Although the speed of bows and arrows is much faster than that of a musket, its power is limited. As the saying goes, ten arrows are worse than one knife, and ten swords are worse than one gun. The power of a firearm will only be stronger than a spear. A general wearing heavy armor may not necessarily die if he is shot into a hedgehog, but if he is hit by a firearm, the power of the firearm can make the heavy armor on the general’s body useless. Even if he does not hit the vital point, a small projectile can make people lose their combat power.

But the reloading speed of this firearm back then was really slow.

"King, firearms can be launched in multiple rows, for example, divided into five rows, one row shoots four rows, the first row is shot and retreats, the second row is shot forward, the second row is shot forward, the second row is shot back, the third row is shot, and so on, and so on, it can be launched continuously." Zhao Peng said.

"But this firearm has a lot of explosions. Once it explodes, I don't know whether to kill the enemy or kill his own people?" Li Zicheng said with a smile.

"King, the Daming Firearm is extremely crude due to the greed of officials of the Ministry of Works. If I could be ordered to supervise the firearms personally, I would definitely be able to make elite firearms for use by the frontline soldiers." Zhao Peng volunteered to take over the work of supervising the firearms.

Cold weapons have basically reached their peak, while firearms are still in the development stage. In the future, firearms will only become more powerful and have faster and faster fire speeds, and eventually completely eliminate the bow and arrow.

Zhao Peng is a half-bottle of water who relies on novels and films to understand history, but in terms of weapons, he is his strength. He is a soldier king in his previous life, and he doesn’t know what weapons?

Therefore, Zhao Peng intended to help the Shun Army build a firearm battalion to fight against the Qing army, but even with a history of half a bucket of water, he knew that the Chuang Army was defeated too quickly and had no time to build an elite firearm battalion. With his memories from his previous life, he seemed to have some impression that the Chuang Army was driven out of the capital by the Qing army within two months after capturing the capital.

Within two months, it may be forty days or fifty days. Anyway, it is too late to build a firearm battalion for the crusade army, but Zhao Peng could use the excuse of helping the crusade army to build firearms to gather all the craftsmen in the capital. When he escorted the prince south, he would take these craftsmen south together. These craftsmen are all treasures. With them, what kind of contemporary firearms are they afraid of not being able to make?

Of course, Zhao Peng could not say this to Li Zicheng. He just briefly introduced contemporary firearms, and even briefly introduced the flintlock rifles, bronze three-pound cannons, bronze six-pound cannons, and bronze twelve-pound howitzers that were far ahead of this era.

Li Zicheng was overjoyed and said, "Since that's the case, then Gu will be appointed as the supervisor and build an excellent firearm!"

"I should do my best to assist the king in fighting against Jiannu!" Zhao Peng bowed and bowed, "But can the king let me see the prince and serve the king with peace of mind."

Li Zicheng turned around and asked Gao Wencai: "Where is General Gao? How do you want to serve the orphan?"

Gao Wencai replied: "I would like to see His Highness the Crown Prince first, and then assist the king in rebuilding the Jinyiwei. You can spy on the enemy's situation outside and supervise the court officials inside."

"Okay, I will promise you!" Li Zicheng laughed, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is in General Liu Zongmin's camp for the time being. Eunuch Wang, take two generals to find General Hao, and ask General Hao to take two to see Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

"I obey the order!" Wang Xiangyao knelt down and saluted.

Wang Xiangyao took Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng to leave the palace. When he arrived at the Meridian Gate, he saw Hao Yaoqi. Wang Xiangyao explained it and went back to the palace to report to Li Zicheng. Hao Yaoqi took Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng to Liu Zongmin's camp.

Liu Zongmin's camp was in the city, and the central army was located in the former Jinyiwei North Fushi Office. Wei Zaode, the former top leader of the Ming Dynasty, slapped the horse's leg because of his flattery, but Li Zicheng, who was so disgusted, sent him here. The original Jinyiwei's Edict Prison was just handy for Wei's top scholar. Wei Zaode was enjoying Liu Zongmin's clipping stick in the imperial prison.

When Zhao Peng met Liu Zongmin, he saw that he was a tall man with a rough northwest with a black face, a leopard head, a ring-eyed, swallow chin and tiger beard.

Seeing the two wearing Jinyi and wardrobe clothes, I had heard that Liu Zongmin walked up and patted Zhao Peng on the shoulder, and said loudly, "Hahaha! They are indeed two good men! Someone likes such a hero, but they are much better than the despicable and shameless scholar! Not to mention anything else, just say that Wei's top scholar. The king asked him why he didn't accompany Chongzhen to sacrifice his country for his country. He shamelessly said that he wanted to serve me Dashun, so how dare he die? This dog was locked in a prison. He was so scared that he peed his pants just after he was sent in! What a pussy! The fool Chongzhen would use such a dog, and it was no wonder that the country would be destroyed!"

"We want to see His Highness the Crown Prince, and I hope General Liu will make a convenient move!" Gao Wencai bowed and said.

Liu Zongmin laughed: "I have heard that two of you are loyal and righteous. Since you are going to see His Royal Highness, you will be able to do it yourself. Please come with me."

The prince Zhu Cilang was placed under house arrest in Gong Yonggu's mansion, the princess of Princess Le'an. When the rebel army broke into the capital, Princess Le'an had died of illness and had not been buried yet. Gong Yonggu tied his four children to the princess' coffin, lit a fire, and drew his sword and committed suicide. The four children were burned to death. Gong Yonggu and the princess' coffin were turned into ashes together.

Walking on the road, Liu Zongmin said, "Please rest assured, the king has not made things difficult for the prince. Since the king entered the palace, he has not found gold, silver and treasures, but has found a pile of slits and zipped clothes. The king's view of Chongzhen has greatly changed. He took care of the prince here and also took the order of the king to avenge Chongzhen and torture the military pay from these officials for him, hahaha!"

Zhao Peng said angrily: "It's a pity that these civil servants and gentry are rich enough to compete with the country, but they will never lose their penis when the country is in trouble!"

"Isn't this avenge for Chongzhen!" Liu Zongmin laughed, "The top leader and assistant have been pinched off ten fingers, but he still refuses to hand over the money. It's really a matter of human beings and birds die for food!"

In fact, Wei Zaode had been tortured tens of thousands of taels of silver, but Liu Zongmin didn't believe that a premier's family only had tens of thousands of taels of silver, so he continued to torture and confess...

After entering the Duwei Mansion of the Prince Zhu Cilang, the son-in-law who was under house arrest, the soldiers and servants of the Shun army had already come out.

"Take us in and find the prince!" Liu Zongmin roared carelessly.

"Here!" the two soldiers responded.

After a while, Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng met the prince Zhu Cilang who was under house arrest. He was seen with blood-colored face, with his cheekbones raised, and bones on his shoulders also raised.

"Your Highness, you have been cleared." Seeing that the prince became like this, Gao Wencai knelt on the ground crying.

Zhao Peng also knelt on the ground and gave a big gift to the prince.

Liu Zongmin quickly explained awkwardly: "General Gao, please ask the prince, you have not treated the prince badly, but the prince has not yet eaten his grain of rice for several consecutive days."

"General Gao, get up quickly!" Zhu Cixuan helped Gao Wencai up, "General Liu is right. They did not abuse me. It was because I heard about my father's death. I had not made a grain of rice in a few days."

Seeing that Zhao Peng was still kneeling on the ground, Zhu Cixuan asked, "General Gao, who is this?"

"Zhao Peng, the captain of the Jinyiwei, if this hero had not saved him, I would never see you, Your Highness, in this life." Gao Wencai said.

Zhu Cilang turned around and helped Zhao Peng up, and exclaimed: "What a loyal and good man!"
Chapter completed!