In the early morning of the next day, the motorcade set off on the road early and continued towards Zhangjiakou.
Chen Wu walked in front with the sentries in the cavalry, while Chen Wen stayed in the convoy and walked with it.
Three miles ahead of the convoy there was a sentinel riding in front to explore the road. The leader was Lao Wu, and Chen Wu followed Lao Wu.
"Vice captain, the other one on your waist is a gun, right? But why didn't I see the match rope? And it's so short. It's much smaller than the gun in the firearms camp." Chen Wu, like the rest of the cavalry team, called Lao Wu is the deputy captain.
Lao Wu patted the handgun on his waist with his hand and said proudly: "This thing is called a handgun. It doesn't use a match rope at all. It can be fired by loading the gunpowder and projectiles and pulling the trigger."
"There are also muskets that can be fired without a match rope." Chen Wu said enviously, "I see that all the cavalrymen in your Tiger Flag Cavalry are equipped with a musket on their waist. Your employer must spend a lot of money!"
Lao Wu looked at Chen Wu and said, "What? You also want to join our cavalry team?"
"Of course I have," Chen Wu said, "It's just that my eldest brother hasn't agreed yet. He is still considering it."
Lao Wu smiled and said: "You are from Ye Bu Sui, and you are not bad at it. Do you want me to talk to Ma Tou and let you follow us first? As for your eldest brother, it depends on him. If he is willing to return to Xinpingbao, we will I’m not forced to stay, but if I stay with the border army, I’m afraid I won’t even have enough food in my stomach, so why not join our Tiger Character Banner? Even if he doesn’t think about himself, he still has to think about his family.”
Chen Wu sighed and said: "I told my elder brother the same thing, but it was of no use. Regardless of whether he is willing to stay or not, I must stay in our Tiger Flag."
"Haha, okay, we will be brothers from now on." Lao Wu took out the gun from his waist and said, "Would you like to experience it in advance? If you stay in the cavalry in the future, you will also be equipped with this kind of gun."
Chen Wu hesitated for a moment and said: "This thing won't explode, right? The firearm camp's gunshots often injure our own people."
"Don't worry, the quality of the products produced by our Tiger Flag is guaranteed." Lao Wu said, "There should be a lot of hares and pheasants on the grassland, just for you to feel the gun."
Chen Wu said: "There are also yellow sheep on the grassland. Why don't we hunt down some yellow sheep and bring them back? The yellow sheep meat will be delicious if roasted."
Lao Wu nodded and said, "Okay, let's go after the guard changes at noon. It would be even better if we can hit the yellow sheep."
At nearly noon, the convoy stopped. The soldiers sat cross-legged on the ground to rest and began to eat the dry food they carried. The animals and horses pulling the cart were also taken away to drink water and fed some black beans.
More than half an hour passed, the weather was relatively hot, and the team was in no hurry to get on the road.
Lao Wu left the team with a group of riders and Chen Wu.
The grassland is vast and infinite, and the grass is up to the knees. The war horses run over, and some hares and pheasants in the grass are frightened out.
Chen Wu skillfully shot two hares and several pheasants to death with his bow and arrow, picked them up and hung them on his horse.
As for Lao Wu and his team, they only shot two hares to death in total. One of the hares was shot to death by Lao Wu with his bow and arrow, and the other was killed with a gun.
"Would you like to try your gun?" Lao Wu looked at Chen Wu.
"Okay." Chen Wu agreed and took the gun from Lao Wu.
Lao Wu said: "This is a fixed gunpowder. You tear open the paper package with your mouth, pour the gunpowder in, load the projectiles, tamp them with a purge, aim and pull the trigger directly to fire."
Although Chen Wu didn't collect weapons at night, he also had some knowledge of the guns in the firearms camp.
According to the method taught by Lao Wu, he loaded the gunpowder and projectiles, put away the gun, aimed at a pheasant that was startled from the grass, squeezed the trigger with his finger, and with a bang, his wrist trembled, and the projectiles were shot out.
Unfortunately, the projectile missed, and the pheasant disappeared into the weeds.
"How is it?" Lao Wu asked.
Chen Wu looked at the blunderbuss in his hand and said, "It made my palms numb from the shock, but it's just not very easy to use. It's not as accurate as my bow."
"That's because you're not used to it." Lao Wu put away his gun and said, "The kind of breastplate we are wearing can be penetrated with one shot."
"So powerful!" Chen Wu's eyes widened in shock.
The breastplate on his body can withstand Beilu's soft bow, but such a gadget is even more powerful than Beilu's soft bow.
Lao Wu smiled and said: "This has been tested by our weapons bureau. Within twenty steps, no armor can block the projectiles fired from the handgun, unless you wear several layers of armor."
"Hey..." Chen Wu rubbed his hands and said, "Vice captain, can you give me a blunderbuss? I want to try it a few more times."
Hearing that the gun was so useful, he was immediately moved.
Lao Wu smiled and shook his head and said: "Forget it, don't break my gun, I only have one, but you don't have to worry, you will be indispensable when you join the Tiger Flag cavalry in the future. of."
Tiger Flag doesn't have many muskets, and there is no surplus at all. Lao Wu is naturally reluctant to give them to Chen Wu.
Chen Wu looked disappointed.
Lao Wu simply didn't mention this and said instead: "Didn't you say there are yellow sheep on the grassland? There are so many people in our convoy, why not bring back a few yellow sheep."
Although Chen Wu was disappointed, he would not be angry because Lao Wu didn't give him the gun. After all, the gun was someone else's weapon, so how could he hand it over to others at will.
"Let's go farther. If we're lucky, we might be able to find a yellow sheep." Chen Wu recovered from his disappointment, mounted his horse, and led the way.
Lao Wu followed with a team of horses.
The war horse galloped for seven or eight miles. Chen Wu suddenly pulled the reins and pointed at the small yellow-brown dots exposed in the grass in the distance. "Haha, we are lucky. We didn't expect that there is a herd of yellow sheep in front of us. Let's surround it in a while and fight for it." Catch a few more.”
There are at least millions of yellow sheep living on the Mongolian grasslands. Although they cannot be seen everywhere, there is a high chance of encountering them.
The yellow sheep on the grassland are very courageous. When they saw a war horse approaching, they did not run away immediately, but stayed in place to eat the young grass.
Entering the shooting range, Chen Wu drew his bow, aimed at the largest yellow sheep, and shot an arrow at it.
The arrow broke through the air and made a harsh sound. The arrow accurately shot from the yellow sheep's eyeball and penetrated into the brain, causing the yellow sheep to fall to the ground.
"Good archery skills." Lao Wu couldn't help but praise him.
Even in the dark night, there are not many people who are as good at archery as Chen Wu.
The yellow sheep were frightened and began to run away. Chen Wu hurriedly said: "The yellow sheep are about to run away. Let's take action together."
"Brothers, take action. It's up to you whether we can let the brothers in the team eat yellow sheep tonight." Lao Wu shouted, and immediately rushed towards the yellow sheep group on horseback.
boom! boom! boom……
The handguns in the hands of the riders fired one after another. Although most of them missed, they still hit a dozen yellow sheep.
The remaining yellow sheep ran away in the distance, and they ran so fast that it was too late to catch them. There was no time to reload their guns for the second time.
Lao Wu directed the rider to put the killed yellow sheep on the horse's back.
Among the yellow sheep killed, the largest one weighed more than a hundred kilograms, and Chen Wu's arrow still remained in its eye socket.
The yellow sheep group quickly disappeared from sight, and Lao Wu simply led the team back.
There were still more than five miles away from the temporary camp of the convoy. Lao Wu noticed that a horse team suddenly appeared in the distance, running in the direction of their convoy.
Chen Wu's face suddenly changed and he shouted: "Go back to the convoy quickly, it's the horse bandits, the horse bandits are here."
