Xuanfu is one of the nine important towns.
The town's arsenal is relatively large, and it does have a lot of things. There are three-eyed blunderbuss, bird blunderbuss, and French machine guns, and there are also a lot of cold weapons.
But Huang Yi didn't even look down on it.
In Huang Yi's eyes, the life of every soldier is worthy of respect, but he does not want to cause casualties due to the explosion of firearms.
Can such a bastard court and such corrupt bureaucrats produce muskets and artillery of reassuring quality?
Huang Yi didn't know if other generals could rest assured, but he didn't dare to use it anyway.
Xinghe City has been producing cement, steel, and gunpowder in large quantities, and is manufacturing and developing weapons. Not only muskets and artillery, but also bows and crossbows are also made with precision.
Definitely not producing traditional crossbows, but learning from Huang Yi's crossbows and starting to produce pulley bows and pulley crossbows with elastic steel added to the bow arms.
The process of producing ox-horn bows in the Ming Dynasty was complex, time-consuming and labor-intensive. The main reason was that the hard and elastic composite materials were difficult to process.
The composite material is made of tough and hard wood as the core, with beef tendons attached to the outside and horns attached to the inside. The three are then fused together with special glue to form a good horn bow.
However, after using spring steel for the bow arms, the production of crossbows has reduced a lot of processes and become simpler.
The use of elastic steel for the bow arms was of course Huang Yi's suggestion. When he was looking through the information saved on his mobile phone, he found a video of using scrap brake steel plates to make a crossbow.
Today, Xinghe City only has three or four masters who can make crossbows and a dozen apprentices.
Therefore, the output of steel-arm pulley bows is not large, and twenty or thirty crossbows can be produced in a month.
Because crossbows are not the direction of development, and because the Xinghe Army does not train new archers, the total number of existing infantry archers is only more than a hundred.
Mongolian warriors are good at riding and shooting, and Huang Yi has begun to select the most loyal and brave warriors to reward them with steel-armed pulley bows.
The use of pulleys on bows and crossbows can save half the effort. Originally, an archer who fully stretched the bow string and shot ten high-quality arrows would be basically exhausted.
A strong bow equipped with a pulley assembly can shoot thirty high-quality arrows one after another.
During this expedition, thirty archers and thirty crossbowmen used the newly produced steel-arm pulley bows and pulley crossbows.
Twenty-nine Mongolian warriors such as Hu Xiaochuan and Exun Zhaqin received steel-arm pulley bows.
Five hundred and sixty musketeers were armed with flintlock muskets produced during these months.
The flintlock muskets are already trying to install bayonets, and this time a hundred flintlock muskets with bayonets will be put into actual combat.
Zhang Dong, Bao Zhide and other seven shooting masters who have achieved accurate shooting skills are all using flintlock rifled guns to fire Mini bullets.
The minigun has not been mass-produced. Counting the one that Huang Yi fired, there are only eight in total.
Musketeers and riflemen not only have to make good use of new weapons, but also have the responsibility to put forward shortcomings and suggestions for improvement.
Early the next morning, Huang Dapeng and Hu Xiaochuan led 200 cavalry and 300 auxiliary troops and drove 120 four-wheeled carriages to Zhangjiakou to exit customs.
This official road is wide and flat, and it is possible to march no less than a hundred miles a day.
Moreover, Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. all wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible and come back to catch up with the large army, even faster.
There is no need to worry about the Guanfang seal letter. Now Huang Yi has too many blank ones, but he has already stamped the official seal and private seal of the supervisory army.
It is no problem to lead the soldiers and horses to pass the checkpoints on Xuanda's territory.
The residences of the eunuchs overseeing the army were basically evacuated, and the gold and silver treasures including furniture, bedding, etc. had to be transported to Dongshan Fort.
Except for Xiao Lizi and Jinyiwei Xiaoqi Diao Debao, the people of the great eunuch Wang Kun were sent to the base area to supervise labor.
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Huang Dapeng and Hu Xiaochuan only need to deliver people and materials to Dongshan Fort and hand them over to guard Huang Dayong before they can return.
People talk a lot, and Huang Yi is not ready to fall out with Ming Dynasty at this time. Only Xinghe Army knows about detaining the eunuchs of the supervisory army.
Therefore, more than 70 people, including 20 Jinyi Guards, had to be sent to be guarded outside the customs.
As for when to release these people, we have to look at the results of reforming Wang Kun.
Huang Yi was not in the mood to help Emperor Chongzhen catch corrupt officials, nor was he prepared to help suppress mobs and bandits.
Because he knew that the corrupt ruling system of the Ming Dynasty had created widespread corruption, causing refugees to rebel one after another.
Anti-corruption and suppression of chaos are only treating the symptoms but not the root cause.
There is another very important point: why should we fight against corruption? The corrupt officials who were caught must be unconvinced. Why do you allow your Zhu family to indulge in extravagance?
If you want to fight against corruption, why not attack those feudal princes and clans? The wealth in the hands of those people may be tens of millions of taels.
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. If your old Zhu family can be greedy, don't blame the nobles who have read poetry and books for knocking the bones and sucking the marrow.
oh! It is said that Emperor Chongzhen was thrifty and self-restrained, and even his dragon robes were patched.
What does this mean?
It only proves that he is incompetent and cannot manage the country at all!
His father-in-law, Zhou Kui, originally came from a small family. In the year when Emperor Chongzhen was hanged, Zhou Kui was paid hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
The failure to manage the clan, relatives, and nobles was just a waste of Chongzhen's own thrift and self-restraint.
To change all this, we can only change the entire system. Only by overthrowing the decadent ruling class and rebuilding it can we cure the symptoms and the root cause.
Huang Yi deliberately led troops into the pass to suppress the bandits, not to kill people. The real purpose was to gain more people, which can also be understood as rescuing people in distress.
Because Shanshan in the late Ming Dynasty was described as having ten rooms and nine empty spaces. Even if it doesn’t hit the mark, it’s not far off!
There are many imperial newspapers in Wang Kun's mansion, and the latest one contains relevant content about Daling River City.
Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren, etc. also sent good news to the court before Dalinghe City was besieged.
It is said that Zu Dashou personally led the armored servants to fight with the Hou Jin army more than ten times, defeating the Hou Jin army in the thousands and killing hundreds.
Because the Hou Jin army was risking their lives to grab the corpses, they didn't gain much, only twenty-first level.
Judging from the content of the Di newspaper, Zu Dashou's situation was much better than in history, and he did not ask for emergency help.
It should be that Daling River City's food, fodder, and carbon can last for nearly half a year.
Judging from Zu Dashou's experience over the years, the Hou Jin army's siege would not last more than a month.
Generals such as Zu Dashou, He Kegang and others speculated that the Jin army should retreat after besieging the city for a period of time and harvesting the wheat from the Ming army's fields.
However, Huang Taiji is not a wild boar skin. When Huang Taiji went on the expedition, he mobilized to completely solve Daling River City.
His plan was to surround Dalinghe City heavily and use 15,000 soldiers and horses from Zu Dashou, He Kegang, etc. as bait to encircle and reinforce the city.
When generals such as Zu Dashou and He Kegang discovered that the Jin army was preparing for a long siege, they immediately led their troops out of the city to attack.
The Hou Jin Army, whose trenches had begun to take shape, had a favorable geographical location and caused a large number of casualties to the Guan Ning Army who attacked out of the city.
The final result was that the Hou Jin Army completed a circle of earth fortress around Daling River City. Guan Ning Army's cavalry raid failed, and Sun Chengzong began to mobilize men and horses in an attempt to relieve the siege.
