Now the road from Jingshi to Tongzhou is spacious and smooth, because the last time the emperor went to Tongzhou to attend the opening ceremony, the road was bumpy, and the accompanying ministers could not bear it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, soon after, the Governor's Office of Zhili recruited a large number of people from among the displaced people who came to recruit Tuntian, and successively set up five general battalions, which were in charge of Jia Dengke, who specialized in work for relief, engaged in mountain quarrying, bridge and road paving, etc., on the basis of rebuilding Tongzhou City, repaired the road in sections, and re-widened and flattened the official road from Tongzhou to Jingshi, and renovated it well.

Now it's much easier to walk, a group of people, starting from the Forbidden City at the time of Chen, before arriving at the time, that is, about two hours, they have already arrived outside the newly repaired fortress-style West Gate Ying'en Gate in Tongzhou.

Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Yuanyi, Ma Shilong, You Shilu, Qian Yuanyu, etc., all the officials of all sizes in Tongzhou were waiting outside the Ying'en Gate in Tongzhou City.

And the ministers of military aircraft Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua, who accompanied them all the way, had also gotten out of the carriage and came to the emperor's carriage.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen also got out of the carriage and walked to the Ying'en Gate of Tongzhou City accompanied by Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua.

When the ministers saw the emperor coming, they immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to pay respects, and shouted: "The ministers will knock to see Your Majesty!" Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Emperor Chongzhen walked forward a few steps alone, and then said, "Qing and others are hard! Hurry up and get flat! ”

The ministers who knelt on the ground thanked the emperor, and then stood up one after another, and asked the emperor to get back on the car, regardless of civil and military officials, all rode horses, and did not enter the city, but went straight outside the west gate and went north.

This was arranged before, so it was not surprising that the emperor's chariot escort and attendants followed him to the north.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting in a four-wheeled carriage, looked at the two additional fortresses outside the west gate of Tongzhou, as well as the Shenwei invincible general cannon installed on the fortress, and his heart was quite excited.

There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of those who have a heart. As long as you are determined to do it, even a small change will add up to change the world in front of you.

Historically, Tongzhou City is basically an undefended town, although it is located on the main road of water and land transportation east of Beijing, and most of the household warehouses are located on both sides of the Tongzhou Canal, but there is no strong enough city defense facilities here, and there is no heavy army stationed to guard against internal and external enemies.

Although it has only been after a year of construction, today's Tongzhou City has changed its appearance, with nearly 20,000 garrisons added inside and outside the city, and the construction of the outer city wall and the eight fortresses outside the four gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, has made this strategic place on the east side of the Beijing Division impregnable.

Along the tall city wall of Tongzhou today, a group of more than 2,000 people came to the camp of the first town of the new army located in Luhewan outside the north city gate.

This large camp occupies a vast area, with a radius of ten miles, surrounded by an irregular round, but not tall stone wall, the gate is very wide, and the outside is placed with defensive objects such as rejecting horses, and above the wall, at intervals, there is a corner tower for lookouts.

Not far from the gate, Emperor Chongzhen got down from the four-wheeled carriage. Seeing the emperor get out of the car, the generals above the first town mark of the new army knelt down at the door to greet him, and shouted long live.

Emperor Chongzhen let them get up, and then with the support of the attendant military attache Hou Gongji, He Zan and others, he turned over and got on his horse, and after the horse was removed, he rode into the camp.

In the middle of the camp, an avenue leads straight to the north and south, and at this time there were already a lot of soldiers standing on both sides, and when they saw the emperor coming in, they were under the leadership of Shangguan, one after another, kneeling on one knee and shouting long live from afar.

"Meet Your Majesty! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

In the cold wind, the soldiers on both sides of the avenue, afraid that there would be more than 2,000 people, such a uniform worship and shouting, so that Emperor Chongzhen, who was wearing a mink fur and riding on a horse, was surging for a while.

At this moment, he finally had a feeling of dominating the world!

The whole camp of the first town of the New Army is in the shape of a field, and is divided into four large areas by two wide and flat avenues in the east, west and north and south, and there are several straight roads in each area, which are divided into the field shape again. Along both sides of the road, there are rows of barracks, row after row, row after row.

The barracks are no longer the traditional hilltop style blue brick houses, but all one-story red brick bungalows.

Red bricks take longer to fire than green bricks, and the temperature requirements are also higher, but they are much stronger and more durable than green bricks.

As for the roof, under the repeated mention of Emperor Chongzhen, all of them are prefabricated cement slabs made of cement concrete poured barbed wire, and the shape and strength are also comparable to the cement prefabricated slabs of later generations.

It is precisely because of the use of the frame structure of cement wire casting, as well as the construction methods such as the capping of cement prefabricated slabs, that this first town camp of the New Army within a radius of about ten miles can be completed and put into use in just a few months.

If it weren't for this simple and quick approach, it would not have been possible to build enough camps for more than 14,600 people in a year and a half.

Nowadays, it seems that these buildings with a height of seven feet and a width of one zhang, although they are slightly low and ugly, do not conform to the aesthetics of ordinary people in this era at all, but they are convenient and quick to build, and they are very simple and practical to live in.

A class has two rooms, the middle is opened, and ten people are all spread on the big kang, and in the middle of winter, the stove that connects the kang head outdoors is prosperous, but it is much more comfortable to live in it than the traditional tiled house on the top of the mountain.

The first town of the new army, which is now formed, has a total of 14,651 people, divided into two associations, and a total of five targets.

Except for the part-time job and no subordinate officials, the others are all real appointments. One is under control, and now it is Ma Shilong, and the two deputy capitals on the left and right are You Shilu and Qin Yiming.

In addition, there is also a supervisor of the imperial history of the army, and now it is Qian Yuanyu, the former minister of the department.

There are also two institutions at the town level to assist in the management of the affairs of the entire battalion, one is called the staff battalion office, which is a staff organ under the control of the capital, with a chief of staff and a deputy chief of staff, all of which are now served by Ma Shilong's accustomed generals, in charge of the transmission of military orders, military training, and ordnance baggage.

The other is called the Department of Teaching and Discipline, which is the second official of the Imperial History of the Supervision Army, with one member of the teaching, one member of the Discipline, one member of the Suppression, and one of the Salary Officials, and now it is Qian Yuanyu, Lu Chengyuan, Luo Yuanbin and others in office.

There are a total of five marks, including the front and back, the left and right, all of which are musketeers, divided into three musket battalions, consisting of a total of 3,000 musketeers equipped with Chongzhen's front-loading flintlock smoothbore guns.

The left army was all cavalry, 3,000 cavalry, armed with swords, bows and arrows, and the traditional three-eyed gun.

Since cavalry is an offensive type of troops, mainly cavalry shooting and slashing, and it is impossible to reload ammunition smoothly on horses, so if you are equipped with firearms, it is still more lethal to use a three-eyed gun to shoot three projectiles at a time.

The right military standard, according to the design of the current Chongzhen Emperor, is mainly a defensive spear array, so it is composed of three spear battalions mixed with spears and wolf stalks.

The wolf is one of the long weapons with both offense and defense in Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array, and it is by relying on the cooperation of the pikeman, the wolf and the gunner, as well as the musketeer behind the pikeman, that the Qi family army can be invincible in the anti-Japanese war.

It can be said that in the Qi family's army, the wolf's wolf, which looks like a fork and a fork and looks extremely strange, plays a very, very important role, and is the best weapon used by the Qi family army to stabilize its position and defend against the attack of the sword.

The reason why the wolf is able to play such a big role is that his length of more than five meters, as well as those branches and forks that extend to the enemy's side, constitute a defensive surface that is difficult for the enemy to break through, thus providing the spearman behind the wolf with the opportunity to repeatedly stab forward, and also for the friendly troops equipped with firearms to hear more times of reloading ammunition.

Therefore, after studying the "New Book of Ji Xiao", Emperor Chongzhen quickly agreed with Sun Chengzong's suggestions for the improvement of the spear array proposed to him.

After all, the defensive side of a wolf is worth several spears. Because on a wolf lance, in addition to the main spear head, there are more than a dozen or even dozens of irregularly scattered small gun heads.

Of course, when the Qi family's army was fighting against the Japanese Invaders, although the wolf was extremely effective in defense, there was also a risk of being cut off by the Japanese sword.

Because the wolf whizzes equipped by the Qi family army are all made of mountain hairy bamboo that is everywhere along the coast of eastern Zhejiang. Because of its low cost, it can be equipped in large quantities.

The current wolf whisk is a five-meter-long iron wolf whisk, and although the spear head of the previous year is small, it is made of steel, and it will not be cut off by the enemy's cavalry or infantry.

Needless to say, the spearmen naturally need to do more, since they want to build a large array of spears, then the body of the spear must be long enough to keep the enemy out.

And this kind of giant spear that is more than five meters long and is already similar to a lance, the spear head is not an ordinary iron spear head, but a stainless steel armor cone up to one foot and eight inches, no matter whether the enemy approves leather armor or cotton armor, as long as it is not similar to the iron plate armor equipped by the Ming army today, it is definitely a thorn that will be broken.

The Chinese military standard, which is directly led by the capital, is a mixed standard, with a cavalry battalion, a musket battalion, and a vehicle artillery battalion.

The rest of the post-military standard consisted of a mixed battalion of wolf-whipped spears, a battalion of muskets, and a battalion of baggage craftsmen.

At present, the entire first town of the new army is composed of these four cavalry battalions, five musket battalions, five wolf spear battalions, one vehicle artillery battalion, and one baggage craftsman battalion.