Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 106 What is Dimensionality Reduction Strike?
It was already afternoon.

The sun is westward.

The sun slanted on the ground.

The north wind was blowing.

The weeds and shrubs on the ground rustled, as if there were layers of fine waves churning on the ground.

Zhu Shedou, the guard of the Golden Fort of the Qing Army, who was neatly dressed, carefully laid down on a crenel of the stronghold of the military fort, poking his head out and looking around.

Zhu Shedou once followed Agui to participate in the battle of big and small Jinchuan.

The official went to the General Army of Yunnan.

The army is known for being strict.

He is also one of the few Han officials in the Qing army who dared to charge with arrows.

in history.

Zhu Shedou personally led the charge and died when he suppressed the White Lotus Sect uprising.

This kind of brave general who dared to fight was not too much in the Qing army.

Now Zhu Shedou is taking the Yunnan Green Battalion under his command, as well as an artillery team reinforced to him, to guard the Golden Fort.

As a support for mutual support with the main city of Ganzhou.

In the Golden Fort, counting the artillery team of a sub-cannon, the total strength is also close to 800.

The number of people is not too many.

However, the Golden Fort is not big as a whole, and more than 3000 people are enough to defend such a strong fortress.

As long as there is sufficient food, grass and ordnance.

Even if it is besieged by tens of thousands of troops, it is difficult to capture such a fortress composed of artillery, muskets, and bricks and stones.

However, Zhu Shedou, who was lying on the battlements and squinting his eyes to observe his enemies, always felt a little uneasy.

He looked over and over again at the Ming army infantry lined up in the distance, as well as the huge camp that was being built further away, and the red-bottomed sun and moon flag flying high above the camp.

Under Zhu Shedou's gaze.

Soldiers from the five brigades lined up to rest on the ground.

They held muskets, wore fiery red military uniforms, cowhide boots on their feet, backpacks on their shoulders, and a round hat with a brim of about three inches on their heads.

The hat is covered with gray linen.

I don't know what material it is made of?

This is actually a one-piece die-cast helmet.

With a large amount of cheap steel, industrial products like helmets can be produced continuously only by starting the production line.

high efficiency.

So now the Ming army is basically equipped with this kind of wide-eave steel helmet.

Subsequently.

Zhu Shedou's eyes shifted to another group of people.

They were not equipped with muskets, and they were not wearing red Ming army uniforms, but uniform gray cut-off uniforms, cloth boots on their feet, and short-handled shovels in their hands.

These should be soldiers and civilians recruited by the Ming army.

Or auxiliary soldiers.

Waving the shovel in his hand to dig trenches and build villages.

Even the auxiliary soldiers seem to have a system of rules and regulations, with a clear division of labor and an orderly system.

Even these auxiliary soldiers, as long as they are equipped with weapons, can also go to battle to kill the enemy, and they are worse than most of the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army.

"At the military gate, five brigades have arrived, with about 2 people. It seems that they are just the vanguard of the Ming Dynasty. There are about 1 auxiliary soldiers accompanying the army."

Just as Zhu Shedou was observing.

His Ghoshha hurried over and whispered.

"That's more than [-] people. It's impossible for Ni Ming to dispatch only such a small number of people this time. They have [-] elites, and they have been recruiting with all their strength recently. A rough estimate is that there are [-] to [-] soldiers. .”

Zhu Shedou frowned and said.

This stout, dark-faced, broad-eared general of the Qing army, good at archery and military use, with a pair of iron walls like iron tongs, couldn't help but sighed, and said in a low voice: "It has been more than a hundred years since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. It has been a hundred years, and now the Qing Dynasty is in a glorious and prosperous age, which shows that the Qing Dynasty has its own destiny. In this situation, why should there be any more heroes in the Han family? It just makes this peaceful and prosperous age like a mirror of water and moon, and the world is full of disputes. I really don’t know When will you rest?"

Zhu Shedou looks like a vulgar martial artist, but when he speaks, he speaks in a manner that is quite literary.

"Junmen, don't care what kind of hero he is, why don't you let the humble officer take the defeated troops out to test the strength of the Ming thief, isn't it just defeating the Guangdong and Guangxi soldiers who are like waste snacks, let us Yunnan soldiers go up and try!"

"As a general, make a decision before moving! Going out to fight will waste the lives of soldiers in vain. This time, the general only wants to defend the city. He must not go out to fight, lest the enemy take advantage of him!"

Zhu Shedou taught him a lesson.

The Ming army defeated [-] Qing troops in Guangzhou.

Of course, the top officials of the Qing court knew the course of the battle and how they lost.

But the impact of this battle is not to the point where everyone knows it.

so.
Now there are still some green battalion soldiers who want to try the Ming army.

At this moment, both Zhu Shedou and Geshha beside him were suffocating.

Just behind the five infantry brigades.

A troop of cavalry came.

The tall horse was neatly dressed, and the shiny breastplate shone with the light of the sun, like a mirror, making Zhu Shedou's eyes hurt by the reflected light even when he looked at it.

He squinted his eyes, and the shock in his eyes couldn't be concealed even by the light reflected from the breastplate.

More than a thousand rides.

The queue was as neat as a queue of infantry.

All steel helmets with wide brims, breastplates, and nine-foot lances.

The horses under the crotch are all Indian fold-eared horses with a shoulder height of six or seven feet.

between marches.

Come like a wall.

"What an elite cavalry!"

Zhu Shedou exclaimed.

Don't say anything else.

Just this shiny breastplate is enough to make people unable to move their eyes.

The fact that there are such bright nails shows that it is definitely made of steel.

All of a sudden, a thousand shock cavalry equipped with breastplates appeared on the battlefield.

This made Zhu Shedou even more worried about the prospect of this battle.

But what he didn't know was.

These thousand riders are the precious bumps of King Zhu Ming.

It is absolutely reluctant to put it on the battlefield.

But these thousand rides are not useless-this is actually for viewing.

The cost of building such a team of cavalry is too high.

It was so high that even Boss Zhu felt distressed.

But with these thousand cavalry to support the facade, the Ming army will also have cavalry in the future, right?

According to Boss Zhu's idea.

What kind of ideal cavalry should be riding cheap war horses, equipped with muskets and pistols, charging thousands of miles, and turning like the wind.

It doesn't hurt to be disabled.

The kind that can be added at any time.
Ok.

Wait for the successful development of firearms such as revolvers that can be fired in succession.

This low-cost cavalry can be set up.

After all, if we want to fight the Russians in the prairie and the Western Regions in the future.
It is still necessary to give full play to the advantages of the herdsmen on the grassland.

If you are grazing and fighting at the same time.

Such a cavalry army can even go directly to Moscow without a logistical supply line.
Boss Zhu was riding on the horse, holding up the binoculars to look at the Golden Fort and Ganzhou City not far away.

Napoleon praised from the side: "It's a very good fortress. Considering the jagged structure of firepower, if it was in the past, it would be almost impossible to break such a fortress without half a year to a year of preparation."

"But times have changed now."

Of course Zhu Daohua knew.

This kind of bastion-like fortress is quite difficult to attack according to the traditional method.

But now, this kind of fortress cannot withstand the footsteps of the Ming army.

"The only problem is that if we break Ganzhou City too soon, Qianlong won't run away, right?"

"Probably not. Are you so cowardly?"

Napoleon also said uncertainly.

"The best thing is to let him leave even if he wants to. Has the staff come up with a plan for how to control the main channel of the Yangtze River?"

Zhu Daohua put down the telescope in his hand and asked.

Napoleon shook his head and said, "The Qing court obviously knew the importance of the Yangtze River, and they were fully prepared."

"Jiangyin Fortress, Taiping Prefecture Fortress, Zhenjiang Fortress, and the defense system of Jiangning City itself, these are the four checkpoints that our army must pass through if it wants to enter the Yangtze River from the mouth of the Yangtze River. Without the support of the army, it is difficult for the navy to break through these four barriers. The blockade of a fortress, entering the inland waterway of the Yangtze River."

In fact, the artillery equipped on the forts of the Qing army are very old red cannons.

The Qing court called it the General Cannon.

It was a very bulky muzzle-loading smoothbore gun.

Because of the casting process.

In order to improve the success rate of cannon casting, the barrel is extremely thick and the barrel is extremely heavy.

But because it was installed on a fixed fort and shot at the river.

Therefore, it can have a large caliber, and at the same time, it has good accuracy-because each cannon blocks a fixed area, and the cannon body basically does not move.

The gunner only needs to load, wait for the target to enter the predetermined area, and then fire and launch.

under these circumstances.

Even this kind of backward artillery.

It can also play a role in blocking the river.

In addition, the Qing army also set up obstacles such as iron chains on the Yangtze River to cooperate with the fort operations.

Therefore, in order to enter the Yangtze River from the mouth of the Yangtze River, these four lines of defense must be broken.

If the army hadn't taken down these fortresses in advance.

Relying on the navy alone, I'm afraid it will suffer a lot of losses.

And if the Ming army has advanced to Jiangsu and is going to attack the artillery groups of these four fortresses.

Qianlong had already slipped away in advance.

This is why Qianlong dared to put his actions in Nanchang Mansion.

Even if the Ming army advanced to the foot of Nanchang City.

As long as the waterway of the Yangtze River is still in the hands of the Yangtze River Navy of the Qing Army.

Then Qianlong would have no worries about retreating.

"Is it possible to enter the Yangtze River system from the Pearl River?"

Zhu Daohua turned his head to Tao Biquan, the military adviser next to the text.

"There are, but they are not suitable for large ships. The Lingqu that connects the Pearl River and the Xiangjiang River is too narrow for warships to pass through. How about building warships in Changsha and competing for the Yangtze River with the Qing Dynasty?"

"No hurry, no hurry. The railway from Nanxiong Prefecture to Nan'an Fucheng is only more than 60 miles away. If there are enough people, a temporary railway will be repaired in three months! When the time comes, the iron-clad ship will be transported by railway to the city. It can be assembled in Nan'an Prefecture!"

Of course the armored ship has been developed, but it is not big.

It's too small to be placed in the sea.

However, it is appropriate to put it on the river and fight in the river.

A few ironclad ships can run away from the Yangtze River Navy of the Qing court.

By the time.

The four fortresses that Qianlong painstakingly managed.

It became a pile of scrap iron.

What is Dimensionality Reduction Strike?
(End of this chapter)