In December of the sixth year of the Later Jin Tiancong, the Later Jin army was returned to various places, and this time they captured a total of nearly 30,000 scattered Mongolian people and 40,000 head of cattle in Chahar, which did not include the Chahar Taiji people who took refuge in the initiative.

They entered Xuanfu and plundered for more than half a month, and the Manchurian Eight Banners captured more than 21,000 Han people, 20,000 cattle, and killed 13,000 Han men.

Even the newly converted Chahar Mongol Taiji also made a fortune, and the Han people who robbed Xuanfu were the first reward given to them by Huang Taiji, and their source was still the people of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Huang Taiji expelled Lin Dan Khan, which was a great victory strategically, and the entire southern Mongolia of Mo was all subject to the Later Jin, and the nine northern sides of the Ming Dynasty were under the direct threat of the Later Jin.

The Later Jin army was tactically lackluster, and did not even fight a decent battle, it was basically an armed parade, and after entering the Xuanfu, it also relied on its reputation to frighten people. The benefits obtained were very rich, and the population of each ministry was nearly 70,000, of which 60,000 belonged to the Ten Banners of the Houjin Headquarters, which was another supplement to the manpower of Liaodong.

After returning to Liaodong, Huang Taiji gave the heavily lost Zhengbai Banner an extra 200 dings, all of which were captured Mongols, as well as a hundred newly surrendered fishskin tartars, but Dolgon still complained bitterly.

After Yue Tuo led the troops to rescue, the total number of troops in Fuzhou reached as many as six or seven thousand, and there were some coats, which needed to be supplied from Haizhou, after the winter snow fell, the carriages could no longer be used, and they could only use ice beds and climbing plows.

But at this point. In Motapu, only twenty miles north of Fuzhou City, it was suddenly attacked, and a Ming army in Jinzhou sneaked in in the middle of the night, quietly killed the sentry and opened the gate, and fifty or sixty Ming troops swarmed in. On that day, there happened to be a team of people and horses with red flags to escort grain and grass, and together with the local garrison of the Zhenglan Banner armor guarded the inner wooden fence, the Ming army withdrew before dawn, and the Zhenglan Banner lost more than 30 people. Nearly 100 horses were also stolen, and 50 ice beds and grain were burned in the fort.

There were many scattered attacks along the cover, and a large force of cavalry of the Ming army often appeared near the Pingyang River, and Yue Tuo's troops were not enough to attack Jinzhou. It was not enough to defend such a large area, so more scouts had to be sent eastward into the mountains to fight with the Golden State scouts. The garrison did not dare to reduce at all. After the Jin are each banner to take care of their own food, and the Ming army's guest army system is a virtue, the Ming army to transfer troops from other places, but also need to supply food from the original station, it is a very strange system, after the Liao incident, because the aid Liao people and horses stationed for too long. Only then did the Ministry of War change to a unified supply of Liaoyu.

Because of the long-distance transportation of grain, these three banners complained in the villages of Liaozhong, and other banners harvested a lot in Chahar and Xuanfu, of course they would not hand over all their property to the public school, and it was customary for the Houjin soldiers to hide the spoils of war privately, and even Huang Taiji could only turn a blind eye, and the other banners went to get rich, leaving this part of the soldiers and their families to fight a tough battle, and to paste grain, so naturally there would be opinions.

On the way, the grain and grass were escorted by the relay of the covered forts, and everyone did not want to escort the whole process. The Ming court's original military fort system in Liaodong was about ten li one fort and sixty li one post station, and Hou Jin Hui fù also made it according to ten li and one fort, and after encountering an attack, Hou Jin could only increase the garrison of each fort, and the men and horses of Fuzhou were diluted again.

Just so prepared, the grain transport team was still attacked again and again, and the situation of large forces of the Ming army attacking became less, and their activities were also restricted, the most was the mine, the kind of 10,000-bullet mine cannon that could lift a climbing plow into the sky, and by the way, it also knocked over a few cavalry around. The Ming army usually touched the official road at night, planted mines and covered them with snow, which was difficult to see on the surface.

This kind of trigger lightning damage is not shallow, after the Jin soldiers put each grain truck 20 steps apart, so as not to hurt many vehicles with a cannon, each time also send two or three coats to drive to the front, after the snow layer is getting thicker and thicker, the Jinzhou scouts in the wild survival slowly difficult, this is to stop, gradually withdraw to Jinzhou. At this time, it is also December, whether it is Jurchen, Mongolian, or Han people, everyone is going to celebrate the New Year.

On 20 December, Huang Taiji came to the artillery factory in the north of Shenyang, accompanied by Zilharang, Dolgon, Gao Hongzhong, Ma Guangyuan, Shi Tingzhu, and others.

The person directly responsible for casting the cannon is still the Ding Qiming who surrendered at the time of his own life, because the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery team is good in Dalinghe, and Ding Qiming has also been promoted to deputy general because of the cannon casting skills, and is currently one of the six Jia Lazhen under Wuzhen Chaoha.

After Ding Qiming knelt down, he led Huang Taiji into the courtyard where he had come at the beginning of last year, Huang Taiji turned a blind eye to the newly made several giant iron cannons on the left, walked straight to the right, and stood in front of the two small cannons with a little urgency.

Since the battle of Shenmi Island, Huang Taiji and others began to pay attention to Wendeng's armament, during the battle of Jisi, Wendeng's armament and the Ming army were not fundamentally different, but there were flintlock muskets, spear phalanxes and four-pounder cannons on Shinmi Island, array cavalry and short guns appeared in Jinzhou, mines and eight-pounder cannons appeared in Fuzhou, and even Huang Taiji sometimes muttered in his heart, what will happen in Dengzhou Town next time.

This endless stream of new weapons and new tactics brought a fear of the unknown to the upper echelons of the Houjin, which was why Huang Taiji was in such a hurry to send Li Yongfang to Denglai in person.

The craftsmen in charge of casting the cannon were still Wang Tianxiang and Jin Shixiang, and the two knelt on both sides of the bronze cannon. In the original history, both of them were later in the Han Army two yellow flags, and have their respective official positions, Wang Tianxiang was also transferred to the Jinzhou Artillery Factory after the fall of Jinzhou, through the Jinzhou Artillery Factory of Guòzu Dashou, cast the Manchu Qing Dynasty's own iron body copper core cannon Shenwei General, whose technical level far exceeds the current Tianyou Cheering General.

Zu Dashou never entered the customs before the death of the Ming Dynasty, and devoted himself to running Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and even put the most cutting-edge cannon foundry on the front line, and lost it to the Manchus with the army, which can also be regarded as one of Zu Dashou's contributions to the Manchus.

"Great Khan, look, these are the two small copper cannons, shoot three catties of cannons, use a three-wheeled gun carriage, with a gun carriage weighing nine hundred catties, originally there was no Wangdou, or the Great Khan reminded the minions, the minions went to the Tianyou Army, and the gunners of that Kong Youde suggested that they were added to Wangdou."

Huang Taiji gently touched the two bronze cannons with his hands, he looked back at Shi Tingzhu and nodded, motioning for him to come up and take a look.

Shi Tingzhu came over and looked around. Then he confessed again, ran dozens of steps away, turned his head to look at the cannon body, and only came back and knelt down towards Huang Taiji after half a sound.

"Back to the Great Khan. Our Daikin's cannon seems to be bigger. ”

Huang Taiji asked lightly: "How is it, you can talk about it." ”

Shi Tingzhu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, still quite nervous in his heart. He was defeated by dozens of Dengzhou soldiers in Fuzhou with Wuzhen Chaoha's soldiers, and has now become a joke in Houjin. Huang Taiji was furious. If it weren't for looking at the many people who surrendered this year and worrying that their hearts would be unstable, Shi Tingzhu would have been beheaded.

"The body of our bronze cannon is larger and longer than that of the Dengzhou soldiers. The wheels are smaller than those of Dengzhou. ”

Shi Tingzhu replied briefly, he can be regarded as the person who has seen the most four-pounder cannons in Houjin, and he has been on Shenmi Island and Fuzhou twice. Today, Huang Taiji also specially called him

Come and watch together.

"It seems that Nikan's barrel is not long. The minions themselves estimated that at about four feet, our cannon must be heavier than Dengzhou. Dolgon, who had come all the way, also nodded and said, he had seen many of the cannons in the white flag, but most of the people who could rush close were very nervous at the time, and Dolgon himself had not observed them carefully.

Dorgon touched the muzzle of the bronze cannon and said with a gloomy face. "The artillery of the Dengzhou soldiers will never exceed 700 catties, and I have seen their movement in Fuzhou City."

Ding Qiming was afraid that the masters would not be satisfied, so he respectfully explained: "This cannon is a pre-war mold in Fuzhou, if the master thinks the size, the back mold will be shorter." ”

Huang Taiji said calmly: "Vice General Ding let it go, it doesn't have to be exactly the same as the three-pound cannon of Wendeng, maybe these two are better, the cannon has been made, when can it be used for Wuzhen Chaoha?" ”

Ding Qiming was slightly relieved when he heard this, of course Huang Taiji couldn't say such a way as a real statistics, and they didn't have a real Wendeng small cannon to compare, this kind of imitation was more difficult than Zhitianyou to cheer the general, because the general had a dragon tail cannon for physical reference. This kind of small cannon is from the eyewitness description on the battlefield, and sometimes even contradicts itself, so that it can have six or seven points of image, which is already a good result.

Ding Qiming has been a cannon for two years, and now he is half an expert, just saying a few catties of artillery is far from being able to explain that a cannon is made, and how much ammunition is used to estimate carefully, he replied to Huang Taiji: "Slave Hui Khan, these two small cannons are things that I don't have in my big gold, and it is useless to attack the city, they are all used in the war, and the ammunition with medicine needs to be remeasured. ”

In fact, the amount of preparation and tactics used in a weapon all affect his effectiveness, and Ding Qiming still has a lot of things that have not been mentioned, Wendeng's four-pounder gun has taken more than half a year from the completion of trial production to service, and he will continue to improve the drill after arriving at the artillery team. Then, it is necessary to coordinate training with the infantry formation, adopt different tactics under different battlefield conditions, and achieve different tactical objectives. Its combat effectiveness is far more than a few guns, but a grassroots artillery system formed with a four-pounder gun as the core.

However, Ding Qiming can explain the cannon itself clearly, which is not bad at this time, even in Europe, artillery has just become a professional soldier, and it used to be directly used by craftsmen.

Huang Taiji heard him say that he was clear, and he was not in a hurry for the winter months, so he was relieved by Ding Qiming's kind words. Then he turned his head to Ma Guangyuan and said sternly: "Adjutant General Ma, this time I tried to produce two bronze cannons, one for Wu Zhenchaoha and one for each of my Zhenghuangqi Han soldiers, I hope you will keep in mind the lessons of Fuzhou." If there is any escape, all the family members will be enslaved. ”

Ma Guangyuan, like Ding Qiming, surrendered at the time of his own reign, used to be a general of Yongping, and now he is a deputy general of Houjin. He knelt down in response, and peeked at Shi Tingzhu. Shi Tingzhu shrank his head, he had been demoted, Huang Taiji originally intended to kill him, but now Tong Yang is seriously ill, and it is estimated that it will be a month or two at most, Huang Taiji does not want the force of Wuzhen Chaoha to be unstable, so he only demoted Shi Tingzhu to a guerrilla, and changed the elite soldier to Ma Guangyuan.

Huang Taiji finished looking at the artillery, led by Ding Qiming, into the north of the house, there are a few bird guns in it, the only difference is that they do not have arquebuses, but become a dragon head with flint, Huang Taiji looked relieved, the flintlock pistol was imitated at the beginning of the year, the advantage of this is that a few short guns were captured, and the flintlock machine and the long flintlock gun are the same.

There is still a lot of difficulty in the connecting parts and structure, no matter the size of the need to be burned red and shaped, and then some polishing, very time-consuming, iron is not the most difficult, the most difficult is the copper reed, the kinetic energy of the flintlock machine impact depends on this reed to store energy, Houjin is like a red cannon to recruit talents, recruited five locksmiths, after five months to make a suitable copper sheet, is now taking apprentices.

At the same time, there are dozens of craftsmen who have made bird guns, and Houjin began to make bird guns earlier than the original history. However, their imitation flintlock pistol is more complex than the bird gun, and there are many more parts on the dragon head alone, and it takes a long time to train a craftsman who can make a zuò flintlock pistol in the future.

Of course, Huang Taiji does not have that sense of standardization, the workshop has always been done separately, as long as it comes out and looks almost the same, he looked through the flintlock pistols, the flint is fixed to the dragon head with a bolt, this kind of bolt is not high-tech, in the tail of the chamber of the ordinary arquebus, it is sealed with a bolt.

Because the flintlock pistol has an energy storage structure, and the kinetic energy released at the moment of firing is very strong, the structural strength of the linkage is high, including the trigger and bolt materials.

Ding Qiming said in a low voice: "Great Khan, this kind of self-generated firebird is very difficult to make, at present, there are only about a dozen skilled craftsmen, and more than 40 firebird guns can be produced every month. ”

Huang Taiji nodded slightly, but did not give a clear answer to Ding Qiming, the bolt shell was also carved with patterns, which was obviously specially prepared for him by Ding Qiming. Huang Taiji didn't say anything, just motioned to Ma Guangyuan to test the shot, and under the surveillance of several Bayalas, the three elite soldiers of Wuzhen Chaoha picked up flintlock pistols and pulled the trigger on a row of wooden targets in the distance.

With two roars, two flintlock pistols were fired, and one man scrambled to pull the hammer again, but failed to fire it twice in a row.

All the Houjin nobles looked at the soldier, Ding Qiming's forehead was sweating, his hands and feet began to tremble, and the craftsmen of Wang Tianxiang behind him were already kneeling down in fright.

When he didn't know what to do, Gao Hongzhong next to him said in a calm tone: "I wish the Great Khan another sharp weapon, first the red cannon is out of the blue, the city is destroyed in the Daling River, and now there are self-generated fires and waves to defend the city. ”

Ding Qiming listened to him speak, and breathed a sigh of relief, Gao Hongzhong is also the Jiala Ezhen of Wuzhen Chaoha, and he was the first to advise him to enter the customs in his year, and he is also the undertaker of the Criminal Department, and he is a very high-status Han official in front of Huang Taiji. He opened his mouth and gave Ding Qiming the steps, but Ding Qiming still knelt down and pleaded guilty very interestingly.

This year, the Han soldiers have been suppressed badly enough, Huang Taiji is unwilling to see, these Han officials are more enterprising than most of the Eight Banners nobles, he naturally wants to cheer them up, and said to a group of Han officials around: "My Dajin is a country with bows and horses, and it is invincible in the wilderness and waves, but firearms are the sharp weapons of the trapping of Kecheng, and they must not be used. But you have meritorious deeds, and I will not hesitate to reward you. ”

Gao Hongzhong took the lead and knelt down and said loudly: "Slave Xie Dahan Longen." ”

Huang Taiji raised his head and asked all the Han officials to get up, looked around at the surrounding artillery birds, and said lightly: "It's been a close year, everyone has worked hard for a year, and you will all go back to reunite for the next ......year," his eyes became sharp, "You should work hard and serve loyally." Gain wealth with me. ”

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