The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 34
Huang Sheng began to think hard again. This time, he couldn't use the method of using gunpowder as a bomb to set up an ambush.

Jiannu's troops stationed nearby didn't know if they had changed their defenses, so Huang Sheng had no way of knowing.

They were lured and wiped out more than [-] people in Lianshan Station just now, and they should not be easily fooled again, and they certainly wouldn't be fooled by a group of Ming troops, and they just came to follow and chase.

Attacking across the sea seems feasible, but I don't know Jiannu's defenses along the coast at all, and I don't know much about the mountains and rivers there. It seems that I have to do a good reconnaissance in advance, and then I can make a plan after I come back.

"Cao Hucheng, are you from Gaizhou?" On the training ground, Huang Sheng, who was thinking hard, saw Cao Hucheng and asked.

"Back to the adults, the younger ones are military households in Gaizhou."

"Then you should be quite familiar with the mountains and rivers around Gaizhou?"

"My lord, I am very familiar with the young ones. How can I not be familiar with the place where I grew up, but it's a pity that it was occupied by Jiannu."

Cao Hucheng felt a little dejected, probably thinking of his family members who used to live together in Gaizhou.

Huang Sheng looked at his face and said, "I'm going to take you guys on a trip to Gaizhou to see if I can find a place to attack, give Jiannu a hard time and run away."

Cao Hucheng's eyes lit up immediately, and he said excitedly: "My lord, Gaizhou is very big and it is close to the sea. Now we have a big ship, and we can find a place to go ashore anytime and anywhere. Jiannu is hard to defend against. Use your lord's guerrilla method. Killing Jiannu should be sure."

Huang Sheng said: "Oh? Do you know that a big ship like ours has to dock, and it is too inconvenient without a dock. Jiannu should control the dock area there."

Cao Hucheng said: "My lord, Gaizhou Wei is very big, there are too many docks, how many people can Jiannu have, they can't fortify everywhere. Our ships can dock from the south, there are many hills by the sea, Jiannu should It's not easy to find us."

Huang Sheng nodded, then called Huang Dongshan and said, "Dongshan, go and get all the people from Gaizhou."

Huang Dongshan knew that the lord might be planning to build a slave again, so he went to spread the word happily. After a while, several servants came to the living room. Huang Mingli, Heihu and the others also learned that the lord might assign tasks and all came to join in the fun.

Huang Shengdao: "Tomorrow I'm going to take everyone to Gaizhou by boat. The purpose is to reconnaissance the defense of Jiannu along the coast of Gaizhou. As for whether to attack or not, we will decide after the reconnaissance comes back."

Huang Dongshan said: "Your Excellency specially asked you guys from Gaizhou to come here to discuss the matter, just to understand the situation there. Don't be nervous, everyone in our Huang family can speak up, and it doesn't matter if you make a mistake."

Huang Dongshan has adapted to Huang Sheng's way of working, knowing that the patriarch likes subordinates who use their brains, he encouraged the new servants so that they don't have any worries.

Cao Hucheng had already communicated with Ma Cheng, a fellow sailor from Gaizhou. Of course, Ma Cheng wanted to go home and have a look. He knew the situation on the coast of Gaizhou well.

After hearing Huang Dongshan's words, he immediately stood up and said, "My lord, when I was in the Juehua Island Navy, I often had the opportunity to go to the seaside of Gaizhou for activities, and there were actually very few Jian slaves there.

They also learned from our Ming Dynasty, deploying troops and horses in the pier fortress. If they found a situation, they would use beacon smoke and beacon fire to warn them, and then build slave cavalry to quickly support them. "

Liu Liangcai, who is also from Gaizhouwei, also stood up and said, "My lord, my small home is on the seashore thirty miles south of Gaizhouwei, and there are too many places where we can park our ships quietly.

There are many hills there, and the patrols of Jiannu cavalry cannot pass through, and it is impossible to find them. "

Ma Cheng also echoed: "My lord, it's true. It's no problem to find a small bay behind a mountain bag to hide dozens of boats there. Jiannu don't have too many manpower, and they usually seldom come to places where cavalry can't gallop. "

Huang Sheng decided to take people to see the situation there with his own eyes. Although he already had a plan in mind, every military operation was related to the safety of himself and his servants, so he must not take it for granted.

Be sure to know the enemy's movements clearly, and plan carefully to minimize casualties.

Huang Sheng said: "You are preparing supplies now. We will set off for Gaizhou sea area early tomorrow morning. This time, everyone is on board, not to go ashore to fight, but to see if anyone else is still seasick."

Hei Hu immediately stood up and said, "My lord, the young one has practiced for many days, and went to the boat for a long time the day before yesterday, and he doesn't seem to be very dizzy, but our boat is parked on the shore, and the young one is not quite sure yet."

Li Dagang smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you will know tomorrow night if you are dizzy or not."

Huang Sheng's 'Guangning' has no problem carrying more than 100 people on a short distance. Of course, this time it is dispatched as a whole. Even if there is no war, it is good for the servants to feel the atmosphere of the battlefield.

In the evening of the next day, the 'Guangning' had arrived at the seaside of Gaizhou. Juehua Island was only [-] to [-] nautical miles away from Gaizhou. The ship had been modified with soft sails, and its speed had reached six knots, five hours. The voyage of course is a piece of cake.

Huang Sheng was testing the power of the ship along the way, adding soft sails worked well, but the sailors were still a little flustered, probably because they hadn't adapted to the use of pulley blocks.This requires more practice, increased operation time and accumulation of experience, and there is no rush.

Now it has reached a speed of six knots. If we add two propellers designed by ourselves and more than [-] people step on the pedals to drive at the same time, it should be able to reach a speed of eight knots.

Two copper-core iron cannons supervised by Sun Yuanhua have been installed on the ship. They should be four-pound cannons. Huang Sheng said that the iron shells are about three catties more than one. In the Ming Dynasty, one catty was not five hundred grams, but close to six hundred grams.

Sun Yuanhua promised to help find some good gunners. He has already sent a letter to his friends in Shanhaiguan. There are a few gunners who escaped after the fall of Guangning and were sentenced to hard labor. Now they are building the Shanhaiguan wharf. He is going to make meritorious service for these people. Chance.

When Huang Sheng went to the warehouse on Juehua Island to collect supplies, his old acquaintance Cheng Guanku took the initiative to show his hospitality and selected six Ming Dynasty guns.

This thing can be used as a battle defense artillery, shooting two or three large projectiles, with an effective range of 150 steps. Unfortunately, it is too heavy and inconvenient to load. It is the best choice to install it on a ship.

Cheng Guanku is also very interesting. When Huang Sheng signed the document, he specifically asked him to write it down. I recommended Huang Sheng to use his carefully selected and well-maintained gun, and taught Huang Sheng’s servants how to use it.

This treasurer is self-motivated, thinking that if Huang Sheng can make meritorious service again, he will also be honored and rewarded, but he has already been promoted to a magistrate, so he should no longer be able to be promoted, and he still needs credit. What do you think?
Huang Sheng actually doesn't care about being used by others. He thinks that someone who is often used by others shows that he is capable, and at least has the value of being used. If others take advantage of you, you will give him some sweetness. The small cannon makes it possible to raise the gun.

Several seasick servants have gradually adapted to sailing, especially Hei Hu, who was overjoyed and yelled that your lord is really amazing, he knows everything, and simply doing somersaults on the pole every day can make him no longer seasick.

Huang Sheng knew that it wasn't his own method that was good, but that his hard work paid off. These guys were afraid of being left at home, and practiced desperately every day. Recently, they stayed on a boat to adapt to drifting at sea.

'Guangning' wandered along the coast of Gaizhouwei, and all the telescopes and telescopes were used for observation.After observing here for three days, Huang Sheng chose Huoludun, a former Daming army near the sea, as his target.

Only then did Liu Liang know that place. In Wanli Year, it was the beacon tower used by the Ming army to observe the situation of the Liao Navy.

Through observation, everyone preliminarily determined that Jiannu had deployed about ten people here, and some Ahas were in the fields, because Huang Sheng saw Ahas looking back at Haidun from the east, leading a horse and carrying a big sack. Obviously, there should be It is filled with wheat.

It is indeed a good location for a military fort here, and the geographical location is relatively good. It is on a solitary hill less than two miles away from the sea, and four or five miles away from the hills and hills to the north and south.

There are endless fields to the east. Jiannu seems to have no labor to cultivate all the large tracts of fertile land here, but only selectively reclaimed a part of the fertile fields.

The view here is wide, if people and horses get close.A few miles away, they will be discovered by the watchmen on Wanghaidun. If they light the beacon, they only need to hold on for less than half an hour, and their attack plan will go bankrupt.

Because there are more than 30 Jiannu cavalry stationed in Caotaibao, which is less than [-] miles north of here. When they saw the beacon fire, with Jiannu's mobility, they should arrive within half an hour.

He and his servants had to retreat in advance, because there was still more than a mile to go to the beach, and it would take time to get on the boat.

Wanghaidun went south across the hilly area and there was another Liujiabao, where there were also dozens of Jian slaves. They had to go around the mountains to reach the battlefield in an hour for reinforcements.

Huang Sheng decided to start here. The general plan has already been formed. How to attack specifically needs to go ashore for observation for a few days before making a final decision.

Even if the attack fails, he is not afraid, as long as he finds that Wanghaidun is ignited, he immediately abandons the attack plan and flees to the boat. Jiannu can't catch up at all, and the artillery on his boat is not vegetarian.

With warships, building slaves is basically passive and beaten. As long as you don’t go deep into the hinterland, you will be invincible. When, where, and what method you use, you can fully use everyone’s imagination. Jiannu will definitely be overwhelmed. .

Back in Ningyuan City, everyone started intensive preparations. The three ships given by Wu Xiang were already in place, and the equipment on the No. [-] blessing ship was indeed left behind.

There are four Qianjin Fulang machines, three bowl-mouth guns, and six Daming guns.However, these equipment are not well maintained at ordinary times and are already rusty.

There was another episode when Wu Xiang came to deliver the ship.

When General Long Legs delivered the ship the next day, he found that only a few of Huang Sheng's servants had come, and he was quite unhappy, thinking that he was very polite, and that eighth-rank official was too bad at being a man, and he didn't even know the basics of etiquette.

The leader, a lame servant called Gu San, seemed to be their leader. He stepped forward to salute Mr. Wu Xiang, who was wearing the uniform of a fourth-rank military officer.

Wu Xiang said with a gloomy face: "Your family is so busy, it seems too unreasonable?"

Gu San had already received Huang Sheng's instructions, and he said calmly, "Master Wu, my lord is indeed very busy. He took a boat to Gaizhou early this morning."

Wu Xiang said: "Go to Gaizhou, your lord really went to Gaizhou today?"

Wu Xiang's gloomy face began to smile, and he understood that people who act vigorously and resolutely are often not ordinary people.

Gu San said with a smile on his face: "That's not true. Your lord said that you should know the rules of slave building activities, so that you can know yourself and your enemy. The reason why my lord can succeed every time is because he does everything himself. "

"That's true, Mr. Huang is really extraordinary, I don't have to worry about it!"

Wu Xiang's face was full of sunshine at this time, he smiled and gave a tael of silver to all the servants who came, and happily handed over the three boats to Gu San.

As soon as Huang Sheng came back, he assigned Gu San a task to select sailors from among the refugees.

This is also a decision after thinking about it. Although there are many sailors on Juehua Island, he can directly recruit people, but the sailors under his command are all from the Daming Juehua Island Navy.

Gu San has a way of finding people, unlike the last time, he mobilized the teachers and mobilized the crowd. He brought a few craftsmen to know from the side through familiar people, and finally found six carefree men.

A man of about 20 years old is alone, of course it is all thanks to Jiannu.When these six people heard that they were the servants of Mr. Huang who dared to compete with Jiannu, everyone was overjoyed.

Fame is too important these days. The story of Huang Sheng beheading Jiannu has been spread in Ningyuan. Everyone has portrayed Huang Sheng's image as the Ming version of Zhang Fei, with a leopard head and eyes, holding a zhangba snake in his hand. Spear, one spear stabbed to death a Jiannu Ba Yala and so on....

(End of this chapter)