Wu Xiang reminded in a low voice: "Master Qiansui, Gao Hongtu has never been in the memorial to persuade people to enter..."
Whether or not you have received a memorial to persuade people to enter is a matter of ass! Those sesame and mung bean officers who do not lead troops are of no concern, but officers of the New Army company and flag corps or above (including companies and flag corps), people-friendly officers in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, North Korean Central Committee members and foreign ministers and above All civil servants must take a stand on this issue! If you are an officer of the New Army Company or Flag Team or above, if you do not submit the memorial to persuade people to advance, then just get out and go home. Loyalty to Prince Zhu is the first iron rule that everyone in the New Army must abide by!
If you are a civilian, you will not be dismissed from your official position, but you will become the subject of a key inspection by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. If you investigate carefully, you can always find out the problem...
However, the warlord-like feudal territory of Gao Hongtu is not something Zhu Cihong can easily control!
Although the old man was beaten by Duduo and almost jumped into the Tuhe River, he finally pulled 15,000 people away from the battlefield.
After three days of fighting with Duduo's main force, half of them were still able to leave alive, and Duduo didn't dare to chase them - it was almost two hundred miles from the Tuhe front line back to Jinan Fucheng!
Duduo's Eight Banners soldiers are all cavalry. Not chasing and killing them can only mean one thing. Their losses are not small. It must be a tragic and narrow victory! He was so frightened that he didn't dare to fight anymore, so Gao Hongtu could retreat safely.
Even the former Guan Ning Army could not achieve such a record, but Gao Hongtu's Shandong Regiment Training Army actually achieved it.
This illustrates at least two problems. First, the combat effectiveness of the Shandong regiment's military training is not too weak - this is the first time! If Gao Hongtu dives into the water a few more times and Zhu Cixiang gives him some military pay and weapons, he will be able to practice it sooner or later!
The second is...Gao Hongtu's control over Shandong regiment training is already in place!
Management and control are also combat effectiveness! Only when control is in place can orders and prohibitions be implemented. Only when orders and prohibitions are implemented can an army of tens of thousands of people work together to fight.
In terms of individual combat effectiveness, the Guan Ning Army is definitely superior to the Shandong regiment training. Moreover, they are also Liao people guarding Liao territory, which is similar to the Shandong regiment training, but they do not have the ability to fight in the field with the Manchurian soldiers.
The reason is that no one can control the Guan Ning Army in the same way that Gao Hongtu controls "Qi Yong" - the Guan Ning Army is, to put it bluntly, a group of small warlords and their own servants. The internal cohesion is far less than that of "Qi Yong", and there is no "founding army leader" like Gao Hongtu holding down the mountains below. Therefore, a maximum of three or four points can be used for ten points of combat power, and no one is willing to fight at the critical moment.
And such a "Qi Yong" who can fight and fight is now not under Zhu Cixiang's firm control... And such an army in today's Ming Dynasty must not only be Qi Yong's family!
Letting go and using the feudal town for group training is undoubtedly a double-edged sword!
"It doesn't matter," Zhu Cixiang just smiled, as if he didn't care, "I don't want to be the emperor based on his memorial."
This was a bit inappropriate to say, and the ministers present frowned slightly.
Zhu Cixiang noticed their expressions when he saw them, and added: "I am a filial son. Sooner or later, I will take the throne of my father and replace him out of filial piety. Because my father has long wanted to retire and travel, so I am a filial son." As a son, how can I not take care of my father? It would be unnecessary for the ministers below to persuade them to join. When the time comes, my father will issue an order to meditate. As long as I can give the Tartars a hard blow, they will not dare to do it again. Coveting the southeast, who would be dissatisfied?"
Since Gao Hongtu's Qi Yong performed well, and Shi Kefa's Qufu Kong Yong was pretty good...then Zhu Cixiang's "Central Army" couldn't be too weak, and had to perform well, otherwise this hero and that hero would be defeated. Yes, you will be unconvinced!
The job of emperor still requires a good gun, and now defeating the Tartars is the only criterion for testing the gun!
No matter how awesome Gao Hongtu is, he has jumped into the earth river! If Prince Zhu’s Central Army could defeat the Tatar soldiers, who would dare to disobey?
If Zhu Cihong's "Central Army" cannot defeat the Tartars, then he will not be practical even if he usurps the throne. In order to avoid internal changes, it is better to slow down.
"Master Chitose, the Tartars are not easy to beat!" Wu Xiang was still a little worried, "Although Lord Chitose's 15th regiment model army is very capable of fighting, the model army is mainly infantry, while the main force of the Tartars is cavalry. If fighting in the water towns and mountains, the model army can still find opportunities to beat the Tartars, but the terrain of Yanzhou and Dongchang in Shandong is mostly plains. The Tartar cavalry comes and goes like the wind, fighting or not, whether the enemy is away or not... ...How can one hit hard?”
Now the Ming Dynasty has lost its northern half and has become the Southern Ming Dynasty. Although after Zhu Cixiang's efforts to rectify, the military strength is stronger than before the fall of Beijing, the strength of the Ming Dynasty's new army to overcome difficulties now lies in the infantry and navy, but the cavalry is much weaker than before the fall of the north. After all, the southeastern half of the Ming Dynasty did not produce war horses. Without war horses, where would the cavalry come from?
Therefore, the number of cavalry in the new army to overcome the difficulties is now very small, only a few thousand in total, and the main force among them is the two model cavalry regiments.
This cavalry may be sufficient in Jiangnan and Huainan where water networks are densely covered. If they go to the Central Plains, there will be no large-scale cavalry maneuvers, and they will not be able to disperse even if they are not collected at night...
Without enough reconnaissance cavalry, once the army enters the Henan and Luxi plains controlled by the Qing Dynasty, it will easily become deaf and blind, unable to find the enemy's main force, and there will not be enough mobile troops to protect the logistics line.
In this case, no matter how strong the infantry is, it will not be able to display it because there is no chance for a decisive battle.
In addition, even if you win the decisive battle. Without cavalry in pursuit, the fruits of victory cannot be expanded. This makes it easy to defeat the Tartars but not annihilate them... It is impossible to talk about defeating the Tartars.
"How about we go north by water and land directly in Beizhili or Western Liaoning!" Huang Binqing, the commander of the Navy Guard, gave Zhu Cixiang a tough move. He said, "If we march towards Beijing along the Wei River, Dorgon will I’m afraid we have to fight a decisive battle, now Beijing is the home base of the Manchus!”
"No, no, no..." Wu Sanfu shook his head repeatedly, "Now the model army only has eight so-called 12-pound Hongyi cannons. Not to mention the city of Beijing, even the fortress built by the Tartars at Dagukou cannot hit it. Move!"
"Then buy more Hongyi cannons!" Huang Binqing said, "Nanjing Cannon Manufacturing Bureau can produce it, that Luoyang man has opened a cannon factory in Shanghai, there is also a Portuguese cannon factory in Hao'ao, and the Zheng family's Anping There is also a cannon factory in the town... These can produce Hongyi cannons! Can't we just buy dozens or hundreds of them?"
At present, there are four foundries that can produce Hongyi cannons, including Nanjing Artillery Bureau, Shanghai Luoshi Artillery Factory, Anping Artillery Factory and Haao Bojialao Artillery Factory, which can produce Hongyi cannons on the territory that the "Nan Ming" court can control or influence. Thirty or forty doors are not a problem. If that's not enough, you can purchase it from the Dutch East India Company, and you can get as much as you want.
These days, the artillery reserves of the European powers are in the thousands! Each of their third-level battleships can be equipped with dozens of cannons, and the 12-pound Hongyi cannon can only be regarded as the "little brother" among naval guns.
"There are plenty of cannons. As for the artillery, we can also ask Westerners to teach us. If that doesn't work, we can hire Western barbarians." Wu Xiang shook his head and said, "But there are no horses to pull it. A 12-pound red barbarian cannon can't be pulled without thirty horses. It can't be pulled. These draft horses cannot be used to death, they have to be used in turns, so a 12-pound Hongyi cannon needs at least thirty horses! And just pulling the cannon is not enough, you also have to pull the cannonballs, gunpowder, and Blacksmiths, stoves, etc. The Ministry of War cannot afford many draft horses now.
In addition, if the model army goes north to Beizhili or Liaodong or Liaoxi, it will not be able to come back for several months to a year..."
"Old Taishan is right, now is not the time for a cross-sea expedition..." Zhu Cixiang frowned, "We can't go to Shandong to fight Duduo. This guy has just suffered a lot, so he will definitely be more careful. . Let’s fight Hauge!”
