At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 332 Reorganization, new edition, temporary edition
"Brothers, you don't know something. Since our army left the fortress, the situation has been very good..."

Guo Youming spoke slowly and recounted the experiences of Zhang Sheng's unit during this period.

When they heard that Zhang Sheng was sweeping across the grassland, Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu both applauded and shouted that this was how he should be killed.

But after Zhang Sheng pulled up a mob of 100,000 people to massacre Horqin's troops and entered Liaodong.

The two of them were immediately dumbfounded.

This is Sun Guozhu's epic operation in Guangdong!

Unexpectedly, Zhang Sheng and Liang Cheng copied the tiger and the cat on the grassland.

After Guo Youming finished speaking, the Duke of Han carried the coffin and fought to the death, and Dun'ang was killed in the Hunhe Queen.

Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu changed their minds greatly.

"Enter the customs! Must enter the customs!"

"Liaodong has been conquered, and even the coffin of Tatar Taizu Taizong fell into the hands of my front army."

"If you don't enter the customs now, how long will it take to wait?"

Hearing this, Guo Youming smiled and said, "Brothers, I wonder how many soldiers and horses and how many red cannons you have brought with you on this trip?"

He looked at the ships of soldiers and horses, and the supplies of supplies, with burning eyes.

"More than 30,000 soldiers and horses, 20,000 in armor, 600 warships, and more than 20,000 sailors."

"One hundred and thirty-two land battle red-coat guns!" Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu smiled slightly.

"What?" Guo Youming said quickly: "Brothers, when did your two towns, Huben and Qianfeng, become so powerful?"

"You don't know something. During the period when you Xiaoqi Town went north, the king carried out the expansion and reorganization of the army in various places..."

It turns out that when Wu Sangui and Zhang Sheng gave us a fierce slap in the face of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Kewang did not rest in Jiangnan.

He used these few months to expand and reorganize the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command.

Among them, the original 22 towns of the Fifth Army were called reorganized towns.

A new artillery battalion was added to the establishment, which promoted the artillery strength of the reorganized town from battalion level to association level.

Each organized town had twenty-four six-pound field guns.

The twenty newly established towns are called new towns.

These towns followed the previous organization, with each town having only one artillery battalion and twelve six-pound field guns.

In addition, the incorporated Green Camp and Rebel Army were not only absorbed into local armies in branch towns.

Eight temporary towns were also set up.

For example, Lianzhou Town, Gaozhou Town, Raoping Town, Chaozhou Town, Minhai Town, Quanzhou Town, Susong Town, and Wenzhou Town.

Among the eight temporary towns, Deng Yao from Lianzhou Town, Wang Xing from Gaozhou Town, Liu Bolu from Chaozhou Town, and Wu Liuqi from Raoping Town were all old acquaintances of the Guangdong and Guangxi Army.

Minhai Town was built by Geng Fan. Because Geng Jimao retained the royal title after his surrender, he received the title of Minhai King.

Therefore, the temporary town compiled by Geng Fan was called Minhai Town.

In addition, Wang Chengye of Susong Town stabbed Ma Fengzhi in Jiangnan to gain the position of commander-in-chief.

Ma Degong from Quanzhou Town was responsible for assisting Wang Ziqi's army to enter Fujian, and therefore won the position of commander-in-chief.

The origin of the remaining Wenzhou towns is rather strange.

When the former soldiers entered Zhejiang.

Ma Xiong, the admiral of Zhejiang, and others fled to Wenzhou.

In Wenzhou, General Dong Xueli was stationed to prevent Zheng Chenggong from invading.

In February of this year, seeing that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in ruins, Sun Kewang was completely in power.

Dong Xueli's subordinate Niu Wancheng and his subordinates joined Qi Yikui to initiate the disease.

Niu Wancheng's gang captured the Zhejiang admiral, Hangzhou general and other Qing civil and military officials in one fell swoop. Even the old leader Dong Xueli was not spared.

The Manchu and Qing civil and military forces in Wenzhou were directly handed over to the pot.

Even the old and weak Manchus who fled to Wenzhou were not spared.

Niu Wancheng and others directly massacred all the Manchus in Wenzhou.

Use the loyalty of our Qing Dynasty and the blood of our Qing Dynasty Manchus to surrender to Sun Kewang and hope for a better future!
After Sun Guozhu heard the news, Long Yan was very happy and immediately rewarded Niu Wancheng with the position of the general soldier of Wenzhou Town and made him a marquis.

This makes Niu Wancheng so happy that he even enjoys sleeping at night.

But the good times didn't last long.

With the success of the 42 towns of the Fifth Army.

Sun Kewang only gave the original reorganization the title of "Twenty-Two Towns".

There are twenty new towns and eight temporary towns, none of which are included in the list of driving.

This made Niu Wancheng feel resentful. He had once vowed not to be in front of a driver in this life, but to serve the Lord Sun, and he swore not to be a human being!

In general, the hundreds of thousands of troops under Sun Kewang's command are divided into three types: reorganized, new, and temporary.

The strength of the reorganized town ranks first, of course, there are some exceptions.

For example, Geng Jimao's Minhai Town is included in the temporary list.

However, the strength of the temporary Minhai Town, which has thousands of Geng Fan veterans, is better than that of most reorganized towns.

No less than Renwu and Yiwu under Sun Kewang.

Directly pursue Ying Yang, Leopard Tao, Xian Deng, and Hu Ben.

In the reorganized town, Lord Sun's establishment was divided into strong and weak groups.

Reorganized towns are divided into three categories: cavalry towns, infantry towns, and mobile towns in between.

Mobile Town, as the name suggests, is the mobile force under Sun Kewang.

As early as when Zhang Sheng went north, Lord Sun strengthened artillery and assigned more horses and mules to Longxiang Town.

This made Longxiang Town the first infantry town in the history of the Jiaqian Army that was fully equipped with mules and horses.

In the past few months, Sun Kewang tried his best to raise horses and mules.

Let the six towns of Huben, Yingyang, Baotao, Xiandeng, Qianfeng and Houjin change from step to ride, becoming a fully integrated mule-horse army.

These mobile towns were populated by large numbers of draft horses, mules, and horse mules.

In addition to the Artillery Association, it was strengthened from the town's standard twenty-four to thirty-six.

The number of auxiliary soldiers and handymen in the army also expanded to more than 5,000.

Each town had 10,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 auxiliary troops, 36 cannons, and more than 20,000 horses, mules and donkeys.

With the ability to conduct mobile operations of more than a hundred miles per day, it has become a veritable mobile town.

If the four towns of Xiaoqi, Hussar, Tieqi and Ruiqi were the armored divisions in Sun Kewang's hands.

Then these six mobile towns are the armored grenadier division and motorized infantry division in Sun Kewang's hands.

These ten major towns are all transformed into mules and horses, and all have elite soldiers and generals, possessing extremely terrifying maneuverability.

It is the core of Sun Kewang's hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers and millions of people.

In addition, Longxiang Town was destroyed in Texas.

After Chen Jiannan withdrew, reconstruction was carried out with the two thousand elite soldiers left behind in Qufu as the core.

The remaining elite troops of the Jiaqian Army are also in the process of gradually implementing mules and horses and motorization.

Yuan Taoan's Huben Town and Feng Tianyu's Qianfeng Town are both mobile towns.

The soldiers and horses in the two towns each have more than 15,000 people.

Equipped with thirty-six six-pounder field guns.

If converted to ten thousand soldiers, such a force is very close to Napoleon's optimal standard of one thousand men and four artillery pieces.

That's why the two of them said that they had more than 30,000 troops and 20,000 armor.

In addition to the town's artillery unit.

What Sun Kewang sent to Liaodong were two newly established heavy artillery associations.

One is the Twelve-pounder Field Artillery Association, equipped with thirty-six twelve-pounder heavy field guns. One is the 18-pound siege artillery association, equipped with twenty-four 18-pound siege red-coat guns.

The artillery firepower directly under the two towns is seventy-two six-pound light field guns.

The two heavy artillery units were sixty 12- and 18-pound heavy red-coat guns.

The two have a total of 132 light and heavy red-coat guns.

This is what Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu mentioned as one hundred and thirty-two red-coated land cannons!

"Huben and Qianfeng Town have such firepower that even Shanhaiguan is not difficult to defeat!" Guo Youming sighed after listening to the two men's narratives.

"Lao Guo, what is the country's leader doing in Jiangnan now... artillery doctrine!"

"Yes! It's artillery doctrine!"

Feng Tianyu laughed and said: "Six pounds is just the mobile firepower of our mobile town. Twelve pounds and eighteen pounds are the cannons carried by the main army."

"On our warship, the king collected, purchased, and manufactured twenty-four-pound or even thirty-two-pound red cannons!"

He pointed at the dark muzzle of the warship behind him and said proudly.

"What!" Guo Youming was shocked when he heard this.

He naturally knows the power of the red-coated cannon caliber, and the six-pound cannon shell is already good for its purpose.

Not to mention twelve or eighteen pounds.

And now that we have only seen each other for a few months, the master of our country has already gained twenty-four pounds, or even thirty-two pounds?
In fact, China has the largest number of craftsmen and craftsmen with the best quality in this land.

Not to mention a mere twenty-four or thirty-two pounds.

Even the largest sixty-pounder cannon in the British Navy can be made by hand as long as Sun Kewang's craftsmen have money and food.

This is just child's play, what kind of Urban cannon is out of the question.

Even in later generations, in the process of atomic bomb research, China relied on huge manpower and material resources to solve many problems by hand.

However, as far as land warfare is concerned, the six-pounder gun is most suitable, and the 12-pounder gun is already the limit of mobile firepower.

Most of the eighteen pounds can only be used for siege purposes.

Fortunately, Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu took a sea ship to Liaodong this time.

That's why Sun Kewang gave them a batch of 24-pound and 32-pound cannon.

Relying on these powerful ships and cannons, the firepower of this expeditionary army has reached a higher level!

"Lao Guo, why don't you get on the boat and take a look?"

Yuan Taoan laughed and said: "The thirty-two-pound cannon is genuine. The king of the country spent a lot of effort to get it from Jiangnan!"

"Fuck!" Guo Youming suddenly broke into tears.

"Two brothers, the father-in-law is currently leading troops to attack Liaoxi."

"You two towns have brought so many cannons, so why are you still disembarking in Lushun?"

“Take a boat directly to Liaoxi!”

Yuan Taoan and Feng Tianyu looked at each other in confusion.

Yes, why are so many cannons and supplies being unloaded at Port Arthur?

How much effort would it take to pull it across from the road using horses, mules and manpower?

"Stop unloading the ship!" Yuan Taoan shouted and quickly issued the order.

That night, people from Qianfeng and Huben towns disembarked from the boat and disembarked.

A small number of horses and mules carried by the army also slipped on the shore.

Although Huben and Qianfeng towns are mobile towns, the two towns need to equip more than 40,000 batches of horses and mules according to their establishment.

But because this operation is a long-distance voyage.

Therefore, most of the more than 40,000 horses and mules remained.

The two towns only brought more than 2,000 horses for reconnaissance and general riding.

But among these two thousand batches of horses and mules, hundreds of them died on board the ship in two months of shipping.

Fortunately, the casualties in the two towns were not large.

After all, whether they are in the Pearl River Basin or the Xiang River Basin, the additional soldiers are familiar with some water properties and can barely adapt to navigation.

After two days of rest in Lushun.

After the two major mobile towns left some injuries.

With Guo Youming and tens of thousands of people, they took more than 600 large sea ships and sailed towards the land of western Liaoning.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng and tens of thousands of mobs were fighting fiercely with Kurn.

"Mongolians, show the courage of your ancestors and charge me!"

In front of Flowing Water Castle, Zhang Sheng shouted crazily.

A group of advanced troops armed with various weapons urged the Mongolian soldiers and coated slaves to launch a fierce attack on Liushui Castle.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng's battle line had crossed the Daling River and was approaching Jinzhou.

However, since entering Liaoxi.

The Guanning defense line left over from the Ming Dynasty made Zhang Sheng grit his teeth.

This is only in the Jinzhou area.

If we hit Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan.

How could Zhang Sheng be able to gnaw at these majestic passes, fortified cities, big forts, and small forts?
Our Ming Dynasty invests millions of taels of salary every year.

During the Chongzhen period alone, Nima invested more than 100 million in western Liaoning.

Although after layers of exploitation, who knows how much has actually fallen into place.

But if this 100 million is spent, the elephant's hair will be thick even if it is pulled out!
There are so many strong fortresses that Zhang Sheng's scalp goes numb just by looking at the map.

Soon, under the orders of Mongolia and Baoyi, Liushui Fort, which was 40 miles away from Jinzhou's northeast defense line, was broken.

Zhang Sheng sacrificed more than 4,000 casualties to Mongolia and Baoyi.

This small fort was garrisoned by only 800 Qing troops.

"Master, we can't fight any more. If we continue to fight like this, the Mongols and Bao Yi will mutiny!"

Liang Cheng looked at a wounded soldier and sighed.

During this period, they captured several small forts and killed few Qing troops.

However, the Mongolian soldiers and Baoyi suffered over 10,000 casualties.

Although these more than 100,000 mobs are cannon fodder.

But even cannon fodder cannot be used like this!
Zhang Sheng may not treat them as human beings, but they themselves treat themselves as human beings!

If this continues with this kind of casualties.

The Mongols and Bao Yi must mutiny!
"How about we secretly follow the Tatar route and bypass Liaoxi and enter the fortress from the grassland?" Zhang Sheng thought.

The Manchu Qing's method of dealing with Guan Ning's defense line is well known to the world.

You can't enter Shanhaiguan, but you can enter the fortress.

With places as big as Xuanfu and Datong, why bother fighting in a crappy place like Liaoxi?

"Detour through the grassland and enter the fortress?" Liang Cheng and others took a breath of cold air.

Is it possible that these people really want to play the role of Tatars?
"Master, even if we enter the fortress and return to Beizhi, we still can't defeat Beijing."

"You can't imitate the Tatars and burn, kill and loot everywhere in Beizhi and Shandong, right?"

"If the emperor knows that we are doing this, then we can't afford to go around in circles!" Deputy General Zhang Chengen reminded.

"What should we do!" Zhang Sheng said distressedly: "If we don't enter the fortress, we will fight with the Tatars in this miserable place!"

"This Ming Dynasty just doesn't do human affairs. Zhu Yuanzhang used the people's wealth to build the Nanjing city wall. His descendants didn't use it, but the Tatars did!"

"The same goes for the Guanning Defense Line. The Tatars can go around and rob the fortress at will. It's better now. We have to gnaw at these broken fortresses just like the Nanjing city wall!"

(End of this chapter)