Chapter 136

"As long as we lay down the Acropolis of Quang Ninh after the autumn and advance the defense line to the line of Quang Ninh Wei, Ben Shuai will have enough territory to feed more soldiers!"

Cheng Shijie made up his mind to take the elite route, and it was absolutely impossible to reduce the treatment of Ning's naval soldiers. Give the soldiers a low-quality knife or spear and let them go into battle. Such a soldier is not a soldier, just cannon fodder.

Cheng Shijie has no interest in cannon fodder, and he is not like the Guanning Army, which claims to be 200,000 horses, in fact, Cheng Shijie guessed that the Guanning Army even counts the garrison army with relatively low combat effectiveness, with a maximum of 150,000 horses, of which only 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers have combat effectiveness.

These less than 20,000 fighting soldiers are scattered in the hands of more than a dozen generals, and it is strange that they can win tens of thousands of Eight Banners plus Mongolian soldiers. Therefore, the Eight Banners can win these soldiers by actually relying on how many fights are few, not how strong the Eight Banners are.

In this way, the expansion plan of the Ning Navy was formulated, and a Guards Division was added, which had four commanders under its jurisdiction and a total of 11 bureaus, including eight infantry bureaus, a cavalry bureau, an artillery bureau, and a fire support bureau.

The Guards Division, like the Left and Right Divisions, has a total strength of more than 7,600 men.

In Cheng Shijie's plan, one of the commanders of the Ning Navy must have the strength to carry the banner of Jiannu, and in the case of field warfare, the Ning Navy can now pull out the left and right capital divisions, the guards capital division, and the cavalry capital division, a total of four capital divisions.

Of course, the Ning Navy is a whole system, expanding not only the soldiers, but also the supporting military supervision system, and each division has increased the number of medical guards and baggage soldiers in the army.

Of the 16 newly established divisions, six of them were cavalry, and three of them were scattered to various divisions, one artillery bureau, one fire support bureau, and eight infantry bureaus.

Cheng Shijie's newly set up artillery bureau is actually not all equipped with Franc rapid-fire guns, but the newly developed flying thunder cannon, which has a caliber of an astonishing 1 foot 8 inches and 4 minutes, or about 580 millimeters. The Flying Thunder Cannon can also be called a conscienceless cannon.

Kennu hadn't tried the power of this cannon yet, but in the near future, they would have the opportunity to taste it.

Although the artillery bureau of the Guards Metropolitan Division is subordinate to the Guards Division, when it is really fighting, it will be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation and equipped with the left and right divisions.

As for the kind of front-loading smoothbore gun that is bulky, small in caliber, and can only fire solid shells, Cheng Shijie is completely uninterested in playing, and the artillery unit he retains is to use it as a seed for artillery to cultivate artillery talents for the future. Secondly, when facing the enemy's artillery bombardment, it can effectively suppress the opponent.

As for using artillery to bombard the enemy's infantry or cavalry units, that is the work that the flying thunder cannon should do, because the cost of the flying thunder cannon is extremely low, that is, the molten steel with manganese powder is poured into the mold, and after cooling, it is done. As for the addition of hoes and wheels, that is not needed.

When the flying thunder cannon is fired, it is to use the absorption recoil of the soil, don't look at it as just an artillery bureau, but it is fully equipped with more than 160 flying thunder guns with a caliber of 580 mm.

Cheng Shijie wants to play with a rear-loading rifled gun, but it is not easy to make a rear-loading rifled gun, just engraving rifling in the barrel is a big problem, in addition to shell processing, fuses, explosives, etc., these are necessary, the most unfortunate thing is that he basically knows nothing about these, and from later generations to consult some information that can be made public, the help for craftsmen is very limited.

If you want to make a breakthrough, you need to invest a lot of money and experiment a lot.

After the recruitment of new recruits is completed, the training of the recruits in the training bureau lasts only half a month, and these recruits are assigned to various divisions and units to conduct more rigorous training with the veterans.

Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, Li Fang, Chen Shi and other sailors were very disappointed, this time the expansion of the army, like the last time, had nothing to do with them.

It's just that after they had this meeting, they were taken to Lushun by Cheng Shijie.

At the southwest end of the Liaodong Peninsula, on the north shore of the Yellow Sea, the majestic Golden Mountain is on the east side, the Tiger Tail Peninsula on the west side, and the majestic Lao Tie Mountain on the southwest side. "Lushun Mouth" and "Lion's Mouth" are nearly 300 meters wide and form an estuary formed by the confrontation between two mountains. There is only one 91-meter channel in the 300-meter passage, and only one large warship can pass at a time.

After negotiations between the Management Committee and the Dongjiang Army, the jurisdiction of Lushun was transferred to the Management Committee, and it was used by Cheng Shijie as a new base for the naval division of the Ning Navy.

Li Zhixiang and other generals of the Navy Division saw the scene that shocked them: tens of thousands of workers were working on the construction, a large amount of steel, cement, sand, and timber were being transported from all directions, and tens of thousands of workers were working in full swing.

"Dashuai...... It's ......"

Li Zhixiang became excited.

Cheng Shijie explained: "This is a large-scale naval division base built by Ben Shuai for the naval division, the pressure of your naval division troops is very heavy, and the safety of a total of eight ports from Lushun, Jinzhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou needs the protection of your naval division, and a large number of immigrants need to be transported by you!" ”

Li Zhixiang looked at the timber on the shore, which had piled up into a hill, and he said with some uncertainty: "Dashuai, we can't use so much timber to build a port!" ”

"This is not for the construction of the port, this is for the shipyard of the future!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the dilapidated battleship on the sea and said: "Take the current main battleship of our Ning Navy Naval Division, the 400-gauge gunboat, as an example, this kind of ship is too small, and it can't go to sea at all when it encounters a big wind and waves, even if it is forced to go to sea, it will face a catastrophe!" ”

At this point, Li Zhixiang was also a little embarrassed.

During this period of emigration, it was not all smooth sailing, and the naval division of the Ning Navy lost seven 400-gauge warships and eleven old and broken ships. The losses received nearly half of Ning's navy, which was enough to fight a skirmish.

Since the Navy Division defected to Cheng Shijie of the Ning Navy, the Navy Division troops were almost divided into two shifts, without rest throughout the month, and the work was quite hard to transport supplies and immigrants to southern Liaoning.

If it weren't for Cheng Shijie's increased treatment for the officers and soldiers of the Navy, the soldiers of the Navy's division would have four dollars more than the infantry soldiers every month, and these sailor soldiers were still close to the water and got the first month, when they were transporting immigrants, they were the first to contact the displaced people and refugees, and when they met the right woman, they would find someone to talk to the matchmaker.

If it is said that they are the original poor soldiers, naturally no one wants to marry their daughters to these poor soldiers, but the problem is that Ning Haijun is different, they eat and live in the barracks, and they almost don't have to spend money.

Every month's military salary can be saved, and their water officers and soldiers are the same as the infantry officers and soldiers, and each of them has a minimum of 50 acres of military field, as well as a homestead ranging from one acre to three acres. The current soldiers of the Ning Navy are all rich people who have land and houses.

Many soldiers of the Ning Navy Navy have recently become families, and even if they are old bachelors who have been fighting for twenty or thirty years, some of them are willing to marry.

For these soldiers who have just started a family in the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie stipulated that each person should send two red futons, bed sheets, as well as a basin and a large wardrobe, plus 60 catties of flour, 60 catties of rice, 10 catties of oil, 10 catties of caramel sugar, and two or three taels of silver for He Yi.

Added up, these things are almost equivalent to half a year's military salary for a soldier.

Of course, the officer's congratulatory rites are more, and this congratulatory standard is based on the military salary of the soldiers of the Ning Navy multiplied by two, which is equivalent to getting two more months' salary.

This is also what Cheng Shijie learned from Hangang Group, which has its own large supermarkets, shopping malls, and more than a dozen hotels such as Hanhai Hotel, Hanhai Hotel, and Hanhai Business Hotel. When the wedding supplies are enough, you can also enjoy a 20% discount, including the newly married home appliances, furniture, etc., all have a 20% discount.

These discounts are superimposed, almost tens of thousands of yuan, if there are more seats, more tobacco and alcohol need to be used, and more discounts, when Cheng Shijie handled a baby banquet for his son Cheng Jialong, only twenty tables of seats, saved six or seven thousand yuan.

Cheng Shijie said: "This marshal plans to change the name of our Ning Navy Navy to the Ning Navy Navy in the future, do you know the difference between the Navy and the Navy Division?" ”

Li Zhixiang shook his head and said, "I don't know!" ”

"At present, the warships of our Nanjing Navy can only undertake offshore operations, and only fleets that can perform ocean-going operations can be called navies, and the difference is very big."

Cheng Shijie said: "In our Ming Dynasty, it can be called a navy, Zheng He's fleet can be regarded as a navy, and Zheng Zhilong's fleet can also be regarded as a navy!" ”

Li Zhixiang seemed to understand a little: "What does the marshal mean is that the navy must have big ships that can sail to the ocean?" ”

"There is no necessary connection between the size and quality of the ship!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The key is to have the ability to go to the sea, our Ning Navy Naval Division, the farthest is to the Korean Peninsula, or in Dengzhou, Jinzhou Haizhou, just such a short distance, can sink nearly 20 ships...... You're really good enough! ”

Shen Shikui explained: "Dashuai, it's just that the transportation task is too tight!" ”

"This is nonsense, no matter how tight the task is, can you go to sea without overhauling the ship?"

Cheng Shijie stared at the generals and said: "What do you think in your hearts, you know best, transporting migrants and equipment is not a war task, everything is based on safety...... However, Ben Shuai thinks that in the future, the sailors of our Ning Navy will develop and grow, and Ben Shuai will build more and bigger warships! ”

Li Zhixiang stared at the hill-like mountain of timber, and now there was still a lot of timber nailed into wooden rows, dragged over by big boats, and piled up on the dock.

"How many ships can be built with this timber?"

"It doesn't take too much, as long as we can plant the flag of Daming in every corner of the world, and there is our flag wherever the sun shines!"

"That's going to take thousands!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Is a lot of thousands of ships?" ”

"A few thousand ships is really not much!"

At this time, a foreign devil who was working not far away raised his head and said proudly: "In our Republic of Venice, we have more than 3,000 armed merchant ships, and there are our merchant ships everywhere in Europa, as well as our Golden Lion Flag of Venice!" ”

Catherine has always wanted to meet Cheng Shijie, and in order to be able to meet Cheng Shijie, she is even willing to become the chef of Miss Xu Si (commented by readers, Miss Xu Si's name, now called Xu Shumin), but unfortunately, she still did not succeed in meeting Cheng Shijie.

However, Giovanni, as a laborer, got into a conversation with Cheng Shijie anyway because of an accident.

"Listen, Venice is just a small country of more than 100,000 people, but it has more than 3,000 ships!"

Li Zhixiang said in disbelief: "A country with only 100,000 people, not an army of 100,000 people?" How many people are there on a ship? ”

According to the proportion of the population, at least half or almost half of the more than 100,000 people are women, then there are only 70,000 or 80,000 people in Venice, and among these 780,000 people, more than 20 or 30 percent are old and weak, and no more than 30,000 or 40,000 are young and strong.

On average, there are only 10 people on a ship, how small is that?

Giovanni shook his head and said, "We Venetians have more than 2,000 merchant ships, and we Venetians employ a large number of foreigners to serve as our sailors, shipwrights, and helmsmen, and we Venetians only need to be the commanders of the fleet!" ”

"I see!"

Cheng Shijie beckoned: "Come here!" ”

……

Ning Yuanwei, Xingshui Fort, garrison mansion.

Wu Sangui received the news that more than 100 of his subordinates had run away, and he was so angry that his face turned pale.

Fang Yizao, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, after Xu Guangqi entered the cabinet, his official position was the deputy assistant of the cabinet, and the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites was vacant, and Fang Yizao replaced Xu Guangqi's position as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and served as the governor of Liaodong as a scholar.

In Fang Yizao, the new governor of Liaodong, for the sake of political achievements, he planned the battle of Youma Mountain, the young general Wu Sangui, because of his father Wu Xiang, in the battle of the Daling River, fled without a fight and was dismissed from his official position, Wu Sangui in order to save his father, he took the Wu family Ding soldiers, frantically rushed to kill, successfully killed 54 Jiannu heads, and captured more than 100 Mongols.

If this battle is in the real situation, it will definitely be a great victory that shakes the imperial court. However, the problem is that Wu Sangui's luck is too bad, and his good news documents are sent to the capital one after the other with the great victory of Haizhou that Gao Qiqian sent to the capital.

Then, there is no then.

In the Battle of Youma Mountain, although the number of Guanning troops participating in the battle was thousands, the total number of Jiannu was less than 300, and the scale was too small. Wu Sangui's luck is actually not declining, in the original history, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Fang took a bath, served as the governor of Liaodong, and was responsible for the military of Liaodong.

But the problem is that at this time, Cheng Shijie became the strategy of Liaodong, and let Fang Yizao, a dignified scholar, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the governor of Liaodong become Cheng Shijie's subordinates.

He couldn't afford to lose this person, so Fang Yizao stayed in the Ningyuan Acropolis, didn't move at all, and didn't go to see Cheng Shijie, the official, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie didn't understand the scale of officialdom at all, and he didn't notice that he actually had a subordinate of the governor of Liaodong.

In order to rescue his father, Wu Sangui worshiped under Fang Yizao's door, and it was purely to disgust Cheng Shijie, Fang Yizao's first thing when he took office was to recommend Wu Sangui to become the garrison of Ning Yuanwei and Xingshui Fort, and more coincidentally, he ordered Wu Sangui to form the Xingshui Army, with no more than 2,500 soldiers.

According to the practice of the Guan Ning Army, not to mention Wu Sangui, a fourth-grade garrison, even if he is a third-rank general, he actually commands more than 1,000 people.

Wu Sangui was born in Jiangmen, and grew up in the big dye vat of Jiangmen in Liaoxi since he was a child.

But now, he was so angry that he roared again and again, and in a rage, his study seemed to be swept by a tornado, all kinds of books and documents were swept all over the floor, and several precious porcelain pieces were thrown to the ground and smashed by him. As soon as the servant came in to clean up, he kicked him and kicked the servant and rolled it all over the ground......

"It's too much deception...... It's too much to deceive people......"

In fact, Cheng Shijie's only contact with Guan Ningjun was to sell the more than 8,000 ancestral army captives rescued from Azig to Zu Dashou.

Wu Sangui of Guan Ningjun has no contact. However, because of the development of southern Liaoning, the Ning Navy in southern Liaoning was well treated, and the Ning Navy was well equipped, and the soldiers under Wu Sangui heard that Liaonan was recruiting, so they ran away in groups.

This matter has nothing to do with Cheng Shijie, but Wu Sangui thinks that Cheng Shijie is bullying him.

Wu Xiang walked in with a frown, without saying a word, staring at his son with a gloomy face. Being glared at by him, Wu Sangui suddenly calmed down a lot, let go of the servant, and said sneeringly: "Daddy......"

"Smack!"

Although Wu Xiang was released from prison, there was no official reinstatement, Wu Xiang pitted Zu Dashou, if according to history, Zu Dashou was only left alone, he did not have any strength to balance Wu Xiang, nor did he have the strength to retaliate against Wu Xiang.

However, in this time and space, Zu Dashou had 8,000 more ancestors in his hands, and he successfully held the power of Jinzhou again, controlled Jinzhou, and began to pay attention to this brother-in-law.

Wu Xiang begged Zu Dashou for forgiveness many times and pushed the black cauldron on Song Wei's head, but Zu Dashou no longer believed him. In this year, strength is strength with soldiers, and nothing without soldiers.

Wu Xiang slapped him, and Wu Sangui's left cheek suddenly had a blood-red palm print, and the corners of his mouth oozed blood, but he didn't say a word.

Wu Xiang pointed at his nose and scolded angrily: "You are the son of my Wu family, and the hope of the Wu family to be bright and bright has all fallen on you!" Look at what you look like right now. I think you're a mad dog! How can you tell me to trust the Wu family to you! ”

Wu Sangui raised his head and said, "Dad, the bully surnamed Cheng!" ”

Wu Xiang asked sharply, "What did he bully you?" ”

Wu Sangui stiffened his neck and said, "The surname Cheng hooked the soldiers under my command!" The elite soldiers I trained with great difficulty were taken away by him and more than 100 horses! ”

"You've let me down!"

Wu Xiang said indignantly: "Have you lived to be a dog all these years? Cheng Shijie bullied you, what are you, worthy of him bullying you? Don't say you're in Xingshui Castle, even if you get in front of Cheng Shijie, he doesn't even have the interest to look at you. Are you qualified? ”

Wu Xiang was very right, before the Ning Navy did not rise, Guan Ningjun was the heart of the imperial court and the treasure in his hand.

The current Guan Ningjun has become Mrs. Niu.

Will Cheng Shijie come to do anything? I don't want the military salary of the imperial court, nor do I want money and food, I raise my own grain and grass, recruit my own soldiers, and build my own armor and blades.

The imperial court doesn't spend a penny, so why not get such an army that can fight for nothing?

Although it is said that Liao has fattened a large group of moths in the imperial court, the problem is that the current imperial court really has no money, and the battle of the Daling River has tossed the last bit of the Ming imperial court's family foundation.

Wu Xiang continued: "As for the soldiers you mentioned, if they run away, they will run away!" ~”

Facing Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang was both sad and worried.

The current Wu Sangui is not a good person or a bad person, he is ambitious, full of energy, skilled in bows and horses, excellent in martial arts, and is a rare handsome among the young generation of generals in the Guanning Army, whether it is him or Zu Dashou is very optimistic.

However, Wu Sangui has never suffered a setback, his eyes are above the top, and he finally led an army alone, and he was ambitious and wanted to do a career, but as a result, the soldiers here had just trained some success, but they ran more than 100 people.

He lost his mind in no time!

It's actually like some employees in the workplace complaining that the boss deliberately wears small shoes for him.

In fact, the boss may not even know him, and the real reason is that he has not done his part.

Wu Sangui's emotions slowly calmed down. Of course, what was calm was only on the surface, his fists were clenched, and he was obviously still very angry, and he didn't listen to Wu Xiang's words at all.

Wu Xiang said earnestly: "I know that you are arrogant, you can't see others stronger than you, you can't see others getting ahead, you raise your eyebrows, but ...... I must tell you, Cheng Shijie is the sharpest long sword, no one can hide his edge, and it is definitely not a good idea to be an enemy of him! ”

……

Jinzhou City, Pingliao General's Mansion.

Zu Dashou then received a report, and the eyeliner put Wu Sangui out of control, Wu Xiang angrily reprimanded Wu Sangui, and reported it to him in 1510.

Zu Dashou was very angry with Wu Xiang, his brother-in-law, who was eager to step on his position.

As the saying goes, eat a trench, grow a wisdom.

Now Zu Dashou will not believe Wu Xiang's words, and he does not need to reuse Wu Xiang, in the army, he has consciously purged Wu Xiang's people, and the generals who are close to Wu Xiang have been sent away by Zu Dashou by taking the opportunity.

Although he hasn't really torn his face with Wu Xiang yet, the real reason is that the Wu family is originally a wealthy family in Liaoxi, don't look at Wu Xiang's war, but he is a good hand in managing the family power. The Wu family was originally a powerful force in western Liaoning, and after Wu Xiang entered the officialdom, he expanded his strength with great fanfare and wantonly embezzled the military tun. At that time, it was a well-known thing that the generals of the Ming army in Liaodong embezzled the military tun.

Although Wu Xiang also embezzled the military camp, Wu Xiang used all the money to train his own private soldiers. Wu Xiang himself wore coarse cloth and brown clothes, but this private soldier wore a silk line, Wu Xiang ate coarse tea and light rice, while his private soldiers ate fine wine and fat sheep.

Even if the imperial court sometimes owes salaries, his own private soldiers can still have no worries about food and clothing. Wu Xiang also divided the land that had been embezzled by the military households to his private soldiers, and each family had hundreds of acres of farmland. Such a private soldier who is absolutely loyal to the Wu family is where Zu Dashou is very jealous of Wu Xiang.

The Wu family's family has a scale of 3,000 soldiers, all of whom are composed of Wu Xiang's children, his brothers, relatives, etc. And Wu Xiang knew that in order to keep the family's power from falling, it was necessary to continuously produce talents in the family.

For those who can fight in foreign surnames, such as Wu Xiang's fierce generals Li Chunhua, Liu Jiwu, and Wang Gui, the wives of these three are all Wu Xiang's adopted daughters.

Zu Dashou thought about it and decided to learn from Wu Xiang.

Of course, he didn't think about marrying Cheng Shijie and directly sending a daughter or granddaughter to Cheng Shijie as his wife, Cheng Shijie is not a fool in this matter, how could he agree.

Zu Dashou said: "Someone! ”

"Sir!"

"Go and call Hui'er!"

"Yes!"

Hui'er, her real name is Li Hui.

But it is not a Han Chinese, but a North Korean, born in a clan, this is a beautiful woman given to him by the king of Joseon in order to celebrate the birthday of his ancestors.

It's just that Li Hui was only twelve years old when he was sent to Jinzhou Zu Dashou Mansion at that time, and now Li Hui has been raised by Zu Dashou for six years.

At the beginning, Li Hui's Chinese was only barely able to speak, Zu Dashou found more than a dozen teachers to teach Li Hui qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, after more than six years of study, Li Hui can now be said to be proficient in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs.

After a short time, Li Hui dressed in a lotus dress and moved lightly, drifting over with a gust of fragrant wind.

Li Hui combed his sideburns, his long hair and waterfall went straight to his waist, smooth as silk, he was dressed in white, his face was very clean, his willow eyebrows were on his cobble-egg face, and his starry eyes and lips were naturally matched together.

"Hui'er meets Daddy!"

Li Hui's voice is glutinous and soft, and it makes people's bones light when they hear it.

"Hui'er, how are you doing lately?"

"There is Daddy Lao to worry about, Hui'er is well!"

"You haven't gone out to play in Jinzhou in the past few years, now you go to Jinzhou!"

Zu Dashou actually raised Li Hui, he was ready to tie up with the court bosses, he was promoted by Sun Chengzong, when the battle of Dalinghe did not break out, he realized that Qiu Hejia and Sun Chengzong were at odds with him at that time, and a governor dared to contradict the top boss of Liaodong Jingluo, which shows that there are people behind him, and he also has the instruction of some people.

In this case, it was a matter of time before Sun Chengzong left his post, so he randomly found an adopted daughter and gave it to Qiu Hejia, but left Li Hui behind.

In Zu Dashou's mind, if Cheng Shijie accepts Li Hui, even if he doesn't give him a name, as long as Li Hui can blow the pillow wind, then he can maintain his relationship with Cheng Shijie.

You must know that when the pillow blows in the wind, it is equally useful.

Officialdom, like the rivers and lakes, is not only about fighting and killing, but also about human feelings.

Zu Dashou was deeply stunned.

(End of chapter)