Yan'an Guards Liu Chengzong's butterfly flapped its wings and created a whirlwind.
On the day he parted with Liu Chengzong, Yang Yanchang suddenly realized that he was starving despite being guarding a mountain of gold and silver. This was against common sense.
Mountains of gold and silver are naturally weapons and armor.
Speaking of which, the sale and purchase of ordnance on all sides of the Ming Dynasty has long been a common practice, and even the forts on the edge of the Great Wall have been sold to the point where there is nothing left to sell.
However, in Yan'an Guard, this kind of activity is limited to left-handed and right-handed people inside the guard.
Usually, the things in the leader's guardhouse are collected and used, and distributed to the servants.
The reselling of ordnance by ordinary banner troops is limited to the garrison troops selling some swords, guns and arrows to the people for self-defense.
It’s not that we don’t want to sell a large amount of arms smuggling, but no one really wants to buy it.
Fucheng is the center of military defense of Yan'an Prefecture. There are no big thieves within a hundred miles around Fucheng. Even if thieves move in, they will be wiped out quickly.
Otherwise, a few thieves with hundreds of people like Ganquan Tiger General, who robbed wealthy families, would not have been wiped out in four days.
In addition to thieves, the gentry who had the need and financial resources to purchase large quantities of ordnance were fully capable of purchasing and requesting the allocation of ordnance from the county government through official channels.
Moreover, as a commander, a hundred households were transferred, and 500 people were stationed directly at home. They usually farmed and weapons and equipment were kept in the enclosure.
Not only is it protected by force, but it can also create economic benefits.
Smuggling is boring, expensive, and risky.
Until Liu Chengzong approached Yang Yanchang and opened the door to a new world for this impoverished trial household.
Food was of no use to Yang Yanchang, who planned to become a deserter, but three stones of food could help many brothers who stayed in the guard house.
And in his opinion, this is a method that can be used in the long term.
The deserters were outside fighting for the fence, and the banner troops fled in batches. Before escaping, they transported the weapons from the guard station and provided food to the banner troops.
The artillery shipped out can strengthen the deserters' strength, seize more encirclements, and relieve more flag troops.
This is not about being a deserter.
This is entrepreneurship!
Yang Yanchang went back to search and quickly found his target in the armory.
It was a cast iron pearl cannon, one foot seven inches long, eight inches in circumference, and weighed forty-five kilograms. The gun body was reinforced with five iron hoops.
The charge is eight liang, one pound, two liang, large bullets, and twenty one-liang bullets.
This cannon was cast in the third year of Wanli, and its body number was 2241. In that year, the imperial court built a total of 2400 of this type of Pearl Cannon to match the carriage camp.
In the Shaanxi frontier army, this kind of gun was also assigned to the cavalry army, and a fifty-man cavalry unit was equipped with one.
Small cannons supplement the firepower of crossbow guns.
The whole gun consists of a gun body, a square gun frame, and a shell box. It weighs less than 200 kilograms and can be carried all over the place by a pack horse.
"This cannon doesn't have a mount. Yang Baihu wants to play with it?"
The old flag soldier in charge of the military warehouse sat in front of the warehouse, with a look of wisdom in his eyes: "We don't give out gunpowder and ammunition in the warehouse."
Yang Yanchang stared: "How can we fight without a gun mount?"
The gun mount of the Pearl Cannon is a solid wood block three feet long, one foot and a half wide, and one foot high. It has grooves that match the five iron hoops of the gun body, four pull rings on both sides, and a wide belt to fix the gun body.
When shooting, you need to place wooden blocks under the wooden frame. Basically, shooting is calculated by using the muzzle to be raised one inch and the fire power to be several steps further.
Without a wooden frame, the cylindrical gun body cannot be fired on the ground.
The old library soldier said: "Hey, you can't blame me for this. Ever since I took over the care of the library, this grandpa has no airs.
In the 18th year of Wanli, Ye Gong was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu military affairs, and the gun mounts were replaced by three-wheeled light vehicles.
Later, the light carriage was hooked up to the donkey of your family and brought home. We don't know what he did with the artillery cart.
Anyway, he didn't return it later and said that he wanted to get the old gun mount back and use it accordingly.
But after so many years, the wooden frame has long been taken out to make furniture. "
Who else sent him out to beat up furniture? Yang Yanchang thought it was the old flag soldier who sent him out to beat up furniture.
However, he didn't say anything. He complained and walked out with a look of disgust on his face: "There is no gun mount and no ammunition. What do I need it for?"
On the outside, he actually looked ecstatic on the inside, and if he didn't leave, he would have to be seen by the old man in charge of the library to see his joy.
The shell box with the gun mount weighs less than 200 kilograms, so it is not easy to get it out.
It can be a single bead cannon.
Why don't you wrap this forty-five-pound gadget in a sheet and leave it?
What a godsend!
As for the lack of airs and shells, let Liu Chengzong worry about it. Anyway, the promised guns were given to him.
Subsequently, the news of Yan'an Prefecture sending troops was sent to the officers of the guard station, and Shaanxi troops were scheduled to be divided into three groups to suppress the bandits on June 3.
The entire Yan'an Guard dispatched weapons and troops in a chaotic manner.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Yanchang took action on the night of the first day of June.
He gave orders to three bannermen.
A man who sneaked into the army warehouse wrapped a gushing cannon in a torn cotton jacket and threw it over the courtyard wall.
One waited outside the courtyard wall for a long time, hiding around like a fat baby in his arms, and handed it over to the last person.
The last young man was named Ren Quan'er. He was nineteen years old and a small man. His ancestors had been military households for seven generations. He had been working in the guard station under orders since he was five years old.
He picked up his torn cotton-padded jacket and went to the tiger's waist overnight.
The road was unfamiliar, and I was so hungry that I became night blind, so I hung up on a tree.
Liu Chengzong took the man for a run in the morning and rescued him.
Tell Liu Chengzong the precautions for the Pearl Cannon and the gun mount format that Yang Yanchang taught him.
Liu Chengzong cared more about people than artillery.
The cannon has reached the tiger's waist, so it won't run away.
But it was hard to say whether the dirty little Ren had any infectious disease.
Some cross-examination.
He had no other illness except a wound on his foot.
I cut my toenails with tailor's scissors at night two months ago and injured my toes.
The flag army cannot be idle at the guard post.
When the land can be cultivated in the military settlements, they have to work in the fields.
When you can't farm, you still have to work in the fields.
Dig out the ungerminated seeds and dig them for a day, then you can make up half a bowl.
When I work like this all the time, my feet become inflamed, and when they heal, they become rotten, and when they become rotten, I can't run fast.
Now that the guard station had no food, and others still wanted to perform meritorious service on the battlefield, his body did not meet the conditions for expedition, so he thought of deserting.
Liu Chengzong asked about the situation, turned around and waved his hand and asked Guo Zashi to tie him up.
Ren Quan'er was so frightened that he screamed.
"What's it called? It's hard to tell what your feet are like. Go get a bucket of water and boil it. I'll cut out the carrion for you later. I think it'll be fine after a couple of months of rest."
Most of the border troops knew some methods of treating trauma, and Liu Chengzong also dabbled in surgery.
Qiu Fang first learned to sew people to death from the cobbler Changcheng Gen. Later, he read several medical books such as "Surgery Authentic".
But with no medicine at hand, he had no better way to deal with the injury.
I can only clean it up and tell him to rest.
Ren Quan'er was stunned for a moment.
Not to cut out the flesh.
Let him rest for two months.
Liu Chengzong was asked again and again, if he could not starve to death after two months of rest?
After receiving the reply, "Just take a rest and take care of the food," this military household boy, who had not rested since he was five years old, was deeply moved.
For Liu Chengzong, this is called learning now and applying it now. Brother Chengzu gave him the punishment experience in exchange.
When soldiers are injured or sick, the Lord will take good care of them, which is the easiest way to win people's hearts.
As soon as they got to the foot-washing step, Ren Quan'er burst into tears.
When the meat was cut out, even though the pain made his whole body red, he endured it without moving.
Don't say anything to cause any trouble to Chief Liu.
After he finished, he hugged Liu Chengzong and cried bitterly. He kept chanting: "Mr. Liu is so kind, Chief Liu is so kind!"
