Chapter 2363

Whether it is the cultivation of skilled craftsmen or the iterative upgrading of processing technology, for the military manufacturing industry in this era, it will inevitably be an extremely slow process. However, Haihan can suddenly emerge in the field of military manufacturing and evolve rapidly, which is natural.

It is beneficial to the many black technologies brought to this time and space by the traveling public.

The arsenal located in Tiandu Industrial Zone only took ten years to upgrade its individual weapons manufacturing capabilities from flintlock rifles to breech-loading fixed-loading rifles, completing a technological upgrade route that originally took centuries.

How it overcame various difficulties cannot be simply imitated by other countries at the same time.

After capturing Hirado Port last year, both Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom conducted on-site inspections of the military workshops discovered there, and concluded that the military technology mastered by the Hirado Domain was still at the level of handicraft workshops. Even if they

It has the ability to manufacture Western-style flintlock muskets and small-caliber artillery, but its production capacity is difficult to meet the demand for large-scale installation, let alone exporting weapons in large quantities like Haihan.

Since the Qing Dynasty was able to equip the army with muskets and artillery on an organized scale, it basically means that they have obtained the military technology of the Hirado Domain. However, Qian Tiandun believes that its production capacity will not be better than that of the Hirado Domain.

How much? This part of the weapons currently equipped by the Qing army may have reached the entire production capacity of its military industrial institutions since it was put into production.

Wang Tom said: "What you said makes sense, but even if it is just that, I guess the Ming army still can't withstand the Qing army equipped with new weapons."

"They had no intention of carrying it." Qian Tiandun said sarcastically: "Similar to previous years, the Ming army discovered the momentum of the Qing army's large-scale march south, so they took the initiative to retreat to the city to avoid facing the Qing army.

Duel on the battlefield."

"The Ming Dynasty can no longer afford to lose!" Wang Tom said clearly: "They have no choice but to preserve their strength. The Qing army will naturally retreat after looting the place. If they fight to the death with the Qing army, when the enemy retreats, the farmers in the Central Plains will

If the army comes out to cause trouble again, the government will have no way to suppress it."

Among the internal and external troubles, which one should be solved first is a difficult problem faced by the Ming Dynasty. These two wounds are too big and deep. Even if the Ming Dynasty gathers the power of the whole country, it may not be able to completely solve one of them. It can only bring about two evils.

Choose the less powerful one and deal with the one you can chew and beat first.

The Qing army, which has begun to be organized and equipped with firearms, has a better combat effectiveness than before. If the Ming army faced a head-on battle, it would probably lose worse. Therefore, facing the menacing Qing army, the Ming Dynasty could only choose to avoid fighting and preserve its strength.

to cope with domestic crises.

From the perspective of a bystander, such a response strategy is certainly inappropriate, but in recent years, Ming Dynasty has been exhausted and no longer has much room for trial and error.

You can only press and hold one of them first and then talk.

Haihan formed a military confrontation with the Qing Dynasty on the Liaodong Peninsula. In the end, it could only hold back part of the Qing Dynasty's troops, and could not completely prevent the Qing army from going south to knock the pass. In this case, if the Ming Dynasty still couldn't withstand it, it could only

Sighing that I was disappointed.

Of course, even if the situation is passive, Ming Dynasty is not completely hopeless. As long as Chongzhen is willing to lower his profile a little and take the initiative to ask Haihan for greater military assistance, the Haihan Executive Committee will probably still think of it for the sake of the same clan and clan.

Help. But no one can make an accurate prediction at the moment whether this situation will occur in the future.

The Qing army's firearms force size, combat methods, leading generals, and garrison locations are not mentioned in more details in the information currently obtained, so Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun cannot judge its true situation. But one thing should be said It can be confirmed that the Qing army obviously did not intend to deploy its limited elite troops to the Daheishan defense line to confront the Haihan army.

"This information... has limited reference value. If we want to force out the Qing army's musketeers, we probably have to make more noise."

The "bigger news" that Wang Tom mentioned was of course the looting of the east coast of Liaoning in the early winter of last year. The Qing army did not respond or counterattack, which shows that this level of attack could not really anger the Manchus and make them mobilize their combat power. The strongest elite force.

Qian Tiandun said: "A bigger movement? Then we can only go around to Liaodong Bay on the side of the Bohai Sea, land directly at Yingkou, and cut off the road between Shenyang and Daheishan. In this way, the Qing army may not be able to bear it."

The location of Yingkou is exactly at the midpoint between the Daheishan defense line and Shenyang, and the mountainous terrain of the Liaodong Peninsula allows this transportation line to only travel along the coast. If Haihan carries out a landing operation in this area, then the Manchu and Qing dynasties will have to ensure the Daheishan If the supply line of the tens of thousands of Qing troops on the defense line is not cut off, heavy troops will inevitably be sent to regain control of this transportation line. Elite troops from the Qing army may also appear on this battlefield.

Of course, this kind of landing battle is not as easy as just talking about it. The local area is three to four hundred miles away from Jinzhou, and the mission is not completed if the landing is successful. We must build positions in the area for a long time and completely cut them off. The transportation lines of the Qing army are sufficient. The number of troops and combat materials required to be invested on the front line is not a small amount, and it will not be as simple as the previous sweep of the almost undefended Liaodong coast.

Tom Wang shook his head subconsciously and said: "We can't make such a big move now, and the executive committee probably won't agree to such a plan."

The military expenditure required to launch such a large-scale campaign must be astronomical. In the past few months, the two major missions of sweeping the Liaodong coast and sailing around the Sea of ​​Japan have just spent a large amount of military expenditure. You may not agree with the Northern Theater Command launching a third operation in such an intensive period of time.

"Don't worry, let's observe the direction of the situation this year. Besides, we shouldn't be the ones who are really anxious, right?" Wang Tom patted Qian Tiandun on the shoulder, stood up and walked to the office door: "I'm going to take a dip first. A hot bath, everyone is so tired from being on the boat, we’ll talk about it later if we have anything to do.”

Qian Tiandun smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he would make his own arrangements. In fact, he had already smelled Tom Wang's scent when they were talking just now, but everyone was a veteran and of course they were used to this kind of thing, so he didn't point it out. Come.

After Tom Wang left, Qian Tiandun was still thinking about what he said before leaving - who should really be worried about the current situation?

The Ming Dynasty, which was in the midst of internal and external troubles, and the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, who were unable to take care of both ends, should be more anxious than the Haihan who sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. The Ming Dynasty could not sit back and watch the Manchu and Qing Dynasties grow in power, and gradually developed from fighting against each other to encroaching on its own territory. Threaten the rule of the Zhu family. The Manchu Qing Dynasty is also aware of the current predicament of the Ming Dynasty, and will certainly not leave ample time for the Ming Dynasty to deal with internal conflicts.

For these two parties, the existence of Haihan is also a threat that cannot be ignored. Even Ming, who currently maintains an ally relationship with Haihan, has always had a very complicated attitude towards Haihan. Daming has been robbed by Haihan.

It occupied a lot of coastal territory. Even Jinzhou, which Haihan claimed to have sent troops to Liaodong to attract firepower for the Ming Dynasty, did not inform the Ming Dynasty before taking action.

However, after Haihan occupied Jinzhou, they fought with the Qing army in the first year, and then fell into a long-term confrontation. They did not fight to the death as the Ming Dynasty hoped. From the outside world, it seemed

A certain degree of tacit understanding has been achieved. From the standpoint of the Ming Dynasty, one would definitely be worried that if the Manchu and Qing Dynasties made a breakthrough in the north and the world was in chaos, Haihan would suddenly stab him in the back and echo the Manchu and Qing Dynasties north and south.

Divide the Zhu family's world.

But the feelings of those involved must be different from those of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties have suffered a lot from Haihan intermittently in recent years, and they must have been very clear that their military strength is not as good as Haihan, so they had to deploy heavy troops in Liaodong to stop Haihan from continuing to attack.

Expanding the territory in the north. In this way, Haihan inevitably seized the loopholes and entered the Manchu-controlled areas from time to time to carry out plunder.

If the Manchu and Qing dynasties wanted to compete with Haihan, they would first have to quickly increase their strength by continuously plundering the Ming Dynasty. However, since Haihan had openly formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court could not help but worry about whether it would happen at some point.

On the battlefield going south to attack the Ming Dynasty, they encountered the troops of the Haihan Army.

However, Haihan is limited to Liaodong, which is too far from the mainland and cannot invest more troops and other resources in the north. Therefore, it does not have much obsession with expanding its territory in the north. Defending the bridgehead of Jinzhou is the basic strategy in the recent period.

As for starting a war with the Qing army, several Haihan generals stationed in the north did not have too radical ideas. Eliminating more Qing troops would actually have very limited actual benefits to Haihan, and they would only be giving Ming an advantage.

The Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense also have a relatively clear position on the role they should play in the situation in the north, which is to use the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's external expansion momentum to maintain the balance of regional power. When the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's momentum is too strong and the Ming Dynasty cannot resist it,

Then he tightened the dog leash of the Jinzhou Defense Line to give Daming a chance to breathe. If Daming had the illusion that I can do it again when the weather clears and the rain stops, then Haihan will loosen it in time.

Let Manqing go and bite Daming a few times, so that Daming can calm down and find his position.

Therefore, regarding the idea of ​​"making a big noise to force the elite Manchu troops to show up", Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun basically just stayed at verbal discussions and would not easily put it into practice. Even if a combat plan like landing at Yingkou has the potential to

Feasibility, they will not take the initiative without Ming's expression.

At the same time, in Jinzhou, six hundred miles west of the Datong River base, Chen Yixin was watching his son running around in the courtyard in his manor, holding a small wooden knife in his hand, fighting back and forth with virtual opponents.

From time to time, he would fall to the ground because of too intense movements. Chen Yixin would not help him, but would just ask him to get up on his own.

Chen Yixin's son is already three years old. Because of his good nutrition, he is bigger than other children of the same age. Chen Yixin wanted him to inherit his father's business when he grew up, so he began to consciously cultivate his son's combat skills from an early age.

Of course, this approach was not approved by his wife Ma Yuling. The child's mother still hopes that her son can study hard and practice calligraphy. When he grows up, he will go back to Sanya to take the exam and become a civil servant who governs the government in the future.

It's not like his father, who spends every day on the dusty school field.

"What time is it? Don't you go to school?" Ma Yuling's voice sounded in the yard. The little guy immediately fell silent, dropped the wooden knife in his hand, and ran back to the house.

After scolding the younger one, Ma Yuling started to scold the older one again: "My husband teaches him how to kill and kill things all day long. If he is older, wouldn't he become a demon king?"

Chen Yixin smiled and said: "Madam, my son has just turned three years old, why do we need to force him to study and read so early? He naturally likes to wield swords and sticks, which means he has talent in this area. We should guide and train him well.

Don’t kill the children’s interest.”

Ma Yuling glared and said, "It's not enough for you to join the army alone, and you have to drag your children along with you. That's not going to work."

Chen Yixin said: "This will be our family's inheritance from now on. Besides, haven't many of your Ma family's descendants volunteered to join the army in recent years?"

"The Ma family is the Ma family, and my son is my son. They are two different things!" Ma Yuling was not so easy to convince: "The Nu family heard that General Qian arranged for his son to study in Sanya. If I remember correctly, he is older than my boy.

One or two years old, right? Husband, can't you imitate others?"

Chen Yixin thought that Qian Tiandun's wife Luo Wudan was a journalist and a cultural person, so she would naturally have more obsession with culture and education, and she also had more or less connections in Sanya, so she could pave the way for her son in advance.

It is someone like me who has been stationed abroad for many years and has almost only official correspondence with Sanya.

But of course such words cannot be said in front of his wife. Chen Yixin advised: "Didn't we discuss it before? If I want to return to Sanya, it must be approved by the executive committee. Now that I am arranged to be an official in Jinzhou, is it right?

Should I just resign and return to China? Besides, even if I take my son back to Sanya, how he will grow up in the future may not be able to develop according to your ideas."

Ma Yuling couldn't defeat him, so she finally gave up the debate and went into the room to watch her son study. Chen Yixin shook his head helplessly, thinking that this woman was really powerful, and she knew that she couldn't let her son lose at the starting line. It was just that the conditions were limited, and she really wanted to

After sending her son all the way to Sanya, who can take care of such a young child? Although Ma Yuling is smart, it is a completely different social environment in Sanya, and she may not be able to adapt there.

While Chen Yixin was deep in thought, an orderly came in and delivered a telegram he had just received. Chen Yixin opened the folded telegram and saw that it was a message from the Datong River base, saying that King Tom had returned with his winter voyage fleet.

The base is hereby notified.

Chen Yixin slowly folded up the message again, thinking that it would be nice to be as free as Tom Wang. He had no family burden and could do what he wanted to do at any time. If he had not started a family in Fushan County, maybe he would have done it by this time.

He changed his defense and garrisoned elsewhere. However, this thought only flashed through his mind and was forgotten.
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