Zeng Ziyun looked at Li Xuan, his face changed slightly, and after a long time he said: "It's only ten steps away. If it's a little further, I'm afraid I won't be able to hit!"
After hearing Zeng Ziyun's words, Li Xuan nodded slightly to the guards. Immediately, the guards holding muskets started loading again, and someone moved the wooden plank in front to about a hundred meters away.
This time, the guard's loading seemed much more skillful, and he did not make any mistakes again. It only took about two minutes to complete the loading. When he raised his musket and prepared to shoot, he was obviously more focused and took careful aim.
After all, the target is a hundred meters away. If you don't aim, you can't hit it. And even if you aim, it's unclear whether you can hit it or not.
But this time, he was obviously lucky. As the gunshot fired, white smoke rose, and a bullet hole once again appeared on the wooden board in front of him.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan couldn't help but feel gratified. This handmade gun, the only one in the entire Tang Dynasty, with great historical significance, finally did not disappoint him.
After seeing this scene, Zeng Ziyun's face became very exciting, but he still looked embarrassed and said harshly: "Although the power of the bird gun is acceptable, it can't reach the target. Once the enemy comes within a hundred steps, it can fire several rounds."
?And an archer can fire multiple guns in an instant, which is far more powerful than a cannon!"
Li Xuan smiled and said: "It takes several years to train an archer, but for this fire gunner, three months is enough!"
The debate between bows and arrows and muskets is not a new topic. Europe has been arguing for so many years, but in the end muskets completely eliminated bows and arrows.
This is not because the early muskets outperformed bows and arrows in terms of rate of fire, power, accuracy, etc., but because the cost of use between the two was too different.
Musketeers only need to find a random farmer to train for a few months, and then they can be brought to the battlefield, and their performance will not be too bad, and they are barely usable.
But archers cannot do without several years of training. For example, British longbowmen are trained since childhood, and it takes decades to save thousands of longbowmen.
The price/performance ratio between the two is simply incomparable!
Facing Li Xuan's words, Zeng Ziyun raised his head and disdained to answer!
Li Xuan didn't care about Zeng Ziyun's reaction. Anyway, today's goal was achieved. I think Zeng Ziyun will definitely ponder over and over again the pros and cons of muskets after he returns, and this is enough.
After being escorted back by Zeng Ziyun, Li Xuan did not stay on the playground for long. Instead, he went to the only iron workshop on Huangzhu Mountain. Well, it was also the only weapons workshop in the Tang Dynasty.
The population of the Tang Dynasty was small, and naturally there were even fewer blacksmiths and other technical talents. There were only three blacksmiths in total, one of whom was still a teenage apprentice.
In addition to making weapons, their main daily work also makes agricultural tools and other things. Anyway, the three blacksmiths take care of everything related to iron.
After arriving at the weapons workshop, Li Xuan opened his mouth and began to grant officials and make wishes. The officials and titles were freely given out without money.
Two middle-aged blacksmiths were directly awarded the title of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, one was the Left Minister and the other was the Right Minister. The remaining apprentice was not left behind and also received the title of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
It is a pity that these three illiterate blacksmiths have no idea that they have become the highest-ranking blacksmiths in history. What really makes them happy is that Li Xuan rewarded them with a lot of rice.
This rice grain is much more practical than an official position!
After the three cheerful blacksmiths repeatedly stated that they would find ways to make more blunderbuss as soon as possible, Li Xuan returned to the palace with a satisfied look.
It has been more than half a year since I came to this era, and there is usually no place where Li Xuan can demonstrate the superiority of this time traveler.
He knew a lot of things, but not many of them could be used in this era, especially in the Tang Dynasty.
Nowadays, the most important things in the Tang Dynasty are farming and fighting.
He knew nothing about farming, and it was already very difficult to tell the difference between rice and wheat. If he was asked to teach these bandits how to farm, he was afraid of being out of touch, so he couldn't get involved in farming and mulberry affairs at all, and he couldn't even compare to Liu Bagou in reading.
Stupid people do better.
He knew very little about military warfare, at least he didn't know how an army with cold weapons should fight.
After much thought, he could only work harder on invention and creation.
For today's Tang Dynasty, the most important invention is naturally the gun!
With the current weak strength of the Tang Dynasty, if there is no obvious advantage, the next time the Ming army comes to attack, the Ming army does not need to exert any effort. They can just send a general with normal IQ to lead thousands of people into the mountains. The Tang Dynasty will
He would have to die, and Li Xuan would either have to run away or die.
The matchlock gun and even the flintlock gun he envisioned were his biggest trump card against the Ming army.
It is not realistic to use a flintlock gun for a while, but it is not a problem to get a matchlock gun. After all, the matchlock gun has no technical content. People in the West have been using it for many years, and even the Japanese pirates have been using it for several years.
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Now that the matchlock gun has been produced, I dare not say that there are too many due to the background of Huangzhushan, but it will not be a problem to spend a few months making a dozen or so.
Although the number is still small, at least it can make a start. As long as you persist, maybe you will be able to accumulate 18,000 matchlock guns in a few years. By then, it will not be a dream to defeat the Ming army!
While Li Xuan was busy with matchlocks in the rear, recruiting Zeng Ziyun and other messy things, Fang Dongquan and the others also encountered the troops from Black Tiger Village.
That's not correct. To be precise, they encountered the coalition forces of Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan.
Looking at the Black Tiger Village with more than 300 people in front, Huang Guishan's coalition forces, Fang Dongquan's face looked a little unhappy: "When did they unite together? Didn't they say everything was normal over there in Huang Guishan!"
Huang Xueren said: "Although our spies are watching them day and night, Huanggui Mountain is so big that it is normal for only one or two spies to be unable to see them."
At this time, Butcher Chen stepped forward and said: "They are here together. It saves us trouble. We can deal with them in one go and save an extra trip!"
However, Fang Dongquan said: "There are quite a few of them, more than us. I'm afraid it will be a bit troublesome to fight!"
"Excuse me, it's the same rules later. I'm going to charge forward with my men, I don't believe they can stop me!" Butcher Chen was as arrogant as ever, and his tough pig-butcher temperament made others shudder.
Fang Dongquan glanced at Butcher Chen, with a trace of dissatisfaction flashing in his eyes.
He was the one who had full authority to supervise the thieves this time. These people were just assisting his subordinates, but now they looked like subordinates, and none of them took him seriously.
However, after being a bandit boss for so many years, and also fighting secretly with Huang Xueren for several months in the Tang Dynasty, although he was still illiterate, he had figured out a lot of fighting methods by himself.
After suppressing the anger in his heart, he turned around and asked Qian Mengjiu: "Prime Minister Qian, you are the supervisor, please tell me how to fight!"
Qian Mengjiu looked around, and after scanning everyone one by one, he said: "I am a civil servant, and military matters are not my specialty. All I can do is play drums for the generals!"
After saying this, he paused, and then said with a straight face: "But this battle is related to the rise and fall of our Tang Dynasty. I hope all the generals will work together to defeat the traitor army, so that we can live up to His Majesty's favor!"