Zhu Youlang did not treat the sergeants and the Jinyi forbidden army who participated in the war, and the commanders of the general soldiers and all the commanders below the commander were rewarded with 500 taels of silver for killing and shooting a general, and 300 taels of silver for killing and shooting a guerrilla, and the following were decreasing in descending order. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, from the general army and the commander below to the ordinary battalion guards, the amount of bereavement and condolences for those who died and wounded in battle was stipulated, and special personnel were assigned to count and make a book, and no omission was allowed.

This series of incentives really worked very well, Qin Wang Jun and Jinyi Forbidden Army, up to the commander Jiao Lian, Wu Jihei, etc., down to the military academy pawns, all of them were jubilant, their fighting spirit was high, and their morale was available.

Chen's father and son subdued the law, after the internal troubles were lifted, Zhu Youlang Junchen could finally fight against the Qing army that was about to invade Wuzhou, Guangxi, according to the front-line Tang report, Li Chengdong had quelled the resistance of the righteous army in eastern Guangdong, and the whole army returned to Zhaoqing two days ago, and was gathering troops to march to Wuzhou on a certain day.

Wuzhou is in the west of Zhaoqing, connected by a Xijiang River, with a straight line distance of more than 600 miles, the army advances by land and water, and can be reached in about ten days. The military situation is urgent, and in the next few days, the Son of Heaven ordered the whole city to declare that he would defend the country to the death, and the war was coming, and at the same time mobilized the people of the state city to clear the wilderness and actively prepare for war.

In order to reduce the channel flow, improve the efficiency of military and political affairs, and avoid the various ministries, Zhu Youlang personally set up the defense department on all sides, and the defense department of the imperial capture was punished, and other institutions were not allowed to hinder, with Zhai Shiyun as the defense envoy, and the prime minister was in the defense affairs.

Zhai Shiyun also lived up to expectations, taking the former chief soldier yamen as his official residence, and at the same time eliminating a large number of staff officials, including four or five court officials, were willing to be driven by Zhai Shiyun.

After taking office, Zhai Shiyun immediately ordered the repair of the four walls of Wuzhou City, the preparation and training of armor, and the mobilization of the army and the people to quickly complete the construction of the enemy tower, settle the artillery mounts, set up crossbow beds, carry bricks and stones, allocate fire oil, arrange antlers, thistles, dig stuffing military pits, clean up moats, outer trenches and other defense matters, and once again announced the determination of the Son of Heaven to stick to it, so as to encourage the army and the people to fight against the captives.

While reinforcing the city defense, Chen's nearly 10,000 troops were also making every effort to rectify and digest, and after eliminating the ruffians, the old and weak, and the hardcore diehards, 5,000 were left behind. Among them, the 3,000 with the weakest combat power are organized into the patrol battalion, which directly belongs to the Defense Division, and the 1,000 with some combat strength are merged into the main force Jiao Lian Department, called the Tiger Ben Battalion, with Jiao Lian as the battalion commander, to control the whole army, and the Tiger Ben Battalion is also directly under the Defense Division, and is not dispatched by the Cabinet Military Department; The remaining 1,000 Liangjiazi who had no vices took the remaining 100 or so brocade forbidden troops in the rebellion as the backbone, and set up a separate battalion, called the Guards Battalion, with Wu Jihei as the battalion commander, and directly obeyed the orders of the Son of Heaven.

The big war is coming, and all the battalions are working hard to drill and run-in, digest their strength, and when the battle comes, they can't know the generals, and the generals don't know the soldiers.

Zhu Youlang personally patrolled the city, inspected the garrison work of the city, stayed in the city until the meal, the internal supervisors sent the imperial meal, he ordered the withdrawal, took the food of the battalion soldiers, and ate with the battalion soldiers, during which he inquired about the clothing of each sergeant, and found that half of them did not have cotton jackets in the cold winter, and some were mostly old, and they had been worn for many years, and the cotton wool was exposed outside, Zhu Youlang couldn't help but cry when he heard it.

After returning to the palace, he personally drafted an edict: the first month is cold, the sergeant's clothes are exposed, I am really uneasy, the queen is also sad when he hears it, and the palace people personally make 50 cotton jackets, and send them to the front of the army.

As soon as this edict came out, more than 8,000 soldiers, whether it was Jiaobu or the army that was co-opted, all heard of it, the Ming Dynasty was founded for three hundred years, in the system of civil and military cheapness, the soldiers have always been synonymous with lowliness, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have never been so respected and cared for, especially the care of the heavenly family, which is rare in ancient times. The emperor's move, although there was no material reward, did make the army's spirit unconsciously condense a lot.

For several days, Zhu Youlang patrolled the city almost every day, and after he ran through the four city heads, he found that the number of artillery was very small, scattered and scattered, the four guns added up, the total number was only thirty or forty, mainly small tiger squat guns, a total of seven or eight thousand catties of Franc machines, and two three thousand catties of Hongyi cannons, but the inside of the cannon chamber has been rusted and damaged, and it is unusable.

Zhu Youlang ordered the gunners to try to fire a cannon to see, due to the poor management of the artillery, coupled with the fact that there were no qualified gunners in the army and Jiao's army, the fuse was lit, and after a few shots, the shells flew wildly, not at all accurate, and the firing range was short, even inferior to the range of bows and arrows, and the most dangerous cannon, the iron bullets did not fire forward, but flew by, and the ears roared, and the horse wall not far away was knocked down a corner.

Zhu Youlang Junchen was startled, and the timid immediately lay down to dodge, and after a while, everyone was still dazzled, and their hearts were beating wildly.

The general manager of the city guard was sincerely frightened, saying that the gunner had disturbed the emperor, and he deserved to die for the crime, and ordered him to be taken down, and asked for beheading, but was stopped by Zhu Youlang: "Wuzhou was previously occupied by Chen Wei, the military and government are not cultivated, the army is not bound, it is not the fault of the soldiers, and the stick can be punished, why do you need to be beheaded!" The emperor's leniency deeply touched everyone, and the gunner who escaped by luck was even more secretly determined to die.

"The captives are about to come to the city, but the quality of the artillery is so inferior and the quantity is small, what can I do?" Artillery is a sharp weapon in both defending the city or attacking the city, if there is a lack of artillery, the difficulty of defending the city will undoubtedly multiply, and once the enemy has a large number of artillery, the siege is very easy, Chongzhen 17 years Qingying Prince Azig led Pingxi King Wu Sangui, Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi and other Manchu, Mongolian, Han more than 30,000, brought dozens of artillery from Shanxi into Shaanxi, attacked Li Zicheng's lair, Tongguan since ancient times known as the natural danger, but under the repeated bombardment of artillery, less than a month fell and lost, it can be seen that the importance of artillery in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Just when Zhu Youlang was worried about the poor equipment for defending the city, an attendant came to report that the Imperial Horse Supervisor Seal Pang Tianshou Pang Gonggong had fulfilled his mission and had successfully returned from the entrenchment of Jingao (Macau), and now he had entered the city and was waiting for His Majesty to see him. Zhu Youlang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and was busy announcing Pang Tianshou's drive.

Pang Tianshou, Shuntianfu Daxing people, Chongzhen Dynasty for the imperial horse supervisor palm seal, Li Chuang captured Beijing shortly before the capture of Beijing, Feng Yu to Nanjing, Hongguang Emperor, in charge of the two Guangzhu Pond. He was ordered to go to Fujian and Liangguang to collect taxes, and then heard that Nanjing had fallen, so he served Emperor Longwu and was reappointed as the celebrant and was reused.

He joined the Catholic Church as early as the Apocalypse, and the famous Father John Tong who baptized him, because of his close contacts with the missionaries, Pang Tianshou has always had a good relationship with Westerners.