Bai Daqi was anxious to report King Chen's attitude to Empress Dowager Zeng, so he exchanged a few words of greeting with Zhu Linmiao and left in a hurry.

"My lord, General Zhao is in the camp." Shi Lin saw that the eunuch had left, so he hurriedly said to Zhu Linmiao.

"Zhao Yinxuan is here?" Zhu Linmiao hurriedly said, "Bring him to see me." ”

To say that Zhao Yinxuan was ordered to guard Shanguan, which was only dozens of miles away from the camp of the Dragon Guard, he should have arrived yesterday. But he saw the Qing army showing off their might in front of the pass at noon yesterday, and Shen Shi dispersed, suspecting that it was a trick to build a captive, but he did not dare to take half a step out of Shanguan.

Later, the Longwei army sent people to contact him several times, and he ordered his lieutenant to inquire in the Longwei military camp, and learned that King Chen had really defeated tens of thousands of Azig's main forces in half a day, so he hurried to meet him.

After Zhao Yin was selected into the account and saluted, he talked to Zhu Linmiao about the situation in Jiangxi.

"Your Highness, now that the Yang Pavilion is confronting Jianyu along the Baita River, and there are Dai garrisons attacking behind enemy lines, our army still has an advantage." Zhao Yinxuan changed his words and arched his hand, "However, there are still more than 10,000 thieves, and the Yang Pavilion wants to completely defeat them, but it still needs to take some effort......"

Zhu Linmiao nodded when he heard this, Yang Tinglin himself is not good at fighting, although Zhu Youshu and Guangxi wolf soldiers in his army have some combat power, it is also compared to the ordinary Ming army, compared to Liu Guangbi's Eight Banners of the Han Army, but it is still a cut behind.

Now that the war in Fujing has ended, it is advisable for the Jiangxi side to arrive as soon as possible. He thought for a moment and said to Zhao Yinxuan: "General Zhao should lead his troops back to Jiangxi as soon as possible, and in addition, I will transfer 4,000 men and horses from the captive battalion and two battalions of the Dragon Guard Army to reinforce the Yang Pavilion Department. With this force, it is enough to quickly break Liu Guangbi. ”

"But it's up to His Highness to arrange!" Zhao Yinxuan immediately got up, but then said, "It's just that Shanguan still needs to be guarded." ”

Zhu Linmiao smiled, "I have my own arrangements." ”

After Zhao Yinxuan left, Zhu Linmiao ordered his officers to gather in the tent and make some arrangements.

Gu Yanwu led the army to Jiangxi to help Yang Tinglin exterminate Guangxin Jianyu.

Shao Wu garrisoned Lu Chang, and some of the 1,000 troops were stationed at Shanguan. At present, there is no war in Shanguan, and it is more appropriate for the local Ming army to garrison it.

In addition, Lu Chang and Song Jincheng, the general soldier of Taining, were also responsible for escorting the prisoners. In addition to the officers who were directly sent to Tianxing Mansion to be beheaded, there were more than 20,000 captives who needed to be sent to various places for hard labor, which was also quite a troublesome matter.

This Lu Chang and Song Jincheng were still quite apprehensive when Chen Wang's department was fighting fiercely with Jianyu. The two were discussing where they should retreat if King Chen was defeated, when they heard a report from the Malay Raiders that thousands of captives were coming towards this side.

If it weren't for the courage of these two people, they would almost have turned around and ran away. When the captives approached a moment later, they found that they were all in crooked armor and panicked like lost dogs, and they learned that it was a rout.

It only took a few shouts from his two men, and the captives fell to their knees and begged for mercy. Yes, they also captured more than 3,000 captives in a beautiful manner.

Lu Chang and Song Jincheng both inherited their father's ranks, and they were both inactive in the station before, but they didn't expect to be able to make such a feats this time, presumably this official rank can go further.

The two then heard about how King Chen's command was brave and good at fighting in this battle, and the Jianyu had no power to fight back, so they admired King Chen so much that they threw themselves to the ground, and they were glad that they had made the right choice at that time.

Since then, they have only looked forward to Zhu Linmiao, and they almost wrote the word "King Chen" on their faces.

In stark contrast to them, those officers who had been watching the battle situation and planning to start the battle were panicked after learning of the great victory at Sugipass, and they all rushed to the Dragon Guard camp with gifts as fast as they could, but they were all turned away.

"The Dragon Guard and the Broken Battalion rushed to the nearest gloss to repair the team that was more damaged in this battle. The bereavement pensions for the fallen soldiers should be implemented as soon as possible, and the remaining part of the silver taels needed should be reported to me as soon as possible. Zhu Linmiao finally said, "In addition to the reinforcements of Jiangxi, the rest of the generals will go back and prepare, leave tomorrow, and return to Tianxing Mansion with me." ”

"Yes!" All the people in the tent answered in unison.

Next.

Zhu Linmiao only took more than 100 people from his personal soldier company, and set foot on the road back to Tianxing Mansion with a number of officers.

"Your Highness, what are you thinking?" Zhen Zhen urged the chestnut horse that had just been captured, and approached Zhu Linmiao, "It should have been a big victory, why did you see that you were sad?" ”

"Oh, nothing." Zhu Linmiao smiled reluctantly and shook her head.

In fact, he had a lot of thoughts in his heart, on the one hand, in this battle of Shanguan, the Long Wei Army exposed a lot of problems that needed to be solved urgently.

First of all, the protection was insufficient, and the most casualties of the Dragon Guard in this battle were the bows and arrows of the Jianyu. In comparison, the heavily protected heavy cavalry battalion broke through and captured the elite cavalry formation, but it did not suffer much loss.

Secondly, the number of cannons also needs to be greatly increased. Jianyu only carried less than 100 chariots this time, and all of them were small chariots. Even so, until the main forces of the two armies began to fight in a white-knuckle battle, there were still many chariots that were not destroyed. It is conceivable that if Azig is equipped with two or three times as many chariots, the Dragon Guard will inevitably suffer greater losses.

In addition, there have been problems of varying degrees in terms of infantry firepower, logistics, and marching speed.

In the future, the Qing court will definitely concentrate on dealing with the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, after the battle of Shanguan, Jianyu will also sum up his experience, and even learn some of the fighting methods of the Longwei army. They used to be under the Ming army, and they progressed from a tribal army that had been degraded to the strongest in East Asia, and their learning ability and determination can be seen.

If the Dragon Guard Army can't solve its own problems as soon as possible, it will definitely kill and wound more soldiers in the face of more ferocious enemy forces in the future, and it will not even be able to guarantee an overwhelming advantage over Jianyu.

Fortunately, Zhu Linwei now has some preliminary ideas on how to improve the combat effectiveness of the Dragon Guard. For example, in terms of protection, cotton armor should be universalized, and the front row of the infantry line can even be equipped with cuirasses. This is a plate armor that only defends the chest and abdomen, and is very easy to defend against the Qing army's bow and arrow, and even provides defense against knives and spears in white-knuckle combat.

As for the number of artillery, it cannot be solved by simply increasing the number of artillery.

There is a certain standard for the proportion of artillery in the army, if the number of artillery is too large and the infantry and cavalry cannot effectively protect it, then once the enemy disperses and approaches, it will cause serious defensive pressure on your side.

This is why an artillery fanatic like Napoleon had no more than four cannons per 1,000 men in his army. This ratio was summed up by the Europeans after hundreds of years of war, and Zhu Linmiao believes that it is still relatively scientific.

It is the improvement of artillery that can only be started by expanding the overall size of the Dragon Guard Army and improving the combat effectiveness of artillery. As for how to implement it, it needs to be planned in detail.