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As early as when the King of the Tang Dynasty went south to Guangdong and Guangxi, the Ming armies in various places had already discovered that they could not confront the pseudo-Tang thieves in the wild, even if they had doubled or even tripled their strength, it would not be safe.

To fight against the pseudo-Tang thieves, the best way is to rely on the strong city for passive defense!

Of course, this passive defense method was not very effective at the beginning, because Liuzhou, Wuzhou, and Guangzhou were all conquered by the pseudo-Tang thieves.

And this made them feel deeply, and believed that in order to resist the pseudo-Tang bandit army, in addition to the thick and high city walls, there must be a large number of guns and guns, and a firearms army like the pseudo-Tang bandit army should be trained.

As a result, the top officials of the Ming Dynasty, represented by Zhang Yue, devoted themselves to making guns and training new troops. In the past two years, the total number of guns produced by the Ming Dynasty is actually no more than that of the Tang Dynasty. How much less dynasty.

These guns and guns were equipped in the hands of the Ming army in various places. The guns and guns made by the Ming Dynasty in the north were mostly equipped with the Beijing camp, the border army and the Ming army in the nearby areas, while the guns and guns made in the south were mostly centralized equipment. The supervising of Zhang Yue's subordinates and the recruitment of troops from various places.

Let’s not talk about the Northern Ming Army first, but only mention the Southern Ming Army, with Zhang Yue’s 40,000 governors as the main force, Yu Dayou’s tens of thousands of musketeers second, and some smaller ones, with only a few hundred people, two or three thousand. Small-scale recruitment on a human scale.

These are all armies equipped with a large number of firearms, and the proportion of arquebuses has basically reached about 20%.

The arquebusier army under Yu Dayou had a higher proportion of arquebuses, reaching about one-third, and this was almost similar to the reorganized Fifth Infantry Division.

Not only the equipment ratio of muskets is similar, in fact, these firearms units of the Ming Army are basically copied from the Datang Wang Shi!

Build guns and train new troops.

How to make guns? They directly imitated the guns and cannons of the pseudo-Tang thief army. Even the Ming army didn't even bother to change the name. They directly used the name of the arquebus instead of the shotgun, the bird gun, etc., and the artillery didn't use any generals. Invincible generals, but use five catties of artillery, seven catties of artillery as the title.

This is true of firearms, and the same is true of the detailed organization of the army.

It has been a few years since the rise of the Tang Dynasty. During this process, it is impossible to hide the detailed formation of the Datang Wangshi for too long. The Ming army has long known the detailed infantry battalion formation of the Datang Wangshi.

Of course, they just imitated, not plagiarized, and they were called differently.

Taking Zhang Yue's superintendent as an example, they still refer to Xiaoqi, General Banner, Hundred Households, and Thousands of Households as their names, but the specific organization is directly imitated by the pseudo-Tang Dynasty bandit army. , the six banners are one hundred households, the one hundred households are commanded in command, and the general banner is the deputy.

Five hundred households make up one thousand households, and there are one thousand households and one sub-thousand households.

The above-mentioned small flags, hundreds of households, and thousands of households are basically equivalent to the platoons, teams, and camps in the Wangshili of the Tang Dynasty.

However, at a higher level, the Ming army also has its own rules, that is, guards are set up in more than a thousand households, and each guard is not fixed how many people, as few as two or three thousand households, and more Five or even seven or eight thousand households.

At the same time, the artillery of each guard is directly under its own independent jurisdiction.

A number of guards were formed into an army, and the entire 40,000-strong supervising standard had a total of five armies in total.

The strength of each army is different, not only the main infantry, but also the artillery and cavalry.

The specific strength of each army and even each guard depends on the personal ability and power of these guard commanders and army commanders.

Why?

Soldiers are also there!

These recruits belonged to Zhang Yue's recruits. To a certain extent, they were Zhang Yue's private soldiers. Although they fought for the Ming Dynasty, the loyalists of these 40,000 governors were not Emperor Zhengde, but Zhang Yue!

Zhang Yue is the one who is loyal to Emperor Zhengde!

In the same way, the commanders of the various armies are loyal to Zhang Yue, but the guard commanders under them are not loyal to Zhang Yue, but to themselves.

The same is true for thousands of households and hundreds of households!

Such a layer-by-layer loyalty system constitutes an extremely special military group called 'Supervisor'!

The personnel relationship in this military group is somewhat similar to that of the Hunan Army in later generations. It is maintained through the relationship between teachers and students, relatives and friends, and fellow villagers. However, unlike the Hunan Army in later generations, these commanders in the supervising standard, although with Zhang and Yue are inextricably linked, but without exception, they were all court officials before, and many of them were civil officials.

That's right, among the officers in Zhang Yue's supervisor, only the middle and low-level officers were traditional military generals, but the middle- and high-level generals were all civil officials.

This is an army commanded by pure literati, which is very different from Yu Dayou's musket army, who is also a new army of the Ming Dynasty!

A large number of guns, newly recruited soldiers, and sufficient food and rations all made the superintendent under Zhang Yue's command more effective than the local guards!

However, this powerful new army was actually in the hands of Zhang Yue, and even the imperial court had no way to directly command this army over Zhang Yue.

This also aroused the concern of the big bosses of the Ming Dynasty. They were not worried that Zhang Yue would rebel. Emperor Zhengde and many cabinet bosses sent Zhang Yue out, and they did not replace him even when Zhang Yue was defeated. Prove their trust in Zhang Yue.

However, Zhang Yue is Zhang Yue, and the superintendent is the superintendent!

What if the generals under Zhang Yue's command gave Zhang Yue a yellow robe to add to his body?

This is also why the guns and guns built by the Ming Dynasty in the north were not sent to the south, but were only equipped with soldiers from Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili, as well as Beijing and border troops.

They have to keep a hand. They need to strengthen the defense force in the north to prevent the situation in the south from getting out of control completely. The risk of the situation in the south is not only the large army of the pseudo-Tang thieves, but also the rebellion of Zhang Yue or other generals under Zhang Yue.

It is also based on this precautionary mentality. The 20,000 frontier troops who went south to suppress the rebellion were not controlled by Zhang Yue, but by the Jinling Military Department. They went to Jiangxi to participate in the war, and it was only to assist in defense. Zhang Yue had no power to mobilize. these frontiers.

There are actually many armies that are also not controlled by Zhang Yue. For example, in the past two years, they have been in the limelight, and they single-handedly blocked the army under the command of Yu Dayou, who had blocked the pseudo-Tang thief army northward to Fujian.

Although it is said that Yu Dayou is now the commander of the Fujian capital, and nominally belongs to Zhang Yue, the six-province superintendent, but in the past two years, Yu Dayou has gradually become famous by relying on the nearly 10,000 firearms under his command. In addition, because the number of the Datang Army guarding this place has always been relatively small, and Fujian is not the main attack direction of the Datang King Division, Yu Dayou had a good time in Fujian.

Recently, the Ming Dynasty, for its meritorious deeds in training troops and fighting thieves, added Dudu to act on the basis of his Fujian general army, and at the same time, gave him the power to act cheaply, and gave his musket army the title of 'Broken Bandit Army'. .

Therefore, although the current Yu Dayou still belongs to Zhang Yue's temperance in name, but in fact, because of the four words "cheap action" granted by the court, Zhang Yue has no control over him. Basically, he fights how he likes to fight.

The Bandit Army under Yu Dayou is similar to the supervising officers under Zhang Yue, but the personnel system is very different. Although the soldiers in the Bandit Army are recruited, the generals are all traditional military generals. The so-called civil servants.

To a certain extent, it can be generally considered that Zhang Yue's superintendent is an army of literati, and Yu Dayou's army of breaking thieves is an army of military generals, but they all have one thing in common: they are both private armies!

And these two armies, together with the 20,000 frontier troops, are also the main enemies of the Great Tang King's division in the north!

The Ming army used the above-mentioned armies as the backbone, supplemented by local recruitment, and guarded troops to do miscellaneous tasks, and jointly built the defense lines of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to contain the pseudo-Tang thieves!

Li Chunjing, who went north to Ji'an, Jiangxi, knew very well that the enemy he faced was no longer the soldiers of the local guards two years earlier!

This time, when attacking Ji'an, the biggest trouble is the governor and frontier troops in the city. As long as they are eliminated, the remaining tens of thousands of guards and young soldiers will be vulnerable!

But they have a strong city to rely on, and it is not easy to kill them!

Li Chunjing is not in a hurry, he still has time!

Therefore, he casually let the troops prepare for the siege, especially the construction of artillery positions!

Whether this can break the city depends on the strength of the artillery!

At the same time, he is still waiting for news from Jishui!

And he didn't wait long. Just four days later, news came from Jishui that the two mixed groups, led by Brigadier General Gu Shizhong, had successfully defeated Jishui.

The Ming army in Jishui City was no more than 10,000 people, and there was no main force. Most of them were guard soldiers. Only more than 1,000 Ji'an local officials recruited troops to fight. Under the circumstances, the more than 1,000 recruits soon suffered heavy casualties, and then the remaining guard soldiers dispersed in a hurry.

Afterwards, Brigadier General Gu Shizhong left two battalions of troops in Jishui to garrison, and led the remaining 8,000-odd troops to return south to Ji'an Luling City. The Ming army in Luling City was completely surrounded!

And this also means that the general attack on Luling City is about to start!

When the troops were ready, especially after the artillery was ready, Li Chunjing did not hold any mobilization meeting, but simply ordered the start of the siege!

Li Chunjing issued an official order, which means that the general attack of the Second Army will be launched immediately. He is looking forward to the surprise of the performance of the siege artillery!