Regarding the truth about the peace talks between the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was a delaying strategy for the Qing army, and for the Ming army, it actually took some time to complete the entire military deployment.

Dorgon's letter of peace talks was delivered to Chongzhen. Chongzhen read the letter and smiled, but did not refuse the Qing army's peace talks. Chongzhen knew it was a delaying plan, but he took the opportunity to act, but he just said that he would send a special envoy to discuss peace talks to show sincerity.[]

So, three days later, the Qing envoy Tong Yanghe arrived in Lushun to discuss peace. Wang Fuzhi was ordered to inform Tong Yanghe that the peace talks were very important and he could not make the decision. The Ming Dynasty's special envoy was in Laizhou. Since Tong Yanghe came to discuss peace talks, the Ming Dynasty's special envoy was waiting in Laizhou. The Ming Dynasty navy would be responsible for sending Tong Yanghe and his party to Laizhou.

When we arrived in Laizhou, the Ming Dynasty carried out a complex etiquette, which made the negotiations serious, as if we were afraid that the people in the world would not know that the Ming and Qing Dynasties were discussing peace. The spies in Laizhou in Dashunchao almost immediately found out that the Ming and Qing Dynasties were discussing peace.

The peacekeeping missions sent by the Ming Dynasty were Du Jun and Bai Hengdu. Du Jun was the chief and Bai Hengdu was the deputy. The two of them were also very stylish, and they seemed to be really ready to peacefully resolve the problems between the Ming and Qing dynasties through peacekeeping.

Since the Qing army was the party that took the initiative to propose peace talks, if it did not show any sincerity, it would be impossible to simply fool the Ming Dynasty. Tong Yanghe proposed the peace talks plan to exchange Lushun with the Ming army on the front line of Shanhaiguan. Based on the Qing army's position, Shanhaiguan was originally the front line of fighting with the Dashun army. Instead of being attacked on Shanhaiguan, Lushun and North Korea, it would be better to give Shanhaiguan to the Ming army. The Qing army rescued Ajige's troops and got rid of them. The situation of being attacked on three sides can even cause friction between the Ming and Dashun. Dorgon's wishful thinking was of course wishful thinking. It was of course a wishful thinking that the Ming army gave up its strategic location, Lushun, and went to Shanhaiguan to get caught between the Qing army and the Dashun army. It was attacked on both sides and lost its predicament. The most important thing is that if Ajige was given one digit of 20,000 Qing army, it would be difficult to find such an opportunity to gather the vitality of the Qing army in the future.

You play your cards, I play my cards, Tong Yanghe throws out the conditions of the Qing army, and Du Bai is not in a hurry. Since you are perfunctory, I will accompany you to talk about it. The two sides seem to be very fierce in disputes, but in fact they are just endless disputes. In this way, Tong Yanghe is confused and doesn't understand what the Ming Dynasty wants to do. After six days of bickering, Du Jun finally put forward the conditions of the Ming Dynasty on the seventh day.

The conditions of the Ming Dynasty made Tong Yanghe stunned and disbelief. The conditions of the Ming Dynasty were that, first, the Qing Dynasty migrated to the north of Heilongjiang, second, bowed to the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, third, compensated the Ming Dynasty for 2 million taels of silver as war compensation, fourth, after the Qing Dynasty, 500,000 taels of silver were tributed to the Ming Dynasty every year, and fifth, handed over Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others to deal with it. If the Qing army accepted this condition, the Ming Dynasty could let Ajige go, but the two million taels of silver had to be handed over to the Ming Dynasty before the siege could be withdrawn.

Although he knew that the Qing army was difficult to accept, Chongzhen's goal was actually this goal. This time he went to the expedition to completely subdue the Qing Dynasty, so that it would unconditionally belong to the Ming Dynasty, and then migrate to the north of Heilongjiang. If the Qing Dynasty was wary, he could go north to expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty did not mind giving annual tribute reductions or even rewards for expanding the territory.

Of course, this was Chongzhen's own heart. In this peace talks, the Qing army could certainly make his delayed strategy successful, and Chongzhen was just intent on playing a play for Beijing's public debt investors to see the princess's financial war goals. Sure enough, after the rumors of the Ming and Qing peace talks spread in Beijing, the surge in public debt immediately turned downward. The princess had successfully sold public debts at the second-high price before, earning more than two million taels of silver. The remaining public debts also played a major role when the market fell further. More than two million taels of public debts were smashed mercilessly, further triggering the collapse of Pingliao's public debts. Now the public debts fell below four cents of silver.

During this period, the two sides were still negotiating in a pretentious manner. Both sides knew that this was just a false commotion, but the play still had to be performed. The Qing army was seizing the time to urgently produce super-caliber shells and ** bags, and the Ming army was also preparing for the next battle in full swing.

In order to siege the city and fight aid, and to annihilate the more than 20,000 Qing troops in Ajig, the Ming army was not enough to have infantry and had to be equipped with enough cavalry. More than 3,000 war horses were seized at Hashan Pass, but in order to meet the requirements of the battle plan, at least 20,000 cavalry had to participate in the war. Taking advantage of the negotiations, the Ming army's maritime transportation had been transporting horses and cavalry soldiers to Lushun. In addition, the four steam-powered tanks that were driven were also on the way to sea. In order to successfully get the four tanks, five simple wire-mesh cement landing crafts were also built.

In order to strengthen the firepower in front of the formation, Wang Chengen also thought of the super-caliber shell, a trench weapon. The launcher of the super-caliber shell uses a 60mm gun barrel, but the base is greatly strengthened, and the launch angle adjustment mechanism of the barrel has also been strengthened accordingly. This is like a mortar that strengthens the base. According to the use of super-caliber shells, there are two types of super-caliber shells. The children of the Ming Dynasty now like to eat. The "lollipop" is a small wooden stick inserted into a spherical candy. It is a popular candy, but the "lollipop" type produced by Fang Yizhi

Caliber shells are a killing weapon. This thing looks like a lollipop. An iron pipe that is just a smaller diameter of 60 mm is connected to a large spherical iron shell. The diameter of the iron ball ranges from 200 to 400 mm, and the weight ranges from 8 kg to 30 kg. It is head-heavy and light, and doesn't look like an oversized lollipop? Of course, the flight trajectory of this "lollipop" type super caliber shell is difficult to control. It means that it is a bit of a lucky hit. It is equivalent to the "conscience-free cannon" that was shot by the People's Liberation Army in later generations. It is very useful to deal with the targets, and if you want to strike accurately, it is purely a blind eye.

Another type of super caliber shell is a copy of the stable super caliber shell of the German army's tail wing. This shell is just a three-piece balanced tail wing on the basis of the "lollipop" super caliber shell. The tail wing is welded on an iron ring. Of course, this welding is not electric welding. It is just a copy of the native method of the Eighth Route Army in later generations to make the tail wing. The principle is actually very simple. Three grooves are carved on the iron ring cast by cast iron, and three stamped tail wings are embedded on the ring. They are tied and fixed with iron wire. Sprinkle copper powder and borax on the contact surface between the tail wing and the groove, and then apply mud.

The solder is prevented from falling off, then placed in the furnace for heating and burning above the melting point of the copper, and brazing is formed. This is brazing soldering in the furnace. In fact, Wang Chengen also considered brazing with a mixture of biogas and oxygen, but the gun tip of the welding gun is not so easy to make, so he made it simple and did this kind of brazing soldering in the furnace first. Take it out from the furnace, knock off the soil after cooling, and the brazing soldering firmly weld the tail wing to the iron ring. As long as the iron ring with three tail wings is put on an iron pipe and pushed to the rear end of the iron ball shell, a stable super-caliber shell with a tail wing is made.

The Qing army was of course very advantageous in hand-to-hand combat, but in terms of manufacturing capabilities, it was no match for the Ming Dynasty at all. Even if no one traveled through time, the Ming Dynasty's industrial capacity was the best in the world. Even during the Chenghua period, the Ming Dynasty's iron production in one year exceeded the total of the iron production of other countries in the world. What is ridiculous is that the Qing army thought that as long as they won time, they could create super-caliber shells and ** bags that restrained the Ming armored chariots, and then they could defeat the Ming army. However, what Dorgon did not expect was that the more time went by, the more beneficial it was to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had an infinite source of troops. In the past, there was no money to pay military salaries, but now it was money to pay wages. It was not difficult for the Ming army to mobilize 200,000 troops. What was even more terrible is that the more the Ming Dynasty's new firearms and equipment went on, the more overwhelming advantage it became. If the Qing army wanted to defeat the Ming army, it would be more and more like a foolish person as time went by.

The Ming army planned that if Dorgon did not reinforce Ajige before August, the Ming army would first destroy Ajige's troops. If Dorgon came to support, the Ming army would first fight the reinforcements, and then destroy Ajige in one fell swoop.


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