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The post roads extend in all directions, the avenues are neat and wide, and Zhang Qiang's guard group is also very fast. It can be done by land or by water. It is faster to go by water, but it is a bit boring to transfer the supplies to the boat. Zhang Qiang led the whole team. It is only a matter of ten days for the guard group of cavalry to go overland.

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Zhang Qiang's guard regiment is a new organization. It used to be a pro-guard, battalion-level organization, with more than 800 people, and later it was changed to 500 people, and some auxiliary troops were added.

An engineering company of one hundred households uses strong pack horses for supplies, and a hundred households with two hundred people have more than 500 horses.

A scout battalion of messengers, equipped with sabers, bows and arrows, short firecrackers, one man and two horses, and small flags that only messengers carry on their backs, so that all parties and troops can identify them.

The messengers can pass through all the barracks and post roads unimpeded. The 500-man messenger battalion is an important department for Zhang Qiang to control and receive news from the various armies, the cabinet, and the local area. Therefore, they are relatively elite. Lurking, sneaking, talking to people, talking nonsense when seeing ghosts, cheating and abducting, everything is possible, and they are all clever and literate veterans selected from various armies.

A cavalry battalion is a magic weapon for charging into battle and fighting against the enemy's cold-armed cavalry. The equipment is refined, basically a full-frame armor, with iron bumps from head to toe, and the long spear is also a steel spear. No one can stop it when charging.

Of course, there are two special cavalry battalions, the dragoon battalion, equipped with brand-new flintlock guns, who become musketeers when dismounted, and cavalry when mounted.

The hunting cavalry battalion is equipped with crossbows and bows, short firecrackers, sabers, and shields. When dismounted, they are sword and shield soldiers for close combat, and when mounted, they are ordinary cavalry for charging.

With such a change, the number of guard regiments will be much larger.

The four battalions have a total of 800 people, plus an engineering company, 3000 people, plus a supply company, a pack horse supply company, and a dozen or dozens of attendants, the number has reached more than 300.

The compilation is oversized.

Sometimes Zhang Qiang felt that he should give up the command of the guards and lead the guards exclusively.

The core of these troops is the Chasseur and Dragoon Battalions.

Zhang Qiang did not let go of his coaching skills. All the elite soldiers who joined the guard regiment had been personally trained by him, and they were unwaveringly loyal to him.

Zhang Qiang did not bring the Guards Brigade, because the Guards Brigade had to do a good job of defending or responding to the seven or eight field brigades guarding the bank of the Yangtze River in front, plus tens of thousands of garrison troops, and a few cavalry brigades. , that is, the enemy's army of more than 50 troops cannot tolerate the slightest slack.

The Huaxia Army has already embarked on the right path. There is Zhou Porridge in the internal affairs, and Wei Wuji leads the troops on the front line. Zhang Qiang can leave safely during this period without worrying about being caught off guard by the enemy. A group of officials can discuss the deployment of troops. Except for Zhang Qiang's guard brigade, they can't move, Wei Wuji can mobilize all other field brigades, and the local garrison and militia cabinet can also be mobilized. This ensures the strength of the troops. and compliance with government orders.

When he arrived at Tingzhou Mansion, Zhang Qiang met Lin Chengcheng. Now Lin Chengcheng was a little richer, and he was no longer the leader of the peasant uprising army who was living in the wind and sleeping in the open. He was worried all day long and worried about being chased by the officers and soldiers.

As a military admiral of a prisoner camp directly under the Ministry of War and a hard labor camp, although he needs to deal with the audit of the Ministry of Households, the assessment of officials from the Ministry of Officials, the review of his behavior by the Ministry of Rites, the supervision of the Ministry of Supervision, the investigation and supervision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and other needs Following the orders of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, despite all kinds of constraints, he still did a good job.

Even under such pressure, he still did a great job. He cooperated with the central and local areas of the Huaxia Army and did a lot of work, making great contributions to the Huaxia Army.

It can be seen that Lin Chengcheng doesn't care about such strict supervision at all, because he is equivalent to a prison director, and he still has great power. He is in charge of all the captured war criminals of the entire Huaxia Army. 60 million people.

As long as he doesn't make mistakes in major festivals, Huaxia Army still allows him to be a little bit greedy, not as greedy as Zhu Dadian.

Tingzhou Mansion no longer shows traces of war, and has become a prosperous city with a population of about 30 people. After the war ended, the people who fled returned one after another. Soldiers, Tingzhou Mansion has come back to life.

The post road has been built here from Jinhua Mansion, and it has run through the north and south, east and west. The north is Nanchang, Jiujiang and other places in Jiangxi, and the south is Quanzhou Mansion and other places.

There are not many captives in custody in Tingzhou Mansion, because they are all distributed, mainly the important prisoners in the hard labor camp. There is a garrison regiment, a cavalry regiment, and a militia brigade stationed here, enough to handle tens of thousands captive.

After staying in Tingzhou Mansion for half a day, the guard group went south again. No matter what you saw in Chapter 384 of "Lord of Ming Dynasty", the recovery of Xiangshan has activated the anti-theft mode, only half of the chapter is not connected with the content of the previous chapter.For the hidden part in the back, please go to Baidu search: (Beautiful Romance) After entering, search for "Lord of Ming Dynasty" to watch

Chapter 385 Understanding the Situation

In Guangzhou Mansion, Zhang Qiang met He Jin. As the commander, He Jin, of course, could not go to the front line casually. He was in Guangzhou Mansion and commanded the battle.

After leaving Guangzhou Mansion, it is Nanming's territory. As an important border town, he cannot leave casually.

One field brigade was stationed in Guangzhou Prefecture, one field brigade was stationed in the county seat on the Xiangshan side, another field brigade was stationed in the northern prefecture, and above that was Xuanyuan Longfei's Fifth Field Brigade, which was guarding against Kong Youde's troops in Guangxi.

The ancient Guangdong and Guangxi prefectures were not as distinct as they are in modern times. Kong Youde’s department occupied most of Guangxi and a part of Guangdong, forming a de facto separatist force. Everyone named the area according to the actual territory he occupied. It is said that Kong Youde’s department occupied Guangxi, in fact, still occupies a part of Guangdong in later generations.

Although Longwu Nanming occupies a province in Guangdong, the situation is actually changing every day, and the actual territory occupied shall prevail.

But this is not important anymore. The important thing is that Kong Youde has no obvious intention to start a war with Longwu Nanming. In the border area, there is only a part of the defense against the sea, and a very small part of the army, because the people of the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty have not treated the Portuguese with hundreds of people as a big force.

Now only a part of the armed regular army can be mobilized to cooperate with the village bravery, regiment training, the yamen servants in the yamen, and arrest them quickly to deal with it. As a result, they suffered a loss and had to increase their troops. More than 3000 Ding, as well as the regular army, and more than 2000 people from the Imperial Army fought with the Portuguese who suddenly recruited thousands of soldiers.

"How is the battle going?" Zhang Qiang asked as soon as he saw He Jin.

He Jin was very serious, "Governor, in fact, the Portuguese recruited mercenaries, and they paid for thousands of Thai and Western mercenaries from Batavia, including Spaniards, British, and Dutch Among them, the Dutch cooperated most actively. They not only paid for recruiting people, but also recruited Indians from the East Indies, a territory of the Netherlands. Brave, few in number, but powerful."

Zhang Qiang couldn't think of how powerful these people could be, so he just asked, "How much has their current strength increased compared to before?"

He Jindao: "It is said that the Portuguese have 200 men and 45 warships, the Dutch have 600 real Dutch troops and 31 warships, the Spanish have more than 100 merchant ships, and the British have eleven warships and 100 troops. [-] people. In addition, there are other trading merchant ships outside the harbor that were hired by them, about a thousand ships. The sailors and servants of these merchants add up to a total of [-] troops, but none of them participated in the battle against the Nanming Kingdom. They're all watching."

"Oh, who were those people who fought with Nanming Kingdom earlier?"

"To be able to fight Nanming's army so fiercely, is it half a catty?"

Zhang Qiang asked strangely.

He Jindao: "According to the results of the investigation by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, those people are the people mentioned above by the minister, mercenaries, Malays, Brunei, and Manila, as well as Ming pirates who took refuge in Portugal and other Thais, officers and soldiers, and even I heard that these previous battles were commanded by some officers and soldiers of the Qing army. Those officers and soldiers were deserters and generals who had previously fought against our army and escaped. The tribal warrior of the chieftain who came out of which mountain, "

"Are there many of these people?" Zhang Qiang asked without changing his face.

"Many, quite a lot, especially Indians like gray cattle, and Vietnamese like monkeys, oh, by the way, there are also Japanese ronin, Japanese ronin are as powerful as those barbaric scimitar mercenaries, they are deadly to kill However, the Ming army was always attacked by these people suddenly from the side when they were about to win, and then collapsed. Then the gray cattle artillery commanded by the Portuguese added a few more shots, and the Ming army became even more flustered.

This has been the case in several battles, and the Ming army has no choice now, but can only continue to increase troops, recruit troops, recruit strong men, and gather troops. Anyway, in terms of military strength, the foreign ones are not as strong as the Nanming Kingdom. a lot. "

"Do you think the Ming army of Nanming Kingdom can defeat the Portuguese?" Zhang Qiang asked worriedly.

"Difficult, if this continues, even if they are defeated, they will suffer heavy losses. The governor knows that although they have practiced our army's tactics, they still use the previous tactics in essence. Many generals still have the bad habits of the past. With no pay, servants are the main combat force. Although there are many soldiers, fighting against the wind can increase the effect. Once defeated, it will be an unmanageable situation.

And from the beginning to the present, the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch only attacked once, and they stopped attacking after hundreds of casualties. Instead, they used these cannon fodder-like mercenaries to consume the strength of the Ming army, waiting for the opportunity, and training at the same time. The musket skills of the gray Indians, I am afraid the situation will change by then. "

"What are they waiting for?" Zhang Qiang asked.

He Jin shook his head, "I don't know what they are waiting for, but I know that if there is more fire and pressure, they will definitely send troops, otherwise, Xiangshan will be taken back by our army, and the materials on their site will It won't last long, although there are ships that can be transported from outside, but these Thais are profit-seeking, and they will definitely lose money after a long time, so they will definitely not wait too long, they will fight back, and then they will know what they want What do you want?"

"No matter what they want, it has nothing to do with us anyway. Where is the territory of Nanming Kingdom? Our main opponent now is the Qing army. You just need to be vigilant. I will take people to the battlefield to see. You guard here and don't let It’s fine for them to call. If they dare to call, hit me hard.” Zhang Qiang said.

"Yes, Chief Governor, I will definitely not let them take advantage of you." He Jin said.

"Have a good relationship with Nanming, we can't fight in several directions now, we beat the Portuguese with a stick, we can't let them persuade Nanming to attack us, you can't fully trust Nanming, let the people below be more careful. "

Zhang Qiang reminded He Jin.

"Great Governor, I understand that I, Lao He, will always be careful about the Ming Dynasty." Zhang Qiang smiled, and he remembered that He Jin was originally a sneaky peasant rebel army, leader of rogues, and this human nature It cannot be changed. He has fought against the Ming Dynasty for half his life.

"Governor, if you go to the territory of Nanming Kingdom, do you want to bring more troops? Although there are a lot of guards and troops around you, after all, you are walking on the territory of another country. You are quite As the king of a country, don't be careless."

"Since this is the case, the militia brigade should be dispatched. 5000 troops should be enough. Guangzhou is so close to the trench gate, you can bring troops to help if you have any problems."

"Your Excellency's team does not have artillery, so bring another artillery brigade. Anyway, after a while, the newly formed new artillery brigade will come from Tingzhou Prefecture."

"Well, well, I'm not a pretentious person, so I can't make you worry too much, just take it with you, and send another logistics regiment to keep up, so that the total strength will reach 5000, and no one will dare to beat me Pay attention."

Chapter 386 Coming to the Front Line