"Bell... Clang... Clang... Bell ......"

In the cold winter, when the smell of gunpowder wafts over the Hebei Plain, Dengzhou City, which is at the end of the Shandong Peninsula, is also extremely lively.

Thousands of ships poured into the harbor, and flags fluttered in the wind.

On the wharf, the sound of shouting and commanding the port continued, and instantly resounded throughout Dengzhou Bay.

For a time, tens of thousands of sailors and sailors landed on the port, and the southern soldiers on the ship disembarked one after another, and the figures stood all over the port.

When the sound of horses' hooves sounded, some high-ranking generals began to disembark from the ship on horseback and rush to the nearby city of Dengzhou.

The yamen of the Dengzhou Wei command post has been cleared out, and when this group of generals arrives, they dismount one after another, and only the military attache at the command and envoy level can enter the yamen.

When they sat down, the leader of the generals was Chen Xuan, the 35-year-old chief officer of the Yangtze River Naval Division, followed by Yang Li, the chief military officer of the Pingwu Water Division, and Qi Ji, the acting commander of Dengzhou.

The commander of the Denglai Naval Division made Wei Fu because of his old age at the beginning of the year, because the incident happened on the eve of the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Yunwen also agreed, so the local affairs have been in charge of the Dengzhou Acting Guard Commander Qi Zhi.

This Qi admonition is not famous, although he is young, but he is also a good conductor.

Before Chen Xuan and the others went north, it was he who commanded the sailors to go to Jiulian City to meet Liu Zhen.

During this period, he also tried to pick up Wu Sheng and Wu Shou'an, but both had to stop the rescue because of the field artillery of the Bohai Navy.

Compared with him, Chen Xuan and Yang Li's resumes are much more luxurious.

Chen Xuan served in Sichuan during the Hongwu period, and participated in the conquest of Nanfan, Yueshan, and Baiyi with Fu Youde, Qu Neng, Lan Yu and others, and participated in the rebellion of Timur and Jahara in Dingyuelu.

Although he was only thirty-five years old, his merits were already higher than that of some founding marquis and earls in the Hongwu period.

Compared with him, although Yang Li was mediocre before being recommended by Zhu Gaoxu, he began to emerge after being recommended.

In the tens of thousands of miles of sea that followed Yang Wenping, he did not lose a single defeat in 27 battles, and killed more than 13,000 true widows.

On the road to pacify the coastal pirates, his contribution is not small.

Together, these three men commanded five hundred and twenty-seven warships and three hundred and twenty-four horse-ships.

This scale is actually larger than the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the West, even if it is thrown into the First Opium War, as long as they are equipped with corresponding artillery, they can also achieve good results.

"I have read the hydrology of Denglai, and the top priority at the moment is to build forts on the Imperial City Islands, especially Beihuangcheng Island."

Sitting on the main seat, Chen Xuan's first military order was to strengthen the fortifications of Beihuangcheng Island, and explained:

"The thief army is currently building a city in Port Arthur at the southern tip of Golden State, although I don't know whether to defend or attack a springboard, but there is still a certain threat to us."

"If you start from Port Arthur, the thief army is only more than a hundred miles away from Beihuangcheng Island, and even if it is a slower horse boat, it can reach Beihuangcheng Island within five hours with a tailwind."

"The thief army has sharp artillery, and it can hit two miles away with a weight of only seven or eight hundred catties, so we must be on guard."

"If Beihuangcheng Island falls, the subsequent eleven islands will fall one after another, and once the thief army takes the Imperial City Islands, it will only take three days to go back and forth between Liaodong and Dengzhou."

"I don't need to go into too much detail about this situation, so now I ordered Qi Dai to command the envoy to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to garrison Beihuangcheng Island, and General Officer Yang led the Pingwu Shui Division to the north after the beginning of spring, harassing Hai, Gai, Fu, Jin and other prefectures, and I personally led the Yangtze River Naval Division to sit in Dengzhou City."

"The last general commands!" Hearing Chen Xuan's arrangement, Qi Ji and Yang Li got up to fight, and then withdrew from the command envoy yamen.

The two exchanged pleasantries at the door, although the official positions are different and the ages are different, but when Yang Li and Yang Wen went north to Pingwei a few years ago, they also dealt with Qi Ji.

Now that there are more and more brothers killed in the war, and there are fewer and fewer familiar faces, Yang Li chatted with Qi for a while.

After a short time, he returned to the inn to rest.

It's just that he hasn't been lying down for long before he hears a report from the guard at the door that an old man asks to see him.

"The deceased?"

Yang Li frowned, and couldn't help but think of Yang Zhan, who was in Liaodong, so he could only stubbornly speak: "Let him come in." ”

"Yes!" The guards walked out, and after a while, Yang Li saw a sturdy businessman in his thirties walk into his residence.

"Who are you?" Yang Li got straight to the point, and the man also raised his hand: "The situation of the grass people is in this letter, please read it." ”

The man handed out the letter, and Yang Li also took it with a heavy heart.

This letter was not what he expected, it was indeed written to him by Yang Zhan, and this sturdy businessman was Hu Lun under Zhu Gaoxu, the governor of the Guannei to transmit and inquire about everything.

Yang Zhan's intention in writing this letter is very clear, that is, to know the movements of the Southern Army's naval division.

Although this was contrary to Yang Li's thoughts, for the sake of Yang Zhan's safety, he still sighed and wrote the movements of the Southern Army's naval division, and gave the best time to attack.

"Take it, don't come to see me if there is nothing to do in the future, Dengzhou City is not safe at the moment."

Yang Li commanded, and Hu Lun naturally knew it, so he left with a smile on his face.

After he left, Yang Li's mood gradually became solemn, he didn't think that Zhu Gaoxu could defeat this powerful Southern Army Naval Division.

Even if they went to southern Liaoning with the Pingwu Naval Division and did not participate in this naval battle, they might not necessarily win.

Yang Li's idea is right, but what he doesn't know is that times have changed.

Hu Lun returned to his residence in Dengzhou with the crucial piece of information, and then, according to the content of the information, shortened it and chose to write it down in a special way.

This special way is a method specially taught by Zhu Gaoxu to Xichang, which no one can crack in this era, but if it is thrown into future generations, it can be understood by many people.

To put it more clearly, it is nothing more than the Hanyu Pinyin of Mandarin in later generations.

Even if this kind of thing is picked up, it can't be read at all, because the gap between the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty and the Mandarin of later generations is not one or two points, let alone requiring a person who has never learned to read the initials and finals.

Hu Lun wrote down the information with confidence, and finally released more than 30 carrier pigeons and let them fly to the north with the news.

Time passed little by little, but a day and night, the next day, the Jinzhou West Factory Baihu Office got Hu Lun's information, and after "deciphering" it, it was written out and handed over to Yang Zhan, who was currently training the navy.

"Governor Zhu, this is information sent from the south."

In the Golden State Navy camp, where there was a lot of shouts of killing, the hundred officials of the West Factory handed over important information to Yang Zhan.

Yang Zhan glanced at ten lines after taking it, and the frowning brows that were originally from training quickly relaxed.

"Good! With this news, we are assured. ”

"You should send this news to Quang Ninh now and hand it over to Your Highness."

Yang Zhan returned the information and urged the hundred household officials.

The officials of the hundred households did not hesitate, immediately burned the information, and prepared to return to the hundred households and send it to Quang Ninh after re-encrypting.

The intelligence process of the West Factory is very clear, from decipherment to writing, to delivery, incineration, the whole process will not exceed ten people involved.

This kind of practice is very cumbersome, but it is very effective, at least until now, the Jinyiwei of the Southern Army has not received the key information of the Bohai Navy, and can only write some generally.

The re-encrypted information was reformatted and sequenced, and sent in a content and format known only to the Golden State West Plant.

When Zhu Gaoxu got the information, it was already the ninth day of the lunar month.

Snow covered the entire Guanwai, and even in Quang Ninh, near the Bohai Sea, you could see a full two feet of snow.

Zhu Gaoxu read the deciphered information, nodding constantly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He didn't say anything, but watched and calculated in his heart.

At present, among the three sailors, the strongest is Yang Yu's Pingwu Division, of which seventy-eight 2,000 warships are used by the Pingwu Division, and most of the 1,500 warships are under the command of the Pingwu Division.

Once they went to attack Hai, Gai, and Fuzhou, the naval divisions of the Southern Army who stayed in the Imperial City Islands and Dengzhou would lose both firepower and the quality of their warships.

He could completely let Yang Zhan seize this opportunity and defeat Chen Xuan and Qi Ji in one go.

With Yang Li as the internal response, plus Yang Zhan's forty warships of more than 2,000 materials and more than 1,000 naval guns, there was no reason why they would lose.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu's gaze moved from the Battle of Denglai to the back.

How he was going to go all the way south, he thought about it carefully.

It was impossible to go south by boat all the way, even if the whole country was mobilized during the Yongle period, it was only possible to create a Zheng He sailor who could carry 20,000 soldiers and horses on a long voyage.

At present, the Bohai Navy, even if the merchant ships in Jinzhou Bay are also counted, can at most transport 10,000 people across the sea to Jinzhou at one time, which is still less than 200 miles by sea, and if you want to take the navy all the way south, then from Dengzhou to the mouth of the Yangtze River, there is at least a 2,000-mile sea route.

With the current ship delivery capacity of the Bohai Sea, if you want to escort a group of soldiers and horses across the 2,000-mile sea route, the number will never be more than 5,000.

Zheng Chengcheng sent 20,000 troops straight to the capital, that is, there were many ships of his Zheng family, but Zhu Gaoxu's ships were too few, and sending 5,000 people may not be successful.

Therefore, he never thought of using the navy to surprise the capital, what he wanted was to use the navy to transport siege artillery and field artillery, and the army was to land in Dengzhou, interspersed with Huai'an Mansion from the south of Shandong, and then go all the way south, and at the same time the navy entered the mouth of the Yangtze River and slowly approached, and received the army from Yangzhou to cross the river.

As long as the cavalry successfully crossed the river and surrounded the twelve city gates in the east and south of the capital, and at the same time the navy entered the Yangtze River and controlled the seven gates in the west and north of the capital, then Zhu Yunwen would be unable to fly.

What is fighting is speed, and it is necessary to surround the capital before Zhu Yunwen escapes from the capital.

The situation faced by Zhu Di was that all the heavy armies of the Southern Army were severely damaged or even annihilated by him, and Zhu Yunwen could no longer pull out other corps except Song Sheng and Mu Sheng to fight against Zhu Di, so he set himself on fire in despair.

But right now, if you want to intersperse battles, there are actually a lot of Zhu Yunwen's hole cards.

The corps in the southwest has not been dispatched so far, and it can at least pull out 100,000 soldiers.

It is possible that Li Jinglong in the north has not even suffered defeat, and there are still 300,000 troops to drive.

Song Sheng in the northwest, Yang Wen in Guangxi, and Fang Zhao in Shanxi......

This army is still there, if Zhu Yunwen escapes from the capital, he still has the opportunity to gather hundreds of thousands of troops to confront his father and son.

Therefore, what this war pursues is to be fast, to encircle the capital as quickly as possible, and to end the battle of Jingjing.

As long as the cavalry encircles the eastern city, they can concentrate a little bit of siege artillery carried by the navy to attack from the east.

Because the capital had been threatened by Chen Youliang, Lao Zhu deliberately strengthened the city walls facing the river in the west and north, although those city walls were not as strong as those in the late Ming Dynasty and even World War II, but they were not easy to take down by naval guns.

On the contrary, there are no waterfront places in the east and south of Nanjing, almost all of them are rammed earth walls, and there are only wall bricks near the city gate tower.

Concentrate the field artillery to the east for artillery bombardment, quickly take the outer city, and control Zhu Yunwen in the inner city without arable land and grain, which is what Zhu Gaoxu has to do.

After making all this clear, Zhu Gaoxu knew what else he needed to arrange.

Although it is said that there are no city walls in many places in the Jianghuai area because of the demolition of the city wall by Mengyuan, tens of thousands of people have gone south, and how to solve the grain and straw along the way is a big problem.

Now that the northern army is assembled, and the price of grain in Jianghuai, Jiangnan and other places is soaring, can we still collect enough grain along the way to the south?

Therefore, you need to prepare yourself in advance.

Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at the hundred household officials of the West Factory: "You encrypt the words you give me, and ask Hu Lun to help me go to Huai'an." ”

"The last general commands!" The officials of the hundred households began to prepare to write, and Zhu Gaoxu also said what he wanted Hu Lun to do.

When he explained everything, Zhu Di in the direction of Beiping was already fully prepared.

"Kill! Kill! Kill ......"

The shouting and killing sound continued outside the city of Beiping, and more than 100,000 troops were training in the cleaned school field.

This scene is as if commanding a huge number of more than 100,000 people, allowing them to conduct a military parade in an orderly manner.

It may seem like a show, but when it comes to the actual fight, their opponents will be surprised by their coordination.

"Good! Good! ”

Standing on the handsome platform of seven or eight feet, Zhu Di couldn't understand the entire army, because the number of 100,000 people was really too much.

But even so, he could still see the movements of the various armies, but the movement of the corps was a little farther away.

Among them, the leader in sports operations was not the Yanfu cavalry who followed Zhu Di to the south and the north, but the Bohai horse infantry commanded by Wang Yi.

They skillfully interspersed with various departments, the instructions are clear, and any whistle and horn sound represents a variety of combat commands, and they can completely gallop on their horses and dismount in formation.

"How did the second train them? I didn't realize he still had this talent. ”

Zhu Di looked at the 20,000 horse infantry under Wang Yi's command, his eyes were extremely hot, and he muttered to himself, so that Zhang Yu, Meng Shan and the others who were standing on his left and right had no doubt that if he was given a chance, he could deceive all the soldiers and horses under Zhu Gaoxu's command.

In terms of the interspersed with many corps and the cooperation between corps and corps, Zhu Gaoxu is indeed not as experienced as Zhu Di.

But if you only talk about military discipline, discipline and execution, let alone the Yan Army, even if you pull over the 16th Guard of Shangzhi, who has been transferred by Zhu Yuanzhang to the local counterinsurgency all the year round, it is not necessarily the opponent of the Bohai Navy.

The literacy rate of the Bohai Sea may not be high, but the literacy rate of the Bohai Navy is certainly not low.

Even in the past few months when the Fourth Battalion of the Divine Machine, which did not have enough health studies in Blackwater City, entered the customs and rested, Zhu Gaoxu made people continue to give them bad knowledge.

They may not be able to write much, but their ability to understand and learn must be better than that of the feudal army, which was illiterate for more than ninety percent.

In the same way, ordinary soldiers can only memorize by rote, and it is useless to beat and scold, but for soldiers with basic culture, these things can be understood quickly and can play on their own.

The place where the Bohai Navy is strong is here, and the key to the incompatibility of the 40,000 troops who came out of the Bohai Sea and the Liaodong and Daning armies is also here.

Any soldier who comes out of the Bohai Sea has at least 500 words of cultural reserves, and knows the most basic ninety-nine multiplication table.

The pond riding and Butang of the Bohai Sea can understand the drawings and make basic calculations on the location of the headquarters.

As the man of later generations said: "An army without culture is a stupid army, and a stupid army cannot defeat the enemy." ”

Zhu Gaoxu started the Weixue School in the 28th year of Hongwu, and constantly eradicated the illiteracy of the soldiers, so that they would understand the truth and understand the difference between themselves and the army in the Guannai.

The Bohai Navy's strong military discipline and high execution are all effects brought about by the eradication of illiteracy.

It is normal for Zhu Di to be greedy, not to mention that he will be greedy, even if Lao Zhu, who was already lying down, knew that Zhu Gaoxu's method of training soldiers was so easy to use, he might not let him go out of Nanjing City, but let him train well in the Sixteenth Guard.

"Bell... Clang... Bell ......"

When the 100,000-strong contingent began to sound the Ming Jin and pass on the military order, the Bohai Navy stood still, while many soldiers of the Yan Army still needed some time to adjust.

This scene made Zhu Di feel heartbroken, but he didn't feel that his soldiers were not as good as his second soldier, but regretted that he didn't ask for more of this kind of soldier with the second child.

"Your Highness, it seems that the only way to do this is the soldiers and horses who follow Your Highness out of the Bohai Sea."

Zhang Yu pointed to the Daning, Liaodong and other soldiers and horses brought by Wang Yi, and their quality was about the same as that of the Yan army, and the gap between them and the 20,000 horse infantry in Bohai was about the same as that of the Yan army.

"Zhang Yu, go and ask how they trained, ask clearly, we also train according to the method of the second child, and we want to train our cavalry and horse infantry like them."

Zhu Di's eyes were red, and his gaze revealed his desire for the Bohai Navy.

When Zhang Yu heard this, he immediately got off the platform and rode a horse to find Wang Yi.

Zhu Di let the whole army rest, and the Yan army and Daning soldiers sat down to rest, but the Bohai Navy sat on the ground after placing the horses in an orderly manner.

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Yu, who had been gone for a quarter of an hour, and finally ordered the whole army to continue training when he saw Zhang Yu returning on horseback.

It's just that his attention is no longer on the training of the whole army, but on Zhang Yu.

"How?"

Zhu Di asked Zhang Yu, who walked onto the stage, but Zhang Yu was embarrassed: "Your Highness, the method of the Second Highness, I'm afraid we won't be able to get it......"

"If there's anything you can't get, tell me well." Zhu Di leaned in, ready to hear the secret of his second child's military training.

"The secret of the Second Highness's military training is ......" Zhang Yu was helpless, so he could only slowly say what he heard from Wang Yi.

Zhu Di was still listening attentively, but the more he listened, the more wrong he became, and finally he simply summed it up in one sentence.

"The second child is such a waste!"

Zhu Di scolded the voices of the people of this era, because in the eyes of the people of this era, being a soldier is to be a hill, maybe they will die on the battlefield tomorrow, why teach them to read and write?

Even in the current situation where the children of military families continue to occupy the seats of the imperial examination, the background is that military families often choose a few outstanding children to study, and select other children to join the army instead of this outstanding son.

In other words, it is difficult for these children of military families who are selected to join the army to get the opportunity to study unless they have a family background of more than 100 or 1,000 households.

In such a social context, the Bohai Navy actually organized a literacy eradication activity, and made most of the soldiers proficient in the use of more than 500 words, which is a very remarkable, but very wasteful feat.

If this group of soldiers studies hard for a few more years, they can completely serve as local officials.

Lao Bo has a navy of 50,000 people, and at least he can control the basic tax revenue of a densely populated province.

In other words, the Lao Bo Navy is not 50,000 soldiers, but 50,000 children and 50,000 officials.

If this kind of soldier dies, it will take at least four or five years to cultivate, and the cost will be much greater than that of ordinary soldiers.

"That's why the last general said that we might not be able to get ......"

Zhang Yu listened to Zhu Di's abuse and sighed regretfully.

It's just that compared to him, after scolding, Zhu Di suddenly felt that it made sense for his second child to train like this.

"Actually, the second child's training is quite reasonable." Zhu Di suddenly agreed, and pointed to Wang Yi's 20,000 horse infantry:

"If it is handed over to me, I can take 20,000 horses and infantry and defeat twice as many enemies."

"If the previous battle was really decided to give me 20,000 horse infantry, maybe the hundreds of thousands of troops on the north bank of the Hutuo River would have become our prisoners."

"The second child's path of elite soldiers can still be used, and if you find it, Wang Yi's 20,000 people will still go to help the people near Beiping City to work, and say that it is a relaxation ......"

Zhu Di sighed a few times, obviously shocked by the situation of the Bohai Navy: "I have only seen this kind of thing in the storytelling, and it is still about the Yue family." ”

"It's just that it seems to me now that the Yue family's army is not as good as the second soldier."

"So if we have the opportunity in the future, we would rather train such 100,000 soldiers than ask for 300,000 soldiers from Li Jinglong's side."

Li Jinglong has the 16th Guards in his hands, which is the most elite corps left by Zhu Yuanzhang, but Rao is like this, Zhu Di would rather have 100,000 Bohai Navy than 300,000 Southern Army, which shows how attractive the Bohai Navy is to him.

"If you think about it again, this soldier is still the Second Highness, and we have to return it after the battle......"

Zhang Yu reluctantly opened his mouth and hit Zhu Di's soft underbelly.

He opened his mouth, wanted to speak and stopped, but he couldn't say anything, and finally grabbed the thick beard and said viciously: "Let's talk about it after the fight, don't want to go back if you don't finish the fight." ”

Today's meeting was delayed, and the second update is estimated to be updated at twelve o'clock

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