Chapter 781 Since the seventh year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou has become the crown prince and Taibao, and he has become an important military commander to suppress the peasant uprising, with generals such as Ai Wannian, Liu Guozhen, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, etc., with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses.200,000 horses, sounds like a lot, and he is also the person who holds the most military power in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he knows his own affairs well, and the equipment of this army is not in the top ten in the Ming Dynasty, and the Tianxiong Army, the Whole Family Army, and the Shandong Army.Even Sun Chuanting's Qin army was far inferior.Of course, in my heart, the equipment of this army far exceeded that of the Sichuan army and the Zhejiang army, and belonged to the decent Ming army, with muskets accounting for about 30 percent of the total number of troops, but mainly old-fashioned arquebuses and inferior muskets, and the probability of muskets exploding was even higher than the probability of killing the enemy.As for artillery, Sun Yuanhua was in charge of the Gun Bureau at the beginning, with the help of the artillery cast by the Franc machine, with the majority of the Franc machine and mother cannons, and the total number of artillery pieces of more than 2,000 catties in the whole army is 246, which sounds like a lot, in front of the whole family army, is it enough to see?
Although Quan Xu has officially renamed the army under his command the Ming Royal Army and the Ming Royal Navy, in Hong Chengchou's eyes, they are still the whole family army.Although the sad thing is that this kind of artillery, which was quite advanced more than ten years ago, does not have the slightest advantage in front of the artillery of the whole family army, and in terms of range, the farthest range of this kind of 2,000-pound heavy artillery is only 2,500 steps, and it is not even as far as the range of the 60 mortars of the whole family army.Of course, this refers to the 63-type 60 mortar purchased by Quan Xu at a tattered price, this kind of mortar is the general-purpose support firepower of the whole family military division-level support, whether it is cavalry or infantry, a 1,800-strong integrated infantry regiment, with 36 mortars, which does not include 18 82-mm mortars.If it is a cavalry regiment, it has 36 guns, and it is not equipped with relatively heavier 82-mm mortars, you must know that a brigade of the whole family army is six main regiments, which means that the number of artillery pieces of the more than 200,000 troops under Hong Chengchou is about the same as the number of mortars in a brigade of the whole family army.The gap in artillery made Hong Chengchou feel desperate.This is not an ordinary peasant rebellion, it can be said that at this time the combat effectiveness of the peasant army is very weak, except for Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, Luo Rucai and other descendants, there is still some combat effectiveness, other peasant armies, as long as the guns sound, they will be frightened and take the initiative to retreat.Therefore, it is said that Hong Chengchou is a peasant army defeated with guns, but it is better to say that it is a peasant army that is scared away with guns.As for how many targets the guns can hit, it can only depend on luck, but the artillery of the whole army has hot air balloons to correct the coordinates, although not to mention a hundred shots, at least it will not deviate significantly from the target.The key is that the hot air balloon can also be bombed, according to the report of the soldiers who fled from the north, the Qing army was blown out of body by the big guy in the air at that time, and as long as they saw the hot air balloon of the whole family army, they were terrified.This hot air balloon is not a secret to scholars like Hong Chengchou, it is a king-sized Kong Ming lantern, although I understand the principle of this hot air balloon, but it is not easy to make it.The psychological impact of this kind of hot air balloon on ordinary soldiers is very huge, once the hot air balloon of the whole family army appears in front of the formation, the army under his command will blow up the camp if it is not good.Located in Xiangyang City, the commanders under Hong Chengchou's command, He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, Cao Wenzhao, deputy generals Ai Wannian, Liu Guozhen, Du Wenhuan, Wei Shiming, Gui Yingqing and other generals came to Hong Chengchou's line.Hong Chengchou naturally knew the intentions of these generals, but he did not express his position, but directly set up a banquet to entertain the generals.The generals are like cows chewing peonies, eating and drinking, of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and everyone is flustered in their hearts.The current situation is a matter of lice on the bald head, a matter of obviousness.The whole family army did not go south, not because they were afraid of them, the Southern Ming army, but because the north suffered a snow disaster, and then the earth dragon around the capital turned over, and the whole family army was actively relieving the disaster under the order of Quan Xu.No matter how big the disaster is, after all, there is a past day, the news from the north is very not optimistic, the people of Henan who originally fled, heard that the imperial court built houses for them in their hometowns, allocated land, and carried out land reform.A large number of people began to move north in the face of the wind and snow, and these people also understood that if they missed this opportunity to allocate land, they would become displaced people in the future.No matter how cold the weather is, it is better than being a homeless.This is also a sign that the hands of the whole family army are about to be freed, they are about to go south, and their good days should come to an end.Hong Chengchou said a little sadly: "It's all the blame for the old man, if he fought hard with Lu Jiandou at the beginning, and the old man died in the hands of Jiannu with the first emperor's Northern Expedition, it can be regarded as seeking benevolence, and now, he has ended up in such a field, hey, creation makes people!"
”Although Lu Xiangsheng went south with Chongzhen and went to Australia, Quan Xu also gave an objective and fair evaluation of Lu Xiangsheng, and it did not affect Lu Xiangsheng's relatives.Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiangqian, Xiang Yu, and other relatives also migrated to Australia, and the part left behind was also treated as ordinary people.But now?
Once Hong Chengchou is defeated, he will be like Wen Tiren and Hou Sui, although Hou Sui fled from the capital to Nanjing and served as the secretary of the household department in Nanjing, but his home in Beijing was raided by Quan Xu, and all the ancestral homes and ancestral properties in Guide Mansion were also confiscated, and one hundred and forty-seven relatives were questioned.Wen Tiren's fate is estimated to be the same, in the future, when the whole family army hits Wen Tiren's hometown, he will also be exterminated, implicated in relatives, and implicated in future generations, so what is the plan?
Cao Wenzhao said indignantly: "Supervisor, you are not wrong, it is that Cao Cao who is wrong!"
He subverted the norm, disrespected the ghosts and gods, went against the sky, and sought to usurp the throne, my martial artist, I should have stepped forward and turned the tide, what is wrong!
”Cao Wenzhao is an outlier in the Liaodong Generals, of course, he is not tolerated by Zu Dashou, in fact, it is Hong Chengchou who made him, and his loyalty and fearlessness have been fully exerted.The troops under his command, the army under the command of Cao Bianjiao, are the most capable army under Hong Chengchou, there is no one, whether it is the He Renlong Department or the Zuoguang Xian Department, it is far inferior to the Cao uncle and nephew.As Cao Wenzhao's words just fell, the faces of the generals changed greatly.They came to Hong Chengchou to discuss a way out, not to accompany the Jiangnan people to die.The suppression of military attaches by the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and now let these military attaches accompany the Jiangnan gentry to the funeral, how is this possible?
What's more, even the Changping Army and the ordinary soldiers who surrendered to the Qing Army in the north could live, but they were divided into three crimes, and if they participated in the brutal killing of civilians, they would be executed on the spot.The soldiers who brutalized the robes of the Ming army, as well as the soldiers who killed innocents indiscriminately and did not have blood on their hands, were sent to the construction corps for three or five years of labor reform.Liaodong's wealth is famous, even if it is a labor camp, the food is no worse than what they are now soldiers, and those Ming soldiers who were reorganized by Quan Xu were all elated.As for these people, they did not defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they are not considered guilty of treason, as for the indiscriminate killing of innocents, there may be, but it is definitely not the turn of these general soldiers and adjutant generals, they all have a chance and can win Quan Xu's leniency.Although these generals did not speak, what kind of smart person is Hong Chengchou?
He could already see from the looks of the generals that there was no need to fight this battle at all.From top to bottom, there is no determination to fight against the water, so what a fart?
At this moment, a young general in his thirties said: "Supervisor, the last general has information, I don't know whether to say it or not!"
Hong Chengchou looked at this general, looked at his defense area bordering Sichuan, and then said, "You mean that General Qin sent people into Beijing?"
”"No, it was General Qin who entered Beijing in person, and at the same time, Qin Yiming and Ma Ergongzi!"
Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly at this time, but also smiled bitterly.Defend the river must defend Huai, at the same time, there are prerequisites, that is, Bashu, that is, the Chengdu Plain must be controlled in their own hands, otherwise the north to the south attack, once formed, the east road from Xuzhou, Huaibei along the canal, the middle road from Luoyang through Nanyang, south to Jingxiang, the west road from Chang'an through Chengdu, along the river.Jiangnan has no possibility of holding it.The advantages of the whole family army are all-round, not only the army is well equipped, the navy is invincible, the Yangtze River is dangerous, for the whole family army, there is no convenience of defense at all, but it is very probable, even if he holds Xiangyang, guards Huainan, can not hold the Yangtze River.Hong Chengchou looked at the generals with different expressions, his heart was like a mirror, the people's hearts were scattered, and the team was not easy to lead, even if he decided to resist, then the generals would take the initiative to contact the whole family army and surrender separately.This is not in the interest of Hong Chengchou.Hong Chengchou immediately said: "Everyone, the old man has decided, we can't take any chances, the edict of the whole family supporting the first emperor is the new monarch appointed by His Majesty, and Fu Wu is just the puppet emperor they support, we have to choose the right path, otherwise, when the fist of the whole family army falls, none of us can bear it!"
”The generals breathed a sigh of relief.As long as you don't fight with the whole family, that's fine.Letting them fight with the whole family army is simply forcing them to commit suicide.Hong Chengchou said: "He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian!"
”"The last general!""
The two of you led the people of the headquarters and immediately went south along the Jianghan River, down the river, and went straight to Nanjing!"
He Renlong was overjoyed, everyone present was not stupid, Hong Chengchou's order could not be more obvious, this was to prepare to use the small imperial court in Jiangnan as a capital to surrender to the new dynasty of the whole family.He Renlong's face was overjoyed: "The last general is ordered!"
”Cao Wenzhao looked unhappy: "Supervisor, returning to Beijing without an edict is a conspiracy!"
”"King Fu is a vassal king and claims to be the emperor without authorization, how can we sit idly by?"
Hong Chengchou was the most proficient military talent in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and after deciding to act, he sent a large army under his command to approach Nanjing from the east, west, and north directions.