Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 381 Important Findings
After distributing the spoils, Yang Menglong, Lei Shisheng, Wu Sheng and others went to the armory again and began to pick out their spoils.

All kinds of fine weapons in the armory are piled up like a mountain, the barrels of muskets are polished, and the barrels of artillery are as smooth as mirrors. A fly will throw a somersault when it falls.Sun Yuanhua made great efforts in training the new army. After he took office as the governor of Denglai, he selected elites from the Liao army and trained a battalion of elite soldiers. He also hired a large number of Western technicians and introduced Western technology to manufacture a large number of guns.The elite battalion he trained consisted of 2000 soldiers and 2000 auxiliary soldiers. The soldiers were equipped with a well-made musket, an imitation Japanese samurai sword, and more than [-] large and small artillery pieces. He can shoot at each other and fight hand-to-hand.The auxiliary soldiers are also strictly trained and can be used as combat soldiers at any time.In addition, he also equipped this elite battalion with a large number of chariots, which can be used to transport supplies at ordinary times. When facing the enemy, he can use the chariots to quickly build fortifications and shoot a large number of enemy troops with muskets and artillery. When entering the car camp, they abandon their guns and draw their knives to fight.Under the training of Western officers, these soldiers have also mastered relatively advanced aiming and shooting techniques. If this army is successful, its combat effectiveness will definitely not be weak.It's a pity that Sun Yuanhua is just a technocrat who knows nothing about the military. He only knows how to equip the troops with excellent equipment, but he doesn't know that the discipline of an army is as important as weapons and equipment, and even more important than equipment. I have given the Liao soldiers such excellent equipment. They will be grateful to the court and obey their orders. As a result, the new army compiled and trained is strong, but the military discipline is very poor. Finally, in Wuqiao, this great military reform Got ruined by a chicken...

Yang Menglong patted the barrel of a Hongyi cannon, and said, "Good stuff! I'm going to get two to go back and study!"

Wu Sheng and Lei Shisheng raised their feet in agreement... You bought two doors and went back, there are still more than ten doors here, move it, you can move whichever you like!
In another warehouse, more than a dozen machine tools lay there quietly, with a thin layer of dust covering the original sharp blades.After all, the rebels are just a group of locusts. They don't understand construction at all. If you expect them to realize the importance of technology and the role of machine tools, it is better to expect sows to climb trees.After they captured Dengzhou City, they massacred the city and looted wantonly. They dismissed the machine tools, which were [-] times more precious than gold, silver and jewelry, and threw them here to eat dust.But this is already the most wonderful ending, better than smashing them to make iron, right?

Needless to say, these dozen machine tools are all owned by Yang Menglong.

Xue Siming ran over excitedly and shouted: "Sir, we found some weird fire guns!"

Yang Menglong asked: "What firecracker? Let's have a look."

Xue Siming took out a one-meter-long musket and handed it to him.

Yang Menglong took it and looked at it repeatedly. Apart from the fact that the gun body and butt were decorated with brass and ivory pieces, there was nothing special about it!Maybe it was the shotgun of some shabby Portuguese nobleman, well, maybe!

Xue Siming said: "Line! There are lines in the barrel of the gun!"

Yang Menglong's expression changed: "Rifling!?" He turned the muzzle of the gun and looked at it. Sure enough, he could vaguely see some rifling. He simply put his fingers in and clearly touched the lines carved by the metal. Spiral.He asked for another one, good fellow, it also had rifling in it!His heart was beating hard, rifling, the emergence of this thing is absolutely epoch-making. With it, the range and accuracy of bullets will be doubled. The time for firearms to rule the earth has truly arrived!Of course, this is only a front-loading rifled gun. The loading speed is very slow, slower than a smoothbore gun. It lacks practical significance. In addition, rifling processing is extremely difficult. Therefore, it had to wait until 200 years before it was widely used and completely replaced the smoothbore gun. However, ...That's because everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones and doesn't know how to improve, but he knows!If a rifled gun is front-loaded, its rate of fire will definitely be much slower than that of a smoothbore gun, but if it is rear-loaded... the firepower of a rifled rifle can equal that of three smoothbore guns!Humph, if I could get a breech-loading rifled gun, all the slaves, the bandits, the British, barbarians, French, barbarians and barbarians from the west would all go to hell!If I don’t beat the crap out of you, you’ll be clean!

He waved his hand: "I want these two guns!"

Lei Shisheng wanted to study one of them for a long time, and muttered: "Who is so bored to scratch and scratch in the barrel? Can it still be loaded?" Throwing it back to Yang Menglong showed a lack of interest.He didn't realize what the thin rifling would mean.This is also normal, every new technology takes a long time to be accepted by the public, not everyone can open cheats like Yang Menglong.

Yang Menglong excitedly handed the two front-loading rifles to Xue Siming, and said, "Keep them safe and send them back to Nanyang intact. If there is one missing part, I will tell you forever! By the way, do you still have this kind of rifle?" Guns? If you have any, quickly collect them, and don’t leave any behind!”

Xue Siming said: "No more, just these two!"

Yang Menglong said: "Look again, there might be some more! By the way, where are those foreign devils?"

Xue Siming curled his lips: "They were imprisoned in the barracks and raised fat for nothing. It seems that they have had a good time during this time!"

Yang Menglong said: "As long as it's okay. Let them lock it up there first, let's go, let's go to the water village to have a look."

Xue Siming handed these two muskets, which had somehow got Yang Menglong's favor, to the soldiers and asked him to take them down and keep them carefully while he accompanied Yang Menglong to the Danya Cliff to overlook the Dengzhou Water Village.

In the misty rain, the towering city wall undulates on the ground like a crouching dragon, extending towards the sea, not only enclosing Dengzhou and Danya Mountain, but also enclosing the entire port.Under the protection of the city wall, more than 100 ships quietly stayed in the calm harbor, waiting for their own fate.Most of these ships are warships, quite tall, and the largest one exceeds [-] tons by visual inspection. In this era, such a huge ship is absolutely unparalleled in the world, and only the Ming Dynasty has such national power to build such a huge ship. .These giant ships prove that Ming is still the most powerful country on this planet, even though it has been in decline.It is a pity that these giant ships did not play their due role. They neither opened up the territory of the Ming Dynasty, nor protected the sea routes to ensure the safety of maritime trade. For the first time, it possessed maritime military strength.

Yang Menglong looked at the mast and hull of the warship that looked extraordinarily tall in the mist and rain, and was a little lost in thought. After a while, he turned his head and asked Xue Siming: "Is it spectacular?"

Xue Siming said honestly: "Spectacular! I have never seen such a big warship in my life!"

Yang Menglong said: "Of course you have never seen it... Looking at the world, only the Ming Dynasty has the ability to build such giant ships. Did you know that 200 years ago, the warships Zheng He took when he went to the Western Ocean were bigger than these? Maybe It was ten times larger than the largest ship, so big that sailors could pile dirt on the deck to create a patch of land for growing vegetables."

Xue Siming was speechless: "How big is that, my God!"

Yang Menglong shrugged and said: "I can't imagine it, but it must be very spectacular. Unfortunately, since the Daming Forbidden Sea, these giant ships have been burned to the ground, and they will never be seen again."

Xue Siming was deeply sorry. He had a good personal relationship with several priests. From the priests, he knew that the world is very big. There are many countries overseas, some of which are rich in gold, silver, spices, and some have a pleasant climate. The land is fertile and fertile, and Westerners often conquer a big country with only a few hundred people!If there are enough warships, Ming can also conquer several of these countries, and then move millions of people there!It's a pity that Daming has already burned up a large number of warships, and all this has become a fantasy!

Yang Menglong seemed to see his thoughts, smiled and said: "Those warships will reappear, that powerful fleet will come back!"

In Dengzhou City, the armies from all walks of life are busy.The Zhe Army and the Tianxiong Army raced against time to move the belongings. This time they had made a fortune, so they had to rush out of the city to hide the belongings before Gao Qiqian and those guys could react.The Heluo New Army justifiably laughed at them for their stupidity, what to hide, just put them on a ship and transport them away?Can they still go to sea to check?With a word that awakened the dreamer, Wu Sheng and Lei Shisheng hurriedly picked a boat each, and stuffed the gold, silver and jewels into the boat. The former directly transported them back to Zhejiang, and the latter went upstream through the Yangtze River estuary. After passing through Jiujiang and Wuhan, it arrived at Nanyang, where it was loaded and transported back to Daming Road. With the friendship between Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng, there is no need to worry about him embezzling the money. This route is far away, but it couldn’t be safer.

The Heluo new army also began to screen the prisoners.In the battle outside Dengzhou City, the Ming army captured more than 1 rebels. After conquering Dengzhou, there were more than 2 rebels and their family members in Dengzhou, which is a huge number.Originally, according to Yang Menglong's personality, anyone with the blood of ordinary people on their hands would have to be killed, but Qi Hu found it impossible after a tense interrogation. If this standard is followed, there may not be many prisoners of more than 3 Those who can keep their heads, the rebels maintain their morale by burning, killing, looting, and have been with the rebels for several months. How many of them have no blood debts in their hands?In desperation, Qi Hu ordered to pick out the most brutal people who slaughtered the people, and even coerced the new soldiers to slaughter the people. As a result, more than [-] people were selected in one breath, basically one out of ten.To this kind of scum, Qi Hu was not polite at all, and executed them all!

Wu Sheng was stunned: "These are the backbone of the rebel army! If you show righteousness to them and influence them, they can become the elite of our army!"

Qi Hu said coldly: "The only ones who can guard the territory of Ming Dynasty are loyal and brave soldiers and staunch people. Recruiting such scum who kill innocent people will only shame our army! Cut it off!"

They were really pulled out, divided into ten batches and beheaded in front of the prisoners of war.On the execution ground, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and blood flowed like rivers. More than 2 prisoners of war were all shuddering, their faces were ashen, and some of them even went crazy from fright.Presumably it was the first time they knew that massacring others and being massacred themselves were completely different things, right?For the rest of their lives, this bloody scene will become their lingering nightmare. Most of them will be trembling for the rest of their lives, obeying the law and not daring to deviate from it.Qi Hu's killing of chickens and monkeys was successful, not only for those rebels, but also for the Heluo new army.He killed more than 2000 captives who were worthy of soldiers or even family members in one breath, which is extremely rare in the history of the Ming army. He just wanted to tell the new army of Heluo with bloody facts that no matter how brave you are, as long as your If your hands are stained with the blood of ordinary people, you will die!

The sailors and artillerymen of the rebel army were the happiest. The former had never participated in the siege, while the latter was impossible to participate in the massacre because of the expensive shells.None of them lost their heads, but were picked by the Heluo New Army and sent back to Nanyang.Sooner or later, the Heluo new army will form artillery and naval forces. If there are ready-made soldiers, you don't need them. Are you an idiot?

After some cleaning and screening, there are still more than 2 rebel prisoners, which is really a headache. There are more than [-] mouths, and they have to eat every day, and Denglai has been completely destroyed. Where can I find so much food to feed them?Dismissing them is also a lot of problems. They have no place to stand in Shandong, let alone a place to make a living. If they are forced to be dismissed, they will definitely take over the mountain and become kings, and become rogues rushing to the state, and there will be endless troubles.Wu Sheng proposed to send them back to Dongjiang Town, but he knew it would not work as soon as he said the words. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town had no food to eat, no clothes to cover their bodies, and were starving to eat people. Let them accept so many rebels. Force the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town to die!
Killing and not being able to kill, and not being able to let go, both Wu Sheng and Lei Shisheng were very annoyed, but Yang Menglong obviously had a plan in mind.In fact, long before taking Dengzhou, he had already figured out how to deal with the funeral.At this time, in Nanyang, after receiving a letter from Feige and learning the details of the recovery of Dengzhou, Wu Yong, a dead eunuch, carried the good news he had written a long time ago, boarded a carriage, and flew towards the capital. .The dead eunuch was full of pride. It was so easy to be a supervisor in Nanyang. He didn't have to work hard to deal with those generals, and he didn't have to go to the battlefield to take risks. He stayed comfortably in Nanyang City and took care of his business. Then he won the battle and got his own credit. Which supervising army can be so relaxed like him?This time the new army of Heluo made such a great contribution, surely the emperor will be delighted, right?Hehe, in this way, it's not a matter of course for me to become an official and enter the rank!

The complacent dead eunuch brought not only the good news that the army had regained Dengzhou, but also a package of plans for the reconstruction of Dengzhou after the war...

(End of this chapter)