Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 930 Grab (addition for September 9 monthly pass)

On one of the boats, a man in the same official uniform as him, who was also older than him, came out of the cabin.

When Li Yan saw it, he quickly walked over to meet him.

Li Yan is now the governor of the Mughal region, but the person who came was Yang Weizhi, the governor of Dongwu and Dhaka.

In terms of official positions, the two are actually similar, but Yang Weizhi is much more senior in terms of qualifications.

Not only that, but Li Yan was born as a Juren, but later he became a bandit, and after being recruited, he followed Sun Chuanting to fight in the South and North, and then entered the Ministry of War before he began to serve as a governor. He was not a serious Jinshi.

Yang Weizhi was born as a real Jinshi, and he was promoted normally, and finally became the governor of Yunnan, and also managed the Dongwu and Dhaka areas. With his merits, he will be promoted soon, that's for sure.

Also, Li Yan is younger than Yang Weizhi, this is a meeting between the old and new governors.He greeted him with a low profile, which is what he should have meant.

To Li Yan's surprise, behind Yang Weizhi, his wife, Hong Niangzi, followed him.

As soon as the red lady saw him, a smile appeared on her face, a little excited.

When Li Yan went to Tibet, the two separated.The red lady trained female soldiers for the imperial court. She has been in the country and never thought of coming to the Mughal side.

At this time, Li Yan naturally didn't care about greeting his wife, so he greeted Yang Weizhi first, and put business first.

"Master Yang has worked hard from afar, I don't know if he has brought something or not?"

Hearing Li Yan's question, Yang Weizhi immediately laughed and said, "Of course I brought it, look, I even brought your daughter-in-law!"

While joking, by the way, let Hong Niangzi say hello to her husband.

Afterwards, Yang Weizhi reached out to the guards on the side for the rifle he was carrying on his back, handed it to Li Yan and said, "Look, this is the Shenwei Rifle Type A, there are 3 pieces in total, and the Shenwei Cannon Type A is [-] pieces." , enough?"

Li Yan reached out to take the rifle, and saw the special features of this new rifle at a glance. After looking at it, he said pleasantly, "Could it be that this is a breech-loading flintlock?"

"Of course!" Yang Weizhi nodded immediately after hearing this, "The rate of fire is extremely fast, and the tactics will also change accordingly. We will talk about the details later!"

Li Yan nodded when he heard that, and only then did he react, and quickly said to Yang Weizhi: "My lord, I have nearly 10 people here, and there are only [-] guns, which are not enough!"

As a leader of the army for many years, of course he knew how much the breech-loading flintlock had an impact on the war, so he naturally wished that the entire army would be equipped with the best equipment.

Upon hearing this, Yang Weizhi smiled again and said, "This involves another order from the imperial court for you."

Hearing this, Li Yan couldn't help feeling a little strange, and hurried to meet Yang Weizhi and hurried to the governor's yamen.As for the arms, of course, the generals will hand them over.

After about an hour, Li Yan understood the meaning of the court.

It's not that the imperial court didn't have the Shenwei rifle type A, nor did it say that it would not be given to the Mughal Expeditionary Army, it had been prepared long ago.It's just that Yang Weizhi brought some of them, and more of them were transported by the Ming Navy to the new military base in the south of Mughal.

According to the arrangement of the imperial court, the Ming Expeditionary Army will be divided into two parts.Thirty thousand troops will continue to exert pressure on the Persian Empire on land, which is currently confronting the Persian army.

Yang Weizhi brought the change of clothes for this part of the army.The [-] original Shenwei rifles that have been replaced will be sold to the vassal state, and they will be recruited to participate in the war against the Persian Empire. This is the vassal state's obligation.

Another [-] troops will go to the military port in the south of the Mughals to join the navy to complete the refit and training.

The main force attacking the Persian Empire was not the army, but the navy.

The [-] expeditionary force became the Marine Corps, attacking the enemy from the coast.

This enemy will not only be the Persian Empire, but also the Arab tribes in the Middle East.Naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf are the most effective method.And in this way, the logistical pressure will be greatly reduced.

In order to achieve this combat goal, the imperial court has dispatched additional navies, including the latest steam ironclad warships in the Ming navy.

Li Yan was very surprised by the brand-new tactics, and even his wife, Hong Niangzi, was sent to assist him, which also surprised him.

There are also information about the islands in the Persian Gulf, hydrological conditions, mountains and rivers and topography in the Persian Empire, etc., all of which are very detailed.Such a variety of differences made him feel whether there was any change in the imperial court.

He could feel that the previous battle plan did have something like this, but it was definitely not so specific and organized.The situation of the enemy is much more detailed.

Yang Weizhi even told Li Yan that there was a lot of movement at the Academy of Sciences, and there were a lot of new equipment. This time it couldn't catch up, but when it was used in the next war, it would shock the world.

This information made Li Yan very curious, but the distance was too far away, so he just thought about it and started busy with the current affairs.

According to the arrangement of the imperial court, Yang Weizhi will be in charge of the Mughal Empire, while Li Yan will be in charge of the entire Middle East war.Will go with the navy.

Before that, he rushed to the border first, and sent someone to issue an ultimatum to the Persian Empire again, raising the tension of the war.

In order to cooperate with the operation, all border areas are under martial law, and anyone who appears here without a military order will be treated as a spy of the Persian Empire.The army is mobilized frequently, with a rhythm that is about to come.

But in fact, he took advantage of this opportunity to secretly hide Chen Cang and led an army of [-] to go south.

In the middle of the 26th year of Chongzhen, when the army arrived at the newly built military port in the south, Li Yan and his generals, Tian Jianxiu and others, were all stunned.

It's not that there are a lot of warships in the Ming Dynasty, they have actually seen this before, and it doesn't shock them so much.Instead, they saw warships they hadn't seen before!

Originally, Li Yan had received news from the Persian Empire, knowing that the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other western barbarians had formed a joint warship, with a number of as many as a hundred ships, plus the local indigenous people, which were the size of the Persian Empire and Middle Eastern Arabs. There are also nearly [-] warships.

If it was Daming's original naval combat power, this naval battle would not be easy.But at this time, Li Yan was convinced that the naval battle would definitely be crushing.

The same is true for the imperial court. This time, the battles are fought with such a strong strength, and they can't show the ability to lead troops at all!

After five months of training, mainly hoarding supplies, finally, Ming finally launched an attack on the Persian Empire.

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On the side of the Persian Empire, at the beginning, there was indeed turmoil and panic, and there were all kinds of wars.However, the Ming army has always been thunderous and rainy, so they are a little slack.

The other one is that Abbas II has been preparing for war, which greatly affects people's livelihood, and it is a bit too much.The recruitment of soldiers and the increase in military expenses have caused conflicts in various places.

There is another one. With the start of the imitation of rifled flintlock guns on the Persian Empire, the confidence has gradually increased.

It took about five months, with the participation of a large number of Persian craftsmen, and finally produced about [-] rifled flintlock guns.Then, the bickering began.

Five thousand rifled flintlock guns are equal to five thousand troops using the most advanced guns. Compared with the old flintlock guns, they have a crushing advantage.After all, the range and fine shooting accuracy are there.

Then Abbas II said that he paid [-] for the craftsmen alone, and faced the attack of the Ming army, he would have to lose his head no matter what.

But the Europeans said that without their guidance, let alone [-] craftsmen, even [-] craftsmen would not be able to build [-] rifled flintlock guns.

Among the Europeans, there are also quarrels about distribution.The Dutch said it was their intelligence, and they were familiar with the Ming Dynasty. The British didn't do it, and neither did the Danes.

In short, for these rifled flintlock guns, Abbas II and the Europeans wanted to share as much as they could. If it wasn't for the Ming army's oppression, they might all be able to fight.

In fact, as far as the rifled flintlock guns they imitated were made, the quality was still not as good as the Shenwei rifles produced by Daming.

Not only the technical gap in steel smelting, but also the standard mass production of rifled flintlock guns, matching with bullets, etc., are definitely not comparable to those made by Persian craftsmen.

But even so, the Persians and Europeans were jealous.

It's not that they don't know that the quality of imitation guns is not as good as that of the Ming army, but after having this kind of imitation guns, they will not be suppressed by the Ming army too much in terms of equipment.

In addition, if you use this rifled flintlock gun to fight other enemies, it will be very advantageous.

For example, if the army of the Persian Empire can equip a large number of troops, it will have a great advantage over the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire does not have it, and it may be able to take back the Mesopotamia including Baghdad.

Just as they were scrambling for the rifled flintlock, Ming finally began to invade the territory of the Persian Empire.

First of all, on the land border, the Persian army was also slack because the Ming army was always threatening but not really taking action.As a result, the Ming army suddenly came to the truth once.

Under the power of unconscionable cannons, grenades, and rear-mounted artillery, it did not take much effort to break into Persia.

However, the Ming army did not rush forward like it was fighting the Mughal Empire, but stopped within the breached border.

Abbas II was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately sent reinforcements, not to mention, he also sent troops equipped with rifled flintlocks.

In this battle, he not only wanted to personally conquer, but also asked the Europeans to also send coalition troops to assist.

The British and the Danes had no objections, but Kuiyi from the Dutch side found various reasons to decline.

In the end, the Dutch were mainly responsible for coastal defense, which made Kui Yi heave a sigh of relief, and finally he didn't have to face the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)