Chapter 190 Shaanxi Army's Entry and Succupy

Xiao Tianjian immediately asked Gao Cheng, "Have you tried it? How far can this thing fly? What is the power of the explosion?

Gao Cheng replied with shame: "I have tried two. The farthest one flew a whole distance and did not explode, and the other one flew not close, but it fell to Tiezuo! But there is a problem. When this thing is lit, it will explode on the spot if it doesn't fly. For this little thing, it was almost killed! And the one that flew up didn't work. It caught fire in mid-air. It seems that it can't meet the general's requirements! Little incompetence!"

Xiao Tianjian is a little sorry when he hears it, but when he thinks about it. After the ignition of the wooden shell, the temperature of the tail flame spewed out should be very high. The wood grain must catch fire, and the charge is also a knowledge. Although it is no problem to make a small fire, but with so many charges, if you are not careful, it will explode, so the black gunpowder is big. Rockets, with the current technology, are still a little insufficient, and its safety cannot be guaranteed in materials. Although there is no problem with the idea, the actual operation is still very difficult. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Wanhu wanted to push themselves to the sky with rockets. As a result, the rocket exploded and died on the spot. It can be seen that black gunpowder is a little uncomfortable to make a large rocket. Easy.

So Xiao Tianjian shook his head with a wry smile and said, "That's all! In that case, don't do it again. Safety comes first! You can't get hurt by this! That's it now! In the future, you have time to do it slowly. Now the key is to make a large amount of gunpowder and reserve as much gunpowder as possible to meet the needs of time! At present, our dosage and dependence on gunpowder are increasing. You can't go wrong with it anyway!"

Gao Cheng was also a little discouraged. He nodded and agreed, and told Xiao Tianjian that gunpowder was not a problem. Now the people in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun have touched the doorway of gunpowder. They often sweep up the ash and store it, and then give it to the chief in exchange for a lot of money to supplement the family, and then the baochang will collect the gunpowter sects from each household. People are transported to Shuangfengzhai, and Gao Cheng ordered his men to boil nitrate and purify it into pure saltpeter. Therefore, at present, Xing Tianjun is not short of nitrate at all. In addition, sulfur is not out of stock during this period. Feng Gouzi often sends sulfur. In this way, Xing Tianjun's gunpowder is not in short supply, and tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder are stored, which is enough for Xingtian Army for a period of time. It's time.

As long as there is no shortage of gunpowder, Xiao Tianjian will be relieved. The amount of Xingtian's firearms is getting larger and larger. What can be short? The gunpowder can't be broken. Once the gunpowder supply is cut off, it will be a disaster for Xing Tianjun. In the case that officers and soldiers are generally equipped with firearms, there is no single cold weapon. Fa has gained an advantage on the battlefield, so this is what Xiao Tianjian is particularly concerned about.

Although the rocket has not been successful, Gao Cheng still has made great contributions. During this period, the gunpowder workshop has produced nearly 100,000 paper shells for Xing Tianjun, and nearly a thousand complete shells used by various artillery. In addition, more than 2,000 Thunderbolt guns have been produced, which greatly supports this period. If it weren't for the sufficient ammunition provided here, it is estimated that the progress of the Xingtian Army would not be so fast. Under the shooting of the Xingtian Army, the resistance in many Zhuangbao quickly collapsed and then the Zhuangbao was broken.

In addition, the iron shell bombs that were originally tried in Shaanxi have also been made again. It turned out that in Tianlongzhai, Shaanxi Province, Xing Tianjun lacked both iron and gunpowder, and the craftsman's skills were limited, so the iron thunder made at that time was stupid. It was heavy. Later, it was changed to use paper to make paper thunder, but the paper thunder is just an emergency thing. There is a problem of susceptibility to moisture and insufficient power. During this period, under the arrangement of Xiao Tianjian, Yang Changshou's iron has tried to cast a batch of iron for Gao Cheng according to the graphics and weight requirements given by Xiao Tianjian. The quality of the thunder shell, coupled with Gao Cheng's granular gunpowder, has also been steadily improved. Compared with the kind of iron thunder made in Tianlongzhai, the weight is no longer the same. The weight is controlled at about ten taels (one catty and sixteen taels in ancient times), which can fully meet the needs of soldiers throwing by hand, and And the explosive power has also increased a lot.

Especially when Xiao Tianjian asked Yang Changshou to cast an iron mine shell, he precast a groove on the thunder, which is equivalent to a preset fragment. At the time of the explosion, the fragments of the iron thunder shell are more uniform, and the lethality is much greater. The shape is also close to that of later generations's grenades, but because there is no fire pipe and detonation thunder. Management, so it still needs to rely on the medicine twist to ignite the fire. After just put into the trial, the soldiers of Xingtian Army reacted quite well. In the future, Xiao Tianjian plans to mass-produce this thing and equip it to the Xingtian Army for the combat use of the Xingtian Army.

For the expansion of Xing Tianjun, the government did not expect that when the soldiers and horses of the three-way Xing Tianjun began to work in the three directions of Yuanqu, Qinshui and Zezhou at the same time, the news soon spread to Taiyuan Mansion, and the report of the three places for help flew into the city of Taiyuan Mansion like snowflakes and fell on Wu Xiong's. On the desk.

Wu Yong can be said to be sad and can't cope with it at all. What Wu Yu didn't expect was that in less than a year, the power of this group of Xing Tianjun developed so fast. Not only controlled the whole territory of Yangcheng County, but now it almost controlled the whole territory of Qinshui County and Yuanqu County, and also took the south of Zezhou. A large area almost controls the entire southeast corner of Shanxi in their hands.

At this time, Wu Yu also knew that if it went on like this, this group of Xing Tianjun was likely to become a big trouble for Daming. He wanted to send troops to go in and suppress it, but he really couldn't have many decent soldiers on hand, so he had to send a messenger again, and Pegasus went to Shaanxi to find the current supervision. Hong Chengchou, the military affairs of Shanxi and Shaanxi, asked for help.

In August of the eighth year of Chongzhen, considering the great power of the peasant army and the death of Cao WeNZhao, the Ming court saw the reality that in a province of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou got to such a point, and then let Hong Chengchou take charge of the military in Henan, Shanxi and other places, he was bound to take care of this and the other. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen asked Hong Chengchou to stick to the three sides of Shaanxi in Xi'an, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to be promoted to the prime ministers of Jiangbei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang and Sichuan military affairs, as well as the governor of Huguang. And it is clearly pointed out that the governor of Hong Chengchou is in the northwest and the elephant is promoted to the southeast. Soon after, Hong Chengchou dismissed him as governor and became a servant of the Ministry of War. He supervised the military affairs of Shanxi and Shaanxi, gave Shang Fang Jian, allowed him to act cheaply, and specialized in dealing with the peasant army in the two provinces of Shanshan and Shaanxi.

In this way, Hong Chengchou can focus his energy on the peasant army in the two provinces of Shanshan and Shaanxi. At this time, Hong Chengchou was still in Shaanxi. He was angry because of his two generals, Cao Wenzhao and Ai Wannian, and led the army to chase Gao Ying in Shaanxi. Xiang and Li Zicheng and other Lu Lu turned into the people's army, while Shaanxi had already been thousands of miles away because of natural and man-made disasters. A large number of peasants could not make a living here, so Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other Lu Yi soldiers returned to Henan. The only part of the peasant army left in Shaanxi was Li Zicheng's headquarters, plus Man Tianxing, Lao Zhang Fei, the King of Gong, and the mixed There were 13 battalions in Tianxing and other departments, but the actual force was not very large, so Hong Chengchou was able to breathe and gradually began to reverse the war situation in Shaanxi. Otherwise, a Shaanxi Province alone would make Hong Chengchou busy enough.

At the end of September, nearly a month after the Xingtian army began to attack in three ways, Hong Chengchou received Wu Yu's report in Shaanxi. After reading Wu Yu's report, Hong Chengchou began to pay attention to the Xing Tian army in southern Shanxi.

This is not the first time for Wu Yong's request for help. The last time in June, Wu Yong sent someone to ask for help, which was also because of this group of Xing Tianjun. However, at that time, he was leading his troops in Shaanxi to kill Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others in full swing. He had no ability or interest in sending troops to Shanxi again. He fought against a newly emerging Xingtian army, so he ordered Wu Xi to mobilize the Shanxi defenders to suppress it.

Unexpectedly, Wu Jing's attack on Xing Tianjun was still defeated, and thousands of soldiers were damaged. Now Wu Yong is asking him for help again, so he can't be allowed to ignore this group of Xing Tianjun anymore.

So Hong Chengchou asked the messenger sent by Wu Jing in detail about the situation of Xing Tianjun. After hearing the messenger's description of Xing Tianjun, Hong Chengchou couldn't help frowning.

In the past so many years since he led his troops to suppress the civil army, in his impression, the demobilized forces are fighting on the move, scourge in one place, eat up one place like locusts, and then go to the camp and turn to the next place for evil, including almost all the demobilized troops, but However, I have never heard of any civilian army standing in one place to do such a thing, and even divide the land for the people and make a posture of planning to stay in the long term.

In this way, with his understanding of the world, such a delocal army is even more terrible. Once they are stationed in the same place for a long time, they will divide the hearts of the people. If it goes on like this, they will definitely win the hearts of the people in the local area. Once they are allowed to sit in the local area, it will be more troublesome in the future.

Wu Jing, the governor of Shanxi, both large-scale attempts to suppress it ended in failure, which also fully shows that this group of criminal troops should not be simple. Otherwise, even if the officers and soldiers in Shanxi are not elites, they should not be easily exiled by a group of people with superior troops. The army defeated it, and the court also intended to recruit it afterwards, but it was definitely rejected by Xiao Tianjian, the bandit leader of the Xing Tianjun. In this way, I'm afraid this Xing Tianjun should be quite tough, and Wang Ba was determined to fight against the court. If he doesn't find a way to solve it now, then in the future Once it is allowed to expand, it will be even more difficult to solve.

So this time, Hong Chengchou decided to reach out to help Wu Yong, sent someone to transfer He Renlong, who was working under him, and briefly told He Renlong the situation of Xing Tianjun in Shanxi to his face, so that He Renlong led 5,000 officers and soldiers from Shaanxi to Shanxi. This group of Xing Tianjun was eliminated.