The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 244 Tang Ruowang's Counterfeit Work
Dorgon couldn't help frowning.He is also an expert, and he has roughly calculated in his mind that if he shoots someone with such a heavy lead bullet, even at a distance of fifty or sixty paces, he may be able to penetrate two layers of cotton armor.

In the past, when the elite infantry and cavalry of the Qing army faced the Ming army, they were often able to ignore the bird guns and shoot with their excellent armor.And if you encounter the Ming army holding these six-coin bird guns, how can you not suffer a big loss? !
He could almost imagine the tragic situation that Bo Luo's troops still attacked the Fujian Ming army head-on according to past experience, but they were turned on their backs under the fierce shooting of birds and guns.

An army of [-] fell under this mere blunderbuss.Dorgon's heart was bleeding, but he had to admit that the blunderbuss invented by the southerners was quite delicate, surprisingly powerful, and it was a weapon for battle.

He handed over the gun to Cai Shiying, "Cai Yushi is in charge of the firearms of the Qing Dynasty, and you will be responsible for imitating this gun. It must be produced in large quantities as soon as possible. I will give you whatever money is needed."

"The subordinate obeys the order."

Dorgon said to Wang Yingshi again: "Your Excellency has made a great contribution this time."

Wang Yingshi hurriedly bowed and cupped his hands and said, "Caomin still has one thing to give to His Highness."

"Oh, there are treasures?"

"For an army to fight, the strength of weapons is not enough. It also requires a matching formation and tactics to exert its power." Wang Yingshi said, "Actually, the grassroots know all these things through the guidance of an expert. This person has great influence on the army. Wu is very familiar with the battle formation, and he also knows the tactics of the Ming army in detail."

"Who? Where is the other?"

"This person is the former chief executive of Ke Yongsheng in Jiangxi Province, named Gao Xiang. He was reduced to a small banner official because of a crime before, but he saved his life because of his low official position when Ke Yongsheng was defeated." Wang Yingshi said, " When Caomin saw him, he was being sent to Nanping as a coolie. If His Highness can mobilize the strength in his hands to rescue him, he will sacrifice his life to repay your great kindness."

Dorgon nodded and said: "Such a great talent, I will definitely find a way to save him."

He looked at Wang Yingshi again, "You have offered two real treasures, just tell me what you want."

Wang Yingshi respectfully said: "I dare not claim credit. But I hope the Heavenly Army will destroy Fujian and cut that Zhu Lin into pieces to avenge me!"

It turned out that this Wang Yingshi also had bad luck, not only his eldest brother Wang Yinghua was convicted of being involved in the coup of the Tang Dynasty, but also his father-in-law, Bi Zhigeng, who was then the Secretary of the Imperial Academy, was imprisoned for cooperating with captives.Later he heard that his cousin and several close friends were all killed in the city for defecting to the enemy.

Originally, he just wanted to surrender to save his life, but on the way, he saw a gun held by the Dragon Guards at a farmer's house. After questioning him, he learned that the villager had picked it up near the Jianning battlefield.

Wang Yingshi was overjoyed, and immediately bought the blunderbuss with a hundred taels of silver, and brought it to Beijing as a token of honor.

Now that he had decided to surrender, he thought about the new master in his heart, and told Dorgon about all the affairs of the Taizheng Dynasty, and finally said: "Then after King Chen took power, he started to eradicate dissidents, and he just found someone The head of the name, in Tianxing Mansion, oh, is Fuzhou massacred courtiers. A total of more than 170 officials were beheaded before and after, and the government and the public were terrified.

"The court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was greatly shaken by this incident, and Fang Guoan took the opportunity to support King Lu as the ruler of Zhejiang. His Highness is taking this opportunity to send a large army to the south, and the world will surely be conquered in one battle!"

……

After 20 days.

On the school field of the Qing army camp in Fengtai, Beijing, dozens of core courtiers headed by Dorgon were smiling and watching the two teams of Qing soldiers who were performing exercises not far away.

The dozens of soldiers on the left are all holding a new type of bird gun. Cai Shiying and Tang Ruowang, a missionary from the Holy Roman State, are doing the final training for them.

There are also more than a dozen soldiers on the right side, but they are holding the soldier bird gun commonly equipped by the Qing army, that is, the three-coin gun.

A moment later, Cai Shiying gave an order, and the two teams of Qing soldiers raised their guns and shot at the opposite wooden target at the same time, and there was a sudden crackling sound.

Although half of the guns in the hands of the soldiers on the left failed to fire, the iron-covered wooden targets in front of them were blasted with sawdust, and more than [-]% of them were pierced by lead bullets.

On the other hand, the soldier on the right with the dingling blunderbuss managed to break through the iron sheet outside the wooden target, and it was difficult to find the bullet holes left on the target without looking carefully.

Jierhalang, Tan Bai, Fan Wencheng and the others kept nodding their heads, but before they could express their admiration, they saw that the soldiers on both sides had started reloading at the same time.

This time the gap was even more pronounced. The soldier holding the ding-niao gun had just started to shoot the gunpowder, but the soldiers using the new gun had already raised the gun and fired again.

After a while, the new blunderbuss had been fired five times, and the soldier had just raised the blunderbuss for the third time to aim.

"This new gun is really powerful!" Fan Wencheng was the first to point his fingers and praised, "If ten thousand people hold the new gun and fire it, its power should be equivalent to twenty thousand old guns."

Tan Bai nodded and continued, "I said why the southerners are suddenly capable of fighting. It turns out that it's just because they have new firearms. As long as we make this kind of blunderbuss, we will teach them how powerful they are!"

He also has confidence in saying this, thinking that the Manchus did not know what a cannon was at all, and were bombarded by the Ming army to make ghosts howl.But they are willing to sink their hearts and study. In the past ten years, their cannon casting technology and output have left Daming far behind.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming army rarely even owned heavy artillery. Instead, they were bullied by the Qing army with cannons all day long.

Tabai believes that the same will be true for this new type of firecracker. It will not be long before the Qing army will surpass the Ming army in both quantity and quality.

While speaking, Cai Shiying and Tang Ruowang also came over.Tan Bai immediately patted Cai Shiying on the shoulder and said with a smile: "As long as Master Cai leads the craftsmen to rush to make it day and night, our heavenly army will bring tens of thousands of these new guns to the south, and we will be able to attack everything!"

But Jierhalang said from the side: "Cai Yushi, just now I saw that there are quite a lot of misfires in this gun, but why?"

Cai Shiying hurriedly looked at Tang Ruowang beside him. This missionary was basically responsible for the imitation work.The latter hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "My lord, these guns are exquisite in structure, and the officials can only imitate them to this extent in a short period of time. This fire rate will definitely increase in the future."

Dorgon said again: "How long will it take to make [-] firecrackers of this kind?"

Cai Shiying thought for a while, and said, "Back to the Regent, the two capital military bureaus will start together, at most three months will be enough."

"Okay! Order the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry to cooperate fully. Once the improvement of the new guns is completed, a large number of them will be produced immediately." Dorgon turned to Fan Wencheng and said, "The officer recommended by Wang Yingshi must be rescued as soon as possible."

……

Zhu Linmei was arranging the details of the restructuring with the Ministry of War and a group of officials, and some officials reported that Yang Tinglin, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Yang Tinglin, and others had returned to Tianxing Mansion, and they had arrived at Meridian Gate.

Zhu Linmei nodded with a smile and said, "After he has met the emperor and queen mother, invite him here. He also needs to hand over many things in the Ministry of War."

"The subordinate obeys the order."

(End of this chapter)