Chapter Eighty-Five: The Armoury and the Arquebus
Jiang Chuan was in a good mood, and took people back to the granary, and after letting people strictly guard the surroundings and strictly prohibit anyone from prying eyes, Jiang Chuan entered the granary alone and received all the grain and grass into the system granary.
After leaving the granary, Jiang Chuan suddenly thought of a question. Since Liaoyang City is the bridgehead for the Tartars to attack the Ming Dynasty, in addition to grain and grass materials, there should also be a large number of weapons and equipment, so there must be military camps and armories.
Now that he is here, and there is also the captain of the transportation team that is against the sky, he has already made up his mind to empty Liaoyang City, except for the people's things, all other materials will not be left for the Tartars.
"Can you find the barracks in the city?" Jiang Chuan asked the commander who followed behind him.
"My lord, the barracks is outside the north gate of Liaoyang City, and the weapons depot should also be there." The commander replied.
Outside the North Gate? This is not surprising, as the military camp is usually located outside the city, so that if an enemy is attacking, they can echo each other without being completely surrounded by the city.
"According to the captive, there are only more than 1,000 people in Liaoyang City, and we have destroyed more than 1,000 enemies in the city, so there will be no more remnants of Qing soldiers in the barracks outside the city in time. Gather men and horses, take 500 cavalry and follow me to the barracks in the north of the city. Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and ordered categorically.
Soon, 500 cavalry gathered in place, 300 light cavalry, 200 archers, followed Jiang Chuan and flew across the long street and flew towards the north gate.
The barracks was ten miles outside the north gate, and when Jiang Chuan arrived with five hundred cavalry, he found that the barracks had already been opened, empty, and there was no one in sight.
After sending people to search for it, no one found it, there was a mess everywhere, flags, weapons, armor and robes were thrown a little, apparently the remnants of the soldiers who stayed behind also fled in a hurry after seeing the rout soldiers who had escaped from the city.
"These grandsons are running pretty fast. It is useful to find the weapons depot, as well as the warehouse or something, and to pack up the weapons and other things discarded in the camp. Jiang Chuan looked at the messy Qing army barracks and laughed.
The Qing soldiers are finished, but it will save trouble.
The men quickly found the location of the armory, and there was a small warehouse next to it for storing grain, grass, and armor.
After Jiang Chuan rushed over, he asked people to smash the door open, and when he went in, he saw that the space in this armory was really not small, and it was divided into several large rooms.
After entering the first large room, there were dense spears and large guns, neatly arranged on the shelves, and the spearheads of the spears were shining sharply, obviously well maintained on weekdays.
In the second room, long knives and shields were neatly stacked on shelves.
In the third room, there are bows and arrows, and the bows are divided into two types: the foot bow is larger and longer, and the bow power is naturally stronger, and the range is of course longer, and the penetration power is also strong. Riding a bow is smaller and more convenient to carry.
At the same time, there is also a small number of infantry crossbows, which are very similar to the appearance of the system, and the difference is not very large.
There are several types of arrows, ranging from ordinary arrows to heavier, thicker and longer armor-piercing arrows, as well as chirping arrows used to signal and contact troops. And, of course, short, sharp bolts for crossbows.
In the fourth room, there are some more peculiar weapons that are relatively rare on the battlefield, such as the Guan knife, such as the mace, such as the thick-backed machete, etc.
The discovery in the fifth room intrigued Egawa, and the rows of shelves were lined with muskets that smelled of animal fat, the length of which was more than a person's height, the thin and long barrel, and the arquebus hanging behind the barrel, all of which made Egawa sure that this was the arquebus, the ancestor of modern muskets---.
Although I had long expected that the Tartars would have muskets, the red-coated cannons were all imitated, and the muskets were not a problem.
But when I saw it with my own eyes, I was still a little surprised and surprised.
Reaching out and taking a handful from the shelf, after carefully examining it, Jiang Chuan could be sure that these arquebuses had just been made, and it was estimated that they had not been used yet, and they were captured by themselves.
There was a small leather bag hanging next to the racks of these guns, and when I opened it, I saw that there were bags of gunpowder wrapped in oiled paper, as well as lead pills. Another small bag contained a fire fold, apparently used to light the fire.
And next to each gun, there is also an iron tong, which Egawa knows is used to compact when loading bullets.
Although these antique-like arquebuses really don't have much practical value in Jiang Chuan's eyes, they are troublesome to load, have a short range, have a short service life, and are also in danger of exploding, every time they are shot, they are a puff of black smoke, just like the scene where the monsters appear on TV.
But Rao is like this, which still makes Jiang Chuan feel cordial. After all, a soul from modern society will feel more psychologically intimate with the musket, a weapon that is closer to modern civilization.
Jiang Chuan roughly counted, there are only five hundred arquebuses in this room, obviously they have just been built and have not had time to equip the Qing soldiers, and it should be more of an experimental nature.
Jiang Chuan knew that in fact, in the early days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the upper echelons were still actively open to the research and use of hot weapons. Especially when Huang Taiji was in power, he sent people to imitate red-coated cannons, cast arquebuses, and train the Shenji Battalion, all of which were learned from the Ming army, but the quality of the artillery and muskets produced in the end was much better than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing army gradually had the ability to siege the city, and formed a comprehensive crushing of the Ming army from the combat effectiveness.
The development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was originally very early, and there were all kinds of firearms, and there were many categories, but in the end, because of the decline of national strength and the corruption of the imperial court, the quality of firearms had declined seriously, and the quantity was becoming more and more unable to keep up. Many muskets and artillery suddenly exploded on the battlefield, which made the Ming soldiers miserable, and many people abandoned firearms, preferring to use cold weapons such as broadswords and spears.
From this point of view, the quality of weapons is really a direct reflection of a country's national strength.
Unexpectedly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this time and space was still ahead of the teacher Daming, which made Jiang Chuan have to sigh that creation makes people.
Retracting his chaotic thoughts, Jiang Chuan asked the system to take all these weapons back into the system's arsenal.
Looking at the empty armory, Jiang Chuan clapped his hands and walked out of the door with satisfaction, and walked towards the warehouse not far away.