Xie Ming

Chapter 278 Zhending Prefecture, recruiting soldiers and purchasing military supplies!

Seeing that Qin Jing was still adamant about the idea of ​​forming a chariot camp, Xiao Langshi blurted out the example of the standard chariot camp organization of the Ming army in an attempt to convince him thoroughly!
"Except the soldiers, horses, vehicles, and baggage."

"In terms of firearms, we need thirty-six general cannons, eighty enemy-killing cannons, five hundred Portuguese lances, five hundred bird guns, and more than three thousand three-barreled guns!"

"Bows, crossbows, armor, and protective gear are numerous!"

"Food and supplies, gong pots, iron pots, water bags, and buckets!"

"Miscellaneous tools, including gold, drums, flags, percussion instruments, rope stakes, chevaux de frise, sharp poles for fire soldiers, flints, lanterns, iron sledgehammers, iron picks, sickles, axes, chisels, and guillotines, all costing hundreds of dollars!"

"Qin Jing!"

“How?!”

"You want me to sacrifice all my troops and all my supplies and money to fill the hole in your crappy camp, right?!" Xiao Lang said.

Hearing this, Qin Jing felt quite ashamed. He nodded with embarrassment and smiled bitterly.

Seeing this, Xiao Jingchuan also realized that he had understood the pros and cons, so he took his subordinates' feelings into consideration and suddenly changed the subject. Suddenly, there was a chuckle.

"hehe."

"Okay, okay!"

"You, don't be like a frost-bitten eggplant!"

"When our family becomes wealthy, I will never forget this!"

"As for now, these things are so heavy!"

"It's really unusable, so forget it, I don't want it!"

"Let it continue to eat dust here!"

As he spoke, Xiao Lang did not forget to raise his leg and kick Qin Jing in the butt.

"Eh!"

"right!"

"Now that we've come to this, um..., you unlucky star, go find Minglu later!"

"This chariot camp is fine, but as for the cavalry camp, we can start preparing first!"

"Tell Minglu to look carefully and see if there are any usable military horses to exchange near Zhending!"

"If you say that the entire cavalry team is a stretch!"

"In order to ensure the mobility of subsequent battles, we should first form a small battalion with insufficient staff. We should still be able to win!" Xiao Lang suddenly had an idea.

Upon receiving the order, Sangmenxing bowed and agreed.

This group of people visited the Weicang in the west of Zhending City and since their business was done, they did not stay any longer and went back home!
Two days later, it was May 19th, around noon in the morning!
The prince has arrived!

The people who accompanied them, including the combined forces of Liu Wenbing, Gong Yonggu, and Xu Jizu, also entered the city together.

At noon on that day, Crown Prince Zhu Cilang was ill and gasping for breath, so he ordered Xiao Jingchuan and Qiu Zhizhong to bring Qiu and Xie, two officials who had surrendered, to the emperor. The crown prince said that in this chaotic situation, everything should be handled according to the will of the emperor. Qiu and Xie were originally scapegoats, but considering that they had voluntarily surrendered and surrendered in this battle, and had devoted all their money and troops to help the army, during the suppression of the rebellion, they were given a suspended sentence for rebellion to show their kindness to the world. Therefore, they were promoted to the position of Right Vice Minister of Rites of the former Zhending Governor Qiu Maohua and the position of Lieutenant General of the Guerrilla Xie Sufu, and the two officials were ordered to continue to defend the place, and wait for the emperor to ascend the throne in Nanjing, and then sent back to Beijing to report on their duties!
At this point, everything in Zhending City was going according to plan, and there was no need to worry about it!
After some rest and reorganization, three days passed in the blink of an eye and it was May 22nd!

After Ma Minglu's continuous efforts and fundraising over the past few days, more than 2,000 new soldiers and militiamen were recruited in Zhending Prefecture.

Xie Sufu originally had 2,000 soldiers under his command, and he selected young and strong men who could be used and transferred about 1,000 more.

These three thousand new recruits will all be used to supplement the establishment of various departments.

In addition, more than 105,000 taels of silver donated by Qiu and Xie to the treasury were all recorded as military funds.

Of the 20,000 dan of grain, Xiao, Qiu and Crown Prince Zhu Cilang discussed and decided to distribute 10,000 dan to provide relief to the victims in Zhen, Bao and nearby counties.

In addition, over the past three days, Ma Minglu worked tirelessly to collect more than 500 war horses for the Xiao family army!

In addition to the purchase and replenishment of military supplies from various places, all in all, a total of more than 55,000 taels of silver were spent!
[As of May 22, a summary of the statistics of the personnel in each department and the military's material reserves! ]

【Total number of newly recruited soldiers: 3199】

【Statistics of the various departments.】

[Sun Peizhong's troops (lieutenant general): 1208 people (before Zhending) + 392 (newly recruited) = 2200 people (completed)]

[Li Huchen's troops (lieutenant general): 1331 people (before Zhending) + 669 (newly recruited) = 2000 people (completed)]

[Ma Minglu's troops (Military Supplies - Garrison): 331 people (before Zhending) + 669 (newly recruited) = 1000 people (completed)]

[Xu Jizu's troops (Ba Zong): 318 people (before Zhending) + 682 (newly recruited) = 1000 people (completed)]

[Li Hongsheng's troops (garrison): 839 people (before Zhending) + 461 (newly recruited) = 1300 people (completed)]

[Liu Wenbing + Gong Yonggu combined: 874 people (before Zhending) + 326 (newly recruited) = 1200 people (supplemented)]

[Total number of soldiers and horses accompanying the army: 8700]

[In addition, Wang Chuanwu's troops (garrison) 522 people + Xu Baoyi's troops (captain): 274 people, stayed in Baoding as the initial source of troops for the Taihang base, and did not move with the main army, so they are not included! ]

[Military material reserves-loss statistics! ]

[Silver: 12.1 taels (before Zhending) - 1 taels (silver for newly recruited soldiers to settle down + one month's salary for surrendered soldiers) - 5.5 taels (for military supplies, ammunition and equipment replenishment + purchase of military horses) + 10.5 taels (silver donated by Qiu and Xie to the treasury) = 16.1 taels]

[Food: 0.8 dan (before Zhending) - 0.6 dan (consumption of food for people and horses for many days) + 2 dan (Qiu and Xie donated grain) - 1 dan (relief for disaster victims) + 0.5 dan (Minglu raised funds and purchased in Zhending and nearby counties in recent days) = 1.7 dan]

[War horses and military horses: more than 500 horses (surplus in Baoding Prefecture) + more than 1000 horses (obtained in Zhending) + 500 horses (purchased by Minglu) = more than 2000 horses (all transferred to Li Huchen's troops to form a cavalry battalion!)]

[Artillery: Red Cannon (8 pieces); Crouching Tiger Cannon (5 large-caliber, 45 small-caliber); Portuguese Cannon (10 pieces). Plenty of ammunition! ]

[Firearms and muskets (bird muskets, three-eyed muskets, etc.): Equipped with the number of 4,000 soldiers in the army! ]

[Armor and cold weapons are equipped with the army and are no longer counted as extra! ]

At the same time, over there, with the rising sun in the east, a thousand miles southeast of Zhending Prefecture, the troops from the four towns that were heading north from the north bank of the Yangtze River to support the king also set out one after another, gradually approaching the southern end of Shandong border!
Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, with a mighty force of tens of thousands of people, marched to Shandong and set out to explore the north to recover the large area of ​​Huaibei that had been left with a military vacuum and lost territory to the enemy!
May 23rd!
The troops of Xiao Jingchuan in Zhending Prefecture have been reorganized and have started to set out again, continuing their retreat to the south. The entire army is heading for Shunde Prefecture (now Xingtai)!

At the beginning of the morning at the hour of Mao, people in the camp in the city set up pots and cooked, and at four quarters (sharply 6 a.m.), they set out for action!
The entire army was deployed and arranged by Xiao Lang, and the vanguard was the cavalry of Li Huchen's troops.

Xiao Lang led the newly-established cavalry battalion and marched rapidly ahead for a whole day. By the evening of that day, they had already rushed into the territory of Shunde!
(End of this chapter)