It is hard to say whether the 90,000 total troops arranged on the front line of Hunan can withstand the army of Sanshun King. It is definitely enough to block the more than 20,000 Han Eight Banners and Green Camp in Hubei.

The newly built conscription office and new recruit battalion in the east of Zhaoqing City in the capital recently recruited 20,000 new recruits. The new recruits selected military and civilians from all over the country who were full of passion and had a deep hatred of blood from the Qing Dynasty, followed by subway disciples, and most of them were farmers in Guangxi. Guangxi was poor in mountains and rivers, with fierce people, brave and fierce fighting. Since ancient times, places where strong soldiers were produced, these were all good sources of good soldiers and good seedlings for strong soldiers.

The current military reform is not complete, and there are many compromises. Huguang and Beijing camp have a large number of private troops in groups, but they have not broken up and reorganized. It is always a threat to the center and the emperor. The upcoming war will definitely be accompanied by a large number of casualties of soldiers, which is a good opportunity to gradually eliminate private troops in various towns.

Zhu Youlang prepared for the future and built an independent recruitment office, which was no longer given to Xingdu Jingying. Mingjun towns in Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang will be responsible for the independent recruitment power. The Ministry of War will be responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits. After the reorganization and brainwashing of the new recruits, they will be disbanded and allocated to each town to supplement the war loss and flaws until all of them are replaced. This is a trick to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot. It requires a slow process. The reform does not necessarily require all fierce means. Zhu Youlang thinks this method is very good.

Huguang disarmament and eliminated nearly 100,000 scattered soldiers and young men. If these layoffs were disbanded on the spot, they would be dismissed and left the land to stay in Huguang, which would always be a hidden danger. If King Sanshun went south, he would take the opportunity to cooperate inside and outside and seize the city.

In addition, Huguang will definitely be everywhere in the next year, and it is definitely impossible to farm well. War will inevitably be accompanied by a large number of killings. Instead of staying in Huguang and being massacred by the Qing army, it is better to send it to southern Sichuan to enrich Dingkou within the jurisdiction of Wen'an and replenish the guards' forces. The current situation of the Sichuan people is really too miserable.

Since being ravaged by the Qing soldiers and Zhang Xianzhong, 99% of the millions died. The remaining Shu people fled into the deep mountains and forests, with grass and grass and wood food. Over time, white hair grew all over their bodies and turned into savages. There was no one in Shu for thousands of miles, with thorns everywhere, and the city and countryside were desolate, and there was no people.

The Qing army had no food, so they had to withdraw from Shu, and Wu Sangui guarded Shaanxi, and controlled Sichuan remotely. After Jiashen, about three years, no one was in Sichuan. Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, was stubborn and conceited, but had some skills. He was once the sharp axe of Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who cut down many political enemies for them.

When Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan, Zunyi became the base camp of the Ming army. Wang Yingxiong opened his mansion in Zunyi and was in charge of military and political affairs. His personal soldier Wang Xiang was very smart and deeply trusted by Wang Yingxiong. After Wang Yingxiong's death, Wang Xiang used the seal signal in his hand to reorganize the battalions and recovered southern Sichuan. He had more than 40,000 to 50,000 troops and became the de facto governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Zeng Ying's general Yang Zhan was also stationed in Jiading in southern Sichuan. He also had Pi Xiong who married his daughter to the King of Han. He planned to support the King of Han in southern Sichuan, but he did not set up the matter. These three forces often fought against each other.

The three Ming army had less than 100,000 (mostly strong men were forced to be pulled), and they made a living by looting, and no one was in the farmland. There was ten gold and silver in the military camp, but there was no shortage of food. If you were hungry, you would buy buckwheat from Tibetan herders. It was thousands of miles apart, with more people coming and few returning. There was no grain in northern Sichuan. The three forces were all active in the Sichuan-Guizhou area and plundering themselves, becoming a mob.

After Wen Anzhi, the new governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, arrived in southern Sichuan, the three towns were in power in their jurisdiction, feeling that the court had no prestige of the past. They did not take Wen Anzhi, the imperial official, seriously at all.

Wen'an followed Zhu Youlang's instructions and secretly ordered Shi Xiang to envoy Xuanfu, and the second-rank imperial concubine Qin Liangyu entered the Governor General's headquarters. Qin Liangyu was ill and could not make a move, so he sent his son Ma Xianglin to lead three thousand white-rod soldiers to the Governor General's headquarters to obey the order.

As soon as the Baigang soldiers arrived, although there were not many people, the three towns became frightened birds and did not dare to burn, kill, loot, and ignored the military and political orders of the Governor's headquarters, and provided conditions for cooperation in everything. Wen Anzhi finally established a foothold in southern Sichuan and began to organize the rectification and clean up the military affairs and internal affairs in various places.

After Du Yinxi followed the emperor's instructions to send all the 100,000 strong men cut off from Huguang to him, Wen'anzhi found a wilderness surrounded by mountains among Bawu, called Jiulianping, surrounded by mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the soil is fertile, which is just suitable for farming. He arranged 100,000 strong men to settle there, which not only solved their food problems, but also prevented them from causing chaos in nothing. It was a win-win situation.

Under the pressure of the Qing army coming to the south, more than 40,000 Beijing camps in the five towns were training vigorously in the east, west, and Chengnan barracks, actively preparing for the war.

On a shooting range in the east of the city.

Zhu Youlang watched the sergeant shooting practice on the side under the escort of dozens of Saviors from Dingbadu.

Hundreds of musket soldiers stood in two rows, all leaning on their shoulders.

A military commander next to him shouted: "Get the gun!"

Two rows of musket soldiers shouted at the same time: "Get the gun!"

With a loud bang, he held the musket in his hand.

The military commander shouted: "Steel!"

With a swish, two rows of musket soldiers erected the muskets on the ground together.

Military Order: "Recharge!"

Two rows of musketeers put the gunpowder in the fixed-loaded paper tube ammunition and lead ammunition into the muskete.

Military Order: "Take a stick!"

The two rows of musket soldiers pulled out the open strips together, poked them into the muzzle three times, stabbed the lead gunpowder, and then inserted the open strips back.

Military Order: "Hold a gun!"

The two rows of musket soldiers set up the muskets together to shoot.

The military commander raised the small flag and waved it violently.

Fires burst into pieces, smoke rose, and crackling sounds.

In the ninety steps ahead, wood chips flew across the targets, and most of the targets were smashed.

Zhu Youlang nodded with satisfaction and shouted "Stop".

Then he walked to the queue of musket soldiers and casually signaled a musket soldier in the back row to hand over the muskets in his hand to himself. The musket soldiers obeyed the order to hand over the muskets in their hand carefully.

Zhu Youlang looked at the musket, which was black and thick, and was made of fine iron. The barrel was straight and long, with sightseeing gates in front and back. The back of the gun was sealed with bolts, and the wooden support was slightly bent downward. It was a well-made firearm, not the garbage firearm that could separate the gun barrel and the gun support with a little force.

According to the gun smith in the craft camp firearm workshop, Zhu Youlang knew that this kind of musket was called the turtledove-legged gun.

The turtledove-legged gun is the largest inner diameter musket in the Ming Dynasty, also known as the hook gun. The body length is 5.5 feet (about 31-32 cm per construction ruler), the inner diameter is 0.6 inches (about 19mm), the medicine is 1.3 taels, the lead is 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), and the large turtledove-legged gun weighs 1.8 taels (68 grams, terrifying). The gun body is very heavy and needs to be supported by a foot, which looks like a bird's feet. Hence the name, and its power is far better than that of ordinary bird guns.

It is completely different from the style of bird guns and Lumi guns with small barrels. In the late Ming Dynasty, only Macau and Guangdong could make it. Such firearms were used among pirates, and the government army also had a small amount of equipment. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan transported a batch of firearms to Beijing, including 100 such firearms. After the Songjin War, the Ministry of War proposed to transfer Zheng Zhilong's naval troops to guard Juehua Island. Zheng Zhilong was afraid of death and refused. One of the reasons for his rejection was that only Guangdong could make turtledove-legged guns.

The turtledove-legged gun is a rare fine product in the series of convex rope guns. Unfortunately, due to technology and materials, it is difficult to mass-produce it on a large scale. The current standard firearm in the army is still a bird gun.

The bird gun was the first weapon in the battle. It was a powerful weapon for the Lienizui hole armor, and the shooting energy hit, and the bow and arrow were not reached. In history, the Qi family army trained bird gunners, and they set up a five-foot-high wooden sign at 80 steps. The bird gunners were three of them and seventeenth, and the art was the masterpiece.

The effective lethality of the three-eyed gun is only more than twenty steps, while the bird gun is much farther away. An excellent bird gun can effectively lethality of the eighty steps.

The step bows of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners have an effective range of 70 steps, and only after entering fifty steps can they have obvious lethality to the target. To break through the opponent's armor, leather armor, cotton armor, iron armor, etc., it is necessary to pull thirty steps closer to about forty steps. However, the arrows of their arrows are extremely long, and they are like chisels. The arrows are soaked with horse manure, etc., and it is difficult to take them out after being shot. Not only do they spread toxins and easily lose their lives. Therefore, they cannot be underestimated, especially the Sanshun King tribes and the Han Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. Many camp heads are also equipped with excellent bird guns and firearms, and they cannot be underestimated.

At present, the musketeers under the command of Jiao Lian and Wu Jisi of the Jingying camp can smash most of the targets ninety steps away with a sharp weapon like the turtle dove-legged gun. According to the requirements of the Qi family army, they can be considered to be superb. Of course, Zhu Youlang knew that the soldiers in the Jingying camp could obtain these results, which were all shot through countless live ammunitions.

In Zhu Youlang's view, the Ming Dynasty did not lose in terms of whether the weapons and equipment were advanced, and there were more political factors in all aspects. Moreover, the warlordization of various towns in the late Ming Dynasty, coupled with the poor logistics, greatly affected the promotion of various advanced firearms.

The firearm army requires systematic and strict training, and all aspects of support are complex issues. However, the cold weapon army can easily bring some strong men, give swords, guns, sticks, and fight, and can also brag about how many thousands of powerful soldiers they have, occupying an important position in the minds of the court. In fact, their combat power is at the level of the five slags. The so-called 100,000 strong soldiers can not beat the thousands of firearm army with excellent cannons, muskets, and well-trained firearm army.
Chapter completed!