"Ding Mingluan, Ding Mingluan!"

At the head of Shanhaiguan City, Sun Yuanhua, who hurried from Beijing, shouted loudly: "Where are the people! ”

"This, this."

Ding Mingluan, who slipped out of the bottom of a cannon, was covered with stains on his face, and when he saw Sun Yuanhua, he hurriedly jumped up to greet him, and stood still in the vicinity, holding his chest high and raising his head.

"Ding Mingluan has seen the dean."

Sun Yuanhua showed a smile on his face: "Yes, I have a lot of energy, it seems that I have to train people in the army, and I have a lot more energy than when I was in school." ”

"Hey, hey." Ding Mingluan smirked: "Thank you Dean for the compliment." ”

Sun Yuanhua waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense, have the gun positions been fixed?" ”

"It's all fixed."

"Tell me about it."

"Yes!"

Ding Mingluan responded loudly, and then accompanied Sun Yuanhua to begin to inspect the Shanhai Pass defense: "The students set up fifty-five cannons at the head of the city, twenty-seven cannons on the east hill outside the city, twenty cannons on the west hill, and another eighteen cannons were hidden in the dense forest twenty miles out of the pass.

All the artillery positions have been corrected, once the Jiannu is violated, it can be covered by all-round artillery bombardment, attacking the Jiannu from all directions, and the custody will make the Jiannu army feel very confused. ”

Sun Yuanhua nodded again and again when he heard this: "This is the first battle of your artillery, and it is also the first battle of our new national protection army, you have to fight it well, and you can't drop the chain." ”

"Please rest assured, Dean." Ding Mingluan was full of confidence: "If one hundred and twenty cannons are placed in Macao to fight a naval battle with the Dutch, it is inconspicuous, but if it is placed here to fight Jiannu, it will be a dozen and one accurate, if the students don't blow up Huang Taiji this time, they can't touch the north, and the students are not worthy of staying in the artillery to be the commander." ”

"Back then, Yuan Chonghuan relied on this Hongyi cannon to make the slave chief Nurhachi seriously injured and died." Sun Yuanhua stroked the barrel of the cannon, and said in a deep voice: "At that time, he only had eight cannons, and today, you have one hundred and twenty cannons, the old man really hopes that you can blow up the emperor Taiji with one shot, so that we will win this battle." ”

"Actually, the students never felt that Huang Taiji and Jiannu were my opponents of the Ming Dynasty."

Ding Mingluan said loudly: "You once said that the future war must belong to the war of artillery and muskets, and the Jiannu are just proficient in some cavalry and field warfare, and they are already destined to be eliminated by the future war trend."

As long as we hold Shanhaiguan for even one year, we will form a complete artillery town, and then add more than 100 heavy artillery.

So this time the student's idea is not to seek a big victory, but to be sure to beat Huang Taiji back, to fight fear, once he withdraws from the army, then is to go home and wait for death, a year later, the new soldiers are trained, we can go out of the customs, with artillery to wash the ground, the entire Liaodong Jurchen, from the bottom to the top, from the tribe to the ethnic plough court. ”

Sun Yuanhua bowed his head and patted Ding Mingluan's shoulder twice: "It's a good thing to have confidence, but you can't be careless with the enemy, Yuan Chonghuan's mistake must not be made by our new army." ”

"Yes!" Ding Mingluan responded, and then spoke after being silent for a while: "Inspector Yuan, isn't it ......?"

"I just received the military report, Shenyang was defeated, the Guanning army was annihilated, and Yuan Chonghuan killed himself."

Sun Yuanhua glanced at Ding Mingluan, and sighed: "Yuan Chonghuan is self-righteous and self-serving, and this fate is also self-inflicted, but it's a pity that Guan Ning's 60,000 sons, alas, fortunately, the Taishi responded to save thousands of people, and it can be regarded as leaving a little fire for the Guan Ning army."

You can just know this matter, and you can't say it to the outside world, so as not to shake the morale of the army and the national prestige of the imperial court. ”

Ding Mingluan nodded, his eyes flushed involuntarily.

Tens of thousands of people died in Shenyang, and Ding Mingluan, who was a soldier, naturally empathized with him.

"The dean is here today to supervise the war?"

"It's not." Sun Yuanhua shook his head: "The old man is not a soldier, where is he qualified to supervise the war, the old man came, just to record the data of the artillery in actual combat, Zheng Zhilong sent a few artillery pieces captured from the Dutch, the old man has to make a comparison to see if the Dutch artillery has improved again in recent years."

In addition, the British East India Company sent a group of retired naval artillerymen, and now a shipyard and a cannon foundry are being built in Tianjin, all of which require a detailed combat data. ”

Ding Mingluan's eyes lit up: "Your Majesty, is this trying to prepare for a naval battle in the future?" ”

"Guess what." Sun Yuanhua glared at Ding Mingluan, but he quickly said: "Your Majesty, it is true that Jiannu has never been our opponent, only Houjin, the people are less than a million, the soldiers are only 100,000, there is no benefit of artillery and firearms, and there is no convenience of warships and sea ships.

In Your Majesty's heart, the enemy of our Ming Dynasty is the Netherlands now, and England will be England in the future. ”

Sun Yuanhua held the battlement with both hands and looked into the distance: "Zheng Zhilong wants to fight Taiwan, but do you know how many guns the Dutch have built in the coastal defense in Taiwan?" ”

"How much?"

"Just along the Hsinchu line, the Dutch have more than 100 shore defense guns, Zheng Zhilong's strength is not enough to escort the imperial army to land in Taiwan for operations, and the soldiers can't be transported, so why talk about driving away the Dutch.

If we want to drive out the Dutch, we must have more artillery, shoot farther, and be more powerful than the Dutch, or we will have to watch the Dutch continue to dominate our land. ”

Sun Yuanhua said, his eyes went into his head, and where the sky and earth intersected, a black line suddenly appeared, squirming.

Ding Mingluan also saw that this black line was very faint and looming, and if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't even be able to see it really.

However, as time progressed, the frequency of the black line began to increase, and the clarity became more pronounced.

"It's cavalry!"

Ding Mingluan felt it, and then he looked solemn: "Jiannu is here!" ”

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Huang Taiji was riding on a horse, and his face was ugly and scary.

After annihilating Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Taiji immediately raised troops to the west, crossed the Liao River and the Daling River one after another, and hit Ningjin.

But when he arrived, all he could receive was ruins.

Jinzhou City!

Not only is there no Jinzhou, but even Ningyuan Jiancheng, which has repeatedly hit the wall, has turned into ruins and turned into a scorched earth.

There is no city, no village, and in the entire Ningjin area, there is not even a dog or a chicken!

Daming, the strong wall is clear.

The anxiety in Huang Taiji's heart was indescribable, he wanted to conquer Ning Jin first, and then rely on Ning Jin's hoarding of a large amount of military food and materials to support it, but now he didn't even get a grain of grain, let alone supplies.

In front of Huang Taiji's eyes, there is only one way left.

That is to break the Shanhaiguan Pass and enter the pass to plunder!

I don't want to be able to conquer Beijing, but if I can force the Ming court to move the capital, it will be the biggest victory.

But when he was getting closer and closer to Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji's heart suddenly gave birth to a sense of danger.

It seems that in that majestic towering Xiongguan, there is some kind of great terror?

What is it?

Huang Taiji reined in the war horse, ordered the three armies to stop, and watched from afar.

Artillery.

Does the Ming people think that with just a few cannons, they can stop his Emperor Taiji and stop the 70,000 elites of the Eight Banners who are wrapped in the power of great victory?

Guan Ning's army has been completely wiped out, and now he has no opponent.

His Eight Banners will be invincible in the world!