not until noon that Ximen Qing left the Firearms Hall and came to the Juyi Hall.

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

    Ximen Qing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Yue Fei, good boy, you are so smart, you actually know how to design a real-scale topographic map!"

    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 make a topographic map out of mud? The leaves represent trees, the small grass represents the grassland, the small stones lead the boulders, the cloth ribbons represent the rivers, the bulges represent the mountain peaks, and the small flags represent  building"

    Ximen Qing pointed at the topographic maps made by Yue Fei and said one by one.

    Yue Fei was stunned, then gave a thumbs up and said: "The commander is so awesome! I thought about this idea for a long time. I didn't expect the commander to know it already!"

    Ximen Qing laughed and said: "Although this kind of reduced real-life terrain map is wonderful and is good for arranging troops, it has extremely high requirements on the environment. You need to understand every plant and tree in the environment, every trail and fork in the road,  thus not affecting??Command.  I originally thought about making something like this when I was attacking Liao, but because the environmental requirements were too harsh, I gave up.  I didn¡¯t expect you to do it today!  "

    Yue Fei said: "Hey I also had an idea. Now I am dealing with Gao Qiu's army around Liangshan, and I know the surrounding environment well, so I want to design this kind of real-life map, so that the commander can sit in the camp.  It¡¯s easy to destroy the enemy!¡±

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