In addition, from the overall strategic perspective of the Ming Dynasty, the White Pole Army is also in an extremely critical position.

Not to mention the important task related to the safety of the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, such as preventing the invasion of Sichuan by the Jianyu Haoge Department, even the matter of preventing Sun Kewang from entering Yunnan should not be taken lightly.

Historically, after Sun Kewang occupied Yunnan, he was indeed forced to accept the imperial court's recruitment of the communist enemy for various reasons.

But what needs to be seen is that, first of all, Sun Kewang and his followers have caused a lot of damage to Yunnan's economy and people's livelihood. The previous Shadingzhou rebellion had caused Yunnan to experience a catastrophe, and when the Sun family went south, in order to recover as soon as possible, he almost exhausted the elite soldiers of Yunnan, even the Tusi family.

Secondly, at that time, Sun Kewang decided to unite with the Ming Dynasty, mainly because the Jianyu offensive was too fierce, so he had to do it, and before that, he had a long time of secession.

At present, Jianyu is blocked in Jiangbei, and Yunnan is considered to be a big rear. If Sun Kewang enters Yunnan, he is likely to establish himself as the king, and at that time, he will have to transfer the Dragon Guard Army to quell the chaos, which will greatly restrain the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Linmiao said in his heart, it seems that no matter what aspect you look at, it is imperative to enhance the combat effectiveness of the White Pole Army.

After Zhai Shiyun finished telling the details of the battle the day before yesterday, Zhu Linmiao pondered carefully, the white pole army was able to hold on all night under the ambush and encirclement of several times the enemy, which showed that its combat power was good.

He turned his head to look at the white spears not far away, but they relied too much on the spear array, and their long-range firepower was only a few dozen bows and arrows.

In this way, as long as efforts are made to increase the ratio of guns and cannons of the white pole army, its combat effectiveness should be improved soon.

You know, it is several times more difficult to train a qualified spearman than a firecracker. For example, in the Spanish phalanx, the salary of the spearmen was more than 30% higher than that of the musketeers.

The White Pole Army, on the other hand, happened to have a large number of qualified spearmen.

Zhu Linmiao went to the Yamen of the Sanzhou Inspection Division, and ordered the Long Weijun to be stationed near the left of the Inspection Division. With the military discipline of the Dragon Guard, he never had to worry about disturbing the people and the like. Then he asked people to summon Qin Zuoming to come.

Over there, Qin Zuoming learned that His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King wanted to see him, but it seemed very unnatural.

To say that his Qin family has been repeatedly summoned by the Son of Heaven, even if he himself has been consulted by Chongzhen, but most of them are the saint's commendations after the great victory. But this time he suffered a defeat because of his own mistakes, and almost failed to the enemy, if he was reprimanded by the auxiliary king this time, where would he have the face to see his aunt in the future.

He entered the second hall of the Inspection Department with great trepidation, and when he saw Zhu Linmiao, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "The last general, Qin Zuoming, will pay a visit to His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King. The last general almost missed a major incident by attacking the enemy at night this time, and asked His Highness to punish him......"

Seeing this, Zhu Linmiao laughed and laughed, hurriedly helped him up, and said with a smile: "General Qin has no fault, if you hadn't led your troops to come to the rescue, Lord Zhai's department might have been broken by the thief army." I also had to chase after the soup guests everywhere to eat dirt. ”

Qin Zuoming's heart warmed when he heard this, and he was busy saying that he didn't dare.

Zhu Linmiao asked people to serve tea, asked Qin Zuoming to sit down, and asked him, "What is the situation in Sichuan now?" ”

Qin Zuoming solemnly arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Highness, more than 40,000 people from the Jianyu Haoge Department are eyeing each other, and Xiankou is even known as an army of 200,000, but in fact, there are about 60,000 soldiers who can fight.

"And our army only has more than 12,000 people under the command of Wang Shaobao and General Zeng, and 13,000 men and horses of the White Pole Army."

"Wang Shaobao?" Zhu Linmiao was stunned when she heard this.

Qin Zuoming was busy explaining to him that he was a cabinet scholar, promoted to Shaobao, and Wang Yingxiong Wang.

It turned out to be Wang Yingxiong, Zhu Linmiao nodded, this person once adhered to Zunyi, and finally martyred, but he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty. It's just that he, the auxiliary political king, almost doesn't know that there is a university scholar in Sichuan, or Shaobao.

These all originated from the excessive rewards during the Longwu Dynasty, and there were more than 20 people in the south of the Yangtze River who were named scholars.

Qin Zuoming said again: "Under the command of Wang Shaobao...... This ......" he didn't expect for a long time that "mediocre combat power" could be said to be more euphemistic, so he simply jumped over and said, "It's my aunt's command, but in fact, there are only 4,000 elite white-pole troops, and the rest are all transferred by various departments in Xitong." ”

Xitong is a general term for the ethnic minority areas in the southwest of Sichuan, which is seriously poisoned by the Liukou, and at this time, the southwest can still recruit strong men to join the army.

Zhu Linmiao also frowned slightly, he knew that the situation in Sichuan was not optimistic, but he didn't expect it to be so serious. There were more than 100,000 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, but there were only more than 25,000 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and most of them were not strong enough to fight.

He then said to Qin Zuoming: "Soldiers are not expensive. The white pole army is brave and good at fighting, and the formation is proficient, but it lacks the help of guns and cannons.

"This time, I led the army to capture some firearms on the way to Guangxi, which could be allocated to the White Pole Army. Supplemented by the corresponding formation exercises, there are more than 20,000 soldiers, and they can also fight 100,000 enemy troops. ”

"Firearms?" Qin Zuoming's eyes lit up, their Qin family fought, most of them relied on self-raising food, and the imperial court could at most supply ordinary money and grain, so they had no money to equip expensive firearms. If His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King can really allocate some to the Qin family, it will definitely greatly enhance the combat power of the White Pole Army.

He licked his lips, "I don't know what His Highness said about firearms......

Zhu Linmiao thought for a while, "I will allocate all the more than 1,200 eleven-money bird guns seized from Macao, and as for the three-money bird guns that collected Ding Kuichu, there are more than 1,000 ones, but this gun is ...... powerful."

"Yes, yes, yes." Qin Zuoming hurriedly said, joking, no matter how powerful the bird gun is, it is stronger than nothing. After he finished speaking, he felt out of shape again, and picked up the tea bowl in front of him with an embarrassed expression.

"Then I'll allocate it to you, and when the Ganzhou Ordnance Bureau is free, I'll let them make a batch of six-dollar guns for you." Zhu Linmiao ignored Qin Zuoming's surprised eyes and continued, "Oh, by the way, Ding Kuichu's cannons that Ding Kuichu bought from the Franc Machine Man simply don't transport them back to Fujing, and they will be allocated to you as well." ”

Qin Zuoming worked hard for a long time, but he still didn't hold back, and asked, "How big is it?" ”

"Four eighteen-pounder guns, eight twelve-pounder guns." Seeing that he didn't seem to understand, Zhu Linmiao explained, "It's probably two thousand, three or four hundred catties and three thousand, five or six hundred catties of cannons." ”

"Two thousand pounds! Three thousand five hundred pounds! Qin Zuoming almost fainted happily, he had only seen and touched such a heavy cannon, but now he gave twelve at a time! With these guys, don't beat the turtle sons of Jianyu and thieves to death.

He hurriedly picked up his clothes and knelt down, and said loudly: "The Qin family will swear to die to repay His Highness!" ”

Zhu Linmiao helped him up with a smile, and said: "The Qin family is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the court will never treat you badly!"

"In the past, the government decrees of Liangguang and Huguang were not compatible, and the imperial court wanted to help you, but it couldn't reach it. Now that Guangxi has returned, the imperial court will definitely not let the Qin family fight alone in the future. ”