In fact, there are not many people on the Ming army's side who are so good at Chen Huacheng's martial arts, especially the old elites such as the Ming Army's Guards Corps, Army 1st Brigade, and Dragoon 7th Brigade.

Although the Ming army is now downplaying the regional attributes of the brigades.

But because of the popularity of "Mandarin".

The Guangdong Guangfu soldiers who shouted "Drop Lei Lou Mu" and the Jiangxi soldiers who shouted "Poke Ru Niang", if they have never learned official language, they will not understand what they say to each other.

Therefore, at this stage, the geographical attributes of the brigades are still very strong.

The 1st Brigade of the Army was formed from the Chaoshan dock workers who were originally in Batam, so almost all of the 1st Brigade of the Army were "Chaoshan warriors".

The three brigades of the Guards Corps were composed of "Hakka warriors" composed of the villagers of Jiaying Prefecture of Emperor Zhu.

The 7th Dragoon Brigade is a team composed of elite hunters from various brigades, and the source is very complicated, but Hakka, Chaoshan, and Jiangxi soldiers occupy the main body.

Several brigades of the Northern Expeditionary Corps were recruited from Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

The Liaodong Corps was the poor people of Liangjiang who participated in the formation of the Liaodong Military Tun.

This is a very common phenomenon in ancient times, and even in modern times—otherwise, soldiers cannot communicate with each other, and it will be difficult for commanders to upload and distribute, wouldn't it be too delayed.

And now if you want to say that the most powerful Ming institution of "Tuipu" is now the Ming Navy - this is because the navy is more technical than the army, and the literacy rate is relatively higher, and there are more people who can speak the "official language" of the Ming Dynasty according to "Hongwu Zhengyun" - this kind of official language actually has some accent differences with the Mandarin of later generations, but as long as modern people know Mandarin, they can basically understand it.

Therefore, the soldiers of the 7th Dragoon Brigade, which are mainly Hakka, Chaoshan, and Jiangxi people, are generally not as tall as the Eight Banners of their ancestral hometowns in the northeast.

Moreover, strictly speaking, the Eight Banners are also feudal landlord soldiers, with hereditary Lutian and hereditary military status.

Although the guys in their hands are uniformly distributed above.

But what he wore was his own.

It's just a matter of asking for uniform colors.

Therefore, some of the Eight Banners soldiers are a set of cloth cotton armor.

Some will be lined with iron plates inside the cotton armor to strengthen the defense.

Moreover, many of the Eight Banners soldiers have ancestral martial arts inheritance.

In hand-to-hand combat, these Eight Banner soldiers, who have more or less practiced fighting and killing, are also taller, and some of them also wear cotton armor lined with iron sheets, which are obviously the more advantageous side.

Therefore, on the side of the Ming army, the middle and low-level regiments, like the cuirassier brigades, were equipped with six-shot revolvers.

When encountering hand-to-hand combat, he directly took out a pistol and snapped six bullets out.

You can gain the upper hand in momentum at once - the key to hand-to-hand combat is not only the strength and martial arts of the soldiers, but also the military formation and momentum.

And the soldiers of the Ming army, who suddenly had the upper hand in momentum.

In such hand-to-hand combat, it is a big advantage.

Not to mention.

Except for pistols.

Every Ming soldier had a grenade on his chest.

The cables of this grenade are hung on the belt, and they can be thrown by pulling them down.

Fight bayonets with enemies with pistols and cable grenades.

It really takes a lot of courage.

Such skirmishes soon came to fruition.

The soldiers of the 7th Dragoon Brigade of the Ming Army, better equipped and with higher morale, won this battle for a forward stronghold.

And right now.

The forward formations of both sides also advanced to position.

The artillery of the Ming army was superior, so they crossed the four villages, and the forward support artillery, the forward command post, and the forward military medical post could all rely on these four villages for arrangement.

In the afternoon, just after the time of application.

It was originally very lively, but the constant exchange of fire between the small groups of infantry on both sides and the sound of artillery bombardment on both sides ceased.

It was as if the battlefield had suddenly entered an eerie silence.

In the air.

There was an extremely suppressed tension before the decisive battle.

Both watchcars advanced two miles forward and gathered ten miles to confront each other.

The yellow dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo. Hongli, the Qianlong Emperor, who was over 80 years old, personally boarded the lookout car, holding a glass lens telescope produced by the Internal Affairs Office and costing more than 800 taels of silver, and scanned the front line of the Ming army.

The width of the forward front of the Ming army reached five or six miles.

From the north to the south, the Shinhe River stretches to the south near the end of Mt. Pigpen Mountain.

At this time behind their large array.

The stronghold of four villages was laid out so that it could not be spilled.

A large number of sappers are digging trenches and laying out barbed wire.

If nothing else.

The Ming army planned to use these four strongholds as the support of the forward battlefield and launch a fierce attack forward.

"Your Majesty, looking at the movement of the Ming army, it should be the first wave of attacks before dark."

Fukangan was also watching the Ming army's moves.

Those sappers moved quickly.

It seems to be in a hurry.

At this rate.

They are afraid that they will be able to build a forward position in a few more hours.

And then it was time for the Ming army to attack.

Behind the Ming army's large array.

The logisticians dressed in various colors were busy, and the most striking was the "Dai Xiaobing" wearing white horse coats and white hats.

"That's the Ming Army's medics, Mr. Ambassador."

Confronting the British ambassador George. Staunton's inquiry.

A general of the Qing army explained.

"Medic"

George. Staunton held up the telescope and continued to observe this army, which is said to be the most elite army of the Ming Empire.

His first instinct was.

Specialized!

It's so professional.

It's like a huge machine.

It's as if everyone is just a screw in the machine.

Everyone is busy with their own business, forming a chilling beast of war.

George. Staunton put down his binoculars.

looked at the Eight Banners beside him.

OK

The number of Eight Banners is sufficient.

That's the only advantage anymore.

"Your Majesty, they are now waiting for the artillery movement to come up!"

Fukangan reminded.

The so-called long-term illness becomes a good doctor.

Fukangan is also a bit of a long-term defeat now.

The Ming army was seizing the "momentum" in a series of battles in front.

Occupy the forward stronghold, spread out the front, artillery movement, the wings are spread.

These are preparatory exercises before the decisive battle.

And the real killer move.

It's the coming artillery bombardment!

Zhu Daohua also boarded the lookout car at this time.

The Great Tomorrow Sun and Moon Banner and the Red Earth Dragon Flag, which symbolizes the Great Tomorrow.

Zhu Daohua held a telescope made by the Jiangning Glass Factory to inspect the Qing army's position in the distance.

The performance of the telescope in his hand is actually similar to the one in Qianlong's hand.

However, the manufacturing price is much cheaper - this is the standard telescope of the Ming army, which was finalized through bidding in the second year of the liberation.

The winning Jiangning Glass Factory is a joint venture of businessmen surnamed Gu and Qu from Liangjiang.

It is one of the first modern chemical factories in Liangjiang.

In terms of performance, though, it is not the best among the bidding products.

But relying on low cost won the bid.

The power of production in government-run handicrafts such as the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Internal Affairs came from the pressure of the upper officials, which led to such handicraft factories not being very cost-sensitive, although they could obtain high-quality products under strict punishment and strict laws, and perhaps even higher quality products than private enterprises.

But the biggest feature of this kind of government-run enterprise is the high cost - even in the most ideal situation, for example, the head of the internal affairs government and Shen and the lords, the bureaucrats up and down the internal affairs government are also dedicated to the Qing Dynasty, and love the emperor with all their hearts to serve the Qing Dynasty.

But it can't stand the waste of the craftsmen below in order to be able to achieve the output and quality indicators - because for the craftsmen, the output and quality affect their own heads, and the cost. It's not something they need to think about at all, and the officials above won't think much about it.

On the side of Daming, the Jiangning Glass Factory that won the bid was a factory run by private businessmen.

Naturally, they want to make money, they want to think about profits, they want to think about the balance between performance and the market, and they are naturally more motivated to adopt new technologies in an attempt to reduce costs.

This results in a telescope that performs almost as well.

On the side of the Qing Dynasty, it was a work of art used by the emperor.

It's really a carved dragon and a phoenix, so beautiful.

On the side of Daming, it is a standard product distributed to middle and senior officers.

No carving, no artistic processing.

It's just a copper tube plus a lens.

Imbued with the simplicity of industrialization – highlighting a simplicity.

However, the purchase price was one-twentieth of the imperial telescope in the hands of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty - equivalent to the price of forty taels of silver.

At this time, the purchase price of eight yuan Ming Yuan Daming Army standard telescope is in the field of vision.

What Zhu Daohua, the great tomorrow's son, saw was a completely changed Eight Banners Army.

Although their costumes still retain the tradition of the Eight Flags.

Cotton armor of various colors was draped over the body, and there were officers wearing iron helmets with lightning rods on their heads.

Flags are also split by color.

But the tactics they employed, and even the equipment.

But it was obviously imitating the Ming army.

"Qianlong is much stronger than his grandson." Zhu Daohua muttered in a low voice.

But he is now the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't see the problem as superficially as before.

Qianlong was able to toss the Great Eight Banners established by imitating the Ming army.

The fundamental reason is that the Qing Dynasty still has money in its hands - first, the finances before the Qing Dynasty did not collapse, and there was silver in the treasury, and second, Qianlong's ability to make money was stronger than Daoguang, so he had the money to engage in the Eight Banners.

Daoguang faced a situation where the importation of opium led to an outflow of silver, and several wars to suppress peasant uprisings in the previous dynasty had depleted the Qing Dynasty's financial reserves

No money.

Even if Li Shimin is reincarnated, he can't do it.

Of course.

If Li Er sat in Daoguang's position, he would definitely do everything possible to make money from the beginning.

"Qianlong seems to have grown a lot, his Big Eight Banner looks quite decent, if he is not weakened here, when the Qing court escapes to the Western Regions in the future, I am afraid that the Pingxi Domain will not be their opponent!"

Tao Biquan said with a smile: "But he met the emperor, and his big eight banners are not enough." ”

Zhu Daohua smiled: "This is natural, his Big Eight Banner is just similar in shape but not in appearance." Are the cannons all in motion? ”

"It's in place!"

Tao Biquan took out his pocket watch.

"According to the plan, the artillery bombardment will be launched at three o'clock, and after an hour, the first wave of infantry attacks will be launched!"

"Good!"

Zhu Daohua turned around and walked off the car.

"Push my banner to the front and tell my soldiers that their emperor is with them!"

(End of chapter)