This world is full of bugs

Chapter 23

The more Cao Cao talked, the more frightened he became.

Li Mu couldn't sit still anymore.

He stood up and said, "Cao Cao, Sister Na and I will continue to push in. You can go outside the palace to see if anyone from the Yangcheng Police Department has come. If so, you must persuade them to block the surrounding area. In addition, we will urgently dispatch troops from nearby military regions!"

"Okay!" Cao Cao also understood the seriousness of the situation and looked very serious.

To put it bluntly, if their guess is true, then this extraordinary army of tens of thousands will directly pose a huge threat to the city.

Even if it can be solved in the end, it will definitely cause great damage.

That was a scene no one wanted to see.

They must be surrounded and killed here!
"Now tell us about the general structure of the entire Prince's Palace. We can analyze where the resurrected Prince Li Shixian will go." Li Mu said.

"The main hall of the East Courtyard where we are now is actually the meeting hall of the Taiping Army leaders. Behind the main hall is the passage hall, the second hall, and finally the Naihan Pavilion. In front of the Naihan Pavilion are two thousand-year-old cypresses with a height of several feet. According to legend, Qian Miu, king of Wu and Yue in the Five Dynasties, planted it himself, and after thousands of years of wind and rain, the trunk does not fall down."

"The opposite of the east courtyard is the west courtyard, which is also Li Shixian's office and residence."

"There are four entrances to the west courtyard: after entering the foyer, there is a long corridor connected to the front hall, which is the director's office of Li Shixian, with gardens on both sides; the middle hall of the second entrance building is the most exquisite among all buildings, and is the office of the king. The third building is the residence of the Prince; the fourth building is a building, which is the residence of the Prince's subordinates and guards. The first and second buildings in the west courtyard have a large number of murals, painted beams, and wood, stone, and brick carvings. The front The so-called "Watch Tower Barracks Picture" is in the middle hall of the second entrance. In addition, there are also murals such as "Fishing Pictures of the Four Seasons" and "Lumberjack Picking Thorns Pictures" in spring, summer, autumn and winter, which show the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom system, wars and other murals. Folk traditional fishing, woodcutting, farming, reading, etc.”

"There is a long corridor between the first and second entrances, forming an I-shape. This is the same as the main hall in the east courtyard and the second hall are formed into an I-shape by the corridors. Buildings with this kind of terrain are easier to be surrounded, so you must be careful when moving forward."

"The open space to the southwest of the foyer of the West Courtyard was the military training ground back then. If our guess is true, then the Taiping Army that came out of the picture is likely to be hoarded there."

Cao Cao told all the homework he had done for the live broadcast in detail.

Such a specific description gave Li Mu and Reina, two people who had never been here before, a clearer understanding of the structure of the entire Shiwang Mansion.

After speaking, Cao Cao solemnly clasped his fists, turned and left.

Li Mu looked at Leina: "Sister Na, shall we continue?"

"it is good."

So the two got up again and walked towards the back of the hall.

However, in the hallway that followed, not even a single enemy was seen.

And in the second hall, only a dozen or so resurrected birds and beasts were encountered.

After destroying them, these birds and beasts once again provided Li Mu with 20 modification points.

But none of the soldiers of the Taiping Army found it, which is obviously very wrong.

Leina put forward her guess: the small Taiping army of dozens of people they encountered in the hall earlier might just be a wave of tentative attacks released by Li Shixian.

After discovering that such a small-scale ambush was useless to them, he gave up.

There is a high probability that the opponent has assembled soldiers on the training ground southwest of the entrance hall of the west courtyard!
Li Mu also had this kind of speculation.

So next, the two of them no longer slowly cleaned up the things they encountered one by one, but went around as they could.

Sure enough, there was still nothing in the Hanhanxuan.

The two of them rushed toward the west courtyard quickly.

Unexpectedly, before entering the west courtyard, they were ambushed!

Bang bang bang!
A series of gunshots rang out.

Fortunately, Lena reacted quickly, she slid forward and blocked it with her shield.

Li Mu looked intently, but found that there were rows of soldiers of the Taiping Army standing densely on the ground, roof and other places in front of him!

Different from the few before, there were thousands of Taiping soldiers who appeared here!

"This is really..." Li Mu had never seen such a battle before and took a deep breath.

To actually have so many firearms installed, they are worthy of being a relative of the Prince of Li Shixian!
You know, when the Taiping Army first broke out, most of the soldiers' weapons were knives and spears.Generally, generals also wear swords, and some soldiers also use sticks and farm tools as weapons. Like the Qing army, both sides are still in the cold weapon age.

In addition to bows and arrows, long-range weapons are shotguns, and they are also equipped with a small number of rifles.

(The carrying gun is a heavy, large-caliber matchlock gun with a barrel of more than 3 meters long, and it is carried by 2 to 5 people for marching. When firing, it usually needs to be fixed on a bracket, or put on the shoulders of the person in front, and the back Some people shoot 4 ounces to 2 pounds of projectiles through the ignition wire. Although the range is nearly a thousand meters, it is said that the shooter is often knocked to the ground by the recoil, so they often cut corners when charging the powder to reduce pain. Of course, the range And the power will also be greatly affected. And the gun has no rifling, the accuracy is very low, and its deterrence on the battlefield is greater than its destructive power.)
In short, if this is the case, with Li Mu and Leina's current strength, it doesn't matter how many people there are.

At most, it will consume physical strength and hands and feet. After all, it is difficult to cause real damage to them with the kinetic energy of bows and arrows.

But thermal weapons are different.

Although the Taiping Army used backward rifles and smoothbore rifles, the kinetic energy of gunpowder weapons would still have a scratching effect on them.

So, where did Li Shixian come from for such a large number of firearms?
Because the Taiping Army believed in Christianity, they won the sympathy of some missionaries in China in the early days. From 1853 to 1860, through the arms trade between these missionaries and businessmen from various countries, they obtained many advanced Western-style guns.

The import of a large amount of foreign arms greatly improved the military equipment of the Taiping Army and greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army. All major troops were equipped with a considerable number of foreign guns and cannons.

Later, the Taiping Army also attracted a group of foreign military, engineering and technical personnel to serve in the Taiping Army with generous treatment.

In addition to teaching the Taiping Army how to use foreign guns and cannons, these foreign "foreign brothers" also taught the Taiping Army a mixture of Chinese and Western formations to adapt to the combat requirements of the new guns and artillery.

They also set up a "foreign gun museum" and a "foreign gun officer" to be responsible for the repair and maintenance of guns and the supply of ammunition. They also organized personnel to try to imitate foreign guns and improve old artillery.

Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
The Taiping soldiers used this stepped shooting method at this time - gun platoon formation!

They stood in 3 rows in total.

The first row fired, the second row prepared, and the third row loaded.

Then one row becomes three rows, two rows become one row, and so on.

(End of this chapter)