Chapter 1244 - Preparation......
At the beginning of May, the alternating seasons of spring and summer arrived. In the south, people are basically wearing thin undershirts, but here in the north people still wear a lot of clothes.
Still, this season is very much enjoyed by people.
After more than two months of construction, although Jincheng is not a new look, it can be regarded as a different appearance than when Zhao Hongyu and they first came here.
The tall city walls, the wide moat, and even Zhao Hongyu had the leisure to plant a lot of poplar trees on both sides of the moat, which were used as beautification for the city defense.
On the branches of the thin poplar trees, tender green buds have emerged, and they have grown quite a bit.
Because it is located in the north, there are many birch trees near Geumseong. During the season, the branches of these birch trees grow like small grapes and their seeds begin to burst, making the sky full of white hairs.
The former Liaodong refugees who followed Zhao Hongyu and them to Jincheng have undergone great changes in their spirits within a few months.
You can no longer see the numbness and despair of more than two months ago on their faces. And now their faces are full of hope for the future and hope for a happy life.
Yes, these are the changes that Zhao Hongyu brought to them.
Here in Jincheng, as long as you have the strength to work, you can earn money.
This silver is enough for a family of five to eat and drink, and there are fish and meat.
This kind of life is something that the displaced people never dared to imagine before.
Meantime. No one oppressed them here, and there was no deduction for their wages for working on the construction site.
All of a sudden, the homeless people couldn't believe it all.
You must know that in the past, even if they planted their own fields, they also had to pay all kinds of taxes like cows' hair. And not counting these taxes alone, there are also some bullies and landlords from the local bullies.
Therefore, at the end of the year, these bitter people have accumulated a few silver coins in hand.
In such a situation, it is good to be able to guarantee that people will not starve to death, and who would want to eat fish and meat.
But here in Jincheng. None of this has happened to them.
Even if there are some people who want to do something like this. But it will be suppressed by the Ming soldiers led by Sun Chuanting in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, after so many times, no one dared to follow this crooked path.
Although the material big guys have been improved, these former Liaodong refugees are still not sure.
After all, Jincheng is too close to Houjin here.
The ghost knows those Eight Banner soldiers of Houjin. When you are going to come and plunder. By the time the time everyone had built this city. And the hard work of a few months. Isn't it going to be ruined?
Seriously, these people have already liked the days when there was no oppression here in Jincheng.
Therefore, the big guys want these Song people. Be able to show a little bit of skill to prove that they can not be threatened by Houjin.
Only by letting everyone see this, these homeless people who are still doing things in Jincheng will really rest assured to stay in Jincheng.
In the past two months, thousands of displaced people have left here after earning some money.
The reason why they wanted to leave was nothing more than that they were worried that Jincheng would provoke the Houjin Eight Banner soldiers here.
Everyone knows that the life here in Jincheng is very good, and it is very comfortable to live.
As long as you don't break the law, then you can live comfortably here.
However, the threat from Houjin pressed on their hearts all the time, so they had no way to make up their minds to take root here in Jincheng.
Thousands of people, this is already twenty percent of the population of Jincheng Daming, which is already a lot.
And as time went on, more and more people who had saved up some money began to want to leave here.
The reason why there are not large numbers of people leaving now is because people are gambling.
The bet is that he can work for another month, and after this month, the gold man will not come.
It is conceivable that these former Liaodong refugees who were doing things in Jincheng all thought that after entering the summer, the Houjin army would come to attack.
But think about it.
The construction here in Jincheng is impossible to hide from the Houjin side.
And with some infrastructure construction in Jincheng put into use, it has begun to attract some bold businessmen to come here to do business.
In other words, there is a little meat here in Jincheng now, although it is not very fat, but it can also be eaten.
This is not an ordinary attraction to Houjin.
It is important to know that the whole of Houjin is not productive. Their supplies were all satisfied by looting the surrounding areas, so how could Houjin turn a blind eye to Jincheng and be indifferent.
After all, the current Jincheng looks like it is generally prosperous.
A city like this proves that there is at least silver here, doesn't it?
So, it will definitely attract Houjin.
Moreover, during this time, there have been many rumors in the city.
Some of Houjin's scouts have already appeared around Jincheng, which shows that the other party has begun to spy on Jincheng's side.
The Ming people here in Jincheng are basically residents of the original Liaodong, and they have not been plundered by the Houjin once or twice, so for some of the actions of the Houjin, it can be guessed that eight or nine are not far from ten.
For what is it, Houjin sent a scout, isn't he interested in Jincheng?
In the past ten years, whenever the Houjin sent troops to invade the Ming Land of Liaodong, they would send a large number of scouts and spies.
Therefore, when this rumor spread, some people in Jincheng became panicked. It has led to the people of Daming who work here becoming a little absent-minded when doing things.
For such a situation, Zhao Hongyu also got some reports here.
As for Zhao Hongyu, he understands the reaction of the Ming people very well, after all, they are all ordinary people, aren't they.
So, ah. Zhao Hongyu decided to show his powerful muscles externally and internally.
As long as you can defeat Houjin a few times, then you can make the people of Jincheng feel at ease, and they will no longer hesitate and fear like this.
At the same time, it can also prove that the army of the Song Empire can completely protect them from threats and injuries from Houjin, giving everyone a reassurance.
But before that, the first thing Zhao Hongyu had to do was to clean up Houjin's scout.
These Houjin's detectives come and go like the wind and electricity, and they are always elusive and tiresome.
Zhao Hongyu has been putting up with them for more than a month.
It was only because Zhao Hongyu didn't want to disperse the imperial army at hand, so he ignored these Houjin's scouts.
This led to the post-Kim detective riding becoming more and more bold. Occasionally, he even dared to haunt under Jincheng City.
But now it's fine. The Kyushu soldiers had already received their own orders and came to Jincheng, which greatly alleviated Zhao Hongyu's little trouble.
With these Kyushu soldiers, Zhao Hongyu could inflict a heavy blow on those Houjin scouts to the extent that he did not use and disperse the imperial army.
And the elite Imperial Army. You can recharge your energy. Wait for the arrival of the Houjin army.
Bid farewell to the training ground of the Kyushu soldiers. Zhao Hongyu and Jay Chou and Sun Chuanting returned to Jincheng.
Soon, Zhao Hongyu's order reached the side of the Kyushu soldiers.
President Kobayashi was appointed by Jay Chou as the commander-in-chief of the Kyushu Army, and was also responsible for this extermination operation against the Houjin Scouts.
Jay Chou's order. Let President Kobayashi be delighted.
You must know that Lu Dao wants military power in his dreams.
Of course, it is impossible for Zhao Hongyu and Jay Chou not to be on guard.
More than 300 members of the Imperial Political Department were placed at the grassroots level of this Kyushu army, responsible for brainwashing and instilling some specific gadgets in them, and even President Kobayashi had two adjutants of Imperial Chinese descent doing things around him.
It doesn't matter if you're ambitious, but as long as you don't do anything wrong and get dizzy.
If President Kobayashi is brainless, then his head will definitely move as soon as possible.
You must know that these people who were planted in the Kyushu soldiers by the Imperial Political Department are not vegetarians at all.
These functions are similar to the political commissars of a certain system in another time and space, and in a short period of time, they have become one with those Kyushu soldiers and have won the support of many people.
Therefore, even if President Kobayashi has military command, he is still blind if he can't control it at the grassroots level.
For these, President Kobayashi obviously hasn't understood it yet.
But for President Kobayashi, it doesn't matter.
He only needs to have military power, at least for now he is satisfied.
Now an opportunity is in front of him, whether he has the ability or not depends on this time.
If he doesn't do well this time, then he will have very little room for improvement in the future.
Governor Kobayashi has a deep understanding of the order he received this time.
As long as he can do a perfect job and satisfy those His Highnesses and General Zhou, he believes that he must have higher room for improvement.
Therefore, Governor Kobayashi put all his energy into this strangulation operation against the Houjin Scout Cavalry around Jincheng.
Before leaving Jincheng, Governor Kobayashi and his other Japanese generals had a series of discussions on this military operation and formulated a very detailed battle plan.
This is done in order to make himself a blockbuster and fall into the eyes of Zhao Hongyu or Jay Chou.
President Kobayashi is so careless.
It's just that the problems he faces are not small.
Although there are not many individual cavalry units of the Houjin Scout, the other party is all cavalry.
Moreover, the total number of forty or fifty scouts is more than two thousand.
Although the Kyushu soldiers are strong, they are all infantry.
Therefore, if you want to encircle and suppress these Houjin's scouts, it becomes a little troublesome.
Therefore, President Kobayashi reported this distressing problem to Zhao Hongyu.
Zhao Hongyu, who got the report, found Jay Chou.
"You say, should we give these Japanese some war horses?"
When Jay Chou came to Zhao Hongyu, Zhao Hongyu asked with some hesitation. (To be continued......)