The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 523 Prosperity
He Kegang received reinforcements of [-] infantry in the spring, and gathered some of the scattered Ming army. Now he has [-] cavalry and more than [-] infantry under his command.

He defended the city unambiguously, and sent scouts to keep scouting for a radius of eighty miles. When the Jiannu vanguard appeared, all the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou had retreated into the city.

He knew that Zu Dashou rebelled and surrendered because Daling Heliang could not sustain it, so of course he would not repeat the same mistakes.

Grain storage has become the top priority, and with the addition of more than 3 shi of wheat shipped from Zhongmingbao in March, Jinzhou now has [-] shi of grain in stock, enough for [-] horses to last for a year.

In the besieged city of Jinzhou, there were more than 2 soldiers and civilians including the families of the local garrison, and more than [-] young people among the more than [-] ordinary people.

Lu Zhi, who had just taken office, saw the Jiannu coming from all over the mountains and plains to surround Jinzhou again.

This kid has just made a fortune, and he has honored his godfather for more than half, and the rest have not had the opportunity to enjoy it, but they are trapped in a city of sorrow, self-pity and bad luck.

Tang Daoheng, a military attache from the Huang family's musketeers, became Lu Zhi's psychiatrist. Every time Lu Zhi had a long talk with him, he would be refreshed. Lu Zhi would feel at ease when he saw the calm and calm appearance of the twenty or so Huang family soldiers. few.

Jinzhou was heavily fortified and waiting for the slaves to attack the city. Unexpectedly, the later Jin army came to carry out construction projects. They were so busy digging trenches and building earth walls two miles outside Jinzhou City that they had no plans to attack immediately.

Hong is getting worse the more he learns, his methods are similar to Huang Sheng's, first make sure that the enemy can't run away, and then slowly study how to win the set target with the smallest loss.

He found that the fields of the Ming army in the outskirts of Jinzhou had all been plowed in spring and sowed. He was overjoyed!
The slave chief asked the besieging soldiers and Aha to minimize the damage to the cultivated land, and sent the Han Aha to manage the fields, thinking that tens of thousands of shi of wheat would supplement the army rations during the autumn harvest.

Hong is not afraid of the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty at all. On the contrary, the later Jin army is looking forward to the arrival of the Ming army, because if you defeat the Ming army in the field, you will get armor, weapons, and horses, and there will be more coats for farming slave.

After the Jin army had food, they were no longer afraid of consumption. As soon as they arrived in Jinzhou, they assumed a posture of long-term siege.Hong Xie knew that as long as the troops of the Dajin Kingdom did not retreat, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would have a headache, and it was inevitable to send reinforcements.

The arrangement of the slave chieftains means that they must be rescued when attacking them. With more than [-] soldiers and civilians standing by and waiting, they are waiting for the Ming army to come from thousands of miles to give gifts.

The Jinzhou emergency memorial came again, and the exhausted Emperor Chongzhen was extremely depressed, rescue?How to mobilize people and horses?If there is no rescue, there will be a second Daling River.

Daming was devastated by the rogues, Hou Jin, and the rebellious Dongjiang Town, but Huang Sheng's territory was on the contrary prosperous.

Just after the New Year of Chongzhen Five Years, Cai Er personally took two sets of production crews to the north. They rehearsed several new plays to be performed in the capital, focusing on the performance of "Man Jiang Hong".

Huang Sheng estimated that he would have to go to the capital to deal with the emperor and the princes. Caier's going to the front would have a good effect and be of great benefit to intelligence collection.

The original goal was to wipe out the resistance forces in the Jiaozhi Mountains within one year. Due to the unprecedented enthusiasm of the Li people, wolf soldiers, and white soldiers, and because Huang Jiayong, the garrison civil officer and military officer who had established a foothold, especially wanted to increase the labor force.

In the end, everyone took the initiative to unite and move forward, crossing mountains and wading rivers with the goal of capturing all the alien races.

The number of people participating in the operation was as high as 30, and the hounds had multiplied several times. Each search team had dozens of hounds and several local guides.

Huang Sheng cruelly taught his subordinates how to deal with the armed forces of Dayue who fought against the Ming army with tunnel warfare.

The Ming army knew that they would not foolishly go down tunnels to fight the enemy, but would instead fill them with sandbags.

The hounds cooperated with the guides to search out the entrances of the tunnels of the armed forces of the country that fought guerrilla warfare, and used "flying thunder" to make sure that the mice could not suddenly jump out and bite people.

Immediately afterwards, Xiangyong filled the enemy's hole with sandbags, and the sad enemy had no chance to surrender, and they were suffocated to death in the tunnel one by one. Amitabha is hurting heaven and earth!

For the sake of long-term peace and stability, the task of Wanghua mountain area was completed more than three months ahead of schedule. The [-] former Da Yue mountain people became tenant farmers.

The territory obtained is too large, and the number of troops that need to be stationed is not a small number.

Due to the remarkable performance of the senior township warriors who participated in the battle this time, after nearly two years of combat career, most of them have been promoted. He was elected as a soldier again.

With the expansion of the territory and the increase in the number of troops, it is no longer appropriate to use the headquarters as a deployment unit. Huang Sheng called a meeting of officers from Hainan Island and Cochin. All the officers present at the meeting were full of longing for the future.

Huang Sheng announced the order to expand the army. The armies participating in the war in Hainan Island and Jiaozhi were temporarily organized into [-] thousand generals. Under normal circumstances, each thousand generals had no less than [-] main soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers.

Among them, the musketeers have the largest number of soldiers, and must reach 600 people.The total number of cavalry is not less than 360, and only 300 are required for heavy infantry, sword-shield soldiers, and spear-shield soldiers.Each Qianzong will also have a Baizong Field Artillery and a Headquarters Grenadier.

At the meeting, Huang Sheng told all the officers that in the near future, the Huang family will phase out cold-weapon troops and replace them with musketeers and gunners. In the future, the assassins should be musketeers holding bayonets and flintlock guns.

Huang Sheng looked at Quan Yong, Hu Jianfeng, and Cao Hucheng who were listening to his speech attentively. They were all heavy infantry from the Huang family, and they used to focus on the armor and hold the "armor-piercing sharp gun" to form a formation to assassinate.

Huang Sheng asked with a smile: "Quan Yong, what do you think of the gradual reduction of cold-armed infantry in the army in the future?"

The Huang family's private soldiers have experienced countless actual battles, and officers have learned to fight in battles. The decisive role of firearms in battles is obvious to all, and everyone knows that the disappearance of cold weaponry is inevitable in the development of the times.

Quan Yong, who is already the general, was originally a fierce spearman. Now he is not only proficient in using cold weapons, but his shooting performance with flintlock rifles and double-barreled short guns is not inferior to that of ordinary musketeers.

When Quan Yong saw the Patriarch's question, he immediately stood at attention and said loudly, "I will completely obey your lord's arrangement. As long as you give it to me for three months, I will guarantee that the heavy infantry will be able to assassinate you in formation with flintlock bayonets and guns."

Huang Sheng nodded in satisfaction, saw Cao Hucheng who was hesitant to speak, and asked, "Cao Hucheng, if you have any suggestions, you can express it quickly."

The short and stocky Cao Hucheng had a loud voice, and he stood straight and said, "My lord, the heavy infantry can be reduced, but it is not appropriate to eliminate them immediately. There are many heavy infantry under the humble rank who are difficult to learn to use firearms, but they form a formation to assassinate fiercely." Incomparably, it would be a pity if such a good fighter is discarded."

"Oh! Cao Hucheng must have already had a compromise plan in his mind when he spoke like this, so don't worry about speaking freely!"

"My lord, breaking the formation and capturing the city will inevitably lead to hand-to-hand combat. The heavy infantry only lost a few opportunities for long-range strikes. This can be fully made up for by the musketeers fighting in coordination. The heavy infantry and sword and shield fighters just keep fighting forward, and The musketeers complement each other, and this arrangement is more reasonable."

(End of this chapter)