"Okay, go back and tell your general, I don't blame him for this matter."

"When we meet in the future, as long as your general doesn't take the lead, I won't make it difficult for him."

Zhang Zhun said casually.

The soldier received an affirmative answer, and then he went with confidence.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Zhun shook his head with feeling.

In the past, the tartars of Tianheng Island were like a plague, and no one wanted to mess with them. Even if you know that the Tartars have come ashore to loot, you will pretend that you don't know anything, let alone take the initiative to fight against the Tartars. Just wait for the Tartars to finish washing and retreating, and it's all right.

Now, the tartars of Tianheng Island have suddenly become dumplings for the New Year, and everyone wants to come up and clip one. Whether it's literary or martial, they all want to come up and step on it. The battle has not yet begun, and the action of grabbing credit has already made people stunned. It's just that the tartar may not be so easy to trample to death! Rabbits bite when they're in a hurry!

Since there is a governor, a general soldier, who personally went to deal with the remnants of the Tartars on Tianheng Island, Zhang Zhun was too lazy to care. He has already controlled Aoshanwei and Lingshanwei, even if the Heavenly King Laozi comes, it is impossible for him to hand them over. Whether there is the title of Ao Shanwei commander or not, the question is not very big. Seizing the opportunity to supervise grain production, speeding up weapons research, and continuing to expand the armed forces is the king's way. With food and an army, we can continue to expand our territory.

What the?

You don't give?

Do I need you to give?

I'll just take it myself!

Subsequently, Zhang Zhun came to the Xiongya Institute.

Compared with Aoshan City, the situation of the fields in Xiongyasuo is even worse. Due to the constant attack of the Tartars, the area of abandoned fields here is the most serious, and most of the fields have been abandoned. Even if military households continue to relocate, it will be very difficult to reorganize these abandoned fields. Many people get up early and work in the dark, and can only sort out part of the fields for sowing.

According to Lu Lancheng's statistics, the sown area of winter wheat in Xiongya is less than 30,000 mu. In fact, the area that Xiongya can sow winter wheat is more than 280,000 mu. In other words, only about 10 percent of the fields have time to be sown. The key is the problem of too small a population. It turns out that many of the military families who fled have not yet returned. Without labor, everything is in vain.

It is believed that with the gradual increase of population, the labor situation of Xiongya Institute will gradually improve. It's just that the next sowing will have to wait until the autumn of next year. It's a shame to waste a year! Time waits for no one, and wasting a year's time is absolutely unforgivable. In addition, it will take a lot of labor to sort out all the fields that will be planted next year. With the current labor force of Xiongya, it is obviously not enough.

By the way, Ma Yi mentioned in the intelligence that in Dengzhou City, a large number of refugees have gathered. Some of these refugees came from Laiyang, which was burned by the Tartars, and some came from Liaodong, which was occupied by the Tartars, and all of them added up to tens of thousands of people. These refugees are in Dengzhou City, with no food or clothing, and some people are starving to death every day, and some people are eaten alive every day. If you get all these people to the cliff...... Lu Lancheng and others accompanied Zhang Zhun to inspect the fields, and the group slowly walked south, and came to the area of Lulu Island. The island also falls under the jurisdiction of the Majestic Cliff. In fact, the island is just a peninsula, and it is connected to the cliffs. Since the Tartars often come ashore here, this is the most spoiled here. This year, we will definitely not be able to farm. If you want to plant next year, you will have to put a lot of effort into tidying up the fields.

To the south of Toshiro Island, at the end of the line of sight, is Tayoko Island. Standing on the southernmost side of the island, the black spot that can be seen with the naked eye is the area where the Tartars are entrenched. However, the southernmost part of the island has been surrounded by officers and soldiers, and a huge barracks have been erected. The officers and soldiers who attacked Tianheng Island used this place as a bridgehead for the attack, and forbade any outsiders to approach.

On Zhang Zhun's land, these officers and soldiers were not very presumptuous, and probably heard the story of Brigadier General Zhang Tartar running all over the mountain. Even the Tartars can drive the characters who run all over the mountain, of course, they don't dare to provoke easily. In fact, behind them, the guards led by Yang Zhiyuan had been staring at them, and faintly, bursts of artillery could be heard.

Zhang Zhun raised the clairvoyant mirror and carefully observed Tianheng Island across the sea. It's a pity that only the outline of Tayokoshima can be seen. Occasionally, some smoke can be seen rising. As for the specific battles, it is not visible. In the clairvoyant mirror, you can't see the soldiers fighting, you can only see the location of the dock, and people are constantly coming and going. It seems that the number of troops invested by the officers and men on Tianheng Island should be quite a lot.

Around Tianheng Island, there are still warships of the Daming Navy Division cruising from time to time. The appearance of these warships is quite old. The paint on the outside of the ship's side has all peeled off, revealing the board inside, which has some sleeves. Some are even inferior to Yang Guohua's pirate ship. It was as if as soon as a big wave hit, they would be swallowed up at any time. Compared with the brand-new Cangshan ships that are about to be launched, these warships of the Daming Navy Division are really not in Zhang Zhun's eyes.

Seeing these dilapidated warships of the Daming Naval Division, Zhang Zhun was also full of feelings, and even a little sad. The real Daming Water Master, where is it like now? Think about Zheng He's time when he went to the Western Ocean, the mighty Ming Sailor, the treasure ship like a giant, and then look at the broken ships in front of him, the contrast is really too great. It's so big that you think it's two completely different worlds.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, I really couldn't have imagined that after more than a hundred years, the Daming Water Master would have been broken to such a point! In fact, in the Wanli period, the Daming Sailor still had the last glory. In the battle to resist and aid Korea, the Daming Navy Division under the command of Chen Luan, the commander of the naval division, still suffered heavy losses to the Yueben fleet. However, the sailors commanded by Chen Lan were not at the same level at all compared with the fleet commanded by Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures. In general, the sailor of the Ming Dynasty is Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year is not as good as the year.

When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the Daming Naval Division reached its peak, with hundreds of super-large fortune ships and treasure ships, and a mighty fleet that stretched for more than ten nautical miles. The entire fleet of officers and men, there were 100,000 people. It's a pity that after the Daming Water Master was short-lived, it never continued. Later, the brainless emperor and the imperial court actually made a perverted policy of banning the sea.

The policy of banning the sea is absolutely fatal to the development of the Daming Naval Division. A large number of warships were moored in the harbor and rotted, including those oversized treasure ships. What's worse is that a large number of outstanding navigators are scattered all over the country, and the navigation technology is unsustainable, and it has been completely lost by now. There were also a large number of shipbuilding drawings, which were also destroyed. For example, the blueprint of a treasure ship.

The brain-dead policy of banning the sea made the sailors of the Ming Dynasty stagnate for 200 years. At this time, it happened to be the era of the rise of Western navigation. Columbus, Magellan and others were born one after another, constantly exploring the world's oceans. Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries have also become maritime powers. After accumulating enough rich sailing experience, their figure began to appear in the eastern seas.

The navigation technology of the West developed rapidly, and the navigation technology of the Ming Dynasty was basically resting on its laurels, and even continued to regress. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the techniques of the Daming sailors were still ahead of the world level. However, by the beginning of the seventeenth century, it was completely backward. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the main warships of the Western maritime powers had a displacement of more than 1,000 tons and more than 80 artillery pieces. The largest three-masted gunboat of the Daming Navy Division had a displacement of only three or four hundred tons, and no more than thirty or forty guns. As for the treasure ship, which claims to be 10,000 tons, the manufacturing process has been lost.

By the time of Chongzhen, there were only two real water divisions in the Ming Dynasty. One is the Tianjin Naval Division, the other is the Dengzhou Naval Division, the number of which is several thousand, and the warships are only dozens. Among them, there are also a considerable number of warships, which can only be moored in the harbor and cannot go to sea. At best, it's just a number. This time, the officers and soldiers attacked Tianheng Island, and it was rare for the Dengzhou Navy Division to cooperate so actively. It seems that even the Dengzhou Navy Division wants to get a piece of the pie in this battle.

Even, even if there are only two sailors, the imperial court still has a motion to abolish the sailors. The reason is simple, there is no money. Everyone knows that sailors are the most expensive people, and even if the ship is parked, it will slowly rot away, requiring huge maintenance costs. The Ming Dynasty is now short of money everywhere, and it needs money everywhere, and it is impossible to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, so it has to go down to the water division.

As for the sailors of Zheng Zhilong, Yan Siqi, Yang Tiansheng and others, they said that the usual expenses were all their own expenses. The profits they make do not need to be handed over to the imperial court. They are just attached to the imperial court and act under the banner of the imperial court. Once they have a conflict of interest with the imperial court, they will immediately turn their faces. The imperial court probably knows this very well.

"My lord, the gunfire on Tianheng Island has been ringing for two days."

Yang Zhiyuan said in a low voice.

Since the start of the battle, Yang Zhiyuan has been paying close attention to the relevant situation.

"It's not normal!"

Zhang Zhun nodded and said meaningfully.

According to the comprehensive information of the Intelligence Department and the Maoyan Division, the battle of the officers and men to attack Tianheng Island has been going on for more than two days. It took two days to attack such a small island, and it has not yet been taken, which is obviously a bit abnormal. The Tartars on Tianheng Island, including their families, are hundreds of people. With so many officers and soldiers, artillery and even the Dengzhou Naval Division dispatched, it still couldn't solve the battle...... What is the best way to say it?

Obviously, the trapped beast is still very tenacious. Perhaps it was their stubborn resistance that made the progress of the officers and soldiers very slow. Since the Battle of Sarhu, the Tartars have maintained an absolute psychological advantage over the Ming army. The battle between the Tartars and the Ming army was basically never lost. Therefore, even if there are very few Tartars, in the face of a large number of Ming troops, there will not be the slightest fear.

It is all too common for a few hundred Tartars to take the initiative to attack a Ming army of several thousand. Thousands of Ming troops, surrounded dozens of Tartars, stunned that they could not solve the battle as soon as possible, so that Tartar reinforcements quickly arrived, rescued the Tartars in the encirclement, and in turn severely damaged the Ming army, such examples, are also countless. Even if the Tartar is wounded, he will never give in. As for surrendering to the Ming army, it was even more impossible. Since the Battle of Sarhu, there seems to be no example of the surrender of the Tartars to the Ming army.

In fact, the area of Tianheng Island is not large, and although the number of officers and men is very large, there are several thousand people scattered around the country. However, at the same time, there should be only about five hundred people who can come in handy. In other words, the Tatars were directly facing only 500 officers and soldiers at the same time. In this way, the comparison of forces between the two sides is not very large. Unless the tartars are exhausted and they no longer have the strength to take up arms. However, if this is really the case, Zhang Zhun believes that it will definitely be the Ming officers and soldiers who will collapse first.

The traps on the island are also a roadblock. It can be seen from the battle of Yang Guohua, Zhou Zhengyu and others attacking Tianheng Island. The lethality of these traps is very great. The Tartars are excellent hunters of wild beasts, and the traps they lay are vicious and ingenious, hidden and ferocious. Removing these pitfalls requires courage, perseverance, wisdom, and cooperation. Of course, the most important thing is time.

It is believed that after the remaining Tartars escape back to Tianheng Island, they will definitely lay traps as soon as possible. They should have laid more traps than Shuburu had laid before. After all, this time, it is really about their life and death. The remnants of the Tartars would surely have thought that they had suffered heavy losses on land, and that the officers and men would surely chase after them and launch a strong attack to destroy them in one fell swoop. Therefore, everyone in the Tartar will take all measures to save themselves as much as possible and destroy the enemy.

Zhang Zhun really did not dare to compliment the enterprising spirit of the officers and men. After two days of fighting, it is not possible to solve the Tartars, and if it continues like this, I don't know how many days it will take. Let's hope they'll be able to accomplish this. From the point of view of the suffering of the local people in Shandong, it is better for the Tartars on Tianheng Island to be eliminated as soon as possible. Whether the Tartars died at their own hands or at the hands of officers and soldiers, as long as they died, it was a good thing. Without these tartars, the people of the southern coast can also rest assured.

It's a pity that it backfired.

(To be continued)