On the square in front of Chengqing hall, ministers gathered Luo Xin and his party in the middle in the shape of a crescent moon.

Xiao Wenxuan and Xiao Ming stand in the middle of the crescent moon.

Watching Luo Xin take out one long stick like weapon after another from the wooden box, Xiao Wenxuan looks surprised. He says to Xiao Ming, "Minger, is this a firegun?"

"Yes, father, this is the firearm used in the Jizhou war. It's very simple to say, but it's just to reduce the size of the artillery."

The ten muskets Xiao Ming brought with him this time are all rope guns. There is a rope in the position of the gun.

In combat, you need to ignite the fire rope to launch, which is the disadvantage of the fire rope gun.

Because the firing needs the fire rope, so the shooter often has to carry several meters of fire rope on his body.

When the weather is humid, it's very difficult to light the fire rope. In general, the Musketeers will light both ends of the fire rope in order to fire a second shot at any time. Only in this way, a fire rope can't be burned for long, and it's very easy to use it when besieged because there is no fire rope.

Another drawback is that the ignited fire rope is easy to be found at night, which makes it difficult to carry out sneak attacks at night.

Generally speaking, it is the shortcomings of the fire line gun that lead to the rapid elimination of the fire line gun after the emergence of the flint gun.

Now that Xiao Ming is ready to sell his firearm, he is confident that his firearm has an advantage over his flint gun.

"Well, it's really like the artillery has shrunk. Ming'er, you're so smart. Doesn't that mean every soldier has a gun in his hand now?" Xiao Wenxuan laughed and was very happy.

Because of the lack of horses, it was very difficult for Dayu to defeat the barbarians in the wild. Now the appearance of this new weapon immediately gave Xiao Wenxuan hope.

These days, he attached great importance to the firearm camp, and now there is a new type of weapon array, which naturally excited him.

Xiao Ming said with a smile: "although it is a small artillery, its power will also be reduced a lot."

At this time, Luo Xin had given all the ten muskets to the soldiers. When they were in Qingzhou, these soldiers had already practiced the firing process of the muskets. Therefore, after they got the muskets, they were very skilled in loading and just waiting for the firing.

When he was ready, Xiao Ming winked at Luo Xin.

"Launch!" There was a cry from rosin.

To order, the soldiers immediately lit the fire rope, using the fire rope ignited the powder in the powder pool, with the "bang" of a gun, a burst of white smoke.

Although Xiao Wenxuan was prepared, he was shocked by the movement of the firearm. So were the ministers. Some people even trembled.

"Oh, that's a lot of noise."

"Yes, but how come none of the targets have been hit?"

“....”

After the firing of the muskets, the ministers began to whisper.

In today's court hall, none of them jumped out to accuse Xiao Ming. One reason is that Xiao Ming has made great contributions this time. Finding fault at this time is just like finding trouble for himself.

Secondly, Xiao Ming holds the Shanhaiguan Pass, which means that Xiao Ming holds the security of the north. At this time, he is in a high position. He is afraid that he will be led by Xiao Ming. After all, now Xiao Ming has this ability.

And the most important is the new weapon, the firearm. They represent the interests of different aristocratic families in the state of Dayu, but no one wants to offend Xiao Ming, because they are also eager to get this kind of weapon.

When the ministers' comments reached Xiao Wenxuan's ears, Xiao Wenxuan was also embarrassed. He said to Xiao Ming, "Minger, why didn't one of the targets hit?"

"Father, this firearm relies on intensive shooting, which is quite different from bow and arrow. In fact, the precision of firearm is not as good as bow and arrow." Xiao Ming said lightly.

During the period of exchanging cold and hot weapons, the firearm was criticized by the army at that time for its unstable performance. Qi Jiguang, the general of the Ming Dynasty, once described in detail the funny situation of the firearm in the Army: either the soldiers forgot to fill it with lead bullets, or the soldiers carelessly swallowed the lead bullets, or the soldiers' incorrect posture of raising the gun caused the ammunition to slip out of the barrel, even though the shooting accuracy was poor 。

So many problems eventually led to a small team of Qi's army only equipped with two bird blunderbuss, and the rest were cold weapons.

Therefore, even if he brought the torch this time, it is still a question whether the general of the forbidden army can take a fancy to it after a demonstration.

"Bow and arrow are not as good as that. What's the use of this torch?"

After Xiao Ming's words came out, a general suddenly said.

Other ministers also mean the same thing. If it wasn't for the fact that Xiao Ming defeated the barbarians with his rifle, they would be more disdainful.

Luo Quan said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, a single musket is not as practical as a bow and arrow on the battlefield, but I have never seen the musket team of his Royal Highness the king of Qi. Thousands of people form a column to ride and shoot. The musket will be very powerful, and a qualified Archer needs years of training, but even an ordinary people with a musket can kill the barbarian cavalry, The barbarians do not lack horses, but the state of Dayu does not lack soldiers. "

Xiao Wenxuan looks at the blank bull's-eye and sweeps the firearm again. Luo Quan says exactly what he is thinking. The advantage of barbarians is the war horse and skilled Archer, which is the disadvantage of the state of Dayu.But the musket can make up for this disadvantage. He asked again, "ming'er, what's the power and range of the musket?"

"The range doesn't belong to bow and arrow. It's much more powerful than bow and arrow. It can pierce the barbarian's armor at 90 paces." Xiao Ming said.

For him, the purpose of his coming here with a torch is to promote this kind of weapon and realize arms sales.

The northern stability, and now signed a vote certificate, no matter this vote certificate has no use, temporarily princes should be honest.

After he married Fei yue'er, he would not come back to Chang'an. After that, he would fully manage his own fiefdom and make up for the technological gap with the West.

Therefore, he came to Chang'an this time to find money. One is the trade agreement, the other is the arms sales.

As long as these two ways are achieved, he will be able to continue to make profits and use the money to upgrade the real estate industry.

"More powerful than a bow?" Xiao Wenxuan was moved by what Xiao Ming said.

He pondered for a moment, he said: "in this case, it's better to equip a batch of guns first, just like the artillery. This time, it's better to equip the firearm battalion with 5000 muskets first."

It cost millions of taels of silver to purchase guns last time, but it will cost a lot to continue to purchase guns now.

Therefore, Xiao Wenxuan didn't want to buy too much to avoid the ministers' gossiping. After all, the firearm camp, which has spent a lot of money to build, is just a decoration and has never had any real achievements in the battlefield.

Moreover, the accuracy of the musket really made him doubt the combat effect of the musket.

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