Shen Zhiyuan's heart turned sharply, facing Hong Chengchou's gloomy gaze, Shen Zhiyuan knew that if he temporarily changed his statement at this time, that is, there were no three hundred taels of silver here, he secretly gritted his teeth, it was better to make a mistake.

"Lord Huihong, Shen thinks that it should be!"

"Tell me your reasons."

"The morale of the Ming army is indeed high now, especially Wu Zheng's Northern Expeditionary Army. But this was also the weakest time of the Yixing Dynasty. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"After repeated battles, whether it was the Yixing Dynasty or Wu Zheng's Northern Expeditionary Army, they were exhausted and suffered heavy casualties. If you don't go on the offensive at this time, it will give them a chance to breathe. If I wait for them to breathe, I'm afraid they will ...... Not even a 30% chance of winning. ”

At this time, everyone glared at Shen Zhiyuan angrily.

Hong Chengchou sneered: "Are you saying that in time, the Ming army may defeat our army, and the Yixing Dynasty may defeat our dynasty?" ”

Shen Zhiyuan replied solemnly: "Yes." ”

"Fart!"

"The kid doesn't know how thick the sky is!"

"Your Majesty, please lead the army south, and if you don't destroy the righteous dynasty, the minister will be guilty of death!"

"The Southern Barbarians are shameless!"

"He is a spy of the Yixing Dynasty, the emperor, he must kill both of them."

…… If the mouth can kill, it is estimated that Shen Zhiyuan and Qian Qiaogong have been cut by a thousand knives at this time.

But Shen Zhiyuan and Qian Qiaogong are still standing there.

Because Fu Lin spoke, he said: "Why are you so sure that in time, the Yixing Dynasty will defeat the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Shen Zhiyuan smiled and said: "Go back to the emperor, because the Ming army has muskets." ”

As soon as these words fell, they attracted a burst of laughter.

Yue Le laughed loudly: "Don't the Southern Barbarians know that I ride towards the iron?" Don't you know me towards the red-coated cannon? Just a few firearms, dare to say that they can defeat my Qing Dynasty? ”

Facing the noisy insults and ridicule, Shen Zhiyuan bowed to Fu Lin and said, "The emperor allows the ministers to finish speaking." ”

"Speak."

"Wu Zheng has set up a musket battalion, the battle of Danyang, Wu Zheng annihilated a thousand Qing cavalry with musketeers, and the emperor and you already know about it. Let's not talk about whether this musket can really defeat the cavalry, but this example is indeed a fact. Today's muskets are no longer the firearms of the Chongzhen Dynasty or the previous dynasties, but the flintlock pistols purchased by Wu Zheng from the West, unlike the arquebus, the flintlock pistol does not need to be ignited to fire, the loading speed is faster, the firing range is longer, and the power is ...... greater. ”

"Full of talk, when I haven't seen a musket?" This is obviously what Han Chen said, and his status is not low.

"No matter how fast I reload, I can't charge the cavalry." This is obviously what Manchen said, and it is likely that he is a military general.

After waiting for a while, seeing that Fulin did not react, Hong Chengchou asked: "There is no basis for what you say, seeing is believing." What credentials do you have? ”

Shen Zhiyuan still smiled and said: "I went north this time, and I brought thirty musketeers with me. If the emperor and the princes don't believe it, you might as well practice it on the spot to know the truth and falsehood. ”

"Ridiculous, forbidden in the palace, how can blood be splashed?"

"Drill is drill, are you still afraid that he won't succeed?!"

Shen Zhiyuan looked at Hong Chengchou with a smile and let the spittle of the Manchu and Han officials spray on him.

Hong Chengchou was hesitating, no, he was waiting for the emperor to speak.

No, it would be more accurate to say that it was waiting for the meaning of the Queen Mother Bu Mu Butai.

Bumu Butai has always been rigorous, although he participated in politics in Wuying Palace, he abided by the ancestral teachings and never went out to Taihe Palace.

Today is an exception, one is that the emperor is still young, and the regent Dolgon led a large army to the south, and there is no backbone in the court, and the other is the strategy related to whether the Qing Dynasty will fight a decisive battle with the Yixing Dynasty.

Therefore, Bumu Butai hid behind the emperor today, and gave instructions to the emperor from time to time, but even so, she did not speak herself, but said it through the emperor's mouth.

Fu Lin said: "It's good to see the drill, know yourself and know the other, the front of the hall is empty, just practice there." ”

Hong Chengchou was a little surprised, and hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, the two armies are fighting, if you don't pay attention to it, it will be five steps of blood, and you can't stick to the blood in front of the Taihe Palace." ”

At this time, Shen Zhiyuan said: "Lord Hong is too worried, the drill I am talking about is the drill of our department, and there is no need for the two armies to fight." Just take the soldier's armor and practice the reload speed, range, and degree of damage to the armor to verify that what I said is not a lie. ”

Fu Lin said: "Then follow the strategy of Shen Qing's family." ”

……。

In front of the Taihe Palace, the thirty musketeers who came by order lined up in three rows, and the spacing between the three rows was staggered to the right, and when seen from the sky, it looked like a parallelogram.

The chamberlain carried heavy armor and stood in the distance on a wooden frame.

On the steps of the palace, the Manchu and Han ministers stood neatly, and many Manchu generals had disdain on their faces.

This is normal, these Qing generals, who have been fighting with the Ming army for many years, have mostly seen the muskets of the Ming army.

Moreover, there were also many muskets in the Qing army.

The range is short and uneven, and it is not very lethal to infantry when it is not in a piece, let alone facing cavalry.

The only good thing is the loud noise that comes when shooting, which can scare the warhorse.

Of course, if there are fences, walls and other barriers to assist, there is still a lot of lethality.

Shen Zhiyuan was arranged to be near Fu Lin because he needed to explain to Fu Lin.

"Your Majesty, the previous arquebus needs to be ignited with a twist after loading, not to mention the impact on speed, and it will not be able to be used in combat due to rainy weather."

"The arquebus has a range of only fifty to eighty paces, but the flintlock pistol can reach a hundred and fifty paces away."

These words made the officials on Shen Zhiyuan's side shocked, especially the Qing general, although he was humiliating Shen Zhiyuan with his mouth, but at this time he had already put it into practice, and the charge of bullying the king was not small, so they naturally believed it a little.

But one hundred and fifty steps (one step refers to the total distance of each step of the left and right feet, about 1.2 to 1.4 meters, the length of the steps varies from dynasty to dynasty), which really made them a little uneasy.

At this time, the chamberlain in charge of the arrangement came to report that everything was settled.

Fu Shi nodded and said, "Then let's start." ”

The chamberlain breaks a pillar of incense (about 30 minutes) in half three times (about three and a half minutes), and then inserts it into the incense cloud stove to light the timer.

Shen Zhiyuan rushed down the stairs and Qian Qiaogong nodded.

Qian Qiaogong took out a bamboo whistle and gave orders with a whistle.

During the training at the Jiangnan Military Academy, under the influence of the training of foreign soldiers, each battalion had a drummer to give orders, and one team gave orders with bamboo whistles.

When the whistle blew, the musketeers skillfully fired.

With the sound of "popping", puffs of green smoke rose up.

The first row fires and then retreats to the last to start reloading, the second and third rows go forward, the second row fires, then retreats to the first row and reloads, and the third row starts firing.

The three rows take turns shooting, and the action is like flowing water and hearty.

If you feel the pulse, you will find that there are hardly more than four heartbeats (about three seconds, a skilled flintlock gunner can fire 4-5 times a minute, and in the form of three blows, the interval will be reduced by more than 60%), and a round of gunfire will be heard.