The Qi family army is the first time to use grenades to fight, and they don't know how to give full play to the power of grenades, especially when the battle is the most intense in the later period, often a soldier of the Qing army sometimes has to suffer the destruction of four or five grenades, plus the power of black powder is indeed limited, and the workmanship is relatively rough, and the consumption will naturally increase. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

30,000 grenades, but only 7,000 or 8,000 Qing troops were killed, which is equivalent to directly using the grenades as repeating rifles.

"The Qing army is now besieging Yangzhou with all its might, there should be no major war on Chongming Island at present, and the Ordnance Bureau's ammunition production is limited, so there is really not much inventory, so let me ask Wu Hao to give you a batch of 5,000 grenades and 3,000 flowering shells." After understanding Qi Hongying's intention, Li Hongfei thought about it carefully and then said.

Although there was no war on Chongming Island, as the battlefield situation changed, the Qi army was likely to advance westward and seize Tongzhou, Taizhou and other places, threatening the Qing army in Yangzhou and relieving the pressure on Shi Kefa.

When the Qi family army changed from defense to offense, the demand for grenades naturally decreased, but in terms of siege heavy artillery, more shells were needed to replenish it.

"As for the grenade being taken away by the Qing army, there is no need to worry about this, the key to the grenade is its special friction line, without this friction line, the Qing army cannot imitate the same product, at most it will be a semi-finished product that relies on open flame ignition."

Qi Jiajun knew that to detonate a grenade, he only needed to pull the rope on the outside of the wooden handle, but he didn't know why this small pull wire would ignite the gunpowder inside.

In fact, the principle is very simple, because the other end of the wire is a special friction line, just like a match skin, and inside the wooden handle of the grenade, is the same material as the match head, which constitutes a ring that wraps the friction line, and a pull line is like a match on fire.

The appearance of the match factory is still a civilian product derived from Li Hongfei's grenade, and the Qing army will not be able to make this kind of grenade at all unless they can get the formula of the match factory.

"So I can rest assured, grenades mainly rely on suddenness, concealment, and have a killing effect, if they are ignited with an open flame, they are easy to be discovered, so that the power will be reduced by half." Qi Hongying quickly understood the key.

In the past, the Ming army had also studied this kind of firearm, and the special firearm for defending the city, the "10,000 enemies", was not much different from the semi-finished grenade.

"10,000 enemies" is a large explosive incendiary weapon, produced in the late Ming Dynasty, used to defend the city, weighing 40 kilograms, containing gunpowder, oil, the outer skin is made of clay, connected with a lead, when encountering the enemy siege, the lead will be ignited, thrown under the city, burn the enemy army and siege equipment.

If the "10,000 enemies" were miniaturized and filled with black powder and steel balls, wouldn't it be the prototype of a hand grenade?

However, this kind of 10,000 enemies also has a flaw, that is, the lead leaks, if the lead is wet on a rainy day, it is basically useless, even if it is put into the enemy camp, some brave soldiers can even cut off the lead with a single sword, so that it can be directly extinguished.

The reason why the grenade studied by Li Hongfei is called an artifact is because its fuse is burned internally, and it cannot be extinguished with water, and when the fuse cannot be seen, no one dares to mess around, after all, no one knows when this thing will explode, and the unknown is the most terrifying part of the new grenade.

"I heard that you have captured a lot of prisoners this time, what are you going to do with them?"

Because the secret of the grenade was learned only by interrogating the prisoners, Li Hongfei was concerned about the issue of prisoners of war.

In ancient times, there was no Geneva Convention, and there were generally only four possibilities for defeated prisoners.

The first is to be contained as a commodity, such as a slave or something, Zheng He was the spoils of the Ming army's expedition to Yunnan, because he was young, so he was castrated and sent to the palace as an official slave.

The second type is to be incorporated as miscellaneous soldiers, which are relatively lucky, and will not die immediately, but their lives will be in danger at any time, because the miscellaneous soldiers will be used as cannon fodder troops in the battle, and will be thrown into the most dangerous place with the highest mortality rate.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many prisoners of the Ming army were compiled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty as Baoyi and Aha, and as dead soldiers in wartime, they charged first to consume the Ming army's firearms.

The third type was sacrificed as a trophy to capture Jingque, and then beheaded outside the noon gate for public display.

For example, in the battle of Wanli Korea in the Ming Dynasty, a group of prisoners of war who were captured were escorted to Beijing by the Ming army for the emperor and hundreds of officials and people to watch, and then the emperor said a word and beheaded them to deter them. These unlucky eggs were publicly beheaded outside the gate of Jingshi Noon, and the people watched them, and then their heads and corpses were displayed for three days.

The fourth type is the worst, which is to be killed or beheaded on the spot.

For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army Mao Wenlong, in the battle against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, never left a living mouth, because before, the Mao Lushun Governor Si Zhang Pan, because of the prisoners, was kidnapped and killed by the captives, so later the Mao army did not leave a living mouth, and the captives were all beheaded immediately except for women and young children.

"The Han people were incorporated into the army, the Manchu people and the main general Li Shutai, after a while, I will send someone to escort to Jinling City and behead the public." Qi Hongying described lightly.

For the Manchu Qing, if it weren't for deterrence, Qi Hongying didn't even bother to waste food, and directly killed him on the spot.

"In this way, those generals, you continue to escort to Jinling City, and the rest of the Manchurian soldiers will be transported to Baoshan Town for me, where a large number of miners are needed, so that they can open mines to atone for their sins." Li Hongfei proposed.

As a modern person, Li Hongfei is still a little unbearable to torture and kill the unarmed captive, now Suzhou Heavy Industry is developing rapidly, and a large number of labor is urgently needed, and miners even in the later generations of advanced science and technology, are high-risk industries, according to Suzhou's disability compensation policy, this is a large amount of expenses.

If the miners are replaced with prisoners of war who have no wages and no disability allowance, then Suzhou Heavy Industry will virtually save a lot of expenses.

"No problem, I'll arrange for someone to send the captives over for you. But I've helped you so much, can't you really give more grenades? How about another 10,000? It really doesn't work, it's good to add 5,000 more. Qi Hongying asked for benefits.

She knows the power of grenades, and she's never too little.

"It's really not that you don't give it, and the production is limited, so let's do it, the 5,000 grenades, and the 3,000 shells, I don't charge you money, just treat it as if I spent money to buy prisoners of war in your hands." Li Hongfei said.

The price of grenades is not cheap, one will charge one or two lines of silver, and the price of flowering bombs is not low, one will cost eight yuan, a total of seven thousand four hundred taels.

The total number of prisoners of war was only more than 6,000 people, which was equivalent to buying a prisoner of war with more than one or two pieces of silver, which was a relatively valuable human life at that time.

Qi Hongying originally just wanted to fight for a little more, but seeing that Li Hongfei didn't let go, she didn't continue to entangle, but asked him to hurry up and approve the slips, so that she could go back to Baoshan Town to transport the equipment, and by the way, Li Hongfei would be "returned" to Chen Yuanyuan.