Early the next morning, the two battalions of the Iron Fist Brigade lined up outside the city of Gaizhou, without any hesitation, the drum and horn sounded and began to attack the south gate, two hard-earned six-pounder guns also opened fire fiercely, although the momentum was huge, but the entire defense of the two sides suffered very little damage, the Ming army did not board the city at all, just close to the city wall to put a row of guns, and the defenders of the city head were desperately counterattacking with fire oil and crossbows, Abatai was worried about repeating the mistake of losing the south gate of Fuzhou, and ordered to block the south gate with large pieces of masonry and wood, and also sent a large number of vests to stand by at the north gate, was ready to be sent out to contain the Ming army at the critical moment of the siege of the Ming army, but both sides had scruples, although the battlefield was full of gunsmoke, the cruel scene was rare.

The cavalry battalion responsible for the attack is treated very well, each person is two mounts, one horse and one horse to transport baggage, the veterans who survived the Xushan resistance battle have sighed, if there is a person and two horsemen before this treatment, the cavalry battalion will not lose so many brothers, the plan of the staff department is to turn all the cavalry into zero, and cross Gaizhou as a platoon to attack the military tun in Haizhou behind him, and the terrain of Gaizhou will open up in vain, there are large areas of Tartar tuntian between Gaihai, because the strength of each tunbao has been emptied, Leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled to defend, it is a good place for the cavalry to show their skills, and besides, Haizhou is still the salt producing land of the Tartars, and it can be expected that the Tartars will have a very difficult time this winter.

The Intelligence Department is also very busy, and the sentry cavalry from all walks of life will continue to feed back the news, and they will provide the raiding cavalry with information such as the defense facilities of the cantonment fort, the number of garrisons, etc., as well as analyze the transit routes of the Tartar grain, and screen the coatings that come to serve.

To cover the sabotage. On the second day, the offensive against Gaizhou suddenly escalated, and the Ming army began to storm the city with various improvised siege equipment. Abatai can only see all kinds of shield carts, the ladder is slowly pushed to the city, but Abatai counterattack is very resolute, once the Ming army has signs of preparing to enter the city, the defenders will be organized to fight back desperately, a day of fierce battle, the south gate is full of all kinds of burned shield carts and ladders and other equipment, the Gaizhou is shrouded in a firelight. And the north of Gaizhou was also in flames, and the cavalry burned grain and grass all the way, slaughtering livestock. Destroying the water source, Abatai was so anxious that he sent two cavalry in a row to rescue, but they were forced back by the Ming army, who had been on guard.

That's it. The two sides fought in Gaizhou for five days. Abatai also gradually saw that something was wrong, the Ming army did not launch a real attack on the city at all, but he had to go all out, the strength of the Ming army was superior, who knows if the next time it will be a fake show and really take Gaizhou? So despite the fierce gunfire, Abatai still stubbornly filled the city with his lives for a few days. Nearly 300 corpses of armored soldiers were collected at the head of the city, and the only result was the burning of a large number of Ming army equipment.

On the sixth day, the cavalry began to return one after another. They met hundreds of blue cavalry in Haizhou, the cavalry battalion lost more than 70 people, beheaded more than 100 levels, the results of the raid were quite amazing, burning more than 10,000 acres of fertile land along the way, slaughtering thousands of various cattle, granaries and mills and other more than 80 places, seizing countless materials, Yang Bo crossed his fingers and counted the time, now the purpose of the battle has been achieved, it is time to evacuate......

On August 15, the seventh year of Chongzhen, a large number of naval warships arrived at a simple ferry port in the southwest of Gaizhou, transported the captured materials back to the new city of the state, the rescue battalion began to evacuate first, all the infantry only carried weapons, and each person had an iron pickaxe, they will march all the way to strip off the fort along the way, the rescue battalion evacuated two days after the Ming army continued to besiege Gaizhou, that night, the main force of the infantry also began to evacuate one after another, these days the Ming army siege is very regular, are sunrise siege city, sunset rest, so the next day the Ming army is quiet and there is no movement, Let everyone breathe a sigh of relief, the shocked Abatai discharged the sentry cavalry two hours later to investigate, where is there anyone in the entire Ming army camp empty? Only a number of wild dogs were tied to the drum and kept beating on their hind legs.

In the past few days, the cavalry sent by Abatai were defeated and returned, and the sentinel who inquired about the news was strongly intercepted and killed by the Ming army ten miles south of Gaizhou, and the generals doubted that the Ming army's large-scale withdrawal would be another trap, luring themselves out of the city for a decisive battle, and so on Abatai summarized the news to determine that the Ming army was really retreating, Abatai hesitated for a long time, sent five hundred vests to pursue urgently, and finally caught up with the main force of the Ming army eighty miles south of Gaizhou, and the first battalion of the flintlock pistol after the break got a lot of horses, and the soldiers put the fire on horseback to confront Amula, Amula has few soldiers, and he doesn't dare to take the initiative to provoke, watching the main force of the Ming army swaggering and marching, but he wants Amula to return empty-handed and a little unwilling, the Ming army's firearms battalion alternately covers, slowly retreating, Amula escorted all the way with five hundred vests, and the two sides guarded each other until they walked near Yongning Prison, Amula wanted to slow down the retreat of the Ming army several times, but the vests sent out suffered some losses, seeing that there were more and more Ming troops along the Yongning Prison, and the Ming army looked at themselves with more and more ill intentions, Amula was afraid that he would be bitten back by the Ming army's design, so he could only sigh a few times and return in a huff.

With the contraction of the Ming army on the islands of the Dongjiang River on the right and middle roads, the Liaozhong Campaign of Chongzhen's seven years came to an end, and most of the plans formulated by the General Staff Department before the war were achieved, not only heavy damage to the main force of the Tartars, but also the loss of the white flag Niulu led by Azig, the Han army flag Kong Youde Geng Zhongming was both captured, Wuzhen Hachao's entire army was destroyed, and the Juntun wheat fields in the area from Fuzhou to Haizhou were all in ruins. In addition to the fruitful military achievements, the political gains are also amazing, first of all, forcing the Emperor Taiji to sweep south halfway, with the retreat of the Tartar slaves, the imperial court began to liquidate a large number of unfavorable generals, the most eye-catching is the Datong general Cao Wenzhao, the governor of Datong Zhang Zongheng and the governor Hu Zhenen, Cao Wenzhao dared to challenge the Tartar slaves is not the key, the key is that he was defeated and returned, which made the Chongzhen Emperor who valued the results unbearable, at present, the Chongzhen Emperor has instructed the military department to discuss the crime, there is news that these three people will be the end of the demotion of the official and the army, There is also the governor of Shanxi, Wu Fu, who recommended Wen Zhao to know that the soldiers are good at fighting, please use it in Jinzhong, Emperor Chongzhen is still hesitating, but unlike the mean treatment of Cao Wenzhao, the court has even made a few sparse decisions, and tried to praise the merits of Lushun Yang Bo, and asked about the whereabouts of Azig. Yang Bo escorted a few white flag armor Lazhangjing to Yang Wenyue, the governor of Denglai, but he didn't know the whereabouts of Azig, and Yang Wenyue was extremely dissatisfied with the rumors of the impeachment of the imperial history. Rolled up their sleeves and started a ring with them on the Tang newspaper, Shang Kexi and others also gained a lot, not to mention a lot of heads, by the way robbed a lot of strong men and supplies, and the rest of the Dongjiang islands also took advantage of the fire to rob, the most unfortunate sent troops ashore to pick some ginseng, hunt some furs. This year can also have a fat year, with the continuous expansion of Lushun's military strength, these forces are tightly tied together.

Yang Bo took the lead on the Liaodong chessboard. But whether he can keep the situation of taking the initiative to attack, and he still has to fight with Huang Taiji in Mopan City, Yang Bo is almost 100% sure that Huang Taiji will definitely not sit still. Bear with me. The key to victory or defeat is the progress of Mill City.

Yang Bo didn't have time to rest when he returned to Fuzhou, handed over all the military affairs to Tie Niu and He Jiu, turned around and came to Yangguan Fort to inspect the progress of city construction.

The sun is shining in August, the crowd on the construction site of Yangguanbao is as dense as ants, two huge brick kilns stand in the left and right of Yangguanbao, two black dragons go straight to the sky, and the periphery of these two brick kilns are all pits and pits that have been dug, which is caused by the craftsman taking soil nearby. It is relatively easy to burn bricks, and a few women and a craftsman can fire more than 10,000 green bricks every day. It doesn't take too long, but the firewood is all cut down manually, after sending troops to Gaizhou, the Panshi Brigade specially transferred two companies to cut firewood on the hill near Yangguanbao, but it still can't keep up with the progress of consumption, in addition, the large stone required to build the city also has to be mined on the stone mountain three miles away, in order to encourage everyone's enthusiasm, Yang Bo personally condolences to the soldiers who cut firewood, and went to the stone mountain to inspect, the mountain has become a huge construction site, hundreds of young people are carrying the quarried stones, and half of the mountain is full, There were also many women who poured water on the stone and polished it hard, and the whole scene was in full swing.

There are several small lime kilns on the side of the brick kiln, and the lime fired is used to make marl.

"Your Excellency, please look!" Zhang Fengjin proudly pointed to Mopan City and introduced to Yang Bo: "The moat has been excavated, two zhang wide and more than eight feet deep. ”

Hearing Zhang Fengjin's boasting, everyone around Yang Bo was amused, and Wang Xiaoyu said: "Lao Zhang, don't blow it, the city of Daming is not strong?" How is Dalinghe City? Without an army capable of fighting, what is the use of fortifying a city? ”

Yang Bo looked at the original Yangguan Fort, half of the new wall has risen from the ground, the huge scaffolding is full of people, looking up from below, the workers who are building the wall and stacking bricks are like ants, the pulley group designed by Yang Bo comes in handy, you can quickly hang the bricks and cement on the city head to use, the new wall wraps the old city wall of Yangguan Fort in, the circumference of the north wall that rises from the ground is about five miles and eighty steps, about three zhang high, the battlement of the city head has not yet wrapped bricks, according to the sketch there are more than 2,000 in the whole city, the new wall leaves a gap, The city gate has not yet been installed, according to Zhang Fengjin's design, the city gate and the city wall are not a straight line, but the city wall on both sides is convex, the fortress design greatly strengthens the protection of the city gate, as long as Yang Bo is deployed at the head of the city more than a dozen mortars that throw fierce fire oil, no shield car can be close to the city gate.

Seeing the hot work scene in front of him, Yang Bo was silent, everyone was shocked by the new city, and they were all happily expressing their feelings, but soon everyone found that Yang Bo frowned, Zhang Fengjin was nervous, I don't know why the adults are not satisfied?

"It's still too slow!" Yang Bo shook his head and said unceremoniously.

Zhang Fengjin frowned bitterly, the adult's request was inevitably unkind, this city was not built by rubbing mud, it could be built if it was completed? If you are in a hurry, how can the quality of this mill city be guaranteed?

Yang Bo said: "Let's move a little bit bigger this time, I received a report from Tang, Huang Taiji went out of the customs in early August, that is to say, the Tartars have been on the road for nearly eighteen days, and there is not much time left for us, if the new city can't be roughly completed before Huang Taiji comes back, what do we use to resist the onslaught of the Eight Banners?" ”

Hearing Yang Bo's words, Zhang Fengjin lowered his head, his face flushed.

Yang Bo was ashamed when he saw Zhang Fengjin, and comforted: "I also know that you have done a good job, but now that the situation has changed, we must also have countermeasures to deal with it, so let's talk about what I think can be improved after the preliminary inspection just now." ”

Zhang Fengjin nodded again and again, several people from the Tun Affairs Department came around, and a big-eyed woman also got charcoal and paper to record, and everyone surrounded Yang Bo in the middle, and Yang Bo once again enjoyed the treatment of Jin Sanfat.

"First of all, it is necessary to speed up the speed of brick packing, there is no problem with manpower, the soldiers are all mobilized, two shifts a day, the day shift is from sunrise to midnight, the night shift is the opposite, the construction of the city can not be stopped for a moment, as for those prisoners to use to death, the east and west two gates do not need to be done for the time being, and other city defense facilities must also be carried out at the same time, there are enough people, but how to command them to work is our knowledge, we can consider the way of the assembly line, what is the assembly line? Well, I want to think about it, let's put it this way, for example, you divide these workers into ten groups, bricks, wallwork, quarrying, grinding, etc., assembly line production refers to each production team focusing on a certain corresponding work, just now I saw that the quarrying is very problematic, the quarrying is very hard, but the grinding slows down the speed, resulting in the stone pile on the hill can not be transported, grinding the wrong time to make the transportation can only accompany the lost time, right, this is where your distribution is unreasonable, to consider the efficiency and capacity of each team, Reasonable allocation of manpower, so that the stone can be continuously transported from the mountain, this is the assembly line production, reasonable distribution is reflected in every place, understand? ”

"Building a city is a large project of collective labor, which requires those of you at the helm to formulate more reasonable standards, such as how many bricks are rationed out of the brick kiln every day, how many bricks can be wrapped by each worker every day, which needs to be recorded, the flow of operation is to put it bluntly is to make comprehensive and effective use of personnel, equipment, transportation, organized, planned, and targeted with the balanced production of each unit, so that all processes are running, and the front and rear processes are not stagnant, if you want to do this, you only need to pay attention to three aspects, The first is target management, the production capacity and progress of each group are set, the second is time management, the time is good, how much progress must be completed by each team at the specified time, and the third is to be active, and no team is allowed to be in a passive waiting state, just like the example I just cited, the transportation group is waiting for the completion of the previous process, which is not allowed, the assembly line is to flow continuously, it's as simple as that......"

Yang Bo didn't say much more, because the girl from the Tun Affairs Department had sparkling eyes and was looking at him with a look of adoration. (To be continued......)