Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

There are thousands of people, and the ground reaches the sky,
More than ten thousand people, boundless.

An army formed by thousands of sergeants is the absolute backbone of a large army, and when tens of thousands of sergeants act together, it is like a stormy sea, with the momentum to destroy mountains and mountains.

No matter which dynasty, the one who leads a thousand people is just a school lieutenant, but the one who leads ten thousand people must be a general.

Commanding ten thousand people is a general. After all, it is not easy to command ten thousand people to fight. It is a rare good general to be able to lead ten thousand people to march in one direction.

Throughout the dynasties, there have been many generals who can command 4 to 10 people, but very few are truly capable of commanding large armies of more than [-] people.

The Marquis of Huaiyin in the great Han Dynasty, Han Xin, the soldier fairy, said that Han Gaozu could command one hundred thousand soldiers.

Throughout the ages, how many people can play with hundreds of thousands of troops, and how many people can really command hundreds of thousands of people?

Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties, and today's Ming Dynasty, looking at the history books, there are only a handful of generals who can command hundreds of thousands of people.

For example, Bai Qi and Wang Jian in the Qin Dynasty, Han Xin and Wei Huo in the Han Dynasty, Li Jing, Li Ji, and Su Lie in the Tang Dynasty, and Yue Wumu in the Song Dynasty, and Xu Da and Chang Yuchun in the Ming Dynasty. They are also famous generals, and a hundred thousand people are really nothing in their hands.

But it is a pity that Zhu Chunchen and Zhu Guobi are definitely not such famous generals.

After seeing Zhou Yuji mobilizing troops and generals, Zhu Chunchen also quickly mobilized troops, all in formation, he really didn't believe that he was worse than Zhou Yuji.

When Zhu Chunchen started to line up his troops, Zhou Yuji couldn't help laughing: "The 20 troops belong to Jin, Henan, Hebei, Hui, and Zhili. They don't belong to each other, and they lack understanding. It's just a piece of loose sand."

"The 20 troops that can't be twisted together are just scattered Jin army, Yu army, Ji army, and Hui army. It's just fighting on their own when they fight and line up."

Zhou Yuji knew very well that during the Apocalypse Dynasty, the imperial court usually mobilized about 5 troops each time, and would not exceed this number.

Not only because of logistical problems, but more importantly, this kind of force is just at the limit of their generals' control. The more troops the better, but within the control range is the best.

Zhou Yuji is confident that he can command an army of 20 like his arms, but are Zhu Chunchen and Zhu Guobi really confident that they can command an army of [-]?

The answer is no, their command is nothing more than an order, and then the commander-in-chief of each province will pass the order to the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief will be dispatched again, and the order will be passed down from level to level, so my boss’s boss is not mine. boss.

It's okay to count on them to fight the wind. When it comes to the decisive battle, these guest troops who fight in different places will definitely focus on preserving their strength. The personal family of the generals, those generals have money, food and status only when they have soldiers, and they are nothing if they are gone.

But the Datong Society is different. The Datong Society doesn't have any sayings about soldiers being generals.

Zhou Yuji himself has commanded a lot of towns, and he has never said that he does not obey the command.

Therefore, Zhou Yuji's command was very smooth, and Zhu Chunchen found that even if his 20 army had only deployed [-] at this time, it seemed very obscure to mobilize, as if a rusty machine that hadn't been started for a long time was forcibly forced out without lubricating oil. Started it, and it clicked, and the response was extremely slow.

No, Zhu Chunchen ordered the Jin army on the left wing to go up, and the order was given for a moment, before the Jin army mobilized a few battalions, which made Zhu Chunchen very dissatisfied, but at the same time helpless.

The Jin army is naturally the private subordinates of those general soldiers in the Jin area. It is good if they can come to fight for you. If you really force them to die, they will directly say, "The officials in the capital are going to trick us foreigners to die again." It can make you toss enough.

After all, speaking of the 20 troops here, more than half of them are guest troops from various provinces, and the Ming Dynasty's anti-rebellion operations have always involved the fact that the commander-in-chief is biased towards his own township party.

So although Zhu Chunchen was annoyed, he could only encourage the Jin army to get them in place quickly. After all, among these guest troops, the Jin army was the most capable of fighting, and it was normal for the most capable of fighting to have a little temper.

And Zhou Yuji would not give the opposite side a chance to form a formation. After testing that Zhu Chunchen really can't control 20 troops, and even commanding and mobilizing a [-] troops is extremely difficult, Zhou Yuji directly ordered: "Order the Fourth Association for reinforcements." On the left side, punch their protruding parts back."

"The First Association and the Second Association are advancing slowly, and the artillery battalion extends its firepower."

As the order was issued, a series of general guns raised their muzzles and began to extend their firepower. At the same time, more than [-] soldiers from the First Association and the Second Association marched forward under the cover of artillery fire, launching a standard line infantry phalanx.

Infantry coordination, this is an advanced tactic, requires the artillery and infantry to cooperate tacitly, and the command must be smooth. The artillery fire extends in front of the barrage to harass the enemy and open a channel for the infantry, and the infantry follows the artillery fire. attack.

This set of procedures is easy to say, but now the only ones who can play well are the veterans who have practiced since the Tianqi Dynasty.

Zhu Chunchen watched Zhou Yuji easily command the troops to move forward, but he had 20 troops in the air, but it was difficult to command and move. This made the corners of Zhu Chunchen's mouth almost blistered. Zhu Chunchen shouted anxiously, "Where's the artillerymen? Where's our cannon? Hurry up and fight back, fight back!"

"Cheng Guogong, our cannons can't reach them!" A chief soldier said helplessly.

"Impossible, what's the difference between our cannons and theirs? How could it be possible that they could hit us but we couldn't hit them?" Zhu Chunchen didn't believe it at all. His cannons were all excellent heavy cannons supervised by the imperial court. Not as good as the artillery of the Datong thieves.

Seeing that Zhu Chunchen didn't believe him, the chief soldier had no choice but to let his subordinates fire the cannon quickly. Whether it was enough or not is another matter. If he didn't fire the cannon, Zhu Chunchen would probably use the knife.

The artillery fire of the Ming army finally launched a large-scale counterattack, and the heavy artillery began to blare continuously, smashing open-ended and solid bullets at Datong's army formation.

Hearing the thunderous roar of their own cannons, the soldiers of the Ming army cheered up one after another. Just now they had been suppressed and beaten by Datong's artillery fire, and now they can finally feel proud.

But soon someone discovered that although their own artillery fired, they couldn't reach the opposite side at all!
"My lord, this is not right. There is something wrong with our cannons!" A general frowned and said, he watched his cannons fire, but they couldn't reach the Datong bandits' formation at all.

Zhu Chunchen's eyebrows almost twitched: "This cannon was dispatched from Zhili by the commander. Why is the quality so poor?"

Just as he was talking, he heard a bang, and a cannon exploded directly. Several gunners were unable to react and were directly blown to the ground, crying in pain.

Now Zhu Chunchen's face became even uglier. He looked at the place where the cannon exploded in astonishment. It was the cannon he pulled out directly from the Zhili arsenal. How could it be of such quality?
But Zhou Yuji is very satisfied with his artillery: "The quality of these artillery is really good. Next time, I will contact the sellers in Zhili more and ask them to sell more."

Yes, a large part of Zhou Yuji's guns were bought from Zhili, and some of them were even heavy artillery originally stationed in Shandong.

After a series of processes such as replacement and scrapping, these cannons came into the hands of Datong, and now they have become a sharp weapon of the Datong army, but the Ming army that should have used these artillery used fake and shoddy products one by one.

Who should I turn to for reasoning? !

Zhu Chunchen watched helplessly that his artillery was either bombed or dumb. Those shells were either of poor quality and could not be fired, or were of different sizes and could not fit into the muzzle, and some were too outrageous that they would shatter in the air when fired into pieces.

The quality of these shells directly hurt Zhu Chunchen's heart: "Bastards, those bastards, those bastards have made me suffer! They even used these things to fool me. I will kill their whole family when I go back!"

Zhu Guobi said: "My lord, don't think about how to kill their whole family right now, first think about what we should do, the Datong thief is coming soon!"

Zhu Chunchen gritted his teeth: "We have an army of 20. Even if we don't use heavy artillery, we can drown them all by spitting!"

"Send an order to those general soldiers, let them fight the enemy bravely, let me kill them all, now only by killing them can there be hope of victory!"

When Zhu Chunchen's order was conveyed, these guest troops were unsurprisingly dissatisfied.

"What? Do you want us to go up? Datong Army's fierce artillery fire, let us go up and be cannon fodder?"

"That's right, why don't the Beijing camp and the Hui army not go up, let us Jin and Yu troops go up, what are we taking for?"

"We don't want to die under the gunfire of the Datong Army. We either go together or don't go together. If we want to sacrifice us alone, there is no way!"

"There was a shortage of food and wages, and now we have to go up and fight hard. How can there be such a good thing, when will the money and food promised by the court arrive, and when will we kill it!"

The dissatisfaction and turmoil of the guest army affected the entire army formation, and the Datong soldiers had already approached the Ming army formation under the cover of artillery fire.

More than [-] soldiers of the two associations formed a three-stage shooting array with each battalion as a unit, and lined up side by side and began to march forward.

"The bandits of Datong are rushing up, stop them quickly!"

"The musket, fire the musket!"

"Archers, archers shoot arrows quickly, and shoot the Datong bandit soldiers!"

"Bring up all the tiger crouching cannons, fire, fire!"

The chaotic Ming army issued all kinds of contradictory orders. Every general, every general and even the general had their own opinions and ideas. They did not belong to each other, so the entire Ming army was completely messed up. This one wanted to escape, that one They wanted to shoot, others wanted to fire, and some wanted to retreat. All kinds of messy orders completely surrounded the Ming army.

Zhu Chunchen watched his army turn into a chaotic vegetable market. The guest army in each province had their own plans, and there were all kinds of messy orders below them, which made the whole army chaotic and confused. I don't know what to do at this time.

Even though the artillery fire was still falling overhead, and the line of infantry in Datong was already two hundred paces away from the Ming army, the Ming army still hadn't made up their minds. Those who fled indiscriminately, the Ming army's front line was completely torn apart and became a piece of paper wall.

"Shoot! Three-stage shooting, advance in an orderly manner!"

With the order issued, the line infantry in Datong launched the familiar wheel-type three-stage shooting method. Each battalion fired three rounds, and then other battalions carried out the same operation in front.

The two associations have a total of 24 battalions, and the 24 line infantry formations are slowly advancing. These 24 battalions advance in three batches in turn, shooting and reloading, even under artillery fire and loss, they still perform extremely calmly.

Under such continuous blows, the Ming army had a strong force but could not be effectively used. Originally, the 20 army could only deploy half of it, but this half fell into chaos first. When they arrived, these Ming soldiers dropped their weapons and started running!

"Run! The Datong thieves are attacking!"

"Run, we are defeated, we are defeated!"

"Datong soldiers are coming up, run!"

The [-] army at the forefront of the Ming army collapsed inexplicably, and this collapse brought the entire Ming army into a defeat inexplicably.

Countless people cried out for failure, lost and started to run for their lives. The people behind didn't know what happened, and were carried away by the rout soldiers rushing forward. Even though Zhu Chunchen tried his best to stop the rout, he couldn't at all. Stop those rout soldiers who are only thinking about running towards the road.

The guest army from the four provinces hadn't fought much before they collapsed, bringing the entire Ming army together. The angry Zhu Chunchen almost died on the spot with his eyes darkened.

Although Zhu Chunchen desperately asked the army to stop and sent out the warlords to stop the routs, the number of routs didn't even bother the supervisors, and even some superintendents would be directly attacked by the routs when they tried to forcefully stop the routs Hack and kill.

Such a situation made Zhu Chunchen unable to stop him, so he had to gather the supervisor team and his cronies and run away quickly!
That's right, Zhu Chunchen also started to run away when he saw that the situation was not good!

This run, that is a big rout of hundreds of miles.

When Zhu Chunchen ran back to Henan, he had the time to sort out the information and gather the rout.

One after another, soldiers from all walks of life began to return to the camp. Zhu Chunchen finally gathered 10,000+ soldiers and horses, but there were still tens of thousands of soldiers who would never return.

These people were either captured or deserted, and some died directly on the battlefield.

When he learned that nearly a quarter of the troops had been lost all of a sudden, Zhu Chunchen was completely furious: "What's going on?! How could this happen? How can these people lose?!"

"At that time, our army was clearly in the upper hand. Why did it suddenly collapse across the board, and we couldn't stop it? Now, our army has been ruined for hundreds of miles and retreated to Henan. It's really unreasonable!"

Zhu Guobi comforted Zhu Chunchen's emotions: "Why do you need to be angry, the Duke of the country? Be careful and hurt your body. Now the safety of your majesty and the court are entrusted to you. You have to cheer up."

Zhu Chunchen didn't know this, but this inexplicable defeat really made Zhu Chunchen unable to understand.

Zhu Chunchen couldn't understand, but Zhu Guobi gave an excuse: "My lord, I thought this was a deliberate trick by the Datong thieves!"

"Originally, the New Party covered all the provinces in the northern country. Now that the Datong thieves are back, those people must want to join the Datong thieves again, which is why this defeat happened."

"Those people must have worked hard and deliberately let our army be defeated in order to increase the prestige of the Datong thieves!"

Listening to Zhu Guobi's brain hole, Zhu Chunchen felt that his brain hurt a little. Although he knew every word Zhu Guobi said, why was it so difficult to understand when it was put together?

Zhu Chunchen was driven out of Shandong in disgrace, Zhou Yuji could be said to be elated: "Hahahaha, okay, Emperor Chongzhen's army has been driven away by us again!"

The deputy general said: "Not only did we drive out Emperor Chongzhen's army, they also kindly left us a large number of luggage and a large number of prisoners. We can use all of these."

Zhu Chunchen's 20 army could not be fully deployed at that time, so even if 10 were lined up outside, 10 were waiting in the camp.

But the battle became very secretive from the very beginning. Zhou Yuji used [-] against [-]. It was only a moment for the hand-to-hand combat, and the Ming army really collapsed, defeated, and didn't want to fight anymore.

This made Zhou Yuji more certain that most of the soldiers of the Ming army did not want to fight. Originally, the imperial court did not pay them military salaries and did not treat them as human beings. Ke Jun's life is almost not his own, who wants to continue to work hard?
When this person dies, how much pension can the court give to the family, and how much of the family's things can be kept in the end?
It can be said that once a person dies, the Chongzhen Dynasty cannot protect your property or your family members, and everything you have will be swallowed up by others.

Therefore, the guest troops from all over the place seem to have no fighting spirit, and they seem to be mobs.

To put it bluntly, everyone is here to wave the flag and shout. If you fight against the wind, you are worthy of Emperor Chongzhen. If you really want everyone to work hard, I'm sorry, Emperor Chongzhen is not worthy.

After knowing the actual situation and thoughts of some captives, Zhou Yuji even discussed with Huang Zongxi about recruiting a group of captives to add to the army.

"Nowadays we have too few troops available. Many of these captives do not want to fight with us. They are also forced to come to Shandong. These people are the ones we can win over and support. We need more real talents. people to strengthen us."

"If these people are willing to join our Datong Society, our strength in Shandong will expand a little bit under the circumstances of the ups and downs. At that time, let alone Henan, we can fight even Zhili!"

Zhou Yuji's identity is the governor of Shandong and the president of the second town. He is in charge of the Shandong war. He has the right to recruit soldiers and horses on the spot to organize a temporary military town.

In order to preserve the fruits of Shandong's current victory, and also to accomplish the task of deterring Zhili well, Zhou Yuji believes that Shandong must have at least an elite team of about 6 people.

Therefore, Zhou Yuji planned to select [-] good and strong men from among the captives and those guard soldiers who had defected to join the new army and form two new military towns.

And after this news spread among the prisoners, it immediately attracted great enthusiasm from the prisoners, and it is a beautiful thing to serve as a soldier in Datong!