The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 511

The judgment of the little regiment leader made Yue Pengju look up to him in his heart.

He was basically right. Jiang Chuan had the New First Army prepare to go south, not only to deal with the British, but also to eradicate the Zheng family.

The Zheng family, a family that started as pirates, has now become a behemoth. Although it seems that they are not as harmful as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong on the surface, they should not be underestimated.

Although the Zheng family doesn't seem to have much ambition, and they have no plans to proclaim themselves kings now, and Zheng Zhi only holds the title of envoy to the southeast, but in terms of real strength, the Zheng family is no better than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. how much difference.

Moreover, the Zheng family also had an advantage that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong could not match at all: the navy.

The Zheng family itself controls all the islands along the southeast coast, and they also own hundreds of ships of various types, most of which are sea ships.

Therefore, the Zheng family is essentially more difficult to deal with than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who can only move around on land. After all, they can go to sea if they can't fight on land.

Now, the Zheng family colluded with the British, making it even more difficult to deal with.

If you want to simply deal with the British, the Second Army is actually enough.However, if the Zheng family were to be cleaned up together, the Second Army would obviously be unable to do so.

The most important thing is that Quanzhou Port, the best deep-water port in Zhongzhou at present, is in the hands of the Zheng family.

Deep-water ports can berth larger ships with deeper drafts.

Quanzhou Port is in the hands of the Zheng family, which not only facilitates the escape of the Zheng family, but also facilitates the British reinforcements.

Therefore, in order to completely prevent the subsequent large-scale landing reinforcements by the British, Jiang Chuan must defeat the Zheng family and take Quanzhou Port into his own hands.

And to do this, you must have enough strength.

Whether it is the Second Army or the New First Army, they can only be regarded as the vanguard of the first stage.After all, if the follow-up battle is fierce, more troops will need to be invested.

In addition, the cooperation of the navy is also essential.

It is impossible to deal with the Zheng family without a navy.

The expansion of the navy is also imminent.

Moreover, new troops have to be trained continuously, and all of this requires money, a lot of money.

It's a pity that the fortress base is only responsible for gold and silver, otherwise, it would be enough for Jiang Chuan to let the mint print money continuously, why use all kinds of tough methods to promote legal currency.

"You are very good." Yue Pengju pointed at Zhou Ze and nodded.

Zhou Ze was not so excited to get the commander's affirmation, but said calmly: "The commander is too famous. If there is not enough intelligence support, the general will not think of this."

Yue Pengju nodded, stopped talking, and continued walking to the next training ground.

Zhang Dabiao followed behind, glanced at Zhou Ze, and said happily in his heart: "It really gives me a face, after all, he is from my first teacher."

In fact, Zhou Ze is different from others, not just from a military background.

He was a scholar Jiang Chuan recruited from the Hanlin Academy at the base of the fortress. Because there was a lack of literate military Sima in the army, Jiang Chuan put him into the army.

And it was placed in the firearms unit from the very beginning.

Although it is said that from ancient times to the present, many generals have been rough, and even many people are completely illiterate.

Some of these people have become famous generals who have been passed down through the ages, but almost all of the famous generals in history are familiar with various military books and have knowledge of the past and the present.

For example, Wu Qi, Sun Tzu, Bai Qi, Meng Tian, ​​Li Jian, etc. in the pre-Qin period, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period, Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan in the Ming Dynasty, etc., there is not a single illiterate person among them .

Some of those illiterate people may become famous players because of their extraordinary talents, but they are basically very rare.

Most of them can at most become fierce generals and titans who charge into battle, but they cannot become famous generals who can strategize and gain insight into the overall situation.

War requires not only muscles, but also wisdom. It requires the use of brains.

Zhou Ze was like this. Relying on his solid military quality, excellent commanding ability, and flexible mind that is good at thinking and summarizing, he quickly rose from a small army commander to the top, and was appointed as the first commander of the first division after the establishment of the second army. The head of the second regiment.

An uneducated army may be okay in the era of cold weapons, but as a large number of new firearms are put on the battlefield, the form and intensity of war will increase exponentially.

In this case, an army composed entirely of illiterates must be a dead end.

No one in this world knows this better than Jiang Chuan.

He had already had the idea of ​​opening a military academy, but unfortunately many conditions were not yet ripe, so he could only suppress this idea temporarily.

Fortunately, it is still in the initial stage of hot weapon warfare. The form of war is not too complicated, and the intensity of war is not too great, so the Qin army can still adapt.

But sooner or later that will change.

Yue Pengju led a group of generals to inspect the training situation of several troops and pointed out many problems.

When he was about to watch the training of the Artillery Regiment again, a guard quickly ran over to salute, and said loudly, "I tell the general, Mr. Bai from the Black Ice Terrace is here and wants to see you."

Young Master Bai is naturally Bai Jinxiu.

Although she is a daughter, because of Jiang Chuan and her own efforts, she has won the respect of everyone in the Qin army, so she is called Mr. Bai.

It's the same reason that later generations will call them "sir" when they call those very outstanding women.

The Black Ice Terrace has now been restructured and divided into the White Tiger Division and the Qinglong Division.

The main mission of Baihu Division is internal.The White Tiger Division is currently in charge of Chen Zhaojun in the capital.

The main mission of the Qinglong Division is to serve as the exclusive intelligence agency of the Qin Army to provide the Qin Army with various intelligence inside and outside the battlefield.

Bai Jinxiu is in charge of the work of Qinglong Division.

Of course, she is still the head of the Black Ice Platform in name.

During this period of time, the Black Ice Station has been working hard to collect information about the British and the Zheng family. Therefore, upon hearing that Bai Jinxiu had arrived, Yue Pengju realized that she must have brought important information.

"Let's go." Yue Pengju stepped onto the horse brought by the guards, and quickly jumped onto the horse.

Just as he was about to wave his whip and gallop away, he turned his head and pointed at the two teachers, Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan, and said, "You two come together, and Zhou Ze."

Yue Pengju strode into his military office with a few favorite generals.

Bai Jinxiu, who was still dressed in men's clothes, saw Yue Pengju, without any greetings, straight to the point and said, "General Yue, there is a battle going on."

(End of this chapter)