I want to be emperor

Chapter 328 Desperate Shi Kefa
I don't know if it's self-confidence or superstition. In short, Yingtian's new standard army created by Governor Yingtian is a very bold and radical configuration with a large number of arquebus gunners and a few spearmen.

There is a new standard army of hundreds of people in Fujian, which is even more strange, all musketeers, not a single spearman...

Not every one of these new standard troops needs to be taken seriously by the Chu army, after all, regardless of equipment and soldiers' quality and organization.

As far as the number of troops is concerned, most of the new standard troops in the Ming court are useless, because many of them have only a few hundred people and cannot affect the overall situation.

Among the many new standard troops of the Ming court, the ones that have really scaled up at present can make up almost the size of a mixed regiment, that is, there are not many new standard troops of about 2000 people.One of the most famous is the Huguang New Standard Army compiled and trained by Yang Sichang. This Huguang New Standard Army was organized into left and right armies before the Chunan Battle. guns and a few five-pound field guns.

However, the elite of this department, that is, the left army of Huguang Xinbiao Army was completely wiped out by the Chu army in the Battle of South Chu, and the right army suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Changsha. Recovered to more than 3000 people.

After Yang Sichang was arrested and imprisoned by Chongzhen, this Huguang new standard army was taken over by the new Southwest Governor Xiong Wencan, and continued to restore to the size of 5000 people.

It is worth noting that although the Huguang Xinbiao Army fought to the death with the Chu Army in the Battle of South Chu, they never fought a serious line battle with the Chu Army from the beginning to the end, and they were all passive defenses. fight.

In addition to the new standard army of Huguang, there is also the new standard army of Guangdong and Guangxi. The new standard army was compiled and trained by Xiong Wencan when he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Before the Battle of South Chu, there were only a few hundred people. The pressure was huge, so the Guangdong-Guangdong new standard army quickly expanded to a scale of 5000 people.

The Huguang New Standard Army and the Liangguang New Standard Army each have a mixed brigade-sized force. These two new standard troops are also an important support for Xiong Wencan to sit in Zhaoqing and resist the Chu army's further southward movement to Guangdong and Guangxi.

Then came the Anlu New Standard Army under the command of Shi Kefa on the Eastern Front. This new standard army was compiled and trained relatively early, because the Jiujiang front line in the early days belonged to Yang Sichang's defense area, and Yang Sichang had ordered Jiujiang to organize the new standard army early on.

Later, after Shi Kefa came to power, based on the new standard army in Jiujiang, the new standard army in Anlu was expanded and trained, with a strength of about 500 people.

There are two other main new standard troops on the eastern front. One is Yingtian's new standard army. This new standard army is a bit special. It is purely the powerful and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. They are afraid that the Chu thieves will come and support Governor Yingtian. It was done, with more than 5000 troops, but the distribution of troops is rather strange, and there are more musketeers...

3000 of them have been sent to the front line of Jiujiang and are currently stationed in Hukou.

Then there is the Jiangbei New Standard Army. The predecessor of this Jiangbei New Standard Army was actually the Henan New Standard Army led by Chen Biqian. However, the Henan New Standard Army had very few troops during its period, only a thousand people.

After Wang Jiazhen succeeded Chen Biqian as governor of the Eastern Front, he took over the Henan Xinbiao Army, and then transferred hundreds of Xinbiao troops under the governor of Fengyang, and merged them into Jiangbei Xinbiao Army.

After the Jiangbei New Standard Army went south with Wang Jiazhen, a group recruited and trained in the Jiangbei area. It is said that the strength of the army has reached more than 5000, and it is still expanding.

It's just that although the expansion of this new standard army is very fast, the training time is too short, and the equipment is in short supply, so it can't be regarded as an army.

Then there are several new standard troops on the northern front. Among them, the Central Plains direction is mainly the Ruzhou New Standard Army under Zuo Liangyu's command, with a strength of about 3000 people.

But don't look at the small number of people, but in fact Zuo Liangyu's new standard army should be the best paid and best equipped in the new standard army of all ministries of the Ming court.

Because Zuo Liangyu was personally beaten by the Chu army, he has a deeper feeling for the sharpness of guns, and he himself is a military commander, and he is also a military commander who supports his troops. eyes.

As for a military general who supports his troops and self-respect, everything else can be put aside, but the army is definitely the top priority, so Zuo Liangyu's new standard army is more important than Yang Sichang.

In addition, Zuo Liangyu's methods of making money are not comparable to those of civil servants. If there is no money and food, he is the one who dares to send troops to plunder directly... With the army in hand, he is not afraid of being impeached by others.

Anyway, I have tens of thousands of troops in hand, if you have the ability, you arrest me?

As for Ming Ting, he really didn’t dare. In the past year, there were all kinds of appeasement, various promotions, and those who could be given and those who couldn’t were basically thrown out without money.

In addition to the [-] Ruzhou Xinbiao Army under Zuo Liangyu's command on the northern line, there is also the Shaanxi Xinbiao Army under Sun Chuanting's command on a relatively large scale.

As for the remaining new standard troops, most of them are too small in number, with hundreds or thousands of troops, or they are empty, but in fact they just recruit a group of farmers randomly, without food, without professional training, and without food. No guns.

It's purely in the name of a new standard.

Even in the current Beijing camp, there are new standard troops, but if they want money or no money, they need no one. Except for Chongzhen, there is probably no second person who will care about this new standard army in the Beijing camp.

In addition, there is a very important point that although many governors and generals of the Ming army did not engage in new standard troops, it does not mean that they cannot see the benefits of guns.

The most typical one is Hong Chengchou!
He is not interested in the pure new standard army, and thinks that even if he wants to make guns, he doesn't need to follow the example of the Chu thief...

Hong Chengchou directly cast guns, especially artillery, based on the original elite of the old army, so that the original elite can be effectively used and costs can be saved.

Directly abandon the original elite of the old army, and then pull a group of farmers, and spend a huge price to train them to become the new standard army.

In Hong Chengchou's view, this kind of thing is purely brain burnt out.

As far as the current situation is concerned, how can you have so much time, so much money and food for you to train a new standard army of [-] to [-], and get tens of millions to use ass...

It's better to build more field artillery, and then cooperate with the original elite to fight.

As long as there are enough field artillery, it doesn't matter whether it is the old army or the new standard army, it is still the same war.

From this point of view, in fact, Hong Chengchou emphasized more than other governors, and paid more attention to the role of artillery.

Hong Chengchou always believed that the reason why the Chu thieves were able to win consecutive battles was not the key to the Chu thieves' pawns, but the Chu thieves' artillery.

Chu Bandit's field artillery is really too ruthless!

Later, when Hong Chengchou, like others, discovered that the so-called field cannons of the Chu thieves were actually Hongyi cannons with different gun mounts and shorter barrels, Hong Chengchou also organized people to build a batch of small Hongyi cannons that could be used in field battles. .

They didn't start any new standard army, and directly formed an artillery team to cooperate with the original elite to fight.

To say how effective it is, I'm afraid it will have to be verified by Dongyao.

Because Hong Chengchou has already arrived in Beizhili with the elite under his command, if there is a large-scale battle with Dongyu later, it is estimated that it will almost be able to verify whether this model is effective or not.

When Hong Chengchou led his army to Beizhili, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Shi Kefa was already in trouble.

On August [-], the Chu army officially launched an attack on Jiujiang.

On August [-], the Chu army successively conquered the No. [-] and No. [-] large forts outside the west city gate, so that the area to the north of the Jiujiang West City Wall was directly exposed to the Chu army's soldiers.

On August [-]th, the Chu army began to attack the area around the west city gate. However, it was naturally impossible to directly attack the city head at the beginning. Instead, they continued to shell and fill up the moat at the same time, and gradually eliminated other remnants of the Ming army in this direction. Fortifications.

At the same time, the Chu army continued to dig trenches in this direction, trying to deploy more [-]-jin mortars closer together, and at the same time trying to get the elite heavy armored infantry for the siege to get a closer starting position.

When the Chu army launched a continuous attack on the Xichengmen area, Shi Kefa had no choice but to mobilize Ming troops from other directions to strengthen the defense of the Xichengmen.

However, the Chu army in other directions is not vegetarian.

At this time, the First Division, which was in charge of the battle on the southern city wall, also stepped up its attack.

In the first two ends, because the southern city wall was not the main direction of attack, the first division's attack was more focused on containing the enemy's forces and clearing out some small fortresses.

And when the Sixth Division captured the No. [-] and No. [-] large forts and began to directly attack the western city wall, in order to prevent the Ming army from deploying more troops to reinforce the western city wall, the first division also launched a fierce attack in time.

Although most of the artillery was concentrated at the west gate and the lack of artillery around the south gate caused the First Division to avoid excessive casualties and did not storm those large fortresses, it still created great pressure on the Ming army and forced the Ming army to attack them. The army did not dare to deploy more troops to reinforce the western city wall.

On August [-], after several days of fighting, the Chu army initially filled up the moat outside the west city gate, and also dug underground passages to bury gunpowder.

In the morning of the same day, when a section of the west city wall of Jiujiang was bombed and collapsed with a huge and dull explosion, the Chu army's final general attack on Jiujiang city also began.

A large number of heavy armored soldiers of the commando rushed up to fight the Ming army, and finally succeeded in capturing the ruins and the nearby city walls by relying on their armor and firepower advantages.

During this process, the grenade once again played an important tactical role, making the Chu army's siege operation smoother.

When the west city wall is captured by the Chu army, it is only a matter of time before Jiujiang City falls, and this time will be very short!
Facing the loss of the west city wall, Shi Kefa was desperate, so he could only lead the remnant soldiers to break through the east city gate and flee all the way to the lake mouth.

However, although the Chu army deliberately left the east gate untouched, playing the trick of besieging the three, it does not mean that they did not deploy troops to ambush after staying away from the gate!

(End of this chapter)