Daming Military Empire

Chapter 283

Daming finally sent troops, 80 troops and 50 captives marched out in three directions. Even a blind man could know such a big movement, not to mention that Huang Taiji was not blind at all. Jin Yiwei had placed countless spies in the grassland. There are countless spies planted in the Central Plains, all of them have yellow skin, black hair, and black eyes, and they all speak Chinese. As long as they don't go to the enemy and call me a spy, they can usually hide.

With an army of 80, Hong Taiji not only didn't panic, but felt very excited. He had been looking forward to the little emperor coming to the grassland to fight him. It didn't mean that he would welcome the army to enter the grassland in any way. In fact, there was a situation He was also afraid, that is, the little emperor followed Han Wudi and Tang Taizong and sent elite cavalry to beat his buttocks. If that was the case, he couldn't stand it.

Although the Ming army was not dominated by cavalry, there were more than 20 cavalry in the first-class legion and the second-class legion. If you send strong generals like Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Bianjiao to lead them straight to his court, If he didn't care about anything else, he was going to cry, because his Mongolian cavalry had only about [-] in total, and his equipment was a little worse than others, so he would lose no matter what he fought!
Fortunately, the little emperor did not do that. Instead, he attacked the grassland in the way he most wanted to see. He was not afraid that there would be too many Ming soldiers, and he was not afraid that the Ming army would attack the three major grasslands at the same time. The more people who came, the better. Also, the more the better, the more people cut off their food roads, the faster they would collapse, and the more roads they divided, the easier it would be for him to gather superior forces to defeat them one by one.

In other words, the army is full of muskets and artillery, and cold weapons are no different from delivering food in front of them. Why is Huang Taiji still so confident?Isn't he suffering enough in Liaodong?

Of course, this Huang Taiji knew that he also had a hole card, because he stole Ming's technology. The Qing army was different from the peasant uprising army. Developing the military industry, I never thought about making advanced equipment. The Qing army was an organized and disciplined army. The former Houjin and the current Manchu Qing also had the Ministry of Industry. What weapons can defeat the enemy on the battlefield? Will study and develop in that direction.

This is not nonsense. Historically, during the Chongzhen Dynasty, Jin had researched the manufacturing method of the Hongyi cannon four years after Chongzhen (1631 A.D.), at least in terms of artillery technology. At that time, the whole world was at the forefront. If it continues to develop, there may be Manchus among the great powers.

However, the roughness of gunpowder weapons in the Ming Dynasty created a typical negative teaching material. The Ming army with hot weapons was not even as good as the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes who surrendered in the Qing Dynasty. Then compare the national power and combat power of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army's flattery of weapons could not keep up with the Mongolian cavalry across Europe and Asia. This strong contrast made the Manchu and Qing gradually abandon the development of gunpowder weapons and focus on cold weapon warfare.

The application and development of each weapon depends on the actual effect on the battlefield. To make a simple analogy, if an aircraft carrier breaks down at every turn, the engine will fail for a while, the nuclear reactor will leak again for a while, and the fighter jets on board will fall into the sea after flying together , or knocked a hole in the deck as soon as it landed, or even caused heavy casualties to the staff on the deck, so which country dares to develop an aircraft carrier? Isn't such an aircraft carrier brought to the battlefield to help the enemy!
For reasons of practicality on the battlefield, the Manchu Qing Dynasty gave up the development of gunpowder weapons in history, who would do the thankless things!For the same reason, in the Chongzheng Dynasty, Huang Taiji attached great importance to the development of gunpowder weapons, because the Ming army was too fierce after being equipped with gunpowder weapons, and he could hardly find his way in Liaodong. How to fight the Ming army, it is better to surrender directly!
Like now, Huang Taiji has also established a military factory in a hidden place in the Chahar Grassland. The scale and layout are even the same as Wang Gong's factory, and there are even simple lathes, milling machines and other machine tools in it!He bought these from unscrupulous dealers in Daming at a high price. Now Daming has not imposed a technical blockade on the civilians. Private processing workshops can still buy simple lathes and milling machines in the Ministry of Industry, but there are no military ones. Excellent, but not as powerful as military ones.

To put it bluntly, this steam power is a simple and common thing. Almost everyone has boiled water and seen steam, but they have not thought about power. So Man Qing has actually mastered steam power technology now, but they have not. With so many talents in Ming Dynasty, their development was relatively slow.

The technology of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a little worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the ordinary [-]-type flintlock guns, [-]-type howitzers and [-]-type howitzers are all mass-produced, and Huang Taiji's guards are even equipped with a small amount of five Type [-] howitzer!
Of course, Huang Taiji did a good job of keeping these things secret. He was extremely careful from production to equipment to training, like a thief. It is strictly ordered that these things are only allowed to be used during secret drills, and are not allowed to be taken out at ordinary times, so the spies of Jin Yiwei did not realize that the Qing army had already equipped a large number of gunpowder weapons.

He just wanted Zhu Cijiong, the little Yin emperor, to give the Ming army a hard time. Thinking of the surprised expression on the little emperor's face when he saw the Qing army equipped with the same gunpowder weapons, Huang Taiji couldn't be happier. Come on, come on, Hurry up, once you enter the prairie, you don't want to go out again!

The Ming army did not come as fast as he expected. According to reports from spies, the Ming army did not directly enter the three major grasslands. The three armies stopped at each entrance. They are all doing the same thing, that is, building fortresses !

Huang Taiji didn't feel too surprised at this point. The defeat of the army due to the interception of food and grass is not uncommon in history, and it is nothing new. The little emperor would be an idiot if he didn't know this. The army built a fort at the entrance they passed, definitely for the purpose of storing food and grass.

He never understood why the Ming army took 50 captives. Now he finally understands that it was for the purpose of building fortresses. However, it is a luxury for the little emperor to use 50 people to build three fortresses. 5 people are enough. Is it, people are stupid and have a lot of money, or what!
All the advantages and disadvantages of building fortresses to store grain, the advantage is that the grain is at least not stacked in the open air, it is more difficult for the enemy to intercept the grain, the disadvantage is that the grain storage is placed there, and the enemy does not have to look for it. If a hard attack is launched regardless of losses, food and grass will also be robbed.

After Huang Taiji analyzed it, he became even more excited. The little emperor didn't know that he already had thousands of cannons, and he had no way to build a fortress. It took two hits to attack.

In his opinion, the little emperor is playing a deadly game. As long as the Ming army goes deep into the grassland, he will lead the army to cut off all the food and grass in the three places. Qing world!
(End of this chapter)