Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 356 Battle Day!The Chinese will win! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
September 22, early morning.

Under the night sky, located in the east of Fucheng, Changsha, Hunan Province, two camps as bright as the sea of ​​stars between Laodao River and Liuyang River gradually became noisy.Zhou Jun and Ming Jun both started to get up and eat breakfast.

Although these two armies are hostile, they are similar in many places. For example, in terms of "republic content", the two armies are quite close!Although Wu Sangui does not approve of the republic now, nor is he willing to be the "Yuanjun", but before he took the yellow robe, he also regarded "The Theory of the World as Public", "Ming Yi Dai Interview Record" and "The Tianchao Farm System" as his own rebellious theories.

Otherwise, what is the reason for his rebellion?Why did he hold off the third prince Zhu?How will he establish his own grassroots governance?

In the original history, Wu Sangui was a traditional warlord rebel who only knew that "the emperor would rather have a kind? He who has a strong soldier and a strong horse will do it for you".They belonged to the kind of low-level rebels who didn't get rid of the low-level tastes, only knew how to fight for the whole family, and didn't know how to mobilize extensively.

But this time, someone directly exported to him the advanced rebellion theory that was ready-made and proved to be quite effective after extensive practice.He also chooses the one that is beneficial (beneficial to himself) and follows it.

For example, his army is actually the "National Army"!Although Wu Zhou's "Chinese" is not as loud as Daming's "Chinese", the treatment of the two is actually similar!There are people from the Ming Dynasty, and there are also people from the country of Wu Zhou.For example, Fen Tian. Wu Zhou has nothing else, but Tian has plenty, and the entire Sichuan Land of Abundance has been emptied!

Even if Wu Zhou's soldiers could not go to Sichuan to farm for the time being, the "land farm deed" had already been given to them - when the world was a little more peaceful, they could take the farm deed and bring their family, tools, cattle, seeds, Weapons, and then according to the establishment of Zhechong Mansion, a reclamation team was formed to reclaim the Sichuan enclosure.

In addition, in recent years, many soldiers of the Wu and Zhou government were assigned to farms in the territories of Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shaanxi and Gansu.Although Wu Sangui himself was unwilling in principle to deprive the landlord and gentry class of their land, his regime was actually composed of four warlord groups (himself, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan, Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong, Wu Guogui and Wu Shijuan).

Of course, the leaders of the four major military groups must give priority to the interests of the basic soldiers under the group, so they will still try their best to deprive the landlord class of land in their jurisdiction and grant it to the soldiers and generals under their jurisdiction.

And after the implementation of the system of dividing land and mansions, the grassroots governance of the Wu and Zhou regimes will inevitably have a trend of "nationalization" because the division of land and mansions is not just as simple as dividing land for the mansion soldiers, but also involves the control of the grassroots regime. transformation.

The main method of transformation in the Ming Dynasty was that the national scholars were officials and the people were officials, while Wu Zhou established a two-level military and political system of "Wei" and "Zhechongfu", bringing all the soldiers and households under its jurisdiction.The local Zhechong Mansion is a yamen at the same level as the county, and is not under the jurisdiction of the state capital, but directly managed by the Wei above.

The civilian officials and officials working in Weihe Zhechong Mansion are all scholars with military registration (Fu Bing Ji), that is, Fu soldiers who can read and write.

These civilian officials from the Wei and Zhechong mansions can also serve as civil officials and officials in the court and localities of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their official treatment is higher than that of civil officials from the imperial examination. After all, the military leaders of Wu Zhou will treat these soldiers with The civil servants with nationalities are regarded as their own, so don't worry, it will be easy to promote.

Therefore, the difference between Wu Zhou's soldiers and Ming's nationals and national scholars can be said to be very small, and they are basically one type of people-they are all "minor shareholders" of the country.They are all Chinese!
Regardless of Daming or Wu Zhou, they all regard them as human beings, as their own people, as the pillars of the country!

This point can be seen from the "last breakfast" they are enjoying.

The current Ming Dynasty Army and the Great Zhou Mansion Soldiers are usually able to eat enough or even eat well when they are serving in the army.

For this alone, the "Ming Army of the Beggar Gang" in the late Ming Dynasty can't compare with the Green Battalion soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. Probably only the Eight Banners soldiers who had a prosperous life in the early years can compare with them.

Of course, the armies of the Great Zhou and Ming were not standardized, and there were certain differences in the food standards and military salary standards implemented by troops in different regions.

As far as Dazhou is concerned, the best food is of course the army in the Lianghu area.It was originally raised in a land of fish and rice, and in addition to the fact that China generally has a small population and a lot of land, the food supply in Huguang is naturally relatively loose.

Shaanxi-Gansu is a barren land. Even if the current population density is not very high, it is still very dry and dry, and there is no way to grow crops in the soil.Even if grain can be transported from Huguang, the cost is not generally high, and it can't be transported much.

It's not that Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong are not willing to let the soldiers below eat well, but that they really don't have that condition.

And this time, the Shaanxi-Gansu soldiers who came with Wu Yingqi also enjoyed the food and treatment of Wu Guogui's Hunan soldiers.When they were in Shaanxi and Gansu, they usually only had two meals a day, and only when they were on missions could they have three meals a day.After arriving in Huguang, the food standard went up immediately, three meals a day, and they were all white rice, and there was a little bit of meat every day.

This time I went to the front line, and I ate even better. I saw meat twice a day, and I let go of the white rice!

Today, the standard for this "last meal" is even higher. According to Wu Yingqi's order, all the soldiers have wine and meat, and enough rice to eat Wu Guogui anyway. Wu Yingqi doesn't feel bad at all!

With his hands behind his back, Wu Yingqi walked around the camp in Langli City with his son Wu Shicong, and inspected the big guy's "last meal" by the way.

The most basic organization of Wu Zhou army is guard, battalion, and team. Their guard is equivalent to Daming's brigade, and the two levels of battalion and team are similar to that of Daming. Recently, a larger town has been set up above the guard, but it is not permanent. It was only temporarily compiled before the start of the war.

The catering unit of the soldiers of Wu and Zhou's mansion is a team of its own, sitting around the field pots and stoves to eat there.The aroma of white rice, broth, and rice wine permeated the camp. Wu Zhou's soldiers all ate deliciously, and the morale of the troops seemed to be quite high.

Wu Yingqi said to Wu Shicong who had just returned from the front line of the Western Regions: "Bai Juyi is right, Jiangnan is better! Rice, broth and wine, enough to go to the battlefield after eating and drinking. Much better than the Western Regions, right?"

Wu Shicong said with a smile: "The Western Regions are also as good as the Western Regions. The orchids are beautiful, and the food and drink are okay. Although the products are a little poor, the good thing is that the land is sparsely populated. By the way, I heard that there are also some in the west of Congling and in the south of Xueyu. No less than the rich and prosperous lands of the Central Plains. Many of them are the homelands of the Han and Tang Dynasties! Father, when our Great Zhou dominates the world in the future, how about our Great Zhou also come to the eldest son’s Western Expedition?"

Wu Yingqi looked at his son and nodded with a smile: "Okay! When the time comes, I will let you take Shifan and Shijue together to fight a country for each of them! After all, we are Dazhou, and Dazhou is engaged in feudalism and state building."

"Ok!"

At this time, Li Fuchen, like Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong, was conducting his last inspection before the war in the camp of Yong'an City. In order to let the soldiers below feel deeply that he, the Southern King, cares about them.Let them know that the King Ying, King Nan, and other kings of Ming Dynasty regard them as their own!And the current Republic of Ming Dynasty is their own country!
Only by letting them know that Da Ming has them, can they work hard on the battlefield!
Like Wu Zhoujun on the opposite side, the "last meal" of the Ming army was relatively hearty, with enough rice, wine and meat, but the meat was marinated bacon—all of which were shipped from thousands of miles away. , fresh meat must be smelly.The wine of the Ming army is distilled liquor, which is also for the convenience of transportation.

After eating this meal, the chefs of each team distributed the prepared dry food to the soldiers.The dry food is big steamed buns wrapped with bacon, which not only keeps you full but also adds salt, it is quite thoughtful.

After everyone had finished their "last meal" and received two days' worth of dry food, the assembly call of each battalion headquarters sounded, and the soldiers organized into teams one after another. The deputy began to check the equipment and dry food of the soldiers one by one in strict accordance with the combat regulations. After checking each one, he would order the soldier to wear a helmet wrapped in a red scarf.

After all the soldiers in the team put on their helmets, it means that the team is ready for battle and ready to go at any time!

Now the infantry teams of the Ming Army are still divided into two types: "pure flintlock teams" and "two-gun teams". The former are all flintlocks, including some rifled flintlocks.The latter consisted of two flintlock platoons plus two pike platoons, plus a straight platoon, with a total strength of around two hundred.A battalion consists of four such teams plus a direct battalion, with a total strength of about 2000 troops.A brigade consists of four such battalions plus one brigade direct battalion, with a number of about 2000.A town is two brigades plus a town mark of [-] people, a total of [-] people.

At the military level, there are no permanent establishments at present.Therefore, there is no fixed number of how many towns should be under an army, and how many directly subordinate troops should be under its jurisdiction.

Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen each brought a military commander—including their own soldiers, two artillery marks, two supply marks, and two army commanders.However, in order for Li Zhongzheng to take the two divisions to carry out the detour mission, they allowed some people from the two army divisions to form a small army division and gave it to Li Zhongzheng.

When Li Fuchen inspected the troops, returned to his central army, was about to finish his own breakfast, and then led the team to set off, his second son and immediate boss Li Zhongshan also happened to come back.

However, Li Zhongshan did not go to inspect the troops, but sent Li Zhongzheng to leave. The detour troops led by Li Zhongzheng went out quietly at night. Early in the morning, personally send him off.

"Second brother, how is your third brother? Can you hold on?" Li Fuchen asked Li Zhongshan when he saw him coming in, and then took a bite of a bun.

"It looks okay!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "It's much better than the old third child, but it still depends on talent to fight."

Hearing Li Zhongshan mention Sun Jiqing, Li Fuchen also sighed lightly.Originally, he should be the one who led an army to perform a detour mission today!
Li Zhongshan said again at this time: "With Zhou Chang following, it should be quite close."

Li Fuchen nodded, and asked again: "Where are the [-] troops of King Li Zhong?"

"I crossed the Miluo River in Pingjiang County yesterday." Li Zhongshan said, "It's about tens of miles away from our place. Hurry up and get there this evening."

As soon as he said this, Yao Qisheng opened the curtain and came in, "General, King Nan, all the towns are ready!"

Li Zhongshan nodded and spit out two words: "Let's go!"

The sky was twilight, and the trumpets and drums were beating one after another. Groups of Chinese soldiers with red scarves and red robes flowed out from various camp gates of the Yongxing City Camp like red streams. Under the guidance of the national flag, battalion flag, and brigade flag, they first formed a wide column for marching in the field, and then marched to the forward position in a mighty manner.Before they set off, the staff officers and formation supervisors sent by the towns had used the unique identification flags of each brigade (according to Chinese tradition, generally in the shape of beasts) to insert a rough marching route in the field.

The cavalry from each town had already left earlier, and they would arrive at the frontier battlefield first to prevent the marching Ming army from Da Zhou's cavalry from harassing them.

Although these cavalry are only equipped with light cavalry and do not have heavy armor, but for today's mission, they are all equipped with bamboo spears, plus two flintlock pistols per capita, they can still fight against the cavalry of the Great Zhou.

In addition, the snipers from Momo No. [-] Town also left camp early in the morning. They will cooperate with their own light cavalry to fight against the frontline Zhou army cavalry!

Of course, Da Zhou also has the same configuration!
The battle between the light cavalry and the snipers has now begun, sporadic gunshots continue to come, and sometimes the neighing of dying horses can be heard.

The military column of Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen also left the camp in Yongxing City.Their straight columns each included an armored cavalry standard and an artillery standard equipped with 24 6-jin bronze cannons and 12 large-caliber mortars. However, today's battle is a field battle and large-caliber mortars are not needed, so this The Mortar Battalion to which the two artillery marks belonged will stay in the core fortress of the Yongxing City Camp along with other units such as supplies and engineers.

In addition to the 48 6-jin bronze cannons belonging to the two armies, the seven towns participating in the frontal battle of today's battle also each have an artillery battalion, all of which are equipped with 12 6-jin cannons and 6 mortars. , Mortar also did not dispatch.

In other words, there are only 132 artillery pieces of the Ming army that are about to be put into battle. In this regard, the Ming army has no advantage at all.

Daying in Yongxing City and Daying in Langli City were about [-] miles apart, and because there was still a certain amount of space between the lines of the two armies, it was only about six or seven miles away from each other.

For the Ming army who listed the field column, it took less than half an hour, and it was almost in place.

However, Mara's cannons did not come up so quickly, so the 24th Battalion of the Sixth Brigade under the three divisions of the Ming Army, which was arranged on the front line, began to line up, as if the red color was the ocean, and the dense bayonets and spears were all Pointing to the sky, reflecting the dazzling light!
According to Li Zhongshan's deployment, today's big formation will be divided into left and right wings, of which the left wing is the focus, so the second line of the left wing has two towns, and the second line of the right wing has only one town.

According to the plan, Li Zhongshan would storm Wu Zhou's left flank later, forcing the Wu army to send the reserve force to the left flank, creating conditions for the two towns led by Li Zhongzheng to attack Wu's right flank.

As for the third line, it is the general reserve of the Ming army. There is only one town, which is the famous and model first town!
In addition, the cavalry belonging to each town, a total of more than 2000 people, was formed into two temporary markers, distributed around the big formation, and was responsible for covering the flanks of the Ming army's front.The two cavalry standards directly under Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen, about [-] cavalry cavalry, were concentrated behind the formation. Like Model Town, they were all reserve teams, and Li Fuchen personally controlled them.

But Li Zhongshan's own central army was placed in a fairly advanced position, just between the first line and the second line, occupying a high ground called Caijiapo.

At daybreak, Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong, father and son, also arrived at Huangjiachong, where their forward headquarters was located—this is a rather large village with walls built around it, just like a small castle.There is also a high slope next to Huang Jiachong, and the view is quite good when you climb up and look far.

The Wu family's father and son also divided their troops into left and right wings, organized the front, middle, and rear lines, and also used cavalry to cover the flanks—the deployment of the two sides was almost exactly the same, and it was obvious at a glance that they were from the same sect!

However, Wu Jun's advantage lies in artillery and cavalry. There are a lot of 6-jin bronze cannons placed at the front of Wu Jun's front. There are a total of 228, which is almost double that of the Ming Army.

In addition, the size of Wu Jun's cavalry is also very large!Each guard has one or two battalions of cavalry-that battalion has a full 1000 cavalry!

The Wu army placed on the battlefield today has a total of ten towns and twenty guards. Among them, there are as many as 28 battalions of cavalry, with a total of [-]. Some are placed on the two wings, and most of them are held by Wu Yingqi as a reserve team.

Although the Wu army has great advantages in terms of cavalry and artillery, their flintlock guns are too few. On average, one guard may not be able to make up a battalion, and the number of rifled guns is even rarer. Two hundred sticks.If he really wanted to line up and shoot him, Wu Zhou still had no chance of winning.

Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui's plan is to hold on to the front first, and then rely on Wu Guogui's [-] roundabout troops to double-team Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan, cut off their backs in one fell swoop, beat them in the back, and let them suffer from the enemy's plan. Perfect, now it's time to see the execution!
Thinking of this, Wu Yingqi raised his head and glanced at the east, which was covered by the morning glow, and murmured silently in his heart: "Third brother, where are you now?"

At this moment, there was a thunderous roar from the front line!

The bronze cannon of the Ming army fired first!

(End of this chapter)