Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 920 The Alliance (V)

Hao Shangjiu wiped off his sweat and loudly announced the end of today's drill.The soldiers on the school grounds were immediately pardoned, and some even cheered on the spot, which made Hao Shangjiu's face a little stiff: They are all a bunch of undrillable bastards!There are too many comfortable days, and the ability to endure hardship is far from what it used to be.

Back then, when Chuang Wang first arrived in Henan, Hao Shangjiu and a group of old brothers defected one after another. At that time, the Chuang army had high spirits and strong fighting power, and they practiced hard in their spare time.Later, King Chuang established the official system and the five-battalion military system in Xiangyang, and the training of each battalion head became more and more regularized. Hao Shangjiu still remembered that the Shaanxi-Gansu frontier army who had defected from the defection at that time really treated bandits, bandits and mud legs like them. Tossing enough, the feeling at that time was really indescribable.

But if you practice hard, the effect is not good.Especially those Chuangwang old camps with sufficient supplies, their energy and energy are not comparable to those of third-rate miscellaneous brands like them.It's just...it's all over. Ever since Gao Zongbing was fought by Xu Dingguo, their army has fallen into disintegration. Naturally, this training cannot be guaranteed. Later, they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with their benefactor Li Chengdong, and moved to Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangdong , The whole day is either killing or robbing, and living drunkenly, dreaming and dying is counted as a day.

Later, Li Chengdong returned to Daming anyway, and they suffered repeated defeats in the confrontation with Chen Tai, Zhao Guozuo and other Qing army generals, and their morale was extremely low.In addition, the soldiers in the army, mainly from Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, and Jiangbei, have lived in southern Guangdong for many years.

It can be said that in the past two or three years, the 6 to [-] tigers and wolves who penetrated all the way from Jiangbei to southern China have already fallen to the point of being vulnerable.If it weren't for the fact that everyone still had some thoughts in their hearts, if it wasn't for Li Chengdong's wrists, if it wasn't for them being able to vent their grievances on the common people in Guangdong, I'm afraid the remaining [-] or [-] people would have disbanded long ago.

It's just that they are not far away from the gang now. The ministers of Nanming are pointing fingers at them one by one, the ordinary people in Guangdong regard them as enemies, and the Qing army is also chasing them fiercely.I believe that at this moment, if a Manchu minister suddenly promised that Li Chengdong's group of people could return home with their belongings, it would probably shake the fighting spirit of most of Li's officers and soldiers. This is definitely not a joke.

Hao Shangjiu still remembers that a while ago, he was named by his benefactor to take 500 troops from the Chaozhou garrison to the north on a ship built in the Eastern Dynasty.At that time, the quota of the two thousand five hundred officers and soldiers under him also went through a fierce competition. In addition to some of his own soldiers, there were also a large number of cronies under the command of other generals, and many generals even sent their nephews It was forced to come in, and I don't know what the idea was.

"According to the people of the Eastern Dynasty, these two thousand and five hundred people are not just soldiers. Well, Lao Zhang's youngest son, Qi Duyan's nephew, Wang Qianzong's second son, and Sun Bazong's younger brother. On weekdays, the people who are stationed in various places are gathered together. Fortunately, it is my old Hao who leads the troops, and if someone else can change them, they might not be able to suppress these bastards!" Hao Shangjiu felt complacent for a while, and then suddenly heard There was a siren sound outside the pier, and Hao Shangjiu, who already knew it was the sound of a huge ship from the East Dynasty, immediately turned his head and looked out.

I saw a giant deck ship slowly lowering its anchor chain and mooring in the bay, and then a large group of sailors began to use a kind of exquisite pulley to transport boxes of heavy materials with the help of dock workers. down.Some materials are not even packaged, but are simply tied together with ropes, such as the bundles of spears every fifty, such as the bundles of arrows, such as the archer leather armor worn with iron wire... …

"What is Xintai Hou Leng doing here? Come and get the supplies!" Hao Shangjiu was watching "Western View" when a person in front of him waved to him: "Every battalion has them. They are calculated according to the number of people. You can get half of them at a time." For one month, there are 2518 people in your fifth battalion, first take 25 barrels and go back, and if there is not enough, you can ask the logistics staff to collect it alone."

"Ah, Liu Junmen is back from Guangzhou!" Hao Shangjiu was startled when he heard the words, and subconsciously wanted to kneel down, but fortunately, he quickly realized that he was not Liu Haiyang's subordinate, so he wiped the sweat from his forehead , Concealed and said: "I'm going to find someone to move things! Chen Ergou, take someone to grab food, hurry up!"

Surrounded by a group of guards, Liu Haiyang approached Hao Shangjiu, saw him sweating profusely, and said with a smile: "Xin Taihou's body and bones may have been abandoned for several years, and he will go to war in more than a month. Practice hard, don't even pant while riding a horse, this will make the Tartars laugh."

"Yes, yes, humble job... I must practice, practice!" Hao Shangjiu wiped his sweat again, and stammered.

"This time I came back from Nanyue and met Hui Guogong (Li Chengdong) once in Guangzhou Bay." Liu Haiyang took Hao Shangjiu's hand and said warmly: "When Shi Huiguo got a cold, but he still went out with illness, he was with me. Rafting on the sea, talking about the past and the present, I am quite moved... Oh, by the way, Mr. Hui also has a lot of concern for Xin Taihou. Before leaving, he asked me to send a letter on his behalf. Here, this is it Yes, take it."

Hao Shangjiu respectfully took a sealed letter from Liu Haiyang, stuffed it into his inner pocket, and continued to chat with Liu Haiyang.

Liu Haiyang's trip to Guangzhou this time was actually just incidental. His main purpose was to go to Fujian to persuade Zheng Chenggong to come to Ningbo to join his alliance.It's just that things were obviously not going very well. Zheng Chenggong only perfunctorily sent thousands of old and weak to drive some dilapidated fishing boats northward, saying that he was helping everyone transfer supplies, which made Liu Haiyang very angry. His eyes are only on the three-acre land of his hometown in Fujian, and he is doomed to fail in the future.

After bidding farewell to the Zheng family in a fit of anger, Liu Haiyang arrived in Guangzhou Bay on the heavy frigate "Cadiz Rock" (40 artillery pieces) that can blind people's eyes on the Far East Ocean. After many contacts, he finally connected with Li Chengdong. head.Li Chengdong, an unscrupulous warlord, was full of praise for the ordnance he got from the people on the east coast last time, so he brought up the old story again and said that he would buy another batch of ordnance to supplement the troops. As for the payment for the ordnance, of course it is still the old method—— It is paid by the population.Anyway, he, Li Chengdong, has already caused a lot of anger and complaints in Guangdong, and selling piglets is no psychological pressure on them at all.

Liu Haiyang gave limited approval to Li Chengdong's suggestion, and then the attendants of both sides sat together to discuss the price, delivery method and delivery time of the population.After talking about all this, Liu Haiyang tentatively asked Li Chengdong to completely ban the export of raw silk, porcelain, tea and other commodities to the Dutch, Portuguese and British, but this was unexpectedly rejected by Li Chengdong. Just like when Liu Haiyang made this request to Zheng Chenggong.It can also be seen from this that although Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian have experienced wars in recent years, the strength of maritime merchants is still very strong.Although they no longer have the ability to go to sea, they still have the channel to organize the sale of goods to foreigners. This is undoubtedly a big blow to the efforts of the people on the east coast to dominate the foreign trade along the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty.

While the two were talking, the soldiers sent by Hao Shangjiu had already started to carry the wooden barrels in a carriage.The barrels are full of salted fish, including saury, Pacific pleated squid, and salmon. According to regulations, each soldier can be allocated three to four taels of salted fish every day to supplement protein; Supplementary fat? To be honest, this is more difficult. After all, this is not the east coast. There are not many large livestock such as cattle. Rotten broth, used to replenish body nutrients lost due to frequent training.

Speaking of which, in the past two or three months, the armed forces of the Promised Alliance have successively assembled in Dinghai Port, Ningbo, and then started intensive training to familiarize themselves with the way of coordinated operations.Zhang Mingzhen's more than 2500 soldiers, Hao Shangjiu's 4000 soldiers, Dashun's [-] soldiers, and some troops of the East Coast Army had a centralized meeting almost every few days to train their ability to cooperate in combat.On days when there is no parade, each unit is also conducting some targeted training according to its own situation to maximize combat effectiveness.

More than 2 people concentrated in Dinghai for training. The daily consumption is not a small amount. Thanks to the non-stop transportation of supplies by naval ships and a few transport ships, fish in Heishui and livestock in Shandong can be continuously transported to Dinghai, for the training and consumption of various troops.As for the staple food eaten by the army, the Southern Theater Command also used real money to purchase in Yinxian, Cixi, Fenghua, Xiangshan, Ninghai and other places, and did its best to supply all the ministries—if there is any shortage, I am afraid it will have to transfer a large amount from Shandong. Miscellaneous grains such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes have gone south.

On April 1652, 4, as the last batch of hundreds of mixed-breed war horses (half-breed horses eliminated by the Hanna Mountain Ranch Horse Management System) were sent ashore, the materials on the Ningbo Fuding Harbor Wharf had piled up like a mountain, and tens of thousands of soldiers The horse has also been trained for four months-during which it was assigned to Siming Mountain, Cixi County, and the West Front Bastion to experience the atmosphere of the battlefield-both combat effectiveness and mental outlook have been greatly improved. , it can be said that it is ready to attack.

On April 4, a large number of ships carrying a large amount of supplies gathered in Dinghai Port after simple maintenance in Shandong.The six professional warships headed by the "Cadiz Rock" had already started to cruise the sea before this, and they often sank some small ships of the Qing army.

On April 4, led by six professional warships, eight "Amur River"-class shallow water gunboats escorted more than a thousand small boats supported by Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong. Taking advantage of the good weather when the wind direction changed, they carried a large amount of supplies and teachers , headed for the mouth of the Yangtze River.On both sides of them, there are twenty or thirty large east coast transport ships. These ships are full of people, livestock and some luggage. They keep a distance from the central fleet and move forward through the waves.

Their first goal is Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River!

(End of this chapter)