It's been more than 70 days in a blink of an eye, and it's never stopped, and I'm really tired. Take a little break in these two days, and change every day. For just two days, please forgive me.

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In the early morning of April 18, the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru led the army to attack Yuncheng, and Yu Ziyi, the magistrate of Yuncheng, was frightened and fled in a hurry.

After Xu Hongru occupied Yuncheng, his troops marched to Zou County, and the local peasants "mostly carried women and children, morning glory carts, and grain and rice, and rushed to go to it, competing to be the upper west Tianyun." ”

On April 20, Zhou Nian'an, the backbone of the Wenxiang Sect, and Meng Xianhan launched in Zou County, and Zheng Yijie fled with his family.

Then, Xu Hongru waved his army to Teng County, and Yao Zhiyin, the magistrate of the county, fled from the wind, and the rebel team reached tens of thousands, and his prestige was greatly boosted.

After that, Xu Hongru took Zou County as the center, while trying to hold on to this city, he sent troops to attack Yanzhou and Qufu, attack Juye in the west, and also expedition to Peixian, Rizhao and Tancheng.

Judging from Xu Hongru's arrangement, it is clear that he does not understand any military affairs. The demagoguery engulfed tens of thousands of people, and they felt that it was very remarkable, and they attacked in all directions.

On April 25, Yang Zhaoji, the new commander-in-chief of Shandong, joined up with Xu Dingguo's subordinate of the Henan reinforcement force and defeated the peasant army sent by Xu Hongru on an expedition to Peixian;

On April 27, the 3,000 officers and soldiers of Dengzhen led by the guerrilla general Zhang Bang defeated Zhou Nian'an, and the peasant army led by Meng Xianhan pressed towards Yuncheng from the north;

On April 30, the troops led by Yang Guosheng and Liao Dong, the capital of Shandong, relieved the danger of Juye and approached Zou County.

Xu Hongru suffered successive defeats and hurriedly retreated to the areas of Zou County, Teng County, and Yanzhou.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty pursued the victory, and the troops were divided into two routes, one was the Shandong governor Zhao Yan, the capital secretary Yang Guodong, the deputy general Liao Dong, and the guerrilla Zhang Bang led the troops to feint to attack Zou County;

On the other hand, Yang Zhaoji, the chief military officer of Shandong, led his sons Yuyin and Yufan, as well as the deputy generals Zhou Shixi and He Chenglong, to conquer Erzhidian and Jiwangcheng in one fell swoop.

On 11 May, after more than 10 battles, the officers and soldiers were victorious, and Xu Hongru was left with only the isolated city of Zou County, and he still wanted to resist stubbornly. And threatened the officers and soldiers: If the city is attacked, the people in the city will be slaughtered.

On May 17, under the political offensive of Yang Zhaoji, and seeing that the general trend had gone, the puppet governor Marquis and the general soldier Wei Qi tied up Xu Hongru and opened the city gate to surrender to the Ming army.

So far, Xu Hongru's Shuqi rebellion has been put down in more than a month.

Arrested in advance, arranged in advance, or tossed by this guy for more than a month.

When Zhu Youxiao got the last emergency report, he was not surprised or happy, but just put it aside casually, and then watched the drill of the new army in the school grounds.

Since he knew that Xu Hongru was trapped in Zou County, Zhu Youxiao knew that the victory was decided, and it was only a matter of time. Fighting a group of untrained civilians is nothing glamorous.

is such a fool who has no self-knowledge, does not know how to move and fight flexibly, and must defend the city when the army is pressed from all sides.

He was able to incite hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to rebel, and I really admired that he himself was carried away by religious fanaticism.

There were bursts of gunfire on the school ground, white smoke rose, and the formations of 300 and 500 people took turns to play, and the drills of Liaozhen, Dongjiang, Jinzhen, and Dengzhen were completed, and finally the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions.

Because of the large number of people, the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions first set up small phalanxes, and finally large phalanxes, as many as 3,000 people. The spears were erected like a forest, and the muskets roared like thunder, and the power was truly amazing.

Although there is still room for improvement and more proficiency, Zhu Youxiao is still very satisfied with more than two months.

"Good practice." Zhu Youxiao tilted his head slightly and praised Gonggong Cao who was standing beside him.

Cao Huachun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the expression on his face was more respectful, "The emperor commanded, the slave and maid did not dare to slack off." ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled, grabbed the binoculars, and watched the battle array drill more and more carefully.

"It's just that there are too many people, and we don't practice well." Kong Youde tilted his head and said to Zhang Pan in a low voice.

Zhang Pan looked at it carefully and carefully, and when he heard Kong Youde's evaluation, he smiled faintly and was noncommittal.

"As long as the soldiers are brave, they can fight against Jiannu in the wild." In Liao Zhen on the other side, He Kegang touched his chin and made his own judgment.

Cao Wenzhao smiled and said: "If you want to be bold, our Liaozhen and Jiannu have the most confrontations, and they should be the first. ”

Zu Dashou bowed slightly, looking profound.

The generals of Dengzhen and Jinzhen, as well as the officers who were transferred to martial arts from various military towns, were also whispering, appreciating, analyzing, and judging.

Zhu Youxiao was relieved in his heart that the training time of the new army was still short, and it was quite good to be able to reach the current level.

During this training period, many generals put forward a lot of questions and suggestions for improvement based on their own experience and experience in training.

For example, arquebuses are more suitable for defensive operations, and in field battles, it is necessary to take into account the influence of weather, such as wind and rain.

If you are relying on the city to defend, you can take measures such as building a tent to shelter from the rain. If you are in the field, you can only put on a bayonet and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

Another example is the poor mobility of the spear musket phalanx, if you fight with Jiannu, it will be difficult to pursue and expand the results of the battle if you win; But if it is defeated, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties under the pursuit of the Jiannu cavalry.

In other words, this Spanish phalanx, that Gustavus phalanx, still can't put the embarrassment of infantry against cavalry.

It boils down to one point, that is, the initiative in combat.

If you set up a battle formation, will people stupidly bump into you? Maybe the first and second time will do this, who doesn't learn to be obedient after suffering?

Jiannu is a cavalryman, circling around your phalanx, what if he doesn't fight you? Your phalanx can't catch up, and you can't drive over the mountains and mountains to the city of Shenyang, and go straight to the nest of Jiannu.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao has a clear understanding, but he doesn't think that it will be so easy to exterminate Jiannu.

When he began to train the new army, he also considered selecting and inspecting generals, and deliberately gave them relatively loose drills, just to see which of these generals used their brains to fight, and which ones were only suitable for being a fierce general who rushed to the front.

When he saw that someone put forward the idea of a trench breastwork, even if it was only a prototype and far from Zhu Youxiao's standard, he was also excited and gratified.

This is the correct posture for defense, defending the city without fighting the city. The moat under the city was blocked by deer, the musketeers relied on the breastwork fortifications to shoot the enemy, and the city was bombarded by artillery, what a spectacle it was!

Therefore, for such a long time, it has been both a training of soldiers and a training of generals.

The "Officers' Drill Code" was also perfected, renamed the "Infantry Drill Code", and began to be published as an official textbook for martial arts.

And the Ordnance and Gunpowder Bureau, which is responsible for supplying weapons and equipment to the new army, has also continued to receive good news.

Tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen have been concentrated, new rules and regulations have been implemented, and the management has become more and more scientific, and the benefits have become more and more obvious. Well, it's really a lot of money.