"Oh, you won't call Wang Jinbao."

The pursuit ended soon, and the Qing army was defeated, and only a few successfully wade back to the west coast. More than a hundred horses were seized by war horses alone. Perhaps some of the ones that had run away could be found in a few days. The Qing army escorted the prisoners and captured had already dispersed, allowing the Ming army to rescue the suffering people.

The battle was successful, but seeing Chen Wen was still quite disappointed, Li Ruixin's question mark was almost as solid as it was.

"Master, what does this Wang Jinbao do? It's very famous?"

He was not very famous. He was one of the four generals in Hexi who were all in the limelight in the Three Feudal Rebellion, the prince Taibao of "My Qing Dynasty", General Fenwei, the admiral of Shaanxi, the first-class viscount, and the famous general of the early Qing Dynasty green camp who was posthumously named Zhongyong after his death. Among the generals of the Qing army's green camp at that time, they were only more famous than Zhang Yong, the sworn brother of the Marquis of Jingni and Zhao Liangdong, Zhao Liangdong, was only famous.

"Admiral of Gansu, now a general of Zhang Yong, the admiral of Jingbiaozhong Town, is quite brave. I thought it was him who came, and I wanted to see if the news is credible."

"oh."

Isn't it just an intermediate officer with disregard for his face. Li Ruixin thought about it and thought that the word "Jinbao" attracted Chen Wen's attention. However, even a boy who was a rich man who was like Ma Jinbao, could accumulate how much wealth he could be.

Alas, it seems that he has been tortured by the consumption of this army. It is really not easy for the general. He thought to himself, but when he came to his mouth, Li Ruixin asked about another thing.

"Master, what should we do with these prisoners?"

The old man hanging upside down had been relieved by the Ming army, but probably because he was too old and had been hanging upside down for a long time. It was probably because of a cerebral hemorrhage or some other sudden disease. He had long lost his breath and his body had lost some temperature. However, the pair of eyes that seemed turbid were still not closed. Before the removal, he had been looking towards the southeast of the town where the cavalry broke out, as if he was watching something.

"Don't they like to bully the unarmed old, weak, women and children? They cut the dog paws of these things that are inferior to animals and hang them upside down. I also want to know how many days they can live like this!"

What happened just now in the town, especially the tragedy that happened in Ji'an when he was recovering Taiwen not long ago, is already known to Chen Wen. Today's incident is just the normal way of dealing with the Qing army, while Ji'an's plan to end the city was forced to end in just one day, which Chen Wen did not expect in advance.

The recovery of Taiwen and Wenzhou actually reduced the level of destruction of a massacre, but Chen Wen could not feel much joy at all. In history, this massacre did not happen. On the contrary, because of his appearance, the Qing army that suppressed the Yunxiaoshan rebel army was defeated in Zhejiang, which led to the Yunxiaoshan anti-Qing rebel army being able to stalk in western Jiangxi after the evacuation of Li Dingguo's generals. It took a while to recover Ji'an, which led to the counterattack between Zhang Yong and Liu Guangbi during this period of respite.

This matter was not Chen Wen's fault, because in history, the Qing army slaughtered one city, township, and village after another. Even after defeating the Daxi Army and taking over Yunnan and Guizhou, they also brazenly created the Yongchang Massacre, which happened six years later in the 13th year of Yongli. What's more, in the name of a sea ban, slaughtered all the people in areas ranging from dozens of miles north to the coast of Liaodong, south and Guangdong, in order to block the Ming army in the Zheng family system of Fujian, so that the Ming army, which mainly relies on tolls on the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's military farming, could not obtain limited supplements from the inland.

Nowadays, the trajectory of history has begun to reverse to a jaw-dropping angle, so that even the massacre of the city was forced to end early. However, although the Qing Dynasty was weakened a lot on this road, it has not yet reached the sequel to the transition from quantitative change to qualitative change. There is still a long way to go.

Fortunately, according to Chen Wen's prediction, the day when qualitative change was reached was not far away. Because together with the sea trade, the Ming army under his command could obtain resources more significantly and roll the snowball larger faster until the day when the Qing Dynasty was completely crushed.

It won't be too far away, maybe it's just between the past or two years!

At this moment, the fire in the town was already under control, but the crying sounds of sadness were still endless. The Qing army captives were cut off and hung upside down on the archway in the town. While the people who survived were sad, they threw vegetable leaves, eggs and stones at them to vent their anger. Even if there were no Ming army guarding beside the archway, there would be many people who rushed up to tear them apart.

"Don't stop the bleeding from them. Drop by drop, let them die too quickly, it's too cheap for these beasts."

After giving the order, Chen Wen handed over the defense of Yushan County to Li Ruixin, and ordered him to lead Yiwu, Guards, Yushan and the Iron Cavalry Battalion, which had not yet completed the training, to prevent accidents. Shentang Camp, which had been on guard for several months, returned to Quzhou as a supporter and supplemented the recruits.

As for Chen Wen, he left here because he did not have a good way to deal with the bastion and could not gather too much power to fight against Hong Chengchou. Of course, there is another reason, that is, the God of Wealth in the Zheng family is about to arrive, and he must complete all the affairs of Taiwen before this to better start the maritime trade.

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Huangyan County, Taizhou Prefecture, went down the Yongning River, and the location where it intersected with Jiaojiang River was only a few miles east. Since the Ming army recovered Taizhou, a series of coastal Japanese garrisons, including Haimenwei, have been discussing the issue of the survival and destruction of a series of coastal Japanese garrisons, the top leaders of the Ming army in Zhejiang have been discussing for a long time. If Haimenwei is banned, it is likely to be incorporated into Huangyan County for convenience, because this is the closest county to Haimenwei.

The officials, officers and staff who came to investigate have begun to organize the archives of a series of Taizhou garrisons and investigate actual personnel, land occupation, salt fields and other aspects. These matters will be summarized after Chen Wen arrives to completely complete the inheritance and rectification of the old garrisons.

However, at this moment, these things have nothing to do with Zhang Gongyan and his group. As the staff officer of Nantang Camp, he is now surveying and mapping the entire Taizhou Prefecture with his colleagues and making sand tables. Of course, there is naturally no only work of such a large amount of labor, including the staff officers of the two battalions of Jinwei and Dongyang, which are also assisting, but the areas assigned are different.

As a troops that arrived early, Nantangying will be responsible for Ninghai, Huangyan, Haimenwei and Xiangshan County in Ningbo. It has the largest range and the largest workload. However, these staff officers are already the most capable of reflecting their existence.

The staff officers of the Ming Army of Zhejiang are now divided into two levels. The first level is the Staff Office of the Marquis of Anyuan, which is now led by Chen Wen, while the second level is the Staff Team of each battalion, which is under the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff of each battalion.

The division of the two levels is similar to the military officer supervision system, far lower than the military judge system that has already reached the garrison and can also reach the various posts in the war barracks. It is one thing that the system was created far less than that. With the current scientific and technological level, their role is currently limited to surveying and mapping, making sand tables, establishing military geography, and deduction and proposals based on the terrain. That's all, it is far from the same as the General Staff of later generations.

In the mountainous area in the northern part of Huangyan County, Zhang Gongyan held a telescope and used some special tools to observe the mountain passes in the distance. Some of the other staff planned marks at different locations, some used abacus to count, some used charcoal pens to write on the whiteboard, and even used extremely fine brushes to finalize the paper on white paper that was even larger than the "Zhejiang Dibao". The group was busy and happy under the protection of the two infantry teams of guarding, but in the eyes of the soldiers, there was more respect caused by confusion.

In the staff department of Zhejiang Wushu Academy, you must learn the observation of civil law and the measurement knowledge of Western law.

For example, the first six volumes of "The Origin of Geometry" and "Measuring Methods" translated by Xu Guangqi, the second assistant of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and Matteo Ricci, and the missionary Matteo Ricci, contain a lot of knowledge about calculation, mathematical basis of drawing, and similarities and differences between the Eastern and Western measurement techniques. He even presided over the compilation of "The Complete Meaning of Measuring", a masterpiece that collected the great achievements of Eastern and Western surveying and mapping at that time. It contains a lot of knowledge about area, volume measurement, basic knowledge about plane triangles and spherical triangles, as well as related surveying and mapping instrument manufacturing, which is a compulsory course for the Zhejiang Ming Army Staff Department.

In the eyes of these grassroots soldiers, these staff officers are very knowledgeable. They simply use instruments and tools that they don’t know how to use, and produce some numbers that donkey lips are not right. After some calculations, they can obtain approximate data on the heights of the mountains in the near area. The results are even more accurate than those found by those years of horse exploration.

"Fifteen degrees north to west, five inches and three minutes."

The marked staff officer made the mark and looked carefully for a while. Zhang Gongyan informed the staff officer around him of the data obtained from the telescope and the tools in his hand. The staff officer began to calculate quickly with a calculating, and then handed over the calculated distance to another staff officer for recalculation, and then confirmed that it was correct and handed over to other officers who were drawing and making sand tables.

It took a long time to calculate the area roughly from the distance from the plane to the height of the mountain, and then walked towards the pass and headed for the next measurement to continue working.

"This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If there is a whistle left, even if the Tartars come to join four or five hundred people, they will not be able to get there."

Walking on the road, a staff officer expressed such emotion after measuring, which was also another of their work - deduction.

"Four or five hundred people, this hole is too big. If you only count the first three rows, it is already the limit of three hundred people, and the rest are all redundant."

"It's true." Several staff members talked about their opinions. Zhang Gongyan turned his head and then said: "If our Zhejiang King's Army guarded here, if the Tartars want to break through, it's better to use artillery to bombard the battle formation. Otherwise, they will not be able to get through the Yuanyang formation."

"Bochu's is right." The staff officer who had just recalculated his head and paused before saying, "On the other hand, when we attack this mountain pass, the Yuanyang formation or the spear formation should be pushed directly over. In fact, it is best to use artillery to bombard the battle formation, take advantage of the chaos of the Tartars or the interval of reorganizing the team, and use infantry to attack it. This way, there will be many casualties and the speed of passing will be faster."

Solid shells, except for the lower-range rear-mounted cannons such as the Folang machine, are generally not fast in firing speeds, and are used to accelerate the formation to break through the formation. This mountain pass is not straightforward. In the front corner, the opponent can no longer be exposed to the range by retreating for about ten steps. It is best to use artillery to shoot for a round, and then the infantry will be more likely to break through this place quickly. Relying entirely on artillery is neither realistic nor too wasteful, and it is not worth the loss.

"If the Tartars had finished the whole team again before we rushed over, what if?"

"Tartars? This is impossible. What is the training of our Zhejiang King's Division? We have captured the Eight Banners of the Tartars, and their training cannot keep up. Even if we can keep up, we are fighting for China to no longer be tainted with fishy smell. They are just trying to seize wealth and children. If they set out differently, their will will not be stronger than us."

There were a lot of staff members responsible for making marks. In the final analysis, they still didn't believe that the Qing army could compare with their Zhejiang Ming army in terms of fighting will. This reaction was normal for them, especially this staff officer, who had originally known some words and transferred to the Staff Office, and had fought bloody battles with the Qing army on the battlefield, so he had stronger confidence in this regard.

"Mine is, if, if there is a Tartar soldier who can barely do it, then we have to push it over with infantry?"

Zhang Gongyan had already been reflected in his heart by saying that the enemy was lenient. Zhang Gongyan had already learned this in the Zhejiang Martial Arts School. In fact, this was more related to his experience of guarding Guilin with Qu Shishi. The mercenary of Taixi used more skillful and reasonable artillery skills, especially the seemingly simple infantry formation easily defeated the Qing army dozens of times his own, which made his original contempt for Taixi disappear, and instead believed that if the Ming court obtained some stones from other mountains, it might have achieved the effect of attacking jade.

Or if another method is changed, the current military reform of the Ming army in Zhejiang is quite effective. If one day the opponent changes from the Qing Dynasty to the Thai West, or the Qing Dynasty starts to learn the Thai West’s tactics, then if the fighting will of the two sides are almost the same, then in addition to head-on battles, what other ways can reduce casualties and pass quickly?

"Then let's see which side of the fighting will be stronger. I believe that victory must belong to our Zhejiang King's Division!"

“That’s exactly that.”

“…”

The confidence exuded by the officers who made marks also influenced other staff members, but at this moment, Zhang Gongyan thought for a while, but said, "I also believe that the soldiers of our Zhejiang King's Division are just staff members. Should we think more about how to reduce casualties? If it is all about the soldiers' simple rushing, then should we be the ones who are just to draw maps and make sand tables?"

"Bochu's words are reasonable, so how do you think it can reduce some casualties?"

After considering the words, Zhang Gongyan replied: "I thought that if our infantry had already formed a formation and rushed over while the artillery was shooting. Even when the formation was approaching the Tartars battle formation, our artillery bombarded the Tartars battle formation again, then they would definitely not be able to reorganize the team and fight us head-on."

Zhang Gongyan's words aroused deep thoughts from everyone. It was not until a long time later that they had already arrived at the next surveyor and adviser to continue the topic.

"This is probably not easy, and the requirements for infantry, especially gunners are too high."

Then, he turned his eyes to the marking staff officer, and the latter turned his head and confirmed: "The artillery cannons are likely to explode, so when the gunners bombard the Tartar battle formation, the infantry will be slightly farther away, just in case. Of course, the loud bangs when firing cannons will also impress the mood of the new recruits, and these are all things to pay attention to. If you bombard the Tartars' rear team while fighting, you can only use jump shots, and the requirements for the gunner's technology and artillery are not low. Infantry soldiers have to face the Tartars in front and fire behind them, which can easily shake the morale of the army. It is indeed not easy."

At this point, the staff officer turned to: "In fact, there were columns in the infantry to fight against pressure, so the effect of the close-to-throwing tactics used by the Tartars would be minimal. If the training was rigorous, it would not be impossible to overcome, but the artillery was no better than others. Once the accidental injury was caused, it would be of great importance."

“It’s true.”

Zhang Gongyan bowed his head. He silently remembered every word in his heart for this suggestion from his personal combat experience, and prepared to reconsider the entire tactics after going back.
Chapter completed!