In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 396 Iron Pot Strategy

Yan Ying said at the end, he said that in this expedition, except for part of the Song Navy and a small number of large indigenous soldiers, the other Jurchen battalions were commanded by Zhang Hui, and the Khitan battalion was commanded by Nahe Maozhu. They will be rotated in five years. Kagaya Aita and Gao Ying went to replace them.

Zhang Hui and Nahe nodded solemnly without saying anything.

As surrendered troops, of course they could only go wherever the court asked them to go.

But now there are about [-] Jurchen and Khitan households in the upper ranks. Among them, there are people who have migrated later. Many of them are real common people. Those who have never served as soldiers in their families, the court wants to recruit those who have soldiers in their families.

After the meeting lasted for a long time, Yan Ying sold Chu Youcai, Ruan Heng, Zhang Hui and Nahe to live alone.

These four people were the first batch of civil and military officials to come to Hanzhou.

"Build Hanzhou City here (Manila)——"

The first landing point was determined to be Manila.

After the Song Dynasty, it was called Hanzhou Bay and Hanzhou Port.

According to the construction of the original Manila City, Hanzhou City will be built on both sides of the Pasig River.

Of course, the Pasig River is no longer called the Pasig River. In the Song Dynasty, it was called the Hanzhou River.

Not long after Yan Ying finished the meeting with the senior officials, the order from the court reached the senior officials by sea in mid-August.

Before, officers and crewmen of various sizes from the navy had been transporting materials and personnel to Hanzhou Bay in a steady stream.

In late August, the first batch of more than [-] ships arrived in Hanzhou Bay.

This place is easy to find. The Song Army has visited it many times before and has surveyed the terrain. All they need to do is find the mouth of the Hanzhou River.

Hanzhou Bay is a round-like shape that is almost completely enclosed by land. It is located in the southwest of Luzon Island. It is one of the largest harbors in the world, with an area of ​​2 square kilometers and a maximum width of 000 kilometers.

Hanzhou Port is located in the easternmost part of Hanzhou Bay, near the entrance of Hanzhou River.

As soon as the navy general Ruan Heng's fleet arrived here, he knew that this was a good natural port.

It is almost circular in shape, and the mountains of the Bataan Peninsula and the Central Cordillera on both sides form a natural barrier, making Hanzhou Bay an excellent anchorage, the best sheltered bay, and later the largest commercial fishery in the area. After entering Hanzhou Bay , you can see the river channel that goes straight into the Hanzhou River into the sea.

The sea water along the coast was shallow, so the Song army landed first in small boats.

The first batch of people included [-] households of sailors, [-] households of craftsmen, [-] households of doctors, and [-] households of Jurchens and Khitans.

Ruan Heng personally led the team and immediately looked for a place with water depth that could build a port for large ships to dock.

In fact, there is no need to look for this place. After all, there is historical experience. Even if Zhao Yurui didn't tell it, an experienced naval general like Ruan Heng would know it.

It is from Hanzhou Bay to the mouth of Hanzhou River.

Later European colonists built forts here to guard the main route into Manila.

The Song Army is now following suit, and the first batch of supplies is placed on both sides of the estuary.

Then the construction of the fort battery began.

When the Song army came up, they built bastions, one on each side of the north and south banks. Each bastion must be able to accommodate [-] households.

Then various different fortresses were expanded around, and finally the surrounding fortresses were connected to form Hanzhou City.

The designed area of ​​Hanzhou City should be able to accommodate [-] people.

This is another huge project, estimated to take several years.

In the early stage, the main purpose was to build fortresses to hide and defend. In the later stages, the fortresses were connected with walls to form a city.

Hanzhou City is close to the south of the local area, and the south is where the most indigenous people are.

When European colonists came here, starting from the seventeenth century, the first stage was to conquer the north, because there was a lot of gold and spices in the north, and it was convenient to trade with the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Then they began to conquer the south. However, there were too many natives in the south, the terrain was complex, the resistance was fierce, and the Spanish troops were not many. It took more than two hundred years, and until the [-]th century, the south was still not completely conquered.

Zhao and Rui basically followed the Spanish tactics. After arriving, they first went to the north and conquered the north to obtain golden spices. At the same time, they could unite with the senior officials.

Of course, he also considered the problem that the Spanish people failed to completely conquer the south.

Hanzhou is dominated by mountains. There are more mountains than Danyuan. The mountainous area accounts for more than three-quarters of Hanzhou. There are more than [-] volcanoes among them, and there are [-] active volcanoes.

Xibanya, on the other hand, has fewer people and fewer troops. They still use muskets. In mountain warfare, they are actually not as good as the indigenous bows and arrows.

The Xibanya people were still wearing armor, and they couldn't bear the damage.

If the Song army wears armor, as long as they can climb mountains, they will not be afraid of the cold weapons of the indigenous people.

In mid-September, the Song army was still building a bastion. The sentry team who went out to survey the terrain came back and reported that they had gradually discovered that natives were spying on the Song army.

Because there were many Song soldiers, there were few local natives around and they did not dare to go up, but they were secretly observing the Song soldiers.

After hearing this, Ruan Heng said: "Don't worry about them, follow the plan, go out every day to check the surrounding terrain, and first understand the terrain in the north."

"No." The captain of the sentry cavalry is called Zhang Li. He is Zhang Hui's nephew. Because he is literate, he learned drawing from the Song army and commanded the sentry cavalry.

He has [-] sentries and cavalry under his command, and more than [-] households have been moved in. Most of these people are former Han soldiers of the Jin Kingdom and Zhang Hui's old subordinates. They followed Song Jun's survey and drawing.

The families of these [-] households participated in the construction of the fort. Every day, the sentries were in groups of eleven, and about twenty groups took turns to go out to check the terrain and draw pictures. They had to put them together when they came back at night.

As the top general of the Sentinel Riders, Zhang Li had to run around frequently to check whether the Sentinel Riders' maps had been drawn correctly and whether the splicing errors were large.

This would be land reclamation, and the local map relied on Song Jun to run all the way and look at it.

In mid-September, the Song army only arrived in three batches of ships, transporting more than [-] horses.

These horses are not Ningxia and Jeju horses, but mountain horses from the Fuguang area of ​​the Song Dynasty. They are close to the Yunnan horses of the Ming Dynasty. Their legs are relatively short and suitable for transportation and walking on mountain roads. Those who are not good at fighting cannot run fast.

After Zhang Li left Ruan Heng, he immediately came out to gather some of his subordinates.

Twenty groups of sentries quickly came to him.

"Everyone continues to move forward from where they were yesterday. Today, each team will leave an iron pot."

"No." Following the order, everyone rode towards the north. Zhang Li himself also led two teams of more than [-] people towards the northwest.

They all brought the latest maps and looked at them all the way. After about sixty miles to the northwest, they saw a marker.

They were the first batch to go ashore and have been there for nearly a month. They have only now reached a distance of sixty miles.

They were slow to watch because they had to survey the terrain and draw maps, and the war horses were being brought in one after another, and they were not enough yet.

From here, it was a new area for them to survey and paint.

"Separate and separate." Song Jun skillfully divided into several groups, and everyone was looking for high ground.

Some people climbed to nearby mountains, and some even climbed to the top of trees.

Each person is about three hundred steps away and can see each other.

Then I started to take out the drawings and draw the picture I saw at the moment.

Most of them are relatively simple, such as low mountains, hills, woods, and rivers. The important thing is to mark where there is a road and where it can be opened. The mountain on that side is higher and difficult to climb. The mountain on that side looks lower. Song Jun would help name all the mountains that appeared.

For example, Zhangli's side is northwest, and they will name it along the road, Xishan No. [-], Xishan No. [-], and Xishan No. [-].

Then find a place at the bottom of the mountain to mark and erect a sign. Of course, this is the temporary name of the mountain, and it will be officially named in the future.

The main reason is that there are too many mountains in Hanzhou. There are more than [-] volcanoes, and more than three-quarters of it is mountainous.

Of course, there are advantages to having more mountains. As long as the Song army climbed to the top of the mountain, it would be much easier to view the surrounding terrain, roads, and draw pictures from the top of the mountain.

After the Sentinel Cavalry has inspected an area and drawn a map, the Jurchen and Khitan troops will come over to explore the mountains one by one.

Exploration has several purposes, one is to see if there are any indigenous people in the mountains, the other is to see what resources there are in the mountains, the third is to see if you can hide in the mountains, what roads are there, whether you can build a castle, etc.

At present, the north is fine, with more plains, but the south has more mountains, so it will take more time.

The Song Army advanced step by step in this way, exploring area after area.

Because Zhao Yurui is not in a hurry, and haste makes waste in some matters.

After moving west to conquer the north, it took more than two hundred years to fully conquer the south.

So Zhao and Rui have plenty of time.

By noon, Zhang Li's team had pushed forward five or six miles.

They had no choice but to encounter two high mountains in the middle. They divided into several waves. It took more than an hour just to go up and down the mountain.

At this time, he had just descended from the mountain and came to a small river. Zhang Ligang rearranged the maps drawn from all directions and copied them onto one map.

From the perspective of later generations, his newly drawn map is still quite crude.

Song Jun relied entirely on manual labor to explore and draw areas one by one, and then integrated them. Later, he would send people to walk the map twice to make up for errors and defects.

Although this kind of map is time-consuming and labor-intensive, in this era, it is definitely far ahead of the world.

While Zhang Li was looking at the map, his subordinates had already started cooking in a pot. They also put in the rat deer, a natural wild animal in Hanzhou that was caught locally, and various spices brought by the Song army from the senior officials. Suddenly, a smell of meat was felt. Spread in all directions.

"Drive" Suddenly the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and everyone did not panic. After all, the people with horses here were all Song troops.

Sure enough, after a while, eleven mounted Song troops came running from the south.

"Meet Commander Zhang." This is another sentry rider, coming from the south.

"It's just in time." Zhang Li laughed and said, "We can eat soon."

A corps leader on the opposite side smiled and said that they had already eaten and left the iron pot where it was, with half of the broth still left.

Then it came this way.

After that, he took out their map again.

This team of Sentinels and Zhang Li's team are close together. The two teams meet to see where the other side has drawn and if there are any areas that need to be filled in later.

Twenty groups of sentries came out, and it was impossible to defeat them all. There would always be areas at the junction of the two sides that would be missed.

Of course, Song Jun will continue to improve it. Every time he comes out, he will go in a different direction and use the stupidest method to improve the entire map.

This may take three, five or even ten years to perfect.

Zhang Li met the group for a while, stayed there for about half an hour after dinner, and then separated again.

Zhang Li's people continued to move forward. There was a high mountain that was very obvious a few miles ahead. They decided to walk all the way over, climb to the top of the mountain and then look at the surrounding terrain. There is no need to walk all the way to draw mountains like this, they only need to mark the special terrain ( For example, there are rivers, roads, forests, etc.).

Zhang Li's men had been walking for less than a quarter of an hour when suddenly there was a movement from the forest to the north. After a while, a local native with dark skin, wearing animal skins and holding a stone ax appeared.

Most of the indigenous people in Hanzhou are still in the Stone Age and don't know how to metallurgize and forge.

It was originally supposed to be more than a hundred years later, when the Minangkabau immigrants from Sumatra entered Hanzhou, brought various agricultural and financial technologies, and formally established the first political kingdom, which allowed local agriculture to flourish. and production levels officially entered the feudal era.

The native held a stone ax in his hand. He carefully looked at it to make sure that the Song army had left, then stretched out his hand and whistled in his mouth.

Suddenly, there was a surge in the forest behind him, and more than a dozen natives came out one after another.

They were all almost the same, dark, thin, and small in stature. Many of them held homemade spears, the tips of which were usually polished with animal bones, or directly whittled from wood.

The leader had another iron dagger on his waist. This dagger was very crude and showed poor craftsmanship at first glance, but it was actually made of metal. I don’t know where he got it from.

At this time, everyone was staring at an iron pot by the river.

Although Song Jun left, he left behind the iron pot.

Hundreds of years later, during the Ming Dynasty, the iron pot was still one of the most popular products around Hanzhou and Nanyang.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, oooooooooooooooooooooooo...

There were still sparks below, and everyone circled around the iron pot, looking left and right.

The leader's nose kept moving, and bursts of meaty smell came out.

Before he could speak, there were already five or six natives squatting beside the iron pot, all staring at the broth inside.

One of them looked around and found a wooden spoon in the pot. Without saying anything, he reached for it.

"Ba" Suddenly someone slapped me on the back of my head.

He turned around angrily, only to see the leader glaring at him, and immediately lowered his head.

The leader roared several times around, but no one dared to hum. Everyone looked at the iron pot eagerly.

Only then did the leader pick up the wooden spoon, dig in hard, and carefully stuff a mouthful of broth into his mouth.

It could be seen that they must also use fire, and knowing that this thing might be relatively hot, he carefully stuffed it into his mouth. As soon as it went in, the expression on his face became rich.

Song Jun's broth contains various spices, salt, etc., which are not something natives like them can usually eat.

Delicious, so delicious.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" The leader was about to cry with happiness. He had never tasted such broth before.

He drank several sips in one breath, which caused constant roars around him. Only then did he react and motioned for everyone to eat together.

Following his order, the natives began to think of ways.

There was only one spoon, and everyone showed their special skills. Some people stretched their hands directly into it, and then screamed at the soup.

After a while, the rest of Song Jun's pot of soup was drank by them, and some people were holding the big iron pot and adding more to it.

Bang, as the iron pot finally hit the ground heavily, the leader looked at the iron pot thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)