"Yes! Your Highness! General Lin, wipe out five thousand enemies! According to the relics we found, there are about two thousand Manchu cavalry among them! There are more than three thousand Green Camp cavalry!"
More than two thousand people are riding!
It seems like a real victory!
Zhu Cixiang's eyes showed excitement, and he quickly said to Eunuch Li on the side: "Li Banban, hurry up and have someone tell your father the news!"
Zhu Cixi suppressed the joy in his heart and said to Eunuch Li in front of him.
Eunuch Li nodded respectfully and said to Zhu Cixiang in front of him: "Yes! Your Highness!"
After speaking, Eunuch Li left.
Zhu Cixiang's face was filled with excitement.
Win!
And he won beautifully!
Achieved the best result I expected!
The arrogance of the Manchus must be severely dampened, otherwise they will feel that the Han people are vulnerable, and then their morale will be high, and such an army will become even more terrifying.
Momentum seems to be a very weak thing, but as long as you keep winning continuously and eventually lose, the damage to morale will be great!
As long as it can break their invincible golden body, to be honest, full cavalry is not that scary, and it is probably not as good as Genghis Khan's light cavalry!
Lin Yi's current victory is a shot in the arm for Zhu Cixiang and even the entire Ming Dynasty!
You know, the Ming army has not defeated Manqi for a long time!
Not to mention that in this wild environment, he won a great victory over Manqi!
This is simply an incredible thing!
This is equivalent to giving everyone a shot in the arm. With almost zero casualties, it gives a fatal blow to tens of thousands of knights. It definitely destroys the lie that the knights are less than ten thousand and they are invincible!
News of the victory of the First Guards Army quickly spread to the Jiangnan region through Huang Ming's notification.
"Absurd! Injuring five thousand enemies, but actually no casualties at all! Is this deceiving our people into not knowing the truth? It is simply ridiculous!!!"
Qian Yiqian looked at the Huang Ming report in front of him, with a trace of anger on his face.
He slammed the newspaper in his hand on the table.
"It's really strange. In the past, the results reported by His Highness the Crown Prince at least included casualty figures! This time it was actually said to be zero casualties! They were still facing tens of thousands of cavalry. How did His Highness the Crown Prince fight the battle?
Is there really help from gods and gods? How to achieve zero casualties? It’s not like we just defend based on what we say! This battle report is really too strange!”
Liu Rushi on the side frowned slightly, with a trace of hesitation in his eyes.
Qian Yiqian had a sneer in his eyes.
"His Royal Highness is bragging and doesn't even know how to brag! He is bragging so falsely! It's a pity that His Majesty is completely confused by His Highness and doesn't listen to me at all!"
Thinking of this, Qian Yiqian showed a hint of emotion on his face.
"But I heard that Your Majesty must read the newspaper every day now. The Donglin Bulletin founded by you, Sir, should also be seen on His Majesty's desk..."
Liu Rushi looked at Qian Yiqian in front of him and said.
"Hmph! I want to write an article now! Criticize His Highness the Crown Prince for forging battle reports! This kind of behavior is really abominable!"
Qian Yiqian looked grim.
"Here, give me pen, ink, paper and inkstone to serve you!"
Just as Qian Yiqian was preparing pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the Huangming Notice quickly spread throughout Jiangnan.
Many literati had doubtful looks in their eyes.
Without any casualties, he defeated ten thousand cavalry so easily!
How is this possible??
Everyone had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at the battle report in front of him with disbelief in his eyes.
“Is this true??”
Chongzhen looked at the battle report in front of him and asked the eunuch beside him.
"Your Majesty, the battle reports above are all true! I heard from His Highness the Crown Prince that this General Lin Yi is using a new method of warfare! The entire army uses firearms to fight, and then two gentlemen, Song Yingxing and Wang Zheng, are added to it. A new type of mobile artillery invented through cooperation.
It can kill the enemy on a large scale from a long distance. Those cavalry were killed on a large scale before they even got close to our army's formation, and in the end they couldn't help but turn around and run away!"
With a smile on his face, the eunuch said to Chongzhen in front of him.
After hearing the words of the eunuch in front of him, Chongzhen's eyes showed excitement.
"Okay! Okay, okay! If we follow this method, we can hope to revive the Ming Dynasty!"
Chongzhen said excitedly to the eunuch in front of him.
With a smile on his face, the eunuch said to Emperor Chongzhen in front of him: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that although this new method of warfare and the new army are good, they are extremely in need of money, so they cannot be used on a large scale and can only be used slowly. Come on!"
"really!"
After hearing the eunuch's words, Emperor Chongzhen felt very enlightened.
He has experienced days when he had no money. Let alone the training of this new army, the training of a normal army itself consumes a lot of silver.
Not to mention this new army that uses muskets and artillery on a large scale.
A good musket costs several taels of silver, and a cannon, even an old-fashioned cannon, if it is a bronze cannon, costs at least thirty-six taels of silver!
There is no way! It is very difficult to make a musket. Although the craftsmen are skilled and the techniques are all ready-made, it does not seem difficult, but in fact it is still a bit difficult to use.
There is another important reason why Zhu Cixiang did not let the Second Army of the Prince's Guards go to the battlefield.
That is...
No more muskets!
All the muskets were given to the First Army of the Prince's Guards. Zhu Cixiang did not want the new army that he had carefully trained to go to the battlefield to fight with others with bayonets.
The fire blunderbuss used by the Ming army today is called the Lumi blunderbuss. It is a kind of fire blunderbuss that Zhao Shijian relied on from the Lumi Kingdom. It is very powerful. However, during the Wanli period, it was blocked by civil servants, so the drawings were shelved.
When Zhu Cixi came to defend the city in this era, he had already taken out the blueprint of the firecracker and handed it over to the most outstanding royal craftsmen at the time to build it.
However, although this fire gun is very powerful, even though it is a matchlock gun, it has a certain firing speed and is not slow.
Therefore, although the matchlock gun was not suitable for the musket battle formation, Zhu Cihong still designed such a battle formation based on the Rumi gun.
Moreover, there is a steel knife at the end of this Lubi gun bed. If the enemy approaches, it can be used as a slaying sword!
When those cavalry are approaching, this battle formation can be quickly changed and the cavalry can be dealt with with the sword!
Therefore, this battle formation is not without combat effectiveness after the enemy approaches!
Unfortunately, although this Rumi gun has many benefits and is considered a good weapon, it has two fatal flaws!