"General Zuo, how have you been?"
Zuo Zongtang retracted his gaze and took a look.
"You are the general of the Han army?"
He had already changed the way he addressed the Han Army. He had always called the Han Army the rebel army, but now he called them the Han Army.
It could be seen that the Han army had already won his respect and recognition!
It was no wonder that his Chu army had an advantage of four to five times their strength, but they were almost wiped out by the other party.
Even if the Han army did not create a flood and went head-to-head with them, judging from the results of the foreign mercenaries, they would not be a match for the Han army.
Therefore, Zuo Zongtang had no reason to underestimate such a powerful army!
"Why, do you think I don't look like the Left General?”
Lin Yu smiled.
Zuo Zongtang frowned and looked at him deeply. He said,"
"From the respectful attitude of the generals around you, you are undoubtedly the general of the Han army!”
"But…"
"But what?"
"It's just that he's a little too young!”
These words were Zuo Zongtang's true thoughts. Lin Yu looked to be in his early twenties. It was hard to imagine that a person at this age was already the leader of such a powerful army!
"Hehe, I'll take that as a compliment!”
Lin Yu chuckled. In fact, it was normal for Zuo Zongtang to have such a reaction.
He was indeed very young now, especially when compared to Zuo Zongtang who was over fifty years old!
"I have a question. I wonder if General can enlighten me!”
Zuo Zongtang's expression became serious. This was a question that he had been thinking about since he was defeated and captured.
However, he had never found the answer!
"Do you want to ask how I built such a powerful army in such a short period of time?”
"Yes, this is indeed my question!”
Zuo Zongtang nodded.
The Han army did not look like a mob at all. Instead, they looked like a well-organized and disciplined elite army.
Especially the weapons they were equipped with. After they were captured, he had observed them up close.
Whether it was the guns or cannons of the Han army.
These pieces of equipment were very different from the ones they had seen and used before!
Lin Yu understood what he meant, so he waved his hand and instructed the soldiers beside him.
The bodyguard nodded and ran away with small steps.
Zuo Zongtang did not know what he was going to do, so he could only wait quietly out of curiosity.
A moment later, a group of Han soldiers with loaded guns walked over.
"One, two, halt!"
Whoosh!
The dozens of soldiers seemed to be carved out of the same mold. The moment they heard the order, they stopped in unison.
"Turn left!"
With a crash, all the soldiers completed their turn under the command of the company commander.
Zuo Zongtang was shocked.
Even the elites of the Chu army would find it difficult to execute orders and move in unison!
"General, may I ask if this army is an elite army?”
In Zuo Zongtang's opinion, to be able to achieve such unity and the entire army's movements were like one person, this must be an elite unit carefully selected from the Han Army. How could an ordinary unit do this?
"Elite? This is just a random company of recruits that I randomly pulled out from my army!”
Hearing Zuo Zongtang's words, Lin Yu sneered.
The elites of the Han army were the 3,000 Taiping soldiers from before. The rest were just a group of new recruits who had joined the army for less than two months.
The 3,000 Taiping Country Army veterans had already been scattered throughout the army.
He didn't have the intention of wasting his energy to find those seasoned soldiers just because he wanted to show off his martial strength to Zuo Zongtang.
This company was indeed an ordinary company randomly found in the army.
Although they were all new recruits, under the modern military training system of the Han army, their postures, formations, and movements were completely superior to those of the Qing army.
The only thing he lacked was combat experience.
However, with the experience of the eastern and western expeditions, coupled with the confidence brought by defeating the Chu army that was several times their number, they would quickly accumulate experience and grow!
This could be seen from the Han Army's confident expressions.
"Unbelievable!"
Zuo Zongtang took a look at Lin Yu. He did not look like he was lying.
Moreover, many of the soldiers in this army did look like new recruits. They did not have the fierce aura of veterans.
However, what replaced it was a sense of strict discipline, a sense of oppression that was as uniform as a machine!
This kind of army was even more difficult to deal with than experienced veterans!
Zuo Zongtang thought that his defeat was not unjustified. The other party was indeed a powerful army. Whether it was in terms of weapons and equipment or the morale of the soldiers, the Chu army was completely inferior!
"Reporting to the general, the 3rd Company of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion has assembled. Please give your orders!”
"Mm, at ease!"
Lin Yu glanced at Zuo Zongtang and smiled.""Left General, how about we observe our rifle drill together?”
Lin Yu had pulled this army out to intimidate Zuo Zongtang and the Chu Army captives in the prisoner of war camp.
Didn't they want to see the Han army's equipment?
Satisfy him!
"General, it would be impolite of me to refuse your kind invitation!”
Zuo Zongtang nodded and accepted the invitation.
In fact, he was indeed very interested in the firearms in the hands of the Han army. It would be best if he could observe them up close!
However, he didn't know why Lin Yu called this gun a rifle. Was there something special about this name?
"There's nothing special about it. The weapons in the hands of infantrymen are naturally called rifles!”
Lin Yu explained.
As he said this, the soldiers had already raised their rifles and aimed at the target in the distance.
"Ready!"
"Aim!"
"Release!"
Bang bang bang!
After a series of gunshots, bullet holes appeared on the target in the distance.
Zuo Zongtang was quite surprised. This distance was at least 200 steps. If converted to meters, it was about 300 meters.
The other party's flintlock could actually shoot so far, and it had such accuracy. This made him feel very inconceivable.
One had to know that it was very rare for the muskets of the Qing army to have a range of 100 steps.
Because the manufacturing process was very poor, the air tightness was insufficient, and the black gunpowder used was outdated.
Therefore, most of the firearms of the Qing army only had a range of 80 steps, which was about 120 meters.
The shooting range was similar to that of a bow and arrow, but the shooting speed was obviously not as good as a bow and arrow. Therefore, the firearms equipment rate of the Qing army was very low, even worse than the Ming army more than 200 years ago.
If Taiping Country's army hadn't been equipped with firearms on a large scale, forcing the Qing army to change their firearms as well, their gun ownership rate would have been even lower!
The range of the Han army's rifles was more than twice that of theirs. If this was a real battle, it would be a huge advantage!
Zuo Zongtang had already imagined a real battle. On the battlefield, the Qing army was completely passive. They couldn't even touch the enemy, but they were constantly shot by the Han army and were knocked down to the ground!
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