The reason why Zhuang Fudi is so confident is that he deeply knows that under the lethality of firearms, the battle loss ratio of hot weapons can never be speculated according to the battle loss ratio of the previous cold weapon period. These firearms are far superior to bows and arrows in terms of lethality, but they are much less demanding than bows and arrows in terms of operation. In the past, when training archers, they were required to draw a strong bow with at least as many stones. However, if you want to train a musketeer, you only need him to practice carefully, and there is no excessive demand for physical fitness. This also allows Li Wenyuan to set the requirements very low when selecting musketeers, and the training cycle of musketeers is shorter than that of comparative-level archers. Therefore, the proportion of musketeers in the Western Regions army was greatly increased after the conquest of Central Asia, and even the cavalry was officially replaced by rangers with short muskets. If it weren't for the preservation of the glory of the past and some countermeasures in special circumstances, I am afraid that the Rangers' sabers would also be banned.

However, although the saber is kept, it is only a symbol of honor. Because with the popularization and use of steam-powered machines under Li Wenyuan's own efforts, the output of various commodities under his rule has increased significantly. First of all, the extremely prosperous military industry, under Li Wenyuan's seemingly intentional or unintentional appropriation, as well as the groping of the relevant responsible persons in the military industry, the current firearms production of the Western Regions Army has a hint of the taste of an assembly line in later generations. In such a highly efficient production, the production process is constantly optimized, and the musket is also constantly improving, it can be said that the firearms used by the current Western Regions Army are much more practical than at the beginning, and in the face of the pressure of this large-scale expansion, the musket produced on the production line can also fully meet the needs of the army's expansion and the upgrading of the original army's weapons. Moreover, under the steam power, the grinding of gunpowder has become more efficient, and the quality is much better than that of the uneven quality of manual production. Although it is not a hand-made product with all its might, at least the gunpowder that comes down from the assembly line can be called a high-quality product. Among them, even if the quality control is sometimes poor, it belongs to the middle and upper class. The finer gunpowder provided more heat energy, and the extra heat energy gave the projectile a higher initial velocity of discharge, and the higher initial velocity brought a higher level of lethality to the Western Regions Army. If the quality of the gunpowder in the chamber of the gun was not good, and because of some congenital deficiencies in the design of the musket, some armor with better craftsmanship can still be blocked head-on without being pierced. Now these armors are useless, even if the bright light heavy armor is shot by this new musket, it will be pierced. In the experiment, one shot even directly pierced the wooden pillar of the wooden frame under the armor, and then transmitted through the back of the armor, at least in the experiment of the Western Regions Army, only the heavy armor worn by the Mo Dao soldiers could resist the lethality of this musket head-on, but the deep scratches on the thick Zhongkai were enough to make people tremble when they saw it.

Liang Shidu was fighting to the death for his own life and death, and Liu Wuzhou on the side was still fanning the flames for Liang Shidu and sending his own army as foreign aid. The grassland is not peaceful, and Tuoba Shishu continues to expel the henchmen left behind by Shibi Khan on the grassland. The purge he launched was not limited to the henchmen of Shibi Khan, but all those who were unwilling to be loyal to him would die unjustly in this purge.

Tuoba Shishu grew up in the Han people's life circle since he was a child, and he is naturally not comparable to these barbarians on the grassland in terms of intrigue. So it's very easy to put a hat on the head of these barbarians, and then get rid of them completely. But there are naturally grassland rules on the grassland, and at the beginning, these grassland people hadn't reacted to what Tuoba Shishu wanted to do? But after a long time, it is inevitable that the dagger will appear, and Tuoba Shishu's intention is thoroughly understood by these grassland people. So some people are very aware of the current affairs and choose to take refuge in Tuoba Shishu, others have their own arrogance, in the face of Tuoba Shishu step by step is very decisive to escape from the Turkic court, returned to their own tribe, led the warriors in their tribe to set off the banner of rebellion against Tuoba Shishu.

But rebellion has been an extremely difficult and frustrating path since ancient times, even in a relatively free place like the steppe. It's just that the judgment set off by each small tribe is very insignificant. But there is that kind of relationship between them, so that Tuoba Shishu's counterinsurgency troops often press the gourd and raise the scoop, and they are always running around, and it is difficult to completely solve these rebels in one battle. So Tuoba Shishu thought of a way, he set a trap, wanting to drive these rebels to unite gradually, and then lead the army to annihilate these rebels in one fell swoop.

Just as these rebels were gradually gathering together, Tong Lifushe, who had been helping Tuoba Shishu by his side, finally waited for the opportunity he wanted most: now that the emperor of the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains was dead, the Han people in the Central Plains were now divided, and the non-aggression agreement between himself as a Turkic and them was also expired. Therefore, Tuoba Shishu's task is completed. This is also the main reason why Tong Lifu set up Tuoba Shishu. He needs Tuoba Shishu to stand up and put the responsibility for the previous defeat on his brother Shibi Khan, and at the same time Tuoba Shishu wants Tuoba Shishu to bring the warriors who went south back to the royal court safely, and finally let Tuoba Shishu toss how he tosses, he must wait until the emperor of the Sui Dynasty dies and the world is in chaos before the most suitable stand up, overthrow Tuoba Shishu's brutal rule, and restore the Khan of the Ashina clan.

So one night, he secretly left the royal court with his own soldiers and some elite Turkic soldiers and came to the place where the rebels gathered. Here he received the most grand welcome, and it was not in vain that he had been arranging all these years, and the leaders of the rebels in front of him were his own henchmen. Back here, the heart that had been hanging in the air was finally let go. I have always followed Tuoba Shishu's side, and Tuoba Shishu is a person, so it is inevitable that there will always be a feeling of accompanying the king like a tiger. But now it was different, he was back in his lair, surrounded by heavy guards, and he finally tore off his disguise and returned to his true self.

(End of chapter)