Chapter 312: The Battle of Beijing and Tianjin (1)
In the early September of the 45th year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty issued consecutive emergency edicts, and dispatched 16,000 troops from the northwest Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yansui and Gansu towns, Ning and Gu to join forces in Jizhen. , and mobilized the chieftains of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to recruit soldiers to Guangdong, Zhejiang and Sichuan to go to the war zones of the north and south of Beijing. People with discerning eyes saw that in order to deal with the chaos of Taiwan's pirates, the court had actually mobilized the whole country. However, these It is unlikely that all the troops mobilized nationwide will be gathered to the front line for guidance. It is unlikely that it will take more than half a year, but can the court see the Chinese army occupy Nanjing, Tianjin and other places for six months?
The commander-in-chief of the Northern Front Office was then the left minister and the right assistant censor, the governor of Ji Liao, and Wang Keshou of Baoding. He was awarded the Shangfang Sword and served as the Tianjin Strategic Commander, commanded all the Beijing troops and the king-supported border soldiers to fight back. The Chinese Army claimed to have a total force of 450,000. In fact, the soldiers he can command now, in addition to the 30,000 troops in Jiliao and Shanhaiguan, there are also unreliable troops in the three major battalions of the capital. The rest of the troops allocated to him are still On the way to the marching.
The soldiers gathered by the Ming army came from all kinds of families, from the north and south, and some were recruited. There were countless problems with the commander-in-chief. Moreover, the soldiers from all over the country needed to wrap their grain thousands of miles away, and the long-distance marching had already done their best. From the perspective of its equipment, the troops from afar planned to fight in a coordinated manner among the various troops, but in fact, the troops have never conducted cooperative training with each other, nor have they coordinated exercises with each other, In fact, the soldiers of various branches of the Ming army were rarely trained.
This is really impossible: in the Battle of Nanjing, the Nanjing garrisons had collapsed, and the Ming army in most parts of the Yangtze River had collapsed. If you want to regain Nanjing, there is no other way than to mobilize troops from all over the country.
On the northern front, the governor of Ji Liao, Wang Keshou, was disappointed to find that the three major battalions of the Beijing Army really did not have much combat effectiveness, and the Tianjin Guards had basically been destroyed. Therefore, if you want to fight back against the pirates of Tianjin Guards, Only the troops from the nine sides were transferred.
"Wang Keshou, whose courtesy name is Yixu and his pseudonym is Jingfeng, was a lay Buddhist in Sanpan. He was from Wang Ge, Dushan, Huangmei, Hubei. He studied under Shi Kunyu, Li Zhi, in the eighth year of Wanli, was ranked 56th in the third grade of Jinshi in Gengchen. He later served as the right attendant of the Ministry of War. Last year, he was promoted to the left assistant minister and the right assistant censor, and the governor of Ji Liao. Now he has 15,000 troops, Du Song, the general of Shanhaiguan, 10,000 troops, Wang Xuan, the general of Baoding, and the governor's direct subordinate bid. More than 3,000 battalions were led by Xu Chengming, and more than 5,000 battalions were led by Li Ketai, the Dushi,"
Zeng Qing, the northern chief of the Military Intelligence Department, is reading an intelligence summary for Chen Zhongji and the officers in the Northern Front. Zeng Qing is the nephew of the Zeng family. He was originally lurking in Beijing. Luo Xuri's nephew Luo Jing retreated to Ryukyu after something happened. Now Following the Chinese Army on the northern front, he returned to the near Qu area, and connected the hidden stakes that were originally buried under the ambush.
All present were senior officers of the Chinese Army on the North Line: Colonel Chen Zhongji, the chief marching officer of the North Line, Fan Tao, the commander of the Northern Fleet, the commander of the Northern Fleet, Yang Liu, the commander of the Ryukyu Corps of the Sailor Musket Team, Mai Haisheng, the supervisor of the Ryukyu Corps, and the cavalry. The commander of the regiment Lu Xiaotian, the commander of the artillery regiment Lin Feiyang, the commander of the Northern Army, Cao Tai, the commander of the first division of Cao Tai, had been removed because the commander of the first division of the Chinese Army, Zhao Tie, finally returned. The troops.
Zhao Tie was sitting on a fly-scissor ship, the urchin was blown to the southeast coast of Shandong by a hurricane, and the masts and canvas were severely damaged. Finally, this area has always been a place where the Chinese military fleets responded to the refugees in Shandong. The Chinese military has a good popularity, so With the help of fishermen in this area, the Sea Urchin was finally able to return to the sea and continue northward. It was not until the Chinese army captured Tianjin Wei that Zhao Tie arrived in Penglai and joined the Chinese army sailors and musket team stationed in Penglai.
After returning to his own troops, Zhao Tie immediately followed the following etiquettes of the marching chief executive Chen Zhongji. The conversion of command power of the First Division did not cause any reaction. Under the so-called military, state, business and civil system of China United Company, the military academy, as Yin Feng, held military power. The most powerful tool has enabled the Chinese army system to completely get rid of the bad habit of generals raising private soldiers in traditional culture.
This is the training ground for the former garrison army west of Tianjin Acropolis, and now it is the old camp of the Chinese Army's North Line.
Chen Zhongji set up a large round table in his big tent. All the senior generals sat in front of the round table regardless of their primary and secondary. From the Western missionaries, he heard the story of King Arthur of the ancient English king and the twelve round table knights. ,He wanted to imitate it here, of course, he also wanted to show his different status from Yin Feng in his military camp: most of him and the generals around him were about the same age as military academy, and Chen Zhongji did not want to highlight his status.
Chen Zhongji looked through the documents at hand and said, "There is a detailed information submitted by the company's business information department the day before yesterday: it is said that the court appointed Huang Jiashan, the Minister of War, as the general of the military officer, Zhao Xingbang, the chief of the military department, as the chief of the military affairs department, What's going on? Wang Ke, the Tianjin Manager, has been appointed by the President to serve the Wang Army and the Beijing Army, and then appointed his superior Minister of War as the military supervisor, and a minister of the military officer as the minister. At the same time, I saw the Tang Dynasty in the newspaper. There is also Guo Guangfu, the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Shaoxun, the governor of the Ministry of Public Transportation of various grains and grass. Did the rations of the imperial government's army come from Liaodong? But I know that the Liaodong army has always been short of food, and the food and food are transported from the pass. The imperial court recruited them. The army is so chaotic, the entire command system is stacked and built, and the politics is out of many ways to restrain each other. All the troops are still on the way to Beijing, and they can only fight with us in the Year of the Monkey and Horses,"
Everyone was talking and talking, Zhao Tie had the biggest voice: "Ji Zai, General Manager Chen, it would be impossible to drag on like this. The weather is getting colder day by day. Most of our Chinese army are from the south. The winter in the north is so cold that it will lose its ears. Yes, how to fight then,"
Lu Xiaotian, the commander of the cavalry regiment, laughed: "Brother Zhao, the Liaodong area will freeze your ears. I am from Shandong. I have been here in this area back then. As long as you protect well in winter, there is still no problem. Then it will snow heavily, and it will be difficult to walk and run, and there will be no way to fight in war.”
Zhao Tie touched his nose and frowned: "Can we wait until the beginning of next spring to fight another big battle? General Manager Chen, hasn't the General Staff formulated any winter combat plan?"
Chen Zhongji spread a piece of paper and smiled: "The winter combat plan of the General Staff is actually to stick to the plan that is waiting to change. In my opinion, the court's movements are too slow. We must send troops to force them, whip them, and let them Move quickly,"
"Fight the capital," Yang Liu shouted, stood up excitedly and said, "Let's take the lead. Our sailors and marines move quickly. We will arrive at the capital in one day and one night from Wuqing County."
"There is a Tongzhou blocking here. How can you get over?" Lu Xiaotian immediately pointed out the problems in Yang Liu's plan.
"The Tongzhou garrison is a subordinate of the Tongzhou left guard under the Miyun army, and the right guard has only more than 6,000 official troops. We originally planned not to open Tongzhou, so that the official troops could use Tongzhou as a gathering place to facilitate us to fight the official army brigade along the Baihe River. ," Chen Zhongji stood up and spread out a map, pointed to the map and said, "Now it seems that the imperial court's soldiers gathered in Jizhou, and the Beijing army guarded the capital and did not leave the city gate. It seems that Tongzhou was ignored by the imperial court,"
Yang Liu jumped up and shouted again: "Catch Tongzhou, this will clear the obstacles on the road to the capital, let's go..."
Zhao Tie slapped the table: "Yang Laoliu, your sailors and musket team is in the limelight. Our First Division has not fought a decent battle since the troops were sent. This work of siege and plundering the land is of course the most important thing for our infantry brothers. Suitable, General Manager Chen, Ji Zai, you have to give me this job,"
Chen Zhongji sat down and smiled, raised his right hand and said, "Okay, brothers, don't worry, everyone has a task. Logistics chief manager An and Ping'an, and Logistics Department Chief Brother Lu, sent me a letter together, saying that The newly formed 20th Regiment of the Zhuang Ding team was assigned to our North Line troops, carrying a new camping field cannon, and will arrive in Penglai in about ten days. I decided to turn the Jinzhouwei student camp, the sailor musket team and The Taiwan indigenous regiment in Xilaya was transferred, the Taiwan regiment went to guard the Jinzhou Guard, the student army was assigned to my direct battalion, the other sailors returned to Jian, Brother Yang Liu, your nearest task is to harass the surrounding areas, and the place to go The farther away is better; be careful to avoid tough battles and not get entangled with the officers and soldiers. Brother Zhao, the main force of the First Division is ready to set off and go to the capital to scare the emperor, "
He turned to Lu Xiaotian and said, "Captain Lu, your task is to train your Xiangma brothers well, and your troops will be of great use at that time."
After the cavalry regiment landed, they had a fierce battle with the official cavalry, and lost more than 100 brothers. However, after Lu Xiaotian led his team to harass Shandong, his brothers who had stopped in seclusion in the mountains rushed to hear the news. Lu Xiaotian's cavalry had already participated in many Shandong horses, but now it has expanded more than doubled. The total strength of the light cavalry has exceeded 2,000 people, and horse thieves from all over Shandong have come to join Lu Xiao. Tianlei is so happy that he laughs all day long.
Lu Xiaotian patted his chest and said, "Please rest assured, I have been training them according to the military discipline of my Chinese army. Anyone who cannot adapt will be fired. As long as I give me another month, I can train them to be able to work with my brothers. Fight together,"
Chen Zhongji turned to others and said, "In case, we still have to prepare for the winter. Although the Logistics Department has transported cotton coats, we still have to solve some cotton coats and heating materials on the spot, so that the brothers from the north of the army can teach the rest. Brothers’ methods of spending the winter, we cannot sit in Tianjin Wei to spending the winter, we must set up an area suitable for defense,"
Chen Zhongji pointed to the map: "From Tianjin, Dezhou, Hejian, Cangzhou, and the military guards have departments. We must control all these locations and find some suitable defense locations to set up fortresses. At that time, we will use the fortress to delay the officers and soldiers' advance, which will facilitate Our army mobilized mobile troops to fight back,"