Chapter 078
Linglong Town, Ning Haijun Camp.
It is not easy to set up camp in the ice and snow. The ground is frozen as hard as iron, making it impossible to dig trenches or pound wooden stakes into the ground.
But if you change your mind, it will become very easy. Ning Haijun's cooking soldiers immediately lit a fire and used all the marching cauldrons to boil water. Ning Haijun's soldiers shoveled up the snow with shovels and pounded it down with shovels. This engineer shovel was also copied by the Ordnance Bureau based on later generations of engineer shovels. Although the quality is not as good as that of later generations, it is very useful.
As the snow walls were built, the hot water heated by the cooking soldiers was poured on them. When the cold wind blew, an ice wall was formed. As a war camp wall, it doesn't actually need to be too high, and the workload isn't too heavy either. It's just a pile of snow.
While Ning Haijun soldiers were busy setting up camp, the four carriages and RVs disassembled the horse harnesses of the carriages, then pushed the carriages and put the carriages together. The four four-wheeled carriages and RVs were assembled together to form A much larger RV.
As the electronic center of the RV lights up, the entire carriage RV becomes bright.
This carriage and RV with electronic energy-saving lamps is naturally Cheng Shijie's private carriage and RV. It has a 1,200-watt solar panel installed on the top of the car, which can generate seven or eight kilowatt hours of electricity a day.
This electrical energy has little other use, but it can charge the walkie-talkie of Cheng Shijie's drone. However, before the temperature in Cheng Shijie's RV rose, Cheng Shijie charged the radios one by one. At this moment, he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves coming from outside.
So far, Ning Haijun has no cavalry in the real sense. Even soldiers on horseback are scouts. Obviously, the scouts have brought updated news.
"Commander, the latest news is that the rebels attacking Crouching Tiger Village have increased their troops!"
"How many more troops are coming?"
"There are more than five hundred people!"
Cheng Shijie was not nervous. There was not much difference between luring more than 1,000 enemies and more than 1,500 people. Liu Qingsong should be able to complete the task.
"Definitely..."
Not long after, another sound of horse hooves sounded.
The scouts brought back new news.
"Report to the commander-in-chief that the rebel Lou Jian's troops have increased by more than 600 troops...
Before he finished speaking, another team of scouts came over and reported: "The rebels are attacking again!"
There were five waves of reinforcements, at least 3,000 troops.
Cheng Shijie's face became solemn. It was no longer realistic to transfer Liu Qingsong's department back at this time.
Zhang Yu was in a hurry: "Commander, can I take the troops from the right commander to help you?"
"No, you have the soldiers ready to meet the enemy!"
"yes!"
Zhang Yu had no choice but to lead Ning Haijun soldiers to start setting up a defense line along the camp.
As Zhang Yu and other officers left, Cheng Shijie immediately took out the drone placed in the carriage, and then added gasoline to the drone's pesticide tank.
Now, the only thing Cheng Shijie can do is to launch the drone and then use the drone to spray gasoline on the rebels. At night, if the rebels want to pursue Liu Qingsong's troops, they will definitely light torches to light up the road. In this case, The gasoline sprayed by the drone will directly turn into a fire dragon, forming a sea of fire in the enemy formation.
Although Ning Haijun has now grown to a small number of 20,000 troops, of which the navy accounts for more than one-third of the force, Ning Haijun has too few veterans and even fewer confidants. Let alone 300 troops, even if one of them dies, Cheng Shijie will also feel physical pain.
"Bang bang bang bang..."
There was a dense thunderous sound in the distance, which indicated that the two sides were already fighting. At this time, Cheng Shijie did not care about his own soldiers discovering his drone, and directly increased the speed of the drone.
"Let's go!"
As the drone took off, Cheng Shijie controlled the drone and flew quickly towards Wohu Village. It took less than five minutes for the drone to fly to Crouching Tiger Village. Through the drone footage, he saw a scene that made Cheng Shijie unbelievable.
Rebel soldiers are lining up to surrender.
Liu Qingsong accepted the thanks from the iron craftsmen of Wohu Village.
"Thank God!"
Cheng Shijie breathed a sigh of relief. These rebels were very honest. They were frightened by Ning Haijun's thunderbolt. Don't look at the fact that Liu Qingsong's troops fired 240 lead bullets and more than 200 crossbow arrows in just half a stick of incense, causing 300 to 400 casualties to the rebels.
The ancient army was not like the armies of later generations, especially in terms of sustaining casualties. In the Battle of Verdun in World War I, the French army invested 75 divisions and 1.1 million troops, but suffered losses of 540,000. The cost was more than 3,000 people, of whom 156,000 died. There were 50 German divisions participating, totaling 1.25 million people. Germany lost more than 434,000 people, of which more than 143,000 were killed.
The casualty ratio of both parties involved in the war exceeded 40%. However, in ancient times, even elite troops could only withstand 30% of the casualties. Because of the scrapped weapons, they were no longer able to fight anymore. Generally, it is between five and ten percent.
The rebels of Kong Youde's tribe were a ragtag group, and naturally their ability to withstand casualties was extremely weak. The ceiling of the ancient army was Ran Wei during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Ran Min led more than 10,000 Ran Wei troops under his command and fought to the end. Only more than 10,000 troops surrendered in the end.
In this battle, the Yan army suffered heavy losses of 200,000 infantry and cavalry. It took four years for the Yan army to regain its strength, allowing the territory of Ran Wei at that time, including the six states of Yan, Qing, Yi, Bing, and Luo, to expand over four years. There was anarchy during the year.
Of course this is an extremely rare phenomenon, this is MZ hatred.
After this unexpected encounter at Crouching Tiger Village, Cheng Shijie fully realized the power of Ning Haijun. He concentrated his forces to prepare for the decisive battle with Kong Youde's troops, which seemed a bit conservative.
Since it was a bit conservative, I decided to correct this problem.
Cheng Shijie recovered the drone, put the drone's gasoline back into the gasoline barrel, and at the same time removed the drone's battery to charge the drone.
In this cold winter, the working time of the drone has been greatly reduced. The battery that was originally able to work at full capacity for one hour only had less than 47% of the power left after working for ten minutes.
Cheng Shijie is thinking that he should go back to later generations and purchase fuel-powered drones. This will make it more convenient. When the Gunpowder Bureau develops new gunpowder, he can just let the drones drop bombs.
Cheng Shijie ventilated the RV to disperse the gasoline smell inside.
At this time, Liu Qingsong had already passed the news of his victory back to the camp.
Faced with this news, Ning Haijun's officers were collectively stunned.
"Three hundred against more than four thousand, winning in one battle, beheading 426 people, and capturing 3,852 people? How is this possible?"
"Is Liu Qingsong so fierce?"
"He doesn't know how serious the punishment for lying about military merit is, right?"
"Isn't it true that I just got promoted to the fifth rank of Qian?"
However, the problem is that the slap in the face came too fast. It didn't take long. The soldiers of Liu Qingsong's department had already begun to return. These Ning Navy soldiers were escorting the prisoners. The carts were filled with supplies seized from the rebels. There are grains, gold and silver treasures, antique calligraphy and paintings and other things.
These rebel prisoners are now like sheep. They are the ones pushing the cart, and they are only supervising one of the sentries, fifty Ning navy soldiers, watching over the endless team of prisoners.
"Report to the commander-in-chief that Liu Qingsong, a low-ranking official, was ordered to annihilate more than 4,000 rebel Lou Jian's troops and bring back all 3,852 prisoners, including one or more!"
"Well done!"
Although Cheng Shijie assigned Liu Qingsong's men the task of luring the enemy, Liu Qingsong actually killed Lou Jian and all his men. This can only be said to be an unexpected surprise.
"The commander is wise and can learn from thousands of miles away!"
Zhang Yu was a little confused. Looking at Cheng Shijie's attitude just now, it was clear that he was not worried about Liu Qingsong's defeat. Could it be said that the commander could predict the future?
Just like what is said in the play, strategize and win a victory thousands of miles away?
As Ning Haijun's right chief, Zhang Yu knew very well that every piece of information had to pass through his hands. Cheng Shijie didn't seem surprised at all. He had already calculated this result?
"Gather all the rebel prisoners. I want to give you a lecture!"
Zhang Yu stepped forward and lowered his voice: "Commander, do you want to send these rebel prisoners to work in the mines?"
Cheng Shijie then thought about it, and now he was ready to abandon the industry in Ninghai Prefecture and go to Liaonan to build a new base. However, Liaonan not only had to deal with the harsh environment, but also had to face the extremely vicious slaves.
Honest and good people may not be able to survive there. Only scoundrels and scum who have seen blood and done bad things can survive in Liaonan and take root.
Entering the main camp of Ning Haijun Camp, the eyes of these rebel prisoners began to move around. They saw vehicles with large black barrels densely arranged around them, and their faces turned pale with fear. I thought silently in my heart: "I'm lucky I surrendered, otherwise I would have been beaten to pieces!"
The big black barrel is actually a thunderbolt. Thirty barrels are fixed together with three iron hoops by craftsmen from the Gun Bureau. From the front, it looks like a big black barrel.
Cheng Shijie was also looking at these rebel prisoners. They were all sallow and thin, and their clothes were ragged. In the cold wind, their faces were pale and their bodies were like sieve chaff. These are probably farmers who cannot survive.
Of course, Cheng Shijie didn't know that he was only half right. Although these rebel prisoners were farmers who could not survive, they were not frozen, but turned pale with fear.
The surrounding Ning Navy soldiers were all carrying crossbows, shining spears, silent and tough soldiers, and more importantly, Cheng Shijie had 62 Thunder Guns in the camp. If it weren't for Shen Mingyu, After taking away thirty vehicles, Ning Haijun had already equipped nearly a hundred Thunder Gun vehicles.
"You bastards, scum, instead of being good citizens, you are turning into traitors! Tell me, how should I deal with you!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Everyone has it. Those who have killed people stand on the left, those who have not killed anyone stand on the right, and those who have committed crimes should not move in the middle. Don't think about getting away with it. If you report a lie, as long as it is verified, it will be reduced." Get rid of the death penalty!"
With a surge, more than 3,800 rebel prisoners were divided into three waves. On the left, there were 700 to 800 people who were proven to have killed people, and less than 200 people had committed the flower case. On the right are a full three thousand people!
Although Cheng Shijie has not yet announced the punishment for everyone, among the prisoners who had committed the crime, there was a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks who stood in the middle and said: "Sir, spare your life. The villain was forced. He had no choice but to do it. It was all forced by the leaders." This is what we do!”
"Fuck your mother's stinky shit!"
Cheng Shijie swore directly and cursed angrily: "Your leader can force you to kill people, but can he force you to rape women?"
"It was our leader who forced us to..."
The man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks quibbled in a low voice, but his voice was much lower and he seemed to have no confidence.
Cheng Shijie pointed at the man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks and said: "I order you now to take off your pants. No need to rape you. If you show your ability, I will let you go!"
As someone who has experienced this, Cheng Shijie knows it very well.
Despite his big shoulders and strong body, when Xiang Hui refused to cooperate, he really couldn't do it even if he wanted to be the overlord. As for those cases of rape by women, Cheng Shijie didn't believe it at all.
It's not that Cheng Shijie is a germaphobe, he is determined to deal with the prisoners who committed the flower case. Any army, even a rebel, is about strength.
Without a certain status and identity, eating meat would never be the turn of the top soldiers, either the backbone and officers, or the officers' confidants. No matter what the situation is, no one who has committed the flower case can be left behind.
With backbones and leaders like them, Cheng Shijie wanted to use these prisoners for his own purposes. It was not impossible, it would be too difficult.
On the contrary, killing the leader who has committed the crime is the simplest and most direct way.
The "sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked" refused to give up and continued to scream that he was wronged. Under his instigation, more than a hundred prisoners who had committed the Hua Case began to scream for mercy.
"As a man, if you dare to act bravely, what if you become a rebel? So what if you kill someone? As long as you dare to act bravely, I will respect you as a hero!!"
Cheng Shijie continued: "But you don't even have this responsibility, you are rubbish, a bunch of rubbish, chop these rubbish up and hang their heads on a pole!"
At this time, all the prisoners were quiet.
"Pu Chi, Pu Chi..."
The dog-leg knife equipped by Ning Haijun can chop off a person's head just like chopping melons and vegetables. In just one stick of incense, the heads of more than a hundred prisoners who had committed crimes were hung on the erected poles.
The scene was quiet now. Cheng Shijie looked at the prisoners and said: "You followed Kong Youde in the rebellion. Each of you committed a lot of evil. You fell into the hands of me, so you are unlucky! But God has the virtue of good life, and I don't want to kill anyone." , you take the initiative to confess, and I will reduce or reduce your crime as appropriate. If you try to muddle through, your crime will be increased. I will incorporate you into the Ning Haijun's field army, and you will open up wasteland for farming, or dig for food. In the mine, you will have to do the hardest and most tiring work, with no wages and only three meals a day to feed you. You must use your own sweat to wash away the sins on your body!"
The matter of the prisoners was decided in this way. Cheng Shijie put people in charge of screening the prisoners and also convened a military meeting. In view of the current situation of the rebels' weak combat effectiveness and weak fighting will, Ning Haijun divided his troops and led the two troops with General Bai as a unit. Three hundred people attacked the small rebel force.
There is a distance of five to ten miles between each Bai Zong. Once they encounter a large group of rebels, they will use a walkie-talkie to contact them. Each walkie-talkie has two batteries. Once one is used up, someone needs to immediately send the battery to Cheng Shijie. in hand.
Cheng Shijie needs to charge the walkie-talkie battery. You must know that most of the walkie-talkies nowadays are all-in-one machines, and split-battery walkie-talkies are not easy to buy.
In fact, this batch of walkie-talkies was not bought by Cheng Shijie, but by the scrap collection station. Some of them were broken and repaired by Jiang Wenhua.
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Just outside the city of Chengye County, Laizhou is the Qianhu House.
At this time, Qianhusuo was burning, with pillars of smoke rising into the sky. This is the only stronghold of Laizhou Guard outside the city. Under the attack of the rebels, this thousand-household residence did not survive for even an hour before it was captured by the rebels. A large amount of grain, grass and ordnance became the spoils of the rebels.
The rebels were looting Qianhusuo and set a fire that was burning brightly into the sky. This was how they wanted to tell the Ming army in Ye County.
See how long you can wait.
Kong Youde looked at the corpses on the ground and said with a sneer on his face: "They are all waste, waste, and a waste of food."
After Kong Youde rebelled, he discovered that the fighting power of the Ming army was really weak. It was so weak that most of these corpses had arrows or spears stuck in their backs, facing the direction of Ye County. They were obviously escaping. killed.
Due to the good management of Qianhu Officials, the Qianhu Institute of Laizhou Guard is much better preserved than the Zuo Qianhu Institute of Dengzhou Guard. At least the city walls are intact and the fortifications are quite strong. If the main Qianhu Institute of Laizhou Guard is The soldiers of Qianhu Guard Station were holding on tightly, and Kong Youde had to pay a considerable price if he wanted to capture it.
However, the problem is that when the Ming army at the Qianhu Station in front of the Laizhou Guard saw the rebels from Kong Youde's department, more and more reinforcements were coming. When they gathered tens of thousands of troops, without saying a word, they turned back and walked in unison, and then The rebels easily caught up and killed them one by one...
At this time, Kong Youde thought of Mao Wenlong.
When it comes to poverty, the Dongjiang Army is really poor. However, despite being extremely poor, the Dongjiang Army still fought to the death against the Jian Nu. They had no armor, and held inferior swords and even wooden guns and spears. They still dared to fight against the Jian Nu. .
At that time, Dongjiang Army was really at a loss.
A wooden gun is just a stick with one end sharpened. This kind of weapon is somewhat effective at stabbing Jiannu-clad slaves without armor, but it cannot penetrate those with armor, even red-armored soldiers wearing cowhide armor. .
The bundles of long spears and fine long spears of these Laizhou Guard soldiers were all rusty. They would rather put them in the warehouse to rust than let them be used by the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army.
They also killed Mao Wenlong and slandered him as a slave.
That's bullshit. If Mao Shuai did business with Jiannu like Guan Ningjun, would they be so poor?
At this moment, Li Jiucheng strode over with a machete covered in blood and dripping blood, and said to Kong Youde: "Kong Er, the stone is broken."
"What stone is broken? Where is it? What happened?"
Li Jiucheng sighed and said with a wry smile: "I just received a report from the scouts. When Shitou was attacking Crouching Tiger Village, Ning Haijun arrived. They hit Shitou with cannons. Both his head and legs were missing. Only Shitou's head and legs were missing. Found this..."
Soon, two rebel soldiers were carrying a headless corpse. They said it was a corpse, but only a torso. Ning Haijun counted his merits based on his head, so his head was chopped off and taken away, but the body was not taken.
Lou Jian, also known as Shitou, had a life-long friendship with Kong Youde. When Kong Youde was working as a miner, he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he ate the soybeans used to plug leaks in the mine.
As a result, Kong Youde was discovered by the supervisor and was severely punished with a hundred lashes. In this case, Kong Youde could only wish for good luck. It was Lou Shitou who used his few rations to pick some herbs and treat his injuries. Feed him.
In just half a month, Lou Shitou was so hungry that he lost his human form.
Later, he met Mao Wenlong and was adopted by Mao Wenlong as his adopted grandson. After he became successful, he shared hardships and wealth with Lou Shi. He did not marry a wife himself, but first married a North Korean woman with a big butt and good fertility as his wife for Lei Shitou.
It took him a year to save this little money.
Now, it's finally getting better.
However, Lou Shitou died.
Kong Youde pulled off the clothes on the corpse and observed it carefully.
Lou Shitou knew how to forge iron, and was struck by sparks many times, forming scars the size of copper coins. Once when he was attacking Jiannu, Lou Shitou blocked the blow with his back.
Now, the scars on the body confirm that Lou Shitou is dead.
"Gather the troops, I will avenge the stone!"
PS: This chapter is a bit short, only 5,000 and 6,000. Today’s update is 1,460,000. Next chapter, keep writing. Don’t wait, it will probably be very late.
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