Second Uncle Yang's encounter outside the North Gate was just a small episode with little impact. Zhu Pingjin, who was about to lead the troops to northern Sichuan, naturally knew nothing. His only focus now is military affairs, which is victory!

On the morning of the third day when the mobilization decision was made, Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng led the main force of the expeditionary army out of Chengdu Mansion. Tens of thousands of Chengdu people who learned the news in advance, under the careful organization of the local government, gathered inside and outside the north gate to send off the Protector Army on the expedition in a high-profile manner, so that the Protector Army at the beginning of its establishment felt a hot Sichuan-style enthusiasm.

The main body of the troops on this expedition were the first battalion of the first regiment of the caravan, the participating company of the Shuangliu County Huzhuang Brigade and the Tusi soldiers subordinate to the Shu Wangfu. They were stationed either in the Left Guard or at the Shuangliu County Firearms Bureau, and were supposed to leave the day after mobilization. However, the prince and the governor decided to delay it for a day. Where did you spend your delayed day? It was used on the 1,500 officers and soldiers stationed in the North Church.

In July, the government confiscated the property of Chen Shiqi, a military commander in Sichuan, and Fu Chongqi, the imperial historian of the salt patrol, and withheld part of the silver taels for the training of the new army. As the governor of Sichuan, Liao Daheng, who is in charge of military power, will certainly not miss this opportunity to train private soldiers with public funds. He sent two people, including Lu Yinchang, the commander of Sichuan, and Cao Xun, the general of the camp, to recruit 1,500 strong Ding Zhuang to form a battalion, called the Zhenwu battalion.

Lu Yinchang was the original hereditary commander of the Southern Guard, and gradually rose to the command of Sichuan because of his military exploits during his many years of military career. However, the commander of Sichuan is a high-ranking military attache from the second rank, which belongs to the Liuguan series and cannot be hereditary. Liao Daheng ordered him to train his troops, mainly with the help of Lu Yinchang's rank, prestige and military talent.

Cao Xun is different from Lu Yinchang. Cao Xun was born in Lizhou, and his military achievements are not good, but he is down-to-earth. He is the confidant cultivated by Liao Daheng, and he is the eyes and ears of Liao Daheng to control this army.

Now Liao Daheng took the initiative to hand over the control of this army to Zhu Pingjin, and Zhu Pingjin, of course, did not refuse to come, and accepted all the orders. Because of the tight time for sending troops, Zhu Pingjin's choice of digestion method was not to chew and swallow slowly, but to open his bloody mouth and swallow dates.

To reorganize, the army must be cleared first. The Military Service Bureau of the Directorate General Department, together with the Qing Army Yamen, counted the real number of people and equipment and materials in the Zhenwu Battalion, and the total number of personnel was more than 1,400, and more than 70 people ran away, died, or fell ill. Zhu Pingjin was quite satisfied with this result. You must know that many battalions in Sichuan are less than 30 percent of the number of soldiers, and they only go to the road to arrest people before going into battle.

The battalion's armament also satisfied Zhu Pingjin. Its firearms have more than 10 tiger squat guns and more than 500 firearms, but they are all old models, and the manufacturing quality and maintenance are not optimistic. There are a lot of gunpowder reserves, more than 30,000 catties, but many of them have been damp and hardened, and they are unbearable to use. Other weapons include knives, guns, bows and arrows, and shields, but they are not of high quality. One piece of armor, the generals have armor, and the soldiers wear cotton armor, which is basically complete. In addition, the battalion is equipped with a number of traditional large barrier vehicles, such as two-wheeled shield vehicles, knife carriage vehicles, and horse rejection vehicles. The condition of the horses is also good, there are about more than 60 war horses and more than 100 miscellaneous horses.

As soon as the results of the Qing army were released, the two departments of the Prison Officers immediately put forward a reorganization plan based on the results. Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng together affirmed this reorganization plan:

The Tiger Squat Cannon and the Fire Gun were all buckled down and sent back to the Firearms Bureau to be rebuilt. The same is true for gunpowder, which is sent back for re-crushing and granulation and moisture-proof packaging. Large obstacles can defend the city, but they are not needed in the field, so they stay where they are.

The personnel were organized into a battalion headquarters, three infantry companies, three fire guns, one tiger squat artillery company, one regimental cavalry platoon, one battalion guarding platoon, and one regimental baggage company. The battalion headquarters is numbered as the 8th Battalion of the Protector Army, which is temporarily incorporated into the battle sequence of the 1st Regiment of the Protector Caravan commanded by He Zengshan. Lu Yinchang and Cao Xun enjoyed the treatment of the principal and deputy regimental levels respectively, so as to correspond to their official ranks. Lu Yinchang served as the deputy commander of the first regiment and the commander of the eighth battalion, Cao Xun served as the deputy battalion commander, and the royal government sent the battalion and company to supervise the army.

The 8th Battalion consists of three infantry companies. After arriving in Jintang County, the vacant company was reorganized and filled by the Hanzhou Huzhuang Brigade participating in the battle.

The Shuangliu County Guarding Brigade is one of the first several brigades to be established, with the seeds of the second company, and the establishment has been relatively complete because of the security tasks. Because of the security and test-firing tasks of the Firearms Bureau, the brigade's participating companies were all firecrackers. Before leaving, they carried out all the output of the firearms bureau for the past month or so, and after arriving at the south field next to the Wuhou Temple outside the city, they mixed with the firecrackers in the Zhenwu camp and reorganized into four firearms companies. The two companies all used new-style firearms, and Deng Siwei, the captain of the Shuangliu County Huzhuang Brigade and the squad leader of the second company of Bifengxia, commanded to participate in the battle.

The remaining two Musket Company and Tiger Squat Artillery Company stayed at the Left Guard Base for training and awaited re-equipment.

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Seven days before the lunar month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Pingjin, the fifteen-year-old son of Shu, and Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, led their troops from Chengdu, the provincial capital, and embarked on the road to conquer northern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan. Counting the trip to Yazhou, Renshou and Pengshan at the beginning of the year, this is already Zhu Pingjin's second expedition in the year. However, the situation was very different from each other.

At the beginning of the year, he only had less than 400 grass pacesetters and more than a dozen guards with no combat experience, and the main battle weapon was a bamboo gun. The main force of the battle had to rely on the Tianquan Tusi soldiers that Zhu Pingjin had worked hard to get.

At present, he has three regimental headquarters, seven infantry battalions of the first, third, fourth, fifth, eighth, and tenth battalions and the Zagu battalion, the first company of the first cavalry battalion, the second cavalry battalion of Tianquan, the third cavalry battalion of Dong Bu and the two guard cavalry companies, a total of two cavalry battalions and three cavalry companies, an artillery battalion with a total of 12 cannons, a baggage battalion, and the main force of a naval battalion, and about 30 companies of the guards in Chengdu, Hanzhou, Tongchuan, Yazhou, Shunqingfu and other places, totaling about 13,000 elite troops. Through beating and tempering again and again, these troops cultivated loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and the people, trust in the Shu Wangfu and Zhu Pingjian, and a desire for victory and honor. In the face of the local thugs who outnumbered them, they were not timid and cowering, but on the contrary, they were full of fighting spirit and confidence.

Knock - knock knock! The sound of one long and three short marching drums, according to the rhythm of human connections, sounded the pace of the large-scale and organized march of the National Protector Army into northern Sichuan.

When their figures finally appeared in the Chengmen Cave at the North Gate of Chengdu, the people who had been waiting for a long time on both sides of the avenue outside the city suddenly boiled. A little fat man riding a pony and wearing red armor, holding a military horn with a curved trumpet, and a red Shu word swallowtail flag hanging down the military horn, paced the horse and trotted out. When he walked out of the city gate, he immediately crossed his waist and raised his head, raised his military horn, and blew a loud military music to the crowd of people on the street, indicating the appearance of the large army.

The first to appear is, of course, the flag of the Protector Army. More than a dozen embroiderers in an embroidery room in the east of the city worked tirelessly for two days and nights, and finally embroidered this military flag before the Protector Army set out for the expedition.

black flagpoles, silver spearheads; The golden wavy flag, the scarlet quadrangular flag, six feet wide, four feet eight inches straight, and the ratio of horizontal to vertical is five to four. In the center of the flag, eight italics are embroidered with gold thread: protect the country and the people, and the world is peaceful. Hold the rider with the military flag inserted into the leather flag cover on the right side of the saddle, with the right arm stretched out and grasp the flagpole. When the people appear in front of them, the flag bearer gently shakes the flagpole to unfurl the flag. Behind the riders, there was also a majestic flag cavalryman. Three people and three horses, forming an offensive triangle.

After the military flag, it was Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, and his personal banner - the "Shu" pennant of the red land and Phnom Penh, the colorful seven chapters, and the golden weaving dragon. The prince rode on his yellow hussar, wearing a gold-plated helmet with phoenix wings, and the golden phoenix spread its wings; A golden spear stands upright on the top of the helmet, decorated with red cherry blossoms and a cyan helmet flag painted with the idol of Emperor Zhenwu; The outer cover is plastered with gold square collar placket and square leaf waist-length armor, and the lining is a red dragon sleeve woven gold pleated robe; The waist is wrapped in a white jade leather belt, and the left hangs a Tibetan treasure knife. Heroic, radiant, what a proud son of heaven!

A discerning person can see at a glance that the full set of the military parade at Songlin Mountain of the Prince of the World is quite the same, and even one more: in the long cloth bag hanging on the left side of the saddle, there is a fire gun filled with gunpowder. The tube is inserted into the bag, and the tube is exposed outside the bag.

The war horse that followed closely behind Zhu Pingjin was a little eunuch who accompanied him. This little eunuch wears a three-mountain hat, an iron scale armor, and a treasure knife at his waist. Like the son, there was also a fire gun hanging from the side of the saddle.

The prince appeared, and the next person who appeared was the titular commander of this expedition: Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan.

I saw Liao Daheng wearing a black veil on his head, oval wings, and a new cloud goose complement narrow-sleeved waisted red official robe, red skin arm guards, gold silk belt, and soap skin war shoes. The look is serene and generous, the demeanor is graceful and warm, and the king's flag is around the house, what a pillar of the country! But the people can only see Lord Liao's skin, but not Lord Liao's inside. How could they have thought that Lord Liao's official robe was still quietly wearing a piece of chain soft armor rewarded by the prince!

Behind Liao Daheng was not the civil and military officers that people expected, but a young officer wearing a flying fish suit and carrying a Tibetan treasure knife at his waist. The boy was followed by a dozen officers in bullfighting uniforms. I may have never seen such a grand scene. In the midst of the people's tidal cheers, they were both excited and shy on their horses, and their faces were red, but they did not know whether to wave or thank them. Needless to say, this is Li Cunliang, the deputy Qianhu of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, and his subordinates Jinyi Wei.

After that, it was the staff of the palace and the governor: Diao Huashen, the young secretary of the supervising army, Yang Mingshi, the supervisor and the same knowledge, Shu Guoping, Cheng Xiangfeng, Sun Hong, Hong Qixin, He Huan, the military medical officer, Qian Weihan, the staff of Futai, and others. They were either dressed in military uniforms or civilian uniforms, all smiling and riding on horses, giving their hands on all sides.

Wu Tai, first deputy director of the General Logistics Department, did not appear in the expedition. He had already taken his logistics staff and some personnel to set off one day ahead of schedule to contact Wangzhuang and local prefectures and counties along the line to prepare for the army's food and advance. Liu Mingsheng, director of the Intelligence Bureau, set off half a day earlier than Wu Tai. Because he failed to give early warning of the strategic attack of the local tyrants in time, he was removed from his post by Zhu Pingjin for probation, and now is the time to hold his breath.

After these big shots, two teams of guard cavalry followed. Their black helmets and red armor, the Sichuan-Tibetan war horses of one water, the ordinary Zhanger red cherry riding spears and fire pouches, marched in order, like red dragons. It was only at the end of this group of cavalry that more than 30 cavalrymen wearing black helmets, but wearing Tibetan robes and swords at their waists and hips, appeared. The body of the camel, the red and black face, with a breath of unruly air cultivated on the plateau. This is the Tibetan soldier who came to Yutong Tusi, and Zhu Pingjin incorporated it into his guard battalion.

After the Tibetan soldiers of Yutong Tusi, there were more barbarian cavalry. They were about three or four hundred men and horses, all dressed in iron armor and armed with broadswords. All of them are tall and have long arms, round eyes, and murderous aura, and at a glance, they know that they are all battle-hardened warriors.

These sharp soldiers were the Dong Bu Fubiao cavalry led by Gyatso.