"Ready!"

After Xiao Ying's order, under the orders of officers at all levels, the firearms of the People's Army began to load ammunition, bite the paper shell bullet and pour it into the barrel, and then insert it like a strip, stabbing the barrel, and then raised the musket, squinted at the door, and aimed at the Ming army in the front row.

"Shoot!"

After the order was given again, a crackling sound sounded, and wisps of white smoke rose out.

The Ming army firearms soldiers who were hurriedly checking the fire rope didn't realize it at all, and immediately fell to the ground in batches.

The difference between the range and rate of fire between flintlock pistols and arquebuses was too great.

The Ming army did not expect that they would be hit a hundred paces away.

The Ming gunners screamed all over the place.

And this time.

The KPA has already begun a second wave of attacks.

More than 3,600 men formed three platoons, the first platoon was finished, the second platoon was added, and the three-stage attack was loaded more quickly with flintlock muskets, so that the Ming army continued to fall in batches.

The Ming army was already retreating.

Jia Qinkuo also found that this battle could not be fought at all, so he hurriedly fled with more than a dozen horsemen.

There are many swamps in the Jiangnan area, there are not many cavalry, and there are not many cavalry members with Jia Qinkuo, and he will not be stupid enough to take a dozen horsemen to charge the thousands of people's troops on the opposite side, he just wants to flee for his life now.

But at this time, Xiao Ying had already gone into battle herself, put the butt of the sniper rifle on her shoulder, and then pulled the trigger.

Jia Qinkuo saw with his own eyes that his horse had no head, and then he fell off the horse himself.

At this time.

The People's Army had already launched a direct charge, the trumpet had sounded, and Zhang Jun and Li Liangwei's troops had already rushed forward first.

"There's really no way to see this, I've tried to reduce the technological gap between each other, we haven't drawn rifling yet, and even the bronze cannons of the Napoleonic period have not been used, and we haven't had time to make a rifle coordination. ”

Su Yuqing shook her head, feeling bored.

"It's boring, I thought the Ming Court's battalion could fight a little bit. ”

Wen Qian also echoed and said.

"I want them to go and try it with Li Chengliang in the north and the southern soldiers left behind by Qi Jiguang. ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile.

At this time, Xiaoying on the front line had already captured Jia Qinkuo, the deputy chief soldier of Ningbo.

Lu Yuan also glanced at this Jia Qinkuo after this.

"This is the Ming Dynasty Sanpin military attaché?"

Wen Qian picked up her mobile phone with great interest and took a picture of Jia Qinkuo.

Jia Qinkuo naturally couldn't recognize that Wen Qian was holding a mobile phone, but thought that she was holding an antique made of white jade, but he laughed.

However, because Lu Yuan and the others are now wearing Ming Dynasty clothes, and they are all wearing square flat-top scarves and straight clothes, so that they will not be easily discovered that they are from the urban world, Jia Qinkuo did not realize that Lu Yuan and the others were different.

But Jia Qinkuo was still a little surprised, because he didn't expect that the rebels would be such a few high-ranking scholars and rich ladies who looked very white and looked like they were born rich and noble.

"The imperial court has always treated Confucian scholars well, and you don't know why you want to rebel?"

Jia Qinkuo asked.

"We're not rebelling, we're taking back what should belong to us, Deputy Chief Jia, we need you to immediately report to your boss, Ning Shaotai, Deputy Envoy Wang, otherwise we will kill you!"

Lu Yuan said at this time.

Jia Qinkuo knew that he was powerless to resist, so he naturally did what Lu Yuan ordered.

After receiving the news of Jia Qinkuo's victory, Wang Xing, the deputy envoy of Ningshaotai's military preparation, was also convinced that it was true, and began to write a report to the imperial court, and asked Jia Qinkuo to immediately lead his troops to recover Cixi and Yuyao Zhucheng.

As a result, the KPA was able to continue to have time for indecent development.

The Ming court still did not see the People's Army as a huge threat.

At this time.

Emperor Wanli in the capital of the Ming Dynasty could be said to have monopolized power after liquidating Zhang Juzheng, but a news of rebellion reported from the southeast made him frown.

Therefore, Wanli couldn't help but summon Shen Shixing, the head of the cabinet, and said: "There is a rebellion in the southeast, what do you think about this matter?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, or if the Japanese invaders suspect that the pirates are in trouble, they should order the local area to be strictly defended and suppress the bandits. ”

Shen Shi Xing returned.

"What the gentleman said is that the southeast is a heavy tax area, and there is no room for mistakes!

Wanli said.

Shen Shixing also agreed, and then discussed with Wanli about the country's capital: "Your Majesty, I don't know when the emperor's eldest son will be able to leave the pavilion to study?"

Wanli held his forehead: "The eldest son of the emperor is still young, and this matter will be discussed later." ”

"For the Ming court at this time, the matter of establishing the country, that is, the matter of establishing the prince is the most important thing, so for us, the bandits who are only making waves along the coast of Zhejiang, the Ming court should not be very concerned, you must know that at this time, the northwest of the Ming court is also on fire and the war is on the red side, and the momentum is greater than ours, so it is even more unlikely that the Ming court will notice us. ”

At the governor's meeting, Wen Qian analyzed the possible reaction of the Ming court.

"What's more, we neither occupied Ningbo, nor invaded Taizhou, in order to save their heads, these Ming court magistrates must have to pretend to be diligent and generous to report the victory, when the time comes, the Ming court will definitely still be kept in the dark, and we just take this opportunity to continue to engage in obscene development. ”

Su Yuqing added.

"But we can't just engage in development, we still have to fight this battle, otherwise how can we train our troops?"

Lu Yuan also said.

"Hmm", Yan Lu and Xiao Ying nodded.

Su Yuqing also smiled: "I didn't say no fighting, I just think that through Sister Qian's words, now that the Ming Court doesn't pay attention to us, it is a good time for us to seize the development." ”

Lu Yuan smiled: "I understand what you mean, but I don't plan to fight immediately, we have to expand the army now, at the moment the total strength under our command is less than 10,000, this is far from enough, in the future, we have to lay more territory, the more territory we have to fight, the more places we need to defend, and the Ming Court will realize us sooner or later, so we have to hurry." ”

"Agreed!"

Wen Qian nodded.

"Agreed!"

Su Yuqing also nodded.

"Agreed!"

Yan Lu and Xiao Ying also nodded.

Thereupon.

Next, Lu Yuan's governor's palace began to focus on the expansion of troops, rather than taking the opportunity to occupy Ningbo.

In the winter of the eighteenth year of Wanli.

In total, more than 30,000 recruits were recruited from the entire Governor's Palace, and more than 3,000 were recruited on average in each county.

In order to train these recruits, the two existing first-class regiments were all reorganized into a teaching brigade, which was responsible for training the more than 30,000 recruits.

While training these recruits, Lu Yuan asked Xiaoying to form a brigade with the third regiment of recruits who had been transferred to defend Yuyao, Cixi and other county towns and the third regiment of the original People's Army, called the Guards Brigade, with a total of more than 5,000 people.

And the people in charge of training are Shan Guangzu and Wen Shouchuang.

Xiao Ying needs to accompany Lu Yuan.

Because Lu Yuan was not sure what his command level was.

Of course, Lu Yuan didn't have to lead the troops in person, but in order to accumulate prestige in the army, and he himself was indeed more interested in marching and fighting, he personally took more than 6,000 troops plus the guard regiment to the battle.

Lu Yuan led the People's Army to arrive at Longshan Station first, and the thousands of households in Longshan Institute were also ready to wait for help after seeing Lu Yuan and other People's Army appear.

However, the People's Army led by Lu Yuan had smoothbore cannons, and although the shells were live shells, they were iron-core copper-tired cannons, and the artillery fire was powerful, so they blasted open the city wall of Longshan in a few strokes.

Thousands of households in Longshan committed suicide, and Lu Yuan's People's Army successfully occupied Longshan Institute.

As a result, the Yongsan Institute was renamed Yongsan County.

As for the military households of Yongsansho, like other guard posts previously occupied by the KPA, the military households were changed to civilian households, and the guard post system was abolished.

Then.

Lu Yuan led the People's Army to occupy Songpu Town, then Minghechang, and then Guanhaiwei.

Zhan Fuguo, the commander of Guanhaiwei, led his headquarters to fight a hard battle with Lu Yuan's People's Army, but it was also a one-touch collapse, and one commander of Guanhaiwei's command post, two commanders of Wei, and other officials of the Ming court were all captured.

Lu Yuan thought that the Ming army could not concentrate on the order to attack itself now, and in order to take the opportunity to expand the territory and occupy the Sujiahang area as soon as possible, he simply ordered the Guards Brigade to be divided into pieces and occupy various cities and towns independently with battalions.

For a time, the entire southeastern region of the Ming Dynasty was in chaos.

Shangyu, Linshanwei, Sanshansuo, Sufeng Town, Baiguan City, Huiji, Shanyin, Zhuji, Xiaoshan, Renhe, Qiantang and other counties and towns in Jiangnan were occupied by the People's Army one after another.

Lu Yuan had also arrived at the city of Hangzhou in March of the 19th year of Wanli with a guard regiment equipped with flintlock pistols, an artillery battalion and a cavalry company.

However, at this time, officials from top to bottom in Zhejiang had already learned the news of the invasion of the People's Army, so when Lu Yuan arrived at the city of Hangzhou with more than 1,000 people, the gate of Hangzhou was closed.

It's just that these Zhejiang officials haven't had time to deploy troops to deal with Lu Yuan.

But Lu Yuan did not attack the city of Hangzhou, his little strength was not enough to attack the city with high walls and thick walls, and there was also a tens of thousands of Ming troops led by the general army of Hangzhou in the city.

Lu Yuan just made a name near Hangzhou City, and returned to Dinghai by boat that night.

The other battalions were withdrawn from the occupied counties after April.

However, this wave of the People's Army's spring offensive also completely disrupted the entire eastern Zhejiang region, and countless gentry and bully landlords were exterminated, and many gold, silver, jewelry, and fields were also distributed to the common people.

Of course, after the withdrawal of the People's Army, the gentry clique will still let the Ming army or organize their own return to their hometowns to take back the money and land from the hands of the civilians, but it is naturally not so easy to take back what people have eaten in their mouths.

Therefore, the contradiction between the gentry group and the common people naturally became more acute.

Soon after the KPA left, peasant riots broke out in many places shortly after the Ming army and the returnee regiment returned.

As a result, the Zhejiang government was too busy with civil strife to take care of the People's Army occupying Yuyao counties.

And during this time, a batch of recruits was also trained.

Therefore, Lu Yuan directly reorganized this group of recruits with the original more than 8,000 veterans of the People's Army.

With the exception of a direct guards brigade composed of half experienced veterans, the rest of the KPA officers and men were divided into two towns, each with two brigades under its jurisdiction, each with more than 7,000 men.

Among them, the military supreme commander corresponding to each town is the garrison.

Each brigade is still the capital.

Each regiment is called a thousand generals.

The Guards Brigade is still under the direct command of Xiao Ying, but because Xiao Ying often needs to deal with the military affairs of the headquarters, Wang Hai is often in charge of the training and combat of the Guards Brigade.

The first and second towns were garrisoned by Shan Guangzu and Wen Shouzhuo respectively.

"The first town is in charge of the Ningbo Theater, the second town is in charge of the Dinghai Theater, and the Guards Brigade, as a mobile unit, cannot stay on the inner line all the time to recuperate, and after a month's rest, it should immediately launch a summer offensive. ”

Lu Yuan said this at the Governor's Council.

"Brother Lu Yuan, for the summer offensive, I think we should continue to go north and completely mess up the area around Hangjiahu, because the Ming court will definitely not be able to sit back and watch us disturb his tax-paying land, and will inevitably send a large army to suppress it, and if we mess up the area around Hangjiahu, we can delay them from raising grain and grass and buy time for the autumn harvest of the headquarters. ”

Xiao Ying suggested at this time.

"The opinion is adopted, this time, it is still the same as the last spring offensive, not for the purpose of occupying the city, where the Ming army is empty, we will attack it, and the money and grain will be plundered before it has time, and it will be distributed to the local people if it is too late. ”

Lu Yuan nodded.

……

Wanli was so angry that he received a report from Zhejiang a few days ago, saying that Jia Qinkuo, the deputy chief soldier of Ningbo, had pacified the bandits, and also got a reply from Dai Zongqing, the governor of Zhejiang, that the bandits were some pirates composed of broken military households and fishermen, so he was relieved, but he did not expect that he had recently received a note that most of the counties in Hangzhou had been lost, and the bandits had even arrived in Hangzhou.

Therefore, Wanli, who didn't want to see Wenchen again, had to summon Shen Shixing again.

"How's the trouble in Zhejiang, sir?"

Wanli asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is reported that the Bai Shi Division, the general army of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, has repelled the bandits, the siege of Hangzhou has been lifted, and the lost cities of Hangzhou have been recovered, so Your Majesty does not need to worry too much. ”

Shen Shi Xing returned.

Wanli snorted coldly: "It won't be the bandits who retreated by themselves, can Zhejiang Fu press say where the bandits went?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, Zhejiang Fu has not reported such news, presumably the bandits have retreated to the sea, or have retreated to other houses, the minister thinks, no matter what, Zhejiang Fu should be ordered to send officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress as soon as possible, so as not to have restless things in eastern Zhejiang. ”

Shen Shi Xing returned.

"What Mr. said is very true, I heard that there have been rumors in the capital recently that the Zhejiang bandits are plotting rebellion for someone in Jiangling, does it mean that there are still people who dare to go against me because of someone in Jiangling?"

Wanli asked.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to the rumors, this is just speculation by ignorant people, Your Majesty's generous gift of good land and the surviving people of the Zhang family is enough to see Your Majesty's benevolence and kindness, how can those who sympathize with Jiangling still make trouble at this time, even if there are really people who plot against it on this ground, they should not make trouble after a few years of this matter, and they should not make trouble in Zhejiang. ”

Shen Shixing was afraid that Wanli would use this as an excuse to raise a prison to continue to fight Zhang Juzheng's party, so he had to persuade him.

"What the gentleman said is that I think so too. ”

Wanli said.

"Your Majesty, Zhejiang's suffering is nothing more than the disease of scabies, and the country has not yet been established is the problem of elbows and armpits, and now the ministers are writing again, and the ministers don't know how to vote for it, the emperor's eldest son is nine years old, but he has not yet studied, and he belongs to the East Palace. ”

Shen Shixing was busy talking about the founding of the country.

"I'm tired, stand down. ”

Wanli only replied lightly.

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