Chapter 088

"Millions of heroes roll up the white flag, and no one in the world goes to Liaoxi!"

This is an anagram in itself, but the problem is that it was widely circulated in the late Ming Dynasty, almost comparable to the "Death Song of the Undirected Liaodong Waves" written by Wang Bo at the end of the Sui Dynasty. It has the same deterrent effect.

After the defeat of Sarhu and the Battle of the Hunhe River, the Sichuan Army and the Zhejiang Army were annihilated, Shenyang fell, and the Daling River was defeated...... After a series of fiascos, the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a civil servant or a military general, regarded Liaoxi as a daunting path.

Of course, Liaoxi is different from southern Liaoning, at least the supply of materials in Liaoxi is sufficient, and the fortress group established during the period of Sun Chengzong is still there, although the attack is insufficient, but the defense is not too problematic.

In fact, until Wu Sangui shaved his hair and surrendered to the Manchus, the Manchus had not broken through the Guanning defense line, and as for Liaonan, except for Sun Yuanhua, he was still deeply concerned about it, and it had long been selectively forgotten by the ministers.

According to the Ming army guarding southern Liaoning, that is, the Dongjiang Army has only more than 4,000 soldiers, and there is a lack of food and clothing, and the equipment is seriously insufficient.

No general has ever proposed to personally lead troops to reinforce southern Liaoning, and if he does this, everyone will definitely think that he is crazy and his brain is caught in the door. Cheng Shijie was good, and as soon as he came up, he said that he would take the initiative to invite Ying, lead his troops to southern Liaoning, and recapture southern Liaoning.

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and gave him a military attache from the first rank of the governor of Zuodu, where is this promotion, it is clearly to give him the honor after his death, maybe he can be promoted to another level, and reward him with an honorary military secretary.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie's distant back, sighed and said, "It's a pity!" The Constitution has lost an important opportunity. ”

Xu Dacheng asked with some puzzlement: "What does Lord Futai mean......"

"Benxian has no more chance!"

In Sun Yuanhua's eyes, Cheng Shijie is already half a dead man buried in the loess at this time, and death is great, as long as Cheng Shijie dies in Liaonan in the future, the court will only reward him, and will definitely not splash him with dirty water.

Xu Dacheng was also speechless at this time.

Sun Yuanhua was still thinking about this, if it weren't for Cheng Shijie's understanding of proportion, knowing how to advance and retreat, and replacing him with an ordinary reckless general, Sun Yuanhua's corpse would have grown hair.

Gao Qiqian is also not optimistic about Cheng Shijie, thinking that Cheng Shijie does not understand military affairs, and he is not important to guns and artillery, and there are only eight Franc machine guns in the whole army, what is the use?

The firebolt can pierce a big tree with a thick bowl mouth, and Jiannu's shield is useless, but what about the crossbow machine? Neither can you shoot through the iron-clad wooden shield, nor can you shoot through heavy armor, unless you are equipped with armor-piercing heavy arrows, where is the fire gun to save trouble?

However, Cheng Shijie did not feel like he was sent to death, on the contrary, he still had strong self-confidence. He saw hope from the Thunderbolt, although the power of this Thunderbolt was not comparable to the machine guns of later generations, but it was barely enough to deal with the cavalry charge of Jiannu.

Southern Liaoning will be Cheng Shijie's new territory, where Cheng Shijie has thought of several ways to restrain the Jiannu cavalry, although in this era, the Jiannu cavalry and hoplites are peerless, and the combat effectiveness is very strong.

However, whether it is cavalry or hoplites, it will be obsolete in later generations. Even if Cheng Shijie has not arrived in Jinzhou City now, Shen Mingyu has already received Cheng Shijie's order to start arranging the defense system of Jinzhou City according to Cheng Shijie's plan.

In fact, the destination of Cheng Shijie's ship is not Jinzhou, but Gaizhou, which is Yingkou City in later generations, and now Gaizhou Wei.

Cheng Shijie, the fourth guard of southern Liaoning, is determined to win, and it is also his new territory, he naturally cannot occupy only one Jinzhou, and let Jiannu burn the war directly to Jinzhouwei, if that is the case, he will have no chance to develop.

His plan was to take advantage of the weak strength of the Jiannu Naval Division, but he had more than 300 warships, and although these warships were uneven, they had an overwhelming advantage. Sailors can maneuver along the Bohai Bay and Dalian Bay in southern Liaoning.

At any time, he launched a division and encirclement war against Jiannu who entered southern Liaoning, and as long as Jiannu dared to come, he would dare to bury it.

Since the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy dismantled the equipment and migrated to southern Liaoning, the Gun Bureau has produced a total of 148 Thunderbolts, in addition to the eighteen under Shen Mingyu's hands, Cheng Shijie now has one hundred and thirty guns in his hands, which can have 3,900 rounds of ammunition at a time.

In addition, the Ning Navy also has a Western-style army trained by Sun Yuanhua, equipped with more than 4,000 firecrackers built by Sun Yuanhua, these firecrackers are different from the firecrackers produced by the Imperial Staff Bureau.

I would rather believe in the knife in my hand, and this batch of firearms created by Sun Yuanhua, Cheng Shijie has used sixty firecrackers to do experiments, with a normal shooting frequency, twenty-five rounds will only turn red, but none of them are blown up, the quality of these firearms is very good.

Even if the thunderbolt and fire gun can't stop the enemy, Cheng Shijie also has his own new toy, a land mine made of black powder, which has never had time to deal with bandits and rebels.

Black powder is not as powerful as TNT, but it is full in quantity, and quantity is used to make up for the lack of quality.

A large warship of the Ning Navy's naval division was densely packed with more than 460 Tuntian soldiers and their families. Due to the large number of people, the narrow space, the dirty air, and the seasickness of some Tuntian soldiers, the smell of this can be imagined.

A woman with her young son in her arms, pale, and almost mad from seasickness, said to her husband, "Daddy! ”

"Hmm!"

"Why can't we stay?"

The man slowly opened his eyes: "If we continue to stay in Ninghai, we will definitely die!" ”

"How is it possible, it is the handsome who offended Lord Futai, and it is not us, no matter who wants to Tuntian, you have to use people, right?"

The man stared at the woman and said, "It's really ...... The land in Ninghai Prefecture has been barren for so many years, who will reclaim it? Do you think anyone can reclaim the land? ”

The woman fell silent.

"The handsome man is gone, no one cares about our life or death, those nobles, everyone has good land, why go to reclaim the waste? Besides, if I go to southern Liaoning and work with Dashuai, I can earn a bucket of grain a day, and you can also earn seven liters, if you don't go to southern Liaoning, you can only starve to death. ”

"But the Jiannu in southern Liaoning, the Jiannu is very fierce!"

The man narrowed his eyes: "This damn world is nothing more than early death and late death!" ”

The woman hugged the child in her arms tightly: "Liaonan said that it was to divide the land for us?" ”

"What do you want to do well, the points are also given to the officers and men of the Ning Navy, and they will not be distributed to the Tuntian Army like us, but as long as we pay 30% of the rent, the rest is ours! Do you want land? ”

"Want to ......"

"However, the handsome don't want me to be old, weak, sick and disabled, if my body is not injured, I will fight for this life, and I will also earn a hundred acres of land for my mother!"

The other cabin was filled with dense Tuntian soldiers, most of whom were reorganized from the rebel captives of Kong Youde's department.

They were not disgusted by the foul air in the cabin, and their eyes still sparkled. Because they have been displaced from place to place, they understand the true meaning of being homeless.

A Shandong man said to the Tuntian Xiaoqi beside him: "Head, I heard that Jiannu is very fierce!" ”

"I'm afraid of a bird, they are also people, they carry a head on their shoulders, they will bleed if they are slashed, and they will die if their heads fall off!"

"You're not afraid!"

"I'm not afraid, I'm afraid that I won't have the face to see my ancestors in the future!"

In the universal values of the Chinese people, being worthy of their ancestors is the principle and the bottom line.

Xiao Qi clenched his only weapon, a Ming army-style saber, and the quality was also very average, after all, the good equipment of the Ning Navy was in the hands of the soldiers, and the Tuntian soldiers were only auxiliary.

With Shen Mingyu occupying Jinzhou City, which had almost become a ruin, this time he sent troops, Cheng Shijie not only took the infantry, cavalry, and artillery units of the Ning Navy, but also brought a large number of accompanying Tuntian troops.

After a bumpy drift on the sea, Cheng Shijie led the fleet to Gaizhou, which was later known as Yingkou Port. Of course, there was no port at this time, and it was not difficult to build a pier for a large wooden ship with a draft of more than one meter or two meters.

Ships could not land directly, but they could reach land by relying on the trestle that stretched out.

Hundreds of Ning Navy soldiers greeted Cheng Shijie and his party on the beach, Chen Guodong was the first to get off the boat, his feet had just stepped on the beach, he faced the harsh sea breeze, stretched out his arms, knelt heavily on the ground, and shouted: "I, Chen Guodong, are back!" Dad, mother, Chen Guodong is back! ”

A soldier from the Ning Navy from the Dongjiang Army also shouted in the direction of southern Liaoning: "I, Du Erniu, am back." I'm not going to run this time......"

"I, Li Dayong, am back."

"I ...... It's back! ”

"I ...... It's back! ”

"I ...... It's back! ”

More and more voices sounded on the surface of the sea, and their shouts even drowned out the waves.

Ma Shilin said to Cheng Shijie: "Congratulations, the military heart is available!" ”

"Very good!"

Cheng Shijie thought of an army in later generations, and they also had a heart to go home, but they couldn't help it. The current soldiers from the Dongjiang Army all had red eyes, and they almost shouted: "I, Hu Hansan, are back again!" ”

"Passing on the commander's order!"

Cheng Shijie picked up the microphone, and Cheng Shijie's voice came out of the speaker.

"Ben Shuai and Jiannu have nothing to say, the Han thieves swear not to stand together, they come from the sea, we will fight at sea, they attack Jinzhou, we will fight in Jinzhou, they attack Lushun, we will beat them hard in Lushun! Wherever they attack, we will kill them and leave no piece of armor behind! There was no compromise, no negotiation, only a bloody battle to the end, until one side was completely subdued and defeated, and the war was over. ”

Almost all the officers and men of the Ning Navy raised their arms and shouted: "Handsome and wise! ”

At this moment, a soldier from the Dongjiang Army reached out and touched his crotch, took out a piece of black silver from the crotch, about two taels, and said: "Dashuai, from today on, I will treat myself as a dead man, I don't want this silver, I can't leave it to Jiannu as a trophy, don't be too little, you can buy more weapons with this bit of silver......"

As he spoke, the soldier threw the silver directly on the ground.

"Dashuai, I won't run anymore!"

A soldier of the Dongjiang Army said with tears in his eyes: "I will fight to the death!" ”

As he spoke, the soldier tore off the corner of his clothes in his arms, revealing two pieces of broken silver, and threw them directly on the ground: "Don't give Jiannu as a trophy!" ”

"Fight to the death!"

"Never back down!"

There was a clanging sound, silver, jewelry, gold, jade, and all kinds of valuable gadgets fell into a pile, and under the infection of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, the local soldiers of the Ning Navy in Shandong also threw the rewards they got on the ground.

"Kill all the slaves!"

"Death does not retreat!"

Ma Shilin, who was standing beside Cheng Shijie, wiped a cold sweat, looked at the Ning Navy soldiers who rushed to the battlefield without hesitation, and then looked at the silver money that was thrown away as garbage, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

A terrible thought appeared in his mind, the disaster of the Ming Dynasty was not far off......

He didn't dare to say it, for fear that Cheng Shijie and the surrounding Ning Navy soldiers would hear it.

Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "You have done a very good job, treat yourself as a dead man, such a warrior can survive on the battlefield, you return triumphantly, the commander will give you five times and ten times the reward, if you die in battle, your parents will be supported by the army, and your children will be raised by the army!" You don't have to think about anything, just grab your weapons and go to the battlefield, and when you meet them, you will crush them, annihilate them, and kill them all! Many of you are destined not to come back alive, but don't worry, follow Ben Shuai and fight Jiannu to the death! We have no choice but to die, and the southern Liaoning under our feet will always belong to us. ”

After a period of silence, the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the soldiers of Tuntian both let out a roar that almost shook the sky: "Fight to the death!" ”

The sound is so loud that it soars into the sky.

……

Forbidden City, the Imperial Study.

Emperor Chongzhen finally saw the portrait he wanted to see the most, Cheng Shijie was indeed the Changshan Zhao Zilong in his heart, Cheng Shijie was willing to go to southern Liaoning, and Emperor Chongzhen was even more excited.

At the same time, he was also very embarrassed, all the other generals of the Ming Dynasty were afraid of southern Liaonan, how far they ran, no one thought about worrying about the king, Cheng Shijie neither wanted food nor equipment, he stepped forward without saying a word, he was really a loyal minister!

Chongzhen was a little embarrassed, such a loyal minister is not easy to find, for such a ghost place in southern Liaoning where rabbits don't poop and birds don't lay eggs, it's not cost-effective to put a loyal general in......

Emperor Chongzhen groaned: "Wang Chengen! ”

"The slave is here!"

"You say, can Cheng Shijie defeat Jiannu in southern Liaoning?"

"This ......"

Wang Chengen thought for a while and said: "This, General Cheng is loyal to the country and wants to worry about the emperor, this intention is good, but it's just ...... The construction of slaves is powerful...... But in case ......"

Emperor Chongzhen is now unavailable, and the only promoted Lu Xiangsheng is still serving as a firefighting team, extinguishing fires everywhere, in desperation, he sent Wang Chengen to Tianjin, starting from Tianjin, from the inner library to Cheng Shijie allocated 86,000 taels of silver, as well as some fire guns and armor, which can be regarded as his best efforts.

……

Jinzhouwei has always been a military town of the Ming Dynasty, and in terms of status, it belongs to the frontier position of Dengzhou. As early as five years of Hongwu, Jinzhou was established. The Acropolis is located in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, in the south-central part of the later Dalian City.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Jiannu captured Shenyang, and then occupied the southern Liaoning region, including Lushun, and Jinzhou and Lushun fell at the same time. In April of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Mao Wenlong led his subordinates Zhang Pan and Zhu Guochang to take advantage of the emptiness of Jiannu's defense, and after fierce battles, occupied Jinzhou and Lushun.

On January 14, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi led 6,000 Jiannu troops to attack Lushun, killed all the Ming army, destroyed the city and retreated, in March, Mao Wendong led the Dongjiang Army back to Lushun, and appointed Zhang Pan, the capital secretary, to stay in Lushun. Mao Wenlong, on the other hand, moved the General Military Office of the Dongjiang Army from Phi Dao to Shuangdao in Lushun. Until Mao Wenlong was killed, Lushun was in the hands of the Dongjiang Army.

It's just that after Mao Wenlong's death, the Dongjiang Army was in civil strife, until June of the third year of Chongzhen, when Huang Long served as the chief officer of the Dongjiang Army, and he pacified Liu Xingzhi's rebellion and guarded Lushun.

In all fairness, the territory of the Dongjiang Army in southern Liaoning was limited to the north and south cities of Lushun, and even Jinzhou City, which was more than 120 miles away, was unable to occupy it.

At this time, Jinzhou City is like a huge construction site. Countless Ning Navy soldiers were rapidly repairing the city wall, burning hot water with fire, patting snow on the gaps in the city wall, pouring hot water on it, and forming ice walls.

There are also people who dig big pits in the open space outside Jinzhou City, and then cover the top with branches and trunks to form nests in the ground.

"General Shen!"

"Mr. Song!"

Song Xiance groaned, "Have the scouts been sent out?" ”

"Sent out, is there a problem?"

Shen Mingyu only had more than 100 horsemen under his command, all of them were scouts, and when he came to the Acropolis of Jinzhou alone, he was also weak-hearted, and scattered all the more than 100 horsemen to act as ears and eyes.

"Song is uneasy, just afraid that something bad will happen!"

As a warlock, Song Xiance likes to tell fortunes and use them to judge good fortune. He has counted five trigrams in a row today, three evils and one auspicious, and one big murder and half auspiciousness.

This made Song Xiance very uneasy.

Shen Mingyu said: "The farthest service was sent to the junction of Jinzhou and Gaizhouwei, more than a hundred miles away from us, and more than a dozen temporary beacon camps were set up along the way, if Jiannu came, then ......

It was at this time that the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

In his sight of Shen Mingyu, three puffs of wolf smoke appeared, and pillars of smoke like buckets rose into the air.

Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote in a poem: "The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river!" ”

Lonely smoke, that is, safe smoke, means that there is no war. If it is double smoke, it means that there are more than 1,000 enemy troops and less than 10,000 people, and if there are three wolf smokes, it means that there are more than 10,000 enemy troops. If there are five puffs of wolf smoke, it is to retreat quickly, and the enemy is overwhelming.

"Alert, all back to the city!"

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The majestic and vigorous war drums sounded, and when they heard the sound of the drums, the soldiers of the Zuodu Division of the Ning Navy, who were working, immediately threw away their tools, picked up their weapons, and began to assemble.

Song Xiance looked very nervous at this time: "It's really fulfilled...... It's a pity. ”

Shen Mingyu said: "They can't get by!" ”

North of Jinzhouwei, about 100 miles of Jinshi Mountain, this is one of the four roads from north to south, and it is also the junction of Jinzhouwei and Gaizhou District.

The five scouts of the Beacon Tun gathered around a bonfire, and it was recognized that the food of the Ning Navy soldiers was good. Even if they do this mission, they can still eat hot meals and hot water.

A small iron pot, hanging from the campfire, was gurgling and bubbling inside. You can see that the soup is boiling cakes. One of the scouts was holding a branch with a salted fish burning on it.

As the flame burns, the salty aroma of the salted fish comes to your nose. A veteran shouted, "Eat the soup cake, eat the soup cake!" ”

There is salt in the pot, but there are no other condiments, the only thing to eat is salted fish, in fact, for these hungry Ning Navy soldiers, as long as there is salt, they can make a living without salt.

"Eat it hot and ...... it after eating"

The beacon soldiers looked at the wolf smoke in the distance and didn't care about eating, and one of the thin cavalrymen quickly ran to the hillside and lit the wolf smoke.

"Head, what now? Shall we withdraw? ”

"Pull off, we're not cavalry, can we run past four-legged brutes?"

"That ......"

"Prepare the big guys, give them a bit!"

At the mountain pass, two cavalry of the Ning Navy appeared, these two cavalrymen were very embarrassed, their horses, dense arrows appeared on their backs, if they were not too thickly dressed, and they were protected by iron armor, they would be cold.

"Woo Woo ......"

A round of arrows drowned out the two Ning Navy cavalry scouts.

"Alas......"

"It's a pity!"

The veteran slammed his fist into the snow, and at that moment, a Ning Navy scout actually got up from the snow, his body full of arrowheads.

"Hangou, surrender!"

The Jiannu cavalry who caught up surrounded the Ning naval soldier, and the Ning naval soldier walked towards the war horse that he had fallen to the ground, and he reached out and touched the head of the war horse: "Surrender, if you surrender, what good will I do?" ”

Seeing that the Ning Navy scouts wanted to surrender, the Jiannu cavalry showed a look of contempt on their faces: "Spare you from dying!" ”

"If you don't die, you can't do it!"

The scarred Ning Haijun scout showed his mouth full of big yellow teeth, and said with a happy smile: "If I die in battle, my father and my mother can divide a hundred acres of land, plus you, one, two, three, four...... Twenty-five, my father can get two hundred and fifty acres of land! ”

The Jiannu cavalry looked puzzled, and the cavalry scout untied a black iron can from the horse's neck, which was a large killing weapon made of pig iron, a bomb weighing fifteen pounds.

It was almost equivalent to more than one and a half kilograms of TNT, and as the scout sounded the fuse, black smoke came out of the iron can, and Zhong Jiannu looked dazed: "Such a big iron ball, you want to use him to smash us to death?" ”

There was a loud bang, and as the bomb exploded, more than a dozen Jiannu cavalrymen were instantly blown to pieces.

(End of chapter)