"If you want to fight, you can fight down, what don't you call it if you don't fight too seriously?" Dodor spoke again. Although Azigo was the eldest brother of Dord, the arrogant Dordor did not take this big brother too seriously; And Azigo was also a hard-tempered man, and although he had the intention of protecting his own brother, he was unwilling to ask him to approve of Duoduo against his will. In addition, Azige is not meticulous enough to do things, often leaving loopholes for others to catch, and often involves the other two brothers, and then Huang Taiji deliberately provokes it, and the relationship between the three brothers is not particularly good.

"Your Majesty, if the situation is now decisive." Fan Wencheng, who had been silent, spoke, said, "Although Li Zicheng occupies Beijing, he has no luck and will stay in Beijing for a short time. However, the minion estimated that he should have grabbed a lot of money in the city of Beijing. If he can return to the Xiangyang area safely, relying on this money, he will have the opportunity to run Xiangyang well and put the hundreds of thousands of rabble in his hands in order. Li Zicheng's biggest problem has always been that there is no stable territory, there is no well-trained army, and now the Ming army is afraid that there is no ability to take the initiative to attack, if we give him time, he will learn from Ming Taizu again, so that he can cultivate and stabilize the fundamentals, but I am afraid that it will be a big disaster in the future. And if we can't take Shanhaiguan, although our dynasty can break through the side wall, it will be difficult to fight in the Ming Kingdom for a long time. And once the Shanhaiguan Pass is taken, our dynasty will have the foundation to chase the Central Plains. Although the Southern Dynasties are in turmoil now, their human and financial resources are still several times that of our Dynasties, but their military strength is insufficient. If we can't take the opportunity to seize the Central Plains, if we wait for the Central Plains to be calmed down, I'm afraid I won't have much chance. As the saying goes, if God doesn't take it, it will be innocent. The emperor, the slave thought that Shanhaiguan must be taken and must be taken down. ”

Huang Taiji walked back and forth a few steps, then stood still, raised his head and said to everyone: "What Mr. Fan said is that I will rule the world in the Qing Dynasty, and I will be today!" Shanhaiguan is indeed not easy to fight, and it will cost a lot to fight down, but at such a critical time, it is not the time to be afraid of death! When the old Khan fought in the Hunhe River, wasn't the loss big? At that time, if we were afraid of losses and let go of those Zhejiang soldiers and white pole soldiers, and damaged the military prestige of our army, when the time came, it was not only those people who were afraid of death. Therefore, I have decided, this time I must knock down Shanhaiguan! I led the two yellow flags to approach Shanhaiguan head-on and contain Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan; Old Twelfth (Azeco) You take Old Fifteen (Duoduo) and Hauge, take your headquarters of soldiers and horses, break through the Qingshan Pass, and then make a detour to attack Shanhaiguan. Old Fourteen (Dorgon), you are the guard of the whole army. Sony, you immediately go and urge the artillery of Wuzhen Chaoha and King Sanshun, let them speed up, and they must rush to Shanhaiguan within ten days, otherwise they will be severely punished! ”

"Huh!" And they all fell to their knees and answered together.

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On the Shanhai Pass, Wu Sangui was watching the model army's artillery drills. The gunners of these Model Army were all from the Model Army fleet. This was not only because the fleet was not of much use in this battle, and therefore they had more and more surplus gunners there; It is also because the artillery provided by Zheng Sen to Wu Sangui for defending the city is the ship-based artillery that naval gunners are more familiar with. It includes eight 24-pounder guns captured from Spain and 12 twelve-pounder guns of the Zheng family's own type. Although these twelve-pounder guns are the same as the army's twelve-pounder field guns in terms of poundage, because they are naval guns, they do not need to be considered for maneuvering on the road, so they have longer barrels and heavier weights. Of course, with that comes greater range and power.

Generally speaking, during the drill, there will be no real shelling. This is first of all due to the fact that the life of artillery is quite limited, and in general, at that time, the service life of a good quality bronze cannon was only five or six hundred rounds. The Zheng family's guns used forged drill pipes and double barrel self-tightening technology, which should theoretically have a longer lifespan, but because these guns increased the charge in order to pursue greater power, resulting in higher chamber pressure, the service life of these guns was not only not extended, but slightly shortened. Secondly, shells for gunpowder and pig iron are also not cheap. Therefore, in peacetime exercises, even model troops with abundant military spending will not casually shoot live ammunition.

The first few rounds of the drill were also just simulated drills. The artillerymen of the Model Army methodically followed the regulations, first cleared the chamber, then stuffed a cotton cloth bag with a rope simulating a medicine bag into the gun chamber, then pushed it into place with a push rod, then loaded a solid shell with a rope, compacted it with a push rod, then adjusted the angle of the gun, aimed at the target, simulated firing, and then used the rope to pull out the training bullet and the training medicine bag in turn, and then cleared the chamber, and then reset the gun: one round of drills was completed.

Wu Sangui stood quietly watching the artillery drills of these model armies, and estimated the speed of these model artillerymen's drills. Wu Sangui has noticed that the Zheng family's artillery is equipped with more than twice the number of gunners for each cannon than himself, and now look at their drills, these extra manpower is really not in vain, the speed of their artillery is indeed far more than the artillery under their own hands, if you just look at the speed of the artillery, I am afraid that the time for their gunners to shoot one cannon, these guys can shoot four or five cannons. At the same time, he also noticed that the Zheng family's gunners were different from his own subordinates during the exercise. That is, the Zheng family's artillery is Jiangfa. Shoot. The packet is pushed directly into the chamber of the gun inside the cotton bag, rather than pouring the bulk of gunpowder into the chamber. Wu Sangui, like other generals in the Guanning Army, attached great importance to the role of firearms, especially artillery. So he still has some idea of how to use artillery. If you put gunpowder in a cotton bag and stuff it directly into it and ignite it, it will save time when loading, but it will leave a lot of burnt residue in the gun chamber, and it will be very troublesome to clean the gun when the time comes. And when watching them practice, the speed of clearing the chamber was very fast.

Wu Sangui had dealt with the Zheng family's army more than once, and not long ago, his son Wu Yingxiong was in the barracks of the Model Army, where he witnessed how the Model Army relied on sharp artillery and iron cavalry to defeat the Shun Army in one fell swoop. Wu Sangui felt that this shouldn't be the laziness of these Zheng family's gunners, most likely because they really had some tricks.

In addition to training, this artillery drill actually had another role to cheer up the Guanning army defending the city. Therefore, at the end of the exercise, two rounds of live firing were included, in order to save gunpowder, shells and the life of the body, the two rounds of live firing were carried out by one gun, and the target of the shelling was a few shield carts placed more than 400 steps away from the city.

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