The formation of muskets and the support of warriors on both sides will always be the mainstream of war in an era when rifled guns did not appear. Luo Huo's musket array now serves as the backbone of the fire output, and the Taibaiding bandits coming up from both wings are the solid shield of the musket array. Anyone who slips through the net and dares to sneak attack will be mercilessly killed.
This tactic was not thought up by Xiao Letian in vain. It is almost the essence of all battle formations in the history of Western musketry. The Spanish phalanx used pikemen as flanks, while the Napoleonic era used ultra-long-range fire from artillery and dragoons for flank protection.
Even in the just-concluded American Civil War, musketeers needed cavalry and skirmishers for cover. But foreign devils are foreign devils. They don't have the luxury of Xiao Letian. Ten musketeers are actually paired with more than a hundred green forest heroes as guards. How can this combat effectiveness be not high?
The sky in Taibaiding is mainly dominated by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was the elite of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to fight all the way to Tianjin with more than 20,000 troops. Many of the soldiers who formed this unit due to the first update had backgrounds as people from the southern greenwoods.
To put it bluntly, the strategist Xiao Letian leads a luxurious army almost entirely composed of green forest people. These people are no match for Xiang Shaolong in a single fight, but a group of green forest heroes have learned how to coordinate the army's battle formations, so Ten Xiang Shaolongs are no match for him anymore.
"Luo Huo, have you found Mr. Xiao?" Xiao Hexin asked nervously.
"No, but the back door of the hut is open..." Luo Huo held up the torch and leaned forward to look into the valley.
"Follow me. As long as I get close to you, sir, he will definitely send a signal!" After saying this, Xiao Hexin was the first to jump down the valley. After a while, the entire valley was filled with the light of torches, and more than a hundred people were waiting like a long dragon. Search the valley. Please come to more and faster chapters.
"Wang Huaiyuan, capture the injured enemies and give them simple treatment first... These are our hostages!" Xiao Hexin's roar came from the valley.
At this time, Xiao Letian had already seen the firelight rising behind him. He listened carefully for a long time. When the familiar sound of shotgun volleys came, he subconsciously wanted to take out the yellow phosphorus fireworks, but then he thought about it. There may be many enemies hiding, but it would be bad if the enemy arrives first.
Thinking of this, he whispered to Huniu, "Leave them alone, let's continue walking down the mountain, don't make any sound." They didn't know how long they had been walking, but they suddenly noticed waves of swaying sounds of vegetation behind them. , Xiao Letian quickly dragged Huniu and hid in the grass on one side.
But before they could hide themselves, something cold and hard suddenly pressed against Xiao Letian's waist. "Mr. Xiao, we meet again. This is your pistol. You know its power better than I do. First, we meet again. Time Update” It was Xiang Shaolong who spoke.
Damn it, Xiao Letian cursed in his heart, he didn't expect this guy's legs and feet to be so fast. "Master Long, is there something we can't discuss carefully? What hatred do you and I have that leads us to pursue you like this? Who hired you? No matter how much money he pays, can't I pay double the amount?"
Xiang Shaolong smiled bitterly, "Stop playing tricks with me. Want to delay time for your men to come and save you? Dream on, follow me back immediately, hurry up..."
Under the threat of pistols, Xiao Letian and Huniu slowly retreated. With the faint starlight, they were surprised to find that there was a cave behind the grass. When the three of them got into the cave, Xiang Shaolong blocked the entrance of the cave with weeds. The black hole of the gun threatened Xiao Letian, and none of the three dared to make a sound. Please come to more and faster chapters.
After a while, the sound of crackling muskets and the sound of weapons clashing came from the distance. "Capture the alive, capture the hostages..." That was Sima Yun. This boy was leading his brothers to surround the apprentices in Xiangjiazhuang. Where are the soldiers?
Xiao Letian could clearly feel that Xiang Shaolong was trembling. Perhaps this powerful figure in the Northland arena had never suffered such humiliation in his life.
After a while, the light of the torch began to flicker at the entrance of the cave. As the figures flashed, the three of them saw with their own eyes two disciples from Xiangjiazhuang being tied up like pigs and tied to a wooden stick before being carried away. Sima Yun looked around and found no entrance to the cave, then led the people and rushed deeper into the valley.
After more than half an hour, it became quiet outside the cave. At this time, Xiao Lecai asked in a low voice, "Master Long... you have also seen that those are your disciples and disciples. The disciples in the world are your family business." , It’s not easy to save so much, why bother..."
"As expected, the people who saved me have already started heading to Xiangjiazhuang. To tell you the truth, in exchange for my life, they will definitely trade your relatives..."
"Shut up! You two devil who writes evil scriptures, I will kill you to do justice for heaven!" Master Long was sweating on his forehead, but he still kept his words. Please come to more and faster chapters. Xiao Letian was so angry at the time, thinking that the Qing Dynasty was really hopeless. Everyone from top to bottom had been completely brainwashed by feudal ideas, so it didn't make sense.
Haha, Xiao Letian sneered and said, "So, Master Long has also read my humble work? It seems that you also regard him as a book about gods and monsters like Journey to the West and The List of Gods? It's really hopeless. You use lies as truth. , and it’s actually quite plausible, bah…”
"I'm tired of hearing what you said. You don't believe that the earth is round. You don't understand what Western technology is about. You don't understand why foreign warships can sail thousands of miles and blow up the Qing Dynasty. The coastal defenses are riddled with holes, and you don’t even understand why foreigners’ muskets are so powerful and can kill people invisible..."
"Under the threat of force from the foreigners, you have to admit that foreign guns and cannons are powerful, but you turn around and refuse to acknowledge the foreigners' knowledge of natural science. Update as soon as possible. You are a group of fools who are hiding their ears and stealing the news. You are a group of self-contradictory idiots. , and you are still a group of cowards who dare not admit reality..."
"Shut up!" Long Ye's uninjured arm popped out like lightning and pinched Xiao Letian's throat hard. He was already going crazy with Xiao Letian's words.
"You dare to say that I am a coward? I left home when I was six years old to study under a teacher. Until now, I have killed countless evildoers, including myself, a corrupt official. Do you dare to say that I am a coward?"
Xiao Letian's face turned red from holding back, "You... you don't let others speak, you are... you are a coward, you are afraid that you can't speak to me..." Mr. Long loosened his hands angrily, "Say, I'll let you say it, I'll see if you can What's the point?"
Cough cough cough, Xiao Letian coughed violently for a while, and said breathlessly, "Only practice can bring true knowledge. You have also read my book. The Westerner Magellan has used his own practice to prove that the earth is a sphere. People go all the way to the west and finally Why are we back to the starting point? This is already clear evidence..."
"I know what you are going to say. Don't you just want to say that I am lying? Then I tell you that some of the foreigners who attacked Beijing four years ago have circled the earth. Do you believe it? Do you not believe it? I will take you to ask foreigners, and I may even send you to take a sea cruise in person."
Xiao Letian seemed to be telling a story to a newly enlightened child, constantly explaining simple natural science knowledge. He did not dare to explain it too deeply, because just an ancient person who said that the earth was round was already very knowledgeable. It’s hard to understand.
In fact, during the process of Western learning spreading eastward, it took a certain amount of time for ordinary Chinese people to accept new things. People are very nostalgic and refuse to change. Many elderly people will not accept anything no matter what you say. Those who will accept new things are like those rotten scholars like Wang Shizheng, because once they accept new knowledge, it will prove that they were wrong before.
Admitting mistakes is always painful. Even if they deceive themselves, they are unwilling to go through the process of self-denial because it is too painful. Please come to more and faster chapters.
Fortunately, Xiang Shaolong is not a pedantic person. His thirties gave him the courage to accept some new things, such as "A Journey to the West". The big shot who hired him gave the order to kill Xiao Letian immediately and make this case a mystery. But it was because Xiang Shaolong had read the book Journey to the West before and became interested in some of its contents that he was reluctant to kill him.
But this year, when he heard Xiao Letian explaining these natural science knowledge to him personally, something seemed to break in his heart.
Yes, what the two devils said makes sense. If all the saints in this world are right, then why can foreigners produce powerful ships and cannons that no saint has ever seen? The saints are so powerful, why can't the Chinese defeat the Westerners time and time again?
Therefore, the core of thinking about all issues is to admit that saints are not omnipotent. Please come to more and faster chapters. Oh my God, Master Long seemed like his entire spiritual world collapsed at that moment. For people of that era to admit that the saint was not omnipotent was more uncomfortable than killing him.
Until the end, Xiao Letian took out his last trump card and hit Xiang Shaolong hard. "After the British and French allied forces burned down the Old Summer Palace four years ago, do you know how much silver the Qing Dynasty spent to successfully sue for peace? A full eight million Two…”
"You know, the Russians in the north, commonly known as the Rakshasa people, just sent out their Cossack cavalry to threaten the Qing Dynasty and the British and French coalition forces, and how much benefit did they get? More than one million square kilometers! My good Lord Long, do you know how big a place it is? It’s as big as five Zhili..."
Xiang Shaolong felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his eyes were blurry. "You, you, you... you two devils are here to lie again. The Qing Dynasty has lost five places as big as Zhili? Why don't we?" Do you know?"
Fuck, what kind of era was that? How could the Qing government tell the people if the Qing government did such a shameful thing? It's too late to hide the shit. As for the Han scholars, they were even less interested. They believed that the Manchus were selling their territory and had nothing to do with the Han people.
This was the late Qing Dynasty, a period when even the basic concept of a country had not been formed. But having no concept of country does not mean that the people are not patriotic. The story of Yue Fei has been sung from generation to generation. All Chinese people know that it is wrong to lose land and betray the country. This is the most simple value in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Xiang Shaolong grabbed Xiao Letian's arm and said, "Are you lying to me? Tell me, are you lying to me?"
Xiao Letian's face was as dark as water, "I swear on my ancestors that these things are all true, and I came back to my motherland just to tell us Chinese how foreigners became powerful and how we should catch up. If we don’t work hard now and cede territory to pay compensation in the future, the foreign troops’ capture of Beijing will never stop…”
Xiang Shaolong said nothing, turned the revolver upside down and stuffed it back into Xiao Letian's arms, "You two leave, I will let you go. But I tell you, if you are lying to me today, I will chase you to the ends of the earth." I will let you go!"
At that moment, Xiao Letian was so moved that he even wondered if he should print some big-character posters? I think I just need to write out the details of the "Beijing Treaty" and the Sino-Russian Aigun Treaty in vernacular, and then post them all over the country's countryside.
Well, let's forget it for now. If we do this, the world will probably be in chaos. If chaos breaks out at this time, it will always be China that suffers.
