Gao pragmatic summoned this group of powerful officials of the Liuzhou Mansion to the procuratorate, and ordered his own family members to guard the procuratorate inside and out, as if he was facing a great enemy and was discussing an emergency military situation.

However, the fact is that Gao Shishi just talked nonsense with Jiang Xin and others in the courtyard, and for a while he said that the questions of the Tong Sheng test were exquisite, for a while he said that Huguang Water Station was convenient and efficient, and for a while he talked about the use of cement for building fortresses, all of which were things that were not related to the wind and horses, and Jiang Xin and others were confused.

But they didn't dare to disturb the conversation of the master of the platform, so they could only complain in their hearts, smile on their faces, and accompany this nonsense whose thinking jumped as if he had taken off.

Although Li Weicong, the commander of Liuzhou Wei from Guangxi, is theoretically as high as the third rank, he is the lowest-ranking officer among today's military attaches who is qualified to enter the middle hall of the procuratorate to listen to high-level pragmatic nonsense. He couldn't understand what Gao Pragmatic was talking about, and after a while, he couldn't help but secretly scold you in his heart, asking us to listen to some nonsense

Gao Shipra may have heard the secret scolding in his heart, and finally looked at the sky at this time, and suddenly his face turned cold, and said, "Oh, there is one more thing to say, I heard that some Tusi want to set up local officials in the Bazhai area."

Everyone had already been in a trance by his long-term nonsense, and their reactions were a little sluggish at this time, especially Li Weicong, who was secretly scolding in his heart just now, and subconsciously said at this time, "Yes." ”

Gao Shishi smiled coldly, "Hmph, I dare to think about it." ”

Everyone was taken aback by this cold snort, and only then did they react, their thinking began to return to normal, and they were secretly frightened what was going on, listening to what they were talking about, they seemed to be very dissatisfied with this

At this time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly issued an eviction order, "This press is a little tired, let's discuss it here today, tomorrow your relevant members, prepare the grades and other things obtained from the previous expropriation of Bazhai, and this press will be checked one by one." Then he turned around and walked into the inner hall, leaving a group of civil and military officials of Liuzhou Mansion looking at each other.

Gao Shi entered the inner hall, Cao Ke handed over a cup of cold tea, offered it with both hands, and said, "Master drinks tea, I must be thirsty after talking to them for so long, this is deliberately cold." ”

Gao Pragmatic brought it over, and he didn't pay attention to any demeanor, and after drinking it in one go, he sat down and said, "Cao Ke, you said that after I have acted in this play, how long will it take for those toasts to know the news, it shouldn't be delayed."

Cao Ke smiled and said, "The lord just told the little one yesterday, the Taiping Mansion is a foot in the imperial court reaching into the Guixi Toast, and the Qingyuan Mansion, Liuzhou Mansion and Nanning Mansion are the three knives that the imperial court has in front of the Guixi Tusi, since the threat is so great, how can those toasts in Liuzhou Mansion not have spies in the three layers of the outer three layers of the courtyard surrounded tightly, at first glance, it was discussing major matters, but it took so long, those spies knew that they would not be in a hurry to inquire in the future, but what the master just said, The only thing that has to do with them is the last two sentences, which can still be passed on."

"That's right." Gao pragmatic smiled, "I just bet that there must be someone in Liuzhou Mansion who secretly communicates with those toasts, otherwise what am I doing in this play, even if they are not tired, I still have a dry mouth." ”

As he spoke, he said to Gao Zhang, who was standing quietly on the side, "Gao Zhang, what do you think of those Liuzhou squad soldiers today?"

In the Ming Dynasty, the duties of the garrison army generally included four items: tuntian, defense, transportation and ordnance management. In addition, a considerable part of the Weisho Banner Army also has the responsibility of transporting it. In addition, after being approved by the Ministry of War, some metropolitan guards also have the responsibility of producing conventional weapons and managing them. However, after Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, it became an important duty of the Weisu Banner Army to train and transport grain in turn.

The term "squad army" refers to the flag army with the guard army as the main body leaving the guard post to which it belongs and periodically going to a designated and relatively fixed place or area to engage in activities mainly military garrison. It is not only different from the temporary national or regional military mobilization, but also different from the long-term changes in subordinate guards brought about by the establishment, merger, and redeployment of guards.

There are many types of squad troops, including the Beijing Beijing Drill Squad Army that enters the Beijing Division, the Nanjing Beijing Drill Squad Army that enters the defense of Nanjing and its nearby rivers, the Guards who enter the Jizhen Town on all sides, the Border Drill Squad Army that defends the important town of the Northern Capital Division, the Autumn and Winter Guards who defend each other on the northern border, and the soldiers who defend the military fortresses within several or one of the capitals.

Shifts have become a common phenomenon of the flag army of the guard, and it is an important way to carry out key defense in key areas under the premise of not increasing the number of troops as much as possible after the stability of the domestic situation after the Ming Dynasty.

According to Zhang Ren, there are currently more than 80,000 registered soldiers in Guangxi, with a total of 10 guards and 22 1,000 households.

But this is only paper data, and it is thankful that there are actually 30,000 soldiers that can be used to fight. Zhang Ren quietly hinted at Gao Pragmatism, if there was only a temporary military incident, the army that could be mobilized in Guangxi Province would be 23,400, and that would be under the premise that the defensive forces in other regions would be reduced to almost a touch.

This is also the reason why as soon as the Bazhai Rebellion in Guangxi broke out, the governor of Guangxi and Guangxi could only be invited to mobilize a large army from Guangdong to join the Guangxi army to encircle and suppress it.

Gao Zhang heard this, pondered in his heart for a while, and said, "If the 1,000 or so Liuzhou troops fight against us today, we will definitely win, but it depends on whether they are poorly disciplined, but they are brave enough, if so, they may have to pay a little casualties, because we almost only brought musketeers this time, and we lacked cover." ”

When he said this, there was a trace of doubt on his face, "I don't understand why the master refuses to let us change to the Wanli style, the gun itself is quite easy to use, not to mention, the key is that after the bayonet is installed, we don't have to carry the Yanling knife, which can reduce the weight of several catties." If this batch of Longqing two styles is replaced with Wanli one style, the increase in combat effectiveness will definitely be considerable. ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said, "That gun you tried is only a trial model, the cost is ridiculously high, and even if the best materials that can be produced by the Jinghua Iron Works are used, when the bayonet is installed, the strength of the gun body is still insufficient. Qi Zongrong, Ma Zongrong and Liu Zongrong have tested many times, and in the case of high-strength knife, the probability of this gun being broken or damaged is as high as seventy percent, and I can't approve mass production now, and I must wait for the strength of the steel to improve. ”

Gao Zhang's Wanli musket is a concept put forward under the idea of Gao pragmatic leapfrog exhibition, in fact, he does not have to leapfrog, but his musket knowledge reserve is insufficient, and he can't remember some exhibition stages in the middle, so he jumped directly to the British Bess and the French Charville 1777.

However, facts have proved that there are basic conditions for the exhibition of any weapon, and when the Jinghua Musket Factory came up with a brown bass flint gun with a general concept of high pragmatism, they could not directly make a model with a bayonet according to the idea of high pragmatism, because the materials were not up to standard, and the strength of the gun body could not meet the requirements of actual combat.

Therefore, at present, Gao Pragmatism has retreated to the second best thing, and asked to launch the Longqing two-style bayonet modification first, but it has not been done yet, so this time the family who went south can only be equipped with both muskets and Yanling knives. The common tactic is to first put the musket close and fight one or two, and if the opposite side has not collapsed and still rushes over for melee combat, then throw away the musket and use the Yanling knife to fight.

This method of operation is definitely inferior to the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family's army, because the cold weapons are not fully equipped, and there is no wolf wrestle, boring palladium, big shield and other measures to cooperate, if the enemy army on the opposite side can charge to the death and resolutely fight close combat, then the casualties of the guards will definitely not be small.

However, until now, Gao Pragmatic has not planned to really fight such a big battle like a regular army, so he has not adjusted and improved his tactics and configuration for a long time.

However, this time Gao Zhang was so unoptimistic about the Liuzhou garrison, which made Gao Pragmatic faintly worried, Guangxi Tusi is not a weak chicken, although they are poorly equipped and treated, not to mention the treatment, but the four "Guangxi wolf soldiers" still have deterrent power in Gao Pragmatic's heart.

He hadn't considered the threat of Guangxi Tusi before, because in his impression, Guangxi Tusi seemed to be quite obedient, and was often transferred to other places to fight by the imperial court, as long as he stuttered, not only did he not have to give any military salary, but even the bereavement was not given, and the toasts didn't seem to be too entangled in these, as long as the imperial court rewarded them.

This gave Gao Pragmatism an illusion, feeling that Guangxi Tusi was simply loyal to Daming, similar to a group. Who would have thought that now after arriving in Guangxi, it turns out that these toasts are not as well-behaved as they imagined, and they don't listen to everything in Daming's father's words, and the small abacus in private is still clanging.

What's more important is that it doesn't matter if they are disobedient occasionally, and now some of them may even be the murderers of poisoning the governor of a province, which shows that some people in this group have been emboldened to a certain extent, if the imperial court does not deter it, something big will happen

But if you are deterred, what if someone takes a risk, these soldiers and horses in Liuzhou are not very good at first glance, and they are a little stronger than the group of thousands of households called flower soldiers who just entered Guangxi and saw in Huangsha Town, and it seems unreliable to expect them to turn the tide and win the wolf soldiers, should I strengthen security measures In case I die in Guangxi, it is really a great ambition to die before it is paid, and the hero is full of tears.

Mom, although Lao Tzu's plan to lure the snake out of the hole seems to be fine, but if the snake is lured out to bite him to death, it will be too cost-effective

"Well, what you said also has some truth, so let's send a letter to Guangzhou Port, and ask them to send someone to Kaiping to ask, has the Longqing two-style bayonet been out, if so, hurry up and transfer a batch to Guangzhou, first come to five hundred rods, and the accessories should be sufficient."

In the end, the high press platform who was greedy for life and afraid of death still gave such an order.