At the celebration banquet that night, Shen Shuren did not directly ask people to "sum up the victory experience" in a disgraceful manner, but very wisely mentioned military affairs as little as possible.
In fact, it was Huang Degong who praised him from the bottom of his heart, so he only replied a few sentences in a percussive manner, but only to the point he clicked.
Chen Shuren knows very well that for a drunkard like Huang Degong, when he is fighting, he is fighting, and when he is having a good time, he is having a good time. When drinking, don't talk to the boss, just like company team building.
To conquer people's hearts and use different types of talents, you must have the emotional intelligence to adapt to people's conditions.
You can talk about mission, vision and values with the counselors, but you should drink a lot of wine and eat meat with the hard-working people to make money.
In the end, Huang Degong returned home so drunk that he was so hungover that he slept until noon the next day.
Chen Shuren didn't raise his tent to gather the generals in the morning. Everything was agreed three chapters in advance before drinking last night, so that all the generals could drink openly.
Although this order actually benefited Huang Degong the most, at least on the surface it was a level playing field and military discipline treated everyone equally.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo Reading recently to catch up on books, change sources, and read aloud with many sounds, and it can be used on both Android and Apple.]
Chen Shuren himself was very strict with himself. Although he drank a little too much, he still insisted on getting up at exactly eight o'clock in the morning, only one hour later than usual.
After breakfast, he personally patrolled the city to inspect the defenses. He walked around the four walls of Shangcai County to check the damage and maintenance progress of various fortifications after yesterday's battle. He also stopped when he encountered problems.
Give guidance and supervision.
Shangcai City is not big, the perimeter of the city wall is only a dozen miles, and even walking and inspection instructions were completed in less than two hours.
After busy work until noon, Huang Degong rushed over, followed by several generals: "Master Futai! It's too late in the end. I forgive you. Is there anything wrong with defense?"
He was actually woken up by his subordinates, who reminded him that Governor Shen had gotten up early and personally inspected the city's defenses. Huang Degong was embarrassed, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and obeyed his orders without even eating breakfast.
Chen Shuren Yun Danfeng smiled softly, didn't take it seriously, and said kindly: "It's okay, I said that there is no need to patrol early today. I have just completed a patrol and am a little tired. I am about to sit down and have some lunch."
Let’s have dinner together, General Huang?”
As Chen Shuren said this, he took a few donkey meats from his confidant Shen Fu and burned them in a down-to-earth manner, then handed two of them to Huang Degong.
Donkey meat is the meat of grain-carrying animals that died in the war. It would be a waste not to eat it.
Due to the scout wars and grain transportation harassment and confrontation here in Shangcai, a small number of donkeys and horses were killed every day. The loss of donkeys was actually less than that of horses, but horse meat was unpalatable, so Shenshu people distributed the killed donkeys to civil servants
With generals and generals, no one thought it was inappropriate to distribute horsemeat to lower-level officers.
Huang Degong took it immediately. Although it was cold, it was still delicious for someone who had not eaten breakfast.
As he ate, he felt a little embarrassed, and finally humbly asked about military matters to make up for his embarrassment of being absent from work.
In addition, when the two of them were eating, they happened to be sitting next to the horse-faced fort on a city wall. Huang Degong naturally asked for advice on the success and failure of yesterday's artillery deployment.
I saw Huang Degong saying with a look of shame: "To be honest, we don't have much contact with this kind of Folangji. It was the first time we saw it after arriving in Ruyang. At that time, I thought it was an ordinary Folangji. There wasn't much."
Pay attention.
Later, I saw that Your Excellency specifically ordered the cannon to be deployed horizontally before the battle. We were also a little surprised. Although we were puzzled, we didn't ask any more questions. It wasn't until the battle came that we realized that the ammunition was weird.
Your Excellency, this is such a fantastic idea. How can you come up with the idea of using a wooden tube to seal and stuff it, and then put it into the cannon shells? Today I am going to ask Your Excellency to allow me to dismantle a few of them and ask for more tips on how to use them."
Huang Degong was quite reckless in fighting and was good at using firearms, but he did not master any additional unique skills. When encountering this new weapon, he was inevitably careless and did not pay enough attention before.
So much so that after the first battle, I didn’t even think of checking for omissions and filling them in. My attitude towards learning technology can be considered slow.
Chen Shuren has been in contact recently and noticed this. Originally, his impression and positioning of Huang Degong was similar to that of Liu Guoneng——
Both of them came from miserable backgrounds. As a child, Huang Degong killed Tatars in Liaodong and exchanged their heads for money, while Liu Guoneng was a bandit when he was young.
But after in-depth observation, Shen Shuren found that the two men's attitudes towards learning were completely different.
Although Liu Guoneng was a thief, he knew good and bad and was willing to learn. He also admired scholars in his heart, but he only regretted that he was born in a humble family and could not be a gentleman.
Therefore, Shen Shuren sent his only son to the Imperial Academy in Nanjing and joined Wumei Village as a disciple. Without pretending to be a Jinshi, he sincerely made friends with him. Liu Guoneng burst into tears of gratitude and vowed to die to repay his kindness.
Huang Degong, on the other hand, does not admire literati at all, nor does he like learning. He is simply reckless. If Shen Shuren wants to conquer such a person, it will not be enough to rely on courtesy and virtuous corporal, and it will naturally be slower.
Fortunately, Shen Shuren was not in a hurry. For example, at this moment, he waited until Huang Degong's curiosity suddenly aroused, and then he could give some advice.
Shen Shuren waved his hand and signaled to Shen Fu and several other soldiers to bring over a small Folang machine weighing three to four hundred pounds, took out the blunderbuss, and then gave Huang Degong the cartridge ammunition loaded inside for closer inspection.
While explaining.
"This kind of ammunition has a nest of lead bullets inside and a wooden tube on the outside. In order to be airtight with the barrel, we initially painted it with wood paint.
Later, during the Dongting Lake War three months ago, Shen Lian and Li Yu used it and reported back that the glue paint did not burn cleanly when activated. Although the air tightness was good, sticky residues easily adhered to the inner wall of the gun barrel.
After shooting, you have to wipe the inner chamber with a wooden stick wrapped in a wet cloth, and then wipe it again with a dry cloth and wooden stick, so as not to cause the gun barrel to become narrower and narrower, but also to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet. This is too troublesome and is worse than the old-fashioned method.
The ammo-powered Franco machine isn't much faster.
So after I came back, I asked Magistrate Fang and Director Song to think about and optimize it again, and finally came up with the current version. Now the adjusted wooden shell shell coating fits the inner wall of the gun bore better, which can ensure the shells at a larger depression angle.
It won’t fall out, and it can be fully burned without leaving any residue, so you can fire a second round without clearing the chamber.”
Huang Degong listened patiently to the explanation, and he had a deep understanding of the development history of this weapon, and what problems he had encountered in actual combat were solved in the process before iterating to the current version.
Huang Degong couldn't help but admire Shen Shuren's "project management" ability more and more.
Because he only discovered now that this kind of weapon was not something he thought of in a sudden flash of inspiration, but was something he had to seek truth from facts, solve problems when he encountered them, and optimize it step by step until it looks like this.
A flash of inspiration can be due to good luck, but the product strength that comes out of repeated iterations is definitely the hard power of R&D and project management personnel.
"Master Shen is very good at managing craftsmanship." This was the new impression Huang Degong got after listening to this.
At the same time, Huang Degong remembered that Shen Shuren mentioned last night that he originally had more tricks to use this kind of artillery, but he had not used them yesterday.
Now that he has reached this stage of asking for advice, Huang Degong is also very open-minded and wants to continue learning, so he respectfully asks for advice.
Chen Shuren didn't hide it, he pointed directly at the cannon and said: "I do have many more moves, but there are so many tricks at the moment, let's just pick the most obvious threat -
Didn't Tian Jianxiu change his position yesterday after seeing our army's artillery firing horizontally and sideways, instead of attacking the ordinary wall section, and instead attack the front of the horse? Yesterday, it was because of General Huang's bravery, your own soldiers' lives, and the close combat that pushed the enemy away.
Go back. But in fact, there are other ways to solve it, which will be more stable. It just needs to optimize and adjust the shape of the horse's face.
Originally, the front of the horse's face was parallel to the city wall, and other horse faces could not cover the front of the attacked horse's face, leaving a blind spot for shooting.
If we transform the horse face, change the front from a straight wall to two walls with retracted sides, forming a protruding sharp corner in the middle, that is, the quadrilateral horse face becomes a pentagon horse face.
noodle.
Then, the Franco cannons mounted on the sides of the adjacent horses can smoothly hit the front of the horse next door. Even if the enemy only attacks the front of the horse and does not attack anywhere else, he will still be bombarded in vain."
As Chen Shuren spoke, there was no paper or pen on the city wall, so he pulled out his sword and directly drew a few lines on the rammed earth as a schematic diagram. Combining the geometric figures, Huang Degong naturally understood it immediately.
What Shen Shuren painted was actually a prototype of a bastion that had already appeared in the West at the same time. Of course, it was not a complete bastion. It was more like a traditional city wall with modified protruding buildings and elimination of blind spots.
Temporary bastion.
(Note: The prototype of the bastion appeared in the West in the Battle of Metz in France in 1552, but it was not a complete bastion at that time. It was just that some ancillary buildings were added outside the traditional city wall of Metz to eliminate shooting blind spots)
Huang Degong looked along the straight line indicated by Chen Shuren, and found that after the modification, the artillery on the left and right horse faces could completely hit the front of the middle horse face, as long as the angle of the artillery was slightly skewed when placed.
However, Huang Degong soon discovered that there seemed to be two problems in implementing this tactic.
He thought about it for a while and immediately asked humbly: "Sir, this kind of horse face is indeed good, but the direction of the gun barrel of the Franchise when bombarding the horse face is still not exactly the same as the direction when bombarding the side of the ordinary city wall. In a fierce battle,
Is it not easy to adjust the muzzle direction at any time?
In addition, these Franchise machines were equipped with shotguns for yesterday's battle. Shotguns are powerful in killing people, but they cannot reach far. The distance between each horse face on the city wall is only two hundred steps, and it would have to hit the target between two horse faces.
In the middle position, the shotgun only needs to fly seventy or eighty steps, and it can still cause huge damage.
However, if you want to hit the opposite horse face instead of halfway between the two horse faces, the required range will suddenly double. The shotgun fired by the Franchise has to be so powerful two hundred steps away.
It’s extremely difficult. If we use single-ended projectiles when bombarding our neighbors’ horses, the power will be greatly reduced, and each cannon won’t kill too many people. How should we choose between these?”
Chen Shuren showed a rare expression of approval, and the mang man finally began to enter a learning state sincerely.
Chen Shuren did not hide his secrets and answered directly: "The first problem is easy to solve. Our army has been developing new gun mounts. The prefect of Wuchang has made several models. In yesterday's battle, there was no need to install them.
After all, it is better to place the gun mount directly in the slot on the ground of the fort for stability.
But as long as you have the drawings and find some carpenters, these wooden shelves can be prepared in two or three days, and then you can flexibly adjust the shooting angle in a small range.
As for the second question, whether we can continue to use shotgun shells two hundred steps away...that depends on the second type of shells we prepared for the bandits."