Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 121 Guns, Artillery, Cavalry.

Qianlong was able to firmly control the Qing Empire for more than [-] years, and was able to exterminate the Zhungeer tribe during his reign, ending the war between Qing and Zhun that lasted for more than half a century.

His wrist is definitely not bad.

At least compared with an elm head like his grandson Daoguang.

Although Qianlong implemented extremely severe literary prison and ideological restraint when he was in power.

But he is very clear about his reasons and motives for doing so.

It's not enough to fool yourself.

So, he built a coat of arms, made muskets and cannons.

They are all changes to deal with the new Ming Dynasty in the south.

Now, in order to deal with the explosive bombs of the Ming army, he even thought of using a side-track method such as using a sandbag.

Under his gaze.

One after another, the sandbags lay on the ground, and those Southern Green Battalion soldiers who were further behind and the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion soldiers who were supervising behind were exposed to the firepower of the Ming army.

But they are also smart, lying under the sandbag wall one by one, holding their heads to avoid the shelling.

After a while, he got up after making sure that no shells fell on his head.

"Nan Manzi, what are you looking at, go for me!"

An angry rebuke in a Shaanxi-Gansu accent sounded.

Chen Huacheng withdrew his gaze from behind, and clenched the spear in his hand.

He is from Tong'an County, Fujian Province.

Invade Fujian Lvying as the general manager.

But because Tong'an County already belonged to Daming.

As a native of Fujian, he is no longer trusted, and now he is the same as many green camp soldiers from Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places.

All the muskets and other weapons in his hands were taken away.

Only a wooden spear was stuffed, which became the cannon fodder for pushing the sandbag cart at the front.

Now the sandbag is destroyed.

They also held wooden guns and lined up in a horizontal formation, and went up to charge.

Belonging to the complete cannon fodder.

Chen Huacheng was holding a wooden gun, and the 17-year-old boy was already hungry with his stomach sticking to his back.

Plus the cost of pushing this heavy sandbag.

Now when I walk, I have one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The wobbly and sympathetic Southern Green Battalion soldiers leaned on each other and bypassed the sandbag truck in front of them.

Carefully avoid the corpses and pieces of meat lying on the ground.

Gritting his teeth, he walked forward.

"Turning into brothers, we are going to be treated as cannon fodder that consumes Ming army shells."

Next to Chen Huacheng was talking about a young man who was about his age. He was dark and strong, but now he was panting when he walked.

The black-shaped young man's name is Chen Liansheng, from Hubei.

His hometown did not become the land of Daming, but it was swept away by the White Lotus Sect bandits, and it is not known whether his parents and family members in his hometown were swept away.

In this troubled world, the tragedies of wives and children being separated and families being destroyed are happening all the time.

"I have eaten a bowl of rice soup since morning, and I don't know whether I will be beaten to death by the Ming army or starved to death."

Chen Huacheng, who staggered forward with his gun in hand, said in a low voice. At this time, the supervising army behind him was already a little far away from them.

"Damn it, the people from the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp and the Baoyi Army ate white rice this morning." Chen Liansheng swallowed and said, "I have nothing to hope for now, so I just want to have a full meal."

Chen Huacheng couldn't help feeling sad when he heard the words.

Although his Anren Chen family is not a rich and powerful family, but when his father and uncle were around, they were all working in the green camp in Fujian.

Although he is destined to become a green battalion officer in the future.

But he has never been short of food since he was a child, and he has also attended private schools, read sage books, and read many military books. If there is no accident, his generation has the opportunity to reach a higher level in the green camp system.

However, all of this has now become a mirror in the water.

His father and uncle died one after another, and the 17-year-old Chen Huacheng was forced to take his father's place and was drafted to the front line in Guangdong.

Then all the way back down.

Anren County is now the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the sporadic incidents of the defection of the Southern Green Camp soldiers that have occurred continuously before.

Green battalion soldiers like him are no longer trusted and become consumables on the battlefield
Either they were starved to death, or they were beaten to death.

Anyway, he was going to die.

"Turning into a brother, my brother doesn't want to die!" Chen Liansheng said with his head down.

Chen Huacheng shook his head.

"Who would want to die? Brother Lian Sheng, we are now doomed to be cannon fodder."

"Go to hell!"

"Get down! The shells are coming!!"

The whistling of the cannonball across the sky caused the two of them to rush forward and fall to the ground.

Intensive gunfire sounded.

But it didn't hit them, the target was the mortar carts behind them!

"The opportunity is here! Turn into brothers, go!"

Chen Liansheng slapped Chen Huacheng suddenly, dropped the spear in his hand, stood up and rushed forward.

Whoosh whoosh!
A bullet grazed his scalp.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, surrender! Surrender!!"

Chen Liansheng yelled, and without knowing where the strength came from, he ran two or three hundred steps in one breath, and when Chen Huacheng looked up.

The opponent has already rushed into the trenches of the Ming army.

"I should be able to have a full meal now, right?"

Chen Huacheng thought.

Just now.

There was a burst of drumming in front of me.

tread!tread!tread!
Chen Huacheng looked up, only to see rows of Ming soldiers carrying muskets, stepping neatly out of the trench.

"Get up! Get up!"

"It's time to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty!!"

"Beheading one person will reward you with five liang of silver, and you will be promoted to a higher rank!"

loyal?

This Qing Dynasty, why should I be loyal?
Chen Huacheng, who got up from the ground, was a little envious of the courageous Chen Liansheng.

This guy from Hubei is very courageous.

Pity.
If we ran over together back then, would we also have dinner now?
"This is to consume our shells with cannon fodder!"

Yang Yuchun could see the Qing army's intentions at a glance, and there was a bit of complicity and happiness in his eyes.

The green battalion soldiers who were used as cannon fodder on the opposite side were once considered his colleagues.

Now it is abandoned without hesitation.

Let Yang Yuchun also have a kind of sadness of hurting the same kind.

"A company of mortars bombarded the opponent's mortar vehicles. The first musketeer battalion, the second grenadier battalion, and the directly subordinate hunting company came out! The rest retreated to their positions, and the second light howitzer company pushed the guns to the running position, waiting for the clear The cavalry come up and bomb again!"

Yang Yuchun leaned against the parapet with a telescope and issued a series of orders.

A battalion of infantry came out, arranged in three rows.

A grenadier battalion was behind them, also forming three horizontal teams.

They will throw out a round of grenades when the infantry battalion fires a round of bullets and then launches a hand-to-hand charge, followed by a hand-to-hand charge.

Or form a hollow phalanx with the infantry battalion when facing the cavalry attack, and use grenades to bombard the enemy cavalry.

Accompanied by rhythmic drumbeats.

The army formation of more than 1000 people stepped out of the trench and went directly to the Qing army's cannon fodder green battalion and Ganshan green battalion in the middle.

"How brave!"

Qianlong took a deep breath.

Dare to step out of the trench swaggeringly in front of the tens of thousands of troops with thousands of cavalry.

Really bold.

"The opportunity is here!" Le Bao was overjoyed.

Le Bao is also a veteran on the battlefield, having fought against the Zhungeer Ministry in the Western Regions for many years.

Now the soldiers of the Ming army dare to swagger out into battle without cavalry guards. Isn't this seeking their own death?
"God bless the Qing Dynasty, let the cavalry team of Zhalang Atong, the general of the vest camp, rush to the enemy's formation!"

Zhalang'a is a mighty under Lebao.

Following Le Bao in the South and North Wars, he gained a lot of benefits when he conquered Zhungeer.

The Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion had cavalry.

In fact.

The eight governors of the Qing Dynasty.

To the late Qianlong Dynasty.

Except for the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, all Han people (except the Han Army Banner) served as governors.

Only the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, it was not until the Daoguang period that a non-banner came to this position for the first time.

seven other governors.

There are both civil and military officials.

Only the governors of Shaanxi and Gansu are all filled by military positions.

This is actually related to the fact that the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu was the elite of the green camp in the Qing Dynasty, and was another pillar of force in the Qing Dynasty besides the Eight Banners.

The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu formed a custom after 25 years of Qianlong, and its full title is "Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, admiral of military affairs, food and payment, management of tea horses and governor affairs".In addition, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu was the first among the eight governors in the country to add the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Some of the governors of other provinces in the early days still had the title of minister of the Ministry of war.

In the early Qing Dynasty, most of the high-ranking officials in Shaanxi and Gansu were generals, and civilians accounted for a minority.And all of them are bannermen (including the Han army banner).In the 25th year of Qianlong, Yin Jishan served as the first governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, followed by Huang Tinggui, Yongchang, Wu Dashan and so on.

Shaanxi-Gansu is a special place. Among the green battalion armies in all provinces of the country, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion has the largest number of people and the strongest combat effectiveness.

Kangxi once said: "The green battalion soldiers in the world are not as strong as Shaanxi, and their number is twice as heavy as that of other provinces."

When Ping San Francisco.

There are also Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao, Sun Sike and others in the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp, known as the "Four Generals of Hexi".

therefore.

This Shaanxi-Gansu green camp is different from the green camps in other places.

Under the attention of the Qing court.

The combat effectiveness of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion is much higher than that of other Green Battalions.

Thousands of cavalry charged.

Shake the ground.

Yang Yuchun sneered when he saw it.

With muskets and artillery, cavalry is no longer king on the battlefield!

"Hollow phalanx!"

Following Yang Yuchun's order.

The advancing Ming army infantry immediately changed their formation.

A hollow square array about sixty or seventy steps long on all sides was formed.

On the periphery are musketeers holding bayonets.

Inside is the grenadier with the fresh-keeping cover of the grenade removed.

at the same time.

The six light howitzers retreated, aimed directly at the cavalry of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion who were charging, and fired!
With a ballistic trajectory parallel to the ground, the steel shell cannon can withstand huge chamber pressure, which also brings a great exit speed.

The shell visible to the naked eye suddenly hit the chest of a war horse, and the conical shell penetrated the horse. The sudden stop of the shell caused the safety pin inside the fuse to be thrown out under the action of centrifugal force, and the primer was ignited.

next second.
boom!
The artillery exploded in the air.

Numerous shell fragments flew across.

Sieve the surrounding cavalry with men and horses.
In front of such weapons.

The cavalry will withdraw from its position as the absolute main force on the battlefield in a short period of time, and become a part of the battlefield system that must cooperate with infantry to fight.

future war.

It is the mentality that muskets, artillery, and cavalry cooperate with each other.

(End of this chapter)