Moving targets were not something that Liu Heng's marksmanship, which he had practiced for just a few days, could hit.
Moreover, once the death row prisoner gets on the horse, he will rush out crazily.
Liu Heng used a short-barreled musket, which was fine at close range, but was useless at long range.
Based on Kou Ji's understanding of the cavalry, once the cavalry starts charging, it will be very fast.
In the blink of an eye, you can close a distance of nearly ten feet.
Long-barreled muskets must be used to deal with them.
"I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, then go to Chen Datou?"
Seeing Kou Ji shaking his head in rejection, Liu Heng said quickly.
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng and said seriously: "Follow the order!"
Liu Heng let out a long sigh, hesitantly pulled out half of the musket, stuffed it into his arms again, and sent someone to summon Chen Datou outside the palace.
After a while,
Chen Datou appeared in the palace holding a long musket.
Chen Datou lives up to his name.
The head is big, but the body is not burly.
His big head is very eye-catching.
A pair of sneaky eyes glanced around after entering the palace.
After seeing the beauty next to Kou Ji, he was stunned for a moment and quickly turned his attention to the others.
Like a thief, he walked up to Kou Ji with twinkling eyes, bowed and saluted, "Young Master, are you looking for a villain?"
Kou Ji glared at this idiot, "You haven't saluted Qingtang Marquis yet?!"
Chen Datou reluctantly bowed his hand to Jiao Siluo.
Although the civil and military ministers in Qingtang were somewhat dissatisfied with this, they did not open their mouths to scold him.
Despite his low status, this fool has an arrogant temperament.
Kou Ji glared at Chen Datou again, pointed at the death row prisoner wearing leather armor, and said: "This man will gallop on horseback later. You need to shoot him with a gun after he runs ten feet away."
"Ten feet?!"
Chen Datou puffed up his chest proudly and said, "Young man, you can let him run thirty feet first."
Kou Ji sneered, "You are quite confident. What if he ran out thirty feet and you couldn't hit him?"
Chen Datou said proudly: "Then you kill the villain."
Kou Ji snorted coldly: "You will be punished by not eating meat for half a year."
Chen Datou was anxious when he heard this, "Young master, please don't...you are not allowed to eat meat for half a year, it will kill you."
Kou Ji snorted coldly and said nothing, but Chen Datou pestered Kou Ji and asked Kou Ji to change his conditions.
At this time, An Ziluo quietly let the prisoner go to ride a horse.
Chen Datou was a bit arrogant, so An Ziluo wanted to teach Chen Datou a lesson.
Anyway, the firecrackers are there. If one test fails, there will be a second one.
There are many death row inmates in the cells.
However.
An Ziluo had no idea how smart this idiot Chen Datou was.
Although this guy had his back to the condemned prisoner, when the condemned prisoner walked out, he had already begun to quietly load the musket.
By the time the death row prisoner got on the horse, he had already finished loading.
The condemned man rode out.
This idiot Chen Datou is still pestering Kou Ji and murmuring.
Kou Ji knew that this fool had learned a lot, learned how to show off his skills, and learned how to show off his skills to slap people in the face.
"Pa~"
After the death row prisoner sat on the horse, he flicked his whip, rode a fast horse, and rushed out crazily.
The horse under his crotch suddenly shot out like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye, he jumped ten feet away.
The rapid sound of horse hooves spread from outside the hall to the inside.
One foot.
Five feet.
Ten feet.
…
Twenty feet.
Twenty-five feet.
…
Thirty feet.
…
When the death row prisoner rode thirty feet away, Kou Ji frowned subconsciously.
The long-barreled musket is very lethal.
But a musket is a musket after all, and its effective range is not long.
Thirty-three feet is the current limit of the effective range of long-barreled muskets.
If it exceeds thirty-three feet, then you have to let it go.
Jiao Siluo, as well as all the Qingtang civil and military personnel, were always in high spirits.
After seeing the death row prisoner riding a horse and running thirty feet away, Chen Datou had not made any move, and they all looked disappointed.
After the death row prisoner galloped thirty-three feet away.
Jiao Siluo and others were completely disappointed.
The effective range of a bow and arrow is about twenty-five feet.
Beyond twenty-five feet, you can only use strong bows and heavy crossbows to effectively kill the target.
However.
Beyond thirty-three feet, without the aid of tools, the target seen by the human eye begins to become smaller.
Even if you can see it and shoot it, you may not be able to kill it.
Strong bows, heavy crossbows, bed crossbows and other heavy weapons with an effective range of more than a hundred feet are often shot casually when the enemy troops rush over on the battlefield.
Because there are enough enemies, as long as you shoot the crossbow arrows at a crowded place, you can always hit them.
Few people can shoot where they want after they exceed thirty-three feet.
Kou Ji watched the death row prisoner rush out from thirty-three feet away and rushed all the way to thirty-five feet. He stared and prepared to scold Chen Datou.
Just when he was about to speak, he heard Chen Datou chuckle.
"Bang!"
When Kou Ji turned around, he saw the flames spurting from the barrel of the long-barreled musket.
Chen Datou, this idiot, fired.
His eyes were fixed on him.
Can you hit the target without looking at it?!
Ko Ji quickly looked outside and saw the death row prisoner galloping on horseback, falling from his horse to the ground.
Kou Ji opened his eyes and looked at Chen Datou.
Chen Datou smiled shyly and said: "Young master, if it exceeds thirty-three feet, even if the villain keeps an eye on the target, he may not be able to hit it. But the villain discovered that the villain can judge the position of the horse based on his ears.
Judging the speed of the horse and the posture of the person lying down on the horse when the horse is running fast, you can shoot a target thirty-three feet away.
However, this move will not work if it exceeds forty feet."
Kou Ji stared and asked in a deep voice: "If the iron egg exceeds thirty-three feet, it will float. Do you know?! You still shoot blindly?! Do you believe it or not? I will blind you and let you listen with your ears for the rest of your life."
?!"
Chen Datou didn't seem to hear Kou Ji's threats. He felt that he had hit the target and there was no need to listen to Kou Ji's threats later.
He is very confident in his shooting skills.
He could hit the palm-sized birds in the mountains and forests just by listening with his ears.
It's easy to hit someone with a huge target.
He paid more attention to the fact that the iron egg would float. He was so surprised that he couldn't help shouting: "Young Master, do you actually know that the iron egg will float after flying thirty-three feet?! The villain is still trying to figure it out.
I discovered this much later.
After the villain discovered this, he tried some bow and arrow skills and found that he only needed to raise the muzzle of the gun a little, just a little.
It can hit a target thirty-three feet away.
But that little bit is really subtle, and that feeling is hard to find.
The villain taught the brothers this skill, but they couldn't master it.
…”
As if he had found a confidant, Chen Datou leaned next to Kou Ji and talked a lot.
Kou Ji gave Chen Datou a fierce look.
He found that he was being shown off.
In the past, he was the one who showed off to others, but today he was actually shown off by others.
There is no reason for this.
But this idiot Chen Datou is really talented in shooting.
If this fool wasn't strong enough to draw a strong bow or a heavy crossbow, he would have been picked up long ago.
Kou Ji glared at Chen Datou again, "How can I not know what the thing I made myself looks like? Get out of here!"
When Chen Datou heard this, he hurriedly said: "No! Young Master, for the sake of my meritorious service, can you reward me with some meat?!"
"No……"
"Then give the villain some more gunpowder and iron eggs..."
"Eight boxes, nearly a thousand iron eggs, all used up so quickly?!"
"Practice the craft of being a villain, you're a waste of time."
"Go back and find your boss to take it."
"Okay...I'll take my leave, villain."
"..."
Kou Ji dismissed the idiot Chen Datou, and when he turned back to look at Jiao Siluo and the others, he saw Jiao Siluo and the others with their mouths slightly open and their eyes staring straight out of the hall.
Kou Ji also looked outside the hall.
Then I saw two Qingtang warriors outside the hall, carrying the condemned prisoner who fell from his horse and quickly ran into the hall.
When Chen Datou, the man holding a long-barreled musket, passed the death row prisoner, he looked at the bloody hole on the death row prisoner's neck, frowned, and muttered.
"The shot missed a little... I wanted to hit the head... but I hit the neck... I still need to practice this skill... No wonder the young master didn't give me meat... He must have seen that I haven't mastered my skills yet...
…”
Kou Ji didn't hear what that idiot Chen Datou was saying.
He kept staring at the expressions of Jiao Siluo and others.
Wait until two Qingtang warriors appeared in the hall carrying the death row prisoner.
Jiao Siluo left his seat in a hurry, and the other Qingtang civil and military officers also left their seats, and all gathered in front of the death row prisoner.
The prisoner on death row was dead. There were several bloody holes on his neck. The blood holes were rotten into a ball, and black blood was seeping out of them.
Jiao Siluo and others all opened their eyes and opened their mouths, obviously shocked.
Most of them grew up on horses, are proficient in archery, and understand how difficult it is to accurately shoot a target thirty-three feet away.
Among the Qingtang people in the palace, only An Ziluo and the commander of the royal guards in front of the king could do it with strong bows.
However.
Kou Ji's subordinate is not a tall man, and he doesn't look like someone born with supernatural powers.
He did it with just a small iron bucket.
The eyes of Jiao Siluo and others were very vicious.
They could easily tell that the long-barreled musket held by Chen Datou was not heavy. It could even be said to be very light. Even the youngest thirteen-year-old girl in the palace could hold it.
In other words, everyone can afford this powerful weapon.
As long as you master the weapon skillfully, everyone can go into battle and kill the enemy.
It seems that the whole nation is a soldier, and it is not something that is just talked about.
What is more important is not the weapon itself, but the changes brought about by the weapon itself.
It takes a long, long time to train a qualified warrior.
However, warriors who are more powerful than warriors cannot be cultivated. Instead, they need to be tempered on the battlefield. Constant tempering takes longer.
Some people may not be able to become warriors in their entire lives.
More people died on the grinding road.
Therefore, warriors are very valuable in the army.
Often there are only 3,000 or 4,000 elite soldiers in an army of 10,000 soldiers, and there may only be a few hundred strong soldiers.
But with this kind of weapon, with a little training, everyone can step onto the battlefield.
After several times of training, you can hone your soldiers and horses whose combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of elite soldiers.
Although it is difficult to compare with the powerful soldiers.
But it is comparable to elite soldiers, which is already very good.
Elite soldiers are the backbone of military operations.
The training time of elite soldiers has been greatly shortened, and the number of elite soldiers will also increase sharply.
If Qingtang masters this kind of weapon, the number of Qingtang's elite soldiers will increase exponentially.
Why fear Xixia then?
Why fear the Liao Kingdom?
Why fear...
The Song Dynasty still has to be afraid, because this thing was made by the Song people.
Recalling what Kou Ji said just now, it seems that the Song Kingdom has a more powerful weapon than this.
All in all, if this thing is controlled by Qingtang, Qingtang's dominance of the Western Region will be just around the corner.
Jiao Siluo and his civil and military ministers looked at each other, and they all saw the shock and determination in each other's eyes.
Jiao Siluo nodded secretly.
Everyone turned their eyes away from the death row prisoner who was beaten to death.
Jiao Siluo looked at Kou Ji solemnly and said in a deep voice: "The Song Dynasty deserves to be the supreme state of the Celestial Empire..."
Kou Ji was very satisfied with Jiao Siluo's attitude.
This proves that Jiao Siluo was shocked.
It will be much easier to talk about borrowing troops later.
Kou Ji acted as if nothing had happened and said with a calm smile: "Qingtang Marquis is also a minister of the Song Dynasty. What belongs to the Song Dynasty also belongs to Qingtang Marquis."
Hearing Kou Ji's words, Jiao Siluo did not refute.
Instead, he nodded with a bright smile.
If Kou Ji said this before showing off his musket, Jiao Siluo would definitely smile indifferently and not make any expression.
The civil and military officials in Qingtang would pursue Kou Ji with words and writings.
But now Kou Ji showed off the musket, allowing Jiao Siluo to see the power of the musket.
Jiao Siluo was naturally very willing to admit that he was a minister of the Song Dynasty.
Not to mention asking him to admit that he is a minister of the Song Dynasty, even if he is asked to write a letter and call Zhao Zhen, a much younger official than himself, godfather, he is willing to do so.
As long as the Song Dynasty can give him the manufacturing technology of the musket.
It would be best for Da Song to build it directly and send it to him.
Face is of no importance to Jiao Siluo.
As early as when he was kidnapped by Zongge monk Li Lizun, he had already lost face.
Over the years, he has learned nothing but one thing.
The fist is the last word.
As long as it can make his fist stronger, he doesn't care about any face.
As long as his fist is strong enough, any lost face can be regained.
Is Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty powerful or strong?
sharp!
powerful!
It is well known that he accepted Handerang as his godfather.
It is well known that his godfather and his mother were sleeping together.
Who dares to say these two things as shame in front of him?
No one dares.
Anyone who dared to say anything became flesh and blood under his iron hooves.
The rest were all those who knelt in front of him and called him big brother or godfather.
So it doesn’t matter whether you have face or not.
Big fists are the last word.
"Corps, this thing..."
Jiao Siluo just spoke.
Kou Ji interrupted him decisively and said with a smile: "This thing is called a musket, and its biggest feature is that it can kill the enemy with one blow from a long distance.
Far better than bows and arrows.
A qualified archer needs to be selected from hundreds of people.
It takes more than a year of training to become a qualified archer.
And this thing can be used by everyone.
It only takes one day to master it.
It only takes less than a month to rival a qualified archer."