Win the Ding 1617

ps: The child is sick and confused.Many things that were originally conceived could not be written.Sorry everyone.In addition, have the audacity to ask for a monthly pass.

"This time, the Brit should have a longer memory!"

In Nansha on the other side of Humen, Shouhan temporarily erected the commander-in-chief's flag, and through the binoculars, he could see the entire battlefield clearly.The broken boards on the river, the burning sails, the slowly sinking boats, the drowning people in the waves, and the captives picked up from the river by the Guangdong Navy all silently explained the ending of this battle. .

"Hua Mei, this girl's ability on the water can be regarded as practiced."

Zhang Xiaohu, who was supervising and leading the navy at the Jiaomen Waterway waiting for orders to attack, praised his niece's progress without saying a word.

"Little six, you don't want to be ridiculous, lest the child hear the arrogance."

That being said, what parent doesn't want to hear compliments on their child?

"My lord, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, leading the generals in Huizhou, supervising the generals in charge of Guangzhou coastal defense, and other generals in the army, and Jiang Yihong, the chief envoy of Guangdong, led the army to the battle. Now I am handing over the manuscript to ask for an audience. Please give me your instructions, my lord. See you or not?"

"What are you seeing?! Tell them that the war is still pending and the camp has not yet been established. Let them learn from the ban! Let's talk about the settlement of their own soldiers!"

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Humen, Nansha and other places, the two sides of the Pearl River became a large military camp.

"Be filial for your son, and loyal for your minister. The people of the court are all hardworking, and they have high hopes to raise soldiers. They don't need to work every day, and eat the moon food comfortably. If you don't contribute to the country, the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth will not tolerate it. Since ancient times There are many generals in the army. Don't take it lightly when you are a soldier."

"First, learn to practice with your heart, and learn the skills to make meritorious service. The military weapon is your body protection, and it must be cleaned frequently. Treat the people with kindness, and rely on them to farm food and pay. As long as the soldiers and the people form a family, the people will help each other. Four don’t rape people and women, which one is not born by parents. You also have wives and daughters in your family, how can you be humiliated. Wealth produces evil thoughts, and robbers will have retribution in the end. No matter how much gold and silver treasures you get. Take it and kill it in vain. Sixth, you must respect military officials. Violation of orders is not a light crime. Don’t lie, honest things will surely succeed. Seven quit gambling and whoring Being with a prostitute, the officer finds out that it will be a severe punishment. It is an honor to keep your money and support your family. If you often remember these words, you will definitely be promoted to the leader. If you don’t care about it at all, there will be no mercy."

Wedel and others were imprisoned in a temporary prison surrounded by wooden fences.He did not suffer the abuse and whipping as imagined, but was searched, and the weapons and sharp objects he carried were taken away.Even the ropes, belts and other things were searched. As for the belongings, no one even looked at them.

"This is really strange. If we fall into the hands of those Ottoman pirates, I'm afraid there won't be a stick left on us!" The accountant was surprised and sighed, "Could this be the strength and confidence of civilization?"

Regarding the accountant's remarks, Sir Weddell didn't bother to comment, but just recorded what he saw and thought at this time in his nautical diary.

"In addition to drills and studies, Marshal Li's direct army likes to sing. These songs seem to have persuasion about military technology and military morality."

It was not only the captive Wedell who was curious about the singing of the Nanzhong Army.

Outside Humen Town, which was destroyed by the war, the handsome flag of the Shouhan and the military flag of the South Central Army were erected. Behind the handsome flag, a large tent made of steel bars and multi-layered cotton cloth sandwiched cotton boards stood here. .

With the command tent as the center, within a hundred paces, the soldiers of the Guards Brigade were either holding firecrackers, or carrying spears on their shoulders, or holding on to the handle of their knives, looking vigilantly at the surrounding scenery and personnel.

On the left and right sides of the commander's tent, cloth bags and bamboo baskets were filled with sand, and two cannon buds were built. In each fort, two ten-pound cannons and a big Buddha Langji were placed.

The black hole of the muzzle completely blocked the army formation not far away.

Compared with the local officers and troops in Guangdong, the military capacity of the South China Army is extremely strict.

Although the Liao Dongzhi Brigade in Humen is nominally composed of rebels from Guangdong, there are a large number of veterans of the South China Army serving as armor commanders. After several months of training, the army is naturally well-organized.

With the messy and noisy local officers and soldiers in Guangdong who kept shouting and cursing, the officials in Guangdong province felt that the Nanzhong Army, who was silent, just stood straight and looked straight ahead, and the entire army formation was as neat as a knife and axe, was not It is more worthy of the title of the country's elite in all battles.

In comparison, the army in Guangdong Province is more like a group of civilians.

Vice General Ma Rujin of Huichao, General Xia Zhimu of Chaozhou, Zou Weixun of Zhaoqing, Wang You of Xiangshan, Shi Fengyuan of Nanshao and others led their own troops, standing awkwardly in front of the Liao Dongzhi brigade and the guards. On the left side of the brigade, waiting for the summoning of the Marshal.

There are about 8000 troops in the entire open space, belonging to six troops. Except for the Liao Dongzhi Brigade and the Guards Brigade that belong to the South Central Army, the remaining nearly 1 people are controlled by the above five troops. General in charge.However, no team has more than [-] people.Among these people, half of them are still old and weak, all of them are wearing tattered military uniforms, and most of them can't see the temperament of formal training on their faces. The autumn wind blows from the river, and from time to time, tattered cloth strips dance in the wind.The weapons in everyone's hands are also extremely inferior. Many of them are just a wooden stick with a spearhead tied on it. I don't know if it is made of pig iron or wrought iron. , oiling and other maintenance.

Relatively speaking, the military capacity and equipment are better, that is, the lieutenants, generals, and servants standing next to the garrison. The number of servants that each officer raises varies according to the position and the economic conditions of the defense area. There are as many as hundreds of people, as few as 300 people, and as few as a hundred people.Most of them are young and middle-aged men, and their armor and weapons are quite sophisticated. It can be seen that they are all desperadoes who dare to fight, but their formation is also loose and sparse, a typical mob.

These servants.From the perspective of the military discipline of the South China Army, they are all thorns, who do not abide by military discipline, and even take the lead in breaking military discipline, such as soldiers and ruffians, are all unqualified soldiers, but in today's Ming Dynasty In the military town, it is already the most important and core combat force.

This is no wonder why, claiming to be tens of thousands of people, they are helpless against the mere five armed merchant ships of the English East India Company merchant fleet and hundreds of company security guards.

Chaozhou ginseng general Xia Zhimu wore iron armor all over his body.Wearing a cloak of scarlet brocade.Under his own flag, he also looks tall, burly and majestic.But at this time, he was also envious, and his eyes glanced at the soldiers of Liao Dongzhi Brigade standing next to him from time to time, carefully sizing up those soldiers standing under the iron-blooded eighteen-star army flag.

Those are good soldiers.All of them are young adults under the age of 40.Strong body.Be disciplined.When the river wind rolled the water droplets from the Pearl River across the various military formations, the water vapor soaked their armor and robes, but in this weather they still just stood there with their guns.

From Qi Jiguang, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong at that time, to Yu Zigao, the son of Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief of Fujian, all had influence on the Guangdong army.They all tried to rectify the Guangdong army guarding the South China Sea, but one thing, money and food!

From the late Wanli period, with the gradual subjugation of the so-called Southern Japanese and the rise of rebels in Liaodong, the strategic focus of the Ming army gradually moved northward, and the defense system in the South China Sea, which had been operated by generations, gradually fell into disrepair.

Take Nan’ao, which we mentioned before, as an example. At the beginning, the Nan’ao rangers originally had 1835 soldiers and 40 ships of various types. By the second year of Tianqi (1622), the number was reduced to 874 officers and soldiers and 34 warships. By the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), only 8 warships and 721 officers and soldiers remained.Among the six water fortresses in Haiphong established during the Jiajing period, only the Baisha water fortress in Qiongzhou maintained its original scale because Shou Han's hand had long been extended into the Baisha navy in the name of assisting in defense. , It's just the strength of the navy's left wing!

With the northward movement of the strategic center and the increasingly difficult national finances, it is impossible to meet the food and payment needs of the huge army, and the money and food will inevitably be reduced to meet the material treatment of a small number of so-called elite soldiers.

What is good at the top will be bad at the bottom, and if it is reflected in the army, the general will inevitably use this part of the food and salary to give priority to supplying the most loyal and most effective personal guards around him.In this way, many soldiers were bound to be used by generals, which led to the emergence of the family system in the late Ming Dynasty.The role of servants is contradictory.On the one hand, each side will call in servants to support them generously, and prepare forwards. Whenever there is a battle, the servants will take the lead, and the weak soldiers will follow, so that they can win with courage.Therefore, when most of the households in Liaodong were once reformed, and the surviving households were only paid a single ration, they felt that they were saving money for a while, and the Liao soldiers could not fight in the future ("Ming Jingshi Wenbian", Volume [-], Li Hualong, "Excerpts") "Chen Liao Zuo Urgent Matters Book").

On the other hand, Jia Ding Sheng, the generals rely exclusively on them, ignore the general soldiers, support the family members generously, and use the battalion soldiers as their service, ride their horses, and listen to their harassment, and provide them with food for the army. (Volume [-] of "Ming Jing Shi Wen Bian", Qi Jiguang's "Bing Bing Tiao Chen Shu")

In order to support these servants, the generals who led the troops vigorously deducted the food and salaries of the rest of the soldiers to support these people. It often happened that there were tens of thousands of soldiers in the military register, but the actual number of soldiers capable of fighting was no more than a thousand.

Moreover, with the promotion, transfer or even resignation of the generals leading the troops, these servants and private soldiers also left, which formed a strange phenomenon of using the country's military expenses to support the private soldiers for the leading officers.

This kind of army is full of resentment and extremely poor combat power. When they win, they rush in and flee thousands of miles when they lose. Even if there are some brave and skilled soldiers around the generals, this vicious situation cannot be reversed.

Generals who hold elite troops are bound to be in danger of becoming warlords. They only predestinate the interests of their own small groups and ignore the interests of the country.The army raised by the imperial court spent a lot of money, but at a critical moment.There is a danger of surrendering to the enemy and mutiny. There are too many examples of this in the late Ming Dynasty.

This was the case for the Xuanfu Army, the Guanning Army, and the Nanming Army of several towns at the time of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the reasons for the formation of the Daming Jiading system are complicated. Without private soldiers, it is easy to be influenced by others, especially the imperial court.

Jia Ding, soldiers will have.The army will invade the army and pay more for family members but less for sergeants.One favors another, those abandoned sergeants are not thoughtless robots, they are regarded as waste, how can they have no resentment?These people are often the first to break down on the battlefield, and they make a bad situation.Even if the servants can fight again, it will not help.

Moreover, the servants are the private property of the officers, and many of them are the servants of the generals. In addition to embezzling the military pay, the officers are the servants who occupy a large number of fields to support themselves.How easy is it to abolish the servants of the officers?This is their lifeline, if you want to break someone's lifeline, they will fight you desperately!

The most obvious example is the Zu family in western Liaoning. Zu Dashou surrendered and rebelled many times, and the Liaodong army also mutinied many times.But the court dared not deal with them at all.It is because of the intricate in-law relationship between the ancestor's family and the later Wu family.Among the officials and generals from all over Liaodong, there was a lot of response, and both families had a large number of family members and private soldiers.This is the capital they were able to blackmail the imperial court, between the imperial court and the Liaodong rebels, and the future Li Zicheng Dashun army.

The so-called rushing to the crown and becoming a beauty is just a bad situation.Find yourself a fig leaf.Just as an excuse to defect to the enemy.

Compared with the Nine Frontier Army Town and the officers and soldiers in various places in the north.Among the Ming army in Guangdong, the habit of generals supporting servants was also deeply ingrained.Slightly better, though.Because the disaster was not as severe as in the north, the food and nutritional status of ordinary battalion soldiers was much better than the situation in the interior where there was no food at all.

However, compared with the mainland army, the difference between the South Central Army and the inland army appears to outsiders to be in military capacity, morale, equipment, and diet.In fact, the biggest gap is hidden deeper.One is the modernized army in the rising stage, and the other is the feudal army in the declining stage.

The Nanzhong Army laid the foundation for the development of industrialization and trade because of a large amount of food and meat, and accumulated enough money, food and materials to maintain the equipment and training of the army.The improvement of the army's combat effectiveness and the expansion of its scale have provided a larger market for these industrial and agricultural products.

Just like a saying circulated in the South Central Army, "We fight for the sake of our parents, brothers, sisters, wives and children! We robbed land for our parents and brothers to plant, and we robbed places to sell the cloth and burnt goods woven and burned by our parents and mothers-in-law. porcelain!"

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Dozens of tall horses flew out from the gate of the camp guarding the Han Dynasty. The recognition flags on the knights' backs were torn into a flat surface by the galloping horses and the river wind, and people could clearly see the words on the recognition flags.

"Communication by order."

Behind this small team of horses were seven or eight carriages closely following.

"The general has an order! All the officers and soldiers from all over the place are credited for coming to help! Pay them favors!"

The cavalry in charge of passing orders shuttled back and forth among the five local generals in Guangdong, loudly conveying the grace of General Li to the ears of every soldier.

Nowadays, it has become a common practice in all parts of Daming to owe wages, but it is strange that they do not owe wages.Not only the nine borders owed wages, but also the officers and soldiers in the interior owed wages, and even Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, which were located in developed commerce and prosperous folks, also owed wages.Among them, Zhangzhou Wei was in arrears for three months, Quanzhou Gaopu and other offices were in arrears for ten months, and Tongshan was in arrears for twenty months.In order to make a living, the officers and soldiers had to show their special abilities, some were helping others, some were doing small businesses by themselves, but most of them were blackmailing or even robbing.

The soldiers of the Zhanbing camp need to pay two, three, five cents a month, plus five dou of natural rice. In other words, it is also a huge number. If the salary is paid in full, it may not be enough even if he loses his family and property to worship.

However, the soldiers in the formation were very excited.

Many people smiled for the first time when they heard the news, and many of them have not received a penny of military pay for half a year.Unexpectedly, this time I ran to Humen with Lord General, and received the military salary. Although there were a few blood blisters on my feet and a few whips on my body, but thinking about the military salary that I was about to receive, this matter What counts?I just hope that the adults can save less!It's been half a year, God is sorry, the adults above finally paid the food and salary.

As for the officers, their eyes glowed green, and they fixed their eyes on the four-wheeled vehicle behind the knights. From the heavy body and the deep ruts, it could be seen that the vehicle was loaded with silver!As long as the money is paid, I will go to the flower boat on the Pearl River tonight!

"Even if General Li's troops are capable of fighting, they are still a dragon crossing the river. If we want to eradicate the banditry in Guangdong, we have to rely on local snakes like Lao Tzu!"

Xiangshan defender Wang You was not without pride.He had already planned that after receiving the payment, he would first go to several shops in Guangzhou City to equip the servants with Nanzhong's armor, swords and guns, so as not to lose the wind in front of the Nanzhong Army.

However, the knights who ran to the front of the generals' array shouted again, and the hearts of the generals were immediately chilled by a ball of hot coals.

"According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the horse troops of the guards received two stones of rice per month, the general banner of the infantry army received five buckets of rice per stone per month, the small banners paid two buckets of rice per stone per month, and the sergeants received one stone of rice per month. Half of them will be distributed to those who are working in the field. Sergeant monthly salt, two catties for those who have a family, and one catty for those without. Soldiers in the military battalion are paid two or three dollars a month, and they are given five buckets of rice. My lord Grace, regardless of family members and battalions, each will be given three silver dollars! Jiachang will add one piece! The total will be ten dollars! The total amount will be 15 dollars!"

Damn it!With this matter of military pay so public, how can we start to erode and embezzle from it? !Some people were about to explode, but looking around at the soldiers of the Guards Brigade and Liao Brigade, they had no choice but to suppress their resentment.

"I still have the foresight to call up all the slaves and tenants in the countryside to serve as battalions to deal with it. This is all right, and I got thousands of silver dollars!"

Ma Rujin, deputy general of Chaozhou, sat on the horse and watched with pride as the silver boxes were lifted out of the car by the soldiers of the South China Army. (To be continued..)