"Your Majesty, what I saw today makes me feel that I will no longer be useful in the future!"
Sun Chuanting looked a little lonely.
Listening to Sun Chuanting's answer, Chongzhen was speechless.
Let me show you the power of palm thunder. Why are you so depressed? This is nothing.
But it's no wonder they had such a big reaction. A two-pound Thunderbolt can produce such great power.
If you make a twenty-pound weapon, add hundreds of lead pieces, caltrops, etc., and use a trebuchet to throw it into the military formation, you will be killed or injured within a radius of five feet.
After thinking about it for a while, there was still no explanation. He immediately turned cold and said coldly: "If you all think this way, then you might as well go back early and let your wife and children warm up to each other."
After saying that, he stopped talking to a few people and got on his horse.
The expressions of several people also changed suddenly, and they all followed closely without any time to think.
Half an hour later, Chongzhen arrived outside the Qianqing Palace. Zhou Yuji and others looked at the emperor entering the Qianqing Palace. They opened their mouths to say something but didn't know where to start.
In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen drank a cup of herbal tea in one gulp and let out a long breath.
The power of granulated gunpowder and his idea have been verified. It is at least two to three times more powerful than powdered gunpowder.
More powerful ones, such as trinitrotoluene (TNT), which was later known as the king of explosives before World War II, but he did know the equation.
But given the current industrial conditions, don’t even think about it.
But now there is granulated black powder, and with the addition of sugar, the power will be increased, which is enough.
With the existence of Zhentian Lei, the siege and killing of Jiannu entering the pass will be more confident.
All that is left is to wait for the outcome of the collision between the Tumut coalition, Chahar Lindan Khan, and Jiannu.
Teng Xiang's left guard and white pole soldiers have now been sent to set up an ambush around Zunhua City. With the cooperation of Jin Yiwei, he is not too worried about concealment.
But the two combined only have more than 10,000 people, which is far from enough.
Zunhua City is more than 300 miles away from Beijing City, so even the cavalry would take two or three days.
Once Jiannu learns that Beijing's army is heading towards Zunhua, he will inevitably retreat. Cao Wenzhao's Tengxiang left guard and Qin Gongmin's white-pole soldiers may not be able to stop them.
If it cannot be stopped, then all the calculations will be in vain, and a series of consequences will occur.
Maybe the policy of returning land to the people will not be implemented properly.
"Big companion, inform Li Ruolian and ask him to send a message to Cao Wenzhao, Qin Gongmin and Sun Zushou, and secretly return to Beijing to see me."
Wang Chengen responded and left. Only Chongzhen was left in Dongnuan Pavilion, staring at the map and thinking slowly.
"Perhaps we can make a fuss at the surrounding checkpoints such as Santunying, Zunhua City, and Da'ankou."
"Should we recruit Mao Wenlong back then? To avoid Huang Taiji getting entangled?"
"I have mobilized all the troops around Beijing and withdrew all the outer defense lines. Huang Taiji, if you don't seize the opportunity to dig up the imperial tomb again, you will be too stupid."
…
In Dongnuan Pavilion, Chongzhen muttered to himself from time to time, thinking about how to plot against Jiannu.
The arrangement of Xuanfu and Datong, and Lin Danhan's plan were to force slaves to build slaves.
And moving away the defense lines around the capital is to lure Jiannu into seclusion.
Outside the Qianqing Gate, Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, and Cao Bianjiao were wearing armor and standing upright, but their faces were full of tangles.
After a while, Huang Degong whispered: "I asked, is your Majesty angry?"
"Are we not blind?"
Cao Bianjiao yelled back, and the other two rolled their eyes at the idiot Huang Degong.
Huang Degong smiled and said, "His Majesty's attitude seems to be telling us that firearms are not that scary?"
The three of them were silent, and Zhou Yuji suddenly said: "We seemed to be frightened by the power of the palm thunder.
I remember that when His Majesty was in Pianguan, he had a discussion with Xie Zhiliang, the commander-in-chief of Pianguan, and other generals. His Majesty said something that touched me very much! "
"Which sentence?"
“Your Majesty said that it is people, not weapons, that determine the outcome of a war!
It is said that what the soldiers at Pianguan lacked was the courage to be brave when faced with a narrow road, and what they lacked was the determination to go forward bravely without fear of life and death and bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh. "
"Wonderful!"
Sun Chuanting suddenly slapped his thigh, the movement was so big that everyone was startled.
"Everyone, Your Majesty is right, the sky-shaking thunder is very powerful, but it must also be able to hit us.
We are not stupid people, waiting stupidly for the enemy to throw them into our military formation.
Zhentian Lei, I estimate that even for a sergeant with good arm strength in the army, around thirty feet is already the limit, and this distance from the cavalry is only a few breaths away.
Even without cavalry, you can still resist with car formations and so on.
As long as we break into the enemy's ranks, we will win.
Besides, no matter what kind of firearm it is, it will still come down to hand-to-hand combat, and people still come first.
The personal abilities of sergeants and the command and coordination abilities of generals are still the most important.
Therefore, it’s not that we have no place to use it, but we need to think about how to defend against this kind of firearm.
Think more about how to attack so that the enemy's firearms cannot exert their corresponding power. "
"Yes, we only saw the power of firearms and did not see its disadvantages, such as attack distance, rainy weather, etc. These disadvantages can all be exploited."
"It makes sense. No matter how good the weapon is, it is of no use if it is not used well. Even if the equipment of the Beijing camp is good, it will definitely lose against us.
The equipment of the white pole soldiers is considered poor. They can resist the Jiannu cavalry. It is the people who determine the outcome of the war. This is the truth! "
"Your Majesty is truly a man of great talent and strategy. He stands high, sees far, and has seen through the essence of war!"
"Not just in war, this sentence is true in any army."
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The more everyone talked, the more excited they became, and they regained their enthusiasm to lead the troops to defeat Shengjing in the afternoon.
After a while, Huang Degong said: "Then what should we do now?"
"What can I do? I can ask His Majesty to admit my mistake!"
After Cao Bianjiao finished speaking, he said something to the little eunuch on duty at Qianqing Gate, and the little eunuch left immediately.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sky darkened. The bright light behind Wang Chengen’s lamp woke up Chongzhen, who was deep in thought.
Seeing that Chongzhen had come to his senses, Wang Chengen whispered: "Your Majesty, the commander of the Forbidden Army and the three commanders of the Tengxiang Four Guards are asking for an audience outside the Qianqing Palace."
"You figured it out so quickly?"
Chongzhen was a little surprised and took the tea from Wang Chengen: "Let them come in!"
After a while, the four of them entered Dongnuan Pavilion and immediately knelt down after seeing Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty, my thoughts went astray this afternoon, please forgive me!"
