Red Mansion: Fuyao River and Mountain

Chapter 140 Three-stage attack method

Yang Hongbin recounted what had happened in recent days.

Jia Cong thought for a moment and said, "When I first arrived in Jinling, I heard people talking about the Longtan Port bloodbath. The rioters were divided into two groups, one of which confronted the government troops.

Another group took advantage of the situation and robbed 200,000 strings of foreign goods, and fled into the Yangtze River by boat. The Water Supervision Department of the Garrison went out in force to search for them, but to no avail. I thought it was a little strange at the time.

One month after the incident, signs of dumping of these foreign goods appeared on the market.

These Japanese ronin were not only able to hide the huge amount of foreign goods without a trace, but after the incident, they were also able to sell these foreign goods through local merchants.

Without the support of Jinling's local forces and connections, how could a few ronin who couldn't even escape have such a great ability to plan and manage things.

The prince just found Zhou Suqing, an important figure, a few days ago, but failed to capture him. Yang Pingshi just said that he sent people in disguise to wait at Zhou Suqing's residence for several days, but this person did not show up again.

Can we speculate that before we set out to capture him, Zhou Suqing might have received the news, and therefore escaped in advance, leaving us empty-handed, and therefore she never returned to her residence?

When Yang Pingshi thought of looking for Wang En to find out the whereabouts of Zhou Suqing, someone immediately killed him in the Jinyiwei prison.

Such abilities and means are not something that a few barbaric ronin can possess.

There was a riot in Longtan Port. I feel that it is not just a few Japanese wanderers who are killing people and causing chaos. There are people and things hidden behind the scenes that we cannot see clearly.

They seem to be able to foresee everything and cut off any clues we can explore before they can.

The whole thing involved the Water Supervision Department and the Royal Guards, and it was complicated and confusing. It seems that there are not many people in Jinling City that the prince can trust."

Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin were both shocked after hearing what Jia Cong said.

This young man is not only intelligent, but also has bold ideas and vision that are different from those of ordinary people. At first glance, his words are really thought-provoking.

But what he said was true. The people behind the scenes could foresee the situation in advance and make them fail at every step. They could even silence the suspects imprisoned in the Jinyiwei prison.

This is not something a few Japanese wanderers can do.

Moreover, the meaning of Jia Cong's words was very bold. He believed that the Water Inspectorate and the Embroidered Uniform Guard were both involved and could not be trusted, or that there were very few people in the entire Jinling officialdom who could be trusted.

This statement may sound too alarmist, but if you think carefully about the whole incident, you will feel that Jia Cong's words are not groundless.

Whether it was Prince Ning or Yang Hongbin, they came to Nanjing from Shenjing, and their focus was on the chaos caused by the Japanese ronin in Longtan Port.

Their purpose is to severely punish those who have neglected their duties, such as Wang En, and to bring the Japanese ronin who have caused chaos and murder to justice.

Due to their preconceived notions, they believed that the Longtan Port incident was just a major case of combating corruption and banditry, so their vision and perspective were naturally limited.

It was not until Wang En was killed that they began to have more doubts.

But Jia Cong was born an anomaly in this world. The conventions, frameworks and limitations of thinking in this era were insignificant to him and he could easily break through them.

So at this time, he could jump out of the barriers and see the overall situation that Ning Wang, Yang Hongbin and others did not see.

This is just a difference in a person's thinking barriers. Standing is the state, and the visualization is naturally different. It has nothing to do with a person's intelligence.

...Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin were still thinking about what Jia Cong had just said.

Jia Cong said, "Your Majesty, I have heard that the Japanese wanderers are all skilled in martial arts and have sharp Japanese swords. When facing the officers and soldiers of the garrison, they can often defeat ten of them with one.

The battle at Longtan Port not only killed and wounded many garrison officers and soldiers, but even a captain named Liu was killed on the spot.

Prince Ning sighed, “When Taizu founded the country, the soldiers of the Great Zhou pursued the enemy to the north and drove the Mongolian cavalry, which had destroyed countless countries, out of the Central Plains. From then on, they dared not to graze their horses to the south. How magnificent it was.

Now, less than a hundred years have passed, and the fighting power of the garrison soldiers has become so weak. We are really ashamed of our ancestors."

Jia Cong said: "Your Highness, there is no need to be discouraged. Our Great Zhou has been at peace for a long time, and the soldiers have neglected their preparations for war. Their blood and courage have waned, and their fighting power has naturally been reduced.

I heard that Japan is now divided between the north and the south, and the shogunate is in chaos. Many of these Japanese ronin are people who were defeated and exiled. They live in the midst of life and death every day, so they are naturally more brutal than ordinary people. "

Since we can't defeat them in close combat, we should try to outsmart them. That day, Yang Pingshi found twenty Lumitongs in Zhou Suqing's residence, which gave me an idea of ​​how to win."

Yang Hongbin smiled and said, "Feng Yilang used firearms to deal with the Japanese ronin. Although firearms were intimidating when they were first used, they had many shortcomings in actual combat. Feng Yilang may not have a deep understanding of current firearms.

Take the Rumi gun for example. When fired with a lit match, its power is indeed very strong, and it can even leave marks on pig iron. However, each bullet needs to be loaded with powder and reloaded, and there needs to be six breaths of time between two bullets.

If a soldier uses firearms against a Japanese ronin, he will die under the Japanese sword before he can fire a second shot. "

Jia Cong asked curiously: "Don't you know the three-stage attack?"

Yang Hongbin and Prince Ning looked at each other in bewilderment and asked, "What is a three-stage attack?"

As expected, they still didn't know what the three-stage attack was. At least in the land of Great Zhou, the three-stage attack was still an unfamiliar concept.

Otherwise, Yang Hongbin’s understanding of the use of muskets would not have remained stuck in this rigid concept.

So Jia Cong explained to them in detail how to use the three-stage strike. As long as the soldiers practiced it skillfully, the three-stage strike could shorten the interval between two bullets of the Rumi gun from six breaths to one to two breaths.

Add to that the dense formation firing, or the superposition of two three-stage attacks, and even the bravest Japanese ronin will become a sitting duck.

Jia Cong's explanation of the three-stage attack made Prince Ning and Yang Hongbin excited. There is such a clever method in the world. If they use muskets in this way, they will be invincible on the battlefield.

They looked at Jia Cong again, their eyes revealing horror. This young man was not only wise and meticulous, but also had such fantastic ideas, which was truly amazing.

After Jia Cong left, a memorial on the analysis and deduction of the Longtan Port bloody case in Nanjing, as well as the three-stage usage of the Rumi gun, was sent by express horse from Prince Ning's residence straight to the capital.

Prince Ning also immediately transferred ten Rumi guns from the armory of the Jinling Guard, plus the twenty Rumi guns seized from Zhou Suqing's residence.

He began to practice the three-step method among his personal guards, and had them record in detail any problems encountered during the process so that they could be remedied.

Prince Ning was a man of some courage. Since the case at Longtan Port in Nanjing was complicated and confusing, and the various forces in Nanjing City were hard to trust, he couldn't just sit there and wait.

Although the three-stage method of using firearms proposed by Jia Cong was a fantastic idea, it was not complicated to practice in practice. He brought more than a hundred personal soldiers with him this time, and these were the forces he trusted most.

Thirty Rumi guns were enough for him to train a musketeer team familiar with the three-stage method in a short period of time, in case of emergency.

(End of this chapter)