Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 370 Pre-war Preparations (No. 11)
Three days later, Qin Liangyu, the privy envoy of Zhen Guo, began to issue orders for the transfer of the Guards.

The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards was transferred from Kaifeng to Yifeng, Henan, and the Second Corps was transferred from Xingyang, Henan to Qixian, Henan.

The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards marched westward to Nanyang, Henan, and then transferred to Yanshi, Henan, in order to cut off the connection between the He Luohui Department of the Qing Army and Hong Chengchou's main force in the future.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards was transferred to Heyin, Henan, preparing to cross the river after Hong Chengchou entered the hinterland of Henan to seize Yuanwu County, where the Sun family ferry was located.

The First Corps and Second Corps of the Fourth Army of the Guards learned that Huang Degong had restrained himself, and deployed heavy troops on the front line of Xiangyang and Jingzhou to fight against the enemy steadily, and the Qing army was not allowed to enter.

The same goes for the [-]st Guards Corps.

Qin Liangyu was thoughtful, and according to the strategic deployment in advance of the Grand Marshal's Mansion and Hong Chengchou's strategic deployment provided by Zhou Ze, he had begun to secretly arrange the main forces of the two guards around the Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, and only waited for the opportunity to slow down when the time came. Slowly formed an encirclement circle and plunged into the pocket, waiting for Hong Chengchou's main force to drill inside.

This is naturally the opposite of the information passed to Hong Chengchou by Liu Fan, who joined the army.

Although the strategic deployment is very simple, there will be many variables in it, and no one knows what will happen when the time comes.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou is still useless for this, and what he got is false information. He really thought that the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards really went north from Yangzhou to Shandong, and the Third Army went west to Huguang.

In fact, it was the Second Guards Army that marched westward, but instead of going to Huguang, it went to Nanyang, Henan.

The Third Army of the Guards also left the closed city one after another, but they never left the ground in Henan.

Moreover, Lu Zhenfei also wrote back to Hong Chengchou, which made Hong Chengchou think that Lu Zhenfei could fight for it.

As everyone knows, Lu Zhenfei has been waiting for the imperial court's instructions. While actively preparing for the battle, he tried every means to hide the whereabouts of the Third Guards Army.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards has begun to board the ship and march westward, and the First Corps has also gathered in the capital.

In short, when the war kicked off, all the armies of the Ming Dynasty had begun to actively prepare, and even the Ming Army Military School at this time had confirmed the list of students participating in the war.

At this time, Xia Yunyi began to read the roster: "The following is the list of students participating in this battle: the third batch of students includes Xue Tingxiang, Yu Ye, Han Peng... Sang Xiangkai, and the fourth batch of students includes Xiaokun and Junkang... Yang Linxuan, and the fifth batch of students Zhu Keqing!"

"Report!" At this time, Zhang Shuda, an officer student, stood up.

"Speak!" Xia Yunyi replied.

"How come many of our third and fourth cadets were not selected, but the fifth cadet Zhu Keqing, who didn't come for a month, was able to join this battle. He must have just learned how to shoot a gun."

When the officer student Zhang Shuda said this, Xia Yunyi was not angry, and just waved:

"Ask Ruan Butang, this is Ruan Butang's meaning!"

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Yongwang Zhu Cijiong, whose alias was Zhu Keqing, received his letter of appointment, and was assigned to join the army under the tent of Li Mingrui, the governor of the First Army of the Guards.

This made Zhu Cijiong quite disappointed, at this time a servant came over:

"Master, Ruan Butang said that this time you will be assigned to work with Li Zhitai, the First Army of the Guards. First, you can stay in the rear without going to the front to kill the enemy. Second, you can make friends with Li Zhitai. Now that there is no crown prince, and the Lord is the emperor's son, it's time to make friends with some important people."

"This Li Mingrui, this king also knows, is known as the most farsighted governor of the four guards. He was also the first official to propose southward relocation, and the first governor of Huaiyang. He was even praised by his father. With the talent of the chief assistant, the future is limitless. Mr. Ruan is right. It is a good thing to have a good relationship with him, but now he is a prince and may not take this king seriously. In fact, this king still wants to go to the battlefield. It's fun to kill a few traitors with the Tartars."

Since Zhu Youjian moved to the south, he has instilled national ideas in Yongwang Zhu Cijiong and other princes. Therefore, Zhu Cijiong, who is quite bloody, has a very different personality from his elder brother Zhu Cihong. Make a killing.

Coincidentally at this time, Zhu Youjian also came towards him. He knew about Zhu Cijiong's training with Li Mingrui, the First Army of the Guards, and he did not object, so when he saw Zhu Cijiong today, he only asked, "Why not?" Didn't get up and go to Shandong?"

"Returning to the father, I have just heard the news, and I will leave tomorrow after bidding farewell to the father and mother," Zhu Cijiong replied.

Zhu Youjian nodded: "When you go to Li Mingrui, you can't give the prince's money. Remember, your current status is just a military officer in the Governor's Mansion. If you let me know that you interfered in the war, I will never let you down!"

"My son understands!"

Zhu Cijiong was also a little afraid of Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian was actually more like a teacher to a student to Zhu Cijiong and other princes. Seeing that he was so respectful, he didn't say anything more, and he didn't have any reluctance to give up and pay attention to safety.

Zhu Youjian didn't know how many tears Empress Zhou shed when she bid farewell to Zhu Cijiong, and how many consoling words your father said, with a cold face and warm heart, pretending to be serious. He is now only concentrating on the war and the inspection of the entire national defense system of the empire superior.

Before leaving Beijing with the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army, Zhu Youjian went to the Daming Ordnance Institute once.

At this time, the Daming Ordnance Institute has developed into a complete defense industry manufacturing system consisting of production, research and development, and training.

At the foot of Fangshan Mountain in Moling, there are factories of Daming Ordnance Institute.

The most eye-catching thing is the iron and steel smelting general bureau erected with dozens of blast furnaces, which is responsible for the production of the most refined alloy steel in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the iron and steel smelting sub-bureaus for crude iron and ordinary steel production and forging have moved to Jiangning Town.

It is close to the current Ma'anshan area and the Yangtze River, which is more convenient for direct mining and smelting of iron ore, and can be directly transported to Fangshan for refining by water and land.

From time to time, the sound of metal beating can be heard in the ear, the scene of the steel jungle in front of you, and the feeling of warmth in it, plus the coal mountains piled up in the distance, and the workers with strong arm muscles sweating , All this makes Zhu Youjian seem to have come to the early industrial age of the nineteenth century.

Song Yingxing and several senior officials wore scarlet official robes, which looked particularly dazzling in the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau, which was dominated by black.

Surrounding them were workers who were black and white and only showed white teeth. Among them were a few Dutch red ghosts who came here to serve because of the Dongfan Island War.

The entire General Administration of Iron and Steel Smelting not only has a general workshop for alloy steel forging, but also a training institution and research institution.

All kinds of metal materials that can be matched by Daming are placed here. The students are all selected from poor families. After learning the basics of arts and sciences, they start to learn ironmaking technology from the master. The institution has its own studio dedicated to steel smelting research.

After two or three years of development, there are already quite a few students. From the five or six large cafeterias in the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau with an area of ​​two thousand acres of land, one can guess that the number of students here is quite a lot.

　There are still [-] words, blow them all up, and don't keep the manuscript, so you can be a real man

　　
　
(End of this chapter)