Big Ear Thief Selling Straw Sandals

Chapter 210 Uncle Emperor Is a Coward

The continuous gunfire alarmed Liu Bian, who was listening to the conversation, and he looked outside uneasily.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty! Someone must have violated the palace ban, and the minister's subordinates are fighting back, so there should be no serious problems."

Soon, the gunfire stopped, and Ma Chao came in to report the situation.

"Unidentified people pretended to be patrolling personnel and forcibly approached the Changle Palace. Their intentions are unknown. After our warnings failed, we fired three rounds. Four of the opponents died and six were injured. Military doctors are treating their wounded."

Liu Bian felt something was wrong, so he asked, "How many of them are there?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the opponent is a ten-man team."

Liu Bian asked again: "How many casualties did you have?"

Ma Chao said a little proudly, "No one was injured."

Liu Bian usually plays sand table military exercises, and has some impressions of the casualty ratio.

If it weren't for special environmental conditions, it would be very difficult for the two sides to face off in a real battle.

At this time, there was a commotion outside, and Matthew hurried to the hall.

"Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Lieutenant Xu Rong of the Lieutenant Lieutenant of Liangzhou, wants to take those wounded away."

Obviously, the deliberately provocative patrol was Liangzhou soldiers.

Xu Rong, a general of the Liangzhou family, ranks two thousand stones, is a serious general in the court, and has a high status.

Liu Bei stood up and said to the Queen Mother He, "Please rest easy and recover while I go deal with them."

But Liu Bian said, "I'll go and have a look too."

Liu Bei looked at Empress Dowager He, and Empress Dowager He glanced at Zhang Rang, Zhang Rang understood.

"Your Majesty, let this old slave accompany you."

As soon as the group left the gate of the palace, they saw a group of people gathered in the center of the square in front of the palace, and there were several officers in the core.

Accompanied by Zhang Rang, Liu Bian went straight to the crowd.

According to the eunuch's biography, all the officers and soldiers greeted him with half kneels.

"His Majesty Saint Ann!"

Zhang Rang looked at Xu Rong and the others, and then at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei understood immediately, and said, "Let's return to their respective positions below a hundred generals."

Wow, the guards immediately returned to their posts, and the scene was quite empty.

Liu Bian then discovered that a white-robed military doctor was using a knife to disembowel the wounded.

"vomit!"

The colorful and bloody scene made his stomach churn and nauseated.

Liu Bei had already adapted, took a step forward, and looked at Xu Rong.

"Dong Zhongying sent you here?"

Xu Rong stood up, raised his hands and replied: "Reply to King Wu, Zhou Mu will be in charge of guarding the palace at the end of his life. There was a conflict among the guards here. I have to ask about his responsibilities."

Liu Bei nodded and asked, "Are these people your soldiers?"

Xu Rong nodded and admitted grandly: "Yes. They are in charge of patrolling the palace."

Ma Chao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can the inspectors come to Changle Palace? Could it be that they are blind and don't know that this is a forbidden place in the province?"

Xu Rong pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh, maybe they got lost and went wrong."

"Telling lies with your eyes open..."

After all, Ma Chao had a thin skin and underestimated Xu Rong's brazenness.

Xu Rong smiled indifferently: "It's human to make mistakes. It's not uncommon to get lost and make mistakes. Could it be that Meng Qi can guarantee that he will never go wrong for the rest of his life?"

"you……"

Ma Chao couldn't tell with his back turned.

Liu Bei patted his adopted son, signaling him to be calm and calm.

Turning to Xu Rong, he said, "Mistakes are inevitable, but you can't escape if you neglect your duties. If you can't manage your subordinates well, I will ask Dong Zhongying to withdraw you. In addition, these soldiers need further investigation, and you cannot take them away for the time being. They also need immediate medical attention. Is that clear?"

Everything Liu Bei said was reasonable, but Xu Rong was not high enough to challenge the other party's authority, so he could only accept it.

However, he wanted to see the "Hand Artillery" at close range, and at the same time understand the injuries of the dead and wounded subordinates, and asked about the situation at that time
Seeing Li Dangzhi rummaging around inside the wounded, Xu Rong couldn't help but feel a little unbearable and asked: "Zhi Jinwu, is it possible that your army treats wounds and saves people like this?"

Liu Bian's complexion was not very good, but he persisted, and he was also curious after hearing Xu Rong's words.

It was quite strange that those wounded were not afraid of the pain and did not gnaw a word.

"Uncle Huang, isn't this a bit of a joke?"

But Li Dangzhi dug out a black projectile from the flesh and dropped it into the steel push tray in the nurse's hand with a clang.

Then he applied the powder and skillfully sewed the wound up. As he walked towards the next wounded man, he said to the stretcher bearer, "Take it away and replenish nutrition."

The wounded man was both unlucky and lucky, hit three times, in the arm, thigh and buttocks, not fatal but suffered an old crime.

Li Dangzhi poured Mafeisan into his mouth and waited for the anesthetic to take effect.

Pointing to the lead bullets in the tray, Liu Bei said, "If you don't take them out, the wounded will die."

Xu Rong deliberately asked: "Is this the small shell fired by the 'Hand Cannon'?"

"Hand cannon?" Liu Bei was a little dumbfounded. How could such an idiotic name be worthy of the name we painstakingly created?

"No! This is the bullet of the Mauser Type [-] flintlock made by the Yongzhou Arsenal."

"Flintlock? Where does it look like a gun?"

Xu Rong got the key information, eager to know more about this new weapon, and deliberately provoked the topic.

Liu Bian was also very curious, pointing at the guard musketeers, and asked, "But the weapons on their shoulders?"

The emperor wanted to see, but Liu Bei could only glance at Matthew.

Matthew brought a flintlock gun, as well as bullets and gunpowder packs, and explained the general structure and shooting process of the flintlock gun to Liu Bian.

After listening to it, Liu Bian felt that this hand cannon or broken-hair musket was not much different from a crossbow.

"Uncle Emperor, I don't know which one is better, the flintlock musket or the crossbow?"

Xu Rong pricked up his ears and stared at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei looked around the crowd, smiled, and said leisurely: "If Your Majesty agrees, I will arrange the test now."

Xu Rong was afraid that Liu Bei would cheat, so he took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, there will be an archer who is proficient in bows and crossbows. I wonder if he can compete with Yong Jun?"

Liu Bian nodded in agreement and said, "Okay! Let's try it out and see who is better."

Soon, the two archery targets were placed at seventy paces (about a hundred meters), which was a relatively stable range for both crossbows and flintlocks.

Xu Rong sent an elite shooter, determined to win.

Ma Xiu was not tall enough, and it was difficult to load the gunpowder projectiles, so Liu Bei asked Ma Chao to play.

When Ma Chao returned to Shangjun, except for marrying Jin Hua, he spent most of his time at the flintlock shooting range.

After a month, I have been able to reload quickly and shoot accurately. I am considered a master of guns.

Well, smart people learn quickly wherever they go.

The two parties agreed to compete for ten rounds and then compile the statistical results.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Ten shots in a row, almost hitting the red heart, is worthy of being an elite shooter.

Xu Rong's subordinates let out a burst of cheers.

And Ma Chao took his time, fired once, reloaded once, and fired again.

Slowly, it took nearly half a quarter of an hour to finish ten shots.

Four hit hearts, five missed and one missed.

Now, both Liu Bian and Xu Rong understood that the flintlock gun was not only slow to fire, but also not very accurate.

Compared with the bow and crossbow, this thing is tasteless!
As a result, the two relaxed their moods, and against their will, they praised Ma Chao for his good shooting, and that the flintlock had a bright future.

Liu Bian then asked about the situation of the three giant "tanks".

Liu Bei did his best to the end, let out his tank, and invited the little emperor to visit the interior.

After seeing the internal structure, Liu Bian felt even more that Liu Bei was messing around.

After getting out of the tank, the little emperor naturally disliked him.

Such a heavy iron shell, cramped and suffocated, unable to move, and narrow field of vision, is useless except to save life.

This is enough to prove that Uncle Huang is a coward!
　Thank you book friend Wuwei Wuyu for rewarding a monthly ticket

　　
　
(End of this chapter)