See the first page of the list of booty: 410 horses were captured in this battle, including 26 Persian horses. 392 11 coins and birds. 1,260 guns. 1,140 wolves.

Su Chengyu knows that even in the 21st century, the Middle East is still one of the best horse producing regions in the world. Many European horses were bred by the introduction of Middle Eastern horses.

In this era of extremely inconvenient transportation, the price of importing military horses from Persia is absolutely ridiculous.

In addition, he had already seen the muskets used by the Qing army yesterday, and the so-called eleven money bird guns should be the famous Spanish Mushcart heavy muskets in Europe.

This gun was originally created to shoot through the cavalry plates that were heavily used in Europe, and although it was heavy and cumbersome to use, the firepower was absolutely too strong to speak.

There is also the equipment of the Qing army, which is well-made and the materials are real. The Lu Mi Gong made by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty is simply a scum compared to it.

He turned to the second page of the list, and it was written that there were 12 1,000-pound Buddha cannons and 70 matching guns. There are 15 doors for the No. 1 Franc machine and 80 matching guns......

These cannons are a bit of a chicken rib. Su Chengyu shook his head slightly, the Franc cannon was developed from a European-style rapid-fire ship gunwale, and its main feature was its high rate of fire.

It uses a unique way of loading ammunition, with the end of the gun barrel bulging, leaving a narrow notch. The so-called sub-gun is equivalent to the tail of a gun without a barrel, which is pre-loaded with gunpowder and shells.

When using it, the sub-gun is docked to the end of the gun and fixed, which is equivalent to connecting the sub-gun to the barrel. After firing, you can fire again by replacing another sub-gun, saving a lot of time reloading gunpowder and shells.

Although theoretically it is very beautiful, due to the processing technology limitations of this era, it is difficult to connect very closely between the sub-gun and the main body of the artillery, which will cause air leakage when firing the gun. In addition, the gun had to be nested inside the gun, so it was impossible to make the gun wall too thick, resulting in a very low charge, otherwise it would explode.

As a result, it could not contain much gunpowder but still leaked, resulting in a very low range. The 1,000-pound Franc machine fired about a four-pound iron ball, and its effective range was only more than half a mile, while the No. 1 Franc plane, which had a projectile of more than one pound, had a range of only 200 steps.

In addition, due to the limitations of the barrel heat dissipation technology, even if you do not need to reload the ammunition, after firing a few times, the barrel is overheated, and you still have to stop firing and wait for cooling. In practice, it was about 10 to 20 seconds on average.

This rate of fire does not have much advantage over the front-loading three-pounder cannon that runs every 20 seconds, but the disadvantage in range is very obvious, the three-pounder can easily hit targets one mile away, and the six-pounder gun has a range of nearly one and a half miles.

Therefore, the two No. 4 Franc machines of the Dragon Guard have now been allocated to the reserve battalion for training, and it is more practical to use cannons on the battlefield.

Su Chengyu almost wanted to throw these Franc machines on Shangrao, but later he was worried that they would be taken away by the Qing army, so he took them away with the army. Later events proved that the decision to bring these cannons was very correct, as the so-called superfluous things, my treasures, they soon had their own uses.

After Ke Yongsheng was eliminated, there was no main force of the Qing army in the entire northern part of Jiangxi.

Although there were some small Qing army activities in Raozhou, Nankang, and Jiujiang, there were many rebel troops in these three places, and the total number of them was tens of thousands, so it should not be a problem to deal with the Qing army.

In other words, the Long Wei Army can almost go directly to the city of Nanchang, and there is only one step left before the success of Su Chengyu's Nanchang strategy.

This is indeed the case, since the Long Wei army left Shangrao and marched to the vicinity of Wanyang County, the capital of Raozhou, there was not a single battle along the way.

Su Chengyu rode along the official road on the tall Persian stallion that had just been captured, and this horse was nearly one person tall at the shoulder, and it looked extremely majestic.

He was discussing the tactical plan for besieging Nanchang with Zhang Jiayu, Yu Xin and others, when he suddenly heard a sound not far away, and there was a faint sound of shouting and killing.

A moment later, the hussars in charge of the surrounding vigilance, Pegasus, reported that there was a group of men and horses fighting with six or seven hundred Qing troops at the north side of the mountain pass, and the Qing army was advancing day by day, and the group had signs of being unable to parry.

"Order, go for reinforcements at once." Su Chengyu ordered, "Let the hussars expand the scope of reconnaissance." The 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Artillery Battalion were left on guard in case of fraud. ”

"Yes!"

Deng Shan and hundreds of his subordinates stared at the scene in front of them, and even forgot to wipe the blood that kept dripping from their foreheads.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, he thought that he would die outside this Hujia Village today, and the old wife and children of the family were afraid that they would never see each other again.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden burst of artillery fire in the rear of the side, and a rain of blood was set off on the Qing army's position on the opposite side.

Then thousands of people came up from all directions, armed with bird guns with short swords on the front. The Qing soldiers originally wanted to resist, but these people only released two rounds of guns in unison, and then beat the enemy army to pieces, turned around and fled.

This was not over, and then another group of cavalrymen with shiny steel armor wrapped in their upper bodies lined up in a neat queue, holding long swords and rushing into the rout, even stabbing and stepping, leaving hundreds of corpses of Qing soldiers on the ground in just a few moments.

The whole process is even sharper than a cat chasing a mouse.

"General, is this Jade Shura's team?" It was a long time before a man with a machete with a curled blade muttered.

"I guess so." Deng Shan nodded subconsciously, and then shook his head again, "It doesn't seem to be either." When did the people of Jade Shura become so powerful that they even had cannons? ”

Soon, the Dragon Guard had taken more than 100 captives away and began to clean up the battlefield.

Yu Xin and several guards came to Deng Shan and the others, and when they saw that they were all dressed in Ming clothes and had not shaved their hair and braids, they knew that they were the people who had just fought with the Qing army.

He arched his hand and said, "Dare to ask you which army you are?" ”

Deng Shan wiped the blood on his face, and hurriedly saluted respectfully: "We are the righteous army of the Iron Mountain Battalion. Thank you just now for leading the troops to rescue us, otherwise I am afraid that I would be dead by this moment. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the hundreds of soldiers of the Tieshan Battalion around him also saluted one after another, and their thanks rang out.

Yu Xin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me, it's our command...... It was His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou who ordered us to come to help, and if you want to thank him, you should thank him. ”

Su Chengyu saw that he had wiped out a small group of Qing troops and was about to order the army to be collected, when he saw a tall man with a bandage on his head walking towards this side with a few subordinates.

A few people were still far away, so they knelt down and saluted, "The grass people Deng Shan and the first battalion of brothers, His Royal Highness the King of Mengchenzhou, rescued each other with righteousness, I am grateful, please accept my wait!" ”

Su Chengyu hurriedly stepped forward to help him up. Yu Xin on the side saluted and said: "Lord Commander, they are the rebels near Wanyang, called the Tieshan Battalion." ”