Lord of Ming Dynasty

If you can get further military exploits and be promoted to the Guards Brigade, then you will be the commander-in-chief. Of course, the Second Guards Brigade, and the Third Guards Brigade, maybe there will be more Guards Brigades in the future. If the brigade replaces the field brigade as the main combat force of the Huaxia Army, then he will be on the same starting line as the former confidantes of the governor.

"Brother Tong Dawei, are you listening to us?" Wang Deren asked.

"Oh, I'm listening, it's like this, better weapons can't be sold, but we can sell all the weapons of the Qing army that we captured before, and the Jinkai 1 matchlock gun that the Huaxia army has eliminated. Needless to say, there are many of them. We have already equipped your Nanming army, we are the people of Ming Dynasty, we are Han people, we must help you, with these weapons equipped, you will have the strength to fight against the army of Kong Youde of the Qing army."

What Tong Dawei said was a little dry, after all, he drank so much wine, although he often drank, he used to buy wine when he had money, and now he has wine and now he is drunk, the amount of alcohol is still ok, so far his mind is very clear, then The two old bosses who looked drunk and blurred, old rogues, he knew in his heart that their drinking capacity was better than his own, and nothing was worse. The reason why they pretended to be drunk must be deceiving himself, hoping to get more more benefits.

After hearing Tong Dawei's words, Li Chengdong said: "But we don't have any of those weapons and equipment. Brother, my army still has 5000 people who don't even have a sword, and some people don't even have shoes. The remaining 5000 1 troops, 8000 people only have bamboo spears, bamboo knives, and at most one piece of wicker and rattan armor woven by ourselves, and the clothes are torn. If it weren’t for the south, in our Shaanxi-Gansu area, [-] of these [-] people would freeze to death in winter .”

"Then what does it matter to me?" Tong Dawei asked, throwing a peanut in his mouth.

Wang Deren continued: "Of course, it's none of your business. We are all Ming's army, we are fighting against the Qing army, and we are all fighting against foreigners. We can't just watch our old brothers being killed by the Qing army, right?"

Li Chengdong quickly picked up, "Yes, among my remaining 6000 soldiers, [-] of them have leather armor, Yanling knife, Yuanyang knife, Xiuchun knife, some bows and crossbows, all of which were captured by the Qing army, as well as the imperial court. Yes, these soldiers only have some combat effectiveness, and against the Qing army, they can only fight against the green battalion, and if they encounter the Han army flag, the brothers will have to run away."

Chapter 4 Nineteen Buying and Selling

Tong Dawei sneered at the complaints of Li Chengdong and Wang Deren. He knew that the two of them had a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and a lot of property, and they robbed the people along the way. The occupied county towns were seized, and they implemented the family general system. Only those with strength, the soldiers of the old battalion can be equipped with good equipment, and the soldiers of other armies are their cannon fodder.

He was once one of them too, how could he not know.

After several battles with the Qing army, they fled to the area controlled by Yongli Nanming. He Tengjiao and Du Yinxi would definitely not equip them with good weapons and armor. They could only rob and fight the Qing army at the same time. When Li Chengdong was loyal to the Qing army, he had about [-] soldiers and horses, and those with combat effectiveness alone had [-] to [-] soldiers and horses. Now he can only have [-] soldiers and horses.

The Nanming Kingdom will not allocate soldiers and weapons to them. They rely on themselves. They may be able to obtain some military salaries and weapons allocated by the Ministry of War, but these things have to be paid and bribed by officials of the Ministry of War to get a few percent of them. , now they are raised by the stepmother in Nanming Kingdom.

Now Longwu has learned to be smart. Unlike before, a lot of money was given to them. What is there to give them to these ambitious and not very loyal troops, fearing that they will become separatist warlords and difficult to control.

They also want to be warlords of the separatist regime, but now it is not like before. There are very few warlords of the separatist regime in the entire land of Ming Dynasty, because the situation is clear and it is not as chaotic as before. They will raise you for nothing, send Manchu generals to lead hundreds of people, thousands of people to monitor you, take you down if you are wrong, drive you to fight with the Ming army, consume you, and make you unable to grow stronger.

Various camps with the country as the main body have emerged, and the countries have basically integrated and stabilized. You don't have much choice, either you take refuge in the Qing army, or you take refuge in the Ming army camp.

In the Ming army camp, you must choose one of the Longwu Nanming camp and the Yongli Nanming camp.

Those who take refuge in the Huaxia Army will definitely be dismantled, and then they will be unemployed and become a rich man. How can they give up the army and power if they are used to being free and easy warlords? .

Therefore, many separatist warlords can only rely on Longwu Nanming and Yongli Nanming. Compared with Yongli Nanming, Yongli Nanming has a greater degree of freedom. Otherwise, either the Qing army will find you, or other separatist warlords will find you and destroy you.

In short, these people's lives are not as satisfactory as before. Whether they are hiding under the wings of a family or are sincerely loyal, their results are not very good.

More troops, more weapons to strengthen their own strength and self-protection is their only choice.

Tong Dawei rubbed his swollen and slack face, feeling a little numb because of drunkenness, as if he didn't belong to him repeatedly.

"Come on, what do you want?" he asked.

"Can you give us the weapons equipped by your cavalry brigade?" Li Chengdong asked.

Wang Deren's troops were selected by Long Wu and would definitely be armed like the Huaxia Army's cavalry brigade. Li Chengdong didn't know that the other cavalry brigade must be Su Zhengqing's troops, and Wang Deren must have obtained it through connections. , must have cost a lot of money.

Li Chengdong also wants to train such an army, and at the same time train his army to look like the tens of thousands of new troops led by the Imperial Guards and Su Guansheng. Ever since he came back and rejoined Longwu Nanming, he has been greedy for the tens of thousands of new troops. , a unified new military uniform, which changed the military uniform of the Ming army to make it simpler, and then held all the gold Kai 1 matchlock guns in its hands, and hung the Yanling knife captured by the Qing army at the waist. It looks mighty at first glance.

It is said that his performance in several battles with Ma Degong was not bad. Ma Degong, who fought mainly with cold weapons, threw away his helmet and armor and fled in a hurry.

So Li Chengdong, who returned to Longwu Nanming, wanted to change his troops into that kind of military uniform and that kind of weapon.

However, Li Chengdong was dumbfounded when he saw the cavalry brigade wearing breastplates, gauntlets, simple Ming army helmets on his head, and the blue military uniforms of the Huaxia Army. They are all very elite.

In particular, some cavalrymen actually carried muskets on their backs. This kind of musket was much shorter than the muskets in the hands of the Ming army. There was no matchlock, so he wanted this kind of musket without matchlock. All of them are modified six-pound guns suitable for cavalry brigades, single-horse carts, and behind the carts are six-pound guns with reduced weight. The range and power are not as good as those of the army, but the cavalry has artillery, which is quite scary. The human thing means that when you hit you, there will be artillery support, and the enemy's cavalry can only be beaten.

"This won't work. It is the standard weapon of the Huaxia Army cavalry. If I give it to you, I will be punished. I can only give you the muskets and artillery captured by the Qing Army before, as well as the weapons and armor of the Huaxia Army, as well as gold reforms." 1 Matchlock gun. Nothing else will work," Tong Dawei said.

The two of them talked and talked, but they just couldn't do it.

Can only give up.

Wang Deren asked: "Brother, you help us train two cavalry brigades. What kind of weapons will we equip afterwards? Is it the same as yours? If so, how about giving us this weapon first?"

Tong Dawei smiled. He definitely couldn't be equipped with the same equipment as the Huaxia Army's cavalry brigade. According to the Huaxia Army's rules, the things sold must be separated from generation to generation. He didn't know what generation separation meant, but he roughly understood that he could guess something, that is, those The weapons are not as good as the Huaxia Army, and they are better equipped than the enemy. This is the tradition of the Huaxia Army.

The Ministry of Military Intelligence had already discussed with the Ministry of War to equip Longwu Nanming's cavalry brigade with the same equipment as the former dragoons and chasseurs.

Three regiments, one regiment is pure cold weapon cavalry. Of course, it is impossible for the Huaxia Army to make all the cavalry of Longwu Nanming like the cavalry regiment of the Huaxia Army to attack the enemy's battle formation. The cavalry regiment of the Longwu Ming Army, It is mainly sabers and bows and arrows. At most, add shields and put on uniforms of the Ming army, and that's enough.

The second regiment is the Chase Cavalry Regiment, with sabers, bows and arrows, and short-fire guns. It is to hang five short-fire guns immediately. When attacking the enemy cavalry and enemy infantry head-on, they can shoot close to 30 meters. After a round of shooting, hang on the horse. Then take out another one to shoot, which is obviously very effective for chasing or forcing the enemy to approach the enemy. Of course, it is inevitable to be dismounted by the enemy's bow and arrow. The good point is that the short-fire gun has already been installed, which is faster than the enemy's bow and arrow. After fighting, you can draw out your saber and fight with the enemy. This is the embryonic form of the Huaxia Army Chase Cavalry.

The third regiment is the Dragon Cavalry Regiment, which can fire a gold modified 1 matchlock gun once, plus the Huaxia Army breastplate, gauntlet, and Ming Army helmet, which is similar to the Huaxia Army Dragoon Regiment, but the Huaxia Army Dragoon Regiment also has short The firecracker, a short firecracker can fire five shots in a row, and then there is no time to reload, draw out the saber to fight the enemy or run away, reload the ammunition of the musket immediately, bend back and shoot the enemy again, and so on.

The Ming army is equipped with matchlock guns, while the Chinese cavalry is equipped with three-gun iron-cased rear-loaded smooth-bore flintlock guns eliminated by infantry. Although the range is shorter, they can shoot continuously with short intervals. After firing, they need to retreat and reload. , because the problem is still not resolved, after firing three bullets, there is not enough time to reload three bullets, unless you are running away and reloading immediately without returning fire.

Compared with the Ming army's one-shot reloading, the Huaxia Army's dragoons fired three shots before reloading, and the rate of fire was much faster than the matchlock guns equipped by the Ming army, and it was much more convenient. With only one hand, you don't have to worry about whether the matchlock will go out, and you can fight close to the enemy at night, and you don't have to worry about exposing the target by lighting the matchlock.

Facing Wang Deren, Li Chengdong wanted to get weapons and equipment from him, Tong Dawei said directly: "You don't have to think about the Huaxia Army, you also need to think about the equipment. After training, your imperial military department will allocate weapons and equipment for you. It’s out of my control, if you want to own it yourself, you can only buy it yourself.”

The two of them were a little discouraged, this guy is not good at anything.

"Okay, let's buy it. I don't know how much these weapons are sold by the Huaxia Army?" Li Chengdong sat back in his seat helplessly, and asked with a bowl of hangover soup.

Tong Dawei didn't take it seriously, he relied on the Huaxia Army, not the past, relying on you.

"In the past, the Qing army's swords and spears were captured for five taels of silver for a hundred pieces, and they could also be exchanged for goods of equivalent value. The Qing army's armor, cotton armor, and cloth armor were captured for a hundred sets of ten taels of silver. The Qing army's arquebus guns , also known as shotgun, two taels of silver for one shot, Ming army fire blunderbuss, one tael and five taels of silver for one shot, Ming army three-eyed blunderbuss, five taels of silver for one shot, and one hundred guns for Ming army for three taels of silver.

Ming army tiger squatting cannon ten taels of silver, Ming army general cannon 11 taels of silver, Qing army general cannon 20 taels of silver, Qing army red cannon, 50 taels of silver for a thousand catties, a hundred taels of silver for a thousand and five hundred catties, two thousand catties 200 taels of silver for three thousand catties, 500 taels of silver for three thousand catties, and 1000 taels of silver for five thousand catties. The guns are all equipped with gunpowder and shells for firing hundreds of shells. "

Both of them are obviously not very interested in seizing the weapons and equipment of the Qing army. They can also seize the weapons and equipment of the Qing army. The teams of the two of them have won and lost in the battles with the Qing army. Seizing is commonplace for them.

Tong Dawei saw that the two of them were unmoved, so he sipped the hangover soup and changed his strategy, "You cannon fodder soldiers who don't need much armament can equip them better and consume more enemies. Your servants and The generals will die less, won't they?"

The two agreed and nodded slightly.

"If your cannon fodder soldiers can win the battle, your servants and generals will make the final push to secure the victory. They will die less, and you will save a lot of appeasement costs, won't you?" Tong Dawei flickered again.

Wang Deren nodded, this is what he cares most about, because he doesn't have many soldiers, only 2000 soldiers can fight, and only 6000 old battalion soldiers can really fight, and the remaining [-] are all kinds of bandits he recruited , horse bandit, bandit, green forest bandit.

"So, your cannon fodder soldiers have to equip some captured Qing army weapons and armor, and give them some good weapons and armor. Your veterans are equipped with the advanced weapons of the Huaxia Army, which can suppress them and win battles, at least When fleeing, it can resist the enemy's attack."

"In this way, the soldiers of your old battalion can be equipped with the armor of the Huaxia Army. It is a white mark if you cut it with a big knife, and you just take a few steps back when you cut it with an axe. Swords, they are capable of some high-intensity melee battles, and some veteran battalion soldiers can equip the Huaxia Army's Jinkai 1 matchlock guns, and I will help you train them."

The two seemed to be persuaded by Tong Dawei, and they kept nodding.

4 Chapter Twenty

Li Chengdong and Wang Deren have nothing to do, now that their father doesn't love them, and their mother doesn't love them, what do you ask them to do?I can only find a way by myself.

The two finally finalized a weapon equipment and training contract with Tong Dawei for about 100 million taels of silver.

Li Chengdong had a large number of people, so he asked for 1 broadswords, [-] spears, [-] shields, [-] short bows of the Qing army, [-] longbows of the Qing army, [-] standard crossbows of the Qing army and the Ming army, and shotguns of the Qing army. One thousand guns, one thousand guns of the Ming army, four thousand guns of the Huaxia Army Jingai [-] matchlock guns, three hundred guns of the Qing army's tiger squatting guns, two hundred guns of the Qing army's Franc machine guns, fifty guns of the Qing army's generals, Thirty red-clothed cannons costing [-] catties, and [-] cannons costing [-] catties. These are not very expensive.

The Huaxia Army’s gold modified 1 matchlock gun is a little more expensive, 35 taels of silver per shot. These are used by the Huaxia Army and retired. Even if they are more expensive, they are more expensive than the ones sold by the Portuguese to the Qing and Ming armies. Change 1 is even worse than the price of matchlocks, and it may be cheaper. The two of them also bought matchlock guns from the Portuguese. They know that the most expensive time is a hundred taels of silver a shot. You want it yet.