prosperous age

Chapter 39
"The regulations set by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, we have to escort the food and grass from Huguang and Jiangxi to the front of the army. The only hope now is that the imperial court can't afford military expenses and troops, so that it is possible for His Majesty to cancel this Northern Expedition. plan.

Grandpa and Dingguo's mansion also passed the gas, but there was no way, Yubi hand-picked it. "

Zhang Qing's last words completely blocked Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng's retreat. If there was any luck in their hearts at the beginning, it was their boss who could pull them out of the quagmire at a critical moment.

Whether it is the Zhang family, Wu family, or Wei family, they are all Fengyang people who rebelled with Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang back then, but their ancestors did not have the ability to stand alone, so they got a little bit of Mengyin.

At the time of the founding of the country, the status of generals was far from what it is now.

But now the boss can't protect them from the wind and rain. Now he can only find a way to improve the combat power of his soldiers. If he really wants to go up, the chance of saving his life on the battlefield will be greater, and there is no other way.

Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng looked at each other again, but they could see deep helplessness in each other's eyes.

There are not many ways for infantry to deal with cavalry, and the requirements for infantry are extremely high, requiring very high tactical literacy, and this cannot be done in a few months of hasty training.

Facing the charge of the cavalry group, the infantry must at least keep their formation in order.

This seemingly simple requirement is actually very difficult to achieve.

At the time of the founding of the country, it was possible to use the military formation to overwhelm the Tartars. At that time, whether it was morale or tactical literacy, the soldiers back then were far superior to the present, incomparable.

That's why they figured out a way to increase firepower and concentrate firearms to fire quickly, in order to defeat the enemy before the battle, or at least disperse it.

The cavalry can only be threatened if they attack in groups. If scattered cavalry charge into the formation, it will be easy to deal with.

Now Zhang Tongzhi still wants to ask them about other ways they have thought of, where to think about it for a while?

This method was actually suggested by Wei Guangde. When Father Wei asked about what he had seen in the past few days when he went home, he mentioned the kind of cannon he saw in Zhenjiang.

At that time, Wei Guangde felt that this kind of mother-in-two artillery seemed to be similar to the artillery of later generations. They were all rear-mounted, and a fast rate of fire was necessary. If a large number of gunners bombarded them, it was possible to overwhelm the cavalry group.

"Is there no other way?"

Zhang Qing squinted his eyes at this moment, his eyes kept moving back and forth between Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng, and a disappointed expression gradually appeared on his face, and he finally sighed.

"By the way, father, this time the Nanjing Armament Bureau sent a batch of bird guns. I heard that Brother Wei also got some. Is it good to use? It is the latest firearm."

Standing next to Zhang Qing, Zhang Shigui suddenly interjected. He had heard the conversation just now, and it was just a gag at the moment. He hoped to expose the matter of the Folang cannon first.

But Wei Li also brought back a batch of bird guns from Nanjing this time. He was not interested in firearms, so he hadn't tried it, but when he saw Wei Meng, he remembered that someone said that there were some bird guns pistol.

The trip to Zhenjiang was forced to go, and none of the families brought their own boys, but the elders went alone. Naturally, Zhang Shigui did not set off with the army, and everything was told by people who came back.

As for Zhang Qing, naturally he wouldn't tell him these little things.

In fact, Zhang Shigui didn't even know that there were more than a hundred people in Wei Meng's hands after the fact, but only found out when the senior officials of the guard suddenly discussed the allocation of farmland.

"Bird gun? Is there such a thing in the guard?"

Of course Wei Meng knew about the blunderbuss, and he tried it as soon as he got it. After he came back, his second child would often go out to shoot birds with it, and the sound of "cracking" gunshots was often heard from the mountain behind.

"Is this thing useful?"

Seeing Wei Meng's reaction, Zhang Shigui seemed to have grasped at straws, and both Zhang Qing and Wu Zhankui also looked at him with concern.

"It's easy to use. The batch of firecrackers allocated to me this time is of good quality."

That's all Wei Meng could say, and he was also thinking about how this thing would behave in the face of a cavalry charge.

Hearing Wei Meng say the quality is good, both Zhang Qing and Wu Zhankui were overjoyed.

They still know the power of firearms, as long as they are well-trained, their combat power is very powerful, and the training of firearms is much easier than that of archers.

In order to keep his archers in combat, Wei Meng allowed them to bring weapons into the mountains to hunt instead of arranging them to plow the fields.

As for the gunners, there are also hundreds of households, but they are all sent to plow the fields because they are unwilling to use them. After all, firearms are not a joke.

My son often holds a bird gun, and he doesn't know how many shots he has fired.

And the reason why he still rest assured to let Wei Guangde use it is also because every time Wei Guangde comes back from shooting the gun, he will ask Tang San to check the condition of the barrel, this is also the reason why he is at ease, his kid knows the danger.

"There are more than a hundred bird guns in the warehouse of the guard, all made together, and the quality should be similar."

Zhang Shigui continued at this time, "These firearms are new weapons, and they are also for us to try out so that they can be mass-produced in the future."

"Is this bird gun newly invented? It is really easy to use, and it is more accurate than the previous fire gun."

When Wei Meng heard that it was a new weapon, he thought it was no wonder he hadn't seen it before, but when he thought of the Flang machine gun he saw in Zhenjiang, he had never heard of it before, so he felt indifferent.

"Did this blunderbuss be obtained the year before last or the year before last, and it was also taken from the barbarians. It was imitated by the Weapons Bureau after two years of research."

Zhang Shigui introduced.

"Was it captured? Did we fight the barbarians?"

Wei Meng and Wu Zhankui were also surprised when they heard Zhang Shigui's introduction.

Bird guns and Flang cannons are old and powerful, and they are all from barbarians. How powerful are barbarians?
Can the Ming army win against them?

At this moment, the two of them had already thought that the north was not peaceful, and now there was a new threat like the barbarians who were good at using firearms, and their hearts couldn't help beating.

"In the 28th year of Jiajing, about the year before last, around that time, the Fujian Guard sent troops to Maxi to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates entrenched there, including barbarians. It seems that some of these bird guns were seized after the war. Many of us were wounded, so they were sent to the Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau to study imitations.”

At this time, Zhang Qing opened his eyes, as if recalling, and slowly told the origin of the bird gun that he knew.

There are many theories about the origin of bird guns, some were introduced from Guangdong, and some were obtained from Fujian’s suppression of Japanese. However, he is the only one who knows the origin of bird guns. After all, he had contact with the Ministry of War and Military Weapons Bureau in Zhenjiang. Not surprisingly.

"There are barbarians among the pirates?"

Wu Zhankui was a little surprised, "Didn't you say they were all Japanese and Han pirates?"

(End of this chapter)