The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 644 Japanese Knife
Hauge frowned, and said impatiently, "Just tell me what to do."

Xiao Zhuang didn't think it was disobedient, and continued: "I have a proposal. Since the Eastern and Western wars are very important, why don't we use this as an agreement.

"Prince Su went south from Sichuan to attack the Ming Dynasty, and Prince Yu crossed the Yangtze River to take Nanzhili. When the Southern Ming Dynasty falls, whoever has seized the most land will be the number one hero of the Qing Dynasty, and he will naturally be in charge of the court!"

Hearing this, Hauge turned his head and whispered to Dai Shan, "What do you think, Prince Li?"

Dai Shan thought for a while and nodded slightly, "I think it is acceptable. The main force of Nanming is in Nanzhi, and Boluo and Luck Dehun were defeated by him successively. Although it is a fluke, it can be seen that this team is not weak. Duoduo then Gathering two white flags to join the green camps in Jin, Lu, Beizhi and other places, it may be difficult to win in a short while.

"What's more, Nanjing is the capital of the Southerners. If the battle situation is unfavorable, Ming troops from all over the country will be dispatched to the Southern King Qinzhi.

"On the other side of Sichuan, only the Wanming Army under the Qin family has some combat power, and the rest are mobs. Prince Su can first transfer the green camps in Shaanxi and Henan, and I will send two Red Banners to help. Destroy the enemy!
"Since then, only Chongqing can be defended in Sichuan. As long as this area is captured, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Guangdong have no strong enemies. If the winner is judged by the amount of land captured, these provinces are very large in size, but Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian have more people. There are few lands, and Duoduo has many obstacles along the way. In comparison, Prince Su has the advantage."

Hauge thought for a while, and felt that what Daishan said was reasonable, and immediately got up and shouted: "Okay! Then let's see who is the real warrior!" He looked at Dorgon again, and smiled coldly, "Aren't you afraid? Bar?"

"Afraid of you?" Dorgon was waiting for this moment, and proudly looked around at the people present, "I, Dorgon, have accepted this bet! Everyone, listen carefully, and anyone who dares to deny it at that time, everyone can do it." kill it!"

In fact, Xiaozhuang also hid private goods just now.What she said was "wait until Nanming is destroyed" to decide who will be in charge of the government. If the war drags on for a little longer, Shunzhi may be an adult, and there will be Hauge and Dorgon to check and balance. The resistance will inevitably be much smaller.

Several people broke up the meeting with their own ghosts, and Dorgon immediately recruited Tan Bai, Fan Wencheng, Ma Guangyuan and others to the Hall of Martial Arts, and began to discuss the war against Southern Zhili, obviously attaching great importance to this campaign.

"Your Highness the Regent," Fan Wencheng said worriedly as he saw that everyone had not yet arrived, and moved to Dorgon's side, "According to what the remnants of Zhenghongqi who fled back said, the firearms of the Southerners are extremely sophisticated, and the best of them can be It pierces ordinary cotton armor more than a hundred steps away, and its accuracy is extremely high. Even if it is slightly inferior, at least it is not inferior to the firecrackers equipped with the Zhenghongqi New Firearms Battalion.

"If our army doesn't have a sharp weapon that can match it, we will suffer a big loss before the battle. The officials think that if we want to send Prince Yu to the south, we must prepare for it."

Dorgon smiled slightly, "Master Fan's words are very true. I have also inquired about the barbarian's firearms this time, but the fact is that the flintlocks equipped by the Hongqi Firearms Camp are not inferior to those of the southerners. It's just that the steel plates used for the guns It was bought from Nanman, most of them were tampered with by him, and a large number of gun machines broke when they were about to fight, which led to the collapse.

"That is to say, as long as our flintlocks don't fail, the southerners' firearms won't take advantage of it."

Fan Wencheng still frowned and said: "Your Highness, I heard that if ordinary steel is used, the fire rate of the flintlock is less than [-]%, I'm afraid it won't work..."

"Master Fan has a heart." Dorgon patted him on the shoulder, "I have found a suitable fine steel, and I asked the craftsman to use it to make guns more than a month ago, and the effect is very good."

After he was defeated in the Battle of Luck Dehun, he strictly ordered Tang Ruowang to try to improve the Qing army's flintlock guns. It happened that a sea merchant who sold goods from Japan offered several steel knives, and he rewarded one of them to Tang Ruowang.

The latter found that the steel used for the blade of the Japanese sword was extremely good, so he tried to use it to make the spring of the flintlock.However, the blades are all made of high-carbon steel, which is very easy to break.

After repeated experiments, Tang Ruowang destroyed all of Dorgon's Japanese knives, and finally found that after proper calcination, the toughness of the blade steel can be increased, and he tried to make a spring again, which reached a fire rate of more than [-]%.

In fact, this is to heat the steel to oxidize part of the carbon, thereby reducing the carbon content by a small amount.It also happens that the blade is extremely thin, so that the inside can be partially oxidized, but Tang Ruowang is lucky.

Upon hearing the news, Dorgon immediately bought nearly a thousand catties of refined steel from Japan at a high price, and bought a lot of copper ingots along with it.Fortunately, Japan has implemented the sword hunting order at this time, otherwise, after such a "search" by Dorgon, the Tokugawa samurai would have traveled all over Japan in fear of buying a good sword.

Only then did Fan Wencheng show his face, and said, "It turns out that His Royal Highness the Regent has already made a decision, but the lower officials are more concerned."

(End of this chapter)