Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 254 The Secret of the New Gun

Thinking about Yuan Keli's life for the country and the people, Cao Wenzhao sighed softly.

He and Li Jing looked at each other in silence for a while, Cao Wenzhao looked at Li Jing's study and suddenly sighed: "Marshal, your study is too simple, I have seen many officials' study, almost every The rooms are simple and elegant, and yours is far behind theirs."

Li Jing smiled and said: "It would be nice to tidy up this study room like this. Why spend so much money on a reading place? The people below want to tidy up this room, but I don't agree."

Shaking his head, Li Jing sighed and said: "Brother Cao, you have been to the place for a long time, and you should know that the place doesn't have much money. If I open this hole, then other places will follow suit, and then it will be out of control. It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal, if I take care of myself, how can I take care of others?"

Cao Wenzhao nodded slightly, admiring Li Jing's self-discipline.

It's not that Li Jing doesn't have the money to enjoy it, if Li Jing wants to enjoy it, he's probably living a more comfortable life than the emperor.Li Jing lived so frugally, so he wanted to set an example for everyone.

With a smile, Li Jing continued: "Actually, my family is not so frugal. The standard of daily life in my family is much higher than that of ordinary people. There is no way, the internal affairs are decided by the two wives. I told them Nor listen."

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "I have heard that the two wives are virtuous and capable, and the commander-in-chief is a blessed man."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's true that you are virtuous and capable, but you don't know if you are blessed or not. A few months ago, I took the second wife to Henan for disaster relief. Although the eldest lady didn't say anything on the surface, she probably had a lot of opinions on me in her heart. Difficult!"

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "It is inevitable for women to compete for favor. To tell you the truth, I also have two concubines in my family. The one I love the most is naturally the youngest one. Every time I return home from an expedition, she always follows me." I complained that my wife bullied her while I was not at home."

Cao Wenzhao spread his hands and smiled wryly: "Do you think I can help her win this breath? I want to win her back. When I go out next time, Madam won't kill her?"

"Hahaha!" Li Jingwen laughed loudly, pointed at Cao Wenzhao and said with a smile: "You should tell her the truth, don't try to compete with your wife for status. In this regard, your little concubine is not as good as our second child. Well, our second child never argues with the boss, and never complained in front of me. The more she behaves like this, the more points she gets in my heart, otherwise, I wouldn't have taken her out last time."

"Hey, the commander-in-chief manages his family well, and Cao is ashamed of himself." Cao Wenzhao laughed.

"You can put it down, there is no way to run a family. I never think about a woman's mind, and I can't understand it. If you think you understand it, then you will stumble." Li Jing laughed.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing continued: "By the way, Brother Cao, don't call me Dashuai if there are no outsiders in the future. It seems to be a natural thing. Call me by my name in the future."

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "I'm afraid the brothers will be dissatisfied with me after hearing this."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "What's the dissatisfaction? When chatting, they all call me big brother, so that they seem close."

Cao Wenzhao nodded. He talked to Li Jing about the family affairs for a while, and felt that the relationship between the two was much closer.

The two chatted and laughed for a while, and it wasn't until the soldiers came to invite them out for dinner that Li Jing realized that the sky had already darkened.

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After Cao Wenzhao led his troops to join the Jishi Army, Li Jing began to make some adjustments to the army.

The first is to send troops to change defenses with Cao Wenzhao's troops. Li Jing ordered Chen Guozhu and Zhang Chu to lead their troops to Lu'an Mansion. After Chen Guozhu and Zhang Chu arrived, Cao Wenzhao led his troops to Pingyang Mansion.

Then Cao Wenzhao began to select soldiers in the Jishi Army, preparing to train cavalry.

Although there is a shortage of horses for the time being, Cao Wenzhao still has thousands of horses in his hands. Using these horses to train the soldiers' riding skills is still sufficient. At the same time, Cao Wenzhao handed over his troops to Gao Qi, and Gao Qi trained them to use them New style guns.

It should be said that the quality of Cao Wenzhao's subordinates is still very high. The formation and formation without training are much better than those recruits who have been trained for more than half a year.

Moreover, these people, especially the Thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry, were far more talented in shooting than recruits.

Li Jing saw these people practicing shooting, and it didn't take long to know that these people could accept new weapons so quickly, mainly because Cao Wenzhao paid great attention to archery training when training his subordinates.

You must know that archery is much more difficult than shooting a gun. Archery not only requires soldiers to have strong arms, but also requires steady hands, so that they can shoot accurately.

With such a foundation, learning to shoot a gun is naturally extremely fast.

In addition, Guan Ning's cavalry and his group are people who have seen the world, and they have experienced far more life and death scenes than Li Jing's subordinates.

After studying the new guns, they all know that this weapon is much more powerful than the three-eyed firearm they used before, but in order to exert its power, it must be accurate, and the more accurate it is, they more secure.

People like Guan Ning cavalry know the way to survive on the battlefield. When the two armies are fighting, it does not mean that you can survive by running away, because it is very likely that you will encounter ambushes on the way to escape. The easiest way to survive is to The most effective way is to defeat the enemy.

They know that in the face of absolute strength, any ambush and any strategy are useless.

It is precisely because they understand this truth that when training to use new guns, their enthusiasm far exceeds Li Jing's imagination, and even the veterans of the Ji Shi Army secretly clicked their tongues when they saw it.

Regarding Ning Tieqi's demonstration, the soldiers of Jishi Army also set off a round of training climax.

At the same time, the joining of Cao Wenzhao's subordinates also brought an unexpected benefit to Li Jing.This is the survival rule on the battlefield that Guan Ning Iron Cavalry was training, and also taught the veterans of the Ji Shi Army that they had never experienced before.

These experiences are the skills that Guan Ning Tieqi has learned through countless life and death tests. In the words of Guan Ning Tieqi and others, when the two armies are facing each other, even if the opponent is your own brother, you have to kill him.

On the battlefield, defeating is not enough, killing is necessary. Only by killing the enemy can you have no threat.

Li Jingshen took it seriously for the combat philosophy of Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

This is the experience gained by Guan Ning's cavalry in exchange for countless injuries and bloodshed, and Ji Shijun is obviously very lacking in this regard.

The veterans of the Ji Shi Army have not experienced many life-and-death battles. They don't know that weapons are not omnipotent. The so-called weapons are dead, but people are alive.

What's more, the new guns and artillery are not without disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage of these firearms is that they will malfunction when fighting in the rain.

Because the bullets and shells are manually installed, the combination of the warhead and the shell case is not airtight, and once it is soaked by rain, it will immediately misfire.

At the same time, the gun should not be soaked in water, because once the gun is soaked in water, it will not fire. If even the shell case is wet, it will basically be [-]% unable to fire, and the bullet will not fire if it cannot fire. Go out, guns are not as good as fire sticks at this time.

Although Li Jing knew that bullets and shells had this problem, there was nothing he could do about it.

This problem cannot be solved at all without modern equipment.

What Li Jing can do is to avoid fighting in the rain as much as possible. If he fights in the rain, he must order the soldiers to pay attention to the guns and ammunition not to be soaked by the rain.

However, no matter how careful the precautions are, problems will inevitably arise. If there is heavy rain, the gun will be wet by the rain as long as the trigger is taken out.

This shortcoming has not been known to outsiders for the time being, but there is no secret that can be kept forever in the world. As long as there is a battle in the rain, this shortcoming will be known to the world.

At this time, we will face the problem of close combat, but the Jishi Army's ability in close combat is obviously not enough.

In the case of hand-to-hand combat, Li Jing estimated that even if Ji Shijun was several times stronger than Guan Ning's cavalry, he might not be the opponent of Guan Ning's cavalry.

And now, the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry is teaching the soldiers of the Ji Shi Army the experience they bought with their blood. This is an experience that cannot be learned with any money.

In this regard, Li Jing strictly ordered the various departments of the Jishi Army to study the combat experience of Guan Ning's iron cavalry carefully, and at the same time praise Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

Regarding Li Jing's boldness, Guan Ning's iron cavalry already knew that on the first day Cao Wenzhao announced that he would take them to join the Jishi Army, he told them that they would enjoy the treatment of the first-class soldiers of the Jishi Army, and each person was five taels a month. The military pay of silver, and at the same time told them that the commander-in-chief Li Jing specially allocated 10 taels of silver as a reward for them.

Guan Ning's iron cavalry has fought for so many years, made countless contributions, and served countless generals, but he has never received so much salary, let alone met a general as generous as Li Jing.

This is a reward of 10 taels of silver before an inch of merit is achieved. If you make meritorious service in the future, wouldn't the reward be more silver?
Moreover, Li Jing not only paid them a high salary, but also cared about them in life. Not long after they arrived in Pingyang Mansion, each of them was given a set of winter clothes.

In addition, the food has improved a lot compared to before. Although they don't have meat every meal, they are guaranteed to have meat for at least one meal a day, which was unimaginable before.

These soldiers are all sincere in their eyes. Although they don't say anything, they are determined in their hearts that they must serve Li Jing well in the future.

Therefore, they worked extra hard during training, and at the same time passed on their experience to everyone.

The Guan Ning cavalry passed on their actual combat experience to the veterans of the Ji Shi Army, and the veterans of the Ji Shi Army also taught their experience in training shooting to the Guan Ning cavalry.

Combining the two, the overall combat quality of the Jishi Army has been qualitatively improved.

When the first batch of military horses purchased from abroad were shipped back, the overall training of the cavalry was also put on the agenda.

Regarding the teaching of the most experienced teachers like Ning Tieqi, the training level of the soldiers who were first assigned to horses has been greatly improved.

Just when Li Jingli was raising his troops, bandits reappeared in the direction of Hebei.From Xingtai to Wu'an, they defeated Zuo Liangyu's troops.

Zuo Liangyu escaped alone, and more than [-] people under his command were wiped out. Wu'an guarded Cao Ming, and Wu Yingke and others died in battle.

The rogue bandits gained momentum in Hebei, and the ruling and opposition parties were inexplicably shocked.

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