In the East Nuan Pavilion of Prince Rui's Mansion in Beijing.
After the overall strategy is determined, the next step is to make specific defense deployments.
Hong Chengchou pointed at the map and said: "Master, the Ming army has the advantage of the navy, which can ensure smooth water transportation, and the cost of water transportation is much lower than that of land transportation. Even if the river freezes in winter, ice sledges can still be used to transport baggage.
, as expected, the Ming army will march along the river."
Dorgon is convinced that this analysis is undoubtedly quite convincing.
Hong Chengchou continued: "Therefore, heavy troops are required to be stationed near the mouths of Fuhe, Chaohe, Shahe, Dingliuhe and Huluhe. Among them, Chaohe and Weihe are the most important."
"There are already gun platforms all along the Wei River. We only need to strengthen our troops."
"A small number of gun platforms need to be built along the Chaohe River first, and heavy troops need to be stationed near the river mouth."
Hong Chengchou was still very sophisticated. He not only thought of building a beacon tower to provide early warning, but also predicted the Ming army's combat strategy and possible landing points, which was really impressive.
But it is a pity that Jiannu and Ming Dynasty are no longer on the same level in the top-level military structure.
Jiannu still adopted the primitive staff system, which was to convene a group of staff to provide advice and suggestions.
However, the military structure of the Ming Dynasty has evolved from a staff system to a staff system, and war games have been introduced, which can deduce various battlefield trends through the confrontation between staff officers in war games.
Therefore, no matter how powerful Hong Chengchou is personally, he cannot defeat the systematic staff system.
Of course, the advantages of the staff system are not limited to this. Compared with the staff system, the biggest advantage of the staff system is actually the overall planning, deployment and command and dispatch of the army.
With the entry into service of the first batch of Guozisheng, the Ming army has truly established a modern staff system.
Uploading and issuing, material allocation, troop dispatching, and marching formations are all started to be completed through the staff system. The next step is to improve the staff training system.
Because the current staff system does not have hierarchical divisions.
In other words, there is no difference in level between the scholars who are participating in the military meeting in Yilun Hall and those who are assigned to serve as staff officers in brigades, battalions or even sentinel-level units. They are all in charge.
But in the future, these scholars or staff officers will definitely have to be divided into different levels.
The military rank system will be introduced sooner or later, and the army still needs to be divided into upper and lower levels.
All in all, the Ming army had already begun to possess the prototype of a modern staff system.
Although Dorgon was aware of this, he also made efforts. After the failure of setting up the Jinshi camp, he asked Meng Xueli and three others to set up a Juren camp, and gave them the power of life and death.
Meng Xueli and the others did indeed practice Jurenying according to the practices of the Scholars' Camp.
However, the sad thing is that Meng Xueli and others only learned the superficial knowledge and did not get the essence.
After a short pause, Hong Chengchou continued: "If nothing happens, our Qing army will have a long confrontation with the Ming army along the Chaohe River. We will only wait until the Ming army's veterans are tired or there are other changes in direction, and the Ming army is forced to retreat."
At this time, our Qing soldiers can take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and even if they cannot completely annihilate the Ming army, they will definitely be able to severely damage them!"
At this time, Fan Wencheng questioned: "Heng Jiu, I wonder if you have thought about a question, what if the Ming army does not prepare to march along the Chaohe River?"
Hou Fangyu also echoed: "What you are saying is that the coast of the North Sea is so long, where can't you go ashore?"
The eyes of Dorgon, Ning Wanwo, Qi Chongge and other ministers also fell on Hong Chengchou's face.
Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said: "There is no way around it. The Ming army cannot and does not dare to bypass the waterway and take the land route instead."
"Why?" Hou Fangyu said suddenly, "Why didn't the Ming army dare to bypass the water route and take the land route instead?"
Hong Chengchou said calmly: "The reason is very simple, because the Ming army carried heavy red cannons. The red cannons used by the Ming army often weighed two to three thousand kilograms. Not to mention the swamps near the coast, or ordinary roads and bridges.
Unable to bear it, the Ming army had to march along the waterway, and only in this way could it bring its artillery."
"Isn't that right?" Hou Fangyu retorted, "After winter, the swamps and depressions near the North Sea coast are covered with thick ice, and they can withstand a weight of two thousand kilograms without any problem."
Faced with Hou Fangyu's question, Hong Chengchou turned around and asked Kong Youde, "What do you think, King Gongshun?"
"Idiots are just dreaming." Kong Youde said rudely, "Before firing the red cannon, you need to heat the red iron drill. When the cannon is fired, it will also produce a lot of heat. In addition, the hot shells will continue to bombard it, no matter how thick and hard it is,
The ice will also melt, and the Ming army's red cannons will fall into the mud swamp and cannot be pulled out."
Hou Fangyu argued sophistically: "The Ming army is not stupid, how could they choose to fight in the swamp?"
Kong Youde retorted: "The Ming army is not stupid, so are our Qing soldiers stupid? The Ming army will not choose to fight in the swamp, so can't our Qing army launch a blockade when the Ming army passes through the swamp?"
After a pause, he added: "My Qing soldiers don't even need to stop them, they can just set fire to them."
Hou Fangyu was completely silent now, because there are a large number of swamps and depressions on the coast surrounding the North Sea, and these swamps and depressions are often covered with reeds. Most of the reeds die in winter. Once ignited, a huge fire will occur in an instant. No matter how thick the fire is,
The ice layer also melted away, and the Ming army was reduced to drowned rats.
The Ming army's red artillery will also be trapped in the swamp.
At this time, Sony retorted coldly: "What if the Ming army throws away the red cannon?"
"Then God is really helping us with the Qing Dynasty." Hong Chengchou said, "If the Ming army abandons the red cannons, what will they fear even if they advance overland to the city of Beijing? By then our Qing soldiers can completely go out of the city to fight with them in the field, with the help of red cannons.
It would be great to have cannons and camel cannons in one battle, but it would be a pity that Chongzhen would never be so stupid."
This time Sony was also dumb.
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Nanjing, Yilun Hall, Imperial College.
After several hours of fierce fighting, Xu Yingwei finally led his army to advance outside Chaoyang Gate.
There were many battles during this period. Yan Yingyuan was indeed the strongest shield of the Ming Dynasty. During the defensive war, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks emerged in endlessly.
For example, landmines are laid on the road.
For example, setting fire to reeds.
For example, place gunpowder on the ice.
These methods indeed caused a lot of trouble for the Ming army.
But in the end, it was resolved by Xu Yingwei and the "Staff Group" of the Ming Army.
After paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, Xu Yingwei finally led his army to the outside of Beijing.
Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said: "Brother Youzhen doesn't seem to be carrying the red cannon, but this gives me a chance. If nothing happens, I will most likely go out of the city to fight in the field."
"To be honest, Brother Jianheng, I think so too."
Xu Yingwei also smiled and said: "However, Jiannu will realize that he has made a big mistake after he leaves the city."
"Even if our army does not carry 4-inch field guns, it can still defeat them in the field, because our tomorrow's soldiers are also equipped with 2.5-inch mountain guns and divine artillery, and they have an air force."
Yan Yingyuan suddenly looked serious, and then continued: "What if I can't hold on?"
"Then there is no other way but to attack the city." The expression on Xu Yingwei's face became serious, "Concentrate all the mountain cannons to blast the city wall. One day it will be blasted open and Jiannu will be unable to defend it."
Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said: "I can continue to strengthen the city wall."
Xu Yingwei said: "I don't believe you can cultivate faster than me."
"Brother Youzhen, you will know once you try." Yan Yingyuan looked confident.
"Just try it." Xu Yingwei immediately ordered the soldiers to move away from the artillery.
Immediately, the two camps began to deduce based on the parameters set in advance.
Yan Yingyuan and Xu Yingwei began the final decisive battle, and the result was difficult to come out in a short time.
Chongzhen waved to the staff department to come to Jiang Tianyi and asked: "Jiang Tianyi, how is the reorganization of the new army completed?"
So far, the 270,000 recruited soldiers have not been reorganized in the true sense.
Even the new armies sent to Dagukou and Gaizhou were only temporarily organized into infantry brigades, infantry battalions or artillery battalions before going out, and then battalion officers and brigade commanders were temporarily appointed.
In normal times, the New Army still conducts daily training as a general unit.
But now the Northern Expedition is about to begin, and the decisive battle with Jiannu is about to begin, so we cannot delay it any longer.
In fact, there is no need to delay any longer, because the first batch of cadets from the Imperial College have graduated, and in addition to the Naval Academy and Medical College, all 6,000 cadets from the headquarters have been incorporated into the new army.
In addition to the 1,500 commanding officers in the scholar camp, these 7,500 soldiers serve as officers, which is enough to establish the command and staff structure of the new army.
Jiang Tianyi replied: "Your Majesty, the chief officers and staff officers of units above the battalion level have been selected and assigned, but the chief officers at the general level and sentry level are still being selected."
The future new army, with its highest military background, can only reach the rank of captain of a sentry post.
If you want to serve as a higher-level commander, battalion officer, brigade commander or even commander-in-chief, you must be a student of the Imperial College.
Chongzhen also knew that the selection of commanders at the general sentry level was an arduous task, so he immediately said: "Let's first talk about the reorganization and personnel selection of units above the battalion level."
"Yes." Jiang Tianyi immediately took out a small notebook, opened it and said.
"After reorganization, the new army will be organized into 11 towns, with headquarters set up in each town, with 5 infantry brigades and 1 artillery brigade under its jurisdiction. The total number of personnel will be surplus."
"Each infantry brigade has a brigade headquarters, which governs 2 infantry battalions and 1 supply battalion, with a staff of more than 4,200 people."
"Each artillery brigade also has a brigade headquarters, which governs 2 field artillery battalions or 2 mountain artillery battalions, plus 1 baggage battalion, with a staff of more than 4,200 people."
"Each infantry battalion has a battalion headquarters, which oversees 4 infantry commanders and 1 infantry artillery commander, with a staff of more than 1,400 people."
"Each baggage camp has a battalion headquarters, with 5 baggage headquarters under its jurisdiction, with more than 1,400 personnel and more than 1,400 mules and horses."
"Each field artillery battalion or mountain artillery battalion has a battalion headquarters, which has 5 field artillery generals or 5 mountain artillery generals, with more than 1,400 personnel and more than 1,400 mules and horses..."
