More than 50,000 rebels retreated like an ebbing tide.
At the foot of Tongzhou City, countless rubbish, abandoned carriages, tents, and freshly cut wood were thrown away. Half of the siege weapons were built. Many civilians who were captured also took the opportunity to flee.
Dong Jishu saw this new army. Behind the carriage camp were five or six thousand gun soldiers, all carrying long-barreled Rumi guns.
Dong Jishu recognized Lumi Gun at a glance. He had one of his own, which he bought by bribing the head of the Ministry of Industry, and he used it for hunting.
He clearly knew how powerful this thing was. I heard before that Ningyuan has six thousand fire gun soldiers. Divided into twelve battalion heads, they are all equipped with Rumi guns.
Three years ago, during the great victory of Ningjin, Yuan Chonghuan relied on the fierce firepower of Rumi's gun to dig trenches under the city and fight Jiannu from May 11th to early June. In the end, he caused serious losses to Jiannu's heavy infantry. , forcing Huang Taiji to retreat.
On the right wing of the carriage camp, he saw a cavalry force of about three to four thousand men walking slowly towards them.
Although there were not too many people, they were very impressive. A feeling of oppression came. The entire battlefield became tense instantly. The rebels suddenly panicked.
Dong Jishu wiped his eyes. He initially thought it was Jiannu. He had only seen this kind of momentum from Jiannu's cavalry. The slow approach of this kind of enemy can create a sense of oppression that panics the soldiers under his command.
But soon, he knew that this was not a slave. Because he saw the flag.
A black flag was erected, with the words "Zunhua Inspection Department Xinghe Iron Works Team Training" written in white letters.
Group training has been around for a long time and is not unique to the Ming Dynasty. They were inherited from the rural soldier system of the Zhou Dynasty and have been valued throughout the ages. In the Tang Dynasty, the position of regimental training envoy began to exist, which was similar to the captain of the private self-defense force to manage the affairs of the regiment training. In the Song Dynasty, various state regiment training envoys were established, and Su Shi once served as the deputy envoy of Huangzhou regiment training.
Only in the Ming Dynasty, the position of regiment training envoy was abolished.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Taizu abolished the position of Tuan Lian Envoy. In other words, the government no longer sets up a team training official position to manage local team training.
The team training manager became a non-staff member, a common name for the team training manager. It's not actually an official name.
Team training in the Ming Dynasty was divided into four types.
1. The governors of prefectures and counties are responsible for the inspection and defense envoys, and the management of military preparation and military affairs: they are called machine soldiers.
2. Managed by inspections of the local inspection department: called archers.
3. Recruited by the censor, and trained and managed by the commander of the guard station. Called volunteers.
4 Joined the Shenshu Battalion of the Beijing Army. The name of the Shenji Battalion is unknown. However, according to historical data, the name is still different from that of Jingying. These people are similar to the 40,000 people in Nanzhili and Shanxi whom Yang Fan forced to adapt. They take orders from the Beijing camp and are similar to the auxiliary soldiers of the Beijing camp. That is, temporary workers in Beijing camp.
Yang Fan's Xinghe group training was at a very low level. They reported to the Zunhua Inspection Department. That is to say, the nominal superior unit is the Inspection Department under the Zunhua County Yamen.
It was Xiao Niangpi who did this in the first place. She also wants to be convenient. Because the Inspection Department is a big department that manages public security, and its management is very chaotic. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the Inspection Department was a grassroots organization under the county-level yamen, similar to the police station of the Public Security Bureau. Team training is equivalent to a joint security defense team. Joint defense teams are usually managed by several organized police officers.
They are non-permanent organizations. In addition to having no administrative discretion, they also have no permanent chief executive. Its functions are mainly military, public security, and catching robbers. But the corps trainers of various iron-making workshops would not be arrested by the Yamen. They are actually private soldiers.
The Ming Dynasty followed the previous dynasty's example, but left administrative power behind. In the late Qing Dynasty, China's population increased greatly, but the number of county government offices did not increase. Therefore, the number and functions of inspection departments at the sub-county level increased day by day, and many of them also had officials such as general judges.
For such a shabby institution, you just need to pay money to report.
Xiao Niangpi is Dongchang’s crotch, it’s just a matter of words. They were so frightened that they dared not do anything. If there is one more group training, the county magistrate may not even know about it.
The team training organized by each ironworks, shop, and workshop in Zunhua is reported to the Inspection Department. The main reason is that it costs less and the procedure is simple. These days, officers and soldiers are unreliable. These wealthy industrial and commercial tycoons can only recruit strong men themselves.
Protect your own industry and maintain law and order on the ground. Otherwise, their business would not be able to continue.
The imperial court was well aware of this. You don’t have to pay for it yourself, and you can also maintain public security on the ground, so why not do it. Although the Chongzhen Dynasty allowed team training, team training must never leave the hometown to prevent the team from becoming powerful. This is also why Xinghe Tuanlian has stayed in Zunhua since he returned to Zunhua. Responsible for protecting Yang Mansion and Iron Factory, there is no reason why he has not left.
Yang Fan went to the northwest and took only the servants with him. He left Xinghe Tuanlian in his hometown.
Therefore, no matter how elite these cavalrymen are, their official status is just that of the local security brigade, and they are called the strong archers of the three squadrons of government officials in Zunhua County.
Of course, they are the fighter among the archers. They have a reputation for fierce fighting. Knocked down nine thousand years old. They also defeated the Haraqin people. They were the best-equipped, best-trained, and most elite cavalry in the Ming Dynasty at this time.
Dong Jishu Nannan said: "It turns out it's them. Your Majesty actually transferred them here."
He gained confidence instantly.
In the past few days, his confidence had been wiped away by those guard soldiers who collapsed as soon as they came to fight.
Now, what came down from the city was Dingyuan Bo's car camp and group training. Plus six thousand Lumi gunmen. He knew that this was already the strongest lineup in Ming North at this time.
While he was observing, the army below began to change formations.
The car camp began to accelerate and turned into a square array in the wilderness south of the city. Then, all the carriages turned around and turned their rear ends outward.
The soldiers in the car jumped out and opened the steel plates on the sides of the car to both sides. The steel plates are linked together under the support of steel scaffolding. Almost instantly, a city composed of carriages and steel plates was formed.
Watchtowers and shooting towers were built on steel pipe scaffolding. There were small Folan cannons and Lumi guns placed on it. The front of the arrow tower is also protected by tiled steel plates, which looks very strong.
Although Dong Jishu is a veteran, he has seen various car camps. But this is the first time I have seen such a tall and solid car camp. This car camp has a wide variety of weapons and is tightly defended. At first glance, it looks like a tough nut to crack.
The car camps in the past, whether it was Qi Jiguang's light car camp or Xuanda's heavy car camp, were all two-wheeled carriages. They were all composed of vehicles turned sideways and wooden boards connected end to end to block the outside.
The vehicles in these car camps are all four-wheeled heavy-duty carriages. The outside is covered with black steel plate armor. The length is about 5.4 meters.
Dong Jishu saw that after the carriage camp was sealed, a golden barrel slowly stretched out from the rear of the carriage.
"Heavy copper-haired cannon!" he exclaimed.
In the past, the car camps he had seen were all equipped with small cannons. At most, it's No. 5 General Cannon.
Because the axles and wheels cannot withstand the strong impact. The No. 3 general's cannon will fall apart even if it fires. Some are even equipped with firecrackers.
Dong Jishu counted five hundred vehicles, each of which had a copper-fired cannon with a thick barrel. He was speechless for a moment. Copper is money. Five hundred gates, five hundred gates in total. How much copper does this cost?
When Uncle Dingyuan built this car camp, it could be said that he was ruining his family and his country.
At this time, the horn sounded.
The cavalry and Rumi gun infantry began to line up into the car camp.
Just now they were responsible for deterring the rebels and buying time for the car camp to set up positions. Now that the positions were set up, they began to cover each other and retreated into the car camp.
The rebels never found a chance to attack.
Dong Jishu was condescending on the city wall, and he could see the inside of the entire car camp.
After the army retreated into the camp, they began civil work. Set up tents in separate areas and dig drainage ditches and toilets. Set up the stove. He even saw someone digging a well on the spot.
"It seems they are setting up camp. They can't fight today."
