Chapter 433: Immortal Brew
All the Qi soldiers focused on their work, and the tens of thousands of Jin soldiers two miles away were nothing, just concentrating on cutting off the heads one by one, or picking up the essence of the Jin soldiers.
During the siege of the city a few days ago, the Qi army lost about 300 people and suffered more than 500 wounded.
The previous cavalry outpost Qi army suffered a loss, probably losing more than fifty cavalry, but the battle in front of them was all fought back.
The final result has not yet been calculated, but the Jin army lost no less than two thousand, maybe three thousand, while the Qi army itself did not exceed a hundred.
"Hehe, the cavalry directly attacked the defensive position, and the Tartars dared to do it." Xu Shiyang sneered.
In fact, what Tartar thinks, he can probably guess a little bit - it is nothing more than trying to overwhelm the Qi army with his momentum.
If the morale of the Qi army is crushed, they will be able to achieve their goal at a relatively small cost.
If it's the other way around...... it's like now, it's the same one-sided slaughter, but the characters are just the opposite.
It's nothing short of gambling.
And the bet was lost.
Lost a mess.
'Look how you'll face my banner in the future!' ’
Xu Shiyang Zhi looked at the enemy who was getting away in the distance.
He has no doubt that the Tartars have been completely overwhelmed by themselves in terms of morale, and if they fight again in the future, there is no need to fight, the Tartars are three points shorter first!
"Your days are counting down."
Xu Shiyang proudly picked up his wine glass and pointed into the distance.
"Commander." Li Jinghuai climbed the city tower and came to Xu Shiyang's side: "The statistics are out, we have killed 2,200 levels and captured more than 600 prisoners. ”
"The captive confessed that it was Wanyan Zonggan who led the charge this time, he was knocked off his horse by us, but he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and we only identified his two sons in the pile of corpses."
"Just assume he's not dead." Xu Shiyang didn't care and handed the wine glass in his hand to Li Jinghuai.
The commander of the Dingyuan Brigade took the wine glass and drank it all: "The commander is stingy, this thing doesn't smell like wine at all." ”
"I didn't say it was wine." Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "It's easy to drink if you want to, I'll give you two bottles of wine in two days." ”
A few years ago, Xu Shiyang introduced Pars grapes in Daze Mountain near Pingdu, and recently there has been a harvest, and the product quality is also good, whether it is used to make dried fruits, fruits or wine.
It's just that the number of products is insufficient now, and only 500 bottles of wine can be obtained every year for the past two years, which will be used as a tribute to the Grand Duke, Jiangnan Wenxianggong and Longdao Emperor, and the rest will flow into the market.
Wine was not to the appetizers of the front-line fighters, who preferred the distilled liquor known as the burnt knife.
However, the wine is very popular with the Jiangnan scribes, only 500 bottles of tribute wine a year, with a crystal clear glass bottle, and a small wooden sign is hung at the mouth of the bottle, and the brand has Xu Shiyang's anonymous plagiarism from Tang Wanghan's "Liangzhou Song" (this era was renamed "Liaodong Song" by Xu Shiyang), which instantly raised the cultural grade of wine in Qi Province.
Nowadays, the Liaodong Qu (the wine is named Liaodong Qu) in Qi Province is not available for more than 100 yuan in the south of the Yangtze River, and basically only Wenfu, Xu Shiliu, Xu Shisong and Zhang Mingyi, who supervised the army in Qi Province, can flow a few bottles.
"Hehe, the commander sold that thing to Master Zhang, he can produce fifty times a bottle, are you really willing?"
"It's just two bottles of wine, what is it compared to this?"
Xu Shiyang pointed to the city and laughed:
"There's victory here!"
"Victory is the most mellow immortal wine!"
"Every soldier in the Dingyuan Brigade can get two bottles of soju today! One bottle per person for the rest of the departments! ”
"Commander, if you're drunk, you can't be on duty." Li Jinghuai hurriedly persuaded.
"Today, the Chinese military guards are in charge of patrol duty, and they will give them wine when they go back." Xu Shiyang did not change his mind in the slightest.
Get drunk if you get drunk, he doesn't believe that Tartars dare to come to death.
"Li Jinghuai, let me tell you, the outcome of our war with the Tartars has been decided! We will win! ”
Xu Shiyang said excitedly:
"Three years! In three years at most, we will be able to solve the Jurchen Tartars! ”
"Li Jinghuai, from now on, you are responsible for garrisoning Gaizhou, I will give you most of the cavalry, every spring ploughing and autumn harvest, you have to send cavalry to attack the Liaozhong Plain, be sure to make the Tartars not peaceful!"
This is the best way to weaken the Tartars and a good opportunity to train the cavalry.
"Commanded!"
"Jing Huai, you remember, our prospects are not just between these square inches! Qi Province is not our limit, Liaodong is not, and even Da Zhou is not! ”
Xu Shiyang tilted his neck and poured all the juice in the bottle into his mouth, this thing does not contain alcohol, it is not intoxicating at all, but the wine is not intoxicating, everyone is drunk, Xu Shiyang even felt a little drunk.
"All good work! This commander will not hesitate to reward the prince! ”
This was the first time Xu Shiyang spoke to his subordinates in the voice of a monarch, and it was also the only time for a long time after that.
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At the beginning of November of the third year of Longdao, Xu Shiyang led the Chinese Army Guards back to Dengzhou.
At this time, although the new army had ten brigades and dozens of companies with a total of 40,000 field troops, they had already effectively occupied most of the territory of Qi, Hebei, and Liao provinces and suppressed Goryeo, so their troops were quite scattered.
The original Dadu Governor's Mansion only occupied the five prefectures of Qi Province, and later added Liaonan and Dongchang Mansions, which were essentially the territory of a province.
However, after the end of the Gaizhou Campaign, Qi Province actually increased the land of the ten prefectures of Ji Province and the entire southern Liaoning, and the area of the control area was tripled!
And these newly added territories need to be reorganized into households, bandits, water conservancy needs to be rebuilt, and Tartars from all walks of life need to be prevented from invading and harassing - Ji Province borders the grasslands, and now Xu Shiyang can't just prevent a Jurchen Tartar.
Therefore, the strength of the ten field brigades, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Zhiyuan in southern Liaoning, Jingyuan in Phoenix, Pingyuan, Jiyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan in Hebei Province, and Weiyuan and Yuyuan in Qi Province, were almost completely unable to move in the old and new territories.
In addition to the cavalry, independent artillery, blue army, trapping, marines and Chinese guards and other independent combat units, the Qi army actually couldn't transfer a single field brigade of mobile troops!
Of course, the territory is in hand, the population is in hand, these are just temporary small troubles, which can always be solved.
Just expand the army.
After all, the new army already has the spare capacity to expand, and now each company of all branches of the armed forces, such as engineering, cavalry, artillery, selection, sharps, and divine machines, is equipped with two sets of teams, and the number of non-commissioned officers at the grass-roots level is sufficient.
This is actually where the modern army surpasses the feudal army - it is too easy to replenish qualified soldiers.
Therefore, the temporary lack of mobile troops is not a problem, it can be solved in half a year at most, and now for Qi Province, the biggest problem is actually a holy decree from the Jiangnan Imperial Court:
In the name of recovering Yanyun, Xu Mujiang was named the king of Yan.
In the name of recovering southern Liao, Xu Shiyang was named the king of Liao.
Two kings in a row, but only forgot the metropolitan governor Xu Muhe.