Sister-in-law was discharged.

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If you think about it again, you should not engage in any "nothingness", just conduct a military exercise in a dignified manner, and bombard Jinshan Lao Fahai.

The father-in-law is naturally righteous, although he is notorious, but the heart of a child is something that God can learn from.

Bombarding Jinshan Temple, he didn't think there was anything wrong, and he didn't have a psychological burden.

Looking back, if the emperor feels unhappy about ruining the purity of the Buddhist family, it is easy to explain, it is a mistake.

The essence is good, the exercise of military training, by the way, to improve the ability to react in the lower localities. If there are some flaws, it is inevitable.

After all, Jiangnan Chengping has been in peace for fifty years.

How can there be a fifty-year-old Taiping army in the world!

Therefore, it is very necessary to organize a large-scale military exercise.

Not long ago, didn't Chongming find a Japanese boat, although he claimed to be lost, but who knows if it's true or not.

Zhenjiang is a key town in the defense of the river, the gateway to the southern capital, and the rapid response capability directly determines the safety of the southern capital.

Therefore, it is necessary to ring the alarm bell for Zhenjiang Mansion from time to time, otherwise the horses will be put in Nanshan, and the swords and guns will be put into storage, and there will really be military intelligence, and the southeast will not be shaken.

In view of this, as soon as Gonggong Wei gave the order, the naval and land armies prepared separately.

In order to increase the momentum, and also to conduct a real military exercise, exercise the various departments, and run in with each department, Wei Gonggong ordered his personal guards to cross the river with a handwritten letter and transfer the soldiers of the second battalion of the infantry army who were still in Jiangbei to rush over.

The military exercise was carried out by the General Staff Department, and the chief of staff was Jiang Xifeng, a native of Guangdong who was garrisoned by the Yuanshui Battalion, and his father-in-law gave him the rank of guerrilla.

However, this person did not go east with his father-in-law, but stayed in the SAR to be responsible for the maintenance of naval ships and artillery.

Therefore, the entire military exercise was presided over by Gonggong Wei himself. If it weren't for the fact that this military exercise was to formally clarify the issue of command at all levels, highlight the importance of the existence of this staff division, and deepen the attention of all departments and officers at all levels to the general staff department, my father-in-law would not have had to go to such great lengths.

In the future establishment of the imperial army of the father-in-law, the staff department will be a behemoth, and it will be the command core of the Ming Imperial Army. Therefore, even if this staff department is still on paper, it will not affect the father-in-law to push out this institution.

Let's get acquainted with it first, at least let the people below know that such a thing exists.

According to the deployment of the father-in-law, the exercise was divided into three steps and lasted six days.

The first step was the shelling of Jinshan Temple and the targeted blasting.

This task is carried out by the Royal Navy Mobile Detachment and the Father-in-law Guard Battalion.

The former is responsible for dispatching warships to carry out specific artillery missions, while the latter requires simultaneous blasting missions in several locations.

The shelling of Jinshan Temple was to tell the gang of people in Zhenjiang City how powerful the cannon of Gonggong Wei was, and he would hit wherever he said.

The blasting is to tell the gang not to think that with the protection of the city wall, Gonggong Wei will not be able to pick their skin.

The location of the blasting was selected in the third layer of the Chengjiang urban defense system, that is, several places in the outer city near Jinshan. These places are not the important places of the Zhenjiang city wall, but they cannot be missing. Blowing up these places is more conducive to the perception of the strength of Gonggong Wei by the people in Zhenjiang City.

The person in charge of the blasting is the standard chief soldier Jiro of the pro-guard battalion, and the specific implementation is also the letter mark to which the Hyojiro belongs. This mark was taught by my father-in-law and has practical experience in blasting. In other words, the letter had become the engineer unit of the Imperial Army.

In fact, Gonggong Wei is also preparing to expand into a regiment-level unit based on the letter standard, which is specifically responsible for engineering operations.

The second step is for the infantry to rush to the beach.

Immediately after the shelling and blasting, a large-scale infantry landing was carried out.

It is planned to use the second standard of the personal guard and the third battalion of the infantry army, with a contract strength of more than 1,400.

The third step is the interspersed detours of the infantry.

It is planned to mobilize three battalions of the infantry army, all the horse teams, one battalion of baggage, one personal guard, and one navy, and the total number of troops invested is more than 2,000.

During the overall implementation of the exercise, in addition to the tasks of artillery bombardment and transportation of troops, the navy was also responsible for the allocation of grain and grass and the transportation of equipment. In addition, the 600 "strong men" received from Gao Youwei will be temporarily taken care of by the navy and will be put into operation according to the situation.

Through these three steps, Father-in-law Wei wanted the officials and wealthy families in Zhenjiang City to see clearly that he was able to cut off all external communication with Zhenjiang City and attack Zhenjiang City at any time.

In other words, Father-in-law Wei is not a good person, don't think that if you shrink into the city and don't come out, your father-in-law will have nothing to do with you!

As soon as the cannon goes off, the gold will be ten thousand taels!

The father-in-law swore and Zhenjiang swore that they would not be separated, unless there were 10,000 taels of gold.

Because there were two battalions of soldiers in the infantry army under the command of Wu Fuming, they were still in Jiangbei in several places, and the baggage battalion stayed in Yizheng to purchase grain under the leadership of the seventh uncle and grandfather Guo Dafeng, so the exercise was scheduled for the day after tomorrow, so that the infantry army and the baggage could be quickly assembled.

After formulating the entire military exercise, Wei Gonggong sincerely invited Western missionaries to board the naval warship to taste the fresh Jiangxian.

During the banquet, the father-in-law repeatedly inquired about the development of Western warships and artillery by Guo Jujing, Sylloy Stallon and others in a consultative tone, and revealed his intention to hire Western technicians and military instructors to serve in the Royal Navy, as well as his intention to purchase artillery and weapons from Western countries.

Guo Jujing, Jin Nige and others were not surprised by this, nor were they surprised, in the southern Guangdong Province of the Ming Dynasty, many local civil and military personnel were interested in the weapons of Western countries.

Xu Guangqi, who had previously invited Guo Jujing to Shanghai as a missionary, had always wanted to ask the imperial court to purchase Western artillery and build a new army with the training methods of Westerners, and the Jesuits in China were very supportive of this.

Because, this will allow Western culture and technology to better integrate into the Ming Dynasty, and it will also allow many people in high positions in the Ming Dynasty to understand Western countries.

Arms trading and military exchanges were frequent, and it was undoubtedly a good way for missionaries to work in the center and take the opportunity to infiltrate the Ming Dynasty officials.

Matteo Ricci also actively wanted to promote this during his lifetime, but unfortunately Xu Guangqi's official position in the Ming Dynasty government was not high, and the Ming Dynasty did not have the need to introduce Western weapons on a large scale, which made this plan have been put on hold.

Hearing Guo Jujing mention Xu Guangqi, Father-in-law Wei knew that as long as he wanted to do this, he would definitely be able to do it.

Historically, the Hongyi cannon imported into the Ming Dynasty was purchased by Xu Guangqi, and then he built a new army in Denglai according to the Westerners' training techniques, equipped with very advanced firearms, and the artillery fire ability is also very powerful, especially rare is that compared with the Ming army at that time, the mobile transportation capacity of this new army has risen several steps, and there is almost a shadow of a modern army.

This is also due to Chongzhen's shame, knowing that the Guan Ning army is unreliable, so he gritted his teeth and threw silver at the new army.

If it weren't for Kong Youde's accident, once this new army was trained and put into the Liaodong battlefield, it was very likely to change the outcome of the Liaodong war.

It's a pity that history is so speechless - a chicken destroyed the "new army" that the Ming government spent a lot of money to build.

It is not a problem for Western soldiers to teach and learn. Xu Guangqi's new army included more than 150 Western officers, and at least half of them were martyred for the Ming Dynasty. And in the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Yongli court still recruited Western mercenaries in Macao.

Therefore, it is certain that as long as the missionaries take care of things for his father-in-law Wei, the future Royal Navy will definitely take on a new look and become a new type of army that combines East and West.

Of course, the purpose and core of this army are only six words - "Emperor Ming has a long military fortune".

"On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I am very willing to conduct all-round exchanges with the Jesuits, the Holy See in China, and the Western countries in all aspects of culture, military, trade, technology, etc., and I also warmly welcome the merchants of the Church and Western countries to come to our special zone for trade, and I will do my best to protect their legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the requirements of the Ming law."

Gonggong Wei toasted a few missionaries, revealing something that would make Guo Jujing and them more interested.

His special maritime zone welcomes foreign businessmen to do business.

The premise is that these foreign businessmen can bring him something that Wei's father-in-law is interested in.