The bloody battle in Quang Ninh City did not last long. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The reason is simple.

The incense water burning shao bottles in the hands of the Ming army were too ferocious, and this kind of Yang Feng had the ingenuity to use the thirty barrels of incense water he left, plus the specially fired long-necked porcelain bottles to make weapons, and exerted extremely ferocious power in the street battle.

The Ming army even developed corresponding tactics based on this.

On the streets between the wreckage of houses in Quang Ninh City, you can see the Ming army squads with large shields as the vanguard everywhere, pushing forward with their numerical superiority, and when the stubborn Qing army was squeezed densely, the grenadiers suddenly stood up and smashed the burning shao bottles into the walls on both sides, and the flames that burst out instantly devoured those unlucky Qing troops. In the confusion of the latter, the Ming army's bird gunners began to take a close roll call with the help of shield cover, and the bird guns that sprayed flames finally completed a thorough cleanup, and then the team continued to move forward, and the spearmen who had been reduced to a supporting role in the back bleed the wounded soldiers of the Qing army one by one.

This tactic works.

The bravery of the Qing army and the death as if it were home is meaningless in front of this thing, the battle between the soldiers in the cold weapon era, the most important thing is the dense formation, the soldiers in the formation are the strongest, but the flame favorite is the dense formation, the splashed flame can turn a spark into a sea of fire in an instant, and the warriors of the Eight Banners who rushed towards the Ming army without hesitation can only turn into a charred corpse in the end.

In this way, relying on 5,000 burning shao bottles, in less than two days, 40,000 Ming troops completely cleaned up more than 20,000 Qing troops and bannermen in the city.

Not a single one was left alive.

The Qing army, which had been without food for almost three months, was supported by eating those old and weak women and children during this time, and there were no women and children in the city for a long time, and even the old men who were over fifty years old were eaten up by their own compatriots, so that the Ming army naturally would not have prisoners.

Of course, such trifles are not worth mentioning.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was captive or something, has always disliked to stay.

However, the casualties of the Ming army in this battle were not small, more than 7,000 Ming troops died in Guangning, and more than 3,000 were disabled, not counting more than 8,000 minor injuries, which shows that the combat effectiveness of these Qing troops is still very considerable, or it shows that the combat effectiveness of the army is still worrying.

This also proves that Yang Feng is right.

With such a casualty ratio, if he rashly crossed the Liao River to attack Shenyang, it is estimated that all the Ming troops in his hands would have to fill in the vast sea of the people's war, at least until tens of thousands of new troops were trained and the casualty ratio of both sides was pulled to an acceptable number, he still had to stop thinking about Shenyang, at least the occupation of Shenyang should not be considered for the time being. It's okay to kill people and set fire to toss around in the past, just like the Qing army dealt with the Ming Dynasty in the past, anyway, the initiative is now in his hands, and those soldiers also like this kind of work, in the grass valley of the Horqin Department, but let the Ming troops who participated in the operation all make a lot of money.

But that's going to come later.

With the end of the Battle of Guangning, Yang Feng's seventeen-year campaign of Chongzhen came to a perfect end, regardless of whether it was western Liaoning or eastern Hebei, the entire line stopped large-scale military operations in the control area, and then turned into a state of cat winter.

Because the sea is completely frozen, even the connection between them and the south has been completely severed, and the originally bustling ports and fishing villages are completely closed by thick ice, and even Juehua Island can run up on horseback, with wave-shaped sea ice stretching throughout Liaodong Bay. Even the land is covered with ice and snow, the rivers are completely frozen, birds and beasts in the mountains are hard to find, and all the cities and villages in the land from Quang Ninh to Zunhua have fallen silent, and those people who have been busy for a year have begun to hide at home to fight the cold in various ways.

Even Yang Feng's arsenal has been transferred to a semi-suspended state.

He can't help this.

Whether it is the all-important hydraulic boring machine or those hydraulic hammers, they must rely on the river water, and the ice on the stone river can run horses, and there is still river water to power him.

"That's not going to work!"

In the Shanhaiguan Palace, His Majesty the Emperor was lying on a tiger skin recliner, guarding the blazing fire, holding a report on the production of Dangkou Gong and said very entangledly.

His Jing nobleman was standing behind, rubbing his shoulders with his little hands.

Now is an extraordinary period, even Hou Gong is simple, there are actually few people around the emperor, Jing Guiren Huang Ying is the supervisor, and then Her Royal Highness the princess and Li Xiu, who has been eating and drinking together, and Jing Guiren's adopted daughter, Yang Feng picked up the child on the way to escape, and raised it under the name of Zhu Wei. There is also Meng Guqing, the daughter-in-law of Fu Lin who has just been robbed, is also one, and her identity is not clear, anyway, His Majesty the Emperor likes to raise it, and it is popular to raise a Lori and other growth in these years, and they belong to the main level. As for the rest, it was sent from the Nanjing Imperial Palace, a total of less than a hundred palace maids and eunuchs, this is still thanks to Han Zanzhou's filial piety, since the funeral, the emperor has become more and more diligent and thrifty, before these palace maids and eunuchs arrived, it is said that a few vulgar girls are waiting for the holy driver.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing the minister can do about this."

Song Yingxing said honestly.

He really can't help it, it should be said that the emperor can be called a genius, not to mention the hydraulic boring machine, that is, other hydraulic forging hammers, hydraulic blowers, etc., after the emperor's improvement, they are all much better, but the problem is that this is all dependent on the river water, and the river water is all furnished after it is frozen. Anyway, it would be great if this was in Jiangnan, and there would be no need to think about this kind of trouble at all.

"Well, it's not something you can solve."

Yang Feng casually threw the fold aside and said.

There is indeed no other solution to this kind of thing except for the steam engine, but the steam engine ......

It's not impossible.

The key to the steam engine is the cylinder, theoretically this thing does need a boring machine, but it is not that there is no room for it, because the earliest steam engine cylinder was actually knocked out of a log with an iron plate wrapped in tin foil in the middle, don't think that the first steam engine in Europe was very tall, it was actually a brain hole. The Newcomen steam engine was invented in 1704, and the technological progress of the feudal era in the sixty years was almost insignificant, but the efficiency of such a steam engine was worrying, and it was probably impossible to use it to drive large machines, at most it was able to do simple work such as pumping water, so if you want a practical steam engine, a boring machine is a must.

Or......

Yang Feng suddenly realized that he had made a serious mistake.

What does he do with a boring machine?

Is it difficult to get Xiaoqian to find a few large-diameter scrap steel pipes?

The early steam engine did not have much pressure at all, the cylinders were made of wrought iron, and the ability to withstand pressure was compared with modern large-diameter pipe steel, which could be said to be weak and explosive, and the accuracy of Wilkinson's hydraulic boring machine was against the sky when it reached one millimeter, and the tolerance of the inner diameter of modern large-diameter steel pipes was one millimeter. Let Xiaoqian get some of these seamless steel pipes, take a while to cut them off, grind them with fine sandpaper a little, and cast them with pig iron to cast the plugs at both ends and pull them to be cylinders.

As for the seal......

Watt is good with hemp rope!

The piston can be cast.

And it can be cast with pig iron, and the rest is manual grinding.

Crankshafts can likewise be cast.

It is also cast from pig iron.

Well, this is not needed at all, the early steam engine had a fart crankshaft, that is, a combination of connecting rod and flywheel, this thing is not good to say to him to drive the battleship train, but it is no pressure to drive the blower, and he needs a blast whether it is an iron-making blast furnace or a Pudlin furnace to make wrought iron, and the hydraulic blast can indeed be solved, but in the north hydraulic power is a very unreliable power.

So the steam engine is really a must.

"In the final analysis, step-by-step thinking is unacceptable, this leapfrog development is the king!"

His Majesty the Emperor muttered to himself with a deep face.

He decided to engage in a steam engine this winter, and he was idle anyway, he didn't want to go out to do things in this cold and snowy place, and he didn't need to worry about government affairs, so there were twelve counties in total, what else was there to worry about the emperor? You can't exercise according to the Jing nobles in the palace every day, right? In other words, Jing Guiren's body can't hold it, and now he has begun to persuade the emperor to accept a few more for the country like those virtuous concubines in ancient times! I don't know that I think she is virtuous and virtuous, but Emperor Yang knows that this scheming really wants a few more people to share the blessings of rain and dew, but she is only seventeen years old, so she has to endure it every day......

"The minister has seen the princess!"

At this moment, Liang Cheng, who was guarding the door outside, suddenly said.

"Where did Kunxing go?"

Yang Feng said loudly.

Then, in his astonished gaze, his cheap daughter came wrapped in a pure white fur coat with a remnant of snow, and there was still a little trace of melted water on her delicate little face, obviously she had just returned from outside. Because her beloved father, His Majesty, was stimulated by the change in Beijing, and his temperament changed greatly, and he became more and more disregarded for court etiquette and something, and the uncontrolled princess Kunxing's girlish nature began to be released, and recently became best friends with Li Xiu, a wild girl, and the two played outside every day, and it is said that they dared to go hunting in the mountains.

"Kun Xing saw his father, Kun Xing just went to the Great Compassion Temple to pray for his father."

Princess Kunxing said.

"What a good boy, be careful of catching a cold on such a cold day, go back and rest!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

Princess Kunxing hurriedly withdrew, and pulled Li Xiu, who was waiting there, outside the door, laughing happily, not knowing what to do again.

Yang Feng silently looked at her back with loving eyes.

"Do monks also pay taxes?"

He suddenly asked Song Yingxing.

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