I want to be emperor

Chapter 220
As a frontline general, Zuo Liangyu wrote to the imperial court, and in fact, he also got the attention of the court officials, but well, the attention was paid attention to, but there were no important guns.

As a result, Hong Chengchou spent a lot of money to get two red cannons for Zuo Liangyu, but they were both big guys weighing more than 2000 catties, and they could only be placed on the head of Yexian County as defensive artillery.

As for the small red cannon, there is not a single one!

Anyway, there is no such thing in the Ming army, and the Ming Dynasty has imitated Hongyi cannons for some years. Although there are many small red cannons imitated, but they are also hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties, and in order to pursue The power is generally longer than the diameter, and the Ming army didn't have it at all, and didn't understand the new type of two-wheeled gun mounts, and still used the small four-wheeled ship-mounted artillery mounts.

Basically don't expect to be able to run around with these artillery.

As for the imitation, they have never even seen it before, who knows what it is like, so naturally it is impossible to give it to Zuo Liangyu.

So far, the Ming army has not been able to capture even a two-and-a-half catty field artillery from the Rural Protection Army, let alone captured, few people have been able to observe it closely and come back alive.

So many generals of the Ming army knew that the Baoxiang Army had a small red cannon, but they didn't know exactly what it was.

Therefore, it will take some time for the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court to imitate the small and light artillery of the Rural Protection Army.

On the other hand, Liangyu from Zuo Liangyu saw that there was nothing he could do. In order to protect himself and expand his family's strength, he was already thinking about finding craftsmen to make this kind of small red barbarian cannon.

It's just that there are no samples to refer to, and even the specific structure is not clear. It is not so difficult to imitate the drawn pattern just by looking at it from a distance.

Zuo Liangyu not only intends to imitate the small red cannon in the Baozhe Army, but also intends to imitate the big bird gun in the Baozhe Army.

He likes the big bird gun of the Baozhe Army very much.

It is also a musket carried by an individual soldier, but it is much more powerful than the blunderbuss used by officers and soldiers now. A single shot will punch a hole in any heavy armor.

Moreover, this kind of big bird gun of the bandit army also has a thorn with a sleeve buckle, which is much more practical than the plug-in gun knife that was also used in the bird gun.

After realizing the superiority of this big bird gun, Zuo Liangyu has already ordered his craftsmen to start imitating this big bird gun.

Unlike the more difficult imitation of the portable red cannon in the Baozhe Army, it is much easier to imitate this kind of big bird gun.

After all, Zuo Liangyu also has a foreign gun like the big bird gun in the Bao Bandit Army, so it is enough for the craftsmen to imitate it.

And there are no technical problems.

After all, the [-]mm matchlock guns in the Baoxiang Army are actually no different from the bird guns of the Ming Army in terms of technical characteristics. The core barrels are all forged by the rolling method.

It's just that in many processes, the arsenal of the Baoxiang Army will use machinery for processing, while the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty still use pure manual processing.

However, this only affects production efficiency and the uniformity of standards, and does not prevent the Ming army from imitating this kind of arquebus on a large scale.

Zuo Liangyu was thinking about imitating the guns of the Rural Protection Army, but the other Ming Army didn't have this idea, or they had this idea but didn't have the strength.

Zuo Liangyu is different from ordinary generals of the Ming army. He is not only a general, but also an arrogant and domineering general who supports his troops and protects himself.

The imperial court couldn't come up with the money and food to imitate the new-style ordnance on a large scale, but Zuo Liangyu searched for the money and food by himself to imitate the ordnance of the Township Protection Army.

In order to collect money, Zuo Liangyu directly set up cards in Ruzhou and Runing Prefecture to collect money, and from time to time sent troops directly to the countryside to collect grain, and occasionally threatened the gentry in various cities to ask for money and grain.

The memorial to impeach him kept flying into the Forbidden City like snowflakes, but he still had nothing to do.

Who let people have more than 1 troops under their hands.

Whether the imperial court can restrain the bandit army in the north of Chu and prevent the bandit army from entering the Central Plains in a large scale, now they can only count on Zuo Liangyu to block the line of Fangcheng ancient road.

Even if Zuo Liangyu's current actions make the princes of the court disgusted, he has to hold his nose and bear it, and even think about giving Zuo Liangyu a reward.

Zuo Liangyu now annexed Ye County and other places in the rear, and formed a confrontation with the rural protection army on the front line of Yuzhou, which gradually calmed down the war on the northern front.

One didn't plan to counterattack Nanyang, and the other didn't plan to march into the Central Plains, so Huang Dingquan and Zuo Liangyu chose to confront each other very tacitly.

There is no war on the northern front, and the western front is progressing smoothly. Now there is only the southeastern front, that is, the battle on the front line of De'an Mansion and Huangzhou Mansion.

Among them, there was not much fighting in Huangzhou Prefecture. After the first division of the Baoxiang Army took Hanyang, it dispatched the second infantry regiment plus Ruo infantry and cavalry to form a mixed reinforced regiment to attack Huangzhou Prefecture.

Because there were not many Ming troops in Huangzhou Prefecture, the reinforced regiment successfully conquered Huangpo, Macheng and other places, and in late August, they successively captured Huangzhou Prefecture and ruled Huanggang, Qizhou and other places.

During this period, King Jing crossed the south of the Yangtze River and fled to Jiujiang. After the township protection army looted King Jing's mansion, they continued to advance to Huangmei and Susong.

Due to the exhaustion of soldiers from successive battles, the long supply line on land, and the interception of a large number of Ming troops from Nanzhili in the Susong area, the Second Infantry Regiment stopped its eastward offensive and began to build a defense line on the spot. .

But the front line of De'an Mansion is more cautious. This is not to say that the Ming army in De'an Mansion is stronger. In fact, even the six or seven thousand Ming troops stationed in the Lucheng of De'an Mansion are not seen by the township protection army. in the eyes.

But considering that these Ming troops are good at fleeing without fighting, if one's own army advances past and flees directly to the third pass of Yiyang, then the follow-up will be more troublesome.

Anlu City, this is already a dish in the bowl of the Baoxiang Army. Now the overall strategy of the Baoxiang Army's eastward advance to De'an Mansion is not to conquer Anlu City, but to capture the three passes of Yiyang, and to cross the Dabie Mountains in the future. Prepare for entering the Runing Mansion and even the Huaihe River area.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue asked the staff to formulate a more cautious battle plan. First, a small number of troops were used to attract the main force of the enemy army, but secretly, a group of troops was sent to detour to seize the three passes of Yiyang.

For this reason, the Township Protection Army mobilized the Second Infantry Brigade and the First Cavalry Brigade of the First Division, and ordered the Third Infantry Division in Xiangyang Prefecture to send a regiment of troops to Suizhou to seize Pingjingguan and other places.

Prepare for a north-south attack, and directly take away all the Ming troops in De'an Mansion, so as to prevent the Ming troops from fleeing to Yiyang Sanguan.

Under such circumstances, on August 27, a regiment of the [-]nd Infantry Brigade successfully attacked Yingshan County, De'an Prefecture, and then another regiment of the [-]nd Infantry Brigade seized Wuyang Pass, Jiuli Pass and other places in the three passes of Yiyang. .

After the above-mentioned three regiments seized Yingshan County and the three passes of Yiyang, it meant that the [-] Ming troops who were still in Anlu City were strategically surrounded...

When the rear retreat was seized by the bandit security forces, Anlu City fell into panic.

Many civil and military officials in the city had another heated debate, and during the debate, the three thousand Ming troops who ran all the way from Yicheng to Anlu City once again tried to break out of the encirclement before the security guards completely sealed off. Then look for an opportunity to browse the Dabie Mountains and escape to the Central Plains.

As soon as these three thousand Ming troops ran away, the morale of the remaining four thousand Ming troops also plummeted instantly.

Small-scale Ming troops began to flee one after another, and the officials also began to disappear one by one.

When the rural protection army finally turned around and went to Anlu City, there were only more than 2000 defenders in Anlu City.

And these more than 2000 people are also very interesting. The reason why they stayed in Anlu City and did not run away was purely to wait for the township protection army to come and then sacrifice the city...

Not only did they offer the city, but the more than 2000 Ming troops also arrested many officials in the city as certificates of honor.

Anlu City, go down without a fight!

For this result, many soldiers of the Rural Protection Army are no strangers to it.

In the past six months, the Township Protection Army has experienced many times when the defenders of the Ming Dynasty surrendered without a fight. It was not the first time and it would not be the last time that the defenders of Anlu City surrendered without a fight.

After taking Anlu City, the bandits in this direction were not idle, except that the [-]th Infantry Regiment of the [-]rd Division was ordered to lead the temporarily reorganized [-]th Defense Division to garrison Yingshan, Anlu and Yiyang. Waiting outside.

The [-]nd Infantry Brigade and [-]st Cavalry Brigade, which belonged to the [-]st Division, were the core force to pursue the escaped [-] Ming troops.

And the facts proved that although these people ran early, they still didn't run fast enough, and they were overtaken by the First Cavalry Brigade within a few days.

When the three thousand Ming troops saw that they had been caught up, they surrendered without even a symbolic resistance...

In view of the "brilliant" record of the Ming army of this department, the Baoxiang Army did not directly reorganize the department, but first dispatched officers from the Military and Political Department to conduct a thorough investigation, and finally concluded that the [-] Ming troops did not have the value of reorganization.

It’s not that they are poor in physical fitness and combat skills. In fact, the soldiers of the Ming army who have been able to run all the way to the present are not too poor in physical fitness and combat skills. Most of them are veterans. .

However, these people fled without fighting many times in a row, and finally surrendered without even resisting. For a long time, these soldiers have been afraid of fighting and fleeing when they see the enemy.

Regardless of whether the enemy is strong or weak, when they hear the enemy is coming, their first thought is to run away.

Although after reorganization, they can also be turned around through ideological education and strengthening of discipline, but the Township Protection Army has never lacked garrison soldiers.

There are a lot of surrendered soldiers and prisoners of war waiting for them to reorganize. Without the surrendered soldiers, there are still a large number of refugees, young and strong, to choose from.

Therefore, this Ming army also became the first Ming army in the history of the reorganization and surrender of the Baoxiang Army that did not accept reorganization, and was all changed into construction battalions, reclamation battalions, or transportation battalions.

It has to be said that this Ming army has also made history!

With the end of the war in De'an Mansion, the Township Protection Army also took full control of the entire northern Chu area, and even extended a foot into eastern Sichuan.

At the same time, the external war temporarily subsided due to various reasons. The Township Protection Army began to mobilize some troops stationed in various places to wipe out the remaining Ming troops and even rogues in northern Chu, in order to strengthen their control over the grassroots.

On September [-], Luo Zhixue led a large number of officials to Hanyang in order to command the troops going south nearby, and prepare for the subsequent crossing of the river to attack Wuchang and capture the entire Huguang.

However, as the war gradually subsided, the interior of the Township Protection Army did not calm down. Generals stationed in other places one after another found various excuses to apply to go to Hanyang.

And some people are even more lazy after arriving in Hanyang.

Why?

Because many people in the Rural Protection Army are looking forward to it!

What are they looking forward to?
Call yourself an emperor and build a country!

(End of this chapter)