The Jurchen warriors brought back belonged to the auxiliary fighters other than the Jurchen Eight Banners, but the combat effectiveness displayed in front of Li Tianyang still surprised Li Tianyang.

The physical strength and skills and tactics are higher than those of the official members of the Hongmen, and they are only slightly inferior to the elite special operations battalion of the Hongmen.

What's more, even if it is an auxiliary army, these Yu Ding, who are called Yu Ding by the Eight Banners Army, still have complete equipment, cotton armor, chain mail, and the horn bows that everyone in them Jurchens are proficient in as a nomadic people, and there are eight of them captured in the special operations battalion, which is a big cut compared to the ordinary hunting bows used by the members of the Indigenous Alliance.

Moreover, compared with the aborigines and the Japanese people, the Jurchens have fought against the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and their knowledge of war is also extraordinary.

Through the oral accounts of the two elite teams of special operations battalions led by Lu Yu to engage each other, even when the special operations battalion attacked by surprise, the auxiliary troops patrolling the coastal areas of the other side still reacted quickly and launched a counterattack against the soldiers of the special operations battalion, causing casualties among the soldiers of the special operations battalion.

From this point of view, the well-trained, more aggressive and cooperative Jurchens were not a formidable enemy compared to the natives and Wa people who were now defeated by the Hongmen.

At that time, Li Tianyang was silent, no wonder this Jurchen had an invincible slogan, and it was no wonder that they could be a minority and have been in charge of China for more than 200 years.

However, Li Tianyang was also not discouraged, he also had his own advantages, that is, their artillery was still the most powerful weapon in this era, especially for the Jurchen and Mongolian peoples, these two peoples after losing their war horses may not be invincible.

The power of the artillery was put aside for the time being, for the most powerful cavalry of the Jurchens, when the war horses under their seats encountered explosions like thunder, and slammed violently around them, forming pieces of shock waves, the instinct of the animals made these war horses rise up or struggle wildly, causing the ranks of the Jurchen cavalry to be chaotic.

At that time, Mao Wenlong was able to use the "Yang Fan-style" warship to achieve a small victory, that is, thanks to the natural roar of the artillery and the shock wave caused by the close contact of the fish on the ground, which caused the female Allah cavalry to commotion, so Mao Wenlong took advantage.

War horses need to be trained and tempered for a long time to be free from the smoke of artillery fire, but for the Jurchens outside the Guan, their own materials still need to be obtained through looting and other means, and where can there be weapons such as artillery that are scarce even in the Ming Dynasty, let alone use it to train war horses.

Therefore, in Li Tianyang's view, it is almost impossible for the most powerful cavalry of the Jurchens to make up for this shortcoming in the short term, so Li Tianyang has a killing weapon in his hands against the Jurchens.

Similarly, the arquebus, which Hongmen had begun to gradually install, and its upgraded flintlock pistol, were also a sharp weapon for Li Tianyang and them to fight against the Jurchens.

How long does it take for the Jurchens to train a skilled archer, at least in the case of almost ten years, and they also have a fatal flaw, that is, as a minority, their population has always been small.

Even if Huang Taiji had already begun to conquer the Mongol tribes at this time, and he could select warriors from the Mongols to join their Eight Banners Army, their population was still only about a few hundred thousand.

And what about the total number of their fighters?

On the other hand, on the Hongmen side, as long as there is a breakthrough in the flintlock pistol on his side, then there may be a steady stream of warriors under his command, who makes the territory of the Ming Dynasty vast, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are tens of millions, and the source of warriors will naturally not be less.

Musketeers, only need to focus on training for about half a year, can be proficient in the use of arquebuses, as a long-range weapon class, in terms of lethality can naturally restrain all arms, with the Ming Dynasty has always been excellent infantry and fortifications, as long as it can damage the Jurchen army, it is earned.

Even if the ratio of ten to one for the Jurchen soldiers such as musketeers and other troops was exchanged, the war was still won by the Chinese nation in the end.

Of course, these are only the possibility of Li Tianyang looking at the confrontation between the Jurchens and the Hongmen from the perspective of an opponent, and he has not really made up his mind to give up the idea of defecting to the Jurchen Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, from the mouths of the two Jurchen captives, Li Tianyang also obtained information about the Jurchen tribes, the Jurchen army, and other aspects that had not been available, which increased Hongmen's cognition of the Jurchen as an opponent, and also gave Li Tianyang a little courage and confidence in the confrontation with the Jin Jurchen.

In fact, at this time, the Jurchen part was not very peaceful, and the Jurchen part of the Later Jin Dynasty was the Jianzhou Jurchen An Xinjue Luo clan, and the Haixi Jurchens and savage Jurchens that he annexed, there were still many tribes that did not submit to them who secretly rebelled against each other, bringing trouble to the rule of the Aixin Jue Luo clan.

At the same time, the Jurchen interior is not completely monolithic, as a minority that once submitted to the naturalized Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchen and the Haixi Jurchen and other tribes it annexed, there are also tribes with a heart for the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that, under the control of the Aixinjue Luo clan, which is in full swing, has not revealed the slightest clue to the outside world, and the spy agency of the Ming Dynasty is as fierce as a tiger internally, but as weak as a sheep externally, where can I get this important information.

At this time, Li Tianyang also didn't know this, but it didn't prevent him from planning to send spies and spies to the Jurchens to collect all kinds of information about the Jurchens.

It was precisely because of Li Tianyang's idea of wanting to infiltrate the Jurchen tribe that he unexpectedly discovered the traitors of this era in the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin were still in a hostile state, there were still merchants who risked their efforts to send all kinds of materials to the Jurchens.

In just a few months of covert investigation, the outer guards collected a lot of Ming merchants to send military supplies including grain, iron tools, and even gunpowder, bows and crossbows to the Jurchens outside the customs by sea and land.

The things found out are thrilling, even at this time, Li Tianyang has not given up the idea of defecting to the Qing Dynasty in the future, but at this moment, he has never thought of funding the enemy so unscrupulously when the Ming Dynasty still exists.

It is no wonder that some people in the network of later generations once said that there were many regional merchants in the Ming Dynasty, who acted as the outpost of the Later Jin people, that is, soon changed their name to the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty, and sold important information such as military defense and city layout in the Ming Dynasty to the Later Jin people, just in exchange for ginseng, deer antler velvet and other things in the hands of the Later Jin people.

Of course, although Li Tianyang had already noticed these at this time, compared to the big businesses that funded the Houjin people behind them, and the backers behind these businesses, Hongmen was still as weak as an ant, even if Li Tianyang held back his anger, it was equally useless.

(End of chapter)