Chapter 157
"The lonely smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting in the long river!"
Although beacon fire is the fastest way to convey news, military information thousands of miles away can be conveyed in just one day.
But the problem is that the message that the smoke can convey is very limited. Generally speaking, the lone smoke represents peace, and the two strands of smoke represent the enemy's situation of more than 1,000 and less than 10,000 people. Three wisps of smoke represent numerous enemies, and Fenghuo Tun will fall at any time.
After Ning Haijun arrived in southern Liaoning, he built layers of beacon fire forts in high mountains and areas with wide views. This kind of gun tower similar to that of later generations only has one gate. Once it is blocked, it will be very difficult to attack the beacon fire forts. , even if Jiannu wanted to pull out such a beacon, it would not be possible in a short time.
The most reliable way to convey detailed military information about the enemy is to rely on the reconnaissance cavalry. Although the reconnaissance cavalry post where the red lady is located only has fifty knights, it is equipped with more than seventy war horses, of which more than twenty war horses are used to transport them on camels. Supplies and equipment.
When streams of smoke began to pass to the rear, a scout cavalry captain said: "Boss, our mission is completed, it's time to retreat!"
"No, I want to explore further!"
"Still exploring?"
The other three cavalry captains looked at each other.
"Are you scared?"
The red lady has become accustomed to speaking in a falsetto. She looked at the scout cavalry beside her and said, "Are you willing to go back empty-handed like this?"
As Ning Haijun's development becomes more and more formal, it becomes increasingly difficult for Ning Haijun soldiers to be promoted. If they perform well in training, they are not good enough. They must set an example for the entire army and must not violate military discipline. Especially as there are more and more special recruits, it is too difficult to stand out among Ning Haijun.
It is already rare for someone like Chang Yu to be promoted from a soldier to a commander.
The red lady was promoted from a soldier to a whistle commander because she was outstanding enough. She ranked first in riding training and archery training for two consecutive months, and then she was promoted to the whistle commander.
In peacetime, it is difficult to get promoted, but in a state of war, it is much easier to get promoted.
In the Ning Haijun Army, all it takes is the beheading of a slave to be eligible to be promoted from soldier to captain. As the red lady spoke, the soldiers of these scout cavalry were gearing up and ready to make a move.
"Get a vote!"
As the Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry post discussed collectively, the Red Lady's decision was adopted. During the tentative contact between the two sides, Jiannu had an absolute numerical advantage at this time. But the other party saw that the Red Lady's troops only had more than 30 cavalry going into battle.
The proud Jiannu forwards naturally sent out the same number of men. They were very proud and disdainful of using more to defeat the smaller ones. They wanted to defeat Ning Haijun with the same number of people, and they had to use actual combat results to tell Ning Haijun that on cavalry. Shoot, they are the best in the world in building slaves and have never had any rivals.
In fact, although Ning Hai's cavalry is weaker than Jian Nu's cavalry, the reconnaissance cavalry is an anomaly because all Ning Hai's scout cavalry are specially recruited. Without real skills, they cannot join the Ning Hai's reconnaissance force.
Use a small group of rangers to follow and harass the enemy during their movements, seize the opportunity, pounce on them and bite them hard, then quickly escape before the enemy can react, and then pounce again when the opportunity arises. This has always been the custom of the nomads. Good at tricks.
The Central Plains dynasty, which mainly relied on infantry, was often helpless in the face of such rogue tactics. They could not get rid of them, and they could not catch up. Even if they were lucky enough to kill one or two of them, the results would be very pitiful. And once they were attacked, When attacked, the losses are considerable. This kind of frustration of being beaten and unable to fight back can really drive people crazy.
But now, Jiannu's tactics failed. The equally powerful Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry relied on their skilled cavalry to use pulley bows and arm-opening crossbows to shoot at Jiannu's rangers. The range of these two equipment was as high as The power was greater than that of Jiannu's cavalry bow. Amidst the screams and screams, people on both sides were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
If Hou Jin came close, they would draw their sabers and charge forward without saying a word. Moreover, more than a dozen people would rush forward with their knees together and holding long knives or spears...
The red lady is full of energy, her fiery red cloak is fluttering in the wind like a flaming cloud. She is wearing a breastplate and holding a four-meter-long rifle, which can also be said to be a horse spear. She also wears a Tang straight knife and a bag at her waist. With the white feather arrow stuck behind his back and the strong sword in his hand, he rode a tall horse and charged left and right.
After several attacks, the Red Lady achieved the third level of beheading, but it was a pity that their number was too small. Once Jiannu failed to fight, dozens or hundreds of cavalry would immediately appear.
After a short half-day of fighting, Ning Haijun's reconnaissance cavalry beheaded Jiannu 37th level at the cost of five cavalrymen being killed and thirteen cavalrymen injured, and gained a small victory.
"Stop fighting, stop when you're ready, let's retreat!"
The red lady led the troops to test the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry. These rangers who served as the vanguard of the Jiannu cavalry were very powerful. If they had not had the advantage in equipment, they might have suffered a big loss.
With the heads of thirty-seven slaves, each of them was given a reward of fifty acres of land. The cavalry were also very happy.
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If the commander of an army is compared to the human brain, then Ning Haijun's brain is not actually Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie is just Ning Haijun's soul, and Ning Haijun's brain is Ning Haijun's general staff.
As the size of the Ning Navy grew larger, Cheng Shijie also knew that he was not actually Han Xin, the military genius. Han Xin led more troops, the better. The more troops and horses, the more difficult it was to command. Therefore, after the Ning Navy arrived in Liaonan, Cheng Shijie formed The general staff of the Ning Navy.
At first, Cheng Shijie pinned his hopes on the group of professional mercenaries hired by Sun Yuanhua of the Denglai New Army. However, later, Cheng Shijie discovered that these mercenaries were all grassroots officers. It was not a big problem to command 180 people. They were very professional, but The problem is that once more than a thousand people are involved, they seem a bit amateurish.
Later, Cheng Shijie only waited for himself to establish his own general staff. He selected a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers from the Dengzhou Guard, where Ning Haijun started, and put them in the training department for training. During the training process, Select the good seedlings from the audition and further their studies. The content of further study is actually the six skills of staff officers, which are the ability to read, memorize, calculate, write, draw, and transmit.
In addition to the content of the Six Meetings, there are also the staff's information acquisition capabilities, analysis and judgment capabilities, planning capabilities, organization and coordination capabilities, inspection and guidance capabilities, and research and innovation capabilities.
Studying and working at the same time, in this way, the airs of the general staff of Ning Haijun were set up. At this time, the person who served as the chief of staff of Ning Haijun was Zhou Ning. In addition, Zhou Ning was also the deputy commander of the Guards Division.
"finally come!"
When Zhou Ning received the news from the front line that Jiannu was sending troops, he seemed a little impatient. After Ning Haijun regained Haizhou Acropolis, Ning Haijun's general staff began to formulate detailed plans. The backup plan was already Six sets are prepared.
Of course, after receiving the order from the Military Intelligence Bureau, the General Staff immediately started activating the Ning Haijun war machine. As the war machine started, Liaonan began to mobilize transportation forces. There were more than 6,000 four-wheeled carriages alone. A four-wheeled carriage was deployed within three days.
Followed by 300,000 jins of meat, 2 million jins of various vegetables, more than 100,000 shi of military rations, more than 300,000 pots of crossbow arrows, a total of more than 4 million pieces, 160,000 custom-made Thunderbolt bullets, and more than 60,000 To fire the muskets, six tons of gunpowder alone were prepared, which is more than 12,000 kilograms.
Eight thousand sets of spare armors, helmets, four thousand sets of military uniforms, spare cotton-padded clothes, cotton-padded jackets, cotton-padded shoes, thousands of new muskets, tens of thousands of spare long guns, more than 4,000 spare knives, medicines, bedding, shoes and socks, etc. Miscellaneous materials were moved out of various warehouses at a streamlined price, loaded onto trucks, and began to be transported to the front line in batches.
Four hundred young men from military households were mobilized from various places and began to enter an emergency training state. Once there was a loss of soldiers on the front line, these new recruits would serve as supplementary troops to help keep the establishment of the three main combat divisions of Ning Haijun intact.
Just when Ning Haijun was mobilizing all his troops, a messenger also sent the news to the capital, preparing to report it to Cheng Shijie.
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When Cheng Shijie returned from Gaoyang, he had a house in the capital, which could barely be regarded as a mansion. This house was originally built by a businessman, but before he had time to enjoy it, his business failed and he had to escape. When he returned to his hometown in the countryside, this house was acquired by Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji through various means.
Due to the low status of merchants, many building specifications could not be used. As the former head of the country, Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji was still the head of the country even in the Chongzhen Dynasty, so his status and favor were not much weaker.
It's a pity that because the only son offended Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie held Zhang Jin captive, and Zhang Guoji became angry and asked for help everywhere. It's a pity that Zhang Guoji's popularity is not very good. There are many people who want to see his jokes, and he has not found any connections that can be used. When he asked Gao Qiqian, he was slashed again by Gao Qiqian.
"General Cheng, this is a gift from Eunuch Gao!"
These are two small boxes. When you open them, you can see that they are gold. The official price ratio of gold and silver is one to ten. In actual transactions, one tael of gold of good quality can only be negotiated for nine taels of silver, and there are also gold of poor quality that can only be exchanged for eight to one.
These golds were melted into new gold ingots, each fifty taels, which is equivalent to five hundred taels of silver. From the looks of it, it should be more than three thousand taels of gold, equivalent to more than thirty thousand taels of silver, that is He said that his house near Zhengyangmen was worth more than 18,000 taels of silver, which was dozens of times more expensive than the house in Dengzhou.
This house, including the wing rooms, has a total of sixty-two rooms and covers half of the alley. It can be regarded as a mansion no matter what time it was.
Sun Chengzong originally had a house in the capital, but after he took over, the house became difficult to live in. Just over a year after leaving the center, the original house was already divided into three sets.
Cheng Shijie took Sun Chengzong and his family to his house and settled there.
When Sun Chengzong came to the capital, before he met Emperor Chongzhen, officials visited him one after another. Sun Chengzong also learned first-hand information from his disciples and former officials.
When Sun Chengzong heard about the recent developments in the court, his beard was so angry that he didn't even eat dinner.
In desperation, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to carry a bowl of sweet potato porridge to the room where Sun Chengzong was staying: "Teacher, why are you doing this? You are so angry!"
Seeing Cheng Shijie, Sun Chengzong said displeased: "Why do you dare to say anything?"
Cheng Shijie was slightly startled: "What did the student say?"
"What you said in the imperial garden has been spread throughout the outer court. Everything that needs to be known is already known. Why do you want to say that we should not block Jiannu?"
Sun Chengzong stared at Cheng Shijie, wanting to hear Cheng Shijie's explanation.
Sure enough, Cheng Shijie's confrontation with Emperor Chongzhen alone was leaked, which means that Emperor Chongzhen's Forbidden City was actually a sieve.
Cheng Shijie said: "Teacher, you also tried to blockade the Jiannu, but what happened? The Jiannu could still get the materials they wanted from the Shanxi merchants, including weapons, armor, arrows, grain, salt, and so on. Yes, the de facto blockade does not exist for the Jiannu slaves, they still..."
"Then this can't be your reason for becoming a slave!"
"That's right!"
Cheng Shijie explained: "Students are strongly opposed to fornication and slavery, but students are not against fornication and slavery!"
"Not yet. Now it has been spread all over the world. You sold Fan Yongdou 400,000 shi of grain. Please tell me whether this happened!"
"have!"
"have!"
Sun Chengzong stood up suddenly, pointed at Cheng Shijie and said: "You...you...you!"
"Teacher, don't be angry!"
"Don't call me teacher. I can't be General Cheng's teacher, nor can I teach students like you."
Sun Chengzong stood up and said: "Erlang!"
"father!"
Sun Chengzong's second son, Juren Sun, stepped forward to help Sun Chengzong.
"Let's go!"
"It's so late, where are you going?"
"Even if I go to the streets to beg, I don't live here. I'm ashamed to be with you!"
Sun Chengzong said angrily: "From now on, you will follow your Yangguan Road..."
Before Sun Chengzong could finish speaking, Cheng Shijie explained: "Teacher, don't be impatient and listen to the students carefully!"
"That's right, I think Brother Cheng Xian is not such a person either!"
Cheng Shijie said: "At the beginning, the students were just plotting against Fan Yongdou. It was absolutely impossible for him to buy a grain of grain from the students!"
Cheng Shijie then explained why he wanted Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses in exchange instead of using money. As long as Cheng Shijie did not violate his promise, he sent someone to snatch Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses.
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Now that Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses are in the hands of the students, what will he use to buy food?"
Sun Gan said: "If Jiannu brings over another group of cattle and horses, thousands of cattle and thousands of horses will be just a drop in the bucket for Jiannu!"
"Then I would really like to thank Fan Yongdou's eight generations of ancestors. Next year, we can cultivate millions more acres of farmland in southern Liaoning!"
Following Cheng Shijie's explanation, Sun Chengzong's expression finally softened: "Eat!"
Sun Chengzong picked up his rice bowl, looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "A real man should act with dignity and avoid using conspiracies!"
"Yes, the teacher is right!"
In fact, Cheng Shijie had no better way. If he didn't give Jiannu hope from the beginning, didn't let Huang Taiji think that Cheng Shijie was a greedy person, and let Huang Taiji see Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun fighting Jiannu to the death, Huang Taiji would A small group of troops will definitely be sent south to interfere with the farming and engineering construction in southern Liaoning.
As the saying goes, blacksmithing requires one's own strength. If one does not have strong enough strength, one can only resort to this method.
Now that the autumn grain has been put into storage, Ning Haijun has gone through three rounds of military expansion and has the strength to challenge at least three banners of Jiannu. Now Cheng Shijie is more confident.
Just need to wait for Jiannu to take the initiative to go south.
Although Cheng Shijie's intelligence transmission speed was fast, there was someone who was actually faster than Cheng Shijie, and that was Guan Ningjun. After Guan Ningjun learned that Huang Taiji was investigating the gathering of various Eight Banners ministries, he immediately asked the capital for help.
In this case, while Cheng Shijie received information from Ning Haijun, Emperor Chongzhen also summoned Cheng Shijie again.
After Cheng Shijie entered the palace, Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie about the slaves going south this time.
Cheng Shijie told Emperor Chongzhen: "As long as I am here, there is no need to worry about establishing slaves!"
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