Therefore, when the Jin merchants were cornered by those southeastern merchants, they opened up a new financial route for themselves. This trade route starting from Zhangjiakou, Shanxi Province saved the Houjin army again and again. Take the price of grain in Houjin as an example, if it weren't for the blood transfusions of these traitorous merchants, not to mention the price of grain 25 taels and one stone, I am afraid that the price of 55 taels of silver and one stone would appear! At that time, it will not only be those Han people who will starve to death, but even the bannermen will starve to death in batches!

Let's take the battle of Juehua Island as an example, originally Juehua Island was very far away from the mainland, and the Jin army could not attack Juehua Island without a naval army. Therefore, the Ming army was relieved to use Juehua Island as the army's food storage place, and did not send a large army to guard it. But when the battle line advanced to the vicinity of Juehua Island, the sea, which had not frozen for decades, actually froze! Let the cavalry of the Houjin army rush directly to the island! Tens of thousands of people died and a large number of ships were burned! What a blessing from God!

Niu Mantun stood respectfully beside the tent. At this time, I heard someone in the camp say: "In short, this is what Old Khan meant!" In the face of the three lines of defense of the Ming army, we must be fast. Our 60,000 men crossed the Liao River directly and attacked Xiping Fort first. Then set up an ambush near Xiping Fort and defeat the reinforcements of the Ming army in the field! Finally, take Quang Ninh City. The flag owner has already spoken, this time it must be a vicious battle that is not inferior to the Hunhe! We need to be careful. But we still have to earn the future! Everyone knows that we are not good at farming at all, and the weather is not good, and the harvest is poor. This time, if we don't grab some more east

As soon as the words fell, a neat voice said, "Tsk! Then some of the officers rushed out. The soldiers were then reported in and came out to beckon Niu Mantun into the tent. Niu Mantun went in and immediately paid homage to Niu Lu Ezhen and told his origin.

Only then did Niu Mantun stand up. He lowered his head and swept the big tent, and there was only one person in Daxian, Niu Lu Ezhen. He took out a small bag of silver from his bosom and said, "This is what my eldest brother has sent me." He said that he was going to invite an adult to drink, but he couldn't come now, so he asked me to bring something over. ”

The soldiers brought Niu Mantun here and left, explaining a few words. This team also ignored Niu Mantun. The reason is very simple, in the army, the strong come first, and a recruit will ignore him. made Niu Mantun want to send out all the silver.

These white-armored bayalas are all composed of people who dare to fight with excellent martial arts selected from each cow record. When they go out into battle, they often wear two or three layers of heavy armor and carry heavy weapons.

Niu Mantun knew that such a team would be easy to achieve. But the casualties were also much worse. Niu Mantun, who had no choice, could only secretly smile bitterly, found a place to sleep, and waited for Ming to go on the expedition.

On the first day of April in the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi stipulated: 100 armored soldiers were sent for each oxen, and 10 people were Baibayala, carrying two cannons and three guns; Forty were Hongbayala, carrying ten cannons and twenty guns, of which ten men carried two shield carts and two water bottles; There were 50 men in the black battalion, carrying 10 cannons and 20 guns, of which 20 were carrying two shield carts.

After Nurhachi's death, Emperor Taiji, who succeeded to the throne, relied more heavily on firearms. He took the Manchu noble Tong Yang as the commander, and the Han people as soldiers to form an artillery battalion, and at the same time vigorously imitated the Hongyi cannon, and finally imitated the first Hongyi cannon of the Eight Banners in the first month of the fifth year of Tiancong. At this point, the Eight Banners Army possessed heavy artillery such as Hongyi cannons through incorporation and imitation, and created the tactics of the car battalion, and had the strength to defeat the Ming army's firearms battalion head-on under field conditions. And this strength will be reflected in the Battle of the Great Ling River in 1631. The Ming army thought that the firearms troops in Gancheng had completely fallen apart under internal corruption and external blows! From then on, the Ming army completely lost the ability to fight in the field with the Houjin army, and only dared to rely on the city for passive defense. The initiative of the war has completely changed hands!

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