Become a feudal king from today

South camp. read

At this time, a hundred wooden frames were erected on the school grounds.

The wooden frames were all covered with silver plate armor and formed a horizontal line.

After deciding to test-fire, Zhao Xu asked Chang Wei to prepare in this way.

At the same time, five hundred soldiers were drawn out to form an array.

The number of armors on each row of wooden racks is exactly one hundred.

He also asked Wang Ying to distribute flintlock rifles to the soldiers.

Everything was ready, Chang Wei and other generals stood behind Zhao Xu.

They will personally observe King Yan commanding these five hundred soldiers to test fire.

After all, this was the first time they had seen this new type of firearm, and they couldn't figure out how to use it.

"Now, take a closer look at what I do." Zhao Xu said loudly, standing in front of five hundred soldiers.

"Yes, Your Highness." The soldiers answered loudly.

King Yan personally guided them, which was undoubtedly an honor.

They could feel the envious eyes of other soldiers on the school field.

Zhao Xu nodded.

During this time, the soldiers only practiced walking in formation and practicing formations.

But he was never trained to fire a flintlock musket.

Clearing his throat, he said: "Everyone sit down."

After hearing Zhao Xu's order, the soldiers sat cross-legged on the ground, and everyone could see King Yan in front of them.

Zhao Xu took the flintlock gun from a soldier.

He did not load the ammunition and test fire directly, but first explained the structure of the flintlock gun to the soldiers.

After all, if a soldier doesn't even understand the weapons he uses, how can he use his weapons well?

It is for this reason that soldiers in the contemporary army have training subjects for disassembling and assembling weapons.

"This thing is called a strike iron, and the groove under the strike iron is called a medicine pool." Zhao Xu said: "Open the strike iron and you can put gunpowder inside. This is the primer, which is the same as the match rope of the artillery."

"This thing is called a gunpowder." Zhao Xu took out an iron rod from under the flintlock gun. "After the gunpowder is loaded into the muzzle, it needs to be tamped repeatedly with the gunpowder."

"..."

After comparing Zhao Xu's explanation with the real thing, the soldiers began to care, and their faces were no longer full of confusion.

Chang Wei and the generals also listened carefully.

After King Yan's introduction, they basically understood how to use this flintlock gun.

"Now, take a closer look at my complete set of operations." Zhao Xu turned sideways to the soldiers.

First, he held the flintlock gun with his left hand, put the butt of the gun against his right waist, lowered the chicken head with his right hand, and at the same time opened the striker.

Then he took out the gunpowder and poured a little into the powder pool, and reset the striker.

He then held the flintlock upright on the ground.

First, I poured gunpowder into it, then stuffed the lead bullets into it, took out the purge rod and tamped it down repeatedly.

Finally, he lifted the flintlock, holding the butt to shoulder level.

Taking a deep breath, he raised the flintlock gun levelly and pulled the trigger.

"boom……"

There was an explosion like a firecracker, and the white smoke of gunpowder emitted from the muzzle of the flintlock gun.

The moment the gun rang out, all the soldiers sitting on the ground trembled.

Now I am startled by an unexpected noise.

They were new recruits. They were just villagers who worked in the countryside before. They had never come into contact with this. Naturally, they were unexpected.

Chang Wei and others were much calmer. After all, they had seen artillery before.

This little noise is nothing to them.

"Awesome, this is just a small cannon that can be held in your hand." Chang Wei sighed softly, and the others nodded repeatedly.

The thought of equipping 30,000 soldiers with this kind of thing was exciting to them.

Zhao Xu ignored the generals.

He returned the flintlock to the first soldier and said to the soldiers: "All stand up and obey my king's command."

At this time, they were more than two hundred meters away from the wooden frame containing the armor.

When all the soldiers stood up, he said: "Put the gun on your shoulder."

Upon receiving the order, the soldiers raised their flintlocks and leaned them on their shoulders.

"Move forward, one, two, one..."

Zhao Xu shouted the slogan, and he usually asked the generals to shout the slogan like this to train and walk.

This is so that the soldiers can walk neatly during the war.

Since they trained like this every day during this period, the soldiers were very orderly.

Ask his soldiers to stop a hundred meters away from the wooden frame.

"Reload!" He shouted at this time.

The soldiers immediately loaded their ammunition in the order they had just learned.

But it was their first time after all, and many of them were very clumsy in doing it.

If they encountered a regular musketeer army on the battlefield at this time, they would probably be beaten into a sieve.

After all the soldiers had loaded their ammunition, Zhao Xu said: "Shoot!"

"Bang bang bang..."

The first platoon of soldiers fired a volley.

"Squat down and fire from the second row!"

"..."

After all five rows of soldiers in the company finished shooting, Zhao Xu said to the accompanying general: "Let's go, let's see how effective this flintlock gun is?"

The generals were still in shock.

Originally, when King Yan was just testing the gun alone, they felt normal.

But a hundred soldiers fired a volley, and they suddenly felt a little shocked.

After coming back to their senses, they hurriedly ran towards the wooden frame.

Zhao Xu also walked over slowly.

Before he even got close, he saw the generals looking as if they had seen a ghost, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

"It actually penetrated! Such a big hole." Chang Wei lifted the breastplate of a plate armor, his hands shaking easily.

Xu Lie has been serving Zhao Xu. He looked at the bow and arrow in his hand and opened his mouth.

He personally tested the plate armor when it came out.

Not to mention fifty meters, his arrows cannot pierce within thirty meters.

The flintlock gun actually punched such a big hole in the plate armor from a distance of one hundred meters. Its power can be imagined.

For him, the only disadvantage of a flintlock gun compared to a bow and arrow was its slow reloading time and poor accuracy.

However, these soldiers with flintlock guns were able to shoot just after watching King Yan do it.

Being able to go to the battlefield so easily is much easier than training archers.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit a fact.

After this thing appeared, no one really wanted to waste time training archers anymore.

The archer may be used up in one battle, but this thing can be replenished by bringing someone over, which is simply endless.

"Do you believe it now? Isn't the Iron Buddha Temple in Xiliang said to be invincible? Then use this to give them a taste of its power." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

The generals were still staring at the holes in the plate armor.

After five rounds of shooting, there were basically holes in the one hundred plate armors.

They vaguely understood why King Yan asked them to practice those formations.

"I believe it, I believe it, this time the Xiliang people will suffer." There was uncontrollable excitement in the smile on Chang Wei's face.

The royal army first had artillery, and now they added this flintlock gun.

The artillery and the muskets are simply the treasure of the royal family's army.

With this thing, he developed unprecedented confidence.

In the past, the situation in the four northern counties was basically desperate.

But now, these new firearms gave King Yan hope to break out of the siege.