Zhou Mengxiong, commander of Wuchang Camp (but in Changde Prefecture), reported secretly that he would invite troops to be used in Changsha and other places.
The reasons are: first, to open up wealthy areas to replenish money and grain, and second, to allow the new army to gain real combat effectiveness through actual combat.
At that time, the Zhuque Army, including the newly established naval army, had a total of four major battalions, with the number of troops plus some logistics personnel exceeding 30,000.
In addition to obtaining resources from the newly occupied Yuezhou and Wuchang, the army relied on Changde Prefecture, and the Chenzhou Prefecture had almost negative income. After the famine broke out, it also relied on Changde Prefecture to transport food.
Moreover, the strength of the Suzaku Army is very costly.
The infantry is mainly a firearm unit. In order to meet the logistics of the warriors, the number of people engaged in the barrel drilling, artillery manufacturing, maintenance supervision, mining, dirt piles and equipment and ammunition transportation of the military is several times that of the army.
Yuezhou has set up a new firearm workshop to manufacture large-caliber field guns. Although they used copper-core iron-pack hollow cooling casting technology, which was already very advanced in this era, they still could not use iron to create long-barrel cannons, and they still needed a lot of copper. It just so happened that Huguang did not lack food but was very short of copper. It was not only a problem to get these metal materials, but also cost nothing gold, silver and wealth.
The Senate budget revenue and expenditure are all about making up for the west, and it has been barely supported.Zhang Ning was already very moved when he heard that Zhou Mengxiong's new army could be on the battlefield.
At this time, a staff member of the Senate Department implicitly reminded that Zhou Mengxiong had too much power in the south and was now responsible for conquering cities and territories alone, so he might not lose his tail...
However, the problem of excessive power in the commander of the Suzaku Army has always existed, and it is not something that can only occur in a day or two.
Zhang Ning had no choice but to say in front of everyone: Don’t doubt people, no one should be used. Now our Suzaku Army has just started to improve, and the foreign enemy is looking around, and it is time to unite and defeat the powerful enemy.
He soon replied to Zhou Mengxiong's letter, agreeing that he would expand his territory at the right time.
Zhu Heng wrote a letter to suggest that it was time to expand and reorganize the Senate.
The current Senate Department is not only responsible for the financing strategy and temporary planning during wars, but also manages military affairs and logistics. The method adopted before was the individual responsibility law, and the Senate Department discussed a set of clauses and submitted it, and after confirmation, it designated individuals to be responsible for each specific matter.
However, after the number of people expanding the territory increases, this method often leads to a chaotic pattern of unclear power and inseparable primary and secondary.
Zhu Heng suggested that six ministries be set up in imitation of the imperial government to expand the civil service system.
In this way, the authority of the generals in the army can be regained the financial, political, logistics supply, personnel and other authority. On the one hand, the generals can specialize in leading troops to fight, and on the other hand, there is also a decentralized system to prevent problems before they happen.
In the future, we can further subdivided power, separate military governance and military power, improve the rules and regulations, and completely prevent the situation of military generals from holding troops and respecting themselves.
This set of things has been more exquisite for hundreds of years since the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Ning did not agree with the situation where the soldiers were not aware of generals and generals before they had gained an advantage on the main battlefield, but Zhu Heng's suggestion of the six-part department was urgent and necessary.
……
But at this moment, new news came from Wuchang that the first part of the Shenji Camp in Jing had arrived in Huangzhou Prefecture.
The original report of the secret spies in the scout camp was that flags covered the sky, thousands of people and horses were marching continuously for miles.
However, there is no exact information on the number of troops, not even a single one.
The atmosphere of war became stronger again, so Zhu Heng's letter proposed to reorganize the Senate Department would have to be stranded.
Another consultation from the Jianwen Party contains information about the imperial court's mobilization, which is more detailed.
It is said that the Beijing camp people coming from Yangzhou are the Central Army of Shenji Camp and the Two Army of Zuoye. Therefore, the military strength can be estimated through intelligence: Shenji Camp is composed of five armies, Zuoye, Youye, Zuoye, and Youshou. The central army is in charge of the four divisions, and the other armies are in charge of the three divisions. The second armies advancing westward in intelligence are the Seventh Army; and the total number of war soldiers of Shenji Camp is about 60,000 (excluding the 5,000 Xiaying Horse Corps). According to the proportion, the military strength should be more than 25,000.
However, the reliability of the intelligence from the Jianwen Party is unknown, and the spies on their side can only see things with their eyes without confirming the information.
What is certain at present is that the Beijing camp has already dispatched troops to Huguang and arrived in Huangzhou Prefecture.
Whether they are going to cross the river and attack the weak Jiujiang Prefecture in Huangzhou, or continue to move westward to Jingzhou to deal with the Zhuque Army, it is not clear yet.
The troops from the three camps of the capital were already approaching Huguang, which forced Zhang Ning to pay special attention.
The three major camps of the Ming Dynasty were first established during the Hongwu period and perfected during the Yongle period.
At present, this army is the elite of the elite left by Emperor Yongle's battles in the south and north. At this time, the Beijing camp was completely different from the late stage. It is more combat-effective than the current nine-sided army, and even the Mongolian cavalry was only scared.
It can be said that it is the most capable army in the entire Ming Empire. It is probably invincible to be in the field of war all over the world, because there is no kingdom in the world that can afford an army with a number of 200,000 soldiers, well-equipped, long-standing battles and sufficient logistics.
The Beijing Camp actually includes the three major camps of the capital and the Nanjing Camp, but the Nanjing Camp has already revolted and responded to the Han King.
His combat effectiveness is far inferior to the three major camps of the capital, so those who are as brave as the King of Han lost Jianghuai and dare not qualify for the Yangtze River.
Zhang Ning decided to leave Yuezhou as soon as possible and go to Wuchang to watch the development of the situation, while preparing for a hard fight.
Yuezhou currently has the First Battalion of the Navy and Changde Battalion, and it mainly trains the Navy on Dongting Lake.
The commander of the First Battalion of the Navy, the commander of the Changde Battalion of the Navy, the father and son were here.
As soon as Zhang Ning left, it was obvious that the Yao family father and son were the ones who were right here.
Not long ago, some aides teased Zhou Mengxiong for being too powerful, and the Yao family's father and son are even more powerful in Yuezhou.
Zhang Ning couldn't come up with any solution at this critical moment, this is the only way to go.
The only thing he did was to instruct the Yao family father and son to properly manage Yuezhou and beware of the court army's future migration to the south with Jingzhou as its foundation; other than that, no matter how power distribution is distributed, it is better to take advantage of his own family than to wait for it to be destroyed by the court army.
A few days later, Zhang Ning went from Yuezhou to Wuchang, and a team of cavalry rushed in through the city gate, without any etiquette.
Because they were nearly a hundred miles away from Wuchang City in the morning, they arrived in Wuchang City in the afternoon, and there was no time to prepare for anyone.
I met Zhu Heng and others in the Senate Department and found another new information.
Xi Zuo approached the Shenji Camp at night and lurked until dawn to observe. He saw that the Shenji Camp was equipped with a large number of newly built firearms, which was very different from the previous Ming army's firearms. The single-soldier musket was suspected to be a clamping rope gun.
More than half a year ago, some of the secrets of the Zhuque Army Weapon Bureau were leaked because someone defected to the weapon bureau.
With the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the formed arms manufacturing system, it was completely sufficient to produce large quantities in more than half a year.
Moreover, the Shenji Camp itself is a unit specializing in firearms. The tactics are inherited from Mu Ying, the king of Zhennan, Yunnan. It is quite simple to train. They only need to be familiar with how to use new equipment firearms. They are not used to using bulky and poor performance fire door guns that resist using better weapons.
Therefore, Zhang Ning and others think this investigation is more credible.
He knew that Emperor Zhu Zhanji was not a fool, and the following group of ministers were not stupid people. After getting the mesh gun, why didn't they imitate the equipment?
The rulers of the Ming Dynasty were not those who believed in the invincible archery, horses, riding and shooting. They could even quickly accept the Geometry and other things introduced to Middle Earth.
At present, when this group of people was dispatched from Yangzhou, the original intention was to rescue Wuchang City, but the city was broken too quickly and there was no time to rescue it.
Zhu Heng analyzed that the number of people is estimated to be 25,000, which is not small, but it is also an isolated army.The old ministers did not think they would cross the river and fight alone.
Zhang Ning nodded and said: I agree with Zhu Butang's view, but it has been a while since the capture of Wuchang. His reinforcements, Shenji Camp, did not retreat eastward after the fall of Wuchang, and still advanced to Huangzhou. It must have its intention.
While speaking, he walked to the wall of the temporary office of the Senate Department and observed a large picture hanging on it.
Letter: Situation chart of the Ming Empire.
The title is a bit strange, because in the Chinese court, the Chinese court generally does not call itself a country, and there is no need to have a concept of a country at all. Except for the known scope of the Central Plains dynasty, there are ministers. The difference is only whether others are willing or not. There is only one emperor, so it doesn’t matter how many countries there are, and there are only many foreign countries coming to dynasties.
The three positions in a picture have determined the strategy of the Senate, Lizhou, Yuezhou, and Wuchang.
Yuezhou and Wuchang are both important places that Zhang Ning focuses on operating. Lizhou on the west bank of the lake is handed over to Zhou Mengxiong. Zhou Mengxiong is currently preparing to lead the main force to Changsha south.
Zhang Ning's eyes were still in Lizhou and thinking about something.
Zhu Heng said from the side: You can only hold your troops and see what the official army plans.If the Shenji Camp had troops and horses moved west one after another, it would mean that the court's strategy had moved westward, and unfortunately we became the first target, and the Han King was relaxed; if only the Shenji Camp came, it should choose a place to deploy operations, and to attack, a large number of ships must be hidden from us; to defend, we should go to Jingzhou, where we are most likely to counterattack.
Zhang Ning turned around and said: It is best to find an opportunity to find a small-scale encounter as soon as possible. You can know the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Camp with just a try, and you can also test which firearms they are equipped to know themselves and enemies.
In contrast, Zhu Heng valued momentum, but Zhang Ning paid more attention to the equipment of weapons.
Facing each other across the river is not easy to encounter a small battle.Zhu Hengdao, it would be better to try to send a detailed look at the horse first, and then go to the battle formation to test it.
Zhu Butang's words are reasonable.
Zhang Ning quickly agreed with him, thinking of the Ministry of Escort adaptation of Yao Jixin. In the past, those who ward off the cult branch were idle. Maybe it was time to ask them to do something about military information, and they could not just share the land and get money without any use.
Zhu Heng had sharp eyes. Seeing that Zhang Ning's eyes were always staying in Lizhou, he asked: Zhou Mengxiong transferred heavy troops to Changsha Prefecture in the south, and the lake was empty and could not guard against Jingzhou. Does the lord have the intention to take it back?
Zhang Ning said: I have just arrived in Huangzhou by Shenjiying, and I don’t know whether to go to Jingzhou.I think what General Zhou said is somewhat reasonable. Letting the new army go to the battlefield to fight a battle is more effective than training on the school field.
The reasons are: first, to open up wealthy areas to replenish money and grain, and second, to allow the new army to gain real combat effectiveness through actual combat.
At that time, the Zhuque Army, including the newly established naval army, had a total of four major battalions, with the number of troops plus some logistics personnel exceeding 30,000.
In addition to obtaining resources from the newly occupied Yuezhou and Wuchang, the army relied on Changde Prefecture, and the Chenzhou Prefecture had almost negative income. After the famine broke out, it also relied on Changde Prefecture to transport food.
Moreover, the strength of the Suzaku Army is very costly.
The infantry is mainly a firearm unit. In order to meet the logistics of the warriors, the number of people engaged in the barrel drilling, artillery manufacturing, maintenance supervision, mining, dirt piles and equipment and ammunition transportation of the military is several times that of the army.
Yuezhou has set up a new firearm workshop to manufacture large-caliber field guns. Although they used copper-core iron-pack hollow cooling casting technology, which was already very advanced in this era, they still could not use iron to create long-barrel cannons, and they still needed a lot of copper. It just so happened that Huguang did not lack food but was very short of copper. It was not only a problem to get these metal materials, but also cost nothing gold, silver and wealth.
The Senate budget revenue and expenditure are all about making up for the west, and it has been barely supported.Zhang Ning was already very moved when he heard that Zhou Mengxiong's new army could be on the battlefield.
At this time, a staff member of the Senate Department implicitly reminded that Zhou Mengxiong had too much power in the south and was now responsible for conquering cities and territories alone, so he might not lose his tail...
However, the problem of excessive power in the commander of the Suzaku Army has always existed, and it is not something that can only occur in a day or two.
Zhang Ning had no choice but to say in front of everyone: Don’t doubt people, no one should be used. Now our Suzaku Army has just started to improve, and the foreign enemy is looking around, and it is time to unite and defeat the powerful enemy.
He soon replied to Zhou Mengxiong's letter, agreeing that he would expand his territory at the right time.
Zhu Heng wrote a letter to suggest that it was time to expand and reorganize the Senate.
The current Senate Department is not only responsible for the financing strategy and temporary planning during wars, but also manages military affairs and logistics. The method adopted before was the individual responsibility law, and the Senate Department discussed a set of clauses and submitted it, and after confirmation, it designated individuals to be responsible for each specific matter.
However, after the number of people expanding the territory increases, this method often leads to a chaotic pattern of unclear power and inseparable primary and secondary.
Zhu Heng suggested that six ministries be set up in imitation of the imperial government to expand the civil service system.
In this way, the authority of the generals in the army can be regained the financial, political, logistics supply, personnel and other authority. On the one hand, the generals can specialize in leading troops to fight, and on the other hand, there is also a decentralized system to prevent problems before they happen.
In the future, we can further subdivided power, separate military governance and military power, improve the rules and regulations, and completely prevent the situation of military generals from holding troops and respecting themselves.
This set of things has been more exquisite for hundreds of years since the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Ning did not agree with the situation where the soldiers were not aware of generals and generals before they had gained an advantage on the main battlefield, but Zhu Heng's suggestion of the six-part department was urgent and necessary.
……
But at this moment, new news came from Wuchang that the first part of the Shenji Camp in Jing had arrived in Huangzhou Prefecture.
The original report of the secret spies in the scout camp was that flags covered the sky, thousands of people and horses were marching continuously for miles.
However, there is no exact information on the number of troops, not even a single one.
The atmosphere of war became stronger again, so Zhu Heng's letter proposed to reorganize the Senate Department would have to be stranded.
Another consultation from the Jianwen Party contains information about the imperial court's mobilization, which is more detailed.
It is said that the Beijing camp people coming from Yangzhou are the Central Army of Shenji Camp and the Two Army of Zuoye. Therefore, the military strength can be estimated through intelligence: Shenji Camp is composed of five armies, Zuoye, Youye, Zuoye, and Youshou. The central army is in charge of the four divisions, and the other armies are in charge of the three divisions. The second armies advancing westward in intelligence are the Seventh Army; and the total number of war soldiers of Shenji Camp is about 60,000 (excluding the 5,000 Xiaying Horse Corps). According to the proportion, the military strength should be more than 25,000.
However, the reliability of the intelligence from the Jianwen Party is unknown, and the spies on their side can only see things with their eyes without confirming the information.
What is certain at present is that the Beijing camp has already dispatched troops to Huguang and arrived in Huangzhou Prefecture.
Whether they are going to cross the river and attack the weak Jiujiang Prefecture in Huangzhou, or continue to move westward to Jingzhou to deal with the Zhuque Army, it is not clear yet.
The troops from the three camps of the capital were already approaching Huguang, which forced Zhang Ning to pay special attention.
The three major camps of the Ming Dynasty were first established during the Hongwu period and perfected during the Yongle period.
At present, this army is the elite of the elite left by Emperor Yongle's battles in the south and north. At this time, the Beijing camp was completely different from the late stage. It is more combat-effective than the current nine-sided army, and even the Mongolian cavalry was only scared.
It can be said that it is the most capable army in the entire Ming Empire. It is probably invincible to be in the field of war all over the world, because there is no kingdom in the world that can afford an army with a number of 200,000 soldiers, well-equipped, long-standing battles and sufficient logistics.
The Beijing Camp actually includes the three major camps of the capital and the Nanjing Camp, but the Nanjing Camp has already revolted and responded to the Han King.
His combat effectiveness is far inferior to the three major camps of the capital, so those who are as brave as the King of Han lost Jianghuai and dare not qualify for the Yangtze River.
Zhang Ning decided to leave Yuezhou as soon as possible and go to Wuchang to watch the development of the situation, while preparing for a hard fight.
Yuezhou currently has the First Battalion of the Navy and Changde Battalion, and it mainly trains the Navy on Dongting Lake.
The commander of the First Battalion of the Navy, the commander of the Changde Battalion of the Navy, the father and son were here.
As soon as Zhang Ning left, it was obvious that the Yao family father and son were the ones who were right here.
Not long ago, some aides teased Zhou Mengxiong for being too powerful, and the Yao family's father and son are even more powerful in Yuezhou.
Zhang Ning couldn't come up with any solution at this critical moment, this is the only way to go.
The only thing he did was to instruct the Yao family father and son to properly manage Yuezhou and beware of the court army's future migration to the south with Jingzhou as its foundation; other than that, no matter how power distribution is distributed, it is better to take advantage of his own family than to wait for it to be destroyed by the court army.
A few days later, Zhang Ning went from Yuezhou to Wuchang, and a team of cavalry rushed in through the city gate, without any etiquette.
Because they were nearly a hundred miles away from Wuchang City in the morning, they arrived in Wuchang City in the afternoon, and there was no time to prepare for anyone.
I met Zhu Heng and others in the Senate Department and found another new information.
Xi Zuo approached the Shenji Camp at night and lurked until dawn to observe. He saw that the Shenji Camp was equipped with a large number of newly built firearms, which was very different from the previous Ming army's firearms. The single-soldier musket was suspected to be a clamping rope gun.
More than half a year ago, some of the secrets of the Zhuque Army Weapon Bureau were leaked because someone defected to the weapon bureau.
With the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the formed arms manufacturing system, it was completely sufficient to produce large quantities in more than half a year.
Moreover, the Shenji Camp itself is a unit specializing in firearms. The tactics are inherited from Mu Ying, the king of Zhennan, Yunnan. It is quite simple to train. They only need to be familiar with how to use new equipment firearms. They are not used to using bulky and poor performance fire door guns that resist using better weapons.
Therefore, Zhang Ning and others think this investigation is more credible.
He knew that Emperor Zhu Zhanji was not a fool, and the following group of ministers were not stupid people. After getting the mesh gun, why didn't they imitate the equipment?
The rulers of the Ming Dynasty were not those who believed in the invincible archery, horses, riding and shooting. They could even quickly accept the Geometry and other things introduced to Middle Earth.
At present, when this group of people was dispatched from Yangzhou, the original intention was to rescue Wuchang City, but the city was broken too quickly and there was no time to rescue it.
Zhu Heng analyzed that the number of people is estimated to be 25,000, which is not small, but it is also an isolated army.The old ministers did not think they would cross the river and fight alone.
Zhang Ning nodded and said: I agree with Zhu Butang's view, but it has been a while since the capture of Wuchang. His reinforcements, Shenji Camp, did not retreat eastward after the fall of Wuchang, and still advanced to Huangzhou. It must have its intention.
While speaking, he walked to the wall of the temporary office of the Senate Department and observed a large picture hanging on it.
Letter: Situation chart of the Ming Empire.
The title is a bit strange, because in the Chinese court, the Chinese court generally does not call itself a country, and there is no need to have a concept of a country at all. Except for the known scope of the Central Plains dynasty, there are ministers. The difference is only whether others are willing or not. There is only one emperor, so it doesn’t matter how many countries there are, and there are only many foreign countries coming to dynasties.
The three positions in a picture have determined the strategy of the Senate, Lizhou, Yuezhou, and Wuchang.
Yuezhou and Wuchang are both important places that Zhang Ning focuses on operating. Lizhou on the west bank of the lake is handed over to Zhou Mengxiong. Zhou Mengxiong is currently preparing to lead the main force to Changsha south.
Zhang Ning's eyes were still in Lizhou and thinking about something.
Zhu Heng said from the side: You can only hold your troops and see what the official army plans.If the Shenji Camp had troops and horses moved west one after another, it would mean that the court's strategy had moved westward, and unfortunately we became the first target, and the Han King was relaxed; if only the Shenji Camp came, it should choose a place to deploy operations, and to attack, a large number of ships must be hidden from us; to defend, we should go to Jingzhou, where we are most likely to counterattack.
Zhang Ning turned around and said: It is best to find an opportunity to find a small-scale encounter as soon as possible. You can know the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Camp with just a try, and you can also test which firearms they are equipped to know themselves and enemies.
In contrast, Zhu Heng valued momentum, but Zhang Ning paid more attention to the equipment of weapons.
Facing each other across the river is not easy to encounter a small battle.Zhu Hengdao, it would be better to try to send a detailed look at the horse first, and then go to the battle formation to test it.
Zhu Butang's words are reasonable.
Zhang Ning quickly agreed with him, thinking of the Ministry of Escort adaptation of Yao Jixin. In the past, those who ward off the cult branch were idle. Maybe it was time to ask them to do something about military information, and they could not just share the land and get money without any use.
Zhu Heng had sharp eyes. Seeing that Zhang Ning's eyes were always staying in Lizhou, he asked: Zhou Mengxiong transferred heavy troops to Changsha Prefecture in the south, and the lake was empty and could not guard against Jingzhou. Does the lord have the intention to take it back?
Zhang Ning said: I have just arrived in Huangzhou by Shenjiying, and I don’t know whether to go to Jingzhou.I think what General Zhou said is somewhat reasonable. Letting the new army go to the battlefield to fight a battle is more effective than training on the school field.
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