Chapter 1215 Chapter 28 (Part 1) Assisting in the Suppression
In all parts of the world in the 16th century, armored heavy infantry was king. Even the Hou Jin Dynasty, which emerged in the 70s and 80s, did not rely on so-called mounted archery, but relied on heavy infantry phalanxes to defeat the Ming army in field battles.
As for now, the pirates who came ashore are facing what can be said to be the most heavily armored regiment in East Asia, well, the world.
Outside the coastal dock filled with oyster shells, a regular battle was going on.
"One two one, one two one", the neat armored phalanx shouted the most unpretentious slogan. But the uniform footsteps and the chorus of trampling the ground seemed to calm the rhythm of the waves in the distance, giving their unlucky opponents a
They feel horrible and oppressive.
Compared with the Qi Army, which still required ten steps to form a whole team, the camp of the Kentuo Team advanced in a straight line.
"Crack!" The pirates fired all kinds of firecrackers from a distance of a hundred meters.
But at this time, the armored phalanx was still a skirmish line and had not yet gathered into a group. The hits from the muskets were impressive. Even a few projectiles hit the armor, and they all bounced away with a bang.
Deputy Commander Qi, who was watching the battle from a distance, held a telescope and looked at this friendly force that he initially thought was a "rash advance".
When he heard that the transferred guard troops were going to charge directly into the Japanese camp, he was very worried, so he ordered the troops to speed up and rush towards the battlefield.
But after seeing such "guard soldiers", he had to think deeply. But then, looking at the tactics of the friendly forces, he was stunned, because the square formation changed into lines (platoons), like
A sweater was opened. Then the soldiers trotting in formation surrounded the two wings in a wide range, and then, a group even surrounded the back.
General Qi: Isn’t this general afraid of Japanese pirates and trapped beasts?
That's right, the line formations were spread out and the pirates were surrounded directly. - Because when the weapons, tactics, and soldiers' quality were all improved, they could be surrounded ten times!
Behind the line, Wuzhou's artillery, which was towed by pack horses, was deployed. The steel drills around the artillery cart were inserted into the soil with the artillery's sledgehammers. The ropes on the artillery cart were connected to these ground steel drills. This ensured that the artillery and other equipment were secure.
When firing, the track of the rack is stable.
Commander Wuzhou was observing the battlefield with a telescope, and the staff on the side quickly drew a simple map of the enemy and ourselves based on the battlefield situation. They completed the wind direction in the center of the military formation, and the artillerymen who tested the angle began to aim their muzzles forward.
, after hearing the signal signal and confirming the attack direction, the artillery officers began to further determine the enemy groups in these directions. After making final adjustments to the elements of the artillery team, they shouted "Fire~"
The small steel cannon with a hexagonal inner diameter emitted white smoke, and the projectile flew towards the crowd of pirates, and when it was about to land, it shot out shrapnel. After the shrapnel fell, it let out a miserable howl.
After the artillery bombardment was suppressed, the infantry skirmisher line advanced sixty steps, shooting while advancing rapidly. The crisp firing sound of the flintlock rifle was like the reaper of death's scythe. If there was no place to hide, this group of thousands of people would not be able to hide.
The pirates are definitely going to collapse.
After advancing to 150 steps, as the whistle began, each platoon of the Wuzhou "Guardian Soldiers" began to gather to form a dense formation.
This ability to gather and disperse as usual made those watching Zhibing take a breath of cold air.
Wei Keng: This is an ability that the feudal troops of this era could not achieve. Only in the Napoleonic era, there was the ability to control the troops that could only be achieved by perfecting the non-commissioned officer system. To improve the non-commissioned officer system, it was necessary to completely break the feudal system and free up promotion channels. Napoleon once
He once said, "Any non-commissioned officer of mine can become a colonel in other countries" because of this incentive and selection system in the military.
The infantry's hash formation is used for firepower output, while the massed formation is for impact resistance.
When they were a hundred steps closer to the enemy, the "guard soldiers" fired the last round of volleys, and then began to charge with bayonets in hand. Rows of bright white blades were like a death meat grinder, and a few held Japanese weapons.
When the pirate with the sword realized that he couldn't escape, he turned around and slashed, only to find that he was knocking on the iron shell, and his morale immediately collapsed.
The pirates went from being besieged and going crazy to kneeling down to beg for mercy, just like the scene in the movie "Jing Ke Assassins Qin" where Lao Ai's retainers rushed into the palace and were surrounded by the imperial guards and killed with strong bows.
This is the power of modern troops. They have good food, sufficient training, and wear strong armor to crush pirate teams that come ashore to plunder.
The battle has since ended. Only a hundred or so of the two thousand pirates broke out before the platoon formation was closed. After all, the time traveler only bought a thousand households from the Wuzhou Guard, and the current blocking force was
There were only eight hundred, but there were still some oversights during the containment.
However, the Qi family army on the periphery blocked the escape of these scattered pirates with long knives and long poles.
In this battle, 534 people were killed and wounded, and 2,270 people were captured. It was a complete annihilation.
For the Ming Dynasty, it was just the end of a small maritime frontier trouble. For East Asia as a whole, a maritime power began to rise, and for the world, the security environment of the first industrial revolution was guaranteed.
The "Pacific Company" established by the Reclamation Society the following year will erupt into a force far more terrifying than the "Umbrella Company" in the era of biochemical technology a few hundred years later...
The perspective returns to the present. Compared with Qi Jiguang's Zhejiang Army Group on land, it is in shock.
At this time, Yu Dayou, who was on the sea, could not take his eyes off the self-propelled paddle-wheel warship, which was moving forward and backward freely on the river mouth in the calm wind.
There were as many as forty pirate ships escaping, and the Wuzhou ship could surround them all.
Because the speed of twelve knots ignored the wind direction and ocean currents, it circled directly ahead and blasted it with a cannon, and even the Centipede boats could not catch up.
Yu Dayou only knew that this was not a European-style sailing warship. He thought of the report given to him by his spies.
"There is no Mohist mechanism that can make ships burn coal and move, and iron oxen and wooden horses burn firewood to move."
Wei Keng: When dealing with the Ming Dynasty, you must take care of their self-esteem, because once the Ming Emperor and the officials are provoked, they have to launch the "cut off grain" force operation, which will be a slap in the face of the officials and Jiajing, but the suffering is for the Ming Dynasty.
The common people are doing corvee work together, but many of them have lost their families and their families. - We are not Western barbarians. We can do things in East Asia regardless of the consequences. The great voyage of expansion requires the cohesion of "nationalism".
The Ming Dynasty can be unkind now, but as a visitor from "Qizhou", it cannot be unjust. Who calls his old Zhu family the contemporary emperor?
Therefore, in full view of the official informants at all levels in Fujian, after defeating the Japanese pirates, this powerful soldier immediately stood by on the shore and began to circle the military camp to bury pots and make rice.
He did not enter the city to harass the people. He followed orders and prohibited them. - He was more obedient than the normal officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
As a member of the space-time exploration team, Su Qianheng met the two idols "Yu and Qi", so naturally he wanted to meet them.
Well, I'm chasing stars. Let's see if there is a chance to get a calligraphy job.
However, two days later, Su Qianheng learned from Jin Yiwei that the adults above (the officialdom of Fujian and Zhejiang) had some difficulties with the Qianhu House on Wudao. And the Ming Dynasty now had two military attachés, Qi and Yu.
At this moment, it is impossible to interact with the Shejihui without considering the official situation.
So, under the order of the Kentuohui, on July 14th, the entire army returned to Wudao to show their behavior. At the same time, the other side began to lead the Jinyiwei line and handed money to the eunuchs in the palace!
…Weikeng’s air pressure station deployed on the southeastern coast shows that there will be low pressure approaching in the next few days, and there may be a typhoon.…
This made the worries among Fujian officials that "it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send away" disappeared.
Information about the magnitude of this battle was also quickly spread to the center of the Ming court. After the cabinet breathed a sigh of relief at the situation in Fujian and Zhejiang, it was a little worried about this "guard soldier" who had appeared.
The Ming Dynasty has always been a place where the nobles and the military are lowly, but now it has not yet reached the end of Chongzhen. Local officials in various places are very tight with the military forces in their jurisdictions, and will even second local warworthy soldiers to each other, that is, the local officials of the same government.
Today we found a group of bandits in our jurisdiction that had to be exterminated, so we borrowed a letter from the neighboring generals. If there was a civil uprising elsewhere tomorrow, we could also borrow troops to suppress it.
Today, after fighting a battle to suppress the pirates, this guard soldier became domineering and returned to his base without listening to the orders of the local officials.
In the past, according to the nature of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court went directly to the guardhouse to get people, but now it is a court that has gone through the "Wang Zhi Rebellion".
...In the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, although autumn has already begun, the afterglow of summer heat is still recurring...
The current head of the family, Xu Jiege, is always deeply worried: "The troubles in Fujian and Zhejiang need to be settled as soon as possible, otherwise the court will suffer losses again this year."
As for this unknown force in Fujian, which was entrenched in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty under the guise of a guard station, and possesses so many armors and firearms, Mr. Xu Ge now tries his best to make it a big deal and turn it into a trivial matter.
But then, Gao Gong, who had already made "two hopes for one" in the cabinet, made a speech as usual with deep hatred for the "Southeast Guards selling officials and titles".
After the black-faced song finished, Zhang Juzheng said: "Overseas wealthy businessmen gather outside the country's gates for nothing more than profit. The imperial court can control it by pinching the profits of the coastal states." - The southeast of the imperial court is a heavy taxation area, and it can't be controlled anymore.
We can't afford to go to war anymore.
As a result, the highest level of power in the Ming Dynasty discussed and gave up the permission to "exclusively engage in maritime trade".
Basically, the conditions that Hu Zongxian gave to Wang Zhi were handed over to the group of visitors who called themselves "Qizhou".
It can be said that the conditions of the Ming Dynasty cabinet can have a huge earthquake in the coastal state capitals, because the benefits of maritime trade are limited, and if the court approves a new one, other families will have to eat less.
The things that Huishang Group had been trying to do without completing things were suddenly fulfilled.
From a geographical perspective, Wang Zhi belongs to the Huizhou Merchant Group, and Hu Zongxian also belongs to the Huizhou Merchant Group.
The Huizhou merchant family divided into two routes, one was farming and studying for imperial examinations, and the other was going out to do business. Wang Zhi initially established maritime armed forces to compete with the southeastern coastal business groups in terms of "business", but in the end it got out of control. With the Ming Dynasty,
The official ended up helping others, and ended up becoming "border bandits".
After the death of Wang Zhi in history, Hu Zongxian was impeached and overthrown, and Huizhou merchants completely changed from radical to conservative. The entire maritime hegemony in the late Ming Dynasty changed to the control of business groups in Guangdong and Fujian. The Ming Empire lost its "balancing hand" on the southeastern sea trade.
Weight.
After the Ming Dynasty squeezed out Anhui merchants from coastal trade, neither Fujian nor Guangzhou had much hope.
In the words of later generations: it was not imperialistic enough, had no coastal pioneering spirit, and only wanted to engage in government-run monopoly business.
At this time, the smartest person in the Ming court was not thinking about maritime hegemony in East Asia. Nor was he thinking about the layout of Nanyang.
...above the cabinet, the residence of the emperor...
In Xiyuan Jingshe, an old Taoist priest with gray hair was sitting in front of the altar, performing hexagram divination.
The hexagram shows that the south is the Qian hexagram. (What a coincidence, Mr. Wei is making jokes here, chatting about Hai Rui, Hai Qing Tian, and when will the No. 1 in the world appear.)
The old Taoist priest was now thinking, and Eunuch Huang on the side obviously understood his master's thoughts.
The sky is vast and the earth is vast, cultivating immortals is the greatest.
At this time, an army composed of "strong men" appeared in the Minhai Sea, which had the magical power to turn into an army by spreading beans. On Wu Island, a word "Wanzhou" was also spread
According to "Historical Records: The Chronicles of Qin Shihuang", "Thousands of young men and women were sent to the Xu market to go into the sea to seek immortals."
In the 30 volumes of "Historical Records of Justice" written by Zhang Shoujie in the Tang Dynasty, the explanation of ancient place names was basically based on the book "Kuo Di Zhi": "Wanzhou is in the East China Sea. Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to send boys and girls into the sea to seek immortals.
There are tens of thousands of families living on this island, and even now some of the people on this island have come to Kuaiji for business."
Where is the place recorded in this ancient book? Just as it is difficult to find the traces of immortals in famous mountains and rivers, now that these people appear overseas, even if they are not immortals, are there immortal things left by some immortals?
After the fall of Yan Song, Emperor Jiajing's physical strength became increasingly exhausted, and the Taoist priest who helped him refine the elixir of immortality also passed away. The emperor had already vaguely felt that there was no hope of immortality, but how could he give up this last dream.
Of course, the Taoist emperor's palace was quite deep. After expelling the Japanese pirates, this foreign sea visitor ignored the local government and seemed to be disobedient. He rashly issued an order to announce the entry of foreigners from overseas into the imperial court. Will there be any more troubles?
Accident?
…Straight hooks can not only catch fish, but also catch ‘real dragons’…
After burning the incense, Eunuch Huang came to the Taoist temple with his oral instructions to meet the Blue Immortal.
Jiajing, who continued to practice the Dharma, said: If you want to prove whether the visitors from the East China Sea have Taoism, you have to let the Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain give it a try.
In the midsummer of July, a decree was issued from the palace. The Wudao army guarded Qianhu Jinghai and was promoted to the rank of general in Quanzhou.
