When the nine banners were raised in the Ming army camp outside Jinan City, everyone knew that the emperor was coming.
The emperor comes in person.
The morale of the whole army is stronger.
At this time, the troops gathered under the city of Jinan already included troops from the six towns of Jinwu, Shenji, Zhongsu, Yongwei, Qianniu, and Yulin, as well as many local rebel armies that had been recruited and reorganized, and local regiments practicing Xiangyong.
Jinan City refused the Ming Dynasty's persuasion to surrender and resisted stubbornly.
Before the arrival of the emperor, the Ming army did not attack the city directly. Instead, they began to besiege the city. They built fences in five directions outside the city. They even planned to dig trenches and build walls for the siege, build forts, and build siege equipment.
It was made clear that we wanted to fight steadily and did not want to attack too many casualties.
They were even prepared to besiege the city and call for reinforcements.
"According to His Majesty's order, I am preparing to besiege first and then attack. There is not much food in the city. Now we have abandoned all the strongholds outside the city and retreated to the city. Although the city is tall and strong, and there are more than ten thousand Eight Banners green camps, but there is a lack of food and grass, so it is difficult to defend for a long time.
Moreover, I have received the news that before Bolo sent out troops, he had ordered Xu, Yan and other Qing troops to retreat to Jinan for reinforcements. Now they are arriving, and we plan to send reinforcements first."
Zhu Yihai listened to the reports of the generals and was very satisfied that they obeyed the orders and did not rush to attack the city.
In the battle of Zhangqiu, the Ming army won a complete victory and annihilated more than 10,000 Tatars. However, among them, the actual Eight Banners soldiers were only about 3,000. The rest were Yu Ding and the servants. In this battle, more people defeated fewer people.
In the ambush battle, the Ming army's casualties were not small.
In the most elite imperial camp towns, more than 3,000 people were killed in battle, and thousands more were seriously injured. The total reduction was less than 5,000, of which more than 1,000 combat soldiers were lost. Three battalions were lost. Although the remaining ones were auxiliary soldiers,
But the auxiliary soldiers in the imperial camp are already well-trained soldiers who can serve as combat soldiers.
Zhu Yihai was actually not satisfied with the result of this battle.
The battle damage was too great.
Although in the eyes of other civil servants and generals, this battle was already fought very beautifully. After all, more than 10,000 Tatars were wiped out in one battle, they would not care about Zhengding, Yuding, Baoyi, household slaves, etc.
In their eyes, these were the Qing army and the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the core soldiers of the Tatars.
More than 10,000 people can be wiped out at one time. This is completely a victory that shakes the foundation of the Tatars.
The Ming army lost 5,000 casualties, which was a casualty ratio of 1 to 2.5. The Ming army still achieved a brilliant victory.
As long as there is a war, casualties are inevitable.
But Zhu Yihai's policy of elite troops could not withstand such casualties.
If a soldier is killed in battle, he will have to pay almost 200 silver dollars at one time for his compensation, burial and burial, not to mention the wasted training in the early years. In the future, his orphans and widowed mothers will even have to be given a ration, which may be 10 silver dollars.
several years.
The compensation for casualties in a war is worth millions.
And all the years of training were gone.
There were only so many soldiers in the imperial camp. Zhu Yihai could not bear such casualties, and it was difficult to keep up with the recruitment and training. Therefore, he had to be careful and careful to avoid such heavy casualties.
However, the siege caused the greatest casualties.
"The way to use troops is to attack the heart first, and attack the city next. Fighting with the heart is the highest priority, and fighting with soldiers is the lowest priority." Zhu Yihai reminded the generals that although the situation is good now, they cannot underestimate the enemy, let alone ignore the casualties of the soldiers.
It's true that one general's success will lead to thousands of bones being withered, but we still have to try to avoid casualties.
Regarding Jinan, Zhu Yihai put forward several points. First, besiege the city as much as possible to force the enemy to surrender without attacking forcefully to avoid excessive casualties. Second, besiege the city for reinforcements, mobilize the Tatars to send troops to assist, lure snakes out of their holes, and ambush attacks. We will take the initiative.
Ambush and defeat them on the preset battlefield to avoid more sieges.
Third, we must launch a psychological war to persuade the Tatars to surrender and break their will to resist.
In addition, you can also use the time to instigate some powerful gentry in the city, or launch a riot among the people, and cooperate with the inside and outside to open the city gate.
The last step is to fight, and you must be prepared for fighting. You must dig trenches and blast, bombard with artillery, use siege towers, ladders, etc. to climb the city. Be prepared. Do not fight an unprepared battle, and you cannot risk human lives.
How much is the monthly salary for each imperial soldier? The cost of training is also high and the cost of equipment is also high. How can they be consumed casually?
I would rather sweat more, erect fences around the city, dig trenches and build walls like iron barrels, than rashly hit the copper and iron walls of Jinan City.
Even if there are artillery, the real attack and defense of a big city is still a terrible meat grinder. Historically, if the defenders are determined to attack a real big city, it will be difficult to capture it in a short time, and the casualties will be very shocking.
Those famous siege battles can often last for half a year or even several years.
For example, in the battle of Suiyang, all the people in the city were eaten up.
For example, the Battle of Daling River in the Ming Dynasty was about eating people to defend the city.
Zu Dashou almost ate all the people, and the Qing army was unable to attack it. In the end, he ran out of food and had no help, so he had no choice but to accept the offer to surrender and Kaicheng.
So if you have the conditions, it’s best to go around.
Besieging a city consumes food and grass, but it is better than consuming soldiers.
"In the last battle of Zhangqiu, although the soldiers of our imperial camp fought very well, some problems of our imperial camp were still exposed. I summed it up and found that the main reason was that the firepower of the towns was insufficient."
"I plan to integrate the two towns of Yuying into one town, and Shenji Town will no longer be established separately, but will be split and distributed to each town to strengthen the artillery force. The cavalry of Jinwu Town will also be split into each town."
In the Zhangqiu battle, the infantry's largest artillery was the three-pounder, and its firepower was really too weak.
Zhu Yihai planned not to set up separate cavalry towns and artillery towns, but to upgrade the artillery and cavalry camps in each town as a standard to increase their cavalry, artillery, especially artillery.
Twelve-pound field guns must be added to each town.
"Shence Town will be organized as the first town of the imperial camp, with two corps of infantry under its jurisdiction, one battalion each for cavalry and artillery, and one battalion each for engineering and baggage.
Each infantry unit has two units, each unit will have three battalions, and each battalion will still have four sentries. Each unit of cavalry and artillery will also have three battalions, with one battalion and four sentries.
Each sentry originally had eight teams, but now it has three rows and nine teams, and each team still has twelve people."
Xie, Biao, Battalion, and Post also have their own troops directly under them. For example, there is a team directly under the battalion, including cavalry platoon, artillery platoon, etc. There is also a sentry directly under Biao, including cavalry team, artillery team, etc.
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The imperial camp originally had one town of 8,000 soldiers, but it was changed to 5,000 soldiers. Now it is necessary to combine two towns into one town, but everyone can hear that this time it is not just a simple increase in number.
It turns out that the change from 8,000 to 5,000 is basically a reduction in the number of battalions, and the specific military organization has not changed. For example, one association with two standards, one standard with two battalions, one battalion with four sentries, and one sentry with eight teams, it was always like this before.
Now, although the first association still has two bids, the first bid has three battalions. The four posts of the first battalion have not changed, but the first sentry has changed from eight teams to three platoons and nine teams.
In particular, there used to be an artillery battalion, a cavalry battalion, and eight infantry battalions under the first town. Now there are 12 battalions of infantry, three battalions each of artillery, and cavalry, as well as the newly established engineer battalion, and one baggage battalion.
Comparing the original two infantry towns, after the merger, the infantry battalions actually decreased, while the artillery and cavalry increased.
After integration, the town will have a population of about 14,000.
The emperor also proposed that the towns will also be numbered in the future, and below the town, they will also be numbered according to the military types. It will no longer be a simple left and right alliance, left and right, front and rear, left and right battalions, but from the beginning,
Keep making it up.
The five armies and twenty towns of the imperial camp headquarters and the ten towns of the line camp are planned to be first reorganized into the army of eighteen towns. In addition, the navy will also be upgraded to the navy.
The army has one battalion and four posts, plus the battalion directly affiliated teams and battalion headquarters personnel, the number is still about 500.
A town has a total of twenty infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions, three artillery battalions, plus one engineer battalion and one baggage battalion. The auxiliary battalions are still retained. The auxiliary battalions of the twenty-six battalions have been reduced to one hundred and fifty.
, a total of three thousand and nine.
"The title of the first town of the Imperial Camp of the Ming Dynasty will be awarded to the Shence Army who made great achievements in Zhangqiu. The number of the First Association will be awarded to the Shence Army Zuo Xie who made great contributions in the bloody battle in Zhangqiu. The first title for infantry and the first title for cavalry.
The first prize in artillery will be awarded to the Shence Army."
The new First Army Shence Town will have three artillery battalions, including one 12-pounder field artillery battalion and two three-pounder artillery battalions. The heavy artillery battalion will be equipped with nine 12-pounder artillery battalions and two three-pounder artillery battalions.
, each equipped with eighteen three-pound guns, and the entire battery will have forty-five guns.
In addition, each infantry battalion will also be equipped with two three-pound guns, and one can be equipped in the early stage.
Zhu Yihai planned to use fire suppression to the extreme. In the future, he would use artillery to clear the ground, whether in siege or in field battles.
Shenji Town and Jinwu Town will be split, but the emperor also retains an additional cavalry and an artillery unit, but they are no longer a town, but each retains an association. This artillery association is mainly for sieges.
Heavy artillery.
The two associations are each composed of students from the Cavalry Academy and the Artillery Academy, and they are mobilized to fight in major battles.
When the two towns merged into one, there was almost no change in the strength of the troops, but there was a big change in the configuration.
The generals actually had different feelings after hearing this. Many generals were actually not very happy, which meant that the number of town-level officers was suddenly reduced by half.
But the emperor didn't want to discuss it with them.
After reintegration, a town will become a standard battle unit, and it can stand alone without the support of additional cavalry and artillery.
Of course, Zhu Yihai could also see the little thoughts of the generals.
So he told everyone.
"After the two towns merge into one town, each town leader will be promoted to an admiral. The town-level officers will also have a chief officer, one commander each, and two deputy admirals."
There are newly established chief scribes and Sima. The chief scribe is equivalent to the original supervisor of the army. Now it is called the chief scribe. The imperial censor is no longer sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but is sent by the Ministry of War. The second-grade civilian officer is equivalent to the Sima.
chief of staff.
The two deputy admirals are military deputies who can lead troops and horses. The town headquarters still has four departments, the Military Order Office, the Staff Office, the Supervision Office and the Logistics Office, and the Equipment Office has been merged into the Logistics Office.
There is also a long history of co-establishing the general army, Sima and deputy general army.
The standard staff officer is the commander, and the guerrilla deputy is the deputy. The battalion officer is the captain, and the garrison deputy is the deputy.
There are thousands of outposts,
Arrange the general arrangement.
Jin Gongyu was promoted to the first town admiral, Wen Hu was promoted to the deputy admiral and commanded the first army general, Shen Wenzhong was the first town mayor Shi, and Yang Boxing was the first town Sima.
The title of the second town was awarded to Yongwei Town. Yongwei Town and Zhongsu Town were combined to form the second town of the Imperial Camp of the Ming Dynasty. The banner of Yongwei Town was retained, with Zhang Quan as the admiral of the second town and Meng Xian as deputy.
Admiral and commander-in-chief of the Third Association of the Ming Dynasty.
"Deploy nine 12-pound field guns from Shenji Town to the Second Town, and also coordinate with the other 24-pound siege guns. It will take three days to prepare. In three days, let the Tatars in Jinan City know about our Daming artillery.
The power of artillery can persuade us to surrender!"
