"What?" Gao Jie, who was still low-eyed and pretending to be Sven just now, exploded when he heard this, "Man, Mantar is coming?" Where did it go? Isn't it to Shandong? ”

Although Gao Jie was born in a rogue, he joined the official army in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and he had already been infected with Manchurian phobia.

He went north to make meritorious contributions, not to send him to death!

Shi Kefa glanced at him, shook his head and said, "I haven't hit Shandong yet..... Di Bao said that the Tartars suffered a loss at Dagu in Tianjin Wei, and were defeated by the new army led by the prince, with two or three thousand dead and wounded! The head alone was cut down by two thousand hundreds! ”

"What?" Gao Jie gasped, "Two thousand and hundreds of heads? That's too ruthless, isn't it? ”

"Ruthless?" Shi Kefa didn't understand for a moment, and looked at Gao Jie in a daze.

"Kill the good and take the risk!" Gao Jie said, "How can two thousand or hundreds of Tartar heads be cut off?" It must be a good killing...... This is too fierce, isn't it? Kill 2,000 and hundreds of good people at once! ”

Shi Kefa thought for a while, nodded and said, "It must be like this...... The prince grew up in the deep palace and didn't know about military affairs, so he was blinded by Wu Xiang and Wu Sanfu's father and son! ”

"How's that okay?" Gao Jie asked tentatively.

Shi Kefa understood that Gao Jie was testing himself, so he sighed and said: "The Tartar army is at its peak, and it is not our dynasty that can resist, for the sake of today, of course, peace is the top, and the war defense is the bottom." However, the preparation for the battle defense must not be done!

Mr. Gao, you are the commander of the army to aid and suppress, and you are the head of the towns in the Central Plains. ”

Gao Jie frowned bitterly, "Da Sima, the soldiers and horses in this town are nominally 30,000, but the actual number of people that can be used is only thousands, and they are all tired soldiers, how can they resist the Eastern Captives and the thieves at the same time?" ”

"If there are not enough soldiers, they will be transferred!" Shi Kefa touched his beard and paused, "The headquarters is preparing to go north to Yanzhou...... And in Yanzhou, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and other three towns, plus Ma Shiying, Lu Zhenfei and other two governors, together with the north of King Qin! Mr. Gao, Yanzhou is now your territory, and in a while, there will be an army of 100,000 people, so there are a lot of preparations to do, right?

In addition, the imperial court has moved to Dengzhou...... The land route to Dengzhou should also be opened as soon as possible! As long as the land route is opened, we can lead the troops to Qinwang to meet us! ”

Now Shandong is very chaotic, the power of Dashun has retreated, but the rule of the Ming Dynasty has almost collapsed. Only Dengzhou City, Laizhou City, as well as Dengzhou Wei, Lingshanwei, Weihaiwei, Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, Dasongwei, Aoshanwei these acropolis, are still under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

And the road and land transportation from Dengzhou to the south has also been interrupted. Therefore, the decrees, newspapers, and writings sent by Zhu Cihong to the south had to be sent to Haizhou by Shen Tingyang's sand boat, and then sent to various places.

Because the sea route was completely in the hands of Shen Tingyang, who was loyal to Zhu Cihong, it was difficult for a loyal minister like Shi Kefa to establish direct contact with Emperor Chongzhen, and he did not know Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts...... What if it wasn't the crown prince who wanted to seize power, but the emperor really felt that the prince was wise and martial, and wanted to abdicate in advance?

Shi Dazhongchen didn't understand the situation, and he didn't dare to mess with King Qin! If he makes a mistake, he is a rebel and thief, and he will be killed!

"Xia Guan understands," Gao Jie's eyes rolled, and he already understood what Shi Kefa meant, "Xia Guan immediately set off for Yanzhou. ”

"Son," Shi Kefa said to his godson Stilwell, "you take a few people and follow the people from Mr. Gao Town to Yanzhou, and if the road is opened, go to Dengzhou immediately." ”

"The child obeys."

Sending Stilwell north to Dengzhou was not a temporary idea of Shi Kefa, but had been brewing for several days. As the leader of Donglin and the leader of the officialdom of Nanzhili, he must find out the situation in Dengzhou, and then decide whether to support the monarch and rebuke the traitorous ministers!

......

To the south of Dengzhou Water City, a large flat open space has now become a sea of soldiers!

The soldiers of the brigade were all wearing red robes, that is, simple red cloth robes, with white cloth shirts and cotton pants inside, and a pair of cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles on their feet, and leggings wrapped around their calves with cotton strips.

More than 10,000 people dressed neatly and standing on the playground, in front of them were officers of the New Army wearing official uniforms and military boots. It is also a little different from the appearance when I was in Tianjin Wei and Dagukou before.

The new army that arrived in Dengzhou has undergone another round of reorganization!

Although Zhu Cihong doesn't know much about military affairs, he also knows the modern European-style army that lines up to be shot. Before in Dagukou, he helped the strikers of the new army to train in this aspect, and the actual combat effect was actually good!

The musketeers with sleeve spears were no worse than pikemen when resisting the onslaught of Manchurian cavalry - in the Ming army of the Chongzhen period, the proportion of pikemen was actually not high, and the quality of the spears was generally poor, and they were often easy to break.

The bayonet and firearm can completely combine hand-to-hand combat weapons and projectile weapons, which is equivalent to all "short spearmen" and "musketeers". There is no need to change weapons during an engagement, and there is no need to adjust formations.

Just follow the command for formation, march, shooting, and assault!

The difficulty of training and commanding is actually much lower than the traditional style of play in the past.

The minimum requirement is to line up like the firecrackers under Hao Shaoqi's command in the Battle of Dagukou, put the enemy closer, fire a volley, and then charge in a group.

Although it is not always possible to achieve the ideal result (the record like Dagukou is accidental), the exchange ratio is not too bad.

Therefore, after Zhu Cihong arrived in Dengzhou, he began to use the forward battalion of the middle division as a template to train more firearms associations.

According to his plan, in the future, the army of the new army should be dominated by firecrackers, coordinated by cavalry and artillery, supplemented by engineers and baggage troops, to form an army of a quasi-modern model.

Of course, the idea is very good, but the reality is also very helpless...... First of all, Prince Zhu's "modern army" did not have enough firearms, so most of the "firecrackers" could only carry spears as a substitute.

The second is that the artillery has not been established for a long time, because there is no available field artillery, and there are no qualified gunners - the gunners brought out by Zhu Cihong from Beijing and those disciples of Tang Ruowang are not qualified field artillery.

Finally, Zhu Cihong also did not have qualified new officers available. Whether it is Wu Sanfu, Wu Guoyong, Li Ruolian, or Hao Shaoqi and Feng San, who were born in Liukou, they don't understand what a "modern army" is, and Zhu Cihong himself doesn't understand it.

Therefore, they can only train their troops to line up in horizontal formations, columns, follow orders, pretend to fire, pretend to use bayonet firearms and other simple tactics.

In addition to the above, it is a lot of physical training and discipline rectification!

Two exercises a day are indispensable, and night training is necessary from time to time. There are punishments for beating military sticks and confinement every day, and military sticks are publicly enforced, and they are kept and beaten until they cry and cry for their mothers!

And Zhu Cihong has to go around the barracks for several hours every day, and he will also watch the execution of discipline.

Today is no exception, Wu Xiang, Cao Youyi, Wu Sanfu, and Bi Jiucheng will all gather behind him.

In the midst of a crying father and shouting mother, Wu Xiang said softly: "Chitose Master, is it too strict?" If you want to hurry, you can't reach ......"

Zhu Cihong said coldly without looking back: "It's not that the palace is in a hurry, but the Tartars are pressing too hard...... Do you think they will be content with the northern half? It's impossible! Because all the wealth of the world is in the southeast! Relying on the territory of Beizhili and Shanxi alone, it is impossible to raise a great Qing country! ”

He paused, and then said to Wu Sanfu: "Later, I will order the Shangguan who was beaten up to take care of them and personally take care of them!" ”

Wu Sanfu nodded quietly.

Zhu Cihong turned around and left with a cold face, and suddenly turned his head and ordered: "Have lunch today in the second battalion of the left division's forward association, and pay after lunch!" ”

The military stick must be beaten, the food must be well prepared, and the military salary must not be deducted - otherwise the military stick will break up the people's hearts, and the team will not be cohesive.

It is impossible to make a leap forward in training, equipment, and command in a short period of time, and it takes time to procure guns and artillery, and foreign generals who can improve their training level also have to take time to recruit them.

Now the only thing that can be rapidly improved is the morale, discipline and cohesion of the army.