Ten days later, the entire Ming army in Jiading began to move.

The officers and soldiers of the three towns of Xiaoyong, Liwu Town, and the left and right battalions gathered the soldiers of the whole town, and the army marched to Haikou.

In this regard, the Ming army did not deliberately conceal it, and the army of several towns opened the sea mouth in a mighty way.

There was a lot of dust along the way, and there were countless trucks of baggage plates.

Along the way, the people stopped to watch and point.

"General Yang, look at how mighty my Ming King Division is." Xiao Wu was dressed in Shanwen armor, riding a big horse, looking at the Ming officers and soldiers passing by on the official road, and said proudly.

"If we had waited for the anti-Qing Dynasty to have these elite soldiers and strong generals, how could we talk about this foreign country for seven or eight years?" Yang Yandi sighed.

"The soldiers of our Ming army are brave and good at fighting, and they are well-equipped, but unfortunately there is still a lack of a branch of troops." Chen Anping, who was watching from the sidelines, shook his head.

Since Chen Shangchuan was promoted to the governor of Jiading, Chen Anping, who had been staying in Dongpu, was also canonized as the commander of Dongpu by the Ming court.

This time, he personally led 800 officers and soldiers of the Pinghai Battalion to Haikou and set off for Qiongzhou with the Ming army.

"Oh, what." Xiao Wu looked at Chen Anping and said with a smile.

"Horses." Chen Anping said.

"Our Ming officers and soldiers except for the town generals and signal soldiers on horseback, are all on foot, the extra horses are also used as livestock to escort artillery, the army is not mobile, if it is fighting in the mountains or attacking the city, it is true that it can make up for its lack of strength with the advantages of firearms and artillery in the army, but if it is to the plains, or the water network in the south of the Yangtze River, the heavy artillery can not be carried, and the infantry moves slowly on foot for fear of being surrounded by the enemy cavalry, and it is dangerous." Chen Anping said sharply.

"Not bad." Xiao Wu nodded.

Chen Anping is not bad.

In fact, when the Ming army Huben Town and the Land War Association galloped to Dongpu to stop the Zhenla people, they encountered the impact of the enemy's cavalry and horses.

At that time, the Ming officers and soldiers who were guarding Nongnai City saw that the Qianhai camp was surrounded by Zhenla soldiers, and decided to go out of the city to help.

However, at that time, the Ming army in the city suffered from the lack of war horses, so they had to set off at night, and finally due to too much artillery baggage, they could not quickly reach the Qianhai camp, and finally were trapped on a hill by the Guangnan and Zhenla cavalry.

However, fortunately, at that time, the Ming army carried a large number of light and fast-firing Baizi guns and Franc machine guns, plus the horse team that attacked the Ming officers and soldiers, and there were only dozens or hundreds of horses, which finally made the Ming army turn from danger to safety.

However, it can also be seen from this that the disadvantage of the Ming officers and soldiers is that the battlefield mobility is insufficient, and they naturally can't outrun the horse team and cavalry by running on only two legs.

"It's not a day or two that the soldiers of our Ming army lack horses." Xiao Wu agreed noncommittally.

"However, there are no big horses in Nanyang, and the high-quality horses are all in the north, and the horses in this area of Annam are very thin and weak, which is not suitable for use as cavalry horses, and some of the Yunnan horses purchased can only be used as animal power in the army." Xiao Wu said.

"However, the places where the Ming officers and soldiers fought today, such as Luzon and Annam, are all hilly and water-network areas, and there is no need for cavalry and horses, right?" Xiao Wu didn't care about this either.

"But we should also prepare a team of horses, shouldn't we?" Chen Anping persuaded.

"There are still some horses in the army, but they are all used as animal power, and although these horses are thin, they are not a problem to form a light cavalry team." Chen Anping looked at the horses in the rear convoy that were used as animal power, and said with some reluctance.

Although there are few horses in Nanyang, it does not mean that there are really no horses.

In addition, merchants from all over the world spread all over the world, and it became possible to buy horses from all over the world.

Therefore, after several years of purchases and seizures, there was also a large number of horses in the Ming army.

Chen Anping alone saw no less than dozens of war horses in the baggage convoy of the artillery battalion of the naval division town in the rear.

"Our Ming court can gain a foothold in Luzon, relying not on war horses, but on firearms, if these horses are not used as animal power to transport artillery and carry gunpowder, our Ming army can move to the South Seas." Li Zhen, a guerrilla in the artillery battalion of Shuishi Town on the side, couldn't help but shout angrily when he saw that Chen Anping had actually made up his mind and his artillery battalion horse team came up.

"Hehe, it's okay, so is General Chen

Good intentions, after all, our army does lack cavalry, but under the invincible firearms of our Ming army, the cavalry can only be destroyed. Xiao Wu smiled and made a round.

There was indeed no shortage of horses in the army, but there was a lack of generals who valued cavalry.

This has to mention the composition of the Luzon Ming Army, and the generals and officers in the Ming Army are basically from the Zheng group in Taiwan.

Taiwan's Zheng Jun himself was born as a pirate, and he was good at naval warfare, and the place he fought in was China's coastal area, and the army was naturally dominated by infantry and sailors, lacking cavalry.

And this influence also continued into the Luzon Ming army.

Liu Yu also paid attention to this situation, but Luzon and Zhenla Guangnan were hilly and water-network areas, and they were better at infantry than cavalry.

Instead of spending a lot of money to arm a group of cavalry, it is better to arm more infantry and produce more firearms at the same price.

Of course, the most important point is that the Ming army is now, whether it is the town camp association, its most important firepower output is the large and small guns in the army.

However, these firearms were made of iron and copper.

Even the lightest and most widely used Baizi gun has more than 100 catties.

Not to mention those iron and copper cannons that can't move hundreds or thousands of pounds at every turn.

Therefore, what the Ming army really needed was a large number of livestock.

But the problem was that the Ming army could not find suitable livestock.

Since ancient times, there have been only a few kinds of livestock that haul heavy artillery.

Niu was the first to be excluded by the Ming army.

Cattle are indeed a very versatile livestock, but the problem is that the people of Luzon also need cattle to plow the land.

As for the elephants that are a specialty of the South Seas, the Ming army bought a few through the Ming merchants.

However, there is a lack of officials in the army to keep elephants, and most importantly, elephants are scarcer than horses and extremely difficult to domesticate.

The Ming officers calculated that the silver taels for cultivating a war elephant were enough to buy a tiger cannon.

Therefore, after thinking about it, it is more cost-effective to use horses as livestock.

"Report."

"The sailors and rafts sent by the coastal defense battalion have already joined our troops at the river ahead." A herald rode back from the official road ahead and said to a few men on the hill.

"Well, I didn't expect the coastal defense battalion stationed in Haikou to be so fast, ordering the generals to load and unload all the small cannons such as the Franc machine on the raft and transport them to Haikou by water, and all the extra animal power was used to drag the tiger and other heavy artillery." Xiao Wu ordered Li Zhen on the side.

"The last general commands." Li Zhen hurriedly ran down and ordered the baggage convoy in the rear to go.

"Lord Admiral, it has been ten days since General Li Du traveled from Meidi to Haikou, and he must have arrived in Haikou." Zhao Zhen reminded.

After discussing how to attack Qiongzhou on the same day, Li Du led several close generals to Haikou on the second day, and it has been ten days now.

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