Chapter 67: Expedition
After Wu Jiu left, he walked quickly to the compound.
Really! It's a pale green wooden cow, no, it's a real cow, and dozens of big cows are waiting quietly, just like the Han army's pro-army.
"Good cow, good cow!" A strong and powerful cow has the strength to imagine. More than 200,000 people, if there were another 2,000 oxen to transport supplies, their speed of returning south would be more secure.
Hearing Wu Jiu's laughter, Chen Xiong was greatly satisfied. Although these cows and horses are very large, they usually need only half of the energy they need to replenish. The Han army was less than eight thousand, and he could supply another four or five thousand wooden oxen and horses. What's more, the Grass and Wood Soldier is evolving the digestive system in batches, and he will no longer need to replenish his energy after that.
The day before dawn was dark, and the artisan farmers had woken up. The hard-working people are still so diligent, no matter how hard they worked, they might starve to death before, but now after joining the Han army, hunger seems to have left them.
The sea was bright first, and as soon as the night receded, the Han army began to turn.
Knock knock~~ The war drums outside the city of Dengzhou City were sensational.
Knock knock~ Hearing this voice, 300,000 people near Dengzhou City were excited, and the battle drum was rising, and the Han army was invincible.
At the west gate of Dengzhou, when Chen Xiong arrived with the first army of the Han Dynasty, the 30,000 horses of the last three armies had already been lined up.
Taking advantage of the early stage, he incarnated another group of wooden people, expanding the first three armies to 9,000 people. Most of the 3,000 men in each army are now wooden men, and the scarecrows will shrink again in the future. Han Army: Stone men are suitable for cavalry, wooden men are suitable for main infantry, and scarecrows are mainly used for scout reconnaissance and storming the city wall.
Thirty thousand people were crowded like a forest, and each of them was armed. Thanks to the contribution of Weihaiwei, the three armies of the Han army are already fully armed.
Without mentioning swords and arrows, the firearms of the last three armies also began to be equipped. The right medium guns with a power range of one kilometer on the left caliber 50 mm, three guns were exactly one for each army. The caliber of the small scatterball cannon is 100 mm, but the lethality is only 300 meters. Twelve small cannons, four in the last three armies and one army. As for the firecrackers, all melted into iron, such a rough and backward firecracker is not even as good as a bow and arrow.
Most of the armor was equipped for the first three armies, and the only thing that the latter three armies lacked today was a large amount of mixed armor.
"Lord~"
"Lord~"
Tens of thousands of people raised their swords and guns into the sky and shouted in unison.
It was not the first time that Chen Xiong, the protagonist of tens of thousands of voices, had heard it, but this time it shocked him even more. It was as if the will of tens of thousands of people was tied to him, and he knew that their fates were indeed tied together.
The military master picked up the one-meter-eight big slash, and the heavy big slash was raised towards the white clouds, and the translucent blade flashed white light.
After the soldiers were quiet, Chen Xiong rode his war horse to the three armies.
"Brothers, the Ming Dynasty will collapse, and the Northern Central Plains will be bloody and bloody. We didn't return to the south to escape, although the world is big, every inch was exchanged for flesh and blood by the ancestors of the Han family. The purpose of the return of our Han army to the south is to accumulate strength, and in a few years or ten years, our Han army will surely return to the north from the new. ”
"The Fifth Army of the Han Dynasty, the Sixth Army of the Han Dynasty, and the Seventh Army of the Han Dynasty are opened, and the goal is to recruit 50,000 Ming troops."
"It's the lord." The three army commanders stepped forward to salute.
The army did not move the grain and grass first, but this time the army only brought two days of dry food.
Woohoo~~
Three thousand cavalrymen pulled horses, and they would be the pioneers of the army.
Frame~~
Boom~~ After the cavalry left, the army also walked towards the hazy dust road.
This time, Chen Xiong did not personally command, and he took the Han First Army to watch the battle in the back, and he would not dispatch until he had to.
"Raising soldiers for a thousand days is used for a while, and I don't know when this native Han army will be able to become an army."
The Dengzhou army left, but the Han and Han armies were still there, and there were still more than 10,000 horses on the dock.
Looking at the direction of the Han army's departure, the middle-aged merchant was worried again, and the Han army now has fifty or sixty thousand horses. When they were to return to Lingnan, there may have been hundreds of thousands of horses, and two months ago, the Han army lord started with one horse and one horse, and swept the two prefecture capitals of Liaodong. Now I'm afraid, tens of thousands of Manchurian iron horsemen can't help them! This middle-aged Jin merchant had a lot of thoughts all the way, and he seemed to see the hope of the Han people. But he didn't have any joy at all. If the Han army leader really brought hundreds of thousands of millions of wolf soldiers out of the mountain, I am afraid that another wave of blood will roll towards Mobei.
"Grandfather, did we really choose the right one? Why did this damn Han army appear at this time, now we can no longer choose, the Han army must be removed. "The Ming Dynasty is erosive, but the Jurchens swept across the desert, and there is no army in the world to resist. In order to live in the future massacre, in order to maintain the glory of the family in the last days, the Jin Shang was thrown into the command of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry early.
The blacksmith's heart is extremely irritable, and their family has been the secret guard of the brocade guard for generations. He had a lot of information about the Han army, and he should have reported it to the imperial court for meritorious service. But the more he knew the Han army, the more bewitched his heart became: the south returned to the north, the blood washed Liaodong, and the millions of Hulu iron horses never stopped. If he just brags about the blacksmith, he will only ignore it, but the step-by-step rise and victory of the Han army are all felt by him.
"Hey! Let's wait for the battle situation of Zhaoyuan to come back! The blacksmith decided that if the Han army won again, the grace of the Ming Dynasty could only be repaid in the next life.
This was the first real battle of the Han army to return to the Ming Dynasty, and the previous Weihaiwei battle could be said to be a sneak attack battle. This battle is not only concerned by more than 200,000 people in the headquarters of the Han army, it can be said that the entire northern forces are paying attention to this battle. If the Han army is defeated, it will be reduced to a rogue army, and if the Han army wins, Shandong will no longer have a way to resist, and even the nearby states and counties will fall to the wind.
Chen Xiong also knew that this battle was very important, and he should not have let the latter three armies attack, but the local Han army must take responsibility as Han Chinese. In order to ensure the safety of Dengzhou and the safety of the two little wives, he was relieved to leave the two soldiers. Among them, the second army of the Han is responsible for protecting the two little masters, and if the third army of the Han is destroyed, the second army of the Han will immediately evacuate with the two masters. Of course, if you want to defeat Dengzhou City, which is guarded by the three armies of the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to attack it for more than three days without 20,000 people.
The army was rolling, but Chen Xiong knew that these people could not face the Jurchen Iron Cavalry at all. It only takes a few thousand cavalry charges, and the latter three armies will collapse. It only takes two thousand Tartar iron horsemen to defeat them with a slow kite flying with a mounted archery.
"Looks like we need more cavalry."
Chen Xiong sighed that if there were 10,000 stone men riding hard, he would dare to stay in Shandong now and wait for the Manchu Qing to enter the customs. But the stone must be selected, the stonemason also needs to find it slowly, and the carver of the stone requires a lot of effort.
The Shandong Ming Army can't do the Tartars but can't do the Dashun Army, but it's not an idle person. The Han army assembled and set off, and several secret agents had already transmitted the information back to the Zhaoyuan camp.
There were a total of 4,000 soldiers in Zhaoyuan City, and there were also 50,000 Ming troops from various prefectures outside the city. Zhaoyuan City is the territory of Laizhou Mansion, since it will not let the army enter the city, not to mention that Zhaoyuan City cannot accommodate tens of thousands of horses.
The battalion of the Ming army in Shandong, the 50,000 army can be said to be the main force of the provinces in Shandong. Among them, the cavalry added up to 6,000, 10 medium artillery, 20 small cannons, and thousands of musketeers. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Han people is not bad, but the Han army in the late Ming Dynasty seems to have been corroded by history.
If the Ming army dared to fight and the Han people dared to die, twice as many Jurchens would also come to die. The border army will be defeated if it dies two or three people, and the ordinary Ming army will be defeated and flee if one or two adults die.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was worse than a year, and perhaps the majority of Han people should also die in the hearts of the imperial court. The resentment that has existed from generation to generation of the people at the bottom for hundreds of years can be appeased if it does not set off a mountain of blood. The brick family called the beast to say that when the population was large and the fields were scarce, there was little food, and the peasants revolted on a large scale. In fact, the peasants who revolted were still a minority, and tens of millions of peasants at the end of the Ming Dynasty really revolted and participated in the war. But they never dared to say that this was inevitable, and the peasants who were exploited and oppressed could not bear it anymore, and sooner or later their anger would explode. Only a small number of people really can't survive, and the vast number of peasants who work hard and rely on the mountains and forests are still barely starving to death. It is even more perfunctory to say that the landlords are collecting too much rent and making it impossible for the peasants to survive. Everyone is flesh and blood, and if they can't survive, they will fight hard, and the landlord is not invincible or stupid, and he doesn't dare to go too far. The real reason is that the resentment has been accumulated for hundreds of years, and a little spark will explode like a bomb.
And the rebel army, as the avenger of the people's grievances, is the reason why the spark can start a prairie fire~~