Chapter Forty-Eight: The Mongol Weapons
"Warriors of the Great Mongolia! Today is a day of great shame! Our sacred steppe has been provoked by the Ming people, who have mobilized their forces in Shanxi, in Shaanxi, in every corner of the southern country. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and their goal is the grassland! It is the place where my great Mongolians herd their horses and sheep, and the place where my Mongolians live. They will kill our people and take away our cattle and sheep and wives. Tell me, what are we going to do? The vast steppe was full of Mongols.
The Mongol tribes gathered from all sides were reunited under the command of the Erechen.
On the grassland, flags fluttered, and countless people were in an uproar after hearing the words of the minister.
There have always been only Mongols, only when the steppe people outside the Saiwai went south to bully the Han Chinese. They never imagined that one day, the Han people would also go north again.
You must know that it has been two hundred years since the last time the Ming Kingdom brought such fear to the Mongols.
At that time, it was the era of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di. It was they who crippled the once Mongol empire to the remnants of the desert.
But after that, the Ming people could never regain such glory.
At the time of the Tumubao Change, Emperor Yingzong's mood was good, and he led his army north, and the 500,000 elite imperial army was overthrown in a battle. The Ming Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and from then on, the Ming people could no longer show their martial arts, so that they could only use the method of mutual markets to envelop the Mongols during the Jiajing period, so as to temporarily rest the war.
As for the subsequent Mongols who followed the Jurchens into the command of the Qing Dynasty, they were even more invincible, and almost never thought that there would be such a day.
And now, Akito is here.
They reimposed the fears of two hundred years ago on the Mongols.
In fact, this is not the first time for the Mongolian tribesmen of the Ordos Tribe. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was repeatedly entangled with the Mongols over the ownership of the Hetao.
However, the final victor was the Mongols, and they could never imagine that one day, the Ming Kingdom would have the strength to try to recover the lost territory of the Hetao again.
"Don't let Akito call me! This is our steppe, the steppe given by the great Mongols by immortality! ”
"Defeat them!"
"The grassland is ours forever!"
"Defeat the Ming army and enter the pass!"
……
Countless different slogans resounded in the sky.
He looked at the morale of his people with great satisfaction.
After another uproar, he handed over the scene to his generals, and then looked at the leaders of several Mongolian tribes on the side with a smile.
Here, the main ones are the Western Tumut Metropolitan Bayindai, and the Eastern Tumut Zasak Wenbuchu Huer.
"The morale of the Ordos Department is very strong." Bayindai said in a somewhat pondering tone.
On the other side, Wen Buchu Huer said: "If the warriors of my Great Mongolia fight for themselves, they will naturally have high morale and be invincible!" ”
"The Han people learn the vocabulary very well......" Bayindai gritted his teeth, but remembered the rumors he heard a while ago. It is said that the Eastern Tumut Ministry received a batch of excellent ordnance from the Ordos Ministry.
And those ordnance are the results of the previous Duoduo.
Last year, when Duoduo led his army into the kingdom of Kouming, he left a hand on the right flank, that is, in the direction of the Mongols. Duoduo ordered the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of Inner Mongolia, and chose to enter the pass from Datong all the way to attack Shanxi.
Although this way was finally blocked at Ningwu Pass, the final gain was amazing. The biggest gain was to bring back the rumored hundreds of thousands of Han slaves.
On top of that, this group of Han Chinese slaves not only knew how to farm, but also how to strike and make iron, as well as one of the most needed skills: building ordnance.
Although Bayindai absolutely did not believe that the Ordos Ministry could afford to raise tens of thousands of people out of thin air, he silently estimated that even if there were no tens of thousands of people, there must be tens of thousands of Han craftsmen.
After all, it was the handiwork left by Prince Yu. It is the result of the exchange with the Shun army. How can these muscle-filled Mongols understand this kind of ability to combine vertically and horizontally?
He held these down and didn't say much, but he thought in his heart, guessing that it would not be idle chatter when he dragged them over, maybe it had something to do with this matter.
Sure enough, what to say, Eluchen led the two into a small castle.
On the steppe, building a city is an extremely expensive affair. Even if the scale is just a township in the Central Plains, as long as it is a city and there are houses, it is destined to attract attention.
Bayindai just glanced at the scale of this small castle, and he couldn't help but feel a little confident in his heart. Sure enough, there must have been tens of thousands of Han Chinese who had been taken captive.
Only the Han people were able to build a small castle in such a short time.
With this in mind, Bayindai followed into an arsenal. Along the way, you can still hear some tinkling sounds from time to time. Bayindai listened attentively and heard a familiar voice.
It was the sound of thumping iron.
"Is it ironmaking?" Bayindai exclaimed.
It's always been an amazing technology. Even in the Great Qing Dynasty, it is rare. You must know that the Khitan people were able to rise back then because of their proud iron-making technology. Being able to smelt iron is equivalent to having the power to build weapons.
It is this Qing Dynasty, such craftsmen are also rare, concentrated in Shengjing City. Later, after being invaded by Zhu Cihong, I don't know how many craftsmen were lost, which caused a sudden shortage of imperial ordnance. Otherwise, Duoduo would not have made so much effort to trade from the Shun army, exchanging war horses for tens of thousands of Han slaves.
He was slightly proud: "That's right, this is our ordnance workshop!" Here, we can craft the best armor, swords, guns, and bows and arrows that all the prairie men must-have! ”
"Can it be so powerful?" Bayindai couldn't help but retort: "How capable is this......
He couldn't help but slander, even Naturalization City didn't have such a strong technical force. But what makes me even more angry is that these were originally left behind by Prince Dord. But now, it's all cheaper for the Ordos Ministry!
"Hey, you'll know when you see it!" Erechen couldn't help but be triumphant.
So saying, he led Bayindai with him.
Emarson, Bayindai, and Umbuchulu soon made their way into the heart of the small castle. Here, you can see the scene of winter in full swing from afar. It is not only the atmosphere of people coming and going, everyone is busy working, but also because the fire here is so bright that you can smell the burning soot from afar.
Smelling the smell of smoke, Wen Buchu Huer couldn't help but show a very envious expression.
He can follow the Eluchen to bow down and be small, that is not only the reason why this one is strong. Right now, that's the key part.
Able to make iron, able to build their own ordnance, and the quality is very good. This was a real first for the Mongols. You must know that the Mongols rely on the mutual market, which is very important because the Mongols themselves cannot make iron tools, and if the supply of iron tools is reduced every time the Ming mutual market is exchanged, then they can't help but jump up.
Even if it is not used for war, there are too many places where iron tools are needed in daily life.
A few people watched around a huge blast furnace and watched as craftsmen embedded pieces of pig iron in the middle of coiled wrought iron bars and sealed the furnace with mud for smelting.
In the midst of the raging fire, the pig iron was heated to the liquid.
At this moment, the craftsmen in the entire castle also seemed to know that a noble person of noble status would come today, and they all behaved very hard, and it was not long before the finished products smelted by the steel-filling method began to be sent to the blacksmith.
An iron sword that had been cultivated towards the ancient method was forged by a thin man.
"Pig iron is heavy and soft, and it is steel. With soft iron as the spine of the knife, bathing with the drowning of the five animals, and quenching the fat of the five animals...... "In the light smoke of quenching, Bai Dou picked up the iron knife in his hand, and he couldn't suppress the surprise in his heart.
Today can be described as unprecedented, so that he finally has a chance to pick up weapons again.
He looked around and his eyes fell on the three men who were staring at the long knives in their hands. These three people are all in the temperament of a person in the same position, surrounded by many people, and there are many discussions, all centered on the three people, and it is clear that these three people are the leaders of the Mongols.
"Kill these dog thieves, you can die!" This thought suddenly rose in Bai Dou's heart.
It's just that when he thought of the words left by Lu Ji that day, he was keenly aware that this was not the opportunity that Lu Ji said.
Thinking of this, Bai Dou was slightly confused.
When such a sign fell into the eyes of the Mongol overseers on the side, it became a sign of trembling and not daring to speak. The Mongolian rolled his eyes, snatched the iron knife from Bai Dou's hand, and said flatteringly to the minister: "Jinong! This is the newly produced Su Iron Knife in the workshop, which is a famous knife that has been said in the history books of the Han people! ”
Naturally, he knew that these craftsmen were extraordinary, but he also understood that the person around him might not believe it. With this in mind, Elinchen handed the Su Iron Sword to Bayindai.
Bayindai took the long knife, his fingertips flicked slightly on the knife, listening to the gently emitted trill, Bayindai sighed lightly: "Good knife, good knife!" I just don't know how to be sharp, not sharp. ”
"Come on, get the armor!" He said loudly.
Soon, a pair of ten bundles of armor were handed over.
Bayindai didn't want to think about it, so he slashed it with a knife, cut it in two, and cut it cleanly.
"Come again!"
The number of ties was increased to twenty.
It's another knife, and it's still unmatchedly sharp.
"Come again!" Bayindai burst into tears, unable to tell what the emotion was.
Another knife, thirty piercs of armor were still slammed into two halves.
This time, Bayindai finally felt the power of the armor, and thought in his heart that if he added ten more ties, the armor would definitely not be able to resist.
It's just that if you can break thirty piercing armor, it can obviously be regarded as a sharp weapon. Even if you can't break the forty piercing armor, so what?
In this world, there are not many people who use armor......
"It's a good knife,......" Bayindai said in a deep voice, and then said, "No matter what, there is such a sharp weapon." We do have a better chance of winning. ”
"It seems that Bayindai is still not confident!" E-Chan said.
Bayindai didn't answer in a hurry.
"It seems that the Ordos Ministry has prepared enough armor this time?" Wenbu Chushu couldn't help but think of the gift that the Erechen had given to the Tumut tribe before. That's a thousand pairs of iron armor.
Being able to give away a thousand pairs of iron armor like a greeting gift obviously shows that the Ordos Department still has enough weapons.
He laughed loudly and led a few people into the core of the entire castle.
There, there were countless Mongols who drove the wagons and dragged carts and things towards the outside of the castle. Occasionally, I saw a few carriages that were not tightly wrapped, which made a few people understand what was carried on the carriage.
"It's all armor!"
"Truckloads are being shipped out, as if day and night, how many weapons are hidden in this nameless castle?"
"Is this the confidence of the Erechen?"
……
The two of them couldn't help but have questions in their hearts.
Bayindai, in particular, frowned incessantly. He had more military literacy than the average Mongol chieftain. When I saw that good knife, I was only surprised and depressed, and I didn't look shocked.
Eluchen is also a smart person, and he can also see that these have not shocked this Qing country's capital.
But he is also very confident that what follows is enough to shake this Qing country's capital.
Soon, out of the heart of the entire castle appeared. Surprisingly, it was a courtyard house. The environment is good, the cleaning is quiet, and there are a few Han people who look like slaves cleaning the courtyard back and forth.
The courtyard was open, and all the way into the atrium, everyone understood what was inside.
This is a handicraft workshop.
And inside, there was something standing that made Bayindai can't help but be shocked.
I only heard Bayindai say in shock: "This is ...... This is...... It's a cannon! Red Cannon! ”
"That's right! It's a red-coated cannon that can shoot ten miles with one shot! At this time, a clear voice said.
"Ji Lu, you did a good job! Haha, come, show our friends, the power of the red-coated cannon! He laughed loudly.
Ji Lu bowed down and answered the order, and personally led a few slaves to start handling the artillery.
Soon, the charge was loaded into the bomb and the fire rope was ignited.
An earth-shattering cannon sounded, and the cannon flew straight into the sky, but a cursory glance at Bayindai estimated the record. This cannon was fired at least five miles.
As for whether there is a ten mile that Eluchen boasts about, it doesn't matter anymore.
The Ordos Ministry was able to cast cannons, and he understood that this war had become a war between the Mongols and the Ming Kingdom. Whether it is victory or defeat, it seems that the Qing Kingdom has to stand aside......
"Then let the Ming Kingdom fall!" Bayindai cried out in pain in her heart.
"If it weren't for the Ming people, this grassland would still be my Qing Dynasty!" (To be continued.) )