Zhang Chen has already figured out Yang Zhen's temper now.

On the things that Yang Zhen cares about and values, he must not mess around. But on the things that Yang Zhen doesn't care about, there is no need for him to follow others and pay attention to the red tape of superiority and inferiority.

Therefore, Yang Zhen started eating on his own. Zhang Chen didn't say anything when he saw this. He rummaged through it and found a relatively clean wooden bowl. He asked the Huotoujun who was in charge of the spoon today to make some for him.

With a big bowl of salty porridge, he squatted next to Yang Zhen, took a big pancake, and started eating.

When the other soldiers on the left wing of the Musketeers saw that their two bosses were already eating from their bowls, they stopped being polite and modest. They rushed forward, and soon they all carried big bowls and took the big cakes.

, went to find a sheltered place to squat and eat.

The war was about to begin, and Yang Zhen also wanted to take this opportunity to say something to encourage morale, but after thinking about it, he still felt that nothing he said was in vain, and nothing he said would be as effective as directly doing it.

Since I have said before that I want to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers in the advance camp, I must not start a small stove by myself. I must eat with everyone so that all the soldiers can see that I eat the same food and live the same as them. This is called

share weal and woe.

As long as you insist on doing this, you won't need to inject them with chicken blood every day, and their morale will not be low. When the critical moment comes, they will naturally follow you without hesitation.

The reason why Zhang Chen has high prestige in the Musketeers and is able to convince the public is because of this.

Therefore, Zhang Chen is not learning from Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen is learning from Zhang Chen.

Let's talk about it - Yang Zhen ate the big cake and the big bowl of porridge. He was satisfied for a while. He looked at Zhang Chen and said to him: "Tonight the Musketeers will make their debut for the first time. Do you have any ideas?"

When Zhang Chen heard Yang Zhen's question, he was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, he raised his neck, poured the little porridge left in the big bowl into his mouth, swallowed it, and then put the remaining half of the noodle cake into his arms.

, just said:

"When I was at sea, I tried it in my humble position. This modified Lumi gun will definitely become a blockbuster and become famous after this battle!"

"Oh - you are so confident?! But to be honest, my confidence in this musket is not as high as yours!"

Now Yang Zhen, after coming to this parallel time and space, he has seen many things that are not worthy of the name. After testing the Lumi gun that time, he has been busy and has no chance to test-fire the modified musket again.

Tonight I will use it to kill the enemy and make achievements again. If the performance tonight is not satisfactory, many of my previous assumptions will have to be changed.

"Sir, you have been too busy these days! Today at noon, I went to see you, and I also wanted you to see the new propellant, new bullets and medicine bags for this musket! But you were sleeping too deeply, and I didn't

I dare to force you to wake up! So I let you watch!"

When Zhang Chen said this, he saw that Yang Zhen was very interested, so he continued: "Last night, after the artillery team and the grenadiers landed ashore, the camp was not stable, and they didn't even have time to cook, so they set up a few large pots and continued to cook.

Nitrate!

"From last night until just now, Pan Wenmao worked tirelessly and produced a lot of high-quality saltpeter! The newly prepared gunpowder and ignition powder are definitely not comparable to the gunpowder in the past! If the Tatars still stay in the past to attack the official gunners

From a visual point of view, they must be in bad luck!

"Including Li Dusi's hand grenade made with new gunpowder, which is an enemy of ten thousand people, it is not the enemy of ten thousand people that I knew in my humble job in the past. It is shocking! Once used, it will definitely blow up the Tatars!"

Hearing that Zhang Chen was so confident, Yang Zhen's mood immediately improved: "Okay! That's good! It seems that it's all thanks to you and Pan Wenmao!"

"If tonight, the advance camp's firearms can show off their magic and shine, then our advance camp will definitely have a bright future from now on!"

After coming out of the Musketeers' left-wing camp, Yang Zhen took Yang Zhan'ao and other soldiers and walked all the way to the Musketeers' right-wing camp.

Nowadays, the artillery team, grenadiers, and musketry team's left wing are all camped around the "ammunition depot" at the highest point of the sandbank where the musketeer team's right wing is located.

Naturally, Yang Zhen was the first to call the ammunition depot a name. It turns out that there was also a place to store gunpowder in Yang Zhen's camp, but unlike now, everyone switched to using firearms, there was more ammunition, and there was a special place for boiling salt and making medicine.

, storage, allocation personnel and warehouses.

Now, Yang Zhen called this place an ammunition depot, and the name "ammunition depot" quickly became popular in the advance camp.

Uninformed people might think that the ammunition depot is a big place, but in fact, it is just a slightly larger shack.

There are some original foundations and broken walls here. Zhang Guogan received the order and occupied this place. After digging and building the ammunition depot, he dug three or four feet deep into the ground inside the original rectangular foundation and laid stones on the original foundation.

, combined with the remaining turned stone wall, to create a half-underground and half-above-ground "earth enclosure".

Then, they cut down tree trunks, put them on the wall, covered them with harvested reeds, and pressed some stones to imitate the reeds being blown away by the wind. After such operations, they finally created a spacious, dry place.

Sun-shaded warehouse.

The artillery of the artillery team and the jars and jars filled with gunpowder, gravel, porcelain, iron and nails produced by the grenadiers are all stored here.

Moreover, the good saltpetre produced by Pan Wenmao and his people, as well as the newly prepared gunpowder, are also stored here.

When Yang Zhen arrived, he could smell a choking smell from a distance. Looking carefully, it looked like wisps of white smoke coming out of a shack.

The white air floated out from the shack and was quickly blown away by the wind blowing from the sea, but it left a choking and unpleasant smell in the camp.

"Sir! Zhang Guogan and the others are probably still boiling salt! The smell is too strong!" Yang Zhan'ao covered his mouth and nose as he spoke.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a few people jumping up from the shack. Those people also covered their mouths and noses and said, "It's too choking! It's too choking! Do you want to invite Lao Pan over?

Let Lao Pan take care of it himself?!"

These words also fell into Yang Zhen's ears, but just as Yang Zhen was about to speak, he couldn't help but cough.

Yang Zhen's series of coughs woke up the people in the distance. In the dusk, those people still keenly saw who the person who came was.

"Sir! Are you here!? Come upwind! Come upwind quickly!"

Yang Zhen quickly walked upwind and looked carefully at the people. It turned out that one was Zhang Degui, one was Zhang Guogan, one was Li Lu, and the other was Yan San.

"There's a big battle tonight, how are you preparing? Where's Pan Wenmao, why didn't you see him?" Yang Zhengang asked as soon as he met everyone.

"Adjutant Pan has been up all day and night since he came ashore yesterday! There will be another battle tonight, so I will ask him to go back and catch up on his sleep!"

Zhang Degui heard Yang Zhen asking Pan Wenmao and immediately replied. He also saw Yang Zhen looking at the smoldering shack and then said:

"Adjutant Pan is taking a rest, and the other big pots have all been turned off, so it's time to take a rest! Over here at Guogan, he wanted to get some more ignition powder, so he set up the stove himself and boiled the saltpeter here.

! We were afraid that the fire was too strong and it would be too choking to bear inside, so we put out the fire and came out for some air!"

When Yang Zhen heard that he had extinguished the fire, he no longer worried. He pointed to the location of the ammunition depot and said: "The artillery and ammunition to be used tonight should be loaded onto the ship. Contact Yuan Jin's camp immediately.

Load the ship as soon as possible! Don’t think about it until just before departure, which will delay the matter!”

After saying this, Yang Zhen looked at Zhang Degui, thought for a while, and then said: "When Pan Wenmao wakes up, tell him to have a good rest tonight and not have to go to war with the army! Fo Langji is not needed for the time being! Let him take it.

Brothers on the left wing of the artillery team, guard our camp and the ammunition depot!

"In addition, after you have arranged the business affairs at hand, you should also take a rest! The matter of boiling salt is not urgent at this moment!"

At this point, Yang Zhen asked Zhang Guogan, who was disgraced by the fireworks: "What about the blacksmith and his son?! Has the musket modification been completed!?"

Zhang Guogan hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Sir! The Rumi guns currently used by our musketeers have been modified! The shotguns that General Zu obtained later are still being modified! About a dozen of them have been completed today!

"Both Blacksmith Wang and his son Wang Sheng said that there are no conditions on this island. There is no stove, no carbon, not even a decent anvil. They are also clever women who cannot make a meal without rice. It is not easy to work!"

"You can do it! The conditions on the island are like this now. You can do whatever step you can take first! You can't stop doing it just because the conditions are not good!"

When Yang Zhen heard Zhang Guogan's complaints, he didn't want to say anything more.

The current situation was like this, and Yang Zhen had no other choice. Thinking of this, he said to Zhang Guogan: "Go and ask that old Mr. Wang Shoutang if they can produce a batch as soon as possible under the current conditions.
Chapter completed!