Valley Emperor

After suffering enough of the weapons of the fake Tang thieves, now the Ming army, especially the Ming army on the front line, has highly respected firearms. They think that the reason why the fake Tang thieves were able to capture the three provinces so quickly is that the officers and troops who fought were defeated. , because it takes advantage of firearms.

And once you have a firearm, you will definitely be able to double the combat effectiveness of the official army, and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty can not be compared with the fake Tang Dynasty. If the fake Tang thief army can build a musket, then the Ming Dynasty can build ten Rod or even a hundred muskets.

So now many generals of the Ming army have set off a wave of learning from the Great Tang Emperor!

For example, Wang Yue urgently purchased a batch of firearms from foreigners, and after imitating a small number of firearms on his own, he was very confident after assembling hundreds of muskets and a dozen cannons.

With this batch of firearms, he will be able to build a firearms army. Coupled with the other tens of thousands of cold weapon armies in Guangzhou City, Wang Yue has great confidence to defend Guangzhou City until the Huguang Ming Army or Jiangxi. , Fujian and other places of the Ming army came to Guangdong.

At that time, Wang Yue will not only be able to get rid of the negative political impression caused by the previous consecutive defeats, but maybe he will also be rewarded for his dedication to Guangzhou.

Even if he can't get a reward, he is very satisfied as long as he can stay in the official position.

If you can't keep Guangzhou, then the trouble will be big. At that time, the court will definitely settle the old and new accounts together, and your end will definitely not be too wonderful. There is no possibility of being demoted or exiled. It is very possible. It will be directly beheaded by the angry Emperor Zhengde and the cabinet bosses.

Not to mention, it will also affect the family!

This kind of result is naturally unbearable for him, so he will work hard to strengthen Guangzhou's defensive strength!

The collected firearms and artillery were placed on the top of the city, and the original Wankou guns of the Ming army, and several Flang cannons drawn from the navy served as the main firepower for the defense of the city.

As for the hundreds of arquebuses that he copied by himself or purchased directly from foreigners, he compiled them into a firearms battalion.

This battalion is not the same as the battalion in the Great Tang Wang Division.

This firearms battalion, commanded by him personally, has a total of 1,200 people. Except for the auxiliary force of about 200 people, the main force is about 500 musketeers with muskets and 500 spearmen with spears. The front-row spearmen among these spearmen are all equipped with armor and shields that he finally gathered from the various armies.

It can also be seen from this that the firearms battalion built by Wang Yue is not only equipped with the regular army that imitated the king's division of the Tang Dynasty, but even the organization is similar.

There are four musket teams under this firearms battalion. The size of each musket team is exactly the same as the size of the musket team in the regular army of the King Division of the Tang Dynasty, one more and one less.

Even the four spear teams were organized on a scale of a hundred men.

Not to mention these establishments, even the names are imitated. For example, the names of the Musket Team and the Spear Team are also imitated. If Li Xuan knew about it, he would definitely scolded him for being shameless!

Of course, the titles and ranks of officers are naturally not learned. The Ming Dynasty is still shameful, and not everything is imitated, but it is very interesting that the officers of the Ming army in this firearms battalion are definitely high-ranking. The battalion commander was the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong, Yu Dayou, and the battalion commander was also a general.

Then the captains of each team are all thousands of households. These are thousands of households, not Chinese cabbage. If this is placed in the army of the Ming army guards, then it is a senior officer who commands a thousand households, but in this In the firearms battalion, he could only be the leader of a team.

The soldiers of this battalion are drawn from various guards and recruits, and they are given relatively high treatment at the same time. The lowest-level auxiliary soldiers, that is, non-combat soldiers such as cooks, all have one or two or eight bucks. The monthly payment of silver, and the monthly payment of the musketeers and spearmen reached two or five coins.

And this is just the basic salary, because Wang Yue, in order to improve morale, offered a high bounty for beheading the pseudo-Tang bandit army. The head of a pseudo-Tang bandit army is worth five taels of silver. If the thieves are still musketeers or heavy armored soldiers, then the bounty is 10 taels of silver.

At the same time, because it is difficult for a combat unit such as a firearms battalion to distinguish the detailed results of individuals, these bounties are distributed by the combat soldiers.

If the battalion can kill a thousand thieves in a big battle, then they can profit at least 5,000 taels and as much as 10,000 taels of bounty. In the end of the year, I can get dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver.

The newly created firearms battalion, as well as more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces on the top of the city, as well as dozens of large and small bowl-mouth cannons, gave Wang Yue an unprecedented confidence, and even he felt that if he had had such sharp weapons in Wuzhou back then. Firearms, it is impossible for the pseudo-Tang bandit army to conquer Wuzhou.

Sadly, there is no if!

Wang Yue in Guangzhou is close to the coast, and he can get a batch of firearms from foreigners for emergency response, but it does not mean that the Huguang Ming Army can do the same. Although Zhang Yue also asked the craftsmen to start imitating the muskets of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, but for a while It's impossible to imitate much in a half-time, and as for artillery, it's even more impossible to quickly imitate it.

The only consolation is that Zhang Yue used his personal connections to get some Folang cannons from the navy in the Jiangnan area. Now Tan Rong has eight of them. This Folang cannon can be used. It wasn't the 100-pound small Folang cannon used by the army in the north, but the cannons used by the navy. The lightest of them were 150 jin, and more than half of them were 300 jin Folang cannons.

Although the range of this rear-loading shotgun is not good, the firepower at a distance of 100 meters is still quite fierce, not much worse than the 150-pound shotgun that was equipped in batches in the Tang Dynasty.

However, these Folang cannons in Tan Rong's hands are the same as those bowl-mouth cannons. Because the range is too close, they can only be used to attack the enemy's infantry, and cannot be used for pseudo-long-range suppressive firepower.

Among the 15,000 people who were sent to rescue Jingzhou, he took away half of the Folang cannons, which made Tan Rong a little at ease. In the absence of the cooperation of the Jingzhou defenders, these 15,000 people also have the strength to fight.

As for winning, um, Tan Rong is not so arrogant yet. He doesn't think that 15,000 people alone can completely defeat the 7,000 main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

However, he didn't need to defeat the main force of the seven thousand pseudo-Tang thieves. He only needed to force back the pseudo-Tang thieves slightly and maintain the supply line.

In another ten days and a half months, the bandit army in Xingquan Mansion will definitely starve to death. Even if they don't starve to death, I am afraid that they will be at the end of the shot. At that time, they will attack and seize Xingquan Mansion City. .

Then he will be able to use nearly 20,000 more mobile troops on hand, whether it is used to move westward to Liping Prefecture or return to Jingzhou.

Until that time, the entire battlefield will be determined by itself.

Tan Rong has his own strategic plan, and Fang Xitong and Chen Keqiao also have their own strategic plan!

When Fang Xitong received the military intelligence report from the Fourth Army, he also looked at the map for a long time, and then sighed: "This Chen Keqiao is not small, he is trying to treat himself as a rock in the flood. what!"

He could see at a glance that Chen Keqiao's strategic plan was very simple and rude. It was to cut off the logistics supply line of the Ming army from Jingzhou to Xingquanfu, and even block and annihilate the returning reinforcements of the Ming army. conception.

But doing so is very risky, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the two sides of the Ming army, or even be surrounded.

After all, there are more than 60,000 Ming troops in Jingzhou and Xingquan. Even if Tan Rong divides 10,000 or 20,000 troops to return to the rescue, plus the defenders in Jingzhou have 30,000, so If they fought, the Fourth Army with only 7,000 people would be more dangerous.

However, since Chen Keqiao has already made such a risky plan, no matter what the final outcome of the Fourth Army is, he has already successfully created opportunities for the Second Army and created an opportunity to understand the surrounding Xingquan City.

And the duration of this opportunity may only be as short as a dozen days~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If you take into account the time delayed by the military intelligence briefing on the road, then there is not much time left for the Second Army, so Fang Xitong is not ready to waste a day.

After all, when Fang Xitong received the information from the Fourth Army, it had been four days since the Fourth Army actually cut off the supply line of the Ming Army. Tan Rong even knew about it two days earlier than Fang Xitong. Now the reinforcements sent by Tan Rong have been It was heading towards Jingzhou.

As a result, there is not much time left for Fang Xitong!

So after he received the news, he immediately issued a mobilization order for the whole army, and issued an order to start the whole army early tomorrow morning, the target: Xingquan House.

After this period of rest and replenishment, although Fang Xitong's troops still haven't recovered to their peak state, they are still much better than when they returned from a big defeat. Now the core troops under his command are the third Although the Infantry Regiment has a little more recruits, it has returned to full strength, and the number of ordnance has been urgently replenished to restore the full state.

In other words, Fang Xitong now has a third infantry regiment that is fully loaded. Well, there are a little more recruits in it, and at least a quarter of the soldiers have just been recruited from the recruit battalion. Yes, it looks a little unreliable, but other troops are even more unreliable!