"Really?"

Zhu Jie was quite moved, if he could really buy dozens of artillery pieces in one go, it would be a good deal, although it would cost a lot of money, but it would definitely be cost-effective for strengthening military strength, and if John Tang could control the price, it would be even better!

Tang Ruowang said with a smile: "My lord, in order to gather scholars and engineers this time, I have dealt with them a lot, just by recruiting these scholars and engineers, my friend has received thousands of taels of silver from them, and he will definitely not make trouble for us in this matter, he has tasted the sweetness, and plans to continue to help us introduce people over, once we are in the arms to set up obstacles, it means that we will be cut off from the financial route, you say he will be so stupid?" ”

"Haha,"

Zhu Jie laughed and said, "Don't say it, Master Tang, you can also be called a treacherous and cunning, haha......"

John Tang was quite complacent, and replied: "My lord, what we lack most now is not silver, not talents, in fact, what we lack the most is time, you don't know how long you can sit in this seat, so you must lay a solid foundation while you are still in power, so I think it is completely worth paying for this batch of arms now!" ”

Cha Xuan said on the side: "Lord Tang, what you said is light, everyone likes cannons and muskets, but this silver is not blown by the wind, even the shipbuilding and then buy arms, plus the cost of the Firearms Bureau and the War Bureau, military salary, in a year, there are no three million taels of silver, you can't get it, if you spend it like this, we adults will have to go to be pants......"

Ha ha......

The generals present laughed uncontrollably.

Zhu Jie waited fiercely for a look at the plug, and shouted: "Fart, check the bolt, what are you so good at being pants, you can't even say a word?" What's more, as long as the sailor can be successfully formed in the shortest possible time, even if it is just pants, this time Lao Tzu will admit it! ”

Everyone was stunned, I was obedient, the adults really made up their minds......

Li Yan on the side exclaimed, "My lord, do you really want to do this?" Even if Yongxing Bank has money, it can't help but toss us like this......"

Zhu Jie said fiercely: "What are you afraid of? Isn't it silver? The money is taken out from Yongxing Bank, that is to pay interest, borrowed from Yongxing Bank in the name of the household department, the interest can be as low as 30%, now we Yongxing Bank has a lot of money, but a large number of them are still lying in the nest, there are still too few people who really borrow to do business, that will mean that we have to discount the interest in vain, so where is the line? It's decided in this way, Gao Hongtu I will go and say, I am the highest political chief of Nanzhili, even if this matter is hard pressure, I have to do it! ”

"I think we should concentrate our muskets, just like the musket battalion formed in the Tianwei Army before, and the power will be greater if it is an independent army, and if it is scattered among the towns, the power that can be exerted is limited......"

Zhao Zhenghang, a guerrilla general on the side, said.

Zhu Jie frowned slightly and asked, "Zhenghang, do you think that the musket battalion of 1,000 people is still not enough to play a sufficient role?" ”

Zhao Zhenghang said in a deep voice: "My lord, if it is just to encircle and suppress the rebels and thieves in the pass, it must be enough, after all, most of them are infantry, there are not many cavalry, and the attack speed is slow, before the two armies get close to contact, our musket battalion can directly defeat it, but what about the Manchurian iron cavalry?" I'm afraid that we don't have much advantage, the Manchurian Eight Banners come and go like the wind, what we are best at is long-distance running, mobile combat, and even rapid intersperse, division and encirclement, a distance of three hundred steps, we have at most time to shoot two bullets, even if we use three rows of horizontal shooting, it is still not enough to contain the strong assault of the cavalry, especially the strong assault of the large-scale cavalry, once the cavalry is close, our musket battalion will be dangerous, and it will not be able to stop the assault of the cavalry at all......"

Zhu Jie nodded, Zhao Zhenghang was right, just to deal with the infantry, then the three towns of Nanjing can be killed as many as they want, but in the face of cavalry, the speed advantage of the cavalry will be the firepower advantage of the three towns of Nanjing will be infinitely reduced......

Qin Mufeng on the side pursed his lips and replied, "Zhao Zhenghang, their rangers can assault, don't we have cavalry?" Joke, are our cavalry just eating dry food? ”

Zhao Zhenghang smiled bitterly: "General Qin, our cavalry is not dry, and the combat power is not good, but how many cavalry do we have in the three towns combined?" We set up three cavalry battalions, now we don't even have war horses, even if we hold the silver, we can't buy enough war horses, the war horses in northern Shaanxi are now seriously insufficient, and it is difficult for the war horses outside the plug to come in, even if the three cavalry battalions are all in place, it is only a few thousand, even if the Manchurian cavalry is not counting the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, there are more than 100,000 people, not at all in an order of magnitude, at this time, the role of the musket will be infinitely prominent, We must strengthen the advantages of our muskets as much as possible......"

Qin Mufeng raised his eyebrows, and was about to speak, Zhu Jie waved his hand and said: "Okay, Mufeng, don't say it again, what Zhenghang said is reasonable, cooperation is two benefits, and division is two harms, now our number of muskets is seriously insufficient, and the effect of concentration is indeed much higher than that scattered in various towns, since this is the case, then all the three musket battalions will be independent and combined into a musket army, with three thousand troops, enough for the Qing army to drink a pot in the future!" Zhenghang, you will take over this musketeer, Musketeer general! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Zhao Zhenghang was overjoyed, all the three thousand musketeers were handed over to him, this is a terrifying combat force!

"In addition, the musketeer army must also be equipped with a thousand cavalry, also drawn from the three towns, and also equipped with muskets, which are used to protect the safety of the flanks of the musketeers during the war, and the favorite of these Qing troops is to launch a surprise attack from the flanks and break through the position, we can't help but guard against ......it."

Zhu Jie replied slowly.

Qin Mufeng, Cha Xuan, and Zhong Yue glanced at each other, smiled wryly and shook their heads, it's okay now, all of a sudden, the strongest combat power among the three towns has been drawn out like this, unlucky......

Zhao Zhenghang continued: "My lord, now our rifle fire range is sufficient, we can kill the enemy from 300 paces away, but the speed of this shot is too slow, if we can more than double the speed of shooting, then we really don't have to be afraid of the surprise attack of the Qing cavalry anymore......"

(End of chapter)