Chapter 340: When Between the Best

Liu Daxia's punishment of merchants had the biggest impact on making Ningbo maritime merchants faintly biased towards Eastern Qin.

Not only did a middle-wealth maritime merchant go to Dongqin to ask for naturalization, but also big businessmen began to buy a family house in Dongqin.

All kinds of information were also constantly delivered by businessmen, so that Yan Zheng had a better understanding of Liu Daxia's actions.

Liu Daxia didn't seem to have the intention to hide it, even if he knew that the maritime merchants might pass on information, he still offended them to death, and he didn't restrict them afterwards.

Yan Zheng also didn't have the intention to hide it, he knew that Shang Jia's transmission of information was destined to be two-way, and he didn't care that Liu Daxia knew about the situation here.

In every issue of the newspaper, he published an article expressing his concern about the negotiations, and personally explained in the newspaper the reduction of the Shuangyu garrison.

From time to time, he will happily announce that the envoy of the Ming Dynasty will go to Qin again, and the negotiations are expected to achieve a major breakthrough.

And after each negotiation, there will always be a sentence "the two sides have had a frank exchange of views", or there will be a sentence "the two sides have held friendly consultations on issues of common concern".

In short, there was no smell of gunpowder in the newspapers of Dongqin during this period, and it was faintly infuriating to read.

And after several tugging, Yan Zheng also agreed to Daming's request and promised to let them send officials to supervise the number of troops in Shuangyu.

The original three-port trade has also changed to just open Quanzhou as a port for mutual markets.

The unconscious students thought that this move was a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and a wave of students petitioning to join the army broke out.

Yan Zheng was very satisfied with this, and in this pre-war peaceful atmosphere, he would always pay attention from time to time, how many guns and cannons were built, how many new soldiers were recruited, and how many ships were launched.

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At the end of June, Liu Daxia operated miserably for several months, and finally completed the gathering of troops in Ningbo Prefecture, and this time a total of more than 23,000 people were mobilized into Zhejiang.

In addition to the 12,000 men who were assigned to the various garrisons to replenish the number of troops, 11,000 men were selected from among them and reorganized into an army.

The main force of this army was the 2,000 Jiangxi soldiers, led by Kanazawa, and the generals of the original Jiangxi soldiers were used as the skeleton to rebuild the team.

Zhejiang generals Zhao Wenxing and Deng Zhiming, as the deputy commanders of this new army, each received one of them, and Li Ying, brought by Liu Daxia, also received one of them.

It really dispersed Kanazawa's power and ensured that Kanazawa could command the battle.

To be able to gather enough for this 10,000 army, Liu Daxia felt that he had done his best, these days, the emperor's will has come four ways, and it can be seen from the change of will that the emperor is also under pressure.

Liu Daxia didn't dare to delay too much, but fortunately, in order to open and close the mutual market, King Huang was really impatient, and he had already withdrawn most of the garrisons on Shuangyu Island.

Today's Shuangyu Island, there is only one battalion of the Tu people, that is, there are only more than 700 people.

This made Liu Daxia fall into ecstasy, and while he continued to let off the wind and could switch the mutual market, he also said that the people had to withdraw all the troops before they could further discuss.

In short, it is a procrastination until the training of this army is completed.

On the first day of the seventh month, the army will camp.

As people from all walks of life entered the newly established camp, Liu Daxia sat on a big chair and looked left and right with a telescope.

At present, Da Ming has created a telescope, using natural crystal instead of glass, except for a little bit of Mohu, it does not have much impact.

The more he looked at it, the happier he became, for after these soldiers had been selected, and after receiving their salaries and new weapons, they were really more presentable.

After everything was ready, Liu Daxia waved his hand, and someone immediately brought out a batch of cannons tied with red silk cloth.

The army will camp, and it is time to cheer up the morale of the army!

All the cannons brought by Liu Daxia, more than two hundred pieces, were constantly being carried out at this moment.

Among them, there are imitations made by the Ming Dynasty, and some are purchased from the Eastern Qin, and these cannons are wrapped in red silk cloth, which is particularly eye-catching.

After the fifty cannons were arranged, Liu Daxia ordered again to let the commander on the side wave the flag.

With the earth-shattering sound of more than a dozen drums being beaten, torches were lit.

The soldiers in the audience were watching curiously, in the past, there would be camps, and there would inevitably be "high promotion" thousands of releases. The so-called ascension, similar to the three-eyed gun, can only be fired towards the sky.

Firearms since the appearance of the Song Dynasty, it makes the original traditional weapons inferior, this inferiority is not due to the power of firearms, but because when firearms are used, there will be fire smoke and huge roar, so it is also dyed with a layer of mystery, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, have been canonized canonical!

This makes firearms the most powerful place in the camp.

I saw hundreds of soldiers, all holding torches, and when the soldiers next to them stuffed the cannonballs into the barrels, they stepped forward.

As the flag waved again, the fifty cannons were lit in turn!

Peng...... Peng...... Pengβ€”β€”I saw a flash of red light, and the muzzle fire burst out of the gunsmoke and rushed, and a loud sound was like thunder.

The soldiers present were all dumbfounded, and the vast majority of people saw such a thunderbolt firearm for the first time.

After one round of shelling, it will be another round! This time, 25 cannons fired at once!

This made the barracks and the earth tremble slightly, and the momentum reached the sky.

After that, another salvo of fifty cannons was fired, and with the rapid reloading of the guns, it seemed as if only the sound of cannons was heard for a while.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the cannon fire had stopped, and the smoke had slowly cleared.

I saw that the target at 600 paces was already shattered.

The whole audience was shocked, and even screamed excitedly.

Liu Daxia was also shocked, such a dense cannon, such a rapid cannon, he felt that this cannon was used to deal with cavalry, more than a hundred times better than the bowl gun.

"Yang He, what do you think of our army's cannons compared to the people?" Liu Daxia asked Yang Chengde on the side with a smile.

Yang Chengde was also secretly shocked in his heart, he had seen the cannons of the people a few times, but it was the first time that he had seen so many cannons fired in unison.

He arched his hand and said, "Be between the best!"

"The bombardment of those 50 guns, compared to the bombardment of Shuangyu Island by the people that day, which is stronger and weaker?"

Yang Chengde thought about it for a while, and arched his hand: "It should be comparable!"

"Then if these two hundred cannons are fired on Shuangyu Island, do you think the people can withstand it?" Liu Daxia asked with a smile.

"I'm afraid no one can stop it!" Yang Chengde said sincerely.

Liu Daxia laughed loudly: "After all, the people are barbarians, too arrogant, but I don't know that I am rich all over the world, if I work hard for it, why is it difficult to build thousands of cannons like this?" No matter how hard the cannon is, after all, it is the smallest country, how can it be the enemy of the manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"That's what the Governor said!" Yang Chengde was busy flattering.

Liu Daxia smiled smugly, and sighed slightly: "The Ming Dynasty is rich all over the world, if the imperial court loves the people, where is the little man worth making such a big move?"

After saying that, he waved his hand to let the arquebus be played.

Under Yang Chengde's memories and guidance, Liu Daxia already knew that the people were lined up in three tight columns.

It's just that when he used this tactic, he found that the arquebuses would interfere with each other, and he was far from being able to shoot freely.

So the tight three columns became loose ones, and due to the lack of bayonets, they were also equipped with spearmen!

It was also through Yang Chengde that Liu Daxia learned that a bayonet could be placed on the gun.

But the arquebuses he purchased from Eastern Qin did not have bayonet slots, so he had to let the craftsmen ponder them.

For something beneficial, Liu Daxia has a good appetite, but he doesn't care what kind of stupid thing it is.

He tested the tactics of the three columns of the Darkmen, and also felt that this tactic made up for the accuracy, so that at fifty paces, he could ensure that he could hit more enemies.

In the matter of the use of firearms, he still admires the black people.

After he got a glimpse of the mystery, he also felt that the black man's firearms were sharp, which was nothing more than a farther and more powerful firearm.

But if they are all within range of each other, it is really not certain who will kill the deer!

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