427 Secret War

Pang Yu is certain that one or two of the rifles on the missing list must have fallen into the hands of the Ming government or the Zheng family. They must also be organizing forces to crack the technology and attempt to imitate it. But this road is not that easy to follow.

——For the time traveling people, they have long considered the issue of technology diffusion in depth. Now that these equipment are exposed to the world, they will definitely not escape people's attention. As long as they do not take the initiative to teach these technologies, by virtue of their

With the scientific level of this era, others may not be able to imitate even if they obtain a complete set of real objects - for example, rifle bullets are widely distributed outside, but mercury fulminate, the key item used in propellants, cannot be guessed without sufficient chemical knowledge.

What is it.

Even if a few advanced weapons get into the hands of others through abnormal means, it will be in vain if they fail to achieve scale and will only cause a little trouble at most.

But what troubles them right now is that the officials of the Ming Dynasty and military leaders have not realized this. They still rely on traditional experience and think that as long as they get a few prototype guns from Shorthair, they can go back.

If you take it apart and take a look, you will be able to imitate the same thing, and then you will have the same combat effectiveness as the short-haired army. It is such an unrealistic and beautiful fantasy, but it makes them act by any means or at any cost - those military leaders

The asking price for buying a gun from Pang Yu was five hundred taels, which was nothing. It was said that someone on the black market offered a high price of one thousand taels for each Qionghai rifle.

Under such a huge temptation, even with the solid ideological work of the Qiongzhou Army, it still cannot prevent some people from becoming confused. After all, there are more than 2,000 people, and they will have all kinds of weird ideas.

A few days ago, a soldier escaped with his gun, causing the entire company to take the blame for him. Hundreds of people searched for him for several days, but there was no news. Everyone from the company commander to the squad leader was punished. Later, Aosa Yang was still

The intelligence team they were looking for was quite capable, and they managed to get relevant information from the refugee camp, but only one body was dug up in a mass grave outside the city, and the rifle was never found - that fool really thought he was alone.

Can you run away with a thousand taels of silver in this chaotic place?

In addition, recently when the Qiongzhou Army soldiers went out carrying guns, there were always some people staring at them. One night, someone actually tried to attack the sentry guarding the prisoner of war camp. Although he failed and was killed, it was later found out that he was only in the refugee camp.

Refugees were hired to do this, and their lives were worthless anyway. After that, we had to strengthen sentry protection, set up double posts, secret sentries and other means, making it even more tense than during the war.

These things are not big, but the total mess is quite annoying. In fact, Pang Yu and the others can roughly guess who did such immoral things. But there are so many Ming military camps nearby, and a rifle is hidden in them.

I can't find the King of Heaven either. Isn't it necessary to fight with the Ming army for a gun? Or find an unfounded charge to kill the eunuch Lu who specializes in espionage activities?

——It’s not even realistic.

Until they returned to the military camp, Pang Yu and He Xi were still worried about this. People including Aosa Yang, Wen Desi and others were also worried. Some people suggested that they simply take a few old guns and sell them through black market channels.

It can make some money and avoid being harassed again - I believe that there will not be too many scammers who are willing to spend a thousand taels of silver to buy guns, and it is impossible to continue to buy them regardless of the cost.

"When those idiots find out that they can't imitate the guns even if they get them, they will naturally give up the current acquisition and harassment at any cost. If they are still willing to buy, we will definitely not lose a thousand taels of silver each."

This view sounds reasonable, but there are also people who insist that the rules cannot be broken. They preach discipline and loyalty among the soldiers, but they may not be the first to violate it. Then how will ideological work be done if word gets out? Besides, the people at the headquarters

The regulations stipulate that weapons are not allowed to leak out, be stolen, and soldiers drag their guns and flee. These are uncontrollable factors that are unavoidable, but selling the weapons on your own initiative is another matter.

The two opinions were at loggerheads, and in the end they had to send a report to Hainan Island, asking the top management to make a decision. Since the telegraph network from Hainan to Shandong was connected, their information communication with the headquarters has become much smoother, but this has also brought some problems.

Bad habit - For anything that you can't decide on, or you don't want to take responsibility for, it's simple and easy to send them all back with a telegram.

Soon after, I received a call back, signed by Tang Jian himself, requesting the frontline troops to do their best to ensure that weapons and equipment are not leaked. Regarding the various plots against the troops, they also requested a timely counterattack, and the current evil trend that was targeting them must be dealt with.

When the evil spirit subsides, it doesn't matter even if there is a stalemate with the Ming Dynasty army who must be behind the scenes - the goodwill ambassador Qian Qianyi has already traveled north, and Lao Qian will be the one to deal with any troubles.

With Shang Fang's sword from the headquarters, Pang Yu and the others can do things with more freedom. He discussed it with Ao Sayang, who was more experienced in intelligence work, and decided to simply use black hands to fight against black hands - since someone is trying to

If you use such small means to deal with them, then we will use the same means to fight back.

Pang Yu originally thought that Qiong Haijun was not suitable for such activities - they were out-and-out outsiders here. The soldiers from Hainan were very different from the locals in terms of body shape, appearance, skin color and accent. They could easily be spotted out there.

But Ao Sayang confidently told him that there was a way to solve it. Soon after, two people came to the camp to report to Lao Ao, and his doubts were relieved:

"The guilty general Ma Cong and the guilty general Gong Zhengxiang met with Military Advisor Pang and Counselor Ao..."

Through Ma Cong, Gong Zhengxiang and other prisoner-of-war officers, Ao Sayang selected a group of people from Shandong prisoners. They were all local people and could go deep into the market. This kind of temporary intelligence operation could not be very complicated.

A few smart people are enough. In addition, they are very active in order to establish meritorious service and obtain the ticket to the south as soon as possible. In terms of reliability, there are many people jointly guaranteeing it, so it is not a problem.

In the next few days, a secret contest quietly unfolded inside and outside Dengzhou Prefecture: a number of mysterious figures in twos and threes appeared in the relatively loosely managed refugee camps, quietly spreading the news that they had the ability to obtain short-haired firearms.

News. After some testing, the fish finally took the bait, and several mysterious figures claiming to be buyers appeared for negotiations... and the two sides began to battle wits and courage.

Afterwards, according to the summary report submitted by Osayan, it was a quite exciting secret war. In the end, those buyers succeeded in seeing far more short-haired rifles than they imagined. Unfortunately, these rifles

They were all held in the hands of a group of angry short-haired soldiers, and facing them...

There are no humanitarian explanations these days. After catching these few alive, Aosayan did not even have to show up in person. He let the prisoners of war who were eager to perform meritorious deeds torture them for a while, and then made them confess everything they knew.

Sure enough, there were generals from the Ming Army who were behind the scenes, and their affiliations were diverse and involved several military towns - but surprisingly, the Liaodong Army was not among them. It was just that Pang Yu and the others had not yet thought about how to deal with the other party.

Should we continue to negotiate, the Ming army has already taken the lead in responding - Lu Zhi, the always smiling inner supervisor of the East Factory, personally visited the house and expressed his sincere apology to the leaders of the Qiong Navy.

It means that it was recently discovered that some scoundrels in the army dared to plot evil against your army, and they have been dealt with.

Then he actually displayed more than a dozen bloody heads on the spot, all of which were the key figures here - in order to quickly cut off the clues, his ruthlessness was shocking. And the one that disappeared that night

The rifle was also thrown near the entrance of the Qiongzhou military camp at night, along with ten thousand taels of silver - as compensation, this amount of money is not small. You must know that the total reward sent from the capital to reward the entire army so far is only three to five dollars.

Ten thousand.

After being given face and dignity, the other party could be said to have bowed its head to the extreme. As a result, Pang Yu and the others could not pursue the matter any further, so they had to let it go for the time being.

A secret battle came to an end. In this underground struggle, Qiong Haijun once again had the upper hand. However, Pang Yu and others always felt a little uneasy about the mysterious Dongchang eunuch who was willing to admit defeat in such a low voice. After that, the troops

The vigilance became even more heightened, and Aosayan also officially selected a group of capable personnel from the prisoners to cooperate with the Qiong Navy's own personnel to form their first paramilitary force after arriving in Shandong. As a supplement to the regular army, they carried out

Those who often have to go deep into the people or need to act alone - these people are not equipped with guns, and their weapons are only cold weapons such as swords and spears at most. I believe no one will be interested in them.

In addition, Qiong Haijun was also quite surprised that Liaodong Town, which had the most wealth among the armies and had the most urgent need for new weapons, was not involved in this secret war. During their daily interactions, they had clearly expressed their views on many times.

How can you actually tolerate the envy of the advanced weapons here?

During a certain contact, Beiwei mentioned this matter to Wu Sangui, and the latter burst into laughter after hearing it. Soon after, he brought a firecracker that was quite similar to the Qionghai rifle and asked Beiwei to evaluate it. Beiwei got it

I was secretly surprised in my hand - the firing method of this firegun is still the traditional matchlock pattern, and the core part is still made of the Ming Dynasty bird gun, but all other parts are very similar to the Qionghai rifle, including the butt.

, front sight, etc., even the equipped bayonet is connected to the front of the gun body using a bayonet, instead of being inserted into the barrel traditionally.

"We know very well what can be imitated and what can't be replicated at all."

Wu Sangui had more opportunities to come into contact with the Qionghai rifle, and he also had a better understanding of its subtleties. Therefore, he did not aim too high at all, and learned what he could first. Compared with those military towns where people died and money was paid, the Liaodong Army's copycat strategy

It's more practical.

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