"Your Majesty, this item is the firearm of the Xia Army captured by our army."

After the war, the Qing army did not forget the sharp firearms of the Xia army, and after cleaning up the battlefield, Wang Yuele of Anjun immediately ordered someone to get a firearm and meet the emperor in person.

Looking at the firearm held in Yue Le's hand, Emperor Shunzhi glanced at the attendants beside him, who immediately stepped forward and took the firearm in Yue Le's hand, then walked to the emperor and knelt down, raising the firearm above his head, so that the emperor could easily get it.

Shunzhi took the firearm from the hand of the servant, looked at it in front of him for a while, and ordered the bird gun who served in the general to take it, and ordered Zhu Changzuo, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who knew firearms, to compare.

Zhu Changzuo was born in the Han military banner, so he naturally knew something about firearms, and he took the captured Type II rifle and looked at it over and over, the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, as if he had picked up a big treasure.

The surrounding civil and military generals saw that he was just watching, and from time to time he made a surprised sound, but he didn't speak, and they were all a little impatient.

His inquiry brought Zhu Changzuo's attention back to reality, and he realized that he had lost his temper, and hurriedly confessed to the emperor, and then took the Type II rifle and explained in detail to everyone the advantages of this rifle compared to the bird gun.

The Type 2 rifle was naturally the first to be listed in the way of firing flint, in fact, the arquebus family has been criticized since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the bird gun needs to light the arquebus before firing it, so that the fire rope can be ignited in order to ignite the medicine pool and shoot the projectile.

This is extremely inconvenient on the battlefield, for example, in the battle of Salhu in the 47th year of Wanli, the black powder of the Ming army was because the war happened to be sunny after the rain, and when the humidity was at its highest, it could not be shot without fire drying and the bird gun equipped in the army became a more useless thing than burning sticks.

Not only that, at the beginning of the war, the sky will be foggy, the Ming army is not clear, the heart is afraid, light the pine branch as a torch, completely exposed themselves in front of the Houjin army, was used by the Houjin army to shoot one by one, although it is easy to ignite the bird gun, but not only failed to hurt the enemy, but suffered a big loss.

Compared to bird guns, which require an arquebus to be lit in order to shoot, flintlock pistols are more convenient to shoot from a flintlock device, and can shoot directly unless they are directly exposed to rain or snow.

If you are ambushed in the dense forest of Black Mountain and White Water, you don't need to ignite it in advance to expose your position, and you can shoot directly.

After learning this, the Qing court and the ministers couldn't help but praise the firearms of the Xia army,

In addition to this, Zhu Changzuo listed several other points, especially the great admiration for the paper-wrapped bullets used by the Xia army, which made the Qing court monarchs and ministers firm in their idea of equipping the captured Xia army firearms into their own army.

In this battle, the Qing army captured more than 1,800 rifles of the Xia army, of which more than 200 rifles were damaged to varying degrees.

And the remaining more than 1,600 rifles, Emperor Shunzhi directly waved his hand, and selected 1,000 Han soldiers who were good at using firearms in the army to form a new firearms battalion, and rewarded them heavily, hoping that they could serve the Qing Dynasty in the next battle and beat the Xia army.

It is worth mentioning that the Shunzhi Emperor's idea of drawing troops from the Han army banner to form a new firearms battalion was initially opposed by several Manchurian ministers, who believed that after the Xia army invaded Liaodong, the Han people everywhere rose up to respond, and the Han people could no longer fully trust, and if the sharp firearms were equipped to the Han people, the latter defected, which would be a greater loss to the Qing Dynasty.

They advocated that bannermen should be equipped with these firearms from within the Manchurian Eight Banners, and even if the Manchurian soldiers were not good at firearms, they insisted on transferring firearms to their own people, preferring to spend more time to familiarize the Manchurian soldiers with them than hand them over to the Han Chinese.

Emperor Shunzhi mercilessly refuted the ideas of these Manchurian ministers, believing that extraordinary measures should be used in extraordinary times, and that the Han army in the army should not be lost because other Han people rebelled.

Subsequently, the emperor also made a contribution to the generals who had performed well in the army

The soldiers were rewarded heavily, and he rewarded the Sauron soldiers who performed the best in the battle against the Xia army, and gave them a rich reward.

According to the promise made before the battle, the emperor also generously rewarded the soldiers who killed the enemy in the battle, and did not blame most of the defeated Han army in the past, but he still killed many Han generals with thunder.

After doing all this, the sunset in the distance had also slanted slightly to the west, and the Qing army slowly retreated north and set up camp on the banks of the Taizi River.

At the same time as the Qing army retreated, in the camp of the Xia army, Su Ci successfully commanded and repelled the breakthrough of the Qing army in Liaoyang, and with the cooperation of the remaining riflemen and the Suzaku Left Brigade, the Qing army paid the price of nearly a thousand corpses before finally withdrawing to the city, and the Xia army did not suffer much losses.

After Su Ci learned that Su Dingyuan had failed in his attack, he rushed to greet him as soon as possible, he looked at Su Dingyuan, who looked a little depressed, and then looked at the foot soldiers whose morale was low and everyone was injured, and he could only appease them that victory or defeat was a common thing in soldiers.

However, Su Ci did not think that there was no benefit in this defeat, before this battle, the Xia army had the idea of underestimating the Qing army because of the successive victories, and this idea could even be seen in the main general Su Dingyuan.

After this battle, the myth of the Xia army's victory in a hundred battles was broken, and the Xia army also put away the impetuous idea of the enemy, whether it was to avenge the nearly 2,000 robes of the soldiers, or to wash away the shame of this defeat, the soldiers of the whole army will work together to hate the enemy.

Under Su Ci's appeasement and enlightenment, Su Dingyuan quickly came out of his frustration, and he also seriously summed up the factors of this defeat and retreat and his own responsibility.

Su Dingyuan believed that he was too eager to succeed, and because of the successive victories, he thought that the Qing army was vulnerable, and tried to take advantage of the victory to annihilate the main force of the Qing army on the south bank of the Shahe River, without taking into account other factors.

There are many factors in various aspects, the first is that he did not have a deeper understanding of the composition of the Qing army in advance, so that the appearance of Sauron's soldiers caught the Xia army by surprise and became the biggest help to defeat the Xia army.

Second, he did not take into account the morale bonus brought by the puppet Qing Emperor's personal conquest to the soldiers of the whole army, in fact, if it was not for the Shunzhi Emperor's personal conscription to motivate the soldiers of the three armies, the Qing army would not have been able to recover its morale quickly after the initial defeat.

Third......

Su Dingyuan wrote down these points, and he decided to send them to Jiangning after the war, along with the battle report, because he thought that he had a great responsibility for the death of nearly 2,000 soldiers, and he did not deserve to be rewarded by the imperial court, but should be blamed by the emperor.