Chapter Eighty-Three: Arms Dealers
In the end, Fan Wei gritted his teeth and bought a thousand muskets, and bought another hundred short firecrackers, and after paying the money, Li Qingyuan smiled and said: "This short firecracker can be given to you first, and you have to wait for this long firecracker." ”
"You! What do you mean! "Fan Wei is angry, what is this? Cheated out of your own money?
Li Qingyuan said calmly: "First, I want to buy goods, and I don't have much inventory, and second, don't you need training to buy weapons?" I'll help you train for free, but you still don't want to? ”
Fan Wei looked at him suspiciously, Li Qingyuan smiled and said, "With your ingenuity, can I deceive you?" ”
Fan Wei was still very interested in this sentence, nodded and said: "Okay, I believe you once, but I will follow you until you hand over the weapon to me." ”
Li Qingyuan nodded: "Okay, let's go!" ”
Li Qingyuan began to organize his troops to clean up the battlefield, and Fan Wei looked curiously at these surrendered Qing troops becoming the biggest problem. Li Qingyuan thought about it for a while and decided to use the old way, called Sanniang to arrange it, Sanniang nodded and left.
After a while, the sharpshooter battalion and the second battalion of Shandong began to prepare, and after packing up, they watched the Qing army go south.
Fan Wei was stunned for a moment, he remembered that last time Li Qingyuan said that they were active on Mount Tai, why did they run south? Fan Wei asked curiously, "How did they go south?" ”
Li Qingyuan whispered: "There are still more than 20,000 demons in the Qing Demon!" If you don't lure them away, how can you run away, you old, weak, sick and disabled? ”
Fan Wei looked at the back of Sanniang who was far away, and then looked at Li Qingyuan, and always felt that there was something in it that he didn't know.
After removing the people, all that is left is weapons, grain and grass, and some other tents, clothes, and other materials, and it is now the entrepreneurial stage, so Li Qingyuan has to pick up a piece of rags, except for the worthless wood, the entire camp has been looted.
Fan Wei originally felt that Li Qingyuan was so powerful, and the pressure in his heart was also very great, but seeing that Li Qingyuan was so powerful, like a beggar, the pressure in his heart was also lightened.
After cleaning up, the sky had already darkened, and there was no trace of the Qing army within a radius of ten miles, but Fan Wei's people said that the Qing army in other directions had already sent people into the mountain, or it would not be long before they would find them running away.
Li Qing saw that after cleaning up, everyone waved their hands and went north along the mountain road, and Sanniang, who was going south, also relaxed their vigilance after dark, and the first batch of Qing army prisoners escaped smoothly.
This night, Li Qingyuan and the others hurried without encountering a little pursuer, and the next day the troops rested in a mountain recess, Fan Wei came to Li Qingyuan: "That Qingyuan real person, don't you see that you said that you can give us the short gun first, when was that?" ”
Li Qingyuan smiled: "Do you think we look like we are carrying it on our bodies?" Don't be in a hurry, wait for two days, and we will naturally give it to you when we get to the place. ”
After walking for two more days, Li Qingyuan took Fan Wei to an empty cottage, Fan Wei looked at it and asked, "Is this your cottage?" How come there is no one? ”
Li Qingyuan also observed, he hadn't been here before, the location was not bad, and when he saw Fan Wei asking, he said casually: "No, this is for you to live temporarily, we are on the other side." ”
Van Wei was unhappy: "What does this mean?" Why let us live here? ”
Li Qingyuan looked at him: "I don't want you to know over there, is there any problem?" ”
"You!" Fan Wei saw that Li Qingyuan said it so bluntly, he really couldn't say anything, Fan Wei looked at the cottage carefully, and said helplessly: "Then there are only a few houses in this cottage, and we don't have food, how can we live?" ”
Li Qingyuan was happy: "I have grain, grass and tents to sell, do you want it?" ”
Fan Wei looked at Li Qingyuan in shock, what does this mean, Li Qingyuan carried so many things just to wait for him here, looking at Li Qingyuan, Li Qingyuan smiled and said: "My brother is a good score, not to mention that I am not a brother with you." ”
Fan Wei hesitated for a while, and finally asked helplessly: "Then how much do you want?" ”
"One price, thirty thousand taels!" Li Qingyuan immediately reported a number.
Fan Wei was completely angry: "Why don't you go and rob it!" Li Qingyuan, I misjudged you, I didn't expect you to be such a person! ”
Li Qingyuan nodded: "Yes, your suggestion is very good!" ”
Fan Wei was stunned for a moment: "What do I suggest?" ”
Li Qingyuan smiled and said, "I said what I was selling here!" It's better to grab it directly! ”
"You! I ......" Fan Wei looked at Li Qingyuan and looked at him with a smile, he didn't know what the other party was thinking, and he didn't know if Li Qingyuan said that the robbery was true or false, and fell silent for a while, why is the smiling tiger scary? That's because they laugh at everything they say, and you don't know what he thinks, and you don't know which of his words is true and which is false.
Li Qingyuan saw that Fan Wei didn't dare to speak, and sighed: "You! I don't know if it's good at all, I'm fair to buy *** Did you buy it? Why didn't I just grab it and talk so much nonsense to you? Not to help you? These things are desperately seized by my subordinates, and they have worked hard to carry them, so what's wrong with asking you for money? Love to buy or not? Don't buy it yourself, go down the mountain and buy it! ”
Fan Wei's face changed back and forth, and finally nodded: "Okay, I bought ......"
Li Qingyuan instructed the soldiers to put down the supplies and leave a battalion and said: "This battalion will guide your subordinates to train in the use of muskets, and the muskets will be delivered in half a month. But! ”
Li Qingyuan looked at him and said solemnly: "But during this time, you take care of your subordinates and don't go down the mountain to expose yourself, otherwise Sanniang's efforts to help you divert the pursuers in the south will be in vain!" ”
Fan Wei nodded: "Okay!" ”
Li Qingyuan took the rest of the troops back to his hometown in Shandong, and the first thing he did when he came back was to disinfect the wounded to see how the wounds were healing.
The wounds of these soldiers were cleaned according to the method taught by Li Qingyuan, and the sutures were disinfected with spirits, but without anti-inflammatory drugs, it was difficult to control the wounds of these people after they became infected.
Fortunately, Li Qingyuan bought a secret recipe from a bone-setting doctor, it is said that antipyretic has a miraculous effect, plus soju disinfection, these people can basically survive, unless they are particularly unlucky.
This time these people are lucky, the wounds are healing very well, sometimes the courage of soldiers to dare to fight not only depends on rigorous training, but also to solve their worries, so that they are not afraid of death, and there is a good medical treatment so that they cannot die.
Li Qingyuan can now reduce the mortality rate of wounded soldiers to less than one-fifth, which is also the reason why everyone dares to fight tough battles.
After dealing with the injuries, the second thing is to see the production of weapons, after the production of all the musket accessories, Li Qingyuan arranged for the Shandong firearms workshop to start producing the foreign trade version of the musket, of course, with the current output of the workshop is unable to supply the needs of Fanwei, but the guns for training still have to be supplied here, and Li Qingyuan cannot use his own guns for Fanwei.