Chapter 051

"What a good news!"

"The Ning Navy garrison Cheng Shijie sent good news, and they won another battle."

"Good!"

Sun Yuanhua also knew that it was useless to regenerate qi, so he had to prepare to clean up the mess. Now Emperor Chongzhen, it can also be said that the Ming court has no cards to play.

It is really pitiful, sad, lamentable, and even more ridiculous that a big country, a Ming dynasty with a nominal army of 2.8 million troops, has no troops available.

Sun Yuanhua took the good news from Xu Dacheng's hand, first through the ten lines at a glance, and then read it line by line, it was not over, after reading it, and then read it word by word, he read it three times in a row, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

Cheng Shijie's good news, Sun Yuanhua usually doesn't take a second look at it.

Don't look at it as an army, even if it is an ordinary county order, it can behead more than 200 bandits. However, Sun Yuanhua knew that this bandit was not the same as a bandit.

In Sun Yuanhua's small book, there are records of bandits large and small in Shandong, and these bandits are all left by Sun Yuanhua to him the sacrificial knife of the new army of Denglai.

From May of the third year of Chongzhen, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi and Liang Tingdong, then the secretary of the Ministry of War, as the governor of Denglai. Then, after more than three months, he gradually grasped the power of the governor's yamen.

Since August of the third year of Chongzhen, he has tried every means to raise funds, and recruited a foreign army composed of 27 officers from various European countries, and then recruited craftsmen, built muskets and artillery, and formally trained the new army of Denglai.

It has been 10 months since the formation of the new army in Denglai, and because the education level of the soldiers in the unit is too low, especially the artillery has not yet been completely discharged.

I never thought that the situation in Liaodong was changing too quickly, Zu Dashou, a fool, actually rashly attacked Dalinghe City in the case of insufficient preparation, the status of Dalinghe City is too important, and it is absolutely impossible for Huang Taiji to sit back and watch him build a city, so it is inevitable that Jiannu will attack him.

For his own strategy, he must take advantage of Zu Dashou's persistence to lead the Denglai New Army to support Daling River, but the problem is that once he leaves Shandong, Shandong, which is full of bandits, will plague the place.

According to the report of Cheng Shijie, the garrison of the Ning Navy, the bandit town of Sanshan was a disaster place, and the Ning Navy sent troops to annihilate it, the battle lasted two days, beheaded 203 people, captured 239 people under the command of Zhensanshan, rescued more than 120 women who were robbed by bandits, and seized a number of ordnance.

Zhen Sanshan is one of the bandits recorded by Sun Yuanhua, in Sun Yuanhua's eyes, the strength of this town Sanshan is "6", and Qin Wu's strength is "7", don't look at the town of Sanshan There are not many people, but it is a top elite, the most brilliant robbery of Zhen Sanshan is to rob the right army governor Tongzhi Zhang Keda.

You must know that although Zhang Keda is a hereditary Nanjing Yulin Left Guard Qianhu official, he is even more. In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, Wu Jinshi.

Zhang Keda is not a wine bag and a rice bag, but has a great military exploits, he has fought the Japanese along the coast of Zhejiang, and has been promoted to guerrilla and general.

Later, he followed the general soldier Wang Minghe to quell the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of southwest Guizhou, defeated the invading Japanese invaders many times, and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief. In the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the general army and stationed in Shandong. On the way to his post with two hundred Ding soldiers and cavalry, he was ambushed by Zhensanshan, Zhang Ke fell off his horse with an arrow, and his subordinates were robbed of forty-seven war horses and a number of weapons by Zhensanshancang.

It can be said that Zhen Sanshan is the strongest of the bandits in Shandong, although he only has four or five hundred parts, the bandits who generally have thousands of people do not dare to provoke him.

Sun Yuanhua immediately decided that Cheng Shijie did not lie about his military exploits, and that falsification is an art, for example, Guan Ningjun, who can be said to have killed and injured thousands of people after only beheading a few dozen heads, but because Jiannu transported the corpses and wounded away when he retreated, he did not have many heads.

If it is to kill the good and take the merits, and there are more than 2,000 people in the Yining Navy, then it is not a beheading of 203 levels, but it may be 2,300 levels, or even 5,000 levels, 6,000 levels, it is possible.

Even the worst army will become ferocious when it kills the homeless and peasants, and the homeless people and peasants have no ability to resist in the face of the army.

Cheng Shijie dared to list these data, accurate to single digits, which just shows that there are really dry goods, and he is not afraid of checking, not to mention, Cheng Shijie has returned to the town of Sanshan, and there is a bandit leader who is alive, and he is not afraid of checking.

After reading this good news, Sun Yuanhua found that Ning Haijun actually annihilated Zhen Sanshan at the cost of zero deaths, and his heart was indeed a little more comfortable.

"Congratulations to Lord Futai for getting a strong army!"

Sun Yuanhua knows very well that his political ally, Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has been forced to resign, and the current secretary of the Ministry of War, Xiong Mingyu, was transferred from Nanjing, Sun Yuanhua has no deep friendship with him, and this Xiong Mingyu is also a civilian official who does not know soldiers, and will only observe words and feelings, and once the only army outside the gate is buried, he can only transfer the army under his command.

Even if Sun Yuanhua asked the imperial court to establish the navy, Sun Yuanhua's support for Cheng Shijie only existed verbally, and at this special time node, Sun Yuanhua had to pay attention to this army.

"Dacheng!"

"Job!"

"Prepare, let's go to the Ning Navy to have a look!"

"Ready?"

"Yes!"

Sun Yuanhua sighed and said: "Since the establishment of the Ning Navy, Benxian has neither given food, nor money, let alone equipment, but the officers and men of the Ning Navy have used their lives, and Cheng Shijie has done his best to destroy the Sanshan Department in the first war, however, the strength of the Ning Navy is too weak, and they need to be given some support!" ”

"Futai-sama means ......"

"Eight muskets from Geng Zhongming, sixty muskets from Zhang Tao, and one hundred armor from Denglai's new army!"

Sun Yuanhua felt that with these equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy would be improved.

In particular, the Franc machine artillery, also known as the sub-mother gun, each cannon has seven rounds of ammunition, and adopts the rear-loading type, if it is well-trained, it only takes 140 seconds for a cannon to have seven guns, and an average of 20 seconds can fire a shell. The fast rate of fire is the advantage of the Franc machine artillery, and the power of this gun is also quite good, at a distance of three hundred meters for the entire company in depth.

Although Cheng Shijie can solve cold weapons such as knives, guns and armor, but there is no way to deal with artillery and firearms, the entire Shandong has famous and surnamed cannon craftsmen are here with him, not to mention Shandong, even if it is the entire Ming Dynasty, the most powerful cannon casting technology, he recognized the second, no one dared to admit the first.

Other people's Franc machine guns have only three subsystems, and the air tightness is extremely poor, and the rate of fire of the Franc machine guns is also close. However, Sun Yuanhua made slight changes to the Franc machine gun. The scope of the changes is indeed not large, even the sub-guns, which can also be regarded as artillery shells, have been increased from three to seven, greatly increasing the firepower to continue to strike. In addition, a wedge mechanism is added to the tail of the gun, and the sub-gun is stuffed into the barrel through the wedge mechanism, so as to avoid air leakage.

In this improved Franc machine gun, the effective firing range from the original 300 to 500 meters was increased to more than 1,300 meters, of course, because the barrel was smoothbore, the accuracy did not improve much.

As a technocrat, in Sun Yuanhua's eyes, increasing equipment is equivalent to improving combat effectiveness, but there are many factors that determine combat effectiveness, he only trained the combat skills of the Denglai New Army, but did not teach the Denglai New Army why and why to fight.

As a result, during the Wuqiao Mutiny, the Denglai New Army built by Sun Yuanhua Feizi directly cheapened Kong Youde.

Just when Sun Yuanhua was about to go to the Ning Navy to inspect, Cheng Shijie was taking the officers above the sentry commander of the Ning Navy to criticize and self-criticize.

"This time it's General Ben who is not prepared!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "General Ben really didn't expect that this day would become so fast!" Because he did not expect and was not prepared, he caused forty-three soldiers to suffer frostbite of varying degrees. ”

The weather at the end of the Ming Dynasty was completely different from that of later generations, in which Shandong was a place with four distinct seasons, cold in winter, warm in spring, hot in summer, and cool in autumn. But the problem is that there is no autumn now, and it is a step from summer to winter.

"Lord Garrison, this weather is abnormal, sudden snowfall, no one thought of it, don't blame Lord Garrison......"

"Wrong is wrong, absolutely not perfunctory!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said: "The speed of our Ning Navy is too slow, especially the senior officer part, according to the establishment of our Ning Navy, twelve people are a team, and four teams plus the forced team are one sentry. In addition to the two generals of Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu, the garrison has appointed 20 divisions, and the other three generals have not been appointed, because everyone's ability is not enough to serve as a general or general. If you want to make progress, you can only face up to the problems around you, as well as face up to your own shortcomings and shortcomings, instead of being arrogant and complacent, thinking every day, if I am on, I am better than whom! It is the most rare thing for people to recognize themselves! ”

Under the leadership of Cheng Shijie, the officers began to reflect on their mistakes and shortcomings.

Finally, Cheng Shijie made a concluding speech: "The speed of our Ning Navy is too slow, since the establishment of the army, the army has not carried out skill training, the defenders believe that training is not able to train good soldiers, let alone train a good army, an army can not have good weapons, can not have sufficient supplies, can not have hard armor, but must not be without courage and perseverance. ”

Cheng Shijie felt the urgency of time, he didn't have time to follow the step-by-step process, so he could only take extraordinary measures.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the huge map on the table and said: "In our Ninghai Prefecture, in addition to Zhensanshan, there are also 23 groups of bandits such as Zhuanlin Leopard, Xiao Li Guang, Caoshangfei, Zhenshan Tiger, Mao 100,000, Little White Dragon, Xiashan Tiger, Mountain Leopard, Ding Tianliang, and Gun King Li.

"No, it's best!"

Cheng Shijie said: "As a soldier, the duty is to protect the family and defend the country, only by eliminating these bandits, can we protect ourselves, spring ploughing will start next year, none of you want to be during our spring ploughing, these bandits will go down the mountain to attack, now I order, let's Ning Navy training, officially launched!" ”