Lord of Ming Dynasty

After hovering in Guangzhou Mansion for a few days, crossing the river, and arriving at the land of Nanming Kingdom, Zhang Qiang brought an obviously huge guard team that couldn't be bigger to the front line of Haomen.

Along the way, the troops of the Ming army gathered one by one towards the moat, forming a large barracks outside Jiuxing County.

More than 2000 people from the Huaxia Army who arrived earlier are training the strong men of the Ming army separately. This kind of training is not complicated training, but it is to let these strong men who have never touched guns learn to shoot, learn to line up, and learn how to fight with the enemy. .

As for how to organize the team and how to practice the formation, the Nanming Army did not let the Huaxia Army train. It was not necessary, because those were all cannon fodder, and it was enough to follow the command of the generals.

Those who really received the training were the elite troops of the Ming army, and they were the focus of the Huaxia army's training.

How to stand in line, how to obey orders, how to conduct three-stage shooting, how to cooperate with artillery attacks, how to cooperate with pikemen and archers to attack, use the multi-level blocking enemy used by the Huaxia Army, and how to fight against the enemy, all are meticulous and have no reservations. Passed on to those veterans.

These veterans are the veterans of the Southern Ming Army who have previously received cold weapon combat training from the Huaxia Army and have seen blood many times. They have fought against the Qing Army, other Ming armies, and various forces. The [-] regular troops of the Nanming Army.

The actual commander of these regular troops is a nephew of Su Guansheng named Su Zhengqing. Su Guansheng has experienced Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Ma Shiying, Zuo Menggeng, Huang Degong and others for half his life in the ups and downs of officialdom. sent.

For the first time, Zhang Qiang met the commander of the whole army, Huang Binqing, the Ming general who was loyal to Longwu.

Knowing Zhang Qiang's arrival, Huang Binqing hurried back from the front line of the war to meet Zhang Qiang.

However, it was obvious that he was very unimpressed with Zhang Qiang, very indifferent, and only said a few words, coldly.

It wasn't until Li Guangdi and Li Guangxiong, the imperial envoys sent by Nanming Longwu, came from Zhaoqing that Zhang Qiang really realized the generous treatment and a trace of respect of a monarch of the upper kingdom.

But Zhang Qiang didn't come to vent his anger on the same Ming army general who was destined to be of different rank, so he just laughed it off.

In the face of the polite Li Guangdi, this celebrity is considered to be well-educated, and he has written works for later generations. Many historical materials about the end of Ming Dynasty are known from the notes he left behind.

"Governor, how about taking a break for a few days before going to the front line?" Li Guang said.

"No need, Mr. Li, let's go to the front line. I want to see how powerful this Portuguese is?"

"Well, well, the emperor also wants to get rid of the Portuguese as soon as possible and take back our Daming territory." Li Guangdi couldn't refute Zhang Qiang, after all, he was also for his own country.

For Daming's sake, he also wants to see how powerful the Huaxia Army is. Although he has visited the central hinterland of the Huaxia Army, he has not really seen the Huaxia Army's battles.

The two sides set off immediately, Zhang Qiang led the guard group, and the others stayed at the Jiuxing County garrison.

Huang Binqing kept looking at Zhang Qiang coldly. He wanted to see how the Chinese army defeated the Portuguese and the Qing army, and why the Qing army was so afraid of them.

But his eyes didn't stay on Zhang Qiang all the time, his eyes kept on those soldiers of the guard regiment.

There is no way to compare the gorgeous military uniforms. Their military uniforms are uniforms, which are not so glamorous, but they are durable and can be worn for several years without changing them for several years.

Compared with the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Guard Corps, they felt like beggars.

Looking at the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia Army, the long spears are all steel spears, extremely sharp, shining with cold light, and the heavy knives are so heavy that they are afraid of people when they think about them.

The war horses are all good horses. Although they are not that tall, they look like elite Mongolian war horses. He wondered, this is the south, and they are all small horses not much bigger than goats. Where did the Huaxia Army get these fierce looking horses? A Mongolian war horse with extraordinary endurance and such a high load?

He didn't know that since the surrender of the Huaxia Army, there are still hundreds of people from the Chadaier tribe raising horses for the Huaxia Army. The Huaxia Army still has a pasture on Treasure Island. It was originally in the valley of Xianju County The horse farm is now the storage place for the Chinese army's war horses, where tens of thousands of war horses are stored.

Those war horses were raised or bred in the past few years. The war horses are constantly supplemented and optimized by the Hetao Mongolian war horses secretly transported from Mongolia, so as to maintain their ambition and combat effectiveness, and will not be affected by the hot and humid weather in the south. , so that the Mongolian war horses have also become short-legged horses in the south without endurance.

Look at the armor of the Huaxia Army, good guy, it is brighter and stronger than the armor of the Spaniards and the Dutch, and more importantly, it is armed to the teeth, and the whole body is wrapped in it.

These are the new armors that Zhang Qiang equipped after the Huaxia Army's iron and steel smelting improved. Zhang Qiang crossed over by playing the game of horseback riding and slashing. These armors must be of the same style. They are the armor styles made by people of later generations. , Compared with the armor made by Westerners today, it is a hundred times more beautiful, and the function is also a hundred times more practical, and it is not so heavy.

According to the heavy armor of Westerners today, the full body armor weighs more than 80 kilograms. Even the Spaniards and the Dutch can't wear it as they want, and they can only wear it when they are fighting.

As for Zhang Qiang's cavalry, since there are horses to share their physical strength, they also put on them, but they are armor after all, even if it is a full-body plate armor, even if it is simplified, it is also very heavy, weighing forty to fifty catties. So they didn't take it off, it was because they had to protect Zhang Qiang's safety, they had to wear it in batches, when the enemy came to deal with it, others could take the opportunity to wear it.

Looking at the muskets in the hands of the cavalry of the guard regiment, they seem to be very advanced.

Not only is it short, but it seems that there is no matching rope. What the hell is this?

Can it be used without a match?

He didn't know about this. Zhang Qiang's guards were of course equipped with the best weapons. They had new front-loading flintlock guns and breech-loading flintlock guns imitating the Dutch, which could fire continuously, and there were Rifling, but you can only fire three shots in a round, and you have to reload after three shots, and you can only fire again when you fill up with three case-type bullets.

Although the range is not as good as the muzzle-loading rifle, it is better in speed.

However, there are not many front-loading rifles, only a few dozen, and the rate of fire is extremely slow, so they can only be used to snipe enemy officers.

Others were armed with muzzle-loading flintlock muskets.

This is the guard force, the most elite, and they are the first to equip new weapons. For other troops, only some Class-A elite field brigades will be equipped with front-loading smoothbore flintlocks. The guard brigade is equipped with such equipment, only the guard brigade The general's guard will be equipped with front-loading rifles, which is to defend the general.

Those field brigades who followed were still equipped with Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns, which were the same as their equipment.

The Huaxia Army refitted from north to south. Some of He Jin’s field brigade elite units were equipped with Jin Kai 2 matchlock guns, and some newly recruited field brigade troops, battalions and regiments were still equipped with Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns.

This is mainly due to Zhang Qiang's idea that the enemy cannot learn so quickly. Even if they get it, it is only two or three generations behind the Huaxia Army's weapons and equipment.

Therefore, even in the Southern Ming Kingdom, from civil servants to military generals, from military generals to down-to-earth Ming army township braves, and common people, they are all observing the guards and the Huaxia Army, but they can't see anything. They are not experts, so it is difficult found something.

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But no matter what, Zhang Qiang is here to help them, and they can't be too harsh, and they can't ask too much.

That's it for the front line.

The camps of the Ming army on the front line were even larger, stretching over a dozen or so miles long company camps.

The opposite is the county town of Haomenjing.

There is no city wall in Haomenjing County, but there are fortifications built according to the hills on all sides, including forts, forts, ditches, and various flags flying in different positions.

In front of the position are horses, tree stumps, and potholes, like the surface of the moon. Many corpses were dumped in those places, and no one went to collect them.

Most of them belonged to the Ming army.

Such a scene made Zhang Qiang think of Raozhou Mansion and the battle between the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army.

Really like ah.

I didn't expect the Portuguese to learn it so quickly.

Inside the telescope, there are also quite a few Portuguese camps, and people of all colors can be seen busy a dozen miles away.

It really looks like the Allied Forces are fighting against the Ming Dynasty.

Passing over the overlapping camps and positions, I saw a place that looked like a town in the distance, and on a cliff behind, a place that looked like a European castle loomed.

On the seashore, you can also see the masts on the sea, like the shadow of sails that can't be seen at a glance.

This scene reminded Zhang Qiang of the scene of the Kingdom of Heaven's expedition to Jerusalem.

But it seems that the characters are reversed, they are the attacker, Saladin, and the opponent is the defender, the crusader.