Outside the Telegraph Bureau of Sanli outside Tianjin Acropolis, servants in the distance led a donkey and waited for two rows. Around them, from scholars, officials, and pawns and peddlers, they surrounded the gate early in the morning, which was three layers inside and three layers outside, which was not open.

Those with status are closer to the gate, while those without status are farther away from the gate, but their movements and expressions are the same. They are standing on tiptoe and staring at the door tightly, without turning their eyes.

Suddenly, the gate of the Telegraph Bureau slowly opened. Five Tianjin guards led their horses out and galloped towards Tianjin Acropolis. A dark-skinned military officer stood in front of the door and bowed to the left and right to shout in a loud voice.

"Everyone, the first question is to start in early June, the second phase of Beiyang will go to Asia!"

In the year after the completion of the first Beijing-Tianjin telegram, the two-line telegram route from Jizhen to Hangzhou through the canal south and the two Beijings was built and put into use under the auspices of Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the empire, and established telegram bureaus in various provinces, prefectures and counties along the way.

The so-called double-line does not mean sending newspapers, but front-line officials and front-line civilians. However, the temporary technical means are not enough to allow the people to use telegrams to convey letters from the north and south. However, every ten days, the capital will produce a newspaper for major events in the world, divided into one main, two times, and four civil affairs, and printed and posted by the telegraph bureaus of each county.

Nowadays, the gentry, officials and people in all counties along the canal have developed a habit. Every month, they get up early to listen to the telegram header inquiries after three days of free time. This is usually a more interesting event.

However, today's question is not interesting to the people of Tianjin - they have known the news of the second phase of Beiyang expedition for a long time. Many people who did not look at the question themselves ran to the Telegraph Bureau to wait because they went to Beiyang to see the warships set sail.

“How fresh?”

This is far from the interesting thing about the Japanese king Ashikaga Yoshiaki who was inscribed in early May to pay tribute to Beijing or Altan Khan who was in late April to pay tribute.

The old and young men waved their hands, and the donkeys, the donkeys, the donkeys, and the carriages rushed towards the Beiyang.

In the printed civil newspaper, there are also things about the palace under the headline of this issue, saying that Emperor Wanli could not bear to the military and civilians of the second phase of Beiyang to go to war. He originally wanted to see him off in person, but because of the first rehabilitation of the wind and cold, he could not see him off, and even shed tears for this.

All are bullshit.

Master Wanli was not sick. Every morning, he wore armor and straddled a knife and carried a bird gun to run eight miles in the Forbidden City. He was in good health and stronger than a calf.

It is even more nonsense to say that he is sad and shed tears. He just wants to enjoy the pleasure of taking a boat in Bohai and give himself a few days off. But now it is different from the past. God is back in middle age. Can he let him out of the palace to play?

That is, Chen Mu was not in the court, otherwise he would have to create a propaganda department for the Ming Dynasty after reading today's newspapers.

The sound of horse hooves whistled in the distance disturbed the people who were rushing to Beiyang to watch the fleet go on a war. The four horsemen raised their signs and stepped through the muddy streets that were about to stop in the rainy season. The people hurriedly avoided them and looked towards the direction of Tianjin Wei to the west.

They seem to be used to this kind of avoidance token is not specially designed for county officials.

Sure enough, not long after, the sound of horse hooves and running became more and more intense. Hundreds of horse and infantry troops lined up. The leader of the Han general pulled his horse and whipped his whip and shouted, and slapped the Mongolian horse team holding up the horse-shaped banner and the white-blazed Tumochuan trample past.

The exotic warriors from the north of the Great Wall of Nine Borders were wearing bare shoulders and heavy armors. People knew that these were elite armored cavalry under Altan Khan. The Mongolian infantry running and pedaled with spare horses and wheelbarrows of armored cavalry, and the chariots were loaded with bundled quiver arrows.

The people recognized that Han general was Ma Ran, a young general who had been showing his face in Tianjin recently. He had a prominent family background. His father Ma Dong was a general of the general of the general of the family for his merits and honors. His ancestor Ma Fang was even more powerful than the emperor of the Mobei region and was named the most brave general in the world by Emperor Jiajing. However, it was a bit embarrassing to lead troops to appear in Tianjin at this time.

The Ming army, who were preparing to go to the East, had assembled two months ago. The emperor recruited the warriors of the No. 2,400 Three Battalions of the Jurchens this time, had already arrived in Beiyang. Earlier, the Mongolian horse team became a regular visitor on the official road from Zhenbao to Tianjin.

This armoured cavalry unit is obviously missing its time.

Bang bang!

Several guns were heard from the Beiyang schoolyard, piercing the tranquility of the morning.

Ye Mengxiong, the head of the Beiyang Branch of the Ministry of War, carried a gun with a different appearance from the past three times in a row, handing it to the soldiers beside him to charge medicine. The smoke in front of him gradually dissipated. He closed his beard and narrowed his eyes and looked at the wooden target in the distance. A soldier ran over to look at the target, waved his hand and made gestures. Only then did he nod his head with satisfaction.

The gun is shaped like a combination of the three-eyed gun and the old Nanyang flintlock bird gun. It is called the three-eyed bird gun. It is the full name of the three-eyed cavalry gun built by Xuanfu in the fifth year of Wanli. It does not use the new wooden gun support of the Nanyang flintlock bird gun. It still uses a curved wooden handle, but the slight curvature of the handle makes the shape more exquisite.

The three gun barrels are connected into one, and can rotate clockwise near the flintlock gun machine. The spring pops up at the shooting position, so it can be fired three times in a row.

During the research and development, according to the latest data from the Guangzhou Martial Arts Hall Research Institute five years ago, the gun barrel was longer than the previous three-eyed gun, but due to the weight choice, the maximum power was not selected. The two-foot-four-inch gun was used. The overall weight was between the unsupported flintlock bird gun and the Nanyang-based flintlock bird gun.

It is dedicated to cavalry, with the best range of fifty steps.

The three-eyed cavalry gun was launched at the end of the fifth year of Wanli. The first one hundred poles were sent to Jizhen, Beiyang, the Ministry of War, and the Forbidden City, and was highly praised. The seven craftsmen who participated in the design, a Jinshi Military Weapon Bureau Research and the head of the Xuanfu Military Weapon Bureau were all rewarded by the new Minister of War Wang Chonggu, and the emperor nominated them for the Wanli Science and Technology Award next year.

Among the second phase of Beiyang soldiers that are about to set off, three hundred Beiyang cavalrymen are equipped with three-eyed cavalry guns, and there are also three hundred three-eyed cavalry guns and supporting tools in the carrying capacity.

At present, no troops including Jizhen, Jingying and other units have been installed.

This batch of three-eyed cavalry guns from Beiyang were purchased from Xuanfu by Ye Mengxiong, and the supporting fee was 2,400 taels.

Everything has its pros and cons. The three-eyed cavalry gun is well-made, with coherent shooting and powerful power, but it also has its disadvantages, which are not conducive to the entire army's installation. The first is that the cost is high. The internal adjustment of the Ministry of War also requires three taels of silver. It is okay to say that the silver is two, but the key is that its structure makes the loading complicated. When the cavalry wants to load it immediately, they must use another type of ammunition loader made by the Xuanfu Military Bureau, and the size of the lead ball is different from that of the bird gun.

The Ming army's existing bird guns are divided into two specifications: three-qian bullets and nine-qian bullets. The two-qian bullets used by the three-eyed cavalry gun are also designed to reduce weight.

In a short period of time, it is difficult to arm the army in large quantities, but at least for now, this weapon is very popular among the generals of the northern border, and the wealthy generals are happy to spend a lot of money to buy equipment for elite servants.

Ye Mengxiong waved his hand and said to the mule and horse carriage parked at the school ground: "Load the ship!"
Chapter completed!