In that year, in order to coerce the Manchu Qing Dynasty to go to the emperor to claim the title of minister, not long after the destruction of the Persian Empire in the Manchu Dynasty, he sent an army of 20,000 Ming army iron cavalry to enter the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Dolgon led tens of thousands of Manchu Eight Banners to fight, although in the end it seemed to be invincible, but still in the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he had to go to the emperor to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and became a nominal vassal of the Ming Dynasty. 2

In that engagement, the Ming army used a newly developed strike rifle, which gave Dorgon the opportunity to obtain the rifles of the Ming soldiers killed in battle, as well as some unused bullets.

Da Ming's rifles and bullets shocked Dolgon, especially the bullets, the bullet with a primer is not only fast on the ejection, not afraid of rain, the power and range are also extremely amazing, Dolgon knows that if you want to defeat Da Ming, you must first crack Da Ming's firearm technology, so that Da Qing also has such technology.

As for the Grand Open Fire weapon technology, Dolgon believes that the main part is the primer part of the bullet case, the firing pin hits the bottom of the bullet case to shoot the bullet out, as long as you understand this technology, it can be used not only on guns, but even on cannons.

Having experienced the power of the artillery of the Ming army, Dolgon knew that if the cannonballs of the cannon were also used with this technology, the power of the cannon would increase several times.

From that time on, Dolgon frantically ordered the Qing Dynasty's Fire Gas Manufacturing Bureau in Isfahan to copy such technology.

I thought that there were finished bullets and rifles to refer to, and the technology should not be difficult, and it would definitely be able to be developed in two or three years, but unfortunately the primer technology may not be difficult, just a layer of window paper, if you find a way, you will break it when you poke it. But after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only had a small group of Han craftsmen who came from the Ming Dynasty when they moved westward, and it was not easy to rely on such a few people to understand the technology that had advanced the world for two hundred years.

This research and imitation is a full fifteen years.

And the reason why the research was successful was because of Dolgon's bloody coercion and a lot of luck in it.

It wasn't until more than a year ago that an old craftsman whose family had been killed more than half of his family broke the layer of window paper that had been studied for fifteen years in an accident, and finally the Manchu Qing began to have the 'primer' technique.

Dolgon was overjoyed, and gave the craftsman a thousand taels of gold and the title of viscount.

This may seem like a great reward, and it can attract the envy of many, but the craftsman has already killed more than half of his family, and he can be happy with those so-called rewards?

Whatever the craftsman's thoughts, all in all, Dorgon was pleased.

Dolgon ordered the use of this primer technique, imitating the construction of the Ming rifle and bullet, and imitating the new rifle and cannon.

Imitation did not have much technology, and it was always much shorter than the real research time, and soon the Manchu Firearms Bureau copied it, and began to put it into large-scale secret production, along with bullets and shells.

However, Dolgon's joy did not last long, because the primer technique was used to imitate the bullets and shells of the Ming Dynasty, using copper!

Copper may not be so valuable for the mining and forging technology of the Ming Dynasty, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is relatively primitive in technology, it is indeed a fatal existence, even if the Manchu Qing annexed the rich India and obtained India's resources, but the consumption of a battle can still make the Manchu Qing bleed.

Although it was expensive, Dolgon, who had seen the power of the Ming guns, gritted his teeth and ordered mass production to continue.

Now, the Manchu Firearms Bureau has been producing for more than half a year, and the first batch of guns is almost in number.

The gun is an imitation of the first generation of the Ming Dynasty single breech blaster, and the cannon is technically improved from the imitation of the Ming Shenwu field cannon, similar to the Ming Dynasty's first generation of strike cannon Shenwei cannon, but technically it is far worse than the Ming Shenwei cannon.

In addition, the Manchu Qing did have the technology of primer, but they still had not been able to develop the new high gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty, and the gunpowder in bullets and shells was still less powerful black powder.

Therefore, the Manchu imitation rifle, even if it increased its weight, crude technology and black powder, the effective range only exceeded 150 meters, only a little farther than the flint, and the reload was faster than the flint.

In terms of cannons, the Manchu imitation Shenwei cannon also only increased some shots, and after the weight of the cannon also increased, the firing range was just over 2,600 meters, and the power of about one was equivalent to three imitation Shenwu cannons.

It can be said that this new gun may be able to improve the strength of many Manchu musket teams, but the cost of each major battle is also several times higher, and it is impossible for Dolgon to use it on a large scale, and it can only be used as a secret weapon.

The first batch of new imitations was about 15,000 rifles and 100 cannons.

Dolgon intended to tear through Damascus' defenses at once with the sudden blow of this new gun, which was a secret weapon, and quickly defeated the Ottoman legions defending Damascus.

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Dorgon was silent for a moment, his brow furrowed, as if he was still bothered.

The reason is that Dolgon felt that the investment of this batch of secret weapons alone would not necessarily allow the Qing army to invade Damascus and win the battle of Damascus, at most it would only increase the Qing army's original chances of victory by two percent.

Dorgon wanted to have a better chance of winning, even a hundred percent chance, so he needed another plan.

Dorgon remained silent for two hours, and finally he came up with something that seemed feasible.

Dolgon thought of the Battle of Changping during the Warring States Period in the Central Plains, Lian Po, Zhao Kuo, and Yuan Chonghuan, and he wanted to connect these things and these people.

The current commander of the Ottoman legion, Deniseri, is undoubtedly equivalent to Lianpo in the Battle of Changping, and it is precisely because of the presence of Deniseri that the Ottoman army cannot hold out, and Dolgon has been unable to seize the opportunity, even if he is ready to spend a lot of money to invest in that batch of powerful new guns and weapons, it has not been able to make him have much more chance of defeating the Ottoman army in a battle.

And if Deniseli's 'Lian Po' was replaced by 'Zhao Kuo', then the Qing army would not only be able to win, but also win at a much smaller cost.

"There is a great possibility, there is still a month to go, and it will definitely be successful!" Dolgon suddenly clenched his right fist tightly, a hint of sharpness flashed in his eyes, and he had slowly conceived a 'poison plan'!

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