April 3, 1650, Shuntianfu, Beijing.

Tens of thousands of troops gathered on the huge school military field and the surrounding wilderness, including the elite Manchu Eight Banners brigade and the powerful Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, but more of them were the Han Army's Eight Banners and the former Ming Dynasty's surrender troops, with flags fluttering.

The momentum was overwhelming.

Luo Shouzhang, the former senior tactical staff officer of the Marine Corps stationed in Qi State, was riding on a horse, looking blankly at the majestic Qing army soldiers and horses in front of him, his face calm. His hair, which was once short and flat, was now more than three inches long and disheveled.

On my head, my face is also a little pale, probably because I haven't seen the sun for many days.

In fact, except for the fact that Luo Shouzhang was tortured by the Qing army in Texas when he was just captured, the Qing army basically never beat or tortured him again after they learned of his identity. After arriving in Beijing, he was even more tortured.

He was regarded by the upper echelons of the Qing court as an important person who could live in a rare place, and he was raised in a large mansion with good care and attention.

Since being captured, Luo Shouzhang has been determined to die and has not said a word to any inquiries from the Qing army. However, the Qing army did not want to get anything from his mouth, and he was not the only one captured by Qi officers and soldiers.

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In addition, the Qing army had been fighting with Deng Lai for several years, and countless spies had been dispatched. By Deng Lai, the details of the Yongchu court in Shandong had already been clearly understood. Even some of Qi's military deployment in Ming Dynasty, Qing's

The military also knew something about it.

While Luo Shouzhang was under house arrest, Dorgon summoned him to the palace from time to time to ask about some overseas anecdotes and world geography, talk about the situation in Nanyang, and even talk about the style of Hanzhou. During each conversation, Luo Shouzhang was very cautious and tried his best to avoid

Disclose political, economic and military information related to Hanzhou to avoid being taken advantage of by the slaves.

It can be seen that Dorgon is extremely interested in overseas, and he also shows a trace of fascination with Qi State, the Hanzhou continent and many overseas territories they occupy, and occasionally expresses emotion, saying that after the world is unified, he will

Offload all government affairs, form a large fleet, and personally travel around Nanyang and Hanzhou.

But Luo Shouzhang was filled with contempt for this. Can you, a group of Tungus savages who ran out of the deep mountains and old forests (as Qitian said), know how to play with water? I'm afraid not. The boat was overturned by big waves halfway through the journey.

At the bottom of the sea, I fed the king octopus and crabs one by one.

However, after being imprisoned by the Qing court for a long time, since he did not receive any harsh treatment, but was fed and fed well, he completely let go. He should eat and drink, and he wanted to trick me from the Qi Kingdom.

The message is, don’t think about it. In the end, the head on the neck was cut off with a knife at most. After a few months, the flesh on the lower waist gradually grew, and I became a little fatter.

Early this morning, Dorgon brought him to the palace again. He thought he was going to talk to him about overseas geographical features, but unexpectedly, what he saw was Dorgon in military uniform and a group of entourage, and then gave him a horse.

Ma, and took him with him to the military camp on the outskirts of Shuntian Mansion.

Looking at the groups of strict and mighty Qing officers and soldiers inside and outside the school grounds, although there was no expression on their faces, they were still extremely shocked deep down in their hearts. Military formations of tens of thousands stood quietly in the school grounds, in the wilderness, and among the mountains and forests.

, except for the snorting of war horses and the sound of fluttering flags, there was no other movement. The entire military formation exuded a thick and chilling atmosphere, obviously it was an elite division that had been fighting in battles for a long time.

Dorgon looked up at the sky. It was clear and clear. It was a good weather for a military parade!

"Let's begin." Following Dorgon's faint command, several military flags waved, and the solemn military formation suddenly moved.

A team of hundreds of Wu Zhenhachao stepped out of the queue under the cover of more than a thousand cavalry on both sides. They pushed a dozen 3-pound artillery pieces and quickly moved forward for more than a hundred meters, and then stopped.

Come down.

Several Westerners stood on the right column of the artillery array. When they saw that Wu Zhenhachao had completed constructing the artillery position, they immediately waved the command knife in their hands forward and said in a very strange accent: "Fire artillery."

, target, enemy troops one hundred and fifty steps directly ahead."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The artillery roared. After the first round of artillery salvo, a burst of smoke rose in the formation, and six or seven artillery shells hit several buildings 150 steps away.

Mounds of dirt, smoke, and clods of earth flew everywhere.

"Second round, prepare!... Release!" A barbarian officer on the right loudly ordered again.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

The artillery continued to bombard for five rounds, and then stopped. Immediately afterwards, an artillery formation of two thousand people formed a tight formation and slowly came from behind the artillery position.

"Stand firm!"

"First row, prepare!... Release!" a Han Eighth Banner officer on the right side of the queue ordered loudly.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." The musketeers in the first row of more than a hundred people immediately lit the match ropes, then raised their guns and aimed and shot forward.

"The second row comes forward! Get ready!... Release!"

Under the command of the officer, the musket formation advanced, raised the guns, fired, cleaned the gun chambers, stuffed gunpowder and projectiles..., and rolled forward row by row to attack. The entire school military field was filled with smoke and gave off a strong smell of gunpowder.

, wrapping the entire musket array in it.

The musket array fired ten rounds, and the team moved forward for nearly a hundred meters. After an officer behind the formation gave the order to "charge the entire army," two thousand musketeers drew a blunderbuss sword from their waists.

, stuffed into the muzzle of the musket, shouted, and rushed forward.

On both wings of the musket formation, more than a thousand Eight Banners armored cavalry rushed out, raising their sabers and roaring towards the front for the final assault.

"How?" Dorgon sat upright on the horse, turned around and asked with a smile: "Can our Qing Dynasty firearms army be worthy of fighting with your Qi country?"

"You invited the Westerners to teach you how to use firearms?" Luo Shouzhang stared at the officers with the faces of the Westerners who were riding in front of him, "Portuguese? Or the Dutch?"

"Haha..." Dorgon followed Luo Shouzhang's gaze and glanced at the few Westerners who wanted to come over to please and receive rewards, and laughed, "Looking at your nervous look, you want to come to my Qing Dynasty's firearms unit

It's enough to fight. In this way, I am very pleased!"

"Are you planning to attack Shandong immediately?" Luo Shouzhang asked.

"You are very subtle and can get a glimpse of the next major military operations of the Qing Dynasty. You are worthy of being the confidential counselor of the Qi State." Dorgon nodded and said; "Shanxi has been leveled, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hebei are stable.

, it’s time to fully understand the dangers of Shandong’s invasion.”

"You...you sent a mission to our Hanzhou mainland in order to confuse us and make the ships and soldiers stationed in Qi State relax their vigilance?"

"Hmph, you, a small overseas foreign country with a population of less than 300,000, dare to challenge the power of the Qing Dynasty and prevent me from taking over the Central Plains and unifying the world?" Dorgon showed a look of disdain on his face.

, "Sending an envoy to the remote continent where you live in poverty, don't you think that the Qing Dynasty is afraid of you? You are a small country, and you are underestimating your capabilities!"

Two years ago, after a lot of hard work, the Dutch East India Company finally entered the Yangtze River, and then went up to Nanjing, where they met Hong Chengchou, a military scholar appointed by the Qing government to serve as the governor-general of the south. They asked for the right to trade with the Qing government.

In return, they would provide the Qing court with a large number of artillery and muskets, as well as some firearms military instructors, to help them quell domestic resistance forces.

At the same time, the Dutch also promised that if the Qing government needed it, they could even lease armed merchant ships to them to help transport troops and provide landing cover.

After Hong Chengchou came into contact with the Dutch, he quickly obtained an important message from them. This Western barbarian who occupied the Nanyang region should have had some kind of quarrel with the Qi Fan who supported the Yongchu court, and seemed to want to obtain something from the mainland.

This kind of breakthrough can not only obtain the trade rights granted by the Qing Dynasty, but also indirectly attack the military strength of Qi Fan.

Moreover, what particularly valued him was that these Western barbarians were willing to sell the latest firearms to the Qing Dynasty. This could help our Qing army fight against the Qi Fan with sharp guns and artillery, and completely solve the problem of Shandong's invasion.

Therefore, without any delay, Hong Chengchou sent a team of soldiers and horses to protect several representatives of the Dutch East India Company and headed north to Beijing.

Sure enough, Dorgon immediately reached an intention to cooperate after talking with these representatives of the Dutch East India Company. The Qing government used porcelain, silk, tea, furs, and a large amount of silver to purchase 1,800 pieces from the Dutch.

More than a hundred matchlocks and flintlock muskets, and more than forty artillery pieces of various types, including

Twenty of the 3-pound and 4-pound artillery pieces that were light and flexible and could be moved with the army were ordered at once to strengthen the firepower output of the Qing army in the field. In addition, Dorgon also ordered the Ministry of Works to convene in the capital.

Skilled craftsmen imitated muskets and artillery purchased from the barbarians, striving to achieve local manufacturing.

Those East India Company mercenaries who served as firearms instructors were originally going to return to Batavia after their one-year service period. However, in order to allow the Qing army to better master the operating skills and tactics of muskets and artillery, the Qing army

They just paid the East India Company a huge sum of money and forced all the dozen mercenary instructors to stay. They also gave them official positions and granted them the status of Chief Qian, Guerrilla, and General Staff respectively.

When the Qing army came in for three attacks, in addition to having a huge headache with Qi's powerful mobile fleet that was hard to defend against, what frightened all the officers and soldiers was the opponent's continuous fire attack. First, artillery bombardment broke through the military formation, and then the musket line

Shooting continuously, the Qing troops were all disintegrated. This made the Eight Banners force, which the Qing Dynasty had always dominated in field battles, feel so embarrassed!

Nowadays, our Qing Dynasty has also established a pure firearms force of its own, supplemented by more than 2,000 Korean shotgun soldiers. Its firepower output is probably difficult to find an opponent on the entire continent. Don’t forget, our Qing Dynasty still has several

One hundred thousand elite infantrymen, with such strength, who in the world can stop them!

"In early May, I will send a large army to attack Shandong and come here. This time, I will definitely destroy the small imperial court of the Yongchu Puppet Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop." Dorgon held a riding whip in his right hand and pointed at the tens of thousands of people standing solemnly in front of him.

Military formation, "How can such a powerful army not defeat the bandits in the world! You, the small Qi vassal, are no exception. You are all acting like a chariot with a mantis arm and do not know what you can do. I, the Qing Dynasty, will unify the world and it will be just around the corner!"

Luo Shouzhang watched Dorgon take the lead and run towards the Qing army formation. Tens of thousands of Qing troops immediately burst into cheers. Countless swords and guns were raised above their heads, exuding a strong killing atmosphere, and their hands and feet became a little cold.
Chapter completed!