"Take out what's inside..." Marshal Zeng gave the order, and Sanbao used a dagger to open the sutures and took out a stamped steel plate that fit the curve of the body!
"Look, look...it's only a five-millimeter elastic steel plate, how light it is! Don't think this thing doesn't work, it's amazing at blocking bayonet bullets!"
The Sanbao slashed upwards twice, sparks flying everywhere but leaving only shallow scratches, which could not be cut through at all. "This kind of bulletproof steel plate has top-notch defense against cold weapons. Unless you hit it with a blunt instrument, This way you can damage the internal organs, and skin injuries don’t even have to be considered!”
"Look at this steel plate again... I don't know how it was made. The bullet should have been fired at close range. The warhead penetrated the steel plate but could not make it any further..."
A steel plate originally embedded in the chest was penetrated by a rifle bullet, but the bullet only stuck on it with a tip of about one centimeter!
"This bullet can break at most two ribs and cause a little flesh wound. The blood will not flow too much... I can imagine that this soldier will go back to rest for half a year and become a vigorous and heroic man again!"
"This kind of steel plate can actually be made by our craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry! But how much will it cost? Who knows? How many years will it take the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to work to arm an army of a thousand people?"
"Power! This is power..."
"If I say that Xiao Letian can equip thousands of soldiers with such equipment, how should the court deal with it?"
"There were bullets raining on the battlefield, and our soldiers fell down and died one after another. Even if the enemy was shot, they were injured at most, and some could even get up and continue fighting!"
"And this...poisonous smoke bomb, there are several types of sizes. Once it spreads, who can fight in this poisonous smoke? How many people were choked to death last night, I'm afraid there must be sixty or seventy people if not a hundred. !”
"What is this pig's mouth? This is called a gas mask. There is a mechanism inside that can filter poisonous smoke. Can you tell me, are these things given to Xiao Letian by Taishang Laojun?"
"Ahem...if our ancestors of the Qing Dynasty hadn't had the spirit and a strong wind suddenly came up last night, I'm afraid we wouldn't even have a chance to surround them, let alone maim them..."
As soon as it was mentioned that the ancestors have spirits, all the Manchus present bowed their hands and bowed in the direction of the Fengxian Hall, "The ancestors have spirits! Ancestors bless you!"
Serial Chun also knelt down, the Manchus originally believed in primitive shamanism and ancestor worship! The commander-in-chief has lifted Nurhachi out of his grave, who dares to refute his words!
Do you dare to say that your ancestors are not effective? So what happened to the strong wind that saved lives last night?
When Zeng Guofan saw that the fire was almost done, he suddenly said sharply, "Our ancestors have spirits, and we have to live up to our expectations! When millions of armies fight in the future, can we expect our ancestors to have spirits?"
"Do we have to let our soldiers fight against the enemy's steel monsters armed to the teeth with bare hands?"
"Are Xiao Letian's soldiers ordinary soldiers? They are monsters armed with steel, relying on the endless industrial power behind them!"
"Your Majesty, didn't you see the 10,000-ton hydraulic press from Tanggu? Show the photos to these ministers and let them see how the steel is pressed like dough?"
"Do you really think that the current Chinese silver coins with dragon patterns are cast? They are all stamped, and they are all stamped out by the power of machinery!"
"A hundred blacksmiths can do a month's work, which only takes half a day in a Chinese iron factory. This is efficiency, this is invincible power!"
"It's already here, don't you understand? When it comes time to compete with the Chinese for national strength, you will find that once the war starts, their supplies will be bigger and more abundant, and yours will be less and less!"
"Don't think that it's useless to have the entire empire behind you and have countless population and resources, but you can't mobilize them!"
"Where is the iron? In the mountains, how do you mine it, how do you smelt it, how do you turn it into steel and guns? This series of processes is something that I, the Qing Dynasty, are not good at, but other industrialized countries are good at!"
"Wake up! Stop dreaming. No matter how big the empire is, it's useless if you can't mobilize this power!"
Zeng Guofan suddenly stood up and took out a pamphlet from his sleeve, "Your Majesty! This is a memorial sent by Zuo Jigao from the northwest, and he asked me to forward it to you! Zuo Jigao fully supported your majesty's cause in the pamphlet. We, the Qing Dynasty, must To engage in industrialization, we must reform!”
"Here is my secret. I request the empire to carry out reforms immediately and quickly promote the industrialization process of the Qing Dynasty... We want this power!"
At this moment, an important minister trotted out of the Meridian Gate. He stood beside Marshal Zeng panting and said loudly, "Your Majesty Li Hongzhang... I have a document to present... I implore the empire to quickly reform and promote industrialization!"
At present, the three most powerful bosses of the Hunan Army have all expressed their opinions, Zuo Zongtang of the Northwest, Li Hongzhang of the Huai Army, and Zeng Guofan, the founder of the Hunan Army!
The three Han warlords collectively expressed their stance, and many of the ministers turned pale. This was the first time that the Han warlords publicly stood up and made their voices heard in the court!
This weight is as heavy as it is heavy, and the Manchus are as frightened as they are!
After the peace of San Francisco, the Han people no longer had warlords. The military power in the hands of all Han generals was tightly controlled by the Manchus. No army was directly descended from the Han people!
The Han people have been unarmed for nearly two hundred years. These Manchus seem to have forgotten how powerful the Han people once were in military power!
Needless to say about the Han and Tang Dynasties, even the Ming Dynasty, except for its decline in the last few decades, still had the military power to dominate Asia in the rest of the time!
Even Nurhachi was just a pawn under Li Chengliang at that time!
The memory has been too long. The distant Manchus have forgotten what the Han people looked like when they held swords and guns. Today, history seems to have overlapped. In a daze, they saw the successive Han governors who once stationed in Liaodong, and countless Manchus were among them. Kneeling under the cannon fire!
The color of the court has really changed. The three warlords who were separated from the monster Hunan Army collectively supported Emperor Tongzhi today. The atmosphere at the scene was extremely tense!
Zai Chun was so excited that his face turned red, "Okay, okay...the three beloved ministers are loyal to the king and protect the country, I have written it down, I have written it down!"
In the crowd, Prince Laoli Shiduo murmured with trembling lips, "Loyal to the king and protect the country... Loyal to that king? Protect that country? It's over, it's really over..."
"How come the Han people are allowed to become big if they are allowed to become big..."
Prince Bianqing also turned pale and said in a low voice, "What are we going to do? Someone send a message to the outside! We have to let Guiziliu and Laoqi know!"
"This is seizing the class and seizing power! Seizing the class and seizing power!"
