Chapter 133: Suddenly I Have a Son (Ask for Collection Support)
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Feng Yunshan looked at the back pages of the list again, flipped through them, and scolded: "Qing Demon has so much money, he doesn't buy some advanced firearms from foreigners, no wonder he can't beat foreigners!" But he forgot that if the Manchu Qing had bought a lot of advanced firearms, the Taiping Holy Army would not have been able to capture Guangzhou easily. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Moreover, he himself understood that the Manchu Qing could not defeat the foreigners not only because of poor weapons.
Zuo Zongtang said: "Holy King, some manifests and instructions were found from the Guangzhou General's Mansion, all of which were written in Portuguese and English, and the Qing Demon still purchased dozens of city defense heavy artillery and coastal heavy artillery from the Portuguese people in Xiangmen, and placed them in various city towers in Guangzhou and the forts on both sides of the estuary along the Pearl River. It's just that the heavy artillery on the city tower was only used more than ten years ago, and now it has not been used for many years, and many Qing demon soldiers will not use it anymore. Right on the last page. ā
Feng Yunshan turned to the last page, and sure enough, he found more than 70 artillery lists, most of which were 3,000 jin cannons, with a firing range of more than 500 zhang, and more than a dozen giant cannons of more than 5,000 jin or more, mainly on the riverbank forts outside Guangzhou. Feng Yunshan even saw that there were four Napoleonic 12-pound cannons on the list, with the words 3,000 catties remarked at the back.
Feng Yunshan was overjoyed, these cannons were all heavy artillery or imitation iron cannons, if they were purchased or cast, they would be a huge cost, unexpectedly, there were dozens of them, which were more valuable than tens of thousands of silver. Unexpectedly, this Manchu artillery is really good, why did it lose so badly in the Second Opium War in a few years in history?
It seems that in the Second Opium War, Britain had warships powered by steam engines, some of which were equipped with ironclad shells and high mobility and flexibility, while the coastal heavy guns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were fixed on the batteries and could not be moved. The most important thing is that there is a big difference between artillery shells, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always used solid bullets for the majority, while the British army used new types of incendiary bombs, grapeshot bombs, and explosive bombs, and the lethality was much greater than that of solid bullets.
And that's just for artillery reasons in terms of weapons. Other Qing troops were greedy for life and afraid of death, and the logistical support was not even as beneficial as the British army, and the Manchu high-level did not have the determination to fight to the death, so naturally defeat was inevitable. Feng Yunshan believed that if the Taiping Holy Army was replaced, even if it was defeated, it would not be so vulnerable. With these not bad artillery, at least it will make the invading British army suffer heavy losses.
Feng Yunshan doesn't know much about the current artillery, but he knows a little more about the Krupp cannon that is the advanced point behind. It's just that the current founder of Krupp has just begun to try to make steel train wheels, and as for making artillery weapons, it is estimated that he still doesn't even dare to think about it.
This is a good opportunity, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but start his crooked brain: while he was still not famous, he directly invited or tied up the founder of Krupp Company, a huge arms company and elevator giant in later generations, to Guangzhou. With such a doer, coupled with the guidance of his own later insights, wouldn't it be possible to produce a roaring Krupp cannon?
Feng Yunshan was excited by his own thoughts for a while! However, his name was Ah What Krupp, Feng Yunshan couldn't remember. But it doesn't matter, when Feng Yunshan was still working as an engineer in that state-owned enterprise, he went to Europe to receive training and inspection of ethylene exhaust compressor manufacturers, and visited Krupp in Germany, which is a supplier of compressor material parts, and knew that at this time, this small workshop called Krupp was still located in Essen City in western Germany ----in its birthplace.
With this thought, Feng Yunshan didn't have much interest in inspecting the remaining small and medium-sized old-fashioned artillery. As for the other seized swords, spears, bows, arrows, shields and other items, they cannot be counted because of their large numbers.
In addition, there are nearly 20,000 shotguns, countless bullets and cannons, and millions of catties of gunpowder, for these, Feng Yunshan is only a little interested, after all, the main battle with the Qing army still relies on shotguns. At present, there are so many people in the Guangdong congregation who have newly joined the Holy Army, and they need to be equipped with weapons.
Zuo Zongtang explained, however, that the thousands of shotguns seized this time were different from those previously seized from the Green Battalion and the regimental training of the Xiangyong, and many of them were used by the Eight Banners and the Naval Division, and were specially distributed directly by the Guangzhou General's Mansion and the Naval Division's Admiral's Office. This part of the shotgun is the most modern modified shotgun in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the quality is still the same as the old arquebus, but the ignition device has been replaced, and the rate of fire has been increased, which is actually to save the ignition time. Looking at Zuo Zongtang's excited appearance, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but be speechless.
Feng Yunshan didn't look at the seizure of other cloaks and other miscellaneous items, and directly asked Zuo Zongtang and Xu Xiangguang to dispose of them properly.
After reading the seizure, Feng Yunshan just wanted to send someone to the foreigner's clinic to ask for a letter, and wanted to ask him to ask someone to find and recruit Krupp, when a personal guard brought two people in, and mysteriously said that there was something important to report.
Let Zuo Zongtang and Xu Xiangguang leave, Feng Yunshan glanced at the two people who led in, ragged and unkempt, and must have suffered a lot. Both of them seemed familiar, but they couldn't remember who they were.
One of them, who was still a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, looked at Feng Yunshan in fear, and hid behind the other person as if he was afraid. Feng Yunshan's head rang, and he suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help blurting out: "You... You are...... Are you a decide? ā
"Father! Woo woo, father, mother was killed by Qing soldiers! Seeing that Feng Yunshan recognized him, the young man took two steps forward, his eyes immediately turned red, and he immediately burst into tears.
Feng Yunshan hurriedly stepped forward to support the young man! Wen Yan comforted, but he also felt a little guilty in his heart!
This young man is Feng Yunshan's eldest son Feng Qifang before.
At the beginning, Feng Yunshan, who was not possessed, sent people to his hometown in Huaxian County to take the king and his family to Guangxi, but the people sent only took back the family members of the king and Uncle Lai Guo. According to the congregation who received him, Feng Yunshan's wife Lian and son were not willing to follow him in rebellion and remained in their hometown. After the Jintian Uprising, the Qing soldiers came to Feng's house to arrest Feng Yunshan's mother Hu Shi, his younger brother Feng Wuke, and his second son Feng Qimao in prison. And Feng Yunshan's wife Lian escaped with her eldest son Feng Guifang and disappeared.
After capturing Daozhou, Feng Yunshan did not give up, so he sent two old brothers from Guangxi to his hometown in Huaxian County to continue the search.
After Feng Qifang's emotions calmed down, Feng Yunshan also recognized that the leader was one of the people he had sent in County D.
After drinking a glass of water handed by the guard, the old Guangxi brother talked about his search. It turned out that after he and another brother arrived in Huaxian County, they searched around for dozens of miles near Feng Yunshan's hometown, but there was no whereabouts of Feng's wife Lian and Feng Guifang.
The two of them did not complete the task of the Holy King, so naturally they couldn't go back, so they continued to inquire around for a few months, and there was no news, because they often wandered around the Feng family, they were noticed by the Qing soldiers, and they lost another brother in a capture.
It wasn't until not long ago that the Heaven and Earth Society raised troops to drive all the Qing soldiers in the Huaxian area back to Guangzhou City, and he went around Feng's house again, only to find that Feng Qifang, who was hungry and skinny, was hiding in the mountains behind his hometown. The two stole some food in the vicinity again, until they heard that Guangzhou City had been conquered by the Taiping Holy Army, and this time they ran to Guangzhou City to find Feng Yunshan.
Feng's wife, Lian's family, has been taking Feng Guifang to a distant relative's house in a neighboring county. But later, the Qing soldiers traced down relatives in neighboring counties, and in desperation, Lian fled with his son back to the mountains near his hometown in Huaxian County to hide, wanting to wait for the Qing soldiers to leave and then go home to live. Unexpectedly, two months ago, as soon as he approached his hometown with Feng Guifang, he was pursued by several Qing soldiers, and in a critical situation, Lian asked Feng Guifang to escape and hide first, and he took scissors and several Qing soldiers to fight hard, and naturally died tragically under the Qing soldiers.
Fortunately, Feng Guifang was clever and climbed a big tree to escape. But witnessing the tragic death of his mother is tantamount to a huge psychological damage for a teenager.
These, Feng Yunshan can only take on the responsibility of the real Feng Yunshan, and slowly care and persuade in the future to heal the wounds in Feng Yunfang's heart.
Knowing that the Holy King had found his descendants, the tens of thousands of Holy Soldiers in Guangzhou City were all beaming with joy and smiling. Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang, Zuo Zongtang, Xu Xiangguang and others also hurriedly came to congratulate.
Zuo Zongtang and Xu Xiangguang, who are in charge of the internal affairs of Guangzhou, even announced the day of the celebration on their own. The holy soldiers who organized the confiscation of their homes were originally going to be handed over some copper coins and rice grains to the poor people in the city, saying that they were celebrating the queen of the holy king. For a time, thousands of poor families were chanting about the good of the Holy King who saved the suffering.
Luo Xuan, Lin Fengxiang and others also ordered the slaughter of pigs and chickens in the army, so that the holy soldiers in and outside the city had a big meal that night to celebrate the great joy of the Taiping Holy Kingdom.
For a time, after the typhoon and war, the city of Guangzhou, which was a little quiet, was noisy with gongs and drums, joyful, lively, and a grand festival scene!
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"The First Auxiliary of the Cold Door", this book is very good, and the results are too good. Only the great god can write it. Fortunately, I didn't release the book at the same time as him, hehe!