1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 488 The Loose Ming New Army

On the ninth day of August in the 16th year of Chongzhen (September 1643, 9), the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, died.

This emperor, who has worked so hard for my Qing Dynasty, was actually seriously ill as early as last year. During the Battle of Songjin, while bleeding from his nose, he bet all his family property and fought against the Ming army.Fortunately, his luck was good, and he almost wiped out the Ming army, establishing our Qing's decisive victory in Liaodong in one fell swoop.

But when the battle was over, the old man couldn't stand it anymore, and fell headlong on the sick bed.Although the loyal courtiers of the Qing Dynasty invited famous doctors all over the place, and even Korean doctors came all the way, they still couldn't cure him.Until the ninth day of August, with infinite regret, Huang Taiji died in the palace of Shengjing City.

Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment who had just been demoted to the third rank by Chongzhen due to the defeat in the Battle of Songjin, immediately reported the good news to the imperial court after hearing the news of Huang Taiji's death.He also suggested that, taking advantage of the opportunity of Jiannu Hauge and Dorgon's competition for the throne and internal instability, he asked for more troops and supplies in the pass to attack Jiannu aggressively.

Although I heard that the boss died and there was internal fighting, I took advantage of the fire to rob, which is a bit unethical.But considering the hostile relationship between the two sides and the situation of the Ming army, Wu Sangui's mood can be understood.Moreover, he also expressed optimism about this, thinking that "Hu Yun is about to end", and that my Ming Dynasty has a chance to revenge.

However, what Wu Sangui and other Liaodong generals did not know was that within ten days of Jiannu's internal work, a new boss was quickly elected, Huang Taiji's six-year-old son Fulin succeeded to the throne, Prince Zheng Jierhalang and Prince Rui Dorgon is regent.

On September 24th, just after Jierhalang won the position of regent, he led the army to set off. On September 25th, he surrounded the Housuo. On September [-]th, the Qing army blasted the city wall with cannons, broke it, and beheaded the Ming Dynasty. Soldiers Li Fuming, Yuan Shangren, and lieutenants and generals, and more than [-] soldiers, more than [-] soldiers, captured more than [-] people, and the camels, horses, artillery, etc. were useless.

On September 29, the former Tunwei fell, 2000 defenders were beheaded and [-] were captured.

On the first day of October, the general guard Huang Huang heard that he lost two cities in a row and fled without a fight. The Ming army captured more than a thousand people.

The three cities fell, and now only the lonely city of Ningyuan remained in the four hundred miles from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan. On the ninth day of October, Jierhalang failed to lure the enemy Wu Sangui, so he led [-] Qing troops to attack Ningyuan.Three days after the war, the Qing army failed and lost more than a thousand soldiers, so they had no choice but to withdraw.

Just when Jiannu was fighting in Liaodong, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to Tianjin Wei, ordering [-] new troops who practiced firearm warfare here to take more than a hundred small boats and land on the flank of Liaodong. When the internal chaos of the dead, they used battles instead of training, and went straight to the dens of Jiannu thieves.

However, Zhu Shirui, the general who led the army, claimed that the army had not been paid for a long time, and the officers and soldiers were hungry and cold, so they could not fight.What's more, when they landed in Liaodong and flanked the slaves, the Ministry of War must at least issue a silver medal to the officers and soldiers, so as to boost the morale of the army a little.

You can't, your Ministry of War just ordered us to send [-] of us to Liaodong to die!

What's more, although Zhu Shirui is the third son of Cheng Guogong Zhu Chunchen, none of the guerrillas and thousands of households under his banner is the son of the noble family in the capital.On weekdays, during drills and training, these honorable children didn't go out of drills at all, and ran to the Acropolis of Tianjin to have fun all day long.If he ordered these [-] troops to set off by boat to fight against slaves under the premise that the imperial court did not repay the arrears and had not paid the money, not to mention the displeasure of the soldiers, even these honorable children and generals would be able to use them. The saliva sprayed him to death.

More than 30 instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps in the new army watched dumbfoundedly as the leading generals in the army bargained with the Ministry of War to discuss how much arrears should be paid and how much money should be rewarded before they agreed to send troops.

Damn, it’s so absurd that the army can fight like this. They don’t obey orders, don’t fight without money, and the military department in charge feels very guilty because they don’t have money to reward them. These soldiers will only send troops to fight if the conditions are met.

This depends on our Daqi Kingdom. Officers and soldiers who do not obey orders will be dealt with by military law. If it is a war, they will definitely be beheaded directly by the army chief, or killed by a single shot.

Since the formation of the new army in July and the arrangement to Tianjin Youwei to start drills and training, the instructors of the Qi Marine Corps have all felt very...tired!

The officers did not take the lead in training, the soldiers were at a loss, the armaments were not fully equipped, the food and salaries were often in arrears... and other reasons, all the training work of the new army progressed extremely slowly.

After more than two months of training formations and queues, all the officers and soldiers became a little impatient, and urged the instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps to directly practice firearm shooting.

Unexpectedly, before the two rounds of musket shooting training, a guerrilla in charge of the new army's logistics immediately stopped the training.It can be said that gunpowder in the army has a fixed amount, and it should not be consumed for no reason, lest there will be no military supplies available when the war comes.The soldiers have fired two arrows, and they are "proficient" in handling firearms, and they have the power to fight.

The instructors stationed by the Qi State Marine Corps were even more surprised when they heard this.Most of these new soldiers are already capable of combat after only firing two bullets?The musket shooting training of our country soldiers under the Qi State used more than ten rounds of bullets every month, so they dare not easily claim to be able to fight in battle.

Your sister, is it true that the new soldiers drawn by the Ming army are all "elite" from the middle school, and they only need to shoot two shots before they can be sent out to fight the enemy?You know, the soldiers of our Qi State Marine Corps have to train for at least four to six months in the new barracks, and they are assigned to the company they belong to. Assault and other practical skills.

In such a one-to-two comparison, the drills and training of the three thousand new troops seemed a bit child's play and frivolous.The front line training is not yet familiar, and now even the musket shooting training does not give enough gunpowder and bullets, "only two arrows are fired."If such an army confronted Jiannu, would they all come back alive?
Now, the military department of the Ming Dynasty wants to take advantage of the death of the slave chieftain Huang Taiji to transfer a new army to attack Jiannu on the east side of Liaodong, and cooperate with Ningyuan and other troops from various villages to try to catch Jiannu by surprise.To be honest, even if the generals of the new army obeyed the order and landed on the Jiannu side of Liaodong by boat and launched an attack, the instructors sent by the Qi State to the new army would not dare to follow.

This is so purely to die!

"Indeed, even if the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty makes up the rations and pays the departure money, these dandies will still find reasons to delay their trip to Liaodong." More than a dozen instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps were on the side of the school's military field, looking at the group of new generals. The officials of the Ministry of War who came towards the capital complained, looking for various reasons, and prevaricating to delay the attack on Liaodong, an untimely voice suddenly sounded.

"Aren't you one of those dandies?" Bai Haihai looked for his reputation, and saw Jiang Yongrui, an officer of the New Army's General Qian.

"I'm just a rebel from Dingxihou's family, how can I be called a dude?" Jiang Yongrui said with a self-mockery.

Jiang Yongrui is the son of the maidservant of Dingxi Hou Jiang Bingzhong, and his status is even lower than that of the concubine's children.When the new army was established in July, Jiang Bingzhong stuffed the maidservant into the army, trying to help him find a personal future.

It may be because of his low background, Jiang Yongrui seems to be completely different from the gang of noble children and officers in the army, even a little different.He actually brought hundreds of soldiers under him to follow the daily training subjects of the instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps according to various requirements.Moreover, between training sessions, he often holds a few military books and reads them carefully.On weekdays, he would try his best to win over hundreds of soldiers under his command.As if, is a young man with great ambitions.

In the past two months, he has also gotten acquainted with these instructors of the Qi State, and he has become very interested in the history of the Qi State, their military system, and the several wars they have experienced.Fighting the natives, fighting the Western barbarians, destroying the Portuguese, and fighting the Dutch, this small country of Qi has grown rapidly in the course of countless battles, which can be called the history of a small country's struggle and growth!

Listening to the instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps, how they attacked Gaizhou city across the sea and captured and killed nearly a thousand slaves, Jiang Yongrui was fascinated by it; They repelled the Jiannu armored cavalry and rushed into the formation, killed and wounded hundreds of Jiannu prisoners, and captured several high-ranking Jiannu generals, enabling Daming to hold a prisoner offering ceremony in the capital.After Jiang Yongrui heard it, his blood boiled even more, and he wished he could fight in the battle himself.

When these instructors of the Qi State Marine Corps talked about it in private, the current crisis of Ming Dynasty was already a sign of the country's subjugation.Jiang Yongrui just listened silently, but he also agreed in his heart that Daming's time is indeed running out.So, do I want to leave a way out, or grab some holdings to survive in troubled times?
"Mr. Jiang Qian, do you want to make contributions? Do you want to get promoted and make a fortune?"

Following the series of fierce offensives launched by Jiannu in Liaodong, several castles were destroyed and more than [-] troops were lost. The Ministry of the Ming Dynasty expected the new army to cross the sea to flank the rear of Jiannu, so they had to give up and watched helplessly outside Shanhaiguan. , there is only one isolated city of Ningyuan left.

A few days later, Bai Haihai, the instructor of the Qi State Marine Corps, suddenly found Jiang Yongrui and asked him if he dared to mobilize the troops and go to sea with the Qi State Navy Fleet to fight.

"Make meritorious deeds? Get rich?" Jiang Yongrui had a strange look in his eyes, "Are you going to Liaodong to fight Jian slaves?"

"We're not going to Liaodong." Bai Dahai said with a smile, "As for where we're going, I can't tell you for now. Do you dare to follow?"

"Why don't you dare?" Jiang Yongrui said without showing any weakness.

"Then go and encourage the new army to see how many people dare to go out to sea with us." Bai Dahai said: "Let you see how we fight! By the way, let your new army experience the battle." For a while, just like you are training, it's completely like a child's play."

(End of this chapter)