Under the narration of Brother Richard, Li Qianshun and others knew that in the battle of Xining, their Xixia defenders in Xining City were attacked by 10,000 cavalry led by Guo Hao, and grabbed the city gate and entered the city, but it is not that their Xixia army did not resist at all, on the contrary, their Xixia army organized street battles at the first time, and even organized a cavalry composed of 10,000 warriors in an attempt to beat Guo Hao and them out of Xining City.

And yet—

Among Guo Hao's surprise attack troops, 3,000 people were equipped with muskets!

These 3,000 people used muskets and thunderbolts as the main means of attack, and simple conscienceless cannons and simple flying thunderbolts as suppression weapons.

This attack of these 3,000 musketeers was almost invincible.

In addition, Guo Hao personally led 7,000 cavalry to attack those places that these 3,000 musketeers could not attack, and provided ammunition support for these 3,000 musketeers.

As a result, Xining City, which had 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and 30,000 fearless soldiers who dared to fight, was forcibly taken away by Guo Hao.

After telling the story of the Battle of Xining, Brother Richard looked at the musket in Li Qianshun's hand, and said: "This musket has a farther range than a bow and crossbow, and its power is greater than that of a bow and crossbow. ”

Li Qianshun was a little unconvinced, and said, "This musket is so powerful? ”

Brother Richard nodded solemnly, and then said: "It may be even more powerful than I said, the Chinese army should have only been equipped with muskets for a short time, and they are still exploring the tactics of muskets, and when the Chinese army has completely mastered the tactics of muskets, I think that no army in this world should be able to defeat the Chinese army." ”

Hearing Brother Richard's words, Li Qianshun's pupils shrank!

After being silent for a while, Li Qianshun's eyes moved, then he looked at Brother Li Cha and asked, "There is only a piece of wood, an iron pipe, and some miscellaneous things on this musket, so the cost shouldn't be high, right?" ”

Brother Richard knew what Li Qianshun wanted to say.

To be honest, Brother Richard didn't want to hit Li Qianshun, but he couldn't hide this matter at all, so Brother Richard could only say directly: "It shouldn't be high, but it's ...... We can't imitate it in Great Xia. ”

Li Qianshun was puzzled: "Why can't it be imitated? ”

Brother Richard said: "I asked our craftsmen in Daxia, and they said that this wooden tray is not difficult to make, it is the seemingly complex lighter device, give them enough time, and they are sure to imitate it, and the biggest problem lies in this barrel." ”

After a pause, Brother Richard continued: "First of all, the materials used to make this barrel, we don't have it in Daxia, the craftsmen said that the fine iron used in this barrel is the only one they have seen in their lives, not only hard, but also resistant to high temperatures, and has a strong resistance, this kind of fine iron must be smelted by a special method, and it is absolutely difficult for us to refine this kind of refined iron without years of exploration." ”

Brother Richard took the musket from Li Qianshun's hand, and then pointed the barrel at himself, and at the same time said: "The material is only one aspect, the craftsmen say that if you can't really practice this fine iron, you can barely use ordinary iron, and the result is nothing more than that the barrel often can't withstand the high temperature of gunpowder and injure yourself." The craftsmen said that the barrel was not cast, nor was it forged by the ironclad method, but drilled out hard, the craftsmen said that this requires extremely high precision, otherwise it is impossible to drill out of this straight deep hole, the craftsmen also said that it is the top craftsman, drilling such a deep hole, may not be able to have a success rate, the most important thing is that it takes too long, to drill out of such a barrel, it may take dozens of days to drill. ”

Speaking of this, Richard took the musket to the oil lamp, and then pointed to the rifling that was not too clear inside, and said to Li Qianshun and the others: "See, there is actually something else in this thin hole, this is a circle of thin wires, the craftsmen have separated a barrel, and then see that these thin lines are engraved on the inner wall of the barrel, they want to break their heads, and they don't know how the craftsmen in Dazhong did this." ”

Brother Richard asked people to bring a few paper bullet shells, and then tore one of them open to Li Qianshun and others, and said at the same time: "This is called a paper bullet shell, it is a paper cartridge, covered with grease on the outside, and there is a certain amount of gunpowder and a projectile inside. This kind of paper bullet shell is also difficult for us to imitate in Daxia, first of all, the gunpowder in it is something that we have not been able to completely overcome over the years, and the oil paper outside, the craftsmen say, it has also been manufactured and processed by a special process, and the projectile is not iron, and the iron cannot be so light. ”

After taking a deep breath, Richard concluded: "In short, this musket cannot be imitated by our Great Xia, at least not in a short period of time. ”

Li Qianshun looked at the musket in Richard's hand, which seemed to be no big deal, and looked incredulous—he really didn't expect that the musket would be so difficult to make.

Li Renzhong asked, "Doesn't this musket have any weaknesses?" ”

Richard said: "Yes, its rate of fire is not as fast as a bow and arrow, and if it shoots once, a skilled archer can even shoot five or six arrows." ”

Hearing Brother Richard's words, everyone, including Li Qianshun, breathed a sigh of relief and said in their hearts: "Then there should still be a fight." ”

And yet—

Brother Richard is not as optimistic as Li Qianshun.

Richard quickly said: "It takes years to train an archer, and the best archers are rarely trained in less than ten years, and this musket, I only took three hours to shoot sheep beyond ten zhang, and I can achieve two or three out of ten." ”

"Phew!"

Li Qianshun and the others all gasped!

They were all wise men who understood what Richard really meant.

If muskets are so easy to master, and with the hundreds of millions of people in Dazhong, then Dazhong has one of the most terrifying abilities - the staying power of war.

Imagine that even if Xia Jun can barely reach a draw with the Chinese army, both sides will always die the same people.

But it takes years for the warriors of Western Xia to replenish one, while the warriors of Dazhong can replenish one in just a few hours.

With a total population of more than 3 million, how could Western Xia be overconsumed?

Therefore, what Li Qianshun thought before was that dragging down Dazhong was completely a joke.

Li Qianshun sat on his dragon chair with a butt!

After a long time, Li Qianshun said: "Let's discuss, how to condemn Dazhong's reckless use of swords......

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