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Chapter 843 Reviewing the Expeditionary Army (Part [-])
It was freezing cold outside, Concubine Su's bedroom was filled with heat.

"The emperor is here—" the eunuch's unique voice sounded outside.

Aunt Su Mala hurried out to pick her up, but she was clearly in a bad condition.Seeing Zhu Yousong coming in from the outside, Aunt Su Mala hurriedly spread her blessings, but her growing belly hindered her.

"My concubine is inconvenient, so there is no need to be polite." Zhu Yousong stepped forward to support her.

"Have you heard that Concubine Ai is feeling better?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, ah..." Aunt Su Mala clutched her round belly.

"What's wrong with Concubine Ai? Call the imperial doctor quickly."

"Your Majesty's concubine is fine...the little guy is kicking the concubine inside." Aunt Su Mala blushed, looking happy.

Zhu Yousong also smiled happily, "You look like me so non-stop, it seems that you are really a dragon species. You are my great hero..."

As Zhu Yousong said, he hugged Concubine Su up, which made her laugh again and again. After turning around a few times, Zhu Yousong put her on the phoenix couch, helped her to sit down, and Zhu Yousong also sat down.

After the two of them whispered for a while, it was heard that the best imperial physician felt the pulse of Aunt Su Mala.

The imperial physician congratulated Zhu Yousong, and the maid brought steaming donkey-hide gelatin pigeon soup. Zhu Yousong took it from the maid and fed it to Concubine Su himself...

The Military Industry Division is rushing to make artillery, the wind is biting outside, and the division's workshop is in full swing.Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion, sent people to remind him every day, and came here every now and then to have a look.

People call it "cannon madness", especially after the advent of the new artillery, Li Zhushi saw them as if he saw his own children.

In just three months, 60 of this new type of artillery have been produced.

After Zhu Yousong got the report, he brought Lu Jiude, Brother Song, Tang Ruowang, Li Zhushi and others, braved the cold wind, and Pegasus came to the Military Industry Department.

The cannons were neatly arranged and covered with red clothes. Zhu Yousong opened them and looked at them. Although these gods of war can still be called primitive, he is already ahead of the world.

Zhu Yousong became interested, and he wanted to test the gun himself.

Several strong soldiers pushed a cannon to the shooting range, and Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion, loaded the ammunition for Zhu Yousong himself.

Then he instructed Zhu Yousong to adjust the rear sight and front sight, adjust the cannon to the farthest range, and point the muzzle of the black hole obliquely at the sky. After everything was ready, Zhu Yousong took the torch and lit the fuse.

The lead rope eats and burns, emitting blue smoke.

The Song brothers beside him, Tang Ruowang, eunuch Lu Jiude and others quickly plugged their ear holes.

"Dong dong," there were two explosions in a row, surrounded by white smoke, which made Zhu Yousong and the others creak in their ears, as if they had tinnitus from the elderly, people.They could hardly hear the whistling of shells in the air.

"Boom boom boom—" Immediately after ten miles away, there were two explosions that shook the earth and shook the mountains.Two fireballs rose up, mixed with thick smoke, billowing up, and then dissipated in the air.

But listening to the movement, I felt that the power of this cannon must have improved a lot.

Through the binoculars, Zhu Yousong saw about a dozen scattered scarecrows were blown to pieces and burst into flames.

The target observers at the scene saw that there were deeper craters than usual in this scene, and the target observers were amazed in their hearts, "It really is amazing."

Hurry up and report to Zhu Yousong on a flying horse.Soon Zhu Yousong brought Pegasus to the scene. This new type of artillery not only achieved two consecutive shots, but also measured the range, bombardment area, and depth of the crater. Compared with the original figures, it really went up. One step, in this era of cold weapons, this is undoubtedly a qualitative leap for the red cannon.

Zhu Yousong was very excited, and immediately ordered 60 artillery pieces to be delivered to the artillery battalion for use. Li Zhushi took the cannons away with his troops on the same day, and then started the actual combat training of the new artillery pieces the next day.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yousong inspected the Musket Camp again.From the muskets in the imperial camp to the muskets of the expeditionary army, Zhu Yousong looked at them all.Now this kind of musket has been made domestically, including ammunition and lead.

This Dutch musket with bayonet, in fact, many parts are produced in Britain.After several months of hard work by three military experts, the domestic production has been completely realized, and everything from firearms to ammunition is self-sufficient.

In the training base of the musket battalion of the expeditionary force.The commander of foreign teachers, the original Dutch chief instructor stationed in Taiwan and former navy commander-in-chief Van Persie, the commander of the musketeer battalion Huiying, and Zhu Yousong brought people here, and hurriedly greeted Shengjia.

Also came to the shooting range, Van Persie ordered 100 people to be randomly selected, stood in two rows, and stood still facing the scarecrow hundreds of meters away.

"Load ammunition." Van Persie ordered in his not-so-fluent Chinese.

The soldiers of the One Hundred Musketeers Battalion saw that His Majesty came to inspect them in person. After several months of hard training, they had to use their steel to the blade.All of them skillfully operated the musket in their hands, loaded gunpowder, laid the fuse, loaded the bullet, compacted the bullet, and then aimed, everything was ready.

"Fire!" Van Persie pointed his command knife into the air.

The top 50 musketeers in the first row clicked the trigger.

"Papapa..." There was a riot of gunfire, and puffs of blue smoke came out and dissipated in the wind.

A row of scarecrows hundreds of meters away had their heads shot or their chests pierced.

After the first row of 50 musketeers finished releasing, they squatted down together and began to continue loading ammunition.In the second row behind him, the trigger was pulled.Continuous firepower was formed, and several scarecrows were hit in the shooting range amidst the explosion.

Zhu Yousong was very satisfied and praised Huimei and Van Persie on the spot.

Despite the freezing weather, the horse army and infantry training bases of the expeditionary force are still in full swing.

Li Zicheng personally commanded the horse army to practice for Zhu Yousong. From charging, to fighting, to turning, to outflanking, to retreating, it was like a thousand horses galloping like wind and clouds, coming without wind and going without shadow.

Seeing this, Zhu Yousong was very excited: "From now on, I don't have to worry about the Tartars' Eight Banners cavalry anymore!"

When they arrived at the training ground of the infantry battalion, Zhang Xianzhong personally commanded tens of thousands of infantry to line up, from individual combat, to collective charge, and then to climb the city to attack fortified positions. Individual soldiers were like tigers, and groups of soldiers were like hurricanes.

In just a few months, Zhu Yousong was very satisfied with being able to improve his combat power to such an extent.

Zhu Yousong has always paid more attention to the training of special forces. Zhang Huan, the chief instructor of the bow and arrow battalion, asked Zhu Yousong to pick a few at random.

The archers of the five special forces, from fixed-point archery to flying horse point shooting, from shooting stationary targets to flying horse shooting moving targets, the five archers did not lose the wind, and the distance of fifty to eighty steps was perfect. , 80 steps away, due to the effect of the wind direction, it is uncertain.

It's only been more than half a year. Although he can't be called a sniper, this achievement can be called a miracle.Zhu Yousong gave them a thumbs up.

Then Zhu Yousong visited the Baigan Barracks and the Engineering Barracks, and the next day he visited the Navy Division and the Logistics Supply Camp.

In the last review of the expeditionary army, Zhu Yousong came up with eight words: "The soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and the soldiers are fine and food is sufficient."

This shows that the expeditionary force has become an army.Zhu Yousong looked at the snowflakes that started to dance, and the vast distant mountains, and felt in his heart: those who work hard, God will not fail.With this 30 expeditionary force, I will be able to do another vigorous career in the spring of next year.This is an act of no one before or since. The grassland eagle Temujin and his son are nothing, and the war madman Napoleon in Europe is no exception.Qianqiu Weiye started from the conquest of the Qing Dynasty!
(End of this chapter)