171: Snap up
People in later generations know that selling products must be advertised, regardless of whether the product is good or not, advertising must be done well! And for military products, especially those that are mainly engaged in murder, the best advertising is the corpses of enemy soldiers killed with such products on the battlefield! And for the party that acts as an "advertising model", it also has an intuitive say in this product - speaking with casualty figures!
The successive results of the three Ming army units in Gyeonggi not only made the capital gradually realize the impact of this kind of flower skin fast gun on the war situation, but also attracted the close attention of the hit party. Even under the special work of some people, several Xia-style rifles that belonged to the same batch of sales appeared in the hands of the enemies of the Ming army......
"Good gun! What a good gun!! ”
In Li Zicheng's camp, the rapid-fire ability and accuracy of the Xia style rifle made Li Zicheng, a hero who swept several provinces in northern China, full of praise, as a hero who has been fighting for many years, he naturally knows the truth that soldiers are expensive but not expensive, and he has always wanted to form a strong and capable team, but the characteristics of the peasant army are also destined to be difficult to train quickly such as archers and cavalry, which makes him more hope to obtain a low education, low quality, The three-low weapons that can be quickly used with low training can improve their combat effectiveness, and looking at the weapons currently equipped by human beings, firearms are definitely the best first choice.
It's just that he is only good at destruction and not good at construction, and most of the firearms are captured from the Ming army, and the quality of the captured Ming army's firearms is uneven. After hearing that the 10,000-strong team was defeated by hundreds of muskets with rapid fire, Li Zicheng was furious at first, but after calming down, he keenly realized that this new bird gun might be the best weapon to meet his various requirements.
After obtaining two Xia-style rifles through secret purchases, Li Zicheng and his staff members couldn't wait to test the weapons next to their camp.
High precision, fast rate of fire, easy to use, and the leather resistance of the summer rifle at once with its outstanding performance conquered the hearts of everyone on the scene, although none of the people present experienced the failure of the 10,000 people, but they have sketched through their own imagination what the battle of the day was like, that is a rapid-fire **!
"Good gun!!" ** With the Xia style rifle still with residual warmth, Li Zicheng can't put down this kind of fast gun that can fully meet his various needs, if it is not for his own identity and image, Li Zicheng almost didn't want to kiss the Xia style rifle in his hand.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this bird gun is very useful, if our righteous army can also control thousands of them, the great cause is just around the corner!"
Li Zicheng's evaluation of the Xia-style rifle is actually the evaluation of everyone, but the problem is here, whoever sees the Xia-style rifle likes it, and whoever sees it wants to imitate the production, but dear, if you have it so easy to copycat production, Deng Shifeng will not have to spend so much effort to stay in the mountain nest for so many years to develop the industrial system......
Therefore, the answer that Li Zicheng can get is the same as the answer that the governor of Guangxi has received - there is nothing he can do!!
If this imitation is not successful, there are two other ways to obtain it, one is to capture it from the Ming army, but this method is so unreliable no matter how you look at it, and it does not mean that the army is only equipped with so 3,000 and they are all placed in the Gyeonggi area, that is, you really have the ability to go around the capital...... If you really want to capture these flower skin guns, you have to weigh how many people you want to die to consume......
The last option seems to be the safest, and that is - buy!!
In the process of inquiring about these fancy guns, as more news came out, many people also learned that in Guangxi, there was a group of mountain barbarians wearing flowered clothes who had caused trouble a few years ago, and these firearms came from their hands. However, what is strange is that the behavior of these flower skins is different from the bandits and Qing army in the north, although they have a large number of such ferocious firearms in their hands, but the movement is very small, it is said that these flower skins only control the territory of several states and counties, and compared with the giant bandits such as Li Zicheng in the north and Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, it is simply a small role that does not enter the stream.
Li Zicheng was quite happy to learn that these flower skin fast guns were from the hands of chaotic people like himself in a certain mountain nest in Guangxi, and the Chinese pay attention to relationships in business, although they can't figure out why these flower skins will sell their self-produced fast guns to the government, but as long as they are also chaotic people, they can have the same label on their identity, maybe they can make the other party shocked by the prestige and worship of the king by sending people to the past, and for a time the good words in the camp continued, it seems that this matter must belong to the nail to the hand, And maybe you can take these little mountains that have never seen much of the world for your own use......
It is not uncommon for people on Li Zicheng's side to have such arrogant ideas, Guangxi has not had any sense of existence in China since ancient times, plus it belongs to the land of the countryside and the evil land, and it is basically assigned to Guangxi to be an official! Therefore, in the hearts of many people, especially those in the north and the south of the Yangtze River, Guangxi really does not have much impression...... Even if there is, most of what comes to mind is a picture of people with human relationships, tattooed faces, naked bodies, and hairy and blood-drinking......
(Note: In the various ancient books, most of the descriptions of ethnic minorities in Guangxi are in this category in various poems and literatures; And in the past two days, Yimu happened to talk to people about Guangxi in a post at a certain bar, and as a result, a group of people said that they had no impression of Guangxi, and even many people forgot that Guangxi is still an autonomous region, and I am sweating...... However, one of the results of the conversation is that Guangxi, as the place with the largest minority population among several autonomous regions, has such a low sense of existence, and the reason why Guangxi's ** is really not high...... )
The two major opponents of the Ming Dynasty army in the north are Li Zicheng, these rebels and rebels, and the other is naturally the Qing army that is eyeing the outside of the pass. The Qing soldiers were brave and good at riding and shooting knives and horses, and the use of firearms was not valued by them at the beginning, but after suffering several defeats and paying a certain price of casualties, the Qing army also understood that firearms did have his sharpness, especially after the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the army and achieved certain results in the use of firearms, the Qing army also paid more and more attention to firearms.
However, the Qing army at that time attached much more importance to artillery than the musket used by individual soldiers, this is because the combat efficiency of the musket at that time was not high, the Qing army's combat effectiveness was strong, and the Qing army lacked the sharp weapons to attack the city, and the artillery was just able to fill this gap, so the Qing army not only tried its best to collect the artillery of the Ming Dynasty in every battle, but also tried to buy and cast cannons from Westerners.
After getting the Dexia-style rifle and all kinds of information about the flower skins, Huang Taiji was very interested in these flower skins in the unknown mountain nests in the far south, and the Qing army generals under his hands were one by one to make these mountain barbarian flower skins who dared to sell weapons to the Ming Dynasty look good! In their thinking, selling weapons to the Ming Dynasty is helping the Ming Dynasty to fight itself, and it is the object that must be eliminated, and they must let these mountain barbarians know the power of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty!
Huang Taiji didn't say much about the attitude of these short-sighted generals, and put out a sketched map, pointing out how far the distance from Guanwai to Guangxi was...... No one spoke...... Thousands of kilometers away, are you going to swim by water? Or do you plan to ride a horse all the way to the past like Xu Xiake......
However, although the distance between the two sides is really far, there is one thing that must be done; That is, in the news obtained from the ** who collected the money, everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty political axe is a weapon deal with those flower skins, although this business is only half, but the threat that these 3,000 fast guns can bring makes the generals of the Qing army feel great pressure, and no one wants to face such a terrifying rapid-fire weapon in the next battle to become the target of shooting, so how to cut off the threat of the Ming army's firearms to their own side has become a top priority.
The best way is to imitate the same weapon, but like the difficulties encountered by everyone, no one on the Manchu side can imitate this kind of fast gun, but after all, Huang Taiji's brain is more flexible than others, since he can't imitate it, and he can't attack these mountain barbarians, then there is another way to stop the Ming army. - Block the next transaction!!
The method of blocking the transaction seems to be the most effective at present, through the understanding of actual use, everyone knows that the most difficult place to imitate the flower skin fast gun is not the barrel and those parts, but its firing copper cap, the flower skin has only delivered 150,000 rounds of ignition copper caps, so if the blocking of the subsequent transaction makes the Ming army unable to continue to obtain the remaining fire caps and more ammunition...... After the Ming army consumed the original ammunition, these fast guns would be useless!
I have to say that in the early Manchu Dynasty, because of a strong sense of crisis, compared with the political axe of the Ming Dynasty that could only fight in the court, the Huang Taiji and many generals in the early Qing Dynasty were extremely pragmatic in their actions and styles, and the blocking of transactions was not to use the so-called Qing Iron Cavalry to threaten, and you used the army to threaten others in two places separated by tens of thousands of miles...... It can only be a humiliating joke.
Therefore, the Manchu Qing decided to immediately transfer the silver taels and the copper materials that are said to be the favorite of the flower skins, as well as some special products outside the customs, and rushed to Guangxi by sea, trying to find a way to use heavy money and materials to intercept and purchase the remaining fast guns and ammunition!! (To be continued.) )