When Tieshan City's fire gun production got on track, Jiang Wan suddenly felt rich.
Even if there are only twenty or thirty firecrackers every day at the beginning, they can only be used for the maintenance and replacement of the existing firecrackers team, but Jiang Wan knows very well that once the scale of production increases, the continuous flow of firecrackers will no longer need to be supplied from the factory.
They have been transported thousands of miles from the capital, and the quantity and quality of the firecrackers sent from Tieshan City will be sufficient.
He can now think about expanding the number of fire gun soldiers.
In Dongjiang Town now, the proportion of fire rifle soldiers is only one-tenth of the entire army. This is far from Jiang Wan's idea of building an army. Fortunately, his protagonist's halo suddenly shone, and he picked up
Tang Ruowang, a Western priest who knew how to make cannons, provided him with a batch of light cannons that were not very powerful but were fast and easy to move in a short period of time.
This allowed him to make up for this shortcoming in time when the construction of his thermal weapons came to a standstill.
However, it is definitely unrealistic to rely on such a light artillery team to determine the victory of the war. At least, the quantity is far from meeting the requirements. Of course, if he can get rid of tens of thousands of three-pounders
If the cannon is in front of the Tartar cavalry brigade, this battle will definitely be won.
Just think about this kind of thing. If you really plan to do this, Jiang Wan will be really crazy.
First of all, from an economic point of view, it is more cost-effective to make large-scale firecrackers than to make cannons. Even the three-pound cannon in front of you weighs several hundred kilograms. If you make firecrackers, you can make thirty or fifty of them.
Secondly, even if he doesn't care about spending money or obtaining raw materials, the cost-effectiveness of firecrackers and cannons is also different. It's like facing a boss with 10,000 HP. The output of a cannon is 100 damage, and the output of a firecracker is 100 damage.
The output of the cannon is ten points of damage, but the fire gun can have hundreds or thousands of ten points of damage. However, although the output of the cannon is high, the number is limited.
Not to mention that the cost of training a qualified artilleryman is far greater than that of training a gunner.
Therefore, in Jiang Wan's mind, the main output of his Dongjiang Town can only be firecrackers! He is extremely sure of this.
The other arms are all serving the Fire Cannon Soldiers. The Shield Soldiers serve as their defense, the artillery clears obstacles for them, and the cavalry helps them contain the enemy. All of this is to ensure the output of the Fire Cannon Soldiers.
Therefore, Jiang Wan paid no less attention to what happened in Tieshan City than he did on the front line in Malanyu.
The five hundred people sent by Lu Xiangsheng were arranged by Wu Sangui to move with his men in the army. Jiang Wan said nothing about Wu Sangui's arrangement, let alone asked him to protect the five hundred people.
In his opinion, Lu Xiangsheng's move is worthy of encouragement. He does not resent it. If the positions of the two were reversed, he would do it without hesitation. However, when training troops on the front line, friendly forces must take care of them everywhere.
I don't know how useful the soldiers coming out are.
Besides, Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers are soldiers, and Jiang Wan's soldiers are also soldiers. We just need to take care of each other, but there is no need for anyone to accommodate others.
Over at Malanyu, there were fighting every day, but it was always a small fight. Occasionally during the day, the defenders on top of Malanyu City would organize a wave of counterattacks, but most of them were just superficial.
Probably because although the Ming army under the city harassed them severely, they never attacked the city in a large scale, and Li Yongfang probably judged that the Ming army did not have the strength to attack the city, which made Li Yongfang feel more at ease.
Of course, Li Yongfang would definitely not hide it when reporting the battle situation to Shengjing, but in the past ten days or so, there had been no big movement at Malanyu. Jiang Wan knew that even if there was a confrontation here, Huang Taiji should be
I haven't taken this seriously.
It shouldn't be that he underestimated Dongjiang Town, but in Huang Taiji's eyes, Liaoyang might be his primary enemy.
After capturing Liaoyang, all the gates of Jinzhou were lost. For Hou Jin, this was another huge victory. They gradually eroded the Ming army's power outside the pass. As long as this momentum is maintained, the defense lines built by the Ming Dynasty over the past few years will
It's just a joke.
Today they can capture Dalinghe, tomorrow they can capture Liaoyang, and the next day they can besiege Jinzhou with heavy troops. As these victories accumulate one by one, finally one day, they will not have to detour to Mongolia, but can rely on their own strength to defeat the enemy.
Go under the Linshan Pass and knock on the gate of the Ming Dynasty.
This is probably what the talented and strategic Huang Taiji wanted.
On the other hand, looking at Dongjiang Town, Huang Taiji gathered a large number of troops and did not hesitate to use national power. Not to mention how the war was progressing, but everything was going well. Even if he took Dongjiang Town, what would he get? A Zhenjiang Fort that was gained and lost again.
And Pidao, a small broken island that didn’t originally belong to the Ming Dynasty?
If you have to calculate the gains and losses in a war, then Houjin's gains from fighting this battle will be far less than the gains from fighting Liaoyang.
Jiang Wan saw this very clearly. And Huang Taiji should also see this very clearly.
Therefore, the Nanhai Battalion and the Guard Battalion have always been engaged in confrontation and blockade in Panjiakou and Malanyu. He has never ordered the two battalions to capture these two military forts, and Hou Jin has undoubtedly seen it clearly.
Jiang Wan understood his intentions and did not take his provocation seriously. Jiang Wan did not know their specific countermeasures. Anyway, from his perspective, the other party seemed to be ignoring them.
I don’t know whether they believe in the Han army flags of Li Yongfang and others, or they have already made arrangements. Once the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town prepare to attack the city and seize these two military forts, they will immediately send out their best troops to eradicate them.
A sleeping person on the side.
Jiang Wan feels very good about the current situation. At least, Dongjiang Town's autumn grain this year is generally fine. Even though he has been collecting grain from North Korea's Ping'an Road, he does not care about grain in any case.
Dislike too much.
With food, he can raise more soldiers and spend more time with the Tartars.
It has been almost half a month since Zu Dashou's son left Zhenjiang Fort. According to the time he said, he should have arrived at the Chahar Department by this time. Jiang Wan was thinking about it, and she didn't know how much he would bring to her by then.
People come back.
With the equipment of the Guangning Iron Cavalry, as for horses, it depends on how many horses they can bring back. However, Dongjiang Town has no stock of the three-eyed fire blunderbuss they are good at using, and Tieshan City cannot use its precious manufacturing power to make these.
Firearms that ordinary firearms craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can make.
He sent Geng Jingzhong from Zhongyong Battalion to Shandong to purchase three thousand three-eye fire blunderbuss on the day Zu Zehong left.
If there are no accidents, these three-eyed fire guns should arrive in Dongjiang Town earlier than Zu Zehong and the others.
Jiang Wan was hesitant. When the time came, should he arm Zu Dashou, a cavalry whose loyalty was extremely doubtful, or should he just start over and let these people train for him instead of letting these people