There was silence for a moment, and everyone looked at Jirgalang at the same time.
Jirgalang's thoughts were not here, but he thought of something else.
He said to Tunqi: "Take out the bird guns seized from the Ming army."
"Yes!" Tunqi turned around and walked outside the military tent, taking out several muskets from a pile of weapons.
After returning to the military tent, he handed a bird gun to Jirgalang, and handed several other bird guns to others.
"Everyone," Tunqi pointed at the bird guns in their hands and said, "This is a bird gun equipped on a small scale by the Ming army, called the Rumi gun! This gun has been improved by the Ming court and can be fired without a matchlock. Prince Rui had heard of this gun when he led his troops into the pass in the first year of Shunzhi, but he was unable to seize the actual gun at that time."
"We seized several of them when we were supporting the Chahar tribe. After we brought them back to Shengjing, we found that they were damaged and unusable."
"We also captured several of them during the Battle of Ningyuan, but Prince Su didn't take them seriously and threw them to the Han army of the Eight Banners without paying any more attention to them."
"The Rumi guns in your hands are spoils of war captured during the Battle of Songshan. According to the demonstration of the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army, the loading and firing speed of this gun is two to three times that of the traditional matchlock gun. Although it is still slower than a bow and arrow, it is easy to load and has great power. It can penetrate armor from a hundred steps away."
"In addition," Tunqi pointed at the bayonet on the muzzle of the Rumi gun and said, "the Ming army installed a sharp blade on the muzzle, which can not only resist the impact of cavalry to a certain extent, but also can fight hand-to-hand with infantry in infantry battles. As the saying goes, an inch longer is an inch stronger. With this sharp blade, the Ming army bird gun soldiers can not only abandon their waist knives, but also gain the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat."
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