"In desperate situations, they will completely unite, and even say that in order to survive, Fuso will change their strategy, from selling firearms to directly providing technology.
Jiannu has now established a firearms workshop. As long as he has the technology, he can immediately produce a large number of firearms. This is nothing compared to our output, but it will definitely increase our casualties.
And as the war continues, the casualties will definitely become larger and larger. If Fuso has the technology of Hongyi cannon and Folang machine gun, and as long as Jiannu can build three or five Hongyi cannons, the casualties will be several times higher. increase.
Therefore, either don't fight, or don't give them any chance to correct themselves when fighting. "
"Your Majesty, I thought that Fusang must have the skills of Hongyi cannon and Folang machine gun."
Hou Xiu, Minister of the Ministry of War, spoke out with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, there are several reasons for my judgment.
First, after the news of Fuso's participation in the war came back, I ordered the Ministry of War to conduct a thorough investigation of the Tongbao and the situation in North Korea since Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded North Korea.
First, in the 20th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded North Korea. He fought from Busan to Pyongyang in two months, and then used iron cannons to kill the North Korean defenders. However, the North Korean defenders' crossbows were not close enough.
Then my reinforcements arrived, and Fusang attacked with iron cannons on the city wall of Pyongyang. My Ming sergeant suffered heavy casualties.
Furious, Li Rusong mobilized 120 general cannons and 20 squatting tiger cannons to continuously bombard the city wall, and then defeated Sergeant Fusang.
Afterwards, Li Rusong concluded that Fuso's large firearms were inferior to ours, but its matchlock technology was far inferior to Fuso's, and there were also infantry guns and cavalry guns used by cavalry;
It can be seen from this record that Fuso must have artillery similar to general artillery. It is hard to say whether it is the light artillery that Zheng Zhiqi mentioned, but their firearms manufacturing technology is definitely not bad;
Secondly, the Yuan Dynasty conducted two eastern expeditions to Fusang in the 11th and 18th years of the Yuan Dynasty. Goryeo also recruited 30,000 troops into Fusang. In the process, they learned firearms. Then at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Goryeo army was transferred to the Central Plains to stop Zhang Shicheng, and also came into contact with a large number of firearms;
In the 22nd year of King Gongmin of Goryeo, which was the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court transferred 500,000 catties of saltpeter and 100,000 catties of sulfur to North Korea at the request of North Korea.
"History of Goryeo" clearly records that Goryeo established the Fire Barrel Governor in the 10th year of Hongwu, and the Fire Barrel Radiation Army was established the following year.
The main weapon is to use gunpowder to push arrow clusters in the barrel, such as iron feather arrows, leather feather arrows, and mountain-piercing five dragon arrows. According to the caliber and length, they are divided into fire barrels, generals, second generals, and third generals.
There are also arson firearms made of paper gunpowder cartridges, such as rockets, and explosive firearms, such as rapid millet cannons, flowing fires, misfires, sky-touching fires, etc.
In addition, according to records, North Korea manufactured a firearm called a train, which is somewhat similar to our swarm of bees and hundreds of tigers running together with arrows.
It can fire one hundred Zhongshen machine arrows or fifty four-arrow milling tubes at a time. Its range and power are much greater than those of bows and arrows, but it has never been seen on the battlefield.
Does this kind of train feel like Katyusha?
It can be seen that after more than two hundred years of development, North Korea's firearms have a wide variety of types.
The reason why they arrived in Pyongyang just two months after being killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi was that the peace had lasted too long, and the incident happened suddenly and there was no time to prepare; the second was internal corruption, lax military equipment, insufficient training, and poor combat effectiveness.
But this does not mean that North Korea’s firearms technology is poor.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi occupied North Korea for several months. Although he was driven away by us, he must have looted North Korea's firearms technology.
Moreover, Spain and other Western countries have trade relations with Fuso, and after seeing the power of artillery, they will definitely find ways to obtain artillery technology from Spain;
With North Korea's firearms technology, plus the firearms technology Fuso obtained from Spain, there shouldn't be a problem with the technology of manufacturing Hongyi cannons. It's just a matter of cost, yield, and how many cans are made.
Third, Jiannu had already proven the power of Hongyi cannon when he attacked Ningyuan City in the sixth year of Tianqi.
In addition, in last year's Battle of Longjing Pass, firearms caused them heavy losses. With Huang Taiji's ambition and strategic vision, he would definitely find a way to acquire artillery technology.
Now that we know that we obtained the Hongyi cannon from Hao Jing, there is a high probability that it was the Spanish sergeant who sent someone to contact Hao Jing.
And this time the three parties that established the slave system jointly attacked North Korea, was it really just to solve the problem of food shortage?
Perhaps alleviating food shortages is just incidental, and the real purpose is to fight North Korea's firearms. "
Um……
Listening to Hou Xi's analysis, the faces of everyone in Dongnuan Pavilion became serious.
This speculation is most likely true. Jiannu's cavalry is very powerful, but they are not good at attacking cities. If they want to penetrate Guanning's defense line, they can only use firearms.
But firearm technology is so easy to break through. The only country with ready-made technology is North Korea, which can be used directly if it is brought over. It even directly forces North Korean firearms craftsmen to directly manufacture it.
If Jiannu and Fusang could really make a large number of firearms, it would be extremely difficult for the Ming Dynasty to completely destroy them and they would have to pay huge casualties.
They were once again deceived by Huang Taiji's strategy, or missed the most important information.
Yuan Keli said solemnly: "Everyone, based on the information and speculations compiled so far, let's summarize the strength of Jiannu, the Fuso Army stationed in North Korea, and the Mongolian tribes.
The first is military strength. Among the three, the Mongolian army will eventually gather around 150,000 people, the Jiannu army should be around 120,000 people, and the Fusang army currently in Korea is 30,000 people.
If Fuso has no reinforcements after cutting off the Korean Strait, the combined strength of the three armies will be 300,000.
But under the threat of a war of extermination, Jiannu can still organize more than 100,000 combatable troops, which means that we have to face an army of 400,000.
Secondly, regarding the strength of the coalition forces, Mongolia and Jiannu have almost 200,000 cavalry, or even less, as many as 150,000.
It's hard to estimate firearms, but they definitely exist, so let's calculate them as 10% of the equipment.
The third thing is logistics, military supplies, food, grass, etc. They should not be short of it for the time being. After this year's drought, it will not be a problem next year;
Finally, there is the issue of offense and defense. Unlike the Mongolian tribes, the Jiannu were truly nomadic and had no danger to defend. When the two armies met, they had to fight or flee;
Jiannu now owns several large cities, such as Liaoyang, Shenyang and many fortresses, as well as several large cities in Korea.
As long as they don't think about attacking and have an army of two to three hundred thousand people defending several adjacent cities, we will need several times the number of troops to besiege them, at least one million. This is unrealistic and they will be invincible.
If the speculation about firearms technology comes true, they will be able to delay for as long as they want. The more firearms they have, the stronger they will be.
Under this situation, we can only take the initiative to attack. You should be very clear about the price the attacking party will pay. "
cost?
Sun Tzu's Art of War made it very clear: surround an army with ten, but could the Ming Dynasty mobilize so many troops of more than one million?
Judging from the losses in previous siege battles, the casualties of the attacking side were more than three times that of the defending side, and the casualties could even reach more than ten times.
Not to mention ten times, even three times, five to six million Ming soldiers died in the battle, which is still a huge loss.
For a moment, everyone's expressions darkened, and all the previous calculations and strategizing disappeared.
Only Chongzhen's face remained as usual, and Feng Qingyun said calmly: "My dear friends, don't be so solemn. I am a sovereign king, and I am still afraid of these slightly stronger grasshoppers?"
