The only thing the Qing army could compete with the Ming army seemed to be the cannons on the city wall. These cast iron cannons were all taken from the Ming Dynasty's technology.

Otherwise, this person was forced out, and the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were changing with each passing day, and the equipped Ming army was preparing for war. On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty seemed to have stagnated.

So, when Huang Taiji was alive, he tried his best to develop a powerful firearm to compete with the Ming army.

However, things did not go as expected. Even when Huang Taiji died, he did not wait for the so-called advanced firearm to appear.

However, it is not useless. At least in the development of cannons, there have been certain results. First, the Qing Dynasty stole the red cannons from the Ming Dynasty, and they called them red-clothed cannons. It was just because the barbarians of the red cannons touched their sensitive nerves.

Barbarians have always been the derogatory term for foreign tribes by the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains. Among them, they contained a derogatory meaning. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty changed it to a red-clothed cannon.

But no matter how they changed it, the red cannon was still solid. Even if the Qing Dynasty racked its brains and tried its best, it would not be able to create a flowering bullet. Because they could not even understand the principle of the flowering bullet.

Although the Qing Dynasty could not create a flowering bullet, fortunately, with the help of these traitors and traitors, the Manchu Qing Dynasty created a kind of Shenhu cannon. This was a small iron-made cannon in the early Qing Dynasty. The iron-casting tube was short and light. It was equipped with a smooth bore, and it fired iron bullets. It had no aiming device and no trunnion. It was installed in a four-wheeled wooden box. It was pushed and pulled by humans, and it was roughly facing the target and ignited the fuse. Volume 100 of the Qing Dynasty Huidian Tu: "Shenhu cannon. It is also cast iron. It is made of a magic machine cannon. It is two feet, four inches and seven minutes long, and four ridges are raised in the middle.

Although the Shenxin cannon is a solid bullet, it can be regarded as a huge technological progress. At least, the city walls of Shengjing are densely covered with such small cannons.

It was these cast iron cannons that caused considerable casualties to the Ming army. Although Zhu Cixuan's firearms were powerful, the red cannons of the Ming Dynasty had not yet arrived at the front line.

The war drums were beating, and at the command of Zhu Cixuan, the Shenji Camp began to withdraw its troops. The Qing Dynasty had not been idle for the past few years. Under the bombardment of dense artillery shells, they wandered around the city walls, causing considerable casualties to the Ming army.

So, Zhu Cixuan ordered the army to retreat twenty miles. At this position, the Qing army's cannon could not pose a threat. Dorgon did not dare to go out of the city to fight again. Since they saw the sharpness of Ming arms on the city wall, they were completely scared.

Dorgon, who was frightened, hid in Shengjing City and couldn't hide. At the same time, Zhu Cilang was also afraid of the cannons on the Qing army's walls and stopped attacking.

Both sides seemed to have started a tug-of-war, but in fact both sides knew that the balance of the war had begun to tilt towards the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, the Ming army's firearms were completely crushing, and the wild beasts that once became prey now. Conversely, the Ming army had already dominated the battle in the plains.

Just like before, when the decisive battle with the Qing army, the Ming army could be said to be powerless in resistance against the powerful Qing cavalry.

Now, the situation has finally reversed. Originally, field battles were the strengths of the Eight Banners Cavalry, but now they have met the nemesis.

Although Zhu Cixuan retreated and the army retreated twenty miles, this does not mean that Zhu Cixuan wants to give up the attack on the city, he is waiting.

As soon as the Ming army's cannons arrived, Zhu Cilang could set up a formation and launch another siege.

The incident was not as Dorgon imagined. The Ming army would be forced to withdraw its troops due to lack of food and grass.

Since today's battle outside the city, Dorgon's Qing army has been scared out of fear. Now even if Zhu Cilang retreats to the pass, Dorgon has no courage to ambush the road.

Dorgon knew very well that if they ambushed the Ming army halfway, it would probably eventually turn into being ambushed. Because the Ming army's firearms were too terrible.

You don't have any weapons or any tactics to crack these firearms.

The Ming Dynasty has occupied 99% of the winning streak. It can be said that it has almost become invincible.

Although the food and grass from Shenji Camp were burned, the food and grass transported from the pass were continuously transported to Panjin.

Given the lessons from the previous one, Zhu Cixuan had ordered the governor of Ji Liao, Hong Chengchou, to arrange heavy troops in Yingkou. The Qing Dynasty's plan to sneak attacks on food and grass will never happen again.

It will take less than a month to reach the front line.

Zhu Cilang was not in a hurry. He knew that capturing Shengjing, who is now a Qing Dynasty, was almost as simple as taking a piece of food.

The one who can't sit still now is Dorgon. The Qing soldiers who are now in power have no morale at all. The Qing soldiers who are watching the battle on the city wall today have witnessed the power of the flintlock rifle with their own eyes. They finally knew that the bows and arrows in their hands have almost become children's toys.

So, on the third day, Dorgon actually sent an envoy for the first time.

Just as Zhu Cixuan headed north and surrounded Shengjing and was preparing to break through the Qing imperial capital, Dorgon actually sent an envoy to Zhu Cixuan's tent.

The messengers naturally came to seek peace, and the messengers who seek peace were extremely humble. They thought this would make the Ming Dynasty open aside. Even if they bowed down to their vassals, the Qing Dynasty would surrender.

The envoy who came to seek peace was somewhat surprising. He actually fought with the Ming army today, Jirgalang.

Jirgalang retreated back to the city in a daze, but unexpectedly, after a few days, he became an envoy to ask for peace.

The one who accompanied Jiergalang was actually an old acquaintance, the traitor, Kong Youde.

Prince Zheng Jirgalang and Han minister Kong Youde came to show Dorgon's sincerity.

However, the Ming Dynasty is no longer the same as before. Feng Shui turns around. At this time, Zhu Cilang was sitting in the tent with one foot on the chair beside him. He was holding a knife in his hand, and on the table was a whole roasted whole roasted lamb.

Zhu Cilang didn't even raise his head, and gently used a knife to gently remove the most delicious pamper skin piece outside, and then put it into his mouth and chew it.

Prince Zheng Jiergalang and Kong Youde stood respectfully on their lower heads with their hands down, and they didn't dare to let out a breath.

There is no way, who made me a defeated general? The current situation is that it was their turn to act according to the Ming Dynasty's expression.

Kong Youde was born around the 30th year of Wanli. He was a miner from Tieling. He was "good at archery and horses and could not read." In the first year of Tianqi, after the Later Jin occupied Liaoshen, Kong Youde and his brother Kong Youxing defected to the Ming general Mao Wenlong, participated in the Zhenjiang victory, and later moved to Pi Island of Korea. He was very close to his fellow villager Geng Zhongming. It is said that he was named Geng Zhongming as his righteous brother. Later, people often called him "Kong Geng". Kong Youde was "brave and good at fighting, and he was the first to be the general in the battle," and was promoted to the general. Mao Wenlong accepted him as his grandson and gave him his name Yongsi. He was very grateful for Mao Wenlong's grace, so that after being the prince of the Qing Dynasty, he still "will be dissatisfied with the current affairs of the general."
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