Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 282 Wuwei Army

I saw that the Ming army came and went quickly like a tide. After realizing that the ladder I was carrying could barely reach the inner city wall of Shanhaiguan, it would be easily overthrown by the defenders on the city and used rolling logs, stones, etc. something to attack.

Moreover, the thick cowhide shields and various round and square shields they carried could not effectively protect them when faced with the defenders' arrows and projectiles coming like a violent storm.

The Ming army quickly withdrew the ladder, took away the casualties and comrades, and then left Shanhaiguan without saying a word.

In fact, their original task was to pursue Dorgon's team, and if possible, try to kill the old, weak, sick and disabled in his team, as well as the common people and nobles of Mizhou.

The attack on Shanhaiguan was just because these people saw that Dorgon could not be chased, and they wanted to vent their anger on the defenders like Fuman.

Now seeing that the attack by thousands of light infantry was too strenuous, the chief general of this unit quickly made a decision to withdraw his troops back to the capital, report all his encounters along the way to his superiors, and then let them decide what to do next.

It was reported, it was reported, and the news arrived at Zhu Cihong's desk not long after.

"Dorgon still dares to leave soldiers and horses in Shanhaiguan, is he trying to stop the footsteps of my soldiers? Haha, he is too idiotic."

Seeing the pond newspapers and memorials written in written documents, Zhu Cihong couldn't help laughing up to the sky.

"Although Shanhaiguan is a famous pass in the world, it is not so easy to defend. Li Zicheng almost defeated it at the beginning."

"If it weren't for Dorgon's sudden attack with the power of the whole country, he would instantly have a great advantage over Li Zicheng in terms of military strength. I am afraid that Li Zicheng would have defeated Shanhaiguan with his peasant army, and the damage in the battle might have been greater than that of the defenders. The city is still low."

After Li Zicheng first entered the capital, why did Wu Sangui surrender to the Qing Qing, and why did Li Zicheng lose to the Qing Qing? Zhu Cixiang had seen this in the works of some experts and scholars in his previous life.

Wu Sangui seems to have received some fake news and misjudged the situation, but it is also very possible that Wu Sangui surrendered to Miqing for personal fame and fortune. After all, Prince Pingxi sounds more tempting than an earl of Li Zicheng.

At that time, although Wu Sangui and Gao Di had tens of thousands of soldiers and defended against danger, they had no chance of winning against Li Chuang's experienced army.

Although he is the defender of the city, the battle loss ratio is not better than Li Chuang.

If Mi Qing hadn't killed him at the most critical moment, he would have been wiped out by Li Chuang.

However, the peasant army's siege technology and experience are not very good in Zhu Cihong's opinion. From this, it can be seen that Shanhaiguan is not a dangerous pass that one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it. The city of the government is better.

"Your Majesty, let's dispatch troops as soon as possible to wipe out all the tartars who are entrenched in Shanhaiguan." Liu Bao knew Zhu Cihong's thoughts very well.

This kind of eunuch actually doesn't have any opinions on the big policy of the imperial court. He only knows how to figure out his master's mind, and then say what his master wants to say with a heart.

"Not urgent."

But this time, Liu Bao's guess was a bit inaccurate.

Although the chasing troops were exhausted in Shanhaiguan, with three or 400 casualties, it was nothing compared to the size of the Ming army.

You know, in the past, there would be thousands of soldiers on the list of any guard, and there were even more military households and their families. A guard had the size of a small county in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Of course, if it were a newly opened health center, there would definitely not be that many people there. Counting the wives and parents of soldiers, there would only be 3 to [-] people at most.

"After the artillery and rockets are manufactured, it will not be too late to send troops to attack." Zhu Cihong said calmly.

In the past few months, despite the urgency of the frontline war and the astronomical amount of supplies consumed by the war, Zhu Cihong has never given up on the research and development and manufacture of firearms.

Because he from the future knows that this is the key factor that will determine the outcome of the war in the future, and the current Chinese army can still defeat Spain and Portugal, the most powerful colonial countries in Europe.

But it will not be so in another hundred years. In the [-]th and [-]th centuries, the rapid development of the Western army left the Chinese far behind.

Flintlock muskets, bayonets, carbines, hollow phalanxes, line tactics, cast iron artillery, first-class ships, one after another novel military inventions have left China far behind.

However, Zhu Cihuang did not expect that his battle could be fought so quickly. Relying on a large number of new troops, Han warlords, the old Ming army mainly based in the Beijing camp of the Weisuo, and the tacit cooperation with Li Chuang, he managed to wipe out the mite in a few months. kicked out.

Although without them entering the Central Plains, Zhu Cihong was very pleased to have such an achievement, and he gave Daming, an aging empire, a shot in the arm.

Although the rear has worked overtime to manufacture some firearms, most of them are still on the way of testing, transportation, and equipment. Zhu Cihong has not yet established a unit using newly built firearms.

"Your Majesty is still benevolent, and I don't want my Ming soldiers to bleed to death on the battlefield." Liu Bao complimented, no matter what the emperor did, it was right and good, this is the survival rule of their eunuchs.

"Haha, that's natural." Zhu Cihong responded to Liu Bao's compliment without blushing. In fact, he was already used to it.

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Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Zhu Cihong used the firearms transported from the rear and found some usable firearms from the warehouses that Dorgon and his party had not had time to loot and destroy, and equipped some of the troops with them.

But instead of equipping the original armies, it was a brand new army.

Most of the soldiers under the command of the Jinwu Guard, Shandong Yibing, Gao Jie and others were cold-armed troops, good at using knives, guns, bows and crossbows, but not firearms.

Therefore, Zhu Cixiang planned to create a new unit to use firearms. This way, he would have a test product, and secondly, the combat effectiveness of the old unit would not be reduced, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Left and right are just a matter of feeding tens of thousands of people, which is nothing to Zhu Cihong who owns the whole world.

The big deal is to let North Korea across the sea send some over by sea boat. They are a vassal state of China, and it is their honor to contribute food to Daming.

The name of this army is the Wuwei Army, which is divided into five armies, front, rear, left, center and right. Of course, Zhu Cixiang has only established the former army with 8000 people.

Although bonds, lijin, autumn tax, and spoils of war brought him a lot of income, it was not enough to raise soldiers. How could Zhu Cihong have the money to build another [-] army that used firearms in large quantities.

(End of this chapter)