The sun is rising and the wind is bright, the village is covered with a layer of mist, and the dew on the grass leaves on the roadside has not dried yet. In general, it is a sunny and good weather.
But it is not a special day. Today, the Weapons Bureau is going to test guns and cannons, which is not a big deal. They have tried it twice before.
However, several elders in the village learned that Monk Yao was going to the mine to watch, so they went with him without any appointment.
In addition to the few followers and guards around Monk Yao, there were about ten people in the group.
When Wei Bin, who was in charge of military training, came to ask for instructions to cancel the morning exercises and go to watch the test weapons, there were more people, and today the matter became more lively.
Last time something happened in the coal mine. When Tao Da went to comfort the families of the dead and injured, he mentioned that the firearm was made to equip Fengxia Mountain to attack the bandits. Wei Bin heard that he had new equipment, so he became concerned.
Unexpectedly, before Zhang Ning and the others waited, they heard the rumbling cannons from afar. Monk Yao started to fire cannons before he even arrived at the place.
Looking from the village entrance, I saw smoke rising. At this time, the wind was light and the thick smoke never dissipated in the air for a long time.
Monk Yao and his people walked forward, and a few people came out of the thick smoke. The current person was Zhang Ning.
As he approached, he saw the excitement that could not be hidden on Zhang Ning's face. Monk Yao asked: Is this time possible?
Uncle, please come and see.
Zhang Ning calmly saluted and took them to the three-door cannons mounted on the wooden wheel and said, after repeated transformation and testing, it consumed countless manpower and money, and these three cannons were basically usable.The mother-child cannon weighs less than 400 kilograms, and the effective range of loading solid bullets is more than one mile. It is equipped with a double-wheeled frame for field combat and siege. It can not only load solid bullets, but also load flowering bullets and gravel shotguns to kill large areas.It is lightweight, easy to transport, has a center-centered, simple rangefinder, and has a fast firing speed, but its disadvantage is that it is a small caliber light gun with a short range.
Monk Yao said calmly: It is not short to be able to hit a mile. As far as I know, it is good to be able to hit a mile away from the general cannon in a big city.
Zhang Ning didn't say much, and turned around and shouted: Ma Dapeng, ask someone to reload and shoot another shot at the target on the mountain.
His speech speed could not help but get faster, and his excitement could not be suppressed. Please see, uncle, the locations of the piles of straw opposite were at least a mile away, you can tell at first glance.
Everyone looked at it with great enthusiasm and waited for a while. After a while, the craftsman who set off fire shouted, and someone took the fire a little, snorted, and the man hurriedly covered his head. After a moment, he heard a loud bang and thick smoke rose.
Many people on Monk Yao were shocked and took several steps back.
After a while, the smoke slightly disappeared. As soon as the haystack on the opposite mountainside caught fire, it was the hot shells that hit the target and started igniting it.
Zhang Ning couldn't help but look proud: The general's cannon weighs more than a thousand pounds, and it is extremely difficult to transport it. How about our mother-child cannon?
Monk Yao looked serious, nodded slightly, and walked two steps to look at the fire of the haystack on the mountain.
Zhang Ning pointed at the muskets in the hands of several craftsmen: The coercion gun is five feet long and weighs eleven or two kilograms. It can be worn with iron armor a hundred steps away, making it easy to aim with accuracy.However, the barrel manufacturing process is too laborious for the time being. It is made of two layers of fine iron sheets inside and outside, and then it is hand-drilled with a steel drill, and it takes more than 20 days for each person to drill a barrel. It may be unqualified, resulting in expensive manufacturing costs.But it's pretty good to use.
After saying that, he asked someone to put an iron pot a hundred steps away, and personally took a loaded musket and tested it in front of Monk Yao. After holding it, he said: You can aim at the eyes, your mind, and your target.Close your eyes when shooting.
Bang!The white smoke rose and the sparks flashed, and the sound was still loud.
A man ran over to get the iron pot. Everyone looked at it with anticipation and saw that the iron pot was intact.
Zhang Ning was immediately embarrassed and said: It seems that he didn't hit.
Haha... After a moment, dozens of people couldn't help laughing.
Even the escort Qiuye on the side couldn't help but smile and whispered beside Zhang Ning: If you say a few less words, you will not be laughed at if you don't hit it correctly, and you will not be laughed at by others.
Monk Yao reached out and patted his shoulder and said kindly: Ping'an is a scholar. He used to be unfamiliar with archery, horse riding and shooting, so it would be no wonder that he didn't hit him.
Everyone burst into laughter, and Zhang Ning looked calm and said: I was happy just now and forgot how to use this kind of mesh gun. It is purely normal to shoot a hundred steps away from the target, and if I hit it, I can only be too lucky.
A man couldn't help but shout: I just saw someone pretending to be gunpowder and fiddling for a long time, and I could only hit one shot at a time. It depends on luck to hit it. So what's the use of this thing besides scaring people?
Zhang Ning said calmly: This is not what we use. There are two ways to hit, one is to get close, and the other is: to shoot the whole row of volleys.
Everyone thought about it and nodded.
A martial artist under Wei Bin's army also understood that soldiers could not pass through the poplar with bows and arrows a hundred steps, and they had to be covered by large areas of arrows.
Moreover, the killing distance of an excellent crossbow is only a few dozen steps. If the bow and arrow are too bad, it is difficult for people who shoot through armor to kill each other at nearly twenty or thirty steps.
Wei Bin, a man with a national face, couldn't help but ask: Lord Zhang said, "Master Zhang will build a batch of firearms to equip our troops?"
Said.
Zhang Ning turned around and looked at him seriously. I also wanted to see the effect of these weapons in actual combat.As long as my uncle agrees to let me train the people in the village, it will take only two months to overwhelm the bandits.
When everyone showed great curiosity in the face of new things, Monk Yao seemed very indifferent, and he did not immediately agree to Zhang Ning's request.
Zhang Ning thought he could not trust the combat effectiveness of the firearms and the military management methods of a young civil servant, and was worried that if the troops were damaged and the safety of the people in several villages would endanger the safety of the people.
Zhang Ning immediately said aggressively: I saw the situation after the bandits plundered Feng Village that day. Killing the elderly, weak, women and children in broad daylight and humiliating women was simply a great humiliation!What crime does the murdered people have? Is it just that the thieves are free from justice?
The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and his emotions were affected. His eyes showed a completely different murderous aura and coldness from the usual gentleness. There must be a natural law in this world, which is greater than the strong prey on the weak. Those who harm innocent people and fish should be punished by trial and sanctions, and unreasonable rules should be destroyed!We will never succumb to violence!
...The bandits committed all kinds of evil and committed crimes. When will they not use their blood to sacrifice to these ancient weapons?
Monk Yao suddenly stood there, staring at Zhang Ning's eyes, saying nothing for a long time.
The surroundings also became quiet for a moment, and everyone was speechless after hearing Zhang Ning's words.
In this short silence, Monk Yao looked at those eyes and heard a low roar in his ear, very familiar, as if in a dream...
He murmured, there must be a law of nature in the world, which is greater than the law of the weak, and will never succumb to violence...
Everyone turned to look at the strange monk Yao.
Monk Yao looked up at the sky, and white clouds were floating in the blue sky, and there was nothing else. He sighed, is this God's will?
After a long time, Monk Yao came to his senses. When he looked at Zhang Ning's eyes again, the charm of the tiger's eyes disappeared. That moment passed in a flash, and the suppressed roar could not be heard in his ears.
Monk Yao raised his hand and pointed at his nephew: Cheng, come and teach everyone to use firearms to destroy people who violate the laws of nature.
Zhang Ning immediately folded his fists and said, "I will definitely live up to my uncle's entrustedness."
He has been here for a long time, mostly spending his future worries and depression. Now he needs an opportunity to confirm his ideas, and at the same time proves his abilities to the people of the Jianwen Party for the first time.
...Zhang Ning is very confident about what is happening in front of him. He is just a group of bandits. So what if he is relying on the terrain and fortifications?
Wei Bin has more than a hundred strong men under his command, and he was selected from several villages to serve and be responsible for defending the village.
Zhang Ning's first thing was to reorganize these people, and according to the regular organization of the Ming Dynasty, he organized this group of people into a hundred households, with Wei Bin as the official of the hundred households, and led 120 combat soldiers under him, and the rest were used as commemoration, food and grass logistics and other troops.
There are sixty-one banners below the 100 households, each with ten small banners; there are ten small banners under the general banner, and a sequence is arranged from one to ten.
In just one day, a group of armed villagers turned into a small army because of the organizational numbers and military disciplines.
Zhang Ning believes that managing a military may not necessarily require talents from military generals. He still feels good now, so why can he do it?
His original identity was only an accountant and civil servant in the imperial examination, but he had already worked as a factory director and engineer in the mining workshop in Fengxia Mountain. Although he was not very professional, he still made things happen...
But that's all.
At first, he couldn't start teaching the use of firearms because there were not enough finished guns and cannons and gunpowder.
Next, he started doing several things at the same time: First, according to the experience of one month of military training in college, train these people in a queue, stand in military posture, stand at attention, rest, walk in step, and turn left and right.
As for what it is, he himself is not very clear. Perhaps it can strengthen organizational discipline and also be beneficial to the firearm volley queue. Anyway, Zhang Ning doesn’t know how to fight and martial arts skills are, and he doesn’t have enough guns, so he has nothing to do for the time being.
In addition, he asked the Finance Department of the Weapons Bureau to allocate funds to order more than 200 sets of black clothes of the same color and style from the villagers; and ordered the craftsmen in the workshop to build more than 100 large-edge iron helmets.
Because in Zhang Ning's memory, I don't know where I saw it in the past. During the war, the number of people killed and injured due to being hit on the head was the largest, so I wanted to equip each of the soldiers with an iron helmet.
The armor is not enough, and the chain mail is still time-consuming and labor-intensive. The workshop also has to make firearms. At that time, the soldiers will wear wooden and bamboo armor if they have them.
He conceived nine military laws overnight, which were simple and easy to understand, as a credential to restrain military discipline.There are also ten steps for loading and firing muskets, which are written out in a clear and organized manner to facilitate proficiency training.
For a moment, Zhang Ning felt that he was still a military theorist who could write military books. These chapters and some nonsense were explained, and there was no pressure to write a military book.
Looking back, some military strategists in the Ming Dynasty were actually the same civil servants. They were sent to the frontier governor for a while, and then they did some things and wrote the articles well. It was nothing difficult to write two military books with a pen.
But it is not a special day. Today, the Weapons Bureau is going to test guns and cannons, which is not a big deal. They have tried it twice before.
However, several elders in the village learned that Monk Yao was going to the mine to watch, so they went with him without any appointment.
In addition to the few followers and guards around Monk Yao, there were about ten people in the group.
When Wei Bin, who was in charge of military training, came to ask for instructions to cancel the morning exercises and go to watch the test weapons, there were more people, and today the matter became more lively.
Last time something happened in the coal mine. When Tao Da went to comfort the families of the dead and injured, he mentioned that the firearm was made to equip Fengxia Mountain to attack the bandits. Wei Bin heard that he had new equipment, so he became concerned.
Unexpectedly, before Zhang Ning and the others waited, they heard the rumbling cannons from afar. Monk Yao started to fire cannons before he even arrived at the place.
Looking from the village entrance, I saw smoke rising. At this time, the wind was light and the thick smoke never dissipated in the air for a long time.
Monk Yao and his people walked forward, and a few people came out of the thick smoke. The current person was Zhang Ning.
As he approached, he saw the excitement that could not be hidden on Zhang Ning's face. Monk Yao asked: Is this time possible?
Uncle, please come and see.
Zhang Ning calmly saluted and took them to the three-door cannons mounted on the wooden wheel and said, after repeated transformation and testing, it consumed countless manpower and money, and these three cannons were basically usable.The mother-child cannon weighs less than 400 kilograms, and the effective range of loading solid bullets is more than one mile. It is equipped with a double-wheeled frame for field combat and siege. It can not only load solid bullets, but also load flowering bullets and gravel shotguns to kill large areas.It is lightweight, easy to transport, has a center-centered, simple rangefinder, and has a fast firing speed, but its disadvantage is that it is a small caliber light gun with a short range.
Monk Yao said calmly: It is not short to be able to hit a mile. As far as I know, it is good to be able to hit a mile away from the general cannon in a big city.
Zhang Ning didn't say much, and turned around and shouted: Ma Dapeng, ask someone to reload and shoot another shot at the target on the mountain.
His speech speed could not help but get faster, and his excitement could not be suppressed. Please see, uncle, the locations of the piles of straw opposite were at least a mile away, you can tell at first glance.
Everyone looked at it with great enthusiasm and waited for a while. After a while, the craftsman who set off fire shouted, and someone took the fire a little, snorted, and the man hurriedly covered his head. After a moment, he heard a loud bang and thick smoke rose.
Many people on Monk Yao were shocked and took several steps back.
After a while, the smoke slightly disappeared. As soon as the haystack on the opposite mountainside caught fire, it was the hot shells that hit the target and started igniting it.
Zhang Ning couldn't help but look proud: The general's cannon weighs more than a thousand pounds, and it is extremely difficult to transport it. How about our mother-child cannon?
Monk Yao looked serious, nodded slightly, and walked two steps to look at the fire of the haystack on the mountain.
Zhang Ning pointed at the muskets in the hands of several craftsmen: The coercion gun is five feet long and weighs eleven or two kilograms. It can be worn with iron armor a hundred steps away, making it easy to aim with accuracy.However, the barrel manufacturing process is too laborious for the time being. It is made of two layers of fine iron sheets inside and outside, and then it is hand-drilled with a steel drill, and it takes more than 20 days for each person to drill a barrel. It may be unqualified, resulting in expensive manufacturing costs.But it's pretty good to use.
After saying that, he asked someone to put an iron pot a hundred steps away, and personally took a loaded musket and tested it in front of Monk Yao. After holding it, he said: You can aim at the eyes, your mind, and your target.Close your eyes when shooting.
Bang!The white smoke rose and the sparks flashed, and the sound was still loud.
A man ran over to get the iron pot. Everyone looked at it with anticipation and saw that the iron pot was intact.
Zhang Ning was immediately embarrassed and said: It seems that he didn't hit.
Haha... After a moment, dozens of people couldn't help laughing.
Even the escort Qiuye on the side couldn't help but smile and whispered beside Zhang Ning: If you say a few less words, you will not be laughed at if you don't hit it correctly, and you will not be laughed at by others.
Monk Yao reached out and patted his shoulder and said kindly: Ping'an is a scholar. He used to be unfamiliar with archery, horse riding and shooting, so it would be no wonder that he didn't hit him.
Everyone burst into laughter, and Zhang Ning looked calm and said: I was happy just now and forgot how to use this kind of mesh gun. It is purely normal to shoot a hundred steps away from the target, and if I hit it, I can only be too lucky.
A man couldn't help but shout: I just saw someone pretending to be gunpowder and fiddling for a long time, and I could only hit one shot at a time. It depends on luck to hit it. So what's the use of this thing besides scaring people?
Zhang Ning said calmly: This is not what we use. There are two ways to hit, one is to get close, and the other is: to shoot the whole row of volleys.
Everyone thought about it and nodded.
A martial artist under Wei Bin's army also understood that soldiers could not pass through the poplar with bows and arrows a hundred steps, and they had to be covered by large areas of arrows.
Moreover, the killing distance of an excellent crossbow is only a few dozen steps. If the bow and arrow are too bad, it is difficult for people who shoot through armor to kill each other at nearly twenty or thirty steps.
Wei Bin, a man with a national face, couldn't help but ask: Lord Zhang said, "Master Zhang will build a batch of firearms to equip our troops?"
Said.
Zhang Ning turned around and looked at him seriously. I also wanted to see the effect of these weapons in actual combat.As long as my uncle agrees to let me train the people in the village, it will take only two months to overwhelm the bandits.
When everyone showed great curiosity in the face of new things, Monk Yao seemed very indifferent, and he did not immediately agree to Zhang Ning's request.
Zhang Ning thought he could not trust the combat effectiveness of the firearms and the military management methods of a young civil servant, and was worried that if the troops were damaged and the safety of the people in several villages would endanger the safety of the people.
Zhang Ning immediately said aggressively: I saw the situation after the bandits plundered Feng Village that day. Killing the elderly, weak, women and children in broad daylight and humiliating women was simply a great humiliation!What crime does the murdered people have? Is it just that the thieves are free from justice?
The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and his emotions were affected. His eyes showed a completely different murderous aura and coldness from the usual gentleness. There must be a natural law in this world, which is greater than the strong prey on the weak. Those who harm innocent people and fish should be punished by trial and sanctions, and unreasonable rules should be destroyed!We will never succumb to violence!
...The bandits committed all kinds of evil and committed crimes. When will they not use their blood to sacrifice to these ancient weapons?
Monk Yao suddenly stood there, staring at Zhang Ning's eyes, saying nothing for a long time.
The surroundings also became quiet for a moment, and everyone was speechless after hearing Zhang Ning's words.
In this short silence, Monk Yao looked at those eyes and heard a low roar in his ear, very familiar, as if in a dream...
He murmured, there must be a law of nature in the world, which is greater than the law of the weak, and will never succumb to violence...
Everyone turned to look at the strange monk Yao.
Monk Yao looked up at the sky, and white clouds were floating in the blue sky, and there was nothing else. He sighed, is this God's will?
After a long time, Monk Yao came to his senses. When he looked at Zhang Ning's eyes again, the charm of the tiger's eyes disappeared. That moment passed in a flash, and the suppressed roar could not be heard in his ears.
Monk Yao raised his hand and pointed at his nephew: Cheng, come and teach everyone to use firearms to destroy people who violate the laws of nature.
Zhang Ning immediately folded his fists and said, "I will definitely live up to my uncle's entrustedness."
He has been here for a long time, mostly spending his future worries and depression. Now he needs an opportunity to confirm his ideas, and at the same time proves his abilities to the people of the Jianwen Party for the first time.
...Zhang Ning is very confident about what is happening in front of him. He is just a group of bandits. So what if he is relying on the terrain and fortifications?
Wei Bin has more than a hundred strong men under his command, and he was selected from several villages to serve and be responsible for defending the village.
Zhang Ning's first thing was to reorganize these people, and according to the regular organization of the Ming Dynasty, he organized this group of people into a hundred households, with Wei Bin as the official of the hundred households, and led 120 combat soldiers under him, and the rest were used as commemoration, food and grass logistics and other troops.
There are sixty-one banners below the 100 households, each with ten small banners; there are ten small banners under the general banner, and a sequence is arranged from one to ten.
In just one day, a group of armed villagers turned into a small army because of the organizational numbers and military disciplines.
Zhang Ning believes that managing a military may not necessarily require talents from military generals. He still feels good now, so why can he do it?
His original identity was only an accountant and civil servant in the imperial examination, but he had already worked as a factory director and engineer in the mining workshop in Fengxia Mountain. Although he was not very professional, he still made things happen...
But that's all.
At first, he couldn't start teaching the use of firearms because there were not enough finished guns and cannons and gunpowder.
Next, he started doing several things at the same time: First, according to the experience of one month of military training in college, train these people in a queue, stand in military posture, stand at attention, rest, walk in step, and turn left and right.
As for what it is, he himself is not very clear. Perhaps it can strengthen organizational discipline and also be beneficial to the firearm volley queue. Anyway, Zhang Ning doesn’t know how to fight and martial arts skills are, and he doesn’t have enough guns, so he has nothing to do for the time being.
In addition, he asked the Finance Department of the Weapons Bureau to allocate funds to order more than 200 sets of black clothes of the same color and style from the villagers; and ordered the craftsmen in the workshop to build more than 100 large-edge iron helmets.
Because in Zhang Ning's memory, I don't know where I saw it in the past. During the war, the number of people killed and injured due to being hit on the head was the largest, so I wanted to equip each of the soldiers with an iron helmet.
The armor is not enough, and the chain mail is still time-consuming and labor-intensive. The workshop also has to make firearms. At that time, the soldiers will wear wooden and bamboo armor if they have them.
He conceived nine military laws overnight, which were simple and easy to understand, as a credential to restrain military discipline.There are also ten steps for loading and firing muskets, which are written out in a clear and organized manner to facilitate proficiency training.
For a moment, Zhang Ning felt that he was still a military theorist who could write military books. These chapters and some nonsense were explained, and there was no pressure to write a military book.
Looking back, some military strategists in the Ming Dynasty were actually the same civil servants. They were sent to the frontier governor for a while, and then they did some things and wrote the articles well. It was nothing difficult to write two military books with a pen.