Shengjing, the Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty.
"The three-layer armor used by our army can only withstand the fire cannons of Shang Yi's army at most fifty steps away. Sometimes, it will be penetrated by the fire cannons even at seventy or eighty steps. The power is far more powerful than the Ming Dynasty. On top of other muskets used by the military."
While Huang Taiji was listening to Abatai's words, he was playing with a bird gun in his hand. In front of him, there were three other fire guns of different sizes and styles. After listening to Abatai's words, Huang Taiji clicked. He nodded and said: "But you also saw the test shot just now. The gun used by King Gongshun was also a bird gun. Even the best one must be within thirty steps to penetrate three layers of armor. In other words, Shang Yi The army may not be using bird cannons, but there may be other types of fire cannons, but we don’t know yet.”
Abatai also said: "I think so too. Didn't King Huaishun just say that? The fire blunderbuss used by the Ming army were not only bird blunderbuss, but also three-eyed blunderbuss, Xuanyuan blunderbuss, thunder blunderbuss, and Zhidian blunderbuss. There are no less than ten kinds of Lumi guns, etc., among which Lumi guns have the best range and armor-piercing power. I am afraid that most of them used by Shang Yi’s army were Lumi guns.”
Huang Taiji nodded and said: "It's a pity that King Gongshun's banner does not have the Lumi gun. Otherwise, we can use it to see if the Lumi gun is really as powerful as King Huaishun said. We can also imitate it." Ah! But I heard from King Huaishun that it is extremely laborious to make Lumi guns, and there are only a few thousand of them in the entire Ming Dynasty. I think Shang Yi’s army may not be able to use all Lumi guns. There must be other ones that we don’t know about. It has been ten years since the Fire Guns, King Gongshun, and King Huaishun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Who knows what new fire guns the Ming Dynasty has created during this period."
Abata said: "The Emperor wants to see Rumi Guns? Isn't that simple? Next time we will go into the Ming Kingdom and rob him of a few Rumi Guns and bring them back to show to the Emperor."
Huang Taiji chuckled and said: "Brother Qi, Brother Qi, you are already so old, but you still only know how to fight and rob. When I told you that you still refused, I asked you to go to the management department. What happened? In this way, I managed everything in a mess, and it's still like this now, with no progress at all."
After hearing Huang Taiji's accusation, Abatai also felt a little embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly and said: "To be honest with you, the emperor, when I saw those accounts! Official documents and so on, my head was so big that it was better to get on a horse wheel." The sword makes marching and fighting a pleasure."
Huang Taiji also chuckled and said: "So, we Manchus are good at marching and fighting, attacking, killing, and defending, but the Han people are proficient in writing and government affairs. The reason why I reuse so many Han people is that they can make the best use of them, and everyone can do their best. .You don’t have to worry about it all day long. If you are all qualified for these tasks, why do I need so many Han people?”
Although Abatai was still a little dissatisfied, he had to admit that what Huang Taiji said did make sense, so he had to bow his head and remain silent. Huang Taiji also realized that the conversation had gone off topic, and smiled again and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. , Brother Qi, you have fought against Shang Yi's men and horses, and you have just seen King Gongshun's practice of firing muskets. I am here to ask you, if I give you a thousand Eight Banners armored soldiers, each will fight against a thousand of Shang Yi's muskets. What do you think of the outcome?"
This time Abatai thought about it seriously, and then said: "If I fight against King Gongshun's fire gun soldiers, I am absolutely sure of winning, but if I fight against Shang Yi's fire gun soldiers, I am not sure. .Although they all use three rows of rounds, the interval between firing of King Shun's fire cannons is very long. After two or three rounds of firing at most, I can lead my troops to rush towards them and start to damage at most two people. Three hundred people. However, Shang Yi's fire cannons fired at very short intervals with almost no interruption. In addition, the fire cannons they used had a long range. When the army approached, it would take at least seven or eight rounds. The men and horses would at least have to fight. Half the casualties. So it’s hard to win.”
After a pause, Abatai spoke again: "Also, the front end of the fire gun used by Shang Yi can be inserted with a sharp blade, and it can be used as a spear in close combat. Moreover, the close combat ability of his fire gun hand is also better than that of the average Ming army."
Much stronger. Even if a thousand men are fighting head-on against a thousand men, we can't easily win. Unless I have 500 cavalry among the 1,000 men, and I charge quickly with the cavalry first, and then follow up with the infantry.
A chance to win.”
After Huang Taiji heard this, although he didn't say anything, he felt very uneasy in his heart. Five hundred cavalry were at least equivalent to 1,500 infantry. According to Abatai, wouldn't it be equivalent to dealing with Shang Yi's men?
, Do the Eight Banners soldiers need to dispatch twice as many troops? Such combat effectiveness is too terrifying, but he also believes that Abatai is answering him truthfully. After all, no one is willing to admit that he is not as good as the enemy.
After Abatai returned to China, Huang Taiji did not blame him. On the contrary, he set the tone of victory for this invasion and gave him a reward to express his affirmation of his invasion.
But in private, Huang Taiji was shocked. This invasion of the country was superficially a revenge for Ming's refusal to negotiate peace, but in essence, it was Huang Taiji's test of the Ming Dynasty to see how much resistance the Ming Dynasty had.
If Abate really has a smooth journey, then Huang Taiji will readjust his strategy against the Ming Dynasty. Although he will not launch a large-scale invasion immediately, the main purpose of using troops in the future will be to permanently occupy the land within the pass.
Instead of plundering, the focus will be on capturing Shanhaiguan. But at this time, Shang Yi of the Ming Dynasty appeared from there and used a tactics that had never been seen before, repeatedly defeating the Qing army.
.It also made Huang Taiji have to pay attention to this person.
Because Huang Taiji appointed a large number of Han officials, Huang Taiji also deeply realized that the Han people were actually very intelligent people, but the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was too stupid to make good use of these people. But if the Ming Dynasty was forced
If it is too tight, one or two outstanding figures will not emerge, such as Yuan Chonghuan back then. Therefore, Huang Taiji's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty was very cautious. Even when he had the upper hand, he did not dare to attack the Ming Dynasty in an all-round way.
He was also very inclined to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty, slowly consuming the Ming Dynasty's national power.
Moreover, the death of Nurhaci had a profound impression on Huang Taiji. At that time, the Hongyi cannon used by the Ming Dynasty was a terrifying weapon that Houjin had never seen before. But now, Huang Taiji
Tai Chi vaguely felt that history seemed to be repeating itself. In the Ming Dynasty, Shang Yi came out, using a new style of firecrackers and new tactics. Fortunately, it was Abatai who suffered the loss this time and not himself.
Therefore, in the more than two months after Abatai returned to China, Huang Taiji ordered people to collect information about Shang Yi, and at the same time asked the soldiers who went out to learn more about Shang Yi's fighting methods and characteristics. Abatai alone was singled out
The imperial edict met three times, just to find out how to deal with Shang Yi. At the same time, he also summoned the Han army commanders under his command, King Kong Youde of Obedience, King Zhishun Shang Kexi, King Huaishun Geng Zhongming and others to recognize Huo Gun.
Characteristics. But these things were done in secret or alone. In public, Huang Taiji never mentioned Shang Yi. Because the emperor? He had to maintain a sense of mystery in front of his ministers, so that
Only by being incomprehensible can the ministers under him cannot follow his own preferences and deceive himself. At the same time, he can also show that he knows everything and is capable of everything.
It is gratifying that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming brought a large amount of advanced artillery and cannon-casting technology from the Ming Dynasty when they came to the Qing Dynasty. They also helped the Qing Dynasty quickly establish a firearms force, and at the same time, the Qing Dynasty's firearms manufacturing level developed rapidly.
However, the development of firearms in the late Ming Dynasty has actually entered a misunderstanding, which is to emphasize artillery and despise firecrackers, attach importance to large and heavy artillery, and despise small and medium-sized light artillery. It is gratifying that Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others are also the same. Although the three
There are also many fire blunderbuss among the men and horses under his banner, but like the Ming army at that time, most of them are three-eyed blunderbuss, with only a few bird blunderbuss. As for the Thunder blunderbuss, Zhidian blunderbuss, Lumi blunderbuss, etc., there are even more
No, let alone firecracker tactics.
Although the Ming Dynasty invented the three-stage continuous shooting tactic on its own, firecrackers still only existed as auxiliary weapons in the Ming army. To put it bluntly, they were no different from archers. Naturally, there is no such thing as continuous strikes and intensive strikes.
Tactics. Not to mention the use of granular gunpowder, fixed gunpowder, bayonet and other technologies. Although these technologies are not large and complex, they are enough to greatly improve the performance of the firecracker without changing the firecracker itself.
, thus making the musket the mainstream weapon on the battlefield, leaping from the cold weapon era to the hot weapon era.
Therefore, the few of them could not provide much reference value to Huang Taiji. Although Huang Taiji's understanding of fire guns had improved a lot, they still felt that they were confused. They did not understand how Shang Yi used fire guns to defeat the Qing army.
The detailed collection of Shang Yi's information has produced some results. Although not much has been gained in terms of Shang Yi's life experience, in the past month, Shang Yi led his army south to quell the chaos and fought against Li Zicheng.
Clearly. Although the combat effectiveness of the peasant army is nothing in Huang Taiji's eyes, since Shang Yi went south, he has repeatedly defeated Li Zicheng, and the battles have always been with less and more. This also shows that they can defeat the Qing army.
accidental.
However, the information collected by the investigators was only the result of the battle, and Huang Taiji paid more attention to Shang Yi's tactics in defeating Li Zicheng. Whether he also used fire blunderbuss in combat, and how to use fire blunderbuss in combat, this was very difficult because
It is impossible for Xi Zuo to go to the battlefield in person to see how Shang Yi fought, so it seems that further data collection is needed.
At the same time, Huang Taiji also knew that Shang Yi actually called his own army the "Shang Dynasty Army". This was quite courageous. Although he imitated Qi Jiguang in terms of name, in fact "Qi Jiajun" was just the honorific name given to Qi Jiguang's department by the common people.
, Qi Jiguang never dared to call his army "Qi Family Army", but Shang Yi dared, which also shows that this man wanted to control the army in his own hands. He seemed quite ambitious. I am afraid he was not just a general.
.And I may be able to take advantage of this in the future.
However, this was Huang Taiji's innermost thoughts, and Abatai could not let him know. Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Huang Taiji said: "Seventh brother, let's stop talking about Shang Yi's matter, but about Wu Yazalan's matter.
How's it going? Have you returned to your in-laws' house?"