Chapter Seventy-Three: Joining Forces

Fifty flintlock muskets, a Remington shotgun, three revolvers, and a black star, all fired at the same time. The unprecedentedly powerful firepower was first displayed at the Chikan Beach of Xiangshan at the end of April 1279.

Nearly 400 Mengyuan soldiers (originally 500, one team was stationed to control Majiazhuang, and the other team suffered casualties) was caught off guard and withstood this wave of violent blows.

Bullets rain wildly, red fog fills, flesh and blood fly, corpses rest.

In the first blow, more than 30 Yuan soldiers were knocked down, so that this peak army of cold weapons, which had conquered Jiangnan with a hard bow and fast horses, learned for the first time what it means to be a rain of bullets. The next second and third waves of concentrated firing made Yuan Bing realize what it means to be a pei Mo Nengyu. The dazed Yuan soldiers instinctively looked for the reef to dodge, but there was no way to dodge, because the musket team stood on the reef and shot condescendingly, hiding behind the reef could only serve as a target to accumulate experience points for the white guards. You can't dodge it, but you can't stop it, because neither the side card nor the armor can stop the fierce fire of muskets at close range.

In the fighting, being beaten back is called "only the ability to parry and no power to fight back", and now Meng Yuanjun is beaten to the point that he has no ability to parry. What about fighting back? Those who tried to return fire with their bows were usually the targets of the musketeers' priority, and were often fired with seven or eight muskets, and were therefore the ones who died the fastest.

After three waves of concentrated fire, the Yuan soldiers collapsed, like a wave reversed, leaving a mess. The agitated horns, the threats of the hundred household officials and the sword and axe of the brand head could not stop the collapse of the Yuan soldiers. In the end, even the hundreds of officials and the head of the brand ran away - don't run and fall behind as a target!

After the collapse of the Yuan soldiers, with the whistle of Zhao Hunt, the white-clothed guards changed from gathering and scattering to scattering, freely loading and shooting, and continuously harvested the lives of the Yuan soldiers. Many white-clothed guards who were eager to make meritorious contributions didn't even care about it, they jumped on a high reef and aimed at the Mongolian Qianhu under the banner of the Yuan army in the distance, wearing a feather armor and an iron hoop corrugated hat on their heads, and the result was of course in vain. The flintlock rifle is not a weapon for accurate shooting, its lethality comes from intensive shooting, and it is wrong that a natural hunter with excellent talent should not want to use this old-fashioned gun to play sniper. Taking a step back, even if you really aim at it, can you hit it? Two hundred paces, more than double the effective range of the flintlock pistol, unless luck explodes, a stray bullet with eyes—it is clear that none of these white-clad guards have such good luck.

Seeing that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, and the collapse of the headquarters was unstoppable, the sixteen-year-old who went out with Kublai Khan to fight against Ali Buge, and who had experienced dozens of battles for more than ten years, decisively ordered to roll up the flag to restrain the defeated soldiers, and slowly retreated while forming a team, and soon disappeared into the woods.

The white-clothed guards pursued them all the way into the woods, driving them over a hill before they stopped at the whistle and began to clear the battlefield.

The battle of Chikan Beach was the first head-to-head confrontation between the musket troops and the established Meng Yuan army, the strength of the two sides was about 1:8, the Yuan army had an absolute advantage, and the white guards just got the musket for only five days, and they rushed out to fight after only a very short period of training, and actually defeated the Yuan army in strength, I have to say, it is surprising and amazing.

"Hahahaha! Joyfully! Joyfully! Jiang Fenglie held a blood-stained sword in his right hand, and waved an imitation black star in his left hand, smiling so happily, "I think that in the battle of Lotus Mountain Mountain, hundreds of us were almost wiped out by Liu Zili's third-rate new annex army, and it all depended on Zhao Dutong's night attack on Zhang Qi and the transfer of the tiger from the mountain, and we waited for us to get out." Today, my white-clothed guards are only a team of 50 people, and they have killed and injured nearly 100 Mengyuan Tartars in a duel, causing them to be defeated. Such a disparity in achievements is due to the musket weapon given by Zhao Dutong. Under the decision has been made......"

When Jiang Fenglie said this, he glanced at Ouyang Guanhou beside him, who nodded firmly. Jiang Fenglie thrust the blood-stained sword into the ground, imitating the black star and holding it around his waist, clasping his hands together, and sticking his head on his forehead: "From now on, Jiang Fenglie and the Zhongshun Army are willing to merge into the Dragon Bird Army, and everything is only obeyed by Zhao Dutong's orders." ”

Zhao Lie smiled, Jiang Fenglie tasted the sweetness, and he was reluctant to give up.

Zhao Lie's 50 flintlock muskets were made in just a few days, using iron ingots provided by the Xing Dynasty, requisitioning the master craftsmen of the Xing Dynasty, and providing gun making patterns, a disc manual punch and a flintlock (shotgun) bolt machine mold.

After equipping the musket with the white guards, after only three days of intensive training, he set off urgently, reloading and practicing target shooting on the ship as he sailed, and the whole process added up to only five days. Fortunately, the white-clothed guards are all strictly trained soldiers, and they can be saved from arrays and drills, and even the most difficult level - the frontal battle of the musket formation, is not a problem for these soldiers who have been through the battlefield. It can be said that it is only necessary to skillfully load ammunition and shoot a certain amount of live ammunition, and combat effectiveness will soon be formed.

This has been proven by the facts. Not just a musket team of fifty men could defeat a Mengyuan army of four hundred men—not even a doubling of the Shan squad. Of course, a fully equipped rear-loading gun is a different story.

Fifty guns are not given casually, this is a thorough investigation by Zhao Lie, Jiang Fenglie has had this consciousness since the day he accepted new weapons and new tactics. In fact, Jiang Fenglie had this idea when he first went to the mountain to find Zhao Lie, but at that time he wanted to accept Zhao Lie as a subordinate, but at this time, he invited himself to be his subordinate.

Zhao Lie has a gun and no one at the moment, and Jiang Fenglie has someone without a gun, and the two of them are combined, which can be said to complement each other.

Zhao Lie smiled: "Okay, I will show the Empress Dowager, please transfer Brother Jiang as the second of the Dragon Bird Army." "Zhao Lie is the commander of the Dragon Bird Army, and the "Second of the Dragon Bird Army" is the deputy commander, and this official is especially better than Jiang Fenglie's position of the commander of the Loyal Shun Army, which can be regarded as worthy of him.

Rao is Jiang Fenglie's bearing is calm, and he can't help but like the color. Of course, he is not out of shape for a mere "deputy capital system", this official is still quite majestic in the early and middle of this dynasty, and his authority and appeasement are in harmony, but at the end of the period, the official position is sprinkled all over the sky, and the gold content is long gone. What really pleased Jiang Fenglie was that this not only meant that the Jiang Clan's Zhongshun Army would become the first fully equipped firearms unit of the Song Army, and its combat power was soaring, but more importantly, it was marked with the marks of the Dragon Bird Army and Zhao Lie.

Yes, Zhao Hunt's mark.

The reason why Jiang Fenglie is willing to merge the Jiang family's private army into the Dragon Bird Army is that in addition to the invincibility of the two sides, the more important point is that Jiang Fenglie is optimistic about him Zhao Mengbei - yes, he is optimistic about the clan Zhao Mengbei and not just Zhao Lie and his arsenal.

At present, except for the Empress Dowager Yang who "widows don't believe in tears", who will hope that there will be another miracle to resurrect the young emperor? It is only a matter of time before a kingdom loses its lord and a new king will be appointed. The new monarch must be born from the clan, and the most dazzling clan in the current dynasty is Zhao Lie. It can be said that if Zhao Lie was not nineteen years old (Zhao Lieshi is twenty-one, if Zhao Mengbei is alive, he will be nineteen, and the difference between the two years is basically invisible) but nine years old, Empress Dowager Yang would have been succeeded as the crown prince and designated as the crown prince - even if the queen mother was reluctant, the ministers would force her to do so.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many examples of accepting the family as the crown prince's final ascension to the throne, but there was an unwritten rule: it must be inherited when it was a child, and it was basically useless to become an adult. If it weren't for the fact that the current Xing Dynasty was forced to the end of the mountains and rivers and the clan withered, everything was possible, and Jiang Fenglie and the others would not have such thoughts.

Even Jiang Fenglie and Ouyang Guanhou can think of this, as a clan, they must have this idea earlier, however, the conscience of heaven and earth, Zhao Liezhen did not. The reason is very simple, he is a relative of the emperor, and he does not have that sense of role substitution at all. What's more, he had been thinking about getting out and leaving before, Yang Fan was all over the world, and he never thought of staying in the broken boat of the Remnant Song Xingchao, which was leaking everywhere.

The reason why Zhao Lie took out technical equipment to make guns and equip Baiyi Wei this time was because the trip to Guangya also touched him to some extent. Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, Su Liuyi, Chen Yizhong, including Ma Nanbao who rescued this time, these heroes in the late Song Dynasty never compromised and never gave up their spirit, which made him sincerely admire, and he felt that he couldn't help him. Jiang Fenglie can be regarded as a like-minded good man, and he has a ready-made loyal private army, so let's start by arming him.

"Brother Zhao—"

"Leader Zhao!"

A familiar cheer interrupted Zhao Lie's thoughts, and he looked up - two fishing boats rushed onto the beach, a group of people cheered and ran closer, and the ones who ran at the forefront were Ding Xiaoyi and Ding Xiaoyi......