Chapter 522: Thriving
He Kegang received reinforcements from 3,000 infantry in the spring, and collected some of the scattered Ming troops, and now has 2,000 cavalry and more than 8,000 infantry under his command. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
He defended the city without ambiguity, and sent scouts to continuously report a radius of eighty miles, and when the Jiannu forward troops appeared, all the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou had all retreated into the city.
He knew that Zu Dashou was because Daling River was unable to support the renegade and surrender, and of course he would not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Grain reserves have become the top priority, plus more than 20,000 stone wheat transported from Zhongming Fort in March, Jinzhou's grain stock has now reached 60,000 stone, and 30,000 horses are enough to eat for a year.
There were more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in the besieged Jinzhou city, and more than 10,000 of the more than 20,000 people were young and strong.
Lu Zhi, the prison soldier who had only been in office for a short time, saw that the Jiannu who came from all over the mountains surrounded Jinzhou again, and he was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold, and he secretly complained bitterly.
This kid has just made a windfall and honored most of his godfather, and the rest have not yet seized the opportunity to enjoy it and are trapped in the city of sorrow, self-love and self-pity are not lucky.
Tang Daoheng, a military attache of the military intelligence department who was born as a musketeer of the Huang family, became Lu Zhi's psychiatrist, and every time Lu Zhi had a long talk with him, he would be refreshed, and Lu Zhi would feel a lot more relieved when he looked at the calm and calm appearance of more than 20 Huang family soldiers.
Jinzhou was heavily fortified and waiting for Jiannu to attack the city, who knew that the Houjin army was here to engage in engineering construction, and they were busy digging trenches and earthen walls with two miles outside Jinzhou City, and they had no intention of attacking immediately.
The more he learns, the worse he gets, and his methods are similar to Huang Sheng's, first to ensure that the enemy can't escape, and then slowly study how to take down the set goal with minimal losses.
He found that the tuntian fields of the Ming army on the periphery of Jinzhou had actually been ploughed and sown, and he was overjoyed!
The slave chieftain instructed the besieging warriors and Aha to destroy as little farmland as possible, and sent the Han Aha to manage the fields, thinking that tens of thousands of stone wheat would be used to supplement the army rations during the autumn harvest.
The Red Gangsters are not afraid of the Ming Dynasty coming to reinforce the troops, on the contrary, the Houjin army is looking forward to the Ming army coming, because if they defeat the Ming army in the field, they will get armor, weapons, and war horses, and there will be more Tuntian's clothed minions.
Later, the Jin army was not afraid of consumption when it had food, and as soon as it came to Jinzhou, it put on a posture of long-term siege. The red gang knew that as long as the soldiers and horses of the Dajin Kingdom did not retreat, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom would have a headache, and it was inevitable to send reinforcements.
The slave chieftain arranged it like this is to attack it and save it, and with more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians waiting for the rabbit, it is the Ming army waiting for thousands of miles to give gifts.
Jinzhou's emergency is here again, and the exhausted Emperor Chongzhen is extremely depressed, rescue? How are people mobilized? If you don't rescue, there will be a second Da Ling River.
The Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed by the Liukou, Houjin, and the rebellious Dongjiang Town, and Huang Sheng's territory was thriving on the contrary.
As soon as Chongzhen's fifth year and New Year ended, Cai'er personally took two sets of crews to the north, and several new plays they rehearsed were going to Beijing to perform, focusing on the interpretation of the "Man Jianghong" drama.
Huang Sheng is expected to have to go to Beijing to deal with the emperor and the princes of Gonggon, and Cai'er will have a good effect on the front station to build momentum, and it will also be very beneficial for intelligence gathering.
Originally, the goal was to wipe out the resistance forces in the Jiaozhi Mountains within one year, but because of the unprecedented enthusiasm of the Li people, the wolf soldiers, and the white pole soldiers, and because Huang Jiayong, who had already established himself, and the civilian and military attachΓ©s stationed there, especially wanted to increase the labor force.
In the end, everyone took the initiative to unite and move forward, crossing mountains and rivers with the goal of capturing all the alien peoples.
The number of people participating in the operation was as high as three hundred thousand, the hounds had multiplied several times, and each search party had dozens of hounds and several local guides.
Huang Sheng cruelly taught his subordinates how to deal with the Great Yue forces that fought against the Ming army through tunnel warfare.
The Ming army knew that they would not stupidly go down to the tunnels to fight the enemy, but would bury them with sandbags.
The hounds cooperated with the guide to search for the tunnel entrances of the Dayue armed forces fighting guerrilla warfare, and used the "Flying Earthquake Thunder" to bomb indiscriminately to ensure that the rats could not suddenly burst out and bite people.
Immediately afterwards, Xiang Yong carried sandbags to fill the enemy's hole, and the sad enemy army did not even have a chance to surrender, and were suffocated to death in the tunnel one by one.
In order to achieve long-term peace and stability, the task of Wanghua Mountain was completed more than three months ahead of schedule, and 100,000 mountain people of Dayue became tenant farmers, and the Li people, wolf soldiers, and white pole soldiers were rewarded with more than ten taels of silver.
The territory obtained is too large, and the number of troops that need to be garrisoned is not a small number.
After nearly two years of training in their combat careers, most of them have been promoted, and sixty percent of them have become auxiliary soldiers, and forty percent have been transferred to auxiliary soldiers and then selected as regular soldiers.
Huang Sheng convened a meeting of the officers of Hainan Island and Jiaozhi, and all the officers present at the meeting were full of yearning for the future.
Huang Sheng announced the order to expand the army, and the armies of Hainan Island and Jiaozhi participating in the war were tentatively organized into 18 thousand generals, and under normal circumstances, each thousand generals had no less than 1,200 regular soldiers and 800 auxiliary troops.
Among them, the musketeers had the largest number of regular soldiers, and they had to reach a full force of 600 men. The cavalry should have no less than 360 cavalry, and only 300 heavy infantry, sword and shield soldiers, and spear and shield soldiers should be required. For each thousand, there will also be a hundred field artillerymen, a flag grenadier.
At the meeting, Huang Sheng told all the officers that in the near future, the Huang family would gradually eliminate the cold weapons troops and replace them with musketeers and gunners, and in the future, they should also be musketeers with bayonets and flintlock muskets in their hands.
Huang Sheng looked at Quan Yong, Hu Jianfeng, and Cao Hucheng who listened attentively to his speech, they were all heavy infantry of the Huang family, and they used to carry out the "armor-piercing spear" in a formation to assassinate and advance.
Huang Sheng asked with a smile: "Quan Yong, what do you think about the gradual reduction of cold weapon infantry in the army in the future?" β
The private soldiers of the Huang family have experienced countless actual battles, and the officers have constantly learned to fight in war, and the decisive role played by firearms in the campaign is obvious to all, and they know that the disappearance of cold weapons units is inevitable in the development of the times.
Quan Yong, who was already the general, was originally a fierce pikeman, but now he was not only skilled in the use of cold weapons, but also in the shooting performance of flintlock rifled spears and double-barreled short guns, which were not inferior to ordinary musketeers.
Seeing the question from the head of the family, Quan Yong immediately stood up and said loudly: "The lowly post is completely subject to the arrangement of the adults, as long as you hand over the lowly post for three months, the lowly post guarantees that the heavy infantry can be assassinated in a formation with flintlock bayonets and guns." β
Huang Sheng nodded with satisfaction, saw Cao Hucheng who wanted to speak and stopped, and asked, "Cao Hucheng, do you have any suggestions that you can spit out quickly." β
The short and sturdy Cao Hucheng had a very loud voice, and he stood up straight and said: "Report to my lord, the heavy infantry can be reduced, but it is not appropriate to eliminate it immediately, there are many heavy infantry under the command of the humble rank It is difficult to learn to use firearms, but they are extremely fierce in formation and assassination, and it would be a pity if such a good soldier abandoned it." β
"Oh! Cao Hucheng must have a compromise plan in his heart for such a statement, don't worry about speaking freely! β
"My lord, breaking the formation and capturing the city will inevitably be close to hand-to-hand combat, and the heavy infantry only lacks a few opportunities for long-range strikes, which can be completely made up for by the musketeers who work together, and the heavy infantry and sword and shield men only need to keep moving forward in hand-to-hand combat, and the musketeers complement each other, so the arrangement is more reasonable."