Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

In the following period, the scout war between the rebels and the government troops changed from a cold weapon battle to a gun battle, and it tended to become more and more intense.

However, the rebel scouts and the official scouts exchanged musket fire. Although both sides suffered casualties, the rebel losses were nearly twice as high as before, which puzzled Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and all the generals.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Even though the rebel musketeers fired their guns at the official scouts in a lively manner, their hit rate was very low, and some even fired outside the range of the muskets.

There is also the loading speed of gunpowder, the number of charges, the rate of fire, shooting experience, etc., which all have a great impact on the hit rate.

But the army was different. During the first musket exchange, Sun Chuanting sent out his musketeers. The problems of these musketeers were basically the same as those of the rebels. They just held their guns and made a lively noise. The hit rate is so low that it makes people vomit blood.

Afterwards, Xu Yu asked for a fight, and Sun Chuanting agreed after some consideration. The soldiers of the Royal First Regiment officially appeared on the stage and began their first battle.

The soldiers of the 1st Royal Regiment received systematic formal training. The amount of ammunition consumed by live ammunition shooting alone was dozens of times that of the rebel musketeers. They were the real musketeers.

In a duel with matchlocks, and with the help of custom-loaded paper cartridges, the soldiers of the Royal First Regiment were completely overwhelmed in terms of rate of fire and experience in shooting, not to mention the tacit cooperation of a small team of three or five people. The result was naturally The soldiers of the 1st Royal Regiment were victorious.

In this musketry game, the seven groups of snipers were like bugs. They were like ghosts in the forest, hiding in the dark and firing cold shots, killing the rebel musketeers one after another. The results were so high that Sun Chuanting, Gao Jie and others were all surprised.

If it weren't for the fact that the rebels would discover the bug-like existence of snipers and avoid beating up the rebel musketeers, Li Zicheng would not dare to continue playing the musketry game. The snipers usually only shoot the rebels. Those above small bosses are valuable targets. They will occasionally shoot and kill individual threatening musketeers to help friendly forces eliminate threats. Most of the time, they just hide in the dark and watch the battle, silently holding down the battle for their brothers.

After several rounds of duels, Li Zicheng almost vomited blood when looking at the loss data reported by his subordinates, which also made him puzzled.

In the previous duel, even if the rebels suffered a lot of losses, the officers and soldiers suffered even greater losses. They even had a slight upper hand and had a certain amount of initiative. After switching to a musket showdown, the rebels' losses were astonishingly large. All the people, including Li Zicheng, were defeated. The generals were shocked.

how could this be?

Seeing Li Zicheng's inquiring look, Niu Jinxing smiled bitterly and shook his head. He was not a magician who could figure things out, so he couldn't possibly know everything.

Li Zicheng tried three more times, but the rebel scouts were still crushed by the government troops and suffered heavy losses. Finally, he decisively stopped the musketry game. Correspondingly, he was unable to grasp the movements of the government troops.

Because the enemy's situation was unclear, Li Zicheng became more and more hesitant, and the battle once again fell into a dull confrontation.

Military advisor Gu Junen spoke again, suggesting that Li Zicheng should not worry about Sun Chuanting's more than 300,000 elite troops, but only need to send the left and right armies to contain it, and then concentrate his forces to storm Kaifeng City, and then take Xiangyang and Henan into the hands of the rebels, and then look for an opportunity to fight Sun Chuanting decisively. .

However, Li Zicheng did not adopt his suggestion. On the contrary, because he was in a bad mood, he became increasingly unhappy with Gu Junen, who had always been outspoken.

Gu Junen left sadly, feeling increasingly confused.

Beijing, Imperial Palace.

Zhu Youjian, who was reviewing the memorials in the Hall of Yangxin, saw the memorials sent by Sun Chuanting and Xu Yu, as well as the secret memorials from Jin Yiwei. The tea he had just entered his mouth almost spurted out.

Li Zicheng left the already dead Kaifeng City unattacked, but played a scout war game with Sun Chuanting, which seemed a bit unprofessional.

If it weren't for Xu Yu's memorial and Jin Yiwei's secret proof, he would have doubted whether Sun Chuanting was deceiving him.

What kind of evil moth is Li Zicheng playing?

Zhu Youjian stared at the map of Kaifeng for a long time. He didn't know how many brain cells he had used, but he couldn't figure out what Li Zicheng's intentions were.