Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 169 Step Up Your Battle Preparations
Looking at the No. [-] Franc machine gun, I saw that the mother and child barrels had been blasted at the same time, and the iron stubble was turned out, like a chrysanthemum that was forcibly split by violence.

Thankfully, no one was killed.

Only two scholars scratched their cheeks, which is really a fate.

Qu Shawei was only disfigured by the gunpowder smoke overflowing from the barrel.

Climbing up in shock, Qu Sha said in a little panic, "Your Majesty, can I quit?"

This job is too dangerous. It would be fine if you die on the battlefield, but this is just training, and training is actually life-threatening. The probability of death is too high to bear.

"No!" Chongzhen flatly refused, "To quit is to run away, and you have to be treated as a deserter!"

Qu Shawei immediately shut up and punished the deserters, wouldn't he be beheaded?I didn't say anything just now.

Chongzhen asked Qu Shawei again: "I haven't asked you yet, what happened just now? Why did you explode your chest?"

"Your Majesty, it's all my fault." Qu Sha scratched her head slightly, and said with a little embarrassment, "I measured the calibers of these No. The cannon may be universal, so I was lazy, but it exploded, Your Majesty, you will not blame me, will you?"

Chongzhen said: "I don't blame you, but I must warn you, before the arrival of the new artillery made by the Daming Arsenal, you should not try this again. Whether it is a dense blunderbuss, a bird blunderbuss, a three-eyed blunderbuss, a tiger crouching cannon, a French cannon, or a small Hongyi cannon, they all meet the criteria for standardization."

"Yes, no more daring." Schoke nodded again and again, "No more laziness."

While speaking, a slow horse suddenly galloped over and handed over a copy to Schoke.

Tong Yangliang hurriedly took the slow delivery and walked slowly behind Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, slow delivery from Shandong."

In front of Fang Dayou and more than a dozen general soldiers, Chongzhen drew the wax, and before he hurriedly read the Tang newspaper, he said: "Jiannu has gone south, and the strength is said to be less than [-]!"

"what?!"

"Seven hundred thousand?!"

"Is that out of nowhere?"

Fang Dayou and more than a dozen town commanders looked at each other in amazement.

Chongzhen waved his hands and said: "The [-] small army is just a name for building slaves. The actual strength will definitely exceed [-]. I estimate that it is not [-] or [-], and it is probably only [-] or [-]."

Hearing that, the faces of Fang Dayou and other military officers improved a lot.

The deterrent power of [-] slaves is obviously far from that of [-] slaves.

After pondering for a while, Chongzhen ordered Tong Yangliang to say: "Xiaoban Wang, send a deferred delivery to Huai'an Mansion, let Lu Zhenfei lead the transport army to Pizhou immediately, and then send a deferred delivery to Xia Zhen, and remind Jingnanhou to be prepared."

Because of the next Shi Jiao Xiaojie, Huang Degong said that he would only be promoted to Marquis.

Chongzhen was very ambiguous, and the south trip to Jiannu was the same as the next time.

The next time I go south, I will just go all the way to the teacher, and at most there will be tens of thousands of people.

But that time, it was no longer a partial teacher, but the main slave-building force that Shaoduo followed.

So that time, the Ming army had to make adequate preparations. Even Xia Town alone, Xuzhou and Pizhou would also be attacked.

There is no young general Huang Degong in Xia Town, and the elite soldiers of the ten towns under my command have never had the experience of defeating Jiannu. In addition, Xia Town's gun platform fortifications have become more complete, so Chongzhen is actually not too worried.

As for Xuzhou, it is natural that I, Chongzhen, do not guard it personally, but Pizhou still lacks a coach.

Pizhou originally had no frontier troops in four towns. Before the [-] people from You Menggeng and Jin Shenghuan arrived in Xuzhou, Chongzhen transferred two frontier troops from Xuzhou to Pizhou, so now there are ten towns in Pizhou.

The frontier troops of the ten towns in Pizhou were from Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Di Jie respectively. The ten commander-in-chiefs had similar qualifications and poor abilities. Therefore, one of the commander-in-chief was selected as the admiral.

But Chongzhen has no handsome ministers at hand, so he can always temporarily recall Ma Huabao from Shandong, right?After all, in the next small battle, Shandong's position is also extremely important.

After thinking about it, Chongzhen felt that only Lu Zhenfei could do it.

First of all, Lu Zhenfei's qualifications are not a problem at all, he is not the governor himself, and he is an old acquaintance with Liu Zeqing's ten-town commander, so getting along should be a small problem.

In terms of ability, it is easy to say, but I can only try it.

Who told me whether I have any available Shuaichen in my hands now?

There are not many good seedlings in Shiziying, but they lack experience.

For example, Yan Yingyuan was being sent to Huai'an Mansion to train troops at this time.

Another example is Zheng Sen. His ability to lead troops and command the battle formation are both wrong, but he is too old. It is harmful to me to suddenly let me go to Pizhou to be alone. The commander-in-chief of the ten towns in Pizhou will definitely obey my command.

Therefore, I can only let Lu Zhenfei go to Pizhou and transfer my transport army.

Later, the slow delivery to Xiazhen and Shanyang was sent out very slowly, and Chongzhen also finished his inspection of the city defense.

Xuzhou's defensive facilities are in the same line as Xiazhen's defensive facilities. The only difference is that the core of Xiazhen's defense line is just a big town by the canal with or without city walls, while the core of Xuzhou's defense line is Xuzhou City.

However, Chongzhen still asked Xuzhou's frontier army to build seventeen heavy gun platforms in Liwei.

Moreover, the number of blunderbusses on Xuzhou's defense line was one hundred less than Xia Zhen's, for a total of eight hundred or less.

Here, just before Xiazhen’s small battle, Chongzhen issued an order to retreat and strengthen the gun platforms in Shijiao, Xuzhou, and Pizhou. It has also been deepened from one foot to eight feet, and all the retaining walls at the rear edge of the gun platform have been changed from wooden fences to rammed earth walls, with a thickness of seven feet!

However, compared with the Xiazhen defense line, there is a fatal hidden worry in the Xuzhou defense line and Pizhou defense line.

Looking at the small embankment of the Yellow River, which is obviously lower than the horizon, even lower than the city wall of Xuzhou, a look of worry flashed in Chongzhen's eyes. The fatal hidden worry is only the Yellow River!

Fortunately, there is no navy followed by Liu Hongkui and Zheng Cai's uncle and nephew.

After repeated urging by Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong had to transfer another 150 bird boats from Fujian. Now the navy used to defend the Xuzhou defense line does not have 6000 bird boats, a total of [-] navy officers and soldiers.

Here, in the river above Hongze Lake, there is no naval detachment that Zheng Cai followed.

That naval detachment is composed of 4 ocean-going ships (junk ships) and 20 black-tailed ships. The navy on Jiannu's side was more than enough, because the warships of both sides were completely below the same level.

……

Jian Nu was actually ambiguous about that point, so he never thought about using water masters at all.

One is because the navy is strong, and the other is that the navy's warships have passed the bridge lock of the canal.

Shaoduo didn't use the navy's warships at all, but only used the navy's tank boats to help transport the food and grass, and reduce the burden on the small army, that's all.

The speed of the Shaoduo small army is not slow.

I left Beitongzhou on October [-], and it was only [-] miles south to Dezhou, but I walked for half a month, which does not mean that I only marched [-] miles a day on average.

When the Shaoduo army arrived in Dezhou, it was not yet the seventh day of November.

Hearing that Shaoduo said that only a small army was coming, the governor of Shandong Dongchang Mansion appointed by the Qing court and Shi Jiaoke, the magistrate of Dezhou, hurried out of the city to greet them with their small officials.

Let me first introduce the situation in Shangdong.

Afterwards, Chongzhen's order to Ma Huabao and Hu Xinshui was that Shi Jiaoke would give up directly, Jinan and Yanzhou governments could abide by the rules, and if they could, they would give up, but Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou governments must stick to it with all their strength.

In accordance with Chongzhen's will, Ma Huabao and Hu Xinshui made a small amount of war preparations.

The main purpose is to relocate the people of Jinan, Yanzhou and Shijiaoke to Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Huai'an.

By the way, among the [-] townspeople recruited by Fan Zhongjie in Huai'an Mansion, there are actually not many Shandong people. Because those Shandong people suffered from the war of building slaves, they know that building slaves is not less cruel and cruel, so they are more cruel than Huai'an. The local people in Huai'an Prefecture are more active, and the locals in Huai'an Prefecture are less because they were inspired by the national crisis theater troupe.

But Ma Huabao and Hu Xinshui did not completely give up Jinan and Yanzhou.

Up to now, both of them are still staying in Licheng, the prefecture of Jinan, and Ling Ji, the magistrate of Yanzhou, is still staying in Rencheng, the prefecture of Yanzhou. Half of Yanzhou's prefecture is less than half of Jinan's prefecture, in fact, it is still under Xiao Ming's rule.

Therefore, only Zhang Youfang, half of Jinan Prefecture and half of Yanzhou Prefecture were under the jurisdiction of the Qing court.

Even Schoke's governor's yamen hid in Dezhou, which made Qu Shawei become the prefect of Fukuo.

"Everyone get up." Shaoduo signaled Shi Jiaoke and Shi Jiaoke to get up, and then called Shandong Commander Shi Jiaoke behind him to talk. Compared with the two demoted officials of Dongchang Mansion and Shi Jiaoke, Wang Jiayan It's one of our own.

Then Wang Jiayan flicked his sleeve, knelt down on one knee and greeted Shaoduo: "Slave Wang Jiayan, I greet my master."

Dongchang Mansion, Qu Shawei and all the officials looked at Wang Jiayan enviously. We really want to call ourselves slaves, but we have the qualifications, because we are not qualified to call ourselves only if we have not entered the flag and become a coat. slave.

Even though he is just a slave, his status is much lower than ours.

Shaoduo was also closer to Wang Jiayan than to Dongchang Mansion and Qu Shawei. He first kicked Shi Jiaoke heavily with a smile, and then scolded: "How fat is his dog slave? It seems that in Shandong It's been a bad day."

"Hey, it's all thanks to your master." Sjoker said flatteringly.

Shaoduo straightened his face, and then asked: "He told me about the situation in Shandong in a complicated way."

"Hey!" Schoke agreed, and then briefly introduced the situation in Shandong.

"Really?" Shaoduo frowned slightly, "Then, what's the deal with Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion?"

"If you go back to the master, there is still no money." Wang Jiayan said in a high voice, "Although the people in the two prefectures have moved a little, but the families of the gentry are still there, and those families of the gentry are the fat sheep, rich as oil. "

Shaoduo's heart skipped a beat, although Shaoergon had specifically told him that he could divide the troops.

But Shoergon did not say that he could change the route of retreat.

Go south along the canal, and go south if you walk through Licheng and Rencheng.

But at that time, no slow horse came galloping from the north.

(End of this chapter)