I'm a big dick

Chapter 154
It has been more than 70 days in a blink of an eye, without interruption, and I am really tired.Take a break for the past two days, one update every day.Only two days, please forgive me.

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In the early morning of April [-], the second year of Tianqi, Xu Hongru led an army to attack Yuncheng. Yu Ziyi, the county magistrate of Yuncheng, was frightened and fled in a hurry.

After Xu Hongru occupied Yuncheng, his troops marched towards Zou County. The local peasants "brought their wives, oxen and chariots, and bundles of grain and rice.

On April [-], Zhou Nian'an and Meng Xianhan, the backbone of the Wenxiang sect, mobilized in Zou County, and Zheng Yijie was sentenced to flee with his family.

Then, Xu Hongru sent his troops to Tengxian County, and Yao Zhiyin, the magistrate of the county, fled in anticipation.

Afterwards, Xu Hongru took Zou County as the center, tried his best to defend the city, and at the same time sent troops to attack Yanzhou, Qufu, Juye to the west, and expeditions to Peixian, Rizhao and Tancheng.

Judging from Xu Hongru's arrangement, it was clear that he didn't know anything about military affairs.The bewitching has engulfed hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, and they feel that it is a great thing, and they attack everywhere.

On April 25, Yang Zhaoji, the newly appointed general officer of Shandong, joined forces with Xu Dingguo's reinforcements from Henan, and defeated the peasant army sent by Xu Hongru on an expedition to Pei County;

On April 27, [-] Dengzhen officers and men led by the guerrilla general Zhang Bang defeated the peasant army led by Zhou Nian'an and Meng Xianhan, and pressed on Yuncheng from the north;
On April [-]th, the troops led by Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong, the governor of Shandong Province, approached Zou County to relieve the danger of Juye.

Xu Hongru suffered repeated failures and hurriedly retreated to Zouxian, Tengxian and Yanzhou.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the troops were divided into two groups. One route was led by Shandong governor Zhao Yan, capital secretary Yang Guodong, deputy general Liao Dong, and guerrilla Zhang Bang to attack Zou County;
On the other hand, Yang Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, led his sons Yuyin, Yufan, his deputy Zhou Shixi, and the capital He Chenglong, etc., to conquer Erjudian and Jiwang City in one fell swoop.

On May [-]th, after more than ten battles, the officers and soldiers were victorious, while Xu Hongru was left with only the isolated city of Zouxian County, and he wanted to resist stubbornly.He also threatened the officers and soldiers that if they attacked the city, they would slaughter the people in the city.

On May [-], under Yang Zhaoji's political offensive and seeing that the situation was over, the puppet governor Hou Wang and general Wei Qi tied up Xu Hongru, opened the city gate and surrendered to the Ming army.

So far, Xu Hongru's tree-flag rebellion has been quelled in more than a month.

The arrest and arrangement in advance have been tossed about by this guy for more than a month.

When Zhu Youxiao got the final urgent report, he was not surprised or happy, but just put it aside casually, and then watched the drill of the new army in the school grounds.

Ever since he knew that Xu Hongru was trapped in Zou County, Zhu Youxiao knew that the victory was set and it was only a matter of time.There is nothing glorious about beating a group of untrained civilians.

But he is just such a fool who has no self-knowledge, does not know how to fight flexibly, and will defend every city when the army is coming from all sides.

He was able to incite tens of thousands of ordinary people to rebel, and I really admire that he himself was dazzled by religious fanaticism.

Gunshots burst out on the school field, white smoke rose, and formations of 300 and 500 people took turns to enter the field. Liaozhen, Dongjiang, Jinzhen, and Dengzhen completed the drills, and finally came the Warriors Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion.

Because of the large number of people, the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion first set up a small square formation, and finally a large square formation, with as many as 3000 people.The long spears stood up like a forest, and the muskets roared like thunder, their power was astonishing.

Although there is still room for improvement and more proficiency, Zhu Youxiao is still very satisfied after more than two months.

"Good practice." Zhu Youxiao tilted his head slightly, and praised Eunuch Cao who was standing beside him.

Cao Huachun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the expression on his face was even more respectful, "The emperor orders, servants dare not slack off."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, grabbed the binoculars, and watched the battle drill more and more carefully.

"It's just that there are too many people, not as good as ours." Kong Youde tilted his head and said to Zhang Pan in a low voice.

Zhang Pan watched carefully, and when he heard Kong Youde's evaluation, he smiled faintly, noncommittal.

"As long as the soldiers have the courage, they can fight Jiannu in the wild." On the other side of Liao Town, He Kegang rubbed his chin and made his own judgment.

Cao Wenzhao smiled and said, "If you want to be brave, our Liao Town has the most confrontations with Jiannu, and it is the number one."

Zu Dashou nodded slightly, with a look of deep approval.

The generals of Dengzhen and Jinzhen, as well as the military officers transferred from various military towns to study martial arts, were also whispering, criticizing, analyzing, and judging.

Zhu Youxiao was relieved that the training time for the new army was still short, and it was already quite good to reach the current level.

During this period of training, many generals raised many questions and suggestions for improvement based on their own experience and what they learned during the training.

For example, matchlock guns are more suitable for defensive operations. In field combat, the influence of the weather must be considered, such as wind and rain.

If it is relying on the city to defend, measures such as building a shed to shelter from the rain can be taken.If it is in the wild, you can only put on a bayonet and fight the enemy hand to hand.

Another example is that the phalanx of spears and muskets has poor mobility. If it confronts Jiannu, it will be difficult to pursue and expand the results if it wins; but if it loses, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties under the pursuit of Jiannu cavalry.

In other words, what this Spanish phalanx and that Gustav phalanx still can't get rid of the embarrassment of infantry vs. cavalry.

It boils down to one point, that is, the initiative in combat.

If you set up a battle formation, will people bump into you foolishly?Maybe it will be the first time or the second time, who will not learn to be good after suffering a loss?

Jiannu are cavalry, they circle around your phalanx, what if they don't fight with you?Your phalanx can't catch up, and you can't drive across the mountains to the city of Shenyang, and go straight to Jiannu's lair.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao has a clear understanding, but he doesn't think it will be so easy to exterminate Jiannu.

And when he began to train the new army, he also considered the selection and inspection of generals, and deliberately gave them relatively rough drills, just to see which of these generals used their brains to fight, and which ones were only suitable for being a fierce general who charged ahead.

He was excited and gratified when he saw someone put forward the idea of ​​the parapet of the trench, even if it was only a prototype, which was far from Zhu Youxiao's standard.

This is the correct posture of defense, defending the city without fighting in the city.The moat under the city was blocked by the deer village, the musketeers relied on the parapet fortifications to shoot and kill the enemy, and the city was bombarded by cannons. What a spectacular scene!
Therefore, for such a long time, it has been both training soldiers and generals.

The "Officer's Exercise Code" was also perfected, and it was renamed "Infantry Exercise Code", and began to be published as an official textbook of martial arts.

And the Weapons and Powder Bureau, which is responsible for supplying the new army's weapons and equipment, has also continued to send good news.

Concentrating tens of versatile craftsmen, implementing new rules and regulations, management is becoming more and more scientific, and the benefits are becoming more and more obvious.Well, money is really a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)