Chapter 141: Combat Readiness Resources
[It's collected, it doesn't make sense! ] If it is put on the shelves, will it fall even harder? 】
The Yellow Turban Army's escape at this time was no longer organized, and under the pursuit of the forbidden army, they scattered and fled, and they could not find soldiers, soldiers could not find generals, and they were completely chaotic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Su Gu had to gallop wildly and go south to Guan Hai, and at this time Bian Xi had already escorted Zhang Ning to Guan Hai's army.
This Guan Hai is a powerful character, leading the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to persist in guerrilla warfare, when the official army searched and suppressed frequently, they were reduced to zero, and when the official army was unable to take care of it, they gathered in the mountains and forests and attacked the counties.
Zhang Ning came to vote, and Guan Hai was full of joy, because he knew that after Zhang Baiqi's death, Zhang Jiao's successor would only be Zhang Ning, and "Taiping Technique" must be on Zhang Ning. Under the situation of the annihilation of the Yellow Turban Army in the country, Guan Hai's Qingzhou Yellow Turban is undoubtedly the strongest, and if he has "Taiping Technique" in hand, it is very possible that he Guan Hai can revive the power of the Yellow Turban Army.
When Zheng Gu escorted Zhang Ning to Qingzhou before, Guan Hai had sent someone to disguise himself as a thief to rob him, although at that time, Zheng Gu's personal soldiers sacrificed their lives to fight to the death and killed many of Guan Hai's assassins, but the burden of "Taiping Technique" was still scattered, one of the volumes fell off the cliff, the situation was urgent, Zhang Ning did not have time to look for it under the cliff, so he had to take the other nine volumes to escape with Wei Gu. And this book of "Taiping Techniques" that fell off the cliff is the "Ding" volume, which is the volume that Jiang Sheng's Jizhou intelligence station head Zhou Jinxun handed over to Jiang Sheng.
Now Bian Xi's department has nearly 10,000 people to protect Zhang Ning, and he doesn't dare to come hard, so he can only be courteous in front of Zhang Ning and try to steal the "Taiping Technique".
Jiang Sheng waved his army to search and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in Le'an, and achieved complete results, and the Yellow Turban Army forces in the entire Le'an territory were completely swept away, and Zhang Ning's guerrilla tactics withdrew from the stage of Le'an before they were implemented.
Due to the extremely preferential policy, the wasteland in Le'an was almost reclaimed, and Jiang Sheng ordered the demarcation of forest areas and mining areas, which were not allowed to be reclaimed, which curbed the momentum of deforestation and land reclamation.
Although the people have some regrets, but fortunately, Jiang Sheng can keep his promise and protect everyone's interests with low taxes, and the people are slowly getting used to it.
The rich families were reluctant to reclaim the wasteland, and they had to bear the same taxes and labor as the common people. Some wealthy families refused to serve hard labor, and they were not called to bear taxes, which angered Jiang Sheng.
Jiang Sheng ordered Yang Feng to be the tax collector and led the army to the counties to supervise the payment of taxes, because the summer grain had been put into the warehouse and taxes should be paid. Those rich families who did not obey the management were all crushed by Yang Feng, not only to pay enough taxes, but also to directly return the newly reclaimed land to the government.
In the face of force, these people had to admit it, and the other big families did not dare to make a mistake, and obediently paid all the taxes.
Some poor peasant households simply handed over their land to the government, changed it into official land, and then moved to the vicinity of the government to work full-time.
Jiang Sheng mastered the harvest situation, and also distributed some grain to the laborers, due to the use of deep ploughing and fertilizer method, Le'an's grain output was significantly higher than that of other places, Jiang Sheng built the first official warehouse in Le'an in Linji, for grain reserves.
At this time, grain is a strategic resource, and there must be sufficient reserves, Jiang Sheng took a fancy to this, so the granary was designed waterproof to ensure that the grain can be stored for at least two years.
The sale of illicit salt saved Jiang Sheng a lot of money, and Jiang Sheng took out the money to build military camps, smelting workshops, and reserve war materials.
In addition to those who serve as laborers, ordinary people can also go to construction sites and workshops to sell their labor services during their spare time, and their wages are paid every day. Although the wages were relatively small, they could be paid in full, which made the people rush to it, the production efficiency of materials soared, and the construction of the barracks also greatly shortened the construction period.
Jiang Sheng designed this military camp from the bottom to the top of the twelve arrow towers, and there are many potholes dug in the mountain, these potholes are connected to each other, with good defensive performance, many suspension bridges in the mountain design, to ensure that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. And the grain and grass stored in the mountains are also extremely sufficient.
Le'an's military strength was reorganized by Jiang Sheng, with 20,000 infantry and archers, 5,000 engineer battalions, 10,000 cavalry battalions, and 5,000 logistics baggage soldiers, totaling 60,000 people, and ordered a security army of 500 people per county to maintain law and order, arrest thieves, and guard the official warehouse.
Emperor Ling's physical condition is not optimistic, although he was cured of typhoid fever by Jiang Sheng last time, his physical foundation is weak, and his health condition is not optimistic, Jiang Sheng only realized that Emperor Ling's days are numbered, and Jiang Sheng's strength has just started, how will he gain a foothold in the princes' hegemony in the future?
Jiang Sheng couldn't sleep at night, and drew drawings of the iron-smelting blast furnace with the memory of later generations, and also drew drawings of straight-edged sabers, triangular iron lances, horseshoes, double stirrups and other things, so that the smelting workshop tried to produce them.
He also ordered the carpentry workshop to make a hand crossbow suitable for single use, which was similar to the crossbow of later generations, equipped with a trigger, which could be operated with both hands, and added sights, but the workmanship was exquisite, and the existing resources were difficult to produce in large quantities.
With the help of Chu Yan, the Zhen family caravan purchased 5,000 good horses from Xianbei and rushed to Linji County, Jiang Sheng equipped the cavalry equipment that had been created, due to the lack of Le'an iron ore, Jiang Sheng could only build a fully armed cavalry of 2,000 people.
This cavalry team is wearing dark light armor, wearing a black iron helmet, and the horses they ride are also black, known as the black cavalry, each knight is equipped with a straight-edged saber, a crossbow, and fifty short arrows. This can be regarded as a special force that Jiang Sheng has set up for himself.
Zhao Yun served as the commander of the Xuanjia cavalry, directly responsible to Jiang Sheng, and the other 8,000 cavalry were led by Zhang He, Yu Ban was in charge of the infantry, Xiahou Lan was in charge of the archers, and Deng Mao was in charge of the main engineer battalion, and Yang Feng was the commander of Le'an County, in charge of civil and logistical supply work.
Jiang Sheng is the Taishou and concurrently serves as the county lieutenant, because there is only one commander in the Le'an army, and that is Jiang Sheng! Jiang Sheng compiled a training manual, which included the training methods of later generations in the training manual, and also mentioned the theory and tactical coordination of the various arms of the troops, so as to fundamentally enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In order to afford the 60,000-strong army, Jiang Sheng took the lead in implementing the tuntian system, opening up the military tuntian on the basis of the original official field, and allocating thousands of acres of land around the military camp as the military tuntian.
With the introduction of this series of policies, the people have benefited, the government has increased its income, and war resources are gradually being reserved.
In August, the imperial court came to rumor that Jiang Sheng entered Beijing to meet Emperor Ling.
After Jiang Sheng settled everything, he entered the Yang Mianjun, in order not to cause misunderstanding, Jiang Sheng rejected Zhao Yun's proposal to lead the Xuanjia cavalry to escort him, and only brought ten followers into Beijing.
"Wechen knocks on the emperor!" Jiang Sheng met Emperor Ling in Emperor Ling's bedroom.
"Ahem-Zicheng, let's be flat." Emperor Ling coughed twice and motioned for Jiang Sheng to sit closer.
Jiang Sheng half-knelt in front of the Spirit Emperor's couch and listened to the holy teachings.
"Today's chaos is going on, I have been paying attention to the military affairs for a long time, and I plan to organize and train a new army, and I have summoned you to the palace to consult about military training, do you have any suggestions?"