On the fifth day of the 11th month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Changsheng Island.

Huang Shi was admiring Wu Mu's gift to him, a beautiful long knife, the blade of which was made of steel, and the sides were sandwiched with two pieces of pig iron. The crystal blade surface that was polished to the whole body was like a mirror, and the face that Huang Shi saw on it was even clearer than that of the copper mirror, and the wrought iron that tightly clamped the steel blade was also polished very smooth, and his fingers stroked the blade without feeling any unevenness.

Wu Mu quietly watched Huang Shi play with the knife, and waited patiently until Huang Shi raised his head with a long sigh before speaking: "Is General Huang still satisfied?"

"It's really a treasure knife" Huang Shi can't put down this long knife, in this era, such a knife doesn't know how much manpower and financial resources it takes, so the knife gently swirls in the air, whether it is the weight or the arc of the blade, it is impeccable, it is really a fine product.

"In the letter we wrote last month, Father-in-law Wei heard that General Huang loved knives, and immediately asked people to work day and night to build this knife. Wu Mu drew the pattern of Huangshi's old knife on the map and sent it away, he remembered that Huangshi once complained that the knife was not heavy enough, so the weight of this knife was specially increased by 10%.

The blade slid lightly across the bench, creating a deep notch without a moment's delay, much sharper than the steel knives of later generations. Huang Shi couldn't help but sigh at the power of the imperial power, and the time it took to go back and forth was just a few days, and the skilled craftsman in Da was able to take out a weapon tailored for himself: "Thank you, Grandpa Wei." ”

Wu Mu saluted with a rare humble gesture: "Father-in-law Wei said that he wanted our family to thank General Huang for his old man." ”

Huang Shi hurriedly avoided this salute and then quickly bowed back: "Grandpa Wei's big matter is over?"

"A big win. Wu Mu smiled and told sù Huangshi that the Donglin Party in the middle of the court had been defeated, and this time the Beijing Cha Society drove all the Donglin officials in the court out of the Jingshi Tianqi Tianzi, who had already hesitated to agree to retry the Guangning case, and was even more furious after Wu Mu's secret recital. He overturned all the imperial cases in front of Wei Zhongxian, and scolded Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen for misleading the country. If the two of them don't die, there will be love.

Wei Zhongxian's important place is just an introduction, his target is not Xiong Tingbi, nor Wang Huazhen, but his political opponent Donglin Party. Therefore, Huang Shi felt that it was safe for him to sign the secret fold, Wu Mu's secret note would only be shown to Wei Zhongxian and Tianqi, and the secret note from the hand of an irrelevant eunuch could not be used as interrogation information, and historically, the eunuch's secret fold was basically not retained.

However, Huang Shi still deliberately guarded himself, and he concentrated his firepower inside and scolded Wang Huazhen fiercely, hoping that this would prompt Wei Zhongxian to destroy this file in the future. In case it was seen by Chongzhen. The righteous indignation expressed by himself in the secret music can be regarded as leaving a way out, and at most he belongs to the good people who have been deceived by a few bad elements and taken advantage of them.

"Mr. Sun asked to return to Beijing several times to face the saint" Even in private, Wu Mu still didn't dare to call the emperor's name, but the expression on his face still revealed the pride in his heart: "The saint has issued three holy decrees in a row, asking Mr. Sun to sit in the town and close the door, and there is no need to return to Beijing." ”

Huang Shi once secretly speculated about the psychology of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse, who lost his mother at a young age, never got any fatherly love from his lustful Lao Tzu. Judging by the information of later generations. Huang Shi felt that Apocalypse seemed to be a lonely and autistic child, and expressed excessive dependence on some acquaintances around him. For example, Hongmaru Suozhong Tianqi would ask his adoptive mother Li Xuanzhi to be the empress when his old son was dying—so that his adoptive mother could justifiably be the empress dowager. And when the Donglin Party blasted Li Xuanzhi out of the palace, Tianqi would cry regardless of decency. Later, his attachment to his mother was transferred to the Hakka family, and the apocalypse was obedient to the Hakka family, as the emperor's apocalypse, when facing the Hakka family, he amazingly used "I" as a self-title, and the two eunuchs of Da and Xiao Wei were jealous of the Hakka family, this kind of dirty thing, in order to make the Hakka happy, he was able to run to be the arbiter regardless of his identity.

Similarly, Huang Shi felt that the attachment projection of Apocalypse to his father's love seemed to have fallen on Sun Chengzong. Every time this withdrawn emperor saw Sun Chengzong, he would laugh happily, and he would say with joy: "The heart is open." "At the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, in the life-and-death duel between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, Sun Chengzong asked to return to Beijing to see His Majesty, and Wei Zhongxian was so frightened that his soul flew after hearing about it. His staff also howled out in a dispossessed spirit: "Sun Gebu has returned to Beijing and we are all powders." ”

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian repeatedly used the military situation in Shanhaiguan to urgently persuade Tianqi to issue orders to prevent Sun Chengzong from entering Beijing and bring down Sun Chengzong, and after the eunuchs still tried their best to prevent Sun Chengzong from meeting with the teachers and students of Tianqi. But that's all, unlike the other Donglin Party that has been beaten to death. Wei Zhongxian also realized that Sun Chengzong could gain the unreserved trust of the Apocalypse, and getting the emperor to agree to send Sun Chengzong to prison was an action that Wei Zhongxian never had the courage to try.

Finally, Wu Mu began to say the key point: "Mr. Sun's recital, the saint has seen Mr. Sun's proposal, and he advocates vigorously aiding Changsheng Island", Wu Mu seemed to want to laugh at Sun Chengzong, lifting a stone and hitting himself in the foot, but the eunuchs' fear of Sun Chengzong also affected him, and in the end, Wu Mu still didn't dare to say more nonsense: "General Huang, Gonggong Wei, has said a lot of good things about you, so the saint will allow it." ”

It's so cool! Huang Shi admired in his heart that only a traverser can have a skill, what is the ability? It is called the ability to make Sun Chengzong, the most trusted of the Apocalypse, say good things to the Hakka clan and Wei Zhongxian.

"Gonggong Wei personally sent someone to pick out armor for General Huang," Wu Mu bit the two words armor very hard, but he bit the next few words even harder: "Fifteen hundred!"

Huang Shi was ecstatic: "Thank you Grandpa Wei, thank you Grandpa Wu." ”

Wu Mu waved his hand generously, anyway, it was also Kangjingying's anger, and he didn't spend a penny: "In the middle of this month, I will definitely go to Changsheng Island, and the Wei Guild will send people from the palace to supervise and ensure that there is no drifting, and when I send it out of Beijing, I will add one hundred and fifty corpses to prevent losses on the road, so it will only be more, not less." Don't want General Huang to take care of it, Father-in-law Wei has arranged everything, in short, this matter will be wrapped up in our family, General Huang only needs to send someone to move it to the warehouse. ”

Otherwise, how could it be that the eunuchs won? Not to mention that what people do is beautiful.

After leaving with a thousand thanks, Huang Shi immediately found Yang Zhiyuan: "Count the remaining heavy armor in the warehouse, I remember that there are still 600 bodies, right? The blacksmiths did not need to be armoured, but concentrated on making firearms, spears, and helmets. ”

"That's right. Huang Shi drank Yang Zhiyuan, who was about to be ordered to leave: "You can secretly report good news to He Dingyuan." The iron armor of his cavalry has fallen. ”

The work of replacing the guns of the firefighting camp with shotguns was completed, and the materials worth more than 200,000 taels of silver were nothing to Daming. For the entire Dongjiang Town, it is a year's silver salary, but it is not trivial to concentrate on a small Changsheng Island.

Wei Zhongxian, who was in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, was not confident that this batch of materials for Changsheng Island was not only a reward, but also to avoid the annoyed and angry Huang Shi to turn against him and help the Donglin Party, but just before leaving, Wu Mu still made a final reminder: "General Huang has Wei Gonggong, and it is easy to say what materials are." But Grandpa Wei doesn't like to hear bad news, and our family can't tolerate failure. Whether it is handed over by our family to Grandpa Wei or presented to the Holy Father, it must be good news again and again!"

After several years of bloody fighting, it took Sun Chengzong to persuade him to give 1,000 corpses, and to provide Wei Zhongxian with party cannonballs, he caught 1,500 corpses, and Huangshi couldn't help but sigh that he really went out to be a bitch and sold the fastest money: "Sun Ge, old Wei Gonggong, I won't let you two down." ”

The Dongjiang Army on the Kuandian front was still suppressed by the two blue flags. Compared with the two red flags, the scale of the two blue flags is undoubtedly much larger, and the blue flags have 61 cattle and more than 6,000 soldiers. There are only 52 of the two red flags deployed in southern Liaoning, and Niu Lu has not yet been inlaid with a blue flag, and one flag is large, and now the red flag has been removed.

Jin Qiude, Zhao Slow, Xiong and Huang Shi were discussing this information, Li Yun Ruizhi sat proudly under the three of them, waiting for questions about him, he mixed well under Huang Shi, and the status of the intelligence department was getting higher and higher.

"Mao Shuai's goal is still relatively big. It seems that Jiannu will not have a major attack on southern Liaoning. After Jin Qiude made a judgment, Zhao Slow-bear also nodded in agreement.

To be honest, Huang Shi also couldn't understand the terrain of southern Liaoning, he remembered that in history, Houjin would take advantage of the opportunity to defeat the Dongjiang headquarters in a row, and once again attacked Lushun and Zhang Pan, and was betrayed by the Han army in this battle. If Huang Shi knew the same, Mao Wenlong had already sent a large number of elites to support Lushun. His wishful thinking was originally to wait for the Later Jin army to enter Dalian Bay, and he led the army to knock a stick on the back of their heads while the Later Jin army was under the fortified city.

Now, if you can combine the strength of the two armies of Lushun and Changsheng, Huang Shi thinks that there is no problem in defeating the two red flags with a flanking attack and a sneak attack, as long as he takes the initiative to break the siege for Zhang Pan and has another big victory, the position of the deputy general will be in hand. The problem is that Houjin's military deployment has been completely messed up, and it seems that their minds are all used to deal with Changsheng Island.

"This is the plan for the winter offensive that the last general has drawn up, please take a look at it. Jin Qiude took out three copies, Li Yunrui took the one given to him as usual, and looked at it carefully, and after a while, he would make a judgment on whether the intelligence resources could support military operations.

The main target of this plan was the Beacon Tower on the coast, and the water camp on Changsheng Island would transport 300 people with cannons to dismantle the towers. However, Jin Qiude also believes that the degree of demolition may not be able to catch up with the degree of repair, and the staff believes that the possible countermeasure of Houjindi is "you demolish yours, I will build mine", anyway, there are a large number of idle Liao people in their hands, and they are also idle.

The Houjin army hidden in 6 will pose a threat to the Ming army, but Li Yunrui thinks that this is not terrible. After the Ming army had an absolute advantage in mobility by sea, the Jin army's field troops were estimated to adopt the strategy of guarding and waiting for the rabbit, but the assembly position of thousands of cavalry still could not hide from the ears and eyes of Changsheng Island. On the other hand, this kind of action did not help the Ming army's intelligence network, and the beacon tower on a section of the coast was demolished, and the enemy troops behind it would certainly be more vigilant, and the intelligence officers still could not risk sneaking in.

Yellowstone was not satisfied with this plan: "We still have to try to find a head-to-head battle in the field." ”

At present, the firefighting battalion has been organized, with five infantry teams, one horse team, and one artillery team, and with Sun Chengzong's food aid, the training of the infantry has been basically completed. Changsheng Island also received 2,500 iron armors, which greatly reduced the burden of military production, and all the soldiers were equipped with Mianxian helmets, and several artillery pieces were produced.

Each infantry corps has 400 men, including 10 officers, drummers, and standard-bearers, as well as 240 pikemen and 150 musketeers. The current Torch Fruit Fruit Growers are all meritorious soldiers of the past. And the pikemen fruit is an ordinary veteran. In addition to the door gun, the firecracker also has a stick with a harpoon head and a long dagger - a one-foot-five blade with a handle. After research, the spear forest is still the most useful for the rat warfare under the forest, and this fork and dagger are the most useful.

Of course, the theoretical establishment is the theoretical establishment, and now the proportion of pikemen is still much higher than the theoretical establishment, and by the middle of November of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Changsheng Island already had 1,500 spear blades because it did not need to produce armor. But there were less than four hundred. Huangshi had ordered most of the sharpsmiths to be sharpened for the barrels, which led to the recurrence of the boredom.

The horse team was two hundred soldiers. In addition, 200 auxiliary soldiers were also assigned to mow grass and feed horses, so that the soldiers could have a sufficient rest.

According to the battalion establishment on paper, there should also be a battalion guard with ten horsemen to protect the battalion officers who are one and two officers.

After Huang Shi and Duncan discussed, the artillery team was also composed of 200 men, four three-pounder guns and two six-pounder guns, a total of six gun groups, each group had a team leader, a gun commander, and three gunners. Five porters, two craftsmen, three grooms, coachmen, and five large shieldmen. The Great Shieldmen had no offensive weapons, and their mission was to ensure that the artillery could be loaded and fired in the face of enemy bows and arrows, so that each artillery team had to make eight pikemen to protect it.

Of course, the salary of soldiers will be higher, for example, when eating, multiple fish is one of the benefits, so trouble comes...... Duncan insisted that all the members of the artillery team should be counted as soldiers, but He Dingyuan and others disagreed, not only the horsemen and porters must be counted as auxiliaries, but also the big shield bearers, and they did not think that they were in the category of soldiers.

In any case, with such a field force in hand, Huangshi was inclined to look for an opportunity to engage in a frontal battle.

But Kim quickly retorted: "My lord." The last general thought that this was impossible, and with the equipment and training of our firefighting battalion, of course, we could defeat two or three thousand Jiannu. However, although Jiannu does not know the real combat strength of our fire battalion, our department has a reputation abroad, and Jiannu is a red flag and will never fight with more than 2,000 soldiers of our department. If our troops go deep into the inner 6, we will easily be besieged by two or three flags because of the lack of horses. ”

Zhao Wanxiong was slowly thinking about it, and Huang Shi didn't bother, so he asked Li Yunrui: "What does Governor Li think?"

He also agreed with the views of the Kim guerrillas...... If the adults want to dispatch the whole battalion at once, it will definitely be accompanied by about 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, this is a large army of more than 4,000 people, incompetent, such a large-scale march, my Changsheng Island's meticulous work will definitely not be able to complete the cover, such a strength can not be hidden for more than a day. ”

Huangshi estimated that it would take three days for 4,000 people to get ashore, rest, and complete the rectification, and three or four days later after Liaodong, Houjin's army also drove over. Besides, Huang Shi also asked Yang Zhiyuan, and the 4,000 people who were away could eat up all the cured meat, salted fish and dry food they had in reserve in ten days, and they had to stop all the production on the island.

After listening to Huang Shi's explanation, Chief of Staff Jin Qiude put forward a new view: "The consumption of the army outside is too great, so let's eliminate the Jiannu in front of us first." ”

Jin Qiude is talking about the fortress opposite Nanxinkou, and the Jin army originally built three pillboxes around Changsheng Island in Nanxinkou and Beixinkou. After the Battle of Gaizhou, three more were repaired, and now they have formed a horn trend. The reason why Huangshi has not knocked it out is that they hope that these large fortresses can occupy some resources, and he feels that this is meat in his mouth anyway, and the civil and wooden bunkers are vulnerable in front of the cannons, so he doesn't need to be too anxious to eat them.

Zhao Slowxiong's opinion finally came out, he advocated patience and patience, and it would be easier to wait for the spring ploughing to begin, and then the bannermen of the Jin Banners would go to the ground to cultivate, except for the white armor soldiers, most of the soldiers would also go to work, so that the time left for the action of Changsheng Island would be more sufficient, after all, the scale of this general mobilization could be larger.

"At that time, the mobilization would also be extremely harmful to the production of my Immortal Island. Huang Shi shook his head, and the general mobilization during the busy farming period was a lose-lose approach. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, he planned to dispatch 2,000 manpower to make trouble, and Yang Zhiyuan cried and shouted on his side, this time he mobilized four or five thousand people, and his face may be very bright, but he will also suffer internal injuries.

"I can ask Lord Sun to support some food" Zhao Slowxiong blinked desperately: "There is grain in western Liaoxi, which is much faster than growing it yourself." ”

"Master Sun has given a lot this time, and we have to make some achievements. Huang Shi sighed, now that the military issue is not entirely a military issue, it is also involved in the political factor, and Wei Zhongxian probably won't have too long of patience. Although he didn't know if the Battle of Ningyuan would take place in this plane, Huang Shi knew that if the Liaoxi Explosion War was used, he would not be able to do anything with his current ability.

"The general's decision has been decided, and when Nanxinkou is frozen, our army will kill it and wipe out the Jiannu on the coast in one fell swoop. "It's a bit of a chop, and Wu Mu's brilliant pen can probably deal with it.

In the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, when the north wind blew across the Nanxinkou Strait again, Huangshi ordered the secret mobilization of the fire battalion, and at the same time ordered to stop the routine ice-digging activities, and prepared to cross the sea to attack Zhenghongqi.

"Our family went to look for General Huang just now, and I heard that you came to the beach early in the morning, so I came here. As soon as he heard this sharp voice, Huang Shi didn't need to look back to know who was coming.

Wu Mu walked up to the high ground on the shore and looked at the other side of Nanxinkou, the sea was densely crowded, and there were many Han people who seemed to have been driven over, Wu Mu observed for a while: "What is General Huang Jiannu doing?"

Huang Shi chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Jiannu is digging ice." ”

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