Six years after the Apocalypse, Jin was determined to take the initiative to attack Mongolia in order to relieve the threat from the northwest and obtain manpower replenishment, and if Lin Dan Khan could be repulsed from northern Liao, then the Jin army could easily cross the Liaohe Hetao and threaten Jinzhou from the flank of Liaozhen. In the face of this threat, the countermeasure of the governor of Liaodong was to step up the construction of Jinzhou City, and 70,000 iron cavalry of the 35 field battalions of the Guanning Army went into battle together, and together with the 100,000 military households in Liaozhen, they carried bricks, stones, and earthwork in black and white.

The Dongjiang Army, which was responsible for containment, went out of Yizhou, North Korea, and Mao Wenlong led his more than 100,000 "male soldiers" to counterattack Liaodong, known as 500,000 troops, all the way like a bamboo, and the Jin Han Army fled after hearing the wind. The two blue flags of the Ming army, such as Lianke Dangerous Mountain, Phoenix City, Amin and Mang Gurtai, were repelled for more than 400 miles in one breath, and it was not until May 3, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after the Ming army broke through Qingtai Yubao, the two blue flags reluctantly took advantage of the danger of Lianshan to stabilize the front.

After two days of tentative attack, the Ming army felt that the nearest route to the north to take Liaoyang was no longer passable, and Mao Wenlong did not dare to delay time, so he ordered the main force of Dongjiang to stay and confront Amin, and he led the Dongjiang headquarters to turn around and march westward, forcibly breaking into the Liaozhong Plain. After entering the plain area, the Dongjiang army marched all the way to the west, and it seemed that there was nothing to resist them, and 200 miles away from them was Haizhou, an important military town that the Houjin had painstakingly operated for many years.

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May 7th of the sixth year of the Apocalypse

At this time, a lot of vertical and horizontal trenches suddenly appeared on the ground in the south of Haizhou City, and at first Haizhou City also fired a lot of cannons at these trenches, but there was no harvest in two days, so the cannon sound on the city gradually fell silent.

Further south of these trenches was a continuous Ming army camp. Fiercely, the snake flag fluttered high in the sky above the camp, and above a large camp in the middle, in addition to the snake flag, there was also a large lieutenant flag with the word "yellow" fluttering high.

In the camp, Huang Shizheng discussed the military situation with Jin Qiude, Ouyang Xin, and Li Yunrui, and in order to fight against the ferocious artillery in Haizhou, Changsheng Island decided to use trench approaching tactics, and now it is the newly expanded engineer team that is digging the trench. Changsheng Island's new sapper shovels and sapper shovels have been tested by Ouyang Xin and other tomb robbers, and now they are the standard equipment of the sapper team, and the excavation degree has been improved a lot. It looks like there's a lot of potential for further improvement.

Since he moved back from Juehua with 350,000 taels of silver, Huangshi has the spare strength to further strengthen his field camp. Taking the fire battalion as an example, in addition to the horse corps being reduced to 200 men, the infantry corps under its jurisdiction has been expanded to six, and the engineer corps of 400 men and the baggage corps of 800 men have been added.

At present, the firefighting battalion has only counted these nine teams, and the whole battalion already has 3,800 officers and men, and Huangshi treats these soldiers equally, and the full names of the engineer team and the baggage team are also called the combat engineer team and the combat baggage team. If actual combat can justify the establishment of the fire battalion. Huang Shi plans to transform the Panshi Battalion and the Xuanfeng Battalion into this way in the future, but now he can only come step by step, and the existing engineer team of the Panshi Battalion is only more than 100 people, which is far from being compared with the firefighting battalion.

There was still a Yaozhou between Gaizhou and Haizhou, and this time after hearing that the main force of the Houjin army was dispatched, Huangshi originally planned to capture Yaozhou first and then attack Haizhou. But to his surprise, the Houjin army was also equipped with cannons for Yaozhou, and after careful consideration, it was decided to let Xuanfeng Battalion and Zhang Pan's troops stay to surround Yaozhou, while he led the two battalions of firefighting and Panshi to the city of Haizhou.

Huang Shi remembered that in history, Zhang Pan seemed to have died in this battle. In that time and space, when the Houjin army faced the large-scale attack of the Dongjiang Army, it also chose to shrink to Haizhou for defense. Zhang Pan took the lead in boosting morale, and contributed his life to conquer Haizhou, although Huangshi was not superstitious, but he was unwilling to come to Haizhou to fight.

And. Huangshi also did need someone to stay behind to monitor the Houjin army in Yaozhou and defend its own supply lines along the way. Huangshi hoped that the defenders of Yaozhou would take the initiative to retreat after the loss of Haizhou, because if every castle had to be surrounded one by one, the pressure on Huangshi's military rations and economy would be too great.

Although Yellowstone has recently made a lot of money, he still does not want to get caught up in a war of economic attrition. After all, if there is no Liaoxi support. The war-torn region of southern Liaoning is still not comparable to the Liaozhong Plain. Now that the Dongjiang Army in southern Liaoning has basically escaped from the category of refugees, this kind of army has been exposed to the outside world for a few months, and the consumption is enough to eat up Huangshi's savings for many years.

Huangshi has always felt that the greatest significance of his appearance is to make the Dongjiang Army suffer less losses and inflict greater losses on the Later Jin Army. Now, in the face of the artillery artillery that the Houjin Army put into actual combat in advance, Huangshi was reluctant to adopt the brutal assault usually adopted by the Dongjiang Army in history. He tried to weaken the cannon with earthwork, and then used to dig into the ground to break the city.

Ouyang Xin was not an officer of the engineer team of the fire battalion. However, this was the first large-scale attack on Jiancheng on Changsheng Island, so he was temporarily transferred by Huangshi to be in charge of earth and rock operations, and also helped the teaching team collect and analyze data. Today, Ouyang Xin made another comprehensive report on the progress of the engineers, generally speaking, it is comparable to the expected progress of the General Staff, and after several years of running-in, the cooperation between the General Staff and other departments has become more and more comfortable.

"Good. Yellowstone commented briefly. Ouyang Xin took the officers of the engineering team of the fire battalion and the rock battalion to pick up the helmets from the table one after another, put them on, saluted Huangshi, and retreated.

Ouyang Xin and the officers of the Engineer Corps of the Panshi Battalion were not qualified to take the White Feather Fire Fighting Battalion and the Pioneer Battalion

After returning, the people of the Rock Camp and the teaching team also quarreled with Huangshi twice because of this. Later, they attached a five-inch-long stick to their helmet, and lifted the red tassel high on the top of the stick, so that they could be considered to have some mental balance.

A white feather and two long red tassels grazed the top of the tent. A new rule was added to Changsheng Island just a month ago: you must take off your hat when you stay in the house for a long time. Just like another regulation set by Huangshi before, "You are not allowed to wear a medal to take a bath", without this regulation, Huangshi used to put the white feather on his head when he watched the officers and soldiers of the fire battalion when he wanted to sleep.

After Ouyang Xin and the others left, there were only senior officers such as Huang Shi, Jin Qiude and Li Yunrui left in the house, and now Jin Qiude and the others are still guerrillas, because Huang Shi has the right to seize the size of Changsheng Island. He simply could not come up with, and was not willing to appoint, such a dispatch officer as a general. Every time Huang Shi went out, he gave Zhao Slow Xiong a rank and asked him to temporarily take charge of Changsheng, Zhong, and Xidao, but as soon as Huang Shi stepped into the old camp of Changsheng Island, he would remove this title, and everyone was used to it.

It's just that since Huangshi's status is now the governor of the right capital, the four King Kongs, Jin Qiude, Zhao Wanxiong, He Dingyuan and Yang Zhiyuan, will always rise. At present, the four of them are all second-class governors, and they all have the position of commander and acquaintance. Their current status is already comparable to that of the Mangui generals before the Battle of Ningyuan, and the positions of Mangui's commanders and the titles of Tongzhi Governor were also conferred after the First Battle of Ningyuan. Li Yunrui is currently still a dispatch of the Military Intelligence Inspector of Changsheng Island, but in terms of official position, he has long been a third-grade official, and he has taken the official rank to Liaoxi, at least he is also a deputy general.

"My lord, it is best for Yaozhou Jiannu to escape, if they don't escape, we don't have to sacrifice the lives of officers and soldiers in order to storm Yaozhou. ”

The person who spoke was none other than Chief of Staff Kim Qiu-deok. Before sending troops, the General Staff of Changsheng Island had made a deduction, and if they couldn't get more military spending, Fuzhou would be the limit of the Dongjiang Town Left Association. Now Huangshi has the support of trade between Japan and Shandong, so this push limit can reach Gaizhou, but it is only there.

Gaizhou, as the top of the hilly region of southern Liaoning, and further north is the Liaozhong Plain, if you want to maintain a large number of troops in the north of Gaizhou, then the Ming army must build a series of grain storage forts along the official road, or mobilize a large number of troops to escort the grain transportation team. The former is a one-time investment of huge sums of money, and the latter is a long-term maintenance of huge military food consumption.

Neither of these two paths can be sustained by the economy of Changsheng Island. The main purpose of the Dongjiang Left Association to deploy a standing army of only 100 people in Gaizhou was to save money, and since Huangshi confirmed that he could not get help from the Liaodong Prefecture, he had been struggling with how to attack the Liaozhong Plain.

Huang Shi knew that Mao Wenlong was poorer than himself, so he must have the idea of grabbing a handful and leaving this time. It was the same as Nurhachi's purpose in attacking Liaoxi. Dongjiang Town's annual military expenditure is 200,000 taels of silver, and the largest logistics base in North Korea, if there is a long-term confrontation with the Houjin army in Yaozhou or Haizhou, Dongjiang Town will collapse in half a year.

"There are a lot of reserves in Haizhou City, as long as they can break the city. We will definitely make up for the loss and the wealth. Li Yunrui has basically found out the intelligence of Haizhou, and there are not many goods in Yaozhou, but Haizhou has grain, cloth and a lot of weapons, and the total value is estimated to be more than one million taels of silver: "How can adults make a lot of money when they fight Haizhou." If we can't defeat Haizhou, we will lose a lot of money if we send troops this time. ”

"Governor Li is right, no matter what. We always have to try to capture Haizhou, the materials in this city are enough for most of the expenses of Dongjiang Town, and Mao Shuai can follow the official road to Liaoyang to complete the containment offensive. The current Genghis Khan ...... "Huang Shi will habitually shake his head every time he reads this name, wondering if Lin Dan Khan's famous ancestors will be so angry that he will tremble in the grave now: "Although this Genghis Khan is limited in ability, he is still too important to us. ”

The Mongol allies located in northern Liaobei were not only beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and such a person sitting in the position of Genghis Khan also did not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty. For the sake of long-term and immediate strategic interests, Huangshi decided not to think about economic issues for the time being. The expedition to Haizhou really costs money, the army is exposed, and Huangshi can't help but feed the soldiers, otherwise it will be really long.

The soldiers and auxiliaries are all counted, and the Left Association of Dongjiang Town dispatched a total of 30,000 troops this time, just eating the ground and military rations every day is worth a lot of money, and Huangshi now wakes up every day to ask about the progress of the trench, and before going to bed, he prays to God, hoping that Nurhachi will return to the division as soon as possible, and he will return to Changsheng Island. In general, Huang Shi believed that the opportunity to attack Liaoyang was not yet fully ripe, because the siege artillery of Changsheng Island had not yet been built, and he lacked the means to quickly break through the fortified castle.

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On the afternoon of May 9, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Haizhou

Yesterday, the Ming army had dug the trench to the side of the moat, although the defenders in the city transferred the cannons to the trench under their feet, but the losses of the Ming army were very limited in two days, and the Jin army fired countless cannons into the trench successively, but successfully shot into the deep trench with only a dozen cannons. Only two shots were actually hit, and a total of eight casualties were caused

"The aqueducts have been dug and inspected by myself, and the moat will be drained early tomorrow morning. In the camp, Ouyang Xin pointed to the engineering map and told the senior officers about the map that he planned to use on Changsheng Island now

The warp is a contour map, and the map is marked with red handwriting. After completion, you can use ink to draw it, and the map is almost always a solid ink line.

"We can drain the water in three days, or four days, and then we will start digging holes in the foundations, which will take about a day or two, and if the foundations are very strong, it may take three days. Then it's seven days later. We filled the city with gunpowder and began to blast down the walls. The existing numbers in the manual of the Engineer Regulations are all drill numbers, and we have no actual combat experience, so we cannot guarantee a successful success. ”

After the report, Ouyang Xin and the others took a break and waited for further instructions from Huang Shi.

"Well, I know this very well, let's do it, remember to write down the various numbers carefully, and we will use these to improve the manual of the Engineer Regulations. ”

Yellowstone is a canonical paranoid. After the Drill of the Spearmen, the Drills of the Musketeers, the Drills of the Artillery, and the Drills of the Sailors, he also ordered various other drills on the Isle of Eternal Life. From steel-making and iron-making to drilling the barrel and sharpening the blade of the gun, all the technical work was made in Huangshi and became a manual of regulations, and now the sappers are naturally no exception.

"Yes, my lord. ”

Ouyang Xin put on his long red tassel helmet first. Then he stood up and saluted, turned around straightly, and walked out with a shelf...... Well, these actions were all plagiarized by Huangshi according to the memory of military training.

"It's going to be seven days before it's over. After Ouyang Xin left, Huang Shi sighed deeply. Today, a report came from the rear of Gaizhou, and a large number of transport trolleys were scrapped, and it would take another sum of money to repair them. Huang Shi added and subtracted from the pen on the paper: "It will take seven days, which means that it will cost at least 20,000 taels of silver." Alas, come to Haizhou. More than half of our military salaries have gone in this year, and we can't take all the things in Haizhou. Mao Shuai is still counting on them for the New Year. ”

Everyone in Dongjiang Town knows that Mao Wenlong only brings enough grain and grass for the whole journey every time he sends troops. After entering the Houjin territory, Mao Wenlong must enter the stage of returning funds, otherwise everyone will only have to gnaw the bark and go home.

Mao Wenlong's habit leads to his strategic limitations, that is, he is extremely focused on avoiding the real and attacking the false. Except for a few castles with particularly rich materials, Mao Wenlong has always been able to go around, and never stay in the city to eat leisurely. Historically, Mao Wenlong has repeatedly swung thousands of miles to carry out large-scale mobile operations without rear in eastern Liaodong...... Well, a more accurate word would be to flee back to North Korea before Nurhachi's army returns.

Huang Shi had to sigh: Mao Wenlong really deserves to be a fortune teller, and his sense of smell is definitely a genius, and others can't learn it if they want to. If Huangshi had been changed to command, it is estimated that the hundreds of thousands of Dongjiang "male soldiers" would have starved to death in the wilderness without the Houjin army to exterminate them.

Yesterday, Mao Wenlong's top soldiers of the Dongjiang headquarters had already established contact with the Dongjiang Left Association, and Huang Shi knew that Mao Wenlong was now flying towards Haizhou. This time, Mao Wenlong hung his division to attack thousands of miles, and the cost must be very large, if they can't seize enough things, then Mao Wenlong estimates that he should almost go bankrupt.

Huang Shi was unwilling to see the Mao gang leader go bankrupt and jump into the sea, nor was he willing to let the Mao gang leader lead 100,000 "male soldiers" to southern Liaoning to eat poor Changsheng Island, so he would rather give up the captured head to the Mao gang leader.

Speak of the devil.

Just when Huangshi was playing his own small abacus, Hong Antong ran in excitedly: "My lord, I saw Mao Dashuai's banner!"

"How far?"

"It's ten miles east of Haizhou City. ”

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"Mao Dashuai. ”

"Mao Dashuai. ”

"Mao Dashuai. ”

When Mao Wenlong rode his horse to the camp in Huangshi, he was greeted by overwhelming cheers. In the dark years when the imperial court abandoned Liaodong, Mao Wenlong led 200 people and floated 3,000 miles into the sea to counterattack Liaodong, and his feat was like a lightning bolt piercing the night, making his name widely spread in Liaodong......

If Jiannu suddenly fell ill and died, it must have been poisoned by Mao Dashuai;

If the Han army's home was burned, it must have been Mao Dashuai who came to set the ground on fire;

If a neighbor suddenly disappears without a trace, it must be to go to Mao Dashuai.

It was not only the ordinary officers and soldiers of Zuo Xiedi who were excited, but also the internal guards of Huangshi who became extremely excited. Starting from Hong Antong, the entire internal guards of Changsheng Island originally defected to Mao Wenlong, and it was precisely because of Mao Wenlong's existence that these hundreds of thousands of Liao people got the opportunity not to be slaves and not to be slaughtered.

The abnormal reaction of the internal guards first surprised Huangshi for a moment, and then he understood in his heart. At present, there are only 500,000 surviving Han Chinese in the Houjinkong District of Liaodong, and in the past few years, there are 600,000 or 700,000 people who have defected to Mao Wenlong.

"It's really enough to stir up the righteous courage of the heroes of the world. Thinking of this, Huang Shi jumped forward and bowed deeply to Mao Wenlong, a man who saved hundreds of thousands of lives: "The last handsome general Huang Shi is here!"

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