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The period from the end of the sixth year of the Apocalypse to the fifth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse is also the time for the great development of Funing Town.

Funing Town was originally a military town with a mix of guards and conscripts, but after the Dutch were successfully expelled from Penghu, Wei Zhongxian, who was "wise and martial", thought that the situation in Fujian was worry-free, so he immediately ordered the removal of all recruits in Funing Town, and now most of the elite soldiers in Funing Town have changed their careers to pirates.

In addition to the tens of thousands of descendants brought by Huangshi, the Xiapu generation also has tens of thousands of military men and 3,000 acres of military tun, a total of 120,000 men are theoretically complete military households, if only theoretically speaking, Huangshi not only does not have to pay them a son's military salary, but also can take away 20% of the income of the military tun every year to prepare for the expenses of the military town.

If Huang Shi really did this, then his mobilization power would be sharply reduced to about 3,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliaries, and he might not be able to equip these 3,000 soldiers with good weapons, which was almost the normal mobilization power of the Ming army. If you want to support the feat of going to the southwest expedition, Huangshi can definitely dispatch no more than 5,000 troops, and the number of those with combat effectiveness will never reach 2,000.

Under normal circumstances, the direct military strength of a military general at the level of a governor is only so little, and the civilian clique believes that this may ensure that the military general has absolutely no ability to divide and cause chaos. It's just that Huangshi doesn't just intend to be a normal general, in his ambitious plan, he wants to train tens of thousands of combat troops, and turn the entire military cantonment of Funing Town into a large "industrial zone".

In early December of the sixth year of the Apocalypse. Bao Bowen and the last batch of workers had already arrived in Fujian, which was more than half a month earlier than the expected time in Huangshi. Because all the silver in the inventory was reserved for the Dongjiang Town Zuo Association, Huangshi could only embezzle the merchants' funds from Liu Qingyang's loan to maintain the operation of Funing Town for a period of time.

Since it was an embezzlement of funds, Huangshi was very careful to transfer only 50,000 taels of silver in December, although this figure is nothing compared to 2.7 million taels, but this amount of money is a lot for the officers and soldiers of the former Changsheng Island, who have always been short of funds, after all, they did not dare to spend 50,000 taels of silver in a month in the past.

With abundant financial support. Yellowstone is able to devote all of its manpower to restoring production capacity. The machine was quickly assembled, and the water resources were abundant in Gangnam. Yellowstone can now start mass-producing machines instead of mass-ramrow windmills. However, in order to stabilize the flow of water and make it easier to control, Yellowstone initially set a plan to build several small reservoirs. For Huangshi's "heavy industry", the reservoir is the battery, the windmill is the generator, and the waterwheel is the electric motor.

After drawing up a plan to develop the army in full force. The production of armor and helmets is, of course, a top priority in Funing Town. After transferring Huangshi from Dongjiang Town to Funing Town, the Emperor of Tianqi also generously issued a special edict to Nanzhili, ordering the Nanjing Armament Depot to give priority to meeting the military supplies of Funing Town.

However, the emperor's edict is one thing, and the execution at the bottom is another. Huang Shi knew very well that the things in the Nanjing Arsenal were by no means so delicious, so when Huang Shi went to Quanzhou in the first month, he only proposed to Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, that he needed a large amount of leather armor and gunpowder, and he didn't mention a word about all kinds of iron armor.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, generals at all levels wanted to receive weapons for their troops. Payments are generally made at one-tenth of the value of the weapon, which is also the main income of the civilian officials in charge of the arsenal. Therefore, generals at all levels are generally reluctant to equip the battalion soldiers with armor, shields and other relatively expensive weapons, and if they have money, they will spend it on their own families.

Although it is ridiculous for the country's generals to spend money on equipment for the country's local army, Huangshi does not have the courage to challenge the unspoken rules like Mao Wenlong, and Mao Wenlong's situation is enough to dispel all the "bloodiness" of Huangshi. Therefore, Huangshi still intends to pay honestly and continue to follow his own path of wall-to-wall grass. Of course. Huang Shi only picked some relatively cheap things, a pair of leather armor only needs to pay two taels for the officials of the arsenal, Huang Shi this time asked for five thousand sets of leather armor for his firecrackers.

After three months of bargaining and bargaining, with the help of some "old friends" in Nanzhili, Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, tried his best to finally help Huangshi get these things. After the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War issued an approval, Huang Shi sealed red envelopes to Zhu Yifeng and Nan Zhili's friends respectively, and then sent someone to the Nanjing arsenal to pay the money to get the armor back.

This batch of leather armor is the most common color, and its defense ability is limited, but the greatest benefit is that it is light. A set of leather armor weighs only twenty pounds. Fighting in the mountains of the south is not a big burden. In addition to the reluctance to spend money, Yellowstone has other considerations. That is, whether it is all kinds of heavy armor produced by the Ministry of Industry, or bird guns and Franco machines, they do not have any credibility guarantee at all, and they will never be returned in case of counterfeit and shoddy products.

Therefore, although Huangshi has now obtained the right to allocate weapons from the Ministry of Industry, he still prefers to produce iron armor and helmets by himself, especially the iron armor needed by the heavy infantry. With the efforts of Bao Bowen, Funing Town began to produce steel in the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and in the second half of the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, those precious machine tools in Huangshi finally began to resume operation.

In the first month, Huangshi took 50,000 taels of silver from Liu Qingyang, and with the support of these funds, Funing Town was transformed into a military town with a half-guard and half-recruitment system, in which the battalion soldiers and workers were paid a fixed salary of one tael per month. Of course, the rest of the people can only be cheap laborers who don't need money, and some of them have to continue to farm and fish, but Huangshi only collects a 10% tax, which allows Huangshi to free up other military households to do manual work.

In February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Japanese shogunate launched an attack on the Choshu domain. However, in terms of incompetence, the shogunate's army was not much better than the Chōshū army that Yang encountered during his last trip to Japan, and Yang claimed in his first report to Huangshi that the only difference between the two was that the shogunate army was much larger.

In order to stop the humanitarian disaster against the people of Changzhou in advance, Yang Zhiyuan and the Panshi Camp naturally did not sit on the sidelines. Yang Zhiyuan reported to Huangshi. He planned to use the border fortress of the Choshu Domain to hold back the shogunate and the armies of the Japanese princes from several directions, and to concentrate the Choshu New Army and the Panshi Battalion as mobile forces to break through the crusading forces.

By the end of February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the town of Funing had produced 600 new armors. The armor used by the Funing Army itself is not only a cuirass, but also a matching shoulder, arm, leg, shin and other parts of the protective armor. Before determining the production requirements, Huangshi first consulted He Dingyuan's opinion, and the latter required that the weight of the full set of armor should not exceed thirty-two catties. This figure is about seventy percent of the weight of the heavy cotton armor of the whole body, which is equivalent to the weight of the iron scale armor issued by Sun Chengzong to Huangshi.

He Dingyuan believes that this weight will not affect the tactical movements of the infantry. Huang Shi passed this opinion to the Military Industry Department of Funing Town and asked them to operate it on their own. Anyway, Yellowstone's main idea is to increase the iron content of the armor, and the iron content of the breastplate armor is almost 100%, which should be able to reduce the weight and improve the defense effect.

The armor produced made Huangshi very satisfied, and the Military Industry Department even further reduced the weight of the armor to thirty catties, which was only ten catties heavier than the leather armor of the firecracker. In addition, the standard helmet of Funing Town will be integrated with the iron armor of Funing Town. In this way, when the helmet is attacked, the important blow force will be borne by the chest, which weighs up to five pounds.

At the beginning of this month, Huang Shi took another 50,000 taels of silver from Liu Qingyang. After receiving this money, Huangshi immediately trained 8,000 recruits. With the addition of the original troops, there are now more than 15,000 combat troops in Funing Town who are paid military salaries. There are also nearly 2,000 people in the Military Industry Department who need to be paid, and the monthly military salary will cost 17,000 taels, plus the training and maintenance expenses, and the amount of silver spent on the army in a month has exceeded 30,000 taels.

March of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Liu Qingyang's trading group has been earning income since last month, and the Dark Council is optimistic about the prospects for trading profits, and even if the necessary profits are removed, the profit for the whole month of February reached about 150,000 taels of silver. The first order Huang Shi issued after reading the report was: In March, Liu Qingyang would hand over 100,000 taels of silver.

After getting the money, Huangshi expanded the Military Industry Department again, and the expanded Military Industry Department of Funing Town suddenly had more than 8,000 people, and Funing Town had to pay as much as 24,000 taels of military salaries this month. In front of a lucrative military salary. Many girls in the mountainous areas of Fujian have also begun to be tempted, and some people have begun to marry into Funing Town.

During this month, Yang Zhiyuan continued to send good news, and under the joint "persuasion" of the Panshi Battalion and the new army of the Choshu Domain, the southwestern feudal domains of Japan repented one after another and withdrew from the unjust war against the people of Choshu. These feudal domains also expressed their willingness to further strengthen cooperation with the Choshu domain.

It's just that "sending troops without permission is tantamount to rebellion." What's more, Japan is still a "country not to be conquered" by Zhu Hongwu, so Huangshi did not dare to blatantly collude with the Japanese vassals, and these tasks had to be handed over to Kazuo Kuroshima to do. After all, Namori Shinyoshi is also the old man of the Choshu Domain. Let him come forward to help Huangshi run the business. It's still not reassuring.

Yang Zhiyuan also reported to Huangshi that the main force of the Japanese shogunate had fought hard for a month. It still stops at the border fortress of the Choshu Domain. Although the garrison troops in the fortress were all old-fashioned troops of the Choshu Domain, they were equipped with a large number of artillery, and these forts were all old-style fortress structures designed by the Changsheng Island Engineer Gang Choshu Domain.

Armed mainly with bows and arrows, bamboo spears, and katanas, the Japanese shogunate was at a loss for the fortress of the Changzhou Domain, hoping to capture it through a prolonged siege. According to Yang Zhiyuan, the Panshi Battalion and the new army of the Choshu Domain had almost no losses in the previous battle, and were currently recuperating in the rear, preparing to set off for a decisive battle with the main shogunate next month.

At the same time, Yang Zhiyuan also reported that after seeing the power of the new army of the Choshu Domain, Shousui Shinyoshi's prestige in the Choshu Domain had just reached a new peak. The soldiers of the Choshu Domain also swept away the tense atmosphere at the beginning of the war, and the call for "fight to the Kanto region and burn Edo" became loud for a while. Shou Sui Su Lao had already secretly asked Yang Zhiyuan for instructions on the issue of public opinion guidance, so Yang Zhiyuan asked Huang Shi to make his next action strategy clear.

In April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huangshi got another 100,000 taels of silver from Liu Qingyang. Although Funing Town has not been expanded this month, Huangshi ordered a salary increase for soldiers, and the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers has been increased from one tael to one tael and five yuan. This Yulu is already on par with the Guanning Army. It is much higher than the usual practice of three coins and silver in Zhejiang Province and Guangdong Province.

Of course, the majority of soldiers in Funing Town resolutely supported Huangshi's decision, and Huangshi took this opportunity to restore the silver coin system, and still called it a military ticket to the outside world. This time, Huang Shi learned to be obedient, he forged the corners of the silver coin with threads to prevent others from scraping off the scraps. The silver coins issued this time are still seventy percent silver, so if no one exchanges them, Huangshi will have a salary increase. But it didn't actually cost more money.

Yellowstone maintained its reputation by allowing silver coins to be freely convertible. Although there were a few recruits who exchanged silver coins for silver taels themselves, under the influence of veterans. Most Fujian recruits trust Huangshi, and the silver coins are really convenient, and the value is clearly written, so they won't be deceived.

This salary amount immediately caused a sensation in the vicinity of Funing Town. Taking Fujian's Tianfu as an example, the agricultural tax set by the Wanli Emperor was only five centimetres per mu per year, and a stone of good rice was only four coins of silver. And the soldiers in Funing Town have a military salary of one or two or five cents a month. Ordinary farmers and fishermen may not earn as much as a soldier in a month.

It's April. For a whole month, a large group of people in Funing Town came to sign up for the army every day. However, Huangshi has already ordered that the recruitment of troops should give priority to the military households in the town. These men who came to sign up for the army were disappointed, but many of them asked to join the army, starting from ordinary military households in Funing Town. Even after informing them that there was no further plan to expand the army, many people still said that they didn't care, and insisted that they should be military households to work for Huangshibai, as long as they had a bite to eat.

Since the masses are so enthusiastic. Huangshi was also embarrassed to disappoint them, so he recruited tens of thousands of people to do manual work, and even saved the usual settling-in expenses.

With manpower, more reservoirs and waterwheels were built, and Huangshi further introduced a three-shift system. Anyway, thousands of workers in military companies have been trained, so there is absolutely no need to worry about manual work. Through a month of night battles. By the end of April, the Department of Military Industry had produced 1,700 sets of armor, and with the production in February and March, the town of Funing had 3,000 new armors in stock.

At the end of April, Yang Zhiyuan led the Panshi Battalion to Funing Town, and the just war of the people of the Choshu Domain for regional autonomy ended in mid-April. More precisely, after the battle between the Chōshū Domain's New Army and the Rock Army and the Shogunate Army on the 8th of April, the military conflict was declared over, and the rest was left to the work of the politicians.

The Changzhou side is an army with 3,000 modern troops as the core and nearly 10,000 peasants with high morale who defend the country as the auxiliary; Their enemies were more than 50,000 peasants from the Kanto region, and thousands of "swordsmanship" in armor, who had been under the fortification of the city for two months.

The result of the battle, under the shelling of field artillery. The Tokugawa shogunate's armies quickly began to crumble, just like his predecessors when he first encountered it. In this era, the Tokugawa Banner samurai were indeed a little stronger than the armies of the Choshu Domain and the armies of the Southwestern Domains. They also tried to keep the formation forward to get into hand-to-hand combat. But when the New Army used horrific chain and shotgun, Japan's supposedly strongest force began to fled. The last few samurai were also smashed into a colander by the firebolt......

After defeating the shogunate, the coalition forces pursued for a day, and by nightfall, the coalition forces had beheaded tens of thousands of people and captured more than 20,000 prisoners. According to Huang Shidi's instructions, Mori Shinyoshi then showed the demeanor of a true statesman, not only giving tens of thousands of captives a full meal, but also unconditionally freeing them.

The Choshu Domain's final proposal was even more surprising to the Shogunate, as they had never had such reasonable, well-founded, and restrained conditions in the history of Japan, especially in the context of such an unprecedented fiasco, in order to prevent the Choshu Domain from repenting, the Tokugawa Shogunate was eager to send an envoy to sign a new treaty with the Choshu Domain, and peace was restored to Japan.

After the Panshi Battalion arrived in Fujian, the three field battalions under the jurisdiction of Funing Town, namely Firefighting, Panshi, and Xuanfeng, had a total of 9,000 officers and men, with a total shortage of 6,000 men. By the end of April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huangshi's 8,000 recruits had completed their basic training, and he immediately replenished all the three field battalions to full strength, and also selected some seed officers and soldiers from the three old field battalions, and put them in the Tianyi Battalion with the remaining recruits.

By the first day of the fifth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there were 15,000 officers and men in the three battalions of Funing Town, including firefighting, Panshi, and Xuanfeng, 24 infantry teams, and three artillery teams, horse teams, engineer teams, and baggage teams. The twenty-four infantry consisted of 6,000 pikemen, 3,600 musketeers, and Yellowstone had 3,000 pieces of new armor and 2,200 pieces of remaining old iron scale armor. With the addition of 3,600 pieces of leather armor, the armor of the infantry unit was basically gathered.

Needless to say, the baggage team definitely has no armor, and the armor of the artillery team has been completely canceled, and now the artillery no longer needs to go up and fight hard. The sappers issued a batch of leather armor. As for the horse team, Huangshi once again deducted all their iron armor, and only issued leather armor to replenish the number.

He Dingyuan ran over and complained fiercely, but Huang Shi really ran out of goods in his hands. In order to make up the iron armor for the infantry, he also took back the iron armor of the internal guard. Besides, in the Funing military system, the main job of the horse team is to reconnoiter and pursue, and there is a good reason why Huangshi does not give iron armor, and He Dingyuan finally had to accept the reality.

Before He Dingyuan left, Huang Shi comforted him and said, "Brother He, don't worry, wait for two months for the infantry armor to be almost complete, and then I will start producing cuirasses." That is to equip the cavalry. ”

He Dingyuan, who had already stepped out of the tent door with one leg, took his leg back again when he heard this: "Marshal, I have heard you say this for several years, but every time there is a shortage of materials, you don't want to deduct it from the horse team, the infantry has no armor and the marshal takes it from the horse team, the artillery does not have horses and also takes it from the horse team, and the internal guard team simply takes people from the horse team." ”

Huang Shi said with a smile: "This is not Brother He's ability to train soldiers, and he is eight thousand elite soldiers when he trains." Natural materials are a bit out of place. ”

"No, Dashuai, you are leaning on a certain body again," He Dingyuan categorically denied this statement, and he retorted loudly: "Every time you say that you should train more cavalry, Dashuai, you always say that you have no money, but every time you have some money." You're going to expand your infantry, artillery, engineers, and even baggage, and the cavalry is always cutting and cutting, and there's no hope at all. When you arrived in Fujian this time, you expanded the number of 8,000 infantry in one go, and if you still say that you have no money, you will categorically disbelieve it. ”

"Eight thousand infantry sounds like a lot for ten paces on a horse, but if you raise horses, this money is enough to raise a thousand cavalry. Let's go to the southwest mountains. A thousand cavalry is obviously not as good as an eight-thousand-foot cavalry. ”

"No matter where you go, a thousand cavalry can't beat your eight thousand infantry. But that's not a reason not to form a horse team!" He Dingyuan shouted louder and louder, and the green tendons on his neck were already stretched.

"I know, I know. Huang Shi was not angry at all, he saw that He Dingyuan's resentment had reached a certain level, so he decided to reveal a secret to him: "Okay, in fact, I have already bought a batch of good horses, definitely good horses that you have never seen." ”

"What good horse?"

"Brother He, how much does the best horse you ever ride weigh?"

"Well, more than five hundred and fifty catties, less than six white catties, that was when I was in my hometown in Shaanxi. Liaodong is a four-hundred-pound pony, but it is not as good as our horses in Shaanxi. ”

Mongolian horses are generally more than 200 kilograms, and it is very hard to carry a person. Huangshi's mount horse is selected, and it is only more than 500 catties. He weighed one hundred and eighty pounds himself, plus dozens of pounds of armor and weapons, and the horse had no strength left to wear any horse armor.

"Yes, Shaanxi's Hetao horses are indeed famous all over the world, but that kind of big horses are rare, right?"

"It's rare, and horses of more than 400 pounds are the most common. ”

Huang Shi nodded, stretched out a finger and shook it at He Dingyuan: "Brother He, after I came to Xiapu, I ordered a batch of stallions with Hongyi, and these horses are more than 1,200 catties." ”

He Dingyuan was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "Barbarians will talk nonsense, where is there such a big horse, I have never heard of it." ”

"That is to say, if I really buy it, Brother He, you will not either?"

He Dingyuan looked at Huang Shi suspiciously, and the latter leisurely raised his teacup and began to drink tea: "Why not? But I have heard that a horse of more than 600 catties is already worth more than 1,000 taels of silver, and if there is a horse of 1,000 catties, it is not necessary to ask for 10,000 taels of silver." ”

"Hongyi sells cheaper than this, I fixed a place with the Jesuits last year, and they went to help me find ten stallions and twenty mares, and after transporting them here for a month, they must pay 1,200 catties, and I paid them a total of 200,000 taels of silver. "Huang Shiyan clearly wants a stallion, and after he comes, he will also use it for breeding.

He Dingyuan calculated in his heart that a horse of 1,200 catties might be loaded with 70 or 80 catties of heavy vest in addition to carrying people. This really made him overjoyed: "My lord, when will the horse arrive?"

"I guess it will be shipped this year. ”

Huang Shi's words made He Dingyuan dumbfounded, and he muttered, "But it's only April now." ”

"Yes," Huang Shi admitted without blushing or beating his heart, "When this batch of horses arrives, we will start breeding, and then when the ponies grow up, Brother He, you can form a strong horse team." ”

......

On the third day of the fifth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Xiapu

Huang Shi used the silver coins in his inventory to pay for this month's military salary, and there was still 10,000 taels to spare. Juntun has gained a lot. The harvest of the military town is enough to ensure the hundreds of thousands of mouths in the military town. At the end of last month, Huangshi ordered Liu Qingyang to pay 200,000 taels of silver this month, and the money arrived yesterday. Yellowstone looked at it and attached the report. Because Huangshi kept pumping a large amount of silver taels, Liu Qingyang had not yet made up the shortfall.

"Don't worry, there are more than two years. ”

Huangshi is very open, in the past four months, 350,000 taels of silver have been smashed, and a Funing army with nearly 20,000 people has been smashed out by him. In addition to the 17,000 troops of the four field battalions, Funing Town also has a 700-member internal guard force, a 200-member teaching team, a 1,500-member ambulance team, a baggage unit directly under the town's direct jurisdiction, and a staff department, a military intelligence department, a logistics department, and a military justice department with varying numbers under the direct jurisdiction of the town.

If you count the 8,000-strong Military Industry Division, the core organization of Funing Town is close to 30,000. A month's salary was more than 40,000 taels of silver. Coupled with the expenses of training and canteens, the maintenance fee of Funing Town has exceeded the 70,000 mark. Fortunately, the military households in the military town are not only self-sufficient, but also can help Huangshi share some of the burden, and it is also a potential replenishment of soldiers.

"When I get richer, sooner or later, I will have to let all the military men in Funing Town undergo basic military training, otherwise what is it called?"

After receiving a huge sum of 200,000 taels of silver, Huangshi immediately announced that he was going to set off for the southwest: "This time, our Funing Army will mobilize all 15,000 officers and soldiers of the three battalions of Firefighting, Panshi, and Xuanfeng, as well as 500 internal guards, 1,000 ground ambulance teams, and baggage teams directly under the jurisdiction of the town. In addition, the General Staff Department, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Military Judge Advocate General's Department also sent personnel to accompany them, totaling 18,800 officers and men. ”

The audience below is all in high spirits. The scale of this dispatch is really unprecedentedly grand, and all the generals in Funing Town are full of ups and downs and excitement.

"Conferring the title of General Zhao Slow Xiong, General Zhao will be in charge of the military affairs of the old camp in Xiapu when I am not there. After I left, General Zhao could recruit another 2,000 recruits from the military household for training, and at the same time prepare the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Tianyi Battalion. Always ready to fill the gaps in the three battalions ahead. ”

"Obey the order, the last general will definitely do his duty and live up to the trust of the commander. ”

"Okay, this time I went to the southwest to supervise the military affairs of the four provinces, and it was difficult to separate, so I have reported to the governor of Fujian and the military department, asking them to grant General Yu the title of chief military officer of Fujian. However, General Yu's residence will still be in Xiamen, and he will not interfere here in Xiapu. Don't be rude. ”

"The Admiral knows. Please rest assured. ”

"Okay, here's the military arrangement. The fire battalion will depart before the 10th of this month, and the commander will set off with the fire battalion; The Panshi Battalion set off on the 15th, and the Guerrilla He was in charge of leading the team; The Xuanfeng battalion set out on the 20th, and Jia Guerrilla was in charge of leading the team. ”

"Yes. ”

The guards and sappers were the first to set out, and they were responsible for surveying the roads and terrain in order to help the large troops behind them march. The main job of the internal guard was to direct traffic, while the sappers were responsible for sketching the roads and estimating the speed of passage of large forces. The engineer team of the firefighting battalion was also specially transferred and handed over to Ouyang Xin's command, and they would go to Guangzhou by boat with hundreds of officers and soldiers of the internal guard, and follow the predetermined march path of the large army in advance to carry out advanced reconnaissance.

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On the seventh day of the fifth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Liaodong,

After four months of fierce fighting and heavy damage to the Dongjiang Army, Huang Taiji looked around and saw that the strategic encirclement network that had been tightly tied to Houjin's neck was on the verge of collapse. He then reversed his previous humble posture and asked the envoy to send a letter to Yuan Chonghuan, in which Huang Taiji ridiculed Yuan Chonghuan's behavior in the past four months of peace talks, and even more openly provoked:

“...... It can fortify several cities, and all its cities and fields. If I don't stop fighting, then I will be blessed by God, and I will be sent to Beijing by Emperor Ming, and the Ming Emperor will flee to Nanjing, how will his name be ?......?"

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the vanguard of the Houjin army arrived at the Liao River, the eighth day of the first month. The Houjin army crossed the Liao River in one day and set foot in the land of western Liao.

After receiving Yuan Chonghuan's recital. In the end, the Ming court issued an order to praise him, and at the same time ordered him to strengthen his guard and prepare to defend against a possible attack by the Houjin army. But nearly a month after receiving Mao Wenlong's alarm, the generals, troops, military households, and ordinary businessmen in western Liaoxi still have not received any alarm.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Yuan Chonghuan's words of "Jintang Yigu" were still in his ears, and Mang Gurtai led the 200 cavalry of the Houjin vanguard to arrive at the city of Guangning Zhongzuo (Daling River). The generals of the Guanning army defending the city were caught off guard and raised 2,000 Guanning iron cavalry and tens of thousands of merchants and civilians in the city to surrender.

On the ninth day of the fifth month, 200 horsemen of Mang Gurtai arrived at the city of Youtunwei (Xiaolinghe) in Guangning, and 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry in the city asked for surrender, and after obtaining the consent of Mang Gurtai, they peacefully laid down their arms and honestly marched east to Liaoyang with men, women and children in the city.

On the tenth day of the fifth month, Jin Bingfeng arrived in Jinzhou. The guard general Zhao Shujiao was taken aback when he saw the cavalry of the Houjin army suddenly appear outside the city, and hurriedly sent an envoy to ask for surrender, but begged the Houjin army to give him a day of grace, so that he could have time to persuade his subordinates to surrender together, and the Houjin army agreed to continue south bypassing Jinzhou.

In the afternoon of the same day, a probe horse ran towards the Houjin Pioneer Horse Team: "Lord Belle." Matsuyama Matsuyama Mori please surrender. ”

Mang Gurtai tilted his head to look at the spy, and said with some strange feelings, "But I haven't reached the city yet." ”

The tanma hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, and apologized to Mang Gultai: "Lord Belle forgive me, the minions accidentally got too close and were seen by the Matsuyama Ming Army." ”

After being discovered by the defenders of Tashan just now, Houjin Detective rode Niu Lu because of the arrogance cultivated along the way, so he went directly to persuade him to surrender, and as a result, the defenders of Tashan asked them to tell Mang Gurtai that if their lives could be guaranteed, the defenders were willing to surrender in Kaecheng.

"Okay. But before they left, they demolished the city. Save us the hassle. ”

"Yes, the minion is going to give the order. ”

When the Mang Gurtai horse came to the foot of Songshan City. Inside the city, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is supervising the merchants and people of the whole city to work together to turn this city, which cost 500,000 taels of silver and has just been built less than a month ago, into a naked city.

"Alright, that's it for today, tell the guard, start picking up the wall embryo early tomorrow morning. ”

The next day, when Mang Gurtai set out, he instructed the Ming army who were digging the wall: after the demolition of the city was over, they would carry the materials in the city on their backs, and then walk to Liaoyang by themselves.

On May 11, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin army continued to move south, while scattering to expand the search area, and on the same day, tens of thousands of Guanning iron cavalry stationed in Xingshan, Tuanshan, Dading and other places asked the Houjin army to surrender. The orders of the Later Jin army were basically the same, let them destroy the castle that had been repaired or not repaired by themselves, and then carry the things in the city to Liaoyang to gather by themselves.

At this time, the Ming army in the direction of Ningyuan finally got the alarm, and the Guanning iron cavalry stationed in Lianshan, Xiaotuanshan and other forts did not hesitate to abandon their castle and retreated towards Ningyuan in a swarm. After the Jin army did not send a single arrow, it was able to achieve a total of 17 large and small cities, fortresses and post forts outside the Ming army.

By May 13, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after the Battle of Ningyuan, the Ming Dynasty spent 5 million silver and spent 18 months to build 20 large and small fortresses outside the Guanwai, and all of them were abandoned within four days. During this period, the Ming Dynasty sent millions of taels of silver worth of grain, gunpowder, cannons, bows, armor, swords and shields to these fortresses outside the Guanwai, and all of them were given to the Later Jin army in vain.

On the 14th of May, Zilharang had already led reinforcements to catch up with the vanguard of Mang Gurtai: "The road is really difficult to walk, and it is densely packed with people. ”

"Alas, it's been quite a bit of a run. Mang Gurtai sighed repeatedly. Since the day before yesterday, the beacon fires in western Liaoning have been lit one after another, and hundreds of thousands of people, merchants, and military households between Jinzhou and Ningyuan have fled south, which has made Mang Gurtai catch many people.

"Three Baylors are really greedy. Zilharang laughed.

Mang Gurtai looked at the people who were following Jilharang, and frowned, "Why did you bring so many people?"

Behind him, there were only more than a thousand cavalry, and he calmly explained: "The Jinzhou guard general Zhao Shujiao has changed his mind, and he refuses to surrender again. ”

"Oh, what is the Khan going to do with him?"

"Jinzhou Jiancheng is a deep trench, the Khan King attacked it the day before yesterday, but it was very difficult to fight, there were many firearms in the city, and there were cannons. ”

"Haha," Mang Gurtai laughed a few times, and looked back to the north: "This more than 100,000 Ming troops in Liaoxi can be regarded as having a man, it's really not easy." ”

"Haha, but there is more than one, and the defenders of Dafu Fort also refuse to surrender. ”

"Well, that's two. How's the battle going at Fort Dafu?"

"The king of Khan also sent someone to beat him, but it didn't seem to be able to beat him. ”

"Now there are so many things that I can't move, and if I can't beat them, I won't fight them well. "Mang Gurtai has been in a very happy mood again these days. Since Huangshi left, this day has suddenly become better again: "The last time I entered Liaoxi, it was like entering a no-man's land, and this time it was like this at the beginning, do you think Ning Yuan will surrender?"

"Haha, let's go check it out. ”

"Good. ”

Zilharang was in a good mood, and this trip to western Liaoning would look very wonderful: "Sanbeile, our two blue flags have fought in Liaodong for so many years, although Mao Wenlong and Chen Jisheng's soldiers are not clothed, and they are called castles when they build a wooden fence and shed, at most they will paint a little mud on it, but we have never won so easily." This road in western Liaoxi is full of strong walls, and I have also seen the equipment of the Guanning army, which can really be called a strong soldier, how can it be so vulnerable?"

"Hmph, what do Mao Wenlong's soldiers have besides one life? And these guys in Liaoxi are all well-fed, so they are reluctant to die?"

"Even if they are reluctant to die, why don't they try to fight a fight? Besides, Liaoxi is completely defenseless. ”

"Alas, Mao Wenlong is holding back all day and night to fight back to Liaodong, and his subordinates naturally take this as their ambition, he has a deep hatred for us like the sea, and naturally he has to open his eyes when he sleeps; Yuan Chonghuan thinks about peace talks all day long, naturally he doesn't even do the most basic vigilance, with such a rat in charge, this Guan Ning army can't learn to fight even if it is 10,000 years. After Mang Gurtai finished speaking, a melancholy suddenly appeared on his face:

"Those guys who eat more than Liaoxi and fight harder than Liaodong...... It's really scary, you're always in Liaodong, and you haven't seen those brutes yet. ”

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Hearing the sound of drums coming from far and near, the sappers and internal guards on the hill all put down their work, and together they turned in the direction of the official road. The officer on the horse looked solemn, straightened his helmet carefully, and then slowly raised his hand to his ear, and saluted the army as he walked along with the other locals.

Golden sunlight poured from the zenith to the ground, and the official road was soon filled with the glittering sheen of helmets and weapons, forming a river of metal. Above this silver river, countless white feathers pointed straight at the sky like sharp swords, and the dense blades of spears between them swayed rhythmically.

The sound of rumbling footsteps shook the ground, and the cheerful drums fluttered around the procession like a nimble bird, along with the fiery red pit viper flag. The internal guards and sappers on the mountain puffed up their chests and maintained a saluting posture motionlessly, just like statues erected on the mountain.

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