"Well, the most worrying thing for handsome is the salt field outside the two provinces …"
"Shandong Patrol has been sent to Jingcheng Road, and the Royal Guards and the East Factory will definitely lose the secret of our saltworks. When the time comes, the salt saltworks will be the first to be attacked by loyalists."
Kelly Y Zhou nodded his head and directly took out the information already prepared and continued to speak.
"The guard said that the salt field must be the first to be attacked by the imperial government."
"This is a list that officials have made statistics on. Shandong can attack saltworks. There are three armies with a total strength of 12,000 people. If we want to keep saltworks, our troops stationed in saltworks must be prepared to meet the attack of 12,000 loyalists."
Weizheng nodded and asked, "What about He Guozhong? “
"It’s not optimistic …" Kelly Y Zhou didn’t hide it and gave Wei Zheng a bad answer directly.
Only then did Wei Zheng gaze and analyze that "He Guozhong and He teachers have a total of 500 musketeers from Datong, 1,000 of whom have completed training and 3,000 are training musketeers"
"On the surface, Guo-zhong He can have more than four or five thousand soldiers with fighting capacity and a musket regiment, but this is not the case …"
"The most important problem faced by the salt field garrison is the shortage of equipment."
"According to the scheme that the new muskets and artillery meet the needs of the tiger and leopard army first and then the local garrison, although the strength of the saltworks garrison division has been expanded again and again, their equipment has not been improved at all."
"In addition to the 500 veterans who brought 500 muskets and three mortars for a month or two, we only sent 200 muskets and three mortars to the saltworks for training."
"Now saltworks garrison division is someone without equipment …"
"On the other hand, more than 10,000 loyalists have a large number of firearms, although their combat effectiveness is not good."
"Although the performance of these firearms is not as good as ours, they can still bring great pressure to the garrison."
"If you stick to it for a long time, you can’t stop the loyalist from attacking for a long time with the limited equipment of the garrison division."
Wei Zheng frowned and said, "No, the saltworks can not only be broken by loyalists, but also be destroyed by loyalists through this battle, and it is best to annihilate them."
"Shuai just said that if the imperial court sends troops to the saltworks, it will bear the brunt of the rebel loyalist attack. If we can tell the loyalist with a decisive victory that they dare to attack us, their field will be as destroyed as more than 10,000 people who attacked the saltworks …"
"In this case, do you think that the attack on Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces was defeated in the first battle and it was a serious defeat? Do you dare to go deep into our Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces?"
Chapter three hundred and ninety-two Kill an example
Wei Zheng looked at Kelly Y Zhou’s face and quickly flashed an epiphany expression, then answered Wei Zheng.
"Those who are timid and regard the army as their private property will definitely not dare to March into Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces …"
"A guard can’t predict that you are going to make an example ….."
"In the eyes of the imperial court, there are 500 musketeers stationed in the saltworks. If we let his loyalist know that more than 10,000 people attacked 500 butch arms gunmen, they all ended up in the end of an army. What kind of ending will they end up with when they attack the two provincial capitals with tens of thousands of butch troops? Will it also be the collapse of the army? … "
Weizheng nodded his head and affirmed, "Yes, handsome, it is this result that makes all the generals in the court feel afraid of our butch army, and the butch army is afraid …"
"The whole central plains provinces except no fighting capacity WeiSuo army court can take out the army including Beijing camp is more than ten ten thousand people …"
"A small saltern will cost more than 10,000 people, and how many people will it take to attack the whole court in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces to achieve the goal? Does the imperial court have this strength? Are there so many troops and the battlefields of the tiger, leopard and Shaanxi provinces constantly fighting for consumption? "
"Those officials in the central government know that the current government can’t afford to fight for money no matter how stupid they are, and that once the government loses its troops, it may bring bad consequences to the whole country."
"Don’t say that losing the army will lead to unprecedented chaos, and the court will become useless. Then their so-called status potential … will slowly disappear with the court …"
"When the battle in the saltworks is well fought, the imperial attack on Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces will collapse, and then we need to face the problem of imperial blockade."
"The Governor’s Office of Suoshan and Shaanxi must support He Guozhong to keep the saltworks well and fight a beautiful annihilation war in the saltworks."
Speaking of which, Kelly Y Zhou’s face also showed an unprecedented firm expression.
Suggested to Wei Zheng, "The idea of the guard officer is that the fleet horse will send a thousand muskets and sufficient ammunition to the saltworks …"
Wei Zheng shook his head and replied, "It is not enough to fight a war of annihilation with muskets alone, except that you just said to add five thousand grenades, ten medium mortars and corresponding flower bombs …"
"These equipment and ammunition must be delivered to He Guozhong in the saltworks at the first time."
"If it is not enough, it can continue to increase-…"
It turns out that the Shandong patrol has just been taken away by the Royal Guards. Zhu Dadian, who is good at writing and martial arts, became the new patrol in Shandong two years ago, and his first thing was to cooperate with the imperial court to besiege Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
It was not unexpected for Wei Zheng to learn that there was a saltworks belonging to the Tiger and Leopard Army in Laizhou Bay just two days after holding the imperial edict Zhu Dadian, and five hundred tiger and leopard troops were stationed.
In addition, the new official and the Emperor Chongzhen of Beijing urged him to win a battle urgently. Zhu Dadian immediately dispatched a total of 10,000 troops from all over Shandong, and then personally commanded them to complete the siege of the saltworks and prepare to attack the saltworks outside the isolated Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
Zhu Dadian seems that two provinces, Shanxi and Shaanxi, which produce sea salt beaches, have no money but to build a simple wall at most.
But let Sun Chengzong didn’t think it was a wall as high as ten feet wide and three feet wide before him …
Yeah, it’s the city wall …
The main point and many loyalists seem that the walls of many county towns in Shandong are not as high and thick as the walls of a saltworks in front of them.
Seeing here, did you realize that the wall saltworks are a cornucopia? Zhu Dadian couldn’t help but send out a feeling that "the financial resources of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces are really extraordinary … a small saltworks is built stronger than the county seat."
"Now it seems that the officer or small hush shanshan provinces strength …"
Say that finish directly behind the same face shocked a few generals ordered "from the perspective of the butch army defense situation, we must attack the ladder if we want to attack the butch army saltworks. The officer ordered the soldiers to start building the ladder based on local materials. Two hours later, they attacked the butch army saltworks to attack the saltworks and eliminate the saltworks before dark, and the butch army got the first prize from the court to besiege Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces."
Although the wall in front of everyone scared these generals
But they got the news that there were more than 500 tiger and leopard troops behind the fence.
And his side not only has dozens of times the strength of the other side, but also dozens of powerful artillery pieces.
The disparity between the enemy and the enemy, the disparity between the forces and the firepower … directly made these generals full of confidence in the saltworks attack.
Facing Zhu Dadian, no one would hesitate and replied, "Please obey the adults’ orders to attack the saltworks and destroy all the butch and leopard troops before dark, and attack the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi with siege …"
Compared with the high morale of loyalists outside the city, the soldiers of the salt field garrison division who guarded the narrow wall were a little nervous.
Except for 500 veterans brought from Datong, who just finished training, the recruits’ faces showed their worries and doubts about the future.
Facing this situation, He Guozhong is very anxious.
As a staff officer, he is very aware of the importance of morale to an army. If he can’t twist them into a rope, he will need a cannon fire to beat them around, not to mention attacking loyalists outside the city to fight.
We must find ways to stabilize the morale of the army, otherwise we will lose the offensive and defensive war before we fight it.
At this moment, a word suddenly came to He Guozhong’s mind, that is, to kill and be born later …
Only when these recruits with unstable morale are cornered can they fight and exert their combat effectiveness.
After taking a deep breath, He Guozhong has made a decision in his heart, that is, telling everyone that the imperial court is a rebel against the tiger and leopard army, and letting everyone know that he has become a rebel in the imperial court’s mouth, except for defending his homeland to the death, there is no way out, and these soldiers will have the courage to continue fighting.
Chapter three hundred and ninety-three Killing and epigenetic
"What court said we were rebels …" After hearing He Guozhong read the imperial edict, a recruit from the garrison division asked with a strange face.
Then he shouted at the recruits who were also from the army around him, "What, we didn’t do anything to rebel? What, we are rebels …"
At this time, the platoon leader, a veteran of the Tiger and Leopard Army, suddenly opened his mouth and explained, "Brothers, don’t guess … The reason why the court slandered us as rebels is very simple, that is, the court is jealous of Yantian behind us and we are so alive."
"We can get four taels of silver every month. Even those family members who work in saltworks can get three taels of silver … and the government loyalists are the best paid in Beijing, and the Beijing camp is only three taels of silver a month … Do you think the government loyalists will not be jealous for such a big gap?"
A commander from the army shouted with a full face of anger, "What … just because we are jealous of our pay, we are called rebels to destroy us …"
"Yes … those people in the imperial court are really bad … if they don’t pay us, they won’t say it. The Tiger and Leopard Army finally gave us a chance to pay us, so they said that the rebels killed us and took our pay …" Another corporal followed closely and echoed …
Soon, dozens of soldiers turned their attention to the platoon leader again with worries and confusion about the future.
Everyone urged a corporal to ask, "platoon leader, what should we do next … is this why we became rebels and watched the imperial loyalist destroy us …"
The platoon leader didn’t answer the horse, but asked with a serious face, "Brothers, I want to ask you … You used to be soldiers of the imperial court … As far as you know, what do you think the imperial court will do to our rebel army … If we surrender on the battlefield, will these imperial officials let us go …"