Fifteen miles east of Yangzhou City, the Qing army camp.

Under the white inlaid dragon with a pole fluttering in the wind, Duoduo took the book held by Ma Guangyuan and flipped it open, and immediately burst into laughter.

"100,000 stones of brown rice, 120,000 taels of silver...... The most important thing is that there are 17,000 new flintlocks! Good! He patted the latter and said happily, "The honor guard of the Southern Barbarians is nothing but the essence of firearms." Now that they have these firearms, see how they can still be arrogant! ”

Ma Guangyuan bowed to the side and said, "Your Highness, this is just the grain and weapons that are easy to transport in Beijing's warehouse. There are 150,000 stone grains and grass in Shengjing, as well as 87 slow-moving cannons, and it is estimated that there will be half a month to arrive. ”

"So many cannons?!" Duoduo's eyes lit up, "With the existing ones in our army, we will be able to discharge one hundred and sixty or seventy cannons when we are about to fight. Teach those barbarians to know how powerful they are! ”

He continued to look down, but was a little surprised, "How can there be fifteen thousand pairs of cotton armor?" According to the Luck Devil's Army, the Barbarian Fire Gun is so powerful that it can penetrate our army's armor from a hundred paces away, so why did it fight so many? ”

Ma Guangyuan hurriedly said: "Your Highness doesn't know that these fifteen thousand pairs of fine armor are made of good steel by the regent. The last general has seen this batch of fine armor when he was in Beijing, and the end is extremely strong! ”

"Oh?" Duoduo glanced at the long queue behind Ma Guangyuan, but he didn't expect that there would be unexpected surprises, so he immediately ordered his subordinates, "Take a few and show me." ”

"Huh!"

Soon, an officer returned with a cotton armor. Duoduo picked up one and weighed it in his hand, the weight was ten catties heavier than ordinary cotton armor. He knew in his heart that this armor was not ordinary, so he simply asked people to set up a wooden target outside the camp and put those pieces of cotton armor on it.

He took the soldier's gun from the guard beside him, glanced at the wooden target fifty paces away, and pulled the trigger. As luck would have it, after a bang, the lead bullet hit the most side-of-the-line target.

He hurriedly stepped forward to inspect it, and saw that although the outer layer of the armor was torn, the iron piece that was padded behind it was intact. This time, Dolgon also made a lot of money, these gaskets are made of 100 steel, and the toughness is really good.

"Not bad!"

Duoduo also had the bullets loaded, and shot the cotton armor again at a distance of forty paces, but it still failed to break it. He tried several times in a row, and it was not until he was twenty paces away from the wooden target that the buckshot finally pierced through the steel piece of the cotton armor.

"Good! That's great! He stroked the bullet holes in the cotton armor and nodded with satisfaction, "The ordinary fire gun has been forced so close that it is difficult to hurt this armor, and it is expected that no matter how sharp the Nanren gun is, it can withstand it fifty steps away!" ”

He had seen the Ming army's guns taken out of the wounded soldiers' bodies before, and depending on their size, they should not be more than about six yuan, and with reference to the power of the Qing army's three-money soldiers, he would naturally come to this conclusion.

But where would he have thought that the Ming Army's gun would spin violently when it was ejected, and its armor-piercing ability was far several times higher than that of ordinary lead bullets! This is also the reason why from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards, the military powers have greatly reduced the armor of the infantry - muskets are becoming more and more powerful, and the armor cannot stop bullets at all, so why increase the burden on the soldiers?

Still immersed in his own myths, Duoduo turned to the convoy that was rushing into the camp, and then turned to Shuo Se and said, "Distribute these weapons." Early tomorrow morning, I will order the soldiers to hold new guns and new armor to perform martial arts to boost the prestige of our army! ”

"Huh!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Duoduo's personal guards galloped from a distance, and said in a loud voice: "Great general, the advance of the Gongshun King and the Huaishun King is fifteen miles away. ”

"Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's men have arrived." The succession of good news made Duoduo smile. Both of these people have fought with Li Zicheng with him, and their subordinates are still very combative, and they are also old subordinates, so they are naturally more convenient to use.

He waved his whip at the officers beside him, "Go, follow me to meet the army." ”

Ma Guangyuan immediately stepped forward and said with the icing on the cake: "Your Highness, this time, in addition to the nearly 30,000 troops under the command of King Gongshun and King Huaishun, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also transferred more than 25,000 Jin troops and old troops under the jurisdiction of King Zhishun, and 10,000 Shaanxi troops under Li Guoying. ”

This Zhishun King is Shang Kexi, he has nearly 10,000 former Ming Liaodong border troops under his command, and his combat effectiveness is very strong. Li Guoying was originally the chief soldier under Zuo Liangyu, and later followed Zuo Mengeng to the Qing Dynasty, and he was also quite fierce, and he was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi who had been the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history.

Duoduo was shocked in his heart, he had heard about the agreement between Dorgon and Hauge that whoever had the greatest military achievements would be in charge, although he knew that the ninth brother would definitely send a large army to the south, but he did not expect to mobilize so many people.

Previously, he had two main forces of the White Banner under his command, plus the Guanning Army and some green battalion soldiers, with a total of 63,400 troops. After Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others arrived in Yangzhou, he would be able to gather nearly 130,000 troops under his command! It seems that Brother Jiu is determined to succeed this time.

However, Duoduo quickly thought of another question, and frowned at Ma Guangyuan and said, "The regent has mobilized the Shaanxi army, the Jin army, the Lu army, and most of the green battalions of Zhili this time, so there will be a lack of troops to suppress the local ......."

Ma Guangyuan also knew that he was not bad, but judging from the previous situation of the Wuying Palace, the regent was obviously desperate. In addition, the imperial court has recently repeatedly distributed donations and endowments, and local civil unrest may occur at any time.

But all this is not something that he can manage as a "petty officer". He was silent for a moment and continued: "Your Highness, in fact, these are not the main forces. ”

"What?! Are there other soldiers and horses? In his heart, Duoduo quickly drew all the troops of the Great Qing Dynasty, and it seemed that there were no more people to adjust, only ......

He looked at Ma Guangyuan in disbelief, "Brother Jiu won't be a ......"

"Back to His Highness, Gong Adai and Bai Yintu should have led the two Yellow Flag armies to leave Gyeonggi. The two yellows were accompanied by Sony, Sinembuku, Aobai, Belon, Ahanikan and other generals. ”

Duoduo only felt chills all over his body, although he didn't know how the Ninth Brother mobilized the two Yellow Banner men, but these soldiers had always been used to guard the Gyeonggi Stronghold, and they were all allocated to himself...... In case the war in the south is unfavorable......

He almost didn't dare to think about it anymore, the huge pressure made it difficult for him to even breathe - what he held in his hand was almost all the power of the entire Qing Dynasty! In this battle, we can only win and not lose, otherwise the rivers and mountains that Taizu and Taizong have single-handedly defeated will be ......

Ma Guangyuan didn't know that his heart was turbulent, and he said carefully: "In addition to the Beijing army, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent also ordered the Rakshasa people in Beijing to pull the strings, and Xu Chongli made the Rakshasa people send more than 2,000 elite soldiers to help in the battle. ”

Of course, he only knew that there were Rakshasa reinforcements coming, but he didn't know that Russia was already small in numbers, and now it was using troops on the Eastern Front, so among the more than 2,300 people, only 300 real Russians, and the rest were Buryat Mongol soldiers who were conquered by them.