As soon as he learned that the puppet Tang thief army had obtained a large number of military strategic materials from somewhere, and that there were still a large amount of iron and copper that could be used to make swords and even muskets and cannons, Su Jiakang fell into deep thought.

Political consciousness told him that he must not allow the puppet Tang thief army to obtain these materials and turn them into various weapons.

Now the puppet Tang thief army has used various means to create many muskets without getting a large number of strategic weapons, and he also knows that during the battle at the Lanjiang crossing, these puppet Tang thief armies also used heavy artillery and flowering shells.

If the puppet Tang thief army continues to develop like this, I am afraid that in the future, what the government will need to face is really the thousand muskets, ten respect cannons, and thousands of shells that the Ming army of Fucheng deliberately boasted about.

That's right, after the defeat in the first battle of the Lanjiang Ferry, the defeated Ming army of Fucheng greatly exaggerated the strength of the puppet Tang thief army.

According to the news from the Ming army in Fucheng after the defeat, it was said that the puppet Tang thief army already had a thousand guns and more than ten heavy guns, and also had an extremely terrifying flowering bullet, which could be fired at once!

Hearing the news, Su Jiakang couldn't help but want to sneer.

He has been dealing with the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army for more than a year, and he doesn't know the details of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, at best, it is only two hundred firearms, as for the artillery, he has not seen it, but according to the report of the spies, the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army does have artillery, but the number is only that.

However, he couldn't judge the authenticity of the flowering bomb for a while, because he hadn't seen these flowering bullets of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and he didn't even know what the flowering bullet was, so naturally he couldn't judge the authenticity.

But don't talk about him, even if it was the Fucheng Ming Army who experienced the battle one day, he didn't understand what the flowering bullet of the Datang New Army was.

But they all remembered the power of this flowering bullet, and in an instant, hundreds of bullets were fired in unison, and almost instantly, the 3,000 Ming army that successfully landed on the shore and charged the puppet Tang thief army completely collapsed, so those soldiers of the Ming army in Fucheng privately gave the flowering bullet thrown by the soldiers of the puppet Tang thief army a nickname: "palm thunder"

It is called so because the dense explosion of the grenade, just like the legendary palm thunder, is also issued from the palm of the hand, and the explosion is as powerful as the heavenly thunder.

Regarding the defeat in the battle of the Lanjiang Ferry, the general of the Ming army said to Song Zhiwen: "In the battle of Lanjiang, it was not the soldiers who were not brave, but the pseudo-Tang thief army was scheming and sharp, and our swords, bows and arrows, and all kinds of handcuffs and bowls were invincible. So that the officers and men of the whole army have the heart to repay the king and make meritorious contributions, but they have no weapons to control the enemy. ”

These Ming generals did not care whether they would fight or not, but the means of shirking responsibility were not weak, and if they wanted to reduce or even get rid of the negative impact of the defeat in the Battle of Lanjiang on themselves, the best way for them was not to say how weak they were, but how strong the enemy was.

They directly doubled the strength of the puppet Tang thief army and the technical weapons they possessed, that is, muskets, artillery and even grenades, and said that the new army of the Tang Dynasty, which only had one artillery, had already become a thousand-pound cannon with more than ten guns in the mouth of the generals of the Ming army.

Of course, this is just a superficial shirk, if they want the superiors to ignore or even forgive their defeat, they have to come up with a little bit of dry goods, so that they are still very good on the surface, and they can still fight another battle to make meritorious contributions.

So they also said to Song Zhiwen: "If you want to make the benefits of the puppet Tang thief army, there is no other, only my officers and soldiers have more and better guns, regardless of whether it is a single soldier's handcuff, or a bowl cannon to support the operation, etc., and they also directly stated that if there is a Franc machine gun used by the border army and the coastal army, it will definitely be able to suppress the advantage of the puppet Tang thief army, and severely damage the puppet Tang thief army through shelling!" ”

I have to say that although this is just their self-preservation strategy, I have to say that the generals of the Ming army who put forward this statement still have some insight.

What should I do if I can't beat it? Then it is equipped with more and better firearms than the pseudo-Tang thief army.

They are the Ming Dynasty, just muskets and artillery are a fart, muskets are half a meeting, but the Ming army has a lot of artillery, not to mention the small cannons of the bowl cannon, the Ming army also has 'heavy artillery' in their hands, that is, the Ming army has been copied and equipped with large-scale Franco machine guns in the last twenty or thirty years.

The Ming army copied and produced the Franc machine guns, which were large and small, ranging from 100 catties to 100 catties or even less than 100 catties, but there were also artillery pieces of this scale with a large size of 300 catties, and even heavy artillery of 500 catties or even 1,000 catties.

However, most of the 500 catties or even 1,000 catties of heavy artillery were arranged on the head of the city to carry out defensive tasks, and most of them were in several important cities in the north and several important cities along the coast.

As for the 300-pound artillery, most of them were also in the naval division.

As for the ordinary army, even if it is the northern border army, most of the Franc machines equipped in their army are small cannons, mainly small cannons of Franc machines of 150 catties and below.

After the defeat, the generals of the Ming army exaggerated the strength of the puppet Tang thief army for various reasons, and put forward a number of restraint methods, which also made Song Zhiwen not hold them accountable for the defeat for a while.

At the same time, Song Zhiwen will not be stupid to report the defeat of the Lanjiang River to the above, but took the Spring and Autumn penmanship, saying that recently hundreds of guards and young and strong people from Xingquan Mansion went to Zhengtai to suppress bandits, but the thief army was cunning, and actually attacked the official army when the official army crossed the river, and the officers and soldiers calmly responded to the battle, and killed hundreds of thieves, but in the chaos of the war, the pseudo-Tang thief army frightened the young and strong people in the army with flowering bombs, so that those young and strong people panicked, so that they disrupted the formation of the officers and soldiers, in order to protect the safety of the young and strong people, In addition, the formation was out of order, and the officers and soldiers took the initiative to cover the retreat of the young and strong people, but in the process of retreating, in order to cover the evacuation of more unarmed people, the officers and soldiers suffered a slight loss.

He didn't say how many people he sent, let alone the loss of more than 2,000 people in this battle!

Because Song Zhiwen used the Spring and Autumn period penmanship to erase all the 1,500 recruits he had recruited and trained, after all, the regular and organized army participating in the Lanjiang Ferry was really only a few hundred guards.

Those conscripts? I'm sorry, but their actual identity is just young and strong!

And since he is a young and strong man, he naturally cannot be counted among the officers and soldiers, and it is also completely acceptable for the man to suffer a slight loss because he was unarmed and attacked by the thief army.

In the end, a fiasco of 3,000 people, Song Zhiwen only presented it as if it was an inconsequential defeat!