"Sir!" Su Dingfang, who led the group of Weiwei soldiers to practice, hurried over to salute Lu Chen, "This is this?" Su Dingfang looked at the two boxes that Lu Chen brought with some confusion.
Yesterday, Su Dingfang returned to Beiwei camp after reporting to Lu Chen about delivering a letter to the palace, so he did not know about Lu Chen's preparation for the live-fire exercise.
Lu Chen waved his hand directly, indicating that Su Dingfang didn't need to be polite, and then walked into the queue. Looking at the gun-holding postures of these back-to-back guards, after casually correcting the postures of several people, Lu Chen nodded, although It only took half a month to train, but these people's gun-holding postures have become more impressive.
"How's it going? How do you feel?" Lu Chen asked Ji Tong, who was standing in the crowd and practicing the gun-holding posture. At the same time, he tapped the selected stones on the branches with his hand and smiled. The stones shook, and Ji Tong The posture holding the gun remained motionless. Seeing that Ji Tong had practiced so steadily, Lu Chen couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
"Master, I just don't understand, what is the purpose of always maintaining this posture? Moreover, Commander Su will explain three-stage shooting and other things every day, and we can't understand it at all!" Ji Tong still kept his gun in hand. posture, but his mouth was not idle, and he asked Lu Chen in a doubtful tone.
"You'll know soon! Okay, everyone here! Put away your guns!" Lu Chen smiled and then directly issued the order. All the backwei guards put away their guns and stood at attention.
Lu Chen waved directly to Liu Jing and Feng Huai who were standing aside, and the two of them directly moved the box over.
"Open!" Lu Chen said to Liu Jing. Liu Jing opened the lid of the box as instructed and saw the neatly packed flintlock guns inside. "Do you know what this is?" Lu Chen asked as he looked at these back-mounted guards. .
Except for Su Dingfang, everyone else looked at the flintlock gun in the box with confused expressions.
"I'm asking you to practice gun-holding posture so that you can use this weapon!" Lu Chen looked at the back guard in front of him with a solemn expression, "Su Dingfang!" Lu Chen called Su Dingfang directly.
"Arrived!" Su Dingfang stood at attention and replied directly.
"Go on!" Lu Chen directly picked up a flintlock gun and threw it to Su Dingfang, who quickly caught it.
"Have you learned how to use a flintlock gun?" Lu Chen looked at Su Dingfang and asked.
"Back to my father-in-law, although I have never actually operated it, I have memorized the operation manual!" Su Dingfang replied with a serious face.
"Very good! Now I will give you a chance to practice! Liu Jing!" Lu Chen called Liu Jing again. Liu Jing naturally knew what Lu Chen was going to do, so he directly called a few soldiers over and each of them resisted. An iron target followed Liu Jing into the distance and stopped at a distance of more than ninety steps. After measuring the distance, he inserted the iron target into the ground.
"Show me a shot!" Lu Chen pointed to the target erected in the distance and said to Su Dingfang.
"Yes!" After Su Dingfang saluted Lu Chen, he loaded the ammunition according to the steps in the manual, and then began to aim. With a "pop" sound, a burst of smoke filled the muzzle of the flintlock gun.
"Report the target!" Lu Chen shouted towards Liu Jing.
When Liu Jing heard Lu Chen's shout, he hurriedly ran to the target, looked at each target one by one, then shook his head at Lu Chen and shouted loudly: "I missed it!"
As soon as Liu Jing yelled the words "missed", Su Dingfang's face immediately turned red. Just now he had sworn that he had memorized all the manuals, but then he turned around and lost such a big deal in front of his father-in-law. s face.
"Why are you blushing?" Lu Chen looked at Su Dingfang's blushing face and asked with a smile.
"My subordinate has let you down! Please punish me!" Su Dingfang saluted directly to Lu Chenyi.
"What's the penalty?" Lu Chen gave Su Dingfang a look. "If you want to shoot accurately, you need bullets!" Lu Chen said, pointing to the paper-cased bullets in the box beside him, "These paper-cased bullets It's just for you to practice! And you have a problem with your aiming!" Lu Chen came directly to Su Dingfang and began to instruct Su Dingfang on how to aim.
"Try again!" Lu Chen, who gave Su Dingfang some guidance on aiming postures, asked Su Dingfang to try again.
Su Dingfang followed Lu Chen's instructions and tried the shot again, and then heard Liu Jing announce the target: "Nine rings!"
"Not bad! Being able to shoot with this accuracy for the first time shows that you still have talent!" Hearing that Su Dingfang hit the nine rings, Lu Chen happily patted Su Dingfang on the shoulder, because Lu Chen had never thought about this. Su Dingfang actually still has the potential to be an archer, but Lu Chen ignored one thing. Su Dingfang was the Tang Dynasty Army God with both civil and military skills. Being proficient with bows and horses was the most basic requirement. Su Dingfang could shoot accurately with bows and arrows, as long as he was familiar with it Aiming method, how could it be impossible to master a flintlock rifle? This thing is much simpler than archery!
"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Su!" Su Dingfang also breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't quite understand what Liu Jing meant by "nine rings", seeing that Lu Chen was satisfied with him and that he also hit the target, how much It made Su Dingfang feel a lot more at ease.
"Master, someone is coming from the palace!" Just as Lu Chen was training these backwei guards to use flintlock guns, Lian Xiude ran over.
Hearing that someone from the palace was coming, Lu Chen asked Su Dingfang to continue training with these back guards. When Lian Xiude saw those flintlock guns, his eyes were filled with fire, but he was currently training those reserve troops. , Lu Chen had already given the Beiwei Guard's training manual to Lian Xiude and Peng Zun, and at the same time sent Meng Ji to lead the training of the reserve army and select the seedlings who could enter the Beiwei Guard.
"Did someone from the palace tell you what happened?" Lu Chen asked Lian Xiude as he walked towards the entrance of Lujiazhuang.
"I told him to go to court!" Lian Xiude replied.
"Go and ask them to wait while I go back and change my clothes!" Lu Chen ordered Lian Xiude, and Lian Xiude followed the order. Lu Chen took Liu Jing and Feng Huai to the mansion. After all, they went to court. He still has to wear his county uniform.
Under the service of Su Chang and the maid, Lu Chen changed his clothes, took Liu Jing and Feng Huai, and rode a white fox to the entrance of Lujiazhuang. At this time, the chamberlain who came to inform Lu Chen to go to court was already waiting here.
"My father-in-law, why has your Majesty summoned you?" Lu Chen asked, cupping his hands at the chamberlain. After all, a county prince like him, who has a title but no real power, does not need to go to court.
"I've met Mr. Lu!" The chamberlain hurriedly returned the greeting when he saw Lu Chen. "Mr. Lu, it's better to follow your servants into the palace quickly! There's a lot of noise in the court!" The chamberlain looked at Lu Chen and said with a bitter smile.
"What's the reason?" The two of them rode towards Chang'an City together. Lu Chen still deliberately slowed down the speed of the white fox, otherwise Lu Chen would have ridden Juechen. Lu Chen asked sitting on the white fox.
"Today's morning court meeting, Xiao Pushe, Wang Gui, Wang Zhongyun and others have asked you to participate!" the chamberlain said directly to Lu Chen.
It turns out that Xiao Yu summoned Wang Gui, Wei Ting and Zheng Shanguo at his home yesterday afternoon. These people all had issues with Lu Chen. Except for Xiao Yu, the other three families now still owe Lu Chen gambling debts, Xiao Yu said If there was a way to deal with Lu Chen, several other people would naturally come to Xiao Yu's house quickly.
Several people gathered in Xiao Yu's study. Xiao Yu told them about Lu Chen's treatment of Shanyang Gong Du Dejun, the son of King Wu Du Fuwei. In fact, several other people also knew about this matter, but what to do? Everything must be led by someone, and since Xiao Yu is willing to take the lead, it is naturally the best. After all, among these people, Xiao Yu is now the most powerful one.
Even though Zheng Shanguo and Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin's father, Zheng Jibo, are cousins, from this point of view, Zheng Shanguo can be regarded as Zheng Guanyin's uncle. Zheng Guanyin is also the Crown Princess. He can also be said to be the uncle of Prince Li Jiancheng. But he didn't dare to take advantage of this relationship casually. After all, he didn't know how good the relationship between Li Jiancheng and Lu Chen was now. Although Li Jiancheng had a good relationship with the family, if Li Jiancheng was involved in this matter, it would definitely be a disaster. It would be unwise. If Li Jiancheng was involved, it would definitely give King Qin a leg up, and it would be very bad for their family's plans.
Therefore, Zheng Shanguo rarely stepped forward in the court, just because he was afraid of involving Li Jiancheng. Now that Xiao Yu is willing to step forward, it is naturally the best.
Therefore, several people discussed the plan to impeach Lu Chen today in Xiao Yu's study.
Xiao Yu went to court this morning and went directly to Lu Chen to accuse Lu Chen of "beating the crown prince and showing no respect for his superiors." After all, if we just talk about title and status, Du Dejun is much more noble than Lu Chen in terms of title and status. .
Xiao Yu took the lead in impeaching Lu Chen, and naturally several others followed suit and also impeached Lu Chen.
Of course, Chai Shao and others who were good friends with Lu Chen would not let them impeach Lu Chen casually, and would directly retort. Therefore, the whole morning was turned into a mess because of Lu Chen's matter. Later, Li Yuan did not take any action, so he He was going to directly summon Lu Chen to come to court and explain the matter clearly. Of course, he also summoned Du Fuwei and Du Dejun and his son.
"That's it?" After hearing what the chamberlain said, Lu Chen said indifferently, "Why do these people have nothing to do all day?"
"My Lord Lu!" Seeing Lu Chen's nonchalant expression, the chamberlain gave a helpless smile, "Now the whole court is in a state of chaos, and it's almost going to be a full-on martial arts show!"
"Oh? Is there such a good show to watch?" When he heard that there was going to be a fight in the court, Lu Chen suddenly became energetic.
Hearing Lu Chen's words, the chamberlain didn't know how to answer Lu Chen for a moment. Seeing the excited expression on Lu Chen's face, the chamberlain really didn't know whether he had a big heart or a mentality of Mr. Lu in front of him. alright!
