Chapter 35 Post-Gold Firearms Era
Jinzhouwei was like a high-speed machine when it was started, but it was difficult to attack Goryeo's Later Jin.
Originally, the Jin soldiers were about to conquer Seoul, the capital of Goryeo, but the King of Goryeo fled to Jianghua Island and planned to resist to the end. The ministers of Goryeo were shaken, but the order for two thousand Western muskets brought by the prince made many ministers feel like a booster. It was not that with two thousand advanced muskets, they would definitely defeat the invading troops of the Later Jin Dynasty, but gave Goryeo a hope.
I hope this kind of thing is so mysterious, just like a drowning person grabbing the last straw. On the one hand, the Goryeo court hopes that the firearms brought from the Ming Dynasty can repel the Jin soldiers, but on the other hand, it is thinking that the Ming Dynasty is still on its own side.
"Our army was raided by the Goryeo rioters last night. The rioters had muskets in their hands and killed more than a dozen of our brave and warlike soldiers! When we conquer Pyongyang, we must slaughter the whole city!" A Jialaerzhen came to the Jin army camp angrily and said to his banner owner, Amin, the owner of the Inlain Blue Banner.
There are five Jialas under the Inlain Lan Banner, and each Jiala has five Niulu under it. Each Jiala has about 2,500 people, and Jiala is already a middle and high-level member of the Later Jin Dynasty.
The Goryeo rioters he mentioned were those militias who revolted in the occupied areas of the Later Jin Dynasty. These militias were not strong in power, but were just elusive and caused considerable trouble to the large Jin army, especially recently, these militias have brought more than a dozen or twenty muskets from somewhere.
"Where did these muskets come from? The Korean musket team on Pyongyang City caused us a lot of casualties, otherwise we would have beaten Pyongyang City long ago." Amin is studying how to break the defense of Pyongyang City.
"Who else can we have except the Ming court? The rioters we caught have all confessed under our torture that their firearms were privately bought from the Ming army of Hirokashima. A musket with two hundred rounds of ammunition is required thirty taels of silver. This is the Daming musket seized by their subordinates from them." Jialaezhen angrily threw a French rifle on the table, "A musket is thirty taels of silver, Mr. Beller, you said that those bastards in Hirokashima are so profitable, and we have worked hard to grab the muskets but they have not earned more than they have done to fight!"
Amin frowned slightly, feeling that he worked hard to fight, and the Ming court took the opportunity to make money, and the Ming court provided firearms to Goryeo and killed their Jin soldiers.
"There is news from the rear that Mangergutai was hit by Ming army artillery and was seriously injured. Zhenglan Banner retreated to Haizhou for rest. Li Yongfang was afraid of the enemy and retreated to Fuzhou. Jinzhou was lost, and we may not be able to fight here."
Amin took out the letter from Huang Taiji and shook it in front of everyone.
"We have been fighting for so long, and thousands of brothers have died. Just stop like this? The subordinates don't do it!" When the middle and senior officials in other military tents heard that they were going to withdraw their troops, they started yelling, and some people slapped the table.
"Of course I can't forget this!" Amin shouted loudly and stabilized everyone.
"We must conquer Pyongyang in the past few days, move all the money and food in Pyongyang City back, turn all the people in the city into slaves, as our spoils!"
"Long live the two Baylor!"
The officers in the military tent cheered when they saw Amin resisting the pressure of requesting retreat above. After beating for so many days, if they don’t rob them, they will even be a big fuck.
"In addition, we sent people to send the captured Ming army muskets to Shengjing. The Ming army's firearms are becoming more and more powerful, and we should indeed put aside our prejudice against firearms. If the Lord can imitate such firearms, we can kill fewer brothers in the future."
Amin's reply soon came to Huang Taiji's desk. According to Huang Taiji's guard's recollection, after receiving Amin's letter and Ming army's muskets, Huang Taiji stayed in his door and stayed out all day and night.
"The Han general Li Yongfang and others are all going to visit the Three Beile!" Huang Taiji's first order after leaving was to summon senior Jin soldiers and those who participated in the Battle of Jinzhou.
In Sanbeile Mansion, before stepping into the door, I could smell the strong smell of herbs.
"Master...Master..." Mangergutai made a husky voice weakly.
"No need to bow." Huang Taiji and a group of senior officials arrived, "How is San Beile's physical condition?"
"San Beile's health is not serious, but it still needs a year or two to cultivate." After the imperial physician who came with Huang Taiji diagnosed Mangergutai, he said carefully.
"I hope you can cultivate well in Mangergutai. I will manage the Zhenglan Banner first." Huang Taiji inadvertently seized Mangergutai's Zhenglan Banner, but this reason was extremely sufficient, and other Beile and nobles dared not dissuade him.
"The Ming army's artillery repeatedly hurt our people, causing our failure in Ningyuan and Jinzhou is really a threat to us. How do you think we should deal with it?" Huang Taiji said to everyone who accompanied him.
Everyone was silent. It was not that they had no opinion of their own, but that they knew that Huang Taiji had summoned them here and must have made a decision in their hearts.
"Er Beile asked someone to show me the seized Ming army muskets from Goryeo. They can easily hurt people's lives within a hundred steps, and they are effortless to use, which really surprised me."
"When I was fighting with the late emperor, I had seen the Ming army's bird guns countless times. Compared with the Ming army's muskets today, it was simply toys. But now the Ming army seems to have begun to equip more advanced muskets. If they have ten thousand muskets and millions of ammunition in the next few years, supplemented by cannons, how should our Eight Banners fight against the enemy?"
Huang Taiji looked around everyone.
"The Han people have an old saying that if you are poor, you will change; if you change, you will be able to be able to be able to be able to last. They are afraid of us, so they will develop more advanced firearms to deal with us. We cannot sit idly by and see them dominate, we must also develop firearms."
"Daishan, I order you to summon the best craftsmen in Shengjing and make sure to imitate muskets with similar performance within one month."
"Li Yongfang, I will order you to send someone to Jinzhou at all costs and try to steal drawings about the Ming army's artillery firearms."
"Once a firearm with similar performance is successfully designed, it is necessary to produce ten times more equipment than that of the Ming army!"
Huang Taiji expressed his plans in one breath.
"But Your Majesty, we Jin people have been practicing bows and horses since ancient times, and are eagles on the grassland. Why do we need to learn their abilities from the weak Han people?" a general muttered.
"Carrying and shooting cannot be used, we also want firearms, just like Jianzhou is ours, Liaodong is ours, and even the Central Plains is ours!" Huang Taiji said firmly.
Chapter completed!