Zhu Hongyu squinted his eyes, looking at the performance of the Green Battalion on the battlefield, and nodded with satisfaction.
To be honest, if it weren't for the Qing court's military supervision team killing the Green Camp soldiers today, they would have been too brutal.
The forced Green Camp soldiers really had no choice, either surrender to the Ming army or die.
He, Zhu Hongyu, didn't dare to use those surrendered Green Camp soldiers!
Well, Zhu Hongyu is willing to give the honorary title of Friend of the Ming Dynasty to his dear Lu Wenji, General Lu.
However, the scene on the battlefield today can be regarded as helping Zhu Hongyu open up the situation!
Let him realize that he was too small in the past!
Due to the high requirements of the Ming army on the quality of its soldiers, the expansion of the Ming army was very slow.
Because the current Ming army's principle of building an army is to have elite troops rather than too many!
Therefore, when the Ming army is currently deploying troops everywhere, its overall military strength appears to be stretched thin.
Originally, Zhu Hongyu's idea was to conduct large-scale militia training and prepare a reserve plan.
On the one hand, it was able to use the power of local landlords and gentry to resist the Qing Dynasty, and it also allowed the local area to have a certain ability to protect itself in the face of invading Qing troops.
On the other hand, it can also conduct simple drills for young and strong men concentrated in rural towns, so that they can master certain military skills.
To ensure that the Ming army has a certain amount of reserve soldiers available, reserve soldiers can be recruited to supplement the shortage when the military strength is tight.
To be honest, there is nothing wrong with Zhu Hongyu's idea, and it must be effective!
However, whether it is group training or militia, it takes a long time to practice to develop combat effectiveness.
In addition, they are not professional soldiers and have limited training time every day, so the timeline will be very long.
To put it bluntly, this is a long-term investment, so don’t expect results in the short term.
However, Zhu Hongyu now has other ideas!
Training your own troops will be very slow, but what if you directly use prisoners of war?
For example, after a simple reorganization, the captured Qing army's Green Battalion was directly brought to the battlefield to fight.
To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the Green Camp soldiers is not bad!
After all, the Qing army conquered the entire Central Plains using such a group of gadgets.
Even after the Eight Banners soldiers were completely destroyed, the Green Battalion was used to quell the San Francisco.
History has proven that as long as the food and salary are sufficient and the supervising team kills harder, the combat effectiveness of these green soldiers is not bad.
On today's battlefield, wasn't the performance of those green soldiers anyway very good?
Under the cover of the firepower of our own artillery group, under the pressure of the dark muzzles of the supervising team, under the stimulation of the white silver coins...
The fighting power of those green soldiers is still very fierce!
The whole process was suppressing the green battalion of the Qing army on the opposite side!
In any case, these Green Camp soldiers have all experienced the troubled times of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and they are also veterans with rich war experience!
The combat effectiveness is naturally not bad!
Even if it was against Lu Wenji's personal supervision team, Zhu Hongyu estimated that they would dare to try.
The roar of the Ming army's naval guns really boosted morale!
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Zhu Hongyu's estimate was correct. After killing through the Qing army's green camp, these green camp soldiers immediately met Lu Wenji's supervising team.
Encouraged by the heavy artillery, these green battalion soldiers remembered how the Tatars had massacred them in the bad days.
Stimulated by hatred, their blood surged and they strode forward to kill.
The two sides collided immediately!
Jia Qijin screamed "kill," tightened his grip on the spear in his hand, roared, and stabbed the heavily armored soldier in front of him.
With a click, the spear head in his hand was cut off. The heavily armored soldier stepped forward and slashed Jia Qijin's head with the big knife in his hand.
Jia Qijin subconsciously retreated, but as he was experienced in war, he still stabbed the heavy armored soldier in the face with the spear without the tip in his hand.
It is true that heavy armored soldiers are not afraid of swords and guns because they are wearing heavy armor.
But there was no protection on his face.
If he was stabbed this time, even if he was stabbed in the cheek by a spear without a tip, it would still kill him!
The heavily armored soldier subconsciously put away his sword and retreated, assuming a defensive posture.
Dang Dang Dang!
The sound of swords clashing was heard one after another, and several Green Camp soldiers swarmed forward and faced Lu Wenji's heavily armored soldiers with a flurry of sword strikes.
The shouts of killing one after another resounded throughout the battlefield!
The aura is very strong, but the killing effect is very little. The heavy armor on this heavy armored soldier is not a decoration.
A layer of cotton armor and a layer of chain mail are worn on the body. It is not said to be invulnerable, but it is almost the same.
This heavily armored soldier relied on his heavy armor to slash and kill wantonly among the crowd.
As blood spurted out, a Green Camp soldier fell to the ground and died miserably!
It wasn't until several green soldiers with spears and big guns came up and stabbed out the spears in their own hands that they forced the heavily armored soldier back.
A large spear that was only used to deal with cavalry thrust with all its strength. The head of the large spear made of wrought iron pierced the person's body, and its inertia was quite terrifying.
With the combined efforts of several people, Lu Wenji's heavily armored soldier was forced to retreat continuously!
Qi and blood surged crazily, and his face became extremely red.
Afterwards, more soldiers from the green camp swarmed up, shouting to kill, but Lu Wenji's heavy-armored soldier stepped on the air while retreating and let out a scream.
Before he could struggle to get up, in the next moment, several spears were pressed against his vital points and his limbs were stuck.
Anyway, the remaining green soldiers swarmed forward, and the heavy armor of this heavily armored soldier was stripped off.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Wenji's soldiers, without the protection of heavy armor, were chopped into pieces with random knives.
Scenes like this are constantly happening on the battlefield!
The Ming army was so powerful that from time to time on the battlefield, soldiers from the green camp of the Qing army knelt down and surrendered.
Or maybe he was pushed too hard by the supervising team, so he just gritted his teeth and cut off his braids. Anyway, before the battle, he turned against the supervising team behind him.
The flag of the Ming army continued to move forward, and the flag of the Ming Dynasty began to fly on each fortification.
A Qing army fort along the river was completely bulldozed by Ming army naval guns, the Qing flag was lowered, and the Ming flag flew high over the fortress.
Zhu Hongyu withdrew his sight and turned his attention from the offensive and defensive battles along the beach to the Ming army's attack on the Qing army's fortifications in the middle of the river.
Under the saturation firepower of the Ming naval artillery group, the Qing army blasted several gaps in the embankment built in the Yangtze River.
The river water swept back and poured in, and the gap continued to expand.
The landing troops of the Ming Army also successfully cut off the deep piles used by the Qing Army to fix the iron cables blocking the river.
The Ming fleet's offensive path was finally completely opened!
The huge Ming fleet group entered the Yangtze River and provided even more powerful fire support to the troops landing ashore.
The defense line deployed by the Qing army at the mouth of the Yangtze River began to gradually collapse under the attack of the Ming army!
Defeat is only a matter of time!
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"Eight hundred miles urgent!"
"Eight hundred miles urgent!"
"The blockade at the mouth of the Yangtze River failed, and the Ming navy invaded along the Yangtze River!"
"Jiangyin is in emergency, Zhenjiang is in emergency, Songjiang Prefecture is in emergency..."
The news that the Qing army was defeated in the blocking battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River was sent to Jiangning by horseback at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.
Following this, a series of emergency military reports came from the state capitals along the Yangtze River.
In an instant, Jiangning was shocked.
Immediately, Jiangnan was shaken!
Lang Tingzuo kept pacing in the flower hall of the Governor's Palace, his face full of unresolved worries and deep disbelief.
"Failed?!"
"Why did you lose?!"
"What happened on the front line? How could it be defeated so quickly?"