nanming man

Chapter 377
Compared with other defensive equipment, throwing a thunderbolt in the past can not only destroy the siege equipment, but also cause huge damage to the Qing army.

Gao Yihuan felt that giving this thing was much better than selling gunpowder directly.

Li Zicheng took gunpowder, that is, fired two cannonballs to burn down the siege equipment, and the effect was naturally not as good as the thunder.

Gao Yihuan took Zhou Ronghua with him, and after watching the two kinds of Thunderbolts, Zhou Ronghua was quite excited, and hurried to Guanzhong without returning to Jingzhou.

Under Gao Yihuan's bragging, these two thunderbolts became his main weapon in defeating the Qing army.

Zhou Ronghua felt that he had mastered the secret of Wei Wujun's repeated victory over the Tartars, so he returned to Guanzhong excitedly.

Although this Thunderbolt was too expensive, Zhou Ronghua decided to persuade Li Zicheng to purchase it in bulk.

After seeing off Zhou Ronghua, Gao Yihuan returned to the mansion and invited Gao Yicheng to meet him.

"The commander-in-chief is looking for me?" Gao Yicheng entered the study and saw Gao Yihuan sitting at the desk, writing a letter.

Gao Yihuan saw him coming in, motioned him to sit first, and waited until he finished writing the letter, dried it and put it in the envelope, then raised his head and said: "Yicheng, give this letter to Ma Hongshan, and tell him that the commander is willing to pay more than the market price." Twice as much, buy sulfur and fire nitrate. Tell him to find a sea merchant in eastern Zhejiang and smuggle a batch of sulfur from Japan."

The sulfur mines in Luanchuan County were harassed by the Qing army, and their output dropped sharply. If it weren't for the fact that it was located in a mountainous area, the Qing army would have sent troops to wipe it out.

For Gao Yihuan, gunpowder is also in short supply. If he wants to sell it to Li Zicheng, he must open up a new source of raw materials.

Maritime merchants in the southeast love money, and smuggling is illegal, so naturally they don't care who buys it.

Gao Yihuan took the letter and nodded, "Let someone do it for the humble job!"

"There is one more thing I want to tell you!" Gao Yihuan stopped him, and then ordered: "I got some road leads through the relationship of Governor He. You go to Guangdong in person and go to Macau to hire some for this commander." The Portuguese come here."

"Portuguese?" Gao Yicheng was confused.

Gao Yihuan said, "It's the Fulang machine man. These Xiyi cannons have two brushes. The workshop needs their skills."

Frangji Gao Yicheng knew about it, but he was still a little worried, "Commander, Guangdong is so far away from us, will Franji come here?"

Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice: "No matter what they ask, you agree, and they promise to come."

"If these foreigners ask for a price, do you have to agree?" Gao Yicheng frowned.

Gao Yihuan said: "Promise, get Guisun here first, and we'll talk about the rest later."

The technical content of Zhentianlei is not high. Runing's workshop is only slightly improved, using thin iron sheets to wrap more gunpowder, adding more fragments to increase its power, and others can imitate it.

Gao Yihuan waited for Gao Yicheng to leave, so he sent someone to find Liang Yizhang, ordered him to return to Runing, and urged the workshop to step up the production of Zhentianlei. Towards the flowering bomb.

In the war, various technologies will inevitably develop rapidly. Even the Manchu Qing's cannon-casting technology can surpass that of the Ming Dynasty, so we can know the stimulation of war on technology.

Since this Thunderbolt was sold to Li Zicheng, someone will imitate it. Gao Yihuan can't let others use this thing to beat him again, so he must create a new weapon before others catch up to restrain the upcoming threat. .

After giving these instructions, Gao Yihuan's energy returned to the training of new recruits.

In mid-August, the recruits have been training for more than two months, and in half a month, they will have a certain combat power.

Today, Gao Yihuan, Jin Shenghuan and other generals were standing on a hill at the new army camp outside Jingzhou city.

Zhao Daxian came up from the bottom of the slope holding his helmet and pressing the knife, and saluted with a smile: "Commander, today's recruits are training for siege warfare!"

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly. Looking down from the hill, he saw that there was a section of earth wall for training not far from the school field, but it was not high or very long, but there was a moat in front of the wall, which was a small part of the city. Version.

Jin Shenghuan on the side explained: "Commander, after the new soldiers are trained, there are only two main tasks. One is to guard the place, and the other is to assist the main force in attacking the city. These two tasks are related to siege and defense. No, so in the training of recruits, the main thing is to practice siege and defense."

Gao Yihuan heard Jin Shenghuan say that new recruits are not good at fighting in the field, so they should simply practice less field fighting, send them to garrison in local areas, liberate the old battalion soldiers from local defense, and then make a fist, whoever will hit whom.

Gao Yihuan agreed with this plan, and he nodded slightly, "It's okay to train like this. Just after the training, you can go directly to Yiling and take down this important way out of Sichuan."

Yiling was in the hands of the Western Army, which made Gao Yihuan feel uneasy all the time, and he had to take it down as soon as possible.

At this time, on the school field, the two offensive and defensive troops were ready, five hundred soldiers stood on the wall to defend, and one thousand soldiers attacked from below.

Since the implementation of the regulation of round-to-round combat competitions, there has been competition everywhere in Wei Wu's army, even the training of new soldiers is no exception.

Right now, these two teams, the winners in offense and defense, are in the final round of duel.

Although it was a rehearsal, the soldiers held wooden guns and shields, but they still stood upright one by one, with solemn expressions and murderous looks.

Gao Yihuan could tell that after more than two months of training, these refugees did look a bit like an army.

At this time, the sound of "dong dong dong" drums sounded, and the soldiers on the attacking side, the soldiers in the front row raised their shields to their chests, and the soldiers in the back row raised their shields above their heads, and then walked in neat steps, forming an array towards the enemy. The walls advance.

The archers on the top of the city raised their bows and arrows one after another, shooting a wave of arrows down the city.

These arrows have no arrowheads, and are wrapped in cotton cloth and stained with white ash. The soldiers must retreat after being shot, otherwise they will be found by the town governor, and they will be eaten with military sticks, and the entire team in the company will be eliminated directly. They all abide by the rules of the drill very much.

A real war is naturally more complicated than this kind of drill, and there are many more equipment, but after such repeated drills, when the soldiers attack the city again, it is always much better than if they were not prepared.

This is Gao Yihuan, looking at both the offensive and the defensive sides, they are quite organized, and he is quite satisfied in his heart, so he smiled and said to Jin Shenghuan who was beside him: "After half a month of training for the new soldiers, the war will come to an end. Earlier, Hu Chen was asked to write and train the five armies. The commander-in-chief has already read the plan, and plans to select the chief general of the five armies in the near future to complete the reorganization of the army."

Said Gao Yihuan stared at Jin Shenghuan, "Hu Chen worked hard on this matter, and the training of the new recruits is also good. By then, he will definitely be one of the chief generals of the five armies."

"Humble job, thank you for your cultivation!" Jin Shenghuan clasped his fists in joy.

Zhao Daxian and the others on the side pricked up their ears and listened, their eyes flashed for a moment. He looked at Gao Yihuan's side face expectantly, as if to say, what about me?And me?Tell me quickly!
Gao Yihuan turned around and saw his expectant face, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback, but then turned his eyes to the distance, and suddenly smiled: "Look, we're attacking!"

(End of this chapter)