Chapter 113
Although Xu Guangqi told Sun Yuanhua in the letter, he asked Sun Yuanhua to find a way to put aside the past grudges with Cheng Shijie and make him advance and retreat together with the French Party.
Although he didn't mention a word about marriage, he was concerned about Cheng Shijie's single issue, which is very revealing.
The Western French Party actually only has two or three kittens now. In addition to Xu Guangqi, the party leader, the second is Sun Yuanhua, the capable cadre, and the third is Chen Zilong, the son of Chen Suowen, the director of the Ministry of Industry.
But the problem is that Chen Zilong is only twenty-five years old, ten years younger than Cheng Shijie. He does have a daughter named Chen Xin, but she is only six years old. Even if the twenty-five-year-old Chen Zilong wants to be Cheng Shijie's father-in-law, it is not that big. daughter.
As for Sun Yuanhua, he did have three sons, the eldest son Sun Heding, the second son Sun Hedou, and the third son Sun Hejing. The youngest son Sun Hejing was unmarried, but the problem was that he had no daughter.
Xu Guangqi has sent Chen Zilong to Liaodong. This is because Xu Guangqi feels that the Ming Dynasty was affected by the cold weather of the Little Glacier. He wants to cultivate new crops that can withstand drought and cold. To realize this wish, Liaonan is the best Experimentally.
First of all, southern Liaoning has a large amount of land. Even Dalian City in later generations still has 20.52 million acres of cultivated land, including about 500,000 acres of paddy fields.
Secondly, compared to Shanghai, the climate in southern Liaoning is colder and has less rainfall. The climate here is more similar to that of most areas in the north.
Finally, there are no civilian fields here, only military camps. Because civilian fields will consider their own interests and will not accept fresh crops lightly, fearing heavy losses if there is a bad harvest. Cheng Shijie's military camp is used as an experimental field. As long as Cheng Shijie is willing, he can plant whatever crops he wants. Each household will know what crops to grow.
This is also the place in southern Liaoning that Xu Guangqi likes most.
The Western French Party and Xu Guangqi himself have very limited influence in the north. The Western French Party's influence is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangnan. Jiangnan is less affected by Xiaoglacier. Xu Guangqi, an agricultural expert, can't find experimental fields in the north.
It’s really a big joke in the world.
This time Xu Guangqi asked Chen Zilong to take more than a hundred agricultural experts from the Western French Party northward. Once Cheng Shijie turned his back on others, not only Chen Zilong would be in the tiger's mouth, but the entire Western French Party would be dealt a devastating blow.
Therefore, in this case, Sun Yuanhua had to take risks.
"Dacheng, get ready. I will choose a day to go to sea and go to Jinzhou!"
"Master Futai, the student thinks..."
"What?"
"The student thinks that Mr. Futai had better write a letter to Marshal Cheng first to test his tone!"
Sun Yuanhua nodded: "That's very good!"
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"In the fifth year of Chongzhen, AD 1632, on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, the Yellow River burst at Mengjin, resulting in numerous casualties among soldiers, civilians, and merchants. The people migrated, begging for food everywhere, and had no way to go, so they gathered and rebelled."
Although it snowed a few times in southern Liaoning in winter, the amount of snow was not too heavy and the snow accumulation did not exceed 30 centimeters.
In Cheng Shijie's opinion, there will be a drought in southern Liaoning during the five years of Chongzhen's reign. This terrible little glacier climate can really drive the farmers who depend on the sky crazy.
The Mengjin Ferry of the Yellow River bursts, and in this disaster-ridden Henan, famine will be everywhere again, and mourning will be everywhere. Cheng Shijie saw the major events in the five years of Chongzhen. Now history has been changed beyond recognition by him. The Kong Youde Rebellion that originally turned the whole of Shandong upside down has been eliminated invisible.
Cheng Shijie didn't know whether history would play out as it did in the original time and space. At least he knew that although he killed Kong Youde in advance, there was no change in the encyclopedias and history books of later generations.
Cheng Shijie realized that the late Ming Dynasty he came to should not be the late Ming Dynasty in history, but a parallel time and space. In other words, what he did as a butterfly in another world would not affect future generations.
He was reassured by this. He was really afraid that it would produce turbulence in time and space and mess up the history of future generations.
After the New Year, it’s the Lantern Festival.
After the Lantern Festival, southern Liaoning has entered into an intense preparation phase for spring plowing.
However, the problem is that the trees want to be quiet but the wind is not stopping. Cheng Shijie wants to have a good spring plowing, but the slaves are not willing. Although Huang Taiji had no intention of sending troops to retaliate against Ning Haijun, as the fifteenth elder brother among the three Dorgon brothers, Duduo, a famous slave general and the pride of heaven, the leader of the Zhengbai Banner. (Note: After the death of Huang Taiji, he changed the flag with his brother Dorgon and became the owner of the white flag)
News of Azige's defeat in Liaonan reached Shenyang. Azig became the laughing stock of the Eight Banners. This incident made Dodo feel ashamed. As the youngest of the three Dorgon brothers, Huang Taiji deliberately connived at it. In Dodo's heart, the fat old man did not As scary as Azig felt, in Duduo's heart, the fat old Eighth Emperor Taiji was an amiable elder. As long as he could win the battle, there would be no problem with or without his orders.
Of course, this was the result of Huang Taiji's intentional favoritism, which gave Duduo the illusion. Huang Taiji was too harsh on Azig, harsh yet harsh. Just like the first year of Chongzhen, Duduo got married. As the eldest of three brothers, Azig held a wedding for his younger brother Dodo. What kind of mistake was this?
Huang Taiji expelled Azig because he held Duduo's wedding without permission. The young and ignorant Duduo thought that this was Huang Taiji giving him face and respecting him.
In fact, before Nurhachi died, he had a clear instruction: Azig was the leader of the Bianghuang Banner, and Dodo was the leader of the Zhenghuang Banner. After his death, all the troops he commanded would be given to Dodo, but he would be given another flag. To Dorgon. After Huang Taiji became the Khan King, the two yellow flags and the two white flags were exchanged, and Duduo became the flag owner of the Zhengbai Banner. At this time, Duduo was still the stronger flag owner of the Eight Banners.
Duduo was not only the flag owner of Zhengbai Banner, but also inherited twenty Niulu from Nurhachi's personal army. Duduo, the leader of Zhengbai Banner, had a total of forty-five Niulu. The other banners all have one Jia La Er Zhen under his jurisdiction with five Niu Lu, that is, five times three hundred, a total of 1,500 people.
However, Jiala'erzhen of Zhengbai Banner has nine Niulu under its jurisdiction. The number is nine times three hundred, totaling 2,700 people. The entire flag has a total of 13,500 people. The straight white flag has nearly half more troops than the white flag.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen and the sixth year of Tiancong, on the eleventh day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, a high-level military meeting was held within Zhengbai Banner. The participants included five Jia La E Zhen and forty-five Niu Lu E of Zheng Bai Banner. real.
Jiannu did not have so many rules at this time. The first counselor of Zhengbai Banner, who was responsible for reconnaissance and intelligence, reported to Niulu Ezhen and Jia La Ezhen.
"... Around the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month last year, Ming Manzi's Dongjiang Army arrived at the Stone Castle, but they did not station themselves at the Stone Castle. Instead, they set up defenses along the mountain road with the Stone Castle behind them. The spies tried to approach its camp, but failed. , the camp's defense is much tighter than that of the Guan Ning Army, and it can be concluded that it is the Dongjiang family's army. According to reports from informants lurking in the Dongjiang Army, it seems that the person leading the army is not Huang Long himself, but the adopted son of Mao Wenlong, the former commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army. Mao Chenglu, Mao Chenglu does not have that many soldiers, it is still unknown..."
"The strength of the Dongjiang Army sent this time seems to be between 20,000 and 30,000. Most of them are infantry and there are not many horses. Even so, this Dongjiang Army is well equipped and has a large number of powerful crossbows. Susa led ten The four men approached for reconnaissance, but were discovered by the opponent and covered with crossbow arrows. Of the fourteen men under Susa's command, only Susa was seriously injured and could not get closer for observation. Therefore, the exact number is unknown and can only be roughly estimated based on the size of the camp. Judging from the weapons and armor in the hands of the sentries guarding the camp, the equipment is quite sophisticated, and the level is better than that of the defenders of Guanning castles."
"After the Dongjiang Army arrived at the Stone Castle, they repaired the city gates and reorganized the defenses day and night. They pushed along the line, built snow walls, dug trenches, and set up arrow towers. The ice walls were strong. The slaves judged... Before the ice and snow melted, the Dongjiang Army occupied a favorable location. Advantage……"
Duduo coughed and said, "Isn't the Dongjiang Army just an army of beggars?"
"It should be supported by Cheng Shijie, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy!"
Zhu Weiyan, a Han aide under Duduo, thought for a while and said: "This Ning Haijun Cheng Shijie launched the Dengzhou City mutiny in late October. He was the mastermind of the mutiny. He once occupied Dengzhou City and hijacked Dengzhou City. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Lai, adopted a work-for-relief method. It is said that the people of Dengzhou Prefecture praised this person quite a lot. The place where the Ninghai Navy was stationed was not in Dengzhou City, but in the former Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu in Ninghai Prefecture. The place was later renamed Ninghai City. The specific number of troops is unknown, the combat power is ominous, and the equipment is ominous..."
Hearing this, Duduo's face turned cold.
Damn it, the strength of the troops is unknown, the combat power is unknown, and the equipment is unknown, doesn’t that mean nothing is said?
Chu Weiyan saw Duduo's expression change and hurriedly explained: "Master, this Cheng Shijie was originally unknown. He was just a member of a mere thousand households. There are not even eight hundred but a thousand people like him, so... there is nothing about this person. information..."
Dayinbu continued: "Ning Haijun's army defending Tieshanbao, like the Dongjiang Army in Shibao, did not defend the city, but stationed camp along the outside of the north city. Judging from the camp, the number of troops should be tens of thousands. .”
Nahamulu, a powerful general with the same name as Batulu of Zhengbai Banner and Baturu Obai of Xianghuang Banner, said: "The Ming army is divided into two places to guard the pass. We should send troops south to test the reality..."
Ye Hehu'erha immediately objected: "That's not appropriate. This spring is the mating and production season for cattle and horses. There are not many troops to be mobilized. If we send out a large number of troops, the horses will lose a lot. The troops will be useless and they will take advantage of them." "
Duduo immediately stood up and waved his hand and said: "Does this matter still need to be discussed? The battle in Liaonan is inevitable. Brother Twelve lost face in Liaonan. Benbeile holds a heavy army but pretends to be deaf and dumb. This will make What do the other six flags think of our three brothers?”
In Duduo's eyes, he didn't care how much property he captured, how many Ming soldiers he killed, or how many slaves he captured in this battle. He had only one purpose, to regain his position for his twelfth brother.
In order to accumulate strength to fight this battle, Duduo ignored the breeding of livestock in Zhengbai Banner and ignored the opposition of everyone. He just gathered the five Jia La E Zhen and 45 Niu Lu of Zheng Bai Banner. However, he did not go south. Each Niulu sent 150 troops, including 100 soldiers and 50 slaves.
The bannermen of Zhengbai Banner dispatched 4,500 cavalry, 1,250 war slaves, and cannon fodder Han troops from Zhengbai Banner in Lishu, totaling more than 12,000 men and horses, and marched south in a mighty manner.
This news was immediately reported to Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji just nodded: "I know..."
Then, there is no more.
Huang Taiji is a top-level player in political struggles. The young Duduo was provoked by him in twos and ones, and he became furious and forgot about everything.
Although Huang Taiji is now suspected of killing someone with a borrowed knife, the problem is that Duduo has 20 Niulu elites under his command, all of whom are Nurhaci's guards. These elites only obey Nurhaci's orders and are loyal to Duduo. They have 6,000 men and horses. It can't be snatched away, and it can't be used by him.
For an emperor and a hero, anyone who cannot be used by him is disloyal. Even if he is from the Aisin Gioro family, he will still kill him.
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At the same time, after the Lantern Festival of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie had nearly 200 more farmhouses under his control, which made Cheng Shijie a little difficult to handle.
What he really didn't expect was that not only the people from Liaodong crossed the sea to Liaonan to defect to him, but also the people from Shandong, Tianjin, and Guide Prefecture in Henan came to defect to him.
Speaking of which, it was Song Xiance's fault.
In order to make Cheng Shijie famous, this guy took advantage of the connections he made while running in the gangster society. Before Cheng Shijie arrived in Liaonan, he started to build momentum for Cheng Shijie.
At that time, Ning Haijun had only 63 farming stations and less than 20,000 troops. If the Ning Haijun wanted to establish a foothold in southern Liaoning, let alone establish slaves, even if the Dongjiang Army had some twisted ideas, Cheng Shijie would be hard-pressed. Handle.
Song Xiance successively found more than a hundred charlatans to deceive a family into moving to southern Liaoning for one tael of silver, allowing these charlatans to build momentum and spread rumors.
At first, the effect of the campaign was not good, but when Cheng Shijie fulfilled his promise, he distributed homesteads, reclaimed fields, and rules to immigrants from Liaodong, including providing seeds, farming tools, and most importantly, working in southern Liaoning. Living, adult men are paid one dou of grain per day, women are paid seven or eight dou of grain, and the tax is only three dou per mu. This news made the surviving people of Liaodong, who were originally waiting and watching, and even the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army The family members of Ning Haijun, as well as the people of Ning Haijun who originally did not want to go, mobilized one after another to go to Liaonan.
Since the third day of the first lunar month, the number of people arriving in Liaonan has exceeded a thousand, and the number continues to increase every day. Although Cheng Shijie still has food, the problem is that the construction and manpower of factories are temporarily saturated, and there are still sixty or seventy days before spring plowing. God, if these people are allowed to live a free life, those working people and immigrants will definitely not be happy and will have disagreements.
Why can they eat and drink for free while we need to work?
Under this situation, Cheng Shijie temporarily adjusted his deployment and selected the young and strong people among the refugees to be included in the project's 100 households. By the 23rd of the first lunar month, a total of 209 young and strong 100 households had been added. These two hundred and nine Hundreds of households, each distributed twenty carts, fifty sledgehammers, and fifty shovels, all the way north.
Cheng Shijie asked Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army to go north from Tieshanbao and Shibao respectively, waiting for an opportunity to occupy Fuzhou and Haizhou. These two hundred engineering households moved forward all the way, repairing the roads along the way, and abandoned the castle. In the future, the decisive battle with Jiannu may be moved northward.
Pushing the war away from Gaizhou and Jinzhou can also avoid causing panic among the people in the fields.
On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, there was Bingyu Valley, eighty miles north of Fuzhou City.
This is the territory of Zhuanghe City, Dalian City in later generations. According to legend, Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty camped here during his Eastern Expedition. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, came here to appease the army. Seeing that it was indeed a place where "one man can guard the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it", he named it "Bingyu", which later became known as Bingyu.
Although the sound is the same, the meaning is completely different.
The military strategic position here is very important. Because this area is mountainous, there are only two roads from north to south. One passes through Xiuyan City in the east of Fuzhou Wei and Fenghuang City in the northeast of Fuzhou Wei. These are the routes from Liaozhong to Liaonan. Two of the four channels.
Phoenix City is the Fuzhou Guard Fenghuang Mountain Guard House for Thousand Households, and it is also Cheng Shijie's current nominal hometown.
Cheng Shijie was very courageous. He took advantage of the time when Huang Taiji had no time to pay attention to southern Liaoning and occupied the territory step by step. If Xiuyan City and Phoenix City were blocked, even if Jianu sent troops, he could only stop there.
If the defense line can be stabilized in Fuzhou, Cheng Shijie can start developing Gaizhou.
Eighty engineering offices, with a total of nearly 8,000 people, then arrived at Baxiuyan City and Phoenix City to carry out emergency repairs on the two abandoned castles and at the same time clear up this section of nearly 400 miles of disrepaired official roads.
The Dongjiang Army marched into Haizhou and occupied the central and southern part of the Liaohe Plain. Its purpose was the same as the strategic purpose of the Ning Navy, which was to push the location of future battles to the Liaohe Plain.
These Liaodong people who had just arrived in southern Liaoning needed to work in groups of dozens of people at the intersection of their journey, dragging huge stone rollers to compact and flatten the roads that had been in disrepair, and to repair the abandoned fortresses along the way. , to re-drain ditches that have been covered with silt and decay.
More than two hundred projects and hundreds of households were advancing and constructing all the way until February 24, the fifth year of Chongzhen. There are a total of twelve castles connected to the city including Gangu City, Ancient Castle, Wangtai Town and Haizhou City.
These castles have basically undergone simple repairs and have preliminary defensive functions. As more and more sites are seized, Ning Haijun's forces become more dispersed.
Cheng Shijie's current strategic layout in southern Liaoning is actually Sun Chengzong's. He built fortresses based on the dangerous terrain and advanced slowly. Every time he advanced to a place, he was nailed there as firmly as a steel nail. Once it has become an impregnable fortress, we can continue to advance.
To put it bluntly, Cheng Shijie bullied Jiannu for his poor ability to attack fortresses. Jiannu conquered the cities of Guangning, Tieling, and Shenyang with the help of spies. If the spies were eliminated, they would have no choice but to suffer a bloody blow.
Sun Chengzong was sure of Jiannu's situation, and adopted this method of fortifying the stronghold to fight the war, using the fortress group to squeeze Jiannu's living space bit by bit, forcing Jiannu to take the initiative to attack the solid fortress.
Based on Jiannu's poor performance in previous battles, even if it could be defeated, a lot of people would die. How many people did Jiannu have? How can it withstand such consumption?
This is also a helpless solution. Although Ning Haijun is not like other Ming armies, other Ming armies were discouraged by Jian Nu. They have long lost the courage to fight with Jian Nu. No matter how much they are trained or how much money they are given, Useless.
It's okay to let them defend the city, but go out to fight in the field? Believe it or not, they tied you up first? Sun Chengzong had no choice but to use this stupid method.
Cheng Shijie actually didn't want to learn from Sun Chengzong. If he had tens of thousands of cavalry, he would definitely fight to the death with Jian Nu. But the problem is that although Ning Haijun's cavalry has more than 2,000 people, they can barely maintain their strength in a three-on-one situation. Undefeated, two against one, he actually couldn't defeat Jiannu. This has been tested in practice.
In this case, Cheng Shijie had no other choice.
Although it is said that Ning Haijun's infantry has the strength to fight against the slave cavalry, the problem is that the infantry is always at a disadvantage when facing the cavalry.
As long as Jiannu sees Ning Haijun's thunderous gunfire, will they still rush up?
The answer is yes, unless Jiannu's brain is caught in the door or kicked by a donkey, they will charge under a hail of bullets.
Since Ning Haijun's cavalry did not have a suppressive advantage over Jiannu, Cheng Shijie could only adopt this method, using fortress tactics to advance step by step and take the initiative back from Jiannu. It would be best to force Jiannu to come. Fight a tough battle that they are least good at.
Since then, a new problem has arisen: Ning Haijun's troops are seriously insufficient.
"Expand the army!"
Shen Mingyu pointed to the twelve newly renovated castles along the standard Haizhou Guard and Fuzhou Guard lines on the map and said: "The twelve castles on this line must be garrisoned, even if each castle has a division of 260 people. It also requires twelve divisions and 3,120 people.”
Ning Haijun's entire army has exceeded 20,000 men, and all of them are combat soldiers. But the problem is that the navy accounts for more than one-third of them, as well as more than 2,000 cavalry, and six of Cheng Shijie's bodyguards. The company has 12,000 troops.
In fact, the number of Ning Haijun infantry soldiers was only about 12,600 in the two capital divisions. If another 3,120 men were deployed, the entire army's field strength would be only 8,000 men.
Although 8,000 men and horses is a lot, the problem is that Jiannu has eight flags, and each flag has more than 7,500 men and horses. Once a fight begins, Ning Haijun's chances of winning are not high.
What's more, the base camp of Jinzhou City, as well as Gaizhou City, Haizhou City, and Fuzhou City will definitely have to stay behind. In this case, Ning Haijun's troops are really not enough.
Until now, Cheng Shijie also realized that something was wrong with Ning Haijun.
Of course, this is not a big problem.
Ning Haijun is a field army focused on fighting. In the past, Ning Haijun did not need to defend the base camp of Ninghai City, because there were no bandits who did not open their eyes and followed Qin Wu's example and took the initiative to attack Ning Haijun.
But Jiannu was different. Jiannu was not afraid of Ning Haijun. He marched straight into the palace and attacked Huanglong. This was also Jiannu's habitual method of using troops.
Not to mention the heartland areas like Jinzhou and Gaizhou, as long as they are given the opportunity to establish slaves, they will even dare to attack the city of Beijing.
"We must expand our army! We must expand our army!"
Zhang Yu also wanted to expand the army. After all, the 1,200 people in Cheng Shijie's bodyguard bureau were drawn from the Right Dusi, who originally had fewer people than the Left Dusi, and now there are even fewer.
Zhou Yandong sneered and said: "You make it easy. Do you know how much money we spent in December last year? It was more than 80,000 taels of silver. Our Ning Haijun's foundation is weak, and the army in the field has not even earned a penny. All of it is Expenditures include land reclamation and water conservancy projects, and the state capital’s expenses are getting tighter and tighter!”
After arguing for a while, Admiral Zhongning realized a serious problem. They all looked at Cheng Shijie in unison: "I wonder what the commander-in-chief wants?"
"It is imperative to expand the military. As for the issue of military expenditure..."
Cheng Shijie solemnly said: "Our rule at Ning Haijun is that when we have no money, just grab a vote!"
"But now even the slaves are poor..."
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "This is actually not a problem. We, Ning Haijun, can cultivate at least three million acres of fields this year. Even if we collect three tons of taxed grain per acre, we still have 300,000 dan. If we buy some from the people, the food problem will be solved." To be self-sufficient, we only need one prerequisite. We must block the Jiannu at the front lines of Phoenix City, Xiuyan City, Shiqiaobao, and Songlinbao. The Jiannu cannot go south. Liaonan is our back garden. My opinion is to expand the army. , but there is also a problem. It will take at least several months for the new army to form combat effectiveness. Jiannu will not give us time..."
"What does the handsome man mean..."
"I plan to establish the Ning Navy Garrison Command and Envoy Division, which is the third commander of our Ning Navy Infantry Force. You guys look down on Jiannu too much. You put one division in each fort. You are looking down on Jiannu! "
Cheng Shijie pondered the words while thinking: "My commander-in-chief's plan is to divide the Ning Navy into two systems: field and garrison. The field system will remain unchanged for the time being, and the garrison system will have one reorganization bureau and two divisions garrisoned in each castle. There are a total of 750 troops directly under the army, with one garrison commander. The new garrison department is under the jurisdiction of fifteen bureaus!"
The generals were delighted.
Since then, Ning Haijun has expanded his army to 11,200 people.
Cheng Shijie continued: "The other one is the Right Dusi. The Right Dusi is dissatisfied with the number of staff. Now we will do it together. We will recruit another 2,500 people and make the left and right Dusi have the same establishment, all of which will have 6,800 people!"
Having said this, Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance next to him.
As Cheng Shijie's eyes fell on him, Song Xiance quickly understood what Cheng Shijie meant.
Cheng Shijie is preparing to harvest the more than 26,000 Dongjiang Army troops in southern Liaoning.
He has been raising the Dongjiang Army for more than two months. Although Cheng Shijie has the power to control the Dongjiang Army, he does not give these Dongjiang Army names. Ning Haijun does not regard them as his own, and the Dongjiang Army also thinks that he is not his own. .
Now it was Song Xiance's turn to take action and communicate with the Dongjiang Army generals in private. As long as they were not stupid, these Dongjiang Army soldiers would choose their own path.
In later generations, there was another saying called "freedom referendum".
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Wangtai Town is located in the transition zone between the foothills and the plains of Haizhou. The terrain outline is in the shape of a broad leaf. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west. The terrain includes low mountains, hills, and plains.
At this time, in Wangtai Town, more than 2,000 Dongjiang Army soldiers were building fortifications along the valley. These Dongjiang Army soldiers were very enthusiastic about their work. Many of them had gained several kilograms of meat because of more than two months of heavy meals.
They heated the stones piece by piece, and then poured cold water on them. The stones would expand due to thermal expansion and contraction, and would crack and form pieces of stone. The stones would be sent to the kiln, burned into lime, and then used as building materials. The materials were mixed into Sanhe soil and compacted into city walls.
The Dongjiang Army Staff General in charge of garrisoning Wangtai Town is Shang Keyi.
"Woooo..."
When the meal horn sounded, the Dongjiang Army soldiers who were working hurriedly put away their tools and started to line up. They first went to wash their hands in front of the wooden basin prepared by the cooking soldiers. Of course, there was hot water in it, and each team was assigned one basin.
The Dongjiang Army soldiers who washed their hands quickly gathered and lined up. Then they took their lunch boxes and came forward to receive their meals one after another.
The food of the Dongjiang Army was the same as that of Ning Haijun. There were no miscellaneous grains or old grains. They were all white-flour steamed buns or steamed buns, as well as rice. Of course, the difference was that the steamed buns during this period were not as white as gelatin, but greenish-black. This was pure Natural, no additives or bleach added, healthier.
Each soldier has different tastes, but meat is everyone's favorite. Almost more than 80% of the soldiers like to eat steamed buns stuffed with mutton. These muttons are harvested from Xie Jinglin.
He led a caravan, carrying salt, tea, iron pots, briquette stoves and other supplies, arrived near Dandong, and traded with the Jiannu slaves there. This winter, many Jiannu slaves' sheep, cattle, and horses froze to death. The frozen mutton was bought at a low price, slightly more expensive than the sheepskin.
Sheepskin can be made into leather clothing and leather boots, and mutton and beef have become the meat in the mouths of soldiers of the Dongjiang Army or Ninghai Navy. Of course, the weather is cold now, so there is no need to worry about the meat going bad. There is a pure natural refrigerator in Liaodong.
Those who like to eat steamed buns should get steamed buns, those who like steamed buns should get steamed buns, and those who love rice should get rice. That's enough. They spread large pieces of mulberry oil paper on the ground, and twelve people sat together in teams, with radish, salted fish and mutton stewed cabbage in the middle. After everyone arrived, they began to wolf down the food.
"Hey, brother, have you heard? Marshal Cheng is recruiting troops!"
"Recruiting troops?"
"Well, Ning Haijun's treatment is better than that of our Dongjiang Army!"
Some Dongjiang Army soldiers pointed to the food in front of them and said: "It's better than this, how can it be better? Landlords and rich people can't afford this kind of food, right?"
"We eat the same food as Ning Haijun, that is..."
"That's what..."
"That is, they have military pay. Ordinary soldiers get one or two taels of silver per month, captains get one to two taels of silver, captains get one to two to five taels of silver, and generals get more..."
"we……"
"The military pay is just a small amount, and the big amount is their reward. It's too high!"
"How high..."
"Behead one of Jiannu's heads, fifty taels of silver!"
Many Dongjiang Army soldiers disagreed. Because they knew that it was difficult to behead Jiannu, and even if they were beheaded, it would not be their fault.
"Ning Haijun is different. If they chop off the head of a slave, they can be rewarded with fifty taels of silver or fifty acres of land!"
"What!"
"Fifty acres?"
These Dongjiang troops can't sit still.
"Also, Ning Haijun was injured and treated, and there are still three taels, five taels, or ten taels of silver for the soup and medicine!"
"Even if you are unlucky and die on the battlefield, you will be given twenty taels of funeral expenses and your family can share a hundred acres of land. This is the biggest difference!"
"Besides, Marshal Cheng is different from other generals. He spits out the spit and gives out the rewards without any adulteration. Let me tell you, a cousin of mine was lucky enough to be with me when he was in Shandong. I hired Marshal Cheng as a soldier, guess what happens now?"
"How about it?"
"He now has more than a thousand acres of land to his name!"
"Bragging, even if one head of Jiannu is worth fifty taels of silver, how many heads can reward more than a thousand acres of land? It takes more than twenty. Is your cousin Lu Bu? Or Zhao Zilong?"
"My cousin is an artilleryman in the Ning Navy. His cannon fire is accurate and he can kill more than twenty people with one shot..."
Shang Keyi is different from ordinary soldiers. He has an independent tent and does not have to work personally. Although it is also meat buns, the meat buns eaten by ordinary soldiers are lucky to see a little shredded meat, while Shang Keyi's meat buns , that is a real meat bun, one bite, it is all mutton, not even cabbage, only garnished with some chopped green onions.
After drinking a large bowl of mutton soup and eating four big meat buns, Shang Keyi felt something was wrong. Every time the soldiers outside ate, the scene was like thousands of pigs eating like crazy. Why are they quiet now? ?
As a veteran of the Dongjiang Army, Shang Keyi immediately realized something was wrong. Did the soldiers mutiny?
He hurriedly picked up the waist knife placed next to him. It was a hundred-smelted steel knife given to the Dongjiang Army by Cheng Shijie. It was an imitation of the Mo Dao style. Shang Keyi was tall and could wield such a heavy weapon.
His armor is not ordinary, it is the heavy armor of the White Armored Soldiers of Jiannu. It can basically ignore the attacks of swords and arrows. Unless he is attacked by blunt weapons such as hammers and axes, the defensive ability of this heavy armor is Quite wow.
Shang Keyi came to the outside of the tent with Mo Dao and saw countless Dongjiang Army soldiers kneeling outside the tent. These soldiers were kneeling in silence.
Shang Keyi asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"
"General Shang, please be kind and lead your brothers on a way to survive!"
"Yes, General Shang, just take us to join Marshal Cheng!"
"General Shang, Marshal Cheng is from Liaodong. If you don't follow Marshal Cheng, let's follow Marshal Huang. Shouldn't we turn our arms outward?"
"General Shang..."
Faced with this situation, Shang Keyi was not in a hurry. After all, he had experienced many mutinies by Dongjiang Army soldiers. He searched the crowd. As long as he found the leading officer and killed him, the matter would calm down.
Shang Keyi looked at the boss next to him: "Du Hui, was it you who took the lead?"
Du Hui stood up: "It's me..."
"Shang Mou thinks he is not kind to you..."
"The General saved my life three times!"
Du Hui shed tears and said: "General Shang, we are neighbors. You also know that our Du family has forty-seven members. Now I am the only one left, a younger brother who was beaten into a fool, and a lame old woman. I It is not a pity to die, but who will support my mother? My son is only five years old. As long as we vote for Marshal Cheng, if our brother dies in the future, Marshal Cheng will help him to support my mother and son. They can still live, and our old Du family will not be destroyed. For the incense, brothers don’t ask for much, please ask General Shang…”
PS: I originally planned to update this chapter last night, but I fell asleep before finishing it. I have been struggling recently, so I have to update it to 9,000 words. There is another chapter below.
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