"Higher, higher...Okay, okay, here it is!"
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, in the Palace of the Great Khan in Shenyang City, Huang Taiji, a big fat man, was standing on the steps with his arms folded, watching his new favorite Princess Taisong directing several female guards with yellow flags to walk towards a big tree. Hang firecrackers - In today's Daikin, firecrackers are a rare thing. If it hadn't been for the imperial concubine Wu Liangha of the Ming Dynasty who sent someone to give her sister a few rolls, Huang Taiji, the Tiancong Khan, would not have heard the sound of firecrackers this year. .
Of course, Huang Taiji, the Great Khan, was not so poor that he could not afford firecrackers... But the Ming Dynasty has now imposed a strict gunpowder embargo on the Kingdom of Jin! Gunpowder, nitrate, sulfur, and all gunpowder products as well as products using nitrate and sulfur are prohibited from being exported to the Jianzhou area, Mobei Mongolia, and North Korea.
This strict embargo immediately caused a shortage of gunpowder in Houjin! Although Hou Jin still had a way to get some gunpowder, the quantity was very small and therefore extremely precious, and it was impossible to use it to make firecrackers.
However, the gunpowder embargo was not the biggest headache for Huang Taiji, because the Eight Banners soldiers of the Jin Kingdom did not use firearms very much, and they could fight without gunpowder.
The most troublesome embargo for Huang Taiji was actually the food embargo. The Eight Banners soldiers did not rely on gunpowder to fight, nor did they use iron weapons. From the time when the old Khan of Tianming rebelled to the present day, at least 200,000 Ming troops were defeated by Hou Jin. , and they also captured the important military towns of Tieling, Liaoyang, and Guangning (Tieling is Li Chengliang's hometown), and seized a large number of weapons and armor. Therefore, they did not waste iron materials and weapons at all. This can be seen from the sophisticated equipment of the Eight Banners soldiers.
But the Eight Banners soldiers and Eight Banners coats have to eat!
Although the Later Jin Kingdom did not have fertile black soil, due to the lack of labor, there was no way to expand the sowing area or build water conservancy and irrigation projects. When the weather is dry and cold, expanding sowing and building water conservancy projects can ensure food production. effective measures. However, Houjin, who was already short of labor, had to fight every year, so a large number of strong men joined the army to accompany the army. Only the old and weak were left to farm in the rear, so they were unable to implement it.
If the income from fighting was greater than the income from farming, Houjin's Eight Banners masters and Baoyi slaves could live a good life, but the results of Tiancong's four years were still not ideal.
To the east of Thousand Miles of Pine Forest, although Hauge was able to secure his position on both sides of the Xilin River, he was defeated by Concubine Uliangha in the Battle of Han Nao'er... and it was a disastrous defeat. The Two Yellow Banner Mongolia almost He was beaten and disabled, and now he has no choice but to huddle in the north of Dashawo without daring to move.
And Zhu Youjian took advantage of the victory of the great concubine Wu Liangha to wrap up the widows of Hutu Dun Khan, and built four new houses of 40,000 households in Orduo in one breath, which has now become the Monan Mongolian grassland. The most powerful force.
Although the Monan that Zhu Youjian swallowed did not belong to Daikin, this incident was still a major setback for Daikin.
While Hauge suffered a setback, Hou Jin also fought several battles with the Ming army in the Liaoxi Corridor and Liaoxi Mountains, as well as in the Jinzhou and Fuzhou areas of the Liaodong Peninsula. Although they won more than they lost, they were unable to break the strategic decline.
If the Ming army advances section by section along the Western Liaoning Corridor, it will be very easy for the Jin army to encircle the points for reinforcements. The Ming army's battle line was just a thin strip. Once Jinzhou and Dalinghe Fort were captured, the Ming army had to send reinforcements from Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan. If the Jin army can fight, they will fight. If they can't fight, they can still go to the mountainous areas of western Liaoning to infiltrate behind the Ming army to reinforce the Ming army's logistics line...
But now the Ming army in western Liaoning has also learned bad things and followed the Daling River into the mountains in western Liaoning!
At this time, the Hou Jin army had a big head. What they had to deal with was the Ming army on a narrow strip of flat land by the sea. The flat ground was originally conducive to the entry and exit of the Hou Jin cavalry, and the Ming army's fortress line was too slender, making it easy to Split surround. Moreover, the Liaoxi Corridor is not narrow enough. The Jinzhou area is dozens of miles wide and cannot be blocked at all. Dajin soldiers can come in and out at will!
Moreover, the Ming army was still stationed around those fortresses. As soon as the Hou Jin soldiers arrived, they drove the Ming army into the fortress. The wheat in the fields outside was all the food for the Hou Jin army... This battle was so comfortable!
But now the Ming army has retreated into the mountains. If the Jin army wants to fight again, it will have to march along the river valleys and valleys. This is difficult! The width of the valleys and river valleys cannot be compared with that of the Liaoxi Corridor. Too much resistance can be blocked and fortified. Moreover, these forts are built close to mountains and rivers. Although simple, they are very useful for the post-Jin army who do not have heavy firearms. Difficult to capture.
What makes Huang Taiji feel even more helpless is that many mountain passes in the mountains of western Liaoning will be blocked by heavy snow in winter. Therefore, he could not mobilize troops and horses to march to western Liaoning after the autumn harvest. However, sending troops in summer and autumn would not only delay the farming work, but also have to pass through the Hun River, Liao River, Daling River and other rivers on the way. It’s very troublesome and wastes time.
Therefore, the troops sent by Huang Taiji did not get much advantage in the mountainous areas of western Liaoning... In the end, they had to garrison at Xingzhong Fort (formerly the front and rear garrison of Yingzhou) in the middle reaches of the Daling River, forming a formation with the Hou Jin Army stationed in Jinzhou. The power of the horns blocked the Ming army's eastward advance...
But after this card... the Jin army was divided into two groups to guard it!
The post-Jin army that could have been gathered together is now becoming more and more scattered. Some were allocated to the Xilin River, some were allocated to Wudan City, another was allocated to Hahewei's hometown in the lower reaches of the old Hamulin River, and some were allocated to Chahanhot in the Liaohe Hetao area, plus troops from Xingzhong Fort and Jinzhou. Coupled with the soldiers stationed at Yongning Fort in Fuzhou, Gaizhou, Yaozhou, Tieshan, Zhenjiang, Yizhou and other places to guard against Mao Wenlong... the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were almost like pepper noodles. Sprinkle a little here and there. A little, where can we form a synergy?
Without the ability to form a joint force, Huang Taiji would not be able to get out of Yanshan three times. To be honest, he doesn't dare to attack Yanshan anymore - he is familiar with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhuge Liang left Qishan six times and fell into Wuzhangyuan. He has always compared himself with Zhuge Liang, but he doesn't dare to go out Yanshan six times. At most, he only Can appear five times... Now there are three more opportunities, you have to be sure before using them.
Since we can't go west to rob, we can only change the direction and rob... to rob North Korea!
Therefore, Huang Taiji has been preparing to send troops to North Korea since the autumn of the fourth year of Chongde, and sending troops to North Korea does not just happen. He must be prepared for a decisive battle with Mao Wenlong's troops in North Korea!
At this time, a eunuch hurriedly arrived in front of Huang Taiji, knelt down on the ground, and loudly reported: "Great Khan, please see me."
Shi Wuli's concubine's name was Tong Yangxing. He was Nurhaci's grandson-in-law and an important minister in charge of Han affairs in the Later Jin Dynasty.
"Announce him to come in!" As soon as Huang Taiji heard that it was Tong Yangxing, he immediately smiled and had people announce him.
He had asked Tong Yangxing to handle an important matter before, and he had already figured it out recently. This Tong Yangxing will definitely have good news when he comes over on New Year's Eve.
As expected, Tong Yangxing had a happy face. He walked quickly to Huang Taiji and made a neat salute, "Greetings to the Great Khan. Good luck to the Great Khan."
Huang Taiji asked with a smile: "Get up and answer!"
"嗻!"
Huang Taiji asked: "Is it done?"
"It's done, it's done!" Tong Yangxing said with a smile, "That slave named Liu Han is quite capable. He just cast the Hongyi cannon based on some information that the craftsmen heard!"
It turns out that the task Huang Taiji gave to Tong Yangxing was to organize a group of captured Han craftsmen to imitate the Hongyi cannon.
But the problem is that the Han craftsmen in Liaodong have never seen the Hongyi cannon, so Tong Yangxing can only send out his craftsmen to collect information about the Hongyi cannon, and then let the craftsmen below use this information to brainstorm.
By the end of Tiancong's fourth year, a Hongyi cannon was finally cast!
"Have you tried it?" Huang Taiji asked.
"I've tried it, I've tried it...the cannon can be fired two miles away, it's amazingly powerful!" Tong Yangxing said, "We at Daikin also have these cannons!"
Huang Taiji laughed loudly, and then said to Princess Taisong: "Beauty, light the firecrackers... I have a cannon, and I want to celebrate!"
