Looking at the No. 1 Folang machine gun, I saw that the barrels of the two cannons had been blown open at the same time, and the iron stubble was turned out, like a chrysanthemum that had been forcibly burst by violence.
Fortunately, no one died.
Only two soldiers had their cheeks scratched, so they were really lucky.
Qu Shawei was only stained by the smoke coming out of the barrel.
Standing up in shock, Qu Sha said slightly panicked: "Your Majesty the Emperor, can I withdraw if I want?"
This job is too dangerous. If you die on the battlefield, that's it. But this is just training, and training is also life-threatening. The probability of death is really too high, and I can't stand it.
"No!" Chongzhen flatly refused, "Withdrawing means running away from the battlefield and will be treated as a deserter!"
Qu Shawei immediately shut up and deserted. Wouldn't that mean he would be beheaded? I didn't say anything just now.
Chongzhen asked Qu Shawei again: "I haven't asked you yet, what happened just now? Why did it explode?"
"Your Majesty, this is all my fault." Qu Sha scratched her head and said with a little embarrassment, "I have measured the caliber of these No. 1 Franco cannons before and found that the tolerance is not large, so I thought about it.
The cannon may be versatile, so I was lazy, and it exploded. Your Majesty, wouldn’t you blame me?”
Chongzhen said: "I don't blame you, but I must warn you. Before the new artillery cast by the Ming Dynasty Arsenal arrives, you should not make such an attempt again. The firearms previously supervised by the War and Weapons Bureau, whether they are Lu
The secret gun, the bird gun, the three-eyed gun, the Crouching Tiger Cannon, the Folang Machine Cannon, or the Hongyi Cannon all do not meet the standard conditions."
"Yes, I don't dare to do it anymore." Qu Sha nodded repeatedly, "I won't be lazy anymore."
While he was talking, a fast horse suddenly galloped over and handed an urgent delivery to Wang Chengen.
Wang Chengen quickly came to Chongzhen with the express delivery: "Your Majesty, express delivery to Shandong."
Chongzhen scratched his gun in front of Ma Huabao and a dozen other generals, and after hurriedly reading the newspaper, he said: "Jiannu has gone south, and his troops are said to be 200,000!"
"What?!"
"Two hundred thousand?!"
"Is this an outpouring?"
Ma Huabao and more than a dozen town commanders looked at each other in shock.
Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "The army of 200,000 is just a slave-building force. The actual strength will never exceed 100,000. I estimate it is 70,000 to 80,000, maybe only 50,000 to 60,000."
After hearing this, the expressions of Ma Huabao and other commander-in-chiefs indeed improved a lot.
The deterrent power of 700,000 to 80,000 enslaved people is obviously much different from that of 200,000 enslaved people.
After pondering for a moment, Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, send an urgent delivery to Huai'an Prefecture. Let Lu Zhenfei lead the transportation army to Pizhou immediately, and then send an urgent delivery to Xia Town to remind Marquis Jingnan to take precautions."
Because of the last great victory in Xia Town, Huang Degong has been promoted to Marquis.
Chongzhen knew very well that Jiannu's march south this time was different from the last one.
The last time we went south, we only had partial troops along the way, with only 10,000 men at best.
But this time it was no longer a partial army, but the main force of establishing slaves led by Duduo.
Therefore, this time, the Ming army must be fully prepared. Not only Xia Town, but also Xuzhou and Pizhou will be attacked.
General Huang Degong was in charge of Xia Town, and the elite soldiers of the ten towns under his command had already defeated the Jiannu once. In addition, Xia Town's gun platform fortifications had become more complete, so Chongzhen was actually not too worried.
As for Xuzhou, Chongzhen is naturally guarding it personally, but Pizhou still lacks a coach.
Pizhou originally had eight towns of frontier troops. After Zuo Mengeng and Jin Shenghuan's 20,000 troops arrived in Xuzhou, Chongzhen transferred two more towns of frontier troops from Xuzhou to Pizhou, so now Pizhou also has ten towns of troops.
The ten border troops in Pizhou came from the command of Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie respectively. The ten general officers had similar qualifications and similar abilities. Therefore, it would definitely not be possible to win over the generals if one of them was selected as an admiral.
But Chongzhen had no available commanders at hand, so he couldn't temporarily recall Wang Jiayan from Shandong, right? After all, Shandong's position was also extremely important in the upcoming war.
After much thought, Chongzhen felt that only Lu Zhenfei could do it.
First of all, there is no problem with Lu Zhenfei's qualifications. He is the governor himself, and he is an old acquaintance with the commander-in-chief of the ten towns under Liu Zeqing, so getting along with him should not be a big problem.
It's hard to say in terms of ability, but we can only let him try.
Who told him that he has no available commanders at his disposal now?
There are a few good talents in Shiziying, but they lack experience.
For example, Yan Yingyuan was being sent to Huai'an Prefecture to train troops at this time.
Another example is Zheng Sen. He is good at leading troops and commanding battle formations, but he is too young. It would be a disservice to him to suddenly go to Pizhou to take charge of his own affairs. The general soldiers of the ten towns in Pizhou will never obey his command.
Therefore, we can only let Lu Zhenfei go to Pizhou and transfer his troops there.
Express deliveries to Xia Town and Shanyang were quickly dispatched, and Chongzhen also began to inspect the city defenses.
Xuzhou's defense facilities are in the same line as Xia Town's defense facilities. The only difference is that the core of Xia Town's defense line is just a canalside town without city walls, while the core of Xuzhou's defense line is Xuzhou City.
However, Chongzhen still asked Xuzhou's frontier troops to build a twelve-layer gun platform on the periphery.
Moreover, Xuzhou's defense line has more than 100 blunderbuss units than Xia Town, reaching a total of more than 600.
In addition, after the Battle of Xia Town, Chongzhen ordered the reinforcement of gun platforms outside Xia Town, Xuzhou and Pizhou. The trenches were dug wider, from the previous thirty steps to fifty steps, and the depth was also deepened from one foot to
Thirty feet, and the protective wall at the front edge of the gun platform were all changed from wooden fences to rammed earth walls, with a thickness of five feet!
However, compared to the Xiazhen Defense Line, the Xuzhou Defense Line and the Pizhou Defense Line have a fatal concern.
Looking at the Yellow River embankment that was obviously higher than the horizon and even higher than the Xuzhou city wall, a look of worry flashed across Chongzhen's eyes. This fatal worry was the Yellow River!
Fortunately, there are also naval forces led by Liu Hongkui and Zheng Cai's uncle and nephew.
Under Chongzhen's repeated urging, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to transfer fifty more bird ships from Fujian. Now the navy used to defend Xuzhou's defense line already has 150 bird ships and a total of 6,000 naval officers and soldiers.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, in the river below Hongze Lake, there is also a naval detachment led by Zheng Cai.
This naval detachment consists of a total of 4 foreign ships (junk ships) and 20 black-tailed ships. It will definitely be a challenge when encountering the Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish expedition fleets, but it is used to deal with the three ships brought by King Sanshun.
The navy on Jiannu's side was more than sufficient, because the warships of both sides were not at the same level.
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Jiannu actually knew this, so he never thought of using the navy at all.
One is because the navy is weak, and the other is that the navy's warships cannot pass through the canal bridge locks.
Duduo did not call on naval warships at all, but only called on navy's canals to help transport food and fodder and reduce the burden on the army, that's all.
The speed of Doduo's army is not very fast.
I left Beitongzhou on October 24th and went all the way south to Texas for almost 600 miles, but I walked for a full half a month, which means that I only marched less than 40 miles a day on average.
When Duduo's army arrived in Texas, it was already the fifth day of November.
Upon hearing the arrival of the army led by Duduo, Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong and Zhang Youfang, the prefect of Dezhou, who were appointed by the Qing court, quickly led their officials, large and small, out of the city to kneel down to welcome him.
Let me first introduce the situation in Shandong.
The previous decree given by Chongzhen to Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui was that Dongchang Prefecture should give up directly, Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture should defend if they can, and give up if they can't, but Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture must defend with all their strength.
In compliance with Chongzhen's decree, Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui made a lot of preparations for war.
Mainly the people from Jinan, Yanzhou and Dongchang Prefecture were moved to Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Huai'an.
By the way, among the 200,000 rural warriors recruited by Fan Zhongjie in Huai'an Prefecture, there were actually many Shandong people. Because these Shandong people had suffered the military disaster of Jiannu, they knew how cruel and ruthless Jiannu was, so they were better than those in Huai'an Prefecture.
People are more positive. In fact, more locals in Huai'an Prefecture are inspired by the National Disaster Troupe.
But Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui did not completely give up on Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture.
Up to now, both of them are still staying in Licheng, the prefecture of Jinan, and Ling Jun, the prefect of Yanzhou, is still staying in Rencheng, the prefecture of Jinan. Half of Yanzhou Prefecture and half of Jinan Prefecture are still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, only Dongchang Prefecture, half of Jinan Prefecture and half of Yanzhou Prefecture were really under the jurisdiction of the Qing court.
Even Fang Dayou's governor's office was hiding in Dezhou, making Zhang Youfang the governor of a nearby state.
"Everyone, get up." Duduo signaled Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang to get up, and called Shandong Commander-in-Chief Tong Yangliang to talk. Compared to Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang, who were demoted, Tong Yangliang was one of his own.
Tong Yangliang flicked his sleeves and knelt down on one knee to greet Duduo: "My slave, Tong Yangliang, come to see my master."
Fang Dayou, Zhang Youfang and all the subordinate officials looked at Tong Yangliang with envy. They actually wanted to call themselves slaves, but they didn't have the qualifications because they could only call themselves slaves after joining the banner and becoming Baoyi.
Even though he is just a slave, his status is much higher than that of subordinates like them.
Duduo was also closer to Tong Yangliang than to Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang. He first smiled and lightly kicked Tong Yangliang, and then scolded: "You little slave dog has gained a lot of weight? It seems that your life in Shandong is pretty good.
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"Hehe, this is all thanks to you, Master." Tong Yangliang said with a flattering look.
Duduo straightened his face and then asked: "Tell me briefly about the situation in Shandong."
"Hey!" Tong Yangliang agreed and briefly introduced the situation in Shandong.
"Really?" Duduo frowned slightly, "So, Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture have nothing to gain?"
"If I return to the master, there will still be money and water." Tong Yangliang lowered his voice and said, "Although the people in these two prefectures have moved to similar places, the Jin gentry families are still there. These Jin gentry families are the fat sheep, and they are extremely rich."
Duduo's heart skipped a beat, even though Dorgon had specifically warned him not to divide his troops.
But Dorgon did not say that the marching route could not be changed.
Along the canal, we go south, through Licheng, and through Rencheng, we go south.
But at this moment, a fast horse galloped from the north.