The light rain continued, and a few landscape trees, growing alone in the courtyard, were short and not tall. The birch forest not far from the house, dense, swaying in the wind with a puff of fog, although it does not have the style of a large forest, but has its own style.

Footsteps were heard.

Zhou Lu withdrew his gaze to enjoy the scenery outside the window, and without waiting for the people outside to speak, he spoke first: "Xu Da, come in." ”

Xu Da pushed the door in, hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, the soldiers eat immortal rice, and their morale is greatly boosted again." ”

"Well, that's good."

Zhou Lu nodded.

Under the nourishment of the high-quality soil and abundant aura of the small world, the rice grown, in addition to being able to eat a full stomach and rich in nutrition, has the effect of slightly replenishing vitality and strengthening muscles and bones.

But the key is that in front of the soldiers, he once again performed out of nothing and conjured up a lot of rice.

Rice is a very expensive thing in the north, and it is not a food that can be eaten casually.

Therefore, when the soldiers confirmed that the rice conjured up was really edible and tasted particularly fragrant and delicious, their morale was naturally boosted.

Xu Da's gaze turned to the table, which was a long-handled weapon.

He asked, "Your Majesty is studying the Three-Eyed Divine Weapon?" ”

The three-eyed eye gun is a three-barreled gun, which can be stuffed with three shots of lead bullets and three gunpowders at one time, which are lit in turn and fired three times in a row.

It's a bit of a primitive idea of a Gatling gun.

The three-eyed god gun is an important weapon of the Shenji Battalion and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and when it was first invented, it was the leading in the world.

But the flaws are also very obvious, and the imperial court has not increased its efforts to improve and innovate for decades.

Zhou Lu nodded, and said with a smile: "I tried it just now, this god gun is not too godly, its power and range are limited, and it is easy to explode." ”

It is already polite to say that the power and range are limited, for Zhou Lu, who is used to holding the S12K shotgun, these three-eyed guns can only be regarded as artillery battles, and the sound is loud enough, but if the enemy wears thick armor, he can't penetrate it at all, he can't cause much damage, and it's not easy to aim.

"Explode, Your Majesty's dragon body ......" Xu Da's expression tightened.

"I'm fine, this kind of power can't hurt me." Zhou Lu walked to the table and picked up the damaged three-eyed god gun.

A strong person in the transformation realm who is not afraid of bullets, and the explosive chamber with the average power of gunpowder is of little use at all.

A few decades ago, such a simple firearm was more than enough to deal with a northern barbarian like the Qing army.

However, the Ming Dynasty was a group of stubborn literati who were stubborn and old-fashioned, and really thought that half of the Analects could rule the world, did not want to forge ahead, but did everything possible to obstruct the introduction and development of new things and new technologies, so that the development of firearms was difficult, and the navy was stagnant in the "sea ban" policy, while Europe was developing rapidly in both navigation and firearms.

Zhou Lu recalled some ridiculous things from Zhu Youzhen's vague memory.

As early as forty or fifty years ago, the Dutch and Portuguese had already sailed their ships to the southeast coast of China.

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, that is, in 1604 AD, the Dutch had a military conflict with the Portuguese on the southeast coast of China, and used a front-loading smoothbore cannon, which the Ming people called "Western cannons".

It was only at this time that Ming officials noticed that the power, range and accuracy of European-made cannons were much higher than those of all kinds of old domestic artillery.

The Dutch have mostly reddish hair, so they call them "Hongmaoyi", so they call this advanced European artillery "Hongyi cannon".

However, most of the diehard officials and emperors in the court were very ignorant of artillery technology and did not pay attention to it, so they actually put down the matter of purchasing and researching Hongyi cannons.

Twenty years later, in the face of the rise of the Qing army, the pressure of the border war was very great, so the Portuguese in Macao purchased the Hongyi cannons, and went through great hardships to pull these artillery from Macao to the capital, but the internal controversy of the Ming court reappeared, and the old minister proposed that "if the foreign guns can protect the country, what will our generation become".

It means that the issue of the face of the Celestial Empire is more important.

In this way, the vigorous introduction and development of the Hongyi cannon was once again obstructed by the civil servants.

It was not until the Chongzhen period that the great effect of the Hongyi cannon in the military was discovered, especially when attacking or defending the city, and then began to hire foreign talents to imitate it in large quantities.

And this is tantamount to wasting forty long years.

During this time, it was also the rapid development of the Qing army, attacking the city and conquering the territory, while the Ming army was defeated and retreated, suffering heavy losses, and could only be trapped in Shanhaiguan, unable to counterattack the Northern Expedition.

If the Hongyi cannon had been introduced and developed 40 years earlier, and then the "rifled guns" that had been equipped by the European armies had been introduced, the Qing army would never have been able to reach Shanhaiguan, and the north had long been unified, and the Qing army was likely to have been beaten back to the Stone Age by the Ming army.

Judging from this period of history, how ignorant and terrible the stubborn and old-fashioned Wenchen is.

And what is even more terrifying is that they have great power and control the court, and the emperor has also been educated in this area since he was a child, and he has been deeply involved in the palace, lacking foresight.

In later generations, a primary school monk came through, who may be stronger than such an emperor, who knows how to do his best to develop firearms such as guns and cannons.

And my brother who graduated from high school is of course even more awesome.

System prompt: "Ding, the host is self-soothing coquettish, and gets 270 coquettish points." ”

I go, coquettish to myself, can also increase coquettishness......

Zhou Lu thought it was very interesting.

At this time, Xu Da reminded: "Your Majesty, after an hour, it will be an appointment with the Qing army." ”

Zhou Lu said: "Is everything ready?" “

"Everything is ready, just waiting for the arrival of the Qing army."

"Okay, you go down and keep an eye first, and don't let anyone leave the barracks."

"Yes! The minister retired. ”

Xu Da left the room.

The house where Zhou Lu was located originally belonged to Wu Sangui's temporary residence.

Last night, Zhou Lu only brought four people into here, easily suppressed Wu Sangui's rebellion, and snatched back the military power.

afterwards

Zhou Lu ordered the news to be tightly sealed, and everyone was not allowed to leave the barracks, and the Qing army outside Shanhaiguan did not know that the military upheaval had occurred in Shanhaiguan, let alone that the Ming Emperor had sat in Shanhaiguan.

Wu Sangui agreed with the Qing army that after dusk today, Dolgon, the regent of the Qing army, would enter the customs with a large army, meet with Wu Sangui, and accept Wu Sangui's surrender.

This is Wu Sangui's old scheming, and he wants the Qing army to be a guarantee for him.

In case the ambush attack on Chongzhen fails, he can still unite with the Qing army and attack the pro-conquest team again.

Wu Sangui made a lot of calculations, but he didn't calculate that he died before he left the school, and before he could declare a rebellion to the outside world, he was cut off by Zhou Lu.

After Zhou Lu knew his agreement with the Qing army, he decided to make a plan, set up an ambush, and catch turtles in an urn, hoping to kill Dolgon later.

(End of chapter)