The official surnamed Jin wants money not because he is greedy for money, but because he has an unspeakable secret. The six towns in the north are too poor!
His boss, Mr. Cui, the governor of Qingyuan Mansion, has suffered losses of up to 3,000 guan in the past few years since he took office. There was really no other way, so I sent my subordinates over again and again to see if I could squeeze some money out of the North Navy. As a result, he didn't expect Deng Fei to be so generous and gave him 800 taels in one go. The shortfall was almost fully covered.
Wait, some people say that three thousand taels of silver should be converted into around 3,000 taels. How can it be solved with 800 taels of silver?
Don't worry, this matter has to start with Li Chao's Qian Fa.
It is said that since before the Wanli War to Aid Korea, the Li Dynasty has not used silver as its main currency; and the Li Dynasty is short of copper, and it has always followed the "temporary official mining system" of silver mines. Chaos, the main currency used for transactions at the time was cloth. After the Wanli War to Aid Korea began, because a considerable part of the Ming army's military pay was paid in silver, silver gradually circulated in the Korean market.
Because the war had led to the decline of people's livelihood, and the Ming Dynasty's envoys were all experts at extorting bribes, the Li Dynasty's finances had been on the verge of collapse. There was such an example during Gwanghaejun's time. North Korea built a pontoon bridge for the "Angel", but the envoy said that there was no need to build the bridge and that it would be ready. As for crossing the river, we would find a way ourselves - which shocked the North Korean monarchs and ministers. Linen.
By the time of the Battle of Bingzi, the king had run away, so who cared about money and law. After Xiaozong succeeded to the throne, because Li Dynasty's own coin-making technology was too inferior, it was not enough, so the local officials of the two western regions bordering the Qing Dynasty (Kansai Pingan Road and Haixi Huanghai Road) purchased copper coins with Qing Dynasty for use. .
Li Dynasty's Bibian Secretary said that since it is better to buy than to make, he might as well buy money from Daiqing (although the outflow of copper coins is not allowed in Daiqing). One thousand six hundred taels of silver can buy 1.3 million copper coins, so Yan Xingxing Before returning to China, Tuan bought money from Liaodong and returned to China.
According to this price, eight hundred taels of silver is 650,000 yuan, which is almost 2,800 guan. The phenomenon of "saving strangers" in the Li Dynasty was extremely serious, and each guan only had 230 qian. So get it, that’s all.
But there is something even more surprising.
When the official surnamed Jin saw the thousand-foot silver bars in Beihai Town, he was curious. However, when he heard the explanation from the professionals in charge of military supplies and logistics in the Beihai Navy, he was overjoyed.
As mentioned before, one tael in the Qing Dynasty was 37.5 grams, and the silver was 925 silver; while the silver bars in Beihai Town were one thousand pure silver, and one tael was 50 grams. After converting the two sides, the actual value of this batch of silver bars has exceeded one thousand one hundred taels, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the official named Jin!
During this expedition, Deng Fei received a total of two thousand taels of silver bars as extra funds. He was worried that Li Chao would not recognize Beihai Town's silver coins, but he actually used them.
After the official surnamed Jin counted the amount of silver bars, he regained his smile and leaned in front of Deng Fei and whispered: "If Mr. Deng wants to buy food and grass, you can send someone to tell my subordinates, and they can do all the chores." Done. I wonder if your Excellency is interested in karaoke, but I can also send someone to make arrangements."
Deng Feixin said, good guy, there is a completely different attitude between giving money and not giving money! However, he still expressed his gratitude but said that he was busy with military affairs and could not afford it.
But when the official surnamed Jin returned to Qingyuan Mansion with the money, the first thing Mr. Fu Yin did after getting the money was to take him to the theater to show off. While Cui Fuyin hugged the officials, he also told the official named Jin that there were too few local geishas. If this were in Hanyang, there would be hundreds of brothels and thousands of geishas to dazzle people.
In these days, the monthly salary of Li Chaozheng, a first-grade official, was only three meters and eight dou, and two peas, let alone a second-grade official like Cui Fuyin. He was so poor that it was impossible to live without corruption.
On the next day, Cui Fuyin felt that the Beihai Navy was really interested and that he should be polite to him, so he ordered several carts of wine and meat to be sent to the Beihai Navy's camp.
When Deng Fei heard that officials from the Li Dynasty had brought wine and meat again, he felt extremely fed up. Originally, he had eaten bibimbap, cold noodles, and barbecue in another time and felt that he could accept it, so he did not refuse the food and wine sent by Qingxing Mansion before. Unexpectedly, Deng Fei vomited it as soon as he tasted it after it was cooked, thinking that it was no wonder that later generations would use kimchi as a national treasure.
Not to mention Deng Fei, the soldiers in the Marine Battalion also found it difficult to swallow the pigs and sheep they sent, and they were later sent to the Ainu Camp. Unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Ainu camp had long been whetted by the North Navy's rations. Except for the mutton and pork, they threw them all away after taking two bites.
Actually, Deng Fei didn't see how Li Chao raised the pigs and the meat. ． ． ． ． ． It is said that in these years when you go out to stay in a hotel in Li Dynasty, you must be careful when going out at night. Let’s not talk about whether it is dark or not. If you are not prepared, something will touch your butt behind. After a closer look, I realized that the pig was hungry.
On May 29, the 53rd year of Qianlong's reign, the Northern Navy's eastern front line at Lushou Mountain took half a day's rest to conquer Khurlamukalen, and the troops reached Xitu Mountain. After learning the news, Deng Fei immediately ordered the two motorboats No. 1 and 2 of Beihai to go north into Mokuowei Bay to provide artillery and logistical support to Lu Shoushan's headquarters.
On May 30th, after a long journey, Jiuzang's troops finally crossed Laobai Mountain and arrived at Erduoli. This place is also known as Aodong City, also known as Actun. More than 200 miles north along the Lefushan River flowing through here is the famous Jingbo Lake in later generations. In seasons with abundant rainfall, you can drive directly to Ninggu Pagoda.
In the 16th year of Kangxi's reign, the Qing government designated Changbai Mountain as a sacrificial mountain and designated more than a thousand miles around it as a restricted area. According to the example of the Five Mountains of Zen, Changbai Mountain is respected as a god. Officials appointed by General Ning Guta conduct memorial ceremonies in Jilin every spring and autumn. Due to the one-hundred-year ban, this place has become almost deserted. However, the soldiers who arrived first discovered that there were people reclaiming wasteland for farming. The ashes in several thatched huts were still warm, indicating that these people had just escaped not long ago.
At this time, the 5,000 soldiers and horses sent by the official security guarding the Hunchun Camp to support Jilin City had crossed the Burhatu River, and a day later they ran into the Third Regiment of the Northern Navy, which had been preparing for a day in Erduoli.
Facing a fierce counterattack by more than 2,000 people from the Northern Navy, the Qing army suffered heavy losses after organizing dozens of attacks and had to retreat to Hunchun. Jiuzang immediately ordered his troops to attack eastward. After repeatedly repelling the harassment of the remaining Qing troops along the way, he finally reached the west bank of the Gahali River and contacted the impatient Marine Battalion who was already waiting in Qianyuanpu.
Deng Fei immediately ordered the river fleet to set off northward. He first bombarded the defenders of Mizhan Karen, and at the same time brought the third regiment to the east bank of the Tumen River, and then captured Mizhan Karen.
At this point, the door for the Hunchun Qing army to escape westward was finally blocked.
After receiving the report from the Jiuzang Division, the Western Front troops, who had rested for three days at Tuijiao Station, repelled dozens of crazy attacks by the Qing army, also began to move westward, gradually approaching the east bank of the Lafa River.
The Qing army's crossing-river raiding force didn't want to intercept the Northern Navy, but they couldn't stop it at all. After the battle at Ninggu Tower, Zhao Xin used the five green tracked armored vehicles again. It was useless in the mountains and jungles, but now it is useful in the river valleys and plains.
At first, some tough men rushed up and used sabers and sledgehammers to try to break open the shell of the green monster, or jumped from horseback to the armored vehicle to kill the hateful machine gunner. Who knew that it was actually a tiger biting a hedgehog, and there was no way to kill it. mouth. After the soldiers of the Northern Navy sitting in the armored vehicle killed those who came close one by one, no one dared to come up and fight in close combat.
Afterwards, several units of the Qing army gathered together and used flanking tactics to attack more than 500 Northern Navy troops following five armored vehicles. But what stunned them was that the five green monsters quickly formed a plum blossom formation, surrounding the Beihai soldiers in the middle. The dense barrage knocked the charging cavalry off their backs, causing heavy casualties.
After two failures, the Qing raiding force had to retreat to the west bank of the Lafa River and demolished two pontoon bridges.
On June 1, the Northern Navy's Western Front Attack Force arrived on the east bank of the Lafa River and began to set up positions. The two sides were now ten miles apart, separated by a river.
So the two sides faced off across the river for several days. During this period, the Northern Navy reconnaissance team took two computer soldiers to swim across the Lafa River late at night, and set up a forward artillery observation post on the hill north of the Qing army camp.
Now Gu Bi, not only Qinggui, but also many lower-level Qing soldiers knew that the Northern Navy's cannons could hit far. In several battles with the Qing army in the past few years, the Beihai Navy sometimes preferred to suffer casualties and waited until the enemy came within ten miles before launching bombardment. This gave the Qing army an illusion, thinking that the Northern Navy's artillery was only ten miles away at most.
Well, this is actually not because Zhao Xin is so far-sighted and deliberately dug a big hole, but because the artillery technology of the Bei Navy is really not very good.
It is said that when performing indirect aiming, the artillery sight is not pointed at the target, but at an artificially set aiming point, which can be a benchmark or a calibrator; if conditions do not permit, you can also choose an obvious ground reference.
At this time, there are two connecting lines for the artillery, one is the "line of sight" between the artillery and the reference object, and the other is the "eye line" between the artillery and the target. By measuring the angle between the aiming line and the gun bore line, the scope is adjusted so that it is at the same angle as the gun barrel. At this time, when aiming at the reference object, the muzzle will be pointed at the target.
In addition to the shooting direction, the shooting angle also needs to be adjusted, that is, the height of the muzzle is adjusted. This can be directly checked from the firing table through the distance and type of ammunition, so as to adjust the muzzle pitch, then determine the charge number and type of fuze, and then you can shoot.
Although many electronic devices are available in another time and space, and it is convenient to obtain data such as target orientation, distance, elevation, etc., Zhao Xin does not want to rely on these. Talent is the key. Let alone whether it can be purchased, relying too much on equipment from another time and space, if something goes wrong, the North Navy's cannons will become mute.
Three years have passed since the Northern Navy's artillery first debuted in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign. Although the artillery's skill level is constantly improving, they have all started from scratch because of their poor foundation. The current level of calculation soldiers has just passed. If the scouts are the eyes of the artillery, then the computer soldiers are the brains of the artillery. Both are indispensable.
In order to destroy the Qing army's defense line in one fell swoop, Zhao Xin deployed ten D30s this time, plus the fifty 75mm field guns that had just arrived from Ningguta, as well as the thirty-sixth rifles attached to the two infantry regiments. door mortar.
When everything is ready, the squad leaders of each North Korean navy gun will also calculate individual corrections based on the individual differences between their own guns and the reference guns.
The so-called "benchmark gun" is the best-performing and most accurate gun of the same type, and must be tested first. Generally, after two test firings, the forward observation station calculates the deviation of the explosion point and corrects the firing elements before entering the effective firing.
The entire process requires coordination and tacit understanding, and no mistakes can be made in any link to accurately cover long-distance enemies.
This is really not something that someone can just shout and fire, and then thousands of cannons can fire. Even long-distance strikes in the era of smoothbore cannons were only possible by calculating the firing table. Of course, small cannons at visual distance are not included in this list.
Now who dares to tell Zhao Xin that it is easy to engage in artillery? Zhao Xin, who has many experience of leading artillery in combat, will definitely spit on his face. Don’t talk about body material, let’s talk about math first!
A time traveler who can't even figure out trigonometry wants to build long-range artillery in ancient times. Isn't this nonsense? ! This is not something that can be done by just finding a few Feng Shui masters who can read a compass.
The first to fire were a 75mm field gun and a D30 howitzer produced by Beihai Town. The first shots of the two benchmark guns hit the first line of defense of the Qing army's camp. Although the Qing army killed a few people, it did not cause much accident.
However, when D30's second shot passed the central army's position and hit the Qing army's rear camp twenty miles away, Qinggui was so frightened that he turned pale and finally realized that he had been deceived. .
But it was too late to say anything at this time. It was time for the Northern Navy artillery to go on a killing spree. The blinding artillery fire crossed the Lafa River, which was only 20 meters wide, and caused tens of thousands of Qing troops to howl like ghosts.
As the artillery fire extended to the west, more than 3,000 Northern Navy soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the river beach carrying sandbags and wood that had been prepared long ago. Dozens of minutes later, two "roads" with water reaching the knees and allowing people and armored vehicles to pass were completed.
Although Qinggui ordered a counterattack, as the five armored vehicles crossed the Lafa River, spitting out tongues of fire and sweeping away all life within hundreds of meters, the Qing troops on the front line had collapsed and turned around to escape. .
Less than an hour after the war started, Qinggui learned that the Qing army had been completely defeated. He didn't even have time to commit suicide. He was helped onto his horse by his subordinates and walked through the shrapnel-filled battlefield. He fled back to Jilin City with thousands of remaining soldiers.
In this battle, the Northern Navy captured more than 15,000 Qing prisoners and seized countless types of ordnance and supplies. However, wounded soldiers accounted for half of the prisoners of war. After asking afterward, I found out that these people had heard the rumors about "the corpses were raised with white bones" in Beihai Town. Rather than fleeing back and having no one to treat them, it was better to surrender and still have a way to survive. ; The source of the rumor was the group of Qing soldiers who were prisoners of war in the Fuldan City prisoner-of-war camp two years ago.
At this time, Fukang'an had led an army of 10,000 to Jilin and learned about the defeat of the Qing army in Lafahe. While gathering the remaining defeated generals, he arranged defense with the assistance of Qinggui. Fukang'an mobilized the people of the city, dug deep trenches and fortifications on the east bank of the Songhua River, and sent dozens of Yaksa warships loaded with artillery to patrol the river, preparing to fight to the death.
Then, Fukang'an used the seal of "General Dingbei" and ordered the eight thousand Qing troops who had gathered to fight the animals to go south and station themselves twenty miles north of Jilin City.
Although the Beihai Navy's current offensive is fierce, for the Manchu Qing, Jilin City must not be lost even if all Hecheng is wiped out. Because once Jilin City is captured, going southwest across Wendeheng Mountain and Adeng Mountain will be the endless Liaohe Plain, and there will no longer be any danger to defend. For the Manchus, the situation at that time would be even more terrifying than at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
After the reconnaissance team sent back the news that the Qing troops had retreated to Jilin City, Zhao Xin waited on the west bank of the Lafa River for a few more days. When he learned that all the Qing troops who were hunting Ula animals had gone south, he sent a battalion to attack the east bank of the Songhua River. The Qing army implemented the strategy of luring the enemy.
When Fukang'an saw that the Beihai Navy was moving and that there were not many people, he ordered four thousand cavalry from the Eight Banners of Xi'an and the Eight Banners of Qinghai to attack. But then the five green monsters appeared again, and the four thousand cavalrymen turned around and ran away in fright.
Yang Yuchun also participated in this battle. Although his arm strength was unparalleled, the 150-pound bow could only make a dent on the armored vehicle. When he saw a general next to him being beaten to pieces by the "Rapid Cannon" mounted on top of the green-skinned monster, he could only turn around and run wildly.
After Zhao Xin saw the Qing army retreating to the outskirts of Jilin, huddled together, and assuming a fight-to-die attitude, he immediately ordered Hu Ji to lead four battalions to arrive at the north bank of the Zhisonge River at night, and then went straight to attack Ula City.
Two days later, Fukang'an and Qinggui learned that Dashouula City had fallen. At this time, they were still thankful that they had transferred their troops to the south in advance, otherwise it would have been another big defeat. But then, an urgent message from Hunchun left Qinggui dumbfounded, and Fukang'an's face turned livid.
Tens of thousands of people from the North Navy are besieging Hunchun Camp. Thousands of people are in urgent need, and the official and security guards are weeping and begging for help!
"Poof!" Qinggui, who had been exhausted, could no longer hold on, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell to the sky.
On June 15, the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong was furious when he learned that Dashou Ula and Hunchun had been captured. He first sent his bodyguards to Suo Na, Jilin, and returned to Beijing to interrogate the crime, which was interrogated by six ministries and nine ministers. At the same time, an order was sent to mobilize 50,000 green battalion troops from Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi to go northward and leave the customs by land and sea to rush to Jilin.
For a time, the whole world turned their attention.
