"The reincarnation of Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty...... Invincible! ”

When Zhu Cihong appeared outside the Longjiangguan wharf on a war horse, he disembarked ahead of the boat and lined up on the wide streets of the outer city of Nanjing, and the new officers and soldiers suddenly burst into the loudest cheers.

Their cheers drove the people who crowded along the long street to welcome the soldiers who had returned triumphantly. Next to the Longjiangguan wharf, all the warehouses, shops, and yamen are crowded with people, the walls are full of people, and in some places even the roofs are full of people. Everyone shouted loudly at this time, tearing out their throats and shouting the slogan "Emperor Taizu Gao is alive", and some people were still excited and tearful.

Of course, most of these people who greeted Zhu Cihong were not natives who had lived in Jinling for a long time, but "northerners" who came from the north or Huaidi, some of whom were the families of the new officers and soldiers who had overcome difficulties, and some were refugees who had lost their homes, and were accepted to Nanjing by the officials sent by Zhu Cihong.

These people almost all eat the Zhu family's meals and wear the Zhu family's clothes, and they also expect Zhu Cihong, the eldest prince of the Fujun, to take them back to their hometown. Therefore, he became the most resolute supporter of Zhu Cihong's "Beiren regime" in Nanjing!

Seeing that Zhu Cihong, who was about to turn eighteen years old, was riding on a tall war horse, wearing the plate armor made by Zheng Zhilong's tribute with a hydraulic hammer, he looked heroic. However, compared with before this dispatch, he was more calm, and he had a sense of self-pride. Li Yan, Wu Xiang, Hao Shaoqi, Wang Qi, Shi Ruien, Ferreira, these Chinese and Western generals, also wore plate armor or plate armor, and rode horses around Zhu Cihong. All of them are victors, and they are full of confidence in victory.

Now no one is worried that Zhu Cihong's regime will not last long, even the most pessimistic prediction is only a hundred or ten years in the south of the Yangtze River - the Ming Dynasty has been a national Zuo for more than 270 years, if there can be another 100 years, it will be the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for 400 years, and the Han Dynasty can have a fight.

Here in Jiangnan, there are already some scholars who call today's Ming Dynasty "Nanming" behind their backs, comparing Nanming with the Southern Song Dynasty......

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the current Nanming seems to be stronger, and it seems that it can keep Jiangnan peaceful for more than a hundred years.

Of course, there are also some people who open their eyes to see the world, and they already know that the biggest difference between the Southern Ming and Southern Song Dynasty is that the west wind is eastward. These people were full of confidence in the prospects of the Southern Ming and Northern Expeditions, such as Zheng Zhilong, the Duke of Quanguo, who asked to escort Fan. Chen Ding of the Dimen Mission sent Zhu Cihong a batch of firearms and gunpowder by the way. Among them, the firearms are all turtledove guns made in Foshan and Anping, there are 1,000 pieces, all of which are good things!

In Zheng Zhilong's view, the Tartars, which are solved with firearms and gunpowder, are not a threat...... As long as there is a continuous supply of silk and porcelain from the southeast, Western firearms and gunpowder can be bought as much as possible. Even if it's self-made, it's not a problem.

As a burst of drums with a very distinct sense of rhythm sounded, the officers and men of the forward division and the first division of the New Army, who had already finished lining up, began to walk along the spacious street towards Yifengmen with neat steps.

The division of 8,000 tigers of the four infantry regiments was replaced with brand new armor. Half of the pikemen (about 2,000 men) were replaced with slatted iron armor, and the surface of the armor was polished and shiny in the sun. A spear long enough to resist on the shoulder, the tip of the spear sharpened to a shiny, reflecting a terrible light, looking from a distance, like a moving steel jungle. And even more terrifying are the air-dried human heads hanging from the tips of these pikemen! They are all the Tartar heads with the tail of the money rat, and there are three on each spear, with a total of 6,000 hideous heads, declaring the great military might of the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

The pikemen were accompanied by musketeers dressed in cloth armor, a third of whom carried a huge turtledove's foot gun, and the remaining two-thirds carried a variety of light arquebuses with spikes.

The heavy arquebuses used by the new army are generally of the same type, although they are not standardized, but they are not too similar. Their light arquebuses were a bit varied, the most widely used of which was the Japanese three-barrel, a very light musket that could only be doubled to ensure the destruction of heavily armored Manchurians at a distance of 30 paces. The power is really not satisfactory, and it can only be regarded as a makeshift weapon.

Therefore, after the situation stabilized a little, Zhu Cihong decided to eliminate the three cartridges, and chose the Franc machine light firecracker, which was also transmitted from the West, as the standard light firecracker - this firearm is the Spanish light arquebus, which is said to be light, but in fact it is about the same as the Japanese six-barrel, the bullet weighs seven or eight yuan, the charge is five dollars, and the muzzle initial kinetic energy is very large, which is enough to penetrate the shield car of the Qing army 50 steps away.

In addition, the length of this firearm is close to five feet, and the length of the sleeve gun can reach seven feet, which is more than one person high, and can be used as a long gun.

However, the Spanish light arquebus was chosen as the standard light arquebus, and there is still a long way to go before the equipment replacement is completed!

After all, the military industrial clusters in Nanjing and Shanghai have just started, and they are far from reaching the scale of mass production of firearms.

The military industry in Foshan and Anping is a bit of a heritage, and it has long been able to produce turtledove foot guns and Lumi guns, but the output is far from meeting the needs of the new weapons that can be used to overcome difficulties - guns are consumables that can be easily worn out in the process of high-intensity training and operations. Therefore, there must be a large production volume to support a large firearms corps.

Therefore, it is still very necessary to purchase firearms at this time...... This is not a comprador mentality, and the current firecrackers are all handicrafts, so the production capacity is very slow. They all rely on the master to teach the apprentice by hand, and an apprentice teaches for three years before he becomes a teacher, and if he does not have ten or eight years, the production capacity cannot rise at all. If you force the output below to explode, the craftsmanship is not in place, and the manufactured goods are also explosive.

So you have to buy it!

But the less powerful Japanese guns can't be bought anymore, it's just an emergency thing. The European muskets with greater power, better quality, and sufficient supply are what Prince Zhu really needs.

However, this hole card cannot be known to Fan Damen, the envoy of Hongyi Country.

What can let Fan Gate know now is that the Ming prince is invincible, and the Tatars in the north have been defeated!

"Bruce, you're an army officer, what do you think of the Chinese crown prince's army? Is it enough for an elite army by European standards? ”

Anthony. Fan. Dimon had little interest in the thousands of dead heads that were unappetizing to look at, but he had to figure out the true level of the eastern army in front of him—that would determine his appearance. Is Dimon a friend from afar, or an evil and murderous European colonizer!

His brother Bruce was an army officer in his forties, fought in the Thirty Years' War, and served as an officer in the armies of many German Protestant princes.

When Zhu Cihong's army appeared on the street outside Yifeng Gate, Bruce was holding a telescope and observing carefully.

He soon discovered that the Eastern army was using typical Morris tactics - a battalion of about 500 men as the base unit, with pikemen and light men splitting half, and 3-pounder guns at the regimental level...... In addition, they also inserted bayonets in the muzzles of some light arquebuses, which looked good, but I don't know how?

And what impressed Bruce the most was the strict formation of this Eastern army!

He had never seen such a well-organized army in the East, and even in the West, such an army could be considered elite!

"They are strong, military threats will not work!" Bruce put down his binoculars, muttered for a moment, and whispered, "Anthony, it looks like we're going to have to reconsider the content of the treaty......"