"I've done enough."

Zhu Cihong also seemed to feel the uncertain gaze behind him, and he had been running around all morning, inspecting everywhere, including farmland and water conservancy, the repair of state and county city walls, the laying of official roads, the training and food of the Xuntang garrison, and so on.

For more than three hours, it was almost non-stop.

By this time, he also felt a kind of exhaustion that was difficult to control.

He didn't need to pay much attention to the worries of the civil servants in the camp. In fact, when making many decisions, the conservative side of his soul is always trembling.

But there is no way, and it may be possible to make him to victory, but historical facts have proved that when the three Qing armies went south together, the Ming army always easily lost the will to fight.

Or he could hold Huaiyang with 40,000 Pingyu troops, but what would happen to him when Azig's Western Route Army went down the line?

The strength of the Qing army, except for the Eastern Route Army, the other two roads had to rely on him and his Pingyu army.

If the Pinglu army stays in Huaiyang and does not move, Xu Zhen will be able to withstand the Eastern Route Army, and even counterattack to Henan, but as long as Jiujiang Taiping Nanjing is lost, the army's morale will be immediately chaotic.

Unless it is to abandon Huaiyang and defend the town along Nanjing, Jiangsu Prefecture, but that is tantamount to abandoning strategic places, and in the end it has to be surrounded by several Qing troops.

Relying on the fortified city of Nanjing to defend and put the place of death and then live, this is not a way, but this is equivalent to pinning the overall life and death on a decisive battle with a key surname, and the winner and loser are in the hands of the enemy.

"It's only aggressive."

Several cavalry battalions in front of them have won many battles, and after training, the new army can be on a par with the Qing army, and many battles are one-sided without encountering the elite of the opponent.

As a result, the original plan could hardly keep up with the changes.

The convoy in front of him, others don't know the details, but Zhu Cihong himself is clear.

Recently, more than 1,300 carts of supplies have been sent to Xuzhou and Suizhou, which is almost all the mobile force of the Qingjiang camp.

In addition to these heavy wagons, more than 100 chariots with steel plates were also sent to the north, but not Xuzhou Town, but straight to Shandong.

The work of preparing for war is already in full swing, and the general trend of the world will undergo earth-shaking changes in the next few months.

The general trend of history is like this, sometimes the fate of a dynasty is determined by a short historical moment.

And some things, the same or different practices, may evolve with the same outcome or may be completely different.

Huang Chao's entry into Chang'an was doomed, but Li Zicheng was not.

After the Mongols conquered Diaoyutai and Xiangyang, it did not matter whether Lin'an surrendered or not.

And the Qing Dynasty won the world, and like the predecessors of the Jin Dynasty they pretended, there was too much luck and accident. Zhu Cihong felt that as long as he could make a little change in the direction of history in these most critical months...... Maybe the future will be very different.

The national fortune of the Qing Dynasty may be irretrievably downhill after the failure of a certain decision on the surname.

It's all about people.

............ "Knock to your Highness!" ”

At the end of the tour, Zhu Cihong also rushed to the military camp of the Pingyu Army for the first time.

Wei Yue and other officers with large tickets had also been notified and were waiting in front of the camp gate. With a stomach in his body, all the generals only bowed their knees and bowed halfway, and as for the soldiers who had the responsibility of guarding, even ordinary officers and soldiers, they beat them on the chest, and then raised them forward, and they performed a new military salute formulated by the crown prince.

"No courtes......y," Zhu Cihong ordered loudly, and only after everyone got up did he smile again: "Today, the Firearms Bureau has a few new gadgets, and a battalion has been transferred to practice...... Let's take a look. ”

In addition, it is the crown prince who convenes the military council, or now, when the firearms bureau has a new production, the relevant personnel and the generals of each town will gather together to watch the firearms bureau demonstrate the new firearms.

The current shooting range has long been potholes, full of wreckage after firearms drills, from three-pounder guns to six-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, twelve-pounder guns, eighteen-pounder guns, and finally to the largest caliber of twenty-four-pounder guns. At least four or five hundred thousand catties of gunpowder were beaten by the infantry battalion and artillery battalion soldiers of the Pinglu Army, excluding the amount of artillery battalions, the average gunpowder consumed by the gunners of each infantry battalion was more than 100 catties.

At this level of training, each firecracker grows rapidly.

It takes at least two years to train a qualified archer, and two months is actually enough to train a qualified firecracker.

Zhu Cihong's arms guards have been trained for half a year, and to this day, the firearms they use are still being improved and renovated every day.

Everyone who entered the barracks to visit or actually watched the coordinated drill of the Pinglu Army's infantry and artillery all had full confidence in this new army, and it is no wonder that Chen Mingxia and other civilian officials now have serious ideas; in fact, many ministers, including Wang Jiayan and Zhang Guowei, as long as they have come to Qingjiang to observe the exercise, all hold the same view.

Time, on Daming's side.

The origin of the drill of the new firearm is not the same, Zhu Cihong said, everyone was not surprised, and they all agreed with a smile.

Only Li Gong smiled at Feng Kaizhang and said: "Zhang Quanbin is an old man under Wei Da, and he has been transferred to your side for almost two months, how is this kid, is he still qualified to be a battalion officer?" ”

"If it's enough, you'll see."

"Hehe, look at it, Cao Qing, this kid, is not a person who admits defeat."

has been commanding the troops for a long time, and these generals in the general town are usually very generous, and they usually speak and act very calmly. Only in this kind of martial arts practice will this show a bit of competitiveness and cause trouble.

The drill was divided into two sides, Li Gong's subordinate Cao Qing's battalion head was one side, and Feng Kaizhang's subordinate Zhang Quanbin was the leader of the first battalion, both of whom were old men in the East Palace, all the way to the south and the north, from the sixteenth year of Chongzhen to follow the prince, to now it is the end of seventeen, almost a year, and it can be regarded as an out-and-out old man from Longxun.

The two battalion officers are wearing red cloaks, their military positions are general battalion officers, and the rank is also added to General Zhaowu and the captain of the light car, there are many battalion officers, and the military ranks are decorated with three silver stars, which is considered the top of the middle-level generals.

At this time, the two battalion officers were also in the middle of the field, and the first battalion had more than 1,800 people, and more than 300 fixed baggage auxiliaries had been removed, and the remaining 1,500 soldiers were already in the queue to be awarded.

Cao Qing's subordinates knew at a glance that it was an imitation of the Houjin array.

There were about 300 unarmored or lightly armored soldiers, with light and short weapons such as longbows, arrows, and knives, as well as some light weapons such as axes, javelins, and throwing knives.

There were also two or three hundred cavalrymen wearing cotton armor and bronze helmets with lightning rods, and these cavalry were on both flanks of the formation, and some of them were heavy cavalry with war horses and armor.

The rest are all heavy infantry with iron heavy armor and a ten-foot iron spear and an eight-foot tiger tooth spear in their hands.

The people of the time were far-fetched, and later generations did not investigate carefully, and always thought that the magic weapon of the Qing army to defeat the enemy was "cavalry shooting".

Actually, it's not true!

Cavalry archery is naturally there, to deal with the armor and stomach is not fine, the array is not strict miscellaneous soldiers, cavalry shooting is very effective, the galloping cavalry is very powerful, full of might, and then sweep the arrows, disturb the enemy formation, and then swing the spear and knife to kill, the enemy formation is in chaos, naturally let the cavalry harvest.

But there is nothing so cheap on the battlefield! The so-called Mongolian cavalry is by no means relying on cavalry to defeat the enemy, in the Mongol army, the cavalry archer is only responsible for disrupting, cutting off the enemy's food route, disturbing the people and expanding panic and other auxiliary tasks, and after the enemy formation is chaotic, or after consuming the enemy's energy and morale, it is the heavy armored cavalry of the Mongols who really breaks the enemy and wins!

Of course, compared with the stuffy jar armor of the European Middle Ages, the heavy cavalry of the Mongols could not be "heavy", but its soldiers were burdened with iron armor, holding heavy troops, and holding strong and brave to go to the enemy, the Mongols fought for decades, the weapons were more and more sophisticated, and the strategy and tactics were more and more advanced, from a purely technical level, this is a very terrifying army that has been learning and progressing.

The so-called crossing of Europe and Asia by cavalry and archery is an insult to these Mongols, and it is also an insult to the countless powerful and weak peoples and countries that have been defeated and eliminated by them.

As for the Eight Banners of the Manchus, of course, they were strong troops in Asia at that time, but only under the premise that all ethnic groups were declining and regressing at that time.

Whether it is compared with the Mongolian iron cavalry or compared with the real Jurchen warriors, they are all a grade lower, a little less meaningful.

Its victory over the enemy, excellent archery skills are of course an important reason, but what kind of slave riding and shooting invincible is also nonsense, bluffing children.

Jiannu's real magic weapon to defeat the enemy is the heavy armored infantry battle formation composed of spears and halberds in front of him like layers of iron mountain walls!

After decades of fighting with the Ming army, the Houjin captured a large number of people, including a large number of armor and stomach materials and experienced blacksmiths, after creating strong iron armor for the elite horse armor and infantry armor, and the spear and halberd of the front tax, these heavy armored soldiers fought in battle, and when they marched forward bravely with spears and halberds, there were few who did not break the Ming army formation.

(To be continued)