Lord of Ming Dynasty

Compared with fighting on horseback, those promoted from the garrison and the garrison are not as good as the soldiers in the new barracks directly under the cavalry army, especially the outstanding soldiers who can be promoted from the new barracks.

The deputy squad leader of his boss, from the new barracks to the cavalry army, is about the same age as him, a little more than three years. Only the cavalry army in the Chinese Empire is special. It is not necessary or necessary for all soldiers to come from the new barracks of the empire. Soldiers are selected and promoted in the new barracks, because they have a special type of arms. Most of the cavalry recruits are from the Mongolian Governor-General who grew up on horseback, or the people of the Western Region Governor-General. They can directly enter the new barracks set up by the Cavalry Army To be promoted to the cavalry army, of course, the promotion process is similar to other armies.

This is why the cavalry army also has soldiers of the third class, which ensures that the cavalry army also has low-level soldiers. Otherwise, the soldiers promoted from the garrison, although they are infantry, must be excellent soldiers, and their rank must be high. Can people be arranged as soldiers?

Not to mention that the garrison was originally low-level, low-level training, or low combat effectiveness, and little knowledge, but the garrison had strict training, and the cavalry also had training. People who were promoted casually and could be selected by the cavalry army were corporals and sergeants. , A small number of outstanding first-class soldiers, these entered the cavalry army, and their ranks were very high. Could it be that they were arranged as soldiers, and the cavalry army with lower ranks were trained by themselves, and they were better at riding horses than them? Arranged as officers?

It can only be said to be reconciled to a certain extent, so that most of the outstanding soldiers of the garrison became soldiers, and some became officers. The cavalry army tried to choose their own outstanding officers to lead them. , but most of them still serve as soldiers, but their ranks are relatively high, so they can be used as the standard when the officers are no longer there. They are all soldiers. When making decisions, even if you are excellent, even if you were originally a regimental commander, after being demoted to a soldier, you still have to listen to the corporal or sergeant.

In a war against Russian cavalry patrols invading Turkey along the railway line, Li Ya led two first-class soldiers who were also promoted from the garrison, and successfully killed three Russian soldiers and rescued the cavalry army of their class. Soldier and deputy squad leader, after the squad leader, he was promoted to deputy squad leader, transferred to other squads, and became a deputy squad leader of the cavalry army.

Then in the provocative battle with Turkey, he rode around alone, defeated the attack of the Turkish cavalry from the side, and then was promoted to the squad leader. His squad leader ran away during the frontal battle, so he was dismissed and investigated. In one month, he won the appreciation of the officers of the cavalry army for his outstanding performance, and was sent to the training team for training. Three months later, he was promoted to sergeant and became the well-deserved sergeant squad leader of the cavalry army.

A month later, he was transferred to the First Division of the Central Asian Garrison as the sergeant squad leader. The garrison was equipped with a cavalry battalion when it was at the border, and he was a cavalry squad leader in the cavalry battalion.

When blocking a group of defeated Russian troops fleeing from the Arshaf dynasty to Russia, his company chased a battalion of the enemy for thousands of miles, and chased it all the way to the border of the Governor-General of Central Asia. They were all wiped out. In this battle, he also performed very well. He was transferred back to the cavalry training camp of the Garrison in the Western Regions, where he served as a cavalry sergeant and trained cavalry.

However, he was not satisfied. While training others, he was also studying artillery, and taught himself some military courses. A year later, he successfully passed the exam and became a student of the Artillery Academy from a sergeant.

At this time, he had only joined the army for five years, and after three years of studying at the Artillery Academy, he successfully obtained the rank of second lieutenant of the artillery, and was assigned to a camp of the garrison in Yunnan Guizhou, where he served as the deputy platoon leader of the artillery. The garrison here did not fight much. , and there was a battle, the artillery going out was just a formality, because this place belonged to the hinterland of the Chinese Empire, so he spent a year of idle time, and then applied for transfer to the artillery battalion of the garrison on the Ural defense line.

When he got there, he continued to serve as the deputy platoon leader of the artillery, but it was of no use. The garrison here only assisted in the defense. The general garrison did not leave the core area at all. He was unemployed for another year, and when he left, he was selected to be transferred to the local area. The artillery squad leader of the field army commanded an [-]-pound old artillery. Because of the disarmament, in fact, many weapons and equipment of the field army and other armies of the Chinese Empire have not been replaced for a long time. It is not as good as the cavalry army, garrison army, and guard army guarding here, so the weapons and equipment of the field army are very old.

A field army changed defense and arrived at the seaside. This is a small pier by the seaside that is 20 kilometers away from the small town of Vorkuta in the mountains of the Ural defense line. It is often attacked by North Sea pirates, Swedish pirates, and wandering in West Siberia Harassment and attacks by the remnants of the original rebels of the Qing Dynasty, the garrison here is a garrison camp composed of local immigrants, all of whom have lived here for nearly [-] years.

There is also a cavalry company transferred from Central Asia, and an infantry platoon of the Guards. In fact, this infantry platoon is the highest officer defending this place, a lieutenant colonel of the Guards. Their field army artillery only deployed one platoon. , the total strength here is only about [-] people, and the garrison battalion is not full at all, because it is a peacetime, and the garrison policy of the Chinese Empire's initial disarmament is still being implemented. One-third became militiamen, half farming in the local villages, and half preparing to replace soldiers in the garrison camp.

Generally, when the defense is changed, people from other armies are transferred from other places to change the defense. The garrison here has been localized. The main garrison task is actually the garrison of these two hundred people. Most of the time, the peasant militia will gather in the camp for training. At this time, there were about 600 people, maybe not enough, plus a company of the real cavalry army for defense, the number was no more than [-] people, plus the guard platoon of local officers, there were no more than [-] people, their field army artillery The platoon is for soy sauce, and the entire [-] kilometers is only one artillery company of the field army here. This is also arranged to keep the field army in combat effectiveness. Generally, the field army is on the defense line or in the interior, because the field army does not have to fight when it is not a large-scale battle. It will expand, but will not attack, so there is no need to maintain so many troops, just the backbone and officers.

It was nothing at all, some pirates attacked, the local garrison could repel them, and some rebels attacked, a company of cavalry army could drive them away for thousands of miles, but who knows, recently due to the Swedes collaborating with Russia The fighting in Poland made the relationship between Russia and Sweden tense. After a wave of Swedish soldiers supporting Poland was blown by the storm all night, about [-] warships suddenly appeared outside the port. They wanted to land, but of course they couldn’t, so the Swedes Storm the docks.

Don't look at Sweden doing business with the Chinese Empire, but in fact they have not restored normal relations with the Chinese Empire for a long, long time, because the Chinese Empire supports Russia, and they are actually enemies of the Chinese Empire. Of course, the enemy cannot be allowed to land on them. Then they made a detour to attack Russia. This is not just giving convenience. Regardless of the problem, this is their invasion of the territory of the Chinese Empire, because the Ural defense line goes deep into the Ural Mountains for a hundred kilometers, which is the territory of the Chinese Empire. The Qing Dynasty and Russia agreed and signed the treaty. Now this is the territory of the Chinese Empire. These lost Swedes want to land. Not to mention their relationship with the Chinese Empire, just say that their army wants to rest here , Take a rest, that is also not recognized, helping the enemy of the allies, this is something that no country will feel at ease, so it has to fight back.

Chapter 130 Why Li Ya became a mercenary 2

Because the enemy came too suddenly, the garrison hadn't fought here for many years, so the Swedes landed on the shore without reacting, and advanced three kilometers inland. Due to the rain, the garrison soldiers at the pier did not After reacting, they were annihilated by the enemy. It is really impossible for a mere squad to defeat an enemy regiment with nearly 2000 troops.

The garrison reacted by gathering troops while counterattacking, but the enemy came too fast, and soon the pier was lost, and the large army of the garrison came out of the camp, in the preset second-line defensive position, that is, four places outside the pier. The highlands entered combat readiness, and the patrolling cavalry company quickly recalled the platoons patrolling the [-]-kilometer coastline and the [-]-kilometer inland mountainous area, and dispatched scout cavalry to detect the enemy's movements, and only one squad of cavalry could be dispatched.

The field army stayed in the camp completely, just a platoon, [-] kilometers away from the pier. The shore artillery position on the pier was in charge of the garrison, and it was lost at this time. The garrison lost in this raid. The defensive strength of two platoons, the cavalry company was attacked by the enemy during the contact and patrol and lost a squadron of troops, and the nearby garrison militia lost two platoons of troops, but it was their hasty resistance and communication. The news enabled the garrison to respond quickly, entered the fortifications, and blocked the enemy's route to continue to attack the interior.

But each defensive location is just a squad or a few people. Due to the strength of the troops, the garrison hastily left the camp, and then dispersed in the defensive positions about nine kilometers around, waiting for the subsequent assembled troops to enter the position for reinforcements.

By the time more than 200 troops in the garrison camp entered the fortifications, the enemy had already started to attack. More than 200 militia reinforcements joined the defense, and the total strength was only about [-] people. Before that, about [-] people were lost. , They actually have no troops. They urgently called up the garrison army that had not been trained for several years. By noon, they had enough [-] people, but there were too many enemies. The dozens of people who came back from the cavalry company could only hold some Key intersections are not infiltrated by enemy scouts.

When a platoon of the Guards rushed for reinforcements, the enemy had broken through some key defensive positions and was attacking the garrison camp. The strength of the garrison camp was no more than one squad. , six six-pound guns set up positions on the high ground outside the camp on the spot, and opened fire on an attacking company of the enemy. After receiving reinforcements from a platoon of the Guards and a patrol force of six from a cavalry company, they fought Repelled the attack of a company of the enemy.

At noon, the young and strong immigrants who came from nearby came to reinforce the garrison camp. At this moment, within a radius of [-] kilometers from the pier, gunshots and gunfire continued. Many fortifications began to fall, and the garrison camp was rapidly losing strength. , By the time of the count at noon, over [-] people had been lost, and a company's garrison battalion had been lost.

After all the troops of the cavalry company returned, there were only two platoons of about [-] people left, and all of them were sent out to attack the enemy's infiltrated small force. The cavalry sent orders to summon the surrounding garrison battalions, the nearest port, the nearest point guard force, no matter which army it was.

The fastest arrival is the reinforcement of a company of the cavalry army. They have a cavalry battalion within [-] kilometers nearby, and the nearest is [-] kilometers away. After resting, they entered the battle to recover the fortifications, and they must kill the enemy around the pier.

The enemy did not give up, and continued to send a battalion of troops to attack the garrison camp. After many weapons transactions, the weapons and equipment of the Swedes are still good. The artillery and muskets are similar to those of the Chinese Empire. In terms of weapons and equipment, they have not changed weapons for a long time Armies on the line of defense with equipment are not dominant.

Seeing that reinforcements are not coming, the enemy's strength is strong and the artillery is also very fierce. The Lieutenant Colonel of the Guards is already in a state of desperation. He personally led a platoon of soldiers from the Guards to repel the enemy's attacks several times. His tenacious resistance bought time for the Chinese Imperial Army, and the other two platoons of artillery from the Chinese Imperial Field Army also came from the station, and joined forces with Li Ya's artillery platoon to output artillery fire to the enemy.

However, the enemy's artillery fire was too fierce. After occupying some high ground on the pier and possessing some shore artillery on the pier, the remaining infantry of the Swedes landed and moved a larger artillery from the ship, a 34-pound bilge Although the range of the cannon was short, it caused heavy losses to the armies of the Chinese Army defending the nearby highlands. Even if a platoon of guards rushed to join the battle, the enemy still let the enemy eat up all the highlands near the pier one by one, and assembled The troops rushed to the garrison camp.

However, the distance of only six kilometers, the enemy arrived in a blink of an eye. After the artillery company suppressed by the enemy lost three 32-pound guns and one [-]-pound fortress gun in the battalion, the remaining firepower could no longer completely suppress the battlefield. .

The day and night attack allowed the enemy to rush to the front of the camp 200 meters away, almost encircling the camp's 400 guards on three sides.

After the last highland artillery near the twelve-pound camp was destroyed by the enemy, the enemy's infantry even rushed into the camp. One and a half platoons of the garrison and guards entered the street fighting mode, and even the artillery company had to send troops To reinforce them, the cavalry company went around to attack the enemy. As a result, a platoon of cavalry was wiped out. So far, a cavalry company of the cavalry army was wiped out except for the remaining six companies. In the artillery company, only three of the nine eighteen-pounders were left, and only four of the twenty-four six-pounders were left. The eight twelve-pounders around the camp were all destroyed, and all three of the fortress guns were destroyed.

After the Chinese Imperial Army caused 200 casualties to the enemy, 120 artillery pieces were damaged, 30 sailors were killed, two troop carriers were sunk, a sailing warship was damaged, and 200 enemy scout cavalry were killed or injured, There are more than [-] troops left in the whole force.

Li Ya gathered the artillery forces in his hands, and the two squads were assigned to the three [-]-pounder artillery, and continued to bombard the enemy. As for the other two platoons, because they took over the fort artillery and the backup artillery of the garrison battalion, because All were destroyed, all were killed or injured, and those who were not killed or injured also became infantry and went to fight positional warfare with the enemy.

In the early hours of the morning, Li Ya commanded the artillery platoon to sneak out of the camp and sneaked three miles outside the enemy artillery position. At dawn, the enemies who were driven out of the camp attacked again. When the enemy artillery fired, Li Ya quickly detected The position of the enemy's artillery, and a round of artillery killed the enemy's heavy artillery, the 34-pound artillery at the bottom of the cabin, after three rounds of artillery fire, all fourteen artillery pieces that the enemy moved from the ship were destroyed.

Then, while there was time, two more rounds of artillery coverage were carried out, destroying all the artillery that the enemy pushed to the front, and a round of artillery suppression was carried out on the enemy's attacking infantry. Although there were only three artillery shells, the enemy infantry had to After exiting the range of the camp for 600 meters, retreat and regroup.

Afterwards, Li Ya quickly threw away an [-]-pound cannon that was too late to be mounted on the carriage, and returned to the camp with the two cannons that were ready to be transferred. When the enemy cavalry arrived, they had already entered the camp and quickly deployed The artillery was fired, and the enemy cavalry was ambushed for three to four rounds. The enemy cavalry left dozens of corpses and retreated.

At noon, only one 800-pound cannon was left in Li Ya's hands. The other one exploded, took two artillerymen away, and wounded four gunners, even Li Ya was slightly injured. Li Ya immediately pulled out the hidden four six-pound guns and distributed the manpower evenly. The enemy attacked again, and the five artillery guns suppressed the enemy's attack at close range. By the evening, the enemy had lost 80 soldiers, and the rest However, there are only [-] people in the area, and the camp has not yet been taken down. Although the artillery is included in the camp, there are only [-] people in the area.

At this time, gunshots sounded nearby, and the regrouped garrison battalion retired soldiers for many years appeared in all directions, taking advantage of the darkness, and took advantage of the darkness to rob the enemy of the high ground around the pier with their outdated weapons and equipment that had not been replaced for many years.

The battle was defeated and the losses were heavy. The enemy had no choice but to consider retreating. At this time, the reinforcements from the two battalions of the Guards and the Cavalry Brigade had reached twenty miles away, and they were rushing at full speed. The ones leading the way were the cavalry company of the Cavalry Army. The cavalry who went out to report.

The enemy shrunk their defensive positions, retreated to the three miles around the pier, and prepared to retreat. It took midnight to load the wounded and corpses onto the ship. By the time the Guards arrived, the enemy had already retreated to within 500 meters of the pier. The army came to support the strength of more than 1000 troops, recovered the lost ground from all sides, and then attacked the dock.

Li Ya led the artillery to suppress the enemy. The enemy boarded the ship in a hurry, leaving behind all the corpses and wounded, and 200 people to stop the Chinese Imperial Army. Only after being sunk by the Chinese Imperial Army, they retreated in a hurry .

A month later, Li Ya, who recovered from his injuries, returned to the barracks and was promoted to be the deputy commander of the artillery company and the rank of lieutenant.

Before the arrival of the new company commander, manage the artillery company here, and the artillery company has also been supplemented. Thirty soldiers from the garrison who performed well this time joined the artillery company, and the cavalry army also supported a platoon of artillery company soldiers and a cavalry soldier. There are 18 people in the squad, and the garrison is easy to say. From other places, one-third of the soldiers who were resting within a hundred miles quickly came in, and quickly recovered 600 troops, and also formed a platoon of artillery. The deputy squad leader of Li Yaban who performed well this time became the deputy platoon leader of the sergeant and became the temporary head of the artillery platoon of the garrison.

Li Ya has the artillery platoon leader transferred from other places by the garrison army, a garrison lieutenant, and the cavalry platoon leader who was brave and eventually injured in the cavalry company replenished by the cavalry army. The cavalry lieutenant served as the artillery The platoon leader, as well as the artillery platoon leader promoted by a sergeant of the Guards, is now a lieutenant.

Half a year after the battle ended, with the arrival of the artillery company commander, a captain, and two lieutenants, Li Ya continued to stay in the artillery company. Half a year later, he was promoted to captain and transferred to a regiment-level infantry regiment of the Field Army as a staff officer. To make way for a new lieutenant who was transferred in as deputy company commander.

Another half a year, when he felt bored, he was sent to the Privy Council Staff College for advanced studies, and after he came out, he served as the chief of staff of the field army major, but before he took up his post, he was transferred to the Guards as a captain (major) cavalry The company commander, after all, is a guard, and his rank of major can only be matched with the company commander.

The Guards had a lot to learn, but interpersonal relationships made him feel anxious. He was not a sociable person, so he didn't stay in the Guards for half a year, and was thrown into the Garrison. Served as a major staff officer in the garrison barracks, and then transferred to Penglai Prefecture as the deputy battalion commander of the lieutenant colonel. It was really boring. He took the exam for the First Fleet of the Navy, and finally returned to the navy to study for half a year and then served as the third officer of a warship. born.

Half a year has passed. He has been in the army for eight years, from the age of 16 to 24. He has made outstanding military achievements, but maybe he has no talent for water warfare, and maybe the navy has nothing to make him meritorious. After the internship, after eight and a half years, he joined the Guards Army under the recommendation of the navy general. Although he was not in that army, he met the boss of that army and his immediate boss who did not deal with him. Now this boss has become a His immediate superior, the Battalion Commander of the Guards, was the Chief of Staff of the Guards Battalion.

But in just 20 days, he, a grassroots officer without foundation, broke out several wars with this boss, and was even imprisoned for beating his boss, demoted in rank, investigated, and finally kicked out of the Guards on the No.20 day , and ended his military career, and was thrown into the East Siberian wasteland to become an ordinary East Siberian immigrant.

Those who can rise to the position of chief of staff at the battalion-level lieutenant colonel of the Guards can already enter the vision of the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the emperor.

One day Zhang Qiang saw the legendary experience of this miserable low-level officer, and he couldn't help but sigh. Although he hated such things, but the empire is getting bigger, such things cannot be avoided. As the emperor's pro-army, their The eyes only look at the things in front of the forehead, they are very arrogant, they are dismissive of other people, they are very contemptuous of such grassroots officers, they are very arrogant and proud, maybe the Guards really have fighting power, the seaside In that battle, two platoons of guards fought against the enemy's siege of 500 people. With the cooperation of friendly troops, they killed at least 200 of the enemy, which can be said to have wiped out one-thirtieth of the enemy's 3000-plus troops. Combat strength also gave them a proud capital. Although these people were seriously injured even the lieutenant colonel in the end, almost all the survivors had to retire because they were all disabled.

Even the lieutenant colonel, after he recovered, could no longer fight or march long distances. He could only retire in the capital and go to the new barracks to take up the administrative position of colonel.

The first thousand and 130 chapters are not so easy to be a mercenary

There are more than 3000 mercenaries, and their mission is to stop the Hungarian infantry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the spot.

One-third of them are ex-soldiers who were thrown to open up wasteland in East Siberia, the younger generation of civil servants, and some of them are Gurkha infantry, which are the indigenous people of the Nepalese generation. Occupied by the Chinese Empire, it is temporarily a garrison. There are some immigrant men who serve the garrison. They come from Yunnan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and states in Southeast Asia. They are used to high mountains, river valleys, jungles, and mules and horses to transport supplies. , and has a pair of soles that will never wear out.

It is extremely difficult to transform and assimilate these aborigines who live in the mountains and are superstitious in various gods, who are a little gray and yellow in appearance and whose faces are different from those of the Chinese, who have been almost assimilated by the Indian race, and assimilated into Han people. In my heart, I am more inclined to the side of India. I no longer think that I am descended from the Han people. At the same time, because I have been fighting with the Han government all the year round, they have been suppressed. In later generations, many Han Chinese no longer hated the Japanese. Instead, they felt that they should move closer to Japan. They had become yellow-skinned white-hearted or black-hearted bananas or Japanese.

There are also other people who fled into the mountains who don't think they are from any country, but only recognize the chieftains and primitive people of their own tribe, as well as the captured natives in Central Asia, as well as Russian serfs, all kinds of mixed people, making the whole The organization of the mercenary regiment was chaotic, and the level of combat power was uneven. Regardless of the number of people, the Hungarian infantry regiment had only a thousand people, but it was still very easy to defeat such a mercenary regiment.

The mercenary regiment was originally cannon fodder for the Russians.At this time, Hungary was ruled by the Habs Dynasty, but there were constant civil wars, but their culture, art, medical skills, and extravagant aristocratic styles were more prevalent, and they increasingly accepted the cultural influence of Western Europe, and they dressed nobles gorgeously, Civilians or soldiers are simple but have expensive and luxurious accessories, which are very fashionable. Influenced by the age of firearms, their weapons and equipment have also changed from machetes to matchlock guns and flintlock guns. As for firing pin rifles, they are unique to the Chinese Empire. However, the Chinese Empire has imported many outdated old models of such weapons to Western Europe, Russia, and Turkey, so Russia has many such weapons, and Britain and Spain are also improving their weapons.