The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 306 Fighting wits and courage
Master Huang was going to cross the sea with his cavalry, nine out of ten soldiers under Qing Geertai's command were seasick, Huang Sheng told Neikalka not to send troops this time, and helped maintain law and order in Zhongming Fort.

Because Huang Dongshan took the young musketeers and captured more than 5000 people within a hundred miles of Zhongmingbao, which shielded the battlefield, and screened more than 100 people. More than 20 people have been able to confirm that they are Han Chinese spies who came in with Jiannu, and they did not kill them. Instead, he spent [-] years in a labor camp and was sent to a cement factory to be used as a cow and horse.

There are more than 100 people acting suspiciously, and there is no way to determine whether they are slaves. In the spirit of humanitarianism and in line with the Huang family's consistent style of not wronging a good person and not letting a bad person go, the personal freedom of these people is restricted.

They were all sent to Juehua Island to do the physical work of crushing raw materials, and they were isolated from the world for three years. Besides, if they think of how to prove their innocence during the labor period, they can be returned to freedom if they find a witness. The standard is halved, and all benefits are halved.

There are less than 5000 people, most of whom are farmers, and some Mongolian herdsmen, who brought the Mongols into the Inner Kharkha tribe and handed them over to Qingertai for management, while all the Han people stayed in Zhongmingbao as households.

The Zhongmingbao household registration system has been formed. These people are registered as more than 900 households, and each household has males. This is also the standard of household registration in Ming Dynasty.

Each household is allocated [-] acres of land, and now they have missed the farming season, so they can only grow some vegetables and store them for the winter.The Huang family gave them money and grain to build water conservancy facilities, and dug wells at [-] acres of fields too far from the river.

The more than 500 Han people were blessed by misfortune. They were able to eat well while being sheltered in Zhongmingbao. The houses provided here are spacious and bright, and they are still in the city, which is much better than the houses they used to live in.

Now they are allowed to settle down here from now on, and each family gets [-] acres of land. Now everyone builds ditches and wells for their assigned fields. The Huang family also distributes money and food, and each family also provides a large animal. From time to time, many horses and soldiers and civilians will come to help grab the farming season free of charge.

Of course, the common people were grateful for such a good deed, and everyone expressed their obedience to the management of the Huang family, and let the men in the family follow the training of the Huang family, hoping to be able to protect their homeland in the future.

Ma Shihu happily took 600 cavalrymen and more than [-] infantrymen by boat to accompany the Huang family horses to the Empress Palace. More than [-] of these soldiers were also seasick, but the reaction was not too intense. That's all.

One by one, they asked Lord Huang to take them with them, and told him that as long as they got ashore, they would recover in a long time.

This time they were going to stick to the beachhead. Of course it would be better if there were six hundred more soldiers who volunteered to fight. Huang Sheng agreed to everyone's request and affirmed their enthusiasm for killing the enemy.

Ma Shihu still has half of his subordinates and Qing Getai's subordinates assisting in the defense of Zhongming Fort. There is no way they are too seasick, so let's help build water conservancy facilities after drills!The Huang family also calculates the working hour fee based on the labor they contribute to earn some extra money for everyone.

Everyone responded to the call of the Huang family. The Mongols in Nekhka and the Shanhaiguan soldiers would do their best to complete the task. Everyone knew that working for the Huang family would not hurt them.

Huang Sheng ordered Xiaotaiji to take control of a radius of [-] miles, and to the east, Gaotaibao was used as a garrison to extend to the Yanshan Mountains, and no one was allowed to touch this territory.

The Huang family does not have enough power to control the Liaoxi Corridor, but now they have the ability to cut it off.Regardless of whether it is the Ming army, Mongols, or Jiannu crossing here, they will be monitored.

The Mongols who came here were all arrested and included in the Qingertai tribe. The Han people were all detained and screened and guarded on the spot. As long as Jiannu were found, they were all killed, and the Ming army who passed through the Gaotaibao and Zhongmingbao areas were monitored to prevent them from disturbing the people.

If the scum of the Ming army is found harassing and looting the common people, the remaining troops are allowed to attack and disarm them, and all of them will be arrested and reformed through labor. Don't be afraid to cause trouble.

There are thousands of Mongolian cavalry patrolling this place. I am afraid that not any small Mongolian tribe can sway their minds. The Hongyi cannons in Zhongmingbao are not just for display. Whoever comes to plunder may not be worth the loss.

Seeing that the tasks left to him were so simple, Qing Getai was unhappy, Huang Sheng gave him a bad idea and told Qing Getai not to be idle.

To take advantage of the contest between Jiannu and the Ming army under the city of Jinzhou, rely on Gaotaibao to go west into the Yanshan Mountains, conquer the small Mongolian tribes there, and strive to expand the territory.

Time has passed, and Xiao Taiji has adapted to his identity. He already has pursuits. This time, after fighting with Master Huang, he has more yearnings. He has continuously strengthened his strength, and it seems that it is not out of reach to become a sweater!
Qing Geertai is no longer depressed, his eyes start to shine, how exciting and intense it must be to rob territory, rob people, and rob everything that can be robbed!
From June to September is the time when the Xiaoling River has the largest amount of water. Because the upstream vegetation is not destroyed as in later generations, the sediment content of the river is much smaller.

The draft of the No. [-] blessing boat was too deep, and it was too easy to run aground when entering. The No. [-] blessing boat was barely feasible, and it could only go in for a dozen miles, and it would not work if it sailed northeast.

This was enough. In the early morning of June 4000th, the Huang family brought [-] straw boats and [-] horse boats to take the more than [-] horsemen who had been transferred to Juehua Island to Niangniang Palace for landing.

The engineering soldiers are familiar with sealing the pier spliced ​​by floating boats, which is [-] steps wide and [-] steps away from the river beach. The beach along the river is covered with prefabricated panels to ensure that horses and vehicles will not sink into it, affecting mobility.

The more than [-] Ming troops with strong soldiers and horses are not something that one or two Jiannu Niulu can attack. When they landed suddenly, Jiannu didn't know it. That's a meritorious service.

More than a thousand cavalry and heavy infantry lined up as guards. Shanhaiguan infantry, engineers, auxiliary soldiers, and Funing laborers were all in a hurry to build a beachhead. Even the sailors offered to help. Everyone dug trenches as quickly as possible and used the sacks they brought , Straw packed sand and gravel, and silt to build the parapet.

The parapets built by the Huang family were no longer the parapets as the name suggests. They were all taller than one person, and a shooting hole was reserved every half a step. Outside the parapet was a trench that was more than two steps deep and three steps wide. It was 150 steps long. [-] steps to the pier.

Huang Sheng has the ability to dig a wide trench but he didn't do so. The fact that the slaves and horses could jump over in a single leap made them think that it was possible to take here easily.

The purpose, of course, is to lure Jiannu to attack him and cause a lot of damage to the enemy in the battle for positions.

It was already noon when Jiannu discovered that a Ming army had sneaked in by the Xiaoling River in the Empress Palace, and a beachhead with a certain degree of defense had already been formed with the joint efforts of more than 3000 people.

This is the advantage of sufficient preparation. It is too easy to use sacks and straw bales to take soil and build defenses on the soft river beach. The suspension bridge and the gate are all prefabricated and have been stored on the horse boat. Assemble and use.

72 cavalry and [-] heavy infantry have withdrawn to the bunker through the drawbridge, and ten six-pound field guns have also been deployed. There are twelve straw boats that have been laid horizontally behind the pier, and the muzzles of [-] black guns are pointing directly at the bunker. north.

Of course, only 24 rifled guns could participate in the actual battle. The range of the smoothbore guns was limited, and the muzzle was close to [-] paces from the parapet.

This is too dangerous, and the smoothbore gun cannot be put into battle, it is just a facade.

There are also eight straw boats and [-] horse boats cruising within [-] miles of the estuary of the Xiaoling River. When they find Jiannu, they immediately greet them with guns and artillery.

In a four-foot-high lookout post quickly built by the engineering soldiers with the prefabricated angle steel and fasteners of Huang's family, Master Huang Sheng and Huang Mingli personally used fixed binoculars to look far to the north.

This is the backing of a powerful fleet and the convenience of fighting in the coastal waters. The horse boats carry all the supplies, and they would rather be prepared if they are not available. All horses must be exhausted.

It is time-consuming, labor-intensive and unstable to cut down trees in a hurry to build a lookout post. Using prefabricated angle steel and often trained engineers to build a lookout post can be done in less than an hour.He was not very familiar with the terrain when he just came here, and Jianu had [-] to [-] troops here, so Huang Sheng didn't take the risk of sending secret sentries to go deep.

The first is that the young musketeers are afraid of being blocked by Jiannu and causing unnecessary sacrifices.The second is to worry that Jiannu's seizure of fixed telescopes exposed how the Ming army predicted the enemy's advance.

(End of this chapter)