Wang Chengen flicked the cotton wick of the oil lamp on the desk, and suddenly the room was much brighter, Wang Chengen lifted the pen and hung it on the secret report to Emperor Chongzhen, thought for a long time, sighed and put down the pen, simply stood by the window with his hands behind his back, and looked at the dark outside......

Unlike other people with selfish intentions, he thinks that he is completely in an impartial position, and came to inspect the situation in Lushun for the emperor's grandfather, but Wang Chengen's sense of Yang Bo is really terrible, and he can not care about the Tatar slave Koubian in the Lushun dock that day, but in recent days, Yang Bo's pretentiousness has made everyone lose their appetite, when Mao Wenlong was overpaid, which caused many complaints from the court, but Yang Bo was even more shameless than Mao Wenlong, and the first thing he did every day was to come over and cry poor, also swayed the cuffs in front of everyone from time to time, and now Huang Shiyun and they saw Yang Bo coming over with a smile, and immediately flew away under the pretext that something was wrong, these tricks deceived Huang Shiyun and they were just that, Wang Chengen has always been careful, he found that the faces of the Lushun soldiers and civilians were not full of red light, and they would not reach the point of having dishes on their faces, so Wang Chengen immediately understood that Yang Bo was playing a show to sympathize.

At that time, as long as the islands of the Dongjiang River encountered the imperial court audit, this kind of trick would be staged, which was nothing, but what made Wang Chengen dissatisfied was that Yang Bo had gone a little too far, just like half of the guerrilla battalion was old, weak, sick and disabled, and the weapons in his hands were even more varied, such as wooden sticks, hoes, and bamboo guns......

The only elite is Yang Bo's Jiading team, but there are only ordinary swords, and the armor is not even more than one percent, so that such a soldier can compete with the Tar slaves who dominate the world? Wang Chengen definitely didn't believe it in his heart, and the Bingyuan guerrilla battalion and the family team reported by Yang Bo were almost more than 5,000. There are nearly 20,000 tun households, and Wang Chengen feels that the actual number of soldiers should be far more than that, but Jinyiwei's fans are accompanied by a group of people wherever they go. I can't find out what is famous, you must know that Yang Bo even dares to fight with Shen Shikui, who has a heavy army, and he doesn't dare to take out the Qincha frame too much.

Thinking of this, Wang Chengen picked up the pen and wrote in the letter: "...... The slaves and maids have been checked one by one, and the guerrilla battalion is simple and strong, with more than 6,000 fighters, including soldiers and family members, but the number of infantry troops under Lushun is also at this point. Its Golden State, South Pass, North Pass. Looking at the sea, yellow bones, red mouth, majestic. Mayang and other places are guarded by tunpu. And send out the sentry and the auxiliary soldiers, etc., should also be checked one by one, and all the reports can be reported to the department, and now the Lushun soldiers will be read, and Yang Bo will not go to the Tunpu City. ”

“…… The victory of the Iron Mountain, the investigation of the division, the merit of the guerrilla battalion of the imperial court, and the reward of the reduction. Sending 30,000 yuan of internal beauty and other expenses, when the state affairs are difficult. It is not easy to send the true color of the inner nu, but each ding should be five buckets, the actual arrival is only two buckets, and the rice grain transported to Lushun is rotten, mildew, there is no way to enter, the soldiers are angry, the noise is uneasy, the true color of the leader is thrown outside the treasury, abandoned as if it is like a disgrace, it is against the original intention of the imperial court, although the supervising army Zong Yuanfang and others tried their best to impeach, but the soldiers will be angry at all, this move makes the slave and maid panic all night. ”

“…… Discounted with grain, there must be a discount during the period, and this is one of them. Grain and salary are excessive, too Deng, and too much, and there are many encroachments, and this is also the second. Land barriers, sea food, wind and water, rot and drifting are inevitable, and these are the third. It also happens from time to time that officials (or generals) in charge of salaries are full of their own pockets, and there are four of them, and the soldiers and people of Lushun suffer. ”

“…… In addition to the allocation and transportation, Yang Bo's grain and salary are also self-sustaining methods for self-reliance and looting. It includes and scraping all kinds of business roughly so, tuntian, trade, drum casting, illegal salt, robbery, stolen punishment, etc., so to maintain Lushun tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, in order to consolidate the foundation of the body, slaves and maids think, the country can recruit generals who are accustomed to war, but talk about a few people, and Yang Bo did not see different aspirations, the court should be appeased, the disaster is the onset, Mo Lie in suspicion, this ancient and modern common disease, now Lushun has been peaceful, if Yang Bo is also in charge of all kinds of things, I am afraid that he will be overworked, so that his energy will be greatly damaged, the slave and maid think that the court can send a capable official to take charge of the place, in case of military aircraft, Let Yang Bo cook by himself, so that the civil and military have their own divisions, which is also a blessing for the country. ”

On April 20, the imperial court finally issued a reward for pacifying Phi Dao Tieshan, although Wen Tiren tried his best to fight for it, but Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious after all, and only gave Yang Bo a governor, Lushun general position, and the first rank of Zhenguo general......

In order not to deepen the suspicion of the imperial court, Yang Bo pushed a group of middle-level officers to come out and take up the garrison in various places, and put the general position......

In this reward, the 48,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang River and the islands were reintegrated into two associations, the right association was unified by Tan Yinghua, the deputy commander-in-chief, under the jurisdiction of Tieshan, Xuanchuan, Zhangzi Island, Shenmi Island and other places, the left association was led by Shang Kexi, under the jurisdiction of Guanglu, the size of Changsheng, Shicheng and other places, and the affairs of Phi Island were temporarily led by the general soldier Shang Kexi.

Of course, there is nothing envy for Yang Bo, the friendly army of the Dongjiang River, they all have their own mess of things, this reward except for the virtual things, there is no change in essence, in the Dongjiang court in the era of Mao Wenlong has reached a consensus, that is, the Dongjiang army is huge, all kinds of drawbacks, difficult to govern, both unusable, and not rich, so repeatedly reduce and compress the number of Dongjiang soldiers, the supply of food and salary is also intermittent, so that Mao Wenlong is always full of infinite expectations and thirst for the imperial court's food, and is unwilling to give too much, Now Dongjiang seems to have some combat effectiveness, but it is still supplied according to the original number of troops, and the intention of the imperial court is obvious, not to let Dongjiang lose his breath, nor to feed them, as for those Tuntian people, they continue to be deliberately forgotten......

As the weather slowly warms up, Lushun has begun to get busy with all the tunpu, spring ploughing is the highlight of this year, even Yang Bo personally inspects every day, Lushun's internal affairs system is all running, even the soldiers of the reserve battalion have stopped drilling, and began to be incorporated into the tunpu to help sow seeds, the artisan battalion has rushed to produce a lot of tools in advance, and they have been distributed to the military and civilians of the tunpu, and the entire Jinzhou Isthmus is full of busy figures with their heads bowed on the land. Taking advantage of the winter leisure season, the previously distributed land has been plowed several times, and it is no longer in the previous state of drying up. As long as there is a harvest this year, a large number of displaced people will be able to settle down.

The local military and civilians were very resistant to trying to grow these things, in their opinion, planting anything is not as good as food insurance, after repeated communication with the officers of the Propaganda Department, they were still a little skeptical, Yang Bo sent several batches of old farmers who were proficient in farming all over there. They will instruct the local military and civilians on how to grow these things, and after solving the problem of adapting these high-yielding crops, Yang Bo will plant and promote them on a large scale in southern Liaoning.

After the expansion, the cavalry battalion continued to carry out combat training. They broke into pieces and harassed Fuzhou and Houjin Tuntian in the Xiuyan area, burning everything along the way. It is used to maintain the pressure on the post-gold. Because the grain and bean feed are too expensive, the cavalry battalion can only maintain the size of 800 people at present, and even sometimes the surplus war horses captured must be killed.

Now that Yang Bo has a lot of money on his hands, and is no longer in the embarrassing situation of selling gold, silver and jewelry to fund military salaries, the Department of Commerce and Trade has begun to thrive, and the department has been expanded twice. On the wharf of Jiaozhou Bay, clocks and various glassware from Weiwubao are transported to the Jiangnan area for sale every day. As the actual person in charge of the Department of Commerce and Trade, Xiao Yulan ran around Lushun, Weiwubao, and Anton Weiyao's house every day, and Yang Bo couldn't see her at all. The Department of Commerce and Trade has launched a plan this year, preparing to sell the purchased furs and medicinal materials to Japan, an ordinary mink is only five taels of silver in Huai'an Mansion, but it is fifteen taels of silver when it is shipped to Japan, so Yang Bo has been considering whether it is necessary to set up a shipyard to prepare for Lushun's large-scale foreign trade in the future......

On 22 April, Yang Bo, who has been repeatedly summing up lessons and lessons, officially launched a new establishment, the Thunder Brigade was expanded into the Thunder Division, under the jurisdiction of two brigades, the Iron Fist Brigade and the Rock Brigade, the Rock Brigade soldiers excluding the water division are 6,000, and the Iron Bull is the main officer stationed in Lushun, of which 3,000 are peasant soldiers, and they only need to be assembled for training on weekdays, and they will be recruited in wartime, and the equipment of the Rock Brigade is uneven, most of them are obsolete and worn iron armor and leather armor, and the weapons are mostly cold weapons. In Yang Bo's plan, the firearms of the Panshi Brigade may not be fully equipped until this year, and the main task at this stage is to ensure the safety of Lushun.

As the main attacking force, the Iron Fist Brigade is the elite, and the Iron Fist Brigade will be stationed in Jinzhou, which is facing the Tatars, with a total number of 9,000 people, with a brigade headquarters and a brigade guard company, a dragoon battalion, three flintlock infantry battalions, a heavy protection battalion, an artillery battalion, a logistics support battalion, and a rescue battalion directly under the brigade (under the jurisdiction of two cavalry companies, special forces companies, engineer companies, transport companies, medical rescue teams, gendarmerie teams, flag teams, etc.)

The brigade is mainly equipped with flintlock pistols and pikes, and is also equipped with more than 200 straight-bore flintlock guns, more than 100 large double muskets, nearly 100 artillery pieces of various kinds, more than 300 trailers and trailers directly under the logistics, more than 600 horses, and more than 800 war horses. The mobility of two battalions can even reach one hundred and twenty miles.

After the reorganization, the firepower has also been improved, the artillery battalion has two six-pounder artillery companies, a mortar artillery company, and a heavy artillery company, as long as it does not encounter extreme environments, it can provide conventional firepower strikes for the whole brigade, and the damage distance is gradually strengthened from 300 paces, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses can be suppressed against any of the enemy's eight banners within 150 steps. If these firearms were used within fifty paces, they would cause the Tarslaves' most elite White Swing Tooth to collapse in an instant.

After the reorganization, the anti-cavalry capability of the whole brigade has also been improved, the anti-cavalry siege is divided into two parts, in addition to the blow of firearms, defense is also the focus, the brigade is complete with all kinds of defensive equipment, all kinds of trailers and trailers are linked to each other end to end when the formation is formed, and after the iron plate is inserted on the side, it becomes an armored protective belt, and there are ceramic mines buried by the engineer company in front of the trunk, and various roadblocks are repelled by iron thistles. These things were extremely effective against the horses, and even if the Tatar cavalry could break through these defenses, there were heavily armed hoplite battalions as a barrier against the enemy. If you want to pursue the remnants of the enemy, there will be a dragoon battalion, and a cavalry company from the rescue battalion directly under the brigade headquarters

The tragedy of the Sin Barracks will not be repeated again, relying on the brigade's own sappers and sentry cavalry, there will be no situation where the Tartars are lying in ambush and ignorant by their side, and in addition to the sentry detachments directly under each battalion, there are two cavalry companies under the jurisdiction of the rescue battalion. They were dispatched in platoons, with two horses and six short guns. A pair of telescopes, maps of the outpost area, and so on, the scope of monitoring the enemy's situation is rigidly set at 10 miles during the day and 5 miles at night. Within ten miles, no matter the mountains, rivers and valleys. In addition to strengthening the patrol capability of the sentry cavalry, there is also an engineer company and a logistics support battalion that can maintain and open up roads, ambush sites, and landing points in specific areas for the whole brigade, and can assist in the production of siege equipment in wartime. Raid on enemy fortresses, etc.

Yang Bo did not hide his ambitions, after stabilizing the Golden State. The next goal is to seize the defense of the white flag of Fuzhou, Fuzhou will become a springboard for attacking the South Siwei and even harassing Shenyang, and to the east, Xiuyan, Phoenix will also be his stronghold that needs to be taken, Jinzhou is more than 150 miles away from Fuzhou, there is no place to do supplies during the period, which puts forward higher requirements for the logistics support of the whole brigade, the quota of the soldiers of the whole brigade is ten days of dry food, and under special circumstances, you can carry enough food to support half a month, as long as there is a water source in the camping place, whether it is dirty water, urine water, It doesn't matter if the water source is poisoned, the method of purification Yang Bo learned from the TV of the wild life-saving people, two water utensils and a strip of cotton cloth, after a few hours, you can get enough pure water to drink. The brigade has more than 1,300 auxiliary troops under its jurisdiction, who are responsible for transporting materials, making and maintaining equipment, providing battlefield rescue and medical care, digging and filling trenches, repairing fortifications, and so on.

According to Yang Bo's optimistic estimate, the Iron Fist Brigade after the completion of firearms equipment can annihilate the same number of Tatar infantry armor in one fell swoop, and can easily defeat the Tatar cavalry below 3,000.

But the Iron Fist Brigade is not without weaknesses, the most important thing is that it relies heavily on firearms and ammunition, once the logistics cannot keep up, the sustained combat capability will drop significantly, due to the reduction of the number of pikemen, the ability to defend under siege has also declined, and another serious problem is that due to the replenishment of many new soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the entire brigade has declined rapidly, and these need time to train and solve......

For the destruction of the Sin Barracks, Yang Bo has always had regrets in his heart, as a strong force in the Cold Weapon Era, the personal martial arts skills of the veterans of the Sin Barracks are extremely outstanding, and they are not at a disadvantage when fighting with the Tatar White Swing Teeth, but Yang Bo wants to establish an assembly line in the era of hot weapons, and use the continuous formation of soldiers on the assembly line to consume the Tatar elite, so in addition to changing the Sin Barracks to the "Iron Army" in public to show glory, he has no intention of restoring its establishment.

On the same day that the imperial court reward was issued, the Jinzhou dragoon battalion came with good news, Zhao Long led more than 300 horsemen to take advantage of the dry winter to cross the Dayang River, attacked a Datun Fort located 20 miles outside Xiuyan City, captured nearly 200 Baoyi and auxiliaries, and ambushed a group of northern cavalry south of Xiuyan, beheaded nearly 100 people on the spot, and the rest of the army collapsed, and it was even more rare that Zhao Long not only did not retreat, but instead escorted the captives to a swaggering demonstration under Xiuyan City, and the Houjin defenders who fled back closed the four gates tightly, standing on the city tower as if facing a great enemy, The lightly wounded soldiers also put on armor to go to the city, the old and weak women and children in the city were also issued with weapons, and also mobilized the city's coats for civil reinforcement, Zhao Long's demonstration has ended, and then slowly returned to Jinzhou, after the statistics, the attack burned more than 10 places in the fort, slaughtered more than 100 cattle and sheep, and all kinds of spring ploughing materials are countless.

Yang Bo was expressionless after receiving the good news, the Tatar slaves had not yet broken away from the military system of half peasants and half soldiers, and in March and April and September every year, as long as the offensive was taken against Liaodong, the Tatar slaves' grain harvest this year would definitely be affected, and if it were not for the safety of the captured soldiers, he would have even been ready to start a full-scale spring offensive.

Two days later, the imperial court issued a decree again, ordering Huang Shiyun and other auditors to return to Beijing to resume their lives, the reason was not mentioned in the words, Huang Shiyun and others were a little stunned, they didn't understand why the imperial court this audit meeting was anticlimactic, so it ended hastily, but Wang Chengen has a number in his heart, with Chen Qiyu's victory in Hubei, Sichuan and other places, it is the most critical moment to exterminate the Liukou, at this time Liaonan can not be turbulent, and Emperor Chongzhen, who received his own secret play, must be unwilling to stimulate Lushun too much at this juncture, I am afraid that these disgruntled soldiers will not be good, mutiny, or even turn to the Tarslavs, and that will be the consequences. It was something he didn't dare to bear, and a large part of the officials and generals who had been demoted to Tartar slaves over the years were from Liaozhen, and there was a precedent. But the ensuing holy decree still severely reprimanded Yang Bo, what: "...... I don't want to serve the imperial court, my heart is very good, my words are wild, and my eyes can't be measured", and then I brought up the old things again, counting the past events when Yang Bo refused to send troops to rescue Phi Dao, "the crime of violating the order is very great, and I will strictly apply for punishment ......" and so on.

Yang Bo was furious, but he couldn't think about it, now was by no means a good time to turn his face with the imperial court, he could only hold back, it was the false title of this Zhenguo general or Wen Tiren fought for him, Yang Bo even heard that Wen Tiren had a few words with Cao Huachun in private, which had never happened before. The imperial court's suspicion of Lushun is getting stronger and stronger, and Yang Bo also heard about a not very good thing, that is, Emperor Chongzhen is preparing to transfer Yan Kunzhi, the governor of Denglai, and I heard that Zhang Fengyi's position in the military department is not very stable, although these are groundless, but Yang Bo knows that many times rumors often turn into reality in the end, and there is not much time left for himself......

Yang Bo's life is not good, Huang Taiji is the same, North Korea blatantly expelled the envoys sent by the Houjin Ma Futa, Ying Erdai and others, Huang Taiji was shocked when he heard this, and wrote to Li Zong overnight, in addition to the stern warning, the letter also followed the good temptation: "...... Brother Wang, don't listen to the words of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and look at me with two hearts."

Controlling Korea or conquering Korea became an integral part of the general strategy of the Jin state against the Ming Dynasty, militarily forcing the North Korea not to easily send troops to harass the rear of the Jin soldiers, and politically forcing the North Korea to sever relations with the Ming Dynasty so that it could lean towards the Jin state or remain neutral in the Jin-Ming war; Economically, he wanted to feed North Korea to solve the urgent need caused by the great hunger of the Jin country, but what disappointed Huang Taiji was that North Korea showed its true colors, and the king Li Liang replied that he did not receive the envoys such as Ying Erdai, because "the widow is sick, and he will not meet immediately, but the noble envoy will go away in anger, but he does not know the reason", and the reason for the expulsion of the Jin envoy was pushed to Ying Erdai and others, while secretly reorganizing the army and fighting, according to the news that Ying Erdai inquired back, Li Liang expelled the Jin envoy and then sent an edict to the whole country: "...... Unfortunately, the national fortune suddenly encountered the alliance with Pyongyang, and it had to make peace by mistake. In the past few years, with shame and humiliation, this is the person I am concerned about, the disaster of the military revolution, the day and night, the loyal and righteous people, each with their own strategies, brave people, voluntarily enlisted, looking forward to mutual aid, in order to repay the country's kindness. ”

Huang Taiji was furious, but he also knew that North Korea dared to expel his envoys, and it was the power of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not easy to send a large army to conquer Korea, first of all, he needed to persuade the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji did not intend to do this, he wanted to take a strategy of killing two birds with one stone, as long as it hurt the Ming Dynasty, he could force North Korea to be afraid of submission......

Just when Huang Taiji was anxious about North Korea, Xiuyan urgently reported that because of the large-scale harassment of the guerrilla battalion, the tunbao coats in the Xiuyan area did not dare to go out to farm, and a few days ago, the Ming cavalry also swaggered under Xiuyan City, which made the nearby Baoyi even more discolored when he heard the Ming army, which was not bad, according to the sentry cavalry flying report, the banner of "Lushun Guerrilla Yang" at the head of Jinzhou City had been removed, and it was replaced by the banner of "Zhenguo General Yang".

Huang Taiji opened his mouth, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and ask: "Promoted?" ”

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At the end of the year, the company's orders are piling up, after all, it is still necessary to focus on work, I can only say sorry, this irregular update will continue for a while, and February will begin to hit the full attendance again (to be continued......