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Zuo Zongtang arrived in Kunming first, and recorded in the documents of the imperial court's Ministry of War that Kunming was stationed by the newly formed Feng Zicai's troops.

Due to his outstanding performance in the Sino-Vietnam War, Guan Xuqing specially promoted Feng Zicai to the general. However, because the newly recruited soldiers were still in training and were not equipped, there was no combat mission at the moment. However, as Feng Zicai's old superior, he went to Vietnam and passed his base this time and went to see it.

The one who turned over immediately was the military minister and the Minister of War Zuo Zongtang. He did not wear court uniforms today, but changed into his military uniform of the general. Feng Zicai wanted to help him get off the horse, but he refused and jumped off the horse.

"See the Grand Marshal." Feng Zicai knelt on one knee and gave a standard military salute.

Behind Zuo Zongtang were Liu Yongfu, Liu Mingchuan, Wu Ping, Nie Shicheng and Pan Dongmin.

Zuo Zongtang glanced at him and smiled, "I heard that Feng Zi has made a fortune recently. I'm here to see my eyes. You won't hide it."

Since the last talk with Guan Xuqing, Zuo Zongtang has been ordered to secretly leave Beijing. He will form the Southwest Army in Vietnam, including Nie Shicheng's army, Liu Mingchuan's army, Wu Ping's army, Liu Yongfu's army and Pan Dongmin's army of 250,000 troops ready to enter Myanmar to fight at any time.

Feng Zicai laughed and said, "What money can you make? The poor are almost like pants. The whole equipment of the Hubei Guns and Cannon Bureau is sent to Vietnam. I was so envious. My brothers still practice assassination with wooden guns and aiming. They have not practiced live ammunition. The recoil of Mauser is quite strong, and practicing live ammunition is equivalent to not practicing." As he said that, he looked at the generals behind Zuo Zongtang, meaning that they had all occupied the equipment.

"Go and go, who is nonsense with you? The emperor told me that the grenade recently developed by the Hubei Guns and Cannon Bureau has equipped you with equipment, and the recruits are training. Let's take me to see what this thing is."

Not long after, everyone came to an open field. Not far away, hundreds of soldiers were drawing circles of coal powder to throw things. Zuo Zongtang led the general behind him to step forward, picked up a black hard iron block on the ground, and said, "Is this the grenade you equipped?"

Chaos Rebirth King of the Other World http://www.77nt/23488/Feng Zicai looked at the things in Zuo Zongtang and said, "There are too few grenades, so I can't bear to take them out for training, so I usually use the same heavy iron block instead." As Feng Zicai said, he took an olive-shaped thunder and a grenade with a wooden handle from the soldiers next to him and said, "This is the real thing."

Zuo Zongtang looked at it and said, "How to use it? Can you make a sound for me?"

After hearing this, Feng Zicai called the soldiers around him to retreat, pulled out the fuse from the thunder, and threw it out.

Before the thunder exploded, Feng Zicai pulled the string of the grenade again and threw it away. He saw two loud noises from ten feet away, and the soil, sand and gravel were splashed everywhere. When the smoke of gunpowder disappeared, there was a small pit on the ground.

Liu Mingchuan, Liu Yongfu and others behind Zuo Zongtang were shocked and could not say a word. They were obviously shocked by this murder weapon. Both of them had experienced the Sino-French battle and had a deep impression of the trench war in the war. In the absence of a small gap in artillery between the two sides, it was almost impossible for trenches with gun fire to be broken through.

This is a successful use of trenches. Once it is our turn to break through the enemy's trenches in the future, what method will we use to break through it? This is a question that the officers who participated in the Sino-French battle have been thinking about.

Now the method has finally appeared. Everything in the world is mutually rebellious, and grenades are the best weapon for trench-breaking warfare.

At this time, Liu Yongfu couldn't stand anymore and said with a shameless face: "Brother Feng, see if this grenade supports hundreds of boxes of our Black Flag Army. The country brothers under me have never seen this thing. If you come to the battlefield in the future, you will catch the thrown things as sweet potatoes, and you will lose a lot, so you must give it to me. Anyway, you can't keep this thing with a baby, right?"

"Hundreds of boxes?" Feng Zicai's face, whose face was flushed, even his neck turned red: "You are such a big tone. Now I am a ten-tiered team, and each person has less than five. You want to go so many when you touch your mouth. Don't even think about it, there is not a box."

"Brother Feng, I'll just finish returning the grenades given to us by the Ministry of War to come back? Anyway, you don't have any combat missions now. The weather is not good, so are you not afraid of the grenade tide?" Liu Mingchuan said from the side.

"Okay." Zuo Zongtang frowned at this time and said, "These grenades are supplied to Feng Zicai's troops. I will write to the emperor and ask the bureaus to step up the production of these grenades to equip the various departments." Everyone stopped.

Then everyone came to the artillery flag. There were no group of cannons with gun barrels here, only more than twenty sparse 75mm battalion guns. The artillery soldiers were conducting artillery training behind them. Everyone passed the training soldiers to the gate of a warehouse. Under Feng Zicai's leadership, the group walked in through the small door.

The sunlight shot from the skylight quickly made everyone see the situation in the warehouse. In front of them were rows of things like smoke. Zuo Zongtang said in confusion: "Is this the mortar?" In his impression, the cannons should be bulky, with things ranging from hundreds or thousands of pounds, not as light as the mortar in front of them.

Feng Zicai nodded at this time and said, "These mortars were made by Ning Bureau. Originally, there was only one kind of inch gun (33mm) that could shoot three miles away. Later, Ning Bureau built a larger one that could shoot five miles away. Our unit had more than 500 such mortars, and I originally wanted to have one in each company. But later I found that if several were concentrated, the power was not less than ordinary cannons, and the heaviest of these cannons was only 15 kilograms. A soldier could still walk like flying on his back, which was extremely good for combat. So I gathered them together to form a cannon mark."

Zuo Zongtang also thought of the advantages that mortars could bring in mountain confrontation. Just imagine that the enemy could only carry light weapons because of the heavy artillery, but our side had the help of artillery. The outcome was unknown.
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