The waves hit the hull, making a "rattle" sound. In the shaking cabin, fully armed soldiers sat on the ground, some leaning against the bulkheads, and some back to back. Everyone listened to the roar of the machines and was busy with their own affairs.

Someone is wiping the "six sounds" in his hand. This is a well-made revolver gun. The bullet nest can load six rounds. It uses a metal shell to load the bullet. There is a bottom fire at the bottom. It is fired with a hammer and pull the trigger six times in a row. It is six rounds.

Facing enemies without armor and light armor, using "Six Lottery" can easily result in the opponent at close range (more than ten steps), without hand-to-hand combat, saving time and effort.

In addition, the "Liu Xiangzi" has good waterproofness and can shoot reliably on rainy days, so this is a self-defense weapon for soldiers on the battlefield.

But the disadvantage is that the range (on the premise of ensuring the shooting accuracy) is relatively close. Soldiers hold Six Swords and shoot against the enemy. The opponent can use a strong bow to shoot arrows outside at 70 steps. At this distance, Six Swords' accurate head is extremely poor.

It doesn’t matter, there is a “bird gun” with excellent shooting accuracy to help.

Hunters holding bird guns can easily shoot enemy archers at a distance of 70 steps. Of course, the opponent can hide, but they can't shoot arrows.

At this moment, hunters with a little special military uniform are also carefully wiping the bird guns in their hands. The bird guns with better accuracy will also be equipped with "scopes" so that the hunters can shoot accurately at a distance of more than 100 steps, achieving the effect of passing through the poplar by hundreds of steps.

However, bird guns are expensive and bullets are also expensive, so the number of equipment is limited and only for a few hunters.

During the battle, enemies suppressed by hunting soldiers with bird guns may choose to use shields or carts as cover to advance forward. At this time, neither Liuxingzi nor bird guns can do anything.

Once approached by the opponent, hand-to-hand combat is inevitable, but the premise is that the opponent can withstand the attack of the "thunder in the palm of the official army".

The wooden handle, the "thunder in the palm" with an iron head, is like a single-headed vajra. Its cylindrical iron "pestle head" contains violent explosives. The wooden handle contains a time-lapse fuze. The user pulls the fuse and throws it out, which can be twenty steps away.

When the fuse in the wooden handle burns to its head, it will trigger a strong explosive. The explosion is powerful, it can break the person close to the point of being broken, and it can also blow the big shield and cart into pieces.

But the "thunder in the palm" is smaller in size, lightweight, and easy to carry and throw than the traditional "thunder in the sky".

With such a weapon combination, the soldiers are like tigers, but the enemy is not fools. Since it is not possible to rely on infantry attacks, they will use cavalry.

Facing the cavalry that charges in clusters, whether it is the "Six Xiangzi", "Bird Gun" or "Thunder in Palm", they are willing but not strong enough, because the cavalry charges very quickly, while the killing distance between "Six Xiangzi" and "Thunder in Palm" is close, and the shooting speed of the bird gun is slow.

Since ancient times, infantry have had to form formations against cavalry, so infantry equipped with advanced firearms still have to form formations and rely on the power of the military formation to fight against cavalry. However, the weapons in everyone's hands are not spears and bows, but muskets equipped with bayonets.

The muskets equipped with bayonets are spears and arrows, and the use of new muskets allows the spearmen and archers to completely disappear from the military formation.

The soldiers were in the hands of the Mingde 20th-year-old musket, which was similar to the previous standard musket. The front end of the musket can also be equipped with a sleeve-type bayonet to turn the musket into a short spear. The fire hat fired to ensure that the musket can also shoot in strong winds and rainy weather.

Such a musket is still a rifled smooth-bore gun, and it is still a reloading method of ammunition and medicine dispensing.

Although the shooting accuracy is not as good as the "bird gun", it is impossible to shoot accurately, so the hit rate must be increased by soldiers' volleys; although the loading speed is slow and the shooting speed is not as good as the "Liu Xiangzi", it is very reliable and cheap. It is now a standard weapon for the Zhou army's musket soldiers.

Musketeers holding new muskets can line up in three rows of horizontal lines, using three-stage strike tactics to defeat the enemy in front of them within a distance of 100 steps.

It can also be arranged in hollow square formations to welcome the enemy's siege.

You can also rely on light artillery fighting with the army to fire shotguns against cavalry or infantry that charge intensively, or fire flowering or solid bullets, and defeat the enemy that is approaching step by step with the help of a car.

The well-equipped Zhou Guoxin Army soldiers are now catching up on time to check their equipment and prepare for the upcoming battle.

The young officers dressed in military uniforms of lieutenants tried their best to suppress the excitement in their hearts and carefully prepared for their first official actual combat.

They are all military academies. After years of theoretical study, they also participated in practical study. They followed the government troops in various forms of combat in northern Liao, western Liao, grassland, western Ji, western Xihai, southern central and central Guizhou.

Such practice links theory with practice, allowing military academy students to accumulate necessary combat and command combat experience, but that is ultimately an internship.

During the internship, there were some generals on the battlefield who brought elite soldiers to be nannies for themselves. The enemies were all native chickens and tiles, and the battle was relatively difficult. They didn’t need to fight hard battles by themselves, but now it’s different.

They are already formal officers, and after graduation they are lieutenants. Although they are only grassroots officers, they also have their own subordinates. Then their performance on the battlefield determines the life and death of their subordinates.

The performance of their subordinates also determines their life and death.

The new army's military system does not allow officers to have their own private troops (there are guard officers within the system, and ordinary soldiers are responsible for the lives and deaths of officers at all levels are bound to their own teams.

The officers left their subordinates and fled in front of the battle, or the soldiers fled in front of the battle, and the consequences were no different, and they were all "the only death penalty".

Officers and soldiers at all levels share life and death on the battlefield. If the officers command properly, everyone will win. If the officers make mistakes in command, everyone will bear the consequences together.

Officers at all levels have such command responsibilities, but the cadets cannot feel them in class, but when they arrive on the battlefield, the pressure is like a mountain.

At the same time, it was extremely excited.

If you choose to join the army, you will not be afraid of death. You have to use your life to fight for military achievements, titles, and a wife and son. So you will not be afraid of going to the battlefield, otherwise you might as well hide at home and read books and take the imperial examination.

I will never be allowed to take the official position after taking the exam for decades.

The hatch door opened, and the officer coming in blew a whistle and said loudly with the electric speaker: "Fifteen minutes to prepare! Fifteen minutes to prepare! What should be respectful and what should be cleaned up!"

The shouts changed the atmosphere in the cabin. The lieutenants stood up and commanded their subordinates to sit according to the system and organize their equipment.

The fifteen minutes arrived soon, and everyone left the cabin in sequence according to the team.

When we arrived on the deck, the strong sea breeze mixed with the smell of the sea came towards us, which made everyone almost unable to open their eyes. When they looked closely, they saw that the deck was busy.

An officer shook the small flag, blew the whistle, shouted the serial numbers of each unit, and shouted "Get together here!"

The soldiers looked around and saw that there were dual-purpose sea ships everywhere, with thick smoke coming from the chimneys, and soldiers on the deck of the ship.

The sails on the mast and the flags of various colors are mostly surrounded by thick smoke, which looks like a dark cloud, covering the sky.

In front, north of the stormy waves is a large area of ​​dark land, with beaches, hills, and beacons.

There was a smoke from beacon towers, and it was the guards who were warning.

"Back, board the ship! Don't be messy, board the ship in order!"

The strange sounds from the electric speaker kept shouting "Backing the ship". The soldiers followed their lieutenants to the side of the ship. When they looked over, they saw that many clutches had been berthed below.

There is a large net hanging out of the boat, like a net ladder, which is the ladder for getting off the boat and then boarding the Clippers.

The lieutenants ticked and asked the soldiers to overturn the boat gang in turn. Everyone followed the training movements, climbed down the net ladder, boarded the clutch, and sat in the cabin.

The young lieutenant Li Shimin watched his subordinates get off the boat, then took out his pocket watch, opened the cover and looked at the time. It was 9:15 am now.

He looked at the inside of the lid again, and then covered the lid and put away the pocket watch.

Climbing over the boat gang, climbing the net ladder and heading downward.

Halfway through, looking at the long coastline ahead and the beacon smoke rising from the beacon towers on the shore, Li Shimin was full of heroism and made up his mind: "Nianyun, after fighting this battle, you will be the wife of the imperial decree!"

The soldiers boarded the ship, under the command of the lieutenant, paddled at a uniform rhythm to allow the ship to move forward quickly.

Countless small boats left the big ship, crashed away from the waves, and headed towards the Goguryeo coastline ahead.

In the autumn of the 22nd year of Mingde, Goguryeo and Baekje attacked Silla, and the King of Silla sent envoys to the Central Plains for help.

In February of the 23rd year of Mingde, the "Perridge" warship carrying the Zhou envoy to Goguryeo exploded and sank outside Huangcheng Port in Laizhou. It is rumored that the explosion was done by Goguryeo.
Chapter completed!