Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 208 The Third Siege ([-])
Jinling City, the headquarters of the security regiment.The former Liangjiang Governor's Office has become today's headquarters.In the back house of Liangjiang Governor's Office, Qiu Tianxing opened up a place as his residence, and left the front for the headquarters office.Therefore, Qiu Tianxing combined his home and workplace into one, which also saved himself the time spent on the road, and of course saved a lot of money.

Compared to Qiu Dining who ran around all day and happily made fun for himself, Qiu Tianxing frowned and was full of preoccupations.

Now, he got the news.Zhang Chengwu of the Fifth Battalion was unfavorable in attacking Anqing, and finally had to retreat to Luzhou Prefecture with reinforcements from the Tartars.This made Qiu Tianxing very annoyed. After capturing the Luzhou Mansion, there were two roads before Qiu Tianxing, one was to take Jinling directly, and the other was to attack Anqing.It's just that Qiu Tian acted to take Jinling quickly, and finally gave up Anqing.

It is impossible to have both fish and bear's paws. After the whole army moved eastward, Anqing won time. After the Tartars increased their troops to strengthen their defense, it would be very difficult to conquer Anqing.

After finally accumulating strength, he ordered Zhang Chengwu to attack Anqing, but just before he succeeded, reinforcements from the Tartars came. In desperation, Zhang Chengwu had to lead his army to retreat.Fortunately, the Tazi reinforcements came from afar and the soldiers were weak, so they did not take advantage of the momentum and pursue them.It's just that the defensive pressure on the west side is about to increase.

After inquiring by the comrades in the information office, Zhang Chengwu finally learned who the reinforcements from Anqing were.Zhang Chengwu was even more shocked when he learned that it was the big traitor Hong Chengchou.In the early years, Zhang Chengwu was a member of the former Ming army. Regarding this Hong Dushi, Zhang Chengwu had extremely complicated hearts.In the pre-Ming Dynasty, he had outstanding military exploits and a great reputation, so that the peasant army dared not look directly at him.But after switching to the Tartars, he pacified the world for the Tartars, and even turned against his own family.In terms of professional ethics, Hong Chengchou is a very qualified professional manager, and he worked conscientiously for his two bosses.Don't complain about suffering or tiredness, move wherever you need, unless you can't help yourself, you won't change your home.But as a Han Chinese, his behavior of working hard for a foreign race made all the comrades in the security regiment feel very contemptuous.

It's just the shadow of a famous tree, Hong Chengchou has been famous for more than [-] years, which made Zhang Chengwu feel that he was under great pressure, and asked Jinling for reinforcements several times in a row, but to no avail.

Although Zhang Chengwu was under a lot of pressure, Qiu Tianxing was even more under pressure.What Zhang Chengwu faced was only the Jiangxi camp, while Qiu Tianxing had to face the Jiangdong camp when he was in Jinling.Since Hong Chengchou established the Jiangdong camp, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, came to Changzhou from Quzhou in person, with [-] troops under his command.This shocked Zhang Liansheng who was stationed in Zhenjiang several times a day.The soldiers of the Tartars are all elites who have been fighting for a long time, and they are not newcomers recruited by the security team.

Now the headquarters has just implemented a new establishment, but there are not enough personnel, insufficient equipment, and the newly recruited regiment lacks training.Even though Qiu Tianxing didn't want to use cruel methods of combat training, the fact is that cruel and helpless.Sometimes it's not what you want, but also depends on your enemy.

Fortunately, the army at the headquarters was not completely unprepared during this period. Now, after the craftsmen in the ordnance factory rushed to build it overnight, and with the capture in battle, Qiu Tianxing now has [-] excellent bird guns in his hands.It's just that Qiu Tianxing is not satisfied, he prefers flintlock guns.It's just that although Qiu Tianxing found a sample of the flintlock gun, there was a lack of craftsmen who could make flintlock guns to imitate, so the ordnance factory could only produce matchlock guns first.

Fortunately, Qiu Tianxing also provided the idea of ​​quantitative paper shell bullets, which greatly expanded the power of the matchlock gun.

Now there are two people in charge of the ordnance factory, one is Zhao Rong, the carpenter of Zhao, and the other is Wang Fu, the blacksmith of Wang.Both of them were old people who followed Qiu Tianxing when they were in Yingshan, and they were in the same village as Zhang Hesheng, the former Chief of Civil Affairs.Today, even Zhang Hesheng's grandson is a trainer, and the two are still doing carpentry and blacksmithing in the logistics.Now that Qiu Tianxing finally has an excellent base, it is natural to vigorously develop armaments.Then the spring of Zhao Carpenter and Wang Tiejiang also came. After several years of conscientiously following the security team, they finally became officials, and they became deputy bureau-level cadres all at once.

After the Ordnance Factory was established, both Zhao Rong and Wang Fu were appointed as deputy factory directors, and Qiu Tianxing concurrently assumed the post of factory director.Zhao Rong was in charge of the wooden ware, and Wang Fu was in charge of the iron ware.In fact, both of them knew that Qiu Tianxing had the idea of ​​setting up an equipment department.As the leader of a faction, Qiu Tianxing naturally cannot always hold a position in a specific department, so the position of the head of the equipment department will definitely be vacant in the future.And the minister is most likely to be chosen between the two.Whenever they thought that they might become ministers in one step, the two were inexplicably excited, and then looked at each other with vigilance and hostility.At the beginning, they were friends who talked about everything, but under the pressure of power, even the best friendship will be eroded by the desire for power.

In this way, under the competition between each other, Qiu Tianxing owned thousands of bird guns.While producing blunderbusses, they are also constantly developing flintlock guns. This is a sharp weapon that the head of the group has longed for.

There were hundreds of people in the ordnance factory, most of whom were craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty. When the Tartars conquered Jiangnan, they fell into the hands of the Tartars.Now that the security regiment has captured Jinling City, they belong to the security regiment again.The change of status didn't make them feel any different, but when they learned that building weapons for the security regiment could provide them with food, land and money, and they might even become officials, these craftsmen went crazy.

In the previous Ming Dynasty, I was an inferior person, and my descendants could only engage in such lowly occupations for generations, without the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination, that is to say, they would be untouchables for generations to come.The same is true for the Tartars, making weapons for the Tartars is just a fool's stomach.But now, the security group has given him such a generous reward.Whether it is money, food or fields, it is his dream.And the official position is something that I can't even dream of, this is a step to the sky!And there is no need to squeeze the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination!
After hearing the news, many craftsmen fell to their knees and wept bitterly.From then on, they will not be untouchables, but decent people, even people with official positions!

Thanks to Dade, I can't wait to show my strongest strength to Qiu Tianxing's craftsmen. With the help of various standards formulated by Qiu Tianxing, so many qualified bird guns have been produced.

Every time, the craftsmen looked at the two deputy directors with pious and expectant eyes.The deputy factory director is at the deputy bureau level, and the bureau-level cadres use the official positions of the former Ming Dynasty or the Tartars as reference, but they are equivalent to the prefect and prefect!Although the deputy is smaller, it is also an existence they look up to.The two deputy factory managers used to be craftsmen in the village, and their skills and identities are not as good as their own!But it was because of Conglong's achievements that he became such a high-ranking official.Unexpectedly, the craftsmen are looking forward to their future even more.

It was Qiu Tianxing's intention to promote the status of craftsmen.Technology is the primary productive force and is common in any era.It’s just that ancient China worshiped Confucianism and suppressed ink, suppressed the status of craftsmen, greatly reduced the innovation motivation of craftsmen, and even created a large amount of waste and dangerous goods, making frontline soldiers reluctant to use firearms produced by imperial workshops.

In the past, the headquarters of the security regiment did not have a stable base, and the strength of the base at that time was insufficient, and the logistics equipment was basically seized.Now that the headquarters has settled down, but the encirclement and suppression of the Tartars is also coming, besides accumulating strength, Qiu Tianxing can only speed up the pace of scientific and technological research and development.Blood and sacrifice can only resist for a while. If you want to truly defeat the Tartars and truly expand the territory for this nation, you finally rely on technology.

(End of this chapter)