The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 608 Arranging Along the River
Huang Sheng decided to strengthen Ma Yue's leadership team so that they could complete the layout of the Central Plains faster and better, and once again added a best fighter to Ma Yue.

The fighters of this hundred chiefs are all educated youths of the Huang family, all of whom belong to the reserve officers, and are led by the newly promoted trainee hundred chiefs Guo Sanxi.

Guo Sanxi, who is tall and mighty, was promoted in Jinzhou for his meritorious service. Now he has passed the six-rank examination and has two golden medals hanging on his chest.

If he does well in Henan, he can become a six-rank general manager, and all the educated young soldiers he brings will become full-time grassroots officers.

Ma Yue, Guo Sanxi, Xu Sijiu and other military officers are all real posts of the Huang family, and the treatment of military officers in Daming is not the same. They also have false titles from the imperial court, which are at least two ranks higher than the real posts.

For example, Guo Sanxi can wear the uniform of a fifth-rank military officer to deal with officials in the Central Plains as a test of a thousand households.

Huang Sheng kept Guo Sanxi because he came from the Ming army, and he is capable of both cold weapons and hot weapons. He has experience in leading teams with cold weapons, and he knows that the twists and turns in the Ming army will play a huge role in expanding the troops in Henan. effect.

Ma Yue's next task is to establish a base area, choose a few strong cottages in Suizhou or local tyrants to build manors with tall walls, strengthen defenses and hoard food and grass.

The defense facilities they built were required to separate the military and the civilians, so as to prevent the rogues and spies who were mixed in and prepared to break the city when accepting refugees for asylum, they should cooperate with the outside to break through the defense line.

Why not let them run county and state cities?Because the grandiose occupation of a city in the interior of the Ming Dynasty is not justified, it is impossible for the court to turn a deaf ear to it.

There are too many places in Henan where armed forces exist. They form strongholds to protect themselves. Bandits come to fight bandits, and officers and soldiers come to fight officers and soldiers. Anyway, apart from their own ancestry, foreigners who come are all within their attack range.

But they will never leave their hometown, their purpose is to ensure the safety of their relatives, property and food.

The fortresses built by some big clans are comparable to cities, and they existed and continued during the chaos, and the government didn't care about them.

So the Huang family also set up several such armed separatist regimes. The purpose of Tibetan soldiers in Henan was not to attack the Ming government suddenly, but to use this as a base to fight against bandits and save a large number of Han people who had no food or clothing.

Huang Sheng was planning to go to Malacca to expand the land. He might face many hostile forces, and he might even have a local war with the Western Yi. It would be impossible to have less troops, and Malacca was thousands of miles away.

In case there is a deviation in one's own attack plan, an overwhelming trend cannot be formed, and a large number of reinforcements will not come in a short time. The common people brought to the land will be harassed or even massacred by the local aborigines when the battle is stalemate.

Large-scale immigration needs to pay a high cost, and every ordinary person who takes painstaking efforts must be taken good care of. If there are a large number of casualties, it will lead to resistance to continued immigration.

If ordinary people find that leaving their hometowns to get a better life is like a mirror, and facing death at any time is real, of course they will lose their enthusiasm for overseas development.

The best way to avoid this from happening is to have enough force and maximize the margin as much as possible to form an overwhelming force.

After calculation and comparison of forces, we need to dispatch [-] troops to defeat the opponent, and Huang Sheng, who is cautious, will bring at least [-] to prevent accidents.

Trembling like walking on thin ice is a responsibility to every soldier, and it is also a dedication to the common people who accompany the army to expand the soil.

Therefore, Huang Sheng did not consider sending a large number of private soldiers to stay in the Central Plains for the time being. Doing so would be an act of overreach, which would even arouse the fear of the imperial court.

Huang Sheng explained how Ma Yue and Guo Sanxi managed Henan in a low-key manner, and asked them to spare no effort to expand supply points and rescue the people who were starved for food as much as possible.

The number of people rescued is the only criterion for measuring their merits. Killing rogues can be done if they can, but it is not their top priority.

Beheading general rogues will get no credit, but beheading a famous rogue leader can be rewarded.

Huang Sheng knew the aggressiveness of Guo Sanxi and the selected Huang family fighters, if they killed ordinary bandits, it could be counted as military merit, so it is unknown whether these boys would go hunting for bandits every day.

And most of the rogues come from refugees who can't survive. What's the point of beheading them?
As long as the leader who is entrapping them is killed, most of these rogues will become good citizens again.

Of course, Huang Sheng will not be merciful, as long as he has participated in the massacre of ordinary people, he will be punished by Qiu Hou, and he will not hesitate to kill hundreds of rogues who have murdered but have put down their weapons and surrendered.

The Haizhou base led by Zhu Rongguo will do everything possible to provide food to Henan.There will be a large amount of general Xiangyong equipment delivered soon, Huang Sheng told Zhu Rongguo to be careful with these equipment, if it falls into the hands of rogues, it will be a big trouble.

The Central Plains strategy was deployed, and the fleet continued to go south. Huang Sheng stayed at the Huangjia Supply Base in Nantong Prefecture for three hours. That was Yi Facai, the head of the Southern Zhili Military Intelligence Department, and several major secret service leaders were waiting for the owner to give an opportunity.

The Southern Zhili Military Intelligence Department must cooperate with the deployment along the river and vigorously develop the armed forces of the village. Since Huang Sheng has blatantly refused to go to the capital, he no longer needs to hide.

Choosing Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture, Southern Zhili Province will be Ma'anshan, Chizhou Prefecture, Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, Hankou Town, Hanyang County, Wuchang Prefecture, Huguang Province, Jingzhou Prefecture, etc. to operate supply stations in later generations. It must have certain force and defense.

In the future, all the supply stations will stockpile a large amount of food, and the silver warehouse of the "Huaxia Big Bank" will also be built in the supply station, which will exist in the form of a small riverside fortress, and the location that can quickly get naval support is the best choice.

Yi Facai was inexplicably excited when he received the task. The owner not only paid enough expenses, but also left more than 100 people, all of whom were reserve general banner officers and above-level grassroots officers to operate along the Yangtze River.

They believe that with the convenience of Yangtze River water transportation, the layout will be completed within one year.The Ming Dynasty had a large population along the river, so if you had money and grain to recruit laborers to build fortresses, you must have as much as you wanted.

Select strong and responsible people from the hard-working laborers and give them the opportunity to join Huang Jiayong. It is no problem to train [-] Xiangyongs who can fight in one year.

After explaining the layout along the river, Huang Sheng led the fleet to continue sailing, and when they passed by Zhoushan and Daishan, they were transferred to form two thousand generals to take them southward together.

It was already early December when we returned to Yazhou, Hainan Island. Xu Guangqi had come to Yazhou ten days earlier, and the number of missionaries who announced the decree was quite a few hundred.

Lu Xiuke, chief officer of the Hainan Island Military Intelligence Department, has already received information that there are more than 100 Jinyiwei Xiaowei and Dongchang fans in the mission. As soon as the owner came back, Lu Xiuke came to ask for instructions. Do you consider keeping all the Jinyiwei and Dongchang spies? Down.

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