As soon as Zhang Xianzhong's affairs were arranged, unfavorable news came from the north. This was really a plunge.

The weapons provided by the Japanese to the Qing soldiers were transported in advance. The weapons that were originally said to be delivered in early February arrived in a small batch at the end of December. By mid-January, the entire batch of weapons were shipped to Chenyang. In addition to the weapons ordered by Dorgon in November, the weapons shipped this time also included copycat machine guns, grenade launchers and mortars in addition to the order. Dorgon was overjoyed, so he naturally paid the bill generously and accepted them all.

This time, the Japanese invested a lot of money against the Qing Dynasty, and the Japanese were not afraid of the Qing soldiers' backlash. The Qing soldiers had no water power anyway, so they could not pose any threat to the Japanese mainland. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty's industrial capacity was almost negligible. The Qing Dynasty would only have the qualifications to buy guns and cannons in the next few years. This was a long-term transaction. At the beginning, it was a sweet spot. From then on, the Qing Dynasty only kept buying guns and cannons from its only supplier with real money. The Japanese made a wishful thinking and made money. The guns and cannons that were out could also allow the Tartars and Dashun, and the Ming Dynasty to consume each other, and they made great profits in politics, economy and military. The instructors sent by the Japanese began to train Qing soldiers in early December. In mid-December, the first batch of weapons arrived and they officially started live-fire training. By mid-January, the entire batch of weapons was transported and officially launched. Therefore, the new Qing army equipped with Japanese weapons reached 4,000. After nearly two months of high-intensity devil training, it can even be said to have the prototype of a modern army.

Among the Japanese weapons, the ammunition charge was not only black gunpowder, but most of them were mixed with potassium chlorate, so the power of ammunition increased greatly. The Ming Dynasty provided all black gunpowder charges, and the bullets were still old-fashioned "Du version bullets". Even after improvement, this "Du version bullet" had a fire silence rate of nearly 10%. Therefore, the guns Li Zicheng bought from the Ming Dynasty were one level lower than the Japanese guns equipped by the 4,000 new army of the Qing army. Not to mention that the Qing army also had a copycat version of machine guns and mortars.

Of course, the biggest gap is the tactics that are compatible with the new hot weapons. The Japanese trained Qing soldiers completely according to the tactics of the later hot weapons era, while Li Zicheng's Dashun Army did not understand hot weapons tactics at all, but only followed the Ming army's old firearm tactics. Therefore, in terms of hot weapons tactics, the Qing army was far ahead.

It was also the intelligence work of the Ming Dynasty that did not keep up in time. After the Lantern Festival assassination, he realized the seriousness of the situation. It was obvious that it was impossible to compete with the Qing army by selling eliminated weapons to Li Zicheng, so Chongzhen notified the prince to quickly launch a new round of arms sales to Dashun. The prince was still talking about the weapons here that were already transported to Laizhou, including one thousand Type 45 rifles, two thousand Jiashen rifles, and fifty 60 rocket launchers and Twenty 107 rocket launchers, but several wheels rushed to Laizhou. It was the end of the first month when they arrived in Laizhou. Li Zicheng was of course very fond of the weapons made by the Ming Dynasty. He was about to strengthen his firepower when he drove down Shanhaiguan, and he was not short of money, so he approved this batch of military purchases without any vagueness. As soon as the ship transported the weapons arrived in Laizhou, he did not stop for a moment and headed to Tianjin immediately. Finally, in early February, the weapons were delivered to the riots in Tianjin.

This time, Chongzhen also invested in Li Zicheng. In order to teach the rebel army to adapt to the battle of hot weapons, he specially appointed ten military instructors led by Zhang Hanfei to assist in training, or even to fight against the Qing Dynasty. For this reason, Chongzhen sighed very much and said to the princess and Wang Chengen:

"I just owe Li Zicheng all my life. Didn't I just let him get off duty more than ten years ago? It seemed like I was carrying a burden that I couldn't get rid of. He beat me up so hard that I stretched my neck to hang it. I also wanted to help him, help this, and even wipe his butt. What's the matter!"

Chongzhen was seriously injured at that time, and after saying this, he grinned his teeth and felt heart-wrenching. Of course, the physical pain was still a trivial matter, and the most important thing was the extreme psychological imbalance. Fortunately, the princess and Wang Chengen comforted him for a long time, and Chongzhen calmed down. Thinking about Li Zicheng blocking the Tartars in the north, he could be considered a flesh-and-blood Great Wall. He was worried about whether this flesh-and-blood Great Wall could withstand the Qing soldiers, but he couldn't let it go, so he had to send Wang Fuzhi to Laizhou with 5,000 new troops. If Li Zicheng was defeated like a mountain, he could still have a back-up.

It must be said that Chongzhen's reaction was already very fast, but before this batch of weapons and equipment arrived in the Dashun army, the Qing army launched a thunderous blow in the direction of Shanhaiguan.

Luo Dinglong has been camping at the city of Shanhaiguan for more than a month. After several battles between the Dashun army and the Qing army found that no one could do anything to each other. Although the Dashun army was large, they could not capture Shanhaiguan. Seeing that the Dashun army was in full swing, the Qing army did not take the initiative to attack. Therefore, more than a month passed in this confrontation.

It is said that new weapons are coming. When these weapons arrive, General Liu will launch a new round of attack on Shanhaiguan. According to the plan, a large number of new siege weapons will arrive within ten days, and a fatal blow will be launched on the Qing army. General Liu is determined to win this time, and the Qing army's death will come.

Unexpectedly, in the early morning of this day, the Tartars actually took action first. The Dashun Army thought that this time the Qing army would leave the body of the ground as before, and return in disgrace.

When the Qing army's artillery sounded, everyone was not concerned at first. Unexpectedly, the Qing army's artillery fire was different from the past. Not only was the range much longer, but the most terrifying thing was that the Qing army's artillery shells were all flowering bullets, and the explosion power was even no less than the large thunderbolt bullet of sixteen pounds. If it landed in a dense place, more than a dozen people would be killed or injured in one go.

After rounds of artillery attacks, the Dashun Army was already full of casualties. Whether it was the artillery or the lightning throwing equipment, it could not pose a threat to the Qing army's cannons. The other's cannons were much longer and powerful, so the Dashun Army could only be beaten. The Dashun Army did not build trenches or other things, nor did it take measures to disperse personnel to prevent artillery shells. Therefore, after the Qing army's cannon bombardment, the Dashun Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties.

Next, the Qing army was not as usual. In the past, the cavalry rushed forward after the artillery bombardment. This time it was strange. After the artillery, infantry soldiers began to rush over, but each Qing army was one or two meters away. Although the thunderbolters in the Dashun army also had some damage to these sparse Qing soldiers, their results were not very effective.

After the Qing army rushed to hundreds of steps away, they set up some strange tubes. These tubes immediately became a nightmare for the Dashun Army. The tubes spewed out flames, and then there were a series of explosions on the Dashun Army's camp, and the entire military camp was in chaos.

Seeing this, Liu Zongmin was furious. He was not the one who could not fight back. Faced with an unfavorable situation, he immediately ordered the cavalry to attack.

The cavalry of the Dashun Army roared out, trying to reverse the decline. Unexpectedly, as soon as he rushed out, he heard the crackling like firecrackers, and the cavalry of the Dashun actually fell down like harvesting wheat. Shortly after Luo Dinglong rushed out, he was hit by the rain of bullets. It is a pity that the heroic Luo Dinglong died in the rain of bullets of machine guns that he knew nothing about.

Before they could approach the Tartars, the cavalry fell down in an instant. After nearly two thousand cavalry fell down one after another, Dashun's cavalry collapsed. Even Liu Zongmin, who was like a god, tried his best to suppress and killed several retreating officers and soldiers, still could not control the retreat.

Just at this moment, the cavalry of the Tartars were dispatched, and the sound of horse hooves sounded, with great force of landslides and earth moving. Cavalry combat was originally the Qing army that had the upper hand, not to mention that the morale of the Dashun army was already in chaos. In this way, the strong were stronger and the weak were weaker. Although the Dashun army was numerous, they could not resist the sharp impact of the Qing cavalry. The entire Dashun army collapsed too quickly. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Liu Zongmin had to fight the horse and flee.

This escape lasted hundreds of miles, and he couldn't stop and fled to the city of Beijing before stopping. Liu Zongmin gathered the remaining troops and had originally 150,000 troops under his command, but there were only more than 20,000 people left to escape to Beijing.

The batch of new weapons transported from Nanjing rushed to the ground. At this time, I arrived in Beijing and still couldn't catch up with the Shanhaiguan War. It seems that guarding Beijing can use these weapons.

When Chongzhen received the news of the Dashun Army's defeat at Shanhaiguan, Weiran sighed! He had to find a way to help Li Zicheng defend Beijing.

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