Chapter 192: Deterrence

Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao, who came to watch the city tower together, were also afraid at this moment. General Dong is brave and brave, but the military discipline is loose, not to mention the snow night march, even if it is a night march, those Qiu Ba will not agree.

At this moment, it was getting dark, and I saw an army marching in the snow from afar. Looking far from the city tower, Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Yao, and Song Guanglan all have the telescopes provided by Chen Xie, Geng Zhongming, Zhang Tao, Zhang Keda and others want to see what the telescope is, but the qualifications are not enough. This thing, the greenskin stares at it very much, and it doesn't sell it if it has any silver.

Geng Zhongming stupidly took out a monocular and stared at the marching team on the avenue. The officials and gentlemen all had umbrellas, and they set up the head of the city for Chen Xie, wearing ponchos, and no people were holding umbrellas, standing motionless in the wind and snow like javelins.

Quack, the sound of neat footsteps approached, and soldiers in dark green ponchos pulled out a long line on the avenue. There were five infantry squads, plus an artillery squad, an engineer corps, a baggage platoon, a grenadier squad, and a medic. Each team is a force of its own, and it looks unhurried, but in fact it is moving at a uniform pace.

Although it was only a regimental training camp, after a period of training, the momentum of the strong soldiers came out, and it was almost bloody. At the head of each team are the officers. Chen Xie flexibly used the tactics of bringing new recruits to veterans of the modern army, and after completing the recruit training, forty percent of the veterans from the original army were selected and supplemented with new recruits. Veterans join the recruits, leading the recruits to speed up their maturation. In the army, the most important are the grassroots officers and veterans who have seen blood. There are them stored zài. It is the general needle of the sea god.

Don't look at the current army is a regimental training, pulling out to punch holes is virtuous, there is no problem at all.

The first four infantry teams approached one after another, and when they arrived at the city gate, when they saw Chen Xie, the first team officer saw it clearly, and immediately issued a high-pitched command: "Walking!" "As soon as the military order was given, the whole team of soldiers reacted in unison, although they were very tired, but they were trained instinctively. Drive them to obey military orders.

Kwa kua, kua, kua. The sound of neat footsteps is like a giant hammer smashing on the heart, whether it is Geng Zhongming or Zhang Tao. It's all terrified at the moment. Fortunately, there are no crooked thoughts. Otherwise, this army will come to the door. Their soldiers won't be able to defeat them. Especially when the artillery team came over, it was even more palpitating.

After a battle of King Qin, Chen Xie expanded the artillery team. Previously, there were few skilled gunners. There are also few officers, and the expedition to Beizhili has high material requirements. It can only be an artillery team of more than 200 people serving six guns. Now it's different, the students of the second phase of the Jiading Academy have graduated, the artillery of Yishui. With enough officers, the situation is very different. Combined with the shortcomings of the artillery in the previous war, this artillery team was equipped with 12 field guns, all of which were steel cast guns, 4 rifled guns, and 8 smoothbore guns. The main role of rifled guns is to hit the opponent's artillery team at a long distance, and the smoothbore gun mainly hits the opponent's attacking forces.

This arrangement is mainly due to the fact that rifled guns have a fatal drawback and cannot fire shotguns. Before grenades were created, shotguns were the best weapon for artillery to deal with cluster charges. In the battle of Luanzhou in the last battle, 30% of the casualties of the Later Jin army were caused by shotguns. For this reason, Chen Xie increased the number of smoothbore guns, so that the long, medium and close distances were taken care of.

A battalion of 12 guns, plus more than 1,000 rifled guns, 200 grenadiers, and a barbed wire fence at will, let alone the army, even if it is Houjin, in a one-to-five battle, Chen Xie is confident that he will win. The only loophole now is that the combat effectiveness in rainy and snowy weather will be affected to a certain extent. It's a pity that Chen Xie's Ming Dynasty workshop can't make nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid, let alone thunder and mercury. Without thunder and mercury, there would be no fire caps. Without a fire cap, let's not talk about a breech-loading rifle. After fighting this battle, Chen Xie plans to start on this issue, at least to develop a simple production process, modern materials, and personally grasp it. Let's get out the three acids and two alkalis first, and then make the fire cap. In this process, Chen Xie does not seek to be fast, and he can form a certain production capacity in three years, and he will be satisfied with the self-sufficiency of the Dengzhou battalion.

At this time, it was seen that the cement road was coming, and the army marched on the hard road, and the speed was not affected in any way. Unlike before, marching in rainy and snowy weather, called a sin.

In less than half an hour, the troops entered the city and lined up in the barracks, and even though the snow was still falling, the whole army remained in a strict formation and did not mess up at all. This will be even a fool who can see the combat effectiveness of this army.

The green-skinned soldiers entered the city, and before it was too dark, all the city gates, military camps, and water fortresses were taken over. Geng Zhongming and the others could only shrink into the camp after Kong Youde left, looking at the snow outside in a daze.

In the governor's yamen, the house arrest of Geng Zhongming, Zhang Tao and others was not lifted, but expanded. Some of the officers below, since Chen Xie's troops entered the city, were ordered to enter the backyard of the governor's yamen in the name of holding a meeting. When the money and food are ready, it is up to them whether they can go or not.

"Brother Yuntai, don't think too much. No matter how much he thinks about it, the governor won't change his mind. Zhang Tao kindly persuaded the first army, Geng Zhongming was very worried, and he sighed without looking back: "Kong Ruitu is in trouble, I never thought that Chen Sihua's department is elite." If you don't fight, you will lose. ”

Zhang Tao was silent, and now these people and soldiers are actually accused. Their future fate is not up to them. At this time, a guard came and said, "Two adults, Lord Zhongcheng is invited." ”

The two went to Sun Yuanhua's place, and when they saw Chen Xie and Zhang Ke being there, they felt very uncomfortable, but they were more afraid.

"It's all here, sit down. Fang Cai Chen Sihua built yì, you go to Laizhou in the second department to ensure that Laizhou is not lost. On the Dengzhou side, General Zhang and General Chen were responsible for the defense. The two, Kong Youde rebelled, and his death was not far away. Although there is a voice from the imperial court, this military constitution must insist on the main suppression. "Sun Yuanhua's position is a bit delicate, in history he is the main Fu faction, isn't that because he doesn't have troops in his hands that can fight? Now it's different, with Chen Xie's troops, his waist is also stiff.

Now Sun Yuanhua can only trust Chen Xie, Chen Xie is the right person to mention yì, Zhang Ke is guarding Dengzhou, Chen Xie leads his troops out of Huang County, as long as Kong Youde dares to come, he will take the initiative to attack. Historically, Kong Youde did just that, bypassing Laizhou and going straight to Dengzhou. Why did you do this, because at that time there were Dongjiang soldiers in Dengzhou and a large population of Liaodong.

Recently, a large number of refugees from Liaodong have also come to Dengzhou, and the number is increasing, exceeding 50,000. Because of the Battle of the Daling River and the rebellion in Dongjiang Town, the number of refugees from Liaodong continued unabated. The actual number of refugees from Liaodong in Shandong and Denglai is more than 100,000. That's a terrible number.

Dengzhou is a little better, Zhang Yao and Song Yi are all relieving and evacuating, and Chen Xie has also accepted a lot of refugees. But the number of refugees is still increasing, which is the main reason why Chen Xie wants to drive Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao away. The ground in Dengzhou has developed rapidly in recent years, the people are rich, and it is normal for foreign Liaodong people to be ostracized. It's like a dry pyre, a little bit of a spark.

Chen Xie analyzed, but Sun Yuanhua still listened to it, so he didn't plan to send Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao out to fight in the field, because he was afraid that the Dongjiang Army would defect or something. In history, Zhang Tao's subordinates did just that, ran away on the battlefield, and Zhang Tao came back alone. The guide zhì Zhang Ke's large flanks were exposed and easily defeated.

Of course, Chen Xie would not make this mistake, he transferred troops into the city today, taught the two of them a hard lesson, and then threw them to Laizhou, it is estimated that they will have to weigh if they want to rebel. With Chen Xie's military might, it was easy to defeat them.

The Dongjiang Army left in Dengzhou was only 5,000 people, and the elite were all transferred. The rest of these people, let alone fighting, are all a matter of getting together equipment. This cut off Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao's repeated hearts, and then they went to clean up Kong Youde with peace of mind.

Chen Xie wasn't worried about not being able to beat Kong Youde at all, what he was really worried about was that he went out, Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao were ghosts. That's why I took great pains to set up a game and force these two away. When they went to Laizhou, Chen Xie could rest assured, otherwise how could Lao Wo go to war with peace of mind under people's eyelids? Chen Xie actually wished that these two would defect to Kong Youde.

Helplessly, Sun Yuanhua proposed just now to let Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao go to Laizhou, and Chen Xie couldn't say anything, after all, Sun Yuanhua had already made huge concessions. Now the entire Dengzhou, including the Sailor Fortress, is in Chen Xie's hands. This is already difficult for Sun Yuanhua to do. Therefore, just now Sun Yuanhua and the mud, under the pretext of Chen Xie's construction, Chen Xie did not have any objections. I secretly regretted that I missed an opportunity to kill Geng Zhongming, a traitor.

Regarding Sun Yuanhua's arrangement, Geng Zhongming and Zhang Tao had no objections, but they were very happy in their hearts. Shou Lai Zhou must be in the city, and there is no need to fight with the elite under Kong Youde, and there is no war with acquaintances, which is not bad no matter how you look at it.

"Obey the orders of Lord Zhongcheng, when the grain and grass will be ready, and when our army will set off." The two of them responded together, and their hatred for Chen Xie was somewhat reduced. As long as they don't force them to go to the field.

Geng Zhongming in history played an internal response, that was because the Ming army was too bad at that time, the Dongjiang gang was huge, and Huanglong was in Lushun, if it wasn't for Shang Kexi's efforts, it would have been finished long ago. The Dongjiang Army is still thinking about building a country by itself, these bastards.

At this point, there is nothing to arrange. Chen Xie hurriedly said goodbye, and after inspecting around, he moved into the barracks. This can be regarded as entering a state of imminent battle, and the next morning, the Qishan battalion really arrived, and even the night march was able to arrive, which was a complete end to some people's careful thinking. At noon, the grain and grass of the high-efficiency joint firm were prepared. (To be continued......)