Chapter 400: The Rainy Season March

The invading enemy army was constantly attacked and disturbed on the supply lines stretching through the mountains, and when the division veterans were tired, they would face the fresh army of the Lancang Kingdom to come to the rescue, and the final result was that the rice lost soldiers would be defeated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Too many kings who wanted to conquer that territory were blocked by Xialao City, and Nguyen Phuc Yuan, the lord of Quang Nam, also tried, and finally returned with a feather.

The Ming army had the intention of assisting Guangnan to expand its territory, Ruan Fuyuan was moved, but the price of the Ming army was too ruthless, so the whole country of Guangnan was discussed, and finally Hu Mingshan, the head of the country, asked the price when the Ming fleet came again.

The Zheng clan in the north had been suspended for two years, and Nguyen Phuc Nguyen had accumulated strength due to the interests of the sea trade, and he had already dispatched 15,000 regular troops and 20,000 people to advance westward in early June, regardless of whether the Ming Dynasty provided mercenary assistance or not.

The Lancang Kingdom still relied on Xialiao City to hold on, and the Guangnan Kingdom chose to besiege the city in the rainy season because the enemy's artillery fire would be affected to defend the city, and the speed of reinforcements would not be fast.

Guangnan and Lancang have been connected for half a month, and the Ming fleet came, and Hu Mingshan couldn't wait to talk to Lord Huang Sheng about the price of sending troops to capture Xialiao City.

Huang Sheng is ready to plot to seize Jiaozhi, even if there is no money to make, he can't let go of the opportunity to fight side by side with Guangnan to capture the important cities of Lancang State, and the exercise will also cost money!

There is a rainy season here for half a year, and if their troops do not have the experience of fighting in a rainy climate, how can they capture and hold on to Jiaozhi?

If you can't adapt to the harassment of the guerrillas who are scurrying around in the mountains, how can you maintain long-term peace and stability in the areas you occupy?

Our own army must be able to adapt to all kinds of terrain and fight around the clock, and it is certainly not possible to fight a war if it rains and snows.

Hu Mingshan explained in detail the geographical location of the city to be captured and the comparison of the forces of the two sides, and finally said tentatively: "Lord Huang, if the kingdom is willing to help the small country, and the small country is willing to provide all the military quarters and the pension of the casualties, what do you think?" ”

"The supply of our army is not something that can be supplied by a small country, and there is no need for compensation for the casualties, but there is a small condition."

"I don't know what conditions Lord Huang has, the small people in Guangnan are poor, and they really can't get too much money and food."

"This official doesn't want a tael of gold and a stone of grain from Guangnan Kingdom, and promises to assist the people of Guangnan to take down Liaojian City, if you can't take it, no matter how many people and horses you lose, you don't want a tael of silver from Guangnan Kingdom."

Hu Mingshan came to the spirit, a little impatient, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Huang, please tell me what conditions are needed?" ”

"After the destruction of Laocheng, all the seizures and populations are the private property of Ruan Dan, the king of Jiaozhi County?"

"This, the lower officials can't call the shots, and they still need to ask my king."

Hu Mingshan hurried back, and came again in the evening, bringing seven or eight high-ranking civil and military officials of Quang Nam to continue to negotiate conditions in the meeting room of Huang Sheng's flagship "Sea Sovereign."

Their lord saw that the Ming army was so big that he couldn't take Xialiao City and swallow the bitter fruit for himself, and he wanted to capture all of Xialiao City, which was a little funny, and wanted to do his best to promote this matter.

Because it doesn't matter what the result is, if the Ming army can't take Xialiao, it will also lose both sides with the Lancang army, and Guangnan will have a chance. The Ming army has learned a lesson, and from now on, it should be much more restrained, and there should never be such arrogance again.

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen sent ministers to assist in the negotiations, the purpose was to let the Ming army send troops, and the conditions were good to negotiate and discuss.

Several ministers began to bargain for many reasons, Guangnan State had already besieged Xialiao City, provided convenience for the Ming army, and would send 3,000 people and hundreds of pack horses to help transport supplies.

Therefore, they had a reason to ask for a part of the fruits of victory, Huang Sheng thought that it was reasonable, and finally reached an agreement, the Ming army would get eighty percent of the booty, all the land and castles would not be touched, and the booty that the Ming army could not take away could be sold to Guangnan at a price.

The price was negotiated, Huang Sheng was ready to personally lead the team in the battle to capture the city, and Huang Mingdao stayed behind to guard the flagship.

Nine musketeers and nine hundred-hundred-heavy infantry took part in the landing operation, all the grenadiers were brought along, and all the artillerymen took part in the actual battle, but only twenty-six six-pounder guns, including eight rifled guns.

It is a pity that the five hundred total archers of the Black Tiger can only meet the needs of one hundred total war horses, these war horses are still temporarily borrowed from Portuguese merchants, the horses of Guangnan are somewhat like donkeys, and the Black Tiger They cannot ride, and the remaining four hundred total archers are all counted as foot archers.

Huang Sheng brought cavalry to serve as infantry archers, and in case the enemy took the initiative to attack in the wind and rain, the situation of flintlock muskets was not good.

And the stainless steel pulley bow is maintained every day, and when the rainstorm is like a pillar, you can also calmly open the bow and release arrows, everyone in the Huangjia archer cavalry is a good shooter, and the enemy is not even equipped with leather armor at all, and they can't withstand their arrows.

Mo Huaiwu and Zhen Hanzhi led 560 charioteers to push 500 taels of wheelbarrows to transport equipment and supplies, and Zhu Rongguo led 100 armored chariots to be used intensively, all loaded with flintlock guns, gunpowder, and flying thunder.

More than 3,000 private soldiers of the Huang family, 2,000 armed sailors who temporarily served as laborers, 1,000 engineering soldiers, and 3,000 auxiliary soldiers set off in the rain.

Although the journey was not far, every warrior consumed a lot of physical strength, everyone was exhausted, and Huang Sheng could not take a four-wheeled carriage, and walked a hundred miles of twists and turns and steep mountain roads.

The army was accompanied by 3,000 laborers sent by Quang Nam, and those pack horses were used as horse-drawn four-wheeled carriages to carry supplies back and forth over the mountains.

Quang Nam sent Hu Minh Son and a general Nguyen Phuc Kang with 500 soldiers as guides, and the soldiers of Quang Nam also helped to do the work, and they had no idea what the Ming army was wrapped tightly in oilcloth, and everyone was surprised.

The soldiers of Guangnan Kingdom all thought that the Ming army was very interesting to fight, and it was like moving, where was it like the soldiers of Guangnan Kingdom, holding a knife and wearing a hat and carrying some dry food and leaving, eighty miles a day, where would be grinding and grinding, tired and tired, and could not walk down the mountain road for thirty miles a day.

On the way, Hu Mingshan asked a few Guangnan laborers to carry Huang Sheng with a sliding pole and marched, but he refused, and Huang Sheng, who was swaying around that thing, did not dare to sit down, and would rather trek in the mud.

In case there are spies among those people who carry the sliding rod, as long as they throw the sliding rod down when passing by the steep cliff, the Ming Dynasty will fall to pieces, and it is necessary to guard against it!

Huang Sheng pirated the recipe of the golden oil, and provided Hu Jianya with the general efficacy and method for study, and asked him to use menthol, camphor, cinnamon oil, clove oil, eucalyptus oil, etc.

When the soldiers encounter mosquito bites, itchy skin or mild burns, they take panacea balm to apply to the affected area, which can invigorate blood and reduce swelling, relieve pain and itching.

It can also prevent colds, when colds and headaches, take panacea oil and apply it to the Yin Tang and temples, it will have the effect of cooling and relieving.

The effect of this thing in the later generations when antibiotics were abused was much worse than that in the Ming Dynasty, the physical recovery function of the Ming Dynasty people was not destroyed by antibiotics, and the soldiers had better physical fitness.