I want to be emperor

Chapter 429 Heart Floating
Shen Yuankui went to the Great Chu Empire, which instantly turned the cavalry force of the Great Chu Empire in the Jiangbei area from a disadvantage to an advantage.

Before Shen Yuankui voted for Chu, the main cavalry force of the Chu army in the Jiangbei area was the First Cavalry Brigade, which consisted of three cavalry regiments, each with four cavalry posts, and each cavalry post had 120 cavalry. There is a cavalry artillery battalion with eight cavalry cannons of two and a half catties and four cavalry cannons of five catties.

Except for the [-]st Cavalry Brigade, each division belongs to the cavalry regiment, and the division belongs to the cavalry regiment is much worse.

Even the divisional cavalry regiments under the First Division are all half-baked cavalry. Many divisional cavalry were not cavalry at all before, they just knew how to ride horses, and then they were incorporated into the divisional cavalry regiment as cavalry Train, fight.

Therefore, these traditional divisions belong to cavalry regiments, and their conventional combat effectiveness is very average.

As for riding and shooting...if they had this ability, they would not be incorporated into the cavalry regiment of each division, but would be incorporated into the first cavalry brigade.

Therefore, most of the time, these divisional cavalry regiments of the Chu army, except for a very few elites who will be used as scouts and occasionally fight with enemy cavalry on horseback, in fact, most of the divisional cavalry regiments are used as mounted infantry.

On weekdays, relying on the short-distance mobility brought by war horses, they perform peripheral reconnaissance and security.

When necessary, some tasks of fast marching to a certain place will also be carried out.

Generally speaking, the Chu army used most of the divisional cavalry regiments as fast mobile infantry.

The Chu army has been trying to improve the combat effectiveness of the divisional cavalry units. It has successively issued special pistols for the cavalry. At the end of last year, it began to issue short-barreled cavalry flintlocks to some cavalry. Through changes in formation discipline and equipment, the shortcomings of the division cavalry's poor riding skills and poor horsefighting ability are offset.

There are also effects of doing so, the most typical of which is the Eighth Cavalry Regiment, which has been in Hefei and Fengyang for a long time and frequently fought with the cavalry of the Ming Army.

This regiment is also among the cavalry regiments belonging to many divisions. It is the first cavalry unit equipped with Suifa cavalry pistols and simultaneously issued Suifa cavalry guns to form Musketeers. A more beautiful cavalry battle.

At present, the Chu army is promoting this combat mode in several other divisional cavalry regiments on the Jiangbei front.

However, it takes time!
Cavalry training is far more troublesome than infantry or even artillery training, and it takes longer, so that two or three months have passed. At present, all of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment and the First Guards Cavalry Regiment have undergone a comprehensive change of equipment and formed initial combat effectiveness.

As for the cavalry regiments belonging to other divisions, they are still not very good at the moment, and can only grope and train while fighting.

The above is only a question of the overall quality of the cavalry, but for the Chu army, another big problem is the number of issues.

The Chu army not only lacked well-trained cavalry with excellent riding skills, but also lacked high-quality war horses.

At present, in the many control areas of the Great Chu Empire, although some southwest horses can also be found, these southwest horses are too short to be used as service horses, but they cannot be used as cavalry horses.

This has also led to the fact that in the Chu army, there is not a shortage of mules and horses for various services. After all, the logistics and artillery units are not too picky, and some are enough. Small horses are fine, mules are fine, and even donkeys are also used in large quantities. .

But the cavalry horses are very short.

The horses used by the cavalry of the Chu army in the past were basically captured, and a few were smuggled in through some shady channels in the northwest and other directions in the past two years. Huge demand for cavalry horses.

Therefore, many divisions in the Chu Army belong to cavalry regiments, but they are actually dissatisfied with the formation.

A few main forces such as the First Guards Division and the First Division can be fully staffed, while most of the other troops have only two or three hundred riders or even less.

In the First Battle of Jiangbei, the Chu army had already concentrated a considerable number of cavalry, but the total number was still inferior to that of the opposing Ming cavalry.

The quality is not as good as the quantity is not as good. This is the embarrassing fact that the Chu cavalry was in the Jiangbei area before.

But with Shen Yuankui's surrender, this embarrassing phenomenon was reversed at once.

The cavalry unit of the Chu army suddenly changed from a disadvantaged party to an advantaged party.

This also made Luo Zhixue, who was stationed in Huai'an, nodded slightly. It was not in vain that he gave Shen Yuankui such generous treatment, and even allowed Shen Yuankui to continue to lead the cavalry to fight.

This is what I want!

As long as the disadvantage of the cavalry in the Jiangbei area can be reversed and the cavalry of one's own side can occupy such a small advantage, then Luo Zhixue is confident that this small advantage will be snowballed directly, and eventually form a huge strategic advantage.

Luo Zhixue was satisfied with this, but Zhu Dadian in Fengyang City was about to vomit blood.

"This damned Shen Yuankui, he usually doesn't obey orders, and it's okay to make his own opinions, but now he dares to surrender to the thief, he is so brave!" After Zhu Dadian learned that Shen Yuankui had surrendered to the thief, he was very angry, and directly said to the other subordinates. He cursed loudly.

Immediately afterwards, they sent people to the north quickly to pass the news back to the capital, and let the capital arrest the Shen family.

Traitors who openly lead their troops to rebel are far more hateful than those officials who surrendered.

In the past year, due to a series of defeats on the front line, a large number of civil and military officials inevitably surrendered in the Ming court. However, it is impossible for the Ming court to kill all the family members of these surrendered officials.

After all, if you really want to kill, there are many people who need to be killed...

So I began to deal with it selectively. Some of the bad natures were naturally ransacking the family and exterminating the family, such as Song Zushun. All kinds of shady scenes in the court... The Ming court will naturally deal with it seriously, and ordered the Song family to be confiscated long ago. Unfortunately, it was a step too late, and all the immediate family members of the Song family have disappeared.

For some civil and military officials who are not so bad in nature, such as being captured helplessly after a defeat, or surrendering in order to save the lives of soldiers and people after being trapped in a heavy siege, they often choose to turn a blind eye.

And the reason why such a change occurred in the Ming court was because many people wanted to leave a way out for themselves!
How should I put it, no one can guarantee whether he will vote for Chu in the future...

Seeing that the Chu thieves are getting stronger and stronger, occupying more and more places, and now they have launched a massive Northern Expedition, capturing Yangzhou and Huai'an, two strategically important places, and it is possible to swallow the entire Jiangbei in one go Stance.

And what will the thief Chu do next?
Fools know that they will continue to go north, and then capture Shandong, Henan, Beizhili and other areas, but can the Ming court stop the Chu army's northern expedition?
Many people actually have no idea.

Even if many senior officials in the court, even if they dare not say it, there are quite a few people who maintain a pessimistic attitude towards it.

Perhaps, some of them thought that if the Chu thieves really reached Jinling City, they would have to learn from many colleagues in Jinling City who turned to Chu.

When the Chu army attacked Jinling City, many ministers and servants who accompanied the capital finally voted for Chu...

Now the right servant of the Ministry of Rites and Education in the Great Chu Empire is Cai Sichong, the former minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing in the Ming court!

This person is just one of them, besides him, there are a lot of votes, even when he surrendered, even before he surrendered, he had already secretly served the Great Chu Empire, such as Li Yuankui, the big boss behind Fenghe Commercial Bank, this person not only Only in the past few years, he helped the Great Chu Empire purchase various strategic materials. During the battle of Jinling City, he directly led people to rebel in the city, and then opened the city gate to welcome the Chu army into the city.

After the Chu army entered the city, Li Yuankui was first appointed as the left servant of the Ministry of Trade. In February this year, the minister of the Ministry of Trade, who was still alive and kicking, suddenly used the excuse of serious illness to "beg for bones". He was officially promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Trade.

He was the first among the many loyal officials to occupy the high position of Shangshu.

And there are even more middle and low-level officials. You can see from the fact that the Great Chu Empire even launched a large-scale rectification campaign against a group of Ming court officials who were not correct in their thinking last winter. In the court, there are quite a few people from the Ming court who were demoted from official background.

And since so many people can vote for Chu, it makes no sense why I can't, right?

People who have similar thoughts are not alone in Youzhou City today, and even those high-ranking officials in the ministries and halls may have such thoughts.

Under such circumstances, they will naturally not let Chongzhen mess around like they did in the past, and immediately ransack their homes and exterminate their families as soon as they see someone on the front line surrendering.

This matter can't be done too much, otherwise, after I voted in the future, how would I face those colleagues who voted first?

Regarding these, Zhu Dadian could guess some of them, so after the impeachment memorial was delivered, he couldn't guarantee how the imperial court would deal with Shen Yuankui's family.

Moreover, considering the current situation, the impeachment of Shen Yuankuina is only a trivial matter. What is more important is that the nearly [-] troops of the Chu thieves have already advanced along the Huai River towards Fengyang, and now they are not many miles away from Fengyang City.

In addition, following Shen Yuankui's surrender, the other two frontier cavalry seemed to be affected as well.

When Zhu Dadian sent people to send an order to cooperate with him to stop the Chu thief's vanguard, the people he sent over couldn't even see their principals...

Zhu Dadian was worried that not only would they not obey orders, but he was even more worried that they would turn around and surrender.

Zhu Dadian's worry was correct. The remaining two frontier cavalry of the Ming army were really thinking about whether to vote for Chu...

(End of this chapter)