Although there are many criminals in the border army, the Liao people still account for the majority, and as for the Dongjiang army, they are more children of Liaodong, and they empathize with the helplessness of the villagers.

Although several generals under his command had their own ideas, since Huangshi's decision was widely supported by the soldiers, they also understood it from the aspect of their own approval. Huang Shi now felt more and more that he was a bit of a "king and eight spirits", the soldiers and generals were becoming more and more respectful, and his subordinates no longer dared to question their orders...... I just don't know if the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Maybe Fuzhou didn't know about it, but Huangshi's name spread quickly in the neighborhood, and many nearby villages secretly sent some food and supplies, and some Liaomin who were strong and strong ran to the south and north to express their intention to join the fire battalion patrol.

In this way, 66 Continuation Huangshi also collected nearly 200 Liao people, and they were all young and strong. Li Yunrui also reported to Huangshi, and the intelligence work also became smooth, and many villagers secretly communicated with the Dongjiang Army. After some discussion with Li Yunrui, Huangshi strictly forbade any form of terrorism, and the underground workers could not take the initiative to sneak attack Houjin's patrol - otherwise Huangshi was worried that it would help improve Houjin's intelligence work, and it would also make Houjin aware of the underground forces on Changsheng Island.

Another problem arose, that is, the head of the Huang family was now expanding rapidly, and a month later, a new family member was named Huang Sanliu. Contrary to modern people's opinions, these families who are not related by blood or marriage are taken for granted by Changsheng Island, and they are part of the Huang family......

"This sea ban is really vicious. Huang Shi inspected the territory again, and couldn't help but complain to Hong Antong beside him.

Since September, Huangshi has been looking for an opportunity to sneak attack the Houjin Patrol, but in the face of the sea ban, Huangshi has always been very untimely in obtaining information. Moreover, after the sneak attack, the Jin troops had to go deep into 6 places, which also greatly increased the danger of attacking, after all, Huangshi did not have a few horses.

The last is to collect people and materials, it is said that some of the strong men who defected to him were caught by Houjin halfway, and every time they find a village, they have to walk more than ten or twenty miles, so it is also very difficult to rob the Houjin grain collection team, and they can't do it all in one net, and they don't have time to escape back to the sea if they don't catch it all.

"Didn't your lord talk about the method of cracking it in front of Lord Zhang Pan?" Hong Antong asked puzzledly, and behind him were twenty Huang family members.

They didn't want Huangshi's family members to be their subordinates, and it was not easy to manage, so Huangshi had no choice but to form a family team. He knocked out all the redundant soldiers to be the boss, leaving only Zhang Zaidi and Hong Antong to manage his family team, and those family members privately called the two people Steward Hong and Steward Zhang.

Huang Shi smiled: "It's not cracking, it's saying that the sea ban is stupid." ”

"Then why did the lord say that the ban on the sea was vicious. Hong Antong was even more puzzled.

"Strategically stupid, tactically vicious. Yellowstone was asked a little in a hurry.

"Strategy, tactics?" Hong Antong is a little bit of a spirit of breaking the sand pot and asking to the end.

"Yes, I'll find an opportunity to tell you about it later, but you don't understand it yet. "As a pro-soldier, Hong Antong is of course Huangshi's confidant, whether it is himself or other immortal officers and soldiers, they all think that he will be Huangshi's future officers and generals. Hong Antong himself was also very conscious of working hard in one direction, seizing an opportunity to learn the knowledge of army management from Huangshi. However, Huang Shi felt that the innovation of tactics was more urgent, and it was more useful to instill some tactical knowledge into Hong Antong first.

While Huangshi was suffering from lack of equipment, the counteroffensive of the Ming army in Liaodong that began in July was still unfolding, and the offensive continued to spread to the interior of Liaodi.

In October of the second year of the Apocalypse, Dongjiang Zhangpan swore to Lushun, and the Lushun Dongjiang Army absorbed a large number of defeated troops and equipment, which was already a force in the hands of Mao Wenlong, so Mao Wenlong had high hopes for the Lushun Army.

Zhang Pan also lived up to Mao Wenlong's expectations, easily defeated the Houjin garrison near Nanguan and Jinzhou, and immediately conquered Yongning Fort in southern Liaoning.

Encouraged by this, at the end of October, Mao Wenlong slaughtered cattle and sacrificed flags in the Dongjiang River, preparing to go out in person, targeting the Hengjiang and Kuandian areas that he was most familiar with.

After Mao Wenlong's last surprise attack on Zhenjiang, he tried to break through the dangerous mountain fort and enter the Kuandian area, and this time he repeated his old tricks, while stepping up the purchase of local Han troops, and at the same time contacting local forces that had been in contact before.

At the same time, Hou Jin also began to react, and at the same time that Mao Wenlong sent troops to Shuozhou, Hou Jin Zhenglan, Zhengbai and Mosaic Red Banner gathered south, and the defenders of Fuzhou also sent troops to respond, trying to besiege Zhangpan's Lushun army.

In the face of a strong enemy, Zhang Pan had to give up Yongning Fort and move the nearby people back to Lushun, and the Jin army pursued it all the way to Nanguan, Zhang Pan blocked it layer by layer, and finally safely withdrew the army and civilians to Lushun.

Mao Wenlong, who did not know the war in southern Liaoning, was still going north at this time, and after arriving in Shuozhou, Mao Wenlong gathered five battalions and 7,000 soldiers, numbering 30,000, and pointed his troops to the Hengjiang and Kuandian areas, intending to attack Jianzhou directly.

The main force of the Dongjiang Army easily swept Changdian Fort, Yongdian Fort, and Dadian Fort, and then conquered Xindian Fort and Sanyang Fort through the Kuandian area. When the Ming army in Liaodong tried to uproot Gushan Fort and attack Jianzhou, thousands of later Jin reinforcements rushed to Guò Lianshan to Caohe Fort.

Caohe Fort is located thirty miles west of Sanyang Fort, so that the Ming army in order to defend the retreat and the grain road can not turn around to accept the battle, the Jin army and the Ming army in the Jiumaji Fort and Sanyang Fort to start a field battle, after three days of fierce fighting, they all withdrew at the same time, both sides declared themselves to have achieved a heavy victory afterwards.

The Ming army's offensive in the second year of the Apocalypse was basically over, but when Dongjiangtang reported to Changsheng Island, the Ming army on the whole island was suddenly boiling. Although the Ming army knew that its army was eventually forced to retreat, this was the first time since the Battle of Salhu that the Ming army retreated with a total division of more than 10,000 people in a field battle with no victory.

Although the Ming army of Liaodong had retreated into the Kuandian area, the Later Jin army also retreated to Caohebao, which meant that the Later Jin also suffered considerable losses. However, since Huang Shi knew that the Houjin Army would be invincible for a long time, his excitement was actually very limited.

The other officers of Dongjiang did not have this kind of awareness, and the whole Ming army in Liaodong was filled with a huge sense of achievement, and even Mao Wenlong himself began to be hot-headed, and the Dongjiang army's recovery of the Kuandian area and 10,000 households made him a little fluttering.

Mao Wenlong wrote a post-war recital to the imperial court, saying:

"The recovery of the whole Liao, one year can be expected. ”

......

He Baodao once again asked to attack Fuzhou and do a big deal. But Huangshi was not optimistic, and he believed that there was a big luck factor in the draw of this battle.

"I'm not cowardly......"

Huangshi led the generals on an expedition to Liaodong, so He Baodao never doubted Huangshi's martial bravery.

"I'm just going to wait a few more days. ”

He Baodao sighed and said no more.

After September of the second year of the Apocalypse, after repelling Mao Wenlong's main force to Kuandian, Houjin launched a winter offensive.

After tens of thousands, the Jin cavalry began to gradually sweep the Ming army in Liaodong, and Changcheng was the brunt of it. The Changcheng garrison was originally the Guangning Army Guangning Zuotun garrison, and now seeing the Houjin army menacing, he ordered the Ming army to cover the people's retreat to Yizhou, and led his own troops to break off.

After Mao Wenlong inquired about the defeated soldiers, Dongjiangtang reported to the Changcheng garrison who died in the battle to ask for credit, although the people successfully evacuated, but the Changcheng garrison suffered dozens of wounds, and the intestines were dragged to the ground, bleeding to death. Therefore, Mao Wenlong posthumously recognized the guard general Shang Xueli as the Dongjiang garrison, and asked his eldest son to adopt the orphans left by Shang Shou - the righteous and happy brothers.

......

After a few months, Changsheng boiled tens of thousands of catties of salt, and also beat five bear skins and dozens of deer skins, which can probably be exchanged for more than a thousand taels of silver.

This job Huang Shi decided to hand over to Zhang Zaidi: "Little brother, you go to Zhili, don't be too careful, sell goods for the first time, just be familiar with your face." ”

"Yes, don't worry, big brother. Zhang Zaidi seemed full of confidence, which made Huang Shi more and more uneasy, for fear that he would suffer a loss when he bought pig iron and cloth. But at the moment, there is no one on the island, so it seems that he has to ask Jin Qiude to accompany him.

"I have a mission for you, a secret mission. Huang Shi's words made Zhang Zaidi and Jin Qiude's eyes light up.

"Let someone else bring the goods back, and you take fifty taels of silver to Beijing, and I will give you a special official letter, nominally to buy rice. As he spoke, Huang Shi pulled out a piece of paper with some religious motifs drawn on it.

"What is this?" Zhang Zaidi was fascinated by the strange crosses and crooked icons.

"There are some Taixi monks in Beijing, and this is the god they believe in. Huang Shi gave a lot of religious knowledge, and Jin Qiude occasionally asked a question or two, and Zhang Zaidi listened to it with relish.

"I told them that I had been inspired by God...... Heaven and earth, princess of heaven...... Therefore, I hope to promote this faith in my military. ”

Huang Shi carefully explained to the two of them, he didn't want a pious Western monk, and he didn't want to believe in any Western religion, but these Westerners had a lot of unique military knowledge.

"Take the money and buy some crosses, come back with some scriptures, and then say that you want to get some military help. I'm not in a hurry, I don't need to ask all at once, I'll leave you a few questions, you can take them to Monk Taixi, and tell them that I might send someone to ask for advice next year. ”

Yellowstone's problems were mainly focused on infantry platoons and training, and from this era onwards, infantry tactics in the West had made heavy progress, and the threat of cavalry had become less and less, and it had shifted from the main force of frontal combat to the work of pursuit and reconnaissance.

Whether it was horses, armor, or pistols, the quality of the Manchu heavy cavalry was inferior to that of the West, so Yellowstone was curious to know how the white-haired baboons did it—Yellowstone felt that the white-haired baboon was the equivalent word for the yellow-skinned monkey.

Another issue that Huangshi is very concerned about is the construction of pillboxes, which have begun to appear on the stage of history. Originally, the advent of artillery had made medieval castle tactics a thing of the past, but in the coming decades, the bastions would replace the old castles in large numbers and become more powerful.

The multi-faceted fortress would leave the attackers helpless for more than 100 years, and during the artillery-infested Thirty Years' War in Europe, Western soldiers called the storming of the artillery-equipped fortress "desperate work." Long sieges were once again the dominant means of siege, and it was not until the advent of the more brutal twenty-pounder guns that tactics changed.

Historically, there have been early fortresses near China, and Huangshi remembers that this thing has made the Chinese people even scratch their heads. Needless to say, the Zheng family's recovery of Taiwan, and the tens of thousands of Qing troops in Nebuchu, they could only rely on hunger and disease to break up the defenders - a few hundred old Maozi hooligans.

So Huang Shi also wanted to know what kind of structure the fortress was, and he was determined to use the fortress with the coastal port to teach the Houjin army a good lesson.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin Army completely repelled the Liaodong Ming Army, and the Dongjiang Army basically retreated to the offensive line in July. Mao Wenlong devoted himself to strengthening Yizhou, Lushun and Kuandian.

There were already nearly 2,000 soldiers on Changsheng Island, and with the continuous appearance of ice floes in Beixinkou, Huangshi originally planned to build a stone wall along the coast, but this plan only lasted two days before it failed, and mining stones was not a project that his manpower could afford at all.

The imminent danger suddenly tightened Huangshi's heart: "Build an ice wall!"

(End of Section 10)

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