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

Chapter 134 Trouble is coming
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

Six shots fired in a row, making people's ears buzz.Yang Menglong excitedly pulled the trigger. Every time he pulled the gun, the barrel would rotate once, and a foot-long tongue of dark red flames and large clouds of gunpowder smoke would be ejected from the muzzle. Let alone the power, the momentum was scary enough anyway. that's it.Qi Hu and Han Peng watched from the side, seeing the ferocious firepower, they nodded slightly.

This is the electric blunderbuss that the craftsmen took a lot of effort to imitate. Now forty pieces have been made, each with six tubes-needless to say, the weight must not be light.Yang Menglong had a great time playing, hitting round after round, his face was blackened by the gunpowder smoke, and he couldn't bear to stop. This thing made him feel like playing with a six-barreled rotary heavy machine gun, it was enjoyable!
After firing six bullets in one go, Yang Menglong called: "Bring the target!"

Someone immediately went over and took the target forty steps away.Yang Menglong took a look and blushed: six shots were fired, and there was only a small hole in the target. His marksmanship was really not ordinary.However, what satisfied him was that the bullet made a big hole in the wooden target, which showed that the power was quite considerable.

Qi Hu poked his finger into the hole, took out some fragments of lead bullets, looked at it, and said, "It's not bad to be able to penetrate such a thick wooden target at forty paces away." Those musketeers who are practicing aiming, "Are you sure you want to make a lot of electric guns?"

Yang Menglong spoke confidently: "Does that need to be said?"

Qi Hu said: "I think we should find a way to equip some Lumi guns and bird guns. These two guns can hit farther and are more accurate."

Yang Menglong was furious: "But the rate of fire is frighteningly slow! Jiannu can lie down and sleep after dodging a shot, and when he wakes up, our musketeers haven't loaded the second bullet yet! "

It seems that in the battle of Dingxing, those matchlock guns left him with too much psychological shadow. Qi Hu tried to explain: "If we train strictly and improve the quality, the rate of fire can be increased..."

Yang Menglong waved his arms vigorously and shouted: "Old man, what I want is firepower density, firepower density! The enemy cavalry charged, and once they approached two hundred steps, they entered the line of fire of our strong crossbows. Three rows of crossbowmen took turns firing. They wanted to Crossing the line of fire of two hundred steps would require at least seven or eight rounds of rain of arrows. Once they crossed the line of fire of the crossbowmen, the lightning system would come in handy. One hundred musketeers could shoot six hundred arrows in a very short time. Fire bullets and wipe out the cavalry who have crossed the line of fire. This is a firepower density that cannot be achieved by any kind of musket! The best way to drown those boar skins with massive bullets and arrowheads is to forget about tactics!" He curled his lips, took another electric blunderbuss, pointed at the blunderbuss in the barrel and said, "Also, the blunderbuss of the electric blunderbuss can be preloaded. After firing one round, take out the blunderbuss and load it into the gun." You can fire again, and the rate of fire is faster than that fucking matchlock!"

It seemed that there was no way to convince him, Qi Hu felt quite helpless.In fact, this is the result of the confrontation between two completely different tactical ideas. Yang Menglong, who is used to heavy machine guns, insists that a musketeer can output six times the firepower of a musketeer with an arquebus in a short period of time. It is the best weapon to completely suppress the enemy army. Besides, the electric gun is much faster to reload than the matchlock gun. One soldier is worth six soldiers, so you don't have to be a fool.Qi Hu thought it was a waste to equip so few soldiers with so many hard-won barrels. If 240 barrels were used to make electric guns, only 240 could be made, while for other muskets, [-] could be made. There are six times more, and it is too wasteful to specialize in making electric guns.There is no way to convince anyone of the old and the young. Who is right and who is wrong can only be tested by the battlefield.

The quality of this batch of electric guns is good, and they have been played for more than ten rounds without any failure. The name of the person who handled it must also be written down, and if there is a problem, I will go to them to settle the account according to the number!"

Li Lin said with a smile: "My lord, don't worry, you are the one who let us live a good life with enough food and clothing. Your business is everyone's business. Who dares to be sloppy with the things made for you? If something goes wrong, we don’t need you to ask, we’ll throw that black sheep into the furnace first!”

Yang Menglong was taken aback and said, "It's not that serious. If something goes wrong, the maximum fine will be fined. If it's serious, he'll be jailed. According to the rules, don't just throw people into the furnace."

Li Lin nodded yes, but he was furious in his heart: If any guy dares to be careless and make fake and shoddy products to ruin his reputation, he should throw that girl into the furnace first and then plead guilty to General Xiao Yang!
Yang Menglong put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, and was about to fire, when Jiang Zheng hurried over and called, "My lord, Mr. Cheng is here!"

Everyone knows that Cheng Ji is going to make a huge deal with Yang Menglong, so it's no wonder that Jiang Zheng rushed over in such a hurry.

Yang Menglong's eyes lit up when he heard it: "Haha, my God of Wealth is here again!" Handing the electric gun to Qi Hu, he clapped his hands and asked, "Where is he?"

Jiang Zheng said: "Mr. Cheng is at the mansion...he was injured, and the injury was serious!"

Yang Menglong was shocked: "Injured? What's going on?"

Jiang Zheng said: "Young Master Cheng has met a bandit!"

Yang Menglong suddenly became furious: "Where are the bandits, even my God of Wealth dares to move! I think he has eaten the heart of a bear and a leopard!" He rushed out like a gust of wind, rode on his horse, and rushed towards Qianhu all the way in smoke and dust. So, it seems that he is really anxious.

Han Peng was a little surprised and said to Qi Hu: "What's wrong with him? I have known him for so long, but I have never seen him so angry."

Qi Hu said: "If someone promises to do a business with you that can earn you 10,000+ taels of silver, and he gets hurt by someone else, what would you do?"

Jiang Zheng squinted his eyes and called, "Do you need to say that? Cutting people's money is like killing parents. Whoever dares to touch my God of Wealth, I will never let him go!"

Qi Hu said: "That's right." He turned the electric gun and took aim, "I'm afraid someone will be in trouble." The trigger was pulled repeatedly, bang bang bang bang bang!The six gun barrels rotated one by one, and six long tongues of flame shot out from them. The wooden target [-] paces away was shaken, and sawdust flew around.

Yang Menglong rushed into the Qianhu House on horseback, hurried back to the gate of his own mansion, and saw several old men in white coats carrying medicine boxes climbing up the steps like heels hitting the back of their heads.It seemed that Cheng Ji was seriously injured, and he was about to call a doctor.Yang Menglong rushed in three steps at a time, shouting loudly: "Cheng Ji, Cheng Ji!"

"Keep your voice down, he's already hurt badly, and if you yell like that again, you won't lose half of your life?" Xiao Yufang just came out of the living room with a pot of hot water, when she saw Yang Menglong crying there. Hu Xiaoyue, can not help but blame him.

Yang Menglong didn't care so much and rushed into the living room.Cheng Ji's white robe with fluttering sleeves was already stained red with blood, his face was bloodless, and his expression was pained. There was a wound on his right shoulder where the bones were deep.There were only two servants left with him, one was bleeding profusely from his lower abdomen and was dying, the other had several arrows stuck in his body, his eyes were cracked, his teeth were gnashing, and his resentment was uncontrollable.Seeing Yang Menglong rushing in, Cheng Ji opened his eyes, wanted to stand up but couldn't move, said with a wry smile, "My lord, I'm sorry I can't stand up to meet you."

Yang Menglong said angrily: "When are you still talking about this! How is the injury? Where did you meet the bandits?" Seeing the doctor coming in, he called: "Hurry up, stop the bleeding!"

The doctor didn't dare to be negligent, he hurriedly took out the medicine box, took out a bottle, unplugged it, and carefully poured it into the deep bone-deep wound.As soon as the cork was removed, Cheng Ji smelled a strong aroma of wine, turned his head and saw that a clear and transparent medicinal liquid was pouring into his wound, and the aroma of wine was emitted from it.Can wine also be used as medicine?Just as he was surprised, a sharp pain shot out from the wound and pierced his nerves. He let out a low snort, and broke out in cold sweat.Yang Menglong quickly held him down and explained: "This is alcohol, which has a good anti-inflammatory effect. Using it to clean the wound can effectively disinfect it, prevent the wound from being inflamed, and allow the wound to heal faster... Just bear with it, bear with it and it will be fine .”

Seeing the nervousness and concern on his face, Cheng Ji couldn't help but feel moved and said with a smile, "Thank you, sir, for the rescue."

Yang Menglong said: "We are friends, and we can't just leave him alone... Where did you meet the bandits? Which bandit hurt you?"

Talking can divert attention and relieve the burning pain caused by alcohol cleaning the wound. Of course, Cheng Ji answered all questions: "I sold out the industries in Nanyang, Xinyang, and Suizhou, and got 6 taels of cash. Please A large number of bodyguards escorted them to Wuyang via Suiping, but they were ambushed by a large number of bandits at the junction of Wuyang and Biyang. There were thousands of them. All! Fortunately, there are a group of servants with superb martial arts by my side, who risked their lives to protect me and rushed out, but they are only these two left, as for the 6 taels of silver..." sighed sadly, needless to say, the 6 The two pieces of silver have long been the spoils of the bandits.

Yang Menglong raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure you met the bandits at the junction of Wuyang and Biyang?"

Cheng Ji said, "It's absolutely true."

The servant who was hit by the arrow said angrily: "They didn't ask why. When they saw the silver convoy, they rushed up and killed everyone they saw. Even the driver was not spared. They are a bunch of beasts!"

Yang Menglong asked: "How many people are there?"

The servant said: "Many, at least 3000 people, all came straight to Wuyang! Sir, you should prepare early, they may come for the food you harvested!"

With a murderous look on his face, Yang Menglong said, "Okay, I haven't even gone up the mountain to look for you, so you came to the door first, which is great!" He patted Cheng Ji's uninjured shoulder and said, "I'll go out first, You can rest assured here to recuperate, don't worry. You were robbed in my jurisdiction, and you are my partner. I will try my best to get that money back for you. If you can't get it back, I will I will pay you a lot!"

Cheng Ji's heart shook, and he looked at Yang Menglong in amazement, but Yang Menglong stopped talking, and called, "Jiang Zheng, let someone blow the horn. From now on, the Wuyang Qianhu Institute will enter a state of combat readiness. , Take our old den!"

Jiang Zheng solemnly said, "Understood!"

Yang Menglong said: "You are responsible for this matter. If you do well, you will be promoted to the rank of corps commander. If you do not do well, you will get the hell out of me!"

Cheng Ji called out urgently, "My lord, where are you going?"

Yang Menglong didn't return: "Go and help you get back the place, and get my money back by the way! They dare to come to my field to make trouble and rob me of my money, they are getting impatient!" Although the tens of thousands of taels of silver that were robbed belonged to Cheng Ji and had nothing to do with him, the money was Cheng Ji's promised investment in Wuyangwei. In Yang Menglong's view, it was his money. How dare those bandits Even robbing him of his money, it is simply impatient to live, this is a disease, and it needs to be cured!

The two injured servants looked at each other, and the one whose stomach was cut sticked out his tongue: "My God, it turns out that General Xiao Yang has such a violent temper!"

Jiang Zheng snorted and said, "Little General Yang doesn't want to bully anyone, but if any mad dog jumps out and barks at him, he will unceremoniously chop off the dog's head... The three of you can recuperate with peace of mind. With General Xiao Yang here, everything will be fine." Glaring at the two busy doctors, "Use the best medicine, use all your abilities, and definitely cure Mr. Cheng and the others!"

The two doctors said: "Master Jiang, don't worry, Mr. Cheng and others have only superficial wounds. After cleaning the wounds, cutting off the rotten flesh and then suturing the wounds, everything will be fine."

Jiang Zheng said: "Be careful, and you will be rewarded for doing it well!" After he finished speaking, he turned and walked out, not noticing that after the two doctors finished speaking, the faces of the three blood men had turned pale with fright.

When Yang Menglong walked out of the living room, he happened to meet Xiao Yufang.Seeing his burning eyes, Xiao Yufang asked in surprise, "What's wrong? Where are you going?"

Yang Menglong said: "Someone came to give away the head, I have to accept this great gift!"

Xiao Yufang knew that he was going to fight the bandits, and her heart ached, but she didn't say much, she just said softly, "Be careful, don't get hurt!"

Yang Menglong said: "Don't worry, I haven't married you yet, I don't want to die!" He hugged her hard, and before she could react, he burst out laughing and ran away without a trace.Xiao Yufang's cheeks were flushed, and she spat: "This big horse monkey has been here for half a year, and its temperament hasn't changed at all!"

Yang Menglong rode his horse again, and left the Wuyang Thousand Households Office in a swift and lightning-fast manner. It took only a cup of tea before and after, which can really be called "vigorous and resolute".Seeing his luggage in a hurry, the military households were a little surprised, what happened?While discussing, "Woo———" the desolate and gloomy horn sounded, the merchants and the military families who moved from the Daming Mansion looked at each other in astonishment, but the expressions of the young and strong military households between the ages of 17 and 40 changed drastically, and they dropped their hands one after another. They rushed back home as quickly as possible, picked up the spears and the uniformly distributed dog-leg knives, and assembled quickly. Wuyang Qianhusuo was immediately enveloped in the atmosphere of the coming war.

(End of this chapter)