Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 116 I am home and country
Zhu Youjian didn't know how well Liu Kongzhao could train the navy, but he really couldn't ask one by one now.

In Zhu Youjian's mind, even if it's just a temporary naval stand, it would be good to have a few more warships of the Ming court in the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay.

Zhu Youjian estimated that April and May after the beginning of spring next year will be the time when the Tartars will go south in a large scale. If Shandong, Henan, Huaibei and other places cannot be defended by that time, then the navy will at least be able to rely on the Yangtze River to bombard the Qing army.

From Nanjing to Huai'an, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian has traveled back and forth on this waterway several times since he moved to the south.

Every time, he asked Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, to send someone to make a detailed survey and record of the river network and ditches in this area.

He himself never neglected every detail. Looking around from the river, he could see how the city defenses of the prefectures and counties on both sides of the river were.

No one knows where the Qing army will land and attack after going south, but it is better to be fully prepared than to be in a hurry.

Originally, the reason why Nanming suffered a crushing defeat in history had something to do with the fact that it missed a year to prepare for Jiangfang.

Of course, what Zhu Youjian had to admit was.

At this time, it would be better if he could have a telescope.

It's a pity that Daming hasn't started to develop civilian industries yet.

Glass manufacturing and the derived observational instrument manufacturing have also disappeared.

Daming is indeed still a long way from becoming an industrial country.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian's body is not short-sighted, and he can see the surrounding scenery on the river.

In some counties and towns, it is obvious that officials such as inspectors and inspectors are organizing villagers to practice archery, stabbing spears and riding horses.

Some important strongholds along the river also had migrant workers repairing new walls under the command of local county government officials. Bridges and roads began to be demolished. According to the order issued by the Ministry of War, the entire territory of Nanzhili could only rely on boats to travel by water, in order to resist the Tartars in the future. Cavalry caused the greatest hindrance.

The training of the militia and the guards is under the supervision of the Ministry of War, and the command envoys and all the prefectures pass judgments, and the county codes and histories are implemented. The militia is ordinary people who are not out of production. People will not be at a loss in the face of war.

The soldiers in the guards are still full-time, under the control of the Ministry of War, responsible for local security maintenance, bandit suppression, transportation and other affairs. The combat effectiveness varies, depending on the level of the local chief officer.

But it is better for these militiamen and guards to strengthen their training and defense than to face the Tartars and only know how to flee.

Wait until Huai'an Mansion.

Zhu Youjian just abandoned the ship and landed, and went to Huai'an Lecture Hall.

The Huai'an Lecture Hall is larger than when Zhu Youjian first came.

The tens of thousands of mu of land along the Hongze Lake to the east of the city gate of Huai'an Mansion is the training place for recruits in the Jiangwu Hall.

Hongze Lake provides rich water resources and various terrains such as mountains, plains, and hills, which is convenient for the training of various arms of the Ming Guards, and also facilitates logistics supply.

Around the Huai'an Lecture Hall along Hongze Lake and Huai'an Fucheng, the prefect of Huai'an was ordered to build a city wall at this time. Inside the city wall were all kinds of horses galloping and people shouting and killing.

Today, the [-] recruits of the First, Second, and Third Guards Armies who are preparing to be incorporated into the Type A Battalion have basically completed individual formation training.

And those who are training are the troops of the B battalion.

When Zhu Youjian came here, Zhou Yuji, Chief of the Army Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, had already begun to assign arms to the soldiers of the 15 Type A Battalion who had completed basic training at the moment according to Zhu Youjian's decree.

The distribution of arms is based on their previous skills, that is, those who can ride, especially those who are good at riding, are selected as cavalry first, while those who have practiced firearms are selected as infantry, and the same is true for artillery. Finally, the governors of the guards The military officers and the heads of the various departments of the Grand Marshal's Mansion will be screened and assigned.

On the third day after Zhu Youjian came here, all the arms of the Type A battalion had been assigned.

And the infantry battalion also just issued the latest standard weapon, the Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun, on this day.

The cavalry battalion is still equipped with scimitars and three-eyed guns, while the artillery battalion is equipped with tiger squatting cannons, Fran cannons and red cannons, but all of them have added rear sights.

In other words, the current Type A battalion is only the infantry battalion with new equipment, and the cavalry battalion and artillery battalion still have not changed much.

However, this has little effect. After all, the main arm of the Qing army, the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty, is the cavalry, and the cavalry does not have high requirements for firearms.

The 15 Type A battalion soldiers were the absolute main force after Zhu Youjian to control the government and compete in the Central Plains.

Therefore, what Zhu Youjian has to do is not only to arm them physically, but also to arm them ideologically to ensure that the soldiers of the 15 Type A battalion are absolutely loyal to him.

On the way to the south, Zhu Youjian instilled in him the idea of ​​the supremacy of the nation and the supremacy of the country through a series of measures such as offering sacrifices to the people and destroying Confucius, and using the family and country thoughts of northern officials.

To be precise, Zhu Youjian’s purpose is to take the traditional culture of the Han clan as the foundation, and on this basis, establish a person’s loyalty to the family and even the entire nation. The family is the father of the nation.

I am the leader of this country, representing the ultimate interests of all Han people. Being loyal to this emperor is not for the Zhu family dynasty, but for the stability and prosperity of the entire Chinese family. The only way for your loved ones to become beggars.

This method can only be to unite under the call of the king, to jointly resist the disaster of slavery, to prevent the Ming Dynasty from repeating the disaster of the Southern Song Dynasty, and to prevent the Han people from being two-legged sheep and fourth-class people.

Li Banghua, Li Mingrui, Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, He Xin, and newly joined Lu Zhenfei and Ma Shiying are all loyal believers and disseminators of Zhu Youjian's nationalist thought.

From the beginning of the Scholars Camp and the Warriors Camp, these ideas have been purposefully instilled in these recruits who are about to become grassroots officers. Scholars who can abandon their fame and career to join the army are naturally passionate young people who are radical and easy to be indoctrinated and brainwashed.

The Warrior Camp has been baptized unconsciously and consciously since the beginning of receiving cultural and popular education, so it is naturally easier to believe in the concept of the supremacy of the monarch and father.

Coupled with the instinctive herd mentality of human beings and the mentality of teaching is the way of heaven, Li Banghua and others spread it to the recruits of the scholar camp and the strong man camp, and the scholar camp and the strong man camp spread it to [-] recruits.

The 15 Type A battalion plus Li Banghua and other loyal confidants of Zhu Youjian had a subtle influence on the 30 Type B battalion.

The will of Zhu Youjian's monarchy leader has long become the will of the 45 guards.

When Zhu Youjian arrived at the Huai'an Lecture Hall, the 45 troops had already begun to boil, and they shouted at Zhu Youjian:

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!"

(End of this chapter)