Lord of Ming Dynasty

Relying on the sea, at least you can transport food and grass with other forces through the sea, do trade, and gain support.

Straighten out the military system and the official system, confer official positions on individuals, own their own territory, and set up a protective umbrella for Zhang Qiang's Jinhua territory. Zhang Qiang can train his troops in peace of mind under this umbrella. One month later, he will send troops to Taizhou.

After traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers, in the distant Yanping Mansion, Li Chengdong was also discussing with his subordinates Zhang Qiang, the Jinhua Rebel Army. Li Chengdong knew Zhang Qiang, the rebel army. For more than a month and a half, nearly two months, he originally thought that Ruan Dacheng could solve the problem, but Ruan Dacheng let Zhang Qiang's rebel army solve it.

This can not but be said to be a shocking reversal. Everyone knows that the Ming army lost at least eight out of ten battles in field battles. The two times were blessed by God, or the soldiers worked hard, and barely managed to win once or twice. .

Li Chengdong was determined to wait until Emperor Longwu was captured and the Nanming court of Longwu pacified, so he must return to his division to clean up this Jinhua rebel army.

Now, he can only report the situation here to Boluo, and Boluo reports the matter to the regent Dorgon. Dorgon sees that it will be a small rebel army soon, although it is somewhat unexpected Unexpectedly, but it is also within the controllable range, just a place of residence, surrounded by the Qing army on all sides, wherever you can go, send a fast horse to convey your order to Tong Yangjia's army in Hangzhou, "Destroy Jinhua within a limited time Rebels."

Chapter 74 Artillery Battalion

Tong Yangjia in Hangzhou had long wanted to march into Jinhua again to encircle and suppress Zhang Qiang's Jinhua rebels, but he couldn't walk away for a while. The rebels in Suzhou also came one after another. Get up, the key is Lu Jianguo in Zhoushan area, the Nanming forces of the legal successor of the Ming Dynasty are holding him back, and the Ming army forces of Huang Binqing, the commander-in-chief conferred by Emperor Longwu.

His army was basically spent on these Nanming defenders, and he was unable to send troops to Jinhua Mansion, so he could only send troops to guard various important places. He never expected that Zhang Qiang would cut the butcher knife at his territory.

In Jinhua Mansion, Zhang Qiang continued to train his firecracker soldiers and other soldiers with cold weapons. This time, [-] soldiers were trained again. It played a very good role. Dozens of people, a dozen people, have greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the personal soldiers of each department, and they have become very elite.

I was full of praise, and I sent these soldiers down again, and they became the mainstay of the army. Soon, those who surrendered the Han army flag and the Ming army really wanted to serve Zhang Qiang's army. There used to be deserters from time to time, but now deserters Extinct, the morale of all arms is like a rainbow, and the training is hard.

Now even those newly joined common people have reached the strength of the rebel militia one after another.

Zhang Qiang's main force has increased from more than 5000 to 7000.

After training, Zhang Qiang wandered around and patrolled the army directly under him.

When he walked to the back mountain of Beishan outside Jinhuafu City, he heard the rumbling sound of cannons. This was his artillery battalion training.

After Mi Chun was released to Pujiang County, Zhang Qiang asked the artillery to come over and directly lead it. Due to the particularity of the artillery battalion, the organization is slightly different.

The artillery has a firecracker squadron of [-] households, an infantry squadron of [-] households, and a reinforced artillery squadron of [-] households.

This infantry squadron is mixed, with a general flag knife player, a small archer flag, a spearman flag, a crossbowman flag, and a rebel young and strong flag.

The main function of this young and strong flag of the rebel army is to manage the carts for transporting materials, cook food, set up tents, and dig bunkers and tunnels needed for cannons.

Artillery is a one-hundred-household system, with five general banners to strengthen the one-hundred-household system.

One of the general banners is in charge of three Hongyi cannons, one is in charge of five Fran cannons, two is in charge of twelve tiger squatting cannons, and the other is in charge of fifty cannons on the city wall of Jinhuafu. Tiger crouching cannons, twelve Franco cannons, and four Hongyi cannons, this general flag will not follow the army to fight. Although they belong to the artillery battalion, the command authority is usually with the guard commander, who is responsible for defense There is Zhou Zhou Porridge in Jinhua County.

Although Zhang Qiang really wanted to expand these people to one hundred households, or even two hundred households, not everyone knew how to play cannons. These artillerymen were collected from the nearly [-] captives. There are many people who are just doing handymen in the Qing army or the Ming army, and have never touched cannons. Although the strength of the general banner seems to be unable to take care of so many captured artillery, there are still garrison troops and guards. Commanding the troops of Qianhusuo, as well as the young and strong in the city, these people only need to know how to fire artillery, and those who do the rest will do.

When marching and fighting, you have to use purely technical artillery, regular artillery, so Zhang Qiang asked these people to come to the back mountain for training.

He can't train them, because in his coaching skills, he can only train infantry formations, weapon use, strengthen their discipline, obedience, infantry tactics, formation changes, enhance their combat morale, and even teach them some experience in battle , others, he did not learn.

Although there are only three hundred households, there are nine hundred and ninety-five troops. If you count the general banner that does not go to the expedition, 95 people, then this artillery battalion can become a thousand households, with slightly fewer troops.

This battalion has no generals, and is directly led by Zhang Qiang. In the same sentence, there are no skilled generals, but trustworthy generals.

The three hundred households were selected from the elite rebel soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang, and they were not subordinate to each other, but only cooperated in general.

Those who protect protect, those who fire fire fire, and act in full accordance with Zhang Qiang's orders.

A strong man, more than six feet tall, with a broad body and long arms, a square face, thick eyebrows, a flat nose, and fists like vinegar jars, held a small Franco cannon shell in one hand, and said something loudly to the artillerymen.

Zhang Qiang was dressed in casual clothes, and the guards led the horse. He just looked at this strong man from a distance. He knew this man. He was a pro-army infantry trained by himself. Did the Han army flag down? People from Liaodong, Daming lost Liaodong In the past few decades, the Liaodong people who grew up later were actually descendants of Han army flag tartars and enslaved servants, and they were no longer true Ming people.

Originally, Zhang Qiang didn't want to use these people, but this guy had a pure heart for Daming in his heart, and he wanted to repay the court, so Zhang Qiang called him into the pro-army infantry he personally trained. Soldiers train together.

He is the first batch, and also the first batch of senior rebel soldiers trained after Zhang Qiang's coaching skills reached level four. There are only 150 senior rebel soldiers, and there are fifty senior infantry soldiers. He is one of them, but this man When Zhang Qiang was attacked by He Jin, when the village was abandoned at the foot of Bailuxi Mountain, he lost a dozen people. The remaining Zhang Qiang was recruited back when he trained the elite soldiers of the rebel army for the first time. It's an elite rebel soldier.

It is equivalent to the corporals in the infantry of later generations. Others were sent to the troops under their own subordinates to serve as corporal commanders and special commanders. , Xiaoqi, Shichang, Wuchang, and the rest were supplemented by the young and strong rebels who were injured in the second battle of Jinhua Mansion.

Those young and strong rebel soldiers are not considered ordinary infantry anymore. Most of them have experienced two Jinhua defense battles. Some of them have been trained by Zhang Qiang and have become rebel militiamen. It is to use these elite soldiers to protect their own artillery.

To be loyal and loyal, to be humane and humane, you have fought against Zhang Qiang, or been trained by Zhang Qiang. It can be seen that Zhang Qiang still attaches great importance to his artillery.

It’s just that Zhang Qiang is usually very forgetful. It may be a problem left over from when he was an otaku in later generations. This person is very familiar, the name is very familiar, this face seems to have been seen somewhere before, and what deeds this person has, but I just can’t think of it. Thinking about this person's name, the name is more troublesome for him than pi.

"What's this guy's name?" He asked Zhu Dayou who was following him in charge of artillery logistics.

Zhu Dayou didn't know what this guy's name was, so he quickly called a soldier from the artillery battalion and questioned him carefully for a while.

Chapter 75 Artillery Qianhu Zhao Siyang

After Zhu Dayou heard the report, he said to Zhang Qiang: "This man is Zhao Siyang, a Liaodong native, Han Banner Banner Ding, who was captured by our army and was pulled out to join the army. Afterwards, Sir, you trained him yourself."

Zhang Qiang slapped his forehead, "Yes, look at my memory."

Zhang Qiang walked a few more steps with the man, "This man is very good, and the artillerymen he trained are very good. Call him over."

Zhao Siyang was training the artillerymen, and he saw Zhang Qiang and his party, but he didn't dare to go forward, because his identity as a surrendered soldier made him feel a little inferior, what he could do was to do his job well and train the artillerymen Better, only in this way can we gain a firm foothold in this army.

He didn't expect this army to defeat the Qing army, fight back to Liaodong, and rescue his parents. The only thing he can do is to climb up as much as possible. The Jurchen Tartar slaves were fed up with the bullying parents and vented their anger on themselves.

A personal soldier came up and said proudly to Zhao Siyang: "Your Excellency told you to come over."

Zhao Siyang pressed his waist knife, and was so excited that he was about to fall to the ground, trying to stabilize his emotions. Zhao Siyang followed the soldiers and came to Zhang Qiang, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, "There are hundreds of households in the artillery battalion.

"Get up, Zhao Siyang." Zhang Qiang took a closer look at Zhao Siyang, yes, the memory of him is still very clear in his mind, he looks fierce on the surface, but the heart under his chest looks more delicate and weak.

Zhao Siyang stood up with the support of his own soldiers.

"Zhao Siyang, tell me what you think about the artillery?" Zhang Qiang came to consider this surrendered soldier.

Zhao Siyang tried his best to calm down his emotions, thought for a while, and said: "My lord, artillery is not very useful in the south where the water network is dense, but it has to be used."

Zhang Qiang asked again: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Siyang lowered his head, followed Zhang Qiang forward, Zhu Dayou followed Zhang Qiang, and the surrounding soldiers watched all around vigilantly, Zhao Siyang answered Zhang Qiang's question, "My lord, whether it is our army or the enemy's cannon It is cumbersome to travel south, and the smaller ships cannot support the weight of such a cannon. The larger ships are impassable in some small rivers, and there are some places where they cannot go, and some places need cannons to conquer the enemy's strong fortifications , so the villain said that the cannon is useful and useless in the south."

"Well, it's good that you can take this into consideration, so is there a solution?"

Zhao Siyang raised his head and straightened his waist while talking, "It's not impossible, but the villain thinks that those Hongyi cannons don't need to follow the army, they just need to be placed on the city wall, and the Fran cannons can barely keep up Marching, but that kind of cannon has a short range and serious air leakage. The villain suggested calling craftsmen to improve those Fran cannons. Although the tiger squat cannon has a short range, it can cover our infantry to a certain extent, and you can bring more."

Zhang Qiang was a little discouraged. Zhao Siyang's ideas did not surpass the ideas of people of this era. The key was that the technical problems could not be solved. However, he could have such an idea, which showed that he was at least a qualified artillery commander in this era.

Zhang Qiang said to Zhu Dayou who was beside him: "Zhao Siyang is thoughtful and a great talent. Immediately promote him to Qianhu of the Artillery Battalion and take charge of the Artillery Battalion."

Zhao Siyang was taken aback when he heard this, and was immediately overwhelmed by flattery. He knelt down again, kowtowed, and said loudly: "The villain thanked the lord, the villain will be so heartbroken, and he will die for the lord."

Zhang Qiang helped him up with a smile, "It's nothing. If you have this talent, I will reuse it and promote you. Can you manage the artillery battalion for me?"

Zhao Siyang patted his chest and said: "The villain must do his best, my lord will watch."

"Okay, as you said, equip more tiger squatting cannons, and more Fran cannons. As for the Hongyi cannons,"