Warring States Eagle

Liu Le signaled Mingfeng Xiuzheng to bring up the special item, and Mingfeng Xiuzheng immediately looked at Zheng Liang, asking for Zheng Liang's approval. ()

Zheng Liang nodded in agreement, and the latter immediately picked up a small wooden box at the door, then came to Zheng Liang, and handed it to Zheng Liang respectfully.

Zheng Liang slowly opened the small wooden box.

"Huo Tong?" Zheng Liang said in surprise.At this moment, he was not surprised to see Huo Tong for the first time, because Wang Hai sent a Huo Tong to Zheng Liang a few days ago.Zheng Liang was surprised at the moment why Huo Tong appeared in a small bandit's cottage.

Take a closer look at the fire system in front of you.With a length of 43.5 cm and a well of 3 cm, it is the fire system that is now used as a standard weapon in the Ming Dynasty.Recalling its history, it is an early light firearm of the Ming Dynasty, with excellent casting and exquisite design. Compared with the fire guns of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the gunpowder required is greatly reduced.The method used is to launch in a group of two people, one person is responsible for supporting and aiming, and the other is responsible for firing and shooting, with a range of 180 meters.Since the Ming Dynasty had not yet had extensive access to firearms from the West, bird blunderbusses and Lumi blunderbusses, which were invented based on foreign technologies, had not yet appeared. Now these firearms can be said to be the most commonly used firearms in the Ming Dynasty. up.

But as far as Zheng Liang knew, the Ming Dynasty had strict control over firearms.The manufacture of firearms in the Ming Dynasty also had two systems.First, the Weapons Bureau and Bingzhan Bureau, which were set up in the two capitals, were the main manufacturing institutions of firearms in the Ming Dynasty.In order to prevent the production technology of magic guns and cannons from leaking to the outside world, the imperial court mainly controlled the production rights of the guns and guns to two specialized institutions set up in bei jing.Before Hongzhi, it was stipulated that the Military Weapons Bureau had to manufacture firearms once every three years: 3000 copper blunderbusses with bowl mouths, 3000 copper blunderbuss handles, 9 blunderbuss arrowheads, and 3000 letter cannons. There are various types of guns, cannons, blunderbusses, arrows, and carts, such as generals, second generals, sharp guns, sharp guns, hand-handled copper guns, hand-handled iron guns, bowl-mouth guns, magic arrows, etc. . () After Hongzhi, especially during the Jiajing period, the Military Weapons Bureau and the Bingzhan Bureau both contracted more new or modified large and small firearms.second.Local guards or important border towns can manufacture firearms of certain specifications after being chartered by the imperial court.For example, before Zhengde, there were guards in Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi, Qingzhou Zuowei, Xuzhou and Liangzhou.You can make your own firearms such as bronze general guns.In addition, such as the Qianli gun in Liaodong, the poisonous fire cannon in Piantou Sanguan in Shanxi, and the Lianzhu Folang machine gun, all were manufactured after approval during the Jiajing period.

Why did firearms with such strict management suddenly appear in a bandit village?Even more bizarre.Now that there are firearms, why don't these bandits use them?

Seeing Zheng Liang's puzzled expression, Liu Le quickly said, "Your Highness, please report the origin of these firearms later, Your Highness, please take a look at another item now."

"Anything else?" Because the surprise of seeing Huo Tong suddenly has not passed.Zheng Liang was startled again by Liu Le's words.

I saw Ming Fengxiu was making a gesture towards the door to come in.Then two slaves from the original cottage came in carrying a long object wrapped in cloth.

After the two put down their belongings, they saluted Zheng Liang and walked out of the room quickly.Ming Fengxiu was walking quickly to the object, and lifted the cloth covering it, revealing the true face of the object.

With a "click", Zheng Liang suddenly stood up.

what is this?It's a Franc cannon.No, to be precise, it is the small Frang cannon.

The French cannon came from the Portuguese in the early 16th century.In the Ming Dynasty. "Francis machine" refers to Portugal and Spain at that time.At first, a warship of the Portuguese clashed with the navy of the Ming Dynasty off the coast of Macau, and was captured by the Ming army.The Ming Dynasty called the imitated Frangji cannon "Sub-Mother Cannon".

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the Flang machine cannon.But less imports and more imitations.And the imitation artillery is complete in various specifications, from the multi-purpose heavy artillery "Invincible General" with more than [-] kilograms to the large "Flang machine" with more than [-] kilograms.Then to the "Little Folang Machine" weighing several tens of catties, even the soldiers have "Wansheng Folang Machine Gun" weighing several catties in their hands.

Now Zhengliang sees that it is exactly the kind of "little Flang machine" weighing several tens of kilograms.Zheng Liang walked up to the small Frang cannon and inspected it carefully. This was the first time that Zheng Liang actually saw these hot weapons that were later collected as antiques.Roughly speaking, the Frang machine cannon is an iron rear-loading smoothbore cannon. The whole cannon consists of three parts: the barrel, the belly of the gun, and the sub-cannon.In Zheng Liang's impression, the method of using this kind of artillery is to first fill the gunpowder projectile into the sub-cannon when firing the cannon, then put the sub-cannon into the belly of the cannon, and ignite the sub-cannon fire door to shoot.

With such a sharp weapon, at least in the future siege battle, the Luo family has a greater chance of winning.Thinking of the role of these firearms on the battlefield in the future, Zheng Liang couldn't help being happy, and couldn't help shouting "Okay" several times in a row.

"So, Liu Le, can you tell me now, how did these things come from?" Zheng Liang calmed down, turned to look at Liu Le and asked.Liu Le is the warehouse manager of this cottage, so he must know the origin of these things.

"Your Highness, a month ago, bandits here accidentally snatched it back from the foot of the mountain," Liu Le replied, "A total of 20 fire systems, a small Frang cannon, and several boxes of ammunition."

"Hiss..." Zheng Liang took a deep breath when he heard the words. Such a large number of firearms were snatched back so easily by these bandits?It's incredible.

"Does Your Highness feel strange?" Liu Le asked.

Zhengliang nodded.

"At the beginning, I also felt that it was very different. Later, the leader of the bandits found a letter from the people who escorted these firearms, and gave it to my servant to interpret for me. Only then did I know the whole story," Liu Le said with a bow. , "It turned out that these firearms were going to be secretly transported to an official surnamed Zhang in Ningbo Prefecture. In order to deceive people, the team disguised themselves as a small caravan with less than 10 people, and planned to go from this somewhat remote mountain road. Ningbo, I don’t want them but I don’t know that this peaceful place has been occupied by bandits here during this period of time, so it was robbed.”

"You mean, someone is secretly selling firearms?" Zheng Liang asked.

Liu Le nodded solemnly, "From the letter, we can roughly guess that these firearms should still be sold to some people along the coast, but unfortunately, it is impossible to determine from the letter which official surnamed Zhang did it. "(to be continued...)

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