Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 617 Your Emperor Has Returned
When the nine banners were raised in the camp of the Ming army outside Jinan, everyone knew that the emperor was coming.

The emperor came in person.

The morale of the whole army is stronger.

At this time, the army gathered under the city of Jinan already included Jinwu, Shenji, Zhongsu, Yongwei, Qianniu, and Habayashi from the six towns, as well as many local volunteers who were recruited and reorganized, as well as the local regiment Lian Xiangyong.

Jinan City rejected Daming's persuasion to surrender and resisted wholeheartedly.

Before the arrival of the emperor, the Ming army did not directly attack the city, but began to besiege the city, laying fences in five directions outside the city, and even planned to dig trenches and build walls to encircle the city, build forts, and build siege equipment.

It is clear that we must fight steadily and do not want to attack too many casualties.

He even made preparations to besiege the city and fight for aid.

"According to His Majesty's will, the ministers are planning to encircle first and then fight. There is not much food in the city. Now all the strongholds outside the city have been abandoned and retreated to the city. Although the city is tall and strong, there are more than ten thousand Eight Banners and Green Battalions, but it lacks food and grass, so it is difficult to defend for a long time.

And the ministers got the news that before Boluo sent troops, he had ordered Xu, Yan and other Qing troops to retreat to Jinan for reinforcements, and now they are coming, we plan to send reinforcements first. "

Zhu Yihai listened to the reports of the generals, and was very satisfied that they obeyed the order and did not rush to attack the city.

In the battle of Zhangqiu, the Ming army won a complete victory and wiped out more than ten thousand Tartars, but the real Eight Banners soldiers were only about [-], and the rest were Yu Ding and the coated slaves. In the ambush, the casualties of the Ming army were not small.

In the most elite imperial camp towns, more than 1000 were killed in battle, and thousands of people were seriously injured and lost their personnel. The total reduction of personnel was less than [-]. The auxiliary soldiers of the imperial camp are already well-trained soldiers who can be soldiers.

In fact, Zhu Yihai was not satisfied with the result of this battle.

The battle damage is too great.

Although in the eyes of other civil servants and military generals, this battle has been fought very beautifully. After all, more than 1 Tartars were killed in World War I. They don’t care about Zhengding, Yuding, Baoyi, Hu Xianu, etc. In their eyes, these are the Qing army, and they are the Eight Banners Manchuria, and they are the core soldiers of the Tartars.

More than 1 people can be wiped out at one time, which is a victory that shakes the foundation of the Tartars.

The Ming army lost [-] casualties, which is also a casualty ratio of [-]:[-]. The Ming army is still a brilliant victory.

As long as there is a war, casualties are inevitable.

However, Zhu Yihai's elite soldier policy could not bear such casualties.

A soldier was killed in battle, not to mention the wasted training in the early years, and he had to pay about 200 silver dollars for one-time compensation, burning and burial. year.

The compensation for casualties in one battle will cost millions.

And years of training are gone.

There were only so many soldiers in the imperial camp, and Zhu Yihai couldn't bear such casualties, and it was difficult to keep up with the supplements and training, so he had to be more careful, and try to avoid such heavy casualties.

However, the casualties in the siege battle were the biggest.

"The way to use soldiers is to attack the heart first, and attack the city as the bottom. The heart is the top, and the soldiers are the bottom." Zhu Yihai reminded the generals that although the situation is good now, the enemy should not be underestimated, let alone the casualties of the soldiers.

It is true that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will die, but it is still necessary to avoid casualties as much as possible.

Regarding Jinan, Zhu Yihai put forward several points. One is to besiege the city as much as possible, force the enemy to surrender, and do not attack hard to avoid excessive casualties.Second, besiege the city and fight for reinforcements, mobilize the Tatars to send troops to aid, lure snakes out of the cave, and ambush them. Our side will take the initiative and ambush them on the preset battlefield to avoid more siege battles.

Third, we must launch a psychological war, try our best to persuade the Tartars to surrender, and disintegrate their will to resist.

In addition, you can also use your time to instigate some powerful gentry in the city, or start a riot among the people, and open the city gates from the inside and the outside.

The last thing is to fight, and you have to be prepared for the fight, dig trenches and blast, bombard with artillery, use siege towers, ladders, etc. to climb the city, be prepared, do not fight unprepared battles, and do not take human lives to fill.

Every soldier in the Imperial Battalion pays a few taels of silver a month. The usual training costs are also high, and the equipment costs are also high. How can they be spent casually?
I would rather sweat a little more, build fences around the city, dig trenches and build walls like iron barrels, than rush into the city of Jinan, which is made of copper and iron.

Even with artillery, a real big city attack and defense is still a terrible meat grinder. In history, if the defenders are determined to attack and defend a real big city, it is difficult to capture it in a short time, and the casualties will be very alarming.

Those famous siege battles can often be fought for half a year or even a few years.

For example, in the battle of Suiyang, the people in the city could be fought if they could be fought.

It means that the battle of Daling River in the dynasty was also cannibalism to defend the city.

Zu Dashou almost ate up the people, and the Qing army could not attack. In the end, there was no food and no help, so he accepted the persuasion to surrender and opened the city himself.

So if possible, it's better to surround yourself.

The siege consumes food and grass, but it is better than consuming soldiers.

"In the last battle of Zhangqiu, although the soldiers of our imperial camp towns fought very well, they still exposed some problems in our imperial camp. I have summed it up, the main reason is that Buzhen's firepower is not enough."

"I plan to integrate the two towns of the imperial battalion into one town, and Shenji Town will no longer be established separately, but will be split and distributed to each town to enrich the artillery force, and the cavalry of Jinwu Town will also be split to each town."

In Zhangqiu's battle, the infantry's largest gun was only a three-pound gun, which was really too weak.

Zhu Yihai planned not to establish separate cavalry towns and artillery towns, but to upgrade the artillery battalions and cavalry battalions in each town to increase their cavalry, artillery, especially artillery.

Twelve-pounder field guns must be added to the towns.

"Shence Town will be organized as the first town of the Imperial Army, under the jurisdiction of two battalions of infantry, one battalion of cavalry and artillery, and one battalion of engineering and luggage.

Each infantry association has two bids, each bid will govern three battalions, and each battalion will still have four sentries.There are also three battalions for each cavalry and artillery, and one battalion has four sentries.

Each whistle used to be eight teams, but now it is changed to three rows and nine teams, and each team still has 12 people. "

The Xie, Biao, Battalion, and Sentinel each have their own units directly under them. For example, there is a team directly under the battalion, including cavalry platoons and artillery platoons.There is also a sentry directly under the bid, including cavalry and artillery.

The imperial camp used to have [-] soldiers in one town, but changed it to [-] soldiers. Now the two towns are going to be combined into one town, but everyone can tell that this time it is not just a simple increase in numbers.

The original eight thousand changed to five thousand, in fact, basically the number of battalions has decreased, and the specific military establishment has not changed. For example, one association has two bids, one bid has two battalions, one battalion has four sentries, and one sentry has eight teams. It was the same before.

But now, although the first association still has two bids, the first bid has three battalions, the first battalion has four whistles, but the first whistle has changed from eight teams to three rows and nine teams.

In particular, there were one artillery battalion, one cavalry battalion, and eight infantry battalions under the original town, but now there are twelve infantry battalions, three artillery battalions, three cavalry battalions, and a newly established engineering battalion and one baggage battalion.

Compared with the original two infantry towns, after the merger, the infantry battalions actually decreased, while the artillery and cavalry increased.

After integration, a town has about 4000 people.

The emperor also proposed that the towns will also be numbered with numbers in the future, and below the towns, they will also be uniformly numbered according to the type of arms. Keep making it up.

The headquarters of the imperial camp has five armies and twenty towns, and ten towns for camp. It is planned to be reorganized into an army of eighteen towns first, and the navy will also be upgraded to a navy.

The army has four outposts in one battalion, plus the battalion directly under the battalion and the battalion staff, the number is still about [-].

A town has a total of twenty infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions, three artillery battalions, plus one engineering battalion and one supply battalion. The auxiliary battalions are still retained, and the auxiliary battalions of 26 battalions are reduced to [-] battalions each. Three thousand nine.

"The title of the First Town of the Daming Imperial Battalion will be awarded to the Shence Army who made great contributions in Zhangqiu, and the title of the First Association will be awarded to the Zuo Xie of the Shence Army who made great contributions in the bloody battle in Zhangqiu. The first title of infantry, the first title of cavalry, The first artillery bid will be awarded to the Shence Army."

In the new Shence Town of the First Army, three battalions of artillery will be assigned, and there will be a battalion of 45-pounder field artillery, two battalions of three-pounder artillery, and a battalion of heavy artillery with nine [-]-pounder battalions and two battalions of three-pounder artillery. , Each is equipped with eighteen three-pound guns, and the entire cannon mark will have [-] guns in full.

In addition, each infantry battalion will also be equipped with two three-pound guns, and one can be equipped in the early stage.

Zhu Yihai intends to use the fire suppression to the extreme, whether it is a siege or a field battle in the future, he will use artillery to wipe out the ground.

Shenji Town and Jinwu Town will be split up, but the emperor also retains an additional cavalry and artillery, but they are no longer a town, but each retains an association. This artillery association is mainly used for attacking the city. Heavy artillery.

The two associations are each composed of students from the Cavalry Academy and the Artillery Academy, and they are mobilized to go out when fighting big battles.

The two towns are combined into one town, and there is almost no change in military strength, but the configuration has changed a lot.

The generals actually had different feelings after hearing this, and many generals were not very happy about it, which meant that the position of township officers had been cut in half.

But the emperor didn't want to discuss with them.

After reintegration, a town in the future will be a standard battle unit, and it will be able to stand alone without any additional support from cavalry and artillery.

Of course, Zhu Yihai could also see the carelessness of the generals.

So he told everyone.

"After the two towns are merged into one town, the heads of each town will be promoted to admirals, and there will be a chief officer, a Sima, and two deputy admirals as officers at the town level."

Changshi and Sima were newly established. Changshi is equivalent to the original military supervisor. Now it is called Changshi. chief of staff.

The two deputy admirals are military deputies and can lead troops separately.The town headquarters still has four offices, the Military Order Office, the Staff Office, the Supervision Office and the Logistics Office, and the Equipment Office has been merged into the Logistics Office.

There are also Changshi, Sima and deputy commander in chief.

The standard is to set up the commander of the general, and the deputy of the guerrilla.The battalion officer is the capital, and the guard is the deputy.

Sentinel Qian Zong,
Arrange the total.

Jin Gongyu was promoted to the first town admiral, Wen Hu was promoted to the deputy admiral and leader of the first association, Shen Wenzhong was the first town mayor Shi, and Yang Boxing was the first town Sima.

The designation of the second town was awarded to Yongwei Town. Yongwei Town and Zhongsu Town were co-edited and became the second town of the Daming Imperial Camp. The banner of Yongwei Town was retained. Zhang Quan was the second town admiral and Meng Xian was the deputy. The admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Third Ming Association.

"Nine 24-pound field guns were dispatched from Shenji Town to the second town, and the other [-]-pound siege guns were also coordinated. It took three days to prepare, and after three days, let the Tartars in Jinan City know the power of our Daming artillery. , cannon persuaded to surrender!"

(End of this chapter)