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"Zhaoqing is an important town in western Guangdong, and it is also an outpost of the invasion of the east and the west, and the military grain in the warehouse is sufficient, coexisting coarse grain, and more than 6,000 stone of fine grain, which is enough for the army to use in January. There were more than 60,000 taels of gold, silver, and copper coins in the treasury of the domain, which were converted into two taels of silver. In addition, 230,000 taels of gold and silver and more than 1,500 stone of grain were extracted from the mansions of the Tartar officials and the Han thieves and gentry. ”

Wang Fuzhi, the envoy of the capital supervision army, complained slightly, and continued: "In addition, a total of more than 300 pairs of leather armor, iron armor, and cotton armor were seized, more than 1,500 pieces of swords, guns, shields, and crossbows were intact, more than 300 qualified bird guns, a four-pound Hongyi cannon, 13 tiger squat cannons, and countless city defense equipment such as poison, rockets, guest stays, iron thistles, night thunder forks, and wolf tooth swatters, in addition to more than 200 war horses. ”

Wang Fuzhi listed the captured booty one by one, and the order was clear.

Zhu Youlang nodded, indicating that he understood.

In this battle, there were about 200 people who were seriously wounded, killed in battle, and about 200 auxiliary soldiers, and nearly 3,000 people were captured and annihilated in the green battalion of the Qing army.

These sergeants were all cultivated by him after spending a lot of time, they were his loyal subordinates, and they were also the capital that determined whether he could survive in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youlang also knew that if he wanted the guards and soldiers to grow up quickly, they had to go through the baptism of blood, the big waves washed the sand, and the hundred refining into gold, and some prices had to be paid.

He has nothing to say about the dead guards, and he will definitely bury them well and bury them ceremoniously, so that their souls can rest in peace.

For the injured, Zhu Youlang will also give medical treatment with all his heart, serious injuries are more difficult to treat, to some minor injuries, as long as they are taken care of a little better, do not cause inflammation of the wound, and after a few days they will be alive again.

Zhu Youlang attached great importance to the ordnance and weapons he had obtained, and specially instructed Wang Fuzhi to collect them into the warehouse and distribute them to all battalions and regiments as needed.

With artillery, iron armor, leather armor, and bird guns, the army's combat strength can be further enhanced, especially the more than 300 bird guns and more than a dozen tiger squat guns, once distributed, they can quickly enhance the army's firepower and long-range strike capability.

Although the power of the bird gun is not much stronger than that of the bow and arrow, it only takes one to two months to train a good bird gunner, or even nothing; And if you want to train a qualified archer, it takes several years, and the cost performance is too low.

The strength has increased so much at once, and Zhu Youlang can't help but be excited. But she was only excited for a moment, and then her eyes dimmed again.

It was already the middle of the seventeenth century, and many countries in Western Europe were already equipped with better flintlock guns, and the original arquebus was eliminated by Western European countries as early as the sixteenth century. But until now, the domestic army is still dominated by cold weapons, and even the arquebus can be regarded as the top weapon, what a sad thing!

What is even more tragic is that in the original historical script, from 1644 after the Manchurian Tatars entered the customs until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period at the end of the Qing Dynasty, for more than 200 years, the Qing army, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, has always used arquebuses, and has never considered switching to more advanced flintlock guns, while Western European countries have already changed their firearms for several generations in more than 200 years.

Could this be because the Manchu emperors did not know about flintlock pistols, a firearm that appeared in the mid-16th century? Or is it really not aware of the importance of muskets?

Definitely!

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty did not regard muskets as weapons for the weak, on the contrary, they always regarded firearms as heavy weapons of the military.

Seriously speaking, although the Manchurian Tartars started with cavalry shooting, but in the end they relied on firearms to make a fortune, when the old slave Nurhachi was killed by the Ming army's Hongyi cannon, the Manchurian Tartars began to attach importance to firearms, after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he paid more attention to firearms, and tried every possible way to imitate them. Later, after Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi surrendered to Huangtaiji, the Manchurian Tartars had elite firearms troops. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the south relied on the firearms of the three miners and the green camp to sweep the Central Plains.

During the Kangxi period, the Qing army fought against Tsarist Russia in Yaksa, and against Geldan in the northwest, often used ten times or even dozens of times the strength to fight against them with flintlock pistols, but they often suffered heavy defeats and suffered enough from flintlock pistols. Therefore, Kangxi's understanding of the power of this firearm is the same as that of the Hongyi cannon back then, and his understanding penetrates into the bone marrow. Later, Qianlong's southern expedition to Burma also planted a big heel on the more advanced flintlock pistol, but even so, he still did not improve the musket.

Dai Zi, a firearms expert in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, imitated the "mother and son cannon" that was claimed to be only made by the Belgians at that time, and invented the world's earliest machine gun "Lianzhu Firegun", also known as the Twenty-eight Lianzhu Firecracker, his shape is very similar to that of a pipa, and he can shoot 28 bullets in a row, and the firepower is very powerful. When he paid tribute to Kangxi, Kangxi praised him on the surface, secretly put the fire gun in the cabinet, and strictly ordered him not to rebuild. Kangxi was still not at ease, and then found a reason to exile him to one of the most desolate places at that time - Liaodong.

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty once collected all kinds of firearms in their palaces, among which there was the most advanced rifled gun at that time - the rifle! But it has never been popularized in the army.

It was because the Tartar Emperor understood the power of firearms too well that he resolutely curbed its development. If you indulge in the development of firearms, you will face a very terrifying reality, that is, with a gun in hand, a woman, child, old and weak can kill a warrior of the Eight Banners!

As for why they didn't ban the bird gun, maybe it was because the bird gun was popularized as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was very unrealistic to want to ban it after the founding of the Manchurian Tartars, but fortunately, the bird gun had too many defects, and the power was not much stronger than the bow and arrow, and it was not a big threat to them, so it was not banned.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the pure Manchurian Eight Banners were only fifty or sixty thousand, even if the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were added, the Eight Banners of Mongolia were still only one million, and the Han people could drown them with a mouthful of spit, and the more advanced the weapons in the hands of the Han people, the more dangerous they were Manchurian, which the Tartar Emperor knew very well.

In order to ban this threat from the root, on the one hand, they strictly prohibited the spread of firearms, and on the other hand, they did not even equip the Eight Banners with more advanced firearms, paralyzing the Han people, thinking that the Manchus and Hans were one. Not only that, but in the selection of military academies, almost all of them are cold weapons, and no matter how well they use firearms, they cannot do military schools, thus systematically inhibiting the further development of firearms and firearms tactics.

Under the constraints of layers, the Tartar Emperor was still not at ease, and he still hyped up the uselessness of firearms and the invincibility of cavalry and archery in the army, and wanted to ignore the Han military academy from the military ideology.