Chapter 052 Its so dangerous to lure a snake out of its hole
Gao pragmatically summoned these powerful officials from Liuzhou Prefecture to the Procuratorate (as mentioned earlier, patrol procuratorates are found everywhere), and ordered his own servants to guard the Procuratorate inside and out, as if facing a formidable enemy.
, looking like they are discussing an emergency military situation.
However, the fact is that Gao Pragmatic was just talking nonsense with Jiang Xin and others in the procuratorate. One moment he talked about the particularity of the questions in the Tongsheng Examination, the other moment he talked about the convenience and efficiency of Huguang Water Station, and the next moment he talked about the use of cement in building the fortress.
Jiang Xin and others were confused when they heard some unrelated things.
However, they did not dare to disturb the talk of the receptionist, so they could only complain in their hearts, smile on their faces, and accompany the receptionist's nonsense as his mind jumped as if it was taking off.
Although Li Weicong, a fellow commander of the Liuzhou Guards from Guangxi, is theoretically as high as the third rank, he is the lowest military attache today who is qualified to enter the court hall of the Procuratorate to listen to Gao Jingshi's nonsense. He could not understand what Gao Jingshi said at all.
, after a long while, I couldn't help cursing in my heart: You street boy, what nonsense did you ask us to listen to!
Gao Pragmatic, the street boy, may have heard the secret curse in his heart. At this time, he finally looked at the sky, suddenly his face turned cold, and said: "Oh, there is one more thing to say. I heard that some chieftains hope that the Bazhai area
Set up local officials?"
Everyone was already in a daze due to his long nonsense. At this time, their reaction was a little slow, especially Li Weicong, who had just cursed in his heart. At this time, he subconsciously said: "Yes."
Gao Pragmatic smiled coldly: "Humph, I dare to think about it."
Everyone was startled by the cold snort. Only then did they react, and their thoughts began to return to normal. Everyone was secretly shocked: What's going on? Hearing the words from the press, it seems that he is very dissatisfied with this?
At this time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly issued an eviction order: "I am a little tired, so let's stop talking about it today. Tomorrow, your relevant personnel will prepare all the heads and other items obtained from the previous conquest of eight villages.
This document needs to be checked one by one." Then he turned and walked into the inner hall, leaving a group of Liuzhou Prefecture civil and military officials looking at each other.
Gao pragmatically entered the inner hall, and Cao Ke brought a cup of cold tea over to him, offered it with both hands, and said: "Master, you must be thirsty after drinking tea and chatting with them for so long. This is specially made cold."
Gao pragmatically brought it over, and he didn't pay attention to his style. He drank it in one breath, then sat down and said: "Cao Ke, how long will it take for the chieftains to know the news after I perform this play? Probably not
Delay?"
Cao Ke said with a smile: "The master just told me yesterday that Taiping Prefecture is the foot that the imperial court extends to the chieftains of Western Guangxi, while Qingyuan Prefecture, Liuzhou Prefecture and Nanning Prefecture are the imperial government's foot in front of the chieftains of Western Guangxi.
Three knives, since the threat is so great, how can those chieftains not have spies in Liuzhou Mansion? The master surrounded the procuratorate tightly on three floors inside and three floors outside. It looked like they were discussing important matters, but they still spent so much time.
After a long time, those spies will not be anxious to inquire after knowing it? But what the master just said is relevant to them only the last two sentences...can they still be spread? "
"That's true." Gao Pingshi smiled: "I just bet that there must be someone in Liuzhou who is secretly communicating with those chieftains. Otherwise, what would I do in this play? Even if they are not tired, I will still be thirsty."
As he spoke, he turned to Gao Zhang, who was standing quietly aside: "Gao Zhang, what do you think after seeing those Liuzhou squadrons today?"
In the Ming Dynasty, the responsibilities of the Weisuo Army generally included four tasks: fielding, defense (local outposts, patrols and garrison in the capital), water transportation and weapons management. In addition, a considerable part of the Weisuo Banner Army also had water transportation responsibilities.
There are also some capital guards who, after being approved by the Ministry of War, still have the responsibility of producing conventional weapons and managing weapons. However, after Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, taking turns to drill (ban army) and transport grain (cao army) increasingly became the banner of the guard station.
important responsibilities of the military.
Ban army means that the flag army, with the garrison army as the main body, leaves the garrison to which it is attached (stationed) and periodically goes to a designated, relatively fixed place or area to engage in military garrison-based activities. It is both
It is different from temporary national or regional military mobilization, and also different from the long-term changes in subordinate guard posts brought about by the new construction, merger, and relocation of guard posts.
There are many types of squadrons. There are Beijing Jingcao squadrons who defend the capital (mainly from the Zhili, Zhili, Zhongdu, Henan, Shandong, Daning and other capitals). There are also Nanjing troops who defend Nanjing and its nearby river defenses.
The Jingcao Ban Army includes troops from various frontiers entering to defend Ji Town. There are also border troops from various northern capitals guarding important defense towns (such as Henan, Shandong, etc.) entering to defend Ji Town, Datong, Xuanfu, Yulin, etc.
), there are anti-autumn and anti-winter troops guarding each other in the northern border garrison (such as Wuzhou, Guilin, Guangxi, etc.), and there are also several or one garrison troops inside the capital to guard military fortresses.
Guarding in shifts has become a common phenomenon among the garrison flag troops. It is an important way to carry out key defense in key areas without increasing the number of troops as much as possible after the domestic situation stabilized in the Ming Dynasty.
Before Gao Pangshi came to Liuzhou, he asked Zhang Ren about the current military deployment in Guangxi. According to Zhang Ren, there are currently more than 80,000 registered soldiers in Guangxi, with a total of ten guards and twenty-two thousand-household stations.
But this is only a book figure. In fact, it would be a blessing to have 30,000 troops that can be used to fight. Zhang Ren quietly hinted that Gao was pragmatic. If only there were temporary military emergencies, the number of troops that Guangxi Province could mobilize would only be 23,000 to 23,000.
, and that is under the premise that the defensive strength in other areas has been reduced to the point where it is almost impossible to fall at a touch.
This is also the reason why once the Bazhai Rebellion breaks out in Guangxi, the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi can only be asked to mobilize troops from Guangdong to join the Guangxi army in encirclement and suppression - the Guangxi provincial army cannot handle the situation at all. There are more than 10,000 elite men who dare to fight.
The Bazhai Yao Rebellion.
After hearing this, Gao Zhang thought for a while and said: "If the Liuzhou army of about a thousand people fights us today, we will definitely win. It just depends on whether they have poor discipline but are brave enough individually.
If so, we may have to pay some casualties, because we almost only brought musketeers this time and lacked cover."
When he said this, there was a trace of doubt on his face: "I don't understand why the master refuses to let us change to the Wanli Type 1. Not to mention that the gun itself is very easy to use. The key is that after installing the bayonet, we don't have to carry Yan Ling."
The knife can reduce the weight of several kilograms. If these Longqing II-style weapons are replaced with Wanli I-style weapons, the combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly improved."
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "The gun you tried was only a trial production model. The cost was ridiculously high. Moreover, even if it uses the best materials currently produced by Jinghua Iron Works, when the bayonet is installed, the gun body will
The strength is still not enough. If you just use the 'stab' action, it won't be a big problem, but as long as there is a knife fight, there will be big trouble. Qi Zongrong, Ma Zongrong and Liu Zongrong have tried it many times, and it's big.
If the strength of the knife is used, the probability of this gun breaking or being damaged is as high as 70%. I cannot approve mass production now. We must wait until the strength of the steel is improved."
The Wanli Type 1 musket mentioned by Gao Zhang was an idea put forward under the highly pragmatic idea of leapfrog development - in fact, he did not have to leapfrog, but his knowledge reserve of muskets was insufficient, and he could not remember some development stages in the middle, so
Jump directly to the British Brown Bass and the French Charlville MLE1777.
However, it turns out that there are basic conditions for the development of any weapon. When the Jinghua Firearms Factory developed the Brown Bess flintlock gun that Gao Pragmatic provided a rough idea of, they found that this gun could not be directly produced according to Gao Pragmatic ideas.
For the bayonet model, because the materials are not up to standard, the strength of the gun body cannot meet actual combat requirements.
So at present, Gao Pragmatic has retreated to the next best thing and asked for the launch of a bayonet variant of the Longqing II Type. However, it has not been completed yet, so the servants going south this time can only be equipped with both muskets and Yanling knives. A common tactic is to first launch the muskets.
Keep it close and fire one or two rounds. If the opponent has not collapsed yet and still rushes for melee combat, throw away the musket and use the wild goose feather sword instead.
This tactic is definitely not as good as the Qi Family Army's Mandarin Duck Formation, because the cold weaponry is not comprehensive enough, and there is no wolf fork, boring palladium, large shield and other measures to cooperate. If the enemy on the opposite side can launch a desperate charge and resolutely engage in close combat, then the guard's own
The casualties will definitely be huge.
However, until now, Gao Pragmatic had never planned for the servant guards to actually fight such a big battle like that of a regular army, so he had not yet adjusted and perfected his tactics and configuration.
However, this time Gao Zhang was so unfavorable to the Liuzhou garrison, which made Gao Pragmatic a little worried. The chieftains of Guangxi were not weaklings. Although they had poor equipment and poor treatment, the four "Guangxi Wolf Soldiers" were still in Gao Pragmatic's heart.
Deterrent.
He had not considered the threat of Guangxi chieftains before because in his impression, Guangxi chieftains seemed to be quite obedient. They were often sent to fight in other places by the court. They only needed to take care of their stuttering. Not only did they not need to pay any military pay, they even received pensions.
The chieftains don't seem to be too concerned about whether they love it or not, as long as the court rewards them personally.
This gave Gao pragmatic the illusion that the Guangxi chieftains were as loyal to the Ming Dynasty as they were to a group of Ziganwu. Unexpectedly, it was only after arriving in Guangxi that he discovered that these chieftains were not as well-behaved as he had imagined, according to Daming's father.
They didn't listen to everything, and their private calculations were still going on.
What's more important is that it's okay to be disobedient occasionally. Now some of them may even be the murderers who poisoned the governor of a province. This shows that some of these people are daring to a certain extent. If the court does not deter them,
, maybe something big will happen!
But if you want to intimidate someone, what should you do if someone takes a desperate risk? These soldiers and horses in Liuzhou are not very good at first glance. They are just a little better than the group of soldiers from thousands of households that I saw in Huangsha Town when I first entered Guangxi. I hope they can turn the tide and win.
The wolf soldiers don't seem very reliable...Should I strengthen the security measures? If I die in Guangxi, it will be like dying before my ambition is fulfilled, which will make the hero burst into tears.
Oh my god, although my plan of luring a snake out of its hole seems to be okay, it would be really uneconomical if the snake bites me to death!
"Well, what you said makes sense. Let's send a letter to Guangzhou Port and ask them to send someone to Kaiping to ask if the Longqing II bayonet model is available. If so, send a batch to Guangzhou as soon as possible.
, let’s get a five hundred rod first, and there should be enough accessories.”
In the end, Gao Zuotai, who was greedy for life and fearful of death, still issued such an order.
