Chapter 107 Observation
The amount of spoils was astonishing, and Qin Zhao's baggage team could not hold it anyway. Qin Zhao asked the baggage team to transport the spoils to the camp to accumulate and send soldiers to guard it.
Yuan Jixian stood aside and watched Qin Zhao deal with the spoils. It was interesting to watch and never left Qin Zhao's troops.
Soon, the Ming army that was chasing and storming the defeated army gradually returned.
Many of the Ming soldiers chased a scattered thieves. Some of them were holding the newly cut thieves' heads in their hands and holding the newly seized trespassing armor under their armpits, and were excited.
Yuan Jixian went up to ask with expectations, wanting to see if any of the troops captured or killed Li Zicheng alive. However, the result disappointed Yuan Jixian.
No one caught Li Zicheng, and even the general of the rebel army had not caught one.
Li Zicheng is a master of escape. His generals all counted horses and rode a few horses all the way to change horses. How could the cavalry of the official army catch up? Li Zicheng became a thief in the north a few years ago and was defeated and crippled several times, but he had not been caught by the official army once.
Yuan Jixian shook his head and sighed, and was about to return to the central army.
Before leaving, Yuan Jixian asked Qin Zhao: "Chuang Ni was defeated by Jiayu, and there was only one way to enter Gan. But Zuo Liangyu is now in Jiujiang, Qin Zhao, do you think if Chuang Ni went south on Gan Road, would Zuo Liangyu resist?"
Qin Zhao was slandered by Zuo Liangyu, and now he hated Zuo Liangyu very much, and replied directly: "I'm not afraid of Zuo Liangyu's rebellion into Jiangxi, but I'm afraid of Zuo Liangyu giving up Jiujiang and attacking Nanjing."
Qin Zhao had read a time travel novel that traveled to the Southern Ming Dynasty before, so he knew that Zuo Liangyu finally sent troops to rebel and attacked Nanjing.
When Yuan Jixian heard this, he was speechless.
After a long time, he sighed and left Qin Zhao's troops.
"What Qianhuguan said is sad..."
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On March 17, Yuan Jixian took the generals of various military troops and horses to Qin Zhao's camp to observe Qin Zhao's rockets.
Qin Zhao's rockets were so powerful that they brought out the devastating official army from the desperate situation and turned into a great victory that had not been seen in several years. Of course, the generals of the official army hoped to learn some of the essence of the rockets, and they could also do the same in the war in the future and defeat the enemy.
Now that the thieves have been defeated, they will ask Qin Zhao to demonstrate the Rockets once they have nothing to do.
Qin Zhao had long expected this link, and he prepared fifty rockets without a rotating tail before going to war.
The Qin Rockets, or the Hale Rockets, can keep moving forward in a straight line in the air because of the spinning of the tail. It is impossible to rely on technology to make the rocket completely symmetrical at all angles. Without the rotating tail, the Rocket will continue to deviate from the course due to uneven force in a certain direction.
Of course, Qin Zhao would not tell other generals the secret of the rotating tail wing.
In the chaotic times like the Southern Ming Dynasty, sometimes allies who cooperate day and night will suddenly surrender to Tartars, and in turn will give you a blow. How could Qin Zhao believe that these Ming generals who do all kinds of evil and who have no integrity?
Qin Zhao ordered the rocket soldiers to carry fifty rockets without tails on their shoulders. The rocket soldiers aimed at a target fifty feet away and then fired together.
Fifty rockets suddenly soared into the sky and shot forward like a scattered flower of a celestial girl. Thirty rockets still shot straight lines and landed in a circular area with a radius of ten feet. But there were twenty rockets who completely lost their accuracy and shot at a place dozens of feet away from the target.
Qin Zhao waved his hand and said, "Please see, my rocket can form firepower coverage as long as it aims at a target in the distance, so that most rockets can basically land near that target point. Yesterday, when I fought with Chuang Ni, I aimed at the middle of the old thief of Chuang Ni, and then the rockets diffusely formed a firepower coverage bombing against Chuang Ni's entire army."
The generals saw the rocket's landing point, nodded one after another, and whispered to each other.
The distribution of rocket landing points today seems to be similar to that of Qin Zhao's bombing of the rebel army yesterday.
Yuan Jixian asked: "Defense Qin! How much money do you want for this rocket?"
Qin Zhao just wanted to say a sky-high price and replied: "When you come back to the Governor, this rocket can only form explosive power with the best Japanese gunpowder. A rocket carries nine kilograms of medicine, and it costs 18 taels of gunpowder. In addition, the production of steel shells requires careful construction by old craftsmen, and good steel. With the leads, the total cost is about twenty-two taels of one."
"Twenty-two taels per piece?"
"This is too exaggerated! Twenty-two taels!"
“What a expensive firearm!”
Hearing Qin Zhao's words, the Ming generals were immediately in an uproar and kept talking.
"This rocket is not accurate. It can only make achievements in a battle between tens of thousands of people, and it requires the opponent to have a dense formation. If thousands of people are crowded together to fight, or if the opponent is a cavalry, or the opponent is a city guard, or the opponent is a loose formation, the rocket cannot make achievements."
He Qiongwen was bleeding and pointed out the disadvantages of the rocket without rotors.
Someone said, "But if you are lucky and you can kill the opponent's coach, you can also achieve success!"
Everyone laughed and said, "Where are you always so lucky?"
Someone said, "Wouldn't you have such good luck in Kuilong Pass before?"
The generals had seen various firearms before, but Er subconsciously felt that the power of the firearms was limited. After watching the castrated rockets displayed by Qin Zhao, they all felt that it was indeed unique. They all believed that Qin Zhao relied on this castrated rocket to bomb the rebel army.
As for the real Qin Rockets, even if Qin Zhao said it, they didn't believe it. The firearms were so powerful? Did they lead soldiers and soldiers for decades?
A general said, "It's just that there are too few opportunities to be available and it's too expensive!"
Another general sighed: "We are short of soldiers, so how can we assemble these 22 taels of flying rockets? However, the military camp of the governor faces a war every time, and several can be assembled."
Yuan Jixian nodded and said, "This rocket is only useful when the army is in formation and fighting. It is indeed only equipped by the standard army."
"It's just that the court has not allocated food and salary recently, so our court has not been able to make a fortune out of nothing and create money to equip these rockets."
Everyone said this and looked at Qin Zhao together.
Everyone knows that Qin Zhao has seized countless silver coins in these two battles, and his armor is a mountain. If Qin Zhao is generous and evenly gives Yuan Jixian some silver, Yuan Jixian will have money to equip rockets.
Qin Zhao had already cursed these Ming generals in his heart.
Why should I hand over some of my seizure?
Qin Zhao pretended not to understand the gazes of the Ming generals and said, "This is the situation, you must have already understood it."
Seeing that Qin Zhao was unwilling to give up the seizure, Yuan Jixian knew that Qin Zhao was also a character who was preparing to separatist. A character like Qin Zhao cared about his own strength, not the relationship between the court.
It is a bit difficult to get Qin Zhao to hand over the spoils.
Fortunately, the other armies were captured by chasing the thieves yesterday, and they also scored tens of thousands of taels in a mixed bag. Now the generals are full, and they have won a big victory with Qin Zhao's rockets. They thought they could be promoted and made a fortune immediately, but they did not have the idea of blackmailing Qin Zhao for a while.
Yuan Jixian and Qin Zhao asked for ten rockets, saying that they would make preparations for the future. Maybe one day the court allocated silver, and Yuan Jixian would make a large-scale production according to the rocket.
Chapter completed!