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Nanyuan, also known as Nanhaizi, outside Beijing, is lively.

As the largest wetland in Beijing, Nanhaizi is the royal hunting ground of the Liao, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties and the royal garden of the Ming Dynasty.

In the midst of this autumn wind, a team of soldiers and horses drove into the royal hunting ground within a radius of dozens of miles.

The weaving golden dragons of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Han armies, and various military flags, are as dense as firewood forests in mid-air. In addition to Wu Sangui, who was newly crowned the king of Pingxi, led tens of thousands of horses and horses to pursue Li Zicheng in the direction of Xuanfu, Azig led tens of thousands of cavalry outside the Great Wall, including the troops and horses of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Eight Banners of Mongolia, and Mongolia, and the soldiers and horses of the princes of Anjun echoed from afar, and Wang Yuele of Anjun led his men and horses to Tianjin and Cangzhou to guard in the direction of Tianjin, and Prince Duoduo of Yu led tens of thousands of elites to go south along the road of Baoding and Zhending, and confronted Liu Fangliang, the general under Li Zicheng on the front line of Zhangde Mansion, and the rest of the princes in the capital almost arrived together.

Even Prince Daishan, who had just escorted Shunzhi Emperor Fulin and the two empress dowagers all the way from Shengjing to Beijing, was also surrounded by his children and grandchildren like the stars holding the moon.

Looking at his son Shuoto, who was talking affectionately in front of Dolgon's horse, Daizen's heart felt as if he had knocked over the five-flavor bottle. This son, who he wanted to kill quickly, is now a popular person in front of the regent, just like Yue Le and others. Yue Le is okay, after all, he is the son of Abatai, although it only took two or three years to become the county king who is in charge of the banner owner of the Blue Banner Manchuria, and there are dozens of soldiers and minions of Niu Lu under his command, but compared to his own damned son, Dai Shan is still willing to see Shuo Tuo die first.

But the plague lasted for a thousand years. Instead of being killed by the thunderbolts that fell from the sky, Shuoto became more and more nourishing. Under the control of him and Azig, the number of soldiers and horses is increasing day by day, and the minions under his banner are also promoted and rich, and how many people still remember him as an old master?

Shuoto didn't care, just talked and laughed with the regent Prince Rui Dolgon. The power projected by his father can be compared to the eyes of Nanban's artillery salvo, and in his opinion, it is just a little resentful of an old and mediocre old man.

"Old thing, not dead yet!? You'd better die as soon as possible, if you die, I'll preside over the distribution of your cattle and people, gold, silver, and property, as well as your new and a few small blessings! ”

The little dirt between father and son was like a mirror in Dorgon's eyes. But it's also a good thing. If each of the eight flags is like the two white flags of the three of their brothers, then he, the regent, will have no taste.

At this time, around him, the generals of the two white flags, the generals of the two yellow flags, and the generals and officials of the wider Tashan system surrounded him. Thousands of honor guards and Taoist teams came to Nanhaizi in a majestic manner.

"Lord Regent, the military department and the arsenal of the military department, Chen Banda, who manages the affairs of the War Bureau, has ordered people to come, and the cause of performing martial arts and horses is complete, please go to the school for review!"

After entering Beijing, the banner owners of the Eight Banners, the princes and generals of Beile, each had their own rewards, that is, Aobai, who had always been loyal to Huang Taiji, and also accepted the reward from Dolgon after the second brother Zhuo Butai, the fourth brother Baha, the sixth brother Mulima and the uncle and brother Tulai and others, and became another person in the Guerjia clan who served as Gushan Ezhen. Although his solid mountain forehead is really not the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, in the eyes of Zhuo Butai, Mulima, Tulai and others, it is a role that the prince of Manchuria cannot compare!

Dolgon appointed Ao Bai as the newly established Eight Banners Divine Machine Battalion Gushan Ezhen! Together with his cronies, Cao Zhenyan, who has made great contributions in Tashan and Shengjing, and is now already the identity of Jueluo, has 20,000 firearms in the hands of the Qing Dynasty!

"You are on this errand, that is a person that the regent can absolutely trust and look up to! 10,000 firecrackers, Gushan Ezhen, and the left wing commander, I can't say when, our Guerjia clan will rely on you to establish a household! These are the words of the brothers who worship each other in private.

Today's review, as an important role, Ao Bai naturally has to come.

The army that was reviewed today is the left wing of his Shenji battalion, and the new equipment newly built by Chen Banda is also in his battalion.

"Aobai, lead the way!"

Dolgon admires the guy of the Guerjia clan in front of him very much, although his head is the same as granite, and he always claims to be loyal to the first emperor Huang Taiji, but, in Dolgon's opinion, this guy is like Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. is so loyal to Huang Taiji, and he is brave and brave, and he is famous for his ability to fight, once he wins for this king, he will be the king's Guan Yu! Moreover, this process of fighting is also useful.

"Worship this person, just like Mr. Hong said, the Yong Tooth of Han Gaozu, and an earlier king, who bought a pair of bones of a thousand miles of horses with a thousand taels of gold." At the family banquet where the two brothers were sent on the expedition, Dorgon retreated, and explained to the two brothers, Azig and Dord, the reasons for his promotion and reuse.

"Yongya is still a marquis." This is a trick played by the old hooligan Liu Bang.

Historical records record: More than 20 people have been crowned great heroes, and the rest of them have been indecisive day and night, and they have not been sealed. On the South Palace of Luoyang, from the Fudao Wang, I saw that the generals often sat in the sand and spoke, and said: "What is this? Liuhou (Zhang Liang) said: "Your Majesty doesn't know? This is a backfire. Shang said: "Heaven is stable, why is it the opposite?" Liuhou said: "Your Majesty takes up the cloth, so that it belongs to the world, and now Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and all the seals are dear to Xiao and Cao, and those who are punished are all hated in life." Today's military officials count their merits, and the world is not enough to seal it, this is afraid that His Majesty will not be able to complete the seal, and he is afraid that he will see the suspicion of his mistakes and punishment, so he will gather together to conspire against him. Shang Nai worried: "What can I do about it? Liuhou said: "What Shang Pingsheng hates, and what the ministers know, who is the worst?" Shang said: "Yongya is with me, and he has humiliated me a few times." I want to kill him, because he has a lot of merit, so I can't bear it. Liuhou said: "This is the urgent first seal Yongya to show the ministers, and when the ministers see the Yongya seal, everyone will be self-reliant." So Shang Nai put wine, sealed Yongya for the Marquis of Shifang, and was anxious to be the prime minister, and the imperial history was sealed. The ministers stopped drinking, and they all rejoiced: "Yongya is still a marquis, and I am in trouble." ”

In a sense, Ao Bai is also a weight used by Dorgon to calm the hearts of the two Yellow Banner soldiers. Everyone knows that Aobai is absolutely loyal to Huang Taiji, but now Aobai is so reused by the regent, which shows that the regent employs people out of public intentions.

On the other hand, in the entire Eight Banners, Aobai has become a pair of horses and bones for Dolgon to attract talents. You see, isn't the reason why Ao Bai can be reused by the regent because he has the ability and ability? As long as you have the ability, the regent will definitely use it!

An extremely open place in the South China Sea has become a sea of flags and people. But, apart from the rustling of the autumn wind over the flags and the occasional neighing of horses, the tens of thousands of troops were silent, and only the sound of breathing could be heard.

This is the past few months after entering the customs, Dolgon collected the fire soldiers of the former Ming army on the way from Liaodong to Beijing, and after going to rough cut and eliminate the old and weak, they were combined with the two white flag coat soldiers and became the current Shenji Battalion.

Seeing that the army that was originally a rabble already had the atmosphere of an elite division, Dolgon couldn't help but nod approvingly, "Ao worships this person, he is really good at leading troops!" I didn't use him wrong! Although Dorgon was still the regent at this time, he called himself the emperor's exclusive "I" when he summoned his ministers and gave instructions to fold official documents.

"What are you going to do today?" Dai Shan tried to open a pair of old eyes that were a little sour because of the excessive color of wine, and looked at the queue in the distance,

In the distance, the ranks were made up of thousands of unarmored soldiers, lined up according to their respective formations and flags, but they were also in good order. However, the soldiers had no other equipment on their bodies than a firecracker. Dai Shan pouted, "It's the old fourteen again, who is playing tricks on his firecrackers!" ”

However, at the front of the queue, it is different. The soldiers in the first three columns did not even have a single musket.

It was only the soldiers of the third column who struggled to hold on to a strange firearm that looked more than a man tall to prevent it from being blown around by the wind. In the forefront of this column of soldiers, all of them are selected tall and strong people, although all the firecrackers do not even have a piece of cotton armor on their bodies, but this column of soldiers is very special wearing cotton armor specially thickened on the shoulders, which is extremely conspicuous in the team.

At the front of the line, there was a column of soldiers holding slender wooden poles and large medicine boxes on their bodies, but they didn't know what to do.

Dai Shan couldn't recognize what firearms they were, but Hong Chengchou, who was inconspicuous next to Dolgon, was somewhat familiar with these firearms.

Because, he had seen these firearms in the Ming army camp on the Songjin battlefield!

Among the Ming army, it was called the turtledove beak cannon! There are also those called turtledoves!

This kind of gun is the largest gun with the largest inner diameter in this era, reaching the standard of 0.6 inches (about 19mm) in the inner diameter, according to the modern rules of dividing guns, it can already be regarded as a weapon between guns and guns! The gun is 5.5 feet long (about 31-32 centimeters per ruler), 1.3 taels of medicine, 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams) of lead, and 1.8 taels (68 grams, terrifying!) ）。

Because the caliber is large, the pipe wall should be thicker, so the body of this turtledove fire gun is heavier, and it needs to be supported by a tripod, because the tripod is shaped like a bird's foot, so it is named turtledove foot gun and turtledove beak cannon. However, it is also far more powerful than ordinary bird guns, and it is completely different from the style of bird guns and Lu Mi guns. At that time, Macao and Guangdong could be manufactured, pirates used this kind of firearms, and the officers and soldiers also had a small amount of equipment, and a batch of firearms transported by Xiong Wencan to Beijing in the eighth year of Chongzhen included 100 firearms of this kind, which were transferred to the battlefield in Liaodong, and the result was obtained by the Qing army.

However, the turtledove-billed cannon displayed in front of the princes, ministers, and generals had no stand, and it was fired from a group of two to a group of three. Hong Chengchou was also a little puzzled.

Just when he was thinking wildly, Chen Banda, who was in charge of all the affairs of the War Bureau, stood up from the ground in front of Dolgon with a spring breeze on his face.

Over there, the flag in the hand of Ao Bai was wavering, and the soldiers in the Shenji Battalion had already set a wooden stake more than a hundred steps in front of the array, and dozens of sheep were tied to the stake, and the sheep were tied to the stake by people, and they couldn't stop bleating.

"Ridiculous! With such a distance, how can you hit it? Even the projectile can't fly! After a little distance, Dai Shan couldn't help but despise Ao Ao in his heart.

"Array! Get ready! ”

Many of the princes and ministers who came to watch the review with Dolgon were secretly laughing at this first warrior of Manchuria, forgetting their own ability to fight with archery and horses, but what kind of firearms are they playing with in shame here, don't you know how far the firearms can hit?

Ao Bai didn't care about that much, just waved the flag in his hand.

As an order was heard, the three columns of soldiers standing in front of the queue quickly moved into action.

A tall and sturdy soldier in thickened cotton armor folded a thick white cloth about eight feet long and two feet wide into strips, wrapped the barrel of the turtledove's beak, and placed it on his shoulder, allowing the cotton cloth to act as a barrier between the barrel and the shoulder.

The soldier with the slender pole in his hand took out the ****** and the huge projectile from the medicine box with his hands and feet, fed them into the barrel with the long pole, and carefully rammed them twice, so that they could touch it more realistically.

After his companion completed this series of actions, the soldier who served as the archer watched the command flag in the commander's hand wave downward, and hurriedly pulled open the primer cover, shouldered against the butt of the gun, aimed at the front sight of the door, aimed at three points and one line, pulled the trigger with his right hand, the snake rod sank, the fire flashed in the primer pot, and then there was a loud bang, the gun body retreated heavily, and the primer pot and the gun mouth suddenly spewed out a thick white smoke, and a long orange flame in the white smoke shone brightly.

On the row of wooden stakes more than 100 paces away from the shooting formation, blood splashed suddenly, minced meat and sawdust flew wildly, and the screams of the sheep who had never been killed were all together.

This scene suddenly made the Eight Banner princes and ministers who were still smiling at the corners of their mouths just now, ready to see Ao Bai and Chen Banda, the two celebrities in front of Dolgon, who were obedient and ugly, stunned.

Chen Tai and several other generals of the Tashan system didn't care to ask Dolgon for instructions, so they rode their horses out of the queue and rushed to Aobai.

"Aobai, let us see the firearms in the hands of your minions!"

Chen Tai and the others, together with the Zhenglan Banner Manchuria, Gushan, Ezhen Azignikan and others, asked Ao Bai for this newly discovered magic weapon in unison, intending to be the first to see the true face.

Taking over the new gadgets that grew up and were heavy from the hands of the Baya soldiers in Aobai, Chen Tai and the others tried hard to look at this new gun with such power. The body of this firebolt is between five and six feet, and there is a snake shaft with a firewire on the barrel near the butt, and the muzzle of the gun looks like it can fit into a finger, at least half an inch or more, and the wall of the pipe is also very thick, and it looks like it is nearly twenty pounds.

If it weren't for the fingers touching the still slightly hot gun tube and witnessing the shooting process of this thing, it would have killed Chen Tai and the others, and these young Manchurian nobles who had learned the power of firearms on the Tashan position would not have believed that this seemingly inconspicuous thing could have such power.

"Aobai, how far can this thing hit?"

Chen Tai couldn't wait to ask about the various properties of this turtledove-billed cannon.

The same question, in the distance, before Dolgon drove, Hong Chengchou also eagerly asked Chen Banda, who supervised the creation of this thing.

Hong Chengchou is also a person who has spent more than ten years in the military formation, and he has a sharp eye for the use of firearms, and he can see at a glance that this firearm, which is similar to the turtledove's foot, is much more convenient than the turtledove's foot. Without a bracket and using a human shoulder as a support, the firearm can be moved much faster, and the terrain requirements are much simpler. As long as a man can stand, he can use this object, unlike before, where he needs to find or level the ground.

"When Mr. Hung asks you, you have to answer truthfully. His question is the question of your master and me. Dolgon's words made Hong Chengchou and Chen Banda both grateful. One is secretly shouting in his heart, "The regent treats me as a countryman, and I will repay him as a countryman; One was grateful for being called his own by the regent in front of so many princes and ministers.

"Yes! The minion must know everything, and there is no end to what he says! Chen Banda hit a thousand beautifully on the ground, stood up and told Hong Chengchou like a few treasures.

"This thing was modeled after the turtledove-billed cannon in the storehouse by the minions. The regent had already given the name to this object as a spear, because it had to be lifted by a person before it could be cast, hence the name. The minions were ordered to create these style guns, and tried to release them together with Aobai Gushan Ezhen several times, and this thing had a target head within 200 steps of a flat hit, and a drop within 400 steps of a long shot. But there is no longer an accurate head. The minions have ordered the craftsmen of the War Bureau to improve them, and the first batch of new guns that have been produced at present can already shoot at an accurate head within 270 paces, and can shoot down a son at a distance of 5 or 600 paces, without an accurate head. ”

(The above data are listed in the historical documents such as the records of Qing Shizong, and the remarks of Yue Zhongqi, the general of Ningyuan, to the Yongzheng Emperor.) It should be rigorous. ）

This gun can actually shoot five or six hundred steps? Although it is the maximum range, it is no longer an effective range, but this data is enough to make Hong Chengchou and the eight nobles of Dai Shan and the eight banners present dumbfounded. You must know that the general artillery equipped by the Ming army is only within this range.

"Good boy!" Chen Tai and the others were immediately excited when they heard Ao Bai talk about the range of the gun.

"If we had thousands of strokes of this thing when we were in Tashan, what were we afraid of Li Huamei's crazy tiger? Let's let her leave as many corpses as she can in front of the battle! (To be continued.) )