I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 52
Chapter 051

"What good news!"

"Ning Haijun defended the good news sent by Cheng Shijie, and they fought another victory."

"it is good!"

Sun Yuanhua also knew that it was useless to get angry again, so he had to prepare to clean up the mess.Now Emperor Chongzhen, it can also be said that the Ming court actually has no cards to play.

It is pitiful, pathetic, deplorable, and even more ridiculous that a great country, a Ming Dynasty with an army of 280 million in name, has no soldiers to use.

Sun Yuanhua received the good news from Xu Dacheng, first read it ten lines at a glance, and then read it line by line, and then read it word by word, three times in a row. Take a breath.

Normally, Sun Yuanhua would not take a second look at Cheng Shijie's good news.

Regardless of an army, even an ordinary county magistrate can behead more than two hundred bandits.However, Sun Yuanhua knew that this bandit was different from a bandit.

In Sun Yuanhua's small book, there are records of bandits, large and small, in Shandong. These bandits were all sacrificed by Sun Yuanhua to the Denglai New Army.

In May of the third year of Chongzhen, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi and then Minister of War Liang Tingdong as the governor of Denglai. In June, he officially took up his post as the Deputy Envoy of Shandong Inspection (Zhengsipin).After more than three months, this gradually grasped the power of the governor's office.

Since August of the third year of Chongzhen, he has tried every means to raise funds, and recruited a foreign legion composed of 27 military officers from various European countries, and then recruited craftsmen to build firecrackers and artillery, and officially trained the Denglai new army. .

It has been ten months since the Denglai New Army was formally formed in November. Due to the low level of education of the soldiers in the army, especially the artillery has not yet fully dispatched.

I never thought that the situation in Liaodong was changing too fast. Zu Dashou, an idiot, would rashly attack Dalinghe City without any preparations. The status of Dalinghe City is too important. , it is inevitable for Jiannu to attack him.

For his own strategy, he must lead Denglai's new army to support Dalinghe while Zu Dashou is still insisting, but the problem is that once he leaves Shandong, Shandong's plethora of bandits will harm the local area.

According to Cheng Shijie's report from Ning Haijun's garrison, the gangster town of Sanshan was a disaster, and Ning Haijun sent troops to wipe it out. The battle lasted two days, beheaded 230 people, captured 120 nine people under the command of Sanshan Town, and rescued [-] women who were robbed by bandits. The rest of them seized some ordnance.

Zhen Sanshan is one of the bandits recorded by Sun Yuanhua. In Sun Yuanhua's eyes, the strength of Zhen Sanshan is "6", while Qin Wu's strength is "7". Even though there are not many people in Zhen Sanshan, they are all elites. In fact, the most brilliant robbery of Zhensanshan was the robbery of Zhang Keda, the commander of the right army.

You must know that although Zhang Keda is the hereditary Nanjing Yulin Zuowei Thousand Household Official, he is even more so.In the 29th year of Wanli, Wu Jinshi.

Zhang Keda is not a living bag, but has illustrious military exploits. He fought Japanese pirates along the coast of Zhejiang, and was promoted to guerrilla and general.

Later, Wang Minghe, the chief soldier, quelled the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Southwest Guizhou, and defeated the invading Japanese pirates many times.In the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the general army and stationed in Shandong.On the way to his post, he led 47 Dingbing cavalry, was ambushed by Zhensanshan, Zhang Keda fell off his horse with an arrow, and [-] horses and some weapons were taken away by Zhensanshan warehouse under his command.

It can be said that Zhensanshan is one of the strongest bandits in Shandong. Although he only has four or five hundred plays, bandits with thousands of troops usually dare not provoke him.

Sun Yuanhua immediately believed that Cheng Shijie did not lie about his military achievements, and that deceit is an art. For example, Guan Ningjun, who clearly only beheaded dozens of heads, could kill thousands of empresses. When retreating, all the corpses and wounded were transported away, so not many heads were captured.

If it is to kill good people and make meritorious deeds, with more than [-] people in the Ning Navy, it is not beheading [-] levels, but it may be [-] levels, or even [-] levels, [-] levels, it is possible.

No matter how bad the army is, it will become murderous when it kills refugees and peasants, and no matter whether the refugees or peasants, they have no ability to resist the army at all.

Cheng Shijie dared to list these data, accurate to single digits, which just shows that there are really dry goods, and he is not afraid of investigation, not to mention, Cheng Shijie captured Huanzhen Sanshan alive, and there is a bandit leader alive, let alone investigation .

After reading the good news, Sun Yuanhua found that Ning Haijun had wiped out Zhensan Mountain at the cost of zero deaths, and he felt a little more at ease.

"Congratulations, Lord Futai, for obtaining a strong army!"

Sun Yuanhua knew very well that his political ally, Liang Tingdong, Minister of the Ministry of War, had been forced to resign. The current Minister of War, Xiong Mingyu, was transferred from Nanjing. Watching the situation, once the only army outside the pass is buried, the only army under his command can only be transferred.

Even if Sun Yuanhua asked the imperial court for the Lining Navy, Sun Yuanhua's support for Cheng Shijie was only verbal. At this special time point, Sun Yuanhua had to pay attention to this army.

"Dacheng!"

"On duty!"

"Get ready, let's go to Ning Haijun to see!"

"Prepare?"

"Correct!"

Sun Yuanhua sighed and said: "Since the establishment of the Ning Navy, the constitution has neither provided food, money, nor equipment. However, the officers and men of the Ning Navy worked hard, and Cheng Shijie devoted himself to destroying the Sanshan Division in the first battle. However, the Ning Navy The strength is too weak, we need to give them some support!"

"Master Futai means..."

"From Geng Zhongming's command eight Flang machine guns, from Zhang Tao's command sixty muskets, and from Denglai's new army one hundred armors!"

Sun Yuanhua felt that with these equipments, the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy would be improved.

In particular, the Franc machine gun, also known as the mother and child cannon, each cannon is equipped with seven sub-guns, which are rear-loaded. If you are well-trained, it only takes 140 seconds for a cannon to fire seven sub-guns, with an average of 20 seconds. Can fire a cannonball.The fast rate of fire is the advantage of the Frang machine artillery. The power of this artillery is also quite good, and the entire deep company can be used at a distance of 300 meters.

Although Cheng Shijie can deal with cold weapons such as knives, guns and armor, he has nothing to do with artillery and firecrackers. There are all famous cannon-casting craftsmen in Shandong, not to mention Shandong, even the entire Ming Dynasty. For the cannon casting technology, he recognized it as the second, and no one dared to recognize it as the first.

Others' Frang machine guns have only three sub-systems, and the airtightness is extremely poor, and the rate of fire of the Fran machine guns is also close.However, Sun Yuanhua made slight changes to the Frang machine artillery.The scope of the change is really not that big, even the gun can be regarded as shells, increased from three shells to seven shells, greatly increasing the firepower for continuous strikes.In addition, a wedge mechanism is added to the breech of the gun, and the sub-gun is inserted into the barrel through the wedge mechanism, thus avoiding air leakage.

In this improved Frang machine artillery, the effective range of the original 500 to 300 meters has been increased to more than [-] meters. Of course, because the barrel is smoothbore, the accuracy has not improved much.

As a technocrat, in Sun Yuanhua's eyes, increasing equipment is equivalent to improving combat effectiveness, but there are many factors that determine combat effectiveness. He only trained the Denglai new army's combat skills, but did not teach the Denglai new army why? And fight, why fight.

As a result, during the Wuqiao mutiny, the Denglai new army built by Sun Yuanhua and Fei Zi directly took advantage of Kong Youde.

Just as Sun Yuanhua was about to go to Ning Haijun for inspection, Cheng Shijie was leading officers above Ning Haijun to criticize and self-criticize.

"This time, the general is not prepared enough!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "I really didn't expect that the day would change so quickly! Because I didn't expect it and didn't make preparations, it caused 43 soldiers to suffer frostbite to varying degrees."

The weather at the end of the Ming Dynasty was completely different from that of later generations. In later generations, Shandong was a place with four distinct seasons. It was cold in winter, warm in spring, hot in summer and cool in autumn.But the problem is that there is no autumn now, from summer to winter directly.

"Master Garrison, the weather is abnormal, and there is a sudden blizzard. No one thought of it. I don't blame Sir Garrison..."

"Wrong is wrong, absolutely not perfunctory!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said: "Our Ning Haijun's formation is too slow, especially for the senior officers. According to our Ning Haijun's establishment, 12 people form a team, and four teams plus the forced team make up one sentry. Five sentries are In the first division, apart from Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu, who have already been appointed as the two generals, there should be [-] generals in the other divisions. The other three generals have not been appointed, because everyone is not capable enough to serve as the generals. Or in general, there is a saying that a general is incompetent and will exhaust the entire army. An incompetent officer will cause more harm than the enemy. If we want to make progress, we must face up to the problems around us, as well as face up to our own shortcomings and Shortcomings, not arrogance and complacency, thinking every day, if I get on, I will be better than so and so! The rarest thing for a person is to recognize himself!"

Under the leadership of Cheng Shijie, the officers began to reflect on their mistakes and shortcomings.

Finally, Cheng Shijie made a concluding speech: "Our Ning Navy's army formation is too slow. Since the establishment of the army, the troops have not conducted skill drills. The defenders believe that training cannot produce good soldiers, let alone good soldiers. An army, an army may not have good weapons, adequate supplies, and hard armor, but it must never be without courage and perseverance."

Cheng Shijie felt the urgency of time. He didn't have time to follow the steps, so he could only take extraordinary measures.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the huge map on the table and said: "In our Ninghai Prefecture, in addition to Zhen Sanshan, there are also Zhuan Linbao, Xiao Li Guang, Cao Shangfei, Zhenshan Hu, Mao Shiwan, Xiaobailong, Xiashan 23 gangs of bandits including Hu, Shan Baozi, Ding Tianliang, and Gun King Li.

"No, this is the best!"

Cheng Shijie said: "As a soldier, our duty is to defend our home and the country. Only by eliminating these bandits can we protect ourselves. We will start spring plowing next year. None of you want these bandits to come down the mountain to attack during our spring plowing period. Now I order that we rather Naval training is officially underway!"

(End of this chapter)