Chapter 486 What Is a Firearm?

Throughout the dynasties, military books were very taboo. After Wang Anshi’s reform, he reopened martial arts, and the imperial court published the "Seven Books of Wu Jing" for teaching purposes, but let’s take a look at what the seven books of Wu Jing contain. "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Wu Zi's Art of War", "Six Secret Teachings", "Sima Law", "Three Strategies", "Wei Liao Zi", "Questions and Answers of Li Weigong".

These military books are all about strategy. If you can familiarize yourself with these military books, you may be able to be a strategist on paper. As long as you are not exposed to actual combat, you will not find problems.

But when it's your turn to lead troops to fight, you will be dumbfounded. How to maintain formation during the march? How to arrange the rest and set up camp at night? These tactical and detailed things are not easily disclosed by the imperial court. If you learn this, what if someone rebels according to the book? If you learn these details, you will really be able to fight.

As soon as Wang Shao saw the title of this book, he immediately realized that it was a really useful military book, especially for someone like him who planned to go to the northwest frontier to make contributions; now these are the secrets of training, marching, and camping It is all in the hands of a few people such as the Northwest Jiangmen, and it is not easy for outsiders to get a glimpse of the secrets of the father and son.

Although he was born as a Jinshi, he has also read a lot of military books, and even managed to get some tricks, but he didn't have the opportunity to study systematically. Now that Shen Long took out this book, it can be said to be a timely help.

"Thank you, Daoist." Wang Shao subconsciously glanced around and found no outsiders put it down, ready to read the book, but when he saw the author behind the title, he was stunned again, "Dare to ask, Is this Qi Jiguang that famous general? Please forgive Shao’s ignorance, but he has never heard of it.”

Qi Jiguang will not be born until hundreds of years ago, you'd be surprised if you've heard of it, Shen Long said with a smile, "There's no rush on this matter, Zichun should read the book first, and see if this book is useful." He intends to reveal his background to Wang Shao, and it is good that only Wang Anshi and his son know about it.

In terms of actual military exploits, Qi Jiguang may not be as good as Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other famous founding generals of the Ming Dynasty, but in terms of military theoretical achievements, Qi Jiguang is definitely the first person after the Song Dynasty. Even including the Song Dynasty, no one can surpass him. After all, "Wu Mu's Suicide Note" was fabricated by Jin Yong, and there is no such thing in history.

So when he decided to send a book to Wang Shao, Shen Long thought of Qi Jiguang, and between "Ji Xiao New Book" and "Military Training Documentary", Shen Long chose the latter. A summary of military training and military management experience, and "Records of Military Training" is his experience when he defended Mongolia in Jizhen.

The main enemies of the Song Dynasty were Xixia and Khitan, not pirates. Comparing the content of these two books, "Records of Military Training" is more suitable for Wang Shao.

"Come on, watch while drinking!" Shen Long took out a bottle of rice wine from Guyue Longshan from his sleeve, took out two wine bowls, and poured a glass for Wang Shao.

Wang Shao is dead now, it's just Shen Long's ability to do it.

After thanking him, Wang Shao picked up the wine bowl and took a sip. Before he had time to praise the good wine, he looked through the catalog, but saw that the catalog said that training martial arts is the first, courage is the second, ears and eyes are the third, and hands and feet are the first. 4. The fifth training camp (field exercises), the sixth training camp (walking camp), the seventh training camp (camping), the eighth training camp (war agreement), and the ninth training general; Volume 6: general theory of storage and training (Part 2), generals to Ren Baojian, dictation on the altar, military weapons, chariots, horses, and battalions.

All of them are the secrets of the generals of the Song Dynasty. No, these are even more perfect than the experience summed up by generations of Zhongbei Zhongjia, Yaojia, and Zhejia who have gone through bloody battles and sacrificed countless lives; It's hard to say whether the tricks of the generals of the Pan family and the Pan family have been lost.

The text of "Records of Military Training" is straightforward and precise, and it doesn't take much effort to read. Shen Long chose the drawing book, and each page has exquisite drawings to correspond to the content of the text, so that people can understand Qi Jiguang's meaning more intuitively. It can be seen that the author of this book definitely has real materials.

"Mr. Qian, Mr. Bai, captain, and corps leader, this kind of military system is quite different from that of the Song Dynasty." Wang Shao didn't finish his sentence. Of course, he could see that this kind of military system is more conducive to command. But this kind of thing is not something that can be said casually. Da Song's position on the leading general is engraved in his bone marrow. If people hear him talking about the military system, he may not have the opportunity to lead the army.

Since this Daoist Shen is familiar with the yamen of Jiefu's family, maybe he can hint to him that Mr. Jiefu should take charge of the military system reform. It is well known that Wang Anshi is interested in political reform, and Wang Shao also knows something about it.

"Archers, Gunners, Palladium Hands, Sword Hands... Such a combination is enough to prevent cavalry from approaching." Looking at the formation given by Qi Jiguang and comparing it with the schematic diagram next to it, Wang Shao quickly understood the benefits and weapons of these formations "Whether it's Khitan or Xixia, when encountering my Great Song's infantry forming a battle formation, they dare not face it head-on, but now this formation is more flexible than my Great Song's army formation, which can be large or small and attackable." Can keep..."

After admiring, Wang Shao had new doubts, "I dare to ask you, what is the use of this blunderbuss hand? What kind of weapon is the blunderbuss? What is its use?" The ancestor of firearms, the tuhulu, was not invented until the Southern Song Of course, Wang Shao didn't know what the firecracker was for.

"Oh, this is a kind of ordnance that is quite similar to the divine arm bow, but the range is shorter, only 100 steps." In the Song Dynasty, one step was almost 1.2 meters, and the divine arm bow had a range of 240 steps." But the power of the firecracker is not weaker than the divine arm bow at all, and it is much less labor-intensive than the divine arm bow, even if you shoot dozens of times in succession, you will not feel tired."

Whether it is a god-armed bow or a bow and arrow, it takes a lot of effort to pull the string and wind it. The general soldier has no strength to draw the bow after a round of shooting, but the firecracker is different. This is one of the important reasons why the musket replaced the bow and arrow.

"And the firecracker practice is simple. If you want to become an archer, you have to practice for several years, but the firecracker can be trained in a few months." This is another advantage.

"If the Great Song Dynasty had a magical weapon, why worry about the injustice of the Khitan Party!" Wang Shao looked at Shen Long with glowing eyes, "I don't know if Chang has such a magical weapon? Can you let Shao see it?"

"What's so difficult about it?" Shen Long got up and called Wang Yu, "There is a deserted ravine behind, let's go there and let the two of you see the power of firecrackers, as for the others, let them stay outside!"