Lu Ming

Chapter 391 The man
If you count the time alone, even though Hou Jin's army was already besieging the capital while the meeting was held, King Qin's action was still in time.

The historical battle of the Houjin siege lasted from mid-November of that year to early February of the next year; in early February of 11, Huang Taiji led the army to return to the north one after another.

In the process of returning to the north, the late Jin army would occupy a series of military towns such as Yongping, Qian'an, Luanzhou, and Zunhua along the way, and stationed Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

These military towns will be "recovered" one after another by the troops who came to King Qin from all walks of life in the next one or two months.Yes, after the Eight Banners soldiers left behind burned, killed, looted and looted, they swaggered away with their spoils before the Ming army slowly besieged the city.

That is to say, the history has changed, when the last group of Eight Banners soldiers withdrew from the wall, it was May 1630.

Therefore, there is still plenty of time to travel through the crowd. If it is just to chop off the heads of some "real Tartars" in exchange for credit: the intervention army only needs to arrive at Tianjin Wei in February next year.

The strategy is simple: after arriving in Tianjin, General Cao can hide in the Acropolis, preparing for battle and spying on him at the same time.When the main force of Houjin withdraws, it's time for the special forces to show their skills-those broken Manchurian Eight Banners are the fat sheep in General Cao's mouth.

In short, the small intervening army will not head-on with the main force of Houjin.Using the advanced equipment and weapons and ammunition of later generations, looking for opportunities to sneak attack and annihilate small groups of enemy troops is the kingly way.

After the general strategic direction is determined, a series of follow-up operations will begin.

On the night of the enlarged cabinet meeting, the encrypted telegraph signal flew from the senior officials to Hangzhou and Shanghai.Let Xiong Dao get any instructions and leave him alone, but Hangzhou Lu Cheng's order is very clear: notify the major agents that Cao Zongbing will come to Tianjin Wei in person in the near future.

Soldiers and horses go ahead without moving food and grass.In the future, when Qin Wang’s army arrived in Tianjin by sea, whether it was food, horses, auxiliary soldiers, guides, or vital local intelligence needed by the troops, it would be impossible to rely on the local government and guards in Tianjin for these things.

So on the day when it was decided to go north to King Qin, Hangzhou Station received the order.Nowadays, anyone who is qualified to be a "big agent" must be a powerful person with business all over the north and south.After receiving the notice, these people will soon spread the news to their own business or related households in Tianjin.

As a node of the Grand Canal, Tianjin was a transportation hub where wealthy merchants gathered in the Ming Dynasty.And once the local snakes there know that the God of Wealth is coming, they will naturally prepare the materials and manpower specified in the news in advance. These local wealthy businessmen are ten thousand times more reliable than the government, and primitive capitalists are also capitalists. If you want to underwrite someone's industrial products in the future, you must do a good job in reception.

Immediately after the telegram was sent, the army also made preparations.This operation is considered a joint operation of the "three services". The army will provide 200 soldiers to be responsible for daily tasks such as guarding, guarding, guarding supplies, and defending the city.

The navy also began to mobilize ships.Since there are no combat missions this time, most of the fleet will be transport ships.The planned combat ships will go to three at most, and this is still for the purpose of training troops and surveying and mapping North Korean waters.

On the special forces side, all members were dispatched.In addition to 50 fighters, another 10 logistics personnel also went out with the team.These people are not useless. A large number of equipment and weapons brought from later generations need daily maintenance and maintenance, not to mention transportation and care.

Due to the high difficulty of this expedition, it was the first battle without a rear since crossing the army, so after Xia Xianze's approval, the three artifacts of guerrilla warfare, including RPG, infantry mines, and TNT, were all taken out this time.

Of course, some people's generosity is not all because of the needs of the expedition. There is also a factor of "commodity depreciation".

The above-mentioned good things were actually bought blindly when Emperor Cao bought arms.But the facts have proved that the three artifacts are a little bit unacceptable in the time-traveling crowd, in other words, they are a little bit too high to be low.

In addition to being able to use RPG to shoot twice in the early wasteland, as the regular army became stronger and stronger, the people who traveled through suddenly found that the three artifacts could not be used.

Now is the seventeenth century, no matter what kind of sea or land enemies, you can use artillery + musketeers + diatomaceous earth explosive packs to deal with.

This cheap, reproducible way of war soon became the kingly way, and the three artifacts that needed to be imported became museum displays.

There is no high-value target that needs to be played with RPG, and there is no half-meter-thick vault door in the Ming Dynasty that requires special forces to sneak in and blast it with TNT.As for the landmines, they are all used by the poor. The imperial army has always been on the front line, and the scene of being beaten into guerrillas has never appeared.

So taking this opportunity, Xia Xianze approved all the three artifacts in stock to the Special Forces: Putting chicken ribs in the arsenal also requires manpower and material resources to maintain, and these dangerous gadgets will fail and explode after a long time, which is tantamount to is slowly depreciating.

This King Qin mission is the last chance for the three artifacts to show their value.After learning from experience and lessons, in a few years, King Qin of Traveling Through Zhongqin will dispatch an army, and the three artifacts will completely depreciate in value.

While the military is preparing for war, the industrial sector is not idle.For example, the quilt factory received an order for 1000 sets of military coats.

It is now mid-November, and in the plan, the departure time of the intervention army was set at the beginning of December.After half a month, the fleet will depart from Taiwan, and will take a supplementary rest in Shanghai Port on the way.Then roughly in early January, the intervention army arrived in Tianjin.

After arriving in Tianjin, the troops will spend about a month to prepare and adapt. In other words, they just sit and watch the melee between the two armies at the foot of the capital.Then wait until the withdrawal of Huang Taiji's army in February before considering the issue of attack.

In this way, the order received by the quilt factory has become 1000 sets of coats, cotton trousers, Lei Feng hat and gloves, and the leather shoe factory has also received an order for the same number of cotton leather shoes.

There is still half a month before departure, and the small processing factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as the personnel and materials are ready, these orders can be made within a few days, and the expedited fee will be paid at most.

Although the equipment in the kiln area quilt factory is not so advanced and is a semi-mechanized production method, the kiln area has abundant human resources. One or two thousand female workers can be mobilized to work in three shifts at any time.

There is a reason for ordering an excessive number of cold zone equipment: after the intervention army arrives in Tianjin, it is necessary to recruit guides and auxiliary soldiers locally, and these equipment will be available at that time.

In addition to military supplies, a large number of light industrial products are also included in the shipment.Before that, the rich men in the northern region used the goods distributed from the Grand Canal in the south, and this distribution method often caused shortages of goods, incomplete varieties and sharp price increases, just like pork in later generations.

This time, the interference with the military king belongs to the manufacturer who sent the regional president to develop the market with samples, so a large number of samples are essential.Once this trade route is opened, the rich men in the capital will be able to use a steady stream of kerosene and glass mirrors in the future.

While issuing a series of war preparation orders, the cabinet immediately held an arms expansion meeting.The meeting lasted one day, and after the meeting, a "1630 Armament Adjustment Plan" was issued.

This military expansion plan mainly involves the army and navy.

As for the army, the plan is this: 2000 new recruits are expected to be called up in the coming year, a move that will bring the total army strength to 5000.

In this process, the army will reorganize, and next year it will form a pattern of two main regiments plus a part of the reserve force.

The new regiment is composed of 3 infantry battalions + artillery company + logistics force, with a total number of 2000 people.

Regarding the deployment of troops, a battalion of 500 people will be deployed in Xiamen and Guangzhou, and the rest of the troops will stay in Taiwan for training.

In the long-term plan of the army, the army will continue to expand in the next two to three years.In the end, the army will deploy a standing battalion of 500 troops in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shandong, Tianjin and other places, and then maintain no less than four battalions of mobile troops in Taiwan, which will be used to guard against possible wars in the North and Southeast Asia at any time.

After the army comes the navy.

The newly added resources of the navy are mainly inclined towards ocean shipping.Considering that the fleet will not only have to cross the 2000-kilometer mainland coastline in this Qinwang mission, but also will continue to send fleets to expand this route in the future, so the navy has decided to increase the number of large-tonnage ocean-going ships built in the coming 1630s .

The "large tonnage" here mainly refers to transport ships of 800 tons or more.

Those new lock ships of 800-[-] tons before this will be used as short-distance cargo ships on the Fujian-Guangdong-Taiwan triangle route in the future; while cargo ships for northern regions such as Shanghai, Tianjin, North Korea, and Japan need to be increased to at least [-] tons.

As for combat ships, the Navy is generally satisfied with the current 500-ton Youguang-class gunboat and the 150-ton Taijiang-class frigate.

These two types of warships not only come and go freely along the coast of the mainland where the wind direction is chaotic and the terrain is complex, but they also satisfactorily dealt with all Chinese pirates. The navy has not found the need for adjustments so far.

As for the European colonial ships that will definitely have conflicts in the future. At this moment, there is already a huge verification warship in the sea trial state off the coast of Taiwan.Soon, the enemies across the hordes will try out the power of the large naval guns.

While a series of preparations are underway, Zhang Dongdong is also anxiously waiting for the telegram from Fuzhou.

Now the governor's yamen in Fuzhou wants to contact General Cao, all they need to do is send someone to pass the news to the commercial store in Fuzhou City.Therefore, Zhang Dongdong, who is far away in Taiwan, can receive the telegram immediately.

Finally, on the sixth day after the time-traveling meeting, the man sent a message: Come to Fuya as soon as possible, it's urgent!
(End of this chapter)