"Liu Chang, the origin of the foreign gun team, have you asked clearly?"

As soon as the battle was over, the leaders of the various battalions hadn't even cleaned up the battlefield, and Qu Zhenhan had already asked Xu Fengfei, "From the foreign guns you got?" ”

"Asked!" Xu Fengfei told Qu Zhenhan: "The foreign guns that Tuo Ge Wu bought from the Shanghai Concession are very expensive and the quantity is not much, and Liu Chang wants to equip his team with foreign guns, but he lacks both money and guns. ”

"How much silver?" After seeing the power of foreign guns, Qu Zhenhan no longer looked down on ordinary shotguns: "They all say that foreign guns are powerful, but if you really see them today, you will know what is really powerful." ”

Xu Fengfei also inquired about the price: "The ordinary flintlock pistol is thirty silver yuan a shot, and the better one is forty silver yuan a shot, Liu Chang brought sixty flintlock pistols this time, and one hundred and twenty flintlock pistols came over!"

"Good fellows! That's 180 foreign guns, that's 6,000 silver yuan!" Qu Zhenhan has already calculated the specific number: "No wonder Liu Chang is not at ease when he wants to hold on to the silver!"

"To equip a foreign gun team, it's more than that." Xu Fengfei inquired very clearly: "I also have to buy accessories such as sub-medicine fire caps, these accessories have to be purchased from the Shanghai Concession, the price is extremely expensive, today Liu Chang is a round of guns, it is said that it is nearly a hundred taels of silver." ”

"Even gunpowder has to be made of foreign gunpowder?" Qu Zhenhan praised: "I heard that a barrel of foreign gunpowder costs six silver yuan, and it really costs a lot of silver. What do you think? ”

Jin Peiquan originally wanted to learn from Liu Chang to build an all-foreign gun army, but seeing that Liu Chang spent such a large price, and it was only a mixture of half foreign guns and half cold weapons, he immediately said: "Smashing pots and selling iron also wants to build a foreign gun team, but we can't learn Liu Chang, we can only build an elite army just right." ”

His opinion is very simple, that is, it is the limit for each battalion to have a platoon of foreign guns, and as Qu Zhenhan's personal soldier in peacetime, he can use it to fight the winner when it is critical in wartime: "This matter will be handed over to Pei Quan, how much money to pay, Pei Quan, you have full control ...... it, no matter what, you have to do it."

He hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind: "Why do you want to get sixty flintlock pistols, isn't it just 1,800 silver yuan, plus the sub-medicine fire cap and the like, that is, about 2,000 taels, Lao Tzu can afford it." ”

Ask for a dragon gun whistle, he gave a reward of 10,000 taels of silver, and he confessed: "Let's buy foreign guns, the best channel to go to the inspection point, if you can't go through the inspection channel, we also have our own way." ”

What he meant by this sentence was naturally a channel that could not be controlled by Liu Chang to buy foreign guns, Jin Peiquan understood what he meant: "There are more than Ge Wu who know heroes at sea, but sixty foreign guns are a bit too stingy, in my opinion, we have to get a hundred!"

"A hundred strokes is a hundred strokes, and when the time comes, you can ask the battalion leaders to see how much they are willing to pay, and the whole army will have to make two hundred strokes."

Now in Qu Zhenhan's eyes, he only has the most simple understanding of flintlock pistols, and he is not clear how the emergence of this weapon has changed the pattern of war.

"As long as we have a batch of foreign guns and cannons in our hands, we don't need to invite them to come to the town to attack the city!"

In front of the small hill, the three sentry posts participating in the battle were being inspected by Liu Chang in a company formation.

Although these three-minute platoon guns have picked out countless faults in Liu Chang's eyes, Liu Chang also clearly understands that before the Mini rifle, it was impossible to maintain accuracy at such a range, and although these three sentry posts had one or another shortcoming, as long as they were polished by iron and fire, they were the invincible divisions of this era.

At this time, it was not enough to rely on foreign guns, Li Xiucheng's army in the late Heavenly Kingdom was equipped with a large number of foreign guns, and even a considerable number of Mini rifles, but whether it was facing the better-equipped Huai army or the poorly equipped Hunan army, they were repeatedly defeated.

The reason is that at this time, the Tian** team completely lost its early sharpness, and became an army that completely relied on the firepower of foreign guns, and did not dare to fight a tough battle at all, when Li Xiucheng led the thirteen kings to rescue Tianjing, the superior Tian** team stormed the Hunan army on the periphery of Tianjing, and attacked the Hunan army like a tide for three days, although it caused considerable casualties to the Hunan army, but it still failed, and a big reason for the failure was that in the three days and three nights of attack, there was almost no battle between white soldiers, and it is conceivable that the sky ** To what extent the team's sense of attack has weakened.

Therefore, Liu Chang told his soldiers: "Today, I see that you have opened the door to victory for the entire Red Turban Army with the fiercest platoon guns, and I am very pleased, only our Dragon Lance Sentry, Nanxi Sentry and Panshi Sentry can create such a victory!"

"You are the best, you will be invincible, I know that you can do miracles even without the new rifles in your hands, you can stab all the walls with the bayonets in your hands, smash all the defenses with your fists, even if you can't even wave your fists, your teeth can still create victory!"

Liu Chang himself was full of enthusiasm: "Only we can create such a victory, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it is time for us to officially go to the battlefield, and this time the enemy we encounter will be unprecedentedly strong!"

"The enemy's chief general, born in the most prestigious family of our Wenzhou Mansion, has been a Hanlin, his protégés are all over the world, and he has even been the third big man in the province, he is the most admired virtuous man in Ruian villagers, he has participated in countless battles with our Taiping Army, has extremely rich experience, and is an awe-inspiring enemy."

"The enemy will have dozens or even hundreds of artillery pieces, they will have an almost infinite number of troops, countless ordnance, and if we cross one of their battalions, they will send two or even three battalion leaders, and their ranks will have countless outlaws, who will desperately crash into our bayonets, and they will have some scheming generals, who occupy all the advantageous positions, and will launch endless attacks on us in all directions, and when they retreat, we will encounter one line after another, Even the best artillery could not blast through such fortifications. ”

"And our troops, only these five hundred people, one hundred and eighty foreign guns, a few small cannons, a group of rogues who have nothing but courage, only such a young me to lead you, please tell me, to whom will the victory belong?"

Soldiers and officers responded to Liu Chang's question with a tidal wave of cheers.

"Dragon Lance Sentry!"

"Nanxi Whistle!"

"Rock Whistle!"

"We are invincible and invincible!"

Liu Chang shook his fist vigorously: "Okay, please believe me, I will definitely lead us to create a miracle, and the final victory will definitely belong to us!"

"Let's stab them in the chest with a bayonet!"

His eyes looked up to the southern wilderness, which would be the battlefield of victory and miracle.

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