The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 468 Return to Jiangning in a hurry
In fact, there are many problems in the "combat power assessment" conducted by Jianlu, so the conclusions he got are also very different from the real strength of the Ming army.

First of all, the military literacy of the Green Battalion soldiers who played the role of the Ming Army is very different from that of the Dragon Guards and Polu Battalion.For example, when Jianlu was performing martial arts, the "Ming Army" spent a meal and could not form a "three-row horizontal formation", but the Zhenghongqi Firearms Battalion on the opposite side quickly completed the formation and attacked first, always occupying the initiative.But with the training level of the Ming army's new army, how could the formation speed give the Qing army a chance to take the lead?
Secondly, in the process of "shooting against each other", the "Soldiers of the Ming Army" knew that the opponents were full of uncles of the Eight Banners. How could they dare to perform too well to overwhelm the Manchurian soldiers? People withdrew from the martial arts performance without being "killed", causing the formation of the "Ming Army" to quickly become chaotic.

As for the comparison of weapons, because Jianlu did not master the fixed-loading technology and the low level of training, loading and shooting were more than twice as slow as the real Ming army.

In addition, under Qiao Weili's intentional misleading, Jianlu's senior management firmly believed in the fact that "heavy-duty firecrackers have a longer range".In fact, although the eleven-dollar heavy gun can theoretically shoot nearly [-] paces away, the main factor restricting the range in actual combat is the accuracy. hit the target.

If you want to break through the limit of [-] steps, you can only rely on rifled gun technology and use the spin of the bullet to ensure the stability of the trajectory.However, now only the Dragon Guards are equipped with a large number of Type II Jaeger Guns with rifling, and the effective range has reached more than a hundred paces.

In the end, it was just an illusion for Jianlu to use all his staff to equip them with excellent armor to fight against the Ming army's firecrackers.Not to mention that the revolving bullets fired by rifled guns can easily penetrate two layers of cotton armor, even the six-dollar flintlock used by Poluying can effectively break through cotton armor within [-] steps.This is also the reason why European infantry gradually gave up armor since the seventeenth century-as the warring parties equipped more and more muskets, armor did not play much role except to increase the burden on infantry.

But before the actual fight, Jianlu was convinced of the result of this martial arts performance, and fell into the myth that the Ming army was vulnerable to the Zhenghongqi Firearms Battalion.

Dasu on the side knew that Luck Dehun had always considered himself the best candidate for an overview of the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and was not convinced by Hong Chengchou, so he also pretended to be resentful, saying: "Then what Hong Chengchou claims to be 'step by step', in fact, I think he They don’t know how to fight at all. The 10,000+ army has been unable to take down that part of Zhejiang for a long time, and now it has been beaten by Nikan to the city of Jiangyin. It’s a shame!”

Babutai immediately continued: "If you want me to say, how can His Royal Highness the Regent not know that our Lord Baylor is brave and good at fighting? He just needs to appease the green camp Nikan, so Hong Chengchou is reused. When it comes to the trust and esteem of the Regent, he is far away." It's not as good as Lord Baylor.

"Recently, the southern barbarians have repeatedly harassed people with the convenience of boats. Hong Chengchou has repeatedly written to ask for the transfer of the Laizhou navy, but the regent ignored him. Lord Belle only asked for it once, and the court immediately sent warships to the south."

In fact, Hong Chengchou had a hard time saying this.He is more anxious than anyone else to want the navy warships to come for reinforcements, but he also knows that Dorgon recalled Zheng Zhilong because the Liaodong and Gyeonggi areas were harassed by the Ming army. If something goes wrong in any of Beijing, Xingjing, and Beijing, the people from the Northern Party will definitely make use of the problem and put all the blame on him.At that time, loss of office and the like will still be trivial, and my old life may have to be lost on party struggles.

Therefore, he could only insinuate and "remind" Dorgon that he needed a warship, but the latter is a big bastard, how can he understand his "shy hint", as long as he can survive without a boat, so even Not a single boat was sent.

On the other hand, Luck Dehun is the grandson of Nurhachi's second son Daishan, and he stood firmly on the latter's side in the political struggle between Hauge and Dorgon, and he has the trust of Dorgon.Therefore, he can express freely that the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is in urgent need of warships, and he needs the court to send naval forces quickly, but he doesn't have to worry about criticism from courtiers.

Hearing the words, Lu Kede's expression eased a lot, he glanced at the phalanx below the city, and immediately pointed to a pawn - the man turned to the right when he heard the order to turn left just now - and said to the guard beside him: "That person made a mistake for the third time, according to the rules, ten lashes."

"Hey." The guards immediately turned and left, and soon the screams of soldiers came from the city.

Dasu was amazed when he saw this, the more than 2 troops of the Zhenghong Banner had only practiced for a few months, and they were already lined up and mighty.Just raising their feet and stepping down together, and keeping the formation basically straight when marching, even the elite of the Beijing camp under their own hands can't do it.

I thought Luck Dehun should be very satisfied, but I didn't expect his requirements to be so strict. I have heard that he leads troops well, and it seems to be true.

As Dorgon's direct descendant, he couldn't help but feel secretly happy. With Zhenghongqi as his reliance in the future, the Ninth Prince's position will definitely be more stable.

Suddenly, there were several Juechen riders coming from the city, and the riders immediately held up a triangular red flag and shouted all the way, "Urgent order!"

When the guard officer saw the small flag representing the urgent military situation, he didn't step forward to ask more questions, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened to let them in.

After a while, several captive soldiers strode up to the top of the city, and under the guidance of the guards, they knelt down in front of Luck Dehun, took out a letter box, held it up, and gasped, "Report! Appease the governor of the South, Mr. Hong, for an urgent order, Let Lord Baylor lead his army back to Jiangning immediately!"

Lu Kede quickly removed the wax paint on the letter box, took out the brocade inside, glanced at it, and couldn't help laughing, "Hong Chengchou always talked about 'strategy' and 'planning', and this time he was surrounded by the Nanban army. In Jiangning City, but there is still some kind of "siege on all sides", in fact, don't you want me to lead troops to rescue him?"

As he spoke, he handed the military order to Babutai who was beside him, and the latter immediately said with a stern face: "We said earlier that we would block the Nanman in Jiangyin, but we rushed here but didn't even see a single person. Now there is another letter The military order sent us to Jiangning to 'encircle and suppress', so we won't be in vain by then, right?"

Hong Chengchou sent a messenger officer to hear the news, and hurriedly told the situation that the Ming army was repairing the earth fortifications and watchtowers outside the city of Nanjing, and bombarding the city with cannons day and night.

Lu Kede nodded, "It seems that these Nanban are determined to attack Jiang Ning to the death. This is good, as long as we catch them, our army can kill them all in a short time!"

The herald said again: "Lord Belle, Master Dutang also specifically told you that this Ming army is extremely cunning, and they are quite fierce when they are in battle. You must be more careful."

(End of this chapter)