Chapter 37: Suppressing Bandits
The capital, three quarters of the hour.
The city gates of the four sides were wide open, and groups of black-clothed and black-armed, heavily armed soldiers lined up in neat military formations and set off from each city gate separately.
The neighing of war horses, the sound of neat footsteps, the rolling of wheels...... It's very lively.
In the midst of people's discussions, these black-armored armies poured out like a tide, and then rushed forward in all directions with divisions and regiments as units, and soon disappeared without a trace.
The soldiers of the new army went out of the city to suppress bandits, and the boy guards naturally did not sit idle.
Outside the West City Gate.
Early in the morning, Zhu Youxiao took 30,000 soldiers of the Boy Guards Army to advance along the Yuhe River and came to the foot of Yuquan Mountain.
Yesterday, Zhu Youxiao, Li Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting discussed it, and decided to let the boy scouts go to see blood and experience it.
After all, these 30,000 scouts are the real pro-army of the Son of Heaven.
The Son of Heaven pro-army, not only is the best armed and treated, but also the combat effectiveness should be the best.
Before leaving the customs battle, it is necessary to have a low-intensity military training.
In this large-scale crackdown on bandits, the Boy Guards were responsible for the front line from the capital to the border city of the town and Juyongguan.
If Tongzhou City is the first gateway of the capital, there is no substitute, the town border city is the second gateway of the capital.
Located in the northwest of the capital, close to the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty, it is a well-deserved military town.
It's just that Zhenbian City, which was originally the first important town in the frontier, led the army to push the grassland for thousands of miles in the era of Zhu Di, pushing the border line to Kaipingwei in the north.
Then, Zhu Di overhauled the outer Great Wall and expanded the land for thousands of miles, and the border city of the town became a military fortress of the inner Great Wall, and its importance was not so prominent, and it became an important gateway to the capital.
In the history of China, there are three major infrastructure madnesses.
One is the first emperor Yingzheng, there is no doubt about it.
One is Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, which is also well known.
The other is Zhu Di.
Beijing, Tianjin Sanwei ...... and many other important cities in the north, as well as thousands of miles of the Great Wall, as well as many military forts along the Great Wall, including Shanhaiguan, and even the guards around Vladivostok, most of which were built during Zhu Di's reign.
In terms of merit and courage, Zhu Di is not inferior to the first emperor Yingzheng, both of whom are known for their architectural madness.
"Your Majesty, this super official road is really comfortable to walk on."
Li Dingguo led his beloved mount on a big black horse, glanced at Hong'er, who was holding a red horse beside him, and said to Zhu Youxiao beside him.
He is now the general of the Guards, and he is in charge of all the 30,000 boy guards, so he is leading the Chinese army, and together with Hong'er, the commander of the Women's Army, he is by Zhu Youxiao's side.
"Of course, aren't you talking nonsense?"
Hong'er glanced at Li Dingguo and said sarcastically angrily.
The two little guys, as long as they are together, are-for-tat all the time.
"Huh!"
Zhu Youxiao looked at this pair of happy enemies, and it was very funny.
Beside him, he was just following the snow treading god horse Xiaobai, and the two mutant big dogs and two battle chickens brought out had been dispatched to explore the way ahead and reconnoiter the enemy.
As soon as I turned around Yuquan Mountain, I saw a large official road as wide as thirty zhang, extending from the capital and spreading to the sky.
Although the super official road and the large farms along the way are now focused on the Miyun area and the Shanhaiguan area, the construction of other directions has not stopped, but the scale of the road construction army is relatively small.
Even so, with the efforts of millions of displaced people and more than 1,000 craftsmen, the super official road from the capital to the border city of the town had been rebuilt and repaired three days ago.
And the dangerous military towns such as Zhenbian City and Juyong Pass were also cleaned up by Zhu Youxiao, and Lu Jiude ordered people to clean them up, all of which were controlled and garrisoned.
The current Ming Dynasty is full of barren mountains and mountains, and those bandits have countless hiding places, and the northwest direction of the capital is no exception.
But these are all trivial things, and Zhu Youxiao is now a sure winner.
With a lot of elite soldiers and countless money and food in his hands, he didn't worry even a little.
In this large-scale crackdown on bandits, 540,000 of the 600,000 officers and men of the New Army were dispatched, leaving only 60,000 men in two divisions to defend the capital.
Coupled with 30,000 boy scouts, cleaning up a Shuntian Mansion is considered to be a knife for killing chickens, which is very easy.
These hundreds of thousands of troops poured out, not to mention a Shuntian Mansion, even if the entire Beizhili was swept up, it would not be a problem.
Zhu Youxiao, who was in an extremely relaxed mood, simply handed over the command of the Guards to Li Dingguo and Hong'er.
Just let the two of them play freely.
Just looking at the two of them, after conveying one order after another, dozens of reconnaissance teams set off first, and Zhu Youxiao didn't care about anything.
Traveling all the way is what interests him.
"Artillery battalion, sharpshooter battalion, keep up!"
Li Dingguo was despised by Hong'er, but he was not angry, so he immediately rode on his war horse and shouted in all directions.
On this trip, the Guards were not only armed to the teeth, but also brought with them the artillery battalion and sharpshooter battalion that had just been formed.
This Guards Firearms Battalion now has a total of 30 new-style Franc cannons that have been strengthened once by Zhu Youxiao, and 1,000 new-style muskets that have not been strengthened.
The Franc rapid-fire cannon, which has only been strengthened once, has no automatic ammo effect, but the material has been doubled, so it is not easy to break.
In other respects, there is no difference from the ordinary new Franc cannon, which is the same as manual reloading and manual ignition.
Those super cannons that have been strengthened to +3, Zhu Youxiao did not bring them together this time, but will keep them until the next official battle, and they will be activated.
Now to deal with these stragglers, with the current armament, it is enough.
Otherwise, it will not be effective in the first military training.
With Li Dingguo's shouting, the firearms battalion, which was a little behind, shouted a few times in unison, drove the artillery carriage and trotted for a while, and soon followed the large army of the Chinese army.
After the artillery team, there were 20,000 logistics troops.
They drove more than 1,000 large and small vehicles and were arranged to follow the Chinese army in order to be protected by the front and rear armies so as not to suffer unnecessary losses.
Although Zhu Youxiao came out to suppress the bandits with a tourist-like mood, he would not take it lightly, and he would still be cautious and cautious, and would not give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it.
These Guards Scouts will all be good seedlings of the new army in the future, and even if they lose one, they will not be worth the loss.
The huge team marched all the way, and the neat and majestic military appearance and military posture frightened the displaced people on both sides of the Daguan Road.
When they saw the army approaching from afar, they hid on both sides of the road, trembling with fear.
It wasn't until the army was far away that everyone was frightened and talked about it.
"This is the army of the imperial court?"
"These officers and soldiers are all babies!"
"I didn't expect that this army passed by, and there was no crime in the autumn, this ...... It's a little too bizarre! ”
"Humph! At a glance, you can see that these black-armored armies, like the black-armored armies in the big city before, will not harm the people. ”
"Pole to pole, I'm about to go to the capital, this way, not only those big army forts along the way to provide food and drink, I heard that when I arrived in the capital, there was also work to do!"
"In other words, this big official road is too big and too good." ……
Many homeless people, while talking, walked, and soon saw the walls of the capital, and immediately cheered.
After all the hard work in the capital, there should be something to eat.
When everyone thinks of this, they finally have a little hope in their hearts.