Chapter 188 Four-wheeled carriage
"Don't worry, if those people are obedient, they will naturally have their own good days. If they are disobedient, there will naturally be someone who will send them on the road. It will be cleared up within two days. The prince will just listen to me here. What I am worried about is Ye Yun's people. They defeated Ma Kun's 20,000 elite soldiers in just one night. You, the Qing Dynasty, also suffered a great loss in Qufu. If the troops were at the city, I'm afraid I would..."
Zuo Menggeng is also very clear about the military situation under Zuo Liangyu. He is usually known as a 200,000 army, but most of them are here to make up the numbers. If he meets Ye Yun's army, it will collapse in the blink of an eye.
Now that we have surrendered to the Qing court, we have found a backer. If something goes wrong here, you can't let us carry it on our own!
If this is the case, it would be better to surrender to the Ming Dynasty directly. After all, the Ming Dynasty did not say how to pursue it.
"Don't worry, Mr. Zuo, that is, the court is well aware of the situation in this area. It only takes time to mobilize troops, and Mr. Zuo needs to resist for a period of time first."
Wu Sangui's words sound nice, but there is no exact day. Zuo Menggeng has no other way now. There is no way back on what happened just now. Even if he lets go of his mind now, there will definitely be a grudge between the father and son.
Now Zuo Menggeng can only go one way to the dark, and the Qing court also needs to see Zuo Menggeng's ability.
At that moment, Zuo Menggeng felt cold in his hands and feet. He planned this action, cheated others and also cheated himself. Now there is really no way out.
"I hope the prince will urge more. If Huguang is lost, it will not be beneficial to the court."
Zuo Menggeng thought about it and said that Wu Sangui naturally agreed that the Huguang area was very important in the territory of the Qing court.
If this area is lost, it means that the Southern Ming Dynasty has mastered it. Since ancient times, there have been proverbs that Huguang is well-versed in the world. If it is mastered by the Southern Ming Dynasty, it means that it is even more difficult for the Qing Dynasty to occupy Jiangnan.
Zuo Menggeng didn't have so much time to spend here. After putting her father under house arrest, he had to straighten out the generals below. After all, this is a 200,000 army. If there is a mistake in the area, it will be a mess.
Looking at Zuo Menggeng who was rushing out, Wu Sangui agreed to be beautiful, but he didn't think so in his heart.
If support is sent, Wu Sangui's army will definitely be the first. You are afraid of the musket team of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Are you not afraid?
Could it be that my people are just iron-clad?
Let your people resist for a while. Wu Sangui did not go to the front line during the Battle of Qufu, so he naturally did not know the combat effectiveness of the Southern Ming court. Now let Zuo Menggeng's people test it first.
In such a chaotic world, everyone knows that the army is the foundation of their own life. How can we randomly invest our own family in before we figure out the situation?
Just look at Shang Kexi. After the Battle of Qufu, Shang Kexi was like a defeated rooster, and Wu Sangui didn't want to be like that guy.
In the next few days, Zuo Liangyu's generals were frequently summoned, some continued to hold their original positions, and some were promoted, but more people lost their lives.
These people are Zuo Liangyu's direct descendants. Before they met Zuo Liangyu himself, they refused to execute Zuo Menggeng's orders, even if you were the son of the Marquis, so Zuo Menggeng was furious and killed all of these people directly.
By the third day, some people outside had already guessed that the 200,000 soldiers were in panic. Zuo Liangyu did not stand up and said a word, but just asked his son to sort out all this. Was Zuo Liangyu under house arrest?
Although some generals thought of it, they didn’t have that much strength now when they thought about the corpses that came out of the Ningnan Hou Mansion.
The little marquis had already sent his own people to take over most of the army. If he questioned it at this moment, he might turn into a corpse.
The spies from the West Factory also quickly sent the news back to the court.
After Zhu Cixuan received the news, there was nothing to say. It was raining and her mother was going to get married. They wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. No one could stop them. Before, Ye Yun marched, but originally wanted to threaten them, but now it turned into an attack on Huguang.
After receiving the imperial decree, Ye Yun immediately urged his soldiers to advance as soon as possible.
Although half of the recruits came in, Ye Yun was very confident.
After training, these new recruits have not had very poor combat effectiveness. With the help of veterans next to them, they are more than enough to deal with Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 mobs.
Under Ye Yun's urging, the army quickly arrived at the east gate of Wuchang and under Jiujiang City.
The reason why the army was able to get here so quickly is also related to Zhu Cixuan's reforms some time ago.
After returning to Nanjing City, Zhu Cilang saw the use of the four-wheeled carriage, so he immediately ordered the people from the construction office to modify the four-wheeled carriage.
When all soldiers advance, they all have to ride in four-wheeled carriages.
If the soldiers were allowed to walk, the speed would be too slow, and the energy would be consumed along the way, so they would have to be repaired after arriving at the place, so it would be completely different to ride a four-wheeled carriage.
Apart from guarding the army, other people could throw all kinds of items on their bodies into the car and continue to move forward while chatting.
Each class is equipped with a four-wheeled carriage, and the whole class takes turns to catch the car. The weather in the south is not very cold. If you want to sleep, you can sleep directly on the car, so you can go day and night.
Of course, the cost of doing so is that it costs a lot.
Of course, the carriage cannot be pulled by anyone. There are few horses in the Jiangnan area, so Zhu Cilang found other large animals in the Jiangnan area.
The carriage doesn't need to run very fast, as long as it can be moved, the daily forage of these large animals alone is said to be as high as hundreds of taels of silver.
Although the expenses were a little expensive, compared with the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, this little money was nothing. Therefore, Ye Yun's army was the first batch of equipment. Before the war started, they had already made it impossible to move forward in a carriage.
Chapter completed!