Iron Dynasty

Qingzhou Camp.

After leaving the military workshop, Xiao Ming went directly to the Qingzhou camp with a rifled gun.

Compared with the lively training scene in the past, the Qingzhou camp was a bit deserted at this time. After part of the Qingzhou army was stationed in Ryukyu and the other Qingzhou army went to Yunzhou, only 5,000 soldiers were stationed in the Qingzhou camp today to guard Qingzhou. security.

However, in addition to the current 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers, there are still remnants of soldiers who escaped from Chang'an in the current Qingzhou camp. These soldiers total 3,000 and were placed in the west side of the Qingzhou campus.

When he arrived at the Qingzhou camp, the soldiers of the Qingzhou army were carrying out the reloading training in the past. Luo Hong and other generals from Chang'an were enviously looking at the Qingzhou soldiers in neat military uniforms and carrying bayonets and flintlock guns.

Compared with the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army, the firearms battalion from Chang'an seemed out of place.

Your Highness.

The arrival of Xiao Ming quickly alerted the generals who were watching the training. Luo Hong took the generals of the firearms battalion and bowed to Xiao Ming.

No gift. Xiao Ming helped Luo Hong up.

Luo Quan rejected him that day, and then Fiji told him the reason, which made Xiao Ming feel that Luo Quan was a man of righteousness.

At this time, Niu Ben brought Lu Fei, Luo Xin, Qi Guangyi and other generals over as well. After saluting, Niu Ben said, Your Highness, we are showing them the musket array.

When he came in, Xiao Ming could see what they were doing. He said to Luo Hong, What do you think of our Qingzhou Army?

The training of the Qingzhou Army is probably beyond the reach of the firearms battalion. Besides, the muskets equipped by the Qingzhou Army seem to be different from the firearms battalion. Luo Hong shook his head.

Speaking of the flintlock gun, Niu Ben and Xiao Ming were immediately a little embarrassed. At that time, he sold the matchlock gun to the imperial court and other vassal kings. The secret of the flintlock gun has been kept secret. Now Luo Hong is stationed in the Qingzhou camp and finally sees the tricks. .

However, what he mentioned was also very euphemistic, but he must have been caressing in his heart, knowing that Xiao Ming had kept it at that time.

Actually, the difference between a flintlock gun and a matchlock gun is not very big, but one is a flintlock gun, and the other is a matchlock ignition. There is almost no difference in range and accuracy. The only difference is the stability of the firing. There is another difference. That's the bayonet on here.

Up to now, he didn't need to hide the flintlock gun anymore, so he told everything about the flintlock gun.

As he spoke, Niu Ben brought a flintlock gun, and then brought an arquebus from the firearms battalion, and showed Luo Hong the firing and bayonet parts of the two.

Holding a flintlock gun in one hand and an arquebus in the other, Luo Hong called two soldiers to experiment with the arquebus and the flintlock gun respectively. For one thing, there really isn't much difference.

After such an experiment, he did not think that Xiao Ming deceived Xiao Wenxuan, because it didn't make much difference to him. After all, whether it was an arquebus or a flintlock gun, as long as the enemy rushed in front of him with bullets, he had to fight meleely.

Relatively speaking, he felt that the bayonet was very important.

But even so, he looked at the flintlock gun eagerly, the meaning is self-evident, even if the gap is small, but who doesn't want a little better?

His Royal Highness, the last commander led all the soldiers of the firearms battalion to be loyal to His Highness.

Compared with Luo Xin's slick tongue, Luo Hong was calm and timid, but no matter how honest people were, Luo Hong directly expressed his stance to Xiao Ming in front of the Qingzhou army generals.

Cough cough. Xiao Ming looked at Luo Hong and a group of generals of the firearms battalion who were kneeling on one knee and said, Everyone, please, since you are willing to follow this king, this king will naturally not treat him differently. .

Luo Hong didn't get up, but said: The last general heard that His Highness is going to conquer Pengzhou to punish King Wei for the crime of rebellion and treason. If His Highness believes in our firearms camp, we are willing to go there for His Highness.

This... Xiao Ming's heart was slightly turbulent.

Luo Quan said this because he was worried that Xiao Ming was not at ease with these generals, so he wanted to use his military exploits to prove his loyalty.

As for Xiao Ming, he was really tempted.

Cangzhou, Laizhou, and Yizhou had only 15,000 troops, and now the Firearms Battalion has 20,000 troops, which reduces the gap between the army and the Pengzhou defenders.

After all, Pengzhou is the northern gateway to the Wei land. King Wei has a large number of people, and the number of troops in his hands is more than four times that of him, and this does not include the private soldiers of the local rich and powerful families. A dead end is impossible.

After hesitating for a while, Xiao Ming said: In this case, this king will not shirk. After all, since you are the king's army, you should be treated equally. Now this king is using troops, and this battle of Pengzhou will count as one of you. share.

Thank you, Your Highness. Luo Hong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and the other generals of the firearms battalion were also happy. Xiao Ming's words meant that they accepted them.

Shaking his head, Xiao Ming asked Luo Hong and others to get up. Since Luo Hong mentioned the conquest of Pengzhou, Xiao Ming took advantage of the situation and asked, Captain Niu, have all the armies of the three states notified?

Go back to your highness, the last general has issued a military order to dispatch the Cangzhou army and the Pengzhou army to Yizhou to join. With this food and grass, it will take about 12 hours to prepare the baggage before leaving for Pengzhou, but this equipment? Niu Ben said. not talking anymore.

Xiao Ming knew that Niu Ben would mention this, he said: This king has just returned from the military workshop, Song Changping will give priority to providing weapons to the soldiers of the three states, at least half of the soldiers can be satisfied within a month, and there is no war without muskets. Is it? How did we fight the barbarians in the Battle of Cangzhou?

Niu Ben was stunned for a moment. At this moment, he realized that the whole army was blindly admiring muskets, and they had forgotten their original ability. , the sword was transported to Yizhou.

Xiao Ming nodded lightly. In the age of muskets, it was very dangerous to forget the ability to fight with cold weapons. In fact, the current mainstream in the world is still muskets, but on the battlefield, bayonets are often used after several rounds of salvos. Charge melee.

For example, the most prestigious British Red Shirts in the modern era still fight in a 50-meter volley and then charge.

Because of this, Xiao Ming is not so arrogant that he thinks that he can take on the Great Yu Kingdom with a flintlock gun. After all, strictly speaking, he is still in the stage of alternating hot and cold weapons, and he needs to face every war. Be careful not to be sloppy in the slightest.