In the area north of Anlezhou in March and April, the ice and snow have not yet completely melted.
By May, it feels like spring in the south, and from mid-June onwards, the temperature is no different from that in the south of the Yangtze River.
After late June, the sky is almost like a direct fire. If it doesn't rain often, the sun will scorch the earth every day, especially in the Central Plains back then, but it's not like Akano Qianli.
Like animals, water is one of the most important factors for people to survive the summer smoothly.
The large rivers that can run ships have long been filled with Ming army ships, and other small rivers and ditches that are not wide are the key places where the cavalry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties competed.
Without occupying the village and drinking well water, if you want your war horses to avoid thirst, you must be close to living water.
The Ming army used airships to conduct aerial reconnaissance along the river in the vast area from the upper reaches of the Songhua River south of Sachahwei to the west bank of the Huhuhai River.
On the ground under each airship, there are no less than one company of cavalry and one battalion of infantry fighting together. As soon as an enemy is discovered, they will immediately pounce on it.
The reconnaissance and search area of an airship can reach one hundred square miles. A hundred airships lined up can conduct a dragnet search of the area on the south bank of the Songhua River.
Before Zhou Yuji led his troops across the river, he used the cavalry as a mobile force, the infantry as a tactical node, and the airship as an eye to conduct counter-infiltration operations against the infiltrating Donglu cavalry.
In addition, as long as the situation is verified, local people who report meritoriously will be rewarded according to the standard of ten taels of silver for each Donglu cavalry eliminated.
Each village received a signal bomb. As long as the Donglu cavalry attacked, the village chief could fire the signal bomb, and the nearby Ming army would rush to the scene of the incident as quickly as possible.
Even if it is half a beat slower, the Donglu cavalry who has done something bad will not run very far. As long as they capture the opponent's traces, the next step will be much easier.
Zhou Yuji left two hundred airships in the area on the south bank of the Songhua River, which can be repeatedly searched in two batches.
At first, some disbelieving Qing cavalry saw the Ming airship and tried to capture the pilot alive after the airship landed and go back to claim credit.
As a result, the airship landed, but the Ming army cavalry was waiting nearby, and fishing with the airship was also successful. This was an unexpected surprise.
Even one of Niulu's Eight Banners soldiers may not be a match for a Ming army cavalry company equipped with revolvers. The difference in firepower between the two sides was too great to form an evenly matched posture.
The Qing army had seized new weapons such as revolvers in previous battles. After some research by craftsmen, they could also imitate them.
However, the efficiency is too low, and the scrap rate of reloaded rifles remains high. The cost of manufacturing a qualified revolver is as high as hundreds of taels of silver, which is an amount that Shunji cannot afford at all.
After a year of hard work, he was able to make a hundred or so guns, which was just a drop in the bucket.
And compared with the hundreds of thousands of similar weapons owned by the Ming army, the revolvers in the hands of the Qing army were just a drop in the ocean.
More importantly, this kind of gun needs to fire copper custom bullets, and making bullets is not too difficult.
The difficulty is to produce a large number of bullets. If you don't study for three to five years, you will definitely not be able to achieve what you want.
Therefore, at this time, the Qing cavalry was either using flintlock muskets, or still using bows, arrows and javelins.
Compared with the Ming army, which was fully equipped with firearms and had already completed half of its rapid-fire weapons, the two sides had already widened the generation gap in individual weapons.
Although the generation difference is only one generation, the gap in firepower is an insurmountable gap.
The firepower of a cavalry company of 150 men in the Ming army is more than twice as strong as the firepower of 300 men in the Qing army.
Revolvers not only have a high rate of fire, but can also reload bullets much faster than flintlock rifles.
The disadvantage is that it is very expensive and has high industrial costs.
Regarding the former, after the comprehensive development of Monan Jinshan, the copper shortage problem in the Ming Dynasty was easily solved.
Although it is not a complete solution, it is a considerable progress to only solve the military needs.
Regarding the latter, one of the main tasks of a certain new emperor in the past ten years has been to train a large number of military equipment craftsmen.
Regardless of male or female craftsman, age, hometown, or slave status, as long as they pass the exam and obtain the corresponding certificate, they can get a high salary.
When working in an arsenal, the basic salary starts at five taels of silver. Including bonuses, the monthly salary can usually reach more than seven or eight taels of silver, or even higher. Rice salary is also included, and there are gifts during the New Year and holidays.
Slave status can be revoked after obtaining the certificate. If you are single, the factory will provide food and accommodation, and will be responsible for introducing candidates. Once hired, you will not lose your job unless you make a major mistake.
Under such circumstances, the number of craftsmen would naturally increase year after year, and only in this way could a certain new emperor's requirement for all cavalry and some infantry to be equipped with revolvers and magazine-type rifles be met.
It can be said responsibly that the Ming Dynasty's first output value was light industry, followed closely by the military industry, which mainly consisted of ironclad ships, steam tanks, and light weapons.
After surviving the Little Ice Age, agriculture was able to fully recover. As exports increased, commercial trade volume also increased. However, heavy industries such as oil extraction and mining could only rank fifth.
It was precisely because of the strong industrial base that the Ming cavalry was able to obtain new weapons. Each man was issued up to 200 rounds of ammunition, so much so that the Qing cavalry was proud of capturing a revolver and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
The actual situation is that even if hundreds of people are lost at a time, the Ming army's individual weapons may not be captured, because the losing side cannot clean the battlefield.
Only by specifically picking up the firearms of the Ming cavalry who had died during the battle without being discovered can we be successful.
Since the cavalry of the Ming Army were all heavily armed for defense, unless the mounts were killed and wounded first, forcing the riders to fall to the ground, the possibility of fatal blows with flintlocks or bows and arrows was almost zero.
The outdoor temperature in the northeastern summer is close to 30 degrees, but life is important, and this is the rule of battle. Most of the Ming army cavalry will fight with their helmets on in order to avoid asking for trouble.
Although it was similar to soaking in a hot spring, the chances left for the braided cavalry became slim.
Hundreds of people from both sides fought for a long time. It was a miracle that the other side could kill three or five people on this side.
In comparison, the Ming army's cavalry can be regarded as a serious combination of offense and defense.
The braided cavalry has the false name of "Iron Super Crossing", but in actual confrontation, they can't withstand a critical hit from the revolver.
Take the battle at Yezhutun, about fifty miles south of the Nalin River, as an example. The Ming army invested a company of 144 cavalry and encountered an attack by about 290 braided cavalry.
Both sides started fighting in the village on horseback, and the battle lasted for about two hours.
After the war, an inventory was conducted and it was found that no Ming troops were killed, but only 17 were injured.
Sixty-nine people of the Qing army were killed and 22 were captured due to injuries. The rest mounted their horses and fled.
In the past, this loss would not have caused the Qing army, which had a numerical advantage, to retreat directly.
But today is different from the past, as the Eight Banners soldiers were greatly consumed in previous battles.
Both Shunji and Dorgon had to rely on Sauron soldiers and Mongolian and Han soldiers to replenish the seriously lacking cavalry teams.
The bravery of the Sauron soldiers was not inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers, but due to their small number, they could only use Mongolian and Han soldiers to make up the bulk of the difference.
The Mongolian and Han soldiers were completely inferior to the Sauron soldiers, and their fighting will was far inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers.
It is perfectly fine to let them fight a smooth battle, but if they fight a fierce battle, they will probably "collapse halfway".
As long as it is estimated that more than 30% of their own casualties are wounded or killed, they will definitely run away. Staying and continuing to fight is tantamount to waiting to die.
Although Shunji, under Dorgon's suggestion, equipped each Niulu cavalry with a varying number of Eight Banners soldiers to suppress the formation.
But the firepower of the Ming army was too fierce. The firepower of ten Ming army cavalry exceeded that of forty or fifty Qing soldiers.
If the two sides exchanged fire for three to five minutes, the Qing army would be scared away even if there were not many casualties.
And based on previous combat experience, once the Ming army fires a signal flare, nearby troops will rush to help quickly when they see it.
Every Niulu Zhangjing knew this very well, so he controlled the fighting time to less than half an hour.
If the time is exceeded, even if the Ming army in front of you can be destroyed, you will be eaten by the Ming army coming.
The consequences of being caught by the Ming army were very terrible. Some said they would be skinned, some said they would be tortured, and some said they would be lit with sky lanterns.
Among the many speculations, the best outcome is that he was sent to Master Shuotuo to mine...
The Ming army has distributed a large number of leaflets throughout the Northeast about Shuotuo and his men living a good life with ample food and clothing in the Luzon Islands.
But having never seen Shuotuo himself, the Eight Banners soldiers didn't believe it at all and thought it was an illusion created by the demon boy to deceive people.
If this really happened, Master Shuotuo should take the initiative to persuade him to surrender.
The captured Han soldiers or Menggu cavalry were relieved after learning that they would not be sentenced to death.
All the prisoners agreed to go to Burma to fight, as long as they did not continue to fight the nightmare Ming army.
It was impossible for a certain new emperor to release the captives captured during the Northern Expedition.
It would be their great blessing to send them to Burma to work for the dumper.
According to a certain new emperor's understanding of the blame-shifting father, if he can beat Mang Bai's white-eyed wolf into the mountains, it means that the blame-shifting father has not suffered all these years in vain!
The difficulty of advancing to suppress the Burmese army entrenched in the mountainous areas is not much different from that of following up and suppressing the braids in the Xing'an Mountains.
The only thing is that the temperature is high and there are many mosquitoes. The other is large in area and difficult to find.
All prisoners must sign a declaration of surrender before going off to war, and once they have passed, they will surrender to the Burmese army.
If you are captured by the Ming army for the second time, there will be no need to go to trial, just Ling Chi!
In order to facilitate identification, just like the Song Dynasty, get a facial tattoo!
You don’t need to tattoo too many characters, just one word “明” on your forehead is enough.
As long as such a thing is captured on the battlefield, the executioner will be in business...
A certain new emperor also thought about letting them mine, but if these prisoners were to be miners, they would probably not want to run away every day.
Rather than that, it would be better to make the best use of everything and send them to Myanmar to do their old job, and now they can have sex as they please.
If you can't even defeat the Burmese army, what are you still doing? ? ?
Previously, Shuotuo also expressed his desire to make contributions to a certain new emperor, and he would be bound to do so regardless of the southern expedition or the northern expedition.
A certain new emperor probably got the news of the death of his biological father Daishan through Shuotuo, and felt that now he had no natural enemies.
If his troops were allowed to participate in the Northern Expedition, extraneous things might happen, so a certain new emperor sent Shuo Tuo to his father.
However, when fighting in Burma, you can't get per capita pay, and can only receive monthly salary and rice stipend.
The good thing is that as long as the things you grab are not particularly valuable, you can divide them up among yourself.
Mang Bai and his chieftains and generals would not hand over these properties willingly. If they wanted to get them, they would have to rely on their own efforts.
Considering that the Shuotu troops were less heat-resistant than the Ming army, a certain new emperor could only allow them to land and fight after Myanmar entered the dry season.
The dry season in Myanmar is just less humid and hot than the rainy season. It is impossible to achieve the climate of the Sahara or the Middle East.
Of course, a certain new emperor also promised Shuotuo that as long as this vote is done, there will be a bigger vote in less than five years.
After finishing that one job, everyone in the Shuotuo Department will be able to retire and live happily on the beach.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, Shuo Tuo must believe it because there is no other way to go.
A certain new emperor will not just fool Shuotuo. As his mascot, he cannot die easily.
If Shuotuo dies so soon, how can he continue to recruit braided senior generals in the future? ? ?
All Eight Banners soldiers captured on the battlefield in the Northeast were assigned to Shuo Tuo for management.
The Mongolian or Han soldiers were sent directly to the battlefield in Burma. A certain new emperor did not intend to send his own troops to the scapegoat.
The Northeast battlefield is busy carrying out anti-guerrilla operations, and the number of troops is slightly insufficient to begin with, let alone reducing the number of troops at this juncture.
If Shunji really wants all his 300,000 to 400,000 men to carry out guerrilla warfare, according to the most basic calculation, the number of Ming troops responsible for counter-guerrilla warfare must be at least 1.5 million.
It is not enough to attack all the troops in the pass, and the battlefield extends from the Blackwater outlet to the north, to the north of Anle Prefecture in the south, to the Whale Sea in the east, and to the grassland in the west.
Such a large area is almost as big as Guannei north of the Huaihe River.
If the Ming Dynasty King's Division had not installed advanced weapons, it would have been just putting out fires everywhere.
Even if a certain new emperor did not personally lead his troops on an expedition, one could imagine the difficult problems Zhou Yuji faced.
One possibility of ending the war as soon as possible is to capture Shunji or Dorgon in a short time.
Otherwise, after years of battles, the Ming Dynasty's division would fall into the quagmire of anti-guerrilla warfare.
Fortunately, 4,000 steam tanks have been installed. Otherwise, without the help of cavalry on the plains, the infantry would not even be able to protect itself.
Thanks to a certain new emperor, the Ming army learned how to fish and hunt shrimps and hunt in the mountains before they encountered braids.
It is commonplace to carry fishing nets with you, and this thing is the best tool for tooth beating rituals.
It would be the best thing to be able to sit back and wait by the river and improve the food at the same time.
In the area north of Anle Prefecture, as long as there is a river or a stream, Ming troops may appear.
The Qing army's reconnaissance cavalry would choose to take a detour when they saw the Ming army by the river from a distance, and the large group of troops would quickly flee after grabbing a village.
According to Zhang Huangyan, what they faced was either a regular army or a group of extremely vicious bandits!
