Chapter 588: Bidding
Just as Yue Tuo was looking at the opposite side, Zakdan on the Huaxia Army's position was also using a telescope to observe the situation on the hills in the distance.
The big red flag on the hill was very conspicuous, and on the side of the red flag, there was a circle of white lines.
Obviously, this is the Jurchen banner with red flags.
Among the Houjin Jurchens, there are a total of eight banners of the Four Banners and the Four Inlaid Flags. The colors of the flags of the four flags are all very simple.
In addition to the red flag, the other three flags in the four flags, the yellow flag, the white flag, and the blue flag, all have red lines on the edges, and only the red flag led by Yue Tuo is white.
Zachdan only needs to look at the flag to know that this time, he has met an old opponent with a red flag again.
In the previous Jinzhou Campaign, the Fuzhou Campaign, and several encounters in the later sabotage battle, under the leadership of Yue Tuo, the performance of the red flag can be said to be slippery, and there is almost no big loss.
The many great feats obtained by the mixed first brigade were almost all obtained from the men and horses of Duoduo, Wuzhen Chaoha, and the Tianyou Army.
Zachdan had already obtained the information obtained during the expulsion between the recent scouts and the Houjin scouts, and knew that the leader of this Houjin forward cavalry force was none other than Yue Tuo, one of the four major Houjin councillors.
Zachdan kept recalling Yue Tuo's information in his mind, and naturally thought of his performance in the previous battles, judging from his past deeds, Yue Tuo fought very steadily, but at the critical moment, he did not lack brave fighting spirit.
For such a general, Zachdan did not dare to look down on him like Duoduo, so after he withdrew from Nanshan Pass, he didn't even go to the "second fortress", and came directly to the "third fortress".
Fu Yan also followed him, holding a pair of binoculars, and there was a very unfamiliar new marker on it.
He used one of the first products that Huaxia bought from civilian factories by way of tender.
In recent years, because China's overseas territories need a large number of security and field troops, the domestic army has also been constantly expanding. However, the rapid expansion of personnel has also caused a shortage of supplies for the army.
In fact, it cannot be said that there is a shortage of materials, and it might be more appropriate to say that there is a shortage of capacity in state-owned factories.
In order to ensure that the newly formed army could be fully armed, instead of a large group of soldiers waiting for the slow production of equipment, the Ministry of War, under Chen Xin's order, launched a nationwide bidding process to bid for equipment that did not involve the scope of secrecy.
Sure enough, the people are still hidden dragons and crouching tigers, as long as the government gives specifications, all kinds of immortals can try all kinds of ways to set up factories that can make profits and deliver them within the specified time.
The telescope used by Fu Yan now is one of the first batch of bidding materials.
In China, during the Wanli period, the Jiangnan region was already able to manufacture glass independently, but the process was relatively rough and the product was slightly flawed.
And the kingdom, also from the third year of the fire, Chen Xin gave a specific recipe, fired the kingdom's glass, and set up a glass workshop. With the passage of time, the technology of glass in China has also slowly spread within a certain range.
Later, there were relevant branches of Huaxia University Hall and National Research Institute, respectively, to carry out detailed research on glass, after a large number of experiments, now, the quality of Huaxia glass, has reached a certain height.
The problem of glass has been solved, and the principle of the telescope is also very simple, and the reconnaissance troops and senior generals of the royal army have long used the telescopes refined in small batches in the military factory.
As soon as the bidding intention came out, the private workshop quickly made a copycat version of the telescope, which increased the production capacity of the kingdom telescope several times at once.
Now, there is no shortage of telescopes for the garrisons and field troops that have been sent to various places.
Aside from this telescope, the biggest outsourced products are military uniforms and tents and the like.
After the steam engine, whether it is spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, the relevant production capacity of Huaxia is absolutely huge, and now the cloth produced in Huaxia can be dumped to neighboring countries.
However, cloth can be dumped, and finished clothes, shoes and socks, backpacks, tents and other products are all labor-intensive industries, and not just a few dozen or hundreds of people can set up a platform.
As soon as the bidding intention was announced, there were many talented people in the townships below who saw the business opportunities, and they walked through the villages and alleys, contacted everywhere, and in a few months, they could connect the women or idle laborers of an entire county to process various finished products in their respective homes.
It can be said that the method of bidding for bids from all over the country not only solved the problem of insufficient production capacity of military factories, but also greatly mobilized the capital and labor of the people and accelerated the industrial development of the kingdom.
Fu Yan put down the cottage telescope in his hand that he was using for comparative experiments, and said to Zachdan, "From the density of the opposite flag and the height of the flagpole, it should be Yue Tuo himself." ”
Although Zachdan knew in his heart that Yue Tuo should not be underestimated, he must also establish strong self-confidence in the face of his deputies and a large number of staff officers and officers.
I only heard Zachdan say lightly, "Even if he himself comes, he can only watch over there, unless he is willing to risk the huge loss of three or four horses to attack me."
But if Yue Tuo, as the vanguard of the Houjin Army, fights like that bear in the first battle with us, then his political future will be completely ruined.
Even if his own father Daishan helped him speak in the court, Dolgon would definitely take the opportunity to fall into the well and solve this trouble once and for all. ”
Everyone around laughed, and after laughing a few times, Fu Yan asked again, "Brigade commander, how long are we going to defend this third fortress?" ”
Zachdan looked at the banner held high on the opposite side with interest and said, "Our current task is only to block the Houjin Forward Cavalry and detect the military situation of the Lushun defense line in advance, and we don't need to defend to the end."
As long as Dolgon leads the army to arrive, he can retreat back to Lushun, as long as he Dolgon leads his troops across the border of Jinzhou, then he will have no steps to go down.
At that time, even if the Tartars don't want to come to Lushun City to meet them, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it, if they don't retreat without a fight, Dolgon and the Jurchen slave owners who have already put in a lot of money and food will not be able to stand it.
I really wanted to see how wonderful the expressions of Dolgon's gang of people were when the Tartar army gathered in Lushun and saw the Lushun defense line we had built. ”