Lord of Ming Dynasty

He looked in Jinhua's direction, "This person's climate has already formed. In the future, the Qing army will be in great trouble. He is more difficult to deal with than those courts in Nanming."

Ma Bao looked at Fang Anguo's head hanging on the treetop, "If he defeats Zhang Cunren's three-way army again this time, and brings Longwu back to Jinhua, I am afraid that the Ming army in the southern provinces will be shaken in the future. To the Rebel Army, I am afraid that I will not dare to fight even more."

Liu Liangzuo sighed, "That's right, there will be no quiet time in the south in the future. Look, the Ming Rebel Army will burn the Qing army who dared to come to the south like a spark, burn them to death, and burn them. They know it hurts, and they will return obediently." Go to the north, draw rivers and rule with Nanming, the versatile regent sitting in Yanjing has to have a headache, change his strategy, and slowly plot the great Ming Dynasty."

Ma Bao said: "My lord, will there be another Southern Song Dynasty to compete against the Jin people for a hundred years?"

Liu Liangzuo said: "I can't say for sure, it depends on the result of this Pingnan battle."

Just after he finished speaking, a scout rushed over, "report—"

Liu Liangzuo and Ma Bao reined in their horses, the scouts got off their horses, and knelt down in front of them, "Report to the commander-in-chief, outside the city of Pingnan County, the Portuguese lost their troops and nearly all [-] musketeers were wiped out, only [-] musketeers escaped. Returning, Master Fan Shaozu's [-]-strong army was wiped out by more than [-] people, all the cavalry was wiped out, and more than [-] infantrymen were captured. The remaining [-] troops retreated for more than [-] li, and Fan Zongbing retreated to Gantang."

"Where's Zhang Cunren's army?" Ma Bao asked anxiously.

The scout said: "Master Zhang's army was implicated because of the defeat of Lord Fan's army. They gave up attacking the city and retreated five miles to set up camp. They lost [-] infantry, [-] civilian men, [-] cavalry, and countless supplies."

Liu Liangzuo and Ma Bao looked at each other, "If there is an envoy from Governor Zhang to ask, just say that I am sick, you go and let the luggage behind go slowly, don't go too fast, let's see the situation here and then talk .”

On the other side, Fan Shaozu touched his bald head, "Grandma, bear, how can this Jinhua rebel army be so good at fighting? Even if I send tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, I can't beat the Portuguese musketeers. They are only [-] musketeers. They wiped out all the people. I also lost so many cannons and explosives to the opponent."

The staff on one side said: "Then, my lord, what should we do?"

Fan Shaozu said: "If Governor Zhang comes to urge me to ask, just say that I am sick and let the troops retreat. If not, we will retreat to Gutian County."

Another staff member said: "My lord, you can't retreat. I'm afraid that Governor Zhang will give you a copy of the book. It's better to stay here and wait for the news. After all, Governor Zhang's military strength is still very strong."

Fan Shaozu frowned and considered for a while, then squinted at the staff, "Well, that's it, remember, I sent those envoys for me."

In Pingnan County, after Zhang Qiang woke up from a sleep, he did not go to greet Emperor Longwu, but called his subordinates to understand the situation.

"Gu Qianhu, tell us about the situation of our firecrackers." He asked.

With a pair of panda eyes and a sling wrapped around his shoulders, Gu Yuesheng escaped from a memorial-like book, opened it, and read: "In the past few days, our army has been fighting continuously, and the firecrackers have suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of blunderbuss soldiers, plus the blunderbuss soldiers of the rebel army who came to Pingnan County to gather, and the blunderbuss soldiers transformed from captives, there are a total of [-] people."

He looked up at Zhang Qiang, then continued to lower his head and read: "Now, after many battles, mainly the five hundred firecrackers led by you, my lord, and the thousand firecrackers led by the officer, so far, 920 people have died. people, 280 people were seriously injured, and there were 290 five firearms remaining capable of fighting."

After a pause, he said again: "Yesterday, I went out of the city to fight a thousand firecrackers, so far there are more than 600 people left, and there are still 980 and seven people left on both sides."

"In addition, because the firecrackers who fought in the city did not participate in the battle, there are still 300 firecrackers left. So far, our army has a total of 100 firecrackers left, and [-] died in battle. More than [-] firearms soldiers were seriously injured, and more than [-] firearms soldiers were slightly injured and unable to fight."

Zhang Qiang sighed. In order to save Long Wu this time, his elite firearms had lost more than 70.00%.

"How many guns do we have now?"

Gu Yuesheng said: "After counting last night, there are still [-] top-quality muskets, Portuguese arquebuses, [-] top-quality Qing army shotguns, [-] medium-grade Ming army firearms, and the remaining ones. There were [-] low-grade firecrackers. Our army lost a total of [-] firecrackers in previous battles, including [-] matchlock guns, [-] shotguns, and [-] medium-grade Ming army firecrackers. Wait for a thousand guns."

In other words, Zhang Qiang's current army only has some inferior firecrackers and a small amount of good firecrackers.

Because Zhang Qiang was reluctant to use the matchlock guns, the [-] Musketeers did not take all of them out, so they kept [-].

As a later generation, we know that firearms such as muskets will be the mainstream of future battles, so Zhang Qiang is very concerned about the firearms he owns and the soldiers who can operate firearms, so this is the first question he asks, but next, he needs to understand It is the cavalry.

In fact, there is no need to understand that he took all the cavalry out. All that remained in the city were a few personal guard cavalry and some sentinel cavalry. This time the battle cost a lot, almost 60.00% of the cavalry was lost.

Great loss.

The only consolation is that he is not fighting the enemy in the wild, he still has a city to rely on.

You can give full play to the infantry without losing much to fight the enemy.

Yang Yangyang said: "My lord, we still have the Portuguese matchlock guns seized from the Portuguese, which are better than our existing matchlock guns, as well as the Portuguese artillery, and the dozens of cannons left by Fan Shaozu. With Jiancheng, We can keep it till the end of time."

Tang Dianfeng also smiled and said: "Yes, my lord, this time when you come back, you have seized the enemy's five thousand stones of food and grass. This can make the army and the people in the city eat for a long time. I used to have less and less headaches. This time, we died and fled. In addition to the enemy's attack on the city yesterday, I executed 3 disobedient and troublesome prisoners. Now the total population and total army strength in our city add up to less than [-] I'm sick, save some food, it will last for almost a month."

Zhang Qiang still felt unsafe, one month would pass soon, but would the enemy give him one month?

Some Huatou words and some aggregated news analysis show that the enemy's military strength is still strong, at least the enemy still has [-] elites and [-] subordinates. This is not counting the Qing soldiers led by the defeated Fan Shaozu and the approaching Liu Liangzuo.

And even though all the enemies in my hands retreated after the battle yesterday, I killed and captured so many enemies, and seized countless supplies, but I also paid two to three thousand casualties. My current elite is only more than 5000 people, plus Young and strong, the remaining rebel troops are only more than [-] people, and the captive soldiers are unreliable, although they still have a huge base of [-].

Chapter 1 Nineteen See You Right

After learning some information about both the enemy and ourselves, Zhang Qiang inspected the city wall with worry.

But unlike what he was worried about, yesterday's big victory still boosted the morale of the defenders in the city, sweeping away the haze of the city being besieged by the enemy army a few days ago, wherever he went, he heard someone shouting: "Captain!" Mighty, the governor is wise."

And he was also very happy in his heart, the morale was available, and the military spirit was available.

What made him even more happy was that his command skill had finally been raised to level nine, and he could command 800 people.

It's a pity that his coaching skills haven't improved since he's always fighting these days and doesn't train soldiers.

When they came to the place where the seized materials were piled up, Gu Yuesheng was still counting them carefully, Zhang Qiang chatted with him, Gu Yuesheng slapped his head, "My lord, I forgot to tell you, didn't we say that we captured the enemy's arquebus in the morning? Isn't it better than ours?"

Of course Zhang Qiang knew that the matchlock guns used by the Portuguese were definitely better than those they sold to the Nanming or the Qing Tartars.

Zhang Qiang picked up a matchlock gun. First of all, the dragon head is more delicate than that of the Ming army and Qing army Tartars. The matchlock is also good. There is a fire cover at the back to cover the face, and there are inkstone holes on the fire cover. , the front gun head has a quasi-center, which can be aimed at three points and one line.

The entire body of the gun is also extremely gorgeous, much better than the shoddy ones made by the Ming and Qing army Tartars.

Look at the inside of the gun barrel, it is also relatively smooth, and it seems to get wider as you go to the back. The gunpowder explodes from the back of the barrel, and then passes through the barrel. The gun barrel becomes thinner, and the gunpowder gas is further compressed and accelerated. The outgoing bullet is more powerful, faster, and more penetrating.

There is also a bayonet bayonet mount on the seat, the gun frame is lost, the weight is reduced, and the barrel is slightly longer, which increases the penetration even more.

Pick up a bag of gunpowder. Compared with the powdered gunpowder of the Ming army, the gunpowder is better, granular gunpowder.

Every detail means the gap between his firearms and the enemy, and Francis, the guy he wants to train, is still repairing his guns in Jinhua Mansion.

"Distribute these guns to our most elite musketeers, and then select the musketeers who are brave in this battle and have killed more enemies, let them use the original muskets, and expand my musketeer force to 1000 people. Others Those who use the Qing army's bird guns are organized into two hundred households with 500 people, and those who use the medium guns are organized into two battalions of 500 people, and you will lead them. If there are not enough people, recruit them from the prisoners. Kill them wholeheartedly."

In this way, Zhang Qiang led 1000 of the most elite musketeers, Gu Yuesheng led 500 armed with firecrackers made by the Ming and Qing armies, and [-] medium or low-grade firecrackers. Zhang Qiang's firecracker troops expanded. There were [-] people.

I met Yang Yangyang again, and told him to build an elite cavalry force of 500 people. After that, 500 people would form a battalion, and then find some people who could ride horses to form another two battalions, making a total of [-] cavalry troops.

After the battle with the enemy's cavalry, Zhang Qiang deeply knew that the shortcoming of his blunderbuss troops was that their mobility was too poor, and the firepower could not stop the enemy's large-scale cavalry charge.

Therefore he needs a large cavalry force to meet the enemy's cavalry force.

He also called Tang Dianfeng and asked him to organize [-] elite infantry troops, [-] spearmen, [-] sword shield soldiers, [-] archers, and [-] sword soldiers. The rest of the troops could only be classified as ordinary troops.

By the time Zhang Qiang visited Quanquan City in the afternoon, 3000 prisoners had died, and then [-] prisoners were forced to surrender and joined Zhang Qiang's expanded troops.

In addition, an artillery force of 1000 people was organized to defend the city.

After a rectification and adjustment, Zhang Qiang's elite troops rose sharply and returned to the 2 round mark. After the rectification, the combat effectiveness has increased a lot, but the captive soldiers have dropped from more than 5000 to only [-].

Under the supervision of Tang Dianfeng's infantry in fear, they continued to repair the city wall and strengthen various fortifications. They went out of the city once and dug through the moat with the peasants of Pingnan County. Cannons, bows and arrows, filling the moat again, clearing obstacles, can attack the city.