Li Zhi looked at the door of the third hall and snorted coldly.
"If Zixiao from Jiangnan dares to challenge me during the chaos, I will lead the Huben army to Suzhou, capture Qian Qianyi from Jiangyun Tower and shoot him!"
Han Jinxin quickly raised his hand and said: "The Duke is brave! In front of the Duke, Qian Qianyi and his like are like clowns, vulnerable."
Li Zhi smiled and said nothing. After a long silence, Li Zhi suddenly waved his hand and said, "I have developed a new rifle in the past few days. Han Jinxin, come and take a look."
Han Jinxin immediately agreed and followed Li Zhi on horseback out of the Duke's Mansion to the large campus in the suburbs.
Li Zhi attached great importance to the confidentiality of the new weapons and asked his personal guards to guard all directions of the school grounds before taking out a rifle from under the saddle.
"Han Jinxin, look at this gun."
Han Jinxin took the rifle and looked left and right, and said: "My lord, this is a standard rifle. The top..." Han Jinxin noticed the scope on the rifle, looked at it with his eyes against the scope, and said: "
There is a telescope up there. There is a red dot in the telescope."
Han Jinxin put his face away from the scope, turned around and asked: "My lord, what is the purpose of installing a telescope on the rifle?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Han Jinxin, can't you see? This is called a sight. This sight can replace the front sight and rear sight to help with aiming."
Li Zhi picked up the rifle, took a look at the scope, and said: "This scope can magnify the target four times, which can help the shooter easily aim at the target four hundred meters away. Even a dazzled person can use this
The red dot is on target.”
Li Zhi waved his hand, and two guards ran four hundred meters away holding a target and inserted the target into the ground.
Li Zhi skillfully loaded the rifle and loaded the propellant. Then he raised the rifle, aimed it at the human-shaped target in the scope, held his breath for a second, and fired the bullet with a bang.
The human-shaped target four hundred meters away fell down.
From Han Jinxin's perspective, the human-shaped target four hundred meters away was only as big as a dot. Han Jinxin's eyes widened in surprise as he watched the distant target being hit.
The guard in the distance raised the target and brought it over on horseback. Li Zhi took the target and looked at it with great interest, and said with a smile: "Put five rings on it."
Han Jinxin came over to look at it in disbelief and said: "The Duke of the Holy Ming! Doesn't this suddenly double the range of the rifle?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "You can't say that. It's hard to find craftsmen who grind glass lenses. I found all the jade grinding craftsmen in Tianjin and Shandong, and I only collected more than 180 people. One of these people
Only more than 2,600 scope lenses can be ground every month. Nowadays, lens grinding relies solely on the skills of craftsmen, and it is impossible to universally equip such scope-type rifles."
Han Jinxin looked at the rifle in Li Zhi's hand and nodded.
Li Zhi said: "But we can equip the Tiger Army with thousands of 'sharp shooters'. These sharpshooters are selected from shooting experts and equipped with rifles with scopes."
"During a war, these sharpshooters specifically target the enemy's officers and can paralyze the enemy's command."
Han Jinxin suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "The Duke of Guo is a wise man. With the help of this weapon, the Duke of Guo can easily conquer Liaodong!"
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In the Qingning Palace, Dorgon looked at the colorful glass with dragon patterns inlaid on the roof and took a breath.
Today's Dorgon is no longer the Prince Rui of the past, but the supreme emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
However, this throne did not give Dorgon the pleasure of scolding Fang Qiu. These days, Dorgon always felt that his time was running out.
Dorgon's feeling of restlessness came from Li Zhi. Ever since he learned that Li Zhi had reported to the Ming Dynasty that the Emperor was planning an expedition to Liaodong, Dorgon had been highly nervous. He sent additional scouts to the pass to not let go of any new news.
At the beginning, Dorgon thought that the Qing Dynasty had the power to fight against Li Zhi. After all, Li Zhi only had 20,000 soldiers. If the Qing Dynasty mobilized all troops, it would still have more than 100,000 soldiers to fight. Moreover, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was sluggish and full of hatred.
Li Zhi has too many people. If Li Zhi wants to succeed, he will encounter countless obstacles.
At that time, the Guan Ning army attacked Li Zhi and the Qing soldiers occupied the Western Liaoning Corridor without any bloodshed. Dorgon was really excited for a while.
However, I didn't expect that Li Zhi would kill all the people who hindered him in the Ming Dynasty. Li Zhi killed the gentry in Shandong and the Shanxi merchants in Shaanxi. He killed so many people that he didn't know how many people were searched.
Silver. These forces that were supposed to hinder Li Zhi instead gave Li Zhi countless silver, allowing Li Zhi to continue to expand his army.
Li Zhi's Huben army first expanded to 30,000 people, and then expanded to 60,000 people. Every time Dorgon heard the news about the expansion of the Huben army, he felt cold from head to toe, as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water on him.
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At the beginning, the 50,000 cavalry sent by Huang Taiji, the emperor's brother, could not break through Li Zhi's more than 10,000 people. Dorgon's memory was still fresh in Dorgon's mind with the terrifying fighting power of the Tiger and Ben army. Now that Li Zhi's troops have expanded to 60,000, what can the Qing Dynasty do to stop it?
Can the Tiger and Ben troops survive?
Li Zhi seemed to be descending from the stars, with countless new ideas and new ideas, and he continued to grow stronger. However, the Qing Dynasty did not have so many advanced technologies, and could only repeat the old path of the past day after day. Since Dorgon came to the throne, although he has also tried
He purchased the Red Yi cannons through Shanxi merchants and cast the cannons in Liaoyang. However, after more than a year of busy work, Dorgon only obtained more than 60 Red Yi cannons.
Dorgon knew that compared to Li Zhi's artillery fleet of several hundred pieces, his own artillery was simply not enough to fill the gap between his teeth.
The weather is gradually getting warmer. It won't be long before Li Zhi's Northern Expeditionary Army attacks Manchuria.
Dorgon thought about it and sighed.
Dorgon gradually lowered his head and looked at Fan Wencheng, a scholar of the inner academy, a Han Confucian scholar who defected to Hou Jin during the Nurhaci era.
At that time, because Fan Wencheng was a scholar, he was treated differently by Nurhaci. Now Fan Wencheng is the top official of the Han Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.
"Fan Wencheng, there have been many Han people fleeing in disguise recently. Have you ever thought about escaping from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and going to the Ming Dynasty to live incognito and become an ordinary person?"
Fan Wencheng looked at Dorgon's face, raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, since he defected to the late emperor in the third year of Tianming's reign, Fan Wencheng's fate has been tied to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty prospered, Fan Wencheng flourished, and the Qing Dynasty declined.
Fan Wencheng is about to die. How could he have the idea of escape from the pass? What Fan Wencheng has to do in this life is to do his best for the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty and prove that his decision to defect to the late emperor was correct."
Dorgon smiled and said, "I heard that Azig kidnapped your wife. What happened next?"
Fan Wencheng said: "After my upright questioning, Prince Ying has returned my wife to me."
Dorgon nodded and stopped talking.
Fan Wencheng had endless energy. He stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I think that now that the Qing Dynasty is facing the challenge of Li Zhi, it is time to go south and join forces with the gentry of the Ming Dynasty to deal with Li Zhi together!"
