Chapter 34 Trading Cavalry
"Don't hurry to get angry. What I'm talking about is serious. Li Yan and Hong Niangzi have a direct cavalry. You have seen it outside. If Li Yan leaves, it's useless for me to stay. After all, no one can command them. I have never seen the Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but I know that their abilities are no worse than the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry..."
Before Li Zicheng could finish his words, Zhu Cilang knew that he would definitely spend money.
Although he formed a modern firearm army, then again, in this era, cavalry was a rapid response army, so cavalry must never be missing.
“How many people are there?”
Zhu Cilang could see the cavalry under Li Yan clearly on the city wall, but he really achieved a moderate level of advancement and retreat.
"There are not many people, but they are all elites, so they are priceless."
Li Zicheng is like advertisers in modern society.
"I ask you how many people there are, and I naturally know their value."
Zhu Cilang said angrily.
"About 1,500 to 2,000 people."
When Li Zicheng said this, his heart was actually bleeding.
He also knew that this was his most elite cavalry, but these people only listened to Li Yan's words. If Li Yan followed Zhu Cilang, it would be useless to leave these people.
On the contrary, people still have to watch them every day, afraid that these people will rebel. They follow Li Yan to go south. It is better to do a business with Zhu Cixuan and exchange for some useful firearms.
Zhu Cixuan has no cavalry, so it is not impossible to build it from scratch, but the time and money spent is on another level.
If we can bring these 1,500 cavalrymen over, it means that our cavalry has a foundation and is of far-reaching significance to our cavalry units.
"I know it in my mind, just offer it, but don't go too far. If it's too far, I will turn my head and leave immediately. At worst, I don't want these people. I will train myself when I go to the south."
Although Zhu Cilang was moved, the expression on his face was still the same. Zhu Cilang was very clear about this kind of negotiation and must not show your own interests, otherwise you would have to pay for your interests.
Li Zicheng is now thinking about what price should he offer? He has to satisfy himself and the guy on the other side. This is really too difficult.
"I'm not sure about the number of people, otherwise I'd like to change a musket by myself?"
Li Zicheng thought about it and said that Zhu Cixuan was already ecstatic.
No matter how you calculate it, you will make a lot of money. Nowadays, the price of a horse is more than 100 taels of silver. A good horse even costs more than 300 taels of silver. How much does a musket cost?
Moreover, after giving it to Li Zicheng, they were not worried about it. Even if they could imitate the musket, there would be no qualified steel in this era, and they would not be able to make bullets.
"Can't be a little more..."
"After all, you are the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. You are like a businessman. What's going on? In the base of this imperial city, don't you lose your ancestors?"
Although Zhu Cilang is willing, he still has to make Li Zicheng happy to sell. This is a buyer's mentality. If the seller is not allowed to feel that he has taken advantage of it, there may be changes in the transaction.
"It's just like that, everything is involved in my ancestors. But I have to say first, our deal is finalized like this. No one is going to do anything wrong in the middle, otherwise you will know that I'm ruthless."
Li Zicheng nodded in panic. These people are useless.
After Li Yan left, he couldn't use it. He could get so many muskets. He thought he had learned the essence of Zhu Cixuan's tactics.
In the future, no matter whether it is facing various rebels or the Qing people, as long as we follow Zhu Cixuan's method, we will definitely be able to defeat them.
After occupying the entire north and going south to avenge his previous shame, he still remembers the shame that Zhu Cilang brought to him, and he will never forget it because of these short-term cooperation.
Finally, after finishing everything, Zhu Cilang also began to prepare for retreat.
After a round of inspections, most of the matter was completed, and the cannons on the city wall began to be transported downwards, but at this time Zhu Cixuan stopped some people.
Zhu Cixuan is preparing to leave one-third of the cannon.
"Your Highness, if you don't take all the artillery away, what if it's done to them, wouldn't it be?"
Hu Qiang said with some concern that everyone knows the power of these cannons.
"Leave some grenades for the left-behind people. After we leave the city, they will catch up quickly, then use the grenades to blow up the cannons, telling them to throw the grenades into the barrel."
After hearing Zhu Cilang's words, the generals next to him were shocked.
In their opinion, these artillery are extremely precious, and there are not many in the entire Ming Dynasty. Now it is going to blow up one-third of it, which is really a pity.
"Do what I said."
Since His Highness the Crown Prince issued an order, no matter how reluctant the others were, they had to go on and prepare honestly.
"I know what you are thinking, but if we don't do this, once Li Zicheng's people surround us, we will not even have a chance to evacuate. With these artillery watching on the city wall, we will not be afraid of any trouble for them. Besides, we have not given Li Zicheng's things to them yet, so we don't have to worry about the safety of the left-behind people."
Zhu Cilang knew that Hu Qiang couldn't think so. After Zhu Cilang finished speaking, the following talents were very impressed.
His Royal Highness’s mind is that he is stronger than us, otherwise we would not have thought of this!
I thought Li Zicheng and others had already surrendered, but now a gust of wind blew, I remembered that they were all rebels and that we were the official army.
Under Zhu Ciyang's persuasion, these people also understood a truth: artillery is important, but if compared with us, is artillery that important?
In order to allow us to withdraw smoothly, it is normal to sacrifice one-third of the artillery.
In fact, Zhu Cilang's concerns are not wrong. Although Li Zicheng had no other ideas, his general did have such ideas.
But when Zhu Cixuan's army began to retreat, they saw the remaining one-third of the artillery on the city wall, and had to strangle their thoughts to death.
They still knew the power of the explosion of the shells, and no one dared to touch their heads. Of course, this is all a story...
Chapter completed!