The sky is like a dome, covering all the fields. In early autumn, there is still a hot autumn tiger inside the pass, and the sky is already high and cool outside the border. The winding Sanggan River is like a jade belt floating down from the sky, embedded on the golden Zhangbei grassland.

In the distance of the rolling grassland are winding mountains. A huge caravan leaves Zhangjiakou and is heading northeast on the golden grassland in early autumn. The caravan is very large. Hundreds of pack horses are sluggishly thrust their heads, and the heavy objects on their bodies make them breathlessly. The caravans wield their whips and beat these pack horses that are almost exhausted.

In the middle of the caravan, a banner reads a few big words: "Jiexiu Fan Family". There are more than a dozen riders in front and behind the caravan, and there are tall and majestic war horses under their crotch. The horses are immediately covered with arrows on the back of the knights, and each with a tiger-backed back and bear-backs, which looks very imposing. Several of them are wearing leather hats and thin braids hanging from their heads. They are obviously not Han people, but seem to be dressed as Jurchens.

The owner of this caravan is Jiexiu Fan Ming. Fan Ming's mother passed away when she was ten years old. After his father re-stringed, he became increasingly neglected to Fan Ming. Once he picked a few unripe green dates and was beaten and scolded by his father. In anger, he ran away from home and ran to Dushikou to do business with the Jurchens and the Mongols.

At that time, the Northeast was not only blind bears, deer antlers, and wild mountain ginseng, but there were no other important materials. If the Jurchens wanted to rise and gather a strong enough army to fight against the Ming Dynasty, they had to rely on a large amount of supplies from the Central Plains, so the old slave treated these Shanxi merchants very well. Fan Ming met many friends in the local area and met many Jurchen Beilefujin. The food and iron tools he sold were military supplies that the Jurchens were very eager for. The silk, silk, satin and other novel things were loved by the prince's family, so the transaction became bigger and bigger.

In the middle of the caravan, a young man riding a tall horse with a big fur cloak, a medium figure, black and slimming face, tall cheekbones, and a shrewd and capable spirit in his eyes was Fan Ming's favorite second son Fan Yongdou.

"Second Young Master, there are many goods this time, and you will definitely make a fortune after being shipped to Manchuria. But the road is not peaceful, and there are many Mongolian and Han horse thieves appearing." A Jurchen knight wearing white iron cotton armor and iron helmets behind him rode his horse and rushed to the side with Fan Yong.

The Jurchens and Later Jin also relied more and more on the Shanxi merchants like the Fan family who had been doing business with them for a long time. All the gunpowder, 80% of the grain and more than 60% of the metals were provided by the Shanxi merchants. Even the information from the Jingji capital was detailed, and the names of the guards at each pass were detailed, the number of soldiers and equipment lists of the Shanxi merchants were also provided by the Shanxi merchants.

On the grassland in the distance, a knight was riding a tall horse, holding a horse spear that was eight feet long, staring at the caravan that was heading for Manchuria with hatred.

The knight was named Li Laoer, and he was a horse thief outside the frontier. Li Laoer's ancestor was a White Lotus Sect of Yanbei. Later, Zhao Quan and his sects escaped from the west and defected to An Dahan of the Tumot tribe. Li Laoer's ancestor also followed him to the outside of the frontier. Later, after the Longqing peace talks, Altan Khan handed Zhao Quan over to the Ming government. A group of White Lotus Sect leaders including Zhao Quan were taken to the capital to Lingchi to be executed. However, many Han people who escaped from the frontier did not go back and stayed outside the frontier and became a horse thief outside the frontier.

But now Li Laoer is no longer the original Li Laoer, but an engineer soldier named Li Guanghui from the 21st century. During a mine clearance mission, Li Guanghui sacrificed heroically to save his comrades. His soul has traveled to Li Laoer for more than 300 years. For eight years, he has no idea whether he is Li Guanghui or Li Laoer. The original owner of this body has left a strong memory, but Li Guanghui's soul brings memories of the 21st century and is still clearly left in his mind.

The memories brought by Jiexiu Fan’s family and Li Guanghui told Li Laoer that Jiexiu Fan’s family was a traitor.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by unscrupulous merchants, and the Ming Dynasty, a tragic building, eventually collapsed. In addition to the Shanxi merchants who were persevering in poaching, the Jiangnan merchant group represented by the Donglin Party also made considerable efforts.

The Ming army was famous for lack of salary. It was not because the Ming Dynasty was so poor that it was too poor, but because the Donglin Party used various methods to prevent the emperor from collecting taxes from the merchant group, which led to the trap of the people. The front-line army mutiny due to the lack of salary, and the powerful class was rich. After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he was surprised to find that only 130,000 taels of silver were stored in the inner treasury, but 70 million taels were collected from the powerful and noble family, and countless other treasures were countless. With such a "trap-in-one" god assist, it was strange that the Ming Dynasty would not perish!

With the continuous supply of materials from Shanxi merchants, the Jurchens, who were originally short of food and clothing and insufficient weapons, became well-equipped tiger and wolf troops. Huang Taiji entered the pass many times to attack Caogu, plundering countless Han people, forcing the Ming Dynasty official army, who were suppressing the thieves, returned to Beijing to serve the king, giving the dying bandits a chance to breathe, and finally let the towering tree of the Ming Dynasty fall completely.

Li Guanghui was wrong, he should be called Li Laoer. He knew very clearly that if he didn't take action, the Jiannu of the Northeast would rule the Central Plains in more than ten years, and the Han people would be forced to cut themselves into a bald head and leave a rat-tailed braid behind his head. The Chinese mainland opened the darkest era.

Many people use invincible Minni rifles as soon as they travel through time. Li Laoer, who was a engineer, knew very well that it was impossible to build Minni rifles in the late Ming Dynasty. Although rifles can be made, sub-caliber projectiles such as Minnie bullets require extremely high accuracy and are extremely difficult to process. This is why the rifles have been invented for hundreds of years and the West still use smoothbore guns, and smoothbore guns have been used for more than two hundred years. With the development of technology, shortly after the birth of Minnie bullets, they were only put into use for more than ten years, and were soon replaced by the rear-loading guns.

Li Laoer didn't have to consider the Minnie rifle at all. If you have the opportunity to build that thing, it would be better to just install the gun directly. The technical difficulties of the two are almost the same. The primary condition is to have a steam engine and a precision machine tool first.

The current mesh gun used by the Ming army, also called bird guns, is extremely complex in loading, so you can't expect that such things to withstand cavalry attacks. Moreover, the range and accuracy of the bird guns are far inferior to that of the Jurchen bows and arrows of the Later Jin Dynasty.

The Jurchen cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty were actually heavy infantry riding horses. The bows and arrows they used were extremely powerful step bows, rather than those with a small range. When attacking, Jurchen archers often dismounted and shot arrows. They usually used ten-force bows with a pulling force of 132 pounds. They used straight aiming and flat shooting during battles. They fired arrows at 40 or 50 steps, and had high actual combat accuracy and great power. In particular, they used long and heavy arrows to make up for the shortcomings of low speed and near range with large arrows. If they were shot at 30 or 40 steps, they would be seriously injured even if they were not killed.
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