"Even if it is a self-fired musket, after all, it can't resist cavalry shooting, and the Ming army has a lot of sharp weapons that are no less than the self-fired musket, such as Wansheng Fulong machine, Thunderbolt or something, or has not been defeated by the Eight Banners, Brother Xiao's words are a little biased."

Li Xi continued to shake the pole, and now that the two of them were drunk and "hot", he also climbed up the pole and changed his name.

"Hah! Fool's view! ”

In Xiao Sheng's eyes, Li Shi has gone from mediocre to stupid.

"Many people in this dynasty have praised the matter of Liaodong and belittled the shotgun, but they have not thought about it carefully, assuming that the Ming army and my Qing Dynasty brigade have the same heart as the Qing Dynasty, and they have the heart of rushing into battle, rather than just relying on the generals and their families to coerce, no matter how strong the cavalry and shooting are, they may not be able to rush away. If half of the Ming army dares to fight, Salhu and Songshan are probably a different scene, and now the world is also ...... Uh-huh! ”

"The current shotguns can only be fired once in thirty breaths, and because the soldiers have to carry the fire rope, the shotgun array must be sparse. I had seen the Yangyi's muskets, but I only changed the lighter, removed the arquebus, and fired with flint. The fastest ten breaths can be fired, and the hedgehog can also assemble a formation. If those who dare to fight form a formation with their own muskets, there is no other opponent in the world except artillery! ”

Xiao Sheng's tongue was already showing signs of being uncontrollable.

"All in all, the defeat of the Ming army is not a crime! The Eight Banners Green Battalion, and even the imperial court regard the shotgun as a weapon for the weak, which is ridiculous! The weak man holds a knife and a spear like a chicken and a rabbit. You can take a shotgun, even if it is a woman or a child, at least you can put a shot, and you have the power to fight, just like a dog! And the brave man with a sword and a gun, that is a wolf! Took a shotgun, in my opinion, better than a wolf, is a tiger! ”

He ignores the process and goes straight to the conclusion. Speaking of this, his eyes were leisurely, and he could vaguely glimpse a trace of agitating fire, and Li Xian could see that this was reminiscing.

"Brother Xiao's words made me feel warm, thinking that before I killed Na Lai Yipin, it was also luck to hit thirty steps away. If he doesn't run away, but turns around and pounces back with a waist knife in his hand, as long as I can endure the shooting within twenty paces, even if he can win ten by one, he will die! ”

Li Shi let go of his voice, as if he was talking about wine, and he didn't care about being listened to by others, Xiao Sheng reluctantly suppressed his steaming consciousness and helped sweep around, afraid that this private matter would be leaked. Inadvertently, he took a big step back from Li Shi's mental defense.

"Brother Xiao, are these things from your experience? Could it be that when he was in Taiwan, he also made a contribution by bringing down the chaotic leaders with one shot? ”

Earlier, Xiao Sheng mentioned that he could become the general manager because of his contribution to the Taiping Liu Rebellion in Taiwan, but Li Shi didn't bring this out at that time. It's a door, and it's a waste to open it before the heat comes, and now is the time.

"A shot!? What's the use of a shot!? ”

Xiao Sheng's face was flushed, half of it was wine, half of it was arrogant, and his words were endless.

"You kid shoots accurately, it's either luck or natural ability, don't think that this shotgun's ability is only on accuracy! Shotguns are also fighting in heavy formations, and to use this shotgun formation, in addition to being deeply familiar with shotguns, you also need to understand too many things. I've been messing around for a long time before I have that little experience. ”

"In Taiwan, I can make meritorious contributions, relying on this experience! It was December 12 of the 40th year, Liu gathered a crowd to rush to the river, and Lord Bai led the battalion and the two standard reinforcements of the town and the road to attack a total of 1,000 people. At noon, they marched to a sloping valley near the Rapids Creek, where they were ambushed by bandits, and the whole army was cut into three teams, and the chaos was in a mess. In the Chinese army where Lord Bai was, the bandits had already rushed to twenty or thirty paces away. ”

"At that time, the morale of the army was scattered and they were fighting separately, and when I saw that the situation was urgent, I directly crossed the command team with a thousand men, called up the seventy or eighty shotgunners around, and bombarded them in turn with the Five Dragons Horizontal Sea Array to disperse the bandits that were attacking the Chinese army. Then he rolled up the bead curtain and turned to the flank of the bandits behind the ambush, and defeated them in two volleys. Only then did Lord Bai have the leeway to deploy and kill the bandits who were fighting with the front team. ”

Li Xian carefully avoided Xiao Sheng's flying spittle, thinking to himself that this Five Dragons Horizontal Sea Array should be lined up in five rows and fire in turn, in fact, it should be called "Five Stacks Array". Then he sighed, the guy who sat opposite him emotionally was the person who made the first contribution to pacifying Liu Ke back then. In terms of standpoint, he is an executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of the revolutionary masses......

Then if you continue to fish him and trap him, there will be no guilt.

"It's a pity...... Brother Xiao, if you were born 20 years early, the rebellion of the three feudatories, and the conquest of Taiwan, how could you have a chance to surrender to the land, even if you are not a military gate now, you will become a general. Now that the river and sea are clear, you have no place to use......"

Li Xian's eyes narrowed, as if he was talking unintentionally.

"The river and the sea are clear!? Fart! The Rakshasa ghosts in the northeast, the Dzungar in the northwest, and the Yiren Tusi in the southwest, these are all disasters! Although Yangyi of Nanyang hurt his vitality at the hands of Zheng Thief, he still has a ghost. Especially this foreign Yi, the ship is strong and the artillery is sharp, and sooner or later it will become the scourge of my Qing Dynasty! ”

Xiao Sheng spit out the smell of wine, and his bloody and angry face was revealed, but then he shook his head sadly and sighed.

"The ...... of the Emperor Today"

Even though he was half-drunk, he still gave up his hand to the north.

"Thousands of miles of candles, he must have seen all of this, but I just don't understand why the imperial court is still in love with riding and shooting, and does not focus on firearms! You can't win a bad battle with that bulky red-coated cannon alone, and in the end, you have to rely on the guys in the hands of the soldiers. Let's just say that this shotgun, now Yangyi uses all the muskets. Yaksa, Jungar, the emperor has also seen a lot, why didn't he let the Eight Banners Green Battalion switch to a self-fired musket? It's just a change from a fire rope to a fire machine, a small change, but there are big benefits! The wise man of the Manchu Dynasty, no one said a word!? ”

Xiao Sheng's emotions have also reached a high point, this question is not simply incomprehensible, he is talking about the tap musket, in fact, he is also in the encounter that his shotgun skills are always suppressed and the hero is useless, and his frustration over the years is contained in it. Li Xi can feel this kind of emotion, this is like Ma Han was born in Mongolia, since he was born with me, why did he abandon me...... Not only was his talent useless, but his fate also sank, Xiao Sheng took advantage of the strength of the wine to pour out his depression.

"This ...... Brother Xiao, there is still a difference between Green Camp and Eight Banners......"

Why didn't the Tartar court focus on improving the shotgun? Of course, Li Xi couldn't be clearer, he began to flirt, and the hint in his tone couldn't be more obvious, the imperial court used and guarded against the green camp, and everyone knew this. And these words are just a transition, and what response Xiao Sheng can have is in his expectation.

"Hey-little four, your open-mindedness is a little bit worse, and I don't think ...... you differently because of my big brother."

Sure enough, Xiao Sheng heard Li Shi's words, and his face swelled with disdain, and his attitude was like a debater in a later forum who despised the other party as a middle two.

"You, you're still looking at whether the mountain is a mountain or not, don't be blinded by some gossip! How can the situation of national politics be so superficial? The Manchu and Han families, the current emperor (arched) ...... didn't take this as a lie, some small affairs, what is full of cities, intermarriage, official vacancies, and [***], that is hindered by the ancestral system, and it is not easy to regulate. Some things have been done a little bit for the sake of the peace of the whole world. My Qing Dynasty is already one, and there is no distinction between each other in the roots. Let's just say that this musket is not available in the Green Battalion, and there is no Eight Banners? ”

Li Xian smiled with satisfaction, this Xiao Sheng, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, had to patch up and pull out what Manchu City, what Manchu and Han intermarriage and [***] in order to argue himself in "depth", this is already out of bounds. Even if there is no intention of rebellion, these words will be leaked out and put on the table, and the light ones will lose their hats, and the heavy ones will have to be punished.

But Li Xian didn't come to catch Xiao Sheng's pigtails, and there were no outsiders at the moment, he wanted to blackmail Xiao Sheng with these words, he was going crazy, what he could do was to shake the foundation of this shotgun boss's heart.

Xiao Sheng's words are just to argue with him, Li Xian has too much to say.

Manchu Tartar has always paid attention to firearms, and after the old slave was injured and killed by a red-clothed cannon, the Tartar became a red-clothed cannon control, and tried every possible way to imitate it. Later, he picked up a red-coated cannon on the beach and hit five million. After that, the three mines of Liaodong surrendered the Tartars, that is, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, all of whom were elite firearms troops, especially the artillerymen who had been trained by the Portuguese and knew how to use red-coated cannons, and sent Huang Taiji a 500 million yuan award.

Seriously, the Manchurians did start as a horse archer, but they made their fortune with firearms! After the Manchurian occupation of China, not to mention the red-coated cannons, the Fran machine guns were not allowed to be used by the green battalion, so the green battalion was only allowed to use small cannons such as tiger squat cannons, mountain splitting cannons, and odd cannons. This is the unspoken rule of the imperial court, in the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, Jin Guozheng, the chief soldier of Taiyuan, Shanxi, was stupid and bold, and asked the Ministry of War to make a child and mother cannon, that is, a Fran machine gun. I don't know what kind of psychology the Ministry of War had, but it was actually approved, and then reported to Kangxi, which forced Kangxi to turn the unspoken rules into explicit rules, and emphasized very harshly, "The child and mother cannon are the firearms of the Eight Banners, and they are made by all provinces, and it is absolutely impossible." Former Shi Yide and Ma Jianbo once asked to make a child and mother cannon. I don't allow it, I don't allow it to do it. ”【1】

Artillery aside, let's just talk about muskets, there was a Qing generation, until the Opium War, which lasted for 200 years, and the Qing army, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, had always used arquebuses, and the reason was very simple. At that time, Kangxi suffered enough from flintlock pistols against Russia in Yaksa and Galdan in the northwest, and even his uncle, Tong Guogang, who commanded the artillery team, was killed. The power of this musket, just like the red-coated cannon, the understanding is penetrating to the marrow, and later Qianlong conquered Burma, and planted a big heel on the flintlock pistol, but even so, he still did not improve the musket.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, several emperors did not regard muskets as weapons for the weak, on the contrary, they always regarded them as military weapons. The technical development of muskets, at least the emperor sees it clearly, just look at the various muskets that Kangxi collects in his palace, it is very intuitive, and fools can understand what Xiao Sheng said before.

Just because we know the power of this musket, we must resolutely curb its development. Arquebuses have long been widely used, and it is very unrealistic to ban them after the establishment of the Manchu Dynasty. Fortunately, this thing has too many defects, and it can barely be used, and it is enough to suppress the troublemakers who do not have firearms. The flintlock pistol is different, it is the dividing line between the ancient army and the modern army, and from it, together with the bayonet, it is a complete military revolution [2]. Most of the Tartars don't see this, but they can see that if they indulge in the development of muskets, they will face a very terrible reality, that is, with a gun in hand, everyone can be a soldier......

The Manchurians are only a million, but the Han people are hundreds of millions. The number of the Eight Banners was kept secret by the emperors of the past dynasties, and 200,000 was the speculation of later generations, and these 200,000 miles, the pure "Eight Banners of Manchuria" was only 50,000 or 60,000, and the Han people could drown them with a mouthful of spit. Cannons are strategic weapons that can be held in the hand, but muskets are commonly equipped, and the more advanced the weapons held by the Han soldiers, the more dangerous they are.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, these Tartar emperors were very sober, and this understanding was very accurate, and they also worked this military outside of Wenzhi. In order to suppress this threat from the root, the Tartar court did not even use flintlock pistols in the firearms battalion of the Eight Banners. Naturally, public opinion and the military system also had to cooperate with this policy, preaching the bull breaking of mounted archery and the unbearable use of muskets, and suppressing those who were proficient in muskets. This is the reason why Xiao Sheng is depressed, and it is also the source of his illusion that the emperor and the court do not pay attention to muskets. 【3】

But Li Xi was not stupid enough to say these words bluntly, and what he wanted was not to argue with Xiao Sheng, but to bring the relationship between the two closer. Now is a good opportunity to plant a seed for this guy, his experience, his fate, and the unwillingness and pent-up blood heard from his words, everything shows that he is a suitable hotbed of rebellion.

Li Xi said slowly: "Brother Xiao, let me tell you a little secret. ”

Waiting for Xiao Sheng to swallow a sip of wine, there was no chewing in his mouth, the chopsticks in his hand were put down, and his legs were also placed outside the table, all the "hidden dangers" were eliminated, and Li Shi continued to speak.

"Speaking of this Manchu family, I remembered one thing, the current emperor ......"

Li Xian gave up his hand, of course, the middle finger of his right hand was cocked towards the sky, and Xiao Sheng didn't pay attention.

Turning his gaze to Xiao Sheng's already red face, Li Xian spit out word by word.

"Today's emperor has not shaved his hair."

[1: Jin Guozheng is indeed a fool and bold, he made it while playing, and when Kangxi did not allow it, the cannon had already been built. In order not to expand the situation, Kangxi had to let him put the sub-mother cannon under the town standard and not be allowed to disperse to other co-camps. The reason why it is so tolerant, the author speculates that most of it is due to Jin Guozheng's Hui background. 】

[2: An example of the improvement of the forbidden musket is the bayonet, the bayonet is not unique to the West, in the early days of the Ming Dynasty musket, some people inserted spearheads in muskets, Zhao Shizhen's thunderbolt is also trying to combine cold weapons and muskets, if this momentum continues, it is an inevitable trend for the Chinese army to install bayonets on muskets, and it will not be too late than the Europeans. But after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered China, the development of muskets was banned, and such a simple improvement was not applied. By the time of the Opium War, the shotgun was still the shotgun, and the army was completely [***], so that the Manchu infantry became a real long-range army, even if the Qing army had the courage to fight against the British army, as long as the British army launched a bayonet charge, the Qing army was completely defeated. 】

[3: The highest level of a lie is to deceive yourself, the emperor after Kang Qian, was deceived by the lies of the previous emperor, did not understand the true intentions of his fathers and ancestors, and really thought that he was unparalleled in riding and shooting......]