On a mountain peak on the east side of the Black Sand Ridge, Du Du, the new owner of the Red Flag Banner, was standing behind an earthen platform and looking ahead.

Standing next to him were the Zhenghongqi Banner Zhugushan Ezhen Engetu and the Red Flag Banner Zhugushan Ezhen Buyandai who belonged to the Eight Banners of Meng.

As die-hard followers of Huang Taiji, as soon as they received Huang Taiji's order, they immediately led their troops to Shengjing to obey the dispatch, and Huang Taiji did not treat them badly, not only rewarded them heavily, but also married one of his daughters to Buyandai.

However, compared with the banners of the Eight Banners, which have at least 7,800 or even tens of thousands of banners each, a banner of the Eight Banners of Mongolia cannot have more than 3,000 people, and if this number is exceeded, it will be punished as a crime. Therefore, it is also Gushan Ezhen (flag owner), and the weight of Mengbaqi is far worse than that of Manchu Baqi.

Seeing Du Du's solemn expression, Bu Yandai comforted: "My lord, you don't have to worry too much, after our many days of repair, Heishaling has now dug through more than ten trenches, those Ming troops will never be able to attack, even if they have more artillery, it is useless, as long as our warriors hide in the trenches, no matter how fierce those artillery are, they will not be able to hit us." ”

"You know a."

Du Du glared at Bu Yandai angrily, "If the Jiangning Army is so easy to deal with, His Majesty will not send us to guard this Black Sand Ridge." ”

The fart slapped Bu Yandai on the horse's leg, rubbed his nose a little embarrassed, and stopped talking.

Engetu gloated and glanced at Buyandai, this guy has begun to swell up since he became Huang Taiji's forehead, and he considers himself Huang Taiji's henchman everywhere, Engetu has long been unaccustomed to it, and now seeing him being reprimanded by Du Du, his heart can't help but surge with indescribable happiness.

Bu Yandai, who was robbed of white, was not angry, and after smiling curtly, he continued: "Lord Du Du is too modest, this time Your Majesty has handed over two thousand firecrackers to you, which is enough to show Your Majesty's love for you, with these two thousand firecrackers in hand, we no longer have to worry about the Ming army's firearms." ”

"Hmmm......"

Hearing this, Du Du's face improved a lot.

As the saying goes, after suffering a few big losses, even the most stubborn Manchu people began to pay attention to firearms.

In more than a year, Huang Taiji spent a lot of money to get more than a dozen brown shell smoothbore guns from the hands of the Liaodong Army, and then summoned skilled craftsmen to study the brown shell silk smoothbore guns.

After more than half a year of research, the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally copied this musket.

However, compared with later generations, today's Manchu Qing is too backward in technology and technology.

The imitation gun gun barrel is at least half thicker than the gun barrel that Yang Feng got from modern society, not to mention that the weight is twice as heavy, that's all, the most important thing is that the particle gunpowder used in the brown beisi gun gun has no way to imitate it at all, and can only be replaced by traditional powder black powder. As a result, the firecrackers they imitated were not only heavier, but also had a greatly reduced range and power.

But even so, being able to make the fire gun successfully was tantamount to a shot in the arm for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After painstakingly building 4,000 firearms, Huang Taiji planned to follow the example of the Ming Dynasty to set up a Shenji battalion, and the personnel were to select the most elite children from the Eight Banners, and then he personally commanded them.

Surprisingly, however, this order was opposed by many Manchu generals and Baylor, and their reasons for opposition were very high-sounding.

The use and training of firearms is very simple, an ordinary person only needs two or three months of training, and almost all of the children of the Eight Banners are warriors who have been trained for more than ten years and are skilled in archery and horses, so it is too wasteful for them to use firearms.

In the end, the Manchu ministers unanimously suggested that the Han army banner should be made the first pure firearms army of the Manchu Dynasty.

Ordinary people will definitely be very surprised when they see this, the Manchurians are not stupid, and they are not unaware of the advanced nature of firearms, why would they hand over such a batch of advanced firearms to the Han Army Banner to equip?

You must know that in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the status of the Manchu Eight Banners was the highest, followed by the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the status of the Han Army Banner was the worst.

If you want to explain this problem clearly, it is a long story, simply put, some of the Manchu generals Baylor were unwilling to transfer their own men and horses to strengthen the power of Huang Taiji.

Especially the two brothers, Dolgon and Duoduo, the strength of the two flags they control is very strong, and they regard the power in their hands as the root of their life, and they naturally don't want Huang Taiji to have an excuse and opportunity to weaken themselves.

Of course, Huang Taiji understands everyone's thoughts, but in the past year or so, due to his deteriorating physical condition, coupled with the death of his eldest son Hauge, he no longer has the ambition at the beginning of the succession, but instead thinks about how to smoothly hand over the throne under his ass to his son.

With this scruples, Huang Taiji naturally didn't want to turn his face with the Dorgon brothers at this time, and Tong Yangxing was also his hardcore minion, so this matter was settled.

Although Tong Yangxing has never fiddled with firearms, he has never eaten pork and seen pigs run, and after half a year of training, this firearms battalion has finally stumbled into an army.

Huang Taiji also attached great importance to the Black Sand Ridge Resistance Battle, hoping that Du Du could delay as much as possible here and kill a large number of Ming troops, so he transferred half of the firearms battalion to Du Du.

"Woo...... Woowoo woo ......"

At this moment, a melodious and high-pitched horn sound was heard in the distance.

With the sound of the horn, a group of cavalrymen in iron armor began to appear in everyone's sight.

The cavalry appeared one after another, and when they came to a distance of about a mile from the Black Sand Ridge, they stopped advancing, and then the cavalry began to dismount, remove the bridle that was on the horse's mouth, and take out water and horse feed from the back of the pack horse behind them, and began to feed the horse.

Seeing that these Ming soldiers actually dared to feed the war horses under their noses, Du Du sneered: "Today's Ming army is not small, if it were the same as before, the two of them would not dare to do this." ”

The two of them didn't dare to answer, no matter how they answered this topic, it was wrong, so they wouldn't stop this moldy head.

"Let me see which army this Ming army is."

Du Du took out a clairvoyant mirror from his waist and looked down the mountain, and read word by word in his mouth: "General Pingliao of the Ming Dynasty, Governor of Zuodu, and Chief Military Officer Zhao Shujiao." ”

"It's actually Zhao Shujiao!"

Du Du's face immediately changed slightly, he was no stranger to the name Zhao Shujiao, just over a year ago, this guy followed Yang Feng and had a good battle with them in front of Shengjing City, that is, this battle directly knocked out more than half of the Manchu Qing's spirit.

Huang Taiji even issued a reward after the war, who can take the head of Zhao Shujiao, and reward the gold ten thousand two officials to be promoted to three levels, but so far no one has been able to take his head.