Li Zicheng sent troops to Shanhaiguan, originally to surrender Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui opened Shanhaiguan and led the Qing army into the pass. After that, Li Zicheng was defeated in a stone, and then the Qing army occupied the capital.

Although Zhao Peng had a very bad historical knowledge, he also knew what would happen later. Although Chen Yuanyuan had already brought him here, the Wu family had sent his family one after another, without the excuse of being angry as a woman, who could guarantee that Wu Sangui would not switch and let the Qing army enter the pass? Zhao Peng was not sure of this at all. But the sure thing is that as long as Wu Sangui switches into the Qing army, the Shun army would be defeated.

The number of the Shun Army on the surface is 500,000 and 600,000. The total number of the Qing army's Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners is only 80,000. After all, Manchu is a small ethnic group with only 200,000 ding dynasties. The real Manchu soldiers are only 50,000, which is the limit. The Eight Mongolian Banners plus the Han Army Banner and 50,000 Manchu soldiers, the Qing army's troops are at most more than 100,000. However, the number of the Shun Army's 50,000 and 600,000 is very water, and the Shun Army's old camp is only 30,000. The rest are either refugees or the Ming Dynasty surrendered soldiers. The combat effectiveness of those people is not worth mentioning at all, and it is also a reaction force. Once the elite old camp of the Shun Army is defeated, the refugees and the Ming army surrendered soldiers will be transformed into the Green Camp Qing army.

50,000 Manchu soldiers, 30,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, and unknown Han military flags (at least 20,000 to 30,000). Wu Sangui's Guanning army has more than 100,000. The 30,000 Shun Army old camp is definitely not an opponent. Even if there are already armored grenades formed by Zhao Peng to help Li Zicheng, it is not possible. After all, the number of armored grenades is too small, with only 500 people. How much effect can it play in facing more than 100,000 enemies?

The only way to save China is to escort the prince south after the battle of Yibishi before the Qing army arrived, and take advantage of the opportunity of the Shun army to hold back the Qing army and return to Nanjing as soon as possible to develop in a vulgar way.

To this end, Zhao Peng took a two-pronged approach. First, he asked Gao Wencai to send someone to contact Zheng Zhilong and ask Zheng Zhilong for help from his maritime power to send the prince south; second, he quickly formed his own elite force, and first he had to send the prince to Tianjin.

Currently, there are only 600 people in my hands, so it is almost impossible for me to send the prince away with this number of people. The number of miners among the refugees is very limited, so I need to find another way to recruit a group of people.

"Brother, I have sent someone to secretly go to Nanjing. Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Sen is in the Imperial College in Nanjing. I am only worried that the Zheng family was originally a pirate. Will they really serve my Ming Dynasty?" Gao Wencai asked worriedly.

"Zheng Sen will definitely help him when he learns this. Brothers dare to use their heads to guarantee his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty." Zhao Peng said. He cannot guarantee Zheng Zhilong's character, but Zheng Sen's reliability is completely fine. Zheng Sen was Zheng Damu. Later, Emperor Longwu named him Zhu Chenggong, and later recovered the national hero Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan.

"But our side has too few soldiers and horses, only more than 600 people, and the brother has a reliable staff of 300, not even 1,000. Brother, don't be limited to miners. Recruit a group of people from canal boat workers. If you can recruit another 900, you can have 1,800 people to escort the prince safely from Beijing." Gao Wencai suggested recruiting people from boat workers.

"Shipman? Is it available?"

"It is definitely possible to recruit only boaters and oarsmen!" Gao Wencai said. Boaters and oarsmen are both very disciplined. Boaters who pull boats need to be unified in their pace, otherwise they cannot pull the boat at all if they cannot have magic power at the same time; let alone oarsmen, they need to row at the same time under unified commands so that the boat can travel smoothly, otherwise the boat will be circled on the water.

Zhao Peng quickly recruited 900 ship workers and organized them into the Jinyiwei, plus 600 miners, and transferred 300 veterans from Gao Wencai to form a team of 1,800 Jinyiwei.

In order to enable this team mainly recruits to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai unanimously decided to use the method of the Mandarin Duck Formation to train formation battles.

There were 1,800 people, just 150 mandarin duck formations, and all 300 people from Gao Wencai's old subordinates served as the team leader and the team leader. Among them, 150 were the team leader, each equipped with a flag gun, a goose feather knife and a Lumi gun. Why is 150 people long? Each of them was equipped with a long sign, a goose feather knife and two grenades.

The newly recruited 1,500 new recruits were assigned to the types of troops according to the typical mandarin duck formation. Among them, 150 soldiers with excellent skills and relatively flexible minds were the sergeant commanders, each equipped with a rattan card, a goose feather knife and four grenades.

There are 150 fire soldiers equipped with turtledog guns and big axes. The big axes can serve as the stand of the turtledog guns. When using the turtledog guns to shoot, the tail of the axes is placed on the ground and the turtledog guns are mounted on the axes. During close combat, the big axes are also an excellent armor-breaking weapon. Whether it is the projectile hit by the turtledog gun or the big axes to chop, no matter how much thick armor is applied to the Eight Banners is used.

The remaining 1,200 people, each of Langxian and Palladium were 300, and each of them was 600 spearmen. Among them, Palladium also served as the bird gunner.

Such a mandarin duck formation actually strengthens the mandarin duck formation of firearms, replaced the javelin of the sword player with a grenade, replaced the bird gun of the fire soldiers with a turtle dove gun, replaced the bow and arrow of the team with a Lumi gun, and replaced the rocket of the palladium hand with a more reliable bird gun.

However, Zhao Peng still had fewer people. Originally, Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang Formation needed to be used with the chariot soldiers. The Yuanyang Formation acted as a killer team. Each car contained twenty soldiers, twelve Yuanyang Formation soldiers formed a killer team and eight gunners. Due to insufficient manpower, insufficient artillery and no side vans, there were no chariots, so there were no chariots.

The Yuanyang Formation and the chariot soldiers were indeed powerful. In the end, the Qi family army gave great damage to the Later Jin army in the bloody battle of Hunhe. The Qi family army and the Baigang soldiers broke the myth of invincibility of the Eight Banners. Later, the Later Jin army transferred Li Yongfang's cannon and blasted the chariot formation.

Zhao Peng's Yuanyang Formation lacks the cooperation of the chariot formation, he will definitely suffer in the field battle with the Eight Banners Army. However, this army is not used to stop the Qing army from moving south, but to escort the prince south. The main targets of the battle are bandits along the way, bandits and Ming army (Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others may prevent the prince from moving south), as well as the small-scale Qing army that may catch up.

As long as you don’t encounter a large-scale Qing army carrying cannons, the Yuanyang Formation will not suffer any losses. In terms of long-range firepower, there are turtle dove guns in the Yuanyang Formation. Zhao Peng also plans to select a group of people from the craftsmen of the Beijing Military Weapon Bureau to serve as temporary gunners, using Franchise and Tiger Squat Cannons, specifically used to deal with Qing archers.

During this period, Li Zi became a multi-production firearm. Zhang Bang recruited a group of craftsmen who were lost among the people, which strengthened the power of the Beijing Military Weapon Bureau. Anyway, Zhao Peng would pack all the craftsmen of the Beijing Military Weapon Bureau, and some apprentices could temporarily act as gunners.
Chapter completed!