The sunset was originally a beautiful scene, but for the soldiers and civilians living in Jinzhou City, they were not in the mood to enjoy this beautiful scenery.

On the head of Jinzhou City, wisps of thick black smoke are emitted everywhere, many battlements are still inserted with long arrows, many soldiers and young men wearing mandarin duck jackets are cleaning up the wounded and corpses on the city head, on the city wall not far away, Sun Chengzong is slowly walking on the city wall accompanied by more than ten generals, looking at the soldiers and young men who are cleaning up the battlefield, Sun Chengzong turned his head and said loudly to the generals behind him: "Everyone, everyone has fought well today, and the Tartars have lost at least a thousand people, Huang Taiji should be distressed now. ”

"Hahaha......"

All the generals laughed, and many of them had satisfied looks on their faces.

In this time and space, thanks to Yang Feng's arrival, Sun Chengzong, who was originally brought home by the Donglin Party and Wei Zhongxian, is still his supervisor in Liaodong, plus Yang Feng's Daming Royal Commercial Bank has continuously provided funds and materials to Zhu Youxiao's small treasury from afar, and there are a large number of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other high-yield foods that Yang Feng got back from modern times, so today's Liaodong can be said to be well-fed and warm, and its combat effectiveness has improved compared to other time and space.

A few days ago, after Huang Taiji led an army of 80,000 Manchus to Jinzhou, Sun Chengzong issued an urgent order that all cities should be ready for battle.

When Huang Taiji led the 80,000 Manchu army to arrive, everyone felt the tense atmosphere of war, and at this tense moment, Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu led 30,000 Beijing battalions to Jinzhou, and saw the arrival of 30,000 Beijing battalions, and the Liaodong army was all relieved. They have long heard of this army, and they heard that this is a pure firearms unit built by Zhu Youxiao with a lot of money, and it is said that the combat effectiveness is not below the Jiangning army.

And this has also been confirmed in today's battle, in the face of the Manchu siege, Lu Xiangsheng three people took the initiative to ask for battle, according to the head of the city they used the fire gun in their hands to give the Qing army a head-on count, after leaving thousands of corpses after the Qing army had to be forced to withdraw.

Sun Chengzong set his eyes on a thin and elegant Lu Xiangsheng and Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu next to him, with a satisfied look on his face, he smiled: "Jiandou, General Yang, General Hu, your Beijing camp performed very well in today's battle, it is really an accident for the old man, it is worthy of the emperor's painstaking training of the Beijing camp, quite the style of the Gaozu and Chengzu years!" ”

Hearing Sun Chengzong's praise, Hu Dawei smiled from ear to ear, Yang Guozhu was also happy, and Lu Xiangsheng respectfully hugged his fists and said: "The governor has won the award, everything is His Majesty's sage, the governor is just commanding, and the last general and others dare not take credit!" ”

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng did not mean to be proud of his achievements after winning the battle, Sun Chengzong said with satisfaction: "Don't be humble in building a fight, you must know that victory on the battlefield is victory or defeat, and you can't be false at all, it should be your credit, and no one can snatch it." Our generals in Liaodong will not do anything to rob the allies of the merits, but there are still many places to rely on the Beijing camp in the future, and I hope that Jiandou and General Yang and General Hu will take care of it. ”

Hearing Sun Chengzong's praise, Lu Xiangsheng and the three of them seemed to have taken a reassurance, and the meaning of Sun Chengzong's words was very clear, they would not be greedy for ink for today's military exploits. But the words of the latter sentence are vaguely telling them that you have made a lot of contributions, and you should give the generals of Liaodong a chance next. It's just that only Lu Xiangsheng understands this sentence, but Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu haven't understood it yet.

Hearing Sun Chengzong's praise of Lu Xiangsheng and the three of them, there were also many people in the surrounding Liaodong generals who were a little unconvinced, in their opinion, the reason why today's Beijing Battalion was able to achieve thousands of results in destroying the enemy was mainly due to the merit of firearms, if it weren't for Yang Feng's almost unconditional gift of so many firearms, it would be hell that these Beijing Battalions could achieve today's results.

With the rise of the Jiangning Army, the Ming Dynasty has gradually formed a consensus, that is, the future war firearms will become the mainstream, and the cold weapons battles of the past will gradually be eliminated.

Now the generals of Liaodong hope most is to be able to buy firearms from Yang Feng, but they are suffering from no silver in hand, so the Liaodong Army can only drool empty, and now seeing the fire guns in Beijing, the generals of the Liaodong Army are called envious, jealous and hateful in their hearts.

However, the Liaodong Army is not without hole cards, in recent years, Sun Chengzong has bought fifty Napoleonic cannons from Yang Feng's hands, these cannons have played a great role in today's battle, and the fierce artillery fire has made the Qing soldiers miserable.

Twenty miles outside Jinzhou City, a large number of tents were densely stationed in a radius of dozens of miles, war horses neighed and horns sounded, and there was a tense war atmosphere everywhere.

In a tent covering an area of hundreds of square meters in the southwest of the barracks, dozens of Manchu generals and Wang Ye Baylor sat quietly in two rows. According to the news from the spies, the Ming army guarding the city today is the Beijing camp that has just arrived, what do you think of the combat power of this army and horses? ”

The generals were silent for a while, and then Dai Shan said: "Your Majesty, judging from today's battle, according to the combat strength of the Beijing camp guarding the city, it is indeed good, but according to the ministers, it is the artillery that has played the greatest role today, if the minister is not mistaken, these artillery pieces should be the kind of light and powerful artillery used by the Jiangning army, and nearly half of our casualties are caused by them." ”

Hearing this, all the generals stopped talking, and the word Jiang Ningjun was like a big mountain, which weighed down everyone's hearts. Although Huang Taiji has been constantly fighting in the east and west for more than a year to restore his strength, and at the same time has made some preparations for the firearms of the Jiangning army, they are still not sure.

Seeing that the atmosphere inside the big tent was a little dull, Huang Taiji knew that the big war was imminent, and he could no longer allow this mood to spread, so he turned to a middle-aged general and said, "Tong Yangxing, when will your artillery arrive." ”

Tong Yangxing, who was emaciated, stood up and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, because the artillery is too heavy, it is all pushed by the horse-drawn people, and it can only travel dozens of miles a day, so it will take two days to arrive in Jinzhou City. ”

Dolgon on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "Tong Yangxing, it is also a cannon, why is the artillery of the Han people so light, but our artillery is so heavy?" You're so useless! ”

Tong Yangxing, also known as Tong Jiashi, who was named by Huang Taiji, was originally a Manchurian who migrated to the territory of the Ming Dynasty to do business, but in the first year of the Mandate of Heaven (1616), he lost money because of business, and ran to Nurhachi outside the customs to defect to Nurhachi. In the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1621), after Nurhachi led the Houjin army to conquer Shenyang, Tong Yangxing was promoted to a second-class commander-in-chief.

After Nurhachi's death, the Manchu people, who originally admired war horses and personal bravery, finally realized the importance of firearms, and Tong Yangxing, who was familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty and had a slight understanding of firearms, was also valued by the newly succeeded Huang Taiji, who not only promoted him to "Ang Bang Zhangjing", Huang Taiji also ordered him to prime minister the official and civilian affairs of the Han people, and the commander of the Han army flag with a blue flag, and was responsible for supervising the casting of forty cannons.

It's just that artillery casting is a technical job no matter what era it is, even if it is the most primitive artillery to be cast, it is not easy for the Manchu people with weak technical strength to play, after more than a year of hard work, Tong Yanghe and those Han craftsmen who were captured finally cast six artillery pieces a few months ago.

This is the artillery is cast, but the weight is not light, each artillery is more than 2,000 catties, which also makes Huang Taiji and a group of Manchu generals in the joy but also a little depressed, in order to transport these six artillery pieces to Jinzhou, Tong Yangxing for these six artillery equipped with more than 300 pack horses and more than 1,000 people to serve them.

Yes, you read that right, it's just so many people. Don't think these cannons are cumbersome, you must know that in the later World War II period, the Germans made what can be called the largest Dora cannon in history, in order to fire this 800-900 mm caliber cannon, the Germans even sent more than 5,000 people to serve it, compared to the more than 1,000 people sent by its lovers can only be regarded as a drizzle.

Due to the long distance and the heavy artillery, the six guns are still halfway until now, and today the Qing army has suffered enough from the Ming artillery, so it has attracted the questioning of Huang Taiji and the dissatisfaction of Dolgon.

Tong Yangxing shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Fourteenth elder brother, please forgive the slave for talking too much." If we pick up bravery, our Qing warriors can not be afraid of anyone, but if we pick up strange skills, we have to admit that Da Ming is really stronger than us, in order to cast these six cannons, we spent more than 300,000 taels of silver. ”

"What...... More than 300,000 taels? ”

As soon as Tong Yang's words came out, everyone present was stunned.

Dolgon was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Tong Yangxing, is your artillery made of gold or silver, why did you spend so much silver?" Could it be that you are greedy for the rest of the silver? ”

"Yes, I think this cannon is just melting and casting iron, at best, it will be one or two thousand taels of silver per gun, why is it so much cost? Tong Yang, you dare to say that you are not greedy for ink! Many generals were shocked and spoke out against Tong Yangxing.

Tong Yangxing did not defend himself, but looked at Huang Taiji with pleading eyes.

Huang Taiji glared at these people fiercely, and instead of being angry, he laughed and said: "Who said just now that an artillery cannon only costs one or two thousand taels of silver, Ao Bai...... That's what you said, right? ”

The name of the person who spoke just now is Ao Bai, who is a famous warrior in the Zhenghuang Banner, and holds the position of Jialazhangjing in the Zhenghuang Banner. After hearing Huang Taiji's name, Ao Bai stood up and knelt down towards Huang Taiji, and defended himself with some grievances: "Your Majesty, the slave feels that he is not wrong, isn't it just to melt the iron tool and cast it into a round pipe, what's so difficult?" The minions thought that two thousand taels of silver were enough to cast a cannon, and there were even rich ones. ”

"Good...... Good ......."

Huang Taiji was amused by this guy's words, pointed at Ao Bai and scolded: "Okay...... Since I have said so, then I will give you 100,000 taels of silver, and I will not ask for much, as long as you can cast ten cannons for me, and the extra cannons will be given to you by me, how about it? ”

"Ah...... Let the minions forge the cannon? Ao Bai was dumbfounded, and then stammered a little and said: "Your Majesty, the slave will only go into battle to kill the enemy, not cast cannons!" ”

"You idiot!" Huang Taiji suddenly roared: "Since you don't know how to cast cannons, then you dare to say so unashamedly that a cannon only needs one or two thousand taels of silver?" Or do you think that Tong Yanghe and those craftsmen are a bunch of fools who are stupider than you, do you know that just a few years ago, Daming spent a full 300,000 taels of silver to buy twelve Hongyi cannons from the hands of Franco? You don't know anything and you're here to talk nonsense, do you really think everyone is as stupid as you? ”

Ao Bai, who was scolded by Huang Taiji and was bloody, his face full of horizontal flesh turned red, he didn't dare to raise his head, but knelt down silently and didn't dare to say anything.

Huang Taiji scolded, and his originally depressed mood finally improved, so he turned his head to everyone: "That's it, don't attack the city tomorrow, wait until the artillery comes!" ”

At noon on the third day, the six pieces of artillery that everyone had been waiting for finally arrived. Seeing the belated six artillery, Huang Taiji and other generals were all overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Tong Yangxing to lead the gunners to start building artillery positions, and after being busy for a long time, the artillery positions were finally built, and then began to ignite the test guns, and in a rumbling cannon, several projectiles flew towards the head of Jinzhou City.

The six guns cast by Tong Yang belong to the twelve-pounder artillery, they certainly have the disadvantages of being bulky and unchanging, but they also have the advantage of being bulky, that is, they are farther than the Napoleonic guns that weigh only a few hundred pounds in range, and they can bombard the Jinzhou city wall at a distance of more than 2,500 meters, while the Napoleonic guns deployed at the head of the city are not within reach, which also makes the Ming army a little dumbfounded.

"Boom ......"

A twelve-pound projectile slammed into the battlements, shattering the battlements made of blue bricks, and the flying broken bricks beat several Ming soldiers around them to the ground, and for a time the screams of soldiers sounded on the city wall from time to time.

Looking at the projectiles that fell on the city wall from time to time, Sun Chengzong frowned, and said to the officer next to him who was in charge of operating the artillery: "Is it true that our artillery can't fight back?" ”

"Lord Governor, our artillery can only hit three or four miles at most, and it can't reach people at all!" The officers on the side were also helpless.