Chapter 77

Liu Bu knew that as a garrison officer of the Taiping army, he could not come forward to fight like an ordinary soldier, nor did he have to take the lead in fighting like other generals to prove his bravery and good fighting.

His soldiers don't need or want them to do so. As the supreme commander of the Taiping army, he only needs to make a good battle plan for the soldiers and arrange delicious food and combat weapons for them. That's the best officer in their mind.

Of course, the best officer's evaluation must be preceded by the fact that he does not embezzle military pay. The Ding army recruited by the Liu family is used to work hard for the family and protect the interests of the family. How can he embezzle military pay?

Liu Bu knows that if you want others to work hard for you, you have to give others good conditions.

That's why they set the welfare so high and the welfare conditions so high. If these soldiers can't let them serve the Liu family, they can only let him leave and leave.

Now, when Liu Bu and his disciples recruit craftsmen, they may have made great conditions.

At the beginning, Liu Bu was very disappointed when he saw that five people had been recruited, but now he decided to make money. After that, they recruited a lot of people.

As long as someone comes to sign up and gets the approval of several great masters, they can immediately get five Liang silver's resettlement fee. Then the Liu family arranges a carriage to work in Fushan, Shandong. They promise that the salary will not be deducted for the first half of the year, and the resettlement fee will only be deducted after half a year.

With such a large sum of money, they successfully recruited more than 200 qualified craftsmen to work for them. Liu Bu was very happy to see these people change their silver into new clothes and happily take the Liu family's carriage to Fushan.

It's not easy for people to leave their hometown to work these days, but they can rest assured that the Liu family's mansion is here as a mortgage and temporary contact point.

Only Liu Yuanshan disagreed. He said, "these craftsmen can earn a few money, which is worthy of your courtesy. Don't you feel heartache for spending this money?"

Liu Buhe said, "I have recruited more than 200 craftsmen here and spent less than 3000 silver. What hurts me most is the 40000 Liang silver sent to Zhang Fengyi. If we are strong enough, we don't have to send silver to people's homes for nothing."

Liu Yuanshan said, "we can't help it now. Who calls us the Liu family not strong enough? If we don't send money to other people's homes and don't have the care of the people above, it will be more difficult for us to do it. There are many people staring at the Liu family."

Liu Bu said, "one day, I will make these people who stare at the Liu family regret. They will spit out what they eat today."

Liu Yuanshan said to him, "my good nephew, if you recruit so many craftsmen, will they play a role? You are not afraid to raise so many people for nothing at that time. This is a big problem."

Liu Bu said: "How can it be useless to keep these craftsmen? When Genghis Khan's army swept the world and occupied every place, they first left the women and craftsmen, and killed all the others that were useless, which kept his empire strong for decades. Unfortunately, it was only when Zhu Yuanzhang, an illiterate, became the Emperor that this kind of view of craftsmen appeared Valuable. "

Liu Yuanshan said hurriedly, "what you should say is the Taizu emperor. If you are heard like this, you will be asked a great disrespect."

Liu Bu had to say, "I understand! I understand. Thank you for reminding me."

Liu Yuansan said, "now the craftsman has almost recruited, can you go back?" Liu Bu's mouth is clear, and he is afraid of his tongue.

Liu Bu said, "I know uncle, you have a wide range of people in the capital. I want you to arrange it. We need to buy some Flemish machine guns."

Liu Yuanshan said to him, "is it necessary for us to have Fran machine guns now?"

Liu Bu said, "my nephew means to buy some doors first and go back to play. If it's really good, expand it as much as possible. If it's not easy to use, it's OK."

Liu Yuanshan said to him, "well, since brother a has delegated all power to you, I'll go all out to cooperate with you."

The frang machine gun is a sub gun on the top and a mother gun on the bottom. The frang machine gun was invented in Europe. It was introduced into the Daming Dynasty from Portugal in the first year of Jiajing (100 years ago). It is called frang machine according to its country name. It has become a post Daming gun. It is composed of a mother gun and a sub gun. The mother gun has a slender barrel and a small caliber. The gun body is equipped with a collimation and a light door, which can aim and shoot long-distance targets.

There are gun ears on both sides of the gun body, which can place the gun body on the support and pitch to adjust the firing angle. The rear of the gun body is thick and has long holes and slots to fill the sub gun. The sub gun is similar to a small fire gun. Each mother gun is equipped with five to nine sub guns, which can be filled with ammunition in advance for standby. During combat, the wheel flow is loaded into the mother gun for firing, so the firing speed is improved.

Obviously, the Falang machine had initially possessed the basic characteristics of modern artillery and was indeed an advanced weapon in the world at that time. Limited to the technical level at that time, the Falang machine gun also had an insurmountable disadvantage: the gap tolerance between the sub gun and the gun belly was large, resulting in gunpowder gas leakage, so it did not have the long-range and great power of the Hongyi cannon.

At that time, European colonial adventurers generally used this weapon as a sharp weapon in the process of conquering America and invading the East! The Ming government attached great importance to the Falang machine gun, and the imitation guns had complete specifications. During the Jiajing period alone, the military warfare Bureau, the military equipment supervision and the border garrison made more than ten kinds of large sample Buddha Lang machine, medium sample Buddha Lang machine, small sample Buddha Lang machine, cavalry Buddha Lang machine, Buddha Lang machine type meteor gun, Baichu Buddha Lang machine, Wansheng Buddha Lang machine, Lianzhu Buddha Lang machine, invincible general gun and steel FA Guan, with a total of 30000 to 40000, which were used as ship guns, urban defense guns, chariot guns, field guns Infantry gun and cavalry gun became one of the main equipment of the Ming army.

Based on these Falang machines, the Ming army created a new type of vehicle battalion and a synthetic army composed of vehicle artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, infantry battalion and baggage battalion, and established the artillery defense system of the Great Wall. The firearms of the Ming army have been quite popular on the battlefield. The main force and elite troops of the Ming army use firearms in large quantities, and the allocation of cold and hot weapons has reached three to one.

In the army, Qi Jiguang's car battalion and baggage battalion were also equipped with Falang machine guns. Among them, there are 128 artillery carts and 256 Falang machines in the car camp, with an average of one for every 12 people in the whole camp. The firepower can be called the first in the world, while the baggage camp also has 80 artillery carts and 160 Falang machines, which gives the baggage force strong firepower unprecedented. Until the red cannon was introduced in the apocalypse, Falangji was the main firearm of the Ming army.

At that time, Qi Jiguang's car camp was across the northern part of the Great Wall, which made the Mongols almost kneel down. It is known as the most powerful car camp, which has achieved the invincible reputation of Qi's army.

But the problem of Daming is that after Chengping for a long time, armaments are abandoned, corruption and extreme darkness.

Corruption is also reflected in military weapons. For example, the whole country is bragging about how good the red cannon is. Since the red cannon killed the old slave, the whole Ming Court attaches the most importance to the red cannon.

Unfortunately, after the Wuqiao mutiny, all their red cannon in Dengzhou belonged to JianNu. Now there are not many places except some red cannon in the capital and Ningyuan. Therefore, the Ming Court urgently purchased red cannon from the Portuguese.

It's just that the Portuguese have a hard time now. The Dutch have their eyes on their city of Malacca and their Macao. They have sent troops to attack for many times. Now they also need Hongyi cannons to defend, and there is no surplus to sell to Daming.

Liu Bu knows that the problem of Daming is not a problem of weapons, but a problem of people. If Qi Jiguang is reborn, he will train a car battalion army, that is, a car battalion composed of Folang machine guns. He can also beat JianNu to kneel down and beat the Mongols to kneel down.

The biggest problem in Daming is extremely corruption, which has penetrated into every aspect of the army.

Many people think that Nu is just a northeastern fishing and pastoral army. They should be very woodlouse and very bad. In fact, the equipment of the Nu army is better than that of the Ming army (except for no cannon).

They rode high headed horses, wore well-made armor, and were full of food. Then they fought bravely with the Ming army.

As the emperor of China, because of the extreme corruption and corruption of officers at all levels, the soldiers wore ragged clothes and took ragged weapons to fight JianNu. How can they not lose the war?

Liu Bu knows one thing. Daming's current problem is actually a human problem. He doesn't blindly pursue the red cannon. Now everyone is pursuing the red cannon. He found that if he can use the previous bird gun and fire gun well, they can defeat JianNu.

Just like Qi Jiguang in those days, he just trained a car camp and could beat the Mongols down on their knees. Now if they can rebuild the same army, they can also defeat JianNu, because JianNu's weapons are no different from those of the Mongols 30 years ago.

Therefore, Liu bu also has his own plan. His preliminary plan is to build a family army like a grass-roots team. When the family can make them stand on the ground, they begin to develop the family into firearms. First, let the soldiers adapt and use fire guns, and then match Qi Jiguang's car camp and tactics in those years, so that they can become more powerful.

This is their current army building thought. Their army building thought of Liu family is in line with Qi Jiguang's idea of running the army.

They are now using Qi Jiguang's training method. When their troops become mature and powerful, they will learn from Qi Jiguang to build their own car battalion army.

In those days, Qi Jiguang fought against the Mongols with such a car camp. Now they can make such a car camp army themselves, and then they can have a greater voice. Therefore, Liu Buhe began to play the idea of Falang machine gun.