The drill ended quickly, but to everyone's surprise, the victor was still Zhang Quanbin's battalion.

Two camp management belts, one smiled humbly, but there was also a smug smile that could not be concealed.

Cao Qing's smile was a little embarrassing, and he was more depressed.

Anyway, he also put in a lot of effort, but no matter how to do his best, Zhang Quanbin can always come up with something to restrain him.

This is actually a big trend, and manpower is irreversible, but Cao Qing doesn't quite understand it.

In the fifteenth century, Europe eliminated the musket and the heavy armor knights and cold weapons such as bows and arrows, and the old Mao Zi of Gustav's Duandian infantry cannon was scattered, and the small country became the strongest army country in Europe at that time by virtue of military innovation.

Then there was the Spanish phalanx and the Duanshi phalanx, which relied on the advanced method of suppressing firepower with white-knuckle assault and firearms and artillery.

Just as the English longbowmen did have a big advantage in the early days of the smoothbore guns, it was still inevitable that the longbowmen would be eliminated.

This is the general trend of history, and it cannot be reversed by manpower.

Cao Qing didn't understand, but Zhu Cihong understood very well.

Today, the defeat of Cao Qingying was not a poor command or a lack of courage on the part of the soldiers, but a victory of the two military systems.

Don't look at the Spanish phalanx is still spears and iron halberds as the main assault force, and the fire guns are only suppressed, but the core of this phalanx is still built on hot weapons, and it depends on a large number of professional veterans and sergeants as the core, the training is cruel and strict, and a team of peasants enters the barracks, and in a short time, qualified soldiers can be trained.

Today, Zhang Quanbin won the victory, relying on the increased range and shooting power of granular black powder, and then when the heavily armored pikemen rushed forward, they threw a large number of grenades.

In small-scale battalion battles without artillery, these two things are enough to ensure victory for the firearms side.

Granular gunpowder is not a high-tech one, and after Zhu Cihong proposed it, it didn't take long for the Firearms Bureau to try to produce it.

With black and brown powder, small throwing weapons were not only effective and powerful, but also convenient for infantry to carry. Spearmen and halberders do not need to carry bows and arrows and muskets, but can carry some of these small firearms.

A dense throw of hundreds of people at a time, no matter how brave the heavy armor gun array is, it is indispensable.

Cao Qing's department, which is suitable for talents, encountered the baptism of bullets in the final sprint, and of course the Military and Political Department immediately gave Cao Qing a defeat.

The casualties were also extremely heavy on Cao Qing's side, while Zhang Quanbin's battalion suffered little loss.

All the generals present had complicated expressions.

As brave as Wei Yue, Wang Yuan, he doesn't know what to say.

In front of this formation, there is still a lack of cover and firepower output of the vehicle formation and artillery, if these two things are also added, Cao Qing's side has no chance at all.

"As soon as this array comes out, the brave warriors of the world will be all dung."

Wei Yue rarely sighed, and his emotion at this time was also free.

Wang Yuan shook his head even more, and only said: "Fortunately, I brought cavalry, and it was also a cavalry with short firearms and sabers, ambushes, surprise attacks, there is always a chance." ”

"The formation is dead." Zhu Cihong looked at everyone and said, "The drill in front of me is just a deduction in the most ideal state, and it is nothing. At the time of battle, the morale of the soldiers, training, as well as the terrain and weather, will not affect the outcome of the war. There are thousands of threads, and if there is a slight mistake, the efforts done in advance will be in vain. Moreover, there are many kinds of generals, who can force the enemy to fight a decisive battle with themselves in the geographical environment and weather environment of their choice, and can adjust the morale and physical strength of the soldiers to the best ...... Such generals are famous generals in ancient and modern times. ”

This remark is what Zhu Cihong himself often thinks about, although there are no fancy words, but every sentence makes sense, and the important point is that the generals who have not been on the battlefield and have a certain amount of responsibility will not understand after listening to it.

"That's what Your Highness said." Wei Yue said calmly: "Chen Shicai is a little out of shape. ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, pressed back the words of the rest of the generals, and turned his head to look at Zhang Quanbin and Cao Qing...... The former looked pleasant, and his smug expression had subsided a lot, and the latter's dejected taste was not so strong.

"Both of them are good generals, and they are also very capable talents under my command." Zhu Cihong looked at the two of them, his tone was steady and earnest, there was no arrogance, and he was not pretentious, it was the same tone as his previous conversations, although it was not fancy, but it was extremely convincing.

"Panic!" Zhang Quanbin knelt down on one knee and kowtowed: "The ministers should serve their lives with their own strength, so that the soldiers can defeat the enemy and win no matter when and where." ”

It seems that he has a high spirit, and Zhu Cihong's words just now are certainly reasonable, but only a general of Wei Yue's level can really understand it. For a battalion manager like Zhang Quanbin, Zhu Cihong's words are close to being harsh.

Especially since they just got a big victory.

Even Cao Qing also knelt down and said: "His Royal Highness's exoneration, the minister listens to it very reasonably. However, in front of him, Zhang Quanbin won, and the minister had nothing to say. ”

"Haha, the generals under my command are all like the two, why worry about the easterners, and why worry about the thieves?"

confronted the crown prince in person, and was humble to each other, but Zhu Cihong was not annoyed at all, and he was really happy in his heart. At the moment, he just turned to Chen Mingxia and said: "Write it down, the Military and Political Department officially recorded that Zhang Quanbin is the standard of the first standard of the left association of Yulin Town, and Cao Qing is the standard of the first standard of the right association of Xiaoqi Town." ”

"Yes, the minister will call someone to do it when he goes back."

As a standard, that is, from the middle level to the upper level, Chen Mingxia also made a special excuse, and bowed his hand to the two officers who were still marching: "The student congratulates the two generals." ”

The rest of the people, some of whom saluted and some congratulated each other, were also very lively for a while, and the officers and men who were closing the team in the training ground all stretched out their heads to look at them.

"Minister, thank Your Highness for your great kindness!"

"The minister will die to serve him, and he will live up to His Highness's grace!"

The heads and faces of the two young military attaches were flushed, and this time, regardless of whether they had a stomach or not, they all bowed to worship and kowtowed to thank them.

"Get up, get up!"

Zhu Cihong stepped forward, one in each hand, and pulled the two generals up. The two of them, one left and one right, stood beside him, Zhu Cihong was very happy in his heart, and only said: "Generals, today is said to be hard, and it is also a different wife and a son, Qing and others live up to the Ming Dynasty, and different people are lonely and not worthy of Qing and others!" ”

Chen Mingxia felt that this was a bit too much, but at this moment, all the generals were very excited, and they all knelt down and said: "The ministers are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty, and they are willing to serve His Royal Highness, and they will continue to die!" ”

In this way, of course, Chen Mingxia didn't have anything to say, and he had to salute with the generals accordingly, but when he knelt down, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "Things have been going too smoothly recently, Your Highness is afraid that he is a little carried away, and if he is so taboo, he will say it in public." ”

I was worried, but when I looked around, most of them were familiar faces, and all of them were officers or divisions above the middle level, and these people were very favored, and they didn't think about anything.

Besides, Chen Mingxia Youyou thought: "Your Royal Highness's prestige is so high, in fact, it has already surpassed the emperor, I'm afraid no one dares to say anything or do anything." ”

………… The fierce attack of the Ming army and the fruitful results finally alarmed Henan and Shandong, first stationed on the other side of Suizhou, Prince Su Haoge personally went to the book, and then the Henan governor Luo Xiujin played the book, Shandong was also very nervous in the face of the Ming army's eagerness to try, and the envoys sent to Yanjing were also one after another, which was nothing more than a report of the tension in Shandong, and asked the Beijing division to immediately instruct the strategy to be instructed, so that the local government could follow it.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, although things were complicated, the post was much more clever than Dashun. The Shun army did not attach much importance to the post messenger, or because the local government was always in turmoil, so the post transmission was very unstable, and sometimes the instructions to the local generals had to be sent by the cabinet himself, and even then, there were often accidents. The situation here in the Qing Dynasty was different, as soon as the army arrived, it first restored post stations in various places and transmitted the Tang Bao Qi, which was very fast.

On the ninth day of October, the time is close to the fifth watch, but the Luan bell rings non-stop on the road from the outer city to the inner city, and the sound of the horse's hooves of Tata is accompanied by the crisp Luan bell.

The out-of-town dwellers near the street didn't get a good night's sleep!

Since the Eight Banners entered the city, and then divided the flags to live, and then drove out the Han people in the inner city, this ancient capital that has been peaceful for hundreds of years is the people's hearts are panicked, and there is no peace.

After all, he is a foreigner who speaks Manchu, dresses far different from himself, and has a shaved head and only a handful of pigtails.

That image is scary to look at, a few pigtailed soldiers ride by, and the Han people on a street can hide cleanly.

When I saw the Manchurian soldiers, I don't want to say that ordinary people, even the generals and soldiers who surrendered or the eunuchs and civil officials were terrified and very frightened when they saw it.

The sound of horses' hooves came from Zhengyangmen all the way to the Yamen of the Military Department located on Qipan Street. When he arrived at the door, he immediately folded the handlebar, and with a hissing sound, the errand officer also rolled off the saddle.

"Quick, quickly help him up, carry him into the yamen, and take care of him." An official wearing a black gauze hat stood on the steps of the yamen, and loudly commanded everyone to help up the fallen officer.

"Wait!" A thin man came out of the yamen of the military department, his eyes were gloomy, and he looked at the people: "Do you want to die, if you don't interrogate clearly, you will carry people to the yamen, and if you get out of the annihilation, you all have to kill your family!" ”

The entrance of the yamen is also brightly lit, the six departments of the early Qing Dynasty were created, in fact, the regulations are not strict, and it is not as clear as the Manchu and Han Dynasty six hall official system later, at this time, in addition to the local governors and servants or Shangshu official titles, the real masters are only Manchurians.

It's just that the big official is Manchuria, and the officials under him are still Han Chinese, but all the ministries have sent pen stickers who are proficient in the languages of the Manchu and Han ethnic groups, and they are filled by people from the Eight Banners of the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han armies, and they usually handle Manchu and Han documents and communicate with their Manchurian bosses.

In the early decades of the Qing Dynasty, it was much easier to be promoted to an official in the style of a pen post than a Han Jinshi. At the beginning of the country, the arrogance was also very obvious.

(To be continued)