At Li Dingguo's order, the muskets in the hands of the soldiers who were about his age fired.
The target was hit completely, but Li Dingguo still seemed to be very dissatisfied and kept shouting something loudly.
The Tiger Guards and the Tiger Guards!
"Huh, what's so big about this?"
A Hu, the commander of the Huben army who was specially invited by Li Dingguo, was very disdainful: "It sounds very lively, but after one shot is fired, it is useless. If it really goes on the battlefield, it is no match for my Huben army."
Li Dingguo smiled and did not argue with him.
"Fart!" A curse suddenly came from behind.
Li Dingguo and A Hu looked back and shouted out at the same time: "Third brother...Brother Ding..."
Ding Yunyi is back!
"Hu Ben's army has done a good job."
Looking at the soldiers holding muskets, Ding Yunyi seemed to be very satisfied: "Ah Hu, don't underestimate these musketeers. I think if this situation continues for two years, your tiger and close troops will not be able to defeat Dingguo."
Ah Hu laughed sarcastically a few times, but his expression clearly showed disbelief.
Without saying anything more to him, Ding Yunyi pointed at Li Dingguo's men: "Can they be equipped with all muskets?"
"Not yet." Li Dingguo shook his head seriously: "We still have to rely on the cover of spearmen and others. Our Tiger and Ben troops have only been in force for a year, and they are still unable to form the most effective combat effectiveness. If you can give me another two or three years
time, you can go to the battlefield."
Ding Yunyi nodded appreciatively. This was the truth he wanted.
A force with strong combat effectiveness and fully armed with firearms cannot be formed into an army in a short period of time. It must have a long training process.
He obviously did the right thing by choosing Li Dingguo to lead the firearms force, the Tiger and Ben Qin Army.
"What about you?" Ding Yunyi turned to Ahu and asked with a straight face.
"Brother...ah, Chief Town, please go and see my Tiger Guards!" Ahu said carelessly with his belly puffed out.
Ding Yunyi still had a straight face: "If you don't train well, I will withdraw you on the spot."
When he arrived at the training ground of the Huben Guards, what Ding Yunyi saw was a completely different scene.
Those 17 or 18-year-old cool guys are all shouting and full of energy.
These young men were really fighting on the training ground. They stared at each other and kept shouting, shouting "Hehe", and fought fiercely together.
Ding Yunyi saw with his own eyes that a soldier's eye socket was cracked, and his eyes were blurred by blood, but he roared, threw down the soldier who injured him, raised his fist and "cracked and banged"
Easy to fight.
"Let those two people come over." Ding Yunyi pointed.
"Mao Fa, Mao Cai. Stop fighting and come here."
When they heard this name, Ding Yunyi and Li Dingguo both laughed. Are they two brothers? They must have gone crazy to get rich and gave their sons such names.
The two of them stood in front of Ding Yunyi, their faces covered with blood.
"Are you brothers?" Ding Yunyi asked curiously.
"Back to the main town. Yes! I am the elder brother and he is the younger brother!" Maofa, whose eye sockets were cracked, said loudly.
Ding Yunyi looked them up and down: "Brother, why are you so cruel?"
"Go back to the main town. Is this what Commander Ah Hu ordered us to do?"
"Oh why?"
"Back to the main town, Commander Ah Hu said. If you want to not be a coward on the battlefield, you must first not be a coward during training. Even if you are brothers, you must practice like this to death, otherwise you will be wrong on the battlefield in the future.
die."
Ding Yunyi said "Oh" and looked at Ahu again.
My brother-in-law has never received any military training. Everything he knows was what he saw with his own eyes when he was in Penghu.
When Ding Yunyi was training his troops, he also focused on the word "ruthless". Ah Hu had admired Ding Yunyi since he was a child. Now that he is leading the troops himself, he has adopted the same style.
"You have to be ruthless when training, but ruthlessness is not everything."
Ding Yunyi thought for a while: "If one day, one of your brothers is injured on the battlefield, what will the other one do?"
"Help!" Mao Cai said without thinking: "Our father said that as brothers, we have to help each other. If anyone bullies one of us, we will beat him up!"
Ding Yunyi smiled: "That's right, you have to be ruthless during military training, but you have to help each other on the battlefield. If one is injured, the other has to risk his life to save it. But this is not only true for you brothers, but also for other companions.
"
"Yes, I understand, Headquarters!"
Ding Yunyi waved his hand and told them to continue practicing. He turned to Ah Hu and said, "Your troops will be put to use now that the war begins."
When Ah Hu heard this, he was very proud and looked at Li Dingguo as if to demonstrate.
"But..." Ding Yunyi smiled again: "In the future, when Dingguo's troops can be used on the battlefield, you will not be able to defeat him!"
This is the second time Ding Yunyi has said such words today. Ah Huda is not convinced, but he cannot show it in front of Ding Yunyi...
Ding Yunyi knew that A Hu was unconvinced, but the future would soon prove all this.
What made him happy was that after he left Taiwan for more than a year, Li Dingguo and Ah Hu lived up to his expectations. The Huben pro-army and the Huben pro-army grew like small trees in spring, and soon they would grow into adults.
Giant trees......
One of them is his adopted brother, and the other is his brother-in-law. There is no doubt about their loyalty to him. And adding young people like them to the Tiger Guard who are young, fearless, and daring will become the most powerful.
fresh blood.
It's almost time for them to come into play...
After coming out of the training ground, Ding Yunyi went straight to the firearms bureau. This was one of the places he cared about most, and he would never forget it when he was in the Central Plains.
When he arrived at the entrance of the Firearms Bureau, Ding Yunyi saw at first sight more than a dozen artillery pieces that looked like they were newly manufactured, neatly stacked there, waiting to be transported away.
Thousand-jin Fo Lang machines, red Yi cannons... were placed there one after another, and Ding Yunyi was very excited to see them.
Cannons, these are all my own cannons! During the period when I was away from Taiwan, the Firearms Bureau's production capacity has obviously reached a new level...
Those are the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 ship guns and fortress guns, that is the No. 4 army cannon, and that is the No. 5 siege gun...
Ding Yunyi let out a long breath. Once a war breaks out, these are the most powerful weapons that will determine the outcome of the war!
As soon as I entered the firearms bureau, I saw Kondruman, Al and Jiao Xu arguing fiercely about a musket. The three people were talking in Ming Dynasty Mandarin for a while.
I don’t understand the language you’re talking about...I’m dancing around and spitting. It looks like I’m about to get into a fight.
Simond, who was originally acting as a translator, stood aside in a daze and had no time to translate...
"Calm down, calm down." Ding Yunyi walked over quickly, fearing that they would really have a conflict.
Seeing Ding Yunyi, who had been "missing" for more than a year, appear, Al pulled him over without saying hello: "Ding, look, I firmly believe that such a musket must be further improved to make it completely free of
With the aid of a stent. But my dear Mr. Kondruman firmly opposes this idea of mine..."
"No, it's completely ridiculous." Kondruman waved his arms: "If the musket loses the support of the bracket, the shooting accuracy will be further reduced. This is irrational. Any musket must be relied on.
Bracket! Al, I feel sorry for you. You actually want to lower the forty-three steps of firing a musket. This is really ridiculous. You must know that every step is strictly calculated, and any step is missing.
It becomes something very ridiculous!”
This is the huge difference between them, Ding Yunyi thought in his heart.
The reason why muskets have not been able to dominate the battlefield, or even play a decisive factor, is because of various limitations of muskets.
Such as the bracket, such as the complicated and cumbersome firing steps. And I spent a lot of money to hire these Thai people, not to ask them to produce muskets step by step, that is what the craftsmen do. What they want to do is to improve the muskets and invent more advanced ones.
musket.
In this sense, Ayer undoubtedly did a better job than Kondruman and had a more long-term vision.
"What do you think, Mr. Jiao?" Ding Yunyi did not answer immediately, but threw the question to Jiao Xu.
Jiao Xu behaved very calmly: "I agree with Mr. Al's opinion. Sooner or later the bracket will be completely canceled, and reducing the shooting steps will also make the musket function more perfectly."
He expressed his opinions carefully. Ding Yunyi listened very carefully. Then he thought for a moment and said to Jiao Xu: "Mr. Jiao, I want to keep you here. Do you have any opinions?"
When Jiao Xu heard this, he was overjoyed. This was exactly what he wanted, and he quickly nodded in agreement.
Ding Yunyi smiled with satisfaction. Although Jiao Xu has not been exposed to outside civilization, he is by no means inferior to any of the best Thai and Western gunsmiths. He is Ming Dynasty and Taiwan, and he is a pillar of his own firearms production!
With his joining, he no longer has to put all his hopes on the Thai people.
Thinking of this, Ding Yunyi said slowly: "In fact, you don't have to argue so fiercely. Which method is best will be verified soon as time goes by. I will not take sides, you all have the same
With ample funds, there are also enough manpower..."
Although he said so, in his heart, he had gradually shifted to Al and Jiao Xu's side.
Kondruman is an excellent craftsman, but he is only limited to that, while Al and Jiao Xu are master-level figures. Some of their seemingly "absurd" whimsical ideas will soon be all
Realized one by one...
Ding Yunyi saw what he wanted to see in the firearms bureau, and he did the same in the shipyard.
At present, the Taiwan Shipyard is completely under the full responsibility of Cai Jiuzhou's father, Cai Qizhen. Before Ding Yunyi left Taiwan, the "Tiger" warships and "Leopard" warships had been put into production, which had become the main battle force of the Huben Navy.
Boat.
If only in terms of quantity, it may take ten years for the Huben Guard Navy to reach the scale of the Zheng Family's fleet of more than 3,000 ships. However, in terms of quality, the Huben Guard Navy has far surpassed the Zheng Family Navy.
At the same time, extremely large warships of the "Lion" class also appeared.
This warship named "Lion" is actually equipped with as many as ninety-eight cannons of various types. Its hull is strong, maneuverable, and powerful. Its towering bow and castle-like hull,
Once a naval battle occurs, it will form a deterrent to the enemy.
"Good, very good!" Ding Yunyi was full of praise when he saw the "Lion": "When this ship appears, it can scare the enemy half to death without fighting. I think we can get a few more ships like this."
come out."
"How many more ships?" Cai Qizhen opened her eyes wide: "General Town, do you know how much money it costs to build such a ship? How much manpower does it cost? Being able to build one ship in a year is already a great achievement."
"Ah, that's it." Ding Yunyi laughed a few times: "In those five years, we can build five ships. Mr. Cai, I think our Taiwan shipyard can be further expanded. You see, there are so many new ships coming from Taiwan.
There are a lot of useful talents among the disaster victims, so just go and pick them out, and just go and get as much silver as you need."
Cai Qizhen nodded: "But the shipyard is contrary to our original intention. At present, the shipyard invests a lot of money every year, and it is impossible to make money. My boss, I have been fooled by you.
Already."
Ding Yunyi laughed: "Mr. Cai, bear with me. Now everything will give priority to the military. If the military is weak, no matter how prosperous the trade is, it will be fleeting. We fought the Thais once, and I think there will be a second one."
The third time. The Thais in Batavia and Malacca were still eyeing Taiwan, thinking about revenge all the time... Now they are trading with us, but it is profitable for both parties.
, once an opportunity arises, they will never let it go..."
Cai Qizhen nodded slowly.
Ding Yunyi suddenly sneered again: "Actually, they are staring at my Taiwan, why am I not staring at their place?"
Cai Qizhen was surprised. Could it be that the main town had set its sights on Batavia, Malacca and other territories controlled by the Westerners?
Ding Yunyi's idea is actually not complicated. Judging from the current development, Taiwan seems a bit small for him. If he wants to make a difference, he must fight it out.
And where can we make a breakthrough? It can only be on the territory controlled by these Taixi people!