Before the team set off, Zhao Bingxian brought his servants to carry several large boxes.

"Nephew Jiye, this is a gift from Uncle Shi, please open it and take a look."

Liu Jun felt that this military officer was pretty good. He was in an important position, but he was kind. It can be seen that he had always appreciated the Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team. He just didn't know what gift he was going to give now after he had just rewarded the silver.

Liu Jun walked over and opened the box, but what caught his eye was a bird gun, or a large bird gun.

"Your horse team is called Jiutou, and this firearm is also called Jiutou. I feel that this thing is born with you. It just so happens that my husband's family team has some equipment, but unfortunately, those reckless men don't have many good use. I know that Jiye, you have a lot of firearm equipment and they are also very good at using it, so I just return the items to the master and draw a few of them for you."

The nine-headed bird in the box is quietly placed inside, and its long gun body is completely an enlarged version of the bird gun. Just looking at the thick and large appearance, you can feel that the power must be much greater than that of the bird gun.

In fact, Liu Jun is not unfamiliar with Zhao Bingbei's nine-headed bird.

This thing is obviously just a gun lift, which is more than ten feet long and weighs more than 30 kilograms per piece. It is a firearm unique to China. It was manufactured in the Ming Dynasty and was later equipped on a large scale in the Qing Dynasty. Even in some later anti-Japanese dramas, the Eighth Route Army members often saw them holding this thing to fight the Japanese.

But to put it bluntly, it is an enlarged version of a bird gun with a weight of more than 30 kilograms and a gun body of more than 1 meter. Its structure is exactly the same as that of an ordinary military gun, but the charge amount, range and killing power are much greater than that of military military gun. This kind of gun was very popular in the Qing Dynasty. When fired, two people operated it. One person acted as a gun stand in front, placing the gun body on his shoulder, and the other person aimed at launch.

In the Qing army, this kind of gun lifting was used as a firepower supply for infantry. When the Qing army dealt with the Taiping Army with weak firearms, the effect was very significant. It is said that if the number of gun lifting was sufficient, the momentum was extremely grand when firing. Later, during the Sino-French War, the Qing army also used a lot of guns when dealing with the firearms.

There are records of the French army that thousands of guns were fired at the same time, the sky was shaking and the earth was shaking, and the French army was shocked inexplicably. But in the end, they found that no one was injured, but they had eggs.

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing army even made large quantities of equipment in the army. However, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the gun was finally eliminated because it was too bulky and poorly accurate.

However, in the 12th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty in 1639, the Nine-Headed Bird was regarded as a powerful heavyweight firearm. An ordinary bird gun can reach a range of 100 steps, but lifting a gun can reach a killing distance of 200 steps.

The gun lifting is much more powerful than a bird gun, but it is much lighter than a cannon. It does not require a car and horse to carry it alone. Therefore, it is regarded as a cost-effective firearm, especially against the bandits in the Central Plains, which has better results.

Zhao Cheng also regarded raising the gun as a secret weapon, and took out twelve frames in one breath and gave them to Liu Jun. The ones he took out were all new guys, and they also had triangle brackets and rotating devices nicknamed Nine-Headed Birds, which could be controlled by one person.

At first, Liu Jun was a little disdainful when he saw this gun lifting, but then he thought that it was only 1639, and even the three-eye gun fast guns of the fire door gun were still used as advanced firearms. Large bird guns such as the gun can be regarded as heavy firepower for individual soldiers. Especially for mainland rural groups like them, if the twelve nine-headed birds were fired together, the power of the thief would probably scare the thief.

Especially when it reaches a range of nearly 200 steps, even if the accuracy can only maintain 200 steps, it is more than twice as high as a bird gun. It is farther than a bow and arrow musket, and it is not as expensive and bulky as a cannon.

"I am so grateful to Lord Bingxian for such a precious thing."

"The red pink is given to the beauty, the sword is given to the hero, and the weapon can only be played by the warriors." Zhao Chengwen said with a smile. "Recently, the thieves have started to make trouble again, and many bandits who were originally recruited responded. The land of Henan and Chu was once again full of war, the place was unstable, and the country was unstable. As a military Taoist in eastern Hubei, I am deeply worried. In the future, you will need to contribute more young and promising volunteers like you to the country."

"As long as the lord is called, we will go through fire and water without hesitation."

"Okay, okay, that's great, just say you. I will not be polite when you need to take action in the future."

Liu Jun responded very happily, and making promises is a necessary skill for every official. No matter whether he can do it or not, he will respond first. After accepting Zhao Cheng's twelve nine-headed birds, Liu Jun of course had to agree happily.

After returning from twelve nine-headed birds, Liu Jun immediately found Li Chunjiang and discussed adding a gun to the artillery team.

It turned out that there was an artillery team under the two flags on the left and right, and there were three tigers. Now Liu Jun planned to build a cannon flag alone, with one artillery team under it, one gun lifting team and one rocket team. The artillery team had six cannons, one gun shot, and one team of twelve people. Because of the brackets, they could operate one person. Twelve guns were equipped with twelve guns, and one team of rocket boxes. The remaining one rocket team was formed to equip rockets, and you could also consider purchasing rocket launchers and rocket boxes such as bees and hundreds of tigers running together.

This artillery team serves as combat firepower support and provides firepower support to the six combat troops of the left and right flags. The original organization of the left and right flags remains unchanged, but it is still the original configuration, maintaining the combat method with the Yuanyang Battle Formation as the core.

"Maybe we are going to recruit some more people." Li Chunjiang has been thinking about making the horse team bigger.

"I really need to recruit some more people. Now let Mei Gong borrow our firearms coaches stay for a while, and also organize our two servants into the flag team. Go back and recruit some people, and the horse team can be changed to four flags on the left, front and back. Fortunately, we seized a lot of horses this time, so we don't need to buy any extra horses. Otherwise, the horse price would be a bit unbearable."

Liu Jun has always been worried about the cost of the Nine-Headed Birds. Now it basically depends on Li Chunjiang's personal financial support. Although he has raised some donations and received some donations, the horse team has never had any income and it all depends on blood transfusions. He is very worried that although the Li family is rich, it does not mean how much money can Li Chunjiang personally take out. The horse team has spent a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver, of which Li Chunjiang personally paid more than 5,000 yuan.

He had always wanted to find another way to solve the military funding problem, but he had no choice. Although their local bravery was a local bravery, they were similar to professional mercenaries. They were camped all day long and had no land to stock up on land. They were not like the frontier army, and they could also secretly do something like Huiyi.

However, this time the bandit suppression made Liu Jun feel that he had found a new way out.

The bandit suppression can make money. This time, the bandit suppression was more than 1,000 taels of silver, money and property seized, and then there were fifty-three horses, dozens of sets of swords and guns, and more than 1,000 taels of rewards and pensions in this battle, they still earned more than 1,000 taels of silver, as well as fifty-three horses and dozens of sets of swords and guns.

This is just a gain from a battle. If they can win a few more times like this, they can completely maintain the expenses of the horse team by suppressing bandits, and even have surplus, so they don’t have to rely on Li Chunjiang’s personal money investment. That would be a long-term solution.

Moreover, suppressing bandits can not only make money, but also train troops. Although Zhang Xianzhong and others have just rebelled again and their power seems to be not very good, Liu Jun knew clearly that after experiencing the downturn of the Central Plains rebels in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, another wave of rebellion among the Central Plains bandits will soon be launched, and it will be more and more expanded, and in the end there is no one to control it until Li Zicheng captured Beijing.

Macheng lives between the four provinces of Chu, Henan, Anhui and Jiangxi, and is in a key junction between the north and the south. He will inevitably be unable to escape the war that is about to start. To protect the whole family, we can only rely on the weapons in our hands and his team.

The next morning, more than a thousand people gathered together, and Zhao Cheng first gave a speech, and then Mei Zhihuan, Lu Jinxi and other officials also said a few words, and finally the entire army set out. The one who walked in front was the Yebu team of Baosheng Fort, followed by the Huangzhou Guard Army led by Zhu Chong, and then Mei Zhihuan, the main barracks of Baosheng Fort were the central army. Zhao Cheng, Mei Zhihuan and other officials were all inside, and the horse team of Baosheng Fort was guarding the side.

The remaining teams of township heroes were listed as the rear army, and Liu Jun took the initiative to propose that the Nine-Headed Bird Horse Team be the task of the rear.

At first, the morale was pretty good, but after about two hours of leaving, the sun had risen to mid-air and the heat was getting hotter. The peasant guards pulled from the garrison were already low in morale, the formation was gone, and the speed was not high, and they kept shouting to rest. In the end, Zhao Cheng had to order a rest for half an hour.

But after a while, Zhu Chong's guards shouted again, and Zhao Cheng was so angry that he glared at Zhu Chong. Zhu Chong was glared at by his boss, and he was so angry that he rode his horse in front, picked up a whip with his servants and went up to whip. The guards were also cheap, so they asked them to rush on their way, yelling about being tired, but Zhu Chong beat him, but no one shouted about being tired anymore, so he rushed to the road honestly.

The chaos ahead did not affect the Nine-Headed Horse Team. They lived behind the team, and they all rode tall horses with big felt hats on their heads, which was very relaxed.

The nine-headed birds are in line with an orderly and high momentum. Compared with the guards in front, it is really a very different place. It seems that the nine-headed birds are the regular court army, and the group of rags in front look like newly recruited civilians.

The army was moving forward all the way, and there was no need to stop the road to explore the way, and there was no worry about the ambush of the thieves. The Ming Dynasty did not take away the night of the war, and even more elite than the servants of the generals. In the army at all levels of the Ming Dynasty, there were their own teams of not stopping the night, and the large border towns did not stopping hundreds of them at night. Then the generals, generals, guerrilla generals and their own ones were not stopped at night, and even the Dusi and garrisons below were not stopped at night.

Now, even the township groups, regardless of size, are still not collected at night.

He did not accept his servants at night, but was actually the most elite in the Ming army.

The journey was calm and they walked all the way to the mountain where the thieves in Qiting were located. Although the **zi and his group had been destroyed for one day, it was obvious that they did not notice anything abnormal in the village. Perhaps the **zi and his group used to go out for ten days and half a month, and they would not keep in touch often, so the people in the village became accustomed to it.
Chapter completed!