The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

The sixth barbarian prince, Bo Chijin, cracked the secret of the "Heroes of Liangshan" and obtained "firearms", and was very happy!

In his opinion, our barbarian cold weapons are already invincible. If we add this thing...

My goodness! Is cavalry siege still a dream?

In the eyes of the empress, although the Liangshan heroes who appeared in Qinghe County were indeed abominable, they had repeatedly and openly hijacked the imperial court's food and wages.

but……

The "firearms" they brought were very useful!

If Da Qi could manufacture this kind of firearm, whether it was bandits or barbarians, this would be the beginning of Da Qi's reversal of destiny.

As for the rebels, they are the righteous army mentioned by Wang Yuanya.

She had cracked the secret of the firearm. If she could get it to the Northern King as soon as possible, the righteous brothers would manufacture it! With such a powerful weapon, would the dream of universal peace be far away?

Everyone thought they had picked up a treasure, and wanted to understand, manufacture, and mass-produce muskets as quickly as possible before their enemies.

So……

Who will achieve this first?

The answer is of course Li Jize!

Yes, these three families all thought they had picked up a treasure, but they didn't know that these were all leftovers from Li Jize.

In fact, the first generation of fire guns really didn't have much technical content! There is no need to hide it.

To put it bluntly, if you have an iron pipe, a bag of gunpowder, and a marble, you can piece together the oldest musket.

As long as the other party sees the structure of the Liangshan heroes' firearms, they will soon figure it out, and the future will inevitably be dominated by firearms! There is no need to hide it!

What really differentiates you from others or creates distance is the generation gap in technology!

To put it bluntly, you have to have some real skills! Without them, you'll just have to follow behind others and get beaten.

While the imperial court, the rebel army and the barbarians were still figuring out how to use fire guns, Li Jize, who was on the top of the mirror, had already spent a lot of money to frantically build his base.

The merchants of Da Qi on the canal and on the sea ignored the imperial ban for the sake of silver, and did not care whether Li Jize was a "rebel" specially approved by the empress. They continuously transported raw materials, converted them into silver, and took them away.

In order to have something to eat, the victims flocked to the island to look for work in exchange for wages.

Li Jize not only made the consumable mirror, but also built his own base. As for the money he spent?

It doesn’t matter! I don’t care at all!

There is an old saying that goes, if my neighbor stores food, I store guns, and my neighbor is my granary!

Now he relies on spreading silver to recruit refugees, collect food, and forge firearms. In the future, he can rely on the army and guns to take the silver back.

Li Jize's base is now doing two things: recruiting refugees and food from outside, and building workshops inside to manufacture muskets, cannons and warships!

The current generation of firearms that consume mirrors has reached the second generation, the "self-generating firearm"! Also called "flintlock rifle".

The difference from the first generation is that this thing is equipped with a trigger and flint. After pulling the trigger, the flint ignites the gunpowder in the gunpowder pool and then fires.

The advantage is that the range is longer and is not affected by weather!

The second is artillery. Even though the rebel army, the imperial court and the barbarians have all begun to use firearms.

The barrel of a musket can be forged by a blacksmith through repeated forging, but it is very difficult to make a cannon.

This thing isn't made, it's cast!

There are three methods for casting the barrel of a cannon: mud film casting, lost wax casting, iron mold casting, and double-layer casting.

If it were a dangerous environment, Li Jize might choose mud film. It was cheap and fast, but because the gun barrel would have many sand holes, it would easily explode over time.

and so……

Li Jize began the Great Steel Production Campaign, using iron molds and double-layer cannon casting methods.

This ensures that his cannons can not only become bigger and bigger, but also be very sturdy.

the most important is……

Li Jize detained so many merchant ships, and he basically bought the big ones through "friendly negotiations", and the small ones were distributed to the victims for fishing.

After the ship was reinforced and its doors were opened, a new naval battle mode was unlocked by Li Jize!

With cannons installed on the hull, the man who wants to become the Pirate King finally starts to get his first batch of warships.

Although……

It is very crude! It can't even go to the ocean, and it can only be used when it is close to the mirror.

But, this thing is still a masterpiece that transcends time, right? Anyway, people in this era haven't even figured out how to use gunpowder, and Li Jize has already started playing with battleships.

With a lavish supply of silver, an abundant labor force, and Li Jize, a time traveler, as the "chief commander," and finally the direct conversion of merchant ships into warships, Li Jize's army took shape incredibly quickly thanks to all these advantages.

It takes at least 14 years for a Barbarian to become a qualified cavalryman! Start from childhood, and after the age of 14, you can be sent to the battlefield.

It takes at least three to five years for the imperial army to recruit soldiers, eat the emperor's food, wield swords, practice battle formations, and build up their strength!

But a musketeer?

To put it bluntly, all you need to do is pull the trigger and raise the gun!

If you want to pass the test, you have to stand at attention for at least a month, and never break formation when facing cavalry charges or line-up shootings.

Li Jize was also particularly mean about this!

The first strategy is strict enforcement! Anyone who dares to disrupt the team or escape will be given a warning. A second warning will result in immediate execution!

The second move was to have the Beiliang Wolf Cavalry directly lead the cavalry to charge from the front and side, and then bypass from the side at the last moment.

Those who can bear it can stay, and those who can’t can get out!

Moreover, this kind of training was not done once or twice, but every few days, which made their nerves numb and made them fear the whip in the instructor's hand more than they feared death.

There's nothing else to do, just feed him with bullets like crazy!

Don't expect them to be very good at shooting in this era. In the era of line shooting, the intensity of firepower is the key to killing. Shoot them row by row, and the blind cat will always catch a dead mouse!

There are only three things you need to do to master the queue shooting game.

Discipline! Discipline! And damn discipline!

In addition to the reform of the infantry, Li Jize also reformed the navy, setting it up as a separate army! It was named "Navy".

Most of them are children of fishermen. If they want to join, they must first learn to swim, and then learn to steer a boat.

There's no quick fix for this, just practice slowly with the navy.

So and so...

Before we knew it, the Spring Festival of the 15th year of Xuande had passed and it was already March.

On this day, so many things happened on the land of China.

On Li Jize's side, the first batch of musketeers selected from the disaster victims finally graduated!

The barbarians, having looted enough, finally began to withdraw.

Zuo Santong's troops took the opportunity to "reclaim" the land, plundering the surviving civilians, conscripting the able-bodied men, and then reporting their victory to the Empress! Our army has reclaimed the land!

What about the rebels?

A truly powerful man emerged from Da Qi, who stopped Li Zhenbei's army!