What Li Wensheng said also touched Zhu Youxiao's heart. Jiannu's fighting power was not weak, but it was far from the so-called invincible level.
There was a saying in later generations to describe the troops of Jiannu, saying that they were invincible and the strongest cavalry in the world. Zhu Youxiao could only describe the person who said this as speechless. Apart from the sentence "illiteracy", he really couldn't think of anything.
What words are used to describe those illiterate people?
The so-called "invincible" was said by Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty. It described the authentic Jurchens in the Liao, Song and Jin dynasties, rather than the fake Jurchens who sold themselves as dogs in the late Ming Dynasty.
Under the leadership of Wanyan Aguda, the Jurchens truly lived up to this golden saying. When the Jurchen army of the Jin Kingdom fought against the Khitan army of the Liao Kingdom, they often defeated the Liao Kingdom's army with a small number and defeated the Liao Kingdom's army in just a few dozen times.
In the year, he completely defeated the Liao Kingdom, which had hundreds of thousands of troops, and even used his hands to bring humiliation to the Song Dynasty.
In later generations, this sentence was led by some remnants to the slave-building army in a crooked way, and was tampered with so arbitrarily that everyone even forgot who the sentence was describing and who said it.
This is the horror of cultural invasion, and there are too many such facts, because they have tampered with too much.
During the Chongzhen period of the late Ming Dynasty, the Guanning warlords in Liaodong, led by Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou and others, in order to increase their leverage so that they could continue to ask for money from the emperor, simply quoted this saying from hundreds of years ago to advocate the creation of slaves.
Your Majesty, it’s not that we don’t want to fight and we dare not fight, it’s that the enemy is too powerful. If you want to defeat the enemy, you have to send out some food, otherwise we won’t fight.
In the end, not only the emperor and ministers believed it, but they themselves believed it, especially those at the bottom. The fear of Jiannu was truly from the bottom of their hearts. Whenever there was a war, as long as Guan Ning's army was attacking
Both sides will collapse without a fight.
What is self-defeat without fighting? It means that the enemy army has already begun to run away without even seeing it. It is truly the strongest cavalry army in the Ming Dynasty in the past three hundred years. With this ability to run away, even the conquest of the great
I'm afraid I have to admire General Xu Da when he comes. He is really the strongest.
As for the so-called strongest cavalry in the world, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to laugh at them, lest he hurt someone's heart, he was already numb.
The people who said these words probably didn’t even know whether the slaves were nomadic or fishermen and hunters, and they spread the word wherever they saw it.
These people still look down on Wu Sangui. I don’t know where the confidence comes from. In Zhu Youxiao’s view, they are not even as good as Wu Sangui. Although Wu Sangui is the first blower, at least he and Jiannu have fought head-on and killed many of each other.
People, and these people are really only good at talking.
Before entering the customs, the Jiannu army did have a certain degree of combat effectiveness. The Ming army that fought in Liaodong did have some invincibility, but that was just a foil to their peers.
But as soon as they touched the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, such as the white pole soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, they all withered. The nearly 60,000 people could not even break through the white pole soldiers' formation.
Not to mention after entering the customs, it all depends on the Green Battalion's surrender of traitor troops to charge into the battle. Without these traitor scum who have forgotten their ancestors, they would not even be able to enter Shanhaiguan.
Zhu Youxiao knew that they all wanted to take a good look at this magical gun, so he handed over the fire gun in his hand to them, and asked the guards in the tent to hand over their fire gun as well.
"Your Majesty, can I give it a try?"
Chen Guang asked eagerly, holding the divine gun in his hand.
When it comes to attaching great importance to fire guns, the generals of the Shenji Battalion are the ones who pay the most attention.
"Then let's go to the shooting range!"
After testing the gun, everyone gave unanimous praise, especially Chen Guang, Li Xing and others, who were full of praise.
"Your Majesty, the shooting speed and reloading speed of the Shenwu Gun are also much faster than the old fire guns, which will be of great help to us in using the three-stage attack."
The three-stage attack was created by Emperor Taizu's adopted son Muying, King Zhaojing of Qianning, during his campaign against Yunnan during the Hongwu period. This method of warfare was very practical and has been a must-have for firearms troops until the breech-loaded rifled rifles of the late Qing Dynasty.
was eliminated only after it appeared.
"Your Majesty, if all of our Shenji Battalion is equipped with divine weapons, we guarantee that the Jian Nu and the Tartars will never come back, and they will be killed."
Li Xing's love for the Shenwu gun was beyond words, and this was exactly what the sergeant of the Shenji Battalion expected.
Zhu Youxiao also held a blunderbuss and aimed at the target ahead, but did not fire. He would not do such a life-threatening thing.
"The Shenji Battalion must all be equipped with Shenwu guns, but not now."
"The Shenwu gun is no different than others. It is more difficult to make, and the craftsmen still need time to train. I only brought 300 guns this time. I don't know when the next batch of Shenwu cannons will be."
"And I can't give all of these three hundred divine weapons to you. I want to separate some of them for training new types of soldiers."
Chen Guang glanced at Li Xing and then asked:
"Your Majesty, what is this new unit?"
Zhu Youxiao put down the gun and clapped his hands and said:
"Musketeers!"
"It's easy to fire divine weapons, so I want to equip the cavalry with some to see if they can replace bows and arrows. Although cavalry archery is strong, it takes too long to train a qualified cavalry archer."
"Excluding the Mongolians, among the 30,000 cavalrymen of the Yulin Army, only a few thousand cavalry are qualified in riding and shooting. The enemy will not wait for you to be fully prepared before fighting you, so I came up with this strategy."
Most of the cavalry in the Xiaoqi Battalion were new recruits. Only the initial eight thousand cavalry were made up of veterans selected from the Jingying Camp, Xiaoling Guards, and Tongzhou Soldiers. He also relied on these teams to quickly form an army.
But of this mere 8,000 troops, less than half are left now. Some were taken away by Li Songping, and some died in the last Northern Expedition.
As a cavalry general, Li Wensheng immediately remonstrated:
"Your Majesty, even if the Divine Gun has been greatly improved, I am afraid it cannot replace the bow and arrow. The role of the bow and arrow is not only for armor-breaking and long-range strikes, but also because it can fire continuously, suppress the enemy, and cause greater damage to the enemy.
, tear apart their military formation."
"In cavalry combat, they move like the wind. The most important thing is the first wave of attack. The bows and arrows can advance and retreat. However, after firing a shot, the musket has to stop and reload. This has a negative impact on the combat power.
It’s a big impact.”
"Furthermore, it is too difficult to load gunpowder immediately, which may give the enemy time to react. If they seize this gap to counterattack or defend, it will be over."
"The situation on the battlefield changes very quickly, and the fighter plane may be at that moment. If the soldier is defeated because of loading gunpowder, the gain will outweigh the loss."
Zhu Youxiao also felt that what Li Wensheng said was reasonable. If he really wanted to train musketeers, these issues were indeed the key and must be completely solved.