Tong Dawei scoffed at Li Chengdong and Wang Deren's complaints, he knew that the two of them had a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and a lot of goods in their hands, all of which were robbed of the people along the road, and of course, there were also those who broke the Qing army barracks and some county towns occupied by the Qing army.

He was once one of them, how could he not know.

After several battles with the Qing army, they fled to the place controlled by Yongli Nanming, He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi will definitely not match them with good weapons and armor, they can only rob, and at the same time have to fight with the Qing army, Li Chengdong was loyal to the Qing army, but there were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and there were 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses with combat effectiveness alone, and now they can only be downtrodden to only have 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Nan Mingguo will not assign them soldiers and weapons and equipment, they are all on their own, and they may be able to get some military salaries and weapons and equipment allocated by the Ministry of War, but these things have to pay to bribe the officials of the Ministry of War to get a few percent of them, and now they are raised by the queen mother of Nan Mingguo.

Now Longwu has learned shrewdly, unlike before, a large amount of silver was given to them, and there was something to give them these extremely ambitious and not very loyal troops, for fear of raising them into separatist warlords, and it would be difficult to control.

They also want to be a separatist warlord, but now it's not like before, there are very few separatist warlords in the entire Ming land, because the situation is clear, it's not as chaotic as before, where is the Qing army, if you want to take refuge, people won't support you in vain, send Manchu generals to lead hundreds of people, thousands of people to monitor you, if it's not right, take you, and drive you to fight with the Ming army, consume you, and make you unable to grow.

Various state-based camps have emerged, and countries have basically integrated and stabilized, and you don't have much choice, either to take refuge in the Qing army or to take refuge in the Ming army.

In the Ming army camp, Longwu Nanming, Yongli Nanming camp, you must choose one.

Those who defect to the Huaxia Army will definitely be dismantled, and then they will be idle, become a rich man, and be a free and easy separatist warlord, how can they give up the army and power?

Therefore, many secession warlords can only take refuge in Longwu Nanming and Yongli Nanming, compared to Yongli Nanming, the degree of freedom is greater, you can listen to the propaganda or not, and there is a bit of the taste of the secession warlords, but it is not good to survive, unless you hide in the horns, otherwise either the Qing army will find you, or other separatist warlords will find you, and then destroy you.

In short, these people are not living as well as they used to be, whether they hide under the wings of a family to survive, or whether they are sincerely loyal, their results are not very good.

More troops, more weapons, to strengthen their own strength is their only choice.

Tong Dawei rubbed his swelling and flabby face, feeling that because of drunkenness, his face felt a little numb, and he repeatedly did not belong to him.

"Let's get it straight, what do you want?" He asked.

"Can you give us the weapons that your cavalry brigade is equipped with?" Li Chengdong asked.

Wang Deren's troops were selected by Longwu and will definitely be armed into a cavalry brigade similar to the Huaxia Army, Li Chengdong doesn't know, the other cavalry brigade must be Su Zhengqing's troops, which must have been obtained by Wang Deren through his connections, and he must have spent a lot of money.

Li Chengdong also wanted to train such a unit, and at the same time train his troops to look like tens of thousands of new troops under the leadership of the Praetorian Guard and Su Guansheng, since he came back to rejoin Longwu Nanming, he is not greedy for tens of thousands of new troops, unified new military uniforms, changed the military uniforms of the Ming army to become simpler, and then held in his hands all the gold and 1 arquebuses, and hung in his waist is the Yanling knife of the captured Qing army, this kind of army is very powerful at a glance.

It is said that the performance of several battles with Ma Degong was not bad, and Ma Degong, who mainly used cold weapons, lost his armor and fled in a hurry.

So Li Chengdong, who returned to Longwu Nanming, wanted his troops to change into that kind of military uniform and that kind of weapon.

However, today when he saw the cavalry brigade wearing cuirass, wearing arm armor, wearing a simple Ming army helmet on his head, and wearing the blue military uniform of the Huaxia Army, Li Chengdong was dumbfounded, and he looked much more elite than the cavalry and infantry of Longwu Nanming.

In particular, some cavalry actually carried muskets on their backs, this musket was much shorter than the musket in the hands of the Ming army, and there was no arquebus, so he wanted this kind of musket without arquebus, and the cavalry brigade also had an artillery battalion, which was all modified to fit the six-pounder cannon suitable for the cavalry brigade, a single-horse-drawn cart, and behind the cart was a six-pounder gun that reduced weight, which was inferior to the army in terms of range and power, but the cavalry had artillery, which was quite a terrifying thing, which meant that there would be artillery support when hitting you, and the enemy's cavalry could only be beaten.

"This can't work, it's the standard weapon of the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, if I give it to you, I will be punished, I can only give you the muskets and artillery of the Qing army that you captured before, as well as the weapons and armor of the Huaxia Army, as well as the Jingai 1 arquebus. None of the others. Tong Dawei said.

Two people are good at talking, but they just can't do it.

I have no choice but to give up.

Wang Deren asked, "Brother, you help us train two cavalry brigades, what weapons will we be equipped with after that?" Isn't it the same as you, if it's the same, why don't you give us this weapon first? ”

Tong Dawei smiled, he must not be equipped with the same equipment as the cavalry brigade of the Huaxia Army, according to the rules of the Huaxia Army, the things sold must be intergenerational, he doesn't know what the intergenerational means, but he generally understands that he can speculate a little, that is, those weapons are not as good as the Huaxia Army, better than the enemy's equipment, this is the tradition of the Huaxia Army.

The Ministry of Military Intelligence had already discussed with the Ministry of War to equip Longwu Nanming's cavalry brigade with the equipment of dragoons and chassars in the past.

Three regiments, one regiment is a lancer with pure cold weapons, of course, it is impossible for the Huaxia Army to make the cavalry of Longwu Nanming like the lancer regiment of the Huaxia Army, which is used to impact the enemy's battle formation, the cavalry regiment of the Longwu Ming Army, mainly sabers and bows and arrows, at most plus shields, and change into a unified Ming army uniform, this is enough.

The second regiment is the hunting cavalry regiment, sabers, bows and arrows, short firearms, that is, five short firearms are hung immediately, which can be used to hit the enemy cavalry and enemy infantry head-on, shoot close to thirty meters, and then draw out one to fight, which is obviously very effective for pursuing or forcing the enemy to get close to the enemy, of course, it is inevitable to be knocked off the horse by the enemy's bow and arrow, the good thing is that the short firearm has already been installed, a little faster than the enemy's bow and arrow, and after the fight, you can also draw out the saber and fight with the enemy, which is the prototype of the Chinese army chasers.

The third regiment is the dragoon regiment, which can fire a Jingai-1 arquebus, plus the cuirass, gauntlets, and helmets of the Huaxia Army, which is similar to the Dragoon Regiment of the Huaxia Army, but the Dragoon Regiment of the Huaxia Army also has a short firecracker, a short firearm can fire five shots in a row, and then there is no time to reload, draw out the saber to dry or run away with the enemy, load the ammunition of the musket on the horse, bend back and fight the enemy again, and so on.

The Ming army was equipped with arquebuses, and the cavalry of the Chinese army was equipped with the three-gun iron-shelled rear loading smoothbore flintlock pistol eliminated by the infantry, although the range was closer, it could be shot continuously, with a short interval, and it was necessary to retreat after firing the gun, and then reload, because the problem was still not solved, and the time to reload the three bullets was not enough after the three bullets were finished, unless the time was not enough to reload while escaping.

Compared with the Ming army's one shot to load, the Chinese army's dragoons are three shots and then reloaded, and the rate of fire is much more than the arquebus equipped by the Ming army, and it is also much more convenient, there is no need for the arquebus, you can free one hand, you don't have to worry about whether the arquebus will go out, you can fight close to the enemy at night, and you don't have to worry about lighting the arquebus to expose the target.

Facing Wang Deren, Li Chengdong wanted to get weapons and equipment from him, Tong Dawei said directly: "You don't have to think about the Huaxia Army, you also need to think about the equipment, after training, your imperial court military department will allocate weapons and equipment for you, this is not under my control, if you want to have it yourself, you can only buy it yourself." ”

The two of them were a little discouraged, this guy didn't get in the oil and salt.

"Okay, let's buy it, I don't know what the price of these weapons sold by the Huaxia Army is?" Li Chengdong sat back in his seat a little helplessly, and asked with a bowl of decanting soup.

Tong Dawei disagreed, he relied on the Huaxia Army, not before, relying on you.

"In the past, the big sword and spear of the Qing army were captured, and a hundred pieces were five taels of silver, which could also be exchanged for goods of equal value, and the armor of the Qing army, cotton armor, cloth armor, and a hundred sets of ten taels of silver, the Qing army's arquebus, also called a bird gun, a pole of two taels of silver, the Ming army's firearms, a pole of one or two five coins of silver, the Ming army's three-eyed guns, a pole of five coins of silver, and the Ming army's hundred guns and three taels of silver.

The Ming army tiger squat cannon is ten taels of silver, the Ming army general cannon is eleven taels of silver, the Qing army general cannon is twenty taels of silver, the Qing army is red-clothed cannon, the thousand catties of fifty taels of silver, the thousand five hundred catties of one hundred taels of silver, the two thousand catties of two hundred taels of silver, the three thousand catties of five hundred taels of silver, the five thousand catties of one thousand taels of silver, and the artillery is all equipped with gunpowder and shells that fire a hundred shells. ”

Both of them were obviously not very interested in capturing the weapons and equipment of the Qing army, they were also able to capture the weapons and equipment of the Qing army, and the teams of the two families also won and lost battles with the Qing army, and the capture was also commonplace for them.

Tong Dawei saw that the two of them were not moved, so he drank the sobering soup there, and changed his strategy, "You cannon fodder soldiers who don't need too much armament can equip them better, and if you can consume more enemies, your family members and generals will die less, right?" ”

The two men agreed and nodded slightly.

"If your cannon fodder can win the battle, your family and your family will make one last charge and lay the foundation for victory, they will die less, and you will save a lot of pacification costs, won't you?" Tong Dawei flickered again.

Wang Deren nodded, he cared about this the most, because he didn't have many soldiers, there were only 2,000 soldiers who could fight, and only 500 old battalion soldiers could really fight, and the remaining 6,000 people were all kinds of ocean thieves, horse bandits, bandits, and green forest robbers recruited by him.

"Therefore, your cannon fodder soldiers must be equipped with some captured Qing army weapons and armor, give them some good weapons and armor, and your veterans are equipped with advanced weapons of the Huaxia Army, which can suppress them and win battles, at least they can resist the enemy's attack when they escape."

"In this way, your old battalion soldiers can be equipped with the armor of the Huaxia Army, which is a big knife and a white mark, and the axe is just a few steps back, which may not be able to kill or injure them, plus the sharp broadsword and long sword of the Huaxia Army, they can be competent in some high-intensity melees, and some of the old battalion soldiers can be equipped with the Jingai-1 arquebus of the Huaxia Army, I will help you train them."

The two of them seemed to be persuaded by Tong Dawei and nodded incessantly.

(End of chapter)