Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"This man is from the south, right? We northerners call this a turtledove gun." A gentleman with a mouse beard spoke up, looking very proud. He looked at Hou Fangyu and continued, "But this gun is a big gun. The general has modified it, the barrel is longer and thicker, and the spring is well-known, so it can hit farther and be more powerful. Look, the dead bodies here are just killed."

Hou Fangyu looked around, and sure enough, he saw dead bodies all over the ground, and there were no less than a hundred of them.

Under the small long fortress, there are already mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

In fact, what he saw was a bit exaggerated. There were about 70 to [-] dead, and dozens of others were injured. not moving.

Anyway, with the level of medical treatment in Caozhou, no one would care about him even if he went back now, it would be better to just lie still. [

Liu Zeqing arrived just now, and urged the frontrunners and several troops to go to grab the bases. As a result, the members of the business group on the opposite side were not afraid because of the increase in the number of people here. At least the forwards got there and began to climb up from low to high.

As soon as the firecrackers get close, it is of course useless. When they saw the strikers approaching the bottom with their swords, Liu Zeqing and other generals in Caozhou thought that the overall situation was settled.

Who would have thought that a tall man would come out, and after a roar, all the gunners would put a long spear point in front of the gunners, and this would mean that dozens of gunners came out, with high versus low, pressing down from above, Immediately, he stabbed the draft forward who was pressing up.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat, the firecrackers on Tuan Ding's side are long and well-placed, almost knocking out those forwards with sword cards at the sight of each other!

"The firecracker grows into a spear, flies up and down, and hits the sword, and the Caozhou soldiers who stab it cry and howl fiercely, haha, it's so satisfying to watch, it really makes people happy from the bottom of their hearts."

"Brother has seen this method of lengthening the barrel of the gun barrel in a book. It seems that someone has wanted to do this since the Wanli period. Why are you only looking at it now?"

"I heard that this was the first initiative of the general. First, the Fushan soldiers did this, and of course the business group followed suit."

"No wonder. The firecrackers of the merchant group were taught by the general. Whether it is the method of building or the method of shooting, they were all instructors sent by Fushan. No wonder they are so sharp."

Amid all the chatter, Hou Fangyu also knew the general story of what happened just now.

The frivolous look in his eyes also gradually disappeared... After seeing it with his own eyes, he realized that it was not a street fight in his imagination, but a real and tragic fight.

And from his position, it is absolutely impossible to imagine why the citizens of Jinan, regardless of officials, gentry, businessmen, common people, and even the little guys sweeping the floor in the guild hall, all support this chamber of commerce with one heart, and this one who is fighting with Caozhou What about the hard-working business groups?

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"Everyone cheer up. Of the 85 of us, 56 went to base, and the rest helped to load. We have been guarding for more than half an hour. If we continue to guard, the face surnamed Liu fell to the ground and was shattered."

"Haha, what kind of imprisoned general officer, thousands of people can do nothing to us dozens of people."

"What kind of bird soldiers? Seeing that we were fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, their legs became weak, and the anger in their eyes disappeared immediately. Just like birds, they also serve as soldiers and eat food?"

Gao Hu yelled first, and then everyone was talking and laughing, feeling very cheered up.

The soldiers of the Daming battalion dare not fight hand-to-hand, or it is an old problem that they dare not fight hand-to-hand except for a few servants and elites. Even a frontier army town like Liaozhen still points to the chariot battalion to block the enemy cavalry, and the Shenji battalion Hiding behind the car array and firing guns, the level of firearms has not reached much. Daming's Shenji Battalion has far surpassed the times, and has become a purely hot weapon army in the era of cold weapons mainly focused on long-range strikes.

How can such an army be an opponent against such a brutal enemy as Donglu?In the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses have been lost outside the pass, and more than a dozen of the general soldiers died. Sometimes it wasn't that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty didn't want to fight, and they were really not opponents. [

Many civil servants at that time noticed this problem. They did not train troops at ordinary times. A battalion of 3000 men would only manage 300 family members, and a general army of [-] people would only raise thousands of family members to go into battle. Only relying on the servants, the battalion soldiers just shoot arrows and blunderbusses or use big blunderbusses, and when the enemy approaches, they turn around and flee, instead of chaotic formation.

Civil servants can see this fault, but unfortunately military commanders can't change it, the long-standing faults are deep, unless they start over and replace the old ones with brand new ones.

But this is easier said than done?

That is to say, Zhang Shouren, a strange traveler, was able to get rid of the existing barriers and create everything new before him...

These regiments, who can have sharp long-range shots, and have the skills and courage to fight in close quarters, immediately overwhelmed those aggressive frontrunners. The frontrunners turned around and fled. No matter how many reinforcements came up behind them, they would surely Also turned around and retreated.

He continued to charge the medicine, and there were also assistants in the barricade to help with the loading, so when the Caozhou soldiers fled, Gao Hu led his men to fight two more rounds, costing more than 30 lives. Plus, there are already more than a hundred people lying on the ground, which is exactly what Hou Fangyu and the others saw...

"What a powerful, what a powerful soldier..."

After Ma Huabao was reprimanded by Liu Zeqing just now, he honestly stood aside and watched the battle. After seeing the deployment of the commander in chief, he was also convinced... No wonder he is just a general and will be under the supervision of others. Seeing that Liu Shuai's dispatch is really very organized , It is a hundred times wiser than being at a loss.

Seeing the team members on the barricades picking up the forwards with bayonets and stabbing them to death, after one round, those screaming forwards with red eyes were defeated, Ma Huabao felt that he was having a nightmare from which he could never wake up, no matter what Why, the situation in front of him is so subversive... He couldn't figure it out, six thousand troops, in this bustling area of ​​Jinan City, crowded the entire street and the dozen or twenty alleys nearby, crowded to the brim. , everywhere is dazzling, and the flags are fluttering, how come this group of mud legs who work hard for businessmen can defeat the upright officers and soldiers of the court again and again, and make great contributions to the court after defeating Chongzhen for six years? Prince Taishi Zuo Dudu Chief Military Officer Liu Shuai adults?

"Cut, capture all those who retreated at the same time!"

When Ma Huabao was puzzled, Liu Zeqing had already decided to give up.Zhang Pu had a way out, the Confucian government, the Yan family, and the salt merchants of the princes' houses had a way out, and Liu Zeqing had no way out.

He came out in full force. Except for hundreds of soldiers guarding the mansion and warehouses in Yanzhou, even the old and the weak were pulled out to be the leaders and auxiliary soldiers. Now he has lost soldiers again and again. Thousand disabled soldiers go back to Yanzhou, among other things, those aristocratic families can swallow him alive!

Liu Zeqing was a slave of the Guo family in Yanzhou back then, and later left his nationality to serve as a soldier in Yunnan and Guizhou, and then returned to Shandong. He can clearly understand the faces of those big families. the point.

So far, the only option is to fight to the death.

The current situation is also very clear. If you want to control Jinan, you must solve the Chamber of Commerce, control the economic lifeline of the city, and clean up people's hearts. The military rations have to go to the yamen to ask for it brazenly every day. In this kind of day, what's the point of being a general like this?

Thinking of this, Liu Zeqing had a grim expression and made up his mind.

Under his order, more than a hundred personal soldiers rushed forward, bypassing the ordinary soldiers who had fled, and ordered them to retreat to the two sides to regroup. Those who retreated were stopped by them. The ones in front didn't talk too much, they either fought or scolded, and captured dozens of unlucky picks.

"It was already agreed when I took the money just now," Liu Zeqing walked forward and looked at the gunners on the barricade not far away. He felt a chill in his heart. He couldn't figure out why dozens of people used a Simple fortifications can stop him thousands of people. This is actually the result of the difference in weapons, training, and army formation. Of course, there is also the difference in morale brought about by the support of the people. Of course, Liu Zeqing didn't know much about it, so he could only force his subordinates at this time, looking at the panting and pale-faced forwards, Liu Zeqing sneered and said: "If you take money, you have to work hard, turn around and run away." Come back to save your life and money, is there such a cheap thing in the world?"

"Marshal, they really hit too hard, we attack from the bottom up, we really can't give enough force..."

One of Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers, General Zonggang, also volunteered to be the striker, panting and explaining, but Liu Zeqing refused to listen, raised his face high, and said coldly: "All of them will be cut off."

He never ordered the second time to kill, otherwise the one who died would be a hesitant soldier. As soon as he gave the order, the two soldiers pressed down the boss with a stunned face. two places.

"Kill another 20 people." Liu Zeqing didn't take it seriously, and continued to order. [

But seeing the light of the saber flickering, amidst the howling and howling, the [-] forward soldiers were held down, and they cut off their heads involuntarily.

Staring at the twenty bloody and staring heads of the boss, Liu Zeqing didn't care at all, looked around, and ordered again: "Beating the drum, if you can't attack this time, if you cut forty, you won't be able to attack next time!" Come down, kill 100 people, pick all the strikers to die, and let me go to the team!"

With such determination made by the coach, the Caozhou soldiers present finally knew that today would be impossible if they did not fight, and they were all red-eyed at the moment. After reorganizing into a team, they rushed towards the barricade again.

Seeing his opponent's fierce and blazing appearance, Gao Hu laughed out loud instead: "Desperate? Desperate also has to be spelled, brothers, let's teach these Caozhou cowards a good lesson today, let them know how to fight desperately." Law!"