Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 613 It is dangerous to lead snakes out of their holes

Gao Wushi summoned this group of powerful officials from Liuzhou Prefecture to the procuratorate (as mentioned earlier, there are procuratorates in various places), and ordered his family to guard the procuratorate inside and outside, as if he was facing an enemy , The general appearance of discussing an emergency military situation.

However, the fact is that Gao Wushi was just talking nonsense with Jiang Xin and others in the Procuratorate, talking about the exquisiteness of the questions in the Tongsheng Examination, the convenience and efficiency of Huguang Water Station, and the use of cement for building fortresses. Some things that are irrelevant to horses and cows made Jiang Xin and others confused.

But they didn't dare to interrupt the master's conversation, so they could only complain in their hearts, smile on their faces, and talk nonsense with this man whose thoughts jumped as if he had taken off.

Although Li Weicong, the commanding officer of the Liuzhou Guards from Guangxi, is theoretically as high as the third rank, he is the lowest-ranking military officer today who is qualified to enter the middle hall of the Procuratorate to listen to high-level pragmatic nonsense.He couldn't understand what Gao Wushi was saying at all, and after a long while, he couldn't help cursing inwardly: You bastard, what nonsense did you ask us to listen to!
Pu Jiezi Gao Wushi may have heard the curse in his heart, at this moment he finally looked at the sky, his expression turned cold, and he said, "Oh, there is one more thing to say, I heard that some chieftains hope that the Bazhai area Set up native officials?"

Everyone had already been a little dazed by his long-time nonsense, and their reactions were a little slow at this moment, especially Li Weicong, who was scolding inwardly just now, subconsciously said: "Is there?"

Gao Wushi smiled coldly: "Hmph, I dare to think about it."

Everyone was startled by the cold snort, and only then did they react, their thinking began to return to normal, and they were all secretly startled: What's going on, it seems that they are very dissatisfied with what they said.
At this time, Gao Wushi suddenly issued an order to evict the guests: "I'm a little tired, let's stop here for today. Tomorrow, all of you related personnel, prepare all the heads and other items obtained from the previous conquest of the Bazhai. I was supposed to check them one by one." Then he turned and walked into the inner hall, leaving behind a group of civil and military officials from Liuzhou Prefecture to watch each other.

Gao Wushi entered the inner hall, Cao Ke handed over a cup of cold tea, offered it with both hands, and said: "Master must be thirsty after drinking tea and chatting with them for so long. This is specially made to be cold."

Gao Wushi brought it over without paying attention to any demeanor. He drank it in one gulp before sitting down and said, "Cao Ke, how long will it take for those chieftains to know the news after my play has been performed? Probably not." Delay?"

Cao Ke said with a smile: "Master just told me yesterday that Taiping Mansion is the court's foot in the chieftain of Western Guangxi, while Qingyuan Mansion, Liuzhou Mansion and Nanning Mansion are the imperial court's foot in front of the chieftain of Western Guangxi. Three knives, since the threat is so great, how can those chieftains have no spies in the Liuzhou mansion? The master surrounded the procuratorate tightly with three floors and three floors outside. After a long time, those spies will not be in a hurry to inquire after they know it? But what the master said just now, only the last two sentences are relevant to them... so can they not spread it? "

"It's true." Gao Wushi smiled: "I'm just betting that someone in the Liuzhou Mansion must have secretly communicated with those chieftains for the song, otherwise, what am I doing in this play? Even if they are not tired, I still feel thirsty."

As he spoke, he said to Gao Zhang who was quietly standing aside: "Gao Zhang, what do you think of those troops from Liuzhou today?"

In the Ming Dynasty, the responsibilities of the Weisuo Army generally included four items: farmland, defense (local outposts, patrols and garrisoning the capital), water transportation, and military management.In addition, a considerable part of the Weisuo Banner Army is also responsible for water transportation.After being approved by the Ministry of War, some capital guards still have the responsibility of producing conventional weapons and managing them.However, after Cheng Zu moved the capital to Beijing, taking turns to drill (squad army) and transport grain (cao army) became increasingly important responsibilities of the Weisuo Banner Army.

Squad army refers to the banner army with the guard army as the main body leaving the guard station to which it belongs (stationed), and periodically going to a designated, relatively fixed location or area to engage in military defense-based activities.It is not only different from temporary national or regional army transfers, but also different from the long-term changes of subordinate guards brought about by new construction, merger, and transfer of guards.

There are many types of squadrons. There are Beijing Jingcao squadrons who entered the capital division (mainly from the North and South Zhili, Zhongdu left behind divisions, Henan, Shandong, Daning and other capital divisions), and there are also Nanjing troops who entered Nanjing and its nearby Jiangfang The Jingcao Squad Army includes the guards from all the borders entering the guard town of Jizhen, and the frontier squadrons from the northern capitals guarding important towns (such as Henan, Shandong, etc. entering Weiji Town, Datong, Xuanfu, Yulin, etc.) ), there are the anti-autumn and anti-winter troops (such as Wuzhou, Guilin, Guangxi, etc.) that guard each other on the northern border, and there are several or one troops that guard the military fortresses within the capital.

Shift defense became a common phenomenon of the Weisuo Banner Army, and it was an important way to carry out key defenses in key areas on the premise of not increasing the number of troops as much as possible after the domestic situation stabilized in the Ming Dynasty.

Before Gao Yushi came to Liuzhou, he asked Zhang Ren about the current military deployment in Guangxi. According to Zhang Ren, there are currently more than 22 registered soldiers in Guangxi, with a total of ten guards and [-] thousand households.

But this is just book data. In fact, there are [-] soldiers who can be used to fight the war, which is thankful.Zhang Ren quietly hinted at high pragmatism. If we only talk about temporary military incidents, the number of troops that can be mobilized in Guangxi Province is only [-] to [-].

This is also the reason why once the Bazhai Rebellion broke out in Guangxi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi had to mobilize an army from Guangdong to join the Guangxi army to encircle and suppress it together. The Bazhai Yao chaos.

After Gao Zhang heard this, he thought about it for a while, and said, "If the Liuzhou army of around [-] were to fight us today, we would definitely win. We just need to see if they are not disciplined enough, but they are brave enough. If it is, it may take a little casualties, because we have almost only musketeers this time, and lack of cover."

When he said this, there was a trace of doubt on his face: "I don't understand why the master won't let us change to the Wanli style. The gun itself is quite easy to use. The key is that after the bayonet is installed, we don't have to carry the Yanling. With a knife, it can reduce the load by several catties. If these second Longqing Forms are replaced with Wanli Form [-], the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly improved."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "The gun you tried was only a trial production model, not to mention the ridiculously high cost, and even if it uses the best material that Jinghua Iron Works can produce at present, when the bayonet is installed, the gun body The intensity is still not enough. It is not a big problem if you just use the "stab" action, but as long as there is a knife fight, there will be big trouble. Qi Zongrong, Ma Zongrong and Liu Zongrong have tried many times. In the case of high-strength knives, the probability of this gun breaking or being damaged is as high as [-]%, I can't approve mass production now, I have to wait for the strength of the steel to increase."

The Wanli-style musket mentioned by Gao Zhang is a concept proposed under the high-level pragmatic leap-forward development idea—in fact, he did not insist on leapfrogging, but his knowledge of muskets was insufficient, and he could not remember some development stages in the middle, so Skip straight to the Brit's Brown Bass and the Frenchy's Charleville MLE1777.

However, it turns out that the development of any weapon has basic conditions. When the Jinghua Gun Factory came up with a brown bass flintlock gun that was highly pragmatic and provided a rough idea, they found that this gun could not be produced directly according to the high-practice thinking. The bayonet type, because the material is not good enough, the strength of the gun body does not meet the actual combat requirements.

Therefore, at present, Gao Pragmatism has already settled for the second best, and asked to launch the Longqing II style with a bayonet modification first, but it has not yet been finalized, so this time the servants who are going south this time can only be equipped with both muskets and wild goose feather swords.A common tactic is to put the musket close first and fire one or two shots. If the opponent has not collapsed and still rushes to melee, then throw away the musket and use the Yanling knife to fight.

This method of tactics is definitely not as good as the Qi family's mandarin duck formation, because the cold weapons are not comprehensive enough, and there are no measures such as wolf sticks, boring palladium, and large shields to cooperate. Casualties will definitely not be small.

However, until now, Gao Pragmatism has never planned that the family guards will actually fight such a big battle like a regular army, so they have not adjusted and perfected their tactics and configuration for a long time.

This time, however, Gao Zhang was so pessimistic about the Liuzhou garrison, which made Gao Yushi a little worried. Guangxi chieftains are not weak chickens. Deterrent.

He hadn't considered the threat of Guangxi Tusi before, because in his impression, Guangxi Tusi seemed to be very obedient, and was often transferred by the court to fight in other places. Whether to give love or not, and the chieftains don't seem to be too entangled in these things, as long as the court rewards them themselves.

This gave Gao Wushi an illusion, thinking that the chieftain of Guangxi was loyal to Daming, like a group of gangsters.Unexpectedly, after arriving in Guangxi, they discovered that these chieftains were not as obedient as they imagined. They didn't listen to everything that Da Ming's father said, and their private calculations were still jingling.

More importantly, it's okay to be disobedient once in a while, and now some of them may even be the murderer who planted Gu to poison the governor of a province. This shows that some of these people have already acted boldly to a certain extent. , Maybe something big will happen!
But if it is deterrent, what if someone takes a risk?These soldiers and horses in Liuzhou are not very good at first glance, and they are better than the group of so-called flower soldiers from thousands of households I saw in Huangsha Town when I first entered Guangxi. It seems unreliable to expect them to turn the tide and win the wolf soldiers... I am Shouldn't the security measures be strengthened?If he died in Guangxi, he would really die before his ambition was fulfilled, and the hero would burst into tears.

Oh my god, although I seem to have no problem with luring the snake out of the hole, if I lure the snake out and bite me to death, it's not worth it!
"Uh, what you said makes sense. How about this? Send a letter to Guangzhou Port and ask them to send someone to Kaiping to ask if the Longqing Type [-] bayonet has been produced. If so, send a batch to Guangzhou as soon as possible. , let’s get five hundred rods first, and there should be enough accessories.”

In the end, Gao Sutai, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, gave such an order.

(End of this chapter)