Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

A series of fired muskets sounded.

Ye Chengmin, who looked at the rolling white smoke, also said to Hong Chengchou, Yang Sichang, Ding Qirui, Ye Chuchun and other gentry with satisfaction: "This is a Western gun! What do you think of the red-haired man? It is not inferior to the firearms used by the Yulin Guards of Zhu Youxiao. I spent a lot of money to purchase this batch of firearms!"

Hong Chengchou nodded: "It's more powerful than the bird gun and the machine gun!"

As he said that, Hong Chengchou looked at Ye Chuchun with deep eyes: "Chuyuan, when you raised your army with King Fu, you had seen the Yulin Guards of the court. What is their firearm? How powerful are they?"

Ye Chuchun pretended to be excited and pointed to the Western muskets purchased by the reactionary gentry: "In terms of Ye, the power of this gun is even greater than that of the Yulin Guard's firearms, and the fuse must be burned faster!"

Ye Chengmin, who was also listening carefully, laughed first: "I said, Zhu Youxiao can buy muskets from Western styles, can't we? And we can buy better muskets than him. With this gun and the training skills of Qi Gong's Mandarin Duck Formation, we don't have to worry about not overturning the tyrant's policy!"

Hong Chengchou continued to ask Ye Chuchun: "Chuyuan, I have another question. The Yulin Guards you saw at that time also used this kind of tactic to fight, including swords, shields, spears, firearms, and wolves?"

Ye Chuchun nodded: "It is also the method of the mandarin duck formation."

As an undercover agent, he knew that if he wanted to gain the trust of reactionary gentry such as Hong Chengchou, he could not hide it when the other party asked him about the same information that he could ask others for, otherwise he would be easily questioned, so he answered truthfully.

Hong Chengchou relaxed his eyebrows slightly with confidence and said, "As long as it is still the Mandarin duck formation, I'm afraid that the court will use new tactics now! However, some things are difficult to determine. Brother Wenwu, are there our eyeliners in the court now?"

Yang Sichang said helplessly: "No! The court now can't be stabbed in the needle and water cannot be poured in. It's like an iron barrel. Dongchang is not careful. I heard that there is a Xingming Society now. To unify the concept of governing the country, otherwise it will be criticized and marginalized. Therefore, it is difficult for us to know what the court is thinking about now and what Zhu Youxiao wants to do next!"

Hong Chengchou nodded and smiled bitterly: "Well, if the court could be so easy to install spies now, why would you come here to exile overseas? I'm afraid you'll have changed the emperor long ago!"

Hong Chengchou said and looked at Yang Sichang again and said, "But, brother Wenwu, even if the court is unable to subdue others, we have to subdue them. Knowing ourselves and our enemies will win every battle, otherwise, it will be easy to suffer a great loss!"

Yang Sichang replied: "I'll let them try their best!"

"Although Zhu Youxiao is cruel, his knowledge is very understandable and almost evil. We cannot take it lightly."

Hong Chengchou said again.

Yang Sichang laughed and said, "Hong Gong doesn't have to be too ambitious and destroy his own prestige. Now we also have Western firearms and the Japanese shogunate support. Li Dan brought news. The shogunate Matsuura ban had persuaded the shogunate general to agree to cooperate with us and said that he would fund one million stones of grain to us, because the court forced the court to borrow seven million stones of grain from the shogunate last time, but it made the shogunate very unhappy. He also gave the name of the shogunate cooperation army, briefly as the shogunate army. We, the shogunate army, can stay and live in the area of ​​Nagasaki and Hirado, and fight against pirates for them."

"Mu Xiejun?"

After hearing this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but say, "In order to save some money and food, you would rather cooperate with Japanese slaves now! In fact, it's better to spend more money and food, and directly train large troops, force the Japanese shogunate to give up a large island to become a vassal state, and then call on soldiers from all walks of life to fight back against the mainland in the name of returning home. Whoever comes out with you is not homesick, even the pirates want to return to their roots and attack in the name of returning home, which not only boosts morale, but also prevents the gentry who has not gone out to sea from becoming hostile. Otherwise, if they cooperate with the Japanese shogunate, they will sooner or later be regarded as Japanese pirates. Don't forget that the Southeastern scholars have no good impression of Japanese pirates."

Yang Sichang just smiled and said, "It's good to counterattack the mainland in the name of returning home. It's true that it's Hong Gong. At that time, we will attack under the name of "return home group". In Japan, we call Mu Xiejun, and after returning to Middle-earth, we will call the return home group."

"These are just details. The real key is that the soldiers we train must be able to fight against the elites of the court! However, since Chuyuan said that the Yulin Guards in the court still use the Mandarin Duck Formation now, it is much easier to deal with! The most important thing in training the Mandarin Duck Formation is to train strictly. When training, those who pretend to be sick will be killed! Those who abandon military weapons will be killed! Those who firearms will be launched in advance or delayed launchers will be killed! Therefore, the first thing we need to do next is to take strict training."

Yang Sichang was a little embarrassed: "After that being said, they were all hired for money. It would be a pity to kill them directly. Some of them are not our gentry members, but brothers like Li Dan. It is difficult to train strictly, so I can only try to make them more serious!"

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"In my opinion, the military rules of the Guards should be stricter. Based on the original military discipline requirements, military officers at all levels must be required not to shelter their subordinates. Otherwise, in addition to those who violate the discipline, the shelter should be punished with severe punishment, and the shelter should be punished with the severity of the Yulin Guard and direct execution, because once sheltering, it is inevitable that there will be suspicion of forming a clique for personal gain! Now there are more than 30,000 generals in the Guards, and there are many guerrilla-level generals, let alone the Qianzong, so we must prevent someone from forming cliques in the army. This is something we must pay attention to."

In the court discussion on whether the Guards' subsequent training matters will be improved, Lu Xiangsheng directly made suggestions to make military discipline stricter and prevent military officers from pulling the mountain.

Zhu Youxiao, who attended the court discussion, nodded and ordered Luo Zhijie: "Join the military discipline! Whoever protects his subordinates will not be spared!"

"yes!"

Luo Zhijie immediately replied.

At this time, Zhou Yuji also said: "Report to your Majesty, in my opinion, in addition to military discipline, the next step of the Guards' tactic training needs to be changed. I have already tried to shoot the flintlock rifle. The flintlock rifle produced by the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is indeed better. There are also their new cannons. The same powerful cannons are much lighter than the original cannons. Moreover, because of the bearings added, it is lighter to transport them. More artillery soldiers can operate with infantry and infantry in the future. Therefore, I believe that the Yuanyang formation should be changed to a phalanx with infantry and artillery. Artillery front and infantry behind, and the spearman and swordsman are not allowed to defeat the enemy. In this way, the new army can be formed faster. Moreover, the flintlock rifle has bayonets. It is rare that the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau can come up with a bayonet. If you really need to fight, you can install the bayonet as a spear!"

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded, looked at Xiong Tingbi, and smiled and said, "You are just coincidentally with Xiong Aiqing! Please do so! Zhou Yuji will first form a battalion for training, so you will be named the Imperial Guard Battalion. The officers and soldiers will be drawn by you, and all the firearms and cannons will be provided by the General Administration of Ordnance Manufacturing!"

Zhou Yuji immediately saluted and said, "I obey the order!"

Zhu Youxiao asked to look at Huang Degong and others, "Where are you, do you have any suggestions?"

Huang Degong and others looked at each other but didn't say anything.

Zhu Youxiao said when he saw this: "So, then I will say that in my opinion, in addition to large-scale battle formations, we must also be prepared for small battles in the future and train special troops that can quickly resolve some emergencies or special tasks. There are not too many such troops, but they must be brave and good at fighting. From warriors to military officers, they must be strictly selected, such as Bayala, the Donglu, who was drawn from the entire army to the entire army to organize training. Huang Degong and Chen Xin trained the brave guard camp, and Chen Xin trained the navy land battle camp, which must be brave and brave in land battles, in case of going to sea to harass the future!"

"Abide by the order!"
Chapter completed!