"Oh, it's not called Wang Jinbao. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

The pursuit was soon over, the Qing army was defeated, only a few managed to wade back to the west bank, and more than 100 horses were captured alone, and perhaps some more that had escaped could be recovered in a few days. And the Qing troops who escorted the prisoners and captured them had already dispersed in a hurry, allowing the Ming army to rescue the suffering people.

The first battle was successful, but seeing that Chen Wen was still a little disappointed, Li Ruixin's question mark was almost as if it were substance.

"Dashuai, what is this Wang Jinbao doing, very famous?"

It is not very famous, one of the four generals of Hexi who came out in the limelight in the San Francisco Rebellion, the crown prince Taibao, General Fenwei, the governor of Shaanxi, the viscount of the first class, and the famous general of the green battalion in the early Qing Dynasty who was called loyal and brave after his death, and among the green battalion generals of the Qing army at that time, his reputation was a little less limited than that of Daniel Zhang, the marquis of Jing, and Zhao Liangdong, the sworn brother of Lord Wei.

"The Governor of Gansu, a general of Daniel Zhang, the current Governor of Jingbiao Town, is said to be quite brave. I thought it was him, and I wanted to see if the rumors could be believed. ”

"Oh."

Isn't it just a middle-level officer, his face was full of disapproval, Li Ruixin thought about it, how to think about it, how to think about it, and how did he feel that the word "Jinbao" attracted Chen Wen's attention. It's just that even if he is a fortune boy like Ma Jinbao, a middle-level officer, how much wealth can he gather.

Hey, it seems that I've been tortured enough by the consumption of this army, it's really not easy to be handsome. I thought so in my heart, but when I got to my mouth, Li Ruixin asked about another thing.

"Marshal, what about these captives?"

The old man who was hanging upside down had been relieved by the Ming army, but he was probably too old and had been hanging upside down for a long time, it was likely to be a cerebral hemorrhage or some other sudden illness, and he had long been out of breath, and even his body had lost any temperature. It's just that those seemingly cloudy eyes still haven't been closed, and it is said that before they were untied, they also kept looking at the southeast of the town where the cavalry battle broke out, as if they were looking at something.

"Don't they like to bully defenseless old and weak women and children? I cut off the paws of these beasts and hung them upside down, and I wonder how long they can live like this! ”

What happened in the town just now, especially the tragedy that happened in Ji'an not long ago when he was still recovering Taiwen, is already known to Chen Wen at this moment. Today's incident was just the normal way of handling the Qing army, and the massacre of Ji'an, which was planned for three days but was forced to end in only one day, was not expected by Chen Wen in advance.

Recovering Taiwen even inadvertently reduced the extent of the destruction of a city massacre, but Chen Wen couldn't feel much joy at all. Historically, this massacre did not take place, but because of his appearance, the Qing army that suppressed the Yunxiao Mountain rebel army was defeated in Zhejiang, resulting in the Yunxiao Mountain anti-Qing rebel army still being able to run rampant in Ganxi after Li Dingguo's generals withdrew, and it took a period of time to recover Ji'an, and only then did Daniel Zhang and Liu Guangbi join forces to counterattack during this period of rest.

This incident is not Chen Wen's fault, because in history, the Qing army slaughtered one city, township, and village after another, that is, after defeating the Great Western Army and taking Yungui, it also blatantly created the Yongchang Massacre, which happened six years later in the thirteenth year of Yongli. What's more, in the name of the ban on the sea, the people of the coastal areas ranging from Liaodong in the north to the south and Guangdong for tens of miles were slaughtered, in order to achieve a blockade of the Ming army of the Zheng system in Fujian, which was cowering in a corner of Taiwan, so that this Ming army, which mainly relied on the toll of the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's Tuntian, could not obtain that limited supplement from the interior.

Now, the trajectory of history has begun to twist to such an angle that even the massacre was forced to end early. However, on this road, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been weakened a lot, it has not yet completely reached the point where it has changed from quantitative change to qualitative change, and there is still a long way to go.

Fortunately, according to Chen Wen's prediction, the day when qualitative change will be reached is not far away, because of Haimao, the Zhejiang Ming army under his command will be able to obtain resources on a larger scale, and roll this snowball faster until the day when the Manchu Qing Dynasty is completely crushed.

It's not too far away, maybe just in the middle of a year or two!

At this moment, the fire in the town has been controlled, but the cries of sorrow are still heard. Those Qing prisoners were cut off their hands and hung upside down on the archway in the town, and those who survived the victims also threw vegetable leaves, eggs, and stones at them to vent their anger. Even if it weren't for the Ming army guarding the archway, there would be many people who were afraid of rushing up and tearing them apart.

"Don't stop the bleeding for them, drop by drop from the wound, let them die too quickly, it's too cheap for these brutes."

After issuing the order, Chen Wen handed over the defense of Yushan County to Li Ruixin, and ordered him to lead Yiwu, Guard, Yushan, and the Iron Cavalry Battalion, which had not yet completed training, to assist in the defense of the area, in case of contingencies, while the Shentang Battalion, which had been on alert for several months, returned to Quzhou as a backup and replenished new recruits by the way.

As for Chen Wen, he left here, because he didn't have a good way to deal with the fortress now, and he couldn't muster too much strength to fight Hong Chengchou. Of course, there is another reason, that is, the God of Wealth of the Zheng family is about to arrive, and he must complete the affairs of Taiwen before this, so as to better carry out sea trade.

………………

Huangyan County, Taizhou Prefecture, goes down the Yongning River, and the intersection of the Jiaojiang River is only a few miles to the east is Haimenwei. Since the Ming army recovered Taizhou, a series of coastal guards such as the Haimen Guard and the question of the existence and abolition of the Ming Army's civil and military high-level officials have been discussed for a long time, if the Haimen Guard is banned, then in order to facilitate the practice, it is likely to be incorporated into Huangyan County, because this is already the closest county to the Haimen Guard.

The officials, military officers, and staff members who came to investigate have already begun to sort out the files of a series of guards in Taizhou, as well as the investigation of the actual personnel, land occupation, salt fields, etc., all of which will be summarized after Chen Wen arrives, so as to completely complete the inheritance and rectification of the old guards.

However, at this moment, these things have nothing to do with Zhang Gongyan and his party, as a staff officer of the Nantang battalion, he is now surveying and mapping the entire Taizhou Mansion with his colleagues and making a sand table. Of course, with such a large amount of labor, they are naturally not the only ones, including the staff officers of the two battalions of Guards and Dongyang, who are also assisting, but they are assigned to different areas.

As the first troops to arrive, the Nantang Battalion will be responsible for the surveying and mapping of Ninghai, Huangyan, Haimenwei and Xiangshan County in Ningbo, the largest scope and the largest workload, but for these staff officers, it is already the most reflective of their existence.

The staff department of the Zhejiang Ming Army is now divided into two levels, the first level is the staff department of the Marquis of Anyuan, which is now led by Chen Wen, and the second level is the staff team of each battalion, which is responsible for the chief of staff of each battalion.

The two-tier division is similar to the system of supervising officers, and is much lower than the system of military judges, who have already descended to the garrisons and can also descend to the posts in the barracks. It is one thing that the system was created in a far less timely manner, and with the current level of science and technology, their role is currently limited to surveying and mapping, making sand tables, establishing military gazetteers, and making deductions and proposals according to the terrain.

In the mountainous area of northern Huangyan County, Zhang Gongyan held a telescope and used some special tools to observe the mountain passes in the distance, while several other staff officers planned and marked at different locations, some kept counting with abacus, some erased with charcoal on the whiteboard, and even used extremely fine brushes to finalize the draft on a white paper larger than the "Zhejiang Di Bao". The group was busy under the protection of the two teams of infantry guarding them, but in the eyes of those soldiers, there was more reverence caused by incomprehension.

In the staff section of the Zhejiang Lecture Martial Arts School, it is necessary to learn the observation of the soil method and the measurement knowledge of the Western method.

For example, the first six volumes of the "Geometric Originals" and the "Principles of Measurement" co-translated by Xu Guangqi, the second assistant to the cabinet of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and the missionary Matteo Ricci, contain a lot of knowledge about the mathematical basis of measurement and drawing, as well as the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western surveying techniques. He even presided over the compilation of "The Whole Meaning of Surveying", which was a masterpiece of surveying and mapping in the East and the West at that time, which contained a lot of basic knowledge about area, volume measurement and plane trigonometry, spherical trigonometry, as well as surveying and mapping instrument manufacturing, etc., which was a compulsory course for the staff department of the Ming Army in Zhejiang.

In the eyes of these grassroots officers and men, these staff officers are extremely knowledgeable, and they simply use some instruments and tools that they don't know how to use, and name some numbers that donkey's lips don't match the horse's mouth, and after some calculations, they can get the approximate data of the mountain level in the left and near area, and the results are even more accurate than those obtained by those who have been exploring horses for many years.

"Fifteen degrees west-north, five inches and three minutes."

The staff officer who marked the mark made a mark, looked at it carefully for a while, Zhang Gongyan told the staff officer next to him about the data obtained by the telescope and the tools in his hand, and the staff officer began to calculate it quickly with the abacus, and then handed the calculated distance to another staff officer for recalculation, and after confirming that it was correct, he handed it to other officers who were drawing and making sand tables.

It took a long time from the distance of the plane to the height of the mountain before they roughly calculated the area, and then walked towards the mountain pass to the next measuring point to continue their work.

"This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if there is a sentry of men and horses, even if there are four or five hundred people here, the Tartars will not be able to pass."

Walking on the road, a staff officer made such an emotion after taking measurements, and at the same time it was another job of theirs - deduction.

"Four or five hundred people, this is too small, if you only count the first three rows, three hundred people are already the limit, and the others are redundant."

"That's true." Several staff officers chatted with each other's opinions, Zhang Gongyan nodded, and then said: "If our Zhejiang Wang Division is guarding here, if the Tartars want to break through, it is best to use artillery to open up the battle formation, otherwise the Mandarin Duck Formation is here, and they will not be able to get by." ”

"What Bo Chu said is reasonable." The staff officer who had just recalculated nodded, paused for a moment before saying: "On the other hand, let's attack this mountain pass, the mandarin duck formation or the spear formation will be pushed over directly, in fact, it is best to use artillery to open the battle formation, take advantage of the Tartar chaos or the interval of regrouping, and use the infantry to assault it, so that the casualties will be much smaller, and the passing speed will be faster." ”

Solid artillery shells, except for the low-range rear-loading guns such as the Franc machine, the firing speed is generally not fast, and it is the consensus of the warriors of this era to speed up the break. This pass is not a straight one, a turn in front, the opponent retreats a dozen or so steps back to no longer be exposed to the firing range, it is better to use artillery to fire a round, and then the infantry is more likely to break through with a quick assault. Relying entirely on artillery is unrealistic, too wasteful, and more than worth the cost.

"What if the Tartars re-finished the team before we rushed over?"

"Tartar? This is impossible, what is the training of our Zhejiang Wang Division, we have also captured the Eight Banners of the Han Army in Tartar, and their training cannot keep up at all. Even if we can keep up, we are fighting for Huaxia not to be contaminated with nonsense again, they are just to snatch the goods and children, the starting point is different, and the will will will not be firmer than ours. ”

The staff officer in charge of marking said a lot, but in the final analysis, he still did not believe that the Qing army could compare with their Zhejiang Ming army in terms of fighting will. This kind of reaction is very normal for them, especially this staff officer, who was originally transferred to the General Staff Department by an officer who knew a few words, and who had fought bloody battles with the Qing army on the battlefield, and his self-confidence in this regard was also stronger.

"I'm saying that if, if there is a detachment of Tartars who can barely do it, then we will have to push it through with infantry alone?"

Expect the enemy to be lenient, this sentence learned in the Zhejiang Martial Arts School, Zhang Gongyan has long been engraved in his heart. In fact, it is more related to his experience of guarding Guilin with Qu Shi, the mercenaries of Taixi used more skillful and reasonable artillery skills, especially the seemingly simple infantry phalanx, to easily defeat dozens of times the Qing army of his own, which made his original contempt for Taixi also swept away, and he turned to believe that if the Ming court obtained some stones from other mountains, it might be possible to achieve the effect of attacking jade.

Or to put it another way, the military reform of the Ming army in Zhejiang is now quite effective, if one day, the opponent changes from the Manchu Qing to Taixi, or the Manchu Qing begins to learn Taixi's tactics, then assuming that the will to fight on both sides is almost the same, then in addition to the hard encounter, what other way can reduce casualties and pass quickly.

"Then let's see which side has a stronger will to fight, I believe that the victory must belong to our Zhejiang Wang Division!"

"Exactly."

“……”

The self-confidence exuded by the officers who made the mark also affected the other staff officers, but at this moment, Zhang Gongyan thought about it, but said: "I also believe that the soldiers of our Zhejiang Wang Division, just as staff officers, should we think more about how to reduce casualties." If it all depends on the soldiers to simply rush and kill, then do we staff officers just want to draw maps and make sand tables? ”

"Bo Chu is reasonable, so what do you think can be done to reduce some casualties?"

After considering the wording, Zhang Gongyan replied: "I thought that if our infantry had been in formation and had rushed over at the same time as the artillery fired. Even when the formation is close to the Tartar battle formation, our artillery bombards the Tartar battle formation, so that they will definitely not be able to regroup and fight us head-on. ”

Zhang Gongyan's words caused everyone to think deeply, and it was not until a long time later, when they had already seen that they had reached the next survey point, that a staff officer continued the topic.

"I'm afraid it's not easy, the requirements for the infantry, especially for the gunners, are a bit too high."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the staff officer who had marked it, and the latter nodded and confirmed: "There is a possibility that the artillery will blow up the chamber, so when the gunners bombard the Tartar battle formation, the infantry will be a little farther away, just in case." Of course, the loud noise when the cannon is fired will also impress the state of mind of the recruits, which should be paid attention to. If the Tartar rear is bombarded at the same time as the engagement, then only ricochet shots can be used, and the technical and artillery requirements for the gunners are not low, and the infantry officers and soldiers have to face the Tartars in front of them, and there are artillery guns behind to fire, which is also easy to shake the morale of the army, which is indeed not an easy task. ”

Speaking of this, the staff officer turned to say: "In fact, there has long been column anti-pressure training among the infantry, so the effect of the Tartars' habitual approach throwing tactics will be minimal. If it is strictly trained, it should not be insurmountable, but artillery is no better than others, and once it causes accidental damage, the stakes are really significant. ”

"That's true."

Zhang Gongyan nodded, for this suggestion from his own combat experience, he silently memorized every word in his heart, and was ready to reconsider the entire tactics after he went back.

"It's not early, let's hurry up and finish mapping this area, and we have to rush back to the county seat." (To be continued.) )