Without waiting for everyone to speak, Min Yuanqi continued: "From the military situation, more than 4,000 infantry soldiers were dispatched from the city, about 1,000 cavalry, with a total of 5,000 cavalry. Four troops were mobilized from outside the city, which was about 5,000, totaling about 11,000. Among them, more than 10,000 infantrymen, five thousand elite battalions, five thousand miscellaneous soldiers, and one thousand cavalry. About 70% of them were long spearmen, long swords, long axes, long halberds, boring handles, chopping, horses, knives, knives, sticks, etc.

About 20% of those who use long soldiers are sword cards, maces, iron maces, iron whips, etc., and about 10% of those who use short soldiers. Most of the archers are elite soldiers in the city, that is, soldiers and horses directly under Liu Zeqing. The miscellaneous soldiers outside the city are mostly generals who are vassal of Liu Zeqing. The sources are complex, and there are foreign generals who come from Shandong Town. Those who come here one after another are mostly with their own troops. Even the so-called elite soldiers who are directly under Liu Zeqing are mostly the same."

Everyone was speechless and was still digesting the news. Only Min Yuanjin said sincerely: "Liang Shifa is indeed effective, and the money from the Military Information Department was not spent in vain. If it weren't for them, we would have to wait for the visiting soldiers to approach us for only the last few dozen miles before we knew that there were troops coming and we still had no idea about the specific situation."

Min Yuanqi smiled slightly and agreed with Min Yuanjin's words.

Min Yuanqi continued: "Who leads the troops? The names of many generals and their general experiences, Liang Shifa said that they should be able to find out all of them tomorrow. Now we know that Liu Zerun and Liu Zhigan are the uncle and nephew. As this estimate, among the more than a thousand cavalry that came out this time, the Liu family's nephew should have some, but not too many. Because Liang Shifa's previous information clearly stated that Liu Zeqing's nephew was mostly under the jurisdiction of Li Huajing, whose troops increased from more than a thousand to about three thousand, half of them, half of them, and half of them were all veterans who had fought with Liu Zeqing for many years. Everyone was wearing armor and holding weapons, and many people were also considered to be invincible. If most of these three thousand nephews followed, Li Huajing should also be with him. Before Li Huajing came out, the number of nephews should not be large."

Min Yuanqi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It seems that Dong Ning Bo doesn't take us seriously after all. He has more elite troops in the city, that is, more weapons forged by fine iron. If you talk about battlefield experience and training, it may not be much better than the miscellaneous soldiers outside the city."

To be fair, whether it is Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong, who was originally from the Beijing Camp, had many elite soldiers and generals under his command, worked hard to improve the military power of his subordinates before and after establishing the town.

More troops, more generals, more armor and fine iron weapons are also being continuously included.

A year later, the towns were almost expanded. Huang Degong used the power of a town to fight Zuo Liangyu's army to defeat the left army, which was the result of development in this year.

Each town has a large area of ​​territory, and even the two Huai and Xuzhou is much richer than the decaying north, especially the human and material resources are sufficient, and the military strength of each town has expanded rapidly.

By the Southern Ming Dynasty, things like eating empty wages were meaningless. The number of people in each military town continued to grow, and the generals understood that force was the guarantee of their status and a step further, so they were not hesitant to spend money on their subordinates.

Although Wu Xiang, as the general of Liao Town, said when he was summoned by Emperor Chongzhen, his words were shameless, but they were also true.

There are a large number of soldiers and horses in the name of Liao Town, but Wu Xiang bluntly stated that only three thousand people could use it.

They are all fine wine and fat sheep, and they are regarded as brothers, and they are useful only when they are in a hurry.

The camp soldiers raised are cannon fodder, and it is not uncommon to develop a beggar-like appearance.

During the four towns in Jiangbei, although Nei Ding was still a proud son and was still the most important target for the generals, the role of the battalions and soldiers was also highlighted under large-scale wars. Each town also attached relatively more importance to the battalions led by the generals, and the military pay, military supplies, and personnel were generally guaranteed to be sufficient.

Like Liu Zeqing in Huai'an, he even sent teams to collect grain everywhere, and wanted to ensure the military's military supplies.

If the four towns could work together to fight the Qing Dynasty, even if hundreds of thousands of troops could not fight the northern expedition, it would be no difficulty to defeat the Qing army southward.

Unfortunately, the towns surrendered one after another, exhausted the financial resources of the Southern Ming Dynasty and wiped out the troops accumulated in Xuhuai, and made wedding dresses for the Qing court for no reason.

In the past six months, Liu Zeqing not only expanded his army more than half, but also wanted to work hard to build an elite soldier.

The so-called elite soldiers stationed near Huai'an Prefecture City are the embodiment of this idea.

The battle formation is trained every few days, and soldiers are required to practice martial arts every day, and elite weapons are distributed and armor is given as much as possible. The cavalry ration is mainly used in these elite camps.

Of course, in Min Yuanqi's view, with such training level and intensity, as well as basically no military discipline, this army can only fight the wind and bully the civilians. If they are to die, they will fight bandits and pirates. Not to mention that they are comparing with the Qing army, even with Wu Sangui's Liaozhen soldiers and the Dongjiang soldiers of Sanshun King, Liu Zeqing's troops are only worthy of being called miscellaneous soldiers.

After all, the Shandong Town, which was born, was originally a second-tier inner town. Compared with the Sichuan and Yunnan soldiers, which were mainly chiefly soldiers, and the Huguang Xunyang Town soldiers, which were previously slightly inferior to those of the nine sides, the Shandong Town is about the same force, equipment, and the inheritance of generals, and is even far different from those of Denglai Town.

"Ten thousand soldiers and horses, these ten thousand infantry soldiers can still be regarded as miscellaneous soldiers." Min Yuanqi pondered: "What is worth worrying about is one thousand cavalry. Even if most of them are not Needin, they are ordinary cavalry, but as long as they become cavalry, their courage and martial arts are not as good as ordinary battalions, and they will not be much inferior to Needin. Moreover, the established cavalry is much more difficult to deal with than the cavalry scattered in various units..."

Although his tone felt a little difficult, it was heard by everyone present, and it felt that Min Yuanqi had just felt it was difficult, but he was not frightened by the difficulties.

Min Qiande, who had been silent on the side and seemed worried, was also moved by it.

Before I knew it, this nephew also grew up to this point.

More than 11,000 serious officers and soldiers were attacking, and the number was about three times that of Yuntiguan Camp. In Min Yuanqi's eyes, there were only one thousand cavalrymen scratching their heads, but they were not the powerless feeling of no fighting power.

It gives people the feeling that it is just a little troublesome!

When Min Qiande first heard about the number of invading enemies, he almost collapsed in his chair.

More than 11,000 serious imperial court economics and systems are completely different from bandits or bandits and pirates!

Although Liu Zeqing had no serious excuses for his crime, this person has always been rebellious and the court had no choice but to do anything to him. As long as he took the opportunity to get off the Yunti Pass and fabricated an excuse for breaking the bandits?

The court will definitely pinch the nose and admit the matter. Who will compete for the strong town general who has just won the support of the Min family and a strong vassal count?

Even if you want to compete, it depends on whether you have the strength.

"It's a pity that I only have two cavalrymen of the Hundred Generals on hand now." Min Yuan smashed his mouth and said with great regret: "And he has only completed the preliminary subject training. In fact, he can only ride a horse and sprint. It is not necessarily necessary to hit the target immediately. Otherwise, what a bullshit, the guard will tell him to go back and forth."

Min Yuanzhi now has more than 300 qualified war horses, and more than 100 mixed horses were also robbed and deceived by him.

The Cavalry Department needs to carry out training frequently. Cavalry is equipped with one horse and two horses, but now it is impossible to use double horses, so you can only use mixed horses to make up the numbers.

And not only is it a two-horse ride, it is a knight's configuration, but it also has to be equipped with a mixed horse for the followers to ride.

If you want to march for a long distance, it is best to have a knight and a two-horse horse, and the follower will also have a two-horse horse. This will ensure the fastest marching speed and will not cause a large number of war horses to be damaged.

According to the deductions of Min Yuanzhi, Xie Xiang, Chen Liang and others, the number of war horses currently distributed by cavalry can drive infantry away dozens of miles apart by marching within a hundred miles.

About three hundred miles away, infantry and cavalry arrived almost in front and behind, and the cavalry should be slightly faster.

A distance of five or six hundred miles means that infantry will arrive first than cavalry, and cavalry will lose about 30% of the war horses.

The horse is so slutty. Feeding and washing are essential for daily life. No matter how tired the cavalry is, they must take good care of their war horses. Otherwise, they will start to lose weight after walking for a few days, and will die after walking for a few days.

Even if you are fed and washed and lifted, long-distance marching horses are inevitable. If you ride one horse for a long time, it is inevitable that the horse will die if you are thin and thin.

The Mongols marched thousands of miles westward. They were a cavalry, a few horses or even a dozen horses, and they marched with herds, walking for a while and even grazing for a longer time than the marching time.

In this way, the loss of war horses is quite amazing even if it is done in this way. A horse needs to eat about three to four times the human food. Napoleon's failure in expedition to Russia was to consume an astonishing number of war horses. Even the war horses that pulled artillery were completely lost. Many artillery was forced to give up because of the lack of horse pulling the enemy without bombarding the enemy.

Min Yuanzhi's cavalry transferred to two horses, two mixed horses, one riding with the passengers, and the other carrying the knight's armor and equipment.

This is already the minimum standard, and a large amount of food must be borne by special animal power or even manpower.

The Northern Wei split, and the East and West Wei often fought with heavy armored cavalry. At that time, it was the Gao Feng of the classic Chinese cavalry tactics. The Xianbei cavalry was powerful and brave, wearing heavy armor, and the war horses were also under armor. It was common to lose tens of thousands of horses in a battle, which was not surprising.

The current cavalry department can barely have one person and two horses in each other. The followers are still unable to see any clues, so they can only move around a radius of about 300 miles. They will run long distances and the loss of war horses is amazing. I am afraid that if they arrive at the local area, it will not be surprising that they will reduce the combat power by 30% or even reduce it by half.

As for local defense warfare, the cavalry can only say that it is barely useful. Even Min Yuanzhi, who has always been arrogant and confident, dare not say that his subordinates can be of great use.
Chapter completed!