Chapter 256: Full Dress Up
Liu Yi suggested that the soldiers and horses could be allowed to go to Hejian Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture in batches to change their clothes. After all, there were too many supplies and it was impossible to transport them to the capital. These supplies were allocated by Liu Yi in Taiping Prefecture earlier. They were mainly gunpowder, gun bullets, muskets, sabers, guns, armor, vacuum-packed food and dry food. Liu Jin spent a lot of effort to transport these supplies. Not only did he mobilize 600 soldiers from the intelligence army, but he also asked the Hui merchants for help and recruited thousands of studs. Because there were not enough military transport vehicles and horses, he also spent a lot of money to collect many civilian vehicles and horses, so he formed a strong transportation team, basically doing
When it arrived simultaneously with the Qingyi Army, when Liu Yi led his army to the capital, Liu Jin's transportation team had already transported the materials into the manors outside Hejian Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture. Liu Jin sent people to look for the manor first. Under the instructions of Liu Yi's intelligence army to develop to the whole country, Liu Jin began to explore in advance. Originally, he was from the Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiwei had a very comprehensive control over the capital and the local area. That is, since Wei Zhongxian's fall, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang were corrupt. The organization was not tight and many people were missing. When the Wanli Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian were in power, the Jinyiwei was everywhere.
Many of the personnel in the intelligence army were Wei Zhongxian's private army in the past. Liu Jin entrusted Hong Bo to guard the house and led a part of his capable force to expand to the north. In fact, when Liu Jin was in the Jinyiwei, before the Sarhu War, and during the Wanli Dynasty, the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang investigation methods were indisputable and secretly investigated. How could the secret investigation method be? This is somewhat similar to the plainclothes special police now, disguising as various figures and infiltrating into all walks of life. At present, Liu Jin has no ability to infiltrate the army and government of the Ming Dynasty. He decided to follow the old ways of the Jinyiwei in the past and start from the people. He selected five confidants first.
As soon as he took a step, he quickly entered Beijing. As early as October, he set up a small teahouse in the capital. He used this small teahouse as the site of the Qingyi Army's intelligence forces in the capital. This was before the martial law in the capital in November. Because this was a small matter and no achievements were made, Liu Jin did not report this matter to Liu Yi. The site in the capital was currently only a liaison office, and there were pigeons in the backyard of the teahouse, so that even after the martial law in the capital and the city was blocked, the intelligence army could communicate. Therefore, the previous intelligence personnel found the Qingyi Army camp.
When Liu Yi said he wanted to transport the materials to the designated location, Liu Jin did not dare to neglect them and immediately implemented the matter himself. While transporting the materials, they sent people to Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion to purchase manors in advance. Liu Jin specifically explained that the secret warehouse of the intelligence army should not be placed in the city, but must be outside the city, preferably in a manor with a cellar. Those who chose to perform such special tasks were all good players in the intelligence army. Naturally, the matter was done beautifully, and the intelligence army soon completed the matter.
When the materials transported arrived, people immediately arranged to move the materials into the cellar. Of course, the people who transported the materials were all the personnel of the Intelligence Army and the escorts of the Huishang Federation. They were much more reliable than ordinary people. The cooperation between the Qingyi Army and the Huishang Federation was no longer a secret in the two units. Even ordinary escorts of the Huishang Federation knew about such a thing, and these escorts often escorts with the soldiers of the Qingyi Army to protect the mines. Many of them knew each other, so they naturally had twice the result with half the effort when doing things.
Under Liu Yi's arrangement, Hou Gongji, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Xing and others' soldiers and Liu Yi went to Zhending Mansion to change clothes. The remaining soldiers went to Hejian Mansion to change clothes under the guidance of intelligence soldiers. Although the equipment of Guanning Army and the Sanqian Battalion was good, it was still a little worse than the cavalry troops armed to the teeth of the Qingyi Army. In addition to the Type 28-type silencer and cavalry guns, Liu Yi could not give them temporary equipment. In fact, the most helpful thing to these troops is not firearms. These firearms, such as Type 26-type handguns, have not trained much firearms in each town. The first time they came into contact with such firearms, I'm afraid they are not as skilled as the three-eyed guns. Anyway, Liu Yi did not allow them to get used to the firearms of the Qingyi Army. They just had as many Type 26-type handguns as there were, and at least they could be used for self-defense. The most helpful thing to these soldiers was actually armor.
When Liu Yi, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Xing and others led the family horse team to Zhending Mansion to change their clothes, the equipment they took out of the cellar almost made them look confused. Sun Xing was a little better. After all, he had seen many markets in the capital. Lu Xiangsheng and Hou Gong were so dazzling. Lu Xiangsheng was just the prefect of Daming Mansion. The soldiers and horses formed were essentially militia groups. Naturally, there was no need to say about the infantry. Liu Yi had also seen them outside the city. Not to mention chain mail, scale armor, etc., even the mandarin duck war jacket could not be used for one piece. Many people were armourless and came to serve the king in the clothes of ordinary people. Even the most elite Thousand White Banners under Lu Xiangsheng was just a layer of cotton armor, which was no different from the cavalry in ordinary barracks in the Ming Dynasty. It was just covered with white cloth vests on the outside, and then the morale was higher than that of ordinary Ming Dynasty.
The military cavalry can only fight. Even Hou Gongji's Xuanfu Army was actually better equipped, except for the servants, and ordinary cavalry were similar to the Bai Banner Team. However, the border troops used more three-eyed guns, and the number of firearms was quite considerable. After all, in recent years, the main expenditure of the Ming Dynasty's military expenditure has been placed on Liao gulf, and the remaining nine sides have received less military expenditure as they move westward. Xuanfu is still good because it is close to Northern Zhili. But even so, it can only make everyone have armor. With Liu Yi's batch of cotton armor, they can all be equipped with double-layer cotton armor, and their protection ability has been greatly improved. Especially Liu Yi's batch of materials also has a lot of chain mail and scale armor, which were originally prepared for the Qingyi cavalry, but now they can't use it for the time being, so Liu Yi simply took out all these good armors.
Lu Xiangsheng stroked a Taiping Mansion scale armor. The iron leaves on it were the same size, and no one fell to it. The entire scale armor was like a work of art. The iron leaves overlapped layer by layer, which was equivalent to two iron leaves overlapping each other in unit area. He picked up a chain mail. The sleeveless chain mail was actually an iron vest. It did not feel burdensome when worn on it. Instead, because the sleeveless did not restrict the movement ability of both hands, it was very convenient for the knight to slash on the horse. The soldiers picked up the armor and put it on. Originally, many of Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers did not even have bowls and helmets, but they were just felt.
The hat is now ready, and now it is better to cross the six-petal iron cavalry helmet in Taiping Mansion. The hat brim is longer and the protective area for the door is larger, which is definitely something that cavalry soldiers like to watch. There is also the saber of Taiping Mansion, which is extremely sharp and cut iron like mud. What surprised Lu Xiangsheng and others the most was that the armor of Taiping Mansion seemed to be carved from the same mold. It is easy to understand if it is a sword. However, the iron leaves of the armor can be average in size, and the seams are averagely neat, which is not easy to do. Moreover, each saber can be said to be a treasure sword. There is no uneven quality of military weapons in other places.
In fact, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to ask this question for a long time. Since Liu Yi gave them a hand gun, Lu Xiangsheng found that every firearm in Taiping Mansion was exactly the same. You must know that this was very difficult to achieve when the Ming Dynasty was handmade. After all, the method of making a craftsman is different. Even the Military Weapon Bureau cannot achieve the standard of every gun. This question was temporarily suppressed because Sun Chengzong and others were discussing military affairs. However, when they saw so many regular armored weapons today, Lu Xiangsheng could no longer bear it. He pulled Liu Yi aside and asked: "General Liu, Lu has always had a question in his heart. If he doesn't vomit, he will not be happy. Today, he would like to ask General Liu to give him advice."
As soon as Lu Xiangsheng spoke, Liu Yi knew what he was going to ask. Zhang Heming asked this question, Hou Feng asked, Yuan Chonghuan asked, and many people asked, but Liu Yi did not answer it in a vague way. Lu Xiangsheng was a person that Liu Yi from later generations admired very much. He felt that if there could be Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Cao Bianjiao and others in the late Ming Dynasty, they would fight Jianlu and the peasant army. Then, even if the Ming Dynasty fought on both sides, they would not be able to fight.
It will definitely perish. So he didn't want to hide and deceive Lu Xiangsheng, but the explanation was too complicated. Liu Yi had to say: "Prince Lu, I know what you want to ask. In fact, the swords and muskets you saw were not made of manpower, or most of the components were not made of manpower, but used mechanical power, but were complicated to explain. Let's do this. When the battle is over, I invite you to our Taiping Prefecture and take a look. After walking, I believe that Prefect Lu will suddenly realize it."
Lu Xiangsheng was shocked when he heard Liu Yi say this. He was not made by manpower or mechanical power? Lu Xiangsheng seemed to listen to a book of heaven. However, since Liu Yi said this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't continue. He promised that he would go to Taiping Prefecture to ask for a drink when the war ended. Liu Yi agreed readily.
After the full dressing, the 10,000 cruising army was like a tiger with wings. The equipment of the Qingyi Army's cavalry was still the same, and the remaining cavalry now everyone has double-layer cotton armor. The two thousand servants of several of the chief generals were also equipped with chain mail and scale armor. From the appearance, they were no cavalry guns, but the Type 26 hand guns were each handed in one. There were 3,000 fine steel sabers, which also armed the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu and Lu Xiangsheng. Especially Liu Yi, this
Among the supplies, there were two thousand pairs of front-mounted horse armor, which were equipped with the troops of Xuanfu and Lu Xiangsheng. In this way, the Youzi Army had two horses with one man and two horses. The armor was complete, some used a cavalry bow and some had three-eyed guns. They had long-range and short-range strike capabilities. They were equipped with dry food, horse materials and other materials. The entire Youzi Army did not type a banner, and all replaced the battle flags with red flags with gold edges. The purpose was to make Huang Taiji unable to figure out their origins and disrupt the enemy's morale.
Chapter completed!