Chapter 108 (10) Please give me half a month

In the late Ming Dynasty, firearms were quite developed, especially after Yuan Chonghuan bombarded wild boar skin souls, which further stimulated the enthusiasm of the Ming Dynasty to study firearms. However, enthusiasm alone is not enough. Firearms are about science, but in the Ming Dynasty, science was at a poor stage, so the development of firearms naturally cannot have any progress.The firearms at that time had a fatal problem, that is, they exploded at every turn. It often happened when they were bombarding the enemy. So in the situation at that time, although the artillery was powerful, if it was possible to use it, everyone should try not to use it as much as possible, lest the artillery explode and hurt themselves, it would not be worthwhile.

In short, if you don't get red-eyed, you won't use artillery. Now the Qing army was in a hurry and fired artillery brazenly. The Ming army was furious, you primitive Qing soldiers dared to use cannons, it was outrageous, pull out our own cannons. The two sides launched an exchange of firepower, fighting from morning to midnight. Guess how many people died under this heavy artillery fire? not even one. Although the Qing soldiers did not bombard a Ming army, and the Ming army did not bombard a Qing soldier, it is gratifying that no cannon was heard of exploding by itself.This shows that the artillery development technology of the Ming and Qing Dynasties has indeed made great progress.

In this large-scale exchange of fire, the two sides invested a total of 30,000 troops. But the number of casualties is unbelievably low. On the top of the mountain, the Ming army strangled twenty Qing soldiers to death and captured one alive.However, the Ming army was in a situation of being passive and beaten. Only 738 people were killed and 793 people were lightly or severely wounded. The most bizarre thing is that 657 horses and mules were killed. Livestock are killed. At the end of the war, Hong Chengchou held a meeting and concluded: This vicious battle sounds like we won, but if we consider the tragic price we paid, we actually lost.

The worst thing we lost was that this battle had no effect on Jinzhou's relief. I heard that the Ming army fought fiercely, but the Qing soldiers only had more than 30 people dead and wounded. If the battle continued like this, it would definitely be hopeless. More than a thousand Ming troops were exchanged for thirty Qing soldiers. You can't fight like this, you really can't fight like this. But if you don't fight like this, how else can you fight? How to fight, Hong Chengchou is not sure now, he has to spend time to find the weaknesses of the Qing soldiers, and study a new way of fighting.

Report to the imperial court: the dead will be buried, and the wounded will not wake up. Within half a month, the decisive battle will be supervised again. What Hong Chengchou meant was: Give me half a month, just half a month, let me think about how to fight... The imperial court called back: No! You have to fight now.