Chapter 117: Strength

Huang Mingli, Huang Mingdao and other officers went to Shanhaiguan to pick troops and select ships the next day, and Mao Yuanyi had already returned to Inspector Sun's Huang family's losses, and the final result was to double the replenishment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For this reason, the Inspector also publicly stated that as long as he dared to attack Jiannu and get the harvest, he would lose 100 people to make up for 200, hoping to inspire the generals to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

Seven days later, Liaodong Jingluo supplemented Huang Sheng's four grass skimming boats and eight horse boats in place, with 112 gunners, sailors, and gunmen, which was exactly a hundred households. There is also a general flag of the family.

These sea ships and soldiers are not the private property of the Huang family, they are the battalion soldiers recruited by the Ming Dynasty to receive military salaries, they are just under the command of Huang Sheng, the general of Zanhua, and are directly led by Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao, a few military attachés of the Ming army.

These soldiers were all personally arranged by Mao Yuanyi, and Huang Mingli and they went to the Yu camp and the cavalry camp to carefully select them.

Mao Yuanyi knew that relying on sailors and gunners could at most protect themselves, and only cavalry and infantry who dared to fight could make contributions, so he persuaded the leaders of each battalion to let the Huang family choose good soldiers to be their pawns.

The fame of Huangjiashan Island is also loud in Shanhaiguan, and when the soldiers heard that the Huang family was recruiting, everyone volunteered.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty acquiesced in the fact that officials supported their families, and adults brought their families to serve in the army. The imperial court would also pay the families of the adults at a higher rate than the battalion soldiers.

The Huang family now has silver, and they are much more courageous, and they suddenly asked for twenty-four cavalrymen who are skilled in archers and horses, and thirty infantry with outstanding martial arts to be accepted as family members, which is exactly the number of people in the general banner of the Ming army.

The sixteen guns on the four straw skimming ships were of course the best products personally supervised by Sun Yuanhua, and they were also four-pounder guns.

Before Huang Mingli and them came back, Mao Yuanyi also instructed them to seize the time to train and exercise, and strive to quickly form combat effectiveness.

Only the men and horses of Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao fought viciously with Jiannu several times, and each other suffered casualties, and a small number of gains were obtained.

Huang Mingli promised Master Mao that if the Huang family needed to attack again, he would die again.

Huang Sheng now has more than 100 gunners and sailors, archers, cavalrymen, and heavy infantry pikemen, and more than 100 young musketeers who have been personally educated and trained by himself, and more than 400 coachmen with armor.

When there were more people, the cost of the need also increased a lot, and the annual military salary and welfare required 15,000 taels of silver.

Chariots, war horses, armor made by the Huang family, flintlock rifling guns and armor-piercing spears, as well as the loss and consumption during training, are diluted in a four-year cycle, with an average of 30,000 taels of silver a year.

In the first year, the investment in armor weapons was the largest, and it took nearly a hundred taels of silver to perfectly equip a warrior who could land and fight.

The military salary and armament provided by the imperial court added up to only 7,000 taels a year, because the Huang family only had one hundred soldiers and one general banner of the family, and the imperial court issued a seven-fold discount on military salaries.

This is still the preferential treatment of someone above Lord Huang Sheng.

No wonder the number of generals of the Ming army does not exceed 30%! The imperial court's requirement for the battalion soldiers was to train every day, and the actual operation of the generals was only practiced every three days.

Originally, I thought that these generals were too bad, but now it seems that it is understandable, if the clothes of the soldiers are torn, they will not be replenished in time, and the generals will have to figure out how much they consume.

Ordinary generals can get half of the military salary, thank God, they have to feed their own henchmen, and finally the little silver in the hands of ordinary soldiers, so that their wives and children can be fed.

Who will have the slightest enthusiasm to fight for the country in such a situation? Everything has a cause and effect, Wen Tianwu and his lax military equipment led to the death of the country, and everyone became the slaves of the barbarians!

The supplementary soldiers arrived on Huangjiashan Island, Huang Sheng immediately mixed up, and now there is a cavalry general banner that is not satisfied, the chief flag officer Heihu, and the thirty-six people under his command set up a trainee general flag officer Han Kuan.

Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao are already the highest-ranking officers of the Huang family and cannot be used as cavalry, and they are now the two main commanders of the Huang family's team.

There are 63 heavy infantry pikemen and 20 coachmen, and they can immediately equip 10 troop carriers and form two general flags that are also dissatisfied, with Li Dagang and Cheng Quangong respectively and Han Guang and Cao Hucheng serving as trainee chief flag officers.

This is all of Huang Sheng's cold weapon family's troops, a total of one hundred and nineteen people, and now if you go to eliminate a Jiannu patrol of more than thirty people, it will be enough for the cold weapon troops alone.

Huang Sheng removed ten guns from the warships of the Ming army under his command and installed them on the private warships that had been transformed and reinforced, and these four warships were different from the Ming warships.

In this era, the artillery bombardment of warships had to be horizontal, and the guns on the left and right sides of the ship were fired.

In addition to the four guns that could be concentrated on one side and fired at the same time through the tracks designed by Huang Sheng, the Huang family's warships installed one gun in the bow and one in the stern could cause damage to the enemy ships when advancing and retreating.

This is also Huang Sheng's advantage due to the situation, his own grass skimming ship is not large, a total of only six four-pounder guns, but the speed is twice that of the No. 2 Fu ship, and more than three percent faster than the unimproved warship of the same size.

Huang Sheng was afraid of casualties, and prepared to play mangu with the enemy at sea, using head-on attacks and tail artillery bombardment when fleeing, and using the stupid method of ants gnawing elephants, approaching the enemy ships many times to come with a few cannons, and the enemy's big war ships came sideways and prepared to decisively break away from the enemy's range when they were still colored.

Then they continued to harass from an angle from which the enemy could not shell, and if they continued to entangle, the enemy ships would certainly not be able to bear it, and gradually the artillery would continue to be destroyed by themselves, and they had telescopes ahead of them to observe.

When they find that almost all of their artillery is destroyed, they can strike with a thunderbolt, and the fighters can fight the enemy ships under the cover of guns and flintlock pistols, and there is a good chance that the enemy ships will be captured.

As early as the end of last year, Huang Sheng taught the women in his family how to deal with trauma, how to suture, how to disinfect and bandage, and all the first-aid knowledge he would know.

Huang Sheng's original purpose was to provide medical treatment to the wounded soldiers or their families in case Huangjiashan Island needed to defend the territory, but later found that it was impossible for Huangjiashan Island and Juehua Island to freeze Huangjiashan Island and Juehua Island together, and Jiannu would not have a chance to attack this place in a few years.

Now the women who have studied seriously have not been given any practical opportunities so far, and they are beginning to slack off.

(To be continued.) )