At the end of last year, Huang Han formulated a plan for the development of Yangtze River intermodal transport by "Sun and Moon Shipping".

In the first month of this year, the master craftsman Wang Yuqi and dozens of young technicians rushed to work in Longjiang Shipyard with all-steel dragon bones.

They adopted the mode of purchasing ship materials on the spot, recruiting masters and laborers from the Longjiang Shipyard, and renting the dock of the Longjiang Shipyard to build ships with a displacement of 30 to 100 tons suitable for navigation on the Yangtze River and inland waterways.

The technical strength of Longjiang Shipyard is second to none in Daming, and there is a unified standard of steel keel, which reduces the demand for excellent quality giant trees, and the quality of river boats with a displacement of less than 100 tons is undoubted.

Most of these boats have flat bottoms, which can better avoid running aground due to low water levels.

Ships that do not enter inland rivers and the Yangtze River must be flat-bottomed boats, and on the Yangtze River with high water levels, ships with pointed bottom seas can sail if the tonnage is not too large.

Historically, Zheng Chenggong once led a warship with a displacement of four or five hundred tons into the Yangtze River to try to seize Nanjing.

It's just that because of the deep draft of the pointed bottom sea boat, the requirements for the water level of the channel are higher than that of the flat-bottomed boat.

The deeper the draft, the better the stability of the ship, the river ship used for the war ship can be used with the sea vessels, and the channel from Nantong Prefecture to Jingzhou can fully meet the navigation of the pointed bottom sea ship with a displacement of 1,200 tons.

Several thieves broke through Mianchi County and were just preparing to repair, but in less than three days, the "Red Banner Army" was killed, and a thief had to throw away their baggage and go west.

Of course, Huang Han refused to follow the Liukou westward into Shaanxi, and chased after the Liukou who were about 100,000 small to the south, and these Liukou had been fleeing along the official road in the direction of Ruzhou, Xichuan, Neixiang, Guanghua, and Nanyang.

Because the "Red Banner Army" pursued too quickly, more than half of the cities and towns that were attacked by the rogue in history were less than half, and it was also because Henan was the first time that a large-scale rogue entered the country, and there were many landlords who had stored grain, and the rogue escaped all the way and robbed all the way without being starved to death or exhausted.

The Zhu Ming royal family in Henan was the most, followed by Huguang.

Nine days later, Huang Han led the "Red Flag Army" to Nanyang, and Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and many local officials were already eager to see through it.

The long history of Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, had just arrived in Nanyang under the protection of the palace guards, and he was as elated as if he had seen a savior.

Most of the people are unprofitable and can't afford to be early, and the "Red Flag Army" came to Nanyang to get courtesy for a reason.

It was a southward rogue who had already fled into Huguang, and now nearly 200,000 horses are besieging Xiangyang, including the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Liu Guoneng, who broke into the sky, and other minions of the big thieves.

The thieves are huge, and the officers and soldiers along the way are defending the city, how dare they go out of the city to fight with the thieves?

In fact, this is not to blame these civil and military officials, the Ming army in the interior is negligent in training, and there are very few units with combat effectiveness, and due to the serious shortage, I am afraid that even 40% of the soldiers and horses in the hands of the generals will not be enough.

There are really generals with two or three thousand seven patchwork men and horses to fight the rogues, but nine times out of ten they are beaten by the rogues, and they choose to stick to the city as much as possible in fact.

I was afraid that the civilian officials with bad brains would blindly command, forcing the generals who knew what they knew to fight, and the final result was that the Ming army that went to war was partially killed by the Liukou, and many people simply joined the Liukou to seize the city they were extremely familiar with.

Xiangyang has been besieged too much, and the nearby civil officials and military generals all know that it is dangerous, in case the city is broken by the Liukou, there is a good one in Xiangwang, and I don't know how many people will fall to the ground.

Now there is a "Red Banner Army" that has won a hundred battles, of course, the civil and military generals are a lot at ease, the prince Changshi kept urging Huang Han to go to Xiangyang to relieve the siege, and the Nanyang prefect did not dare to slack off, gritted his teeth and gave a full 2,000 stone of grain and 500 stone of horse material.

In history, Zhu Yujian, the Longwu Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, helped with 2,000 stones of grain, and set up a banquet for the Marquis of Dongping.

Huang Han knew in his heart that it would be seven or eight years after Xiangyang was breached, and Yang Sichang, who was seriously ill, died of fear.

The enemy situation is unknown, there is no need to play raids, just fight steadily.

Huang Han is actually still a little wary of Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and other backbones of the rogue team, he believes that all the regular soldiers, guard troops, and miscellaneous servants will go hand in hand, and it will not be self-defeating if they don't take tricks.

Looking at the whole world, there will not be any way of men and horses who can surround and annihilate the 20,000 horses of the "Red Banner Army" with enough soldiers and food, as long as they defeat the rogues besieging Xiangyang, the great credit for rescuing the feudal domain will be in hand.

Next, you can chase the Liukou further south, and enter the lake with plenty of rice and grain for the New Year.

At that time, the "Sun and Moon Shipping" fleet, which received the order, would rush to the river near Jingzhou to stand by, and then contact and hire hundreds of ships to and fro the Yangtze River to transport the displaced people.

After all, the Yangtze River waterway is the busiest, and no one can say for sure whether the total number of ships is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

The use of ships down the Yangtze River to send people is the most efficient, and those who have been following from Henan to Huguang can take a boat to Nantong Prefecture and transfer to a large sea ship to Ningyuan or southern Liaoning.

was dozing, someone sent a pillow, how could Huang Han refuse.

Without a trace of hesitation, he promised the governor of the palace that although the "Red Flag Army" came from afar, it did not repair and continued to go south to rescue Xiangyang, which made this civil official of the fifth grade grateful.

Changshi knelt down and swore that as long as King Xiang was protected, the prince would definitely reward the three armies with money and food.

Seeing that someone was relieved of his urgent need, the Nanyang civil and military generals finally showed a smile.

The prefect and a cadre of officials patted their chests and assured that the tens of thousands of refugees left by the Marquis of Dongping outside Nanyang City would not be left unattended, and that each person would be given two bowls of porridge to eat every day.

These tens of thousands of refugees have gone through the elimination game of marching 50 miles every day, and those who are not firm in their minds, those who are physically weak, and those who are seriously dragged down by their families have all fallen behind.

Now these people have an organizational structure under the management of the "Red Banner Army", and more than 5,000 young and middle-aged people have been organized into Xiangyong with ash poles and spears, and Liu Zaiqi's armed propaganda team directly leads these people.

These exiles had to be on guard along the way, and it was impossible to allow them to stay for a long time, and Huang Han was just because the army was going to fight with the exiles, so that they could catch up a few days later and avoid military disasters as much as possible.

Liu Zaiqi led the refugees to repair for three days and then continued to chase after the large army, at which point the war was definitely over, and they could lead the villagers to defend themselves when they encountered the defeated rogues.

Huang Han thought that the men and horses did not have the conditions to encircle and suppress so many rogue bandits under Xiangyang City, and he could only ensure that he could defeat them and strive to kill some more old thieves.

He adopted the strategy of concentrating his forces and advancing step by step, and more than 20,000 men and horses carrying baggage still advanced at a speed of 50 miles a day.

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