The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 401 Marching in the Rainy Season
In the era of cold weapons, too many kings who wanted to conquer that territory were blocked by the city of Xialiaojian. The ruler of Quang Nam, Nguyen Phuc Yuan, tried the same, but failed in the end.

Ruan Fuyuan was moved by the Ming army's intention to help the Guangnan Kingdom to expand the territory, but the Ming Dynasty sent troops to ask for too much price, so there was a lot of discussion in the Guangnan Kingdom. In the end, the leader of the country, Hu Mingshan, asked the price when the Daming fleet came again. .

The Zheng family in the north has been silent for two years, and Ruan Fuyuan has accumulated strength due to the interests of maritime trade. He doesn't care whether Daming provides mercenary assistance or not. He has dispatched [-] regular troops and [-] civilians to start west in early June. advance.

The Lancang Kingdom still relied on Xialiao City to defend the city, and the Guangnan Kingdom chose to besiege the city in the rainy season because the artillery fire of the enemy defending the city would be affected, and the speed of the reinforcements' march would not be fast.

Guangnan Kingdom and Lancang Kingdom have been on fire for half a month before the Daming Fleet arrived. Hu Mingshan couldn't wait to come and negotiate with Master Huang Sheng about the price of sending troops to capture Xialiao City.

Huang Sheng is planning to seize Jiaozhi, even if there is no money to earn, he can't let go of the actual combat opportunity of fighting side by side with Guangnan to capture the important city of Lancang, and the exercise also costs money!

There is a rainy season here for half a year. If your troops don't have the experience of fighting in a rainy climate, how can they capture and hold on to Jiaozhi?
If you can't adapt to the harassment of those guerrillas running around in the mountains, how will you maintain the long-term peace and stability in the land you occupy in the future?
One's own army must be able to adapt to various terrains and fight in all weathers. Of course, it cannot fight if it is raining and snowing.

Hu Mingshan explained in detail the geographical location of the city to be captured and the comparison of the strength of the two sides, and finally said tentatively: "Master Huang, if Shangguo is willing to help Xiaoguo, Xiaoguo is willing to provide all military supplies and compensation for casualties. What do you think?"

"The supplies of our army are not what a small country like you can provide, and the casualties don't need your compensation, but there is a small condition."

"I don't know what conditions Mr. Huang has. The people in Guangnan are poor, and there is too much money and food that they really can't afford."

"I don't want one tael of gold and one stone of food from Guangnan Kingdom, and I promise to help Guangnan people take down Xialiaojian City. If they can't take it down, no matter how many people are lost, I don't want Guangnan Kingdom's one tael of silver as compensation."

Hu Mingshan regained his energy, he couldn't wait, and hurriedly asked: "Master Huang, please tell us quickly what conditions are needed?"

"How about all the confiscated and population after the destruction of Xialiao City are the private property of King Ruan Dan of Jiaozhi County?"

"This, the lower officials can't make the decision, you still need to ask my king for instructions."

Hu Mingshan hurried back and came back at night, bringing seven or eight senior civil and military officials from Guangnan Kingdom, and continued to discuss conditions in the discussion cabin of Huang Sheng's flagship "Sea Sovereignty".

Their lord saw that the Ming army was so entrusted with the situation that they could not take the Xialiao city and swallowed the bitter fruit. If they took the Xialiao city, they wanted to capture it all.

Because the result is not important anymore, if the Ming army fails to take down Xialiao, they will lose both sides with the Lancang army, and Guangnan will have an opportunity to take advantage of it.The Ming army has learned a lesson and should restrain itself a lot from now on, and should never be so arrogant again.

Ruan Fuyuan sent ministers to assist in the negotiations. The purpose was to let the Ming army send troops, and the conditions were easy to negotiate.

Several ministers began to bargain for many reasons. The Guangnan Kingdom had sent heavy troops to surround Xialiao City to provide convenience for the Ming army. They would also send [-] civilian men and hundreds of pack horses to help transport supplies.

Therefore, they had a reason to want a part of the fruits of victory. Huang Sheng thought it was reasonable, and finally reached an agreement. The Ming army would get [-]% of the spoils, and all the land and castles would not be touched. The spoils that the Ming army could not take away could be sold to Guangnan at a price.

The price has been negotiated, Huang Sheng is ready to lead the team in the battle to seize the city, and Huang Mingdao stays behind the flagship.

Participating in the landing operations were nine hundred musketeers, nine hundred heavy infantry, all the grenadiers, and all the artillery participated in actual combat, but only 26 six-pound guns, including eight rifled guns.

It is a pity that Black Tiger's five cavalry archers can only satisfy one hundred generals. These horses are temporarily borrowed from Portuguese merchants. The horses in Guangnan are somewhat like donkeys, and Heihu and the others cannot ride them. Archers are all counted as foot archers.

Huang Sheng had no choice but to bring cavalry to act as infantry archers. In case the enemy took the initiative to attack during the storm, the situation of the flintlock guns would not be good.

The fine-steel pulley bow is maintained every day, and it can be calmly opened and fired even in heavy rain. Everyone of the Huang family's cavalry is a good archer, and the enemy's lack of leather armor can't withstand their continuous arrows.

Mo Huaiwu and Zhen Hanzhi led 560 coachmen to push 500 two-wheeled carts to transport equipment and supplies. Zhu Rongguo led a concentrated use of [-] armored chariots, all loaded with flintlock guns, gunpowder, and flying thunder. I am afraid that it will be disassembled and shared with a wheelbarrow, and it must be carried on shoulders in dangerous locations.

More than 240 Huang's private soldiers, [-] temporary armed sailors, [-] engineering soldiers, and [-] auxiliary soldiers set off in the rain. Everyone walked, and even the regular soldiers had to take turns to help carry supplies, only [-] Yuli walked a straight line for ten full days before arriving at the camp five miles outside Xialiao city.

Although the journey was not far, every soldier had consumed a lot of physical strength, and everyone was exhausted. Huang Sheng was unable to ride a four-wheeled carriage, and walked a hundred miles of winding and steep mountain roads.

Along with the army, there were 3000 laborers dispatched by Guangnan Kingdom. Those pack horses were used as horse-drawn carriages to carry supplies back and forth when crossing mountains and ridges.

Guangnan sent Hu Mingshan and a general, Ruan Fukang, with five hundred soldiers as guides, and the soldiers of Guangnan also helped with the work. They didn't know what the Ming army was wrapping tightly in tarpaulins. Everyone felt strange .

The soldiers of the Guangnan Kingdom thought that the Ming army’s war was very interesting. It was like moving. It was not like the soldiers of the Guangnan Kingdom. They took a knife, wore a bamboo hat and carried some dry food and left. I can't walk down the mountain road for thirty miles a day.

On the way, Hu Mingshan asked several Guangnan workers to carry Mr. Huang Sheng on a sliding pole to march, but was rejected. Huang Sheng, who was dangling with that thing, did not dare to sit on it, preferring to wade through the mud.

In case there are spies among the folks who carry the sliding pole, as long as they throw the sliding pole down when passing by the steep cliff, the Ming Dynasty champion will fall to pieces, so we must guard against it!
Huang Sheng pirated the formula of Panacea balm, and provided Hu Jianya with the general efficacy and method for research, and asked him to use menthol, camphor, cinnamon oil, clove oil, eucalyptus oil, etc. and add paraffin to make a medicinal flat small ointment. Copper box for storage.

With the guide, the Huang Family Medical Research Office produced results in half a year. When soldiers encountered mosquito bites, itchy skin or mild burns, they took Panacea balm and applied it to the affected area to promote blood circulation, reduce swelling, relieve pain and relieve itching.

It can also prevent colds. When you have a cold or a headache, apply Panacea Balm on Yintang and temples for cooling and relief.

The effect of using this thing in the later generations when antibiotics were abused was much worse than that in the Ming Dynasty. The recovery function of the people in the Ming Dynasty was not destroyed by antibiotics.

(End of this chapter)