Seeing this, Zhu Youjian was a little surprised. After thinking for a long time, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but doubt what he knew about the officers of the Wei Institute. He turned to Wang Chengen and asked,""Wang Chengen, how many soldiers does a guard have? As far as I know, there are no more than two hundred people, right?”
Wang Chengen bowed and said," The Emperor is wise. The number of soldiers defending is indeed no more than 200." As far as this servant knows, each town is different. If it was a military town on the nine sides, the defense would probably only be 150 soldiers!”
Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment and carefully read the line of small words again.
"Tian Jin Fan Village's defensive formation killed the thief commander Hui Hui Ma Shouying, beheaded 1,065 levels.”
Chongzhen placed the memorial on the imperial table and sighed in surprise."A guard with less than 200 soldiers was able to kill Ma Shouying and more than 1,000 people. What kind of brave general is this?”
Wang Chengen was stunned. He walked over to the side of the imperial table and read the memorial carefully. After a while, Wang Chengen also took a breath and said slowly,""Emperor, this is indeed a brave general. He killed more than 1,000 rebel soldiers with more than 100 soldiers and even killed the guards. He killed more than the deputy generals and generals. This is a rare brave general!”
"Even the late General Cao Wenzhao was nothing more than this!”
Zhu Youjian sighed." Killing Ma Shouying must have greatly boosted morale. This kid has made outstanding contributions in this battle." I didn't expect that our Ming Dynasty would have such a good general after Cao Wenzhao. If all the generals of Great Ming were as brave as Lin Feng, then what were Slave Dong and the bandits? We can pacify it!"
Wang Chengen said," It is the Emperor's virtue that has inspired the heavens, so there are such brave generals in the world!"”
Zhu Youjian said loudly," This Defender Lin Feng's performance is not bad. Write it clearly on the red mark. I will reward him with 100 taels of platinum to show his bravery in killing the enemy."”
After the news of the Battle of Ruzhou spread, it gradually fermented in various places, causing various reactions. However, Lu Xiangsheng's army, which was temporarily stationed in Ruzhou, did not know the situation outside.
On the second day after reporting the memorial, Lu Xiangsheng led his generals to the army to check Lin Feng's muskets and cannons.
Lin Feng's battle achievements this time were truly too valiant, causing the various generals to be extremely shocked. They naturally wanted to know how he had won. At that time, they were on the battlefield and couldn't see how Lin Feng killed the bandits. They heard that he relied on muskets and cannons to defeat the enemy, so they wanted to demonstrate it.
Lin Feng had long expected such a situation, so he was naturally prepared. He had prepared ten flintlocks without rifling before setting off from Tianjin to fool the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
As for the cannons, it was fine to show them to the officials.
Lu Xiangsheng and the other officials stood on the drill ground and watched the soldiers demonstrate the muskets and cannons.
Under the control of the Vanguard Selection Regiment soldiers, the ten flintlocks fired at the same time, hitting the wooden targets 70 meters away again and again. The officials of the Ming Dynasty nodded in unison.
"As expected of the soldiers of Tianjin, their equipment is indeed excellent! This musket doesn't use a musket!"
"How can the soldiers shoot with their muskets so confidently?”
Seeing that the generals were watching the show, he followed the generals 'words and said,"When the enemy charges up, firing a thousand guns at the same time can often destroy the enemy's morale in one shot! It was with this firearm that I defeated the old Hui Hui!”
The generals were enlightened. No wonder they could defeat the old Hui Hui.
After firing the muskets, the soldiers handed the flintlocks to Lu Xiangsheng for a closer look. Lu Xiangsheng looked at the flintlock machine again and again. Finally, he nodded and said,"It's strange that you don't use a matchlock for your musket. Did you create this method yourself?”
"This is an idea I came up with by chance!" Lin Feng cupped his hands and said.”
Lu Xiangsheng fiddled with the flintlock and said lightly,""I saw that the soldiers were very relaxed when they shot. There's no risk of these muskets exploding?”
"I will pay the craftsmen enough money for the materials. I will pay six taels for this musket and four taels for the craftsmen's wages." Once a musket exploded, the craftsman would be held accountable, so the musket that was made would not explode!”
Hearing Lin Feng's words, the generals at the side fell silent. The military officers and their subordinates were always thinking about how to squeeze money out of the craftsmen. When had they ever thought about giving enough money for the materials? He even gave the craftsmen so much money to work in peace? This musket cost ten taels, and they couldn't learn it, nor were they prepared to learn it.
Plundering more silver and bribing more immortals was the best way to get promoted and make a fortune. Even if they swept across the world like this, wouldn't they still have to share their heads with them in the end? Although they were paid for bribes and raised weak soldiers, they were still the ones who got promoted and made a fortune in the end.
Give the silver to the craftsman? In that case, he would have less income and less money to give to the various immortals. In the end, he might be attacked by the various immortals if he made a small mistake, and he might even lose his official position or even his life.
It wasn't that Da Ming didn't have a flintlock. According to historical records, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Bi Maokang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing, made a self-generated fire gun and replaced the fire rope gun with a flint gun. But even if someone invented such an advanced weapon, no one had equipped it on a large scale.
Lu Xiangsheng had been in the army for a long time, so he naturally knew the various shortcomings of the Ming army. Looking at the flintlock, he sighed. Although the flintlock gun had been slightly improved on the musket and increased the combat effectiveness of the firearms, the Ming army was still unable to use such a weapon.
There was no other reason. The generals of the Great Ming Dynasty were thinking about how to make money and how to show filial piety to key figures. They were not willing to spend money to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. Even if some generals were energetic, they would have to compromise with the officials of all levels.
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