The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 376
Ding Yi was having a headache for food and war horses, but he didn't expect North Korea to take the initiative to say that there would be no food supply.

Ding Yi was so excited that he couldn't find an excuse to hit you.

In fact, he had wanted to fight North Korea a long time ago, but he hadn't thought about the issue of horses before. After Zhang Jing mentioned it, Shen Shikui said it again, and Ding Yi thought of the issue of war horses.

If North Korea can be defeated, the problems of food and war horses can naturally be solved together.

Moreover, after occupying Jeju, Ding Yi can hoard fields and raise horses in Jeju. After that, there will be a steady stream of war horses.

Especially on Jeju Island, there are many descendants of Han people who were exiled and relocated, which is easier to manage and use, and the descendants of Mongolians and Koreans on it can raise horses.

To fight North Korea, Ding Yi quickly made up his mind to fight North Korea.

The reason why he wanted to fight North Korea a long time ago was because he knew that even if he didn’t fight, Hou Jin would go to fight North Korea in one to two years and conquer North Korea in one fell swoop. From then on, North Korea officially followed Hou Jin to deal with Ming Dynasty .

At that time, North Korea will turn around and cooperate with Hou Jin to beat him Ding Yi.

And continuously provide silver, food and population for Houjin.

Instead of waiting for Hou Jin to conquer North Korea and beat himself later, it is better to start in advance and conquer North Korea first.

In mid-March, Ding Yi convened Lushun and Pidao and proposed to conquer North Korea.

With the experience of playing in Japan, everyone of course expressed their support.

Xu Wei asked, will Hou Jin come over this year?

Because Houjin has not touched Lushun for a long time.

Ding Yi smiled and said, don't worry, Huang Taiji is afraid of being beaten by us, and will not come to attack the fortified city.

Ding Yi has been running Fuzhou for a year or two now, and he has already made the defense an impregnable wall, and he has a powerful weapon to defend the city. As long as there is no problem internally, Ding Yi is absolutely confident in defense.

Moreover, it is impossible for Huang Taiji to attack the city again unless he has [-] Han troops regardless of losses.

As long as Ding Yi doesn't hoard land between Fuzhou and Jinzhou, and doesn't provoke Houjin, Huang Taiji will definitely not send troops to attack.

More importantly, Ding Yi vaguely remembered that Huang Taiji would enter the customs again, whether this year or next year.

Especially now that Ding Yi has occupied Fuzhou, Ding Yi feels that Huang Taiji must be eager to enter the customs again to grab another fortune.

In the original history, Huang Taiji entered the customs again just one month later.

Because Ding Yi can't remember the exact time, he can only tell the generals, don't worry, Huang Taiji will not come, let's go to North Korea with peace of mind.

Of course, the generals are used to trusting Lord Ding, so they decided at the meeting to attack North Korea in April.

In order to prevent Chongzhen from calling himself to serve the king after Houjin entered the customs, Ding Yi also made an arrangement accordingly.

Then Ding Yi began to prepare for the battle. On the one hand, he mobilized troops and prepared supplies.

The second is to call some Koreans in Phi Island, or people who are proficient in Korean, to understand the general map of North Korea.

I even found someone to make a corresponding sand table for North Korea.

At the end of March, Ding Yi took several generals to Zhudao Craft Bureau.

Li Zhongyi showed them the newly built 6-pound long-barreled field gun.

Only then did everyone know that Lord Ding had newly built a long-barreled field cannon.

It turned out that Ding Yi considered that the 12-pound gun was too heavy to carry out the previous few times, and the six soldiers could not carry it for more than ten meters, so he had to rest, so after returning from fighting Japan last year, he asked Takumi to make a 6-pound field gun. .

"Last year when we fought Japan, we still focused on defending, because it was inconvenient to carry artillery in field battles." Ding Yi said slowly: "We usually use horse-drawn carriages to load artillery, or when we go to places where the terrain is unfamiliar, we are forced to go in places where horse-drawn carriages cannot pass. If wars are fought locally, the maneuverability of this field artillery will not be enough.”

Ding Yi has six cannons in a round, and there are about fifty or sixty artillerymen. Every six people can lift a 12-pound cannon. When moving at close range, four people can barely lift it.

For example, if you change positions and move a short distance, four people can barely lift it up.

But to move over a long distance, six people, or four people with great strength, are needed to move more than ten meters. In this way, after six people lift, they can’t go far. After ten or twenty meters, they must rest and rotate. Ding Yi The number of artillery is limited, and it is necessary to carry shells and gunpowder. If there are not enough people to rotate, the mobility of the artillery will be affected.

Therefore, in complex and unfamiliar terrain, without the drag of the carriage, the maneuverability of Ding Yi's field gun is still not enough.

This is still the short barrel used in his 12-pound gun, which is much lighter than the same type of cannon in Europe.

In order to improve the mobility and play a better role in the field, Ding Yi asked the Craftsmanship Bureau to build a batch of 6-pound long-barreled field guns for trial after returning from Japan.

It is said to be a long tube, and secondly, it is a little bit longer than the original one, mainly to improve the range.

Li Zhongyi showed everyone the newly built 6-pound field gun.

The 6-pound field gun is converted into the current caliber, which is about 99mm (mm).

Because this is an early solid iron ball shell, not a later 6 pound (57mm) bullet shell.

The gun barrel is 1.7 meters long and weighs 180 kilograms. There are four handles on the upper two wings, and four people can easily lift it up. It is no problem to run 50 meters.

And even if there are only two people, as long as they have a little strength, they can lift it up.

In this way, the maneuverability of the 6-pound gun is greatly improved, and it can also play a greater role in complex terrain.

Xi Laojing and Zhao Dashan also lifted up a cannon to try it out, and felt that the maneuverability was far greater than that of the 12-pound cannon.

But obviously the power of this 6-pound gun is definitely not as powerful as the 12-pound gun.

In Ding Yi's words, the power is not enough, so we can make up the number. When there are more artillery in the future, each round will be equipped with 12 cannons. Compared with the current 6 cannons per round, the lethality will only be higher or lower.

In the past few months, the Craftsmanship Bureau has only built 36 6-pound guns. Ding Yi plans to take all of them to North Korea. After all, there are more mountainous areas there, and mountain warfare is likely to be fought. Too large guns will be inconvenient to move.

All the members of Dongjiang Town were preparing for the battle. After more than half a month of preparation, they finally set off for North Korea in early April.

This time to fight North Korea, Ding Yi mobilized more soldiers and horses.

Because he remembered that in the original history, it took more than 3 yuan for Hou Jin to conquer North Korea.

Of course, it is impossible for Ding Yi to send so many soldiers, but he has no advantage in Houjin, and he does not need to conquer North Korea. As long as he forces North Korea to occupy Jeju Island, he can achieve his strategic goals.

Even if North Korea disagrees, he can turn around and attack Jeju Island.

At the beginning of April, 1 ships from the 2st, 3nd, and 84rd Battalions of the Lushun Navy gathered at Lushunkou.

Another 1 infantry battalion, Ma Yue, was drawn for three rounds, led by Chang Jiangang, the general manager of the 1000st Battalion. (The first batch of graduation general flags of the training department that year).

12 Battalions were drawn to guard Changsheng Island with 2000 people led by Xiang Huailai.

The 16th battalion was drawn, with 1000 people in Xu Bicheng's department, led by Mr. Qian He Xiaoche.

Xiao Yongqiu's 7th Battalion has 3000 people.

Shen Shikui has 4000 people.

The first battalion of Zhang Jing's cavalry has 1 people.

Add 3 people from the 3000rd Battalion of Xilao Economic Division of the Navy, and 1 people from the 1000st Battalion of Ruan Siqing of the Navy.

The army has a total of 16000 land and water soldiers, which is more than when it was fighting Japan.

(End of this chapter)