"Fixed-shot loading, target Quang Ninh Acropolis, pre-firing three rounds, angle self-scheduling, preparation...... Put! ”

"Boom, boom!!"

On the first day of the first month of August, on the first day of the new moon, the sound of artillery resounded through the central defense of Quang Ninh, and the Bohai Navy also sent hot shells to the southern army here.

Hundreds of shells bombarded the Central Acropolis, shattering and crushing the bricks of the Quang Ninh Central Acropolis City, which had not been newly repaired for two years.

After this round of shelling passed, the Ming troops hiding behind the battlements also got up one after another, sighing and picking up another life.

More than half a month has passed since Meng Zhang's attack on Liaoxi, and in this half a month, the four guards and four guards in Guangning have lost two guards and one house.

The Acropolis of Quang Ninh Youtun, where Liu Song was stationed, had been lost, and he led his army to retreat to the Zhongzuo of Quang Ninh, but it was still lost in less than ten days.

At the moment, they retreated to the Guangning Zhongtunwei in the north of Xiaoling River, but Meng Zhang still chased here, constantly shelling the city.

"Why hasn't the military rations in Yizhou been delivered for a long time?"

In the command envoy yamen, Liu Song stood in the main seat and questioned the commander of Xinchengwei Qiu Wu, but Qiu Wu couldn't answer this question.

"We have sent people to urge three or four times, but everyone has not returned, I am afraid that Yiju has fallen, and the more than 20,000 troops there have also surrendered to the enemy."

Wu Sheng opened his mouth with the worst intentions, but this sentence stung Liu Song.

In recent days, Meng Zhang, who was outside the city, continued to test them with his scheming, saying that Jiulian City had surrendered, and his father Liu Zhen had also surrendered to Bohai.

Liu Song didn't believe that his father was that kind of person, but Meng Zhang's psychological warfare did have a set, so much so that he was very indignant when he heard the word 'surrender to the enemy' now.

It's just that in the face of Wu Sheng's words, he couldn't get angry, so he could only endure his temper and ask Wu Sheng: "How long is the food in the Sanwei Mansion Treasury enough to eat?" ”

"Counting sea transportation, at most two months ......" Wu Sheng's eyes dimmed, and Liu Song's heart twitched.

These days, he has not tried to lead his troops out of the city to fight with the Bohai Navy, but the firearms of the Bohai Navy are too powerful, and the spear formation covering the firearms troops is not inferior to the Daning soldiers and the Liao soldiers, so they have not been able to bargain.

At present, in the western Liaoning corridor, in their hands, there are also Shanhaiwei, Ningyuanwei, and now they are in Guangning Zhongtunwei, a total of three guards, under the jurisdiction of five guards.

There are 20,000 military households in the three guards and five institutes, with a population of tens of 12,000, plus more than 28,600 Daning people after the war, a total of 140,000 soldiers and civilians.

140,000 people eat horses and chew every day, and the grain consumed is more than 1,000 stones, while the three guards and five institutes only have less than 50,000 stones.

Although Shandong continued to send them grain by sea, because there was no suitable place to dock large ships in the Liaoxi Corridor at this time, they could only use small boats of dozens of materials to transport grain.

In order to transport this bit of food, many small boats capsized in the Bohai Sea along the way.

To transport one stone of grain to Liaoxi, the Shandong political envoy must prepare at least three stones of grain.

In addition to the fact that last year Shandong delivered millions of stone of grain to the Liaodong Prefecture and the Daning Prefecture respectively, and this year another 600,000 stone was transported to Jinzhou, which was intercepted by the Bohai Navy.

It can be said that the Shandong political envoys, who have been supplying blood to Daning and Liaodong for a long time, have now been completely hollowed out.

In order to transport grain, the imperial court had no choice but to transfer copper money to the political envoy of Shandong, and buy grain locally to transport to the front line.

The war was already difficult, and now it is suffering from the interruption of the grain route in Yiju.

As Wu Sheng said, it may be difficult for them to survive two months.

"Boom!!"

After resting for a quarter of an hour, the Bohai Navy began to shell again, listening to the dull sound of artillery, Liu Song felt extremely aggrieved.

It's just that his grievances can be ended now......

"General!"

The sound of hurried footsteps sounded shortly after the cannon stopped, and several Daning's commanders made the military attachés run into the middle hall in a hurry, and said in a hurry:

"There are a large number of Bohai Navy outside the city, and there are soldiers and horses flying the banner of our Daning!"

"What did you say?" Hearing this, Liu Song hurriedly walked out of the yamen, and Wu Sheng also followed when he saw this.

After a short time, they appeared on the horse road of the Zhongtun Acropolis in Quang Ninh, and held on to the wall buttress to see the team of no less than 50,000 people outside the city.

"They're coming this way, what are they trying to do?"

A commander exclaimed, Liu Song and the others could also see with the naked eye that there were many people walking out of the team, but they were not dressed like soldiers, but more like ordinary people.

"What do the thieves want? Do you want to learn from Hu soldiers to drive the people to attack the city? ”

"They don't have it...... Wait a minute! ”

"What's going on?!"

When the team gradually approached the city wall, the Daning soldiers and generals who were strictly guarding against death were in a trance.

The people who walked towards them were actually the people with the banner of Daning, or their relatives.

"Daddy! The King of Bohai told you to surrender quickly, Daning has been captured by the King of Bohai. ”

"Yang Erlang! Hurry up and open the city, the twenty-two acropolis have surrendered, don't fight! ”

"Ermazi! Don't fight, your brother and they are still in the ranks of the King of Bohai, and the King of Bohai promised us, saying that we can be registered as citizens, and we don't need to be soldiers. ”

When the families of the 22nd guards of Daning appeared under the Zhongtun Acropolis in Guangning, it was not only Liu Song and Wu Sheng who were dumbfounded, but also more middle-level generals and ordinary soldiers.

Most of the faces who can appear in the city are familiar to them, including their immediate family members.

For a while, the entire city was in chaos, and Liu Song and Wu Sheng's faces changed greatly.

There were no family members of the two of them in the city, and their families were all in the capital or their hometown in Huaixi, but even so, they still felt a kind of despair.

Daning Dusi was breached, doesn't that mean that the three guards in western Liaoning have become a complete island?

What's even more deadly is that 20,000 of the more than 30,000 defenders in Liaoxi are from Daning, and their families are calling them.

"Can't open the city! This is a trick used by the traitors of the Bohai Sea! ”

"Someone! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Fuck your shit!"

On the horse road, some generals suddenly tried to give the order to release arrows, but they were immediately abused by a group of soldiers and horses in Daning.

When those voices came out, Wu Sheng's heart immediately tightened, he understood that anyone who understood would not order the arrow to be released at this time.

"There are people from Bohai Shu in the city!"

Wu Sheng hurriedly looked at Liu Song, and Liu Song immediately scolded loudly: "You can't release arrows!" ”

Although the two of them made an emergency response, now the road has become a pot of porridge, and their voices are too low for everyone to hear.

The two took their guards to try to stop the chaos, but before they could pacify a few people, someone hurriedly came to report.

"Governor! The gates of the city have been opened! ”

"Buzz Rumble......

When the soldiers who reported the news went up the road and found Liu Song to inform the city gate of the situation, the dull sound of horses' hooves also sounded outside the city.

The sound of horses' hooves didn't seem like trampling on the land, but more like trampling on Liu Song's heart.

"Close the gates!"

Liu Song and Wu Sheng each got the news, and even if they brought out more than 1,000 people from the chaotic soldiers to get off the road, there were more soldiers and horses at the city gate.

Thousands of Daning soldiers and horses didn't know when they got off the city, and Liu Song scolded angrily when he saw this: "Who asked you to aim your knives at your brothers!" ”

In the crowd, a familiar general appeared, and in the face of Liu Song's angry scolding, he scolded back: "Liu Song, you fucking don't cry and fake mercy, just now you still wanted to shoot our brother's father and mother relatives, and now you still have the face to come here." ”

"That's not my order!" Liu Song had the heart to explain, but the general ignored it at all, and just led people to form a formation at the city gate.

Standing here, Liu Song could see with his own eyes the Bohai cavalry rushing towards them, getting closer and closer.

"Huang Qu, you close the city gate immediately, I don't blame the past for what happened just now!"

Liu Song spoke urgently, and Wu Sheng also secretly commanded his soldiers and horses to form a formation to press forward with Huang Qu's thousands of people step by step.

"We dared to open the city gate, but we didn't think we would go with you!"

The command that stood up and spoke made Huang Qu shout at this Liu Song, and at this time, the Bohai cavalry was getting closer and closer to the city gate, and their number was not at all something that Liu Song's thousands of people could resist.

"Withdraw, there are still two thousand horses behind us, we can withdraw!"

Wu Sheng saw the chaotic situation around him, and knew that he could not reorganize the army, so he could only persuade Liu Song to retreat.

In the face of his dissuasion, the imminent entry of the Bohai Navy into the city, and Huang Qu's obstruction, Liu Song could only scold Huang Qu and had no choice but to withdraw with more than 1,000 soldiers.

However, within two minutes, the cavalry of the Bohai Navy successfully entered the city, and Huang Qu asked the soldiers to withdraw and put down their weapons.

Not only them, but also many soldiers in Daning and Liaoxi.

In these days of fighting, they have not been able to bargain from the Bohai Navy, and their morale is already low, and now that the city has fallen, for many soldiers, they have long wanted to fight, and it is not bad to take this opportunity to surrender.

"What about Liu Song and Wu Sheng?"

When the Bohai Navy completely took over the Zhongtun Acropolis in Guangning, Zhu Gaoxu also entered the city with more than 100 cavalry, and met several commanders who surrendered, as well as dozens of thousands of households.

"Back to Your Highness, they withdrew to the south with some remnants of the army."

Huang Qu, who took the lead in opening the city gate, opened his mouth, and at the same time asked about what the generals were worried about: "Dare to ask Your Highness, I will wait for my relatives ......."

"You and your relatives are all right, and you can reunite your family in a little while." Zhu Gaoxu replied without waiting for him to finish, and at the same time said to Chen Mao, who entered the city with him: "You take two thousand light horsemen to chase Liu Song and them, and if you catch up, you will be counted!" ”

"The last general commands!" Chen Mao, a person who had just joined Bohai, needed a credit to prove his existence, and when he heard Zhu Gaoxu say this, he immediately ordered two thousand cavalry to chase south.

While he was pursuing southward, Zhu Gaoxu began to ask Meng Zhang and Xu Sheng to count the treasury of the Zhongtun Guard Mansion in Guangning and the amount of troops surrendered.

In less than two hours, the two of them came to the commander's yamen with all kinds of documents and military registers from the treasury.

Zhu Gaoxu looked through all kinds of documents, and in general, as a tunwei, the amount of tuntian under his command was still quite a lot, 280,000 mu, and the total number of military households in the city was more than 59,700 people, more than 24,000 stone of grain, 757 head of cultivated cattle, and 327 head of mules.

As for the war horses in the city, they were all brought by Liu Song and Wu Sheng when they retreated.

"Military attachés above the small banner and their families moved to Changchun, and grassroots soldiers and their families moved to southern Liaoning, thirty percent stayed locally, two percent moved to Sanwanwei, and one percent moved to Tieling."

Zhu Gaoxu's sentence basically set the whereabouts of more than 20,000 military households and their 70,000 or 80,000 relatives.

Meng Zhang, Zhu Gaoxu also explained to the two: "Let Yishiha take the princess and them south, and bring enough officials by the way, if the officials are insufficient, they will be temporarily transferred from the health school to study for three years, and students over the age of fifteen can do it." ”

Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates are short of people, especially scholars.

At present, even Bohai students, who have only been studying for three years, are an indispensable wealth for him.

In three years, these students have basically learned the ninety-nine multiplication table and simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, which are used to measure cultivated land and divide the acres of land equally.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered in his mind the number of students enrolled in the health school every year, more than 40,000 students in the four cities of Bohai, and more than 7,000 people over the age of 15, but among them, the health school in places like Heishui City and Andong City has been open for a short time, and only Jilin Health School can pull out more than 3,000 people who are over the age of 15 and have been in school for three years.

But even so, this amount is enough for Zhu Gaoxu to use now.

The acres of fields in Liaodong and Daning are one to two percent more than those recorded in the register, and Zhu Gaoxu estimated that they should be higher than the more than 2.3 million mu of fields stipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, but not too much.

After all, it took more than 20 years of vigorous reclamation during the Yongle years, and the amount of land in Liaodong is only more than 4 million mu, and it is impossible to exceed this number now.

But even so, for Zhu Gaoxu, as long as it can exceed 2.5 million mu, this can be regarded as a great surprise.

Counting the more than one million mu of cultivated land in the Bohai Sea this year, these more than 3 million mu may be able to produce 2 million stone of grain this year, so that the gap in the Bohai Sea will drop to the level of more than 4 million stones.

By next year, this amount will increase, but only if Zhu Gaoxu has to do a good job in the water conservancy in Liaodong and Daning, and this is why he let Yishu go south.

Needless to say, with the blessing of cement, a large number of basic water conservancy projects have been built, which is enough for the people of Bohai to reclaim with peace of mind for three or four years.

The problem now is Liaodong, there is no cement in Liaodong, and the so-called canals are just ravines, and there is no reasonable design.

Now it is the top priority to transfer Yishiha to Liaodong to build cement, steel and other factories in Liaodong, and then build water conservancy facilities to increase the grain yield per mu in Liaodong and Daning, and to promote seedling fields to cultivate rice.

From now to the beginning of winter, Zhu Gaoxu still has two months to use, and he must not waste it.

"Your Highness!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from outside the yamen, and Chen Mao appeared inside the yamen, but his expression was a little ashamed.

"Didn't catch it?"

Zhu Gaoxu knew what was going on as soon as he saw his expression, and Chen Mao bowed: "The last general is incompetent, so Liu Song and the others led their troops to flee into the Zhongtun Institute in the southeast. ”

"I know, I don't blame you for this, don't ask your subordinates to lose their temper." Zhu Gaoxu knocked on Chen Mao, and Chen Mao also stood aside in shame.

Seeing this, Meng Zhang also spoke: "That Zhongtun is only more than ten miles away from here, just across the Xiaoling River, so there is a slight obstacle. ”

"Then Liu Song and Wu Sheng shouldn't stick there, they should find an opportunity to escape to Guangningwei in the south."

"Your Highness, do you want the last general to lead the troops and besiege Ningyuan City first?"

"You take the Shenji Battalion, and bring an additional two thousand elite horsemen." Zhu Gaoxu commanded.

"The last general commands!" Seeing this, Meng Zhangzuo left, and Xu Sheng also spoke: "Your Highness, the last general is willing to lead two thousand elite cavalry to escort the military households to the various guards. ”

"Go ahead." Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, and finally set his eyes on Chen Mao: "You go and help your father control the army." ”

"Yes......" Chen Mao retreated with a red face, and after a while, only Zhu Gaoxu and a few guards were left in the yamen.

It's just that under his arrangement, Meng Zhang led the horse infantry firearms soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to cross the Xiaoling River, all the way south, and surrounded Zhongtun Station, Ningyuan Zhongzuo Station, Ningyuan City, and all kinds of horse posts.

For a time, Wu Sheng and Liu Song were completely isolated, and the 2,000 Bohai cavalry outside the city made it impossible for them to leave the city, and they could only watch Meng Zhang lead the musketeers and artillery south.

The next day, Ningyuan Zhongzuo, who had no reinforcements, surrendered, and the news of the siege of Ningyuan City also reached Shanhaiguan.

Wu Shou'an, who was stationed here, learned that Ningyuan was surrounded, and immediately released dozens of carrier pigeons to send news to the south.

Not only him, but even Liu Song and Wu Sheng of Guangning Zhongtun Institute.

In just three days, Ningyuan City, which had only 1,000 garrisons, fell, and the Qiantun Guards and other guards in Guangning surrendered, leaving only Shanhaiguan and Zhongtun in Guangning, with a total strength of less than 8,000 in the entire western Liaoning.

After receiving the news of the carrier pigeon, the Shandong political envoy immediately sent a fast horse to send the news to Zhending, and it was already the fifth day of August when he arrived.

"Daning was captured by the Bohai Shuren, and three of the four guards in western Liaoning were also taken, leaving only Wu Shouan of Shanhaiguan and Wu Sheng of Guangning Zhongzuo."

In the yamen, Geng Bingwen read the news that made the southern army's heart sink.

Although Shanhaiguan has not yet fallen into the hands of the rebels, without Daning, the rebels can freely enter and leave Liaodong and Beiping, but it is just a delay.

"I'm afraid the number of rebels is no less than 170,000."

Geng Bingwen told about the situation, while his eyes scanned the yamen, and finally placed it on a tall figure.

"Pingdu Governor, the old man ordered you to lead Yang Song and Pan Zhong to ride nine thousand elite horses north to Xiongxian County."

"The last general commands!"

When Geng Bingwen's voice came, Ping'an, who was known as the first fierce general in the north, also stood up.

He was previously transferred to Shandong, and now he is leading troops to Zhending, and he can be regarded as a pioneer general that Geng Bingwen can trust.

asked him to lead his troops north to Xiongxian County to test the Yan army's reaction to his own side.

Seeing that he received his life safely, and Daning and Liaodong had basically been lost, Geng Bingwen was not in a hurry.

He was anxious before, because Daning and Liaodong were at risk of running out of food, and the imperial court asked him to step up to take Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, so as to ensure that Daning and Liaodong would not surrender to the enemy.

Now that Daning and Liaodong are gone, he needs to ask the southern court for instructions, temporarily stationed in Zhending and Hejian Erfu, and guard the Shanxi Pass to prevent the rebels from converging and moving south.

"Send this news to the capital urgently, and ask Your Majesty."

"The last general commands!"

Geng Bingwen put away these military information and turned around and handed them over to Li Jian, who was the captain of the horses.

As one of the people sent by Zhu Yunwen, Li Jian is different from Ning Zhong, Wu Jie and others, and Zhu Yunwen is behind him, so it is the safest plan for him to hand over the letter to Zhu Yunwen.

Li Jian walked out of the yamen, and soon arranged an 800-mile expedited to send the situation of Beiping, Liaodong, and Daning to Nanjing.

In just three days, Zhu Yunwen received this series of news.

Sitting on the throne of red sandalwood inlaid with jade, Zhu Yunwen in the Wuying Hall had a calm face, and in front of him stood Qi Tai, Fang Xiaoru and other ministers of the five mansions and six departments.

He did not lash out as everyone thought, but was silent for a long time before he spoke:

"Spread my will, from today onwards, prohibit the people from becoming monks and nuns privately, the world's monasteries and Taoist temples, each monk and Taoist can only save five acres of land, the court can exempt them from rent and tax, for incense, the rest of the acres of land are all into the official office, and the official government will give it to the people."

"Your Majesty Shengming ......"

Listening to the emperor's new policy, everyone knew that this was a counterattack against the per capita land of the Bohai Shu in the north to the military households, but the strength of the counterattack was not large.

The fields of Buddhism in the world have been recovered once at the beginning of the founding of the country, although more than 20 years have passed now, but Buddhism has been restricted in the Hongwu years, and the fields that can be purchased through incense money are very limited.

This amount is naturally a lot in Liaodong, but it is not much in Guannei.

Using this amount of acres to buy the people will not have any effect at all, not to mention whether this batch of fields can reach the hands of the people is another matter......

Thinking of this, some military attachés glanced vaguely at the civil officials such as Tyrant Zhao.

"The Marquis of Changxing came to Songshu, and thought that after the urgency of rescuing Daning and Liaodong at the moment, he should station troops in Hebei, limit the traces of the rebels, and gradually go north to slowly defeat the rebels."

"What do you think of this policy?"

Zhu Yunwen took Geng Bingwen's recital and asked everyone, and Qi Tai took a step forward and said: "For now, it should indeed be like this." ”

"It's just that the treasury of Shandong and Henan has been exhausted, and there is still a month and a half before the autumn harvest." Huang Zicheng followed up and continued:

"If you still have to slowly figure it out, I'm afraid that the Shanxi treasury will also be exhausted."

As soon as Huang Zicheng opened his mouth, he talked about the money and food that Zhu Yunwen was most concerned about.

More than 200,000 troops are in Shanxi and Beiping, and although the number of people who need to be replenished to them is not as exaggerated as one million, there are also four or five hundred thousand people.

Putting aside the delay in agricultural time for the time being, just eating horses and chewing will consume two or three hundred thousand stone of grain every month.

At present, Shandong, Henan, and Beiping have not yet reached the autumn harvest, so the army's grain can only be transferred from Zhili.

This comes and goes, coupled with the wear and tear on the transportation road, will only consume more.

For every month of delay, the imperial court had to spend hundreds of thousands of stones.

It's just that compared with this consumption of money and food, Zhu Yunwen is more concerned about whether Geng Bingwen can deal with Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

"The number of thieves is no less than 170,000, and if Geng Zhen and others surrender, it may reach 200,000."

"Do you think you need to send more troops to Changxinghou?"

The scale of Zhu Di's martyrdom was too large, and Zhu Yunwen was naturally worried about Geng Bingwen's failure.

In this regard, Li Jinglong also stood up and said: "The war in the southwest is nearing the end, and it is permissible to transfer the 40,000 soldiers and horses of Sichuan led by Qu Neng and Gu Cheng to the north. ”

"In addition, 30,000 troops can also be transferred in the Liangguang area, and if it doesn't work, another 100,000 troops can be transferred from Zhili."

"In addition, the Yangtze River and the Liangguang Naval Division can be transferred to Yang Wen or Chen Xuan to go north to Denglai in Shandong, to prevent the Bohai Shu people from following Emperor Gao's move of crossing the sea to Liaodong, and by the way, order the Denglai Naval Division to make a detour to North Korea, and respond to the slow retreat of Liu Zhen's troops in Jiulian City, and order Wu Sheng and others to be stationed and wait for the Yangtze River Naval Division to respond to the retreat."

Li Jinglong wanted to give up Liaoxi and Jiuliancheng, but this was already a foregone conclusion.

There was not enough food supply in these two places, and it was only a matter of time before they surrendered, so it was better to take advantage of the fact that they still had food and use the Yangtze River, Liangguang and Denglai sailors to withdraw them to Shandong and Beiping.

However, there are certain hidden dangers and dangers in doing so, so Li Jinglong said with a little worry:

"It's just that the rebels probably won't give us time to transfer troops......"

His words expressed Zhu Yunwen's worries, so in the face of this problem, Zhu Yunwen rarely did not listen to Huang Zicheng's words, but ordered:

"Order the Marquis of Changxing to be stationed in Hejian and Zhending to prevent the rebels from going south, and in addition, 60,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Zhili and other capitals will be transferred to the north, and 40,000 people from Gu Cheng and Qu Neng will be transferred north."

"Once the war in the southwest is settled, order Wei Guogong and Xiping Hou to transfer another 30,000 soldiers and horses from Yunnan to the north, and the governor He Fu will stay behind."

"In addition, Chen Xuan commanded the Yangtze River Naval Division to go north to meet Liu Zhen, and transferred Denglai Naval Division to respond to Wu Sheng and Wu Shouan."

"The Governor's Mansion will send a letter to Shenyang's Geng Dang Feige, show his merits, promote him to Shenyang, and hope that he will encourage himself."

After saying all this, Zhu Yunwen glanced at everyone calmly:

"I don't believe that gathering more than 300,000 troops will not be able to deal with the number of 170,000 rebels."

The latest chapter is blocked, and it will be estimated that it will not be released until later

(End of chapter)