I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 267 Change
Xuanfu is one of the important towns on the nine frontiers.

The arsenal in the town is relatively large, and it does have a lot of things, including three-eyed guns, bird guns, and Franco cannons, as well as a lot of cold weapons.

But Huang Yi didn't even look down on him.

In Huang Yi's eyes, the life of every soldier is worthy of respect, and he doesn't want casualties caused by the explosion of a firearm.

Can such a bastard court and such a corrupt bureaucrat produce guns and artillery of reassuring quality?

Huang Yi didn't know if other generals were worried about it, anyway, he didn't dare to use it.

Xinghe City has been producing cement, steel, and gunpowder in large quantities, and is manufacturing and developing weapons, not only guns and artillery, but also bows and crossbows.

It is definitely not the production of traditional crossbows, but borrowed from Huang Yi's crossbows, and began to produce pulley bows and pulley crossbows with spring steel added to the bow arms.

The process of producing ox horn bows in the Ming Dynasty was complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive. The main reason was that the processing of hard and elastic composite materials was relatively difficult.

Composite materials are made with tough and hard wood as the core, with beef tendons attached to the outside and horns attached to the inside. The three are then fused together with special glue to form a good horn bow.

However, after the bow arm is made of spring steel, the production of bows and crossbows has fewer processes and becomes simpler.

The use of spring steel for the bow arm was of course Huang Yi’s instruction. It was when he was looking through the data saved in his mobile phone that he found a video of using waste brake steel plates to make bows and crossbows.

Today's Xinghe City is only produced by three or four masters who can make bows and crossbows with a dozen apprentices.

Therefore, the production of steel arm pulley bows is not large, and twenty or thirty bows and crossbows can be produced in a month.

Because bows and crossbows are not the direction of development, and because the Xinghe Army does not train new archers, the total number of existing infantry archers is only more than 100.

Mongolian warriors are good at riding and shooting, and Huang Yi has begun to select the most loyal and brave warriors to reward steel-armed pulley bows.

Bows and crossbows use pulley blocks, which can save half of the effort. Originally, an archer who draws the bowstring and shoots ten quality feather arrows is basically exhausted.

Using a strong bow assembled with a pulley block can shoot thirty high-quality feather arrows one after another.

In this expedition, [-] foot archers and [-] crossbowmen used the newly produced steel arm pulley bow and pulley crossbow.

Huxiaochuan, Esun Zaqin and other 29 Mongolian warriors got the steel arm pulley bow.

There were 560 musketeers armed with flintlocks produced during these months.

The fusiliers were already being tried with bayonets, and this time a hundred bayonets were to be put into combat.

Zhang Dong, Bao Zhide and other seven masters who have reached the level of precision shooting are all using flintlock rifles to fire miniature bullets.

The minigun has not been mass-produced, and there are only eight in total including the one that Huang Yi's runner fired.

Musketeers and infantry archers not only have to make good use of new weapons, but also have the obligation to put forward shortcomings and suggestions for improvement.

Early the next morning, Huang Dapeng and Hu Xiaochuan led 120 cavalry and [-] auxiliary soldiers to drive [-] carriages to Zhangjiakou to exit the customs.

This official road is spacious and flat, and it is possible to march no less than one hundred miles a day.

What's more, Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. all wanted to complete the task as soon as possible and come back to catch up with the big troops, so they were even faster.

There is no need to worry about the official seal letter, Huang Yi has too many blank ones now, but they have already been stamped with the official seal of the supervising army.

Leading soldiers and horses to pass the checkpoint on Xuanda's territory is not a problem at all.

The mansion of the eunuchs of the supervising army was basically evacuated, and the gold and silver treasures, including furniture, bedding, etc., had to be transported to Dongshan Fort.

Except for Xiao Lizi and Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi Diao Debao, the eunuch Wang Kun's people were sent to the base area to supervise labor.

Huang Dapeng and Hu Xiaochuan only need to send people and supplies to Dongshan Fort and hand them over to guard Huang Dayong before they can return.

There were too many people talking, Huang Yi was not ready to turn against Daming at this time, and only the Xinghe Army knew that the eunuch was detained.

Therefore, more than [-] people, including [-] Jinyiwei, had to be sent outside the pass to be guarded.

As for when to release these people, we have to look at the results of reforming Wang Kun.

Huang Yi was not in the mood to help Emperor Chongzhen arrest corrupt officials, nor was he ready to help suppress mobs and bandits.

Because he knew that the corrupt ruling system of the Ming Dynasty made corruption rife, causing refugees to rebel one after another.

Anti-corruption and suppression of disorderly people are only palliatives, not root causes.

There is another very important point, why should we fight against corruption?The corrupt officials who were arrested must not be convinced, so why should you allow your Zhu family to live in extravagance?
To fight against corruption, why not attack those vassal kings and clans? The wealth in the hands of those people may be tens of millions of taels of silver.

If the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, if your old Zhu family can be greedy, don't blame the dignitaries who have read poetry and books for their bones and marrow.

Oh!It is said that Emperor Chongzhen was diligent, thrifty and restrained himself, and his dragon robes were patched.

What does this mean?
It can only prove that he is incompetent and will not manage the country at all!

His father-in-law, Zhou Kui, was originally a small family. In the year when Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, Zhou Kui was paid several 10 taels of silver.

It's just that Chongzhen's own diligence, thrift and self-denial have nothing to do with being unable to manage the clan, relatives, and nobles.

The only way to change all this is to change the entire system, and only by overthrowing the decadent ruling class and rebuilding can the symptoms be cured.

Huang Yi deliberately led troops into the pass to suppress the bandits, not for killing people, but for gaining some population, which can also be understood as saving people and distress.

Because Shanshan in the late Ming Dynasty was described by ten rooms and nine empty spaces, although it is not in the middle, it is not far away!
There are quite a few court newspapers in Wang Kun's mansion, and the latest mansion newspaper has related content about Dalinghe City.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren, etc. also sent news of success to the imperial court before Dalinghe City was besieged.

It is said that Zu Dashou personally led the Iron Armored Ding to fight with the Jin army more than a dozen times, defeating thousands of Jin troops and beheading hundreds.

Because the Hou Jin army played their lives to snatch the corpses, they didn't gain many, only level 21.

Judging roughly from the contents of the residence newspaper, Zu Dashou's situation is much better than in history, and he did not call for emergency help.

It should be that Dalinghe City's grain, grass and rock carbon can last for nearly half a year.

Judging from Zu Dashou's experience over the years, the Hou Jin army's siege would not last more than a month.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other generals guessed that after the Jin army besieged the city for a period of time, they should retreat after harvesting the wheat that the Ming army had garrisoned.

However, Huang Taiji is not wild boar skin. When Huang Taiji went out to fight, he mobilized to completely solve Dalinghe City.

His plan was to surround Dalinghe City heavily, and use [-] troops from Zu Dashou, He Kegang, etc. as bait to encircle and fight for reinforcements.

When Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other generals discovered the intention of the Jin army to prepare for a long-term siege, they immediately led their troops out of the city to attack.

The Hou Jin Army, whose trenches had already begun to take shape, had a favorable location and dealt a large number of casualties to the Guan Ning Army who went out of the city to attack.

The final result was that the Hou Jin Army completed the earth barrier around Daling River City, the cavalry raid of the Guan Ning Army failed, and Sun Chengzong began to mobilize troops to rescue the siege.

(End of this chapter)