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In September of the third year of Taichang.

On a crisp autumn day with a strong sea breeze, the first batch of one thousand new short-barreled muskets from the Dongfan Island Military War Bureau arrived at the Jeju Island Military Port after many sea transportations.

This blunderbuss was supervised by Zhao Shizhen and named Polu blunderbuss. It was specially designed for cavalry raids and field assaults. Once it was issued to Zhao Bingzhong's cavalry, it received praise from the entire army. It completely made up for the shortcomings of the Fenwu Army's cavalry in the post-war Golden Gong Cavalry.

The most intuitive aspect of Polu Gun's powerful combat power is its armor-piercing power within sixty steps. Its sharpness is not inferior to the heavy armor-piercing arrows shot by Houjin's elite walking bows.Moreover, the golden heavy arrows have great constraints. Only the infantry can achieve the maximum armor-breaking effect by stepping steadily and exerting all their strength. If the cavalry is running on horseback, the power of the heavy arrows will be greatly reduced due to the limitations of their body shape and the space for exerting force. Not only will the armor-breaking ability be greatly reduced, but the effective range will also be greatly shortened.

In contrast, the Polu gun is completely unconstrained by posture and location, and is a killing weapon truly suitable for cavalry.

Zhao Bingzhong's original tactical concept was just to let the cavalry fire a salvo at the moment when the two armies were confronting the enemy, using firearms firepower to severely damage the enemy's formation and demoralize them.But when the cavalry soldiers held this blunderbuss and practiced it, the Fenwu Army cavalry's tactical thinking was completely

Many elite cavalry have explored new tactics, abandoning the traditional hedging and fighting style. Relying on the advantages of the razor gun being light and easy to carry, reloading on horseback and firing quickly, they can roam on horseback, fight and retreat, and harass the enemy in a smart guerrilla manner.

There were even soldiers in the army who refused to accept the scouts at night and took the initiative to ask for orders, begging for permission for one person to be equipped with three muskets.It is normal for Ye Bushou to go deep behind enemy lines all year round and be trapped in a tight siege. Once surrounded by enemy forces, a close-quarters fight to break through the encirclement will be extremely costly. If equipped with three prisoner-breaking guns, it can open a gap with its instant burst of armor-piercing lethality, protect itself to the greatest extent, and smoothly bring back key military information, greatly improving the survival rate and success rate of missions behind enemy lines.

On Jeju Island, the Fenwu Army is iterating its firearms and innovating its tactics, step by step to lay a solid foundation for a strong army. However, thousands of miles away, the land of Liaodong has long been plunged into a hell of blood and fire, with smoke and civil unrest everywhere.

Chu Ying was imprisoned under a high wall, which was like throwing a huge stone into the seemingly stable lake of Houjin power. The ripples spread layer by layer and swept through every corner of power up and down the Eight Banners.Nurhaci used his thunderous iron fist to suppress the aftermath of the rebellion by Chu Ying's followers, temporarily stabilizing the situation in the court, but he knew very well: the fear and resentment in the hearts of those veteran Eight Banners nobles who had followed Chu Ying all year round, regarded him as the future prince, fought for half their lives, and made many military exploits, had never dissipated.

This group of nobles relied on the old reserves to make profits, and they had already been bound to Chu Ying's interest system.Now that the reserve has been overturned and the government has been reshuffled, they have not only lost their future support, but the existing interests in their hands will also be gradually eroded with the rise of new forces. The seeds of dissatisfaction are buried deep in their hearts, only waiting for the opportunity to emerge.

In order to appease this group of old nobles of the Eight Banners who held military power and had intertwined foundations, suppress the growing internal rifts, and avoid internal divisions in the Later Jin Dynasty, Nurhaci set his sights on the newly conquered, fertile and fertile hinterland of Liaodong.

This land has fertile fields that have been cultivated for generations, hard-working Han people, and endless wealth that is enough to reward heroes and stabilize people's hearts.

A cold and cruel golden-mouthed order spread throughout Liaodong - Ji Ding granted land.

In name, this policy advertised the equal distribution of land and land to the tiller. It seemed to be a fair and benevolent policy, but in fact it was a naked plunder and carve-up by the conquerors.After the decree was implemented, all the fertile farmland in Liaodong with the most fertile water and soil, the most convenient irrigation, and the most favorable location were occupied by the Hou Jin government and given priority to the Eight Banners officers and soldiers who moved to Liaodong and their families.

The Jurchens who used to live in the mountains and forests for fishing and hunting, and chasing water and grass, once they took control of Liaodong, they transformed into hereditary landowners with thousands of acres of fertile land.

However, the Han people in Liaodong, who have been rooted here for generations and have been cultivating for hundreds of years, are finally allotted only barren, scattered and barren fields. The soil is meager and the harvest is meager, which is not enough to support their families and maintain their livelihood.The oppression went far beyond this. Later Jin even established a strict labor tax system and enforced the order of three Han men to farm on behalf of the government: every three Han men must farm public land for the government for one day free of charge, without payment or shirk.

The so-called "granting of land" was never a benevolent policy to appease the people's livelihood, but a harsh policy that forcibly shackled the free Han people in Liaodong to the land and reduced them to serfs in disguise.

The farm foundation that the Han people had relied on for generations to survive was completely destroyed. They were left without food and clothing and burdened with hard labor. A haze of despair quietly enveloped the rural fields in Liaodong.

Their land was taken away, their dignity was shattered, and their lives hung on a thread.

In order to prevent the Han people from gathering in groups and waiting for opportunities to resist, and to prevent the Han people from clumping together to breed the desire to rejuvenate the country, Nurhaci adopted Huang Taiji's suggestions and implemented the policy of Manchus and Han people living together.The original intention of this policy was to disperse the power of the Han people, use Jurchen households to monitor nearby, and dilute the cohesion of the Han people. However, with the arrogance and cruelty of the conquerors, it completely turned into a human catastrophe that crushed humanity.

The Jurchen soldiers and hereditary nobles stationed in Liaodong all regarded themselves as victors, and they were arrogant, domineering and unscrupulous.They carried sharp swords on their waists and rode horses wildly, breaking into houses in Han villages and towns at will. Whenever they found a house or courtyard they liked, they would directly evict the house and occupy the magpie's nest, regardless of whether the owner was alive or dead or whether they were old or young.

The property that the Han people had accumulated for half their lives was looted, the livestock that supported their families were forcibly taken away, and the wives and daughters at home lived in fear of being insulted and trampled on every day.

It's called cohabitation, but it's actually custodial slavery and wanton abuse.

Devastated by war and oppressed by harsh government, the Han people in Liaodong were completely desperate.Countless people's homes were destroyed and they had nothing. In order to survive, they were forced to rely on the Jurchen dignitaries and became slaves with no personal freedom and for generations.

But being reduced to a covering is never the end of suffering, but the beginning of deeper darkness.

Endless hard labor, frequent beatings and scoldings, and undignified slavery made countless Chinese people suffer day and night, making life worse than death.Under desperate circumstances, mass exodus suddenly broke out.

People in Liaodong abandoned their barren fields and took their families with them, sleeping day and night, or fled westward to the Liaoxi Corridor controlled by the Ming Dynasty, or escaped into the mountains and forests to hide and survive, just to escape the brutal rule of Hou Jin.

The people fleeing, fertile farmland was laid waste, and people's livelihood collapsed. This was originally the result of the New Deal's tyranny and improper governance. But at this moment, Nurhaci's state of mind had been changed by Chu Ying's change, as well as the power struggle and distribution of interests within the Eight Banners, and he was becoming more and more tyrannical.

The internal strife for power brought about by Chu Ying's confinement, the undercurrent of power distribution, and the accumulated dissatisfaction of the Eight Banners nobles have already made this post-Jin Dynasty tycoon increasingly suspicious, arbitrary, and ruthless.He never reflected on the cruelty of his own national policy. Instead, he regarded the people's flight as a blatant betrayal, disobedience and disrespect to his rule.

In anger, Nurhachi issued another strict order: Anyone who encounters fleeing Han people will be killed without mercy and will not be tolerated.

Once the opening of the massacre is opened, there will be no bottom line.In order to cater to their superiors and eliminate hidden dangers, local officials of the Later Jin Dynasty began to conduct an inventory of Han people's grain reserves from village to house.Anyone who has no food left in his family or has poor financial resources will be directly labeled as a rebellious person who intends to flee, regardless of the reason or suffering, and will be pushed to the butcher's knife.

For a time, thousands of miles of fertile land in Liaodong, rivers of blood flowed, corpses were everywhere, cries were heard in every village, and beacon smoke was everywhere.

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