Lord of Ming Dynasty

After the artillery fire stopped, Chen Youzheng got up and looked at his body. Except for being embarrassed by the gunpowder smoke and his head and face were ashamed, he was not injured at all. He looked around, oh my god, there are so many dead bodies, few of them can stand up. The corpses of many people were hanging on the parapet wall, and the limbs of many people were mutilated. The entire city wall was like hell on earth.

Like him, the general was not harmed in any way, but his face was full of gunpowder and he was in a panic. He staggered and walked towards Chen Youzheng, "General, make a decision quickly, or we will all be reduced to pieces."

Chen Youzheng was also terrified, "Surrender, open the city gate, and fly the white flag."

Chapter 485 The Victory of the Blossom

Chen Youzheng's bombing is the reason why the army is staggering. It is the newly developed flower bomb of the Huaxia Army. The use has always been suppression, and then suppression, until the enemy has mastered what he has learned before, and will face strategic failure when confronting the enemy, or when there are heavy tactical casualties, some advanced weapons will be allowed to be used in small quantities.

This is because even though the Huaxia Army already has front-loading rifles, and the technology is quite mature, it is only a small number of troops with the most elite equipment, which has never been known to outsiders. Until now, the garrison troops still use Jinkai 1 matchlock guns. , instead of a large number of refitting Jinkai 2 matchlocks to enhance their combat effectiveness.

And the militia brigade is equipped with a large number of cold weapons, broadswords, spears, and even some newly reorganized captive troops and newly reorganized civilians and young and strong militia teams are not even equipped with weapons, but only send a team with weapons. The army led them and asked them to carry wooden sticks, big sticks used by government servants to beat boards, or directly use agricultural tools as some necessary weapons to maintain local law and order.

The distribution of weapons in the militia is trapezoidal, with a grade distribution, from bare-handed to holding sticks and farm tools, to the security forces with some captured tattered weapons and shields, and even some elite militia auxiliary troops who guard the captives. There are also bamboo spears, bamboo knives, and wicker and rattan armor on their backs. Only officers have a goose feather knife, mandarin duck knife and other weapons and equipment.

The militia troops who had experienced blood and fire in the battle only had waist knives, Xiuchun knives, and Ming army waist knives equipped by the former Ming army. The bows and arrows used were short bows and horn bows captured by Mongolian cavalry.

Even the militia brigades defending the city only have real swords and spears, bows and arrows, all of which are weapons produced by the enemy, or some old muskets built in the early stage, carrying guns, firecrackers, three-eyed blunderbuss, bed crossbows and so on.

Those who went directly to the battlefield were holding shotguns seized from the Qing army, firecrackers from the Ming army, and cannons from the Ming army and cannons from the Qing army. The weapons were messy and the supplies were not smooth. They were not equipped with good weapons and equipment at all. Large-scale standard weapons.

What are you afraid of?

I'm afraid they will rebel.

With such weapons, they can't compete with the cold weapon troops in the garrison, even the new barracks. The lowest-level recruits in the new barracks are equipped with standard Ming army waist knives and Ming army bows. The matchlock guns below version 1.0 eliminated by the Huaxia Army in the early stage, in the face of advanced queues, tactics, and organizations, even with such weapons, under the leadership of officers, a new barracks with more than 500 people must defeat a team of two to 3000 people The elite militia troops in the country are also more than enough.

The militia unit is the reserve team of recruits, the recruit battalion is the reserve team of the garrison, the garrison is the reserve team of regular troops such as field brigades and cavalry brigades, and the D-level field brigade and cavalry brigade are the C-level field brigade and cavalry The reserves of the brigades, the C-level field brigades and the cavalry brigades are the reserves of the B-level field brigades and cavalry brigades, and so on.

The Field Brigade is the reserve team of the Guards Brigade. When they arrive in the Guards Brigade, they will end up as soldiers. Either they will die in battle, or they will be retired at the end of the year, or they will be promoted to officers. It is necessary to be promoted to officers in the Guards Brigade. It's quite difficult, because there are the most elite and elite groups in it, and it's very difficult for the strong and even the strong to stand out.

Serving in the militia for three to five years, if you can't get promoted, you can only go home and become a commoner.

In order to adjust the contradiction between the population and the use of soldiers in the war, the Huaxia Army adopted the service system of later generations. If you don’t have a skill but are physically strong, you can serve as a soldier. First serve in the militia. If you perform well, you will soon He was raised into the new barracks and trained in the new barracks. If he performed well, he would be sent to the garrison. If he performed well, he would be sent back to the militia. In the militia, he would serve as a low-level militia officer with poor performance. Those who were sent back directly to the militia and continued to serve as militia, but they were better than those prisoners who were strong and served and the young and strong civilians in the field.

They have a good chance of promotion, even if they do not perform well in the new barracks, they will soon become grassroots officers in the militia and low-level troops.

For example, Wuchang, Shichang, and those who have average performance will be the general banner. They have to start from a small soldier, and they will be promoted very quickly.

Promoted to the combat unit as a soldier, and those who have done meritorious service will also be sent to the garrison as a soldier. After a few years, they will become a corps leader. Field brigade, they become real regular army soldiers.

If the garrison is short of officers, they can be promoted to a small flag or the general flag. If they have military exploits or perform well, they will stay and continue to be promoted. If they have no chance by then, they can only retire , Go back to your hometown, become an officer of the militia in your hometown, or a local government official, such as a fast catcher, then they are really ordinary people.

The weapons and equipment of the field troops are much better, at least not far behind the most advanced weapons. For example, the several brigades organized in front of the field brigade have been replaced with smoothbore flintlock guns, getting rid of the troublesome operation of arquebus guns and complicated procedures. musket.

Some elite troops were even equipped with flintlock muzzleloading rifles, such as the guards of the most elite generals.

In this battle, in order to quickly resolve the armed forces left by the Yongli Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains who were unclear from the Yongli Ming Dynasty, Zhang Qiang used the artillery equipped with explosive bullets equipped by the Guards Brigade.

This flowering bomb is actually a kind of experimental product. It is just a hollow iron ball hit with grains of black powder, and then a delay fuse is placed inside.The gun is loaded with propellant powder, and then stuffed into a mass of silk-wrapped cork and clay to block the gun bore, and then the artilleryman ignites the fuse of the shell and covers it with a cover with holes, just like putting a mortar The shells were put into the barrel like shells, and then the artillerymen behind lit the guns with tongs, and the shells were fired.

After the shell flew for several miles, the fuse burned out, and after the shell fell into the middle of the enemy, the shell exploded, killing the enemy.

Under the current circumstances, Zhang Qiang could only do so.

Because he has no relevant military industry knowledge, and the system does not provide relevant military industry knowledge.

But this is so primitive. In fact, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were flowering bombs with related technologies, which caused the enemy a big loss. They have never seen this kind of shells that can directly explode in the army. They thought the shells were solid iron bumps. son.

This kind of shell with no technical content allowed the Huaxia Army to lead the enemy for a long time, but because it had no technical content, Zhang Qiang could only keep it secret. It was only used on the rebel army with a low force value like Chen Youzheng. After being heavily surrounded, The Qing army was in civil turmoil, and the Lu State had not straightened out the relationship between their monarch and ministers. When there was a fierce struggle between ministers and ministers, it was impossible for anyone to care about the battle of an anti-reverse army with only a few thousand people. At least 80.00% to [-]% will not leak secrets when used, it is very safe, and it can quickly eliminate this mob, freeing up time and strength for the next step to concentrate on fighting Li Guo's Dashun Army.

After watching the Huaxia Army's quick swordsmanship and spending a day and a night to deal with the 12-strong Chen Youzheng Army anyway, Zhang Qiang didn't pay much attention to them, but turned his attention back to Li Guo's Dashun Zhongzhen Camp, where there are still 20 mobs , and there are fifty or sixty thousand rogue troops with experience in combat.

Chapter 486 Li Guo Surrenders

At the same time, Li Guo was making adjustments with Gao Yigong.

Hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children left behind, and the weakest ones left were at least able to dig pits, and the 45 to [-] strong old people who repaired the wall. In ancient times, old people were born to do physical work, and Li Guo did not treat them harshly. They still care about them from time to time, so their spirits are very high, and their loyalty to the Zhongzheng Camp is also high. Five or six young men who were thin, or who didn't know how to do anything, tossed around outside Jingzhou Fucheng for several days.

Several ditches were dug, and several fortresses and camps were built, and all the young and strong people who were engulfed by the 20 loyal camp were put in, so that they no longer lived in those nests and straw huts, and everyone received Weapons, at least each person has a kitchen knife or a bamboo spear, and some people hold homemade bows and arrows.

It can be said that Li Guo completely treated these people as soldiers and armed them this time.

There are also some strong women in the army, who are used in the army to carry supplies and cook, wash clothes, chop firewood, and boil water.

It can be said that the Dashun army is an expert in the management of coercion of the people, and no one is better at managing the huge number of people from all directions, four townships and eight villages.

Looking down from a high altitude, the entire Jingzhou Mansion is a huge military camp, or a place of labor.

From the prefectural city, to the county seat, to various towns, there are people working, either repairing the city wall, digging the moat, repairing the river, and then building camps, or harvesting crops, fruits, and felling trees in the fields.

Every place seems to be ready for the war before the war comes.

All of this was mastered by Zhang Qiang, and was also collected by the intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department, and then sent to Xiao Fei's headquarters. It can be said that the Huaxia Army knows more about the situation in Jingzhou Mansion than Li Guo.

Looking at the costumes in Fucheng, there are about [-] elite soldiers and [-] of the strongest young people working, and about a few thousand old people and women are fighting as a logistics support army.

In the counties around Jingzhou Fucheng, there are thousands of soldiers and thousands of people in each county, and there are more than [-] troops stationed on the main roads in each direction. A large camp has been built to protect these counties, ready to Rescue these counties.

In Qianjiang County, facing the direction of Xiaogan, there are [-] troops stationed and [-] civilians working, ready to meet the Huaxia Army at any time.

And just when the Huaxia Army ended the siege of Chen Youzheng, and the anyway army that successfully wiped out Chen Youzheng was busy reorganizing and screening out the common people, Xiao Fei ran over and said to Zhang Qiang, "Governor, Li Guo sent a copy." Surrender letter, hoping to surrender to our army."

"Ah, is he thinking of surrendering to us?" Zhang Qiang was very surprised. When did Li Guo submit to others?

Did he receive the news that Chen Youzheng was surrounded and wiped out?

Is he scared?

He has learned that the Huaxia Army has surrounded him on all sides, has his Dashun Army realized that it is irrational to fight the Huaxia Army?

"He really surrendered to us?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Xiao Fei said: "He sent an envoy, that envoy was an official of the Yongli Daming, and then the Qing army came to fight him, and he surrendered to the Qing army, and then He Tengjiao came back, and he went anyway, after Li Guo came He surrendered to Li Guo's Dashun Army. Judging from his behavior, he was not liked by Li Guo, otherwise he would not have been sent as an envoy, so even if we killed him, Li Guo would not feel bad, because Not the generals or officials of their Dashun Army."

"What did the envoy say? Does Li Guo have any other requests? For example, what should the officials or his troops do?" Zhang Qiang knew that Li Guo surrendered, and it was impossible for a rogue like him, or someone who wanted to make a difference. Surrender easily, they are the kind of people who will never surrender to the enemy until the last moment, and even commit suicide to show their will.

"The envoy said that Dashun can surrender and be loyal to the Huaxia Army, but the Huaxia Army must ensure that Dashun is still self-contained, retain all the officers and soldiers of the Dashun Army, and provide the weapons and artillery of the Huaxia Army. The Qing army fought, but they could not fight against the Yongli Ming Dynasty, Li Guo wanted to become a brigade commander of the Huaxia Army's guard brigade, and his official position was at least that of an admiral." Afterwards, Xiao Fei said a lot of things.

It's nothing more than wanting officials, soldiers, money, territory, and power, but they don't want the Huaxia military to control them. They decide what matters on their territory.

These conditions are simply heartbreaking. Surrendering can be done so righteously and without shame. I really think that the Huaxia Army is made of persimmons, not sloppy.

Xiao Fei tentatively said to Zhang Qiang: "Why don't we agree to them first? After delaying for a while, let's drive He Tengjiao out of Hubei Province first. He Tengjiao is a dog skin plaster or a cunning old fox. If we let it go, it may cause us harm." What harm? We are about to fight Hong Chengchou's Lu Guoqing soldiers, solve the problem in Hubei Province as soon as possible, or appease them, let them be honest, then we will send people into their barracks, and slowly clean them up with soft knives ?”

"Hehe," Zhang Qiang smiled at Xiao Fei, "Do you think I might agree to such a thing? Has the Huaxia Army ever been weak to anyone since it became an army? I don't want to leave the problem to be solved later. They will also be a big problem in the future." , I'm not Chongzhen, nor Yang Guodong, nor Yang He, or Sun Chuanting, I can't suppress them, let them revive, only war, only elimination is the purpose of the Huaxia Army, if we can't completely surrender, we will use knives with them , talk with guns, never talk about things that can't be done with guns. Do you understand?"

Xiao Fei was sweating profusely, "Yes, Commander-in-Chief, I understand, I will immediately arrange to encircle and suppress them, and I will not agree to their conditions."