Zhu Zhi has always had a question about what level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty reached. Because there are many information that the dynasty had already formed a special firearm unit - Shenji Camp. But I can't figure it out why the Ming army was eventually defeated by the Manzhou people who were mainly heavy cavalry. Moreover, Zhu Zhi considered his future development in Liaodong, if the firearms were really so powerful, he should be used. Although Zhu Zhi did not know how to make guns and cannons, he still had some understanding of the technological development of firearms. Maybe his own inadvertent reminder could also promote the development of the big open firearms?

After the matter of Goryeo calmed down, one day Zhu Zhi asked Xiao Mawang if there was a Shenji camp in the Jingwei. Xiao Mawang said: "Yes, the camp was established in Hongwu in the third year. Why is the prince interested in this?"

Zhu Zhi said: "Yes, what day do you take me to see?"

The little Ma Wang thought Zhu Zhi wanted to draw soldiers from Shenji Camp to Liaodong, so he quickly dissuaded him: "What's so good about it? Most of them are useless and broken copper and iron. As long as the horse is fast, the Shenji Camp is useless at all. The guards in our Beijing camp look down on them the most. They have no martial arts skills, no courage, and there are soldiers that no one wants."

Zhu Zhi smiled mysteriously and thought, if he could bring a group of troops to build his own firearms army, he would be more confident to gain a foothold in the troubled times, and said, "Just take me there, there is no place to talk so much."

The little Mawang scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, it's not that you won't take you there. The rags in this Shenji Camp often hurt people. I'm afraid that if I take you there..."

Zhu Zhi had a rough face and flew over: "You boy, the dog doesn't spit ivory in his mouth."

Although the little horse king didn't know what this meant, he still knew how to avoid flying feet quickly and said quickly: "Prince, let me spare me, who dares to disobey your old man's golden words? It's okay to take you there, but you must be careful. Otherwise, my little horse will become a dead horse."

"Okay, everything depends on your arrangements. You can take me there anyway." Zhu Zhi agreed.

Shenji Camp is located in Jinchuan Gate in the northwest, and does not belong to the various garrisons in the capital. The gate of the Shenji Camp is easy to recognize. You can see two cannon-like objects at the door from afar, which is quite unique. Xiao Mawang and a hundred households in the camp are friends, so they found a soldier to report in, and only said that they brought friends over, and they didn't dare to say that the Liao King was here.

After a while, a man swayed out of the camp. He was in his twenties, medium-sized figure, dark face, unshaven beard, and unkempt. He looked at the little horse king from a distance and shouted: "Haha, are you not convinced? You still have to compete with your brother for alcohol." As he said that, the person who came took two steps at the same time, ran to the camp gate and punched him. The little horse king quickly stepped back and did not take off his tricks, and said: "You kid don't know the kindness of a good person. Didn't you teach you two tricks last time? I'm kind to teach you martial arts, but you?" As he said that, he reached out to bring the person.

The visitor blocked the little horse king and said, "Don't joke, hurry up and enter the camp. This is not a place to talk." As he said that, he pulled the little horse king and walked in. Along the way, the little horse king introduced him to Zhu Zhi. It turned out that this person was Jiao Zilong, whose courtesy name was Fengyun, and was a hundred households in Naishiji Camp. However, he was not the general who led the troops, but the firearms made by the manufacturing bureau in the camp. The little horse king did not hide it from Jiao Zilong and told him that the Nailiao King Qiansui was in front of him. Jiao Zilong quickly bowed, but was grabbed by Zhu Zhi and whispered: "Don't be too polite to Fengyun, don't be seen by others."

Zhu Zhi suddenly remembered something and asked, "Does Fengyun know about General Jiao Yu and Jiao?"

Jiao Zilong smiled and said, "Jiao Yu is my uncle."

Zhu Zhi smiled slightly, that's right. Jiao Yu is a very mysterious figure, and there is no biography in the "History of Ming Dynasty". However, according to other unofficial historical records, he presented fire guns to Zhu Yuanzhang during the Hongwu period. Old Zhu was very happy to be the governor, in charge of the Shenji camps, and specializes in guns and cannons. This man also wrote a book titled "Fire Dragon Artifact Formation", which Zhu Zhi also read in order to read YY novels. The preface to the book is a YY novel. When Jiao Yu claimed to be a teenager, he dabbled in Confucian books, studied the generals carefully, traveled to the lakes and seas, and visited the Taoist people. One day he met a Huang Guan Xuanfu

The Taoist priest with blue eyes and long beard called himself the Taoist. The Taoist priest, Confucius and Mencius, Wumai, and Sun Wu, were surrounded by stars and mountains and rivers. He was appointed as a teacher. He had been traveling for three years. On the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 13th year of Zhizheng in Yuan Dynasty (1353), the Taoist priest taught his master the secret military book "Fire Attack" and told him that in a few years, the Holy Emperor had risen in Huaidian, and you should go to assist and make merits. After saying that, he floated away without knowing where to end. After Zhu Yuanzhang raised his army, he defected to Zhu Yuanzhang and cast forty fire dragon artifacts according to the method described in the book, which was as powerful as a flying dragon, and was very powerful.

Who else can be made of such a story except for a friend who travels through time and space?! When those friends who travel through time talk about the modern knowledge they have learned, they either fabricate it from overseas or teach it by strangers. Anyway, using the ignorance and superstition of ancient people can be fooled. So Zhu Zhi was still very interested in General Zhu, but he did not expect to meet his descendants here.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhi suddenly had the idea of ​​Jiao Yu for a while and asked, "Where is General Jiao now?"

Jiao Zilong's expression dimmed and said, "My uncle sacrificed his life for the country in Hongwu for the twenty years, and he was lost in Yunnan. I'm sorry, he couldn't even find his body."

"Oh." Zhu Zhi pondered for a moment, there was no body? This could really trigger some wild ideas. There are only two possibilities. One is that Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the existence of this person threatened him and found a way to kill him; the other is that this person was really a friend who traveled through time and felt that Zhu Yuanzhang was not easy to mess with, so he quickly ran to somewhere to hide it and created a scene where there was no body.

Zhu Zhi was excited and thought about it. He asked again: "I heard that General Jiao is an expert in making firearms. I wonder if Feng Yun understands it?"

Jiao Zilong showed a proud look on his face and replied: "Of course, Mo Jiang followed his uncle at the age of 12 and has been learning to make firearms around him for 8 years. Uncle Mo Jiang has learned almost the same skills."

Zhu Zhi said: "Since that's the case, why can't Fengyun make firearms be made in Fengyun?"

Jiao Zilong said with disdain, "Firemaking tools are all the work of craftsmen. What's the future for that? A real man should join the army and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make contributions."

Xiao Ma Wang interrupted, "Then introduce you to our Yulin Left Guard, okay?"

Jiao Zilong said with a little embarrassed expression: "Hehe, Shenji Camp is also an army." The little Ma Wang ignored him and looked disdainful.

Jiao Zilong quickly changed the topic and said, "I wonder what the prince is interested in in the camp?"

Zhu Zhi said: "I am interested in everything, and take me to see everything. By the way, what guy are the ordinary soldiers in the camp now?"

Jiao Zilong said: "Not necessarily. The front battalion is mainly equipped with three-eyed guns, and the back battalion is mainly equipped with muskets. These things are not very good. The most powerful one is the Xun Guard's Xun Guard. That thing is good and can be used by one person. Let's take a look at Xun Guard with the last general first."

Zhu Zhi was absolutely shocked. Although the grenade gun in front of him was not a complete sense, it could be regarded as a very advanced firearm. The gun was 70 cm long, with a caliber of about 20MM, without a buttstock, with only one handle like a handle, and it was still straight. However, there was a fire door behind the barrel, and there was a hand-pulled trigger. It was said that it was a trigger because the handle acted as a trigger, and there was also a small fire mouth.

At the request of the Little Mawang, Jiao Zilong asked a team of soldiers from the personal guards to practice the firing process of the rush guns at the shooting range on the ground. Each soldier first inserted a rack with a fixed gun on the ground, then poured the fire at his waist into the muzzle, then put a bullet in. Finally, he took a strip of strips into the muzzle and lit a fuse, and finally pulled the link handle and fired it. With a "boom", a smog rose in front of each soldier. The gun had a lot of recoil, and the soldiers had to use the other hand to tightly hold the fixed rack below to ensure normal firing. This series of processes required soldiers to undergo very long training.

Although Zhu Zhi definitely does not know how to make guns and cannons, long-term tracking of YY novels also gave Zhu Zhi a certain understanding of ancient guns. The so-called rapid gun in front of him is a very preliminary mesh rope gun. Because he does not know how to chemistry, Zhu Zhi does not understand what fuss rope is made. He just feels that if such a clumsy, recoil-intensive and lacks accuracy "gun" on the battlefield, there will be no independent firearms troops that can escape the massacre of the cavalry.

After watching the demonstration, Jiao Zilong proudly brought the target 50 meters away for Zhu Zhi to show it. He saw a wood wrapped in leather hit by a projectile and hit a big pit. 20 musketeers practiced the target, and only one shot hit. Such a hit rate?! Zhu Zhi was deeply disappointed.

Zhu Zhi couldn't bear to hit the proud "craftsman" and had to pretend to be very surprised and asked, "How far can this gun be hit?"

Jiao Zilong said: "You can penetrate heavy armor within 100 steps."

Zhu Zhi scratched his head and was forced to compliment: "What a great firearm, but if it's so troublesome every time he launches, it won't work."

The little horse king obviously had seen it before, and said indifferently: "How many times have I told him? If you fire a gun, how many arrows can I shoot you? If you don't believe me, try it. I can make all of your 20 brothers fall down within half a stick of incense. And that range is similar to that of arrows. If you get three or five Mongolian tarzi, you will be done."

Jiao Zilong said awkwardly: "This is, but it is not easy anymore. This is still designed based on a drawing left by my uncle. Haha, of course this kind of thing cannot be seen by the prince."

Zhu Zhi's original fantasy has returned to reality. He has already confirmed that Jiao Yu must not be a time traveler. Even a person like him who is not a fool with military industry would not design such a rags.

At this time, Zhu Zhi completely lost hope. With this so-called most advanced speed gun, he could only be massacred when he arrived on the battlefield. Although many FFs have boasted on the Internet how great the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were, reality and imagination are too far apart.

Looking at Zhu Zhi's disappointed eyes, Jiao Zilong's face was indeed a little unhooked, and he hurriedly said, "Prince, this gun is not very good, but the most powerful thing in the Shenji Camp is the cannon."

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Chapter completed!