Chapter 173: The New Army Shows Its Might
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen nodded at the new soldiers, he didn't know what it was, but he could see from the faces and eyes of the soldiers that there was no adulteration in it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The saluting non-commissioned officer lowered his hand, turned to these new soldiers, and shouted the command: "Finish salute!" Disband! The soldiers then returned to their posts and continued what they had been doing.
There are not only soldiers of the new army in the back garden, but also a lot of servants and servants of the princess's mansion, who don't understand what to disband, and they are still honestly kneeling on the ground, and they don't plan to get up.
"Alright, let's all get up." Ruan Fuyuan raised his hand, and these people hurriedly thanked them, quickly got up, and continued to do their own things. In comparison, the movements of the new army are capable, without a little mud and water, and they look heroic, but although these servants in front of him are kneeling and worshipping, they look extremely strange, which makes him feel a strange feeling in his heart.
Then he looked around the back garden, in the distance, several attackers were kneeling in a row under the supervision of the new army soldiers, and a few servants were carrying the killed and wounded attackers to the side, these servants did not have the consciousness of collecting and treating the wounded through the crowd, the living should be carried to death, the dead should be thrown away, and the wounded were crying and shouting for their mother, so that Ruan Phuc Yuan couldn't help but feel a little happy - let you move my daughter!
Princess Ji walked closer and looked at Ruan Fuyuan with a smile, "Why did my father have time to come to see his daughter today?" ”
"Oh," Ruan Phuc Yuan stammered, "I suddenly missed the princess very much today, so I came to take a look, but I didn't know that such a thing would happen." ”
Saying that, he let out a long sigh, "The water in Annan is too deep now, and even I, the emperor, are a little precarious." ”
The princess was silent for a while, but followed her father's gaze at the new sergeant who was in charge of interrogation.
The non-commissioned officer was clearly a chick, and walked directly in front of several kneeling prisoners with a stick, and from time to time he roared viciously. People are emboldened together, even if they are captives, and now that these captives have passed the initial period of panic when they were exposed to firearms, they are now emboldened, and they now stare at the non-commissioned officer without care, and sometimes even yell at the non-commissioned officer in turn. Anyway, these people who practice martial arts are rough and thick-skinned, and this stick can't beat them at all.
When Ruan Fuyuan saw this scene, he was also a little stunned. This attitude of these captives towards their captors, then how were they captured?
The princess knew what he was thinking, summoned the female officer who was guarding her, reached out and took the pistol, and presented it to Nguyen Phuc Yuan.
Picking up the pistol, Ruan Fuyuan was stunned again, "Didn't the princess present this thing to the Ministry of Industry some time ago?" ”
"Yes," the princess nodded, "it's called a revolver, and when the trigger is pulled, the wheel rotates to the left, and the wheel can hold six rounds of medicine. The hammer fires the pellet forward when it hits it, and the projectile can deal lethal damage to living targets within 30 steps. ”
"What is the purpose of life?" Ruan Fuyuan didn't understand these words, so he had to ask shamelessly.
"Hehe," the princess laughed, she spent a lot of time with Qian Longzhou, a Chinese person, and unconsciously learned their mantras and new words in the spoken language. "The goal of life is the goal of life, in which both man and beast are included."
"But I've seen the pistol that the princess presented me last time, and it's really useless."
"No, my father doesn't know it, this revolver is very powerful, and the fire is very simple, if you are not careful, it will inevitably go off. If you put it on your body and misfire, so close to the distance, it will inevitably cause damage to yourself, so there is a mechanism on the pistol called the safe, if you want to fire, you must first open the safety before it can be fired. ”
As she spoke, the princess checked the safety of her pistol, and then pulled the trigger twice into the empty pond. Sure enough, the hammer at the tail of the pistol was striking, but there was no sign of firing.
Then the princess opened the safety in front of Nguyen Phuc Yuan and pulled the trigger on the pond again.
This time it was completely different, with a crisp gunshot, the fire and smoke stood out in front of the pistol, and at the same time, a high column of water splashed in the pond.
Ruan Fuyuan was stunned for a moment, no wonder he didn't see the launch last time he pulled the trigger, it turned out that there was still this insurance in effect, so he couldn't help but take the pistol curiously and looked up and down.
Princess Yu hurriedly stopped Ruan Fuyuan's action of peeping at the muzzle, "Father Emperor, the muzzle of the gun cannot be at will to people, even if there is insurance, there is always a possibility that a misfire will happen, in the words of those Chinese, this is called a small probability event." ”
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen smiled, picked up his pistol and walked over to the kneeling row of prisoners.
Of course, the captives knew the emperor, and they were already prisoners at this time, but the residual power of the emperor still existed, and they hurriedly bowed to the emperor.
"Ho!" Ruan Fuyuan was a little surprised, "Do you still know that I am the emperor?" Then why are you attacking my princess's mansion and killing my daughter? ”
The captives were silent, and seeing that no one spoke, Nguyen Phuc Yuan opened the insurance according to the princess's movements, and began to ask the first captive, "What is your name?" Who instructed you to come and assassinate the princess? ”
At this time, the captives showed a look of horror in their eyes, you must know that Nguyen Phuc Yuan is not the kind of emperor who grew up in the courtyard of the deep palace to succeed to the throne, he is a general who started from Thang Long, and later fought against North An Nam for more than ten years, and later established Nam An Nam in Hue. This Rongma Emperor has been a general of Annam since the beginning, killing countless people on the battlefield, and has been on many expeditions in the war between the North and South Dynasties for more than ten years, and has a great reputation. Now he walked up to him with the handcuff that everyone had seen the power of the handcuff just now, and all the captives in front of him were trembling.
"Your Majesty, the scolders don't know that this is the princess's mansion, they think it's the backyard of a big family, and they just want to come in and grab some money, how can the sinners be so daring, dare to attack the princess, and dare not offend Tianwei!" The first captive hurriedly knelt down for a while, his head pounding on the stone-paved path, and his head pounding like garlic.
Ruan Fuyuan smiled, "Are you going to take me for a fool?" Whether it is the lantern outside the house or the plaque at the door, all of them say the princess's mansion. Even if the thieves are illiterate, this princess's mansion has been in Hue for 16 years, and even the beggars on the street know that this is the princess's mansion. I'm in a good mood today, and I'll give you another chance to tell the people behind the instructs, but you can pardon you and the others are not guilty. ”
The captives immediately exploded, and one of the captives quickly straightened up and replied, "Your Majesty, we are the ...... of the household" At this moment, suddenly a feathered arrow flew from the wall, piercing the prisoner's chest, and immediately killed him.
The captives screamed and crawled away, fearing they would be the next target. Ruan Fuyuan also looked at the direction where the arrow came in surprise, it turned out that when he arrived just now, everyone's attention was focused on this side, and no one noticed that there were more than thirty archers standing on the wall, these archers were all wearing black suits, the bows in their hands were full, and the arrows in the cold light were pointing at this side.
Ruan Fuyuan was really angry at this time, what kind of black hand is this? Not to mention attacking the princess, now it is a direct threat to the safety of him, the emperor. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be angry, and raised his hand to the wall and pulled the trigger.
Although he is a military general, he may be able to catch a throwing knife or something, but at the moment he has never touched a pistol, and the distance is almost forty paces, so it stands to reason that this should not be missed. However, the biggest requirement of the Type 1628 revolver at the beginning of the design is to have good pointing performance, basically to be able to hit a human-sized target within ten meters without aiming. With the crisp sound of gunshots, I saw an archer at the head of the wall with a whoop, and it fell from the wall like a kite with a broken string.
The archers were also stunned, in the country of Annan, bows and arrows are almost the only long-range weapons, and the distance between them and the emperor is almost close to the range limit of ordinary wooden bows, and the archers who fired just now used iron bows to hit the target.
The sound of gunfire was the order of the battle, and the new non-commissioned officer suddenly issued an order: "Line up!" ”
The red-clad soldiers ran to the non-commissioned officer with rifles, and as they ran, they took out the cartridges from the small boxes on their belts. Soon they were standing in a row on the left hand side of the non-commissioned officer, all of them bowing their heads to reload their weapons, only the non-commissioned officer was holding a revolver in his right hand and a Patton sword in his left hand, pointing his sword at the ground.
When the soldiers finished loading, they all picked up their rifles. At this time, both Nguyen Phuc Yuan and the assassins on the wall were staring at the red-clothed guards who were no more than a dozen people as if they were watching a circus, completely forgetting what they were doing now.
Suddenly, the non-commissioned officer raised the Patton sword in his hand and pointed it at the wall, "Aim!" ”
The soldiers raised their rifles, aiming their guns at the Assassins at the wall. The bound captives on the ground had already ducked aside at this time, and they knew the power of the rifle in their previous combat strength, and they couldn't help but feel sad for their colleagues on the wall. The Assassins didn't think so, they had no idea what the rifles were for, and what terrible consequences the iron pipes would do to them in the next few minutes.
The non-commissioned officer's Patton sword swung downward, "Fire!" ”
With the crackling of gunshots, thick gunsmoke erupted from the muzzle, covering everything in front of the pond for a while, as if a huge smoke bomb had been released. Although Nguyen Phuc Nguyen couldn't see what was happening on the other side, he could hear the screams of "oops, oops" and the sound of his body falling against the wall, which must have hit several assassins.
At the same time, more than a dozen feathered arrows also flew through the smoke, but because of the cover of the smoke screen and the lack of strength of the wooden bow itself, most of these arrows did not hit the new army soldiers, and only one soldier was unlucky, and was shot to the right chest, and fell to the ground with a pop.
The new army in this queue was only twelve or thirteen people, although only one person was shot, but for the size of these more than ten people, it was already about a loss of about 10%.
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen has led his troops to fight for many years, and he knows that the appearance of the first casualty will definitely affect the morale of the entire team, especially for this kind of loss of about 10%, if he can avoid deserters, he is already an elite soldier.
But something surprised him when the wounded New Army soldier fell to the ground and struggled to get up, slowly crawling to the side, and the place he had vacated was quickly filled by the soldiers around him, as if he had not suffered any casualties at all. The soldiers were now obscured by the smoke of gunfire, but they kept reloading their rifles as if the attackers dozens of paces away did not exist.
A gust of wind blew, diluting the thick gunpowder smoke a little, and Nguyen Phuc Yuan saw the results of the salvo just fired by this group of New Army soldiers - there were not many archers left on the wall, and a few well-suited archers fell to the ground crookedly, some did not move, and some were screaming and rolling on the ground in pain, which was in stark contrast to the wounded but calm New Army soldier here. He could clearly see that there must have been a lot of archers who were frightened by the rifle salvo just now, and they jumped off the wall and fled.
"Don't chase it yet!" He turned around and yelled at the stunned palace guards behind him: "If you run away, you will be asked!" ”
The guards hurriedly rushed over there. There was a panicked look in the eyes of the archers, but before they could decide whether to fight or flee, the red-clad guards lined up at the edge of the pond in the distance let out another terrifying firing sound, and the thick smoke rose again, covering the area in front of the pond once more.
Although the salvo was affected by the smoke of gunpowder and there was some deviation in aiming, only two or three of the bullets they loaded the second time were large pellets, and the rest were loaded shotguns. These shotguns are now strafing like hailstones, and they immediately make up for the lack of aim, and they basically didn't run in that direction anyway at a distance of dozens of paces, and the palace guards around them are rushing over there, and if they don't fire them quickly, they may hurt their own people, so the non-commissioned officer didn't wait for the smoke to disperse, and issued the order to shoot.
The walls were now completely devoid of enemies, and the Assassins were knocked off the wall one by one by these tiny projectiles, and they were either killed or wounded, completely deterrent.
Ruan Phuc Yuan's eyes were like an excellent fireworks show, he never knew that he could fight a war with a firearm like this, the number of assassins on the wall had an advantage, but he was beaten by the new army here and couldn't lift his head, and in the end he was almost completely annihilated. On the other hand, the 123 people in the new military region here, under the command of non-commissioned officers with strange styles of long swords, fought with great success, except for one person who was shot, there was no rout, and even the loosening of the formation did not occur.
He knew that these new troops were Annamite, but he could not understand how such a strong army was trained.