The attack on Luzon by the Japanese warriors made Ning Haijun feel the pain.
In the previous war, Ning Haijun's military operations in Luzon could be described as a triumphant advance, and the native Dongyins of Luzon were retreating steadily.
Even the Chinese in Luzon City did not feel much of the urgency of the war. At most, they just felt that the Ning Navy soldiers from the front line were very rich and willing to spend money. In this war that lasted for nearly a year, the real enemy of Ning Haijun was not the indigenous armed personnel of Luzon, but the ubiquitous mosquitoes and poisonous snakes.
According to Ning Haijun's battle report, the 21 regiments of Ning Haijun stationed in Luzon suffered a total of 659 combat casualties, and non-combat casualties, including disease, poisoning, malaria, heatstroke and other various reasons, a total of 4,330 casualties. One hundred and fifty-five people. Among them, combat attrition only accounted for 12.9% of the total attrition.
Many people, including new immigrants, believe that within two to three years at most, Luzon will become the Luzon of the Ming Dynasty. More Nanyang Chinese will settle in Luzon, and the total population of Luzon has exceeded two. There are millions of people, and some people even take the initiative to donate money and materials to the Luzon Management Committee.
Just when the situation in Luzon was looking good, Ning Haijun suffered his first disastrous defeat. A total of 187 soldiers were assigned to the supply company directly under the 115th regiment, plus 350 civilians, a total of 537 soldiers. The entire army was wiped out, and a total of 36,000 grenades, more than 300 artillery shells, more than 2,000 boxes of cans, and two thunderbolts were stolen.
The loss of more than 500 troops is not a big problem for the Luzon garrison. There are now nearly 200,000 troops stationed in Luzon, and more than half of Ning Haijun's troops are stationed in Luzon.
But the problem is, this is like a loud slap on Liu Qingsong's face.
"How can this be?"
Liu Qingsong's first reaction was that something was wrong. The Luzon natives' tactical ability was, how should I put it, inferior to that of the rogue bandits in the Central Plains? Not only were they poorly equipped, but they also lacked experience in unity and cooperation.
Even the rogues in the Central Plains know how to coordinate long and short soldiers, combine various arms, and use the terrain to set up ambushes. But the problem is that the natives of Luzon fight like gangsters fighting in groups, shouting and holding up their weapons from a long distance. Rushing over, in the past more than a year of fighting, the Luzon natives had not successfully ambushed Ning Haijun.
Not to mention this kind of annihilation of more than 500 people. Although this was a heavy supply of troops with only 187 real soldiers, most of these soldiers were Zheng Group Army soldiers who had been eliminated from the old and weak in Ning Haijun's training camp. Although they are trained as heavy troops, they are just slightly older, which does not represent their combat effectiveness.
Under normal circumstances, if they were surrounded by two to three thousand natives, they would not be completely wiped out. At least they would have the opportunity and possibility to break out.
However, the ambushed troops did not have time to break out or form an effective defense, which made Liu Qingsong feel very incredible.
"I want to go to the scene and see!"
As a general who has been promoted step by step from a soldier, Liu Qingsong is not used to sitting in an office and reading reports, nor does he like staring at cold text analysis and judgment.
Soon, Liu Qingsong led a large group of troops to the Tagalog Peninsula, which was later called the Bataan Peninsula and was also the southernmost tip of Manila Bay.
Liu Qingsong dismounted, looked at Gao Sheng, the leader of the 115th regiment, and the regiment staff, and asked with all his face, "How could it be like this?"
Gao Sheng hurriedly explained: "There are no Luzon natives in this area, and the public security situation is good, so everyone, including me, is a little lax..."
Liu Qingsong looked at these corpses. These corpses were all stripped naked, with no traces of hair on their bodies. What was even more outrageous was that the heads had disappeared.
"This is definitely not for the Aboriginals!"
Liu Qingsong could judge from the cut marks on the neck of the corpse that the weapon used by the enemy was definitely a very sharp knife or an axe. The edge of the knife was flat and smooth, but the muscle tissue had a spasm reaction, which meant that these soldiers were The head was severed while still alive.
Gao Sheng also replied: "I've seen it already. There are not many ambushers, about three hundred to five hundred people. Most of them are barefoot. There are also camouflage made of vegetation here!"
Liu Qingsong looked at the scene around him and was slightly surprised: "It's all hand-to-hand fighting, no firearms?"
"Yes, but not many. Now there are bullet holes from firecrackers!"
Liu Sheng led Liu Qingsong to a corpse. At this moment, Liu Qingsong's eyes fell in front of a corpse. The corpse had already entered the giant state, but he saw that the neck of the corpse was black.
"This is a reaction to poisoning. Let people see what kind of poison it is!"
"yes!"
Soon, several intelligence analysis officers who conducted the autopsy reported to Liu Qingsong with a blowgun that was only about three inches long: "General Liu, this is how our people were tricked!"
"Is this, blowing darts?"
"This is called Fukiya in the little days. Since the Edo period, the blowgun has become one of the hidden weapons used by the ninjas in the little days to assassinate the whistle. We speculate that those little days should be lying in wait on the roadside. Because they are disguised, our people We didn’t find them, they were about five steps away and fired blow darts, the poison of these blow darts is very overbearing!”
When Liu Qingsong saw the blow dart, he looked surprised and said, "Why did you come to Luzon when you were young?"
"We don't know this!"
"Anyway, find them!"
Liu Qingsong reported this information while encircling and suppressing the young warriors in Luzon.
Cheng Shijie received the information from Luzon in Liaodong. Autumn harvest was in progress in Liaodong. If nothing else happened, grain production in Liaodong had dropped again. On August 11th, not even August 15th, there was a blizzard. This should be said in later generations. No one believed that the weather in the late Ming Dynasty was so evil.
When Cheng Shijie saw the blowing arrow made of poisonous fish vine that Liu Qingsong sent over, the blood in his heart instantly burned.
"Damn it, I haven't had time to clean up Xiaozi, and Xiaozi actually dared to come here and cause trouble for me!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Assemble the navy troops and mobilize the army troops from the two command divisions. I will live a small life!"
When Sun Zhidao heard that Cheng Shijie was going to live a small life, he hurriedly said: "Commander,
"Taizu once listed Japan as a country not to be conquered..."
"so what?"
Sun Zhiwang gritted his teeth and said: "Taizu means that until the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoli will not be conquered..."
"Bullshit, we can't conquer the small days, but the small days can conquer us? The Japanese pirates have been in the south of the Yangtze River for more than two hundred years. Have you forgotten it? How many years have passed since the Korean War?"
Cheng Shijie slapped his hand on the table and shouted: "When I was a kid, I was in the first grade of junior high school, and we are in the fifteenth grade. If they can use the knife on our Luzon, we can go to their hometowns and beat them until they can't take care of themselves!"
Sun Zhili smiled bitterly and said: "Commander, what are you trying to do? We won't get the slightest benefit from living a small life, and we will also attract many accusations from the officials!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Who said that there is no benefit at all from playing a small life? Do you know the Shi Jian Yin Mountain in a small life? It is rich in silver, with an annual output of one million taels of silver. It has been dug for hundreds of years and has not been finished. There is still a small life. It’s rich in brass, so I don’t need to tell you how valuable brass is, right?”
"That's what I say, but..."
Cheng Shijie said: "The Commander-in-Chief has the final say on military operations. The Administrative Committee just needs to take care of Liaodong!"
Cheng Shijie has always been resolute and determined to take action immediately after cleaning up his little life.
First of all, he carefully prepared a memorial and submitted it to Emperor Chongzhen. Cheng Shijie said that the Japanese pirates who had disappeared had now resurfaced and were causing trouble in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This could not be tolerated and they must be severely punished. , promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and return a peaceful world to the people along the coast...
Of course, this is only what the memorial said. In Cheng Shijie's secret letter to Emperor Chongzhen, he told Emperor Chongzhen that the Japanese pirates were unscrupulous and would definitely affect the tax revenue from maritime merchants. At the same time, there was a silver mountain called Shijian Yinshan in his childhood. After mining for a hundred or two hundred years, millions of taels of silver can be dug out every year, and the army in the small days is extremely weak.
Cheng Shijie's words meant the same thing. If you don't rob such a fat sheep, who should you rob?
After completing these preparations, Cheng Shijie began to build momentum in newspapers. On such and such a day, such and such a ship encountered Japanese pirates. The ship was robbed, how many people were killed, and how much money was lost in cargo.
As soon as Shen Boyun saw Cheng Shijie's attitude, he immediately wrote a letter to the Shen family in Jiangnan, telling them to quickly prepare a batch of "losses" and request Songjiang Mansion to make the decision for them.
While building momentum, Ning Haijun began to gather.
Zhou An reported to Cheng Shijie: "Now that Daning is in Liaodong, Jiannu dare not move. This time we will settle it once and for all. Let's set up a trap and see if we can catch Jiannu too!"
"Are the troops ready?"
"Ready!"
Zhou Ning smiled and said: "The cavalry is six thousand, the infantry is fifteen thousand, the artillery is three thousand, the navy is sixteen thousand, and the whole army has a total of forty thousand horses!"
Cheng Shijie frowned slightly and said, "No, it's too little!"
"Commander, we can't empty Liaodong, but if Jiannu takes the risk..."
"This time, my commander is not going to fight against the slaves. He will come back after a battle. We are going to build a base in the small days and take root there for a long time. We can't do it without a small number of people!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Kewang and said: "Go and recruit 10,000 reform-through-labor prisoners and old thieves. The more lives you have, the better. You will lead these 10,000 men!"
Sun Kewang cried with joy. Since he took refuge with Cheng Shijie, although he enjoyed the honor of being a leader, in fact he was just a guard leader. He did not even have the authority to mobilize more than fifty soldiers and horses.
Letting him lead Zhang Xianzhong's old bandits was not only Cheng Shijie's trust in him, but also an assessment of him.
Sun Kewang said excitedly: "Commander, it will take ten days!"
"Give you half a month!"
Cheng Shijie waved his hand: "If you need any equipment, make a list and I will give it to you!"
Zhou Ning said a little uneasily: "Will the imperial court agree to the 50,000-strong army going out to fight in the small days?"
"When did my commander give them permission to go to war?"
Cheng Shijie said disapprovingly: "If I want to beat Xiaozhi, I'll beat him!"
The eldest son Cheng was cheated by Cheng Shijie, his biological father. Cheng Jialong, who was in huge debt, had no choice but to accept Cheng Shijie's arrangement and study honestly. However, Cheng Jialong was lucky because he started college before finishing junior high school. Liaodong University is actually a university.
After hearing the news that Cheng Shijie was going to have a baby, Cheng Jialong said excitedly: "Dad, you must take me with you this time!"
"You are a little brat, what are you doing with me?"
“Dad, it’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of yourself!”
Cheng Jialong said seriously: "At worst, I'll do a few more sets of exercises!"
"OK!"
Cheng Jiayue walked in, looked at Cheng Jialong's excited face, and asked, "Brother, why are you so happy?"
"Of course I'm happy, brother, I'm going to have a little time!"
"Having a small life?"
Cheng Jiayue was stunned: "Dad, I want to go too!"
"what are you going to do?"
Cheng Shijie said displeased: "Jialong can still kill a few people if we go there. Are you going to cause trouble?"
"They killed so many of us when we were little, and it's their turn to repay their blood debt! Don't be soft, just hit them on the head with any powerful weapon!"
Cheng Jiayue tilted her head and thought seriously, looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Dad, you can use sarin gas. This gas is very powerful and can easily kill all the people in a city. Even if they are not killed, they can still be killed." They are blind and convulsed, and when the time comes, all we have to do is send soldiers up to stab them with bayonets!”
Cheng Shijie: "Where can I get sarin gas..."
Cheng Jialong looked at Cheng Jiayue's harmless appearance, and sweat dropped from his forehead. He did not expect Cheng Jiayue to be so cruel.
Cheng Jiayue said: "That's right. Sarin gas is difficult to deal with. Dad, can you make a gasoline napalm bomb? This is also very powerful. It will burn your little life to a roast pig. It is very effective!"
Cheng Shijie coaxed Cheng Jiayue and said, "Go and rest first. Dad knows how to do this!"
"Dad, you can also use thermite incendiary bombs! I read on Douyin that this is the most ferocious incendiary bomb in the world. It can even burn tanks into molten iron. It can also be used to bomb the devils and eliminate the process of collecting corpses. It’s all saved.”
The corners of Cheng Jialong's mouth began to twitch. This sister will be fine when she grows up.
Cheng Shijie coaxed Cheng Jiayue to finally fall asleep, and he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
You must know that Cheng Jiayue only attended primary school for two semesters and had nine years of compulsory education. What exactly did he teach?
However, as Cheng Shijie's order was issued, Ning Haijun's war machine was activated again. The first to be mobilized were reform-through-labor prisoners, almost all of whom had no term, or twenty-five years, or even twenty or fifteen years, were not eligible to participate in this program. a military operation.
As soon as the news came out, the various labor camps immediately became excited. The people who were thrown into the labor camps were all the kind of brave and fierce guys. Fighting and killing were what they liked best. When they saw the opportunity coming, they all immediately jumped into the camp. Eyes glowing green, rush to sign up!
Sun Ke looked at these old thieves and said: "You also know the rules of Ning Haijun. If you kill one small day, your sentence will be reduced by five years. If you kill six of them indefinitely, you will be free!" (End of Chapter)
