The small battle of Zhenjiang, from the beginning to the end, lasted for more than half a month. But the real battle was only half a day. For this half a day, the 'revolutionary army' mobilized a guards brigade and mobilized 20,000 militiamen and civilian workers in the rear. The consumption of arms is not much, but the cost of manpower has exceeded hundreds of thousands of silver dollars.

And that's just the beginning......

"Fighting a war is really a competition for the economy, I basically didn't do anything, and I was already spending money." Zhou Qingfeng stopped in Zhenjiang for a few days, first, to sum up the experience of this battle, and secondly, to collect information for the follow-up war. Since the battle has been fought, it must be fought to the end, and we must not give up halfway.

When six guns opened fire on the battlefield, the regular battle was over. The next step was to capture the prisoners and reassure the people. Zhou Qingfeng completely lost trust in those Korean scholars, and he selected people who could understand Chinese and Korean from among the captives and Zhenjiang locals, and reorganized the Belt and Road Party to make use of local human resources.

The 13,000 Korean troops were killed and wounded, more than 2,000 were wounded, and the rest were basically captured. Some of them fled without food and clothing, so they had to come out of the mountains and forests and surrender to the guards. According to the statistics before and after, the number of prisoners was more than 9,000. In addition, there are one or two thousand people in Zhenjiang who have taken refuge, and Zhou Qingfeng has more than 10,000 mouths to eat and drink.

"Order the rear to send two more steam ships to transport supplies to us, we need more food and clothing, and some tools to build roads. Anyway, I really hate this bad road. ”

"From Zhenjiang, you can climb over the mountains and directly attack Hetuala, and this geographical location is still very important. Transfer an engineer battalion to use local manpower to rebuild Zhenjiang City. Whether attacking or defending, there are benefits to capturing this place. ”

"Send people to reconnoiter in the direction of Hetuala and Pyongyang. Although Zhenjiang is too far away from both places and the road is extremely difficult to navigate, intelligence support must be provided for the next step. ”

On the day the fighting ended, local order was restored. Zhenjiang has no oil and water, and the common people are very poor, even the North Korean prisoners. As long as you have enough to eat, no one is unwilling to work.

On the first day, Zhou Qingfeng convened more than 1,000 new Belt and Road parties who knew both Chinese and North Korea. With these people, thousands of captives can be put to good use. He stood under the shattered walls of Zhenjiang, planning the place and summarizing the battle.

"The small artillery currently used by the mounted artillery units is too powerful, and the tactics are a little wrong, and they must be improved."

"Lao Tzu doesn't want to go to Pyongyang anymore by mountain road, so he will go by sea boat next."

"It's up to the staff officer how to fight the battle in the future, I don't have any more ideas."

Zhou Qingfeng stopped in Zhenjiang for half a month until the new Zhenjiang Fort was repaired. Later, he basically became the big treasurer and let the staff officers and officers at all levels figure out what to do on their own. At the beginning, the people at the bottom were still very uncomfortable, but after the stumbling whole management system was put into operation, it was no worse than Zhou Qingfeng's own work.

Zhou Qingfeng is in Youzai, and he continues to receive war reports from Shandong. Compared with his suffering and sins here in North Korea, He Zhuo can be described as invading in the direction of Shandong. After taking Cangzhou and Baoding, after a little repair, He Zhuo led a large number of cavalry to forcibly march nearly 200 kilometers in one day, and directly raided Jinan from a distance.

The defenders of Jinan did not expect the opponent's battlefield mobility to be so strong. Although Jinan belonged to a fortified city, and the offensive and defensive battles were fought for three full days, they did not get any reinforcements in these three days. The Ming troops in Texas and Binzhou were like frightened birds, they could only defend the city and did not dare to come out at all.

The artillery of the 'revolutionary army' performed extremely brilliantly on the battlefield. Short-barreled heavy artillery is used against enemy troops in the city, and large-caliber mortar artillery is used to destroy the enemy's city defenses and walls. Tens of thousands of militia even surrounded the entire city of Jinan, forcing all the gentry in the city to commit suicide in despair, and even burn the city.

Compared with North Korea, where birds don't, all the cities in Shandong are rich. Xu Bing even personally led a team to Jinan to be responsible for the post-war cleanup, and she said in her war report to Zhou Qingfeng that Shandong has a large population and a super prosperous place. Many of the gentry are from century-old families, and they look at the inconspicuous mansions with a lot of wealth.

"It's really right to fight Shandong, this time we want to make a profit."

"Just by breaking Jinan Mansion, our income can skyrocket more than ten times this year."

"This is just a Shandong city, and there are still a lot of places waiting for us to take it down."

"By the way, the people of the Confucian Mansion actually took the initiative to send someone to contact us. Hopefully some kind of compromise or pardon. They offered to pay money to avoid the disaster, but I turned them down. The newspapers are making public opinion guidance for the liquidation of the Confucian Mansion, and at present, public opinion is raging, and there are many people who oppose it. ”

Zhou Qingfeng fought North Korea, and no one cared at all. and Zhuo hit Shandong, and the eyes of the people all over the world widened. This strong contrast made the handsome man feel so bitter, and he was really depressed.

Xu Bing said that some people were 'against the liquidation of the Confucian Mansion', and Zhou Qingfeng directly instructed: "In the future, when Dolgon entered the customs, the Confucian Mansion did not want to keep the tail of the money rat, and hoped to get preferential treatment." But when Dorgon announced, 'Keep your hair without your head, keep your head without your hair,' and they shaved their heads faster than anyone else. If you are thicker than them, you will lose. In order to prevent the backlash of the decadent literati, it is necessary to eradicate their roots. ”

Shandong's land resources are much larger than those of Liaodong and Tianjin, and the 'revolutionary army' is like a prairie fire that burns down the local clans and gentry forces, and liberates the people at the bottom. And the conquest of Jinan also showed the hostile forces throughout Shandong that any stubborn resistance was meaningless in the face of muskets and artillery.

A large number of officials and gentry began to flee south, but a large number of people chose to stay and wait for the land to be divided. Jinan was won, and the difficulty of the subsequent battle was greatly reduced. If the soldiers have no will, they will have no will to fight. Many local officials felt that they had no bad deeds, so they simply opened the city and surrendered, so as to save their lives. Over time, the local situation can be described as a matter of propagation.

And in Zhenjiang......

Half a month later, Zhou Qingfeng's staff officers not only stabilized the situation for him, but also gave a follow-up North Korean strategy after a few days of quarreling - using Zhenjiang as a base to organize and train a North Korean security army. The soldiers were assisted by the currently captured North Korean soldiers, the leading party, and the officers were filled with guards men.

This plan was quickly approved by Zhou Qingfeng, who ordered more food to be brought in from the direction of Lushun to fill the bellies of more North Korean soldiers. With the help of dozens of large-tonnage transport ships supported by the rear, nearly 20,000 troops set out from Zhenjiang and sailed 200 kilometers across the sea to the Taedong River on the west bank of Korea.

The fleet went up the river and appeared directly outside the city of Pyongyang.

Pyongyang and Seoul are the only two large cities in North Korea. In the face of a sudden enemy, the Korean defenders in the city were like facing a heavenly soldier. The news of Jiang Hongli's end in Zhenjiang had already come back, and North Korea was also panicked because of this. But they only cared about defending against the enemy from the northern land, but they didn't expect Zhou Qingfeng to think that the mountain road in North Korea was too difficult to walk, so he simply took the sea route.

The attack on Pyongyang did not require the Guards at all, and the newly formed North Korean Security Army showed extremely strong combat **. These guys still used their original old-fashioned arquebuses, but they took over many riding cannons that Zhou Qingfeng couldn't look at. They felt a great favor to get those small cannons with a total weight of only eighty kilograms, and felt that this was the real artifact of Zhenguo.

After half a month of full food and the blessing of mounted artillery, the key is that the Guards have placed their own non-commissioned officers and officers in command posts, and these factors have made the organization and discipline of the North Korean security forces soar. Greatly increased their combat effectiveness.

After the attacking troops landed on the shore, Zhou Qingfeng basically watched the battle, and the Guards Brigade pressed the formation. He didn't even bring the militia with him on this trip, after all, recruiting the militia not only had to pay for it, but also delayed the agricultural time—there were still heavy agricultural production tasks on the Liaonan Peninsula in the second half of the year, and the transfer of a strong population would cause serious consequences.

After the start of the war, the security army, which was a dog's leg, showed great bravery. They pushed the cavalry artillery directly to a distance of only 200 meters from the Pyongyang city wall, and opened fire on the city gate - artillery is a technical arm, and the North Koreans can only do the work of resetting the artillery for the time being. Most of the shooting was carried out by gunners of the Guards.

The defenders of Pyongyang were in a daze the whole time, without the slightest interference with the actions of the artillery. The high rate of fire of the cavalry artillery showed even more shocking power, and an artillery battery fired dozens of shells in three minutes, successfully breaking through Pyongyang's city defenses and destroying its city gates. Next, the cavalry artillery raised the barrel and struck the battlements of the city wall, covering the soldiers of the security army to storm and occupy the city gates.

In Zhou Qingfeng's opinion, these newly collected doglegs seem to be quite valuable - compared to the guards, the security army has no money, but can eat enough. The only opportunity to make money is to fight, whether it is a soldier or an officer, only if he wins a battle can he have a bounty, and he can divide the land if he has made a war exploit.

Under this management, these dogs show their sharp fangs in the blink of an eye, looking for and biting their prey like hyenas. The fighting against Pyongyang lasted two days, and street fighting caused considerable civilian casualties. The Overseers killed hundreds of North Korean soldiers who had committed looting and other crimes. The situation in the city was quickly calmed down.

"It's really not difficult to fight this kind of opponent, I really don't understand how the Ming army fought in North Korea for so many years? Are the Japanese particularly difficult to fight? After Zhou Qingfeng settled in Pyongyang, he saw a poor and weak country and poor people. He also really saw the exposed breasts with North Korean characteristics, and the woman was showing a shriveled **, which was really not good-looking.

"Pyongyang is surrounded by abundant water sources, relatively flat terrain, and abundant arable land, so it has a foundation for developing agriculture. In addition, the population here is large, and most of the officials are proficient in Chinese, so daily communication and dialogue are not a big problem. ”

"However, there is not much gold and silver in Pyongyang, and the poor in the treasury are dying. Those who can eat meat once a month in the city are rich people. But even by this standard, most people may not be able to afford to eat meat for the rest of their lives. ”

"Although the quality is poor, there are a lot of people here, but the food supply is tight. We don't need to use much military means at all, and we can control the country only by economic means. I intend to stay for another month to prepare for the next attack on Seoul. ”

In the middle of the night, Zhou Qingfeng wrote letters to the traversers in other places. There is a clone of Jia Gang's divine thoughts by his side, which can communicate over long distances. Messaging is more convenient.

After writing about the situation in Pyongyang, Zhou Qingfeng pondered for a moment and then continued: "This North Korean strategy has exposed the important shortcomings of our 'revolutionary army' in the domestication of horses. I plan to ask Ye Na to return to Tianjin with a triplane, recall Xu Xiake, and ask him to form a 'Ministry of Land and Resources' to collect good varieties of animals and plants across the country and even around the world, and the Ministry of Agriculture will select and breed them.

Taking advantage of the triplane's long-distance transport capabilities, I hope to complete the selection of horse breeds across the country as soon as possible. For example, there are Hequ horses suitable for riding in Gansu, and Yunnan horses are suitable for mountain transportation. If conditions permit, we can even go deep into Central Asia to get Kazakh horses, go to the Middle East to get Arab horses, and even go to Europe to .......

Triplanes are only used on the battlefield, which is too wasteful. It can carry 100 kilograms of cargo, ignoring obstacles and flying long distances. This ability should be used better to get horse breeding cubs for us. As for the enemy's air threat on the battlefield, I'll try to deal with it again.

Our quest for the world must not be limited to the Central Plains, but must enable our people to have a global perspective. This is the bearing and mind of a great country. ”

After writing these ......, Zhou Qingfeng himself couldn't help but feel excited. He is in an ordinary room in Pyongyang, North Korea, but his eyes are looking into the distant future.