Zhu Youlang nodded to show that he knew.

Zhu Youlang attached great importance to the weapons he received and asked the officers to concentrate them into the warehouse. After the army returned to Changsha for rest, he would be assigned to each camp as needed.

Of course, iron armor, leather armor, war horses, artillery, bird guns and other military weapons must be given priority to the Imperial Camp personal army, especially the Zhongwu Army of Li Dingguo. This time, in order to intercept the 5,000 Eight Banners soldiers, the troops were severely damaged, and the third one was taken, and it cost a high price.

So you have to reward it!

In addition to using condolences, promotions and rewards for money and grain to appease the morale of his troops, Zhu Youlang also planned to give half of the seized iron armor, leather armor and war horses to the remaining Zhongwu Army soldiers as rewards for their merits. While enhancing the strength of their troops, it also meant that the strength of the imperial camp was enhanced.

The remaining iron armor, leather armor and war horses were allocated to other battalions as needed. The cavalry teams that suffered serious losses such as Jiao Lian's army, Wu Jisi army, Hao Yaoqi army, etc., were assigned a little more.

The thousands of excellent bird guns and dozens of artillery cannons of all sizes Zhu Youlang was very unceremonious to arm them all to Jiao Lian, Wu Jisi's Huben Town and Yulin Town to increase the firepower of the imperial camp's personal troops in the two towns.

The three troops of Gongsheng Camp, Huben Town and Yulin Town were led by Zhu Youlang from Wuzhou. After experiencing dozens of bloody battles, he was his most staunch supporter. His troops were the most loyal and could be said to be the direct line among the direct line.

In the past two years, Zhu Youlang has witnessed their transformation from weak to powerful little by little. They are equivalent to the "Shen Ji Camp" in the three major camps of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youlang intends to eventually build them into a modern pure firearm unit and become an elite force with one to ten!

The addition of thousands of bird guns will definitely greatly increase the proportion of pro-arms weapons. Soldiers are more valuable, not more expensive. With the bonus of these firearms, armor, and war horses, the overall combat power of the imperial camp will definitely be further improved!

After fighting, the strength of the imperial camp increased instead of decreasing, and Zhu Youlang could not be unexcited. However, he was only excited for a while, and his eyes dimmed again.

It is now the mid-17th century. Many Western European countries have been equipped with flintlock guns with better performance. The original firearm, such as a clamp, was eliminated by Western European countries as early as the 16th century.

But until now, whether it is the Eight Banners and Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhongzhen Camp of the Ming Dynasty, the local camp, or even the Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu's troops in the imperial camp, they are mainly cold weapons, and even the turtle dove guns like the turtle dove gun can be regarded as the top weapon. What a sad thing!

What's even more sad is that in the original historical script, since the Manchu Tartars entered the pass in 1644, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period in the late Qing Dynasty, for more than two hundred years, the Qing army, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Camp, had always used a clamp gun, and never considered using more advanced flintlock guns. However, Western European countries had already replaced firearms for several generations in more than two hundred years.

Is this happening because the Tartar emperor didn’t know about the flintlock gun, a firearm that appeared in the mid-16th century? Or did he really not know the importance of the musket?

No!

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty did not regard muskets as weapons for the weak, but on the contrary, they always regarded firearms as important weapons for military and national affairs.

Seriously speaking, although the Manchu Tatars started their careers with cavalry, they finally made their fortunes with firearms. When Lao Nuerhaci was killed by the red cannons of the Ming army, the Manchu Tatars began to pay attention to firearms. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he paid more attention to firearms and tried every means to imitate them.

Later, after Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi surrendered to Huangtaiji, the Manchu Tatars had elite firearm troops at this point.

Later, Huang Taiji established an elite firearm unit called "Wuzhenhachao" by his close confidant Xiagushane Town, Jin Li, who was translated into Chinese as "heavy troops", which refers to the equipment of a large number of bird guns and artillery.

After the Qing army entered the pass, the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia were reorganized, and the Taurus Emperor imitated the Ming Dynasty's Beijing camp military system and specially established two pure firearm troops, the "Fire Arms Camp" and the "Shenji Camp". All the troops were served by the Manchurian Tatars, and they were in the heavy control of the mandate, thereby suppressing the green camp. This shows the importance of firearms!

During the Kangxi period, the Qing army fought against Tsarist Russia in Yaksa. When they were facing Galdan in the northwest, they often used ten times or even dozens of times the force against them who had flintlock rifles, but they were often defeated and suffered from flintlock rifles. Therefore, Kangxi's understanding of the power of this firearm was like the red cannons of the past, and he was deeply aware of the bone marrow. Later, Qianlong's southern expedition to Myanmar, and he also suffered from the more advanced flintlock rifles, but even so, he still did not improve the musket.

Dai Zi, a firearm expert in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, imitated the "mother and son cannon" that was claimed to be only made by Belgians at that time, and even invented the world's earliest machine gun "Singling Musket" also called the twenty-eight consecutive beads. It was shaped like a pipa, capable of shooting twenty-eight bullets in a row, and its firepower was very strong. When he paid tribute to Kangxi, Kangxi praised it on the surface and secretly tied the Singling Musket to the shelf and ordered him not to rebuild it. Kangxi was not relieved, and then found a reason to exile him to one of the most desolate places at that time - Liaodong.

Several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty once collected various firearms in their palaces, including the most advanced rifled rifles at that time - rifles! But they have never been popularized into the army.

The Tartar Emperor knew the power of firearms so much that he had to resolutely curb its development. If the firearms develop, they would face a very terrifying reality, that is, with one shot in hand, a woman, child, old and weak can kill an Eight Banner Warrior!

As for why they did not ban bird guns, perhaps it was because bird guns were popularized as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It was unrealistic to ban them after the founding of the Manchu Tartars. Fortunately, the bird guns were too flawed and their power was not much stronger than bows and arrows, and they did not pose much threat to them, so they were not banned.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the pure Eight Banners of Manzhou were only 50,000 to 60,000, and even if the Eight Banners of Han were added, the Eight Banners of Mongolia were still only 1 million. The Han people could drown them with just one spit. The more advanced the weapons they were in the hands of the Han people, the more dangerous they were in the Manchus. The Tartar Emperor knew very well.

In order to ban this threat from the root, they strictly prohibited the spread of firearms on the one hand, and on the other hand, even the direct Eight Banners did not equip more advanced firearms, paralyzing the Han people and thinking that Manchu and Han were one. Not only that, they almost all the cold weapons in the middle school entrance examination schools. No matter how good the firearms are used, they cannot be the general school. The system suppresses the further development of firearms and firearm tactics.
Chapter completed!