The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 143
Huang Han paid special attention to the development and education of firearms troops, and adopted preferential policies. Therefore, Song Pengfei's team has a relatively large number of people, and now it is close to 300 people.

Among them, there are 110 people who are serious gunners and gunmen. How their combat effectiveness will be reflected in the next offensive and defensive battle of Yongping Fucheng.

The chances for the future "Red Banner Army" to take advantage of Ming Dynasty and continue to recruit skilled archers and cavalry are obviously running out. After all, there is no war in the pass, and there will not be too many Ming troops to be dispersed.

Naturally, Huang Han had no reason to start hunting for people. He couldn't openly go to other camps to poach the walls. Wouldn't that be a mess?The court will not agree.

Training easy-to-handle firearms units will be the mainstream direction for the development of the "Red Banner Army" in the future.

Iron armor is too expensive, and the quantity is not enough to equip all the soldiers. Therefore, the firearms troops do not wear armor. The soldiers only have refined iron helmets, and wear mandarin duck battle jackets or cotton armor.

Firearms troops are not strong enough to defend, so we should avoid hand-to-hand combat with the enemy as much as possible. Long-range strikes are especially important, and preventing the enemy from breaking through the formation is also a top priority.

The formation of a unicycle with three guns on the front end can indeed better prevent the enemy cavalry from charging into the formation.

This thing is cheap and easy to carry. Yiwu Niao Gunshou owns a wheelbarrow to reduce the load. The cart can be loaded with food, tents, gunpowder, and lead bullets.

Usually, when pushing a wheelbarrow forward, a long spear with a white wax pole with a length of one foot or two feet will not be installed, and it will be installed in place when forming an formation to meet the enemy.

There is a ready-made card slot on the wheelbarrow. One end of the gun tip points obliquely to the front. The height is about four feet five inches from the ground. The tail end is close to the ground to improve stability. The installation time can be done in less than one minute.

The firearms troops are infantry, and they are most afraid of being attacked by cavalry. It is not how powerful the cavalry is, but that they have the advantage of speed and powerful impact, and they can even directly kill the infantry.

As long as the speed of the cavalry can be slowed down and the cavalry is prevented from rushing into the formation of the firearms troops, the cavalry who try to break the formation will be beaten to the point of crying under the alternate blows of bird guns and raising guns.

The "Red Banner Army" has moved to Kaiping Town, and more than 3000 ordinary people no longer have to follow the army. They will soon settle down in Kaiping Town.

Some of these people are family members who work with the army, and some are women and children who are determined to follow the "Red Banner Army". They will all get jobs, and there will be one or two thousand ordinary people hiding in the refuge soon.

Now, in order to prevent the later Jin army from coming to burn, kill and loot, large-scale production will not be carried out for the time being. The job of more than 3000 people is to repair the town, manage the dirty and messy situation in the town, and make Kaiping Town a prosperous and clean model city.

The cities of Ming Dynasty were relatively dirty. In fact, there were few clean cities in the world in this era, and the cities in Europe were even more messy.

Huang Han knew that the epidemic in the late Ming Dynasty was prevalent in history, which led to the decline of national power. How can we prevent the epidemic?The only way is to improve the hygiene level of the common people.

It is the most convenient and feasible way to keep the city clean and hygienic, to bury garbage in a timely manner, keep cesspit out of the open air, have clean water sources, and encourage ordinary people to develop the habit of drinking warm water.

If you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world?If a town can't be managed well, how can the world be governed?Huang Han intends to use the modern model to start with the management of a town, sum up experience and then manage a county, a government, and even a province and a country.

The clan power in Kaiping Town will not hinder Huang Han's management, because most of the big clans will go to live in Zhenzi Town according to the agreement, and they also admit that Jin's shortcomings after surrender are in the hands of the "Red Banner Army", so they will not easily and dare not offend Huang Yizhou father and son.

It's not that Huang Han doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, and easily let go of those scholar-bureaucrats and scholars who had surrendered to the Jin army.

But as a budding general, if he blatantly kills the mainstream class of the Ming Dynasty and ransacks his home to search for property, he will cause unnecessary trouble for no reason. .

Extorting many famous families to obtain development funds, holding their handles in their hands, there will be fewer obstacles in doing things, which is more civilized than the rough-and-tumble killing, and it also maximizes the benefits.

Daming's ruling power was too weak, causing the local government to despise the family and the country and place more emphasis on the local land. They were brave enough to fight privately and shy away from public wars.

Clans may fight for water sources, but when foreign enemies come, they are asked to send people to join the army, provide money and food to support the public war, and the patriarchs ignore it.

Huang Handa can let go of his hands and feet and use the system of Baojia and joint defense to manage Kaiping Town. It will no longer be the clan forces controlling the township, but a layer-by-layer responsibility system.

The most basic managers are Baochang, Jiachang, and Lichang, which are equivalent to the villages, production teams, and village groups in later generations, as well as neighborhood committees and communities.

Break the status quo that the Ming Dynasty's decrees can only reach the county level, let the grassroots people have the right to speak, and then build a propaganda team, so that the people who have received benefits can understand the truth of death, and let everyone work together to defend the hard-won stable life.

I believe that an efficient political group will be born in the near future.

It is Huang Han's stated goal to take Yongping Mansion and save the common people under Amin's butcher's knife as much as possible.

At this time, it is necessary to make material preparations for the tough battle, and it is necessary to build ladders and door-breaking cones.

Huang Han knew that once the Ming army launched an attack, Amin would definitely abandon the city and flee. In history, Amin ran away just as the Ming army was preparing for an attack.

Therefore, there is no need to prepare too many siege equipment, hundreds of ordinary people work together, and thirty ladders and two city-breaking cones are completed in only one day.

The "Red Banner Army" infantry is now using these equipment for drills, using the city walls of Kaiping Town to train ladders to climb, and the city-breaking cone to quickly approach the city gate to complete the impact.

In order to increase the mobility of the "Red Banner Army", Huang Han planned to invest [-] carriages to transport infantry and siege equipment, and all war horses and draft horses had to be used.

If you can buy time, you can save tens of thousands of Han people. All the "Red Banner Army" must do their best, and once the war starts, they will still launch an attack.

The "Red Banner Army" who has experienced the influence of nationalist education almost every day is full of fighting spirit. They will not look forward and backward like the Ming army in history, and it is impossible for Amin to have enough time to retreat calmly after slaughtering the city.

As long as Huang Han and his troops are on the battlefield, they must attack and advance at the fastest speed, not hesitating to go head-to-head with Amin's troops and cause casualties.

Because if Amin chooses to fight bloody with the "Red Banner Army", it means that he has no time to massacre the city. How many Han people's lives will be saved?Who else is there for such a feat of immeasurable merit?

The efficiency of the Ming army was really low. Sun Chengzong, who was in command of Funing, did not launch a campaign to recover the four cities until the end of April. It is said that he was waiting for the deployment of the Hongyi cannon.

(End of this chapter)