Chapter 52: Building the Wall

Half a month has passed since the siege of Quanzhou, but Jin Ming, the governor of Guangzhou, has never set foot in Guangzhou, but has set up the shogunate and the Xingyuan directly under the city. The banner of "Fengtian Rebellion" was openly erected, and the besieged barracks were expanding every day, and from a distance it looked like a bazaar, because until now, there had not been a single siege battle.

As Jun's life was delivered to all roads, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, soldiers and horses began to assemble here one after another, even if it was to cope with errands, hundreds of people, dozens of people, Jin Ming did not refuse, and the stronger ones were incorporated into the army to practice every day, and it didn't matter at all, as long as there was the strength to fill the army, of course, there were almost no people who were so weak that they couldn't even walk, and the march was originally the first round of elimination.

In this way, the ants moved, and the total number of troops besieging the city exceeded 50,000, but if there was more than one person, things would be very annoying, and more manpower would be needed for deployment and placement, and this kind of person was the most lacking under Jin Ming's account. As a last resort, Zhang Qingyun, who was still ill, and even Ye Yingyou, who was passing by here and preparing to go to Qiongzhou, were brought by him to serve as a Chinese official at the time.

"Yizhi, the five hundred new township soldiers in Nanjian Prefecture are still handled according to the previously agreed method, this registration and registration matter, you will have to worry a lot, their camp is in the north of the city, you bring a few sheep when you go, it should be for the labor army."

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Jin Ming called Ye Yingzi and instructed, the other party was not his subordinate, but also a serious son, so there was some politeness in his tone, not only did he not speak harshly, but he also explained in detail some things that need to be paid attention to, because this is not in Haisi, and he doesn't recognize his identity much, Jin Ming doesn't want anything unpleasant.

However, his idea is a bit redundant, after that long talk, Ye Yingyou is already trying to correct his position, and he has the experience of Hai Si during that time, although he can't get along with ordinary sergeants like Liu Yu, but he also has his own advantages, that is, he is born with an atmosphere, it turns out that as long as a literati does not put on a stinky face all day long, it is easier for ordinary people to win respect, and Ye Yingyou is exactly what he does.

And Jin Ming's attitude also made him very satisfied, in these days of getting along, he has understood that the other party is actually a very careful person, for example, this time, let him bring something is actually to give him a favor, Qiu Ba in the military camp are all realistic goods, to convince them either have excellent skills, or this kind of small favors from time to time.

"Commander, that kind of highland horned mutton is delicious, and it is difficult to see it in Jingshi, so it is better to raise it. Those soldiers saw it, although they were village soldiers, their height and body shape were not worse than those of the ordinary forbidden army, and they thought that what they lacked was not food, and there were still some ordnance in the back camp, if the commander agreed, he wanted to bring some to change clothes with them, I don't know if it was appropriate to do so? ”

As soon as Ye Ying's enthusiasm came up, there was no extremely strict Lao Tzu on it, and these simple truths would naturally be thought of, not only that, but also often able to cite one to three and put forward some of his own ideas, of course, such a reasonable proposal was also welcomed, and he nodded immediately.

Township soldiers are mostly archers, not as high as the forbidden army, this group of soldiers has a good foundation, Jin Ming also intends to be co-opted, but now can not be in a hurry, after all, the functions of the two are different, the treatment is different, the soldier is voluntary, not everyone is willing to tattoo.

Jin Ming sent him out of the tent with a smile, watching Ye Ying get on the horse in a hurry, which reminded him of Engong's eldest son Wang Lin, who was also from a similar background and had been helping in the army, and of course Liu Ziqing, who made people love and hate.

His large tent of the Chinese army is located on a high ground in the south of the city, from here you can clearly see the situation of the entire camp, the fang market outside the city has been cleared, and the open space is used for camping and drilling, although the number of this army is large, but the vast majority of them are She, there has never been formal training, such soldiers are not able to fight, Jin Ming will certainly not let them go to death in vain.

So now the most important work is drilling, under his request, more than 40,000 She people were integrated according to the establishment of the Song Army, and more than 2,000 Chinese troops he brought were placed as middle and lower-level officers, and the chief officers were mostly the leaders of the She people's departments, so as to avoid contradictions, so that the training work could be carried out in an orderly manner.

At this time, there is such a hot scene in the camp, she people can take the initiative to fight, naturally they are ready to sacrifice, they are not afraid of losing their lives, and they are naturally nothing if they are tired at ordinary times, the only headache is that military skills are just enough, but military discipline is a nerve-wracking thing, think about it, a group of lazy people suddenly ask them to get up on time, eat on time, sleep on time, this is not good, it is not good, its chaos can be imagined.

His people are all rough ruffians, of course, they don't know how to educate, when they see something wrong, the whip in their hands beckons over, and they scold and scold non-stop, quite a bit of the style of the old US military camp in later generations, but Rao is so, those crooked military columns still make Jin Ming shake his head, if this is his soldier, he would have personally picked up the stick.

There is no way, the most important thing for the Song army is the formation, the large formation of tens of thousands of people, who can do the column without chaos, the line without dispersing, and the enemy without defeating can be called a good general, and these are far from being solved by shouting a few slogans, all relying on the boring training day by day, even if it is not much worse than the military parade and training in later generations, and those who do poorly will lose their lives.

Patience, must be patient, Jin Ming has to cheer himself up in his heart, they have only been in the army for a long time, and they can't talk about the same day, for this reason, at least in the short term, he will not consider attacking the city, so in addition to losing his life in vain, the rest is to hit his morale.

However, the people in the city had to be guarded, with tens of thousands of rabble, as long as the defenders in the city had the slightest ability, they could see at a glance what this kind of army was most afraid of? Chaos, and to cause chaos, there is nothing more direct than attacking the camp, the victory of the battle of Jiankang depends on the chaos of the night attack on the guide zhì so that the whole army collapses in the end, this is Jin Ming's greatest achievement, he himself is now in the position of attacking the city, of course, he dare not despise it.

So, on the second day of the siege, he personally took the whole army and the forcibly recruited people, a total of 200,000 people, and dug a trench around the entire Quanzhou city in front of the defenders under the city. Immediately after, behind the completed trenches, more than 100,000 men in total began a grand project under the supervision of the army - the construction of a wall.

As a result, before the camp was built, a wall that was not very tall appeared outside the city almost overnight, and then the wall was widened and heightened, and became the perimeter of the camp, and the material used was the demolished fang market under the city, and these people were not paid except for three meals a day, because they were all locals, and they were inextricably linked to the rebels in the city, which was a disguised punishment.

There is no law in feudal society that does not blame the public, and the rebellion in Quanzhou is already a fact, and you don't need any name if you want to do it, and household registration itself is a kind of original sin. Under the noses of tens of thousands of troops in the imperial court, these locals had to bow their heads to their ears, and what they could resent was the few people in the city who dragged the whole state into the water, and they had to point there and scold them every day to vent their grievances.

When the camp is stable, he can carry out large-scale training without distraction, which is also what Liu Yu proposed to him, the siege is not the goal, Quanzhou is a strong city, in addition to the huge sacrifice, the strong attack will also make those rebels hate the same enemy, and they have to struggle to the death in despair, and in the end, even if the city is broken, the gains will outweigh the losses, which is not the result he wants.

The enemy has no reinforcements, and the morale will only get lower and lower as time goes by, such a huge wall, the psychological blow to the defenders is very great, just imagine, people are neither fighting with you, nor afraid of you running, what else can you do? Wait for death.

And Jin Ming also has a killer move, when the time is right, it will have unexpected effects, not at the moment, he looked at the city in the distance, where there is no longer the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, and one day, he will reinsert it, this day will not be too far away.

In the harbor outside the city, the fire has been extinguished, the damage caused by this fire is huge, more than 2,000 sea ships were burned, most of the houses near the wharf were burned down, tens of thousands of boatmen and people were homeless, Quanzhou Port, the once most prosperous treaty port in the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, no longer exists.

"A few more people go down, it's not enough to support the wood, put up a few more, and make up for those places."

Yang Fei's face was tired, his voice was a little hoarse, and it was spread out by the loudspeaker, and it became so loud that even those who were familiar with him might not be able to hear it.

He was directing a group of people to build a trestle bridge, without which he could only use small boats to go back and forth, which was a must-have for the port. However, now the Quanzhou wharf is a mess, the wharf is full of floating logs, ashes, broken sails, and debris, and the sea water is a dark black, as if it has been stained with ink, and he has to invest a lot of manpower to do some basic work, in order to restore at least part of the function of the wharf.

This time, the biggest gain will belong to him, the new appointment of the imperial court has been sent to him through the guò fast horse, and now he has become the newly formed commander of the Qiongzhou naval army, which means that he will have the right to build a fleet entirely of his own. The ship is already there, and it is moored outside the port at the moment, and people are everywhere, and anyone here in Quanzhou is an excellent boatman, so Yang Fei didn't feel how hard it was at all, and his heart was already about to pop out happily.

It was unimaginable a few months ago that all the promises made to him by that young official had become a reality, as if it were a dream, and now Yang Fei's heart is even bigger, he believes that no matter how grand the idea is, as long as it is said by that person's mouth, it will definitely come true.

The long trestle bridge gradually took shape, and after it was built, part of the big ships outside would stay here as a surveillance, and part of it would carry those homeless people to Qiongzhou, they had no choice now, because they were still nominally guilty, and the power of the government was huge, and if they didn't want to accept it, there would only be one end, and no one wanted to go that far.

Some of these people will become his soldiers, and it is much easier to force or volunteer than to recruit locally, anyway, this kind of work was done before, and it is not the same as who to follow?