Dominate the Country

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Jiugong has moved back to Tumenji. Well, it is the large original site outside the Tumenji Fort. Those relatively intact houses and courtyards are tidied up, and this is Tumenji.

Comrade Chen Guang, the head of the Chen family's intelligence system outside, is Chen Ming's good uncle, and he is Jiugong's son. At the beginning, Chen Guang left Lushan early, and after dealing with a lot of things about the Chen family in Zhoujiakou with his eighth uncle Chen Liang, Chen Liang was responsible for arranging and contacting many of the Chen family's fugitives, and Chen Guang concentrated on managing the intelligence system. When Chen Liang finished dealing with the mess at hand, he had to pinch his nose and accept Chen Guang's position as the top leader at work.

[Actually, I wrote Chen Guang and Chen Liang wrong. /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~】

So although the presence of the Ninth Lord is much lower than that of the Seventh Lord, the Seventh Lord and his son are both the main persons in charge of military industry, but the weight of the Ninth Lord is no less than that of the Seventh Lord.

Chen Hui and Chen Ming, father and son, are both very troubled by this. Especially Chen Hui, he knows how much power and how long it takes to overcome the fear of the Qing court, and he himself is a good example. From the time Chen Ming revealed the secret to him to the time he completed the change in his mind, he stayed up all night for many nights, and there were many more white hairs on his head.

Fortunately, this matter does not need to be completed immediately, and there is still time to buffer. The biggest thing for the Chen family now is to kill the upcoming offensive of Guide Town and Yunyang Town. The former has already joined the follow-up troops in Chenzhou, and the latter has also detoured to Wusheng Pass. Now they have arrived at Ruyang, the capital of Runing Prefecture, and Yancheng is more than a hundred miles away.

The Green Camp soldiers on both sides dispatched about 3,000 people each, plus the militias gathered in Guide, Chenzhou, Runing, Guangzhou and other places, and the conscripted civilian laborers, so there were more than 6,000 people in each of the two routes. Together, this is a base of 12,000, 13,000 or 14,000 people.

Chen Ming planned to take 4,000 people to meet the enemy, leaving 2,000 people to watch Lushan, Baofeng and other places. He led the main force to attack Yancheng directly, and could not wait for the Qing army to take the initiative to attack. If the Qing army relied on its strong military strength and divided its troops to take Wuyang, Ye County, Jia County, or even attack Baofeng from Xiang County, then Chen's army would be in trouble.

Yancheng is located in the central and southern part of Henan Province, belonging to the middle reaches of the Dasha River plain area in the Huaihe River Basin. It borders Chenzhou Prefecture to the east, Shahe to the south, and Runing Prefecture to the north. It is Xuzhou [Xuchang] to the north. It can be said that it is located at the junction of various prefectures. Would the Qing army dare not come to rescue?

The number of Chen's army has expanded rapidly, which has also severely tested the Chen family's ordnance system. Fortunately, the Chen family's ordnance system has never slacked off since retreating to the Funiushan Mountains. Although their number is small, the ordnance system with hydraulic forging hammers and animal-powered forging hammers as helpers is really efficient.

When was the last time the Chen family army reorganized its troops? How many days has it been since now?

The Chen family army of 2,000 people has become 6,000 people. The musket team was expanded to a battalion, the cavalry team was expanded to a battalion, and the mining team was also expanded to a battalion, although the mining team had serious vacancies. The tank team was brought up by Chen Ming, and the guard battalion was changed from one to two, with Chen Hui and Chen Ming each having one. The military police team was also brought up separately. Unlike the tank team, which was full, the military police team became a military police battalion, and the number of people expanded to three teams.

There are also reconnaissance teams, medical teams, and artillery teams. Regardless of the actual number of people, all of them have been promoted to battalion-level organizations. Only the sniper team has not changed much, but the specifications have also been improved. Moreover, Chen Hui took the initiative to ask the logistics department to make a few rifled guns. The shot that Chen Zhongda used to kill Baoning was too important, which directly changed the fate of Chen's army!

The battalion under Chen Erbao was also completely filled. There were four full teams, one of which was a vanguard team, with sixty muskets, a thirty-man artillery team and ten fast cavalry scouts, plus the logistics team and Chen Erbao's personal soldiers, the number was up to five hundred!

Chen Wenzan, Chen Jianbai, Chen Hongtao, Huang An, Gao Jinghui, Lu Long and others also became battalion officers, but the troops under their command wanted to be as well-equipped as Chen Erbao, and there was still a long way to go.

So in Chen Ming's eyes, if Chen's army wanted to be invincible in the Qing army, there was still a long way to go. Because even Chen Erbao's unit, the first-class main battalion of Chen's army, was only equipped with a vanguard team. Not to mention the quality problems of muskets and bird guns, the firearms of Chen's army were far lower than those of the Qing soldiers.

Don't think that the Green Camp soldiers at this time all held knives. Although the quality of the Qing army's muskets was declining year by year, the proportion of musket soldiers in the army was increasing year by year. Half of the Green Camp soldiers held muskets.

If we talk about why the Qing Dynasty was defeated so easily when it fought against the enemy, one of the main problems was that the nationalized firearms manufacturing system was too corrupt, and the quality of various firearms plummeted. Of course, the Qing Dynasty's "lack of ambition" was also a big problem. In this regard, the Qing Dynasty was just like the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The corruption of its own people undermined the foundation of its own army. [At least one of the problems]

So when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came together, the corrupt Green Camp soldiers holding muskets that were not even as good as fire sticks immediately became weak in the face of the Taiping Army who dared to fight and kill with knives.

This is the biggest difference between China and Western society. In Western society where capital power developed, although the manufacturing and casting of guns and cannons was partially controlled by the state, the power of capital was also deeply involved. They can ensure the quality of their weapons and, to a certain extent, the combat effectiveness of their own army.

If the weapons of the Ming army could reach the standards of the early and middle Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, could the Qing Dynasty still rise in the Northeast? Victory after victory, the spirit of the Ming army was completely destroyed.

Chen Ming could guarantee everyone that his flintlock smoothbore rifle was definitely better than the opponent's matchlock musket. But the number was too small, and the Chen family army still had to rely on the knives in their hands and the iron armor on their bodies to conquer the world. How to get close to the opponent in the war, you can't just rely on the shield car, then Chen Ming has to burn the brain.

The entire Chen family army is divided into four levels. The slaves rescued from Ruzhou City, Yiyang, and Jiaxian, and the ruffians who took refuge from all places, etc., wear rattan armor; the slaves rescued from Baofeng, Ye County, and Wuyang, and the farmers who took refuge from various counties, wear light armor; there are plenty of iron armor in the Chen family arsenal, and they can't be given to them casually. Then came the second round of expansion troops - the slave laborers that Chen Ming rescued from Lushan and Baofeng after breaking Baoning, and the mountain people recruited in the mountains with money and food. These people were all veterans and were all equipped with breastplates; finally, the basic troops of the Chen family, the absolute direct troops, all wore iron armor. The so-called iron armor is the rattan armor behind the breastplate, on both arms and at the bottom, with iron plates and leather nailed to the rattan.

The establishment and expansion of the musket battalion, artillery battalion, military police battalion, cavalry battalion and left and right guard battalions naturally strengthened the direct power in the hands of Chen Hui and Chen Ming, but it also used up too many people from the Chen family, so that the proportion of Chen family soldiers in the rest of the Chen family army had a sharp drop. Chen Ming had a headache controlling the troops...

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It was really going to die. The main site has six channels, and I only added a few favorites. This result is really impressive/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

Luckily, I was hoping that I would get a good recommendation this time and push the favorites to 4,000 quickly.