On June 20, in the drizzle, Li Zhi motioned to the soldiers in front of him to start using rainproof equipment.
The news just came a few days ago that the Chu army has captured the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi. The emperor urgently mobilized 80,000 border troops from Datong, Xuanfu and Jizhen to defend Shanxi to defend Shanxi, the last fortress. The soldiers near the capital
The horses were all gone, and there was no large force except the new troops in the Beijing camp.
Because of the rebellion in Korea, Li Zhi needed to divide his troops and go north, and was temporarily unable to fight a decisive battle with the Chuang army. However, Li Zhi still hoped to hold back Li Zicheng's main force in Henan to prevent the Chuang army from taking advantage of the victory and marching north to attack Shanxi. If Shaanxi, Henan and Shanxi provinces were all trapped in
With thieves' hands, Li Zicheng gained the power to sweep the world.
However, there was abundant rain in Henan this summer, and it often drizzled. Whenever there was rain, the Tiger and Ben troops had to retreat in embarrassment. The Chu army believed that the Huben troops did not dare to leave their waterproof camps to attack prefectures and counties, so they did not send 30,000 soldiers
The Huben Army's West Route Army took it seriously. According to Li Xing's report, the Chuang Army only had 100,000 people left to confront the Huben Army.
Only by solving the problem of waterproofing firearms can Li Zhi's West Route Army entangle the main force of the Chuang Army.
So Li Zhi made a complete set of waterproof equipment and conducted experiments on the shooting range.
The soldier first took off the hemispherical steel weather shield he was carrying on his back, took out the rifle that was hidden under the military uniform to hide from the rain, and stuck the rain shield on the rifle's fire door. There is about one rain shield.
It is as big as a dish and has a hemispherical shape, completely covering the fire door to prevent rainwater from entering the gun.
The soldier then wiped his hands on his military uniform to make sure there was not a lot of rain on his hands, and then took out a small bag of fixed bullets from under the hem of his military uniform jacket.
This soldier's military uniform jacket has been specially modified, and a cowhide hem is installed on the right side of the jacket. This cowhide hem just protects the ammunition bag containing bullets and gunpowder. Even if it rains lightly, the rainwater will not get wet. And because
The hem hangs down naturally, so the ammunition bag will still not get wet when the soldier takes out bullets.
After the bullet was removed, the soldier bit open the fixed bullet and poured some gunpowder into the protected fire door.
Then the soldier pressed the muzzle of the rifle with his left thumb to prevent rainwater from entering the muzzle, and tilted the rifle 45 degrees. Because the weather shield on the fire door is spherical, the weather shield can still protect the fire at this time.
The door is protected from rain. After tilting the rifle, pour all the excess gunpowder in the fixed bullet into the chamber, and cover the chamber with your left thumb again.
The soldier took out the purge strip and wiped it twice on a dry towel specially sewn on the crotch of the military uniform. The crotch is the most difficult part to get wet, and the towel sewn here is not afraid of ordinary light rain. The soldier wiped it dry.
After clearing the gun, use the clear bar to compact the gunpowder in the gun chamber. Insert the fixed bullet into the gun chamber and compact it again.
It took the soldier twenty-five seconds to complete this series of loading steps and aim at the target two hundred meters away.
With a "pop" sound, the soldier's rifle successfully fired. In the drizzle, the human-shaped target two hundred meters away fell down with the sound.
One shot was not enough to explain the problem, so the soldier who fired the test continued to load and shoot. He fired five shots in a row and knocked over five targets.
Li Zhi smiled and nodded.
The experimenters on the shooting range suddenly burst into joy.
This set of rainproof equipment was learned by Li Zhi from the Japanese. Before traveling through time, Li Zhi accidentally saw a samurai biography called "Musashi Fushenglu", which recorded that a lower-level samurai in the Tokugawa Shogunate era used this set of rainproof equipment.
This method protects his matchlock gun from rain. This set of waterproofing methods is the accumulated experience of several generations of Japanese matchlock gunners, and it can be regarded as a kind of valuable knowledge.
Li Zhi followed suit and applied this method to his own rifle.
Actual shooting tests have proven that this method is feasible.
Of course, Li Zhi did not expect that this set of facilities could protect gunpowder in a heavy rain. In such heavy rain, the only thing the firearms troops could do was to retreat. But after all, there were very few heavy rains. Most of the time, Henan Piao
It's all light rain. Li Zhi hopes that such facilities can help the troops defeat the light rain and ensure that the rifles can still shoot in light rain.
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On July 17, Li Xing used his binoculars to look at the 100,000 invaders hanging in the distance and spat.
"The intruders despised us so much that they only sent 100,000 people to follow us." After a pause, Li Xing said, "And among the 100,000 people, there are only 30,000 horse troops, and the rest are infantry."
Li Laosi looked up at the sky and said, "The intruders seem to be waiting for rain. I guess once it starts raining, the intruders will rush up and force us."
Li Xing asked: "Do you think it will rain before we reach Suizhou?"
Li Laosi said: "Look at these dark clouds, it seems like it's going to rain."
This time, in order to entangle the main force of the Breaking Army, the West Route Army left the camp and took the initiative to attack Suizhou City. The West Route Army wanted to prove that it had the strength to sweep the entire Henan Province, forcing the main force of the Breaking Army to return to Henan to defend, and forcing Li Zicheng to give up heading north to Shanxi.
plan of.
Before Li Laosi finished speaking, a muffled thunder suddenly sounded in the sky, and tiny raindrops fell down.
Li Xing suddenly became excited and energetic. He waved his hand, and the flag soldiers immediately raised the flag. The 30,000-strong Tiger Army West Route Army immediately took off the rain protection board just shipped from Fanjiazhuang and installed the hemispherical guard board.
On the fire door.
The patter of rain fell more and more, gradually soaking the ground. But with the protection of the guard plate, the rifles of the Tiger Army did not lose their combat effectiveness.
The soldiers in the distance did not realize this change. When they saw the rain, they became excited.
The last time the West Route Army marched westward, it was beaten by the Chuang Army on a rainy day and fled in embarrassment. The Chuang Army had already made a conclusion that the Tiger Army was afraid of water.
The trumpets of the Chu army were blaring, the drums were rumbling, and an army of 100,000 people set up an attack formation and attacked the Huben army.
Of course, the Chuang army did not form a tight formation, but rushed forward in one fell swoop. The Chuang army did not think that they would fight hand-to-hand with the Huben army. The Huben army was well-disciplined and well-trained. They wore steel armor and had bayonets on their hands. They had the ability to fight.
The strong morale of the last man. If an army of 100,000 people go head-to-head, they may not be able to win in hand-to-hand combat.
What the Chuang army knew was that the Huben army had always avoided physical combat, and they just hoped to use the rainy weather to force the Huben army to flee and force the Huben army back to the camp in Ningling County.
The 30,000 intruders and cavalry troops rushed to the front, somewhat out of touch with the intruder infantry behind them.
These cavalry troops were very arrogant, charging and howling at the same time, trying to frighten the Tiger and Ben troops with their momentum and force this fighting army to retreat.
Braving the drizzle, they rushed within 400 meters of the Western Route Army and galloped left and right in front of the formation, their horses' hoofs sending up billowing smoke.
However, in the continuous rain, they did not see the Tiger and Ben troops fleeing. On the contrary, what they saw were countless rifles aimed at them.
The faces of the thieves and horsemen all had expressions of disbelief. It was obviously raining, so why did the Tianjin people still use their firecrackers?
A swan sound echoed throughout the battlefield, and five thousand rifles with scopes on the north side of the circular formation opened fire in the rain.
