The three-eyed gun used by the Liaozhen Iron Cavalry is not a very high-end firearm, and in terms of range and accuracy, it is far inferior to the bird gun and the Lumi gun - although it has not yet been improved. However, the reason why this weapon was so popular with the Liaozhen cavalry was that after it was fired, it could be used as a war hammer.

The horses rushed forward and were covered with fire—not many men were hit, but the Mongol cavalry dispersed in panic. Some horses are so sensitive that they will neigh when frightened, and even the most skilled Mongols can not be left behind.

Li Rusong rushed into the Mongol horse team with the cavalry that came in formation, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and smashed the Tatars and horses with a three-eyed gun in hand. No matter where it hits, its combat effectiveness will immediately be greatly reduced.

The Tatars themselves did not know how to metallurgize iron, and there were very few riders with swords in their hands. The three-eyed gun is cast in pig iron, and it can be smashed even if it encounters a real knife, not to mention all kinds of wood and inferior ironware? Some of the Mongol riders scattered and ran away, stopping at a distance to shoot arrows at the Liaozhen cavalry. They all used horse-mounted bows, which were small in power and had a short range, and most of them did not even have iron arrow clusters. Even if it was shot, it would not be able to penetrate the armor of the Liaozhen cavalry.

What's more, how could a famous general like Li Rusong let the cavalry stop and fight? Immediately after the impact, they shouted and formed a formation, passed through the enemy group, and then swept over again, like a storm crashing on the shore, smashing down the hordes of Mongol cavalry.

Xu Yuanzuo finally grabbed the reins and stopped the horse. Luo Zhenquan was also out of breath and followed closely beside him, not daring to rush up rashly. It was the first time for both of them to see the cavalry fighting, and there were only large areas of floating dust in front of them, and the figures of people and horses shuttled among them, and the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

It wasn't until the dust gradually went down that Xu Yuanzuo saw the battle situation.

Li Rusong, Li Pinghu and others had already defeated most of the Mongolian cavalry, and they could be seen fleeing from a distance. Of course, the Liaozhen cavalry would not pursue. Instead, he dismounted and brought the prisoners of war under control of the prisoners lying on the ground. From Li Rusong's order, it can be known that those seriously injured Mongols were only cut off by their heads. As for the lightly wounded and unwounded captives, they were put around their necks with hemp ropes, their hands tied, and they were snatched up and pulled away like cattle.

Li Rusong's face was full of dust, and he rode slowly to Xu Yuanzuo. He grinned. His teeth were extraordinarily white, and he said, "Jing Lian, can I surprise you?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked like he had seen the world lightly, and said, "I have some doubts. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"I always heard that the Tatars outside the border were raging, and it always took a bloody battle to calm down. Now it looks like an elite rabble. Xu Yuanzuo said.

"Hahaha, the Tatars also depend on which tribe of Tatars." Li Rusong said with a smile: "The Tumut Mongols over there in Datong are more fierce, and they are said to be the descendants of Genghis Khan. He pointed to the captured Mongols and said, "To put it bluntly, these people are herdsmen. It is not possible to generalize. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said secretly: No wonder it is crushing. Li Chengliang's exploits here are too simple.

"But it's strange to say, I asked roughly just now, they are all Durbots, and the pastoral area is five hundred miles away from here." Li Rusong spat the soil in his mouth.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "The weather is getting colder and colder every year, and the north has been dry for many years, and the herdsmen have little ability to resist it. As soon as the cattle died, they had to go south to plunder. ”

Li Rusong's expression became solemn and said, "Jing Lian's words are reasonable. ”

"What about these people?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

"Let's see if we can sell it. If you can't sell it. Then kill and ask for merit. Li Rusong said.

"How do you sell it?"

Li Rusong was puzzled: "Jing Lian, do you want it?" If you want it, what else will you say about it and whether you will sell it or not. Just take it. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "I want to open a mine in Dongningwei, and I need labor, I'm afraid I need a lot." ”

Li Rusong turned his head and shouted to Li Ping, who was cleaning up the battlefield behind: "Try to keep them alive, and let them work!" Li Pinghu Yao responded.

"Aren't there dozens of Mongols? Can the Jurchens do it? Xu Yuanzuo asked worriedly.

Li Rusong said: "Don't worry, those scouts who were released will not rashly attack the convoy of so many people, and the main force has collapsed." They must have withdrawn too. ”

Xu Yuanzuo silently counted the number of Liaodong cavalry, and sure enough, there was no loss, and just wanted to praise their strength in his mind, he thought of the chengguan. Speaking of which, this is also the herdsmen who dispersed the riots by the national army, on the one hand, elite soldiers with iron armor and firearms. On the other hand, even iron arrow clusters are not popular, and if there is still damage in such a battle, it will be too embarrassing for the Liaozhen Iron Cavalry.

By the time they returned to the convoy, the Mongol scouts had already retreated. The Jurchens had already put away their weapons and watched with envy as Li Chengliang returned with the captives and horses. Nurhachi held a small bow and shouted "An, An" with great excitement.

Xu Yuanzuo said to Li Rusong: "This pig baby calls you An'an, isn't it called your eldest brother?" Isn't the Takshi a generation higher than you? ”

Li Rusong laughed: "My father likes this child very much, and he wants to accept him as a righteous son, so he will send him to Liaoyang when he is older." I'm with Tucker, haha, don't dare to take advantage of me if you give him a bear bile. "The righteous son here is equal to a slave, which is different from Xu Yuanzuo and Xu Fan.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't say more, this seems to be the script of a historical drama.

"Oh, this horse has to be sold two to Tuckers." Li Rusong greeted first: "They are also fighting the enemy with us, and they always have to give some benefits." ”

Xu Yuanzuo thought so, nodded and said, "Although it didn't come in handy." By the way, is there such a shortage of iron tools outside the border? I don't think everyone in the Takers has a gun or a sword. ”

Li Rusong looked surprised, lowered his voice and said, "How dare they have iron weapons?" None of this is ripe yet. ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded and said, "This generation gap still has to be maintained." ”

"Generation difference?"

"Not bad. We're always guaranteed to crush them. As we did earlier, we have firearms, and they make wood. When we have platoons and artillery, we can let them have iron weapons. Xu Yuanzuo said: "They don't have any iron tools at all, and it's not good for us." Mining, land reclamation, and reclamation all require the use of iron tools, which affects our own income. ”

Li Rusong touched his chin and said, "That's indeed the truth." ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Don't worry, I'll go back this time." Spend money to recruit some skilled craftsmen to see if they can make light and easy to use firearms. I watched the army shoot just now, and it seems that there are not as many people who have been knocked down as they have been thrown off by horses. ”

Li Rusong blushed a little and said, "This kind of three-eyed gun is a stupid thing. If you change the bird's gun, six or seven out of ten is still okay. ”

Xu Yuanzuo didn't believe it.

Li Rusong's face was hot: "Qi Shuai's southern soldiers are like this, can't I do it in Liaozhen?" He saw Gan Chengze. shouted: "Lao Gan, how much of your fire gun was useful back then? ”

Gan Chengze was a little surprised, looked at Xu Yuanzuo, and said, "The fire gun can only be used if he has ten shots and seven hits in thirty steps." Fifty steps on ten shots and six hits. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said secretly: In this way, the hit rate is still quite high. If you play queuing up to shoot, this kind of hit rate doesn't even need to be transformed with a firecracker.

"Zimao, I want to do the business of muskets and artillery, do you think it can be done?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

Li Rusong squeezed his eyebrows for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Jinglian." You don't take the law of the land seriously. ”

"I always thought that as long as I didn't kill people and set fires...... Xu Yuanzuo sighed.

"The imperial court does not allow people to make guns privately, even gunpowder." Li Rusong said, slowed down, and said: "But if our relationship is extraordinary, if you find a place in Liaozhen to secretly build it, no one can control you." But you can't sell to the Mongols and the Jurchens! If they had this, I would be out of luck. ”

"That's for sure. I'll only sell it to you. Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile.

Li Rusong smiled strangely.

"How?" Xu Yuanzuo was stunned.

"Why should we buy it from you?" Li Rusong couldn't help but smile: "Our gunpowder and fire guns are all allocated by the imperial court. ”

"You have to throw away the goods." Xu Yuanzuo sighed.

Li Rusong didn't believe it. The so-called firearms are nothing more than lighting medicine to shoot stones and iron, can they still make flowers?

Xu Yuanzuo didn't explain much. He went through the history of science and technology in his head. Now the gunpowder granulation should have been made by Qi Jiguang, even if Li Teng's improved formula was used. It's hard to be refreshing. In terms of the improvement of the firebolt, see if you can find a craftsman to change it to a flintlock firebolt. Although the power itself has not changed, the ignition efficiency has increased and the firing rate has increased, which is equivalent to increasing the firepower. Especially if it can be used on rainy days, this is a bit of a trick.

However, it is the artillery that shines the lightest. Not to mention fortress artillery, carriage artillery should be very marketable in places where such field battles are the majority. The Tiger Squat is a melee artillery. Its usefulness is not very great.

This idea became even more firm when Xu Yuanzuo saw the first Jurchen village.

The stockade here doesn't even have an earthen fence, it's purely made of wood erected in a circle. Even so, in the words of Taks, it is a "good" stockade.

Outside the border walls, the post station has either become such a stockade. Either this kind of stockade becomes a post station, and anyway, it is a place to rest.

The people in the stockade saw the caravan and came over to trade.

Although Tuckers was displeased, he couldn't say anything about it, but just took advantage of his ability to speak Chinese and find some faults. It's not that these pine nuts are old, or that the deer skin is moth-eaten. Of course, Xu Yuanzuo understood what he meant, and it was better to sell a good family than to make a good connection, and he didn't plan to overcharge the low-level goods here.

"This deer antler velvet is good." Xu Yuanzuo's understanding of Chinese medicinal materials is entirely because of the needs of his family, and he knows that this thing is also a precious medicinal material, and it is one of the specialties of Liaodong, so he intends to collect more.

There are not many in Tucker's own stockade, so he deliberately lowered the price.

Xu Yuanzuo knew what he meant, but he didn't have a good impression of the Jianzhou Jurchen. If Takshi has the illusion of a "friend", then it is purely this Jurchen who thinks too much. So, Xu Yuanzuo gave a lower price, basically exchanging the same weight of rice for these deer antler velvets.

"You see, these antlers are not in good condition, they grow big, they are just antlers.

"And this, how many years has it been there? What else could this be for?

"Oh, this one is too small, and it's not easy to shoot when you get to the gate."

……

Xu Yuanzuo said.

The seller was obviously annoyed, but looking at Li Rusong's soldiers in black armor and iron clothes, he still changed.

As the so-called rabbit died and the fox was sad, Tucker hurriedly said: "You bought it." The market price is not so cheap. ”

Xu Yuanzuo pretended to be helpless and said: "The road is not smooth, if it is more expensive, it is better to sit in Beijing and wait for you to send it." ”

Tucker was speechless, and after a long time, he came over to ask if the price of deer antler velvet and mink could go up a little more.

The effect of ginseng The Jurchens also know that even if they can't sell it, they can keep it for themselves. However, they won't use deer antler velvet, which is also a precious drug, but the price varies greatly. Now that the northern route has not been opened, the Jurchens can only trade with the profiteers of Jingshi, and it is natural that the price will be lowered, so Xu Yuanzuo is standing here as a price setter.

Xu Yuanzuo vaguely remembered that the wild deer antler velvet in later generations was about ten yuan per gram, and it was divided into grades. If you trade rice, one gram of deer antler velvet is almost fifteen catties of rice.

"Since I bought it like this, wouldn't it be sorry for you to just increase the price? How can we be in business without credit? Xu Yuanzuo said.

Tucker Shi said distressedly: "But this, a pound of rice for a pound of deer antler velvet is indeed too low." ”

Xu Yuanzuo pretended to think about it and said, "In this way, the first-class deer antler velvet is still counted as one to one, and the second-class deer antler is still counted as one to eight." But if you are willing to help me receive a large number of goods, for every hundred catties I collect, I will add you a hundred horses of fine Songjiang cotton cloth, which is your labor fee, how about this? ”

"Gotta dye the cloth." Tuckers calculated the price of the cloth, and felt that the labor fee was higher than the regular price, and he couldn't help but rejoice: I met a fool!

"You have to transport it to Fushun for me." Xu Yuanzuo saw those "Mongolian herdsmen" and no longer wanted to go out of the customs to run for transportation. He can use all the southern soldiers now, if he really loses it here, he will lose a lot of money just for the pension.

Tucker said yes.

Xu Yuanzuo had to emphasize: "Don't bring me those antlers that have grown three calcified branches." Also, I want it fresh, and aged deer antler velvet is worthless. "The medicinal value of deer antler velvet lies in the rich amino acids it contains, whether it grows too large or is left for too long, it will cause a large loss of amino acids, which is indeed worthless.

Takshi promised: "Rush to Lushun and give you cash withdrawal!" ”

"By the way, you should still have a tiger here, right? I also accept tiger bones. Xu Yuanzuo said.

"Where's the price?"

"Compare deer antler velvet."

"That's not going to work!" Tucker almost jumped up: "Tigers are going to eat people!" ”

"Won't you take the bones of old and dead tigers?" Xu Yuanzuo refused to relax at all.

"How can it be so coincidental......"

"It's okay, it's best if you have it, I don't force it without me, anyway, it's not worth a lot of money to bring back this thing." Xu Yuanzuo looked compassionate: "I just look at you here and are poor, and you really have nothing to buy......

"Done!" Takshi finally gritted his teeth and agreed, and then whispered: "Deer antler tiger bones can be cheaper for you, but can you bring some more iron?" ”

"You want to build weapons?"

"How dare you!" Tuckers hurriedly confessed: "I just want an iron pot." ”

Xu Yuanzuo thought about it carefully: "I'll try." ”

Tuckers breathed a sigh of relief.

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