Ming Zuo

Chapter 418 The general trend has become [Ask for a monthly ticket on Monday! 】

After leaving the governor's yamen, Zuo Menggeng kept walking and walked all the way out of the city.

Huang Long and others who followed were all uneasy, not knowing how this ambitious young general would deal with them.

Thinking of dying sooner or later, Huang Long couldn't help it.

"General Zuo, Lord Shen has already informed me about your ambitions. As for how our troops and civilians in Liaodong will be relocated, please clarify."

Zuo Menggeng stopped and looked over strangely.

"Didn't Mr. Shen tell you? Then I'll tell you clearly. For you people, my attitude here is to come and go freely. If you want to join in, then you will be screened and assessed, and based on your ability, I will treat you. Make appropriate arrangements. If you still want to work for the court, then you can go by yourself. As for your family members, you can also pick them up when you go back."

Huang Long and the three were stunned, but did not expect that what Shen Shouyue said was actually true.

But this result did not satisfy them.

In particular, Shang Kexi decided to go deeper.

"General Zuo, I still have tens of thousands of elite troops in Liaodong. Everyone has been fighting for a long time, and people's minds are settled. If the general can agree, we are willing to do the hard work of dogs and horses."

It's ready to haggle.

Zuo Menggeng snorted and couldn't help laughing.

"Elite soldiers? Hahaha, forget it, you don't have the capital to negotiate."

These words were quite acerbic, and even the most hesitant Huang Long was shocked and angry.

Thinking that they fought against Houjin for many years in Liaodong and tried their best to keep their territory intact, in Zuo Menggeng's eyes, they were not as good as bullshit.

Seeing that the three of them wanted to argue, Zuo Menggeng waved his hand and stopped them from speaking.

"I brought you out today to let you see the strength of my new army. After you have seen it, it will not be too late for you to make a decision."

Is this a show of force?
The three Huang Long were all aroused by curiosity.

They were really curious about the new army who defeated the rebels.

The group walked out of the city and walked for more than ten miles before entering a hidden valley.

Huang Long and others noticed that the passage into and out of the valley was already densely populated, and even a fly could never fly in.

After entering the valley, it is very lively inside.There are many people playing with firearms, and they are all over the floor.

Seeing Zuo Menggeng coming, a young general greeted him.

"Sit and see what treasure I brought you."

Zuo Menggeng laughed.

"You Zuodai is a stable person. Even you are like this. It seems that you are really a treasure."

Zuo Dai looked at Huang Long and others curiously, and Zuo Menggeng made an introduction, which did not attract Zuo Dai's attention.

Zuo Menggeng didn't really care much about the military and civilians on the Liaodong Peninsula and the islands before that.

This is also the reason why he asked Shen Shouyue to speak and let Huang Long and others make a living on their own.

As for the lack of Denglai's support, it doesn't matter whether Liaodong can hold on.

Zuo Menggeng knew very well that with the strength of the new army, it would not be difficult to get it back in the future.

As a result, what he did not expect was that the military and civilians of Liaodong actually had the intention of taking refuge.

That's a bargain.

As for how to convince Huang Long and others?
Zuo Menggeng felt that physical persuasion might be better.

Following behind Zuo Menggeng, looking at the firearms all over the floor, Huang Long and others felt that their eyes were not enough.

Although they could see that these firearms had both guns and cannons.But it is very different from the firearms they use.

As for the difference, they can't tell.

Next, it was time for Zuo Menggeng to brighten his wrist.

He called a soldier, took the flasher gun, and handed it to Huang Long.

"Mr. Huangzhen, this is the musket used by our new army, look, how about it?"

As soon as the musket started, Huang Long was agitated.

He has been in the army for decades, and he has never seen such a beautiful fire gun.

Only from the level of surface craftsmanship, it has far surpassed the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty.

The others were also amazed around the musket, and Shen Shikui even discovered a blind spot.

"General Zuo, why doesn't this gun have a medicine pool and a match?"

Zuo Menggeng asked for ammunition and loaded it in front of them.

The steps of pouring in gunpowder and projectiles, and then compacting them with strips did not surprise Huang Long and others.Because the matchlock guns used by the Ming army were also loaded in this way.

But when Zuo Menggeng opened the hammer and put the flash cap on the ignition hole, Huang Long and others were all dumbfounded.

Because they don't understand at all, what is this?
What's the use?

How should I fire it?

In their confusion, Zuo Menggeng raised his gun and aimed at a target a hundred meters away.

Huang Long and others looked and looked, but they didn't see anyone going up to set the fire.But as Zuo Menggeng pulled the trigger, there was a loud bang, and the musket was fired.

Looking at the shattering effect on the distant target, the three of Huang Long were covered in cold sweat, and their souls came out of their bodies.

Humans are innately afraid of the unknown.

Zuo Menggeng's shot, there are too many things beyond their cognition.

Zuo Menggeng was not satisfied with this, but threw the musket to Huanglong.

"Mr. Huang, try it?"

Huang Long swallowed his saliva hard, and at the same time he was excited, like a child who got his favorite toy.

Weapons are not just man's toys.

Under Zuo Menggeng's personal guidance, Huang Long successfully completed the loading.

Through his own operation, he was surprised to discover that the firing rate of this novel fire gun was more than three times faster than the fire gun used by the Ming army.

"boom……"

Seeing that the target [-] meters away shattered again, Huang Long was at a loss.

He was like this, as were Shang Kexi and Shen Shikui.

Including Shen Shouyue, can't help but have a kind of thought.

How to fight against such artifacts?
Because they have seen that the soldiers around, including the soldiers who were guarding before entering the valley, were all using this kind of musket.

That is to say, even with the most conservative estimates, this artifact has been assembled on a large scale in the new army.

Now, they finally have a certain understanding of the new army's defeat of the rebels.

Under this level of magic, who in the world can resist?

After Huang Long, Shang Kexi, Shen Shikui, and Shen Shouyue all tried one by one, and they all became prisoners of the flash hat gun.

Shen Shouyue picked up the flasher and asked impatiently, "General Zuo, why can this thing be ignited without ignition?"

Zuo Menggeng was very generous and showed them the powder in the flasher.

"This kind of thing is called mercury fulminate. It will explode when hit with a certain force. After a spark is generated, the gunpowder can be ignited."

How about telling you?

Can you make it?
Sure enough, Huang Long and the others looked at each other, as if listening to a book from heaven.

They are all veterans, and Huang Long and others tried it out themselves.They knew very well that only a thousand of these divine guns would be enough to defeat all troops and horses in the world.

The defeat of the rebels is reasonable.

But what they didn't know was that what Zuo Menggeng wanted to do today was to completely smash their illusions.

In this way, even if they did not join in, but continued to be loyal to the court, as long as they reported what they had seen and heard here today, the Ming court would have to weigh in on whether they dared to come to trouble the new army.

He looked at Zuo Dai and asked with a smile, "Where is your baby?"

Zuo Dai personally opened a long wooden box next to it, and took out a musket from it.

The difference between this gun and the flash cap gun is that there is no ignition hole.In its place is a slightly bent iron handle.

Seeing this, Zuo Menggeng was inexplicably surprised.

"It's done?"

Zuo Dai smiled and said: "It's done, but if you want to mass-produce it, it's not easy."

Zuo Menggeng didn't care. After taking it, he skillfully pulled the musket near the butt with his hand and pulled out a piece of iron shaped like a thumb. Then he held the iron handle with his hand, rotated it upwards, and then pulled it back. In a very smooth sound, the barrel of the gun opened.

He looked carefully and saw the inside of the barrel. The front end was the entrance to the barrel, and at the back where it joined the pull bolt, there was a small piece of steel needle that was not very sharp.

Needle gun.

The concept he proposed when he made the flasher gun in the second year of Chongzhen, and after two years of hard work, finally came out.

And this one in Zuo Menggeng's hand is the best representative of the needle gun era, the Xia Saibo rifle.

He provided the complete set of drawings, and Bi Maokang and others formed a team. It took more than two years to put the real objects in front of him.

Holding a needle gun in his hand, Zuo Menggeng was so excited that he couldn't care about anything, but Zuodai asked for bullets.

Skillfully loading, firing, and breaking the target in the distance, the whole process is completed in one go.

The smooth operation made him burst with confidence, and he only felt that there was no more difficulty in the world.

He didn't notice that the four Huang Long who were watching the whole process also had a faint tendency to crawl.

Can such a Zuo Menggeng, such a new army, really be able to fight?

(End of this chapter)