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Chapter 677 Advanced Musket

In the Governor's Mansion in Manila, Acuña's right arm was tied with gauze and hung on his chest, and in the hall where he was, two soldiers carried a person's body over.

"Why is there a strange smell?" Acuña covered his nose with his intact left arm.

A soldier said embarrassingly: "We bought this man at a high price to monitor Chinese businessmen. He was found to have died violently in the toilet this morning. We brought him here..."

"Unlucky, just tell me about this kind of thing, there is no need to carry it up." Acuna ordered two soldiers to carry Zhang Sanlu's body away.

Castle frowned slightly, walked up to Acuña and said, "This person died as soon as he died, it's not a big deal, but someone left a piece of paper at the scene, saying that they escaped during the rebellion." Those Chinese merchants and servants, clean up the house."

"Damn guys, actually sneaked into our city of Manila. Fortunately, I have been looking for them in the jungle for a long time." Acuña was recently devastated by this small group of remnants of the rebels, but he, a governor, took care of them. Without such a few Han people, it would really damage his reputation.

"Should we seal the city gates and search the whole city for the murderer?" Castle asked.

"No need, since they dared to commit murder blatantly and left a note, they must be prepared to flee. I think they have already left the city of Manila at this moment. It will only take a lot of manpower for us to search for the murderer in the whole city material resources, causing panic among the people in the city. Let them go for the time being, and try to encircle them slowly in the future."

Acuna paced back and forth uneasily: "I'm worried about another thing now."

"What is it?" Castle asked.

"The last time we quelled the rebellion, we seized more than a hundred muskets in the city. The power, accuracy, and range of these muskets are far higher than the matchlock guns we use, but their muskets are similar to our matchlock guns. I It is suspected that it is the second-generation musket produced by Huaxia. But why can they manufacture muskets that are so much more advanced than our muskets? This is really something that baffles me." Acuña said his worry.

Castle listened to the muskets captured by the Kyushu Army from the rebels to support the rebels. He also looked dignified. It is easier to use too much, and the power is still powerful.

The two of them used the Dreiser rifle with their own hands for the first time, and they were astonished as artifacts, only to find out that the musket can still be like this.

"What happened to the muskets?" Castle asked.

"Half of the muskets have been shipped back to Europe to see if our craftsmen can imitate them, or study the principles of the muskets they designed." Acuna said, "The remaining half of the muskets are kept in our own hands , we also need to learn how to deal with Eastern muskets, and if the Easterners attack Manila, what should we do?"

"It's really hard to imagine why the orientals can invent such a powerful musket. We, even the best craftsmen in Europe, can't design a musket that is even half as powerful as the oriental musket." Castle said.

"Do you think Britain or France secretly produced new muskets and then secretly sold them to the Easterners? Otherwise, how could the Easterners produce such muskets?" Acuña said.

"If Britain and France were able to produce such powerful muskets, how could they be able to hold back their ambitions, and Europe would not have fought so far," Castle said.

Acuña nodded in agreement. He was just thinking about it on a whim, but if he thought about it carefully, if a country in Europe had already produced a reliable breech-loading rifle, he would never have hidden it, and it would have been used to solve the anxiety. European battlefield.

"We can only see if our craftsmen can imitate their firearms. If they can be imitated, our Spanish Empire may be able to learn from the Eastern muskets and gain an advantage in the European battlefield." Acuña could only So to speak.

"I don't know how many muskets like this are left in the eastern army. Will there be thousands more?" Castle said.

"It shouldn't be easy to produce such muskets. I think four or five thousand guns is the limit of the Eastern Army." Acuña speculated.

If he knew that the Kyushu Army had already produced tens of thousands of Dreiser rifles that shocked them by relying on the mining field in Liaodong, he wondered if he would have given up on Manila directly.If tens of thousands of infantry with Dreiser rifles landed on Luzon Island, it is estimated that ten Manila cities would be razed to the ground.

Shenglong City has now become the seat of the Cochin Governor's Office, governing the original narrow land of Annan Kingdom and Champa Kingdom and 300 million people.

The Independent Corps was stationed in Thang Long City, while the Nanyang Fleet and the Marine Brigade were stationed in Hoi An Port, forming two large military towns in the north and south. In fact, they were to suppress the original forces of the Zheng family and the Ruan family.

Changyi, the head of the regiment, received an order from the military, which surprised Changyi who thought he could be stable for a while.

He found Xiong Wencan, the civil affairs officer of the Chief Secretary of Cochin, because one of the orders of the military department was to set up the Chief Secretary of Cochin's own security force.

Because the Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi was conquered by the Kyushu Army from outside the original territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is very different from other provinces.In other provinces, there are at most some bandits and bandits who harm one side. As long as there are two or three thousand security forces in the province, they can go to suppress it after something goes wrong.However, Annan and Champa are newly occupied places, and there may be rebellion at any time. Therefore, the military department has given more quotas. There are 5000 security forces in Thang Long City and 3000 security forces in Hoi An Port.The 8000-member public security force has yet to be equipped with advanced firearms. Most of the weapons used are outdated weapons left over from the struggle between the Zheng family and the Ruan family. However, even if there are rebels, the weapons of the rebels are not necessarily comparable For Du Yu's Kyushu Army, it is just the security army of the second-line army.

"Two new regular security forces have been established, with 5000 people stationed in Thang Long City and 3000 people stationed in Hoi An Port. The weapons in the arsenals of the Zheng family and the Ruan family are enough, but the source of troops is a big problem." Xiong Wencan said a little. worry.

In fact, the Chief Secretary of Cochin currently has the most concentrated group of troops of the Kyushu Army, the Independent Corps, the Nanyang Fleet, and the Marine Brigade, with a total of 5 people. Xiong Wencan is not afraid of a rebellion by the Chief Secretary of Cochin.As long as someone dares to rise up, [-] of the most elite troops of this era will advance by water, and the rebels will simply be unable to resist!
(End of this chapter)