"Charcoal" is Niu Lu Zhangjing under the command of Gongshun King Kong Youde, surnamed Cao, no one knows what his original name is, because he looks black, so everyone calls him Charcoal or Cao Charcoal.

He was originally from Liao, but later fled to Shandong with his family, and became a soldier under Kong Youde at the age of eighteen. At the beginning, he was a firecracker, and the Portuguese gunners invited by the Ming court from Haoao taught the use of turtledove's foot firecrackers. At that time, he was a young man, a quick learner, and had mastered the Portuguese arts. Hit human-sized targets from 100 paces away – and every shot!

However, this ability is not as valuable as a show in the eyes of the Ming Emperor, and he can't earn a few military salaries at all, and he is also angry with the people of Shandong (at that time, there were many Liaodong refugees who ran to Shandong, and they had no food and clothing, so they naturally did a lot of things like stealing chickens and dogs). When the troops rushed to the front line in eastern Liaodong and entered Wuqiao Town, Cangzhou, because of the lack of supplies, the Shandong people boycotted the market again, and a brother couldn't help but steal a chicken from Wang Xiangchun, an official who was at home. caused an incident, from stealing chickens to killing, and finally there was a mutiny! Charcoal also changed from the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to the anti-thief, and later floated to the sea to take refuge in the Dongyu, who had a deep blood feud with his family......

What he never expected was that everything he didn't get from the Great Tomorrow - land, silver, ladies, slaves and official positions, all got in the Tartar Emperor!

And the reason why the Tartar Emperor was so generous was because he valued his ability to fiddle with the fire gun. If anyone thinks that Dongyu relies on the skill of archers and horses to fight all over the world, it is very wrong.

In fact, from the beginning of the Mandate of Heaven Khan Nurhachi, the Eastern Prisoners attached great importance to firearms. From the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi ordered Han officials and Han craftsmen who surrendered to them to cast cannons. By the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven, the artillery team of the Houjin Army at that time was already complete and could go out with the army!

In the fourth year of Tiancong (1630), Houjin began to trial produce Hongyi cannons, and also cast one. After Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming led the musketeers and artillerymen trained by the Portuguese, and carried a large number of turtledove-foot firearms and Hongyi cannons to Houjin, Houjin's firearms troops were quite powerful.

If we do not consider the factors of Foshan's private iron industry and imports from Haoao, it is clear that the Qing (Houjin) side has a great advantage when comparing the firearms manufactured by the government-run handicraft industries of the Ming and Qing dynasties (Later Jin).

After all, under the strict supervision of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dolgon, it is rare to have a bore-chambered cannon or a bore-blown gun or anything - fooling them is to kill their heads!

The reason why Duolong and Geng Zhongming suffered losses in the battle of Dagukou was because they did not carry firecrackers (Geng Zhongming's department had firearms, but because of the heavy rain before, Geng Zhongming left the firecrackers in Yongping). Moreover, most of the firearms used by Zhu Cihong's new army were made in Haoao and Foshan, and they were by no means commonly used by the Ming army.

After the Battle of Dagukou, the Qing regent Dolgon attached more importance to firearms!

As soon as he entered Beijing, he immediately ordered people to search for craftsmen who could make guns and cast cannons, and let them be enslaved under the two white flags. At the same time, Dorgon also issued an order to the Korean kingdom to offer bird guns and send fire guns to Beijing to help in the war.

In addition, Dorgon also ordered the Han army of each banner to increase the number of musketeers as much as possible. Cao Charcoal also soared because of this decree and became Niu Lu Zhangjing, responsible for commanding and training 300 firecrackers of the Red Banner Han Army.

Now Cao Charcoal and Cao Zhangjing's motivation is even more sufficient! He is now a noble Eight Banners official! Don't you have to train hard for the prince of Dorgon in the spirit of being an official is a father?

After five months of rigorous training, the 300 Red Banner Han Army brothers under Cao Charcoal have all been trained! One hundred of them wielded turtledove-footed muskets, a hundred operated bird-to-bird guns, and a hundred made knives and cards to cover the musketeers. Not only are the two firecrackers skilled at loading and firing projectiles, but they are also skilled at working with the sword player.

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"No fire! No fire! Moving on......"

Cao Mutan shouted loudly at the top of his voice, urging the 300 soldiers under his command to form a somewhat loose three-column horizontal formation, and slowly pressed forward to the Dashun army, which was firing indiscriminately.

To the right of the three-column horizontal formation under his command, there was another three-column horizontal formation of the positive red flag. The two horizontal formations formed an identical queue. All of them are knives in the front, the heavy turtledove foot fire gun is in the center, and the bird gun is placed at the end. Among them, the swords and brand soldiers are all the clothed minions of the Han Army of the Red Banner, and the ones who hold the bird and turtledove foot fire guns are the Zhengding.

Because the musketeers of the Eight Banners did not have paper shell ammunition and used arquebuses that were easy to ignite gunpowder, the formation was not too dense. Two three-hundred-strong columns spread out in a large area, and from a distance it seemed a little chaotic.

However, their morale is extremely high, and they move forward without frowning in the face of the firepower of the Dashun army!

The Dashun army against them was not the elite of the old battalion, but the Ming army that Li Zicheng surrendered on his way to Beijing at the beginning of the year. After Li Zicheng returned to Taiyuan, he sorted them out, replaced unreliable generals, and incorporated a small number of old battalion soldiers as the backbone. In addition, they began to pay salaries on a monthly basis, and there was also a relatively sufficient supply of military rations.

But even so, their morale was still inferior to that of the Han army......

Because the Eight Banners Han Army is also the Eight Banners! Eight Banners should be treated, they all have it! There are a lot of real estate in Qitian, Qinu, Beijing Hukou and the inner city of Beijing!

And these benefits can be hereditary! The Qing Dynasty has their share, and the strength of the Eight Banners in the early Qing Dynasty is also guaranteed by the system!

As the Eight Banners Han Army approached step by step, the Pingxingguan garrison, which was already not highly moraled, had begun to waver - they didn't know that it was Tartar at first, and thought that it was the Ming army from Datong who was looking for trouble!

Because Kong Youde played a clever trick and deliberately advanced under the banner of the Ming army. In addition, the color of the Ming army's uniforms is mostly red, which is close to the color of the red flag. So the guards on the flat pass were fooled, and then they attacked in a daze.

As soon as I attacked, I realized that something was wrong!

It's the Tartars!

These Dashun troops who were transferred from the Ming army more or less have Tartar phobia, and they know that their opponents are Tartars, and their legs and stomachs are weak! So their firecrackers began to shoot indiscriminately - there weren't many firearms that could be used, most of them were three-eyed guns that could only be used within twenty paces. If you can really get close and fire, you may still have some power, but if you are far away, you can't hit anything at all!

However, as the enemy approached step by step, the group of Dashun soldiers had already seen the bird guns and turtledove foot fire guns carried by the Tartar soldiers in the back row.

The fire of the Tartar is powerful...... What can I do?

"Stop!"

Cao Charcoal roared. He was walking in front of the line of swordsmen, followed by a standard-bearer, holding a red military flag. Hearing his roar, the soldiers who raised the flag immediately shook the flagpole in their hands, and the soldiers who followed behind all stopped when they saw it. Cao Charcoal, on the other hand, moved to the left side of the horizontal formation with his standard-bearer's guards.

At the same time, without Cao Mutan's continued order, Dadan Zhangjing, who led the team, commanded the sword players to kneel on one knee to make room for the soldiers holding turtledove's foot firearms behind him to shoot. The second row of turtledove-footed musketeers laid the ammunition on the rams, set them on the stands, and aimed at the enemy who had begun to disorganize.

"Fat!"

Cao Mutan, who had just been in place, roared again, and the flag-bearers around him lowered the red flag at the same time, and then there was a roar of fire, and the officers and soldiers of Dashun thirty or forty steps away immediately fell to the ground.

Without waiting for them to reorganize the queue, the middle and rear two rows of firecrackers under Cao Muchar completed the alternation, and the bird-fired soldiers went up to the second column.

"Fat!" Cao Charcoal ordered again, and then there was another roar of fire, and the smoke was filled!

The Dashun army, which had been subjected to two salvos in a row, had fallen into chaos, and seeing that the time was ripe, Cao Mutan ordered loudly: "Sword and card hand up!" Bird hand, on the knife! ”