The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 329 Armed White Army

In addition, from the perspective of Ming Dynasty's overall strategy, the White Pole Army is also in an extremely critical position.

Not to mention the important task of preventing Jianlu Haoge from invading Sichuan, which is related to the safety of the southwest of Ming Dynasty, but also preventing Sun Kewang from entering Yunnan, which must not be taken lightly.

Historically, after Sun Kewang occupied Yunnan, he was indeed compelled by various factors, and finally accepted the imperial court's enlistment to join the enemy and build captives.

But what needs to be seen is that, first of all, Sun Kewang's bandits have caused considerable damage to Yunnan's economy and people's livelihood.The Shadingzhou rebellion had already caused a catastrophe in Yunnan. When the Sun family went south, in order to recover as soon as possible, he almost exhausted Yunnan's elite and strong soldiers to join the army, even the Tusi family.

Secondly, at that time, Sun Kewang decided to unite with the Ming Dynasty, mainly because the Jianlu offensive was too fierce, so he had no choice but to do so. Before that, he had a long period of separatism.

At present, Jianlu is blocked in Jiangbei, and Yunnan is regarded as the rear.If Sun Kewang was able to enter Yunnan, he would probably become king on his own. At that time, he would have to dispatch the Dragon Guards to quell the chaos, which would have greatly hampered the Great Ming's Northern Expedition.

Zhu Lin thought in her heart, it seems that no matter from which point of view, it is imperative to enhance the combat effectiveness of the white pole army.

After Zhai Shixu finished explaining the details of the battle of the day before yesterday, Zhu Linming lowered her eyes and thought carefully. The fact that the Baigan army was able to persist overnight under the ambushes and siege of several times the enemy army showed its impressive combat power.

He turned his head to look at the white spears not far away, but the Qin family army relied too much on the spear array, and their long-range firepower only had a small amount of bows and arrows.

After a comprehensive analysis, in fact, as long as we focus on increasing the ratio of firecrackers and cannons of the Baigan Army, it should be able to greatly improve its combat effectiveness.

You must know that it is several times more difficult to train a qualified spearman than to train a gunner.Just like in the Spanish phalanx, the salary of the spearmen is more than [-]% higher than that of the musketeers.

However, the Baigan Army happens to have a large number of qualified spearmen.

When Zhu Linmi and his party arrived at the Yamen of Sanzhou Inspection Department, he first ordered the Longwei Army to station near the inspection department for repairs.With the military discipline of the Dragon Guards, he definitely doesn't have to worry about disturbing the people.Then he asked someone to call Qin Zuoming to come.

Over there, Qin Zuoming seemed very unnatural when he learned that His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince wanted to see him.

If it is said that his Qin family has been summoned by the emperor many times, even he himself has been consulted by Chongzhen, but those are mostly rewards from the emperor after great victories.But this time he suffered a defeat due to his own mistakes, and almost lost his entire army to the enemy.If he was reprimanded by the assistant king this time, how would he have the face to see his aunt in the future.

He entered the Second Hall of the Inspection Division very anxiously, and when he saw Zhu Linming, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "The last general, Qin Zuoming, pays homage to His Royal Highness, the assistant king. The last general's attack at night underestimated the enemy, and almost missed the big deal. Please, Your Highness punish..."

Zhu Linmi couldn't help but laugh when she saw this, she hurriedly helped him up, and said with a smile: "General Qin has done nothing wrong, if you hadn't led the troops all the way to help, Master Zhai's troops might have been captured by the bandits. I still have to chase after Tang Jiabin to eat dirt." .”

Qin Zuoming's heart warmed up when he heard the words, and he hurriedly said he didn't dare.

Zhu Linmi asked Qin Zuoming to be served tea, and asked Qin Zuoming, "How is the current situation in Sichuan?"

Qin Zuoming solemnly cupped his hands and said, "Returning to Your Highness, Jianlu Haoge has more than 20 men staring at him, and Xiankou even claims to have an army of [-], but in fact there are about [-] soldiers ready to fight.

"And our army only has more than 1 people under the command of Wang Shaobao and General Zeng, and 3000 people from the Baigan Army."

"Wang Shaobao?" Zhu Linmi was taken aback upon hearing this.

Qin Zuoming hurriedly explained to him that he was a cabinet scholar, promoted to Shaobao, and Wang Yingxiong.

It turned out to be Wang Yingxiong, Zhu Linmi nodded, this person was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and died for the country in the end.It's just that he, the assistant king, hardly knows that there is still a bachelor in Sichuan, or the prince Shaobao.

These all originated from the excessive rewards during the Longwu Dynasty. There were more than 20 people in the south of the Yangtze River with the title of university scholar, but they didn't care about politics.

Qin Zuoming said again: "Wang Shaobao's subordinates...this..." He didn't think for a long time that "combat strength is mediocre" is more euphemistic, so he jumped over and said, "It's my aunt's troops, but in fact there are only four thousand elite white-armed troops. Those are all tuned by the ministries of Xidong."

Xidong is a collective name for the ethnic minority settlements in southwest Sichuan. Sichuan has been severely poisoned by bandits. At this time, only the southwest can recruit strong and strong men to join the army.

Zhu Linmei also frowned slightly. He knew that the situation in Sichuan was not optimistic, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.The Jianlu and Xiankou troops totaled more than 5000, but the Ming Dynasty only had more than [-] soldiers, and most of them were weak in combat strength.

He then said to Qin Zuoming: "Soldiers are more expensive than fine ones. The white pole army is brave and good at fighting, and they are skilled in formation, but they lack the help of guns and cannons.

"This time I led the army into Guangxi and seized some firearms, which can be allocated to the Baigan army. With the help of corresponding formation drills, these 2 soldiers can also fight against [-] enemy troops."

"Firearms?" Qin Zuoming's eyes lit up. The Qin family mostly relied on self-raised food for their battles. The imperial court could provide at least half of the money and food, so they never had the money to equip expensive firearms.If His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince can really allocate some to the Qin family, it will definitely greatly enhance the combat power of the White Army.

He licked his lips, his face full of anticipation, "I don't know what your highness said about the firearm..."

Zhu Linming thought for a while, "I'll give you all the more than 200 ten-dollar bird guns seized from Macau. As for the three-dollar bird guns that were seized from Ding Kuichu, there are more than a thousand, but the power of this gun..."

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Qin Zuoming said quickly.Just kidding, no matter how powerful the bird gun is, it is better than nothing.After he finished speaking, he lost his composure again, holding up the tea bowl in embarrassment and blocking it in front of him.

"Then I will allocate it to you. When the Ganzhou Military Weapons Bureau is free, I will ask them to make a batch of six-dollar guns for you." Zhu Linmi ignored Qin Zuoming's surprised eyes and continued, "Oh, yes, Ding Kuichu Don’t send those cannons back to Fujing when you bought the Fulang Robot, and give them to you together.”

Qin Zuoming worked hard for a long time but still couldn't hold back his excitement, and asked, "Is... how big is the cannon?"

"Four eighteen-pound guns and eight twelve-pound guns." Seeing that he didn't seem to understand, Zhu Linming explained, "It's about [-]-jin and [-]-jin guns."

"Two thousand catties! Thirty-five hundred catties!" Qin Zuoming almost fainted happily. He had only seen such a heavy cannon but had never touched it before, but now he gave it to twelve at a time!With these guys, don't beat Jianlu and bandits to death.

He hurriedly lifted his clothes and knelt down, and said loudly: "The Qin family will swear to die to repay Your Highness!"

Zhu Linmei smiled and helped him up, and said: "The Qin family is loyal to Daming, the imperial court will never treat you badly!
"In the past, the policies of Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang were unreasonable. Even if the imperial court wanted to help you, it couldn't help you. Now that Guangxi has returned, the imperial court will definitely not let the Qin family fight alone again."

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