golden scales

From the most cutting-edge Song Hongye to the Jinlin Club covering various industries, every eyeliner in the capital has formed an impenetrable intelligence network. .From the change of Dorgon's mood, down to the transfer of the flag Ding, all of them were presented to Zhu Cihong's desk as quickly as possible.

Although the Manchurians expelled the Han people in Beijing and established a closed city, the food and grass used by the army and the recruited men could not be kept secret. This also made it easy for Zhu Cihong and his staff to analyze the movements of the eastern captive army.

In August of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng issued a call to action in Shaanxi, announcing to the world, claiming to lead an army of one million to drive his own expedition, to expel the Tartars and restore Beijing.Everyone knows that it is called a million, and it is estimated that there are only 60 to [-] auxiliary soldiers. If you only talk about soldiers, it would be terrible to have more than [-] to [-]. Good novel:.

However, Dorgon was still stimulated and refused to give up Shanxi, which had reached his mouth. He was determined to confront Li Zicheng across the river.

Of course, Bahana and Shi Tingzhu discovered the change of the Ming army, and also found out that there was a Ming army of thousands of people in Wudi County, eyeing Cangzhou.Because of the high awareness of secrecy of the Eastern Palace Army, no news of the harvesting operation leaked out, which made them think that this Ming army was just guarding against the Manchurian soldiers going south, and they never believed that they dared to take the initiative to attack.

On the third day of the eighth month, Bahana and Shi Tingzhu finally led their troops westward, leaving only hundreds of soldiers in Cangzhou.

Wang Aoyong, who recruited the Shandong ambassador, the servant of the household and the Ministry of Industry, stood at the top of the city, watching the Manchurian soldiers gradually going away, with fear and worry mixed in his heart.From this moment on, the heavy responsibility of Cangzhou's city defense fell on him.Once the Ming army comes, is it possible to rely on these miscellaneous soldiers to defend?Wherever the crime of falling into the land and guarding the land is placed, it is the crime of beheading!

Unless... Wang Aoyong quickly thought of a way to save his life. .

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On the sixth day of August, the day after the Donglu Army entered Shenzhou, the three thousand headquarters of the Second Guards Battalion under Xiao Donglou attacked Qingyun, Yanshan, and Nanzhou under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou with lightning speed. Pisan County.Therefore, Wang Aoyong, the governor of Tongzhou in the Ming Dynasty, sent people to meet Wang Shi and recover Cangzhou.

Chen De's labor camp started the city reconstruction project that night.Shandong administrative officials who had been prepared for a long time entered the city overnight, counted the population from house to house, and established household registration.

After dawn, the gates of all counties were closed and martial law was imposed. Anyone who did not have a household registration book dared to walk on the streets.They will all be sent to the labor camp.Only after completing the household registration of the whole city.Only family members can claim it, and the village head needs to be a guarantor to add to the household registration.

After Xiao Donglou occupied Cangzhou.Immediately, he led his troops to the west, chasing the captives from the east.

Bahana and Shi Tingzhu didn't know that Cangzhou had fallen until the eighth day of the eighth day. One day earlier, on the seventh day of August, they had received news from Wuqiang County that the Ming army besieged the county, and the county magistrate did not hesitate. Kaesong surrendered.

"Withdraw?" Shi Tingzhu asked Bahana cautiously.

Bahana gritted his back molars and said, "Withdraw? Are you not afraid that the regent will chop off your head and your family will make Xin Zheku a slave?"

"Our army's retreat has been cut off." Shi Tingzhu insisted: "Cangzhou changed hands on the [-]th, and Wuqiang fell on the [-]th. This Ming army is obviously going to surround and attack our army! If my expectations are not bad, I'm afraid now Zhending has also fallen into the hands of the Ming army!"

Bahana glared at Shi Tingzhu, and said: "My Qing army is invincible, and the Ming army is just picking and choosing! Shi Tingzhu, why are you so timid after entering the customs? Could it be that you have acquired Nikan's cowardice after entering the Han army flag?" What!"

Shi Tingzhu was also angry. .Pulling the reins: "I'm losing money, remember to fight! You and I have already committed a crime by rushing in lightly. If there is another mistake this time, I'm afraid your family and I will have to go to Xinzheku as slaves!"

Bahana was poked in the soft spot by Shi Tingzhu.Said: "This time we didn't rush forward lightly, we followed the military order of the Regent. Besides, if we don't take this route, which way should we go to Shanxi?"

Shi Tingzhu was also quite depressed.Walking from Zhending to Jingxing is the shortest way directly under the city of Taiyuan. If you take a detour, you will have to go back to Beijing and go west.In this way, it is absolutely impossible to reach Taiyuan on the day of siege.

"The Prince Regent should have sent an army long ago, it's sure to keep it!" Shi Tingzhu said depressingly.

Bahana gritted his teeth and said, "It's time to send soldiers south to wipe out that Nikan first! Humph, Flying Tiger Banner, I will never forget it in my life! When I meet this army in the future, I must kill them all." !"

Shi Tingzhu frowned and said, "We can either turn to the north now and enter Jin through the Bauhinia Pass. Or we can take a gamble and see if we are sure we haven't fallen yet."

"Then what are you waiting for? I will lead the army to go first, and you will quickly catch up. Other book friends are reading:!" Bahana hurriedly said.

The Eight Banners Han army is a Manchurian heavy-arms force. Not only are they equipped with a large number of bird guns, but they also brought a Shenwei General Cannon and ten small red cannons of other styles.

The Shenwei General Cannon is a specialty of Jinzhou, and it is the most advanced iron-bodied copper-core cannon in the world today.This kind of cannon began to be equipped in Liaozhen in the first year of Chongzhen. After the Manchurians occupied Jinzhou in Chongzhen for 15 years, they obtained this cannon-casting technology.

The Shenwei General cannon weighs [-] catties, [-] catties of medicine, and [-] catties of iron, equipped with a cannon carriage.With such a heavy weight, one can imagine how slow the speed will be on unbuilt dirt roads.Bahana had long been impatient with taking these cannons on the road, but because these cannons were siege weapons, the Manchurians would not know how to attack the city without them, so they had to take them with them.

Shi Tingzhu was very dissatisfied with Bahana's behavior of abandoning his teammates, and said: "Even if you rush to the city of Taiyuan, what's the use of not having artillery? Besides, since Nikan has occupied Wuqiang, who knows that he won't follow and attack? Time to lose the divine power cannon, you and I will pay for it with our lives!"

It made sense for Bahana to think about it, so he had to urge: "Then recruit more civilians and rush to Zhending as soon as possible!"

Shi Tingzhu nodded in agreement.

In fact, the Qing army had tied up all the strong men it could gather along the way into the army to undertake hard labor.For them, these Nikans are consumables, and there is no need to worry about their life or death.If you are exhausted and starved to death, you can change another batch, and there is no need to consider the logistical pressure.

If such behavior was in the Ming army, it would definitely be evaluated as "tyranny" by the censor, but it was taken for granted in the Qing army.As long as it is not ordered to massacre the city or set fire to the city, this level can already be regarded as "no crime in autumn".

From a strategic point of view, the Qing army’s actions also resulted in the subsequent Ming army having no substitutes for civilian service and no way to collect food, so they could only be dispatched from the south, which objectively delayed the speed of Xiao Donglou’s march.

While Shi Tingzhu and Bahana accelerated their march, the [-]th Headquarters of the Third Guards Battalion of Danning's Department, led by Qianzong Huixian, entered Zhending Mansion and launched defenses.In just half a year, Zhending Mansion welcomed the Shun Army and the Qing Army one after another, and now the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have arrived again, and the sign "Welcome the Master Wang" has lost its new color.

Zhu Cihong and Xiao Mo also moved to Lianguandian in Shulu County on the same day, and closed the door for the Eastern Captives to invade the South.

This day was the eighth day of August, and the four soldiers successfully completed their dispatches without any accidents.Although the plan was strictly implemented and there was sufficient intelligence support, such a division of troops was still a miracle in an era without radios, relying on dedicated horses running back and forth to deliver messages.

"Report!" Tang Ma rushed into the first battalion and went straight to the tent of the Chinese army: "Xiao Tugeng, the chief of the Firearms Division, was ordered to come and ask for an audience."

Zhu Cihong was quite surprised, and said to Xiao Mo: "He really caught up!" He turned his head and said, "Come in."

After a while, Xiao Tugeng, who was busy in the world, stood in front of Zhu Cihuang, performed the East Palace military salute, and said loudly: "The humble Xiao Tugeng came to report! Thirty new cast iron copper-core cannons have arrived smoothly."

"Not bad, quite energetic." Zhu Cihong looked at the old man from the East Palace and said with a smile, "How is the performance of the new cannon?"

Xiao Tugeng swept away his exhaustion and burst into a bright smile: "The regulation of the new cannon is the same as that of the [-] cannons. You can put an extra pound of gunpowder, and you can break through the target wall at a distance of two hundred feet. Oh, the new cannon uses the internal cooling method that His Highness said, so that the inner Cooling the core first can indeed effectively enhance the performance of the artillery."

Zhu Cilang knows that this internal cooling method is not as simple as adding a water-cooling tube in the mold. If the water flow speed is slow, the best effect cannot be obtained, and if the water flow speed is too fast, it will cause the inner wall of the gun bore to rupture. It is necessary to find the best water cooling through a large number of constant-speed experiments. speed.In this era without thermometers and flow meters, it is conceivable how much effort and cost it will take to do such an experiment.

Zhu Cihong patted Xiao Tugeng in satisfaction, and was about to praise him, only to see another Tang Ma came to report outside: "Your Highness, it is urgent to report!"

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