Lu Ming

"Let me talk about the navy first." The chubby Wang Xiaohui walked to the stage with a smile on his face in a snow-white general uniform, picked up the pointer, and began to give real instructions to the laymen sitting there.

"There is no big problem with the navy. To the north, a scout ship can be sent tomorrow to record the hydrology of the mainland coast north of Shanghai. The transport fleet can be set off after being organized. Within a week, it depends on the speed of your supply of supplies. .”

"In short, since the soldiers and horses of the Later Jin Dynasty did not go deep into the vicinity of Tianjin when they entered the customs for the first time, the navy is not of much use other than serving as the captain of the transportation brigade."

At this point, Wang Xiaohui drew a circle on the location of Tianjin on the map with a pointer: "In the same way, it is unnecessary to transport ordinary soldiers there and wait for the Tartars to come and die in Tianjin City."

"Then now comes the problem. The troops want to kill the Tartars, but they don't have the conditions to rush out of Tianjin. What should we do?"

A sly smile appeared on Wang Xiaohui's chubby face, and the pointer pointed at a tough man at the long table at the same time: "Masters, how can you relieve your worries? Only special forces!"

One word awakened the dreamer, and some of the people present looked suddenly enlightened, and then turned their attention to the two officers sitting at the end of the military camp: Special Forces Commander Qian Tieshan and Deputy Commander Du Dewei.

The laymen who were belatedly realized at this time: What ordinary soldiers can't do, can be replaced by special forces! ?

And Qian Tieshan, the commander of the special forces with a generous figure, did not refuse at this moment. He immediately stood up and expressed his attitude: "In principle, the special forces can follow the mission of King Qin. Except for marching in the cold zone, the rest include riding All the special forces members under me have been trained in the subjects including the subject. The problem now is that if we want to go out...imported materials, especially arms, will be consumed in a big way."

After Qian Tieshan finished speaking, the warm atmosphere that had just ignited in the venue suddenly cooled down again—the time-travelers who have developed conditioned reflexes, the only thing they can't hear now is the word "imported materials". You can't say it, and you will fall ill if you say it.

Even Comrade Xia Xianze, who was originally calm and relaxed, now has a face full of uncertainty.The Special Forces is different from other troops. This special force with only 50 members is a "strategic force" directly controlled by the cabinet, to be precise, he himself; Not useful.

Although the special forces equipped with imported equipment have strong combat effectiveness, everyone knows that the so-called combat effectiveness is piled up with weapons of later generations that cannot be produced.Xia Xianze, who had to personally approve supplies for the special forces every once in a while, was especially aware of this.

"This is an unplanned material, how much do you need?" Xia Xianze finally couldn't help asking after changing his expression.

Qian Tieshan didn't dare to argue about this: "This is an actual battle in the north, and I have to be lenient. So it includes some temporarily added cold zone equipment, and counts the large ammunition consumed..."

Qian Tieshan made a V-shape gesture: "Victory comes at a price, don't even think about whoring for nothing, just bring two boxes."

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Things have evolved to this point, and everyone present has a familiar feeling of deja vu: every time this regime encounters difficult problems, it will always end up with imported materials.

All military personnel were expelled from the temple gate after this.

No one can predict what will happen in the war going to the North, so no civil servant dares to bargain on the quantity of supplies offered by Qian Tieshan—in case the troops in the front suffer huge losses due to insufficient supplies, then the person who bargained at the beginning To be responsible for this, no one would be foolish enough to do so.

So after driving out all the military personnel who were sure to vote in favor, the remaining group of civilian officials began to have heated discussions and final votes on this matter.

Fortunately, civil servants generally agreed with the "Fujian Model", so Xia Xianze, who had a veto power of one vote, agreed, and the civil servants group passed the temporary motion with an absolute advantage of five votes.

Now that the resolution is passed, it's time to discuss the details.So Qiu Ba, who was smoking outside the hall, was called back again, and all relevant departments began to plan for this sudden King Qin incident.

Chapter 391 The man

If you count the time alone, even though Hou Jin's army was already besieging the capital while the meeting was held, King Qin's action was still in time.

The historical battle of the Houjin siege lasted from mid-November of that year to early February of the next year; in early February of 11, Huang Taiji led the army to return to the north one after another.

In the process of returning to the north, the late Jin army will occupy a series of military towns such as Yongping, Qian'an, Luanzhou, and Zunhua along the way, and deploy Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia to garrison them.

These military towns will be "recovered" one after another by the troops who came to King Qin from all walks of life in the next one or two months.Yes, after the Eight Banners soldiers left behind burned, killed, looted and looted, they swaggered away with their spoils before the Ming army slowly besieged the city.

That is to say, in the history of the Sisi change, when the last group of Eight Banners soldiers withdrew from the closed wall, it had already arrived in May of 1630.

Therefore, there is still plenty of time to travel through the crowd. If it is just to chop off the heads of some "real Tartars" in exchange for credit: the intervention army only needs to arrive at Tianjin Wei in February next year.

The strategy is simple: after arriving in Tianjin, General Cao can hide in the Acropolis, preparing for battle and spying on him at the same time.When the main force of Houjin withdraws, it's time for the special forces to show their skills-those broken Manchurian Eight Banners are the fat sheep in General Cao's mouth.

In short, the small intervening army will not head-on with the main force of Houjin.Using the advanced equipment and weapons and ammunition of later generations, looking for opportunities to sneak attack and annihilate small groups of enemy troops is the kingly way.

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After the general strategic direction is determined, a series of follow-up operations will begin.

On the night of the enlarged cabinet meeting, the encrypted telegraph signal flew from the senior officials to Hangzhou and Shanghai.Let Xiong Dao get any instructions and leave him alone, but Hangzhou Lu Cheng's order is very clear: notify the major agents that Cao Zongbing will come to Tianjin Wei in person in the near future.

Soldiers and horses go ahead without moving food and grass.In the future, when Qin Wang’s army arrived in Tianjin by sea, whether it was food, horses, auxiliary soldiers, guides, or vital local intelligence needed by the troops, it would be impossible to rely on the local government and guards in Tianjin for these things.

So on the day when it was decided to go north to King Qin, Hangzhou Station received the order.Nowadays, anyone who is qualified to be a "big agent" must be a powerful person with business all over the north and south.After receiving the notification, these people will soon spread the news to their own business or related households in Tianjin.

As a node of the Grand Canal, Tianjin was a transportation hub where wealthy merchants gathered in the Ming Dynasty.And once the local snakes there know that the God of Wealth is coming, they will naturally prepare the materials and manpower specified in the news in advance... These local wealthy businessmen are ten thousand times more reliable than the government, and primitive capitalists are also capitalists. If they want to underwrite someone's industrial products in the future, they will definitely do a good job in the reception work.

Immediately after the telegram was sent, the army also made preparations.This operation is considered a joint operation of the "three services". The army will provide 200 soldiers to be responsible for daily tasks such as guarding, guarding, guarding supplies, and defending the city.

The navy also began to mobilize ships.Since there are no combat missions this time, most of the fleet will be transport ships.The planned combat ships will go to three at most, and this is still for the purpose of training troops and surveying and mapping North Korean waters.

On the special forces side, all members were dispatched.In addition to 50 fighters, another 10 logistics personnel also went out with the team.These people are not useless. A large number of equipment and weapons brought from later generations need daily maintenance and maintenance, not to mention transportation and care.

Due to the high difficulty of this expedition, it was the first battle without a rear since crossing the army, so after Xia Xianze's approval, the three artifacts of guerrilla warfare, including RPG, infantry mines, and TNT, were all taken out this time.

Of course, some people's generosity is not all because of the needs of the expedition. There is also a factor of "commodity depreciation".

The above-mentioned good things were actually bought blindly when Emperor Cao bought arms.But the facts have proved that the three artifacts are a little bit unacceptable in the time-traveling crowd, in other words, they are a little bit too high to be low.

In addition to being able to use RPG to shoot twice in the early wasteland, as the regular army became stronger and stronger, the people who traveled through suddenly found that the three artifacts could not be used.

Now is the seventeenth century, no matter what kind of land or sea enemies, you can use artillery + musketeers + diatomaceous earth explosives to deal with.

This cheap, reproducible way of war soon became the kingly way, and the three artifacts that needed to be imported became museum displays.

There is no high-value target that needs to be played with RPG, and there is no half-meter-thick vault door in the Ming Dynasty that requires special forces to sneak in and blast it with TNT.As for the landmines, they are all used by the poor. The imperial army has always been on the front line, and the scene of being beaten into guerrillas has never appeared.

So taking this opportunity, Xia Xianze approved all the three artifacts in stock to the Special Forces: Putting chicken ribs in the arsenal also requires manpower and material resources to maintain, and these dangerous gadgets will fail and explode after a long time, which is tantamount to is slowly depreciating.

This King Qin mission is the last chance for the three artifacts to show their value.After learning from experience and lessons, in a few years, King Qin of Traveling Through Zhongqin will dispatch an army, and the three artifacts will completely depreciate in value.

While the military is preparing for war, the industrial sector is not idle.For example, the quilt factory received an order for 1000 sets of military coats.

It is now mid-November, and in the plan, the departure time of the intervention army was set at the beginning of December.After half a month, the fleet will depart from Taiwan, and will take a supplementary rest in Shanghai Port on the way.Then roughly in early January, the intervention army arrived in Tianjin.

After arriving in Tianjin, the troops will spend about a month to prepare and adapt. In other words, they just sit and watch the melee between the two armies at the foot of the capital.Then wait until the withdrawal of Huang Taiji's army in February before considering the issue of attack.

In this way, the order received by the clothing factory became 1000 sets of coats, cotton trousers, Lei Feng hats and gloves, and the leather shoe factory also received an order for the same number of cotton leather shoes.

There is still half a month before departure, and the small processing factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as the personnel and materials are ready, these orders can be made within a few days, and the expedited fee will be paid at most.

Although the equipment in the kiln area quilt factory is not so advanced and is a semi-mechanized production method, the kiln area has abundant human resources. One or two thousand female workers can be mobilized to work in three shifts at any time.

There is a reason for ordering an excessive number of cold zone equipment: after the intervention army arrives in Tianjin, it is necessary to recruit guides and auxiliary soldiers locally, and these equipment will be available at that time.

In addition to military supplies, a large number of light industrial products are also included in the shipment.Before that, the rich men in the northern region used the goods distributed from the Grand Canal in the south, and this distribution method often caused shortages of goods, incomplete varieties and sharp price increases, just like pork in later generations.

This time, the interference with the military king belongs to the manufacturer who sent the regional president to develop the market with samples, so a large number of samples are essential.Once this trade route is opened, the rich men in the capital will be able to use a steady stream of kerosene and glass mirrors in the future.

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While issuing a series of war preparation orders, the cabinet immediately held an arms expansion meeting.The meeting lasted one day, and after the meeting, a "1630 Armament Adjustment Plan" was issued.

This military expansion plan mainly involves the army and navy.

As for the army, the plan is this: 2000 new recruits are expected to be called up in the coming year, a move that will bring the total army strength to 5000.

In this process, the army will reorganize, and next year it will form a pattern of two main regiments plus a part of the reserve force.

The new regiment is composed of 3 infantry battalions + artillery company + logistics force, with a total number of 2000 people.

Regarding the deployment of troops, a battalion of 500 people will be deployed in Xiamen and Guangzhou, and the rest of the troops will stay in Taiwan for training.

In the long-term plan of the army, the army will continue to expand in the next two to three years.In the end, the army will deploy a standing battalion of 500 troops in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shandong, Tianjin and other places, and then maintain no less than four battalions of mobile troops in Taiwan, which will be used to guard against possible wars in the North and Southeast Asia at any time.

After the army comes the navy.

The newly added resources of the navy are mainly inclined towards ocean shipping.Considering that the fleet will not only have to cross the 2000-kilometer mainland coastline in this Qinwang mission, but also will continue to send fleets to expand this route in the future, so the navy has decided to increase the number of large-tonnage ocean-going ships built in the coming 1630s .

The "large tonnage" here mainly refers to transport ships of 800 tons or more.

Those new lock ships of 800-[-] tons before this will be used as short-distance cargo ships on the Fujian-Guangdong-Taiwan triangle route in the future; while cargo ships for northern regions such as Shanghai, Tianjin, North Korea, and Japan need to be increased to at least [-] tons.

As for combat ships, the Navy is generally satisfied with the current 500-ton Youguang-class gunboat and the 150-ton Taijiang-class frigate.

These two types of warships not only come and go freely along the coast of the mainland where the wind direction is chaotic and the terrain is complex, but they also satisfactorily dealt with all Chinese pirates. The navy has not found the need for adjustments so far.

As for the European colonial ships that will definitely conflict in the future... At this moment, there is already a huge verification warship in the sea trial state off the coast of Taiwan.Soon, the enemies across the hordes will try out the power of the large naval guns.

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While a series of preparations are underway, Zhang Dongdong is also anxiously waiting for the telegram from Fuzhou.

Now the governor's yamen in Fuzhou wants to contact General Cao, all they need to do is send someone to pass the news to the commercial store in Fuzhou City.Therefore, Zhang Dongdong, who is far away in Taiwan, can receive the telegram immediately.

Finally, on the sixth day after the time-traveling meeting, the man sent a message: Come to Fuya as soon as possible, it's urgent!

Chapter 392

Xiong Wencan received the urgent document from Babaili on the 22nd.Immediately after reading the official document, Old Xiong ordered his followers to go to the store in the city to deliver the message: Please come and see General Cao immediately.

And Zhang Dongdong did not delay after receiving the telegram, and immediately set off from Taiwan by boat. On the evening of the 23rd, Cao Zhentai (deputy) arrived at the governor's office in Fujian.

The first time he saw the visitor, Old Xiong picked up the official document on the table and handed it over.At the same time, Old Xiong's tone also changed, showing impatience in his kindness: "Brother, something big happened in the capital."

Zhang Dongdong was well aware of what Lao Xiong was talking about, but he still pretended to be ignorant, took the official document, and read it carefully.

Unsurprisingly: Qin Wangzhao.

"My lord, what should I do about this matter?" After reading the official document, Zhang Dongdong followed the routine and brought up the topic.

Xiong Wencan frowned in a rare way at this moment, stroked his long beard under his chin lightly, shook his head and analyzed: "Once this edict is issued, all armies and towns in the world will definitely go to King Jingqin. In this way, if there is no movement in Fujian, I am afraid I can't explain it."

When Xiong Wencan said this, he glanced at Zhang Dongdong.

Seeing Old Xiong hesitating and hesitant to speak, Zhang Dongdong's heart was clear at the moment.

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In history, after Zheng Zhilong was caressed, Chongzhen had repeatedly issued edicts to transfer Lao Zheng to the north to contribute—it could be to fight the Tartars or the peasant army. In short, in Chongzhen's view, it was probably a dog eats a dog.

However, Chongzhen's simple means of driving tigers and devouring wolves can't fool people at all.Zheng Zhilong never gave Xiong Wencan and Chongzhen any face when it came to things like King Qin.

In a word: I am a warlord and I am proud. If a tiger does not come out of its hole, no one can do anything to the tiger.

So the old bear was a little hesitant today.After all, he is a normal bureaucrat with experience in governance, and he knows very well that for a warlord, this King Qin's request is a bit too much.

It is indeed a bit difficult for a group of pirates to go to the northern plains thousands of miles away to fight the Tartars.If Cao Chuan could not make Cao Chuan think that he, the old bear, was going to use some kind of tricks such as "turning the tiger away from the mountain" to destroy the alliance between the two parties, then the loss outweighed the gain.

So the old bear is still very cautious today, not daring to make a big thorn and just make a request like this.

However, someone's reaction caught Lao Xiong off guard.

Cao Pirates was full of loyalty and courage at the moment, and he was full of blood and loyalty. He raised his hand in the shape of cutting vegetables, leaned his upper body slightly, and stared at Xiong Da with wide eyes. , This is what your lord said. The last general will go back to build an army ship, is one thousand soldiers enough? Or two thousand?"

Xiong Wencan was speechless at first when he heard the words, and then when he was sure that Cao Chuan was not talking ironically, he immediately expressed emotion, stretched out his hand full of apology, and patted Cao Zhongchen's arm a few times: "National affairs are difficult every day, alas, grievances are broken empty."

"Where did your lord come from?" Cao Zhongchen confided his heart at this moment: "The imperial capital is besieged. If the Fujian region ignores it, isn't your lord sitting on fire? The current plan is whether you are diligent or loyal. If there is nothing to say, it will fall on Cao."

Xiong Wencan nodded his beard at this moment, feeling relieved: Cao Chuan was able to see the essence of the incident so quickly, which saved him a lot of difficult words to say.

In fact, logically speaking, the person surnamed Cao should have gone to Beijing to meet his majesty long ago: an official as high as the deputy chief soldier would go to the Golden Luan Hall to meet the emperor before his appointment.Due to the special circumstances of Cao Pirates, he was a bandit recruiting for security, so from the beginning of recruiting security, this step was omitted.

However, Cao Pirates is different from others: he has always maintained a posture of "doing his best to integrate into the system" from the time he was recruited to the present.And this Qinwang incident, from another point of view, can be regarded as a test: No matter what you say or do, the court now needs you to lead troops to Beijing, whether you go or not...

Of course, if Cao Chuan really wanted to go, the old bear would have nothing to do with him, but from that moment on, everyone knew each other.From now on, the surname Cao doesn't need to put on a mixed-system stance—you don't even dare to meet the emperor, aren't you just a warlord with ulterior motives?

So for Xiong Wencan, someone who can express his position like this today is really the best situation he expected: Warlord Cao "thoroughly" expressed the attitude of the mixed system, and he is willing to go to danger for thousands of miles, and he, Xiong Wencan, does not need to be in the court and Cao Cao. It is difficult to do things among warlords, it can be said that it is both public and private convenience, loyalty and filial piety.

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The moment in Xiong Wencan's study was warm and touching.Now that it is confirmed that Cao Chuan is a "Da Ming minister" who really intends to "be a minister in the same palace" with him, it is naturally impossible for Lao Xiong, who is a close ally, to see Cao Zhongchen, who is full of blood and heart, go to the north and suffer.

So Lao Xiong also opened the skylight at this time and said bluntly: "King Qin this time, you don't need to bring a large army to go, and you don't need to go into battle...The Liaodong slavery has already become a force, and it is an army of separation and reunion. Those sailors under your command are not familiar Northland wind and snow, if you go there, you will die."

"The people of Fujian are not tolerant of the severe cold, and the king of the army from all walks of life in this world will not miss my way. You can go as you go, just put on a little show."

"As for military exploits... you must have enough silver in your hands, and when you are in a hurry, just 'find' some heads to trade off."

After all, Xiong Wencan is a great official in the frontier, and he analyzed the King Qin incident overnight: there are towns in the nine borders, and there are soldiers and horses of King Qin from various provinces in the north. to complete political tasks.

Everyone go, if you don't go, won't you be remembered by the emperor?

So Xiong Wencan called King Qin, but in fact he didn't intend to let Cao Chuan take a large number of pirates to the snow to die.

According to Xiong Fujun's meaning, this time Cao Chuan is to bring some people to Beijing to show his aura; after the matter is over, he will randomly "find" some heads and take them to the capital for a job, and show his loyalty in front of the emperor, and it's over. .

After listening to Lao Xiong Yitong's analysis and explanation, Zhang Dongdong naturally wanted to say yes.As for what he will do when he goes back to the capital, he will definitely not tell Old Xiong now.Tell him, what if the old man is scared?

However, for Old Xiong's Chunchun teachings, Zhang Dongdong still bought it - he was able to talk to this point, and hinted that Cao Zhongchen "find" some heads to deal with, and Old Xiong really treated Cao Chuan as his own brother.

After unifying their opinions, the two discussed some details.

For Xiong Wencan, since Qin Wang puts political show first, he must send Fubiao's personal guards to go around the capital on behalf of his old man.Otherwise, wouldn't his good image in the emperor's mind be maintained in vain?

In addition, since King Qin is on official business this time, and Cao Zhongchen is required to go far and dangerous, Xiong Wencan immediately stated: the official treasury will first provide 20 taels of silver as military expenses, and if it is not enough, he can add more.

As for the fee, Zhang Dongdong would naturally not refuse the 20 taels of silver.As for the pro-military forces in the Fubiao Camp, Zhang Dongdong has already said in advance: the number of people must be small, and they must follow his command unconditionally. Anyway, Zhang Dongdong will not forget to brag about the old bears in front of Chongzhen.