Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

"Father, if Xu Yingwei really conquers Shengjing, then Liaodong will belong to Daming!"

At present, Jiannu has very few garrisons in Liaodong. Except for Shengjing, which has [-] garrisons, other places like Liaoyang, Fushun, and Kaiyuan have only a few hundred garrisons, and places like Haizhou, Phoenix, and Jinzhou have less than a hundred garrisons. , It can be said that talking is better than nothing, so as long as Shengjing is defeated, it is equivalent to defeating Liaodong.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong couldn't hide his excitement.

Zhu Cihong was so excited that his eyes sparkled: "Liaodong is not only the so-called "Longxing Land" of Jiannu, but also the only channel to connect Jiannu and North Korea. Nu's staunch ally, Horqin Mongolia, will also be exposed to our troops! This is terrible!"

Chongzhen smiled and said again: "So Jiannu will definitely not sit idly by."

Zhu Cihong went on to say: "So father wants to lead [-] new troops to Dagukou in person, as if to attack Beijing? And also transferred [-] new troops to Xuzhou, to put on the posture of the Northern Expedition?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong couldn't help looking at the map.

Looking at the map again at this time, a picture was outlined in Zhu Cihong's mind.

When Dorgon received the news that Shengjing, the old capital, had fallen, he prepared to take revenge with the Manchu and Han troops.

However, at this time, another [-] Ming troops came to Dagukou, and Xuzhou added [-] new troops!

Xuzhou's 35 new army plus [-] town soldiers are like a huge hammer, posing a large-scale northern expedition, while the [-] Ming army in Dagukou is more like a sharp dagger , ready to stab Jiannu's throat at any time, facing such a situation, Dorgon must feel very uncomfortable, right?

At this time, will Dorgon protect Liaodong or not?
If Liaodong is not protected, the situation of Jiannu will deteriorate sharply.

But if you protect Liaodong, maybe even Beijing will be lost.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong became more and more excited, the emperor's use of soldiers was really amazing.

"Lang'er, the situation is not as optimistic as you imagined. Even if it is a three-way attack, it will only add some troubles to Dorgon. It is impossible for Dorgon to take care of one thing and lose another. At least so far, Jiannu has relatively Our Ming Dynasty still has a clear advantage in the military, we must not be blindly optimistic."

"But at least the intention of consuming a large number of slaves can be achieved."

"That's true. The two raids at the beginning of this year failed to achieve the purpose of mobilizing and consuming the slaves. Especially Xu Yingwei's [-] new troops hardly played a role."

"But this time, I don't believe Dorgon can hold his breath."

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "As long as the Jiannu army is mobilized, the food, salaries and weapons will be continuously consumed. With Jiannu's little wealth, it will be almost consumed after a few rounds."

"More importantly, it can also fight against Jiannu's arrogance." Zhu Cihong said excitedly.

"Yes, it can also attack Jiannu's arrogance." Chongzhen nodded heavily, and then said, "After more than 30 years, our Ming Dynasty has finally reversed the offensive and defensive trend and turned to strategic offensive!"

The transition from strategic defense to strategic offense has a great impact on the confidence and morale of the two armies.

After a pause, he said again: "It's a pity that the number of firearms is still not enough, otherwise, the decisive battle with Jianu will be launched in advance this winter."

"Father, the number of firearms is actually quite a lot."

Zhu Cihong counted with his fingers: "As of now, not counting those already equipped, the number of flintlocks stored in the arsenal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has exceeded 2, and the 4-inch field guns have reached 300. In addition, there are More than 600 tiger crouching guns and more than 1000 god artillery."

"Not enough, still not enough." Chongzhen shook his head.

"The inventory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs plus the equipment already equipped, there are only a total of more than 4 rifles, more than 600 4-inch field guns and more than 900 tiger squatting guns. Such igniters are far from enough."

"Isn't that enough?" Zhu Cihong said, "How much is that?"

崇祯默算了下，说道：“至少得有6万支步枪、800门4寸野战炮、1200门虎蹲炮再加上1000具神火炮。”

With these firearms, almost 15 infantry brigades and 40 artillery battalions can be formed.

15 infantry brigades plus 40 artillery battalions, that is, more than 10 people, plus various auxiliary arms such as cavalry, vehicle battalions, medical battalions, and god artillery, that is 15 people.

With such a modern army with a population of 15, Chongzhen was fully sure to crush Jiannu, and no matter how many troops Dorgon summoned, the result would be the same.

But if we fight decisively now, we can only arm 10 people.

And among the 10 people, there are only 4 real infantry.

What's more troublesome is that the 4 infantry have not yet been able to gather.

Among them, 5000 infantry were suppressing the Tusi rebellion in Guangxi, 4000 infantry were stationed at Dagukou, 8000 infantry were stationed at Gaizhouwei, and then Zhu Cijiong took another 3000 to North Korea.

[Note: In addition to infantry, Dagukou and Gaizhou also have artillery]

In other words, there are less than 2 infantry that can be put into decisive battle now.

This infantry is definitely not enough to fight Jiannu, and it will be difficult to fight against counterfeit Shun.

……

At the same time, Dorgon was also looking at the map in the East Nuan Pavilion of the palace.

It's just that the map placed in front of Dorgon is not only small in size, but also an abstract map from before, but the scale of the map is seriously distorted.

But Dorgon's idea is similar.

Dorgon also wanted to weaken Ming's war potential.

It's just that Dorgon's methods are relatively low-level.

Chongzhen's method was to consume Jiannu's war resources through military strikes, while Dorgon's method was to destroy Ming's war resources through spies' sabotage operations.

But so far, no great results have been achieved.

Brothers Luo Zuochang and Luo Zuojiu, who were lurking in Nanjing, even brought back bad news.

"Master, there is some bad news." Hou Fangyu reported in a low voice, "The Emperor Chongzhen has just set up a secret investigation department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is responsible for countering espionage and protecting the safety of royal family members."

"So Chongzhen has already realized the danger." Dorgon felt somewhat regretful, because it would be difficult to assassinate Chongzhen again.

After a pause, Dorgon went on to say: "In this way, immediately reply to the Luo family brothers and ask them to temporarily abandon the assassination of Chongzhen and devote all their strength to sabotage operations, focusing on destroying Nanming's self-generated fire gun workshop and red cannon workshop. , I want the Nanming army to have no firearms to use, and then let’s see what Chongzhen will use to compete with the Qing soldiers?"

"Hey!" Hou Fangyu respectfully responded, and went outside to write a reply letter to the Luo family brothers.

Dorgon turned his gaze to Ganglin again, and asked, "Ganglin, how many blacksmiths are there in Bingzhanju now? How many self-generated guns can be made every month? How many red cannons and how many camel swivel cannons?" What’s more, how many self-generating guns, how many red cannons and camel swivel guns have been stored in the armory of the Bingzhan Bureau?”

Dorgon asked many questions in one breath, but Gang Lin was already familiar with these numbers.

Therefore, Gang Lin didn't even need to look through the account books, so he replied directly: "Reporting to the master, there are more than 3000 blacksmiths in the Bingzhan Bureau, who can make more than 1000 self-generated firecrackers, 5 red cannons, and [-] camels every month." Revolving cannons, so far, Bingzhan Bureau has stocked [-] self-generating guns, [-] red cannons and more than [-] camel revolving cannons in its arsenal. more than [-] bayonets."

Speaking of this meal, Gang Lin said again: "But master, the military battle bureau has discovered a problem."

"A problem?" Dorgon asked, "Is there a problem with the bayonet? What problem?"

Gang Lin said in a low voice, "It's just that the bayonets we made can't be as versatile as Nanming's bayonets."

"What do you mean?" Dorgon frowned, "Nanming's bayonet can be used interchangeably? But our bayonet can't?"

"Yes, according to the information provided by the Luo family brothers, Nanming's bayonets have been standardized, that is, the diameter of the socket of each bayonet is the same as the outer diameter of the barrel of the self-generating firecracker, so they can be used interchangeably. It is no problem to ration the bayonet to any self-generating firearm, but our bayonet is not." Gang Lin said.

Dorgon: "Why can't ours work? Can't we handle such a small matter?"

Gang Lin said: "It's not impossible to standardize. If we do standardization, we need to finely polish the outer diameter of the barrel and the inner diameter of the bayonet sleeve, which will take a lot of time. There would be a decline in the production of cannon and camel guns."

"That's it." Dorgon frowned.

One side is standardization, and the other is output. How to choose is indeed a difficult problem.

Chongzhen resolutely chose standardization, for which he did not hesitate to sacrifice production.

Because Chongzhen is a time traveler, he knows the benefits of standardization better than anyone else.

But Dorgon didn't know, he didn't know that the logistics support in the age of firearms was not the same as the logistics support in the age of cold weapons, there was a world of difference between the two.

Dorgon was reluctant to sacrifice the output of firearms, so he asked Gang Lin, "Gang Lin, I remember that the output of firearms in Nanming Arsenal is similar to ours, right?"

"Returning to my master, according to the information provided by the Luo family brothers, there are more than ten arsenals in Nanjing, and there are more than 6 blacksmiths in total, which is slightly more than our Qing Dynasty." Ganglin nodded and said, "It's just that Nanming Only more than 2000 self-generating guns, thirty or forty red cannons, and seventy or eighty tiger crouching cannons can be made in a month."

Dorgon said: "There are more blacksmiths in Nanming than ours, but the output of self-fired fires is not as good as ours. It can be seen that this standardization is not a good thing, so let's forget it."

"Master Mingjian." Gang Lin echoed, "The number of firearms is the most important thing."