After Liu Chang finished his gesture, Huo Qiu had already shook his head. He was well-informed: "Liu Jiandian, your spear is a powerful weapon that is only available in the play. It is more than ten feet long. It is too long for ordinary people to wield such a spear!"

The spear that Liu Chang mentioned was about a meter long. Not to mention ordinary people, even a hundred enemies could not wave it. However, Liu Chang said: "Brother Huo Qiu, you are wrong. Our Heavenly Kingdom was established from the Yong'an system of Jintian Tuan Camp, and later we focused on Jinling, across the south of the Yangtze River, and defeated the enemy, mostly because of the advantages of this bamboo needle!"

Huo Qiu still shook his head, and he said, "No matter how sharp this spear is, we cannot hold it and cannot hold it, which is useless. Is it..."

He suddenly thought of something: "Is this a spear held by both men?"

Liu Chang nodded: "Brother Huo Qiu is indeed very knowledgeable!"

"Check me and call me Huo Qiu!" Huo Qiu had already figured it out: "Good thing, but this gun rod is made of bamboo?"

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose in Guangxi and fought with the Qing army in succession. The first weapon to defeat the enemy was this bamboo needle. This bamboo needle was originally created by Luo Dagang and others in Tiandihui. Later, it was developed by Yang Xiuqing and others. This bamboo needle was equipped with an iron spear head, which was more than one meter long and was unparalleled.

During the war, the Taiping Army used rattan cards to cover the advancement, and used medicine jars of lime to disrupt the enemy's formation. When they rushed to the vicinity, bamboo needles were all out, which was like a long spear. However, the Qing army had only a blunt knife and short sword in their hands, and could not resist the bamboo that was about meter long, and it was repeatedly defeated.

At that time, only Xiang Rong could withstand such a spear attack in the Qing army. Xiang Rong was called a famous general of the Chu army. He could control many reserve teams in each battle, and he paid attention to round-route bombardment. Even if he was defeated, he would not be defeated thousands of miles.

Liu Chang nodded and said, "The bamboo gun rod is very easy to use!"

There are bamboo forests in the south of the Yangtze River, and a gun barrel that is ten feet long can be used anywhere. Huo Qiu, a private salt dealer, is quite knowledgeable: "It's so amazing!"

He thought secretly, how should he deal with it if he encountered such a spear formation? Only when he thought of such a situation, he would sweat in a cold sweat.

After the rattan card, there were more than a dozen long spears about a tide stabbing like a tide. No matter how great his ability was, he could not escape the fate of being pierced by countless spearheads. He praised repeatedly: "It turns out that he was an old corps in the Kingdom of Heaven when the Jintian Group Camp. He was indeed extraordinary! Awesome, amazing!"

But it is easy to make this bamboo needle and does not take much labor. The materials can be said to be ready for immediate waiting. He immediately promised Liu Chang: "The villain will let the blacksmith shop open overnight when he goes back tonight, and send the prepared spear early tomorrow morning!"

He added: "The villain also hid a few bird guns in the countryside, all of which were in the style of the Eight Banners, which was very different from the common green camp soldiers' shotguns, but the blacksmith master invited by the villain could not be copied."

"Eight Banners Style?" Liu Chang was surprised and happy: "You have such good things!"

The bird gun was basically a match rope gun from Mingwei, and it could be the most backward firearm of this era, but it was used in the Qing army until around 1900, and it was old but not abandoned.

Among all kinds of bird guns, it is roughly divided into two types: Green Camp and Eight Banners. The Green Camp and Eight Banners are both bulky and powerful, while the Eight Banners are convenient and easy to use, but powerful. This is one of the tricks that the Qing rulers played with Manchu Han.

Huo Qiu quickly showed his merits: "These bird guns were not easy to come from Zhapuman camp back then. Although they have been a few years, I have been planning to use them as family heirlooms."

However, Liu Chang did not intend to be a family heirloom for these Eight Banners shotguns. He asked: "Since you are selling private salt, do you have any contact with the foreigners at sea?"

Huo Qiu immediately said, "We have to deal with the heroes on the sea, but that guy Qu Zhenhai is not planning to go to Panshi Town to open up contact with Ge Wuye. Ge Wuye is a great man on the sea, with six or seven boats under his command, and you can contact him at that time."

Liu Chang calmed down. Now that he had only this little strength, he couldn't buy many shots even if he wanted to buy a foreign gun. He immediately said: "I suggest to Shuai Qu that the whole army will go south to capture Yongjia, and then I will have everything north of Oujiang."

He asked again: "I'm asking about foreigners, especially those in Hong Kong."

He knew very well that during this period, Hong Kong was always a very important arms distribution center in the Far East. A large number of Western merchants purchased arms from Hong Kong and then sold arms to both sides in the war. It was not only the Hunan and Huai army that purchased foreign guns and cannons, but even Li Xiucheng also made his troops completely transformed foreign guns through maritime trade.

It is the fourth year of Xianfeng. Neither the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom nor the Qing Dynasty rulers have known the horror of foreign guns and cannons. There are very few Western merchants who are dedicated to arms trade.

Huo Qiu immediately replied to him: "We have very few foreigners from Wenzhou. They are all pirates recruited from Hong Kong and Nanyang. However, if you have anything to do, you must bleed."

Liu Chang nodded: "I want to buy some foreign guns and cannons through foreigners' relationships, but it's still early. You can remember this for yourself, and it will be too late to do it."

"Seeking the point!" Huo Qiu responded: "I dare not say that the foreign guns are indeed unparalleled. The three thousand kilograms of general cannons in Wenzhou City are not as powerful as the powerful cannons they brought."

But such a powerful weapon, let alone ordinary pirates, even Ge Wuye, who is famous in Zhejiang and Fujian, has no idea: "But after the inspection, Huo Qiu will do his best to do it."

"Okay!" Liu Chang also liked Huo Qiu's pig head. This rich man in Xixiang was indeed a figure. Not to mention anything else, he dared to publicly accuse his notebook of being a magic trick. This courage made Liu Chang look at him with admiration.

Huo Qiu sighed: "I don't know how foreigners made foreign cannons, so sharp!"

Liu Chang replied: "The skills of these foreigners in making guns were all learned from our great Chinese studies. It's a pity that the Tartars had entered the pass for 210 years, which also made it a mistake for 210 years for our great Chinese nation!"

Since the Three Feudalists were pacified, the level of gun-making in the Qing Dynasty has been regressing, and even retreating is far inferior to the late Ming Dynasty. The old cannons left behind from the late Ming Dynasty existed as the most sophisticated artillery. Not to mention anything else, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came out of Guangxi, it obtained a batch of old cannons buried when Wu Sangui was defeated in Yueyang. With these artillery from the early Qing Dynasty, they actually formed an absolute firepower advantage. The Qing army had no field artillery to fight.

As for the manufacturing level of bird guns and other weapons, they are also constantly regressing. The Zhapu Eight Banners Camp issued a batch of newly-made Green Camp bird guns during the First Opium War. However, the Eight Banners soldiers reported that this batch of new-made bird guns is not as good as the old-style bird guns that have been used for a century. Even the same standard bird gun is not as good as the past. The newer the bird gun, the worse it is.

However, when Liu Chang sighed, Qu Jie, Huo Qiu and others were both unable to touch their heads. Huo Qiu was brave and conscious, and immediately asked, "Check, how do you start?"

Liu Chang didn't expect that the late Qing Dynasty's civil intelligence had reached such an extent. Even the rich man like Huo Qiu had no knowledge of the elementary school students in later generations. He asked: "Don't you know this? Do you know the Treaty of Nanjing? Do you know the Three Massacres in Yangzhou for ten days and Jiading? Do you know the battle to defend the city in Jiangyin?"

Not to mention Huo Qiu and Qu Jie, even the fifty personal soldiers below shook their heads one after another. The Qing Dynasty's ** policy was so successful that everyone forgot that bloody history. Huo Qiu was really clever: "Checking is to experience the world, and experience is more painful than ours. Anyway, there is nothing to do tonight, so I will tell us a good story..."

Liu Chang didn't know what kind of weight this ordinary night will have in the future Chinese history. He just wrote down the bloody history he had heard and seen one by one.

He spoke very popularly and told them one by one. Some of his personal soldiers could not understand the official language, and immediately some of his personal soldiers who understood the official language translated them into the main words and relayed the past.

The whole yard was a little noisy at first, but then it became quiet. Everyone was stunned by these forgotten history. Finally, some people burst into tears, some people screamed in pain, and some people used their heads to hammer: "It's hateful! I would have been back if I had known it!"

Liu Chang talked for an hour and a half, and he was dry. Seeing that the night was getting dark, he decided to continue to tell the story of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the fall of the Chinese Empire tomorrow, but the whole audience was filled with tears.

Sometimes, the pen has more power than the sword.

When Huo Qiu left, he kept talking to himself under the stars: "Three massacres of Jiading, ten days of Yangzhou, **, Treaty of Nanjing..."

He now felt that living in such a country ruled by foreign brigades was such a humiliating thing, and good men should learn from Qu Zhenhan to lift up, drive out the Tartars, and restore China.

His heart was filled with blood: "As long as you recover from China, why bother with this body!"

Tears were all in his eyes.

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Chapter completed!