Qiming 1158

Chapter 1009 The Spring Breeze Does Not Pass Yumen Pass

At this moment, the chaotic Xixia rebels could not fight back at all.

Soldiers were distraught and panic-stricken when they were hit by a horrific firearm they had never seen before.

A large number of soldiers screamed and tried to escape. They saw the terrifying sight of their comrades being shattered by firearms, thinking that they were attacked by the magic of the gods or the magic of demons and ghosts.

In this case, they could not resist the active attack of the Ming army at all, and the crossbowmen of the rebel army collapsed without even firing a few arrows.

The result was a massive retreat and escape, with only a few fighting back, to no avail.

After a short period of resistance, the rebel cavalry was completely annihilated by the Ming cavalry. The infantry was cut off by the Ming cavalry, attacked from both sides, and was hit by the Ming musketeers at close range.

Their faces were shot with lead, and the entire army was beaten by Ming musketeers, bloody and miserable.

A total of 36 rebels were blown up on the Ningxia Plain by the troops of the Five Thousand Shenji Battalion and the Five Thousand Hexi Corps. people, while the Ming army itself only killed [-] people and injured more than [-] people.

The main casualties were caused by the nervousness of the recruits of the Hexi Corps who had not actually been on the battlefield, and were attacked by the Xixia veteran Youzi who was eager to escape and survive.

In the Shenji Battalion, a cavalryman was killed, a pikeman was killed, and a dozen pikemen and musketeers were left with abrasions or sprained feet.

In contrast, the Xixia rebels suffered heavy casualties, not to mention those who were beaten with blood and flesh. Some corpses found on the battlefield even just had their arms or calves broken by lead bullets, but people also died of blood from seven orifices. .

There were also many rebel prisoners who were wounded by musket strikes and died of their wounds in the days after they were captured.

The Shenji Battalion displayed its mighty power on the Ningxia Plain with brand-new weapons and tactics. Jiang Liangping and the generals and soldiers of the Northwest Corps also saw the great power of firearms and the great potential of the firearms phalanx. Great yearning.

This battle took place at the end of October, and throughout November and early December, the Shenji Battalion followed Jiang Liangping to four places, and fought six times before and after, six battles and six victories, and killed more than 3000 rebels. Remarkable, magnificent.

On December [-], Xuanhuafu, the last rebel stronghold, was captured by Shenji Camp with artillery.

Afterwards, [-] soldiers of the Hexi Corps and [-] Shenji Battalions followed Jiang Liangping on the road to Guazhou and Shazhou, and prepared to take Shazhou, the westernmost part of Xixia territory, as the westernmost part of Daming's current territory. part.

In the territory of Shazhou, there is also a majestic ancient pass that has disappeared from history books for a long time, that is, Yumen Pass. As one of the important passes in the passage of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, Yumen Pass lost its importance as early as the end of the Tang Dynasty. Xixia invaded the Hexi Corridor. After that, Yumen Pass completely disappeared from the history books.

Su Yonglin asked Jiang Liangping to lead people to find the old site of Yumen Pass. If he can find it, he will erect a monument to express the endless sigh of the Ming emperor for the vicissitudes of life.

So far, the rebel force has ceased to exist.

There will be basically no resistance from Shazhou and Guazhou. Jiang Liangping's expedition is mainly to occupy Shazhou, stabilize the western frontier of the Ming Dynasty, establish a smooth and stable transportation route, and start to operate Shazhou.

Further west from Shazhou is the homeland of the Khitans who had never communicated with the Ming state - the Western Liao Empire.

The counter-insurgency war went quite smoothly and felt a bit hearty, so after Jiang Liangping wrote the war report to the Privy Council as usual, he also wrote to Su Yonglin, expressing the same thoughts as Su Haisheng.

Boss, I also want a magic machine battalion, not 5000 people, 4000 people, 3000 people, or even 2000 people, and the equipment is fine, I train myself, what do you think?
After receiving the news at the end of December, Su Yonglin only found it very funny, and then replied Jiang Liangping with a letter.

Honestly send the Shenji Camp back, don't make up your mind, this is my model army, a model for the reform of the entire army in the future, if you dare to do anything, I will not beat you!
It is a good thing that the generals are all interested in the Shenji Camp, and Su Yonglin is constantly trying to improve the efficiency of firearm production.

He continued to invest money to build coking workshops, iron workshops, gun workshops, and artillery workshops in the suburbs of the central capital.

However, even if the production of firearms in the manual state has a large scale, the production efficiency is still the same, and it is difficult to improve.

After all, human beings have limits. If you really want to improve production efficiency to the point where you can put firearms into the army, it is indeed a million points of difficulty.

Although Su Yonglin has introduced the concept of mold to the production side and the concept of mechanical production to them, all this requires the birth of a new power source.

The research on the steam engine is still in the laboratory stage, and it is not up to the top.

Therefore, from the current point of view, the reserves of arquebus and artillery that are qualified products are only enough to form an army of [-] people, and the material reserves are probably enough to support the war for three months, which is probably the reserves of a local war.

Such reserves are clearly insufficient.

And with the great display of firearms, not only the infantry took a fancy to the importance of firearms, but the navy also began to seek to equip themselves with firearms.

After the first Ming-Song War, the navy made great contributions, basically fulfilling the task of escorting the infantry, and further defeating the navy in the Southern Song Dynasty, greatly threatening the strategic security of the Southern Song Dynasty, forcing Zhao Construction of the first Lin'an.

As a result, the navy officially had a place in the Ming army and became a strategic arm that could not be ignored.

After the war, Su Yonglin reorganized the Ming army navy, and reorganized the original Jiaolong army into two armies, which was equivalent to giving the navy two corps-level formations, that is, the two navy divisions of the current Ming army.

The first team was stationed in Ninghai Prefecture, Shandong Province, with the military name of Weihai Navy, and the general of the army, Zhou Mancheng, commanded more than 1 large and small warships, and the number of sailors was [-].

The second branch was stationed in Fuzhou, Liaoyang Province. Its military name was Ping Haijun, and the general of the army, Kong Zhende, commanded more than 1 large and small warships, and the number of sailors was also full of [-].

The two navy divisions are also equipped with tens of thousands of auxiliary sailors and handymen who are responsible for some non-combat tasks and are in good order.

Both of them led the navy in the first Ming-Song war to make great achievements, and displayed the majesty and military spirit of the Ming navy, so Su Yonglin made them the main generals of the offensive navy.

Undoubtedly, after seeing the power of artillery, the two immediately decided that artillery would definitely become the main battle weapon of the navy, and would end the dominance of the jumping gang to a considerable extent.

In the period of big rockets, firearms could not prevent the Song army navy from approaching the Ming army navy to launch gang jumping operations and collisions between ships, but after equipping the artillery, they found that the power of the artillery and the firing speed of the chariot and general artillery were quite excellent.

As long as there are enough numbers, they have enough confidence to eliminate the enemy navy before the jump gang fights.

Moreover, according to the current information, although the navy in the Southern Song Dynasty has been rebuilt on a certain scale, the number of warships of its main navy is not even [-], and it is completely unable to fight with the Ming army's thousand ships. On a par.

The Ming army's thousand ship-level combat navy already has the power to dominate the East Asian waters, and once this power is coupled with the help of artillery, it will be even more indestructible.

(End of this chapter)