Chapter two hundred and eighty seventh irrelevant fiasco
Su Jiakang fell into deep thought after learning that the puppet Tang rebels had obtained a large amount of military strategic materials from unknown sources, and that there was a large amount of iron and copper that could be used to make swords and even muskets and cannons.
Political consciousness told him that he must not allow the puppet Tang rebels to obtain these materials and turn them into various weapons.
Nowadays, the puppet Tang thief army has used various means to build many muskets without obtaining a large number of strategic weapons. Moreover, he also knew that during the battle at Lanjiang Ferry, these puppet Tang thief army also used heavy artillery.
and flower bombs.
If we continue to allow the puppet Tang rebel army to develop like this, I am afraid that what the government will have to face in the future is really the thousands of muskets, ten cannons, and thousands of spent bullets that the Ming army in Fucheng deliberately boasted about.
Yes, after the disastrous defeat at the Lanjiang Ferry Battle, the defeated Fucheng Ming Army greatly exaggerated the strength of the puppet Tang rebel army.
According to the news from the Ming army in Fucheng after their defeat, it was said that the puppet Tang rebel army already possessed thousands of muskets, more than ten thousand-jin heavy cannons, and also possessed an extremely terrifying explosive bullet that could fire thousands of bullets at once!
Hearing this news, Su Jiakang couldn't help but want to sneer.
He has been dealing with the Puppet Tang Bandit Army for more than a year. He still doesn’t know the details of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army. At best, there are only two hundred firecrackers. As for the artillery, he has never seen it, but according to the spies’ reports, the Puppet Tang Bandit Army has
There is indeed artillery on the side, but there is only one in number.
On the other hand, he couldn't judge the authenticity of the explosives for a while, because he had never seen the explosives of the Puppet Tang Thief Army. He didn't even know what the explosives were, so naturally he couldn't judge the authenticity.
But let alone him, even the Fucheng Ming Army who witnessed the battle one day did not understand what the explosive ammunition of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was.
But they all remembered the power of this kind of explosive bullets. Hundreds of bullets were fired in an instant, almost instantly causing the three thousand Ming army that had successfully landed and charged against the puppet Tang rebels to completely collapse.
The soldiers of the Fucheng Ming Army privately gave the explosive bombs thrown by the soldiers of the Puppet Tang rebel army a nickname: "Thunder in the Palm"
It is called this because the dense explosion of the grenade is just like the legendary palm thunder. It is also fired from the palm of the hand, and the explosion is as powerful as the sky thunder.
Regarding the defeat in the Battle of Lanjiang Ferry, the general of the Ming Army told Song Zhiwen: "The Battle of Lanjiang was fought by soldiers who were not brave. It was actually the result of the puppet Tang thief army's scheming and sharp firepower, and our army's swords, bows and arrows."
All kinds of handguns and bowl-mouth guns are invincible. As a result, all the soldiers in the army have no intention of repaying the emperor for their meritorious service, but they have no weapons to defeat the enemy."
Regardless of whether these Ming army generals will fight or not, their methods of shirk responsibility are not weak. If they want to reduce or even get rid of the negative impact of the failure of the Battle of Lanjiang on themselves, their best way is not to say how powerful they are.
Weak, but refers to how strong the enemy is.
They directly doubled the strength of the puppet Tang thief army and the technical weapons they possessed, that is, muskets, artillery and even grenades. In the words of the Ming army generals, the new army of the Tang Dynasty with just one artillery piece had already become
Now he has more than ten heavy cannons.
Of course, this is just a superficial shirk. If they want their superiors to ignore or even forgive their defeat, they have to come up with a little bit of information to show that they are still very good and can fight again to get away with their crimes.
So they also told Song Zhiwen: "If we want to make counterfeit guns for the Tang bandit army, there is no other way but for our officers and soldiers to equip them with more and better fire guns, regardless of whether they are hand guns for individual soldiers or hand guns for individual soldiers."
He said that bowl-mouthed artillery and so on were needed to support the operation, and he also directly stated that if there were Folang machine guns used by the frontier and coastal armies, they would definitely be able to suppress the power of firecrackers of the puppet Tang rebel army and cause heavy damage through shelling.
Puppet Tang thief army!"
I have to say that although this is just their self-protection strategy, I have to say that the Ming army general who proposed this statement is still somewhat knowledgeable.
What should I do if I can't defeat them? Then equip them with more and better firearms than the puppet Tang bandit army.
They are the Ming Dynasty, and their muskets and artillery are nothing. They don’t know how to use muskets, but the Ming army has a lot of artillery. Not to mention the small cannons like bowl-mouth cannons, the Ming army also has them.
The "heavy artillery" is the Folang machine gun that the Ming army has copied and equipped on a large scale in the past twenty or thirty years.
The Fo Lang machine guns imitated by the Ming army ranged in size from over a hundred kilograms to even less than a hundred kilograms, but there were also cannons as large as three hundred kilograms, and even heavy cannons weighing five hundred kilograms or even a thousand kilograms.
However, most of those heavy artillery weighing 500 kilograms or even 1,000 kilograms are placed on the top of the city to perform defensive tasks, and most of them are in several important cities in the north and several important cities along the coast.
As for the 300-pound artillery pieces, most of them are also in the navy.
As for the ordinary army, even the northern frontier army, most of the Folangjis equipped in their army are small cannons, mainly those with a weight of 150 kilograms or less.
After the defeat, the generals of the Ming army exaggerated the strength of the puppet Tang rebel army for various reasons, and proposed some restraint methods, which prevented Song Zhiwen from holding them responsible for the defeat for a while.
At the same time, Song Zhiwen would not stupidly report the defeat of Lanjiang to the superiors. Instead, he adopted the Spring and Autumn style and said that recently hundreds of guardsmen from Xingquan Prefecture and some young and strong civilians went to Zhengtai to suppress the bandits. However, the thieves
The army was so cunning that they attacked the army when they were crossing the river. The officers and soldiers responded calmly and killed as many as a hundred rebels. However, in the chaos of the war, the puppet Tang army used explosive bullets to scare the young and strong civilians in the army, so that those
The young people were so panicked that they disrupted the formation of the officers and soldiers. In order to protect the safety of the young people and because the formation was in chaos, the officers and soldiers took the initiative to cover the retreat of the young people. However, during the retreat, in order to cover the evacuation of more unarmed people,
As a result, the officers and soldiers suffered slight losses.
He did not say how many people were sent, let alone the loss of more than 2,000 people in this battle!
Because Song Zhiwen used Spring and Autumn style to erase all the 1,500 soldiers he had recruited and trained. After all, the regular army that participated in the Lanjiang Ferry crossing was really only a few hundred guardsmen.
Those recruiting soldiers? Sorry, their actual identities are just young men!
Since they were young and strong civilians, they naturally could not be counted among the officers and soldiers. Also, because the civilians were unarmed and were attacked by the bandits, it was completely acceptable to suffer some losses.
In the end, Song Zhiwen presented a disastrous defeat of three thousand people as a seemingly insignificant defeat!