The Rise of the European Emperor

Overjoyed, Kong Tai suddenly remembered that the advantages of the arquebus had not been fully demonstrated. So he asked for a demonstration of the three-piece arquebus.

"What is a three-stage strike?" Zuo political envoy Shen Rui asked suspiciously. Obviously, he didn't know.

But Liu Meng was excited:

"Could it be King Qianning's (Mu Ying) three-dan method?"

"King of Qianning?" Shen Rui couldn't remember which prince was called the King of Qianning for a while. After all, the Mu family called Mu Ying the prince, and the descendants were hereditary Marquis of Xiping.

"It's the ancestor of the Mu family." Liu Meng said and pointed to the west of Yunnan, and Shen Rui suddenly realized.

Having received Marin's explanation, Kong Tai naturally knew how to make Daming happy:

"It was the three-stage strike invented by Lord Mu. The Taoist Master Xiaoyao traveled around Taixi. He taught my master to speak Chinese, helped my master improve the fire gun, and by the way, he also taught my master the three-stage method of King Qianning back then. "

"Then give it a try!" Liu Meng said impatiently.

In order to fully demonstrate the firepower, Kongtai arranged for 30 musketeers, arranged in three rows, to demonstrate three-stage strikes.

But before shooting, these musketeers placed a lot of refusal in front of the formation.

"Well, your army really knows how to fight and knows how to resist horses in front of the battle." Liu Meng stroked his beard and nodded in praise.

"There are many cavalry in the land of Taixi, and almost every country has cavalry. If the enemy's cavalry rushes into the musketeers, they will definitely be slaughtered. Therefore, the musketeers must put their horses first. In addition, the flanks also have cavalry. There will be spearmen to cover. If the enemy infantry rushes up, the musketeers will retreat into the formation, and change to the spearmen to fight the enemy,” Kong Tai introduced according to the instructions in the book.

Not only that, but Kong Tai also let people take 20 spears from the boat, and let the sailors stand on both sides of the musketeer with long hairs to make an escort. Obviously, this is to demonstrate tactics to Daming.

However, the Da Ming civil servants and soldiers at the scene focused their attention on the length of the spear:

"Oh, the long hair of these ghosts is so long!" Some civil servants exclaimed.

Of course long, these spears are about 4 meters long. Although it has been truncated from 6 meters to 4 meters, it is still much longer than Daming's spear. The spears of the Ming Dynasty are generally about 2 meters in length, which is half shorter than these spears.

But at this time,

However, Xu Yong, the avant-garde commander in Guangzhou, said with disdain:

"The spear is so long, how can it be nimble? If you meet a nimble opponent, you will definitely have to fail."

According to the requirements of Chinese martial arts, the length of the spear is generally the same as the total length of the user's right hand after standing. In this way, it is more suitable for the martial arts of the spear, which can be moved from side to side and is extremely flexible. If it is too long, it loses flexibility. Xu Yong obviously knew martial arts, so he was a little disdainful of Beihai Kingdom's long spear.

But Conté explained:

"General Xu, you are talking about generals who understand martial arts. In fact, the people who use spears in this country are all the lowest-level infantry soldiers who are not skilled in martial arts. They don't need a person to show their might, as long as they can stab someone with a spear. ."

"What if the enemy dodges away?" Xu Yong asked.

"So look at our spearmen, all of them are next to each other. Countless spears are thrusting forward together, and they can't get out of the way at all."

"In addition, the spear is so long, it is actually to deal with the charge of the cavalry"

"Dealing with the cavalry?" Liu Meng immediately came to his senses. You must know that in the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian cavalry in Saibei had always been the number one confidant of the Ming Dynasty. Meeting in the wild, facing the charge of Mongolian cavalry, the Ming army will be massacred seven times out of ten. If there is a method of restraint, it will definitely be a blessing of the Ming Dynasty.

"Yes, Mr. Liu!" Kong Tai cleared his throat, and then quietly flipped through the manual given by Malin.

After a while, he introduced:

"If facing the charge of cavalry, the spearman can squat down, insert the rear end of the spear into the soil, and move forward diagonally. If the enemy cavalry charges hard, a spear with a length of one zhang or two (4 meters) can be used even at an angle. Standing on the ground, when the cavalry on the opposite side rushes over, they must also install their spears first. Then, the war horse is stabbed, and the enemy cavalry falls off. The rest of our spearmen can stab the fallen enemy to death.”

Liu Meng gestured and found that if the spear was 4 meters long, it could really do this. Moreover, if the spear is slanted on the ground, even if the opponent's cavalry collides, the force will be transmitted to the ground, and the infantry with the spear will not be knocked into the air.

But Xu Yong, the commander of the Guangzhou avant-garde, interjected:

"However, the Mongolian cavalry is good at riding and archery. They have fired arrows from a distance. How to break it?"

Kong Tai was in no hurry, because it was stated in Marin's collection:

"General Xu, have you forgotten our arquebuses? They have bows and we have arquebuses! If you don't believe me, please see its power."

Then, with an order, 30 arquebusiers, divided into three groups, began a three-stage strike performance.

At this time, the 40-step target has not been removed, but was put in place again. The shooters who performed three-stage strikes began to line up to shoot

After the 10 musketeers in the first row of "Bang Bang Bang" finished aiming, under the command of the commander, they poured the bullets to the front target together.

Then, the first row of musketeers backed sideways from a 1-meter-wide interval to the end. The musketeers in the second row reached the front. After standing in a good position, most of the gunpowder smoke produced by the shooting of the musketeers in the first row also dissipated, and the front could be roughly seen. Then, the commander loudly ordered to fire, and the musketeers in the second row also pulled the trigger, driving the match ropes into the medicine pool, activating the muskets

Just as the second platoon was firing forward, the musketeers of the first platoon had already arrived at the back and began to reload the ammunition. When the second row retreated, they were still reloading. But when the third row stepped forward to shoot and retreated, the musketeers in the first row were also roughly loaded. After a few breaths of time, the first row was finally loaded, walked to the front, raised the arquebus, and started a new round of shooting under the officer's order.

In this way, the three rows of musketeers carried out relatively coherent and smooth three-stage strikes, dazzling the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty present.

"As expected, the three-stage strike invented by King Qianning is extremely sharp!" Liu Meng exclaimed sincerely. Yes, the credit goes to Daming Qianning Wang Muching

"King of Qianning is sharp!" The Da Ming civil servant present also praised. They will not praise Fanbang, but praise the famous generals of this dynasty, and they are still generous. In Guangdong, when a person is praised for his greatness, they will say, "So sharp!" Even foreign officials such as Liu Meng have been affected.

But at this time, Baihu Li Sanshui, who was in charge of the fire gun team of the entire Qianhu Institute, was puzzled:

"Master Kong (Kong Tai), I think your army only needs 30 breaths to load ammunition, while our army needs more than 60 breaths to load ammunition with a shorter gun tube. Why? You know, putting lead bullets into the gun tube is very easy It's troublesome, it takes a lot of work"

As a professional, Li Sanshui found that these Beihai musketeers seemed to be very easy to put lead bullets into the barrels. So easy, Li Sanshui suspected that these lead bullets were smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel. However, in that case, wouldn't the air leak, which will affect the range. However, the range of these Beihai guns is obviously so far.

Hearing the question of professional Li Sanshui, Liu Meng also looked over with concern.

After listening to Li Sanshui's question, Kong Tai reached out and beckoned. So, an idle musketeer came over with a arquebus. Comte, the arquebus, signaled the musketeer to bring the ammunition

After pouring in powdered gunpowder and tamping it down with a wire rod, the buckshot was taken out of the bag

"Li Baihu, please be careful!"

Li Sanshui and Liu Meng both stared, but saw that Kong Tai took out another small piece of paper. The paper is shiny, looks like oiled paper

Then, Comte wrapped the lead bullet with a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel with a piece of oiled paper, put it into the muzzle, and pressed it to the bottom with ease.

Afterwards, Comte explained:

"Li Baihu, the lead bullet is in the barrel, and the best chance is not to hold your breath. Otherwise, it will affect the range. Therefore, ten years ago, my lord invented a small lead bullet wrapped in oil paper or deerskin, and then pressed The way to get into the barrel of a gun."

"In this way, it is much easier to press the lead bullet into the barrel. Look, did I press the lead bullet to the bottom in one go? If I use a lead bullet that is exactly the size of the inner diameter of the barrel, I want to press it to the bottom, That would be difficult, and it would take a lot of time to press the rod with a hammer and beat it hard. But using the method of wrapping with oiled paper or deerskin can save dozens of breaths of time and greatly speed up the filling speed!”

"Because of this powerful invention of my lord, the combat power of our musketeers has greatly increased. Ten years ago, my lord's territory was less than the size of a county. Now, my lord's territory is as large as half a county. Hu (Fu) built so big!" Kong Tai said proudly.

"Ah, half Hu Jian?" Liu Meng was shocked. He had participated in politics in Hu Jian, and he knew that Hu Jian had 69 counties in 10 prefectures and 2 prefectures. Half the size of Hu Jian, isn't it the size of more than 30 counties?

You know, the fiefs of those princes in Daming are not that big. It seems that this North Sea country is still strong.

"Yes, our country is now divided into eight provinces: East Friesland, West Friesland, Oldenburg, Bremen, Schleswig, Jutland, North Münster and South Münster. Of course, our province is definitely not as big as Daming’s province, and the eight provinces combined are only half the size of Hu Jian.”

"It's already huge!" Liu Meng knew very well that this area was more than ten times larger than that of the Ryukyu Islands, a country belonging to Ming Dynasty. He also worked in Hu Jian at the beginning, and the location of the Ryukyu Tribute trade ride was in Fuzhou. Liu Meng had dealt with the Ryukyu people for this reason and knew the situation there. The Ryukyu Kingdom was crowned king by the imperial court, and the area of ​​Beihai Kingdom was larger than the fiefs of those princes in Daming. Of course, except for the territory of the vassal kings entrusted by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang was very generous in dividing his son, and he gave a large area of ​​​​the country. For example, King Qin, King Jin, King Qing, and King Su (the latter two have the largest fiefs, but they are very barren and belong to the desolate areas in the northwest). And the later princes, the territory was much smaller and hungry, and generally there was only one prefecture or one state. Like the territory of Marin, it is almost as large as 5 prefectures, far exceeding the territory of the princes of the Ming Dynasty after the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

"It seems that this kind of fire gun and its tactics are very powerful!" Shen Rui exclaimed.

"My lord would like to dedicate all these to the Daming court and become a vassal of Daming. May Daming become more prosperous and prosperous!"

"good!"

"Great!"