Chapter 113: Harvest
PS: See the exclusive story behind "Han'er is not a slave", listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention to the starting point Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread), tell me quietly! The fire gun of the Han army flag will definitely be able to kill people, Zhou Shixiang no longer knows the goods, and after Qin Zhisheng took the gun and fired it, he also knew that this fire gun was powerful. If this thing is put closer to fight, it is not as simple as beating the face into pockmarks or scalding as rumored in later generations, but it will really kill people.
Although Zhou Shixiang was a soldier in his previous life, he didn't know much about it, but he thought that since the Shenji Battalion of the Ming Dynasty was able to rely on the fire gun to crisscross the desert north, and there were more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the fire gun has always been the official equipment of the Ming army and has never been eliminated. Because if this is really the case, I am afraid that the fire gun will be eliminated two hundred years earlier, what a heroic figure Ming Chengzu was back then, how could he let the sergeant be equipped with weapons that could not kill people, you must know that this is a lifelong battle, until death is still on the way to the expedition, such a person, the vision is not comparable to future generations.
The former suppressed the political rights of military generals, so that the army had no right to speak at all, and the military generals were subject to civilian officials, but civilian officials were not familiar with military affairs, so they naturally did not attach importance to the production and renewal of military weapons. The latter is to directly cut off the root of military production, just like the system of guards, the generation of craftsmen model also makes the craftsmen who are good at making military weapons inferior to one generation after another, and the things created are naturally inferior to one generation after another. No matter how good things are, there is not enough silver to make a good thing, and history has proved that the Ming military guns at the end of the Ming Dynasty were completely the product of cutting corners and shoddy production.
One is superior and one is inferior, one is heavy and one is light, and the final result is the most direct embodiment of the war in the past few decades. In Guangdong Province, it is directly reflected in the strength of the Han military flag. Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong twice, but suffered a lot of losses from the Han army flag, and was in Xinhui City that day. Zhou Shixiang could hear the roar of fire guns on the city day and night.
It is impossible for the firearm to be useless, on the contrary. This is a sharp weapon, even without Qin Zhisheng's demonstration, the more than 100 soldiers who were killed and wounded in the Taiping camp also told Zhou Shixiang with bloody facts that the fire gun is useful
The gun and the experience of being a soldier in his previous life made Zhou Shi very fond of the captured firearms, and repeatedly took the firearms of the Han army flag and looked at them again before putting them down, and ordered Qin Zhisheng to collect all the captured firearms for safekeeping, and all the gunpowder bags on the bannermen must be picked up and must not be missed.
The structure of the firebolt is too complicated, and the release of the hammer is also a science. Although Qin Zhisheng, Jiang He and others repeatedly emphasized the uselessness of firearms, Zhou Shixiang still decided to set up firearms soldiers in the Taiping Battalion, and in the future, he must improve these firearms that still rely on the ignition of the firerope.
The best way to improve the firecrackle is to learn from the Europeans who were already slightly ahead of the Ming Dynasty in this era, and the nearest white stronghold to the Ming Dynasty is not far from Xiangshan County - Macau, the gambling city of later generations, now gathers many European missionaries and scientific and technological talents, and is also a city of arms. The Ming Dynasty was able to buy a large number of artillery and guns from Macao, and so could Zhou Shixiang, as long as he had enough silver. In the face of real money, those white-skinned pigs who came to the East to make a fortune and risk no reason not to sell.
After the matter of the fire gun is arranged. Zhou Shixiang ordered the whole battalion to enter the city to rest, since the purpose of the Han army with the blue flag to Gaoyao was not to target the Taiping camp, and there were no other banner troops near Gaoyao. Then he didn't have to strain his nerves anymore. The continuous rush has brought the whole battalion up and down to the limit of the body, people are not beaten by iron, and if they do not rest, I am afraid that they will really collapse without a fight.
According to the prior distribution, Tie Yi and Song Erniu each led people to take over and count the county government and the treasury, and with the "help" of those county officials who were terrified, the money and grain were quickly counted, totaling 3,200 taels of silver and more than 14,000 copper. There were 100 pieces of cloth and satin, and Qin Ming, the magistrate of the county who had hanged himself, personally "sponsored" 700 taels of silver and 30 taels of gold for the Taiping camp. His wife and two-room concubines also successively "sponsored" gold and silver bracelets worth nearly 1,000 taels.
The harvest of grain is not small. Last year, Gaoyao did not suffer from the disaster, and it was considered that the wind and rain were smooth, so the autumn grain was harvested more, except for the ones that were transported to the provincial capital and handed over to the provincial capital, and the county government privately resold them, and now there are more than 300 stones left in the library. Guangdong is located in the south, and the people have a variety of rice, so the grain is mainly rice. When the white rice was moved out of the warehouse, most of the sergeants in the Taiping camp were relieved while their eyes lit up. With this rice, they don't have to worry about starving their wives and children left in the back camp.
In a camp without the support of faith, the safety of loved ones is the greatest motivation to support everyone. Han people value family affection the most, especially for men who have families, and their biggest concern is not their own safety, but their wives and children. As long as the wife, children, and parents can have a bite to eat, they will fight desperately.
So far, the Taiping Camp is composed of a group of men who are concerned about whether their relatives are hungry, whether they are fed, whether they have clothes, and whether they have sleeping on the ground. It is true that such an army is not a good team in the strict sense, because he is too worried, but at the moment, this army can allow Zhou Shixiang to march towards his goal step by step. He needs these men to fight hard, or rather, he is using these men to fight hard. In Zhou Shixiang's view, the national righteousness and whether the wife and children can eat enough are equal, and there is no contradiction between the two, whether the former or the latter is realized, the goal of opposing the Qing Dynasty will be achieved.
Shao Jiugong's team basically undertook the maintenance of military discipline after entering the city since Xinxing, and the officers from the Jiangxi Green Battalion were reluctant, and they also consciously undertook the task of maintaining military discipline and realized the importance of military discipline. The expansion method of the Taiping camp did not affect Zhou Shixiang's emphasis on the importance of military discipline everywhere he went.
It may sound like a conflict between the rogue-style method of warfare, the practice of coercing and strengthening the rogue style and maintaining military discipline, but it is not in conflict when it is done. The solution to the coexistence of the two is simple, and that is whether or not to coerce.
The residents of Gaoyao City were not on Zhou Shixiang's list, because it was too close to Zhaoqing Fucheng, and the purpose of the front battalion breaking into Zhaoqing was to confuse, disrupt, and contain the Zhaoqing Green Battalion, so that the Zhaoqing Green Battalion could not pose a threat to the rear battalion that was moving in the direction of Xinhui, so Zhou Shixiang had to maintain the combat effectiveness and mobility of the front battalion, so that it was not the operational purpose of the front battalion to coerce the people along the way, and he would not be stupid enough to do so.
After sending someone to order the Ge Zheng brothers to collect their troops, Zhou Shixiang asked Chen Mo outside the city to enter the city, and the Taiping camp closed the gate of Gaoyao City when it was dark. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread can be), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued)