Daming finally sent troops, 800,000 troops with 500,000 captives out in three ways, such a big movement even a blind person can know, not to mention that Huang Taiji is not blind at all, Jinyiwei has planted countless secret agents in the grassland, why didn't he plant countless secret agents in the Central Plains, everyone is yellow-skinned, black-haired, black-eyed, and speaks Chinese, as long as you don't run to the enemy and shout loudly that I am a spy, I can generally hide it.

800,000 troops pressed the border, Huang Taiji not only did not panic, but felt very excited, he has been looking forward to the little emperor can come to the grassland and fight with him, not to say that the army in any way into the grassland he welcomes, in fact, there is a situation he is also afraid of, that is, the little emperor learned from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Tang Taizong, sent elite cavalry to beat his ass, if that is the case, he can't stand it.

Although the Ming army is not dominated by cavalry, but the cavalry of the first-class army and the second-class army add up to more than 200,000, if you send Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and other fierce generals to lead, go straight to his Khan court, and don't care about anything else, then he really has to cry, because his Manmeng cavalry adds up to only 200,000, and the equipment is a little worse than others, no matter how he fights, it will be a loss!

Fortunately, the little emperor did not do that, but attacked the grassland in the way he most wanted to see, he was not afraid of the Ming army, nor was he afraid of the Ming army attacking the three grasslands at the same time, the more people came, the better, the more roads they divided, the faster the collapse of the more people, the more roads they divided, the easier it was to be broken by his superior forces.

The words show that the army is all muskets and artillery, and cold weapons are no different from delivering food in front of them, why is Huang Taiji still so confident? Isn't it enough that he has suffered losses in Liaodong?

Of course, this Huang Taiji knows that he also has hole cards, because he secretly learned the technology of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army is different from the peasant rebel army, the peasant rebel army is running around, fooling around, never thinking about developing the military industry, nor thinking about manufacturing advanced equipment, the Qing army is an organized and disciplined regularized army, the former Houjin and the current Manchu Qing also have the Ministry of Industry, what weapons can defeat the enemy on the battlefield, they will go in that direction to study, to develop.

This is not nonsense, in history, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, Chongzhen four years (AD 1631) after Jin studied the manufacturing method of the Hongyi cannon, at least in artillery technology is not worse than the Ming Dynasty, and even at that time the whole world was in the forefront, if it continues to develop, there may be a Manchu figure among the powers.

However, the Ming Dynasty's shoddy production of gunpowder weapons caused a typical negative teaching material, the Ming army with thermal weapons was even inferior to the cavalry of the Mongol tribes surrendered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then compared with the national strength and combat power of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army that developed thermal weapons could not catch up with the Mongolian iron cavalry across Europe and Asia, this strong contrast made the Manchu gradually give up the development of gunpowder weapons, and instead attach importance to cold weapon warfare.

To make a simple analogy, if an aircraft carrier breaks anchor at every turn, the engine breaks down for a while, the nuclear reactor leaks again, and the fighter planes on board fall into the sea as soon as they land, or they crash into a hole in the deck as soon as they land, or even the crew on the deck is killed and injured heavily, then what country dares to develop an aircraft carrier, and isn't such an aircraft carrier pulled to the battlefield to help the enemy!

For reasons of the practicality of the battlefield, the Manchus gave up the development of gunpowder weapons in history, and who will do the thankless work! For the same reason, Huang Taiji in the Chongzheng Dynasty attached great importance to the development of gunpowder weapons, because the Ming army was too fierce after being equipped with gunpowder weapons, and he couldn't find the north in Liaodong.

Like now, Huang Taiji has also established a military factory in the hidden place of the Chahar grassland, the scale and layout are even the same as Wang Gong's factory, and there are even simple lathes and milling machines and other machine tools and equipment! These are all bought by him at a great price from the bad dealers of the Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming Dynasty has not implemented a technical blockade on the people, and the private processing workshops can still buy simple lathes and milling machines and other equipment in the Ministry of Industry, but there is no military sophistication, and there is no military power.

To put it bluntly, steam power is a simple and common thing, almost everyone has boiled water, and they have seen steam, but they don't think about power, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty has actually mastered steam power technology now, but they don't have as many talents as the Ming Dynasty, and the development is relatively slow.

The technology of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a little worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the ordinary Type 24 flintlock guns, Type 317 howitzers and Type 417 howitzers can be mass-produced, and the Huang Taiji's Guards Corps is even equipped with a small number of Type 518 howitzers!

Of course, Huang Taiji has done a good job of keeping these things secret, from production to equipment to drills, he is extremely careful, like a thief, if he is not an orthodox disciple of the Eight Banners, he will not be equipped with gunpowder weapons at all, and he also strictly ordered these things to only be used during secret exercises, and they are not allowed to take them out at ordinary times, so the spies of Jinyiwei did not notice that the Qing army was already equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons.

He just wanted the little emperor Zhu Cijiong to give the Ming army a hand, thinking about the little emperor's surprised expression when he saw the Qing army equipped with the same gunpowder weapons, Huang Taiji was so happy, come on, come on, come quickly, don't think about going out again when you enter the prairie!

The Ming army did not come as fast as he imagined, according to the spies, the Ming army did not directly enter the three grasslands, and the three armies stopped at various entrances, and they were all doing the same thing, that is, building fortresses!

Huang Taiji didn't feel too surprised by this, the rout of the army due to the interception of grain and grass is not uncommon in history, and it is not a new thing, the little emperor wants to know this is an idiot, he thinks that Zhu Cijiong asked the three armies to build a fortress at the entrance where they passed through it is definitely to store grain and grass.

He didn't understand why the Ming army brought 500,000 prisoners, but now he finally understood, it was originally to build fortresses, but 500,000 people were used to build three fortresses, the little emperor was really extravagant, is 50,000 people enough, how to drop more money if people are stupid!

All the advantages of building a fortress for storing grain also have disadvantages, the advantage is that at least the grain and grass are not stacked in the open air, and it is more difficult for the enemy to come to intercept the grain, and the disadvantage is that the place where the grain is stored is there, and the enemy does not have to look for it, and if there is a hard attack regardless of the losses, the grain and grass will also be robbed.

After Huang Taiji analyzed, he was even more excited, the little emperor didn't know that he already had thousands of artillery, and he didn't have much to do to build a fortress before, but now, pull all the artillery over, and take it down in three times and two times.

In his opinion, the little emperor is a dead move, as long as the Ming army goes deep into the grassland, he will lead the army to cut off all the grain and grass in three places, and then the Ming army will definitely not attack itself, and this world will be the world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!