It was October 13th, the second year of the reign of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty.
On the third day after Kang Mazi defeated Jianyangshui, on the bank of the Ru River in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, more than a thousand miles away from Jianyangshui, Kangxi Kangmazi was about to face the third important battle in his life. The decisive battle - the first decisive battle was to capture Obai in Nanshufang; the second decisive battle was to fight Wu Sangui on the Jianyang River; and the third decisive battle was to face Zhu Heji on the edge of the Ru River in Jiangxi!
Well, if you have to travel more than a thousand miles in two or three days, you can theoretically travel from Hubei to Jiangxi to fight this battle, right?
Kang Mazi's opponent in the Battle of Ruhe, Zhu Heji, had just arrived at the Dagang Town on the south bank of the Ruhe River on October 9th. In the remaining days of the ninth day, there were two full days on the tenth and eleventh days, plus most of the day on the twelfth day. Zhu Heji and his army were mainly resting and recuperating.
In the afternoon of the 12th, the army was almost rested and began to take action. Wisps of smoke first appeared over Dagangang Town!
This is not just the smoke from cooking, but the smoke from cooking rice plus making sugar syrup!
Due to the emergence of the "Kaqiu Sha" and the cable-type grenade hammer, the Ming army is now "getting sweeter"... When marching, everyone has to bring a large bag of military white sugar or Fire saltpeter.
Moreover, since the "ingredients" of the military white sugar have been added in advance, every piece of white sugar and each pack of saltpeter have been weighed in advance. When boiling the sugar medicine, you only need to use a piece of white sugar and a pack of saltpeter.
Since the craft of boiling sugar medicine has become easier, more people can participate, and the output will of course be greater.
By the evening of the 12th, all ministries had completed the preparation and filling of sugar pills. More than 30,000 cable grenades, smoke grenades, 2,000 flower hammers and 2,000 rockets had been assembled and launched. Sent to the troops participating in the war!
At the same time, the musketeers participating in the war also produced more than 100,000 paper shells.
Just looking at the number of these arms, you can see how powerful Guangdong is with sugar and gunpowder - Guangdong's sugar, porcelain, ironware industries, as well as foreign trade, all require a large number of laborers in the handicraft industry and transportation industry. With these workers, Zhu Heji's southeast and northwest factories could quickly expand their production capacity and provide a large amount of ammunition.
At the same time, Zhu Heji's army was also able to recruit many warriors from handicraft workers. These people may not be as brave as peasant soldiers or herdsmen militia. However, compared with farmers and herdsmen, they have an extra "craftsman spirit", that is, they are more serious and responsible, can produce in strict accordance with the techniques taught by their masters, and are more disciplined.
If these soldiers with "craftsman spirit" competed in strength, archery, horse riding and shooting, they may not be the opponents of peasant soldiers, herdsmen militiamen and Manchurian barbarian soldiers. But compared to operating muskets and artillery, preparing sugar gunpowder, and making grenades and rockets, it's not even a little bit better.
After all, traditional agriculture and animal husbandry is not a delicate job, it’s just about enough. Moreover, traditional agriculture and animal husbandry rely largely on the sky and the earth, so efficiency is not very important.
The handicraft industry, even traditional handicrafts, pays more attention to exquisite craftsmanship, and everything cannot be the same. And we also have to pay attention to efficiency...the faster and more economical we have to earn more!
Therefore, once the war enters the era of industrialization and pre-industrialization, the advantages of industrial and pre-industrial countries become extremely obvious.
After dinner on the 12th, the soldiers in the first town of the Ming Army who were about to join the battle received three days of rations. Then, under the supervision of the officers, they inspected their equipment one by one - because of the pull Cable grenades, so the Ming Army no longer had dedicated grenadiers in the first town. Instead, grenades were distributed to musketeers, pikemen, and cavalry, so except for artillery, baggage soldiers, and engineers, everyone was Grenadier.
At the same time, the sword players and archers have also disappeared. The force configuration of the front-line infantry leader became half musketeers and half pikemen. The waist knife and grenades are standard.
After checking the equipment, the soldiers from the first town left their backpacks in the camp, then lined up in armor and drove out of the big port town.
At the exit of the town, they also saw the third grandson of Sage Zhu who was wearing a breastplate and riding a long-legged horse!
Zhu San Taisun led the few "knights" under his command and lined up on the official road outside the town to see off these brave warriors.
Seeing each infantry leader coming out, these knights would shout together: "Capture Kang Mazi alive and take him to Nanjing!"
The morale of the infantrymen who went out also rose, and they all raised their arms and shouted: "Capture Kang Mazi alive and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
Catching Kang Mazi is not just a casual shouting, Zhu Heji is serious!
So Zuo Chunqiu has been busy painting Kang Mazi's portraits for the past two days. He has painted hundreds of them, and now he is so tired that he fell asleep.
And all the portraits of Kang Mazi he painted have been distributed! Each leader and deputy leader has already received a portrait of Kang Mazi - just go and grab it!
According to the plans of Zhu Heji, Yang Qilong, Zhuge Zhengyang and Liu Jinzhong. The Ming army will launch an attack with the strength of four infantry associations (including one from Liu Jinzhong) on the battlefield of Sanjiangkou Town! The artillery of the First Town, including the "Kaqiu Sha" rocket launchers, are also concentrated here!
One association is the general reserve team, and the other association (Liu Jinzhong Department) is based on the battalion. Launch diversionary attacks in other directions. All units directly under the First Town, except the cavalry battalion, stayed in Dagang Town to look after their "home".
Zhu Heji himself would lead the "Grenadier Cavalry" to supervise the battle on the south bank of Sanjiangkou Town, and wait for the construction of the pontoon bridge to be completed before crossing the river to join the battle.
Zhu Heji must go all out and prepare to attack Shicha Town in one fell swoop to capture or kill the Qing Emperor Kang Mazi alive!
In the early morning of the 13th, the first town of the Ming Army participating in the war and most of Liu Jinzhong's Yongwei Battalion had entered the attack position on the other side of Sanjiangkou Town.
This attack position is located behind a section of the embankment on the south bank of the Ru River, and the dock of Sanjiangkou Town is on the other side of the river.
Because the ships on the Ru River and the nearby Gan River had been "cleared" by the Qing army, Zhu Heji's Ming army did not find ships to cross the river. However, the Ru River is not very wide. The officers and soldiers of the First Town and the Yongwei Battalion built one or two hundred sheepskin rafts, which was enough to cross the river.
The six "Kaqiusha" rocket launchers belonging to the First Town Artillery Battalion have been pulled behind the river embankment and placed, just waiting to "shoot arrows to scare people"... The power of this thing is not necessarily great, but It's really bluffing when it's launched.
If the Qing army on the other side of the river can be scared away, the forced crossing will be a thing!
At around midnight in the early morning, the sky was already getting slightly brighter. On the Ming army's attack position, everyone tried to keep quiet. There was only the sound of rolled-up armor and weapons slightly colliding with each other - all the infantry were not wearing armor, but came with rolled armor. I was going to cross the river later, but accidentally fell into the water. I couldn't float with my armor on.
Groups of people were crowded together, and the atmosphere was a little tense. Leading the charge were 1,500 elites selected by Liu Jinzhong from the three associations of the Yongwei Battalion under his command to form a temporary association (the association in the Army's First Town had 2,000 people). All of them were shirtless and wore a He had grenades, a machete on his back, and a shield tied to one arm. Each of the ten of them was given a sheepskin raft, and each also received a bottle of sugar cane wine to strengthen their courage and warm their bodies.
Liu Jinzhong was also dressed like them. At this time, he was leading a few confidants behind the embankment to kowtow to a very old-looking piece of "Position of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty" for blessing!
A hilltop not far from the attack position is now controlled by the cavalry team led by Zhu Heji himself. His command position is right here - when the rocket launcher fires, Zhu Heji's "The world is for the public" flag and the "Human Harmony" flag will be put up!
From childhood to now, Zhu Heji has been standing on the hillside, using a telescope to observe the situation on the other side of the river... There is a little light in the town of Sanjiangkou on the other side of the river, and there is still rain farther away. We set up a small Ming camp (a camp with lights on), which seemed to have only ten or twenty thousand people.
If it's a little less, it won't be a scam, right?
I don't know how long it took before Zhu Heji put down the telescope and turned to look at Yang Qilong and Zhuge Zhengyang, the commander-in-chief of the First Town: "It's almost... we can start catching Kang Mazi!"
