"Brother, what are you doing? We are all close friends of your brother Liu Baihu. How can we accept such benefits from you for nothing when we meet for the first time? Besides, you just erected a pole on the sea this year, and now you are It's time to use the money, so it's better to take it back quickly..." Seeing Kang Lin's generous move, the three of them saw surprise and greed in each other's eyes, but they knew very well the principle of taking the long term to catch the big fish, and did not want to do it for a mere pearl. With a little money, he was looked down upon by the rich man Kang. So, the three well-off old guys pretended to be generous and generous, and returned the pearls and silver notes to Kang Lin's servants, as if they really valued friendship over wealth!
"You're welcome, you're welcome. These are just a little thought from Kang. They're not worth much. I just want to make friends with you brothers!" But Kang Lin didn't just think that they really didn't love each other. Wealth, I want to return the jewelry and money to myself. Especially the two old guys Shen Sanda and Jing Yuanpei, Kang Lin heard his cheap brother say their temperament more than once, and the idiom Yan Guo Liu Mao is not an exaggeration to describe them! What you are doing now is nothing more than having other agendas, and how can you fulfill their wishes? Having figured this out, the leader of Kangda hurriedly took a few steps forward, bowed his head to the ground, and said affectionately.
"Well, well, since Brother Kang is so kind, it would seem a bit pretentious for me to reject it later. Brother Jing, Brother Shen, let's just accept it. At most, we can compensate him a little more in terms of weapons and materials in the future. That's it..." After a lot of humility, the gunner instructor finally lost his composure, took the wooden box from Kang Lin's hand, and became the first person to eat the crab! When the remaining two people saw that Wang Baihu had accepted Kang Lin's gift without any moral integrity, they had no choice but to smile and signal their followers to step forward and take the wooden box. However, the relationship between the two parties has taken a solid step closer because of this, because now even Jing Yuanpei, the chief steward of the prefecture, who had always had a dead face, showed a smile that he had not seen for a long time, and the big-hearted Kang The fat man even thought that this gloomy man looked quite handsome when he smiled!
"Okay, if we want to make friends at the wine table, brother Wang, let's quickly demonstrate the artillery to my brother!" Seeing that Kang Lin had initially gained the favor of the three of them, Liu Chongqi lost no time in stepping forward and stopped. There was business talk among the people, and they began to urge Wang Ruhai to lead people to practice artillery in order to finalize the order as soon as possible. Poor Liu Dabaihu didn't know that his cheap third brother didn't have enough funds to purchase this batch of second-hand artillery. He only thought that he was extremely wealthy and couldn't wait to get these "big guns" that were extremely important to him. toys”.
"Okay, everyone, please take your seats on the earth platform first, and watch Mr. Wang direct his men to fire off cannons to cheer everyone up!" Wang Ruhai, who sent everyone present onto the earth platform three or four feet high next to him, held a flying saucer helmet in his hand, waved his left hand, and the next moment, he The flag troops under their command launched the first artillery piece to be displayed today, a front-loaded smoothbore gun weighing 155 kilograms - the Second General Cannon! The artillery, which was made of pig iron, was being carried by four strong soldiers on shoulder poles and hemp ropes, and was carefully placed in the previously tamped artillery fort. Just as Kang Lin was about to ask Wang Ruhai why the artillery didn't have an artillery carriage, he saw this man wave the small command flag in his hand, and from the sparse queue under the stage, seven or eight flag army soldiers with sallow faces and shabby clothes were summoned! These thin soldiers who seem to be able to be blown away by a gust of wind are actually very nimble with their hands and feet. Those who clean the barrels clean the barrels, those who pound the gunpowder, those who load the wooden horses, those who load the lead bullets, and those who place the fuses. After placing the fuse, it only took a few tens of breaths to complete all preparations before the artillery launch! Then the small black flag in Wang Ruhai's hand was waved down fiercely, and the flag soldier in charge of lighting the fire slammed the torch at the fire gate!
"Boom!" Soon, accompanied by thick gunpowder smoke and orange-red flames, a dark ball quickly flew out of the second general's wide-open gun muzzle, aiming directly at the wooden tree seventy steps away. Make a gun target! However, to everyone's surprise, the black bowling ball, which could break muscles and bones, flew a certain distance and did not hit the armored wooden target. Instead, the scarecrow missed the target wildly! And this made Wang Ruhai, who wanted to show off his skills in front of the rich man Kang Lin, feel that he was somewhat embarrassed. Next, the chief artillery instructor of the East China Sea Flag Army pushed away the flag army who was responsible for aiming and lighting the fire, and went shirtless himself. Going into battle,
"Restore the gun position, clean the gun bore, place the fuse, load the gunpowder, cover the gunpowder with paper (cover the gunpowder with a paper bag), tamp the gunpowder and paper, stuff the wooden horse, load the large lead bullet, and put it under the gun body Block of wood, adjust the muzzle, and fire!" A master is a master. Once he takes action in person, people will feel what it means to be professional. The various steps of firing a muzzleloader gun seem to have become an art in his hands! At the end of the day, as the torch in his hand dropped rapidly, the second general roared again, with a dull sound of breaking through the air. A three-pound cannonball passed over the artillery target at seventy and one hundred steps, and hit the second general hard. On the mound next to the Hundred-Step Artillery target, a three- to four-foot-tall mound was blasted to pieces, causing dust to fly!
"Oh, it's so powerful!" Seeing that the wide-mouthed iron cannon that he originally looked down upon had such power, Kang Linfeng's eyes widened, and even the slender beard that had just grown under his jaw was unconsciously... Several of them were broken by him! But when the words of praise reached Wang Ruhai's ears, they seemed to slap him hard on the face! The arrogant gunner instructor ripped off his blue military attaché uniform and yelled at his subordinates. , "Restore the gun position, clean the barrel, place the primer, cover it with paper, tamp the gunpowder and paper cover, stuff the wooden horse, fill in the big lead bullet, remove a piece of wood from under the gun body, adjust the muzzle, let's do it again One shot!”
"Follow your orders!" Seeing that hundreds of families were furious and even their voices changed a bit, the flag soldiers immediately picked up the big iron canister that had fallen on the ground on a pole and placed it again in the artillery fort. Then they loaded the artillery and adjusted the muzzle. Fired a shot at the artillery target a hundred steps away! This time, the target was hit, but the target that was hit was two hundred paces away! Seeing the wood chips flying from the shells and the wooden target collapsing, Wang Ruhai Baihu, who had no choice but to think of something wrong, shouted loudly to the people on the platform,
"Everyone, luckily you have lived up to your fate and got hit by three shots!"
"Okay! Wang Baihu's trick!" Everyone didn't know that Lao Wang was aiming at the 100-step artillery target. Seeing that he hit the target, they all stood up and applauded him to celebrate. Only Commander Zheng, who was beside Kang Lin, sneered. He shook his head. At this level, he can be said to be the best gunner in the East China Sea Banner Army. Yan and Fan of Chiyang Fleet, and even himself, any one of them can crush this guy in terms of strength! He fired three shots without even touching the edge of the target. Is this just for fun? Of course Commander Zheng would not tell others. He could read lips. He had just figured out from the changes in Wang Ruhai's mouth patterns that the target this guy was going to shoot was not a 200-step gun target, but a 100-gun target!
"Below is Ye Gongshen's blunderbuss. Boys, push the cannon over here!" Seeing that he had an idea and successfully frightened everyone, Wang Dabaihu, whose face was hot, quickly asked his men to push Ye Gongshen over. Gun gun car! With this commonly used artillery piece, he was 50% to 60% sure that he could hit a wooden target 100 to 300 paces away! You must know that the magic gun designed and manufactured by Ye Mengxiong Ye Gong, Minister of the Ministry of Industry of Nanjing and Prince Taibao, is much easier to operate than the old general cannon because it has a longer and stronger barrel and can shoot farther and more accurately; There are lugs that can adjust the firing angle, which can change the range according to the amount of gunpowder. Most importantly, it has a three-wheeled gun carriage that can be easily reset after firing. The time it takes to fire one shot of the old general cannon is enough for it to fire. Two shots! (I can’t get it right, just make up the quantity)
"Got the order!" After hearing the military order issued by their boss, seven or eight flag troops under Wang Ruhai immediately pushed the several hundred kilograms of Ye Gongshen's blunderbuss cart over, and first fixed the cannon with iron ties. body, and then block the tail of the gun with a two-foot-long horizontal sleeper to prevent the gun from sliding backward! After doing all this, start loading gunpowder, wooden horses, large and small lead bullets, and covering soil into the muzzle step by step! It only took a short moment for the flag soldiers to make all preparations before launching. Then they stood with their hands tied and began to wait for orders from hundreds of households to launch artillery!
A hundred-step artillery target, this time shoot directly at the artillery target a hundred steps away! Thinking that he had missed the target three times out of three times, Wang Ruhai prepared to be more cautious this time and use the magic gun to shoot directly at the target a hundred or dozens of meters away! He didn't believe that at such a close distance, he would miss the shot!
"Move to the right and lower the height!" Looking at the wooden target a hundred steps away, Wang Dabaihu kept trimming the body of the ground-shaped blunderbuss. Finally, when the body of the divine blunderbuss and the wooden target formed a line After a straight line, he slammed the torch at the fire door!
"Boom!" The effect of this shooting was obviously good. The ground-shaped blunderbuss controlled by Wang Ruhai accurately hit the leftmost one among the 100-step artillery target after a loud noise and smoke. In an instant, the powerful kinetic energy carried by the round cannonball smashed the solid wood cannon target into two pieces. Then the six-pound cannonball continued to bounce all the way until it broke a small tree as thick as an arm. , and finally stopped!
"Okay, good fight! Wang Baihu is the best in Donghai Guard's gun skills. He can hit the target with one shot. It's amazing, it's amazing!" This time it was Shen, Jing, and Liu's turn to come up and compliment them. ! They had never seen the power of artillery at close range. When they saw Wang Ruhai commanding the flag army, manipulating the pig iron pipe weighing 200 to 300 kilograms, and hitting the wooden target with one shot in a very short time, they all raised their hands and watched in celebration. Wang Ruhai is proficient in gunplay, amazing!
