[Chapter Word Count:3493 Last Updated:2014-10-0112:00:00.0]

With muskets and samurai wings, this era when rifled guns did not appear was always the mainstream of warfare. Now Luo Huo's musket array is the backbone of firepower output, and the Taibaiding bandits who have surged up on both wings are the strong shields of the musket array, and any fish that dares to sneak attack will be ruthlessly killed.

This tactic is not something that Xiao Letian has foolishly figured out, this is almost the essence of all battle formations in the history of Western smoothbore guns. The Spanish phalanx used pikemen as flanks, while the Napoleonic era used ultra-long-range fire from artillery and dragoons to flank them.

Even in the just-concluded American Civil War, musketeers needed cavalry and skirmishers for cover. However, foreign devils are foreign devils, they are not as extravagant as Xiao Letian, ten musketeers are actually equipped with more than a hundred green forest heroes as guards, how can this combat effectiveness not be high.

The Heavenly Army of Taibaiding was mainly based on the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the Northern Expeditionary Army of that year was the elite of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, otherwise it would not have been possible to kill all the way to Tianjin with more than 20,000 troops. And many of the soldiers who make up this force have backgrounds from the southern green forests.

To put it bluntly, Xiao Letian, a military advisor, led almost a luxurious army composed entirely of people from the green forest, these people are not Xiang Shaolong's opponents when they fight alone, but a group of green forest heroes have learned the army's battle formation cooperation, so ten Xiang Shaolong are not opponents.

"Luo Huo, have you found Mr. Xiao?" Xiao Hexin asked nervously.

"No, but the back door of the hut is open...... "Luo Huo leaned into the valley with his torch held high.

"Catch up, as long as you get close to Mr., Mr. will definitely send a signal!" After speaking, Xiao Hexin was the first to jump down the valley, and after a while, the entire valley was full of torches, and more than a hundred people searched in the valley like a long dragon.

"Wang Huaiyuan, arrest those wounded enemies and treat them briefly...... These are our hostages!" Xiao Hexin's roar came from the valley.

At this time, Xiao Letian had already seen the fire light rising behind him, and he listened carefully for a long time When the familiar sound of shotgun salvo came, he subconsciously wanted to take out the yellow phosphorus fireworks, but after thinking about it, there may be how many enemies are hiding in the surrounding darkness, in case the enemy arrives first, it will be bad.

Thinking of this, he whispered to the tiger girl, "Leave them alone, let's continue to walk down the mountain, don't make a sound." I don't know how long they walked, but the two suddenly found that there was a sound of grass and trees shaking behind them, and Xiao Lotian hurriedly dragged the tiger girl to hide in the grass on one side.

But before the two of them could hide their figures, suddenly a cold and hard thing pressed against Xiao Letian's waist, "Mr. Xiao, let's meet again, this is your pistol, you know the power better than me." It was Xiang Shaolong who spoke.

Damn, Xiao Letian scolded in his heart, he didn't expect this guy's legs to be so fast. "Master Long, is there something we can't discuss properly? What kind of hatred do you and I have to hunt down and kill like this? Who hired you, no matter how much money he pays, can't I pay a double share?"

Xiang Shaolong smiled bitterly, "Don't play with me, you want to delay time and wait for your men to save you......?"

Under the threat of the pistol, Xiao Letian and Hu Niu slowly retreated, and by the faint starlight, they were surprised to find that there was actually a cave behind the grass. When the three of them all entered the cave, Xiang Shaolong blocked the entrance of the cave with weeds, and the muzzle of the black hole threatened Xiao Letian, and none of the three dared to make a sound.

After a while, there was a crackling musket in the distance, and the sound of weapons "Catch alive, take hostages...... That's Sima Yun, this kid is taking his brother to besiege those apprentices of Xiangjiazhuang.

Xiao Letian obviously felt that Xiang Shaolong was trembling, maybe this northland tycoon had never suffered such a shame in his life.

After a while, the light of the torches began to flicker at the entrance of the cave, and the three of them saw with their own eyes that the two apprentices of Xiangjiazhuang were tied up like pigs and carried away on a wooden stick. Sima Yun glanced left and right, but did not find the entrance of the cave, and then led people to rush to the depths of the valley.

After more than half an hour, it was quiet outside the cave, and at this time, Xiao Le Tiancai asked in a low voice, "Master Long...... You have also seen it, those are your apprentices and grandchildren, the apprentices of the children of the rivers and lakes are your family business, it is not easy to save so much, why bother to fight ...... chickens and eggs"

"As I expected, now the people who saved me have begun to go to Xiangjiazhuang, let me tell you the truth, in exchange for my life, they will definitely exchange your relatives for ......"

"Shut up! You two devils who write evil scriptures, I will kill you for the sake of heaven!" "Master Long's head is sweating, but his mouth is still hard. Xiao Letian was so angry at the time, and said in his heart that this Qing Kingdom really couldn't be saved, and everyone from top to bottom had been completely brainwashed by feudal thinking, so it didn't make sense.

Hehe, Xiao Letian sneered and said, "So, Master Long has also seen my clumsy work? It seems that you also treat him as a god book like Journey to the West and Fengshen Bang? It's really incorrigible, taking lies as reason, and actually still vibrating words, I ...... it."

"I have already heard all the things you said, you don't believe that the earth is round, you don't understand what Western technology is all about, you don't understand why the foreigners' warships can sail thousands of miles to bomb the Daqing Coastal Defense is full of holes, and you don't understand why the foreigners' muskets are so powerful and can kill people in the invisible ......."

"Under the threat of force from foreigners, you have to admit that foreign guns and cannons are powerful, but when you turn around, you refuse to admit the natural science knowledge of foreigners. You fools, you contradictory idiots, and you're a bunch of cowards who don't dare to admit reality......"

"Shut up!" Long Ye's uninjured arm popped out like lightning, pinching Xiao Letian's throat fiercely, he was already mad at Xiao Letian's words.

"Do you dare to say that I am a coward? Lao Tzu left home at the age of six to study art, and now he has killed countless treacherous evils, even the corrupt officials and me, you dare to say that I am a coward?"

Xiao Letian's face flushed, "You...... If you don't let others talk, you're ...... It's just a coward, you're afraid that you can't say it, but I can't say it...... "Long Ye's angry hand loosened", I'll let you say, I'll see what you can say?"

cough cough, Xiao Letian coughed violently for a while, and said wheezingly, "Only practice brings true knowledge, you have also read my book, the Westerner Magellan has proved with his own practice that the earth is a sphere, why did people go all the way to the west and finally returned to the starting point? This is already a clear proof......"

"I know what you're going to say, don't you just want to say that I'm lying? Then I tell you that some of those foreigners who attacked Beijing four years ago have circled the earth, believe it or not? If you don't believe it, I'll take you to ask the foreigners, and I can even send you to take a sea boat ride in person. ”

Xiao Letian is like telling a story to a newly enlightened child, constantly explaining simple natural science knowledge, he doesn't dare to talk too deeply, because it is just a circle to say that the ancients at this time are already difficult to understand.

In fact, in the process of learning from the West to the East, it takes a certain amount of time for ordinary Chinese people to accept new things, people are very nostalgic and refuse to change creatures, many old people no matter what you say, they will not accept new things, such as Wang Shizheng and those corrupt Confucians, because once they accept new knowledge, it proves that they were wrong before.

And admitting mistakes is always painful, even if they deceive themselves, anyway, they don't want to go through the process of self-denial, because it is too painful.

Fortunately, Xiang Shaolong is not an old and pedantic person, and his age of thirty gives him the courage to accept some new things, such as "The Story of the West". The big man who hired him gave the order to kill Xiao Letian immediately and make this case a strange case. But it was because Xiang Shaolong had read the book Journey to the West before and became interested in some of the contents in it, so he was not willing to let go of the killer.

And this year, when he heard Xiao Letian explain these natural science knowledge to him in person, his heart seemed to snap, something was broken.

Yes, what this two devils said is also reasonable, if all the saints in this world are right, then why can foreigners produce strong ships and cannons that saints have never seen? Saints are so powerful, why can't the Chinese beat Westerners again and again?

Therefore, the core of thinking about the question of qiē is to admit that saints are not omnipotent. Oh my God, it was as if the entire spiritual world had collapsed at that moment. Let the people of that era admit that the saint is not omnipotent, which is worse than killing him.

Until the end, Xiao Letian took out the last killer weapon and smashed it at Xiang Shaolong, "After the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace four years ago, do you know how many silver taels it took the Qing Dynasty to succeed in seeking peace? It's a full eight million taels......

"Do you know how much benefit the Russians in the north, commonly known as the Rakshasas, just sent out Cossack cavalry to slightly threaten the Qing Dynasty and the Anglo-French army......?

Xiang Shaolong's whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning at that time, and his eyes were scattered, "You, you, you...... You two devils have come to deceive people again, and there are five places as big as five Zhili in the Qing Dynasty? Why don't we even know about it?"

Fuck, what kind of era was that, when the Qing government did such a shameful thing, how could he sue the people? As for the Han scholars, they are not interested, they think that it is the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that sells itself, and it has nothing to do with the Han people.

This was the late Qing Dynasty, a period when even the basic concept of the state was not formed. But there is no concept of the country, does not mean that the people are not patriotic, Yue Fei's story has been sung from generation to generation, and all Chinese know that it is wrong to lose land and sell the country, which is the most simple value in the hearts of Chinese.

Xiang Shaolong grabbed Xiao Letian's arm: "Are you lying to me?"

Xiao Letian's face sank like water, "I swear by my ancestors, these things are all true, and I returned to my home country to tell us Chinese how foreigners have become stronger, and how we should catch up." If we don't work hard now, we will never stop ceding land and paying reparations in the future, and the foreign army will never stop ......"

Xiang Shaolong didn't say anything, reversed the revolver and stuffed it back into Xiao Letian's arms, "You two go, I'll let you go." But I sue you, if you are lying to me today, I will not let you go even if I chase you to the ends of the earth!"

At that moment, Xiao Letian was so moved that he even wondered if he needed to print big-character posters? I thought that as long as the details of the "Beijing Treaty" and the "Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty" were written in vernacular, and then pasted all over the countryside.

Well, forget it for the time being, it is estimated that the world will be in chaos in this way. At this time, when there is chaos, it will always be China that suffers.