Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang and He Jin discussed how to deal with these captives. They definitely couldn't be placed here. If there was a riot, it would be impossible to suppress it.

After the Huaxia Army has been reorganized, they will go to face Hong Chengchou and others.

That's more enemies than the army here.

He Jin thought for a long time, and said to Zhang Qiang: "It's better to take them to Treasure Island. Anyway, Admiral Tang Dianfeng complains to you every day about the lack of manpower."

"Don't you need people to work here?"

"Next, we will need a lot of manpower development, just like what we did in the core area of ​​the Huaxia Army, to carry out economic construction. Fujian has many mountains and rivers, so it needs a lot of manpower to spread it out?"

He Jin has been hanging around in the Huaxia Army for these years, and has changed from a barbaric general to a Confucian general who was influenced by You Haibo's scholar. He took his time, stroking the white beard on his lips, "This Can you exchange the prisoners who have been detained in Jinhua Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, and Chuzhou Mansion, and then bring Lin Yangcheng over? Lin Yangcheng may not be able to fight, but you have sent him to manage the prisoners several times, but it is absolutely impossible. A talent."

"Well, that's a good suggestion. Lin Chengcheng is definitely the best candidate for the prison camp supervisor." Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, agreeing with He Jin's words.

"You keep some prisoners from the green camp here, let's keep 3 people, choose those prisoners who are forced to join the army, the prisoners who are young men, and see if they can be converted into our army at that time, and send you Gu Yuesheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, You cooperate with him to set up a recruit camp, and transfer a group of recruits from Jinhua Mansion to guard Tingzhou Mansion while helping you guard the prisoners. The leadership framework of the garrison troops who came here quickly formed an army, and in time, they will become the garrison troops of Fujian."

"Stabilizing a place requires both policy and powerful troops to suppress it, and a loyal garrison is the guarantee of both. Tiaoruan will attack Xiazhangzhou Prefecture. Wherever you are stationed, you will respond. You will bring the 10th Field Brigade Station here to prevent reinforcements from the Qing army from Jiangxi, let Ma Weiren's 9th Field Brigade station in Yanping Prefecture, and serve as horns with you, both to prevent the enemy from attacking you from Jiangxi and Guangdong, and to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking you from Raozhou Prefecture. Attack Fujian."

"I think Bai Wenxuan can stay," He Jin said.

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "No, he is newly attached, and his loyalty to the Huaxia Army is not enough. I have to take him with me and train him. I did not equip him with firearms for his provisional 18th Field Brigade. It is still a combination of infantry and cavalry. As my guard unit, this time we are fighting against the enemy. Judging from the reports from various sources, our army’s firearms are not equipped enough to control the enemy’s impact. I decided to follow the original plan, The firearms unit of the first brigade was expanded to [-] troops."

He Jin thought for a while, "I think the current configuration is good. There are archers, crossbowmen, pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and cavalry, plus [-] musketeers, and an artillery battalion of [-] to [-] A thousand or two hundred troops is just right, it can not only fight the enemy hand-to-hand, but also carry out cavalry assaults, and can also give full play to the superiority of our army's firepower.

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "No, there are too few. From the perspective of the battle with the enemy, our army did not give full play to its own advantages in firearms, but engaged in cavalry battles and infantry hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. We still relied on the original archers and crossbowmen. This combination of long-range arms is more advanced than the enemy, but when the large corps is fighting, most of the time they have to engage in hand-to-hand combat with heavy casualties. This is not worth the loss for the situation where the Huaxia army has fewer troops than the Qing army. We It can't consume the Qing army."

He Jin took a battle report from the desk beside him, "The results of our army's battles are so brilliant. Look at the new messenger's report. Our army has blocked the enemy for three days on the front line of Raozhou Prefecture, and wiped out a total of The enemy has 15 troops, but our army has only lost 5000 troops, and most of them are civilians and militiamen. The regular Huaxia Army has only lost [-] people. I think our army has surpassed the enemy by a lot."

Zhang Qiang fiddled with the horsewhip in his hand, "That's because the fortifications were done well when I left. Our army will fight the enemy on the vast land of Ming Dynasty in the future. Many times it may be an encounter battle. If we all play like this, the enemy is not Fool, you won’t give us time, just like the encounter between the Second Field Brigade and the Qing Army’s Mandahai, if the Qing Army’s infantry did not arrive a few miles behind and waited for the cavalry to be defeated by the Second Field Brigade before arriving, the field battle The second brigade faced three times as many enemies as its own, and the entire army may have been wiped out."

Zhang Qiang stood up, "The Mongolian cavalry who came later told us that the enemy's maneuverability far exceeds that of our army, so our army has to increase the intensity of our army's firepower, so that we can attack the enemy in the encounter and give the reinforcements a chance to arrive. Buy time, or buy time for the troops to retreat and attack. It’s getting late, go to sleep, the troops will continue to reorganize tomorrow, and make up for the losses. How about you, think about how to run Tingzhou Prefecture and respond to my army to attack the enemy.”

Seeing Zhang Qiang walking to the door, He Jin said suddenly: "Long Wu has been taken to Jinhua Mansion, how should we deal with Nanming?"

Chapter 323 The Line of Defense Has Been Breakthrough

Hearing He Jin's mature and solemn inquiry, Zhang Qiang said without looking back:

"Freedom to come and go, freedom to choose, those who are willing to integrate into the Huaxia Army can study first, and then wait for the arrangement to take up the post. We cannot accept the Huaxia Army who thinks he is a Nanming official master. If Long Wu decides to continue his great cause of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, we will It’s still the same idea, take down the Guangzhou Mansion and let him operate westward, and if he manages it legally, I will not harass him. If he is ravaged by the Qing army again, I will still do the same thing, drive away the Qing army and occupy its land, he loves it Why, why go."

The teacup in He Jin's hand dropped. As a rebel who wanted to overthrow Ming Dynasty in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, he had already received a series of Confucian cultural education from Ming Juren, so it was difficult for him to accept Zhang Qiang's contempt for his father, but Zhang Qiang has already walked away without looking back, and there is nothing he can do about it. He is now a general of the Huaxia Army, just an admiral, and the top is still suppressed by the governor, governor, governor and other officials. His strength is weak. The one-third of an acre of land in the state capital was quietly cultivated, and he never dared to make derailed actions.

"Alas—" After a long sigh, he picked up the official documents on the case table and began to review, deal with all the military affairs of the Tingzhou government, as well as various materials dispatched for Zhang Qiang's army and the daily necessities of the civilians.

While the main force of the Huaxia Army was busy, Hong Chengchou's third powerful attack on Raozhou Fucheng began.

It was still the green battalion who took the lead, and the Han army flag invested a lot of troops to follow up this time. The Mongolian cavalry reined in and waited for the order to attack.

This is already the third day.

It was the tenth day since Zhang Qiang gave Liu Liangzuo the time limit of half a month to guard Liu Liangzuo.

Perhaps it was because of the loss of 12 troops in the front, so the current Qing army has not felt the tension of food and grass. In addition, Boluo Belle has sent a grain transportation team back to Ji'an Mansion to transport food, so the morale of the Qing army is still high. Knowing the food and grass, the back road has been cut off, and what awaits them will be an unprecedented torture, from hunger and from the enemy.

One artillery after another began to bombard the enemy's positions. This time, due to the addition of heavier red cannons, the strike distance was quite far. The shells fell under the city gate, covering three defensive positions of the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army Tunbao camp in front was even bombarded by medium and large red cannons at the enemy's front. Some of the middle small forts stationed by 50 people were almost razed to ruins. The soldiers guarding the fort suffered heavy casualties. Many heavy soldiers of the Huaxia Army on the second trench defense line who came up to rescue the wounded were injured a lot and could not be rescued.

The successive reinforcements of the Qing army's cannons made the Qing army's cannons reach the highest number of four hundred.

The cannons that were damaged, bombed, and unusable due to vigorous use were thrown aside like scrap iron. These could not stop the Qing army from continuing to bombard the Huaxia army with cannons.

With supplements, Hong Chengchou, who had just learned how the Huaxia Army used cannons, commanded the Huaxia Army's strength, and the Huaxia Army was overwhelmed. This also proved Zhang Qiang's previous prophecy that he could not fight the enemy for too long, otherwise he would teach The art of enemy warfare, so Zhang Qiang has always been hiding behind the show, never taking the initiative to attack the Qing army, and secretly showing off under the wings of Longwu Nanming.

The generals and soldiers of the Qing army who fought against him, such as Fan Shaozu, Ma Bao, Liu Liangzuo, Qi Sansheng, etc., were either captured and transformed or killed. Their positions did not allow them to learn from the Huaxia Army. But this time, for Hong Chengchou, and for Bo Luo, a high-ranking general in the Qing army, he was helpless. He has hundreds of thousands of troops, let alone Killing people, even if they are close to others, they don't have to play, and they have to use tricks to divide and disintegrate them.

But they quickly learn your fighting methods and means in the battle with them, suppressing artillery fire, attacking infantry, and finding a small force to attack. Not only do you play better than you, but you also have more capital to play. As for the tactics, Zhang Qiang, a traverser, can't do anything about it, nor can he learn it.

The fierce artillery fire caused a sharp increase in casualties. Even with the protection of trenches and advanced fortifications such as artillery holes, many places collapsed and many soldiers were exposed to the blow of [-] solid bullets for each shot. outside.

After bombarding for an entire hour, the four hundred cannons damaged more than 100 of them again due to long-term use. Hong Chengchou listened to the artillery bombardment. Facing the messy first trench of the Huaxia Army, he dispatched a large number of troops and continued to play. The newly learned tricks of his previous big force concentrated a little breakthrough.

The Green Battalion soldiers have already mastered the skills. They crawled on the ground and approached the trenches. The forward positions that had lost their hindering functions became their smooth roads. They soon approached the trenches more than 70 meters away, and then began to send archers to suppress them. Yes. , Archers suppressed, they also learned.

There are also some gunfire soldiers. The Qing army and the Ming army called muskets fire guns, or shotguns, which are different from Zhang Qiang, a traveler who used later names, such as matchlock guns, muskets, flintlocks, and so on.

Although the firecrackers were holding poor-quality firecrackers, they still had more ballistic lead bullets hitting the trenches at a distance of only 70 meters when they fired. The bullet hits the head, the body or something, and then falls down, the dead can't die anymore.

"shooting,"

The artillerymen of the Huaxia Army who had pushed the three-pound guns to ten meters behind the trench opened fire quickly. Behind the trenches that stretched for ten miles, one hundred remaining three-pound guns quickly fired shotguns, hitting the green battalion soldiers in front of thousands of warehouses. Hundred holes.

"shooting,"

At a distance of 50 meters from the back of the trench, the six-pound guns that took over from the three-pound guns guarding the position began to shoot solid ammunition, and they also shot blood trails centimeters behind the Han army flag team behind the Qing army.

Once, twice, three times, the battle became fierce, and the war continued for another three hours. It was dusk, and the first trench was ten miles away, and the enemy had already occupied the intermittent seven or eight miles. In many places, the second trench was sent over. The infantry and archers can no longer support it.

Some Han flag cavalry and Mongolian cavalry had jumped over the trench and attacked in front of the second trench, and the artillery had to retreat behind the second trench while covering each other.

This time, nearly eighty three-pounders and thirty six-pounders were lost. In the end, only twenty three-pounders and fifty six-pounders retreated to the back of the second trench. Soldiers and Han Banner soldiers besieged, the defenders of the forts were killed and wounded, and many forts were lost.

Only the large Tunpu with 500 people on the node is still fighting.

Feng Wuyu rushed out of the fort with the remaining defenders of the largest fort, and was led by the cavalry rushing up from the second trench. After retreating to the largest fort behind the second trench, Quickly Mingjin.

After hearing Ming Jin's voice, except for the defenders who couldn't escape, the other defenders quickly retreated into the second trench line of defense, and the wounded retreated into the first trench's bunker, and the corpses were also carried here. , All kinds of carts quickly ran out of the city, driven by old and weak coachmen, and dragged the wounded and dead bodies into the city.

The soldiers staying in the fort quickly blew up the cannons and retreated.

The first trench is lost.

The Qing army continued to press down on the border, not only Mongolian cavalry, but also Jurchen infantry and cavalry, attacking around the six-mile perimeter of the second trench.

If the first trench is guarded and suppressed by archers, crossbowmen, and a small number of long-range soldiers mainly firecrackers and musketeers, then the second trench is the main force of the Huaxia Army, the arquebus soldiers.

Also called Musketeers, they all use Jin Kai 1, a matchlock gun developed by the Huaxia Army.

Here, the Qing army encountered even more serious problems. They not only had to deal with a complete defense consisting of horse traps, horse traps, and organs, but also had to deal with the regular firearms of the Huaxia Army, which had a longer range than bows and crossbows.

These are not just bows and crossbows that can only exert power at 50 meters or 70 meters. This is a matchlock gun that can be effective at 100 meters away. Even at 200 meters, except for poor accuracy, the killing power will not be great. A reduced Jin Kai 1 matchlock gun.

Hong Chengchou and Bo Luo had pushed their central army to the first trench five miles away from the capital of Raozhou, entered the fort abandoned by the dilapidated Huaxia army, boarded the watchtower of the fort, and watched the forward attack and movement Qing army.

In the dark night, fire dragons illuminated the periphery of Raozhou Prefecture, and huge casualties were once again presented to the Qing army.

The attack of the Qing army stopped short, and it was like attacking the first line of defense of the Huaxia Army for the first time.