Chapter 613: Jiangnan Road, the Country and the People
Li Shun raised his short hammer and aimed at a man who was spinning in a circle more than ten zhang away, not knowing what to do, and the word "salt" was written on the gown. There were still two people on the ground to his left and right, and it should have been the tragic death of two acquaintances in an instant, which made him confused and unable to extricate himself.
But he was awakened by Li Shun's action, his eyes widened, he understood his situation, hugged his head and screamed, and fled in a hurry.
Li Shun put down the short gun, this shot didn't blow out after all, this person reminded him of his original self. Killing the natives of Nanyang in Funan, he didn't have any burden in his heart, but this is Jiang Fu. "If you can, don't kill it." These are the words from his heart.
"The Southern Barbarians all have guns!"
"You just knew!? Where did those guns come from, weren't they given to them by the Nanban? ”
"Holy shit, so despicable! We also have guns, so let's shoot them! ”
The Anglo-Chinese People's Army was being restrained by the officers and recovering from the chaos of indiscriminate shooting, and this gap also made the Jiangnan People's Army begin to regain its composure.
The reason why the salt merchants in Jiangnan organized a large army to attack Longmen directly was because the salt generation supported by Yinghua in various parts of Jiangnan was extraordinary, breaking down the salt cards in various places and killing the salt Ding who went to arrest them, which was still a conservative practice.
Those who were more daring directly gathered a crowd to besiege the salt patrol office.
The Jiangnan government was unwilling to help the salt merchants suppress the salt dynasty in the local area, and the salt merchants were unable to deal with the local spark situation, so they had to set their sights on the old nest of the salt dynasty, hoping to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
The salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, together with the local salt dings, felt that the salt dynasty was just a vicious dog deliberately raised by the Nanban, and the Nanban people should have no trouble.
But I didn't want these six or seven thousand southern barbarians to have guns, and they also listed battle formations, and they were in order. It's not that I heard that the official on the other side was also jumping and scolding, and I was very dissatisfied with their performance, but I really thought that this was a citizen dressed as a red-clothed soldier.
The Jiangnan People's Army did not dare to rush away from these forty or fifty zhang, and a group of firefighters gathered and began to shoot at the Anglo-Chinese People's Army. From a distance, it is like the New Year outside the dragon gate, and the sound of firecrackers is endless.
It is no secret that the concept of sewing pistols is no secret, and when Shi Shifat made secondary pistols in Fujian, Jiangnan craftsmen also learned them. Nowadays, basically no one uses any shotguns, after all, there is no difference between shotguns and tunnel guns in the barrel, that is, the firing device. Now in Jiangnan, whether it is a soldier or a salt patrol, they all use self-made sewing pistols. Not only guns, but also the fixed ammunition of the British and Chinese army has been widely spread, after all, it is only a concept innovation, and the north has also learned.
But Jiangnan's self-produced sewing pistol, not only the barrel technology is still the same as the black gun, the reliability of the sewing machine is not high, plus the gun powder is still the old formula, the Jiangnan People's Army's shooting at forty or fifty zhang away is as weak as the Qing soldiers shooting at this distance with bird guns in the early years. The bigger difference with the Yinghua musket is that because it is produced in various workshops, the process standards are completely inconsistent, and there is no way to put on the bayonet. At this time, the Jiangnan Green Battalion and the People's Army had rapidly "evolved" to a long-range class, and no one used swords and spears anymore.
In addition to the military system of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, Dongguan, Changsha and Quanzhou have also built musket companies, and began to compete for the military and civilian markets, and even the muskets of the Fubo Army have been switched to Dongguan products. But everyone is still proud of having a "Foshan bureau system" musket, after all, this is an old brand, and the latest generation of sewing pistol was also selected by the Anglo-Chinese Army, named "Holy Road Four-Year Style".
At present, Fan Jin embezzled the combat equipment of the Longmen Army and sent it to the people's army is this four-year style, which still has a certain degree of accuracy and lethality forty or fifty zhang away.
In less than half an hour, the Jiangnan People's Army retreated uncontrollably, leaving behind scattered corpses and wounded.
Seeing that this crowd receded to a hundred feet away, they opened fire as if they were setting off firecrackers, and the leaders of the British and Chinese People's Army here were also depressed, as if they were evolving in the direction of dog skin plaster. If you can't beat it, and if you don't run, you'll be annoyed to death......
The leaders of the three dart boards convened the commanders for urgent deliberation, and finally decided that it was time to attack on their own.
"Attack? Dead people! ”
It's just that it's nothing, but you have to take the initiative to rush forward, and many people in the Anglo-Chinese People's Army also have opinions. The "fierce" shooting just now, there were not no casualties here, three of Li Shun's men were injured, one of them was too unlucky, and was hit by a gun in the face, and it is estimated that he will not survive. …,
This made his subordinates very depressed, and they also had objections to Li Shun's request.
"Of course you have to die in war!"
Li Shun finally couldn't help it anymore and began to get angry with his subordinates.
"But we are ordinary people, and we are not soldiers, so it is enough to fight to this point, right?"
Today's Yinghua is not an era when the boss is equal to the master. These company employees can also form a Xijia Bank to negotiate wages with the proprietors, and they are a little resistant to Li Shun's words, and some people even directly retort, after all, among these people, there are coal companies and salt companies.
Li Shun looked at the other party, gritted his teeth and said, "Ordinary people? Do you know how the people of Funan beg for a living? With a knife and a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other, today you are cutting rice, and tomorrow you are cutting people's heads! We Funan people can live, because the Funan people themselves killed it! ”
Another human: "We are not from Funan, and when you say this, it seems that the imperial court has not contributed." ”
Li Shun said: "Of course, the imperial court is contributing, otherwise there would be no people from us to help the south." But just like we shed blood and sweat in Funan, this country is not just opened by the imperial court! The official family said it very clearly, this country is everyone's country, you have the ability, you have the responsibility, but you have to sit back and wait for the court to contribute, this is the same as defeating your own family, you are defeating our country! ”