Liu Chang finished the gesture, Huo Qiu had already shook his head, and he was also well-informed: "Liu Checkpoint, your spear is a sharp weapon only in the play, more than a zhang, too long, we ordinary people can't wield such a spear!" ”

The length of the spear that Liu Chang said is enough to be a few feet, not to mention ordinary people, even a hundred enemies are difficult to wield, but Liu Chang said: "Brother Huo Qiu, you are wrong, our Kingdom of Heaven has been established since the Jintian regimental camp Yong'an, and later focused on Jinling, crisscrossing the south of the Yangtze River, defeating the enemy, most of them relying on the benefits of this bamboo needle!" ”

Huo Qiu still shook his head, and he said: "No matter how sharp this spear is, we can't hold it, it's useless, isn't ......it?"

He suddenly thought of something: "Could it be that this is a spear held in tandem?" ”

Liu Chang nodded: "Brother Huo Qiu is really well-informed!" ”

"Check and call me, Huo Qiu is!" Huo Qiu had already figured it out: "Good thing, it's just that this gun barrel is made of bamboo?" ”

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose in Guangxi, and the Qing army fought repeatedly, the first weapon to defeat the enemy is this bamboo needle, this bamboo needle was originally the creation of heaven and earth will Luo outline and others, and later was carried forward by Yang Xiuqing and others, this bamboo needle is equipped with an iron spear head, more than one zhang long, sharp and unparalleled.

During the war, the Taiping army advanced under the cover of rattan cards, disturbed the enemy position with medicine pot lime, and rushed to the close place when the bamboo needles came out, which can be called a long spear like a forest, and the Qing army only had a blunt knife in its hand, and it was impossible to fight against the bamboo as long as a zhang, and it was repeatedly defeated.

At that time, only Xiang Rong in the Qing army could withstand such a spear attack, which Xiang Rong was known as a famous general of the Chu army, and he could control many reserves in each battle, and he paid attention to the ring bombardment, even if he was defeated, he would not be routed for thousands of miles.

Liu Chang nodded and said, "The bamboo gun is very convenient!" ”

There is a bamboo forest in the south of the Yangtze River, and a one-zhang-long gun can be taken anywhere, Huo Qiu, a smuggler of salt, is quite knowledgeable: "It's amazing!" ”

He secretly thought about how he would deal with such a spear formation, but as soon as he thought of such a situation, he broke out in a cold sweat.

After the rattan plate, more than a dozen spears pierced like a tide, no matter how he could have great skills, no matter how he tossed and turned, he couldn't escape the fate of being pierced by countless spears, he praised repeatedly: "The inspection point is indeed the old army that participated in the kingdom of heaven when he was in the camp of the Jintian regiment, and it is indeed extraordinary!" Amazing, amazing! ”

It's just that this bamboo needle is easy to make, and it doesn't take any man-hours, and the material can be said to be immediately desirable, so he immediately promised Liu Chang: "The villain will let the blacksmith shop open overnight when he goes back tonight, and he will send the finished spear early tomorrow morning!" ”

He added: "The villain also hid a few shotguns in the countryside, all of which are in the style of the Eight Banners, which are very different from the common Green Battalion Soldier Ding Shotguns, but the blacksmith master invited by the villain can't imitate them." ”

"Eight Flags style?" Liu Chang was surprised and delighted: "You still have such good things!" ”

The shotgun basically followed the arquebus of the Ming Dynasty, which could be the most backward firearm of this era, but it was used in the Qing army until around 1900, and it was old but not wasted.

Among the various shotguns, they are roughly divided into two types: the green camp system and the Eight Banners system, the green camp system is both bulky and weak, while the Eight Banners shotgun is convenient and easy to use, but the power is great, which is one of the tricks played by the Manchu rulers to control the Han with the Manchus.

Huo Qiu hurriedly expressed his merits: "These few shotguns flowed out of the Zhapu Manying camp back then, and it was not easy to come, although it has been some years, but I have always been ready to use them as family heirlooms." ”

However, Liu Chang did not plan to use these eight-banner shotguns as family heirlooms, so he asked: "Since you sell smuggled salt, do you have any connection with the foreigners on the sea?" ”

Huo Qiu immediately said: "If we do private salt, we always have to deal with the heroes of the sea, but Qu Zhenhai is not going to take Panshi Town and open up contact with Ge Wuye." Fifth Master Ge is a tycoon on the sea, and he has six or seven boats and two hundred brothers under his command, and the inspector can contact him when the time comes. ”

Liu Chang calmed down, and now he has this strength, even if he wants to buy foreign guns, he can't buy many guns, and immediately said: "I suggested to Qu Shuai that the whole army should go south to capture Yongjia, and when the time comes, I will have everything north of the Oujiang River." ”

He asked, "I'm asking about foreigners, especially those in Hong Kong. ”

He knew very well that during this period, Hong Kong had always been a very important arms distribution center in the Far East, and a large number of Western merchants bought military arms from Hong Kong, and then sold arms to both sides in the war.

It is now the fourth year of Xianfeng, and neither the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom nor the Qing Dynasty rulers have yet to understand the horror of foreign guns and cannons, and there are very few Western merchants who are engaged in arms trade full-time.

Huo Qiu immediately replied to him: "There are very few foreigners from our Wenzhou Ocean, and they are all pirates recruited from Hong Kong and Nanyang, but if there is anything to do for them, they have to bleed." ”

Liu Chang nodded: "I want to buy some foreign guns and cannons through the relationship of foreigners, but this matter is still early, you can remember this matter first, and it will be too late to do it then." ”

"Check the high opinion!" Huo Qiu responded: "I don't dare to say that the foreign guns of the Westerners are indeed unparalleled in power, and the three thousand pound general cannons in Wenzhou City are not as good as the sharp cannons they brought." ”

It's just such a sharp weapon, not to mention ordinary pirates, even a well-known figure like Ge Wuye in Zhejiang, Fujian and the West has no one in his hands: "But after the inspection is explained, Huo Qiu must do his best to do it." ”

"Good!" Liu Chang also looked at Huo Qiu's pig's head very pleasing to the eye, this local tyrant in the West is indeed a character, not to mention anything else, he dared to publicly accuse his notebook of witchcraft, and this courage impressed Liu Chang.

Huo Qiu sighed: "I don't know how foreigners make foreign cannons, so sharp!" ”

Liu Chang replied: "This foreigner's ability to make guns was learned from my great Chinese country, but I hate that this Tartar has been in the customs for 210 years, and it has also been mistaken for 210 years in my Chinese country!" ”

Since the pacification of the three feudatories, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's gun manufacturing level has been regressing, and even the regression is far inferior to the late Ming Dynasty, those old artillery left over from the late Ming Dynasty are the most sophisticated artillery and exist, not to mention, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went out of Guangxi, in Yueyang got a batch of old artillery buried when Wu Sangui's army was defeated, they relied on this batch of artillery in the early Qing Dynasty, actually formed an absolute firepower advantage, the Qing army did not have any field artillery comparable to the first battle.

As for the level of the manufacture of shotguns and other weapons, they are also constantly regressing, and the Zhapu Eight Banners Battalion issued a batch of newly made Green Battalion shotguns in the First Opium War, but the Eight Banners soldiers reported that this batch of newly made shotguns is not as good as the old shotguns that have been used for a hundred years, and even the shotguns of the same standard are not as good as in the past, and the newer the shotguns, the worse they are.

However, Liu Chang sighed, but Qu Jie, Huo Qiu and others were all second monks who couldn't touch their heads, Huo Qiu had the courage and knowledge, and immediately asked: "Check, how can this be said?" ”

Liu Chang didn't think that the late Qing Dynasty had reached such a point, and even local tyrants like Huo Qiu did not have the knowledge that later generations of primary school students had, so he asked, "You don't know about this?" Do you know about the Treaty of Nanjing? Do you know that Yangzhou Ten Days and Jiading Three Massacres? Do you know the battle of Jiangyin to defend the city? ”

Not to mention Huo Qiu and Qu Jie, that is, the fifty pro-soldiers below are shaking their heads again and again, the ** policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is so successful that everyone has forgotten that bloody history, Huo Qiu is really clever: "The inspection is to have experienced the world, and the knowledge is several times more than that of us who are bitter ha, anyway, there is nothing to do tonight, and the inspection point will give us a good talk about it......"

Liu Chang didn't know what kind of weight this ordinary night would have in the future history of China, he just told him about the bloody history he had heard and seen.

He spoke very popularly, and told them one by one, and some of the pro-soldiers could not understand the official language, and immediately some pro-soldiers who understood the official language translated it into the main words and relayed the past.

The whole courtyard was a little noisy at first, but then it became silent, and everyone was stunned by these forgotten histories, and at last some wept, some cried out, and some hammered the ground with their heads: "What a hate! If you know it sooner, you will reverse it sooner! ”

Liu Chang spoke for an hour and a half, his saliva was dry, and when he saw that the night was dark, he decided to continue to tell the history of the Ming Dynasty and the fall of the Chinese Empire tomorrow, but the audience was full of tears.

Sometimes, the pen is more powerful than the sword.

When Huo Qiu left, he muttered to himself again and again under the starlight: "Jiading Three Massacres, Yangzhou Ten Days, **, Nanjing Treaty ......"

Only now did he feel that it was such a humiliating thing to live in such a country ruled by a foreign brigade, and a good man should follow Qu Zhenhan's example to rise up and drive out the Tartars and restore China.

His heart was churning: "As long as China is restored, what is the pity!" ”

His eyes were filled with tears.

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