Fang Guangchen was arranged to live in the guild hall converted from the former governor's palace in Zhangzhou City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This time Fang Guangchen came to Fujian, in addition to asking about the situation of the Ming army, so that Wu Sangui could arrange the next plan, he also had a task, that is, to get married.

The Qiongzhou army is particularly capable of fighting, it is the elite of the elite, all the way over, the Qing army was wiped out, whether it was the green camp or the eight banners, they were all defeated. According to this situation, Wu Sangui knew that Huguang would be lost sooner or later.

Although the newspaper sent by the capital to Yungui was blown out of the sky, it was the battle of Hangzhou that annihilated 300,000 people of the Puppet Ming, and finally the enemy was forced to retreat, and the Battle of Jinhua annihilated the 500,000 army of the Puppet Ming, and finally the enemy was forced to withdraw the army, and then Fuzhou defended for half a year, annihilating more than 200,000 enemies, and finally the Battle of Zhangzhou, which annihilated more than 800,000 of the Puppet Ming. This adds up to more than 1.8 million losses of the Ming army......

Wu Sangui would definitely not believe those nonsense newspapers, and he would not believe the so-called great victories of the Qing army, he knew that the Qing army must have suffered heavy losses, and the city was conquered one after another.

As long as Huguang was broken by the Ming army, then Wu Sangui's army in Yungui was called a lone army. The land of Yunnan and Guizhou is barren, and the grain produced is simply not self-sufficient, so it must be transported from Huguang, which is known as the granary of the world. If Huguang fell into the hands of the Ming army, Wu Sangui would have only one way to surrender.

In this case, before the Ming army conquered Huguang, Wu Sangui was faced with two choices: the first was to go out of Yungui and send troops to Huguang to assist the Qing army in Huguang in defense, and when the situation was wrong, he could retreat to Xiangyang and use Xiangyang to defend the city. The second option is that before the Ming army captures Huguang, Wu Sangui declares that it will be anyway.

The strategists under Wu Sangui's command had their own opinions, but most of them advised Wu Sangui to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

Giving up Yungui, sending troops to Huguang, and finally retreating to Xiangyang, this is a way, but this method is the best policy. Because once Wu Sangui is out of Yungui, it means that his fief is lost. Is a vassal king who has lost his fiefdom still a vassal king? If the army is lost in Huguang, and finally even Xiangyang is not held, Wu Sangui's army losses are too large, the imperial court not only wants to withdraw his domain, maybe a holy decree summons him to the capital, and then sent to the vegetable market to be knifed, if you are lucky, you can enjoy a cup of poisonous wine, and you can leave a whole corpse, if you are unlucky, you will be executed under the pretext of rebellion, and all the men in the family will be executed, and the female dependents will be sent to Ningguta. It's not that such a thing can't be done.

Therefore, as long as the Ming army agrees to ensure Wu Sangui's status as the king of Pingxi, Wu Sangui can completely go anyway.

Anyway, if he defected to the Ming army, his biggest weakness was Wu Yingxiong. At this time, Wu Yingxiong was in Beijing, as long as Wu Sangui rebelled, Wu Yingxiong would definitely be killed. Therefore, Wu Sangui hesitated.

So he sent Fang Guangchen, who set off from Yunnan before the Chinese New Year and came to Fujian thousands of miles away. When you come here, you have to see how strong the Ming army is. If it is really unstoppable and tough, then Wu Sangui will have to do it anyway, not only to do it anyway, but also to sacrifice his granddaughter who is like a flower and jade.

Wu Su, known as the eight-faced Guanyin, is the first beauty in Yunnan. Although it is not Wu Sangui's own granddaughter, it is the daughter of Wu Sangui's righteous son Wu Guogui, but it can also be regarded as a granddaughter. If they can get married, Wu Sangui will let Wu Su really become his granddaughter and marry to Fujian.

"Strong army! It is indeed the strongest army in the world! Seeing a team of soldiers passing by on the street, Fang Guangchen sighed.

The neat appearance of the soldiers here and the distinct armor are all small things, and the most important thing is to walk past, and when you pass by, you can clearly feel a kind of solemn aura on their bodies. Looking at their team again, a group of people marching like one person can walk from the east of the city to the west of the city, and the formation will not be chaotic. This was something that no army could do back then, even if it was the once strong Qi family's army, it would only take thirty steps at most to stop and regroup.

Looking at their weapons and equipment, they are all excellent armor and sharp weapons.

There were many excellent heavy iron armor soldiers in the Ming army, and the armor on their bodies was a whole piece of armor, which looked extremely strong, and there were also masks to prevent bows and arrows from hitting the face. That kind of armor must be very expensive, it is estimated that a pair of armor will cost four or five hundred taels of silver to create, plus weapons and training, it is estimated that a soldier will cost a thousand taels of silver.

In fact, the plate armor is not so expensive, the plate armor produced by the Qiongzhou Army has been built with hydraulic forging equipment, and the price of a pair of plate armor is about the same as that of a pair of chain mail of the Qing Army, about two or three hundred taels of silver. plus the steel knives and crossbow machines used by the ironclad soldiers, all of them add up to five hundred taels of silver.

Fang Guangchen also went to observe the cavalry of the Ming army, and found that those cavalry were all riding high-headed horses, and each of those war horses was a good horse that was hard to find! Simply every horse is red rabbit sweat and blood, such a tall horse, the knight on horseback can wear strong armor, and even the war horse is protected by a vest, which can be said to be invulnerable. It is precisely because it is a good horse that it can be equipped with strong armor without losing too much horsepower.

"Ironclad soldiers are expensive enough, this heavy armored cavalry, a cavalryman doesn't know how much silver it costs! I'm afraid that a cavalryman will cost five or six thousand taels of silver, right? Fang Guangchen gasped.

In fact, the price of a heavy cavalry is 1,200 taels of silver, a Don hippopotamus costs about 300 taels of silver, a cavalry has two Don hippos, cavalry armor 200 taels of silver, horse armor 300 taels of silver, sabers, shields and handcuffs add up to more than 100 taels of silver, and the riding spear is a one-time use of wood, which costs almost nothing.

However, the price of the horse lance cavalry is expensive, and the price of a horse lance alone is more than two thousand taels of silver!

The horse lance is not a simple wooden weapon with a long pole, but a very expensive weapon. Because the horse lance is not a disposable weapon like a spear and a spear, but a long-pole impact weapon that can be reused.

Ordinary spears and spears, when they collide with the target, the cavalry has to let go and discard the weapon, and the spear will break. If the cavalry does not give up their weapons, the powerful impact will break their hands! But the horse lance is different, after hitting the target, the horse lance bends into a circle, relieving the impact. After that, the lance can be straightened, and if you are lucky, the straight lance can hit the next target.

It is precisely because of the excellent toughness of the horse lance, so the cost of manufacturing the horse lance is particularly high, the horse lance is made of the wood used to make bows and arrows, it needs to be dried again and again, the wooden rod collides with the steel knife will make a metallic sound, and it is very flexible, the weight is light, so it takes three years to build a horse lance, so the cost is extremely expensive.

The price is not a problem, but the difficulty of manufacturing is limited to the fact that Wang Xinyu has very few horse lance cavalry in his hands, only fifty people. Twenty of the horses were brought by Wang [Fu] when he surrendered, and those twenty were incorporated into the heavy cavalry by Wang Xinyu. The other thirty lances were purchased at high prices through the channels of the Heaven and Earth Society. The fifty cavalrymen who used the lance were all elite cavalrymen who were strong and proficient in cavalry warfare, and each cavalry was equivalent to a general.

The lance cavalry was placed in front of the heavy cavalry and was specially used to break the pikemen formation. A lance longer than a spear can easily break through pikemen. However, the number of lance cavalry was too small, and when the heavy cavalry charged, they needed the cooperation of the dragoons to disrupt the opponent's pikemen with bows and muskets before the heavy cavalry could attack. After harassment, the opponent will not be able to form too many pikemen, and the cavalry will collapse with a single charge.

The performance of the horse lance cavalry outside the city opened Fang Guangchen's eyes. The cavalry led by Wang [Fu] Chen charged, and at once the formation of scarecrows armed with wooden spears was scattered.

"Harrier?" Fang Guangchen's eyes widened in surprise when he saw Wang [Fu] dismounted and walked towards him, "Why are you here?" When did you come over? ”

When Wang [Fu] Chen was in Yunnan before, Wu Sangui spent a lot of effort to win him over, and invested a lot of silver and women in him. Later, this person was ready to be transferred to Shaanxi to take office, but because of the war in the south of the Yangtze River, he was transferred to Jinhua by the Qing court to participate in the Battle of Jinhua, but he was defeated and surrendered.

Wang [Fu] Chen laughed and said, "It's the court offering!" We're old friends too! I didn't expect to meet you here! Let's have a few drinks together! ”

The two came to a restaurant on the banks of the Kowloon River, where the famous Jiangdong sea bass was located. This fish is said to have been in the Song Dynasty, in order to let his mother eat Songjiang perch, a filial son named Gao Dongxi brought back live perch from Songjiang and put it into the Jiulong River, and since then Zhangzhou has the famous Jiangdong perch.

After taking a seat, Wang [Fu] Chen ordered steamed Jiangdong sea bass, spiced beef, Cantonese roast goose and other dishes, ordered rice wine, and the two began to drink.

After a few glasses of wine, Fang Guangchen's words began to increase: "I didn't expect it!" General Wang is here too! The prince of Pingxi is very kind to you, and deliberately let people lose a lot of silver to you, but he still can't keep you. General Wang is known as Little Lu Bu, and he really deserves the title of Lu Bu! ”

Wang [Fu] Chen knew what Lu Bu meant, the three surnames were slaves. Now there are more than three family slaves, the first Li Zicheng, later Jiang Jiao, then Hong Chengchou, and now Qiongzhou Army, is already a four-surname domestic slave. was ridiculed by Fang Guangchen, Wang [Fu] Chen blushed and said: "Mr. Fang, I am a Han Chinese, and now I am casting Ming, to restore the mantle of my Han family!" ”

Fang Guangchen sighed: "It's okay, everyone has their own ambitions!" Come, don't talk about these unpleasant things today, drink! ”

"This Qiongzhou army is the strongest army in the world! Daming has such a strong army, sooner or later it will be able to restore Daming! Wang [Fu] Chen took a sip of wine from his glass.

Fang Guangchen lowered his voice: "General Wang, I'm afraid that it will not be the Ming Dynasty that will win the world in the end, but the Qiongzhou Army!" This pen can't write two kings, and General Wang will be the founder of the country in the future! ”

"Be careful, be careful!" Wang [Fu] ministers.

Fang Guangchen sighed: "It seems that after going back to Yunnan, I have to advise the prince to make a decision as soon as possible!" ”

Wang [Fu] said softly: "The prince should have made a decision a long time ago!" If it is too late and Huguang falls into the hands of the Qiongzhou army, I am afraid that the prince will do it anyway, and the marshal will not agree. ”

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The next day, Fang Guangchen walked around the city again.

Wang Xinyu did not restrict Fang Guangchen's freedom, but allowed him to move around, in fact, it was also to show Wu Sangui his military might.

"Bang bang bang" Fang Guangchen heard the sound of a row of muskets firing.

Hearing this gunshot, it was different, Fang Guangchen decided to go to the shooting range to see what was going on.

Fang Guangchen followed the direction from which the gunshots came to the shooting range, and a soldier at the door stopped him. Fang Guangchen showed the paperwork, and the soldier at the door looked at it, and hurriedly bowed: "It turned out to be Mr. Fang!" Please go inside! Our handsome man said that Mr. Fang can walk around casually. ”

Walking into the shooting range, Fang Guangchen was shocked by the scene in front of him: he saw more than 500 musketeers standing 200 steps away from the target, nervously loading bullets.

"It's so far away, can you hit?" Fang Guangchen was secretly surprised.

"First row, three steps forward!" It seems that because he saw Fang Guangchen coming, the general of the musket team gave an order.

More than a hundred musketeers in the first row took three steps in unison, and their movements were as neat as if they were the same person, and Fang Guangchen was dumbfounded: This is too neat, right?

"Second row, three steps forward, first row, put!" Put the total yell.

More than 100 musketeers took their muskets and pulled the trigger on the target 200 paces away. I saw the muzzle of the gun splashing, thick white smoke curling up, and the thunderous sound of gunfire resounded in the sky.

Fang Guangchen saw that the target of the gun two hundred steps away actually trembled! This shows that the bullet that is fired is at least hitting the target! It's not easy to hit a target at such a long distance! You have to know that a target is two hundred paces away, and it looks like a small black dot. What's more, the smoothbore guns of that era, seventy paces away, the bullet did not know where to fly.

In the second row, the third row, a total of five teams of musketeers took turns to fight, the guns roared incessantly, and the bullets hit the target one after another.

When the gunfire stopped, Fang Guangchen made a request: "Can you take a look at the target?" ”

"It's okay!" It's always good to talk.

Fang Guangchen walked to the front target and carefully observed the gun target, only to see that there were actually a lot of bullet holes in the center! He sighed: "Firearms are so powerful, what is the use of Tartar cavalry!" I'm afraid that before the Tartars' archers get close, they will all be killed in front of the battle! ”

It seems that after going back, you have to convince the prince as soon as possible! The matter of marriage will be raised in a moment! Fang Guangchen said secretly in his heart.

In fact, Fang Guangchen didn't know that there were less than 1,000 rifled guns in Wang Xinyu's hands, and after deducting the scattered in various places, all the rifled guns in the main army in Fujian had been concentrated here, just to let Fang Guangchen take a look, so that he would definitely talk to Wu Sangui about it after he went back.

Fang Guangchen once again walked into the former Jingnan Palace, which was regarded as the camp of the Chinese army.

"Dashuai!" When Fang Guangchen saw Wang Xinyu, he arched his hand and said, "I don't know if Dashuai has heard of the eight-faced Guanyin in Yunnan?" ”

"Eight-faced Guanyin? Who is it? Is it the prince's favorite concubine? Wang Xinyu shook his head. TV series and some Qing history experts say that the eight-faced Guanyin is Wu Sangui's concubine.

Fang Guangchen's face changed: "What a favorite concubine!" It's the granddaughter of the prince! (To be continued.) )