Tuna was also shocked when he heard this question, and he knew that if he couldn't say one, two, three, four, the Great Khan might not make himself a scapegoat for this failed battle.

After Huang Taiji brutally disposed of Manggu Zigege, although the Eight Banners relatives and nobles appeared to be more and more respectful towards Huang Taiji on the surface, their trust in the Great Khan in private was significantly reduced.

If it was in the past, Tuna would not have worried that Huang Taiji's inquiry had another purpose, but today I will talk about it. Even if he had just saved the other party, at this moment he couldn't believe that the Great Khan would not blame himself for this credit, after all, since Tong Yang's death, the Wuzhen Chaoha army has been managed by him and Cao Zhenyan, Shi Tingzhu, and Ma Guangyuan.

The reason for today's defeat in this war is that it was lost in the artillery battle. The Ming people had nearly half less artillery than the Qing Dynasty, but they defeated the artillery positions set out by the Qing Dynasty, which controlled the situation on the battlefield and collapsed the siege troops of the Qing Dynasty.

In the past two years, the cost of the formation and training of the Wuzhen Chaoha troops has almost exhausted the deposits in the Qing treasury. If you really want to think about it, the paper money crisis that broke out in Shenyang was originally a desperate move by Fan Yongdou in order to solve the financial problems of the Qing Dynasty.

If you can't find a scapegoat, I'm afraid even Huang Taiji himself will be difficult to explain to everyone. Compared to the unity within the Eight Banners, what is it to wronged a slave like him.

Almost in an instant, after figuring out the Tao in it, Tuna hurriedly said for himself, "Back to the Great Khan, although the slave was ordered to take charge of the Wuzhen Chaoha Division, the training regulations of the Wuzhen Chaoha Army were still formulated by Chief Officer Tong during his lifetime, and the slave did not dare to violate it at all.

The reason why the artillery of the Ming army hit farther and faster than the artillery of our army was faster. The slave thought that the reason for this must be that the Ming people's cannon casting skills were more sophisticated.

The history of casting cannons in our country is less than ten years, and the craftsmen who can be called the experts in casting cannons are only Liu Han and a few others, these craftsmen are basically the ones who were submissive when our country invaded Jizhou, and they can be called experts in our country, but in the Ming Kingdom they are just a group of ordinary craftsmen.

Slaves in the past in the Ming Dynasty had heard that when Emperor Ming ascended the throne, he felt that the Ming Dynasty was not precise in the manufacture of ordnance, and the supervision of officials was up and down, resulting in the weapons of the military country were mostly inferior products that cut corners, so they successively set up the Ordnance Supervision and the General Staff Department to manage and supervise the construction of military equipment.

The Ordnance Supervisor not only recruited the world's skilled craftsmen, but also recruited many well-educated people who liked to study equipment, so since the establishment of the Ordnance Supervisor, the military equipment of the Ming Kingdom was the best in the Ordnance Supervisor.

For example, in the case of cannon casting, our craftsmen are now just imitating the original red-coated cannon purchased by the Ming Kingdom from Yangyi, and the performance is still inferior. However, before the minions returned to Shenyang, it was said that the state had already forged a cannon with the same performance as the original red-coated cannon. Today, it is clear that the performance of the cannon cast by the Ming people is one step further than that of the Yangyi.

What's more, casting cannons must not be refined iron, although China's self-produced refined iron is excellent, but the quantity is too small, and even if the Ming Kingdom imported ordinary iron ingots for making civil iron, the performance is not far from China's refined iron. It can be seen that the fine iron of the cast cannon used by the Ming Dynasty is bound to be much stronger than that of our country, so it can cast the cannon lightly and without losing its power.

The minions don't want to grow the prestige of the Ming people, but we Manchu people are far superior to these Ming people in terms of riding and archery and courage. But if we compare farming and workmanship with them, we are indeed far behind them..."

Huang Taiji suddenly interrupted him and said, "So according to you, is it wrong for Ben Khan to form the Wuzhen Chao Ha Army and test the skills of casting cannons with the Ming people?" ”

Although the Great Khan seemed to speak calmly when he asked this question, Tuna's forehead began to sweat uncontrollably, and he couldn't help blurting out in a hurry: "The minion doesn't see it that way."

When the slave was studying at the Ming Military Academy, he once heard Emperor Ming say: In the future, artillery is the key to determining the outcome of the war, and it is also the insurmountable gap between the civilized world and the barbarian nation. With the development of artillery casting technology, the barbarian peoples will forever become a folk legend to challenge the order of the civilized world by virtue of the mobility of horses and personal bravery..."

Tuna finally reacted, the habits he left behind when he studied in the Ming Military Academy often unconsciously substituted himself as a member of the civilized world, and now he and the Great Khan and others in front of him are the barbarian people in his mouth, isn't he looking for death if he is so open-mouthed.

Just when Tuna lowered his head and didn't dare to make a sound, and the sweat on his forehead and behind his ears kept flowing like a waterfall, Huang Taiji's attention finally diverted from him.

"Barbarian peoples? Civilized world! This Southern Dynasty boy is really very cunning, he wants to classify us Manchu people into a lower level of savages than Yidi, so as to make our status in the Central Plains unruly. Huang Taiji's tone was not very excited, but the expression on his face was a little distorted, and the surrounding Baylor ministers did not dare to answer his words at this time, so the scene maintained an eerie quiet, and only the rumbling of artillery and fighting from the battlefield in the distance could be heard.

After a while, Huang Taiji finally adjusted his bad mood, and then asked Tuna in a calm tone; “… Among my generals of the Qing Dynasty, you are the most familiar with the new tactics of the Ming Kingdom. Tell me, now that we want to capture Yingkou City, how do we start? ”

Tuna lowered his head and thought for a long time, before he said with some trepidation: "The minions are not very familiar with the artillery tactics of the Ming people, but the minions saw the Ming military artillery before, although the positions of their artillery are scattered, but once they are fired, they are always concentrated in one place to attack, so it looks very powerful and the results are expensive."

If our army wants to conquer Yingkou City, the first thing is to disperse the artillery fire of the Ming army first, and it must not be able to concentrate the use of artillery. From this point of view, it is probably not possible to attack all the way from the north, and it is necessary to cooperate with the north road to attack the city from the east and west sides of Yingkou City, so that the artillery of the Ming army cannot be concentrated on the road, and the power will naturally be weakened.

Although the range of our artillery is inferior to that of the Ming army's artillery, it is not completely inferior. At least, the firing range of our army's red-coated artillery is only inferior to a few heavy artillery pieces of the other side, and as for the other small cannons of the Ming army, they can still be suppressed.

The slave heard that in the past, Sun Bin helped Qi general Tian Ji win the king of Qi in a horse race, and the strategy used was: to use the king's lower donkey and his upper donkey, take the king's upper donkey and his middle donkey, and take the king's middle donkey and his lower donkey. If we use our strengths to avoid the enemy's shortcomings, our army's artillery will still be able to play some roles.

Since today's war, the range and power of the Ming army's artillery have been known to me, and now we continue to build several high platforms outside the city to pay attention to the movement of the Ming army's artillery in the city, our army's red-coated artillery is inconvenient to move, and the Ming army's is also not much lighter. As long as we keep an eye on the Ming army's few guns, our army's red-coated artillery can avoid its edge, concentrate on suppressing the Ming army's small artillery, and provide assistance to our army's siege troops..."

Tuna's rush and wit really made Huang Taiji really calm down. The loss of troops just now certainly made him angry for a while, but once he relieved this breath, he would not forget the defeat just now.

For Huang Taiji, what has happened is in the past, and no matter how sad and angry he is, it is impossible to start over this day. Rather than remembering the losses suffered by the army just now, it would be more meaningful to think about how to deal with this group of Ming troops.

When he thought about it so seriously, he felt that Tuna's idea was actually somewhat useful, but the plan was still a bit crude and had many loopholes. However, Tuna was able to come up with such an idea in a short period of time, which was already a good talent in the Eight Banners, and it also temporarily eased Huang Taiji's anger towards several competent generals of the Wuzhen Chao Kazakhstan Army.

After thinking about it for a while, Huang Taiji finally let Tuna go, and asked the Baylor generals around him, "What do you think of Tuna's statement?" ”

These Baylor generals obviously did not think that what Tuna said was a good idea, and the artillery fire of the Ming army today had almost really frightened them. asked them to continue to attack the city under the fire of the Ming army, and their first reaction was that they couldn't go.

After all, more than half of these Baylor generals grew up after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, and they did not experience the various difficulties and unfavorable battles of unifying the Jurchen tribes before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

When they began to enter the army, it was the period when the Later Jin swept through the various ethnic groups in Liaodong with a devastating force. Although they didn't think it themselves, in fact, these Manchu Baylor generals were quite similar to the previous Ming generals.

After a dozen tailwind battles, the bravery they showed was quite impressive. But when they encountered this kind of scene, they began to hesitate. After all, using flesh and blood to hit the shells of the Ming army is obviously a lifeless ending.

Since the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, the life of the Jurchen upper class has been much better than hunting animals and digging ginseng in the deep mountains and old forests. In order to retain their power, they are not averse to waging war. But that doesn't mean they're willing to risk their lives.

You must know that before the Ming Dynasty's pox method was introduced to Liaodong, the Jurchens refused to go south to fight in the spring and summer for fear of contracting smallpox from contact with the southerners. It can be seen that the bravery of the Jurchens is not so full of real gold, and they will still choose to escape from some enemies that cannot be defeated.

The artillery of the Ming army is an inexplicable existence in the eyes of these Jurchen magnates, although they were also afraid of the artillery of the Ming army in the past, but they knew that this kind of artillery fired slowly and could not catch up with fast-moving targets, so there was still a trick to break.

But today's battle of the Ming army completely blinded them. The Ming army uncharacteristically placed the artillery behind the city wall, making it difficult for them to observe the firing targets of the Ming artillery, and the way the Ming army now uses artillery is very difficult to figure out.

In the past, the purpose of the Ming army's use of artillery was, first, to destroy siege equipment; second, to deter the enemy from approaching the city wall; The third is to shoot the generals in the army. Even the small soldiers of the Qing army knew that as long as they ran to the bottom of the city wall, the artillery of the Ming army lost its power, and the next thing was a regular siege battle, as long as one of them climbed the top of the city, the timid Ming army scattered in all directions.

Because of this, although the soldiers of the Qing army were afraid of the artillery of the Ming people, they were not afraid of the Ming army, and as long as they found an opportunity, they could still move forward bravely.

But today, the purpose of these Ming troops, their use of artillery is not to drive away the Qing soldiers who are besieging the city, but to kill more efficiently, this completely different purpose of use, so that the closer the Qing soldiers get to the city wall, the greater the chance of death.

In the face of such an enemy, before the emergence of a truly reliable method of suppressing the enemy's artillery, no one is willing to be an experiment, and after trying to disperse the Ming artillery, there will be a chance to attack the city.

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