"My dear friends, how many people are there in Tengxiang's Four Guards now? How is their combat strength?"
"Your Majesty, the Tengxiang right guard has a total of 8,300 people, including 5,600 veteran soldiers, and 2,700 new soldiers who were recruited after following Your Majesty's northwest tour."
"Your Majesty, Wu Xiang's left guard has a total of 9,000 people, including 4,300 veteran soldiers. The 4,700 people were recruited in the past three months."
After Zhou Yuji reported, Huang Degong began to report, and then said: "Because Mr. Fang has gone to Hexi, all Wu Xiang's right guards are also led by me. There are eight thousand people in total.
There are 3,800 veteran sergeants, and 4,200 are newly recruited in the past three months! "
"Teng Xiang's left guard, because Cao Wenzhao led his troops out, the manpower left behind is limited, and there are only more than a thousand new soldiers. As for Mr. Fang's side, I don't know!"
"At present, the Tengxiang Four Guards have a total of 31,900 people, including nearly 20,000 veterans."
"Where's the combat power?"
"When practicing martial arts with the white pole soldiers, we basically killed five hundred enemies and lost one thousand to ourselves!"
"Commander Zhou, what you said is wrong!"
After Huang Degong finished speaking, Zhou Yuji said immediately: "It's you, don't include our Tengxiang right guard! We are patrolling the northwest with His Majesty this time, and our combat power is not the same.
Against white soldiers, even if they can't win, they can't even try to take advantage. "
"Okay, let's go back and have a fight later!"
Seeing the two of them bickering, Chongzhen chuckled: "Huang Aiqing, what he said is true, don't be careless!"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, they are strong, and I am not bad either. If they really fight to the death, even if I tear and bite them, I will not let them win so easily!"
"Okay, what I want is this fierceness!"
Chongzhen clapped his hands lightly: "Being ruthless is not enough. Battle formation tactics must be strengthened. Whenever we face Jiannu, if we can suppress him, it will be regarded as meeting my standards."
"Don't worry, your majesty. The four guards of Tengxiang are the best in everything now. What they lack is time and knowledge. After several battles, the fire will refine the gold, and we will definitely be able to build a powerful army!"
"good!"
Huang Degong responded resolutely, as did the others, with serious faces and determination and fanaticism in their eyes.
Being able to develop an invincible and invincible strong army is the lifelong pursuit of any general.
As for the Warrior Camp, he knew a little bit about it. He had only recruited more than 600 people after being out for three months, and he was planning to eliminate a group of them, arrogantly.
"Relax, everyone, sit down, I will tell you something!"
Chongzhen sat everyone down and told everyone about the importance of firearms. He was very clear about the contempt for firearms by the generals in Taiyuan Town.
These people in front of me are all my absolute confidants, and they are also my team to conquer the world. Firearms must be taken absolutely seriously.
After chatting with everyone for half an hour, everyone finally reached a consensus.
"No matter how much I talk about it, it's not as good as you guys experiencing it for yourself. It just so happens that the Firearms Research Institute has made a new breakthrough. I'll take you to see it!"
After Chongzhen finished speaking, he stood up and walked outside. After walking a few steps, he said to Wang Chengen: "Inform Li Banghua and ask him to wait for me at the Firearms Research Institute!"
"I'm going to change into casual clothes. You guys should get ready and don't make too much of a fuss!"
A quarter of an hour later, when Chongzhen and the Fang family and other personal guards arrived at the Meridian Gate, Cao Bianjiao and others were waiting with more than a hundred cavalry.
Chongzhen didn't talk nonsense, he got on his horse with extremely graceful movements.
An hour later, everyone appeared outside the Firearms Research Institute in Shijingshan.
The reason why I chose Shijingshan was because of its location.
First, it is less than thirty miles away from the imperial palace. The distance is moderate, which is convenient for control and will not affect the city of Beijing due to sudden accidents.
Secondly, the terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with rolling mountains in the north.
Valleys separate each department under the Firearms Research Institute independently, without affecting each other, and with extremely high confidentiality.
The continuous mountainous area is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as a large force attacks and the beacon tower located in the institute is lit,
The garrison troops stationed around Beijing City will quickly reinforce the troops. Within thirty miles, the cavalry will only have two quarters of an hour.
A checkpoint more than ten feet wide and five or six feet high appeared between the two mountains, and a gate about three feet wide in the middle was tightly closed.
More than ten feet in front of the door, dozens of sergeants were patrolling back and forth, and several horse-rejecting stakes blocked the road.
"Stop, this is a stronghold of the military camp. Show me your customs clearance documents!"
The sergeant in front of the Juma Zhuang stopped Chongzhen and others. Several sergeants above the checkpoint held three-eyed blazing guns and pointed them at everyone.
Li Banghua stepped forward, took out a document stamped with the seals of the Firearms Research Institute and the Ministry of Military Discipline Inspection and handed it over.
After seeing it, the sergeant ran to the hut under the arrow tower to check the registration information, and then returned to the Juma Zhuang.
Chongzhen was very satisfied with the sergeant's duty. After all, he was not Luan Jia, so it was normal for him not to recognize the emperor.
"Move the horse-rejecting stakes and let us go!"
The sergeant waved the flag, and while several sergeants were moving away the horse-rejecting stakes, the gate under the checkpoint slowly opened.
Then several sergeants carrying wooden planks appeared, and then they quickly laid the planks in front of the gate, extending several feet.
Chongzhen was very surprised by this scene and asked in a low voice: "Li Aiqing, what is this?"
“Your Majesty, this road is currently the only road that allows horses and carriages to enter the Firearms Research Institute.
The road that extends twenty feet from the checkpoint is covered with horse traps. The pits are filled with sharp knives. The tops of the horse traps are camouflaged.
Those wooden boards cannot be laid casually, but have special supporting points. If they are laid casually, they will trigger the mechanism designed by Dean Xu himself. "
"At the checkpoint, two hundred households were stationed, and each person was equipped with two three-eye fire guns.
The archery towers and city walls on both sides are equipped with tiger crouching cannon and general cannon.
As for the number, I don’t know. It was placed by Dean Xu himself. Dean Xu is studying how to get the Hongyi cannon to the mountains on both sides. "
hiss……
Not only did Chongzhen take a breath, but even Cao Bianjiao and others tensed up. It was so damn insidious.
If you don't know the details of this, you will probably be scrapped at the gate.
With the checkpoints and four hundred three-eyed fire cannons, it can last for at least half an hour. The garrison at the Firearms Research Institute and the garrison at Beijing City have already arrived.
"Master Li, it's okay. Please do not enter places not marked on the customs clearance documents, otherwise you will be attacked!"
Looking at the laid template, the checkpoint sergeant said in a deep voice and then moved out of the way.
The cavalry successfully entered the checkpoint, and a newly built road more than a foot wide winded between the two mountains.
As they walked, Cao Bianjiao, Fang Jun and others frowned slightly and already held the long knife at their waists with their right hands.
Li Banghua saw this and whispered: "Relax, those people in the mountains are patrollers."
It took another half-quarter of an hour for the team to reach the mouth of the first valley.
I happened to meet Xu Guangqi, Bi Maokang, and Sun Yuanhua who were rushing over.
