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  Chapter 166 164 [You can throw away the pot] (Add more updates for the leader "Kitten Cat Rush Forward")

  The corpse of Mr. Qian was soon carried back by the soldiers.

  Zhao Han glanced at it, and said to Zhang Tieniu: "After you go back, you will be rewarded for your merits, and the iron armor on this man will be rewarded to you."

   "That's good." Zhang Tieniu's eyes lit up, wishing he could take off the armor immediately.

  Zhao Han is still too poor. He has not even had a pair of iron armor since the rebellion. The generals under his command can only wear leather armor.

  The Ming Dynasty did not strictly control weapons. As long as they were not firearms, strong bows and crossbows were allowed to be owned by civilians. However, whoever dares to make and collect armor privately is tantamount to rebellion!

  The dead man in front of him should be a hereditary general, and his armor is also an antique, perhaps a hundred or two hundred years old.

  With the iron factories in Xinyu and Fenyi counties, the weapons station will soon be open for operation.

   The first thing to build is not firearms, but thousands of waist knives. At least all the daggers on the archers should be replaced with war knives, which are not daggers at all, but iron spear heads with short handles.

  The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. Zhao Han paced over to comfort the wounded. Seeing Wu Yong dressing his wound, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "Did you catch the high official this time?"

  Wu Yong said dejectedly: "This time, the real senior officials are all riding horses. They really can't catch up. The officers and soldiers have so many horses, there must be... at least twenty of them."

  Wu Yong belonged to the Nuer Army. Before charging with Zhang Tieniu, his shoulder was cut with a big cut.

   This kind of battle is the most intense.

   On the contrary, it was a defensive battle commanded by Zhao Han himself. Regardless of the tens of thousands of people from the two armies fighting each other, in fact, the casualties would not be very large for half a day. Even if the opponent is not a mob, but replaced by real elite soldiers of the imperial court, the process of fighting is similar.

  The two armies fought against each other, killing more than half of each of them, which definitely belongs to the legendary level.

   Let the Yue family army fight with the Sichuan white pole soldiers, maybe it can reach such an intensity. As for other armies, it is normal for a casualty rate to reach 5% to collapse, and a casualty rate of 10% to collapse can be called an elite soldier.

  For an army that can withstand 20% casualties, only 5,000 troops are enough for Zhao Han, and he can sweep several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

   Even the Houjin army at this time, if it suffers 20% casualties, it will definitely retreat. The Tartars are more desperate than you think.

  Hou Jin can continue to grow, not by being brave and not afraid of death, but by rapidly advancing strategies and tactics.

   At the beginning of Nurhachi's army, he fought without any rules, and the Eight Banners system was established to truly become an army.

  Even when it came to the Battle of Sarhu, the Tartars were not as powerful as the Ming Frontier Army. Every time, they exploited the loopholes in the inability of the Ming army to coordinate, and suddenly attacked one of the Ming troops, winning with two to three times the superior force, and then caused the other troops of the Ming army to flee.

   What is truly terrifying is the speed at which the Tartars advance in tactics!

  Because of suffering a dark loss in the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi immediately adopted the shield car. The shield chariots were driven by heavy infantry, and the two shield chariots combined could cover the advance of twenty or thirty infantrymen, completely blinding the firearms of the frontier troops of the Ming Dynasty.

   On the other hand, the tactics of the Ming army remained unchanged, and they still adopted the chariot and firearm tactics against the Mongolian cavalry.

  So this kind of war scene appeared—

  Ming army built chariots, soldiers hid behind the chariots, archers shot arrows, blunderbuss soldiers fired guns, melee infantry protected them, cavalry hid in the formation as a reserve team, or cavalry cruised to the flanks to wait for opportunities to fight. This method of warfare has suppressed the Mongolian cavalry for hundreds of years.

  The Tartars used heavy infantry in front, pushing shield chariots to cover the advance of the large troops. Most of the bows, arrows and bullets of the Ming army were blocked by shield vehicles. The Tartar archers hiding behind the shield chariot zoomed in and shot at the Ming army. After the infantry pushed away the obstacles along the way, the Tazi cavalry rushed out suddenly, mounted and shot at the Ming army, and immediately chased and killed them after they were routed.

This was the case in the Battle of Daling River. The Tartar cavalry fired two rounds in a row. With the archers' volley, the Ming army collapsed directly (the morale of the Ming army was actually good. After the first round of shooting by the Tartar cavalry, the second The second round was really overwhelmed and then retreated).

  At that time, the main force of the Tartars was equipped with: 20% armored infantry, 30% mail archers, 40% light cavalry, and 10% armored cavalry.

   And now, the Tartars have deployed firearms troops, which are even more difficult to deal with than in the Daling River battle!

   It is completely tactical crushing. The Tartars keep improving their tactics, but the Ming army remains unchanged. How can the Ming army beat it?

  By the way, heavy artillery can break through the Tartars' shield formations, but ordinary Franco cannons and Huzun cannons can't.

  With Zhao Han’s current scumbag army, even if the soldiers can withstand 50% casualties, more than half of the soldiers will never retreat, and they will also suffer a disastrous defeat when they encounter the main force of the Tartars.

  It is the same when changing to white soldiers, because the Tartars of today are no longer the Tartars of the past.

   These guys learn so fast, the technology tree is all about the military!

  …

  Zhao Han waited on the battlefield for a long time, and Gu Jianshan finally led the navy back.

  The casualties of the sailors were actually higher than those of the army, and more than 30 people were missing. Because the water flow was too fast after it rained and the water swelled, the sailors fell into the river and were quickly swept away by the river. It is unknown how many people could get ashore safely.

  However, there are more battleships!

Gu Jianshan came over to salute the army happily, and reported: "General Town, our army has won a great victory in Bailuozhou. Burned six large enemy ships, captured two large enemy ships, seven small ships, and two other large enemy ships , A small ship surrendered. There are also three large enemy ships that are stranded and need to be dredged and dragged out."

   "Good job," Zhao Han said happily, "Did the enemy escape by ship?"

  Gu Jianshan replied: "Wang Siren ran away by boat, and he couldn't catch up. Please punish him from the town."

  Zhao Han laughed loudly: "You won a battle, why should I punish you?"

  More than a hundred surrendered officers and sailors were brought over by Gu Jianshan to meet them. They used to be Poyang Lake water bandits.

  Gu Jianshan introduced: "This is Fan Chao, bandit name Fan Er, my good brother in Poyang Lake."

   "Meet the Commander!" Fan Chao kowtowed quickly.

   "Please get up quickly," Zhao Han helped the man up, looked at him for a while and said, "He is indeed a good man, and he will stay in my navy as an officer."

  Of course they are low-level military officers, and the missionaries will do ideological work. If they can’t do it, they can only be dismissed.

   It was Fei Yinggong, who performed very well this time, allowing him to lead five hundred people.

  The next day, Zhao Han led his troops across the river and surrounded Linjiang Prefecture.

   This is the city with the strongest defense that Zhao Han has encountered so far, and it is impossible to attack by force.

  However, the gates of the city were opened.

  The prefect of Linjiang led many officials out of the city and knelt down to greet him: "Sinner He Tianqu, pay homage to King Zhao!"

  Zhao Han took a glance: "Are these a few officials?"

  He Tianqu replied: "Tongzhi, Tuiguan, county magistrate and other officials have fled yesterday afternoon."

   "Why don't you run?" Zhao Han asked.

  He Tianqu bit the bullet and said: "I admire Zhao Tianwang's prestige, and I am willing to sacrifice the city for atonement."

   This is of course nonsense. The reason why He Tianqu surrendered was that he was the chief official of the city. Even if he ran away, so what, the court asked him for his crime, and if he didn't die, he would have to peel off his skin.

   Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong ravaged the Luzhou government, most of He Tianqu's clan members disappeared, and this guy was not afraid of implicating his family.

   But, He Tianqu took it for granted, thinking that Xiancheng could be reused. But during this period of time, officers and soldiers robbed food everywhere, and other high officials ran away, just in time to bring He Tianqu to the public trial, so that the people who had suffered to vent their anger.

   "Catch it!" Zhao Han sneered.

  He Tianqu was a little confused, the script was wrong. He exclaimed: "Zhao Tianwang, I have the merit of dedicating the city, why do I treat the demoted officials like this?"

   "The whole army of officers and soldiers is defeated. I need you to dedicate the city? Lock it up and wait for a public trial!" Zhao Han led his troops into the city after finishing speaking.

  Linjiang Fucheng cannot be abandoned, this place is too important.

  Although Zhangshu Town is next to Linjiangfu City, Zhangshu Town has no city walls to defend. Only by occupying this city can the Ganjiang waterway be blocked.

   Alas, the expansion is still too fast. Zhao Han's current territory is as follows:

  Jian Mansion: Luling County, Jishui County, Anfu County. (This prefecture is temporarily vacant: Taihe County (anti-thief), Yongfeng County, Longquan County (anti-thief), Wan'an County, Yongxin County (sweeping king), Yongning County (anti-thief).)

  Linjiang Prefecture: Qingjiang County, Xingan County, Xiajiang County, Xinyu County.

   There is another Fenyi County, which is under the jurisdiction of Yuanzhou Prefecture. (Except for Fenyi County, the rest of the Yuanzhou Mansion is occupied by the Sweeping King.)

   That is to say, Zhao Han expanded from three counties to eight counties at once.

  Youde missionary group and grassroots officials are busy!

  Xiao Huan must also be busy, the site has suddenly doubled, and the clean government work is probably not enough.

  However, the finances suddenly became more abundant. Li Maofang collected so much money and food, and made all of them wedding dresses for Zhao Han, and also seized a few cannons by the way.

   But Nanchang Mansion is in a panic.

   It was the officials of the Three Divisions of Jiangxi Province, who all mobilized and distributed money to re-recruit soldiers to defend the city.

  Because Nanchang, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, is less than 200 miles away from Zhao Han's Linjiang Prefecture in a straight line, and there is only Fengcheng County in the middle.

  Don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me... This is the thinking of the Jiangxi Third Division officials, for fear that Zhao Han will take advantage of the victory to attack and encircle Nanchang Mansion.

  Zhao Han was too lazy to go there, he suffered from indigestion in the eight counties.

  Even Fengcheng County that Huang Yao captured, Zhao Han offered to give it up as a buffer zone between him and the government.

  Li Maofang, Li Ruolian, and Wang Siren looked at each other in Nanchang.

   "What should I do?" Li Ruolian asked.

  Wang Siren sighed: "I still have half of my navy left, and within a year, I will be able to regain my strength."

  Li Maofang could not speak, the defeat was too complete.

  Perhaps, Wang Siren still has the opportunity to take the blame and make meritorious deeds, because he is only a soldier in Jiangzhou.

  Perhaps, Li Ruolian can be demoted back to Beijing because he is a military officer from Jinyiwei.

  But Li Maofang, as the governor of Jiangxi, is dismissed from his post and dismissed. He is very likely to be sent to prison for investigation!

  Civil officials do have a high status, but once the city or land is lost, the main responsibility will be placed on the civil officials. The Chongzhen Dynasty has planted several governors.

   In the next two months, Li Ruolian and Wang Siren actively recruited troops to defend Nanchang City.

   And Li Maofang has no interest in military affairs, he also has money in Nanchang. He sent his confidants to go straight to the capital by boat, and bribed the important officials of the court with money, so as to save his own life.

  By the way, you can blame Wang Siren.

  At the time of the decisive battle, Wang Siren's navy was defeated, which caused the main force of the officers and soldiers to collapse!

  Yes, yes, yes, this is Wang Siren's responsibility.

   (Thanks to v Nima``bi, Shangxian Qitian for the reward, a map will be added at the end of this chapter, if you don’t have it, you can refresh it.)

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