Chapter 265 The heart of the army and the hearts of the people

Although he didn't know that his fate had been controlled by others, Huang Long at this moment still felt uneasy when he looked at the excitement of his subordinates. It's just that the war is imminent, and I don't have the heart to think about it.

The warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division did not appear again, which made Yue Tuo feel a lot more relieved. But when he thought of the possible Dengzhou green skins, Yue Tuo still had an invisible pressure. After a fight in Chongzhen's second year, Houjin and the whole of Houjin were paying attention to this guy. Constant information came from Dengzhou, and this guy looked no different from an ordinary general. Usually very duty-bound, greedy for money and lustful to annex land, he does the same thing.

During the Battle of Da Ling River, Chen Xie didn't come out to join in the fun, but just killed Kong Youde cleanly. After a few years of recuperation and internal struggle, Huang Taiji basically sat firmly in the position. Fighting Lushun was just another attempt by him to find a means to break through the defense line of Shanhaiguan. History proves that until he died, he did not pass the Shanhai Pass. An honest detour and a fight into the Ming Dynasty from the side is the right choice.

At dawn, after the army had all passed through the narrow ground, Yue Tuo was able to sleep peacefully and ordered the troops to rest for a day. Before going to bed, Yue Tuo asked the name of the place, Kiba Station. It used to be a post station, presumably related to a lumber yard.

At noon, Yue Tuo woke up and immediately asked for the latest news. The scouts patrolling the coast brought back good news, and they didn't see Dengzhou's sailors moving on the sea around King County. If it had been in the past, Yue Tuo would not have cared about this news. But now, he's taking it seriously. King County Narrow. The widest place is less than 10 miles, I didn't think it was like anything before, but yesterday I was educated by someone with a cannon, and it hurts.

Thinking of the cannon, Yue Tuo had a headache again, the Dengzhou battalion was coming, and the cannon must be indispensable. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, has dealt with him a lot before, and knows that this guy likes to cast cannons. He also didn't use artillery to make trouble for the Houjin army. A full day's rest and a sober afternoon. Yue Tuo asked at least ten times. There are no greenskins found. The news sent out to scouts to bring back was okay, but the green skin was not found, but it collided with Huanglong's scouts several times, and each suffered casualties. This Yellow Dragon. It's not a fuel-efficient lamp either.

Where did the Dengzhou sailors go? The vast sea. It's too hard to find a few boats. Houjin's scouts did not find the warship normal. Because according to Chen Xie's instructions, Xilaojing is carrying out a task of cleaning up the coastline. Nine large ships of 500 materials, divided into two routes. Three boats with more than a dozen small boats were operating in the Bohai Bay, and as long as they found a boat, no matter which side it belonged to, even if it was a fishing boat, they would be seized and brought back to Lushun after seven days. There were also six large ships, carrying dozens of small boats, sweeping the Yellow Sea.

When Yue Tuo was concerned about the Dengzhou Sailors, Xilaojing had bypassed Lushun overnight and appeared on the surface of the Yellow Sea.

"There's a ship ahead that looks like a merchant ship." Lowering the binoculars, Andor reported the flags on the warship ahead.

"Surround it, sink it by the rebels." Silao gave the order absent-mindedly. It's really hard to do this kind of pirate work at sea. It's still more exciting to play in Jin County the day before yesterday. Get up early in the morning to grab the boat, and probably only God can know what the great general is going to do.

On the surface of the Yellow Sea, the Dengzhou Navy Division has no opponent at all. This is a North Korean merchant ship, which looks like about 100 materials, and after being surrounded, it is obvious that it can't run away, and soon the ship obediently dropped its sails. A guy dressed as a North Korean was escorted to the flagship Dengju No. 1. The Ming Dynasty general on the ship was in charge of questioning, and this guy confessed in three or two clicks.

The results of the interrogation were stunned, and the North Korean's name was Park Ji-myung, a maritime merchant in the grain business. His destination was Yaozhou (Yingkou), which was the estuary of the Liao River. His voyage was to traffic grain.

Xilao Jing asked the general manager very strangely: "What the hell, isn't he afraid that his grain will be seized by the sailors of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

The explanation given by the general is: "North Korea is a country that is not conquered, this is the rule set by the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty." Therefore, the North Koreans will not be afraid of the Daming Water Division. Of course, pirates are different. ”

Silao nodded: "I understand, we are pirates. Pirates are pirates, do I need an eye patch? ”

Andor, who was asked, shrugged: "You can make one yourself." ”

"Well, we're pirates now. Brothers, hurry up, we only have six days left. ”

On July 2 (lunar calendar), one day slower than in history, Yue Tuo came to the periphery of Lushun. Except for a meal of shells in the narrow area, there was no trouble after that, and the Ming army on the Lushun side did not even send scouts. After the elite Houjin scouts cleaned up the scattered Ming troops in this area, Yue Tuo decided to go to the Golden Mountain early tomorrow morning to see the situation in the city.

At this time, Lushun is simply a huge construction site. The pier was full of people, the trestle was widened and reinforced, and the edge of the pier was being leveled with cement and sand. Except for some soldiers in the necessary positions, the rest of the soldiers and civilians were all mobilized, either digging ditches in and out of the city, or helping on the docks.

These helpers don't have to pay, they take care of three meals a day, get up early for one porridge, and the other two meals are the kind of nests. For this treatment, each person said a word of complaint. The soldiers also ate this, and the Dengzhou soldiers were not included, they fired alone, and they ate pancakes.

In just four days, the outer city was not fortified, but the trees within three miles were cut down. Within a kilometer from the outer city, there are ravines everywhere that have been dug, have you ever seen chickens eating on their stomachs? Magnifying that scene is what it looks like right now.

The cut back trunks will not be wasted, the coarse timber is sent to the wharf, the shallow water is driven to lay wooden stakes and planks, and the wharf extends forward more than ten meters. The finer timber was not wasted, the ends were sharpened, and they were inserted into the half-man-high breastwork wall, with the pointed ends pointing outward.

Standing on both sides of the low city wall of the outer city, the outside is full of things at the bottom of this pit. The Dengzhou soldiers were not finished, and in three days, a layer of barbed wire was pulled behind every trench where the chickens in the outer city were eating. Between the barbed wire fences, there are paths that can only be walked by two people. Within the city walls, low walls were built one after another, making a labyrinth.

It cannot but be said that the Dongjiang soldiers and civilians who have a full stomach are very energetic, and this is more than 20,000 people. As long as you go to work on the construction site every day, you can eat enough, and such a happy day has not appeared for a long time. I still have to go to the state camp, during the Huanglong period, I couldn't keep my mouth shut twice a day. The hearts of the people and the hearts of the army are often the two words "food".

The well-fed Dongjiang soldiers were not idle, Wang Qinian found Huanglong and said to him: "It's not okay to bask in the sun and catch lice when you're full." The big war is coming, the general training, right? Huang Long was displeased, but he still agreed very simply to let everyone train. But let's take a look at how the Dengzhou soldiers practice.

Wang Qinian said very generously: "Okay, you can pick a team at random, I'm very busy here, I have to command and arrange the defense of the outer city." Saying that, I don't care, this momentum makes Huanglong very unhappy, but he can't attack. People just put forward an opinion.

Huang Long discussed with a few of his subordinates, and everyone thought it was okay, take a look. So he found Lin He and said that he wanted to see the Dengzhou camp drills. The 6,000 Dengzhou soldiers lived in the tents they had set up, and the two shifts took turns to go to the outer city for defense, so this problem was not a problem. Lin He said very simply: "Okay, it is the spear camp that enters the camp in the sky, even if you don't come, they have to exercise regularly and in the morning." ”

It was noon, the morning exercise was over, and the soldiers were resting in their tents. As soon as the sharp whistle sounded, the fully armed soldiers rushed out of the tents, took their respective weapons, and the officers of all ranks, with their sabers hung, gave orders one after another.

The 1,000 people were assembled in just eight minutes. The four infantry formations stood in order.

Huang Long felt that the roots of his teeth were itchy and sore, and several other people were inhaling cool air, and the cold sweat of the hot day came down. During the morning exercise, I didn't feel anything when I heard the movement, but now I have witnessed the whole process with my own eyes, and I am really scared.

Officers of all ranks, armed with knives in one hand, stood at the edge of their respective ranks, and Lin He gave a few words to a young captain, and then began to train for assassination. The spearmen of 1,000 people quickly turned into two squares, spears like a forest. The very simple tactic is to flatten the end of the gun and poke it forward, row by row as if it were a straight line, and keep stabbing and stabbing forward. It's like a machine, an insensitive execution program. The two-hundred-meter-long playground stabbed back and forth, and then announced its disbandment.

Simple tactics couldn't be simpler, a group of generals of the Dongjiang soldiers were in a cold sweat, fighting with cold teeth.

Once this thing is on the battlefield, everyone present in the killing knows about it. The battlefield has never been a place for individual heroes, a row of past, a row of a dozen spears to stab a person, exactly the same action, gods can stab to death, let alone people.

Simple, straightforward, and efficient, this is the tactic pursued by the Dengzhou battalion. Where did they come from so many tricks, there are not so many exquisiteness on the frontal battlefield, brutal training, harsh military law, and training people into machines.

Li Weiluan found Lin He and asked with a smile: "Dongjiang Battalion, can you practice like this?" Lin He thought for a while and replied to him very seriously: "Yes, but you will definitely not be able to practice this effect." "Blatantly contemptuous, but Li Weiluan knows that people are telling the truth. Not to mention anything else, just the food can't do it like this. The Dongjiang camp is still good, and it is a drill every three days. People, one a day, or even more.

Dengzhou, Chen Xie is finally about to get on the ship, and after years of operation, the accumulated capacity of the United Firm has been fully exploded beyond everyone's expectations. This ability is the merchant ship, the smallest is 100 material merchant ships, after the issuance of the solicitation order, but in just one week, one hundred and three 100 to 500 material merchant ships have been raised. All merchant ships are of the same caliber, no money, no requirements, pure obligations.

There are less than 100 boats with more than 100 sailors in Dengzhou. (To be continued......)