Win the Ding 1617

Dorgon picked up the wine bowl made of copper, and the shochu in the bowl was burning in his mouth and esophagus, making his mind feel dizzy.

He put down the wine bowl and picked up a piece of fat and tender lamb. In his opinion, strong wine and fat meat were an excellent match.

After eating wine and meat, he wiped his mouth, and Dorgon wiped his mouth.It is very disdainful to express contempt for Jierhalang's corruption and rich behavior.

"Get some gold and silver? What's the use?! Only dirty and stupid people would do that!"

Only in front of his closest brother, in front of his two most confidant servants, did he take off the mask he used to disguise himself.

"Let me ask you, do you know the price of food and commodities in Shengjing?"

"Let me ask you, among the Eight Banners, what is the standard of status?"

Duoduo and the two Baya Latuo Zhangjing looked at each other in blank dismay. Monk Zhang Er was a little puzzled by the question raised by the second brother.

"Let me tell you, the price of grain in Shengjing, ordinary one-shi rice, and the worst rice mixed with sand and gravel, can be sold for eight taels of silver! What does Ji Erhalang do with that little money?! This bastard from the Shuerhazi family!"

After Dorgon mocked Jierhalang's short-sightedness, he took from the bookshelf a very tightly wrapped Song edition book.

"Fifth Brother, if you know such a letter, let's take it to Shengjing, how much can Second Brother Li offer in exchange?"

"Second brother! If you ask me what kind of woman sleeps comfortably, I will know! But this thing, it knows me. I don't know it's the first and second?!"

"Prince Yu's master, the second master of the Li family can set a price for such a book. If the paper is heavy, it can be exchanged for a hundred times the amount of food. Or ten times the weight of cloth, refined salt, and cooking oil!"

"After we plundered a large amount of money from the Ming Dynasty and went back, the price of goods in Shengjing might go up again! At that time, let him hold the pile of silver and be reprimanded and scolded by that black fat man, but he still can't buy food! "

Thinking of the fate of his old rival Jierhalang stealing chickens and losing money, Doduo couldn't help showing a sinister smile at the corner of his mouth. "Second brother, so you and the big shopkeeper of the second brother of the Li family exchanged those rotten papers and rags for food and cotton cloth?"

"Yes! What's the use of guarding a pile of rotten stones? If you want to be greedy, you must be greedy for something useful! Get more high-quality rice, refined salt, cloth, Nanzhong swords, guns, firecrackers, and gunpowder to be real!"

Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner Baya Latuo Zhangjing thought thoughtfully, "Master, then what do you say is respected among the Eight Banners?"

"Of course it's Qi Ding and Niu Lu population!"

Dorgon's words were decisive.But it made the three of them suddenly realize.wow!Such a simple truth.Why didn't we see it?

Among the total 310 cattle records in Manchuria, the Zhengbai Banner has 48 cattle records, and the Xiangbai Banner has [-] cattle records, which are the two banners with the largest number of people in the Eight Banners.It is the two yellow flags personally led by Huang Taiji.There are not as many people as the Dorgon brothers.This is why Huang Taiji is always worried about the Dorgon brothers.

This entry.The Dorgon Brothers Banner had the largest number of soldiers and horses. Although many bannermen stayed behind in the Qing Dynasty, there were still 5000 soldiers sent from the two banners.Among them, there are 5000 people in the Dingjia Banner, and there are hundreds of Ba Yala soldiers in each of the two banners.

The Eight Banners use Niulu as a unit. When fighting, one out of three troops is drawn, one is armored, and the rest are scattered.Among these armored soldiers, some are Ba Yala soldiers, and the rest are infantry and vest soldiers.During the war, the armored banners are the main force, and the rest of the banners are used as ordinary soldiers. Most of them have to go out with the army and fight in battle.

And there are a large number of coated Ahas in the army as miscellaneous servants and auxiliary soldiers.These people have the largest number in the expedition team, but they are not the number of troops. Their main tasks are to set up camp, manufacture various equipment, provide logistics services, etc., and also go to battle when necessary.

Above the coated Aha is the armored man.The status of armored men is higher than that of Aha, and finally the bannermen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.

Most of the armored people are tribes descended from the Northeast, with various ethnic groups. Most of them are Oroqen, Xibe, Ewenki, Sauron, Daur, Hezhe, Kuyi, etc. in the Heilongjiang and Songhua River basins. Manchurians call them savages , mostly collected from various mountain rivers.

Because these people are powerful in combat, they are the main targets of cannon fodder in the Qing army.The dead soldiers are in the front, and the sharp soldiers are in the back. Many of the soldiers who should be executed are from these tribes.Due to frequent wars.These northeastern tribal soldiers who were used as cannon fodder, many tribes disappeared later.

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, it is often seen that the family members of officials were exiled to Ningguta and armored men were slaves. The armored men here came from tribes that were more barbaric and backward than Jiannu.And these so-called savages, their combat effectiveness has always been the pillar of the Qing army, and they were the magic weapon of the Qing army until the suppression of the White Lotus Sect and the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The Qing army fought against the Ming army. Because of the fatal weakness of the small population base, the first wave always pioneered the Han Eight Banners to fight, the second wave drove the Mongolian tribal soldiers to fight, the third wave drove the Northeast tribal soldiers to fight, and the fourth wave drove the Mongolian Eight Banners to fight. .Finally, the troops of the Eight Banners Manchuria went into battle.

Although the structure of the Mongolian and Han armies in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty is still not perfect, in order to reduce the loss of core forces and drive cannon fodder and miscellaneous soldiers to attack cities and trenches, the banner owners of the Eight Banners and Manchuria have great experience.

However, in the past two years, the savages of Sauron's tribes have become more and more difficult to deal with, and even began to actively harass tribes close to the Manchu Qing, attacking Manchu Qing officials and soldiers of the Eight Banners Manchuria. (Lin Wenbing: I didn't instruct them to do that, I was just in charge of buying heads!)

"Second brother, so you asked that fat man for an order to allow the coated ahas to perform meritorious service and raise the flag?"

Since entering the Customs, after Dorgon proposed to coat Aha for his meritorious service, the armor and weapons he obtained belonged to him, and under the huge temptation of carrying him as a bannerman, those who used to only follow the Qing army to pick up cheap bags Yimen suddenly erupted with soaring fighting power, and more than a dozen cities were conquered by Niulu and Jiala composed of Yiha's.

Among the 57 cattle recorded from the captives of the Guanning Army, horses and armor accounted for more than half, and many of them were servants of the original generals, so their personal skills and combat effectiveness were naturally different.

According to the traditional system of the Eight Banners Manchuria.These coated beef records belong to the private property of Dorgon and Duoduo brothers.Even Huang Taiji himself, if there is no high-sounding reason, it is not easy to deprive others of their slaves and population.

"That's right! Fifteenth brother, you can do the math yourself. Since you entered the customs, have you had more or less soldiers and horses?"

Dodo has a huge personality flaw in his character because he witnessed the tragic death of his mother when he was a teenager.Fierce and cruel, bohemian.These words make up his main character.But let's talk about business.As an official, he is far inferior to his second brother, who is a direct relative.

"Returning to the two masters, when we entered the customs, there were 5000 armored bannermen, and the rest were Yu Ding. But now, even these Yu Dings are all wearing iron armor. Among the five thousand armored bannermen, there are more than 700 people. Put on the armor of the Southern barbarians! More than 1 of the coated slaves who entered the customs with the two white flags were also approved to wear iron-coated armor because they were seized on the battlefield! More than 7000 of them were raised for meritorious service and became flags. .”

"Master. In addition to the seventeen coats of cows given to us by Prince Rui, we have white flags, especially under your name. Not only did the soldiers and horses not be lost, but thousands more. These new servants are all focused on They intend to contribute their allegiance to the Master, and also for their own promotion and fortune. Even the Ba Yala soldiers controlled by the slaves have selected more than [-] people from them."

The two absolute confidants told their masters about the growth and changes in strength in the past few months.

"Besides these, fifteenth brother, do you really think that your second brother is so loyal to that black fat man?"

Dorgon poured another bowl of wine with his neck back, and wiped the oil stains from his mouth with his sleeve.

"Second brother, how do you say that?"

"Fifteenth brother, I'll tell you the truth." Dorgon's eyes flickered coldly, and the two Baya Latuo Zhangjing got up and left immediately knowingly.Only the two brothers were left in the room to talk secretly.

"What use are we to keep those cannons? They are too aggressive and take up a lot of space. We have no place to hide these cannons! And those gunners and mules, where are we going to hide them? The terrible thing is , These cannons consume a lot of energy! It takes several catties of gunpowder to fire a cannon. If there is not enough gunpowder, these cannons are just a pile of rotten iron! It is better to hand it over to the fat man and let him feed the artillery team. We can also express Loyalty to him."

After being dull for a while, Duoduo put down the wine bowl in his hand, "Second brother, even though I say so, I'm always unwilling to take advantage of those thieves who forced Erniang to death!"

"Your second brother is not that stupid!"

All the cannons Dorgon were handed over, except for the dozens of cannons that had been reported to Huang Taiji to accompany the army to attack Jinan and other places.

"I kept hundreds of Lumi guns and hundreds of Nanzhong fire guns from Lu Xiangsheng's camp, and more than [-] Nanzhong fire guns and Lumi guns seized from the Gao Qiqian camp. There are nearly four thousand! Those three-eyed guns, and the rotten fire guns that exploded when fired, were sent back to Shengjing by Jierhalang and the two Mongolian slaves!"

"In addition, nearly [-] sets of Nanman armor were seized from the two camps. You and I are half of each other. There are about [-] pieces of swords and guns. In addition to sending a little to the rest of the banners, there are [-] more good swords and guns. It is more than enough to equip those coated Niulu. They are all high-quality Nanban swords and guns, and some of them have not even a notch on them!"

"Also, the servants of the Guan Ning Army also picked out the medicine bags seized from Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qi's submerged camp. They said they were good things bought at a high price from Nanzhong, and they were injured by gold wounds. Even if he was hit by a cannon, as long as he didn't die on the spot, he would probably not die if he washed the wound with the spirits in this medicine bag, then used the medicinal powder inside to stop the bleeding, then applied cotton wool, and finally wrapped the wound with fine cotton cloth! "

"Be good! Brother! Is there such a good thing?!"

"It's just a pity that there are always too few good things! There are less than five hundred copies."

"Does that yellow wolf know?"

"Of course he can't let him know about such a good thing. Only you and I know about this matter. For anyone who knows about this matter, I will arrange for them, Yue Tuo and others to attack Jinan first."

"Okay!" Dodo sneered twice.

"The guy who forced my mother to death can have a bowl of nosebleeds on weekdays. In the future, it's best for Fokulun to bless him. Ama's spirit in heaven looks after him and don't let him get hurt. Otherwise, just bleeding is enough for him." It's over!"

Huang Taiji suffered from high blood pressure and other diseases due to his overweight body.Makes him dizzy frequently and prone to nosebleeds.From the perspective of modern medicine, there may be other diseases such as low platelets and poor coagulation ability. This is a very dangerous thing for a ruler who often has to be on the battlefield.

Firearms, knives and guns, armor, and a battle-tested armed team have made the strength of the brothers unprecedentedly inflated in this invasion.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the house, and Baya Latuzhangjing, who was in the White Banner of Manchuria, gently asked for instructions outside the door, "Master, according to your consciousness. The servant brought them all. Please give instructions to the master."

in the yard.Under the light of pine torches and lanterns, hundreds of gunners lined up neatly.

The musketeers were all dressed in iron-mass armor, with a wide cowhide strap diagonally across from the left shoulder to the right rib.Around the waist is also a wide cowhide belt, on which hangs a gunpowder canister filled with propellant powder.There is also a gunpowder can full of primer.

A lead bag full of projectiles hangs from a cowhide strap over the left shoulder.Whether it is the primer or the propellant.They are all made of copper pipes.Each tube is exactly one gunpowder, in equal parts.

"According to those people, there is still a so-called fixed-loaded paper tube ammunition in the Southern Barbarian Army. It saves the link of charging. The matchlock and Lumi guns we captured have to be charged separately!"

The Baya Latuo Zhangjing of the Zhengbai Banner said regretfully.

"It's okay! As long as those Nanman sell these fine firearms to Ming soldiers, we will have them! What they did was to send us good weapons, armor, gunpowder, food, soldiers, and slaves!"

Zhang Jing, who was wearing a white flag, responded very proudly.

"The slaves are performing for the masters. I wish you a toast!"

With an order, these gunners who were the Guanning Army not long ago skillfully took out a tube of propellant gunpowder from their gunpowder cans, and poured the gunpowder into the gunpowder.Impressively, it is also granular gunpowder.When pouring the gunpowder, the gunners got used to it and used their thumb and forefinger to surround the muzzle of the gunpowder to prevent the gunpowder from spilling out.

The gunner quickly took out the stick, and made a few blows into the gunpowder to solidify the gunpowder.He also took a lead shot from the lead bag, wrapped it in tissue paper, and sent it to the bottom of the gun with a stick.Finally, the musketeer took out a tube of priming powder from the gunpowder tank that he had filled with fire gate priming powder, but it was finer particles of gunpowder, poured it into the fire gate pool, and put the lid on.

These gunners moved quickly, and it didn't take much time to complete this series of dazzling movements.

"Raise the gun! Fire!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Intensive gunshots sounded like popping beans, startling the night birds that were sleeping on the tree in the Governor's Yamen and flying around.

The sudden sound of gunfire made the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the vicinity scream out loudly, and there was also a commotion in several barracks.

It's no wonder that when Xuan Dajun was holding on to Jiazhuang's position not long ago, the sound of firecrackers really stimulated them too much.

Even Doduo himself couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat when he suddenly heard the dense sound of gunfire.He can't forget that scene:

Taking advantage of the cold weather, Xuan Dajun took water from the Haoshui River not far away, rammed the soil excavated from the trenches to build a low wall, poured water on it, and soon froze into an extremely solid simple city wall.The musketeers hid behind this low wall and fired their guns. The sound of the guns was mixed with dense bullets, like a gust of wind blowing through weeds.Facing the roar of the rain of lead pellets, the Qing soldiers fell to the ground one after another.Those who were lucky enough not to be hit all screamed loudly.

Nearly half of the hundreds of white armor soldiers rushing to the front were knocked down.They howled in different ways, or fell heavily into the ditch in front of them, or fell backwards on the hard ground.

Most of these people couldn't die for a while, many people struggled desperately, screamed in pain, or some extremely brave people covered their wounds, held their weapons, and staggered towards them again.In the end, they were finally powerless, and either rolled into the ditch in front of them and did not move, or fell down on the low wall to die, and occasionally their bodies twitched.

Not only that, many projectiles hit the low walls, and bounced back and forth between several frozen low walls, forming a mess of ricochets, causing even greater casualties to the Qing soldiers who rushed into the low walls.

After paying a huge price, the Eight Banners soldiers barely broke into Xuan Dajun's camp.However, they are facing new killings and brutal fights.

The muzzles of the muzzles behind the wall continued to emit flames, and the heavy armor of the two white flag Qing soldiers who were panting and climbing the wall were knocked to the ground by the bullets. Suddenly, the huge impact staggered their heavy bodies, and they fell backwards on their backs.

"put!"

There was a loud shout, and there was another deafening burst of intensive firing of firecrackers.

A large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose, and a large number of heavy armored soldiers of the Qing army with spears and halberds rolled to the ground.The distance between the two low walls is only forty or fifty paces. For these heavy armored soldiers who are used to charging with long spears and halberds, the field is really difficult to use. However, the Nanzhong firecracker in the hands of Xuan Dajun is the best The range of damage, this distance can already penetrate their heavy armor, even if the firearm did not penetrate their armor after being hit, the huge impact of the firecracker bullets was enough to shake their bodies behind the armor.

The crackling sound of the firecrackers was endless, and each matchstick ignited the primer in his own fire gate, and flashes of fire emerged one after another, and then turned into violent fireworks from the muzzle of the gun.In the end, it merged into a deafening volley of firecrackers.

Clouds of blood sprayed from the Qing soldiers in heavy armor, and a large number of Qing soldiers who were shot fell to the ground one by one. They covered their wounds and howled in pain.The hot blood in the body flowed out along the wound, and in this cold winter weather, it quickly flowed into the hard frozen soil, and soon condensed into ice.

"Second brother, if you hadn't adjusted the cannons in time to confront the cannons in Lu Xiangsheng's camp, I'm afraid that if we lose another 1000 people, we may not be able to break through Old Lu's camp!"

Thinking of the tragic scene that day, Dodo still has lingering fears.

"So I want to train our own firecrackers! Tell the servants below that if you don't want to be killed by Ming's firecrackers, you must have more and more ruthless firecrackers in your hand than Ming's!" (To be continued continued..)