The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 620 The First Field Battle

Ding Yi was stunned when he received the order. Since the establishment of Beigou City, he and Huang Taiji have had a tacit understanding not to attack each other, because both sides know that the other side is desperately digging pits and building blockhouses.

Now Gaizhou has been painstakingly managed by Huang Taiji for several years. There are probably more pits and bunkers at the top of the city than what Ding Yi dug in Jinzhou and Xu Dabao.

Of course, he now has the means to attack strong cities like Gaizhou. Since the release of catapults and gasoline, he has plenty of ways to attack these fortified cities. The most fortified cities are useless in his eyes.

It's just that he's running low on gasoline, and he doesn't want to expose his big killer in advance.

Gaizhou City must not be able to fight, at least not yet.

In the past, he had little land and needed strategic depth and hoarding land, so he attacked Fuzhou and Jinzhou, but the weather in Liaodong was not good, and the grain production was not high, and he had Jeju and Dengzhou as well as senior officials, so Gaizhou is now Nothing to him.

But Emperor Chongzhen's order could not be ignored, so Ding Yi of course continued his old routine, asking the court for money and food, while agreeing to send troops.

So in October, the imperial court rarely shipped [-] shi of grain from Songjiang. This was the first time in the past two years that the imperial court sent more than [-] shi of grain to Phi Island.

There have been sporadic posts before, all with thousands of meanings.

Ding Yi got the food suddenly, it is estimated that Chongzhen wanted to use him.

Sure enough, news came in mid-October that Sun Chengzong was killed by Dorgon. When the news came, the generals of Pidao booed for a while.

The imperial court also came with another urgent order to send troops to Pidao and change it to enter the capital instead of attacking Gaizhou. It seems that Chongzhen was also afraid.

Chongzhen also personally wrote a letter to Ding Yi, to the effect that he knew that Ding Yi had been living overseas in poverty for the past few years, and his life was not easy, but the imperial court really did not have any extra food, and it was all used for Liao's salary, but this time, don't worry, you As long as you enter the imperial capital, we will provide food and grass.

Ding Yi did not hesitate, and finally decided to send troops.

He didn't send troops to save Chongzhen, because he knew that this time the Qing soldiers would plunder another large wave of Ming's wealth and food.

At the end of October, Ding Yi mobilized the 10th Battalion of Maoxin, the 7th Battalion of Xiao Yongqiu, the 8th Battalion of Shang Kexi with 16 soldiers each, and Zhang Jing’s 3000 cavalry. Horses, everyone wears iron armor, which can be called Ding Yi's strongest attack.

It has been almost five years since Zhou Dahu and his wife made the flintlock gun at the end of the sixth year of Chongzhen.

Ding Yi's troops still mainly use Lumi guns.

The flintlock gun is really not a weapon that can be played casually. After Ding Yi made the flintlock gun in the first year, he immediately began to expand the iron furnace to increase the production of steel. At that time, dozens of flintlock guns were sold at the rate of dozens of flintlock guns every month. build.

Because it was impossible for him to expand production at that time and replace the Lumi gun.

Regardless of the manufacturing process or efficiency, Lumi guns were far ahead of flintlock guns at that time.

Moreover, Ding Yi later wanted to export bird guns and low-quality Lumi guns to Japan and North Korea, and he also tried his best to build Lumi guns.

Next, after Ding Yi waited for the production capacity of steel to increase, he got the European spring-wheeled short gun. After a sharp turn, he began to study the spring-wheeled short gun and began to assemble it for the cavalry.

After several years of updating, he has more and more craftsmen, more and more skilled hands, and the output of steel is getting higher and higher.

Until now, in October of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Ding Yi's spring-wheeled short blunderbuss has been equipped with all cavalry at the standard of two per person, and two thousand pieces have been stored.

As for his flintlock guns, after continuous improvement and upgrading, the current monthly production has finally reached [-] pieces.

He now has [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, which are half of the musketeers, and only less than [-] are replaced with flintlocks.

Another two-thirds are still using Lumi guns.

After five years of development, he had only [-] flintlock guns, [-] in use and [-] in reserve.

Ding Yi and his staff have calculated that Lumi guns will still be used in the short term, and the production of flintlock guns must reach [-] per month before they can be fully replaced with Lumi guns.

Probably another two years or more.

There is no way, now that he can keep up with supplies, there are still not enough craftsmen and skilled workers.

A qualified craftsman cannot be cultivated in one or two years.

For this expedition, Ding Yi took two battalions, Mao Xin and Xiao Yongqiu, who were all veterans, the earliest infantry battalion, and the first batch of all members replaced flintlocks.

And his [-] infantry is the same as the [-] cavalry, and everyone takes a horse, which is even more extravagant.

Ding Yi occupied Jeju Island in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and it has been four years now.

Ding Yi dispatched the most horses this time.

Because he really has no place to put him now.

Jeju Island started to sell horses last year, and it can sell [-] to [-] yuan a year.

Ding Yi used to worry about not having horses, but now he worries about not having cavalry.

The speed at which he expanded his army and horses could no longer keep up with the speed at which he raised horses.

Fortunately, Ding Yi thought of this problem before and asked the infantry battalions to practice horseback riding.

The three battalions of Mao Xin and Xiao Yongqiu Shang Kexi were the first infantry battalions to practice horseback riding.

In early November, Ding Yi disembarked from Dengzhou Beigang with more than 11 elite soldiers and horses.

Dengzhou Beigang was newly built later, outside the city of Dengzhou.

After the big ship docked, the whole army led the horses to the outside of Dengzhou City to recover.

This is a military-controlled area, and no civilians came here, but the Dengzhou garrison guarding here could see a steady stream of war horses and teams of armored soldiers getting off the boats, and many people's eyes were rounded.

Dongjiang Town has never seen so many war horses fighting together in the history of Dongjiang Town.

Ding Yi mobilized more than 60 large ships of the navy to transport more than 1 horses, more than 1 soldiers and horses, and a large amount of luggage to Dengzhou for five days.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses did not have professional heavy soldiers. He had about 3000 people in each battalion, three divisions in each battalion, 1000 people in each division, and three bureaus in each division, with more than 300 people in each bureau.

In the past, there were one hundred and two gunmen, gunmen and shield soldiers in each round, and the rest were artillery.

Now there are 150 Gunners and 100 Gunners and Shields in each round, and the remaining [-] to [-] are Artillery.

Artillery is also used as a heavy soldier.

One round consisted of six six-pound field guns, a total of sixteen carts, six carts pulled the guns, and the other carts pulled the overall supplies and food.

Ding Yi's cart is famously big, and it is ready to push the moat to fill the river at any time.

One of his cars could even hold a six-pounder, loaded with shells and powder.

If you pull all the food, you can pull twenty stones.

Can often go outside to fight, six carts pull six guns plus shells and gunpowder, and five of the other ten carts pull one hundred shi of grain.

One hundred shi of grain can feed more than 300 people in a round for ten days.

The other five vehicles are usually equipped with armor, shields, and other supplies. During wartime, they can also grab food on the spot before loading it. Because there are horses now, many of their shields are hung on the horses.

Each soldier also carries a bag, which can be hung on the horse or carried on the back. It has a shovel, five days' dry food, a water bottle and several other things. The total weight is less than ten catties, and the load is relatively light.

This means that Ding Yi's entire army has brought food for fifteen days.

But in addition to the infantry, he still has more than 1 horses, and now the weather is colder and he needs to set up tents.

So on the Dengzhou side, Du Ruhai had already prepared Ding Yi's soldiers and horses. The local hoarded troops consisted of more than 4000 heavy soldiers, [-] mules and horses, and [-] carts, all of which were from various armies. Supplies and equipment, such as tents, various parts, fodder and food for horses, etc.

This is Ding Yi's first time fighting with a special supply soldier.

When punching a hole is virtuous, the imperial court organizes civilian husbands to support it.

When fighting Japan, all logistical support was supported by Songpu, and he did not need to march, but only guarded Iwami Yinshan.

When fighting North Korea, it was also intended to make a quick decision, and wait for the attack.

Going out this time may take a long time to fight in the field to clear the soldiers, so Ding Yi had to bring five thousand soldiers and a large amount of baggage.

Finally, after a few days of rest in Dengzhou, Ding Yi set off, and Ding Yi's troops became more than 6000.

After adding the horses and mules, the whole army has a total of nearly 25 horses and mules, [-] carts, and [-] days of food.

On November 11, on the official road from Huang County to Laizhou.

Ding Yi, Xiao Yongqiu, Mao Xin, and Shang Kexi were riding on horseback, with two hundred soldiers behind him.

Everyone was watching the soldiers and horses marching by the side of the road.

Mao Xin and the others were even more excited.

When I followed Ding Yi from Lushun, I never thought that I would have today.

In front of my eyes, there were waves of cavalry and infantry on horseback heading southwest. The team was endless and endless.

The war horses are all produced in Jeju Island, tall, mighty, strong and powerful.

The soldiers and horses of the three battalions are all veterans of hundreds of battles, and they are invincible.

They rode on horseback, their bodies were straight, their eyes were sharp, and their aura was fierce. Although they were wearing the same clothes of the Ming army, they were different from other Ming soldiers at a glance.

As teams of cavalry passed by, a large number of carriages soon appeared.

Ding Yi's cart is famously large, and if it only holds people, a dozen people can fit in it.

His wheels are all made of iron birch, which are strong and wear-resistant. Every four mules draw a cart, and it can pass through rough mountain roads.

Probably some of the carts did not contain much, and the generals even saw soldiers sitting on the carts talking and laughing.

Seeing the officer here, the two soldiers on the cart were taken aback, got down quickly, and jumped on the horseback.

"Whose soldier is this?" Ding Yi asked with a straight face.

Mao Xin's face flushed: "My lord, it's the fault of my humble position."

It turned out that it was his soldiers and horses passing by.

"It's easy to travel on flat roads now. You have to save energy for the carriage. It is a rule in the army that horses that pull carts don't carry people, and horses that carry people don't pull carts. Didn't you tell them?"

"Please punish me, my lord." Mao Xin hurried, plopped, and knelt down on one knee.

He secretly scolded the generals in his heart, and he must discipline these little ones when he returns home.

After following Ding Yi for so long, this is the first time he has been criticized. He also knows that it is these soldiers who have won every battle after following Ding Yi, and their mentality has drifted.

Now that he is like this, he doesn't pay attention to the Manchu Jiannu at all. It's almost like going on a trip. How dare he sit on the carriage?
"I see that many brothers are in a bad mood now." Ding Yi patted him and motioned him to stand up.

Mao Xin was embarrassed to disturb the head: "Following Master Ding has won every battle, so everyone doesn't take it seriously."

"After stationing in the camp tonight, each of you convenes a meeting above the commander-in-chief of your own battalion, and then ask the commander-in-chief to hold a meeting."

"The generals can't take it lightly. We must solemnly remind them that this is the first time we have come out to fight in the field, and we may be away for a long time. We must not take it lightly."

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have always been wretched under the tower, guarding the tower style, and the defense is the main thing in every battle.

This time, it was the first time that they brought a large amount of food, grass and supplies to find the enemy in the field.

Xiao Yongqiu and other generals nodded deeply, with serious expressions on their faces.

　In the book review area, a power map was made, Lushun's, using the pictures of netizens.Thanks for the graphics bro.

　　
　
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