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Chapter 1489 The Musketeer Cavalry Exercise Is About to Begin (Second Change)
Chapter 1498

When the cost of muskets is close to that of swords and crossbows, when the range, rate of fire, and power of a musket exceed that of crossbows, large-scale replacement of gunpowder weapons will become an irreversible situation.

In the past few years, Wang Yang has been repeatedly improving Da Song's metallurgical technology and machine tool technology, making Da Song's steel quality and quantity continuously climb to new peaks one after another.

With the advancement of machine tool technology, the refinement of machine tools has changed from only a few functions at the beginning to almost all processes that can be solved by machine tools.

As the manufacturing of machine tools became more and more precise, fine processing became possible. This was the basis for the Song Dynasty to produce excellent revolver guns.

Now, in the musket workshop, 250 craftsmen and nearly [-] machine tools are working at the same time, which has increased the monthly production of revolver muskets to [-].

This is why Wang Yang dared to increase the number of Musketeers to two battalions.As long as it can be recognized by the military and approved by the emperor, I believe that in the near future, the musket cavalry may become another elite new soldier of the Song Dynasty just like the imperial artillery.

Entering the palace and meeting the emperor, Wang Yang reported to the emperor that the training of the Song musketeers had come to an end temporarily and they were preparing to conduct military exercises.

"Of course there is no problem. How about starting the military exercise tomorrow?" Emperor Zhao Xu said happily.

"Your Majesty, the musketeer cavalry's military exercise should not be hasty. If Your Majesty agrees, please prepare for a few days so that Your Majesty, you and the important officials of the Song Dynasty can more intuitively understand the powerful combat effectiveness and maneuverability of this cutting-edge army. ability."

"What preparations are you going to make?" Emperor Zhao Xu asked curiously.

"Your Majesty is going to use a hot air balloon at the place where the military exercise will take place. Please His Majesty and a group of colleagues inspect the military exercise from the air. At a height of hundreds of feet, the movements of all parties involved in the exercise will become extremely intuitive."

"Hey, not bad, you have a good idea, it will take a few days, until the last time I went up to the sky in Huanglongze and looked at the great rivers and mountains of my Song Dynasty, I have never gone up there again." Emperor Zhao Xu's eyes lit up immediately, and he praised repeatedly.

"That's good to catch up with the situation. Now I heard that the Liaodong border town is using hot air balloons to hang in the sky to detect the enemy's situation, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet, so I just take this opportunity to feel it." Cao Cao Shi and others couldn't help but laugh too.

Soon, the emperor made a decision, and three days later, this extraordinary military exercise began.

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A hundred miles north of Bianliang, Tokyo, a large flat field north of Guoqiao Town on the west side of Fengqiu, with a radius of twenty miles, has been sealed off by the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty.

At this moment, on this flat plain where war horses can gallop, thousands of Imperial Guards from the Song Dynasty slowly approached. Their bright red smocks made them particularly eye-catching in the already rich autumn colors.

And about five miles away from them, there is a cavalry team wearing blue smocks. You must know that since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has always been red, and the smocks of the soldiers are all red.

However, the cavalry team wearing blue smocks that appeared here today is the first experimental musketeer cavalry of the Song Dynasty that Wang Yangwang personally compiled the training manual and even personally participated in the command training.

On a high ground not far away, at this moment, several huge spheres that have been ignited and began to slowly expand are slowly rising.

The distance between each hot air balloon is about a hundred steps. This is to prevent sudden strong winds and avoid terrible accidents caused by hot air balloon collisions.

There are dozens of civil and military ministers who came here today, but only half of them are courageous and willing to board a hot air balloon to enjoy this military exercise.

Wang Yang is not reluctant, after all, not everyone is as free from fear of heights as he is.Those ministers who found various reasons and were unwilling to board the hot air balloon could only stay on the earthen platform set up on the ground to enjoy the military exercise.

"Your Majesty, the hot air balloon has been fully inflated and is ready to take off at any time." With a loud shout, Emperor Zhao Xu stabilized the ring and nodded reservedly. "take off!"

Following this order, and with the busy work of those on the ground, the hot air balloon slowly shook and began to rise slowly toward the sky...

As the first hot air balloon rose into the sky, the emperor Zhao Xu in the hanging basket and the five important officials of the Song Dynasty took a deep breath. Although the speed of the rise was not fast, with the change of altitude, everyone The line of sight became wider and wider, and soon, the entire plain was brought into sight.

And the two armies that were on the ground, unable to see the whole picture, gradually turned into two settlements the size of ants.

"Okay, that's great. I didn't expect that standing on the sky and looking down, there is such a wonderful thing. Appreciating military exercises in this way is far more intuitive than on the ground." Cao Shi and Wang Hou secretly muttered.

"...I don't know what kind of demon moth Wang Yang is up to, what kind of musketeers cavalry, aren't cavalry cavalry, don't these cavalry need to put the spears in their hands into the fire to heat them before going into battle?" Another hanging basket Among them were a group of old party bosses.

They didn't have a good impression of Wang Yang. When they complained, it was definitely like the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, and the waves were endless.

In another hot air balloon, a group of New Party officials were surrounding Zhang Dun, looking around curiously.

"I really never imagined that I would have the chance to ascend to heaven without cultivating immortality or worshiping Buddha in this life..." an old man in his early sixties sighed with emotion.

Zhang Dun's eyes were always on the cavalry group wearing blue smocks, and he pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

There are also people around who are complaining about Wang Yang, but this kind of behavior that only dares to whisper about Wang Yang behind his back, but dare not even say a fart in person, seems to have become a kind of behavior between the old and the new parties when facing Wang Yang. habitual behavior.

However, after hearing and seeing too much, Zhang Dun not only felt a lot of helplessness in his heart, but also a kind of contempt for those new party members.

Look at these people, after returning to the court, what is the use of one or two besides talking about it?How different is the ability to do work from those of the old party?
The reason why they are willing to become a new party is actually more, I am afraid that it is not because they have a determination to change the Song Dynasty and make the Song Dynasty more and more prosperous and powerful, but they just hope to overthrow those old parties to the ground and then control the ruling party. The power of the church is just to gain more self-interest...

Thinking of this, standing in the sky which has risen to nearly a hundred feet, facing the biting wind, Zhang Dun really felt a sense of bleakness and loneliness of being alone in such a vast world. feel.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dun couldn't help but cast his eyes on the hot air balloon next to him. On that hot air balloon, the emperor Zhao Xu pointed there with great enthusiasm. Zhang Yi also chanted with a smile, and Cao Shi, Di Yong and Wang Hou from Sanya were also among them.

(End of this chapter)