When attacking a bastion in the era of cold weapons, the defenders you faced still used firearms, which simply meant that the attackers intended to massacre their own soldiers. To deal with the bastion, you had to use tunnels, or simply use heavy artillery to launch lobs to solve the problem, or you could easily use aviation.
Done. But there are none in this era, so Bailang only plans to build bastions on a few important routes outside the capital to block passages.
This is a systematic and continuous defense line. The capital itself was originally the center of the Ming Dynasty's northern defense line, and Bailang only added a few bastions outside it to strengthen the defense. The bastions were equipped with barracks, enough to make any army that hits the capital despair.
——They have to dismantle these fortresses one by one and annihilate the troops in them before they can face the capital, otherwise they will be attacked from both sides.
"It should be the day that it will never be used." Bailang said, building a bastion is not difficult, and Bailang also came up with a Portland cement formula for fly ash - anyway, the left and right sides are sintered with limestone and then ground.
Combined with yellow sand and gravel, it can be used to quickly build a strong fortress.
After Enke, the official imperial examination was also to be held. At this time, news came from Nanjing that Hai Rui was seriously ill and requested to retire. Bai Lang tried to stay three times out of the rules, and then approved the old gentleman to retire and return to his hometown. "This
The old gentleman has only a few years to live, so let him go back to his hometown." Hai Gangfeng can only say that he is an upright official, and his political ability is mediocre. As for deciding the case? Bai Lang thinks that the old gentleman is really not good, and can only be said to be ordinary.
The impartial referee is an old guy who is easily fooled by others.
Old-fashioned but honest, he can be easily deceived. The so-called gentleman can be deceived, which is all this old gentleman has. "It looks good to the public, but it is not very effective in practice." Bai Lang asked Hai Rui to become an official.
It's a pity that most of the people he employs now are also cunning people, soft-bodied guys, but almost all of them have some talent. "People who are extremely evil, extremely wise and brave, these kind of people are not very common these days."
Most of the current pavilion elders are mediocre. The previous ones, except for the original chief assistants, have been executed by the whole family. At that time, the capital was full of people, and even more than half of the Grand Dukes in the Forbidden City were gone.
At present, the guys in the inner court have become a team of secretaries, and they only dare to handle the memorials for Bai Lang step by step - Bai Lang has left most of the things to the cabinet and the chief of etiquette, and he only has a look at them.
Every day, the Supervisor of Ceremonies must prepare a summary of the day's events for Bai Lang to read. Once he has read it, it counts.
Although Bailang himself did not move, he sent Qi Jiguang as the commander-in-chief, taking his Zhejiang soldiers and part of the Shandong soldiers to Liaodong. The order given to him was to replace Li Chengliang and transfer all the original Liaodong generals back to the court. As for their soldiers
The horses were rectified by Qi Jiguang. "Choose one out of ten. There is no need to deploy so many soldiers and horses in Liaodong." Bai Lang said.
As for the Liaodong generals and Li Chengliang, will they be unruly and try to support the bandits? Bailang is happy to see it happen. If you have the guts, you can give it a try. Bailang just defeated Mongolia and killed at least NMG people for decades.
Nothing could be done. It happened to be that most of the troops were abolished and reorganized into city-defending battalions and mobile field troops.
In Bailang's view, the 600,000 to 700,000 troops on the nine sides are useless, and quite a few of them are unfit for battle. Bailang plans to eliminate at least half of these troops. In his opinion, in addition to some garrison troops at several key points on the border, the real elites
It should be organized into several mobile combat groups and deployed in strategic locations that facilitate internal maneuvers.
"Otherwise, spending so much money every year would be like throwing it into the water." Bailang said, for example, there are almost 100,000 troops in Liaodong now. Bailang plans to leave a total of about 5,000 people to garrison in addition to a few key guard posts - of course all of them will be changed.
In order to form a fort, the actual field strength in Liaodong is only 20,000, and it is placed in Shenyang.
There are almost 890,000 people in Jizhou. Bailang is planning to eliminate them all. At most, a total of 10,000 people will be placed in several places as well as Zunhua and Qian'an to serve as security guards. Anyway, if there are brave guys, they will come.
The elites of the three major battalions of the capital were to deal with it - all these lines of defense were also built with bastions and communication ditches.
The reason for the layoff is entirely because Bailang has restored the Daning Guard and deployed tens of thousands of cavalry troops. Besides, the Mongols have been almost defeated. Two-thirds of the Mongolians still alive on the entire Mongolian Plateau.
They have been ordered to change Chinese names, learn Chinese and practice Chinese customs. At the same time, they have to divide the area and establish counties and counties to be managed by county magistrates, prefects, etc. "This place is originally the land of my Han family, so it is natural to have counties and counties." Bailang
The same is said.
The entire Xuan Mansion was abolished. Except for the soldiers who collected taxes and guarded the three passes, all the other 80,000 people were dismissed because Bailang had pushed the defense line beyond Yehu Ridge and used mobile troops on the vast land.
To force the unconvinced Mongolian tribes to engage in defensive warfare. All armies in Datong and Shanxi were also laid off, and Bailang was also preparing to reorganize them into field troops and stationed in Datong.
Similarly, since the Hetao in Gansu and other towns has been recovered, the main force has also been reduced and replaced by a mobile force of about 50,000 people stationed in Jiuquan, Lanzhou and other places. All of them are mobile defense. There are no fixed national borders now.
, Ming Dynasty has extended its tentacles to the territory of the four towns of Datang.
"Now it is the Han family's turn to cultivate by killing. In ancient times, only white bones were seen in the yellow sand fields." Bai Lang believed that the Mongols would soon become good at singing and dancing. After he killed the Jurchens, he should sing "Xuan Hu"
In the blue sky, Hu is buried beside the purple plug. There is no Hu, and the Han Dynasty is prosperous. Your Majesty's life span is three thousand frosts. But when the wind and clouds are flying, there are strong men guarding the four directions!"
As for the Nanbarbarians? Is that a problem? Those chieftains are nothing. Bailang is even planning to push the front all the way to the Indochina Peninsula. Forget about poor places like North Korea. Besides, these stickmen have always been submissive, so let them go.
One horse - just let them die of poverty. The political system of North Korea is much more decadent than that of Ming Dynasty.
As for Japan, Bailang didn't think about conquering it until he had a powerful enough navy. He had no interest in Japan - it could be plundered by economic means, and there was no need to use military means to increase its own costs. Japan, an island country, is such an example.
, it would be more expensive to rule him directly, so Bai Lang thought that he could just order the shogunate to switch on and off, allowing Ming merchants to come and go.
Qi Jiguang left the capital with about 10,000 people and took the Liaoxi Corridor to exit customs. Along the way, he also began to reorganize the local health centers. So far, there have been no thorns.