Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 323 Eight Banners Heavy Infantry

The next day, when the morning smoke rose, a drizzle suddenly fell in the sky, which was gray and soaked the scorching land.

"Oops!"

Hong Chengchou boarded the tower, looked at the two barracks that were facing each other, and was suddenly surprised.

His gray beard trembled, and he pushed away the umbrella held up by his personal soldiers, feeling more and more depressed.

Wearing a military robe, he looks quite majestic, and he has been in battle for a long time, so he obviously has some guesses about the battle under the city of Nanjing.

The city of Nanjing cannot be defended, and it is impossible to defend it.

One million people, one day's food, firewood, etc., is a very huge number.

The guards were from the city, and if the huge daily needs of Nanjing could not be met, rebellion became inevitable.

Therefore, since ancient times, it has been difficult to defend a big city, and it has mostly relied on passes.

He hadn't slept all night, his eyes were bloodshot, bags under his eyes were deep, and his complexion was lacklustre, but Hong Chengchou stared at the city, not daring to relax in the slightest.

"It's moving, it's moving—"

In the female wall separated by a few miles, a few middle-aged men in Chinese clothes swaggered up the city wall, watching the two armies gradually mobilizing, feeling excited.

Hu Ju, a well-known figure in Nanjing City, retreated to the second row at this time, giving up the frontmost position to the powerful salt merchants.

Anhui merchants are not the same as salt merchants.

The profit of selling salt is too great, and what is more needed is centralized management, so there are not many Anhui merchants operating the salt industry, and there are only a handful of 20 people who distribute Huai salt.

Huizhou merchants, also known as Xin'an merchants, mainly engaged in the five major industries of wood, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, grain, cotton, and salt.

Salt merchants are powerful, so they become representatives of Huizhou merchants.

The three major merchant groups in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shanxi merchants engaged in border trade, oriented to the Mongols, and traded tea, horses, furs, and ginseng; Shanxi merchants oriented to the plateau, with few people, and operated Sichuan salt and the ancient tea-horse road. blend.

On the other hand, Huizhou merchants covered the south of the Yangtze River, with a wider influence, a larger business scope, and omnipotent operations. At the same time, because they were in the south, they valued reading and regarded themselves as Confucian merchants.

"The development of the two armies seems to be more conducive to the Qing army."

Someone said in amazement: "I heard that the king of Yu relied on firearms to show off his might in battle, but now it's raining, I'm afraid the advantage will be lost."

A group of merchants would not know how to fight, and they came to the city wall just to watch the excitement. After hearing these words, their expressions changed drastically.

Liu Zhi, the leader of the salt merchant, couldn't help but frowned when he heard the words, feeling unsure.

On the side, Hu Ju had already taken refuge in King Yu, how could he destroy his family's prestige, and hurriedly said: "Although it is said, the rainy season is not good for the cavalry."

"Mudy land is the nemesis of cavalry."

"That's right."

Liu Zhi glanced at him, his mind turned a lot, and he immediately guessed that this big Hui merchant in Nanjing had already chosen King Yu.

"Whether it's the King of Yu or the Qing army, although our Huizhou merchants are heirs of poetry and books and are known as Confucian merchants, they are not mediocre. For the sake of the family, we can only uphold the mean."

"The golden mean, that depends on who you are dealing with."

Hu Ju is not afraid of him, and Huizhou merchants are united, so Liu Zhi can't bully him.

"Another Mongolian Yuan like the Qing court, how can we let it go!"

"The eight imperial merchants of Shanxi Merchants have earned a lot of face. If we don't choose Gao Ming, we will be in a difficult situation in the future!"

Liu Zhi sighed, shook his head, and said nothing more.

The merchants at the end of the four peoples are destined to be missed, no matter how careful they are, they cannot be overstated.

As for the identities of the eight imperial merchants, how many of them envy them to death.

The sound of gongs and drums greeted the drizzle, and the two armies started.

Wu Sangui personally took charge of the central army, and the cavalry flew out from the two wings to serve as the front army, but the Eight Banners were full of ten thousand.

Dressed in heavy armor, the queue is neat, concentrated and breathless, with heavy steps, step by step forward without fear of wind and rain, with a chilling murderous aura.

The reason why the Manchu Qing was able to defeat the Ming army several times relied not only on the cavalry, but also on the Eight Banners infantry in heavy armor.

As a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens often acted as mercenaries and followed the Ming army to attack the Mongols, so many of their tactics were very similar to the Ming army.

Tactically, they did not charge loosely like the Mongolian cavalry, but took the heavy infantry as the forerunner, and fought steadily at every step.

Their heavy infantry armor surpassed that of the Ming army, and the Ming army's crossbows and firearms could hardly hurt them.

Later, Zheng Chenggong saw this and formed the "Iron Man Army". This army defeated the elite of the Eight Banners in Zhenjiang, Nanjing and other places, and became famous for a while.

Therefore, the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only the study and imitation of the Ming army.

"As long as our soldiers are well-armored and well-armored, slavery is nothing to worry about."

Zhu Yixi stared intently, and when he saw the heavy armored infantry on the opposite side, his pupils shrank slightly, and he said softly.

Yan Guochao's body, which is nearly two meters tall, couldn't help being excited at this time, but also fearful: "Your Highness, I'm afraid Chongbuying may have encountered some difficulties."

"Jiannu learned from us very thoroughly."

Zhu Yixi nodded, and said: "Don't treat them as tartars, and don't treat them as bandits, just treat them as if we are fighting against our own people!"

"Yes!" Yan Guochao Weng said.

Immediately, he took the heavy step battalion and walked forward slowly.

Two groups of heavy infantry ushered in a real duel.

At the same time, the Chinese army is the firearms battalion and the pro-barracks battalion, which will be supplemented when the heavy infantry is defeated.

"It's not advisable to hit hard!"

Zhu Yixi murmured: "It took only one year to make these heavy armors, and it is difficult to gather tall soldiers, so we can't just consume them casually."

Man Qing was short of barbarians, so he went to catch the wild Jurchens, it was not easy for him to recruit people.

"Let the Fran machine gun and the red gun be adjusted better to cover the heavy step battalion."

This time, Zhu Yixi used a conical formation.

It is a cone-shaped battle formation with the forwards as the heavy infantry battalion, and the two wings as the second battalion of personal soldiers and firearms.

The Chongbu Battalion broke through, and the two wings expanded the results.

And Wu Sangui also played this way.

However, in addition to facing the former army, he also believed in his own cavalry, so he wanted them to find opportunities to break through from the two wings of the Ming army, thus breaking the formation in one fell swoop.

"The two armies of Zheng and Yao were placed in the rear, with their wings open."

Zhu Yixi looked at it and was shocked.

In this way, after removing [-] cavalry, the Qing army's military formation is much weaker than that of the Ming army.

After all, the Ming army stacked [-], but they only had [-].

"With such a weak army formation, isn't Wu Sangui afraid of being broken through? Then trust the Eight Banners?"

Zhu Yixi thought about it, and his mind turned a lot. This is a big disadvantage, how could he not see it?
"Your Highness, Wu Sangui may have done it on purpose."

Wang Yingxiong's eyes were bright, and he guessed: "His intention is probably to consume the Eight Banners, so as to create opportunities for Guan Ning's army."

"Jiannu also wanted to make a contribution, so he agreed."

"Probably."

King Yu nodded slowly. Up to now, there is only such an explanation.

There is a gap between the Qing army, which is good news.

As for the Ming army, I personally sit in charge, who dares to be half-hearted?

This is the victory!

(End of this chapter)