The exchange between Austria and the Manchu Qing Dynasty allowed Austria to lead European countries in developing new gunpowder and then obtaining primer technology, successfully manufacturing new guns, which changed the quality of the Austrian army and multiplied its combat effectiveness, and finally stirred up the European big 6 extremely 'lively', Austria seized the northern part of the Italian peninsula and rose in one fell swoop, becoming one of the most powerful countries recognized by the European big 6. Heavenly sound.' ⒉

On the Manchu side, it was calm after all.

However, after the exchange of new gunpowder technology from Austria, the Manchu Qing also produced bullets and shells filled with new gunpowder in large quantities, and the Manchu rifle army also got a qualitative change.

The rifles used by the soldiers of the Manchu rifle team were originally made by imitating the first generation of rifles of the Ming Dynasty, although they were not more advanced than the original rifles of the Ming Dynasty, but they were not very bad, and the lethality was only less than 200 meters, but because they only developed the primer, and did not develop a new type of high gunpowder, and the bullets used were filled with black powder.

Now, with the addition of new gunpowder, the power of the imitation rifles of the Qing Army's rifle corps has been demonstrated at once, and the lethal range has reached about 350 meters in one fell swoop, and the power has increased exponentially.

The same is true for cannons, which have been replaced with new gunpowder shells that have nearly doubled their range and more than doubled their power.

The qualitative change in the performance of guns and artillery has multiplied the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's rifle corps.

"Hahahaha, my Daqing finally has some strength to resist Daming with these two weapons!" Dorgon was overjoyed.

Before this, Da Ming had always been a big mountain pressing on Daqing's head, so heavy that Daqing was out of breath, unable to move, and seemed to be crushed to death at any time.

It is because the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is too weak compared to the Ming army. And this, because the weapons of the Qing army are far behind the Ming army, the Ming army has advanced guns, and the Qing Dynasty wants to compete with the Ming army, at least it must have weapons with similar performance as the Ming army.

For more than 20 years, in order to have weapons with similar performance as the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty invested a lot of money every year and researched at all costs, and finally developed one of the two cores of the Ming guns and guns a few years ago, the 'primer', and took a step towards the ultimate goal.

I thought that the primer had been developed, and the new high gunpowder would not be able to be developed for a long time, but I didn't expect that after several years, the new high gunpowder still could not be developed, and the Ming Dynasty's all-out attack on the Qing Dynasty might be just around the corner, and the Qing Dynasty had no time at all.

At such an urgent time, Austria brought the new gunpowder technology they developed to exchange the primer technology possessed by the Qing Dynasty with the Qing Dynasty, which instantly solved the urgent need of the Qing Dynasty.

In half a year, the Manchu Qing produced 40,000 imitation rifles and hundreds of field artillery.

Today, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has nearly 2 million troops, of which 160,000 flint soldiers and 50,000 rifle dragon soldiers have been armed, for a total of 210,000 hot-armed troops.

These are not enough, and the military strength of the Qing Dynasty must be stronger.

Relying on the tens of thousands of imitation rifles that were urgently produced, Dorgon finally began to reload the Eight Banners.

In the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon ordered the Manchurian Eight Banners to completely abandon bows and arrows and replace them with imitation rifles.

The Qing Dynasty is full of eight banners, is the Ming Dynasty Wanli period, the rise of the Qing Dynasty fundamental, the Qing Dynasty relies on the eight banners of the horse archery to fight the world, it can be said that the horse archery is the faith of the eight banners, it is precisely because of the spirit of not afraid of death and superb cavalry shooting, the eight banners played the prestige of the world's first cavalry, at least before the westward migration, all the soldiers of the eight banners are proud of their superb cavalry and archery.

However, in the first battle of Xuzhou, the Ming army's northern expedition defeated the Eight Banners twice, and countless Eight Banners soldiers died under the guns of the Ming army.

Under the intensive artillery fire of the Ming army, the Eight Banners, known as the first cavalry in the world, were like slaughtered lambs, and they had little power to fight back, and the pride of the Eight Banners was suddenly knocked to the bottom.

Under the powerful thermal weapons, the Eight Banners, which are famous for their fierce and fearless death, have fallen behind, and the Eight Banners seem to have only one left, and the so-called riding and archery has become a joke in front of the Ming army.

In the face of the Ming army, the Eight Banners can only change, and only in this way can they have the opportunity to shame the shame brought by the Ming Army to the Eight Banners.

And the change is today.

The Manchurian Eight Banners Battalion began with the two white flags under the direct command of Dolgon, and the Manchurians of the two white flags reluctantly threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, replaced them with imitation rifles, and received bullets.

Dorgon stood in front of more than 40,000 taels of white-flaged soldiers, scanning them.

"The warriors of the two white flags, although they gave up the bow and arrow, but this does not mean that the riding and archery is not the pride of the two white flags, in terms of horsemanship, you are still the strongest cavalry in the world, and the 'shooting' is just changed to shooting with a rifle, you are still the most accurate cavalry, you will still rely on the invincible 'horse archery' in the world to defeat all enemies, and your enemy is 'Da Ming', it is Da Ming who has brought you unforgettable shame and humiliation, the glory of the Eight Banners, need the blood of Da Ming to reshape!" Dorgon spoke loudly, encouraging the soldiers of the Eight Banners to abandon their bows and arrows in favor of rifles.

"Defeat the Ming Dynasty, wash the Ming Dynasty in blood, and reshape the glorious ---------- of the Eight Banners" The Manchurians of the two hundred banners heard Dolgon's encouragement and roared in unison, murderous.

Immediately, the cavalry of the full eight banners with two white flags began to be the first to ride and shoot with guns.

After the first batch of the two white flags were redressed, as more imitation rifles were produced, all the Manchurian Eight Banners gradually began to be equipped with imitation rifles, from the original cold weapon cavalry, into a hot weapon cavalry armed with rifles, and the combat effectiveness was greatly enhanced.

In addition to reloading the Eight Banners with rifles and equipping them with field artillery.

Dolgon also ordered the Great Qing Fire Gas Manufacturing Bureau to imitate the Ming grenade!

As the first Qing Dynasty to see the power of Ming grenades, in addition to researching primer and new gunpowder, in the past 20 years, it has also imitated Ming grenades. Moreover, it was copied very early in the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that in recent years, the craftsmanship of the Qing Dynasty was relatively low, and the cost of grenades was more expensive than artillery shells, and the power of grenades was far inferior to artillery shells, so it has not been manufactured on a large scale.

Now that the new gunpowder has been developed, the manufacturing process of the Qing Dynasty has been honed for more than 20 years, and a certain breakthrough has been made recently, the cost of the grenade is much lower, but the power has multiplied because of the replacement and the new high gunpowder, which is already worth manufacturing in large quantities to equip the army.

Equipped with imitation rifles, imitation field artillery, and a certain number of grenades, the Qing Army's Manchurian Eight Banners and Rifle Corps, at least on the surface, in terms of equipment, seems to be almost the same as the army of the Ming Dynasty twenty years ago.

More than a year has passed, and Dolgon has almost exhausted the current national strength of the Qing Dynasty, ordering the Qing Firearms Manufacturing Bureau to manufacture rifles and cannons day and night at all costs, and finally gradually complete the refitting of the Manchu Eight Banners, which have a total of 170,000.

Counting the 50,000 Dragon Breaker Army, the number of troops armed with imitation rifles in the Qing Dynasty has reached 220,000.

However, the strength of these 220,000 troops armed with powerful imitation rifles and cannons alone was obviously not enough to resist the large-scale attack of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Dolgon did not hesitate and continued to equip more rifle corps.

Although the Manchus did not have more soldiers due to population restrictions, there were still more Indians, Persians, Ottomans and so on under the command of the Qing Dynasty.

Originally, Dolgon could only tolerate the Indians, Persians, Ottomans and other flintlock armies with backward equipment.

However, now with the passage of time, the pressure brought by the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty is increasing, and the military strength of the Qing Dynasty must be further expanded, and only equipped with more advanced rifle armies.

In the same way, Dolgon's trust was in the untouchables of India, who would hardly resist him, followed by the Persians and Ottomans.

Dolgon finally decided to devote his national strength to equip as much as possible with 200,000 Indian Flag Rifle Army, 60,000 Persian Flag Rifle Army, and 40,000 Ottoman Flag Rifle Army, so that after adding the Eight Banners and Breaking the Dragon Army, the total number of troops equipped with advanced rifles and cannons in the Qing Dynasty reached 520,000, which was about the same as the number of Ming troops that the Ming Dynasty might attack the Qing Dynasty in an all-round way.

As the Qing Dynasty was equipped with more and more advanced rifle armies, the self-confidence in Dolgon's eyes began to recover little by little.

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