Chapter 269

"Hello Mr. Gao, I am Ma Haitao, the judge of Xinghai, and I am also a disciple of Dean Yang."

"Luck, luck!"

Gao Jie was a little incredulous, when was he called "Mister"?

In the Ming Dynasty, the word "sir" still referred to a learned elder or an honorific title for an adult man with status. For the first time in his life, Gao Jie was called "Mr. Gao!" ”

Ma Haitao is a figure with a head and a face in Liaodong, he is not only the judge of Xinghai City, but also Yang Qingyun's personal student, Xinghai City and Zhenhai City belong to the same special city in Liaodong, in Cheng Shijie's planning, this city is the same as Jinzhou and Haizhou's administrative level.

And Yang Qingyun, like Chen Zilong, is an official who enjoys the level of the Ming Dynasty's Zhengwupin Zhizhou, and he is also a member of the Liaodong Management Committee.

Not to mention him, even if he is a person with talent or fame, he is not qualified to be called Mr. in front of Ma Haitao, they can only call themselves students.

And what about Gao Jie? Before he took refuge in Cheng Jialong, Gao Jie was just a rogue, at most he was a rogue who was relatively well mixed in the rogues, and how many untouchables like Gao Jie were born in Daming? Don't look at him as one of the three major generals under Li Zicheng, but the question is, don't say it's him, even if Li Zicheng is in Liaodong, who will look at him?

However, with his wealth worth nearly 500,000 taels of silver, Gao Jie was protected by Cheng Jialong, the eldest son of Cheng, and the first job Cheng Jialong gave him was to recruit craftsmen and cast steel statues.

However, it is precisely because the steel statue of Jinzhou City is about four feet three feet nine inches high, of which the base is about one foot six feet high, and the statue is about two feet seven feet nine inches high. Of course, this is just a design drawing, and the Liaodong Management Committee even set aside an area of eight or nine hundred acres of land in the southern urban area of Jinzhou City as the construction site for this statue.

In all fairness, Xing's is Gao Jiexian's internal helper, and with Xing's help, Gao Kee's Gao Ji Labor Service Company is now more and more famous, and there are more and more personnel. Although Gao Jie is white, no one despises him, after all, he is the disciple of Cheng Dagongzi, because he has no official position and no position, he has to be called Mr.

"Mr. Gao, please bring your people with me!"

Cheng Shijie built a huge farmer's Four Sages Square in Zhenhai City, which also attracted Yang Qingyun's attention, and he also wanted to build the Four Sages of Doctors in Xinghai City, and this project naturally fell on Gao Jie's construction team.

As for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that built the square of the Four Sages of the Doctor (Yellow Emperor, Qi Bo, Qin Yueren (Bian Que), and Zhang Ji as the "Four Sages"), in Yang Qingyun's view, this is not a problem at all.

Gao Jie has now become a member of the Liaodong Management Committee, the governor of Xinghai City, and the guest of Yang Qingyun, dean of the Liaodong Medical College, which Gao Jie did not expect.

Ma Jingtao introduced Gao Jie to Yang Qingyun of Xinghai, and Yang Qingyun told Gao Jie about the need to establish Xinghai and the needs of the Four Holy Squares.

Xing, who followed behind Gao Jie, held a pen to record Yang Qingyun's needs.

Opportunities are fair for everyone, and the key is to see if you can seize them. Of course, some people are good at seizing opportunities, and some people are not creating opportunities without opportunities.

Han, located in Shunhe, Macheng, is a person who is good at creating opportunities. When Cheng Shijie saw Han's daughter Zhang Li'er, Zhang Li'er was already dying.

This scene made Cheng Shijie feel familiar, that's right, when Cheng Jiayue was seriously ill, Cheng Jiayue was also like this, this Zhang Li'er opened her mouth and was almost speechless.

Cheng Shijie was immediately anxious: "Military doctor, come here, cure her!" ”

The biggest difference between the Ning Navy and other armies in the Ming Dynasty is that there are sufficient military doctors and medical personnel, and there is a staff of hygienists in the establishment above the post level, as for Cheng Shijie's side, he is followed by a team of doctors with more than 40 people all the year round, of course, now Cheng Shijie is followed by the cavalry division of the Ning Navy, which is a medical team with more than 200 people.

As two experienced doctors stepped forward to check on Zhang Li'er's condition, one of the doctors examined and replied: "Back to Dashuai, her problem is not big, she is just hungry!" ”

"Are you just hungry?"

"Yes, lowly positions do not diagnose errors!"

"Okay, great!"

Cheng Shijie hurriedly asked people to set up a pot, and the field marching rations of the Ning Navy, under normal circumstances, would bring three or four catties of jerky, fifteen or sixteen catties of fried rice, or compacted dough, and dehydrated steamed buns.

Because dry steamed bread or bread, it will not deteriorate in a short time, but the taste is very bad, Cheng Shijie is not like ordinary soldiers, carrying half a month's ration, weighing more than 30 catties, weighing a small amount of salt, fried rice, fried noodles, cakes and steamed buns, there are also some dried fruits, dried milk, and tea.

Han saw that Cheng Shijie cared so much about Zhang Lian'er, so she took the initiative to stay in front of Cheng Shijie, she asked Zhang Yuan, her son, to look at Sister Fa, and she built a stove for Cheng Shijie to find firewood.

Whether it is fried noodles or fried rice, in fact, there is no need for fire, and it can be eaten with water, Cheng Shijie took into account that Zhang Lian'er was too young and because she was too hungry for a long time, so he used a pot to cook a pot of rice porridge.

When the rice porridge was cooked, Han fed Zhang Li'er and drank a bowl, Zhang Li'er, who had eaten a bowl of rice porridge, wanted to drink another bowl, Cheng Shijie said: "Okay, I can't let her eat more, otherwise she will be ruined!" ”

Listening to Cheng Shijie's words, Zhang Li'er was a little unhappy, her small mouth rose, and she didn't even look at Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took out a silver coin of one or two silver and said with a smile: "Li'er, Ben Shuai will make a magic trick for you!" ”

Cheng Shijie threw the silver coin into the sky, caught it with both hands, then clenched his fists with both hands, stretched out in front of Zhang Li'er and said: "Guess which hand the silver coin is, if you guess correctly, Ben Shuai will reward you with a steamed bun, if you guess wrong, Ben Shuai will reward you with a can!" ”

Han Shi looked at this scene and wanted to laugh a little, can this be considered magic?

Isn't this a reason to reward his daughter with canned food?

Han Shi knew about canned food, which could be kept for a year or two without spoiling, whether it was the fruit or all kinds of meat inside, she hurriedly gave her son a look.

Zhang Li'er's expression was broken, and she secretly said in her heart: "Although I am young, I am not stupid, right?" ”

She pointed to Cheng Shijie's left hand and said, "There must be no here!" Then surely in the right hand! ”

Cheng Shijie didn't expect that the little Zhang Li'er would have such a quick wit, Cheng Shijie's right and left hands did not have silver coins, in fact, there were no silver coins in his hands.

Cheng Shijie stretched out his left hand: "You guessed it!" ”

Cheng Shijie took out a 400-gram canned fruit and handed it to Zhang Li'er.

Zhang Li'er took the can and bit it with her teeth.

"Don't bite, knock your teeth out!"

Cheng Shijie opened the canned food for Zhang Li'er, and watched Zhang Li'er eat the canned food with a doting face.

The military doctors of the Ning Navy began to examine the bodies of these wandering old, weak, sick and disabled, and the original abandoned village, that is, Shunhe Village, became a huge refugee camp.

In all fairness, although Ning Haijun did not fire a single shot or arrow in this battle, he forced down more than 10,000 people under He Jiuyi's command, but in fact, Ning Haijun did not take any advantage, these more than 10,000 prisoners, but they are all big stomachs, although Ning Haijun claims to be half a month's ration, on average, it can only last for half a month, not full.

Because of these rogues, the dry food that more than 6,000 of them carried with them really couldn't last for a few days.

However, the discipline of the Ning Navy was strict, and Cheng Shijie ordered the officers and men of the Ning Navy to take out their own dry rations to help the Liukou, and they did not complain and resolutely carried out Cheng Shijie's orders.

As more and more officers of the Ning Navy took out the dry food bag, took out the dried meat from it, pulled out the knife and chopped it and threw it into the dried meat pot, and soon, the water vapor rising from the hundreds of cauldrons brought a strong smell of meat, making the rogues drool flow even more, squeezing forward uncontrollably, and the scene began to be chaotic.

When the soldiers of the Ning Navy saw that the displaced people were in a commotion again, they were all furious, and they made a whirring sound with the sticks in their hands, and scolded them angrily to keep them in order.

After getting along for so long, the homeless people seem to have figured out the temper of these Ning Navy soldiers, and know that they look fierce on the surface, but in fact, as long as you don't run away, don't attack them, and don't deliberately cause riots, they won't embarrass you, so you can talk very well.

The crowd shouted: "Good luck military master, hurry up and share the meal!" ”

"We're all hungry!"

"Master Jun, do you want to starve us to death and save some food?"

"It's like, we're going to starve!"

"Master Jun, you can do it, we'll kowtow to you!"

In the face of the heavily armed cavalry of the Ning Navy, these rogues did not dare to rob hard, but played the bitter card.

Cheng Shijie got up, looked at the crowd and said, "Don't mess up, hurry up and line up to get the meal!" Women, children, the elderly, and the sick come to the front, and the men in the prime of life go to the other side, and hurry up ......"

As Cheng Shijie's voice fell, hundreds of Ning Navy officers and soldiers repeated Cheng Shijie's words in unison.

Regardless of whether these rogues could understand it or not, these Ning Navy officers began to take sticks and go down.

"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair, behind the young and strong row!"

"Go back to your team, talk about you!"

"Are you going back?"

"If you don't go back, I'll have someone throw you back!"

With the entry of the officers and men of the Ning Navy, the current order immediately became better, Cheng Shijie now gave the prisoners of the Liukou what they fed was the rations of the soldiers of the Ning Navy, the dry food bags of the cavalry were all good grains, and the rice was also fragrant and soft rice, and thick noodle soup.

Don't say that they haven't eaten these things, even if they are landlords and old money, they can only eat good things during the New Year.

There are also rogue young men who want to be cheeky and pretend to be sick, but it is not easy for them to hide the eyes of the cavalry officers of the Ning Navy, and once they are discovered, they will be cleaned up.

Until Cheng Shijie announced that he found out that he was cutting in line indiscriminately, he would not be given food, and he suppressed those dishonest guys.

The soldiers of the Ning Navy were quick with their hands and feet, distributing food. Children, the elderly, women, and the sick each have a bowl of rice and a spoonful of broth, and the young and strong people have a bowl of fried rice, flour cakes, dried meat, and wild vegetables.

Looking at their miserable appearances, Cheng Shijie shook his head speechlessly.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhao Wencai and said, "Where are our troops?" ”

"There are still more than 600 miles away from us, and at their speed, I'm afraid they won't be able to transport the grain!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Send a cavalry back, inform Yuan Shiliang and Meng En, you can ignore the cannons first, but the food must be transported up, you can recruit displaced people along the way, there are many people and great strength, this battle, Ben Shuai can prepare two million stone grain, not afraid that they will be consumed on the road!" ”

Han Shi boldly asked, "Dashuai, what are you going to do with us?" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and waved his hand: "All of them are incorporated into military households, let them join the Ning Navy Tuntian, hehe, after this battle, we Ning Navy are afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands of more military households!" ”

Han said with a solemn face: "We have a lot of people, but ...... like this"

"But what?"

"It's going to take a lot of food, do you have that much food to feed us?"

Cheng Shijie smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed at Qiao Siniang behind Zhao Wencai and said, "You are ...... Qiao Siniang, right? ”

"Do you remember the humiliation?"

"We are one of the few female generals in the Ning Navy, how can this commander not remember?"

Cheng Shijie said: "You tell her, does Ben Shuai have so much food?" ”

Qiao Siniang looked at Han and said, "How many of you are there?" ”

"We have more than 100,000 people!"

"Haha, don't say more than 100,000 people, even if it's a few million people, we have enough food, it's a big deal that we sell less food and make less wine......"

Qiao Siniang told Han: "Our handsome man has reclaimed eight or nine million mu of land in Liaodong, and has also planted tens of millions of mu of high-yield potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. ”

This is not Qiao Siniang's bragging, now the main forces of the Ning Navy are in Luzon to clear the Luzon natives, relying on killing, it is difficult to kill the millions of natives in Luzon, and now the natives have also learned well, and began to run into the deep mountains and old forests of Luzon, which has reduced the efficiency of the Ning Navy a lot.

However, in order to implement Cheng Shijie's plan, Liu Qingsong began to think of a bad move, that is, to transport the grain from Luzon, which was originally planned to replace the taxes of Liaodong and directly transport it to Tianjin by sea, and then transfer it to the capital.

However, because of Cheng Shijie's current needs, Luzon's grain ships began to dock at Wusongkou and then transferred to Jiangnan, so that once Luzon's grain decreased, there would definitely be a famine, and once there was a famine, this was much more efficient than using knives and light cannons to clear the goods.

Although the way of doing this is a bit tragic, the problem is that Cheng Shijie is willing to be like Ai Gong said, the sin is in the present generation, and the merit is in the future.

Only when the Chinese in Luzon become the absolute majority of the population, and the aborigines are gone, can this Luzon become the land of the Ming Dynasty forever, like the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains.

After the first meal, these rogue captives began to quiet down, and Han and Qiao Siniang were used by Cheng Shijie to reorganize these rogue captives.

They were like the Tuntian military households in Liaodong, with 10 households as one Jia, and 100 households as 100 households in Tuntian, and these rogues were reorganized into 35 full 100 households, a total of 3,263 households, and a total of 10,579 people.

The real reason why Cheng Shijie chose to let Han come forward is because she is a woman, and women have a strong affinity, and when doing statistical work, they can reduce trouble.

In addition, it is that the officers of the Ning Navy do these things, which is a big talent and a small use, while the Han family does not have this problem.

Zhao Wencai said: "The combat effectiveness of the rogues is very poor, we can completely beat ten of them at a time!" Now that their main forces are concentrated in Macheng, should we sweep them away in one go? ”

"Ben Shuai has never doubted that it is not difficult to defeat the combat effectiveness of our Ning Navy officers and soldiers, but the problem is that we have too little food."

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "The terrain here is very unfavorable for our cavalry, once this rogue runs into the Dabie Mountain, we can only watch them escape!" ”

"The last general is in a hurry!"

"Who doesn't want to make a difference?"

Cheng Shijie said: "But there is still a chance, don't be discouraged!" ”

……

Macheng, there are boundless waves of people everywhere outside the city, this is one of the four main forces under Gao Yingxiang's Eight Royal Divisions, and the big banner embroidered with the word "Zhang" can explain their identity very well.

Zhang Xianzhong is a tyrant who makes Emperor Chongzhen want to eat his flesh and drink his blood, in fact, Zhang Xianzhong also makes the gentry all over the world itch their teeth with hatred.

There is no way, Zhang Xianzhong is too ruthless to the gentry, every time he attacks a place, Zhang Xianzhong will find someone to collect the list of local gentry in advance, and then arrest people according to the list, after catching people, he will be tortured and forced to ask where his silver and belongings are hidden, in fact, the gentry who fall into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, confess or not confess, and Zhang Xianzhong will torture and kill them.

If it were other rogues attacking Macheng, these gentry and officers and soldiers would probably have run away a long time ago, but the problem is that they met Zhang Xianzhong, and they also knew that Zhang Xianzhong was a person, and surrendering would not end well, so they could only resist hard.

Fortunately, the equipment under Zhang Xianzhong's command is not good, there are not many artillery, and it is very difficult to collapse the city wall.

Macheng is located in the three areas, the people have always been fierce, large and small bandits are armed like cattle hair, so the city wall is built quite strong, in Zhang Xianzhong attacked for more than half a month, still did not capture Macheng.

Zhang Xianzhong was not in a hurry, because his soldiers and horses came too fast, and now it was the time of the green and yellow, there would definitely not be too much food in the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city would not last long.

It is precisely because there is not much food, even if it is defeated, this city will not be able to feed Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of horses, of course, his hundreds of thousands of horses, two-thirds of which are recently enrolled, the real Shaanxi old camp of people, but more than 54,000 people.

In order to get more food, Zhang Xianzhong made his adopted children and grandchildren hopeful, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, respectively, led a group of men and horses to look for food around.

What Cheng Shijie encountered was a force of Sun Kewang.

In fact, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi all followed Zhang Xianzhong and did not attack, when He Jiuyi did not report his whereabouts to Sun Kewang for a day, Sun Kewang realized that something was wrong.

Then, Sun Kewang sent his general Feng Shuangli to lead the headquarters of three hundred cavalry to find He Jiuyi, but they found out the arrival of the Ning Navy, looking at the Ning Navy armed to the teeth, and the military formation was extremely tight, Feng Shuangli did not dare to fight with the Ning Navy, retreated directly, and reported the situation to Sun Kewang.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard that an official cavalry had arrived in Macheng, Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about attacking Macheng, but directly let thousands of rogue soldiers surround Macheng, and Zhang Xianzhong took more than 100,000 horses and horses to Heshun Village, where Ning's navy was located.

Heshun Village is located in the southeast corner of Macheng, the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, about 90 miles away from Macheng. Since most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops were refugees, the marching speed was not much, and it took three and a half days to reach Heshun Village on a mountain road of more than 90 miles.

Zhang Xianzhong did not feel strange about the pursuit of the official army, but he dug up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family and destroyed the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, if the official army did not pursue him, Zhang Xianzhong would feel strange.

Hundreds of thousands of rogue robbers poured to Heshun Village like locusts, and the first to appear was Zhang Xianzhong's elite people, among the many rogue armies in the world, Zhang Xianzhong's strength is actually the strongest, what Lao Huihui, Li Zicheng including Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the Rogue Alliance, they are not enough to see in front of Zhang Xianzhong.

There are only more than 10,000 cavalry under Gao Yingxiang, and the technical level is uneven, while Lao Huihui has more than 20,000 cavalry, and the number of cavalry is about the same as Zhang Xianzhong, but the problem is that Lao Huihui is only herdsmen, but more than half of the more than 20,000 cavalry under Zhang Xianzhong are the Ming border army that can't survive.

It can be said that this is Zhang Xianzhong's capital in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. This cavalry pressed up, and it was definitely a headache to put it on the Great Plains, according to their experience, so many cavalry rushed up, no matter how strong the officers and soldiers were, they would be scared and urinate, and they would collapse with a slight rush.

It's a pity that what they encountered this time was the cavalry of the Ning Navy, although the cavalry of the Ning Navy was weaker than the Jiannu cavalry, but with a two-fold or three-fold numerical advantage, they could rely on the advantage of equipment to kill the Jiannu and retreat.

In the face of Zhang Xianzhong's amateur cavalry with uneven skills and poor equipment, the cavalry phalanx of the Ning Navy remained immovable.

Sun Kewang pointed to the dark Ning Navy cavalry formation and said, "Father, this is the cavalry of the official army!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the Ning Navy cavalry, the Ning Navy cavalry at this time was like a copper wall and an iron wall, no matter how strong the wind blows, the strong enemy will not move at all.

Zhang Xianzhong groaned and said, "Chongzhen Xiao'er, are you finally willing to release this tiger?" The Ning Navy is worthy of being a well-known and powerful army in the world, and there is no army comparable to this military discipline alone! ”

Li Dingguo, not now Zhang Dingguo sneered: "How about that?" No matter how strict the military discipline is, can the enemy beat our army of more than 100,000? ”

At this time, although Zhang Dingguo was brave and resourceful, and repeatedly made military exploits, he made a lot of fame among the rogues in just a few years, and was known as "ten thousand enemies".

But Zhang Dingguo is young and vigorous after all, he is quite dismissive of Zhang Xianzhong's words, is it remarkable to be disciplined? If you can win the battle by relying on strict discipline, what else do you train, you can't just practice discipline every day!

Obviously, Zhang Dingguo has not yet realized the importance of discipline to an army, and he will not be able to realize this until he has endured all the hardships, rectify military discipline, and make outstanding military exploits.

"Dingguo, don't underestimate the enemy!"

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at it, this confidant and favorite general, who is also the second of his four adopted sons, said lightly: "However, what Dingguo said is not unreasonable, no matter how strict his military discipline is, in the face of the impact of my hundreds of thousands of troops, he will definitely collapse." However, the courage of the Ning Navy to dare to confront our army in the field is commendable. ”

Zhao Wencai looked at the more than 20,000 cavalry in front of the Liukou array, judging from the appearance of the war horses, Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry looked messy, but the problem is that these cavalry are all veterans who have killed people and seen blood, they are not like other Liukou armies, shouting and shouting to kill. Instead, they were as silent as the Ning naval cavalry, waiting for the order to attack.

Zhao Wencai looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "Marshal, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers are a little interesting, no wonder they can kill the Ming army!" ”

"What, you're scared?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhao Wencai and said, "You won't even be afraid of these rabble, right?" ”

"The handsome man laughed!"

Zhao Wencai smiled faintly and said: "The last general is just thinking about the marshal, the marshal is a hundred and tens of thousands of rogues, and the marshal has to prepare the land for reward!" ”

"Just 1.8 million acres of land, Ben Shuai still has it!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Brothers, don't worry, Ben Shuai has land, even if the land is gone in the future, don't worry that Ben Shuai will not reward you, if there is no land, Ben Shuai will take you to grab the land!" ”

"I am willing to die for the handsome!"

The cavalry of the Six Thousand Ning Navy let out a roar, and the sound was so loud that it soared into the sky.

"Crush them to death for this king!"

Zhang Xianzhong yelled with a hideous face.

(End of chapter)