The people around Liaodong alone collected 80,000 stones of grain. Moreover, on the second day when Zhu Cilang's army was burned, the grain and grass collected were already on the way to Panjin.

This is the strength of national strength. Only when the comprehensive national strength is improved can the Ming army afford such a war of attrition. The Qing Dynasty had no ability to compete with it.

It is not to say that the Ming Dynasty's ability to recruit food and grass was very perverted. In fact, before Dorgon burned the food and grass in Yingkou and Panjin, the food and grass in the pass were still moving northwards continuously.

The reason is that Zhu Cixuan never regarded this Northern Expedition as a breeze. Even with the flintlock rifle in hand and even with the Ming army with advanced weapons, Zhu Cixuan was still cautious. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, he was actually ready for a war of attrition.

There are not many people in this world who are fools. The Qing Dynasty has been hiding on its own territory since Huang Taiji's death, which is definitely not a discovery of conscience. Instead, it must be keeping a low profile or constantly studying ways to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Don’t think that the Ming army can travel across the nine states and all the seas simply by owning the flintlock rifle. Thinking like that will only make a big mistake.

It is undeniable that the advantage of war is tilted towards the advanced side of weapons. However, if you want to destroy or conquer a country, you cannot simply rely on force to solve it.

If this were the case, the world's first army equipped with flintlock rifles would have already conquered the whole world.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty's flintlock rifle did not have much advantage. As long as there were butter or lard paper bullets appeared, they took out the paper bullets. Someone took out the paper bullets directly for the convenience of the situation and poured a little black gunpowder on the medicine pool as a medicine guide.

Gunpowder usually has a horn measuring cup to pour it into a fixed amount. Then pour the gunpowder under you from the front, and then the paper bag serves as a bullet holder and stuffs it in with the projectile. Then take a through-the-screw, and the last step is to shoot.

Although the flintlock rifle is a major technological advancement, the speed of the bore-loading ammunition is still touching. Its technicality has great flaws.

If there is rifle in the gun chamber, the warhead will rotate longitudinally when it passes through the gun chamber, causing the warhead to rotate and fly after it is out of the barrel. The conservation of angular momentum is maintained through the gyroscope effect to increase the ballistic stability, effective range and terminal lethality.

The projectile rotates under the action of rifle, which is the same as the gyro movement principle of high-speed rotation. When the projectile moves in the bore, the rifle forces it to rotate at a high speed. Under the action of the flip torque, it also moves conically around the ballistic tangent with its center of mass as the center, so that the bullet axis and the ballistic tangent always maintain a very small swing angle without turning over, thus ensuring the stable flight of the projectile.

The problem is that with the technology that the Ming Dynasty should have now, you cannot solve the technical problem of rifled guns at all.

The rifle brings the warhead a rotating gyro effect to stabilize the ballistics, thus allowing the bullet to fly accurately and far, but most of the early rifles were still smooth-bore.

The reason is that the rifling process was very complicated for the processing technology at that time, and the expensive price made it impossible for him to be a military standard weapon at all.

Moreover, the metallurgical technology of the Ming Dynasty was not good at that time, and there was no standard for quality control. The additional bore pressure brought by the rifled gun was completely suitable for low-cost production methods.

The soldiers of Shenji Camp were mainly in arrays when fighting, and the launching medicine was all black gunpowder. After the shooting, the smoke was very large. After such a large group of people fired guns one by one, they actually didn't know what they were fighting, but they just rushed towards the rough direction of the enemy. Accuracy was not that important in a pile of cigarettes.

Furthermore, the projectiles were loaded at the muzzle, and the projectiles of the rifled gun were tiring from the front, with a slow firing rate, and the rifle was easily blocked by dirty black gunpowder, causing the projectiles to get stuck inside and even explode.

The rifled rifle is accurate, but the loading is too slow, because it is too troublesome to stuff the projectiles from the rifled barrel from the bore. There are two solutions to this problem: one is to load it from the breeze, and the other is to use bullets with smaller diameter than the male line of the gun bore.

To solve this problem, the Bing Zhanshi had thought about inventing a breech rifle. Breech reloading also brought great advantages of faster firing speed, but Zhu Cixuan knew that with the black gunpowder technology, the breech rifle was simply unusable. The breech rifle had a chamber that could be lifted and landed, which was also convenient to operate. The main reason was that the breech locking seal of the breech locking of the black gunpowder shooting was poor, which was easy to leak air, resulting in a short range.

Later, it was discovered that the Yishui breech gun later also had this problem. Zhu Cixuan promptly stopped the development of breech gun because Zhu Cixuan was very clear that unless there was smokeless gunpowder and bullets with metal bullet bottoms were used to solve the air tightness problem, breech loading became the mainstream.

Zhu Cilang knew the disadvantages of the flintlock rifle, so he was always cautious in this Northern Expedition. If he had a long-term tug-of-war with the Qing Dynasty, the supply of food and grass would inevitably become a big problem.

The best solution is of course to stock up on food and grass. In fact, Yingkou and Panjin have already stocked up on food and grass for the Shenjiying for more than half a year.

As a result, the food and grass for the past six months were easily burned by Dorgon.

What Dorgon burned was only the food and grass from Yingkou and Panjin stations. The food and grass that were continuously transporting from the pass to Liaodong were still on the way of transportation.

The reason why Zhu Cixuan did not withdraw his troops was because although the army had a shortage of food and grass, the food and grass transported outside the pass on the way was not cut off.

At least the grain and grass stored in Yingkou and Panjin that Dorgon burned did not cut off the grain and grass routes transported on the road.

In other words, although the food and grass of Shenji Camp were affected, it was not cut off.

This is also Zhu Cilang's confidence. Dorgon was still a chess game after all. He thought that if the other party's food and grass base was burned, the Ming army would be defeated.

Indeed, if it were placed five years ago in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cixuan would definitely return in great defeat when he went north to attack the Qing Dynasty.

But now, the comprehensive national strength of the Ming Dynasty has risen. Especially the popularization of new crops has made unprecedentedly high grain yields.

Food and grass are no longer the problem of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the output of food and grass ten times or even dozens of times has made the Ming army's food and grass unprecedentedly sufficient.

Dorgon didn't believe it even though he died. He waited for news of the Ming army's withdrawal in Shengjing, but finally waited for nothing.

The Ming army stayed in Liaoyang County not only did not withdraw its troops, but even Zhu Cixuan began to deploy the Shenji Camp and launched a long-prepared attack.

The eighty thousand Shenji Camp was led by three thousand Tiger Ben Army. The finished character-shaped attack route was started, and slowly advanced from Liaoyang County, approaching Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!