Xiong Tingbi listened to Yuan Keli s words and thought that there was some truth when it was not a battle between the two armies of Zhengda and Guangming, then there would be a virtual and real arrangement to hide his true intentions It turns out that you have been in the latest chapter. The latest chapter of this book is first published from the book river, generally speaking, if you show weakness to the enemy, then it is possible to lure the enemy deep and then beat him hard, if it is to show strength to the enemy, it is likely to be a bluff to cover up the essence of your own external strength and middle cadre'Real people from Tashan Fort to Songshan, Xingshan, Jinzhou and other places are stationed without disguise, it looks like a show of strength, but in fact it should be a bluff, indicating that there are not many soldiers in the Jinzhou area.

Xiong Tingbi, the overseer of the Northeast Military Region, had a good idea of the situation in western Liaoning, and sent back news from the Ming army's outpost fort outside the city of Yizhou that according to the number of patrols and the number of people, it was found that the Jurchens had increased their strength in Yizhou. If it weren't for the withdrawal of the small reconnaissance force that sneaked past Xiaolinghe, the Ming army would definitely have found that the Jurchens were stationed in Tashan, Songshan and other places, and the conclusion that the Jurchens were heavily armed with troops could be drawn from the analysis of the two phases.

If the Jurchens really want to attack from Ningyuan Pass, Xiong Tingbi is not panicked at all but has some expectations, more than two years ago, the Jurchens raised a large army under the leadership of Nurhachi to attack, and the result was in vain and returned the lost soldiers. Now the defenders of Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City are all elite soldiers who have been eliminated and selected, Wu Xiang's 7,000 elite cavalry plus Zu Dashou's 30,000 sailors and marine battalions can be withdrawn at any time to increase troops, not to mention that a lot of equipment has been added to defend the city in recent years, and there are still many retired people in Liaoxi who can go up if necessary, it can be said that if the Jurchens really want to attack, it will definitely be the result of disgrace.

But on the other hand, if the Jurchens are bluffing, it means that they are trying to do a lot of things, and Jinzhou is the place where they test their cannons, which can be described as an important place, and the Jurchens, after listening to the suggestions of Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and a group of traitors, added some Han and Mongols on the basis of the Jurchen Eight Banners, indicating that their troops are increasing and there is no concern about the lack of soldiers and major generals. Since there is no shortage of soldiers and no war with people, where does this Emperor Taiji concentrate people? Where is it more important than Jinzhou?

Xiong Tingbi's first thought was that the Ming army's plan to build Huining was known to Huang Taiji, and Jinzhou didn't want it, and he wanted to do his best to stop the construction of Huining City. Lu Xiangsheng and Man Gui each took 20,000 people to protect Huining Xiucheng, which was only a few dozen miles away from the border wall of the Ming army, and the Jurchens who did not have more than 50,000 troops did not want to curry favor, but it seemed unreasonable to send more than 50,000 troops to stop the Ming army from repairing the city in Huining, because Huining was not of such great value. Now it is still in the primitive form of barren slopes and barren grass, and the Jurchens really want to come all the way to stop the Ming army at most, you can't stay there and don't leave, brother, I love you Read the full text.

In contrast, the geographical location of Jinzhou is more protective value, what does it mean that the Jurchens do this? Could it be that he thought too much about it, and the Jurchens really stationed heavy troops in the Jinzhou area? It seems that I really have to fight a few shots to see how the Jurchens deal with it≤ Tingbi turned out to be a person with a personality who is anxious to do what he says, and after the defeat of the Liaodong army, his temperament changed greatly and he became silent, and now he wants to take revenge alone, and he naturally has a responsibility. He briefly discussed with Yuan Keli, and immediately called his soldiers to approach Songshan Fort again, preparing to engage the Jurchens a few times in the night, so that everyone could refresh themselves.

Xiong Tingbi first ordered people to stop the big ships in a slightly closer position to avoid running aground, and then put down a few small boats to let the soldiers quietly approach Songshan Fort to harass them, and at the same time let the Hongyi cannon muzzles on the chain ship face the seaside, ready to beat the pursuing enemy. Who knows that it didn't take long for some soldiers to come back and report that Songshan Fort looked brightly lit, but in fact, there were not many people inside, and less than two hundred Ming troops were discovered by the Jurchens after approaching Songshan Fort, and the other party just hid in the fort and fired arrows and did not come out. Later, the Ming army fired a Jurchen with a tiger squat cannon, but there was no movement, and the Ming army went in to see that the Jurchens had fled from behind.

After a while, the generals who led the team came back with the soldiers, saying that there were dozens of people living in Songshan Fort at most, but they made it look like there were hundreds or thousands of people inside, and the firewood and grass ashes in the stove everywhere were not old, it is estimated that the daily task of these Jurchens is to collect firewood and burn fires and pretend to be large troops≤ Tingbi was secretly amused in his heart after listening to the report, and said in his heart that this Jurchen probably didn't know that the Ming army, which had always loved to sneak around Jinzhou to find out the news, had withdrawn, and these pretentious efforts to reduce troops and increase the stove were for the Ming army scouts to see. If he hadn't led a team to harass him, I'm afraid they would all be busy in vain, like a throwing flattering eyes at the blind.

Yuan Keli suggested that he should go back and carefully investigate Xingshan, Tashan and other places, so several boats went back overnight and sent troops to reconnoiter near the place with small boats, but Xingshan and Tashan were as many people as Songshan Fort, and the Jurchens inside saw hundreds of Ming troops attacking with guns and cannons, and after a little resistance, they all ran back to Jinzhou. In this way, the sky was bright, Xiong Tingbi was happy, but Yuan Keli was not happy, because he had not done the test of firing the cannon, and in his heart he was angry, and he asked the boat to go to the mouth of the Xiaoling River, where there was no one close to Jinzhou.

When I went to harass Songshan Fort last night, I found the Jurchens, and I saw a Jurchen general riding a horse and pointing at the sea, as if after listening to the report of the soldiers who fled back, he followed the footprints to investigate and looked back and saw the latest chapter of love. Yuan Ke immediately saw that the opportunity could not be lost, immediately ordered people to open fire, under the fiddling of the artillery, the Hongyi cannon fired three cannons in a row, the sound of the cannon was deafening and very powerful, although the shells fired did not hit the people but frightened the horses, the Jurchens panicked and hurriedly turned around and fled.

Yuan Keli asked the gunner with pity: "What kind of cannon is it if you put three cannons and you don't even hurt anyone?" ”

The gunner said aggrievedly: "My lord, the cannon is not a one-time successful launch, and it must be slowly and carefully adjusted according to the impact point of the first launch." ”

Yuan Keli asked: "Why don't you adjust the orientation and fire a few more shots?" ”

The gunner said, "My lord, please see, the gun mounts connected to the iron plate are loose, and if we don't fix them properly, we may hurt ourselves, so we can't fire the guns now." ”

Xiong Tingbi came over and looked at it and said: "It's true that the cannon mount is not equipped well, no wonder they are, but I see that there is no major problem with the serial ship except for a slight shaking when the cannon is fired, it may be that the speed of the cannon is too fast and the ship has no time to shake big, or it is said that the force is all transmitted to the seawater≤ to say that the cannon on the serial ship is successful, congratulations, Lord Yuan." After saying that, he hugged his fists and saluted.

Yuan Keli bowed his hand and then said with a smile: "This is only one cannon installed, and there is no protective iron plate on both sides of the ship, I don't know if it can be done after loading two more cannons." ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "Eat one bite at a time, it's better than not being able to fire a cannon, speaking of which, I started to really Deng Dim Sum, I'm really afraid that as soon as I start the gunboat, it will capsize or simply fall apart, and now it seems that mine is redundant." ”

At this time, the soldiers around him said that there were people on the shore, and everyone looked up and saw a Jurchen riding a horse on the beach shouting loudly, Yuan Keli listened and heard: "It seems that he wants to say something to us, go to a boat and bring him over." ”

As soon as a small boat was put down here, the Jurchens on the shore began to shout loudly again, waving their hands as they called, waving and waving a large bow from their backs and continuing to swing. Yuan Keli said: "He doesn't seem to want us to send someone to pick him up, it seems that he wants to shoot something up and give it to us to let us dodge." ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "Even if he shoots two ingots of gold, it is impossible for us to stop the army, but unfortunately we can't fire the cannon now, otherwise we can answer him with a cannon, President, I am not your latest chapter." ”

The Jurchens did shoot with a bow but did not shoot the gold ingot, but only shot a letter, the sea is so far away from the ship, the Jurchens are sure to shoot the arrow to the boat, indicating that the Jurchens are the same as the Mongols, and their riding and archery skills are really two times] The soldiers took the letter on the arrow and gave it to Yuan Kelinian, it turned out that the Jurchens shot a letter of inquiry, in which the people of the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to faith, and the two sides negotiated several times and said that they would rest and not fight to maintain the status quo, but the Ming army first blew up horses in the Jinzhou area, and then attacked and burned Salhu, Now it is purely untrustworthy to come to Jinzhou to harass again, and let the Ming army abide by the agreement and maintain the status quo and retreat back.

Before Yuan Keli went to the Southeast Military Region, he had been presiding over the overall military and political situation in western Liaoning, and he knew a lot about the negotiation process with the Jurchens. In his reply, he succinctly pointed out that the result of the negotiations at that time was that the Jurchens did not invade the west of Ningyuan, and the Ming army did not invade the north of Mobei. He pointed out that if the Jurchens did not submit to the Ming Dynasty and were unwilling to retreat to Mobei, then according to the original agreement, that is, in the Liaodong land between Mobei and Ningyuan, everyone would use knives, guns and cannons to talk, and whoever had the biggest fist would be justified.

Xiong Tingbi also praised Yuan Keli's reply again and again after reading it, and asked a powerful archer to tie the reply to the arrow and throw it back, and the arrow shot back was not far behind the Jurchens, and the Jurchens couldn't help but nod secretly when they saw that there were people with such superb archery skills in the Ming army.

After returning to Juehua Island, Yuan Keli asked Shi Quan to find someone to fix the cannon mount again, and it is best to design several fixed schemes to test its safety and reliability.

At this time, Tianqi was discussing with Ni Yuanlu and others in the Military Affairs Yuan about splitting the original organization and forming a new department, and it turned out that all the armaments were made and stored by the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War, including cannons, muskets and other things. Later, Tianqi set up a military industry department in the Bo Academy to conduct armaments research, and set up an armaments department in the military affairs academy to let Ni Yuanlu be in charge, but the real specific manufacturing is still the old team of ♀ the original military department, and some people get the order to do it, and they feel that it doesn't matter much to do more, do less, do fast, and slow, and there is not much enthusiasm to do it, not to mention that there is no innovative spirit, Tianqi decided to make a radical change.