The war between the Qing army and the Shun army went on slowly, back and forth. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Although it is said that from the perspective of the situation, Dolgon has the advantage, and he is pressing towards the Beijing division step by step. But he also said that every step of progress has to pay a lot of casualties. Li Zicheng used this method of resisting layer by layer to gain time and space for his strategic contraction.

The battle lines of the two sides moved westward step by step.

However, the farther west, the more mixed Dorgon's mood became.

Along the way, there were officials and gentry who offered the city, and many people came to **** when they were dozens of miles away from the Qing army. However, from the mouths of these gentry, Dorgon did not hear any good news that was useful to him.

Originally, it was thought that when the army reached the vicinity of Tianjin, it could be replenished with grain and rice from Tongzhou, and it could purchase military supplies from merchants in the south of Tianjin. However, from the mouths of the gentry, Dolgon heard the bad news that the Tianjin Trade Zone had been emptied by thieves. Not even a nail of iron remained in its place.

That's miserable! Originally, he planned to use the purchased grain and rice materials to feed the more than 200,000 horses, but now he wants to buy with the silver, but he can't find a seller.

If it weren't for the Caoyun merchants in Tongzhou and the merchants in Shanxi who generously sold the hundreds of thousands of stones, grain, rice and other materials they had hidden to Dolgon on the face of silver, I am afraid that the regent would not even have the courage and confidence to launch the Beijing campaign.

However, Li Zicheng did not give him this opportunity.

When Dolgon was still carrying grain and rice in Tongzhou and distributing it to the banners, Li Zicheng's brigade had already crossed the Shahe River and the vanguard had already reached Badaling.

Looking at the marching procession winding on the mountain road, Li Zicheng suddenly felt that this crusade was like a prosperous dream. He took the Jingshi with great momentum, but rushed to a Dolgon outside the Shanhai Pass. Fortunately, the main force of the army has not been damaged, so it's a big deal that we continue to control the enemy by walking.

"Your Majesty, but I lost a city to Wu Sangui and Dolgon. Isn't it the same when we laid down Luoyang, transporting gold and silver property out of Luoyang and using it to raise soldiers and buy horses. Now, the goods of the entire city of Beijing have been greatly collected into the hands of our Dashun, which can be used to pay for military expenses for several years. Niu Jinxing couldn't stop comforting Li Zicheng on the horse, and what he said was also the truth. In the early days of Li Zicheng's military career, he rarely attacked the city.

Regarding Niu Jinxing's words, Li Zicheng nodded slightly in agreement.

"As long as the army returns to Xuanda, relying on the terrain and mountains, and Mr. Wu's dedication, he will train and select officials to govern the place. Within two years, the minister can guarantee that this Jingshi will still be changed to my Dashun's Youzhou Mansion! ”

Niu Jinxing glanced at Wu Xing, who was not far behind Li Zicheng with a solemn expression, and dug a pit for him quietly. Li Zicheng also knew this, but he didn't say it. The little dirt between the officials of the Qin Law Department and the officials of the Kejia Department had already been secretly told to him.

"Well, the army will return to Xuanda, rest the troops and raise horses, and when Shandong's military funds are in hand, we will go out of Taihang to fight the Liao thieves!"

Outside the Yongding Gate of the capital, a large number of officials with their children and daughters, carriages and horses poured out of the city gate and went straight to the direction of Zhuozhou. Most of these people were officials who were screened and selected and hired by the Dashun Imperial Court, and many of them still voted for their protégés in front of Niu Jinxing.

Now there is chaos in the city, and it is rumored that Wu Sangui has entered Beijing to succeed to the throne by the crown prince, and it is inevitable that these officials who surrendered will be investigated. If you don't take advantage of the chaos to escape at this time, won't you be able to wait in the city to cut off your head? Among the crowd, Zhou Zhong, who was in the limelight in the capital a few days ago, was also in the queue for fleeing south. It's just that he is no longer high-spirited, but deliberately smeared his face with dirt for fear of being recognized.

Among the people who fled south, the former governor Hou Sui, who had just been selected and appointed by the Dashun Imperial Court, hid in a carriage, that is, he was so suffocated that he did not dare to show his face in front of people, for fear of accidents.

The Yongding Gate in the south is in a mess, but the Chaoyang Gate in the east is full of well-dressed birds and beasts, and everyone celebrates with their crowns. There were many eunuchs in the crowd who prepared all kinds of halogen honor guards. These people heard that Wu Sangui's army had passed through Tongzhou, so they told each other, and called friends to the city gate to welcome the army of Ping Xibo, who had made a contribution to the restoration of the country, and by the way, they left a good impression in front of the prince who was about to ascend the throne.

The dust on the horizon in the distance was big, and the bluestone road under his feet was trembling slightly, thinking that a large army had arrived.

"Hurry! The army of Pinsiber has arrived! Get ready! The leaders of several officials looked at each other's clothes and appearances again, although the matter was in a hurry, and they did not prepare to build the colorful shed archway, but the drummers gathered a lot, and the sheng, pipe, flute, flute, cymbals and cymbals were all available.

According to the yamen system of the various ministries and departments of the civil and military grades, the officials knelt down on the side of the road in shifts, holding their handbooks in their hands, and chanting: "Ministers welcome Your Majesty!" Ministers greet the army of Pingxibo! ”

In the aftermath of the eye, I could only see countless horses' hooves passing in front of me, and the shoes sporadically sparked on the bluestone slabs, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the cavalry ranks stopped.

A rather strange voice floated down from overhead: "You and other ministers came to take over, which shows loyalty and the intention of surrendering to the new dynasty." This Wang Xi is the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and he should be comforted with a reward. ”

Well? Where did this start, people raised their heads boldly, but saw that in the midst of the crowd, a leader in a dragon robe was majestic under the golden dragon weaving.

"Who is this person?" Everyone was puzzled, "Why don't you see Ping Xibo?" ”

"Bold!" Speak of the devil. In the crowd on the side, Wu Sangui, the prince of Pingxi of the Great Qing Dynasty, urged his horse out, "The regent of the Great Qing Dynasty is here, you dare to look up!" So paradoxical! ”

came to greet the prince of the Ming Dynasty, but greeted the regent of the Qing Dynasty. The hearts of the people were full of sorrow. However, there is a person whose brain turns quickly, and Wu Sangui is also easy to shave his hair and wear, and he was canonized as a prince. Whatever! We have never found an official position when we were in the Dashun Dynasty, and now the regent of the Qing Dynasty has shown a thirst for recruiting talents, so we are still not good at choosing the master?

"Greetings to the Lord Regent! Congratulations to the Regent on breaking the thieves! ”

In the cheers of everyone, Dolgon took the honor guard of the Ming Emperor as the forerunner, entered the city of Beijing, and placed the line in the palace!

Immediately sent someone to Shengjing to send an urgent good news, please Emperor Shunzhi enter the customs as soon as possible, and the Qing Dynasty will give orders in Beijing from now on!

At the same time, Fan Yongdou and others were summoned into the palace and asked them to continue to raise food and grass for the Qing army and horses for military use! For a time, on the 730-mile road from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, Yu Yu was galloping, as fast as a spark.

If you look at it from God's point of view, the two armies are only a few hundred miles apart in a straight line, but they are both commanders. If you zoom out a little bit, you will find that the two emperors, the Yongchang Emperor of Dashun and the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, are in this land of thousands of miles.

And at this moment, Jiangnan is also arguing over who is the ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

Pukou. It faces Nanjing Yuhuatai across the river. Here low mountains, hills, plains, hills, big rivers, big rivers are readily available, the river is vertical and horizontal, it is a good season for the reeds to turn green, and the water birds everywhere.

Looking at the large flocks of waterfowl rising up from time to time on the water, and the waterfowl fighting with each other with their beaks, claws, and wings in order to compete for a few nesting places, Li Shouhan couldn't help but have a sense that it was better to return than to be calm.

"Lord Qiqi, everything is ready." A very disappointing voice appeared next to him, and suddenly the little poetry that Li Shouhan was very rare to appear was gone.

On the beach of the Chu River, the guards rudely cut off the reeds and cleared out a field. At the edge of the river beach, a line was drawn with white ash, and behind the line were placed seven or eight wooden boxes, not knowing what was inside.

"Let's get started!"

A dozen soldiers immediately opened the wooden box with a crowbar, took out the grenades sealed in oiled paper, and handed them to the guards who were waiting in line on the river beach.

"Lord, is this thing really better than our current ponytail grenade?" Peng Kun and several other brigade commanders stood solemnly beside Li Shouhan, but their eyes were unblinking looking at the soldiers who were about to make a demonstration.

Li Shouhan just fiddled with the fluffy little wild duck in his hand, teasing the little guy who had just hatched out of the eggshell and was found and sent to him.

"Whether it's easy to use or not, you just have to look at it to find out."

He replied to Peng Kun very firmly.

The grenades in the hands of the soldiers are also in the style of horsetail grenades, but they are much smaller in size. Obviously, the amount of charge in it is no longer two catties of black fire, medicine. These grenades should be another new military technological achievement of South China and a comprehensive product of the strength of all aspects.

After the capture of Banggara, the third prince Li Huaxuan, was very pleasantly surprised to learn from the governors who were eager to express their loyalty to the new master that this land was not only rich in jute, which is known as soft gold, but also had saltpeter mines, an important raw material for military production.

Although it is said that the source of nitrate in Nanzhong is mainly obtained in the nitrification fields, no one will object to having a large amount of saltpeter ore as another important source.

As a result, on the sea vessels from Punggarat to Hue and Ha Tinh, in addition to jute cotton, a large amount of saltpeter was transported as ballast.

With a large amount of saltpeter that can be squandered and purified, the professors of Nanzhong University, with the strong support of Li Shouhan and Galileo, upgraded the existing sulfuric acid production technology of the cylinder tower method in Nanzhong to the lead chamber method production. Purified sulfur and saltpeter are used for sulfuric acid production to produce sulfuric acid and table salt. At the same time, charcoal and lime are added to these two products, in addition to sodium carbonate, which is called soda ash and calcium sulfide, two positive products, and several by-products are also of epoch-making significance.

In addition to hydrochloric acid obtained by adding water to the by-product hydrogen chloride, the ****** was finally obtained by adding different processes of hot and cold lime milk. and calcium hypochlorite.

(What?) You don't know what calcium hypochlorite is? Go to your kitchen and bathroom and look for it, commonly known as bleaching powder! ）

As for ******, this thing is even more powerful! The product of its combination with tung oil is the charge that was loaded into the grenade at this time. Its power is not lower than or close to ***. Explosives, there is a special term called "tung potassium explosives", and the Eighth Route Army used this a lot.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, in view of the large demand for explosives, such as long-term reliance on imports, once the transportation is blocked, it can not be supplied, in addition to the artillery shell factories and grenade factories that have prepared nitrate and potassium ladder explosives, but also in 1939 in Sichuan Changshou to prepare for the establishment of ***. The explosives factory was completed in July 1944 and officially put into operation in January 1945. In February, the 26th factory of the Ordnance Industry Administration was formally established. Trial production was successful in May 1945**. The explosives mixed with tung oil are named potassium tung explosives. The explosion high temperature is more than 300C, the violence test is about 1.5m/m, and the cast lead expands the volume of about 230 ml. Its performance is safer than that of French cheddite explosives (chlorate-based explosives).

Li Shouhan originally vigorously promoted the cultivation of tung trees in Guangxi, Fujian and other places, which was originally intended to be used for sailors and maritime shipping, but he did not expect that this plant would have such a use. When they learned that the frenzied guys at Nanzhong University and Maple Ridge Laboratory had developed this kind of thing, they ordered that they should pay an additional year's salary from the Inner Government and pay the relevant personnel an additional year's salary.

At the same time, Ha Jing was ordered to manufacture a large number of grenades! The charge is made of this tung potassium explosive.

Although knowing, ***. There are many other uses, for example, together with realgar, it can be used to make fire caps. Combined with gum arabic and charcoal, it can be used to make ****. **。 However, the current military situation does not allow him to carefully develop and equip the troops with new weapons. The only way to do this was to quickly spread the grenade, a weapon that was easy to learn and easy to produce combat effectiveness, to deal with the two enemies in the north who had a large number of cavalry.

Before the advent of heavy machine guns, artillery was the natural enemy of cavalry, however, the mobility of artillery was really not flattering. Therefore, the price-performance ratio of grenades is very good. Moreover, there is no need to make too many changes in the formation and tactics, it is only necessary to equip the troops, teach the soldiers how to use them, and the rest is how to ensure supplies. Think about it, a large number of grenades were thrown from the infantry and exploded in the swarming Qing cavalry ranks, that scene, Li Shouhan was excited when he thought about it.

"A grenade, powerful. Twenty or thirty meters up, killing and injuring people and horses. He couldn't help but recite the tactical mantra of the four fields in a voice that he could hear.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The soldier in charge of the demonstration to the officers threw the grenade one after another, and the clouds of smoke and dust exploded on the beach of the Chuhe River, and small craters were blown out of the ground. The waterfowl in the middle of the reeds were startled by the sudden serial explosion and flew into the sky, hovering in the air and wailing, not daring to fall for a long time.

The scene in front of him made Peng Kun and several other brigade commanders and officers of the Guards Brigade smack, but in the blink of an eye, there were continuous cheers. Those who were in a hurry simply rushed to the area where the bomb had just been dropped, and carefully observed the effect of the explosion.

"At the beginning of Tashan, if we had this thing, why couldn't we break through the trenches of the Liao thieves?!"

The officers of the Marine Division and the Land Battalion got together to compare the performance and effectiveness of the new weapon with the horsetail grenade that was put into service at Tower Hill. They also inadvertently found a new direction for this new weapon, which was to deal with enemy positions, trenches, bunkers, ditches, etc. It is possible to stop the soldiers from being bogged down in the fierce hand-to-hand combat between the trenches, or rather, the war may evolve into a different form. It's likely to get even more brutal.

The swarming enemy soldiers rushed along the trench towards the soldiers of the Nanyue Army who had broken into the position, preparing to drive the soldiers of the Nanyue Army out with their swords, guns, and firearms. However, he was blown up by the grenades that swept over his head and continued to explode in the queue, and the formation was chaotic, and in a blink of an eye, he was slashed to the ground by the soldiers of the Nanyue Army who rushed up. Several officers of the Marine Division and the Guards Brigade who had participated in the Battle of Tower Hill met together to outline a picture of future warfare.

"Actually, this thing is more useful for our sailor land camp." The naval division and land battalion must not only open a passage on the beachhead and establish a landing ground, but also participate in the battle against the enemy's warships. If these soldiers throw grenades everywhere as soon as they jump onto the opposing ship, it will inevitably seriously damage the morale of the opposing ship. (In other words, the unreasonable way of using grenades when boarding the opposing warship seems to be what the rabbit did in the South China Sea and South Vietnamese warships.) ）

According to their own actual combat experience, a few people summed up the use of this new weapon and various immoral tactics one by one, what is used to destroy the enemy's cantonment holes, used to destroy the dense formation of counterattacking the enemy's army, and the formation of the opponent's firecrackers, or used alone or concentrated throwing, all kinds of means used to fill the gap in firepower between the artillery and the firecrackers have been summed up one by one.

"Don't have a little meeting over there!" Li Shouhan put down the little duck in his hand, let it toddle in the dirt under his feet, and just greeted the officers of the various departments to gather.

"Take the brigade as a unit, and each person will go and throw two shots to feel the power of this new thing! Go back and explain to your soldiers! The lord's words made the officers, who were already itching, feel like they had been pardoned by the emperor, so they just cheered and took them to the river beach to enjoy themselves.

A pair of soft wattles handed over a handkerchief and motioned for Li Shouhan to wipe his hands.

"Other people's families go out of the city to live up to this good spring, but it's good for you to come here, and don't forget to train the soldiers." The person who spoke was Li Xiangjun's adoptive mother, Li Lizhen. (To be continued.) )