337. The purpose of the Franciscan

In this regard, Xiao Ruxun said that at the beginning of the war, the other party will definitely concentrate the main force in a certain important town, we can join forces to attack this important town together, try to coordinate the effect of fighting together, if the main force and the main force fight, they will definitely pull up most of the main force, including the war elephant troops, if they can be annihilated in a battle, it would be good to see how the situation is, anyway, the battlefield is changing rapidly, we are not weak brigades, insist on fighting. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

King Nari Xuan agreed, anyway, no matter how good it is said now, the battlefield will change rapidly, and anything can happen, and it is better not to divide the troops if they can act without dividing the troops, but if the time really comes, the main force of the other party is defeated, and it is inevitable that they will divide the troops.

Then there is the problem of logistics support, Xiao Ruxun has not proposed to pay for it himself, King Narui Xuan said that in order to show his sincerity, he is willing to support a batch of grain and grass for the Ming army, but they themselves are not very rich, and it is difficult to maintain the burden of grain and grass for 80,000 people, so Xiao Ruxun took out the 100,000 taels of silver donated by Lin Yuanshan and other Chinese and handed it to King Narui Xuan.

"Just as the grain and grass of 100,000 taels of silver we bought, it should be enough for the army for half a year, and please ask the king to guarantee it, there is a lot of inconvenience in transporting grain from the country, and it can be solved on the spot or hope to solve it on the spot, if you find that the silver is not enough after the war, and then put it forward, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not be short of one or two silver from the king!"

Xiao Ruxun made such a request, and King Narui Xuan couldn't let go of his hand with the silver ticket, and he couldn't say anything against it.

The most important logistical food security problem was solved, and Xiao Ruxun did not spend a tael of his own silver.

After the repair of some weapons and gunpowder bullets and the like, will be transported by the Ming Navy from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang provinces, without Siam, the Ministry of War has ordered these three provinces to provide logistical support for the expeditionary army, and asked the Nanjing Military Department to supervise the implementation, so that Xiao Ruxun was relieved, because of the existence of Ye Mengxiong, he was extremely relieved.

Ye Mengxiong was operated as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department before, stayed away from the strife in Beijing in Nanjing, calmed down and recuperated, lived like a hermit in the mountains, and a group of old friends sent love to the landscape, and rarely cared about the affairs of the Nanjing Military Department, so that some people with a heart were very relieved, until the imperial edict came, so that Ye Mengxiong supervised the manufacture and transportation of military supplies for the Southern Expeditionary Army, Ye Mengxiong also quickly learned that the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army was none other than Xiao Ruxun, who he regarded as the light of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the previous relationship, as well as the next logistics and transportation, plus his father-in-law and wife and children are living in Nanjing, it is the best choice to take care of Ye Mengxiong on his behalf, when the fleet arrived in Zhejiang, Xiao Ruxun also took a little time to visit Ye Mengxiong in Nanjing, the two had a meal, chatted a lot of topics after separation, and then said goodbye.

Xiao Ruxun has already entrusted all his logistics support to Ye Mengxiong, and Ye Mengxiong is also a trustworthy person, so he doesn't have to worry about his logistics problems.

After the specific things are discussed, they will wait for the assembly of King Narui Xuan's troops, and the adaptability training of the Ming army will be completed, and they can send troops, before again, they also need to collect enough information, then it is not something that Xiao Ruxun and Narui Xuan themselves have to do, the supreme commander of the two armies, King Narui Xuan, walked and chatted in the palace, talking about some things that they were concerned about.

"In other words, when the heavenly soldiers contact the musket, they all practice with live ammunition, and they are guaranteed to shoot more than three shots per person every day?"

King Narui Xuan was surprised by the way Xiao Ruxun trained his pawns, gunpowder lead and arquebuses are indeed not expensive things, but this thing requires a lot of quantity and investment to form combat effectiveness, in this way, a musket is nothing, but a thousand and ten thousand are terrible, and the cost is very high.

Among the 30,000 main forces of Xiao Ruxun's attack, 7,000 are musketeers, which means that Xiao Ruxun's subordinates have 7,000 muskets, and when they fight, 7,000 muskets fire in unison, what kind of momentum should it be? Not to mention Nari Xuan himself, the musketeers in Myanmar are afraid that there is not such a big battle, so many musketeers have to practice shooting and live-fire drills every day, how much should it cost? Anyway, such an expense is in Siam, and King Narexuan can't even afford to raise a thousand musketeers.

Xiao Ruxun has his own understanding of this.

"The musket itself requires a lot of contact to be proficient in operation, and compared to cavalry and crossbowmen, the speed of the gunner's army is very fast, and it can be skilled in about a month, but if it is really an elite gun, you can't go without live ammunition a day, you must shoot live ammunition at least once a day to maintain your feel, so that you can play well in wartime, and it is very likely that there will be sharpshooters similar to sharpshooters.

What I'm thinking about is to make the pawns stronger in the current situation, so let them practice more live ammunition, master that feeling, and their hit rate can be improved a lot on the battlefield, so that the money for them to practice is not wasted, after all, the so-called to make the horse run fast, you must let the horse eat well, if you can't eat enough, you can't run fast, in the same way, if you can't practice at home, you will naturally not be elite. ”

King Narexuan had to nod yes.

"What the Admiral said is very true, but Xiao Wang, the beginning of the Siamese Kingdom, does not have enough financial surplus to use for the soldiers to practice, compared to doing this, it is more cost-effective to recruit some Francois Hongmaoyi, they can fight, and they are very accurate, Xiao Wang has several vicious battles before they helped to win."

Xiao Ruxun only can't agree with this.

"After all, the Franc machine is a foreign country, come to our land, I don't know what to pay attention to, the Franc machine people had a war with the Ming Dynasty decades ago, the attitude was very bad, and the Ming Dynasty taught him a hard lesson before he left in disgrace, and now he is rooted here, far away from his hometown and thousands of miles away, in addition to money, there must be these ulterior purposes, the king, for these people, if they can be used, they will be used, and if they cannot be used, they will be killed!"

King Narui Xuan was a little strange how Xiao Ruxun didn't have a good impression of these people.

"Before the Admiral came, the Japanese were still worried that they would be disgusted by the Admiral, but now it seems that the Admiral does not dislike the Japanese people, but he is very disgusted with the Francis Hongmaoyi, why is this? The Admiral had just fought with the Japanese people, and as for the Francos, the Admiral probably hadn't fought with them, right? ”

"The Japanese are close neighbors, I know the roots of the Japanese people, if the Japanese dare not submit, I can raise 100,000 troops to level the Japanese country in an instant, they can run the monk can not run the temple, but these Francois Hongmaoyi is different, the country is thousands of miles away, even if we kill them, we can't find their lair, there is no way to completely eliminate it, in case they come back one day, it will be more troublesome!"

King Narui Xuan searched for a while, and felt that what Xiao Ruxun said may not be unreasonable.

"Admiral Xiao said this, Xiao Wang thinks it is also, these Francois people don't care about their homeland, but they are willing to go thousands of miles away to join the army to fight, what does this mean? Could it be that it's really just for the money? ”

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the bustle of the world is driven by profit, and its people go thousands of miles away, if it is not for something more valuable than money, this governor will not believe anything!"