It is almost certain that the first all-out southward march of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the near future will definitely be the largest and most tragic battle since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which will determine the fate of the Manchus and the Ming Dynasty, and will not allow defeat.

For this big battle that can decide the fate of the Ming Dynasty and ensure the victory of the war, Zhu Cihong did everything possible to prepare.

Zhu Cihong not only asked the household department to prepare money and food for the future war, but also ordered the Tai Hospital to immediately recruit hundreds of apprentices and teach them how to simply stop bleeding and treat sword wounds and other techniques.

This was very important in a great war, and it could save the lives of many soldiers.

Generally, a soldier who has been wounded once, after the injury is healed, will become more mature, more bloody, and the combat effectiveness will be stronger.

Zhu Cihong also drew a stretcher, noted the usage, and ordered the Ministry of Industry to prepare more than 5,000 sets of stretchers to be used when the war began. Not only that, after some thought, Zhu Cihong also wrote down some common sense on how to deal with wounds, especially the technique of suturing wounds.

No matter how unreasonable Zhu Cihong was, under the reluctance of the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, he sent eunuchs to supervise the experiments of the imperial doctors, found some trauma patients, and made a heavy promise that the trauma patients who were willing to participate in the experiment would not only be exempted from all medical expenses, but also receive a subsidy of twenty taels of silver no matter what the result was.

Although at the beginning, almost no one was willing to joke with the lives of their relatives and accept the wound suturing technology experiment of the Tai Hospital, but for the huge sum of 20 taels of silver, there will always be people who are willing to take risks, and even a few injured people who are suspected of self-harm and cut their calves came to the experiment.

The Tai Hospital received 50 trauma patients for experiments.

Under the supervision of the eunuchs sent by Zhu Cihong, the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital, with great reluctance, disinfected all the tools used in accordance with the description of the wound suturing technique, and under the supervision of the eunuchs sent by Zhu Cihong, sutured the wounds of the trauma patients who participated in the suturing experiment.

Fortunately, Huaxia Medicine has always had drugs such as anesthetic decoction, and the injured will not be unable to bear it because of severe pain, and the experiment went smoothly. After ten days of stitch removal, the doctors at the hospital were amazed at the healing of the wounds that had been stitched up.

Under the compulsion of Zhu Cihong, the wound suturing experiment was a complete success and began to be accepted by various trauma doctors. The hundreds of apprentices recruited by the hospital focused on learning techniques such as hemostatic medication and wound suturing.

In terms of the Firearms Bureau, Zhu Cihong recruited the director of the Firearms Bureau into the palace for questioning.

"Director Chen, to what extent has the field artillery been made, and can it reach the standard of artillery field warfare within a month?" This is what Zhu Cihong is most concerned about. Without the cooperation of artillery, Yinglong's army had shortcomings, and its combat effectiveness could not be brought into full play.

"Back to the emperor, several advances have been made in alloy steel, the Firearms Bureau has been able to reduce the weight of the cannon to 1,500 catties without reducing the range and power of the cannon, if the range and power are reduced by half, the weight of the cannon can be reduced to about 1,000 catties, the emperor's field artillery requirements are less than 700 catties, I am afraid it is impossible to do it within a month, and it is even difficult to do it within half a year." Chen Xin replied.

Although the alloy steel has undergone nearly 1,000 experiments, the ratio of various metals needs to be experimented, unless the luck is bursting, the most perfect ratio can be tested several times, but this is almost impossible, and the smelting technology can not keep up, in addition to the experimental alloy steel, the Firearms Bureau has to continue to improve the smelting technology.

Zhu Cihong sighed, he didn't blame Chen Xin, he also knew that with Daming's existing technology, it was not easy to achieve this step now, but he was too demanding.

"If you don't need to reduce the weight of the cannon, how powerful can the cannon be?" Zhu Cihong suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked.

"Back to the emperor, the Firearms Bureau tried to make a cannon weighing 5,000 catties half a month ago, and the range and power can reach nearly twice that of the red-coated cannon." Speaking of this cannon, Chen Xin was slightly proud, because this was made by him, and he dared to guarantee that it was definitely the longest-range and most powerful cannon in the world.

The red-clothed cannon was the most advanced artillery that the Fan people introduced to the Ming Dynasty back then, although the Ming Dynasty could soon be imitated, or Chen Xin participated in the imitation, and the range and power were also improved, but in the end this is the stuff of the Western Fanren, the Ming Dynasty is the upper state of the Heavenly Empire, and it is necessary to imitate the cannon of the Western Fanren, which makes Chen Xin and other colleagues in the Firearms Bureau extremely uncomfortable.

And now Da Ming has created a cannon with a range and power that is more than twice that of the Fanren red-clothed cannon, and it is impossible for Fanren to do this at this moment, so Chen Xin is so proud.

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and made a decision.

"Chen Xin takes the order!"

Chen Xin immediately knelt down to receive the order.

"The Firearms Bureau has made meritorious contributions in the development of cannons, all craftsmen will be rewarded with three months' wages, and the director Chen Xin will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver!"

"Thank you, Emperor Longen." Chen Xin thanked him with great joy.

"After you go back, immediately step up your efforts to urge the Firearms Bureau to build 20 5,000-pound cannons, 20 1,500-pound cannons, and 40 1,000-pound cannons within three months, is there a problem?"

Chen Xin was a little embarrassed, a total of eighty cannons had to be built within three months, I am afraid it was a bit difficult, but the emperor had just given the reward, if he said no, wouldn't it make the emperor very disappointed, and finally Chen Xin gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Back to the emperor, there should be no problem for the Firearms Bureau to step up the system."

Chen Xin is not arrogant, he calculated very clearly, although it is a little difficult for the Firearms Bureau to build 80 cannons of three types within three months, it is not impossible to recruit workers to assist in some less important work, free up some old craftsmen, and work overtime.

"Good! If the craftsmen of the Firearms Bureau can make these eighty cannons on time, I will be rewarded afterwards! Zhu Cihong promised.

"Emperor Xie, the Firearms Bureau will not disappoint the emperor." Chen Xin assured solemnly.

Next, the Firearms Bureau went all out to rush to work, and the household department stepped up the allocation of money and food.

When Zhu Cihong prepared almost everything he could, the time had already reached March 2.

According to the news that the Qing army was still training vigorously and did not immediately move south, Zhu Cihong concluded that the Manchu Qing must be waiting for the arrival of the rainy season in May.

Zhu Cihong's face was a little gloomy, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had really carefully studied the weaknesses of Ying Longjun, which had to be guarded against.

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