Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1077

"At this point, we can only speculate based on the known information that His Royal Highness is safe, but the information is too old to be confirmed!"

Wei Wu looked at Heilang seriously, and after a moment's silence, he asked:

"Does His Majesty have any plans?"

Black Wolf nodded and immediately said:

"Your Majesty has already sent a secret envoy from the Imperial Guard to Jin, but Jin is too chaotic, so the chances of finding Your Highness are slim."

Indeed, as Heilang said, half of the Jin area is now in chaos, and the Northern Yuan army is wreaking havoc.

Since Zhu Biao escaped capture, he must have hidden carefully to prevent himself from being caught by the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Otherwise, as the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, once he fell into the hands of the enemy, he would definitely be used by the enemy to control the Ming Dynasty.

Even if he was finally rescued, when Zhu Yuanzhang abdicated and Zhu Biao succeeded him in the future, this would be a stain that would be difficult to wash away throughout his life.

In addition, even if a large number of Jinyiwei secret envoys were sent to Jin, they could not search for Zhu Biao's whereabouts in a high-profile manner.

They could only investigate secretly, but the problem was that Zhu Biao had already hidden himself, and in this situation, looking for him was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In order to find Zhu Biao, it is necessary to quell the chaos in Jin and drive all the Northern Yuan troops out of the pass.

Thinking of this, Wei Wu suddenly remembered something, so he asked again.

"I remember that when the Crown Prince went to Jin this time, he was accompanied by the Ningshan Guards. How could they let the Crown Prince fall into danger?"

"Although Ningshanwei only has more than 5,000 people, they can at least hold off the Northern Yuan for a while!"

Hearing Wei Wu's question, Black Wolf's face turned bitter. He took a deep breath and said slowly:

"The news the court received came from Ningshan Guard. Upon learning that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in danger, Ningshan Guard immediately dispatched troops."

"Not only that, before Ningshan Guard sent out its troops, it also sent people to notify the neighboring guards and request them to send troops for support."

"However, the final result was that Ningshan Guard suffered heavy casualties. Even the two supporting garrisons were beaten by the Northern Yuan without any chance of fighting back!"

Now not only Wei Wu, but even Shen Lin and Zhang Hai were a little confused. This was the strength of three guards!

This attack by the Northern Yuan Dynasty was obviously not a large-scale invasion, otherwise it would be impossible for the imperial court to not receive any news at all.

From this we can see that the Northern Yuan Dynasty would not bring many troops, and no matter how powerful it was, it would not be able to defeat the three garrisons in a short time.

Just when Wei Wu was full of doubts and wanted to continue asking, Heilang opened his mouth and told him the reason.

"According to the news sent back by Ningshanwei, the main reason for their defeat was that the Northern Yuan Dynasty had firearms."

"After comparison, we discovered that the firearms they were holding were identical to the rifled flintlock rifles manufactured by the Institute of Science and Technology!"

Upon hearing this answer, Wei Wu's face became so gloomy that it looked as if water was about to drip out of it.

It is obvious why the Northern Yuan Dynasty possessed rifled flintlock rifles, but the real key is more than that.

It was not easy to master the technology of rifled flintlock rifles in such a short time, let alone equip an army with it.

If you want to equip the army in a short period of time, you can only rely on industry, which means that the Northern Yuan Dynasty has industrial machinery.

Of course, Wei Wu believed that the industrial machines in the hands of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were definitely not machine tools, because they did not have that ability.

Whether it is the system-produced industrial machine tool that Wei Wu brought out, or the local simplified version of the machine tool manufactured by Sun Chang.

None of these things could be handled by the people of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, as they had no relevant knowledge of electrical, mechanical and power conversion.

The principle of electric energy conversion alone is enough to make them full of questions, not to mention the principle of the motor.

Therefore, Wei Wu speculated that the Northern Yuan Dynasty not only had the drawings of rifled flintlock rifles, but also the drawings of steam engines.

Using steam engines instead of manpower, although not as efficient as industrial machine tools, is much faster than rubbing by hand.