The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 500

In order to prepare for the conquest of North Korea, Huang Taiji decided to go to Yizhou, North Korea first, and then learn from Ding Yi to dig a hole and defend Yizhou.

At the same time, thousands of people moved to Mongolia to graze Yizhou.

In the original history, after Huang Taiji surrendered the Chahar tribe, he put it in Yizhou in the western Liaoxi of the Ming Dynasty to graze, and used it to resist the Ming army.

This time, in order to attack North Korea and at the same time suppress the Ding Yi tribe on the Tieshan line of Pidao, he decided to move [-] Mongolian Chahar tribes to station in North Korea's Uiju.

Because he already knew that Ding Yi built a new city in the west of Jinzhou, plus Baiyun City, behind Beigou City.

The directions of Lushun and Fuzhou are surrounded by the damn rats like iron walls and copper walls.

If Yizhou can be taken, it will be equivalent to nailing a nail at the door of Ding Yi's house in the future, and Pidao can be attacked at any time in the future.

In early May, Huang Taiji went to the Firearms Bureau.

I saw Yuan Tian (Yuan Gui) teaching people how to shoot guns.

"How is the progress of the self-generating gun?" Huang Taiji asked kindly.

A large number of Qing craftsmen gathered around him.

"Steel is far from enough." Yuan Tian said solemnly: "Ming's man-made self-generating guns are all made of steel, and the requirements for the barrels are particularly high. We have made many barrels, but they are all unqualified, and the success rate of ignition is the biggest problem. "

After Yuan Tian finished speaking, Huang Taiji's complexion turned a little dark.

Kong Youde was still standing beside him, and Kong Youde remained calm, thinking to himself, that bastard Ding Yi can use all steel to make guns?What gun?Do you have a mine at home?Dare to do this?Sure enough, insidious.

Huang Taiji then asked Wang Tianxiang, Jin Shichang, and the Portuguese brought by Kong Youde.

Although Wang Tianxiang and Jin Shichang both made cannons, they also have the right to speak.

The two said that Ding Yi's gun barrel was difficult to make. According to Yuan Tian, ​​it was drilled out. They are designing a drilling machine, but they have never seen the machine, so they have nowhere to start.

Moreover, the gun barrel is made of all steel, which consumes a lot of iron.

Over the years, the Qing Dynasty obtained a large amount of iron materials from Shanxi merchants for making guns, but hardly made guns.

The sudden need to make guns now, and the need to use all steel, means that their demand for iron materials must increase by at least five times.

"So much?" Huang Taiji stared with disbelief.

"Some good steels can only be obtained after a few refinements, and they need to be consumed. Five times is not enough. If you want to make guns on a large scale, you need more iron materials."

Huang Taiji's face was not good. These transactions with Shanxi merchants are food first, and then military supplies.

But the iron material is heavy and difficult to transport, so the Qing Dynasty only started making guns in recent years.

Now it is barely enough to make cannons, and five times as much is needed to make guns, which makes it difficult for Shanxi merchants.

But no matter how difficult it is, they have to overcome it, otherwise how would they fight that bastard Ding Yi?
"Isn't it okay for Sugang? Buy Sugang directly from the Ming Dynasty." Kong Youde said at this time.

Yuan Tian didn't look at him, and shouted: "Su Gang still needs to practice, the Ming people's steel is not Su Gang."

"En." Both Jin Shichang and Wang Tianxiang nodded.

Moreover, when Jin merchants buy Sugang, it will be far away, more troublesome, and prone to accidents.

If you buy iron materials, there are a lot of them near Shanxi.

"Other than the iron material, what else is the problem?" Huang Taiji asked again.

Everyone looked at the Portuguese, and several Portuguese said: "Ignition problem."

"Mingren's ignition success rate is too low, only [-]% to [-]%."

It turned out that Ding Yi's spring wheel gun was specially made without a spring at the back. It was similar to the original self-generated blunderbuss model of the Ming Dynasty. It was pulled by beef tendon and other things, and the force was small and the impact force was not enough.

The ignition rate is very low, and after the ignition is successful, the range is short and the power is low.

Huang Taiji also nodded, Ming people still used ignition on the battlefield, only the cavalry used non-ignition, which shows that the success rate of ignition is too low.

"And this short gun, too many parts, requires a lot of craftsmen, our guns may be slowing down." Wang Tianxiang grimaced.

The spring wheel gun has exquisite parts and a large number of parts. Even Ding Yi has to come up with molds to manufacture them, sacrificing quality, and the spring wheel gun has to be replaced after a few shots.

Here it is all by hand, and there is no assembly line method like Ding Yi's. All of them are all parts that need a craftsman to make a gun, which is slow and difficult.

Although the Manchu Qing paid great attention to craftsmen, they did not pay much attention to the training of craftsmen. Most of them were workers. The craftsmen who could really make guns were only Wang Tianxiang, Jin Shiping, and a few Portuguese. The total number of craftsmen would not exceed 50.

Even fewer can make guns.

Because the craftsmen here want to keep their own status, and they will not easily teach others the craftsmanship.

So now, Ding Yi has dozens of times more craftsmen than the Manchus, and they cannot mass-produce spring wheel guns, let alone them.

"You study it first, have you made a new bird gun?"

Huang Taiji then looked at the new bird gun they made.

The appearance of this new blunderbuss was almost exactly the same as that of the Ming army, but Kong Youde let the soldiers shoot it a few times, and Huang Taiji was very dissatisfied.

The firing rate is lower than Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, and the fighting speed is slower. Although the range has improved, it is still not as good as Ding Yi's.

"I see that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, four rows, can be almost continuous. If you fight so slowly, Ding Yi can fight for two rounds."

Kong Youde blushed: "Everyone is just learning, practicing every day, you will get familiar soon."

After seeing the shooting effect, Huang Taiji was not satisfied.

Their blunderbusses can't break through the iron armor at 100 meters.

Within 50 meters, it barely broke the armor.

"Ding Yi's gun must have been improved, so it is more powerful than ours and can hit farther than ours."

Huang Taiji looked around and was very dissatisfied. He asked to buy a large amount of iron materials from the Ming Dynasty, and devoted himself to researching bird guns and self-generated guns.

You Jierharang reminded him afterwards that we should use more money to spend on cannons, armor, and food. This kind of research on guns will not be usable in a short time. Bing armor.

In the end, Huang Taiji gave him a hard training. Without armor and food, we can go out to grab it. How can we fight Ding Yi without guns?

Of course, he also felt that at this time, the artillery of the Qing Dynasty slowed down a lot because of the production of guns.
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In April of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), a senior official.

In the past, Ding Yi sent a load of salt, a load of sugar, cloth, medicinal materials, etc. every ten days to the Bosi tribe, the largest Shengfan tribe of the Siraya tribe.

Arah contacted them in January today, and Ding Yi sent it to the present from January.

The Posi tribe is deep in the mountains. The elder Misa and Ding Yi agreed to exchange fur and copper ore for Ding Yi's salt, sugar, cloth, and medicinal materials every ten days.

Posi has a population of more than 6000 people, and it should be the largest tribe among all the aboriginal tribes in this era.

They are distributed in a wide range. It is said that because the headmen of the previous generation were more powerful, they defeated the nearby small tribes many times, and after being annexed, they became so powerful.

Most of them now live in a mine, which is rich in copper ore.

They also learned how to smelt copper and forge bronze weapons, and they were the most powerful among the original residents.

They used copper mines to trade Ding Yi's goods, and they never asked for help.

Ding Yi is also very patient, delivering goods three times a month in exchange for furs and copper mines.

But a delivery on April [-] went wrong.

(End of this chapter)