Li Zhi thought for a while and said: "According to the amount of our veterans who shoot a target once every three days and a hundred rounds a month, the gunpowder consumed by shooting a target in a month costs two taels of silver. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Hearing Li Zhi's calculation, all the generals were slightly moved. Two taels of silver a month is not a small number, and now the cost of raising a soldier is about six taels. An increase of two taels of silver per month increases the cost by one-third. In addition, Li Zhi recently raised the monthly salary for the workers and soldiers, and the financial pressure was very great.

Fortunately, Taiwan's paddy fields are about to be harvested, and when the late rice harvest in Hsinchu this year comes, Li Zhi can harvest a large sum of silver. This silver is enough to support Li Zhi to use new gunpowder.

In any case, it is more cost-effective to increase the combat effectiveness of soldiers. Increasing the individual soldier's ability on the battlefield by one-third can sometimes increase the overall combat power of the unit by half, or even more. Because the more elite soldiers are more sure to win in the face of the enemy.

For example, even ten children may not be able to beat a strong adult. Ten children together may be much stronger than one adult, but the strength is scattered and can easily be broken by each of the stronger adults.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Anyway, we will use this new type of gunpowder in the future." In the future, our firepower will be more intensive. ”

Several regiment commanders were full of excitement and eagerly looked at the new gunpowder in Li Zhi's hands.

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On the second day of the first day of November, at the Han Army Flag Exercise Ground in the south of the Manchu Dynasty, Huang Taiji led the Manchu Zhubeile and the brigade to arrive to observe the shooting training of the Han Army Flag.

A hundred Han soldiers dressed in double heavy armor walked to the firing position of the shooting range. They skillfully tested the arquebus, adjusted the position of the arquebus, and then took the black powder from the pot and loaded it into the fire door and chamber. They pulled out the strip and stuffed the round lead bullet into the chamber of the gun, then blew the fire rope and aimed it at the target seventy paces away.

As soon as the conch horn blew, a hundred arquebusiers opened fire. The sound of crackling gunfire resounded throughout the audience, and the target seventy paces away was smashed into sawdust.

Ten Han soldiers ran to the target and watched the results. Every time they saw a target, they planted a pennant next to the target. The ten Han soldiers looked at each other, and more than ninety small flags were erected next to the last hundred targets.

Huang Taiji nodded, turned his head to look at Kong Youde, the king of Gongshun, and asked, "How is the armament of the Han Army Banner now?" ”

Kong Youde knelt on the ground with a puff and said, "Back to the emperor, the fire guns of the Han army banner have all been built, and the chain mail and cotton armor have also been fully equipped. The army of 30,000 is ready to go. Just wait for the emperor's words, you can charge forward and defeat the enemy. ”

Huang Taiji asked, "How is the cannon made?" ”

Kong Youde knelt on the ground and said respectfully: "Back to the emperor, when Prince Su Haoge was in charge of the Han military banner, he had built thirty-seven small Hongyi cannons. These days, the ministers have stepped up to supervise the construction of craftsmen, and made 16 small cannons, and now there are 53 small cannons in the army. Even against Li Zhi's artillery, we can shoot at each other. ”

"The Jianwei gun of the Han army flag can shoot seventy steps. The double-layered heavy armor of the Han army banner soldiers, I am afraid that Li Zhi's firearms will also have to shoot at close range to penetrate. In this way, Li Zhi's firecrackers and our Han army flag were forced to shoot face to face. And the number of our Han army banners is more than Li Zhi's troops, plus the cavalry and shooting of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, if the battle is fought, it is expected to be a situation of victory and undefeated. ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "If it is against an ordinary Ming army, what can it do?" ”

Kong Youde said: "Emperor Shengming, if the Han army flag is against the ordinary Ming army, seventy steps away, you can kill the enemy once and kill a large number of Ming troops." I'm afraid that the Ming army has not touched the position of our army and has collapsed. Even if the Ming army is more vigorous and not defeated, when the Ming army rushes closer, the guns can also abandon their knives and fight with the Ming army. ”

"The Han soldiers of the Han Army Banner have been trained for two and a half years, and they have practiced once in three days. If it is against the border army of the Ming Army, it will not fall behind. Therefore, one soldier of the Han army flag can reach two soldiers of the Ming army, and 30,000 Han army flags are enough to fight against the 60,000 Ming army border army. ”

Hearing Kong Youde's words, the Manchu Baylors on the left hand side of Huang Taiji were all moved. Unexpectedly, 30,000 sheep-like Han people, after more than two years of training and military equipment, have now become a tiger and wolf army. Such a military horse, even against the Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers with the same number of people, I am afraid that they will not fall behind.

Zhu Beile glanced at each other, and there was some surprise and uneasiness in his eyes.

This Han Eight Banners are not subject to any Baylor moderation and belong directly to Huang Taiji. Although Huang Taiji was criticized by Zhu Beile for the failure of the national policy of entering the customs and plundering, but now that he has this Han army flag in his hand, his prestige may increase by a few points.

The Manchu Metropolitan Procuratorate participated in politics, and Zhang Cunren, a Hanchen who surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, now that I am riding like a cloud in the Qing Dynasty, plus Mongolian soldiers, and having the banner of the Han army, I have the strength to take the world, why do I need to defend Liaodong?" Now that the training of our Han military flag has been completed, we are taking this opportunity to wave our troops south and win the Central Plains. ”

Huang Taiji asked, "How to take the world?" ”

Zhang Cunren replied: "The minister has three strategies: upper, middle and lower, and he is willing to dedicate himself to the emperor." ”

"The best strategy is the art of piercing the heart. The emperor of the Ming State is mediocre, and the officials are corrupt, if the emperor sends soldiers to the Ming State Yanjing and divide Hebei, the big thing can be done. There are many people living in Yanjing in the Ming Kingdom, and they will not be able to defend the Tianjin Caoyun Grain Road and the Xishan Coal Road. ”

Hearing Zhang Cunren's words, Huang Taiji did not speak.

Zhang Cunren said: "The middle strategy is the technique of cutting the throat, Shanhaiguan is the throat between Beijing and Ningjin, and the cities outside the customs are in menopause, and they are at your fingertips." ”

Seeing that Huang Taiji still didn't speak, Zhang Cunren was a little frightened, and said: "The next strategy is the technique of pruning, garrisoning Guangning, forcing Ningjin Gate, so that he cultivates and abandons himself, gradually captures Jinning, and drives the Ming army back to Shanhaiguan." ”

Hearing Zhang Cunren's decision, Huang Taiji was slightly moved and nodded.

Huang Taiji said loudly: "Now that our army has completed its training, it can be worthy of a battle. Even if Li Zhi's whole army attacks, our Qing soldiers will not be left behind. I decided to attack Jinzhou in the Ming Kingdom, first conquer Jinzhou, and then go down to Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan, and go straight to Ningyuan. ”

The belles glanced at each other, and Dolgon stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Jinzhou is well defended, and I'm afraid that my army won't be able to take it for a while." ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Jinzhou is heavily defended, so I naturally don't expect to be able to go down in one go." Our army besieged Jinzhou, the Ming army will come to the rescue, our army in Jinzhou City for the encirclement point to send reinforcements, the Ming army to send reinforcements all the troops, this is the way to win. ”