Chapter 163

Happiness came so suddenly that Huang Taiji couldn't believe his eyes.

He thought that there were 10,000 possibilities for the battle of Haizhou, but he never thought that Cheng Shijie would choose to fight with him in the wilderness, for Baliwan, where Cheng Shijie of the Ning Navy was stationed, that location was actually a plain area, this location was already reconnoitred by them countless times, and it was only about fifteen miles away from Baliwan, which was a small forest.

This grove was burned by an inexplicable fire in the early years, and now there are only a few small trees, and in the summer it can be hidden, and now, it is easy to search for anyone inside.

It was precisely because this terrain was very favorable to Dakin's cavalry that Huang Taiji was unbelievable.

It's not just Huang Taiji who can't believe that happiness came so suddenly, Yue Tuo, Dai Shan, Azig, Duoduo, Mang Gurtai, almost everyone is in disbelief.

In the middle of the night, Mang Gurtai was the first to let out a cheer. Then, the cheers of the entire Houjin camp sounded like a tsunami, and everyone's face showed a smile of joy at the discovery of the gray wolf......

Damn the Ming army is finally no longer a shrunken turtle! They're finally willing to take a stand!

After cheering, Fan Wencheng said cautiously: "King Khan, Cheng Shijie really wants to fight a decisive battle with our Dajin field?" ”

"The war books have been issued, is there any fake?"

"This is too abnormal, I'm afraid Cheng Shijie has a trick!"

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Not bad!" ”

Mang Gurtai asked, "What does the Khan mean...... We ignore him? ”

"No, that's not it, if they really want to fight us, and we ignore them, wouldn't we miss a great opportunity? What King Ben Khan means is that everyone must be more careful, but don't fall for the tricks of the Ming army! ”

Huang Taiji looked at the crowd and said, "Now that the weather is dry, we should pay special attention to fire prevention, and that area should be a very lush grassland!" ”

"King Khan, I see!"

Yue Tuo immediately reacted: "Minion, this will lead someone to burn all the grass there......"

"No!"

Huang Taiji looked at Yue Tuo and said, "We have to cut down that grass, we don't have much pasture!" ”

"Minions understand!"

Even now, Huang Taiji still doesn't believe that Ning Haijun dares to fight with Houjin Yedi, this is not Ning Haijun's style at all, but fighting is like this, the opportunity is coming, no matter how low the probability of success is, you must be prepared, even if you fail, at most it will be just a waste of work.

However, if the fighter plane appears, he is unprepared, it is to miss the fighter, and I don't know how many people will have to die in exchange for such a chance again.

Haoge, Du Du, Dai Shan and others were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they didn't bring so many people to Haizhou to fight a tough battle of corpses and blood.

Their real purpose is to snatch the grain that Cheng Shijie harvested in Tuntian, southern Liaoning, more than five million acres of grain, even if only one stone of grain is produced per acre, it is more than five million stones, enough for the 100,000 army of Jiannu to eat for five or six years.

Of course, they don't know how much grain Cheng Shijie has harvested, anyway, it will be a lot.

However, the problem is that they encountered the defense system designed by Cheng Shijie, which is extremely shabby, but it is very despicable, very shameless, very insidious, and even more vicious......

Now that the Ming army has been kicked in the brain by a donkey, and he actually wants to leave the camp to fight Dajin, is there anything luckier than this?

Haoge bowed and said: "Father Khan, the slave thinks that this matter should be replied to Cheng Shijie as soon as possible, and his war book, we will accept it, and after three days, we will fight to the death with them!" ”

Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "In this matter, there is Lao Fanqing!" ”

"This is a matter of slavery, not hard!"

Huang Taiji is now looking at Haoge, when he was in Shenyang, his eldest son behaved very badly, and he simply lost the face of the Aixin Jueluo family. But the problem is that Haoge is naturally suitable for surviving on the battlefield, and after leaving Shenyang with his troops, the depression in his heart suddenly dissipated, and only the pride and ambition to compete with the Ming army are left in his heart.

What's more, Hauge is also very considerate of his subordinates, has won the hearts of the military, and can get along with ordinary soldiers, which is incomparable to Dai Shan.

Dai Shan usually behaves very well, is smart and reacts very quickly, does things generously, and has a pattern, but the problem is that he is the same as Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, he wears luxurious clothes very much, likes to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and treats his subordinates quite tyrannically.

Sure enough, the son is still his own good.

In all fairness, although Hauge is good in comparison, it is much worse than Yue Tuo.

Haoge said suddenly: "Father Khan, the slave thinks that it is necessary to beware of the Ming army laying a horse pit in Baliwan!" ”

This kind of trapping pit, in fact, is not the kind invented by Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing in "Li Weigong's Art of War: Offensive and Defensive Tools": "The trapping pit is five feet long, one foot wide, and three feet deep, and the pit is buried with antler guns and bamboo sticks. Its pit is connected like a sub-character, like a hook, covered with grass and fine dust, and the military city barracks are all set up. ”

This kind of trap horse pit is actually invented in the Northern Song Dynasty, only the mouth of the bowl is thick, only one and a half feet deep, if the war horse is walking slowly, the threat is not big, once the horse gallops, once the hooves of the war horse step on this pit, it will be in the effect of inertia, the horse's legs will be broken, as for the knight on horseback, if you are lucky, you will have a blue nose and swollen face, and if you are unlucky, you will go directly to the king of Hades.

"Hauge is right, let's beware of the Ming army's trap!"

Dai Shan laughed and said: "King Khan, don't worry, Bali Bay is dozens of miles in radius, and the minions ride horses and step on them all!" ”

Dai Shan's generals unanimously agreed, and went to Baliwan non-stop to check the terrain.

The army of Jiannu was nervously busy. After all, this is the mobilization and deployment of 100,000 troops, not a joke, and there can be no mistakes.

……

Baliwan, Cheng Shijie's Chinese army camp, his breakfast is very simple, a few side dishes, rice from Jiangnan, and a bowl of millet pumpkin porridge.

Cheng Shijie has not sent a maid around him so far, and there is no special orderly, and his coachman is also temporarily transferred in the Guards Division, this is because Chen Guodong is worried that someone will buy his coachman, as for the coachman who travels every time, it is temporarily appointed by Chen Guodong himself, even when he goes to the capital, Cheng Shijie's coachman goes to sixteen people.

Since Sun Zhili came, all the internal affairs have basically been handed over to him to take care of, only Cheng Shijie's study is a forbidden place, and a post is set up at the door, and there is a clerk on duty in the study for twelve hours, arranged by Lin Yaodong, the secretary in charge.

When Sun Zhili came, he was not alone, but with his wife and concubine, even if he followed Cheng Shijie's side, he still brought his concubine Luo.

This Luo room was born in the Qinglou, and was ransomed home by Sun Zhili from the Qinglou, he looks average, not ugly, but definitely not beautiful.

It wasn't until Cheng Shijie ate Luo's cooking that he knew that Sun Zhili definitely liked Luo's cooking, and he saw that Cheng Shijie liked Luo's cooking skills, so he was very generous and gave Luo's directly to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie refused to refuse, Sun Zhili was reluctant, and opened his mouth to say that he would beat Luo to death.

Of course, Cheng Shijie also knew that Sun Zhili was just talking, after all, Sun Chengzong's family style was there, and he would never allow Sun Zhili to kill a person casually, even if that person was a concubine.

It's just that this is the custom right now, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to laugh, let Luo change into a man's clothes, responsible for cooking, whenever a general comes to report, Luo is also very eye-catching, should serve tea on tea, or put some fruit.

Cheng Shijie was a little depressed when he stayed in the big tent in Zhongying, and Luo also played two tunes......

Seeing that Cheng Shijie was still in the mood to listen to the music, Zu Dabi, who was originally a little nervous, said with a smile: "Cheng Shuai still has the demeanor of a famous general!" ”

Now the Ning Navy is also making preparations before the war, unloading the weapons and armor from the Jinzhou Armory, and the transport ships of Haizhou Port, arriving at Bali Bay by land, and distributing them to the officers and men of the Ning Navy.

The Golden State Armory was stocked with equipment that could arm fifty or sixty thousand horses, and now half of it had been distributed. Since the Dongjiang army was in a hurry to get on the road and did not bring armor, the armor transported from Jinzhou was given priority to equip them.

The Guan Ning army was fully loaded, so they had to be aggrieved, and now there is no extra armor for them. However, they did not suffer a loss, cotton clothes, cotton jackets, and cotton pants were sent to them, and the generals of the Guan Ning Army and the Dongjiang Army who received the cotton clothes of the equipment all sighed that this time it was a shotgun change, and this trip was too worthwhile!

At this time, the army in the Baliwan battalion had a total strength of more than 37,000 people, and at the same time, the 20,000 horses of the Left and Right Divisions were also approaching Baliwan, and the defense line along the way had to be handed over to the garrison Division.

Zhou Ning, deputy director of the garrison division and chief of the general staff, said that the soldiers of the garrison division have long been suffocated, and unless the soldiers of the entire garrison division die, this defense line will be absolutely as stable as Mount Tai.

Huang Long looked at the officers and men of the Ning Navy making pre-battle preparations in an orderly manner, their morale was high, and he sighed with emotion: "Since the Battle of Salhu, it has been more than ten years, and it is the first time that I have seen our army so prosperous and its morale so high!" ”

Zu Dabi said with emotion: "Yes, since the end of the six expeditions of Chengzu, I have never seen such a prosperous army, with such an elite in hand, you can give Jiannu a fight!" However, Cheng Shuai, I still suggest that our army avoid the real and attack the false, and don't fight hard with Jiannu! Daming is now this little bit of elite soldiers, we can't afford to fight! ”

"Second General Zu, why don't you understand? The reason why Ben Shuai wants to fight hard with Jiannu wholeheartedly is to use this hard-hitting way to smash the myth of Jiannu's 'Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000 people, and 10,000 cannot fight'! ”

Cheng Shijie explained: "Jiannu has been invincible since the beginning of the army, invincible, with a small tribe of millions of people pressing the Ming Dynasty with a population of more than 100 million, relying on this sharp spirit, if they can be beaten off, let them know that they will also be defeated, will also be wiped out, their sharp spirit is gone, even if their soldiers and horses are several times more, it will not become a big deal!" ”

At this moment, Sun Chengzong's voice came: "Beiping is right, Donghu, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Rouran, Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Western Xia, Mongolia to the current Jiannu, for thousands of years, the most powerful stage of the nomads is when the sharp spirit is strong, they rely on this sharp spirit and angry horses and strong bows to stir up the wind and rain again and again, destroy one once powerful empire, let the whole earth tremble under their iron hooves. But once this sharp energy is defeated or consumed, their combat power will quickly degrade and finally die! ”

Seeing Sun Chengzong's arrival, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale, including Huang Long, bowed deeply to Sun Chengzong neatly, and said sincerely: "The last general will meet the superintendent!" ”

Sun Chengzong smiled and said, "There is no supervisor here, only an old man surnamed Sun!" ”

"Students meet the teacher!"

Cheng Shijie naturally gave Sun Chengzong enough courtesy: "Teacher, why are you here?" ”

"The affairs of the capital are done!"

In ancient times, the etiquette was more cumbersome than the current one, one Nacai, two questions, three Najib, four Nazheng, five invitations, and six greetings. After these six levels, the bride can be married home.

Now this is the procedure of giving marriage, Nacai, asking names, Najib, and Nazheng, which has been completed during the period when Cheng Shijie left, just waiting for Cheng Shijie to finish this battle and return to the capital again to ask for a date, that is, to agree on the marriage date, during this period according to the intention of Emperor Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong gave him a job.

But Sun Chengzong did not agree, at that time I didn't know that Cheng Shijie was going to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu, when this battle would be fought, no one could say, if the marriage date would be, Cheng Shijie could not return, and this marriage could not be concluded.

Cheng Shijie also knows that Najib, that is, after the man asks his name and combines the eight characters, notifies the woman of the auspicious omen of the marriage, and gives a gift to express the etiquette of the engagement. In ancient times, Najib also had to perform a memorial ceremony.

This is the same as the marriage of later generations, Sun Chengzong has no problem with the chargé d'affaires, but the recruitment, this is a big appointment, how can Sun Chengzong do it?

Facing Cheng Shijie's doubts, Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "You worship the old man as a teacher, and you don't have parents and elders, why can't you recruit for the teacher?" ”

"It's just that this makes the teacher break the bank!"

"No money!"

Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "The last time I went to Beijing to give it to Your Majesty, it was a gift for the levy!" ”

Sun Chengzong's arrival had a very limited impact on the Ning Navy, but for the Guan Ning Army, the significance was a little different, after all, Sun Chengzong's prestige in the hearts of middle and low-level officers was still very high.

It's a pity that at the level of middle and high-level generals, the current Sun Chengzong has almost no influence, and in the era of Sun Chengzong, middle and high-level generals either went along with Zu Dashou or were squeezed out, just like Zhao Shujiao, Man Gui, He Kegang and others.

After Sun Chengzong understood Cheng Shijie's deployment, he sighed: "If we can win this battle, Jiannu will not be far from death." But, Beiping, have you thought about it! ”

"What?"

"What if...... What if it fails? ”

Cheng Shijie smiled proudly: "In case of failure, they will only live a few more years." From the moment Thunderbolt appeared, I knew that Jiannu's good days were over! ”

Although there are still many shortcomings in the current Thunderbolt, it has adopted the method of launching from tap fire, and both the rate of fire and the power have increased a lot.

Especially under Cheng Shijie's heavy reward, the Gun Bureau has made a breakthrough.

"I don't know where your faith comes from!"

"It's a source of confidence for students!"

Cheng Shijie took Sun Chengzong to visit the Artillery Bureau, where the craftsmen were quickly assembling a cannon that had been disassembled.

This is a new product of the Jinzhou Military Factory, a three-inch caliber, that is, a 94.5 mm 24 times the diameter of the gun, which is also a steel-hued gun, weighing less than 800 catties. It can be broken down into twenty-four parts, except for the heaviest barrel, which can be carried by soldiers on their backs, of course, there is no way to cut the barrel of the gun, and it is impossible to break it down.

This kind of artillery is not a solid shell, but for the first time to achieve the integration of ammunition, the development of nitrocellulose gunpowder, the most difficult part is actually the problem of sulfuric acid, however, in the first major case in southern Liaoning, it was found that Feng Huiyun made a green alum oil to destroy the corpse, and the green alum oil is the ancient sulfuric acid.

With sulfuric acid, the problem of nitrocellulose was solved, and because of the appearance of nitrocellulose, the difficulty of making artillery flowering shells disappeared, and arquebuses, black powder, shot put, grape bullets and so on were all swept into the garbage heap.

Artillery will become the real king on the battlefield. Of course, its technology is not enough, the firing range is only a little more than two thousand meters, but it is enough, artillery in this era has just started, indirect shooting or something is, and the effective range of several hundred meters is completely sufficient.

This time, the Ning Navy brought twenty-four three-inch guns, as long as Jiannu dared to engage in an artillery battle with the Ning Navy's artillery, then the ending would definitely be very happy.

Although Sun Chengzong did not understand the technology as well as Sun Yuanhua, he looked at the thickness of the barrel and said with some concern: "With such a thin barrel, will it blow up the chamber?" ”

"Teacher, please rest assured, you must not blow up the chamber!"

Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand and tapped the barrel of the cannon, making a crisp golden sound that only steel can have.

Sun Chengzong suddenly realized: "This is not an iron cannon, but a steel cannon!" ”

"That's right, it's because it's a steel cannon, so the barrel can withstand higher bore pressure and is more powerful, do you want to try a few shots?"

"No need!"

Sun Chengzong pointed to the Jiannu cavalry in the distance, and then looked at the shining cannon body and the muzzle of the black hole, and praised repeatedly: "Good things, good cannons, then leave Jiannu a surprise!" ”

"This cannon is much better than the casting of the Scepter Bureau, if the cannons provided by the Scepter Bureau to our army can reach this level, Jiannuan can be rampant to this day!"

"It's all money, even if the Scepter Bureau can cast such a sophisticated artillery, the imperial court is reluctant to use it for the troops!"

Sun Chengzong was silent.

The financial problem was the root of the Ming Dynasty's problems, and when Sun Yuanhua was training the Denglai New Army, Xu Guangqi also proposed that the imperial court train forty battalions of Western-style troops in a Western-style way.

If the imperial court was really rich at that time, and trained forty battalions of Western-style musket troops, even if Kong Youde rebelled, it would not be able to make any waves, why did Sun Yuanhua want to recruit Kong Youde?

Isn't that because there is no money, and the imperial court doesn't even have the ability to transfer troops to suppress it?

The Gun Bureau was able to invent a new type of artillery, thanks to Gao Qiqian, Cheng Shijie knew that Bi Maokang, a waiter of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, was an expert in weapons, and told Gao Qiqian that he wanted this person, and Gao Qiqian didn't know what means were used, so this genius took his wife and children to southern Liaoning and helped Ning Navy get a rear-loading smoothbore flintlock pistol, as well as this artillery.

Daming is actually not without talents, except for the deceased Zhao Shizhen, and Xu Guangqi. Speaking of which, Xu Guangqi shouldn't be a cabinet boss, give him a staff bureau, he can definitely manage it well, and create weapons and equipment with quality and quantity, and Mao Yuanyi, let him be a fart deputy chief of the sailor, and let him go to the Ordnance Bureau of the Ning Navy.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Teacher, is there one more thing you can help?" ”

"Something, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Do you remember Mao Yuanyi?"

"He's recently returned home!"

"Let him come to Liaonan, I'll give him a big gift!"

Mao Yuanyi's old lover is now the dean of Liaoning South Women's College, whether he can re-dye Cheng Shijie with his old love I don't know, but he and Song Yingxing are both talents that Cheng Shijie fancies, so don't think about running anymore.

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "Yuanyi...... Some are disheartened, but I am afraid that he has no intention of becoming a leader! ”

Sun Chengzong didn't tell the truth, Mao Yuanyi was arrogant, he could serve Sun Chengzong himself, but he might not necessarily serve Cheng Shijie.

"He'll agree!"

Cheng Shijie said: "As long as he can come, I will really give him a mysterious big gift, if he is not satisfied with this gift, he can leave at any time!" ”

Cheng Shijie's principle is to die at the bridge, whether it is Chen Zilong or Song Yingxing, he must not leave southern Liaoning, Song Yingxing has already drunk seawater twice, as long as he leaves southern Liaoning, something will definitely happen to his ship, this is inevitable, if he still can't figure it out, then think slowly.

On October 27, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the sky was gloomy, even if it was more than eight o'clock, it was still blue-gray.

On the wilderness ten miles away from Baliwan, the 70,000 or 80,000 army of Jiannu has already been ready for battle, as for where the other army went, this is Huang Taiji's hole card, but unfortunately, Cheng Shijie also knows this information.

Many Niu Lu really galloped back and forth in front of the battle, shouting and shouting to boost morale, and the scouts kept coming and going, passing on the latest military information, which was really lively.

The morale of the Jiannu army is high, they have long been tired of the boring trench confrontation, and now the damned Ming army is finally willing to leave the trenches and barbed wire, and fight them happily in the field, what else do they have to say? Sharpen your knives and guns and get ready to kill!

Huang Taiji was very worried, he looked at Fan Wencheng beside him and said, "You say, will Cheng Shijie come?" ”

"I see, it's a bit hanging!"

Mang Gurtai smiled: "If they dare to come, I will let them have no return!" ”

Huang Taiji said: "He will definitely come!" ”

"They're coming?"

Huang Taiji nodded slowly and said, "It will come, if they come, we will have to fight with twelve points of spirit to deal with it!" ”

While he was talking, a small group of scouts Pegasus came to report: "Report...... The Ning Navy is dismantling the barbed wire! ”

"Great!"

Huang Taiji said loudly: "Explore again, report again!" ”

"Yes!"

"Report, the Ning Navy is filling in the trenches!"

"Report, Ning Haijun is leaving the camp!"

"Report, the Ning Navy is still eight miles away from us!"

"Report ......"

PS: Newspaper, I didn't expect it, it was written today.

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