A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the middle of July.

"It's really unpleasant, I can't stand it."

During the previous examination in the hospital, the old doctor said that Zhou Changfeng had some yin deficiency, so he prescribed medicine to let him drink medicine on time to recuperate, and the latter complied.

It's just that this decoction mixed with dendrobium, asparagus, mulberry and other medicinal materials is really not delicious, and Zhou Changfeng still hasn't been able to adapt to it after a few days.

He took another big sip of cold white open with a bitter face, which diluted the strange taste of Chinese medicine in his mouth.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside the door, and someone reported: "Battalion commander, there is your letter." ”

After walking over to open the door, Zhou Changfeng found that he had received two letters at once?

Today's envelopes are different from the more common horizontal plates in later generations, but are vertical, with three vertical red frames on the left, middle and right, respectively writing the recipient, the recipient address, and the sending address.

Both letters had been opened, and a bright red square stamp was stamped on the front to indicate that the verification was correct—the wartime verification of the letter would not be suspended until the division of the 3rd Mixed Brigade was to be suspended.

He looked at it as he walked, the ordinary yellow-brown envelope was sent from Wuhan Mansion, and the other looked much more delicate, it was white kraft paper, sent from the local Yingtianfu.

Zhou Changfeng opened the envelope and found that it was sent by his sister, to the effect that she had learned about the war situation through the radio and newspapers, and heard that his unit had gone to the front line, so he sent a letter, and asked him to reply as soon as possible.

In Zhou Changfeng's impression, his married sister is a quite self-reliant woman, his father died when he was young, and his mother had to work, it can be said that Zhou Changfeng was brought up by his sister since he was a child, and when he applied for Nanjing Martial Arts, she also persuaded his mother with her help.

As for the other letter, he opened it and unfolded the letterhead, first looked at the inscription, and the words "Xia Xiaoshi" were particularly conspicuous.

From the beginning, "Mr. Zhou Changfeng Huijian......

While reading the letter, Zhou Changfeng sighed with emotion: "This little card is also too good-looking." ”

I have to say that a good word that is pleasing to the eye can indeed greatly increase the perception.

To put it simply, the letter was to the effect that he would like the pistol, and if she would return it in two days, and a few other things.

What's more, give it all, take it.

To tell the truth, Zhou Changfeng didn't have Xia Xiaoshi's idea yet, he felt that it was better to communicate for a while before making plans, so he wrote a reply casually.

After writing the replies to the two letters, he casually opened the drawer, tore off two of the stamps in a bunch of stamps, and pasted them for people to deliver to the left-behind units of the Post Office of the Third Brigade.

Now that the war has not ended, his unit is also on the way back, and then he has to replenish and recuperate, and the next month is almost a holiday.

With nothing to do in the past few days, Zhou Changfeng already felt a little bored, so he wondered if he should find something to do for himself.

First of all, it is necessary to sum up the lessons of this battle and the problems of our own negligence, which is an indispensable link, and it does not mean that we can see everything if we win the battle.

But there's no rush in this matter, and we'll do it when the troops come back and settle down.

Until then, let's do something that comes easily.

He pulled one out of a stack of snow-white rice paper in the cabinet, then picked up a pencil and ruler, and drew it as he thought about it.

In the history of warfare, there will always be some small inventions that have played a big role and even influenced the form of warfare.

For example, the large-scale application of bayonets completely eliminated pikemen, made musketeers a presence that could be used independently, and also perfected the tactics of lining up to shoot.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, due to the critical situation and the rush of time, Gaozu of the Later Ming Dynasty did not have the leisure to organize the production of flintlock pistols with low yield rate and more time-consuming, and the infantry under his command actually relied on spears, bows and arrows, and heavy arquebuses to fight the world.

However, in the middle and later periods, the gradual mass production of flintlock muskets replaced the arquebuses of some elite troops, and since there was no need to worry about igniting the gunpowder on their companions, the flintlock infantry could be denser and theoretically more powerful.

However, the actual situation is not idealistic, because the flintlock pistol is inherently a malice rate of up to 1/10, the generals are not interested in it, and find this expensive and unreliable thing very frustrating.

At the same time, because the manufacture and processing of sleeve bayonets was very time-consuming and laborious, and the production was insufficient, until the Later Ming army recovered Yanjing, there were only a few elite troops equipped with flintlock pistols and bayonets.

For the same number of flintlock infantry units to surpass arquebus infantry units in combat efficiency, bayonets were the indispensable key. For example, for the same 1,000 men, the arquebus unit is half the musketeer and half the pikeman, while the flintlock unit can be fully musketeer if it is equipped with bayonets.

But if all personnel cannot be equipped with bayonets, then the flintlock unit will not be as cost-effective as the arquebus unit.

The root of everything is that Hou Ming Shizu died too early, and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the winter of the second year after Hou Ming pacified the world.

Without his deliberate promotion, the Ming army, which was no match in Asia, naturally had no impetus to upgrade its weapons and equipment, for example, the generals of the Ming army who attacked Wusizang even clearly complained in the Tang newspaper that the mute rate of flintlock pistols was too high, and only arquebuses could be equipped with arquebuses in the future.

Barely able to be called an opponent was the Tsarist Cossacks who invaded Nuer Gandusi, but after the post road was rebuilt, the simple fortress on which the invaders relied was blown up into the sky by the Ming army with tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, and then it was submerged by the superior force of five to one.

For a long time after that, due to the lack of a strong military threat, the weapons and equipment of the Ming army army and land divisions have been standing still.

It is worth mentioning that the sailors felt that the Galen ships were very useful, so in addition to a large number of light warships, the Fujian and Guangdong sailors have always maintained a small heavy fleet, with the purpose of clearing out the powerful and arrogant pirates in the South Seas.

This heavy fleet generally consisted of four 74-gun Galen ships and six or seven 48-gun Galen ships, as well as a dozen 24-gun Chinese large bird ships.

The special thing is that in addition to the European triangular soft sail used for the bow mast and stern mast of the Galen ship of the Fujian and Guangdong Naval Division, several main masts are Chinese-style hard sails, which is the biggest feature.

Generally speaking, this fleet would go to the South Seas in the autumn and winter to patrol and suppress bandits, and finally go to the old port to defend the Comfort Division, at this time, because of the ocean currents and monsoons, many merchant ships would go to sea, so a large number of pirates also came into being.

It gradually formed a rule to go to sea to suppress bandits, just as the border army of the Ming Dynasty would organize people and horses to go out of the fortress and set fire to the wasteland every year.

After the fall of the Old Port Xuanwei Division again, the scope of the small heavy fleet of the Fujian and Guangdong Naval Division was limited to the Nansha Islands.

At that time, the situation was that the Dutch, British, and Portuguese all wanted to drive the Ming forces out of the Nanyang region, but because of the trade surplus, they were afraid that the Ming would impose a trade ban on them, so they carefully planned a joint action to encourage the local indigenous rebellion, and sent troops to participate in the war in disguise, disguising the fall of the Old Port Xuanwei Division as an indigenous rebellion.

Later, when the eunuchs sent by the emperor came to hold him accountable, the Dutch bribed him and made him return to Beijing to claim that the recovery of the old port was more than worth the loss.

Since there is almost no trade deficit in the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military officials actually have little interest in the Nanyang region, and they have little motivation - the heavens and the earth are vast, and foreigners want to come to buy things, so why should we venture to the sea ourselves? Isn't it nice to sit at home and collect money?

So the plan to recover the old port came to naught.

The heavy fleet did not die out, it existed for a total of 170 years, and remained in combat power until it was annihilated by the British in the first war.

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[After reading the comments, everyone's suggestion makes sense, Shizu is more suitable than Gaozu, if you use the latter, Houming is more like an independent dynasty, Houming Gaozu → Houming Shizu, these two days I took the time to change the previous text. 】

[Thanks to the support, recommended on the small speaker, you need an attractive recommendation, do you have any good ideas? ] 】