The shooting range of the Beijing Military Academy covers a wide area. People who are conducting shooting training on the playground line up to face a cliff eighty meters away. Under the steep cliffs, a row of wooden stakes are neatly inserted, and three targets are hung on each wooden stake..com

Lin Zexu looked at these soldiers in green clothes strangely. The narrow costumes of these people could no longer arouse Lin Zexu's curiosity. What he strangely was that these soldiers were arranged in three rows, with the people in the first row lying on the ground and aiming at the target, the people in the second row half kneeling on the ground and aiming at the target, and the people in the last row stood and aiming at the target.

The firearms in their hands made Lin Zexu feel new. When Lin Zexu was appointed as the inspector of Jiangnan Road, he had seen muskets and guns in the military camp. Those things were obviously different from the firearms in their hands, and there was no fuse that needed to be lit.

"Flame, fire!" A sudden shout attracted Lin Zexu. Before he could prepare, a loud noise shocked him. Lin Zexu only saw the muskets in the hands of the three soldiers in the upper, middle and lower rows of soldiers suddenly ejected strong energy, and the smoke rose up after the flash of fire.

Liu Ji smiled as he looked at Lin Zexu's shocked expression. He pointed to the soldiers who were reloading gunpowder and said, "This is a smooth-bore flint musket in front. Portuguese merchants, French merchants and English merchants are all scrambling to sell them to me. Now I have made people imitate them. In the future, we will produce the firearms in the army ourselves. We cannot always buy other people's items."

Speaking of this, Liu Ji seemed to remember something. He looked at Lin Zexu who was still shocked and said, "Guess what Yuan Fu, guess what? It turns out that we have had such weapons for a long time. Earlier, Mr. Kangxi and the Russians were fighting in Yaxa, they seized such weapons. During the time of Emperor Qianlong, he seized some from Gurkha."

Lin Zexu was watching the soldiers bite a piece of paper ammunition, quickly loading the ammunition in front of the gun chamber, and then pulling the ignition hammer into place. Hearing Liu Ji's words, he nodded and said, "Does the emperor use such foreign guns now using the Five New Army Towns and the Tiger Gun Battalion?"

Before Liu Ji could answer, Yinghe laughed and said, "Yuan Fu, you have never seen the cannon camp rushing. When you are in the throne, you must have white cotton stuffing your ears. Standing near you, the earth is shaking, like the thunder god in the sky is angry."

"Two rounds of shooting, fire!" As soon as Yinghe finished speaking, the instructor who was commanding the shooting waved the red flag in his hand and issued another order to shoot.

The gunshots were obviously not as dense as before. To be precise, they were divided into three shootings. Lin Zexu saw that the first shot was lying down in the first row, then the second row shot was kneeling, and finally the third row shot. Shortly after the standing shooting, the people lying down started a new round of shooting.

Lin Zexu couldn't help but say, "Wonderful, this method is very wonderful, so you can attack the enemy continuously."

Yinghe took it and said, "The flowering bullet that the emperor redesigned for the artillery battalion is wonderful. With one shot, shrapnel flying in a few feet in a radius, and the enemy cannot escape."

While he was speaking, a guard came quickly to report: "Xien, the Minister of the Lifan Academy, asked to see the emperor."

As soon as the guard finished speaking, Xien's figure had already appeared on the tree-lined avenue of the martial arts lecture hall. The guard looked at Liu Ji in embarrassment and said, "I can't stop Xien, he must break in."

Liu Ji knew in his heart that Xien was coming to chatter again, so he said to the guard helplessly: "You go down!"

Sure enough, Xien was still on the road and called out: "The emperor must not change the ancestral system. When the Holy Ancestor was in power, he ordered Manchu people to ride and shoot in Manchu. Now, who knows how to ride and shoot in various camps of the ban brigade? How many of the emperor's new army are Manchu people? These people always train fire sticks, but who knows how to ride and shoot? If this continues, what is the foundation of my Qing Dynasty? Manchu people's riding and shooting in Manchu has become an empty word."

Liu Ji was already very impatient to talk to the old man and his wife. However, Xien was a contribution to supporting Daoguang, and Liu Ji knew that he had already had a reputation of being mean and ungrateful in the court, so Liu Ji was reluctant to easily punish the princes and ministers who were kind to him when dealing with things.

Liu Ji lowered his face and said to Xien: "How come the Duke of Fuguo is an important official in the court, so he is so ignorant and quarreled in many places. His words also provoked the Manchu and Han families, affecting the stability and unity of the Qing Dynasty."

After Liu Ji's drunk, Xi'en's voice was low. He knelt in front of Liu Ji and said, "Please restore my Qing Dynasty's powerful troops and don't use foreign things."

Liu Ji shouted: "What kind of foreigners are you? Xien, you have read the books of sages for so many years in vain. We Chinese began to use firearms in the Song Dynasty. Although the emperors of the previous dynasty were not very good, they used firearms better than they are now. How many firearms did our Qing Dynasty eat before attacking Shanhaiguan? Whether it was fighting with the Russians or fighting with the Gurkhas, that country did not use firearms. Okay, since you like bows and arrows, I will give you a bow and arrow and let you fight with a person holding a foreign gun."

When Liu Ji said this, he greeted the instructor in the martial arts lecture hall: "Instructor Ma sent me a soldier, and then found a bow and arrow for our warrior, Lord Xien, of the Qing Dynasty."

Xien knew the power of the foreign gun, so he quickly said to Liu Ji: "Since the emperor is so firm, I can't say anything, I'm not good at saying anything, I'm saying goodbye."

Lin Zexu looked at Xien bowing his back, and his lonely figure wandered alone in the shade of the tree, as if he was ten years older. Although he had some understanding and sympathy for Xien, the power of the firearm was a fact that no one could change. After a while, Lin Zexu asked Liu: "If the musketeer is approached and fought, wouldn't it be a loss?"

Liu Ji smiled and said to the instructor: "Let everyone get bayonets and practice assassination for Lord Lin to visit."

"Get order!" The instructor with braids on his neck was very nimble. He shouted at the top of his voice and then turned to the soldiers and shouted loudly: "All soldiers stand up and look right."

After the queue was reorganized, he issued several orders in succession, and as the instructor ordered the trainees and soldiers were divided into close distances between them. At this time, the instructor gave the last order: "All soldiers were bayonets."

Following the command, the soldiers took out a bayonet from the condom on their belts and put it on the front barrel of the foreign gun.

Lin Zexu suddenly realized, and he nodded and said, "Good idea, so that even if the enemy attacks the front line, you will not be afraid."

Yinghe also nodded and said, "Who can compete with such a mighty army in the world?"

Lin Zexu said with some emotion: "It is only necessary to train such an army, strict discipline and a lot of money should be required."
Chapter completed!