Chapter 386: To the Front
After circling in Guangzhou Mansion for a few days, crossing the river, and coming to the territory of the Southern Ming Kingdom, Zhang Qiang came to the front line of the moat gate realm with an obviously large and large guard team.
Along the way, the troops of the Ming army gathered one by one towards the entrenchment realm, forming a large barracks outside the county seat of Jiuxing.
More than 2,000 people of the Huaxia army who arrived earlier are training the strong men of the Ming army separately, and this kind of training is not complicated training, but it is to let these strong men who have not touched a gun learn to shoot, learn to line up and advance, and learn how to fight the enemy.
As for how to form a team and how to rehearse the formation, this Southern Ming Army did not let the Huaxia Army train, there is no need, because those are cannon fodder, and they just know to obey the command of the generals to rush.
The people who really received training were the elite troops in the Ming army, and they were the focus of the training of the Huaxia army.
How to stand in line, how to obey orders, how to conduct three-stage shooting, how to cooperate with artillery attacks, how to cooperate with pikemen and archers, how to block the enemy at multiple levels used by the Huaxia army, and how to fight the enemy, were all meticulous and taught to those veterans without any reservations.
These veterans are the veterans of a hundred battles who have previously received cold weapon combat training from the Huaxia Army and have seen blood many times, fought battles, fought with the Qing army, other Ming armies, and various forces, that is, the 20,000 regular troops of the Southern Ming Army.
The actual commander of these regular armies is a nephew of Su Guansheng, named Su Zhengqing, Su Guansheng has been in and out of officialdom for half his life, has experienced Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Ma Shiying, Zuo Mengeng, Huang Degong and others, knows the importance of grasping military power, so he sent his nephew.
Zhang Qiang met the commander of the whole army for the first time, Huang Binqing, the Ming general who was loyal to Longwu.
Knowing that Zhang Qiang was coming, Huang Binqing specially rushed back from the front line of the war to greet Zhang Qiang.
But it is obvious that he is very cold to Zhang Qiang, he is very cold, and he speaks a few words, coldly.
It wasn't until Li Guangdi, Li Guangdi, who was sent by Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, that Li Guangxiong came from Zhaoqing, that Zhang Qiang really realized the generous treatment of a monarch of the upper kingdom and a trace of respect.
However, Zhang Qiang did not come to the same Ming army general who was not destined to be of the same level, but just laughed it off.
In the face of the polite Li Guangdi, this celebrity, this is still educated, and there are works left for future generations, and many historical materials about the late Ming Dynasty in later generations are still known from the notes he left.
"Governor, why don't you stop for a few days and go to the front again?" Li Guang said.
"No need, Master Li, let's go to the front line, I want to see how powerful this Portuguese is?"
"This, well, the emperor also wants to solve this Portuguese as soon as possible and recover my Ming territory." Li Guangdi can't refute Zhang Qiang, after all, people are also for their own country.
For the sake of Da Ming, he also wanted to see how powerful the Huaxia Army was, although he had visited the central hinterland of the Huaxia Army, but he had not really seen the battle of the Huaxia Army.
The two sides set off immediately, Zhang Qiang took the guard regiment, and the rest stayed at the Jiuxing County station.
Huang Binqing had been looking at Zhang Qiang coldly, he wanted to see how these Huaxia troops defeated the Portuguese and defeated the Qing army, and why the Qing army was so afraid of them.
However, his eyes did not stay on Zhang Qiang, his eyes stayed on the soldiers of those guard regiments.
Gorgeous military uniforms, there is no way to compare, their military uniforms are all number uniforms, not so glamorous, but strong and durable, not changed for a few years, patched, and can be worn for a few years.
Compared with the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Guard Regiment, they feel that they are called Hanako.
Looking at the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia Army, the spears are all steel guns, extremely sharp, flashing with cold light, and the big knives are heavy, and they are afraid of people when they think about it.
The war horses are all good horses, although they are not so tall, but they look like elite Mongolian war horses, he wondered, this is the south, they are all some ponies that are not much bigger than goats, where did the Huaxia army get these Mongolian war horses that look fierce and have extraordinary endurance and such a high load?
He didn't know that since the surrender of the Huaxia Army, there are still hundreds of people in the Chachaer tribe who raise horses for the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army still has a pasture on the treasure island, which was originally a horse farm in the valley of Xianju County, and now it has become the war horse storage site of the Huaxia Army, where tens of thousands of war horses are stored.
Those war horses are raised in recent years, or the war horses are bred, and the war horses continue to be secretly transported from Mongolia to supplement and optimize the genes of the Hetao Mongolian war horses, maintain ambition and combat effectiveness, and will not let the hot and humid weather in the south affect and assimilate, making the Mongolian war horses also become bantams with no endurance in the south.
Look at the armor of the Huaxia army, good guy, it is brighter and stronger than the armor of the Spaniards and the Dutch, and more importantly, it is armed to the teeth, and the whole body is wrapped in it.
This is all Zhang Qiang's new armor equipped after the ironmaking and steelmaking of the Huaxia Army has improved, Zhang Qiang is playing the game of horseback riding and slashing and crossing, these armors must also be which style, that is the armor style made by later generations, compared with the armor made by the current Westerners is a hundred times better, and the function is also a hundred times more practical, and it is not so heavy.
According to the heavy armor of the current Westerners, the whole body armor weighs more than 80 pounds, even the Spaniards and the Dutch can't wear it so much, they can only wear it when they are fighting.
And Zhang Qiang's cavalry, since there are war horses to share the physical strength, then they also wear it, but after all, it is armor, even if it is a full-body plate armor type, even if it is simplified, it is very heavy, and it has to weigh forty or fifty pounds, the reason why they don't take it off is because they have to protect Zhang Qiang's safety, and they wear it in batches, and the enemy is easy to deal with, and others can take the opportunity to wear it.
Looking at the muskets in the hands of the cavalry of the guard regiment, it seems to be very advanced.
Not only is it short, but it doesn't seem to have an arquebus, what the hell is that?
Can you use it without an arquebus?
He didn't know this, Zhang Qiang's guard regiment was of course the best equipped weapon, the new front-loading flintlock pistol, as well as the rear-loading cartridge flintlock pistol that imitated the Dutch, could be fired continuously, and there was rifling, but only three shots could be fired in one round, and after three shots, it had to be reloaded, and three cartridge shells could be re-fired.
Although the firing range was inferior to that of the front-loading rifled gun, it was faster.
However, there were not many front-loading rifled guns, only a few dozen, and the rate of fire was extremely slow, so they could only be used to snipe enemy officers.
Others were armed with front-loading smoothbore flintlock pistols.
This is the guard unit, the most elite, the first new weapon they are equipped with, the other troops, but some Class A elite field brigades will be equipped with front-loading smoothbore flintlock guns, the Guards Brigade is such equipment, only the Guards Brigade generals will be equipped with front-loading rifled flintlock guns, that is to defend the generals.
The field brigades that followed were still Jingai-1 arquebuses, which were the same as their armaments.
The Huaxia Army changed its equipment from north to south, and some of the elite units of Hejin's field brigade were reequipped with Jingai-2 arquebuses, and some of the newly incorporated field brigade units and battalions were still equipped with Jingai-1 arquebuses.
This is mainly Zhang Qiang's concept, they can't let the enemy learn so quickly, and even if they get it, it is only two or three generations inferior to the Huaxia army's weapons and equipment.
Therefore, even if the Southern Ming Kingdom went from civilian officials to military generals, from the military generals to the Ming army and the people, they were all observing the guard regiment and the Huaxia army, but they couldn't see anything, they were not experts, and it was difficult to find anything.