CHAPTER XIV
Yao Guangxiao listened to Wang Wenle quietly, sometimes pondering, sometimes nodding, and then he suddenly interrupted Wang Wenle and said: "No, the old man only knows that there is a firearm but he doesn't know that there is a long firearm, is this long-fire gun a new firearm just made?" ”
Wang Wenle smiled bitterly: "Young Master, Taizu said that this long firearm was made by the Taixi Kingdoms hundreds of thousands of miles away after fifty years, and I began to imitate a medium-distance firearm after a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of firearm can now be designed and experimented by the War Bureau, maybe two or three years, maybe twenty or thirty years, and it can always be produced ahead of the Taixi countries, so that my Ming Dynasty will not lag behind other countries in this weaponry. ”
"Well~ fifty years later! It's not short, it's not long, Taizu is warning me that in fifty years, the Ming Dynasty will begin to lag behind other countries. Amitabha Buddha ......," Yao Guangxiao said movingly.
"Young Master, this is the reason why the old man Taizu asked you to go out of the mountain, solve the burden of Mobei, and invest the freed manpower, material and financial resources into the construction of strengthening the national strength for my Ming Dynasty. Therefore, before the next expedition to Mobei, tens of thousands of iron cavalry must be formed, and it will take three to four years to form an army, use the young master's ghostly strategy, and cooperate with the heavy army group of the fourth to stir up Mobei in the dark, and rely on the line of the Great Wall, occupy the excellent pasture as a base for advancement, and from then on, I will not leave the place occupied by the Ming Dynasty. Usually it is to plunder, to grab everything I can, and if the enemy leads a large army to come and attack, then I will attack the empty land behind him. In short, it is not to let Mobei have a peaceful life. Wang Wenle said with a smile.
Yao Guangxiao nodded in agreement and said: "The reason why this Mobei can't always be solved is because we can't catch these guys, we can't turn around and run, and our two-legged infantry can't catch up with the four-legged horse, so we can't always gather them and annihilate them." At most, they will be seriously wounded, and when they flee back, they will find a place to lick their wounds, and then send an envoy to bring some local products to pay tribute. After two years of recovery, I will continue to plunder south, what can you do with me? ”
Wang Wenle clapped his hands and praised: "Yes! For this reason, the old man Taizu thought for a long time that the best way to establish cavalry for unlimited harassment warfare before there were no weapons and tactics that could effectively kill and injure a large number of cavalry. Even if my Ming cavalry is formed into an army in four years, it is still impossible to defeat the Mobei cavalry who grew up on horseback since childhood, but my Ming cavalry will not fight head-on with the large army, just like this Mobei cavalry does not fight with my Ming heavy army group. The task of my Ming cavalry is to rob and destroy, to take away what can be taken away, and to destroy what cannot be taken away. In order to weaken Mobei's strength and make it impossible for him to recuperate. In less than five years, the south of Mobei will be cleared, and since then, Mobei will no longer have the strength to go south to plunder the border of our Ming Dynasty. ”
"Well~ Okay, after the Tatars, there is Warat, if the Tatars decline, Warat is bound to take advantage of the situation to rise, after the destruction of the Tatars, if Warat surrenders to my Ming Dynasty, then the fief and the prince will be allowed, if you don't follow, you will draw a scoop according to the gourd, and I don't care about destroying one more Warat." Yao Guangxiao closed his eyes and said slowly.
"Yes, yes, Taizu and his old man also said so, and the young master and the old man Taizu coincide with each other." Wang Wenle clapped his hands and praised.
Wang Wenle cleared his throat and said: "Spread the original words of Taizu and his old man, the old monk, in the Han Dynasty, there was the Western Regions Protectorate, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was the Anxi Protectorate and the Anbei Protectorate, and in my Ming Dynasty, it was called Wara, Tatar and Yili Li, when I was in power, some of the national policies formulated were wrong and irretrievable. Now I want to use the strategy and wisdom of the old monk to incorporate these three places into the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and revitalize the system of the Han and Tang Dynasty protectorates. ”
"Amitabha Buddha ~ Good and good ~ For my Daming Jiangshan Sheji, the old man is willing to do his best, and he will die!" Yao Guangxiao clasped his hands together and said with a serious expression.
Zhu Di became anxious after seeing the conversation between Wang Wenle and Yao Guangxiao transcribed by Wang Zhong......
"Wang Zhong, you go in person, let Wang Wenle explain this thing called Changhuo Gong clearly, you record it all, and bring it back to me. Spread my word to tell Saihazhi to send his most trusted person to protect Wang Wenle's safety, and to protect this stinky boy like I am. Zhu Di said solemnly.
In fact, Zhu Di's behavior is understandable, after all the things reported by Wang Wenle happened, Zhu Di already believed what Wang Wenle said. Now that he knows that there are so-called Taixi countries that are also playing with firearms in a long distance, and they will be ahead of the Ming Dynasty in fifty years, then making this kind of long firearm before it is what Zhu Di is most anxious to do. Others don't know that Zhu Di, who has been a horse all his life, knows the benefits of this weapon best. This magic machine battalion was pioneered by Zhu Di, in fact, Zhu Di didn't know that this all-firearms unit was only established in other countries after a hundred years, so it can be said that Zhu Di is an expert in playing with firearms.
It is now that this kind of firearm with an effective range of only fifty paces has made Zhu Di play to beat the Mongolian cavalry to cry and cry his mother, but this cavalry comes fast and escapes quickly, and the shooting distance of the firearm is too close to expand the results of the battle, if there is such a long firearm with an effective range of 200 steps, it is really invincible in the world in the hands of Zhu Di's Shenji battalion.
This is not blown out, nor is it weapon-only, the Ming Dynasty's guard system, military household system is known to be the training of millions of farmers with hoes in one hand and weapons in the other, and the combat ability of individual soldiers is extremely poor, whether it is against the Mongolian cavalry, the Japanese pirates, or the pirates are not opponents. And the nomads began to play with bows and ride horses from an early age, and when they grew up, they became skilled archers when they entered the army. So what are the strengths of the farming people? The peasants planted their land well, the squires collected their rents well, the scholars read well, and the merchants did well, but it seemed that these had nothing to do with the battle...... In fact, there is also a craftsman technology to play well, that is, to replace the special vocational training of the special vocational training arms with complex technology, before there are no firearms, the largest use of long-range weapons of the farming nation is the crossbow, the crossbow production process is more complicated than the bow, but its advantage is that the operation is simple and easy to use, after becoming a standard weapon, it can be mass-produced, and it is stored in the warehouse in peacetime, and in wartime, as long as it is taken out to equip the recruited soldiers for a short period of training to become an army on the battlefield.