People in Zongwu: Starting with the Yin Gui Sect

"Are the Jiannu going to mobilize again?"

Looking at the content of the Jiannu army's mobilization in the secret report, Wu Yu was confused. If he remembered correctly, the last time the Jiannu blocked the pass was the Ningjin War a year ago. That war ended with the Ming Dynasty taking advantage of the city to defend Jinzhou City.

But now it has only been a year, and the Jiannu has mobilized again. Logically, after the Ningjin War, the next Jiannu move should be in October of the second year of Chongzhen, but now it is only May of the first year of Chongzhen, so much earlier.

It was not until Wu Yu saw the content of the secret report that his doubts were solved. It turned out that it was still his own fault.

Because of the Little Ice Age, not only the Ming Dynasty suffered a disaster, but the grassland was not much better, and the situation was even worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.

In previous years, although many people and cattle and sheep were frozen to death on the grassland, at least there were eight Shanxi merchants in Shanxi to give them blood transfusions. Although it was still difficult, they could still survive with patience.

But since Wu Yu had killed the eight termites in advance, the only supply line of Jian Nu was also cut off, so they could only keep waging wars against the surrounding forces.

But they had no food, and the surrounding forces could not be much better. Therefore, even if they had swept several surrounding forces, even the strongest Lin Danhan was not spared, the food they got was still not enough for them to survive, so they had to target the Ming Dynasty when they were desperate.

Although they failed in the Ningjin battle a year ago, it was only because Mao Wenlong harassed them from behind that they had to retreat, and it did not cause much loss to them.

So this time Huang Taiji decided to gather the power of the entire Jian Nu and recruit 100,000 troops to attack the Ming Dynasty.

"So I was wrong to kill the eight termites!"

Wu Yu smiled bitterly. He did not expect that because he had seized the eight Shanxi merchants in advance, the Jisi Change, which was supposed to happen in the second year of Chongzhen, was brought forward by more than a year.

No, it is no longer the Jisi Rebellion, but should be called the Wuchen Rebellion.

But then again, all his previous preparations were for the Jisi Rebellion in October of the second year of Chongzhen, but because Huang Taiji took action in advance, his plan was completely disrupted. It can only be said that man proposes, God disposes!

However, it is useless to dwell on it now, so it is better to think about how to deal with this sudden change.

Thinking of this, Wu Yu called Wang Chengen and asked him to send this secret report to the cabinet, while he left the palace directly and went to the Military Equipment Bureau and the Armory Bureau. He wanted to know what the current firearms production situation was.

"My two lords, can you tell me how many firearms the Military Equipment Bureau and the Armory Bureau have produced now."

You must know that it has been more than half a year since Wu Yu took away the last batch of firearms, and after that, he even ordered Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang, two firearms experts, to work hard to make them, and they also spent a lot of money.

It can be said that among all the departments of the court today, no department can compare to these two who burn money. I just don't know how many surprises they can bring me after investing so much manpower and material resources.

The two people opposite naturally didn't know the news that Jiannu mobilized the army, but just thought that Wu Yu was simply inspecting.

Only Bi Maokang took the lead and said: "I know that your majesty attaches great importance to the Armory Bureau, so I dare not slack off in the past six months. Now I have produced more than 8,200 qualified flintlock rifles."

"Already 8,200?"

Wu Yu nodded. This is more than double the 4,000 six months ago, but this is also a matter of course. After all, in order to make as many as possible, he has specially increased his investment, especially in terms of the number of workers, more than doubled.

But this is still far from enough for him. After all, who would have thought that Huang Taiji did not play by the rules at all and actually launched a war more than a year in advance.

"What about Lord Xu?"

After knowing the production of flintlock rifles, Wu Yu looked at Xu Guangqi who was in charge of artillery manufacturing.

"Your Majesty, according to your instructions, a total of 127 howitzers were manufactured this time, 87 of which are land-based and 40 are sea-based."

"Thank you for your hard work, Lords. In the next period of time, please continue to increase production efforts and produce as many as possible."

"What!"

The two were shocked when these words came out. At this moment, they finally understood that the matter was unusual. It seemed that His Majesty's visit today was not just a simple inspection.

Wu Yu naturally had no intention of explaining it to them. After giving the instructions to the two, he summoned Wei Zhongxian and Fang Zhenghua who had returned from Dali.He asked them to transport all the more than 8,000 flintlocks and 127 howitzers as quickly as possible. He had already thought of the destination.

Among them, 4,000 flintlocks and 40 artillery pieces were transported to the Beijing camp to prepare for the next battle to defend the city.

The remaining 4,000 flintlocks were transported to the four teams of Lu Xiangsheng and others, and they were ordered to return immediately.

The other 40 guns were transported to Denglai and Guangzhou as usual, allowing Yuan Keli and Wang Zhi to continue to develop the navy and prepare for the future recovery of Taiwan and the expulsion of those Western ghosts.

As for the last 47 land-based artillery pieces, they were all transported to Pi Island. He wanted to take advantage of the siege of the main force of the Jiannu army to the south and let Mao Wenlong destroy their old nest Shenyang.

Although the Jiannu's early action this time was indeed beyond his expectations, since they were already here, Wu Yu naturally had no reason to let them go.

He wanted to take advantage of this battle to consume the Jiannu's manpower as much as possible. Even if he couldn't annihilate them in one fell swoop, he had to beat them thoroughly so that they wouldn't dare to covet the Ming Dynasty again in a short time.

As for whether he could win, Wu Yu had no doubt about it. Although the time was indeed a bit rushed, after all, they had been preparing for more than a year, and Lu Xiangsheng and his troops all had considerable combat effectiveness.

In addition to the power of firearms, he didn't believe that he couldn't beat the Jiannu barbarians. Even if the casualty rate might be a little high, there was nothing he could do about it.

Fortunately, although these recruits had a shorter training time, at least they had seen blood and could be considered qualified soldiers.

The only thing that worried him was the Beijing Camp. Although Li Banghua later recruited another 20,000 people, these people had hardly seen blood, and it was good enough to be able to exert half of their combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, there were more than 80 howitzers and dozens of red cannons, so there was no need to worry about the city gate being breached.