In the east of Panama City, in the courtyard of the Yamen of Youjing, Deng Zilong held a knife and pestle on the ground.

He didn't exert any force on the blade, but its weight of nine catties made the weapon crash through the bluestone.

Although it seems that times have changed, Deng Zilong has always stubbornly believed that cold weapons will always occupy a place in this world, just like Chen Mu persuaded him to give up letting the infantry use fast guns in his early years, but he himself mounted the head of the sword on the bird's gun.

After so many years, Deng Zilong's knife has changed a few times, but the weight is always the same, and now the long knife he uses is a sailor shape of the eyebrow knife, adding a reverse blade on the basis of the single-edged eyebrow knife, and enhancing the role of picking and stabbing on the basis of stabbing and chopping, which can also be called a fish head knife.

The reason why it is said to be a sailor is because its increased backblade can improve the error tolerance rate in relatively chaotic local battlefields.

If you don't get it, you stab it out; If you don't stab it, you can pick it up in reverse.

Today's Panama, the Kirin guard on the shore of the Great Eastern Ocean, has thousands of such weapons.

Of course, the knives used by ordinary sailors were slightly shorter and lighter than Deng Zilong's, and even the heaviest glaive knives they used were only five catties.

Deng Dashuai has been waiting for the enemy to learn Chen Mu's set, and everyone will use bird guns, and then his long knife team will be able to rush into the enemy formation and kill the Quartet.

But there was one most crucial question that he had only recently figured out.

It turned out that except for Daming...... Others are worried that gunpowder will run out, not because they run out of gunpowder on the battlefield and do not have supplies, but because they will abandon the use of firearms because of the lack of gunpowder in equipping their troops.

Is the world like this?

He insisted that the soldiers use cold weapons, and in the face of such information, his firm heart couldn't help but waver.

"Brother Manjue, you came just in time."

Deng Zilong danced a knife flower, put the long knife on the weapon rack, and walked towards the gate of the atrium.

"I was saying that I was looking for you, and the imperial court sent some officer armor on the last boat this year, saying that it was made of special materials to prevent birds from shooting at close range." Deng Zilong raised his hand and patted his chest as he spoke: "It's not much heavier than in the past, your guerrilla army has thirteen pairs." ”

Deng Zilong is wearing a new style of steel, ceramics, and copper decorative composite cuirass and a new bowl, the armor and armor skirt have a bulletproof design on the chest and abdomen, waist and back, and thighs, and the helmet is the forehead, the back of the head and the neck to protect the throat with composite materials to strengthen the protection - the officer who delivered the armor said so.

No one in the Oriental Military Government has ever tried it, and the domestic production capacity is limited, so only 340 sets of armor like this kind were delivered to the Oriental Military Government, mainly for the emperor to reward meritorious officers and prevent them from being assassinated by people at close range.

In the eyes of the imperial court, the relationship between the Oriental military government and Spain was hot, and the money was counted under the trade treaty, not to mention that the emperor was far away, and the generals from all walks of life were eager to hire a team of scholars to write official documents to the imperial court all day long for the weapons produced by the four major ordnance bureaus.

The armor was already limited, and it was specially given to officers, so apart from Chen Mu, no one else in the Oriental Military Office would really test whether it could defend against muskets.

Lin Manjue came over obviously because there was something, his steps were very hurried, and even the frown that tightened after hearing Deng Zilong say that the new armor could prevent birds from shooting at close range did not soothe much.

He greeted Deng Zilong and saluted first, and then looked around, approached and said cautiously in a low voice: "Can Deng Shuai retreat left and right, there is something important to report for his humble position." ”

The guerrilla marshal's tone and demeanor made Deng Zilong realize the seriousness of the matter, and he waved his hand to the left and right guards with suspicion to let them retreat, and leaned towards the pavilion in the corner of the courtyard and said, "Go over there, right...... Lautaro's injury? ”

Lin Manjue shook his head.

Lautaro's injuries may not be able to recover from the sky, this is not a secret in Ukyo, the cuirass on his body has been shot by the Fran cannon sprayed by the scattered son more than a dozen holes, not to mention the people inside, the broken iron pieces that can be taken into the limbs can be taken out by the Youjing military doctor, but the torso part is really fatal...... No one dares to touch it and can't touch it.

If you are hit by a musket, it doesn't matter where it is, as long as there is a possibility of taking it out, the military doctors who are used to life and death will try their luck, but the cannon is scattered? No one wants to try.

It may be painful not to move, but people can still hold out for a few days, like this similar injury, the highest record of the Oriental Military Government is the seventeenth, from a Spanish wounded soldier, was sprayed by the tiger squat cannon of the Ming army nearby, and the same two people almost blocked all the scattered pieces of the tiger squat cannon, after the battle, the flag army cleaned the battlefield and found that this person was still alive, so they gave him medicine to maintain his life.

It's just maintenance, this kind of internal and external injuries can't be saved even if Hades and Chen Shigong are there.

Lautaro's injuries were worse than the Spaniard's, and having made it past that time, and with all the business he needed to arrange, it was only a matter of time before the South Asian hero returned.

No one will be surprised when they leave.

But apart from Lautaro, anything is a big deal for Deng Zilong.

"It is the southern border, Peru was injured in Lautaro's attack on the city of Cali, and the Western Army pursued the victory, and also transferred a stunned youth corps commander from Peru, taking advantage of the opportunity of the dragons to conquer the east and west, and the rebels from all over the country fell to the wind and fought until the border."

Deng Zilong, who was sitting in the pavilion, paused for a moment with his hand on the cocoa bean, then continued to pick one up and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly, waiting for Lin Manjue's words.

There is no wave in the heart.

Hitting the border means that the commander of the Western Army has not actually recovered much of the land controlled by the Lautaro rebels.

In other words, he recovered a lot of land, but those lands were not safe to defend, not suitable for planting and grazing, and were originally very easy to attack.

But Lin Manjue didn't come to him just to talk about these innocuous little things, Deng Zilong suddenly became a little worried.

"He marched with 3,000 legions to Zhumapo, southwest of Medellín, where the general banner Tang Dazhang and 55 banner troops were stationed." Lin Manjue said: "Tang Dazhang said that when the commander of the Western Army was about to lead the army to leave, a sound sounded in the Western Army formation, and then the two sides fought. ”

"They...... Released? ”

It had always been a risky thing for Deng Zilong to take over the land recovered by the Ming army and to set up a border to build a barrier for Lautaro, and he was not sure that the Spaniards would accept it.

He also thought that the Spaniards would force their way into the border, for example, and the superior forces put away their weapons and rushed to the border, which is very likely, and it is very likely that the Ming army will not let go in the face of such a situation, and Spain may get into a lot of trouble afterwards, but this is the most likely scenario in Deng Zilong's mind.

He thought about it many times, never thinking that it would be the Spaniards who would shoot first.

Deng Zilong didn't have anger on his face, and he didn't even see the idea of revenge, he just rested his hand on the stone table and knocked lightly a few times, then paused suddenly, and asked very seriously: "Are they crazy?" ”