Lord of Ming Dynasty

The key is the artillery of the Huaxia Army. The artillery used by the Huaxia Army after the war with the Qing Army has basically been eliminated. The quality is good and complete. The heavy artillery is placed at the head of the city and on the pass for use by the militia and the garrison. The regular army is all equipped with new artillery, which is better in quality, lighter in weight, better in maneuverability and longer in range than before, and is also equipped with experimental explosive ammunition.

Each brigade of the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade is equipped with a new-style artillery brigade, each brigade of the field brigade is equipped with a new-style artillery battalion, and the other battalion is an old-style artillery battalion, but the artillery is relatively well preserved and in good condition. The three-pound gun, the regular army of the Huaxia Army has also been eliminated.

Although the six-pound gun is a bit heavier than the three-pound gun today, it can cover a range of 80 meters to 750 meters. Compared with adding a three-pound gun to cover a range of 30 meters to 150 meters, the six-pound gun saves more troops. The pound gun made the huge artillery unit streamlined a lot, and formed more field brigade artillery. In the past, the Huaxia Army had only three to five artillery brigades, but now they are split into various regular army units, and the artillery brigades are no longer kept alone. up.

The eliminated artillery, the old three-pounders and six-pounders are equipped with a small amount of garrison troops. A garrison regiment has one hundred households, which is equivalent to a company of artillery. Militia troops have two companies of artillery at the brigade level. It's all put in the warehouse and ready to sell for money.

Under such circumstances, as Tong Dawei, who had sold weapons and equipment to Longwu Nanming, the rebels in various places, and Yongli Nanming, it was his duty to do his job and sell these weapons and equipment to the two of them.

Under Tong Dawei's persuasion, Li Chengdong bought eighty three-pound guns, fifty six-pound guns, and thirty nine-pound guns. It is much better, but it is more expensive. A three-pound gun costs 300 taels, a six-pound gun costs 700 taels, and a nine-pound gun costs 1000 taels. These cost him 9 taels. Ten thousand, you have to pay the training fee, which is 12 taels of silver.

It cost more than 30 taels of silver to buy those before, but now nearly 50 taels of silver went out, and he felt very distressed.

And Wang Deren also bought almost 50 taels of weapons and artillery, and the training fee was not much, because he was given by the court, and his troops were originally ordered to accept the change and training of the cavalry brigade. Of course, he paid the money. You can't go out by yourself, you have to go out from the court.

Tong Dawei, who made a deal, was of course happy, and returned drunk.

A few days later, the booming training began.

In the past, he didn't realize that he was an expert in training troops, because he himself became a monk halfway and returned to the Huaxia Army, but when he started training, whether it was the newly formed cavalry brigade under Su Zhengqing or the newly formed cavalry under Wang Deren The brigade, or the [-] soldiers under Li Chengdong, all advanced by leaps and bounds under the training of the training instructors of the cavalry brigade under his command.

This made him very happy, which may be due to the conversation he had with Governor Zhang Qiang when he left. During the conversation, he felt like he was sleepwalking. Countless training scenes were input into the In his mind, he actually remembered those things, and he could quickly grasp some essentials.

He couldn't forget Zhang Qiang's piercing and intelligent eyes.

The days passed day by day, and the battle between the Nanming Kingdom and the Qing army never ceased. Battles of hundreds of people between the two sides occurred from time to time at the border, battles of a thousand people also happened every ten days and a half months, and battles of more than [-] people It happened once, this time the Ming army regained three of the previously lost county towns and pushed the frontier a little towards the borders of Guangxi and Guangdong.

It has been two and a half months since the days of training the Ming Army of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Tong Dawei, Li Chengdong, and Wang Deren are getting closer and closer, and at the same time they have become friends with Su Zhengqing.

Su Zhengqing once fought side by side with Zhang Qiang, which made the soldiers of the Huaxia Army accept him. Because the other soldiers of the Ming Army always looked like ruffians, or were superior, they looked like masters, which made the simple soldiers of the Huaxia Army very uncomfortable. Happy.

The Huaxia Army is not very popular in the Nanming Kingdom, because the theme of the propaganda in the Nanming Kingdom is that the Qing Army is the most evil, the chief culprit who seized the Ming Army, and the Huaxia Army is a rebellion against the emperor, but the Huaxia Army The leader still cared about Daming's country and contributed to Daming's comeback, so he was an ally and a separatist warlord who didn't obey orders. Of course, it would be embarrassing to treat such a person.

Tong Dawei wrote all these situations into a memorial and reported them to Zhang Qiang, but Zhang Qiang, apart from praising him for doing well in the arms business, just told him to do his own thing well, be alert to the attacks of the Nanming Kingdom, and just do his job well.

Tong Dawei was a little disappointed. He knew that people from the Military Intelligence Department were responsible for these things, and he was meddling in his own business. Moreover, he had been a personal guard for the policy of the governor of the Huaxia Army, Zhang Qiang. Well, now that the Huaxia Army has a growing population, prosperous business, and powerful force, they don't care about life and death in other places.

The reason why Zhang Qiang contributed money and people, and sometimes sent troops to help the Nanming Kingdom fight, was because the Nanming Kingdom was a controllable barrier that could help the Huaxia Army resist the invasion of the border by the Yongli Nanming or the Qing Army, so that the Huaxia Army had a stable state. development environment.

Now the Huaxia Army is confronting the Qing Army across the Yangtze River. The Qing Army does not have such a powerful navy that can rush across the Yangtze River and harass the Huaxia Army. However, the Huaxia Army's river fleet is stronger than the Qing Army.

Today's Huaxia Army site is the West Lake singing and dancing when to stop, ask the wine to the blue sky, smoke from cooking, a scene of prosperity, peace and harmony, I don't know how many people from the Nanming Kingdom and the people on the Qing Army site want to come and become Chinese people .

But the Huaxia Army strictly controls the border, and the militia patrols from time to time, inspecting the villages, and it is impossible for outsiders, except for the merchants in the caravan, to hide in the Huaxia Kingdom.

After seeking credit in vain, Tong Dawei continued to serve as the brigade commander of his fifth cavalry brigade, continued to perform the important task of training the soldiers of the Nanming Kingdom, and drank and chatted with Li Chengdong and Wang Deren in his spare time.

Learn about the dynamics of the Nanming Kingdom and other happenings in the Ming territory through their mouths.

Chapter 421: Nanming Beacon 2

Zhang Qiang inspected various prefectures along the Yangtze River to check the defense and preparations here.

The equipment of the Qing army is getting better and better, and the new troops trained by the Qing army are becoming more and more effective. The 28 towns of the Qing army gradually formed an army, each with 1000 soldiers, which is the same as the guard brigade of the Huaxia army. In terms of scale and military system, it is a good student to learn from the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army. They will learn all the establishments in the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade, and how they assemble weapons in the Huaxia Army.

Zhang Qiang has to say, Hong Chengchou is really a good student.

But what is ironic is that the first three armies trained by Hong Chengchou, Tian Bin's first army, and the more elite second and third armies were actually transferred to Yanjing by Dorgon to defend the capital. up.

As a result, there are only 25 towns left in the face of the Huaxia Army. According to the report of the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence who stayed there, ten of the 25 towns have completed their preparations, which are as elite as the First Army, and the ten towns are almost completed. The remaining five towns are newly formed Manchu troops, all led by Manchus, with Portuguese soldiers stranded and homeless serving as officers, and some Dutch officers who cannot leave serve as artillery officers.

Although these five towns have fewer troops, about 500 people, they have more cavalry. Very powerful, and these Manchu elite soldiers are very brave and not afraid of death.

According to intelligence, of these Manchu towns, two towns are controlled by cronies of Emperor Shunzhi, one town is controlled by Obai, and one town is controlled by cronies of Jierhalang and Mangurtai in the remaining two towns.

No matter how you look at it, Emperor Shunzhi and his allies seem to control the situation here. In fact, the twenty towns are all controlled by Hong Chengchou. The Mongolian cavalry and Manchu Qing troops also numbered more than one hundred thousand.

Therefore, the power of Emperor Shunzhi is still very small here, and there is nothing to fear.

Through these information, Zhang Qiang can speculate that Emperor Shunzhi is getting older, has his own claims, and wants to regain his emperor's rights. He has already extended his hand to the frontline army and started to develop his own power.

Zhang Qiang can only be happy, the Qing army has started to strife, and Dorgon transferred back the new army of the three armies, knowing that he was afraid that he would lose control of the Qing court, so he first transferred the cronies trained by Hong Chengchou from here , Consolidate your rights and suppress those princes and ministers who oppose you.

Let's be chaotic, the more chaotic the better, the more chaotic the better for the Han people, the better for the Huaxia Army.

Zhang Qiang inspected the field brigades one by one, the garrison regiments one by one, and the militia brigades one by one.

Starting from Jinling Fucheng, where Wei Wuji was in charge, he and Wei Wuji handed over information and opinions. Both of them believed that the Qing army was not fully prepared and there was no need to make more preparations. With the current ten field brigades, ten garrison regiments, and ten The militia brigade, three cavalry brigades, about 25 troops, defending the river bank, and the newly formed river fleet to monitor the enemy can completely reduce the burden on the Huaxia Army and prevent the enemy's surprise attack.

Whether it is the Huaxia Army or the Qing Army who want to attack each other, they need to land and fight. There are ten militia brigades, and each militia brigade has 1 people patrolling and monitoring, no matter which ferry or place is covered.

When the enemy landed in the early stage, when there were not many troops, the garrison garrison could lead the militia brigade to block it in time, and then handed over the task of annihilating the enemy's landing troops to the nearby field brigade. On the same level, in the early stage, firmly defend all areas, even if it is broken through, the field brigade in the rear can make up the defense step by step, and the guard brigade can quickly lead the troops defending the center of Jinhua Mansion, forming the main force to repel the enemy's attack .

Therefore, there is no need to deploy the rear field brigade and the garrisoned field brigade to form the main battle group to fight the enemy.

Why do you say ten field brigades?

Doesn't the Huaxia Army have 23 field brigades?

That's because in the direction of Nanming Kingdom, in Jiangxi Prefecture facing Huguang, there are a total of six field brigades, one cavalry brigade, to guard against the enemy's breakthrough from which direction, the other field brigade is stationed in Tingzhou Prefecture, and one cavalry brigade The brigade went to Nanming State, three field brigades were stationed in Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Hangzhou. The field brigade composed of Germans, Dutch, and Spanish prisoners is stationed in Zhangzhou Prefecture for training, and it is also a defensive supplementary force for the southwest and the enemy coming from the sea.

The 2nd Guards Brigade was stationed at the garrison factory in Xianju County, the 1rd Guards Brigade had just been established and was stationed in Chuzhou, the 1st Guards Brigade was stationed in the central center, and the [-]st Cavalry Brigade was stationed in Dongyang Town, Jinhua Prefecture.

The external border is heavily guarded, and the internal defense and suppression are point-to-face. At present, the strength of the Huaxia Army is still sufficient.

There are also garrison regiments in each prefecture, garrison battalions in each county, and hundreds of garrison households in each town, which is equivalent to a company. It can be said that there are also a lot of mobile troops. There are no militias and village guards in the core area, only government servants and arrests from various government offices.

The Huaxia Army is allocating all its wartime troops to the border areas, and the central area has returned to the people. This will reduce the local tax and financial pressure. They don't need to spend a lot of money to support the militia and village guards, making the core The economy of the regional and central regions recovered, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and returned to the living conditions of the Ming people under the Huaxia military system.

Now you won’t even see the prisoners of the punishment camp in the core area. There may be some difficult places, such as mines, mountain quarries, and some felons from hard labor camps, but there are very few of them. The local garrison The strength of the army can completely see them dead, and nothing will happen. At least so far, no criminals have escaped from prison and caused any disturbance to the local area.

After seeing that the situation of the Huaxia Army has improved, Zhang Qiang abolished the so-called green zone, yellow zone, and red zone system of the U.S. military in other countries on the battlefield, but divided the entire territory of the Huaxia Army according to the degree of stability and economic prosperity. It is the core area, which includes the original Jinhua Mansion, Quzhou Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, Chuzhou Mansion, Jianning Mansion, and Anguo Mansion; the central area: including Fuzhou Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, Ningbo Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion, Ting The state capital, Rao state capital, and other areas, and other areas close to the border are classified as marginal areas, which are areas where the enemy may break in and become a battlefield.

Although it is a marginal area, these areas have been stabilized. A large number of militias and village guards have been formed. There are basically no bandits or crimes. There are about 120 million prisoners of punishment camps. Hard labor is being built in that area. That said, they are not for a better tomorrow for the Huaxia Army and the people of China, but for tomorrow's food and their own heads. The punishment camp is quite a cruel place.

After discussing with Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji, Wei Wuji proposed to ask Nanming to launch a campaign aimed at annihilating or depleting the enemy's troops in the southwest direction.

Zhang Qiang was a little undecided, because Nanming's performance in the battle against the Portuguese coalition was better than before, with stronger resilience, and even the hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder soldiers who died were still fighting the enemy before finally collapsing. It felt that the Nanming Kingdom could not face the attack of the Qing army with nearly 20 troops, and the Qing army led by the hero of the Qing army, the traitor Kong Youde.

"My lord, we can't let the Qing army continue to prepare. We should take the initiative to launch an attack, at least let our allies, who are more anxious than us, want to attack the enemy more, so as to gain a greater advantage and recover Daming Rivers and Mountains as soon as possible.

I think Zhu Yujian of Longwu should be very anxious now, and feel restless every day, because Kong Youde's troops are getting stronger and stronger, and there are two princes and clan generals of the Qing army, Jierhalang and Manggurtai. Left and right, if we can give them a little help, I believe they will launch an attack and consume the enemy's strength. "

Wei Wuji, as a soldier, always thinks about fighting. Zhang Qiang can understand, but his troops are more than enough for defense now, but not enough for offense. The enemy has a million troops on the other side, and he has to pay a lot of casualties if he wants to attack. Holding a big blade, riding a war horse, bending a bow and nodding an arrow towards your artillery, the Qing army charged with muskets.

Attacking is a difficult problem for the Huaxia Army. Maybe after the attack, the current stable situation of the Huaxia Army will become a mess, ruining my hard work in the past few years.

Fang Yizhi, now a small county magistrate under the Huizhou government, has done a good job. He has served as the minister of the Ministry of War and has been in the cabinet. Therefore, his prestige and his talent have managed the county town quite well. So when Zhang Qiang was discussing things, he was called here.