Zhu Aaao took off the gauze on her face, and a brown scab about two fingers wide on her left cheek appeared in the bronze mirror.
Even though she was mentally prepared, her heart still trembled.
The bronze mirror fell on the table with a clatter, and two lines of tears came out of her eyes.
Suddenly, there were footsteps outside the door.
Zhu Nuao was eager to dodge, but it was too late.
Xia Hua had appeared in front of her with a smile.
"Ana, I heard that your injury was healed as soon as I returned to Star City, so I came to see you."
Xia Hua said as he took out a silk handkerchief to wipe away Zhu Aa's tears.
Zhu Yasuo hurriedly untied the bun on her head and tried to cover her left cheek with her long hair.
But Xia Hua held her wrist and stopped her.
Xia Hua held her arm and stared at her cheek.
This made Zhu Ainao's face suddenly become hot.
He said urgently: "Don't look at it.
It's so ugly.
Let me cover it up with my hair."
Xia Hua smiled slightly and said seriously: "No matter how you change, you are always so beautiful in my eyes, because I have engraved you in my heart for thousands of years."
Zhu Yurao didn't know the true meaning of these words, but she was extremely grateful.
Xia Hua took out something from his arms and said, "This is a gift for you.
Let me try it on for you.
From now on, you won't have to cover your face with your hair in front of others."
Zhu Ya'ao took a closer look and saw that Xia Hua was holding a face ornament made of gold and silver threads in his palm.
This kind of workmanship would be impossible for any jewelry craftsman to create in this era.
Xia Hua used the machine tools in the Star City factory to produce several special machines before being able to be built by Star City craftsmen.
Zhu Ailao obediently stretched out her face and asked Xia Hua to put it on for her.
After finishing, Xia Hua praised: "It's so beautiful."
Zhu Aona also took the bronze mirror in her hand and looked at it.
This face decoration is indeed exquisitely designed.
Not only does it cover the scars of Nainao, but it also adds a bit of charm.
After many days, a smile finally appeared on her face.
Xia Hua came to the Acropolis opposite Ji Canal in Star City to inspect the training of the Tianjin City Guards Right Battalion stationed here.
In order to ensure his absolute core control, Xia Hua certainly could not equip the soldiers in these city garrison camps with the same high-end weapons and equipment as his own Guards.
And because they need to be put into the battlefield quickly to make them combatable soldiers.
Therefore, there is no time to equip them with fixed-loading flintlock guns and practice corresponding linear array tactics at the same time.
It takes quite a while to develop combat effectiveness.
And Xia Hua will need to put them into the battlefield in ten days and a half.
After all, the bonus points Xia Hua received in the mission to seize Tianjin were only enough for him to add a thousand Dresser riflemen, a thousand Napoleon artillerymen, a thousand pistol cavalry, and five sailing battleships equipped with sailor captains.
Star City has entered the early stage of the steam age and could have produced early steam ironclad battleships equipped with smoothbore naval guns.
But now Xiahua is short of coal, and these warships are reluctant to run away after they are produced.
Therefore, it can only be Xia Hua's next plan.
In order to allow the soldiers of the city garrison to get into the battle faster, Xia Hua asked them to use the traditional tactics of this era to fight in dense infantry phalanx.
However, Xia Hua made reference to the Spanish phalanx of the same era and made a division and arrangement of arms that was more in line with the "primary firearms era".
There are more than 5,000 soldiers in a city garrison, 1,000 musketeers who use "three-eyed matchlock repeating muskets", and 1,000 musketeers who use Rumi muskets with a longer range that can suppress the opponent's crossbowmen.
There are 2,400 spearmen to cover the gunners, and 600 swordsmen and shieldmen to prevent the penetration of enemy short soldiers and to operate the shield chariots.
The remaining few hundred people were gunners who operated Franco machines, Hongyi cannons, and mortar cannons.
This "Three-eyed Match Rope Repeating Gun" is not the three-eyed Fire Gate Gun used by the Ming Army for more than two hundred years.
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Although the two structures are similar in appearance, the former is equipped with a matchlock ignition device that can be manually turned to fire continuously.
Moreover, the manufacturing process is much more sophisticated than the former.
As long as the length of the gun tube remains unchanged, the effective range has been increased from the thirty or forty meters of the traditional three-eye gun to nearly a hundred meters.
Its barrel is intentionally thickened, and several rings of raised "iron nails" are added to the front end.
This not only increases the service life, improves the safety factor against exploding the barrel, but also can be used as a mace in close combat.
The soldiers guarding the city were resistant to Lumi Gun at first.
The various inferior imitation matchlock muskets produced by the Ministry of Industry, ranging from bird muskets to Lumi muskets, have left an indelible shadow in their hearts.
The reason why these firecrackers are so inferior is closely related to the shortcomings of the craftsman household system in the Ming Dynasty.
Finally, under the strong pressure of the system instructors, these soldiers used the Rumi gun cautiously.
Xia Huaben thought of using the electric gun invented by Zhao Shizhen.
However, after trial production, it was discovered that this "individual soldier's reduced version of the Fran machine" had a limited firing range due to air tightness issues.
The ignition success rate is also extremely low, which completely offsets the rate of fire advantage brought by the mother-and-child gun.
This was produced under the precision processing technology of Star City Factory.
If it were handmade by ordinary craftsmen of the same generation, the usability would be unimaginable.
Spearmen should be the unit that makes Xia Hua most worry-free.
There is no need for them to reach the level of the Swiss guns of the same period.
As long as they can hold a nearly five-meter spear in a spear formation and complete a few basic actions under the command of the general, they will meet the standard.
Sword and shield bearers are the most difficult of all arms to train.
Because this unit requires hand-to-hand combat and is not afraid of blood.
It is difficult to overcome fear without being eliminated in actual combat.
The 600 people selected were all relatively brave people, and they were all people from military households who had served as soldiers in the Ming army.
Even so, Xia Hua was still worried that when they actually went into battle and saw blood, they would lose their courage in an instant.
So Xia Hua used a cruel training method.
At this time, the sword and shield players were performing various exercises respectively, and screams and howls continued to be heard from the training ground.
The first one is the pile chopping exercise, which involves using red paint to outline a range on the wooden pile, and asking the sword and shield hand to chop and stab with the sword in standard movements.
You have to practice until you hit seven out of ten cuts, and the depth of each cut into the wood must meet the requirements to be qualified.
As the training deepened, some veterans passed the test one after another.
The steel knives produced by the Star City Factory in their hands did not have any curling edge.
The novices are still sweating hard in training.
After chopping stakes, there is a practice of holding up a shield and blocking.
There are three people in a group, one person holding a shield, and two others holding wooden sticks to hit and stab at the head and face.
If they can't block it.
Even a wooden stick can't bear the blow on the body.
But the wailing and screaming were not caused by them.
The last level that the Sword and Shield Master has to pass is to chop down the living stakes, that is, to chop down the captured old thieves who were sentenced to death by Xia Hua.
They were tied to stakes and ordered to beheaded with a knife or stabbed in the abdomen or chest.
But often, the first and second people they kill are stabbed multiple times before dying in mournful wails.
Generally, you have to kill the fourth person to reach the target
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