"Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, is reincarnated...invincible!"

When Zhu Cixiang's heroic figure riding a war horse appeared outside Longjiangguan Pier, the new officers and soldiers who had disembarked early and were lining up in the wide streets of Nanjing's outer city suddenly burst into cheers the loudest.

Their cheers drove the people who were squeezing along the long street to welcome the victorious soldiers back into a frenzy. Beside the Longjiangguan Pier, all the warehouses, shops, and government offices were crowded with people.

, the walls were full of people, and in some places even the roofs were full of people. Everyone was shouting loudly at this time, shouting the slogan "Emperor Taizu Gao is alive" at the top of their lungs. Some people were even excited.

Tears filled my eyes.

Of course, most of the people who greeted Zhu Cixiang were not natives who had lived in Jinling for a long time, but "Northerners" who came from the north or the Huaihe River. Some were the family members of the new officers and soldiers who had overcome the difficulties, and some were refugees who had lost their homes and were

Officials sent by Zhu Cixiang were rescued and brought to Nanjing.

Almost all of these people eat Zhu's food and wear Zhu's clothes, and they also hope that Zhu Cihong, the eldest prince of Fujun, can take them back to their hometown. Therefore, Zhu Cihong's "Beijing regime" is the most determined in Nanjing.

advocates!

Zhu Cixiang, who was about to turn eighteen years old, was riding on a tall war horse, wearing plate armor hammered with water power as tribute from Zheng Zhilong. He looked very heroic. But he was more heroic than before this time.

There was a calmness and an air of looking forward to one's own success. Chinese and Western generals such as Li Yan, Wu Xiang, Hao Yaoqi, Wang Qi, Shi Ruian, and Ferreira also wore plate armor or lath armor and rode

The horses gathered around Zhu Cixiang. Each one of them looked like a winner, and their whole bodies were full of confidence that they would win.

Nowadays, no one is worried that Zhu Cixiang’s regime will not last long. Even the most pessimistic prediction is just to stay in Jiangnan for more than a hundred years - the Ming Dynasty has been in power for more than 270 years. If it can continue

With a hundred or so years, that is the 400-year foundation of the Ming Dynasty, which can rival the Han Dynasty.

Here in the south of the Yangtze River, some scholar-officials have secretly called the current Ming Dynasty "Southern Ming" and compared the Southern Ming Dynasty with the Southern Song Dynasty...

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the current Nanming Dynasty seems to be stronger, and it seems that it can keep the peace of Jiangnan for more than a hundred years.

Of course, there are some people who have opened their eyes to see the world and already know that the biggest difference between the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty is that the west wind spreads eastward. These people are full of confidence in the prospects of the Southern Ming and Northern Expeditions. For example, Zheng Zhilong, the Duke of Quan, asked the Fan Diemen delegation to be escorted

Chen Ding sent another batch of firearms and gunpowder to Zhu Cihong. The firearms were all turtle-dove-foot muskets made in Foshan and Anping. There were 1,000 pieces. They were all good things!

In Zheng Zhilong's view, the Tatars, who had all been dealt with with firearms and gunpowder, were no longer a threat... As long as the supply of silk and porcelain from the southeast continued, Western firearms and gunpowder could be bought in any amount. Even from the

Making it is not a problem.

As a drum beat with a very distinct rhythm sounded, the officers and soldiers of the Forward Division and the First Division of the New Army who had already finished lining up began to walk in neat steps along the spacious street towards Yifeng Gate.

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The 8,000-strong Tiger Division of the four infantry regiments all put on brand-new armor. Half of the pikemen (about 2,000 people) put on lath armor, and the armor surface was polished and dazzling in the sun.

Light. A long spear with a length of ten feet is placed on the shoulder. The tip of the spear is polished until it shines, reflecting the terrifying light. Looking from a distance, it looks like a moving steel jungle. What is even more terrifying is the fact that these spears are hanging on the ground.

The dried human heads under the tips of the soldiers' spears! They are all Tartar heads with money rat tails. Three of them are hung on each spear, a total of 6,000 ferocious heads, declaring the illustrious military power of the Ming Dynasty Fujun Prince.

Marching with the pikemen were musketeers wearing cloth-covered iron armor, one-third of whom carried huge turtle-dove-footed muskets, and the remaining two-thirds carried various light matchlocks with spears inserted into them.

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The heavy matchlock guns used by the new army in overcoming difficulties, that is, the turtle-dove-foot muskets, are roughly the same model. Although they are not standardized, they are not much different. Their light matchlock guns are a bit varied, and the most commonly used ones are

The Japanese three-gun is a very light fire gun. Only when it is double loaded with gunpowder can it be sure to kill the Manchu soldiers wearing heavy armor at a distance of 30 steps. The power is really not satisfactory, so I can only

It's a makeshift weapon.

So after the situation stabilized a little, Zhu Cixiang decided to eliminate the three-barrel gun and chose the French light firegun, which was also transmitted from the West, as the standard light firegun - this kind of firegun is the Spanish light matchlock gun, which is said to be light.

In fact, it was similar to the Japanese six-gun barrel. The bullet weighed seven or eight qian, and the charge was 5 qian. The initial kinetic energy of the muzzle was huge, enough to penetrate the Qing army's shield car at a distance of 50 paces.

In addition, the length of this kind of fire blunderbuss is close to five feet. After installing the sleeve and spear, the length can reach seven feet, which is as high as a person. It can be used as a long gun.

However, the Spanish light matchlock gun was chosen as the standard light fire gun, and there is still a long way to go before the equipment replacement is completed!

After all, the military industrial clusters in Nanjing and Shanghai have just started, and are far from reaching a scale that can mass-produce firearms.

The military industry in Foshan and Anping has some foundation, and they have long been able to produce turtle-dove-foot blunderbuss and Lumi blunderbuss. However, the output is far from meeting the demand for weaponizing new weapons to overcome difficulties - fire blunderbuss are consumables and cannot be used in high-intensity training.

It is easy to be lost during combat. Therefore, a large output is necessary to support a large firearms army.

Therefore, outsourcing firearms is still very necessary at this time... This is not a comprador mentality. Today's firearms are all handicrafts, so the production capacity is very slow. They all rely on the master to teach the disciples step by step.

It takes three years for an apprentice to start his apprenticeship, and it takes ten or eight years, and the production capacity cannot be increased at all. If the subordinates are forced to increase production, and the craftsmanship is not in place, what they produce will be explosive.

So you have to buy it if you have to!

But we can no longer buy Japanese muskets that are not powerful enough. They are only emergency items. European muskets with greater power, better quality, and sufficient supply are what Prince Zhu really needs.

However, this trump card cannot be known to Fan Damen, the envoy of Hongyi Kingdom.

What Fan Damen can know now is that the Ming Prince is invincible and the Tatars in the north have been defeated!

"Bruce, you are an army officer. What do you think of the Chinese Crown Prince's army? Is it worthy of an elite army by European standards?"

Anthony Van Diemen has no interest in those thousands of dead heads that are off-putting to look at, but he must find out the true level of the Eastern army in front of him - this will determine whether Van Diemen is his friend from afar.

, or evil and cruel European colonists!

His brother Bruce was an army officer in his forties. He participated in the Thirty Years' War and served as an officer in the armies of many German Protestant princes.

When Zhu Cixiang's army appeared on the street outside Yifengmen, Bruce held up his telescope and observed carefully.

He quickly discovered that this Eastern army adopted typical Morris tactics - a battalion of about 500 people was used as the basic combat unit, with half of the pikemen and half of the light firemen, and 3-pound artillery at the regiment level...

...In addition, they also inserted bayonets into the muzzles of some light matchlock guns. It looks good, but I don’t know how they inserted it?

What impressed Bruce the most was the orderly formation of this Eastern army!

He has never seen such a well-organized army in the East. Even in the West, such an army can be considered elite!
Chapter completed!