Chapter Forty-Nine: The Hongyi Cannon
Aung Bang Zhangjing, the West House is attached to the prime minister of the Han Dynasty of Dajin, and is the first person to be a Han official, and he is deeply trusted by the emperor. A few years ago, he was ordered to supervise the Han people to surrender troops and craftsmen to supervise the production of Hongyi cannons. When the sweat tent was out of Shenyang, he summoned Tong Yangxing to inquire about the casting of Hongyi cannons.
Tong Yangxing replied: "Ten days can become the first one." ”
Because he was in a hurry to go to the Daling River, Huang Taiji ordered Tong to rush to Yizhou after the Hongyi cannon was caused. Now listening to Tong Yangxing's request to see, his heart suddenly sweated wildly, and he knew that the road must have been sent by the forehead in the West House!
Excited, he hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the guard: "Quickly send the forehead in the West House to see you!" ”
Not long after, a bear-backed and forty-year-old Han army general entered with his chest held high, which was the forehead of the West House!
As soon as he entered the account, Tong Yangxing suddenly changed his previous posture of raising his chest, changed his posture of bending forward and sudden, and his steps were very small, extremely respectful. When he arrived three feet in front of Huang Taiji, he knelt down and shouted: "The ministers and ministers meet the Khan King!" ”
"Westinghouse is exempt!"
Huang Taiji personally stepped forward to help Tong Yangxing, with an uncontrollable expectation on his face, and said eagerly: "The forehead is in a hurry, but has it brought the good news of our Dajin Kingdom Hongyi Cannon to Ben Khan?" ”
Seeing that the emperor was so concerned, Tong Yangxing's face couldn't help showing excitement, and he said happily: "King Khan, the minister is fortunate not to be dishonored, my Dajin Kingdom Hongyi Cannon has been successfully cast!" After speaking, he pointed to the outside of the tent: "The minister brought two Hongyi cannons out of Shenyang four days ago, and went straight to the sweat tent all the way non-stop, and now the two cannons are outside the city, please go to the Khan King to check it!" ”
Hearing that there were two red cannons outside the city, Huang Taiji was overjoyed, Ha Luha smiled, and said loudly to the group of Baylor courtiers in the tent: "Wait and go outside the city with Ben Khan to see the red-coated cannons cast for our big gold in the West House!" ”
"Wow!"
Everyone roared, and everyone couldn't stop being happy, and they all wanted to take a look at the Hongyi cannon of our Dajin Country immediately!
At the moment, Tong Yang was led by the former leader, and a group of large and small Baylor, Gushan Niulu, and Han Guanhan will huddle Huang Taiji and rush out of the city.
Along the way, all I heard was the sound of amazement, and the arrival of the two Hongyi cannons soon spread throughout the city of Yiju, and the generals of the Eight Banners flocked from all battalions, and everyone was eager to witness the two cannons.
Some generals and colonels who had seen the power of the Ming army's Hongyi artillery sighed in their hearts, thinking that the Hongyi cannon was hugely powerful, more than ten times stronger than ordinary artillery. In that year, in the battle of Jinzhou in Ningyuan, the Ming army relied on the power of the red artillery on the city to repel the attacks of our Eight Banners warriors twice, so that the Khan King returned in vain.
Thinking of the collapse of the sky when the Hongyi cannon was fired, those who had witnessed it were all frightened, and now they are very scared when they think about it.
But now it's good, our Dajin Kingdom finally has its own Hongyi cannon, and we don't have to be afraid of the Ming army's Hongyi cannon in the future!
Westinghouse is really the first hero of my Dajin Kingdom!
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"Ministers, see King Khan!"
As soon as Huang Taiji arrived outside the city, thousands of Han troops knelt down in unison under the leadership of the big and small officials.
Huang Taiji was happy, waved his hand to signal the soldiers to be exempted, and after the crowd was separated, he saw two behemoths lying in the middle of the avenue, covered with red cloth, surrounded by armored soldiers, extremely mysterious.
"King Khan, minions and others have been made into red cannons, please check it out!"
When Huang Taiji approached, Tong Guolai, the nephew of Tong Yangxing and the son of his brother Tong Yangzhen, happily stepped forward to uncover the red cloth on the behemoth at the signal of his uncle.
In an instant, a behemoth cannon appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight into the air, like a general prancing horse and carrying a knife, unstoppable. Another red cloth was uncovered, which was equally shocking.
"What a big guy!" Everyone sighed in unison, and they were all shocked by the enormity of the red cannon.
Huang Taiji took a closer look, these two Hongyi cannons were more than five feet longer than those of the Ming army, two zhang long, the muzzle was about half a foot thick, and the cannon body was more than a few iron hoops than the Ming army cannons, and the cannon ears, front sights, and doors were all available.
The more I looked at it, the more happy I became, and the fat hand kept touching the cannon, and I really wanted to hold this Hongyi cannon in my arms.
Seeing that the King of Khan attached so much importance to the Hongyi cannon, Tong Yangxing felt that his efforts were not in vain, and stepped forward with a smile and said: "King Khan, these two cannons are made of iron and a little copper, and the copper is soft, and we have added a few more iron hoops to the cannon, so that the cannon body can be prevented from exploding." As he spoke, he slapped the cannon body again, and said proudly to everyone: "The Hongyi cannon of our Dajin Kingdom is much heavier than that of the Ming people, each of them is full of three thousand catties, and the range can reach ten miles, which is not worse than that of the Ming Kingdom at all!" ”
Good guy, three thousand pounds, can shoot ten miles!
There was another burst of exclamation in the crowd, and some anxious generals didn't care about King Khan's presence, so they ran up one by one to touch this and that.
Huang Taiji saw it, he didn't care, he was also surprised, staring at the two cannons left and right, but he was a little apprehensive in his heart: I don't know how powerful this cannon is?
Seeing what the Khan King was thinking, Tong Yang hurriedly said: "Please ask the Khan King and the Beylers to go to the city for a while, and the ministers and Tong Tulai will immediately demonstrate the power of this red-clothed cannon for the Khan King!" So that the king of the Khan knows that the Taoist ministers will never boast! ”
"Good, good!"
Huang Taiji said in a loud voice, whether this cannon is useless or not, it still has to be a cannon to know. Laughing, he led Mang Gurtai, Zilharang, Deg, and Dudu and them back into the city. In a few moments, he was on the top of the city. At the head of the city, tables and chairs have already been prepared.
After the king of Khan sat down, there were generals in the city waving flags to signal that the Tong family's uncles and nephews could open fire.
Tong Yang hurriedly waved his nephew Tong Tulai to prepare, and Tong Tulai excitedly commanded the gunner to turn the Hongyi cannon around, pointing to an old earthen wall a few miles away.
"Charge!"
After hearing the order, the gunners of the surrendered army who were originally Ming soldiers were very skillful in loading the two Hongyi cannons, lighting torches and pointing the fuses.
"Shhhh
The fire letter swung into the chamber like a snake, and Tong's uncles, nephews, and gunners covered their ears and squatted on the ground.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
Two loud bangs, straight like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, shook people's ears, after the sound, but saw the fire of the earthen wall several miles away, even if it was blown into a pile of mud, the warriors of the Eight Banners inside and outside the city applauded at the same time.
"What a red cannon, what a good nourishing character!"
Huang Taiji stood up, his face full of excitement.
Mang Gurtai was also shocked by the power of the Hongyi cannon, and came back to his senses with half a sound, and praised it: "The power of this cannon is not under the Ming Hongyi cannon, with this sharp weapon, who else in the world can stop my Eight Banners Iron Horse!" Congratulations to the Khan, congratulations to the Khan! ”
Zilharang also smiled: "It's so tight!" This time in the West House, we have made a great contribution to the Jin Country, with these Hongyi cannons, Sun Chengzong's old man Hugh mentioned Pingliao, and it is a great luck to be able to keep his Shanhaiguan! ”
The generals such as Du Du, Derge, Ah Shan, and Darhan were also shouting excitedly, as if they had captured the Shanhai Pass of the Ming Kingdom.
Huang Taiji smiled and said nothing, only happily looking at the two Hongyi cannons under the city whose muzzles were still smoking.
Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, Bao Chengxian and other study officials have been following Emperor Shihuang on both sides of Taiji, and when they saw that King Khan was happy for the Hongyi cannon, they were also overjoyed.
Fan Wencheng was clever and was the first to say: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." With this Hongyi cannon, the siege is no longer the weakness of my Eight Banners, King Khan, the success of the cannon in the West House is really a great contribution to our Dajin, and the first credit should be credited! ”
"Huh."
Huang Taiji smiled slightly, he knew that Fan Wencheng was reminding him that he should be rewarded for his cannon-making skills. However, he did not declare the reward immediately, but got up with a smile and talked with Mang Gurtai and Zilharang about the benefits of the Hongyi cannon, and chatted happily up and down, and then sent the order to return to the account, and ordered Tong to raise his uncle and nephew into the account.