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Chapter 354 Escape, Traps

Water transportation, which involves the interests of many officials, has also been a hard-hit area with frequent corruption since ancient times.

The so-called "one stone for harvesting rice only costs seven or eight buckets", "every time a grain is run, the state and county government with a large amount of money can be rich in hundreds of thousands of huge sums of money" "every grain of water reaches the capital, often two or three times the market price in the southeast" .

On the surface, the most important problem of water transportation is that the cost is too high, and the transportation cost of water grain is far higher than the value of rice grain itself.

However, the capital is "the area where the four directions will return", and "soldiers, civilians, merchants and merchants live together", all of which are supplied by grain rice.Since the capital's food problem is very important, even if water transportation costs a lot of money, it must continue to work at a loss.

Regardless of whether it is an official of the Ministry of Households or a local official, everyone knows this disadvantage, but no one dares to stop the operation lightly.What do you want to do, to starve the emperor to death, to stir up civil uprisings in the capital?

Therefore, the disadvantages of water transportation are so obvious that the officials are rich and the country is poor, but it has been followed.

If it is because the decline of the water transport will lead to the economic development of the states and counties along the way, which will lead to the resistance of officials, Zhu Youxiao is also relieved.

But in his opinion, those officials are not that noble. They want to continue to make money from water transportation, so they openly find some excuses to oppose.

Don't know your trick yet?With a sneer on his face, Zhu Youxiao decided to start from the source and take down Zhu Dadian, the governor of Water Transport, to frighten the officials of the obstructive faction.

Gradually expanding the quantity and scale of shipping is an established policy, not just as simple as economic speed.When the Little Ice Age reached its peak, the drought was so dry that even the water of the Yellow River dried up, so what about water transportation?
Now, although Pingliao is still number one, Jiannu can no longer afford to turn the tide.As long as Zhu Youxiao doesn't die, at most two or three years, the consumption will also consume Jiannu to death.

However, how to survive the catastrophes that have lasted for decades and how to survive the civil uprising has become an equally important and arduous task as Pingliao.

It was the famine and civil uprising that destroyed Daming, and Jiannu just took advantage of it and took a huge advantage.At least Zhu Youxiao thinks so.

Although the newspapers have predicted that the catastrophe is approaching step by step, how many people pay attention to it, and how many officials are working hard for it?
Zhu Youxiao caressed his forehead, thinking about it, and felt that some local governors should be sent to Beijing to report their duties, and they should solemnly give orders in person.

Well, let them prepare first, at least make up a plan, about various aspects of disaster resistance and so on.

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The gunshots rang out in one piece, urgent but not chaotic, and when superimposed together, they felt deafening.

White smoke rises and dissipates, and even the people hiding on the mountain can smell the choking smell of nitrate.

"Fight the Jurchen back again!" Zhang Dongrui stared at him with wide eyes. Although he couldn't see clearly, he could see that Jiannu's attack was resisted by the Ming army, and he retreated helplessly.

In and out of the trenches, and on the tens of meters of ground leading to the Ming army's position, Jiannu's corpses were scattered all over the place, bloody and bloody.

The gunpowder smoke completely dissipated, shields, flags, knives and guns, corpses were scattered in a mess, and there were wounded soldiers screaming and wailing on the ground. A bloody slaughterhouse-like scene was presented in front of people.

Without artillery, not even the simplest grenadier, the Ming army repelled Jiannu's four onslaughts with flintlock guns and bayonets.

By the way, not only flintlocks and bayonets, parapet trenches effectively provide protection, minimizing the lethality of the enemy's bows and arrows.

The wide but not deep trenches acted as a hindrance to deceleration, making this the area with the heaviest casualties of Jiannu.

On the narrow front, Jiannu's superiority in numbers could not be brought into play, and under the almost non-stop fire of flintlock guns, heavy casualties were suffered.

Daishan's banner is still standing behind the formation, but Yue Tuo is commanding it.After losing two onslaughts, Daishan has realized that this is not the place for them to play.

The terrain is unfavorable, the opponent has a position to rely on, the firearms are sharp, and the fire is fast and dense; although there are many troops on one's own side, they cannot be deployed, and the damage of bows and arrows is limited, and they cannot consume the enemy equally.

Therefore, Daishan has decided to take a detour.Although the road of Tongyi is the fastest, it is not the only one.

Moreover, Daishan was also worried that if the time was delayed, the Ming army would chase after him.If they are blocked here, the situation will be even worse, and the entire army may be wiped out.

Therefore, Daishan had already retreated first, taking another relatively remote road back north.It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but that he was injured and drove slowly, which was begged by Yue Tuo and Sahalian.

In order to cover the withdrawal of his father and the brigade, Yue Tuo handed over his father to Sahalian, and personally directed the attack here to contain the Ming army.

Enough blood had been shed. Looking at the tragic scene on the battlefield, Yue Tuo felt extremely heartbroken.After estimating the time, my father and the brigade should have turned onto that remote road, and the Ming army had no time to rush to intercept it.

The narrowness of the battlefield made it impossible for Jiannu to use it, but it also helped Jiannu on the other hand.That is to be able to reduce the force of the attack, but it does not appear to be perfunctory.

"Wounded soldiers withdraw first." Yue Tuo stopped the attack, pretended to be rectified, gathered the wounded soldiers as much as possible, and withdrew them to the rear of the formation.

Since the road is not straight and there are woods and hillsides beside the road, even if the Ming army had a telescope, their vision would be blocked.

Jian Nu at least said that there were three or four thousand casualties, and Kong Youde on the opposite side was also estimating.

Such a result has already met his expectations. Of course, he also knows that it is obviously impossible to stop Jiannu here and wipe them all out in one fell swoop.

The [-] dragoons he led were almost at their limit if they could block Jiannu, the fastest and easiest route back to the north.In other ways, he is powerless.

Of course, if Jiannu had to hang himself from a tree, and insisted on breaking through the barrier here, then he would be attacked from both front and back, and the whole army would be wiped out!
"Jiannu seems to be retreating." General Xiang Zuolin frowned, and ran down from a high place to report, "It's not very clear, but it should be similar."

Kong Youde smiled wryly. Jianu might have chosen to take a detour, but he couldn't divide his troops to intercept him. Jianu on the opposite side was still staring at this place!
If Zhang Zongbing's troops - Kong Youde shook his head, he knew that the troops led by Zhang Keda were almost all infantry, and it was impossible to block all roads and roads in terms of speed.

"Let them go!" Kong Youde waved his hands helplessly, and said, "We have tried our best, and the results we have achieved are great."

After a pause, he emphasized again: "Now we can't take it lightly, we must guard against Jiannu's sudden return to the carbine."

"The last general takes orders." Xiang Zuolin bowed, turned and left.

Kong Youde once again paid attention to the building slaves and actions and banners on the opposite side, and found that the banner of Daishan had not moved, but at this moment he felt that this might be for him to see.

Two red flags, after several battles in southern Liaoning, almost one of the flags was disabled?Kong Youde showed a sneer, and slowly put down the binoculars.

If there were two or three thousand more cavalry, the Liangqi Jiannu would almost be blocked on the way back to the north, and it would be completely over.

Shaking his head with some regret, Kong Youde also felt that it would be difficult for the court to support him if he asked the court to transfer horses.Long Live is already very generous in his investment in the Dongjiang Army, which is why the Dongjiang Army continues to grow.

Of course Kong Youde didn't know that Zhu Youxiao had already set an even more astonishing goal, that is, the troops in Liaodong and Beijunzhen would have no infantry in three years.

The so-called distinction between infantry and cavalry will be the difference in combat methods.In other words, the infantry rode on the road and dismounted to fight; the cavalry was all done on horseback.

The success of Pingliao is not the end, and the impact of the Little Ice Age on the northern nomads is also quite heavy.

In history, whenever the weather is harsh and disasters are frequent, it is also the time when the northern nomads go south to plunder.

Without him, the disaster would cause mass deaths of cattle, horses, and sheep.Without the materials that can be exchanged, the only way left is to grab.

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The wind is blowing, the grass is shaking; the blue sky and white clouds are above the head, and the beaten Mongolian cavalry is in sight.

Amin reined in the horse's head, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and snorted, with contempt and joy of victory.

When the Mongolian cavalry came to Nong'an Tower, Amin was a little surprised and a little angry when he got the news.

He was surprised that the Mongols had such guts, and he was angry because he thought the Mongols looked down on him, the post-gold Erbeile.

Although Nurhachi proceeded from the overall situation and did not want to make more enemies, he did not take the initiative to fight against the Mongolian tribes, and even set aside a buffer zone to avoid conflicts.

However, the Mongolian tribes still took the initiative to launch several attacks against Houjin. For example, the five coalition forces of Neikhaerka, who went to aid the Ming army in Tieling, fought fierce battles with the Houjin army.

In addition, the Mongolian tribes took advantage of the emptiness of Shenyang and sent troops to attack Shenyang to rescue the banned Qisai Nuoyan.

In these two battles, the Hou Jin army ended in victory, found out the combat power and reality of the Mongolian tribes, and found a way to defeat the enemy.

If there is no Ming army's mobilization on all sides, Nurhachi is going to send elites in the autumn to carry out a quick attack on Neikalkha, in order to punish his actions of being close to the Ming court.

All in all, the Baylor generals of the Houjin Dynasty were very clear about the combat power of the Mongolian army, and they were extremely confident in fighting the Mongolian army.

Moreover, Nong'an Tower is not a city, and the Houjin Army is not good at defense.Facing the menacing Mongolian cavalry, Amin has only one choice, and that is to lead the army to fight.

In the first battle at Harahai, north of Nong'an Tower, Amin led his army to defeat 2000 pioneer troops of the Mongolian army, and pursued them to Hongquan, where they encountered 5000 troops from the Mongolian army's Jalut department.

Although the troops were equal, Amin didn't pay attention to the Mongolian army on the opposite side at all, and led his troops to attack.The Mongolian army fought hard, but they were still defeated one after another and fled northward.

A Min led the army to pursue and kill him until Tao Haotai.

Speaking of which, Amin's troops have been winning consecutive battles, chasing and killing nearly a hundred miles, and the distance is not too far.Amin is also good at battle formation, alternately rushing and slowing in pursuit, trying his best to maintain manpower and horsepower, so as not to make his army become a tired army.

"Report to Lord Belle, ten miles ahead, a large number of Mongolian troops have been found, about ten thousand, and they are waiting in formation." The scout Pegasus in front rushed back to report, bringing new information.

Amin nodded, not surprised.

If the Mongolian coalition forces want to crusade against Horqin, at least tens of thousands of horses must be dispatched, and perhaps more.And the number of those who fought against him was wrong.

Since it is waiting in line, don't let the Mongols wait in vain.Amin didn't think that his five thousand fine cavalry could not beat the ten thousand Mongolian army, so he immediately blew the horn, assembled the troops, and laid out a formation, and slowly pressed forward.

The continuous fraudulent defeat finally led Jiannu into the trap.Amin, there are thousands of slaves, so you will never come back.

Mangui, Hu Dawei, and Mengruhu each led a thousand-man team and lined up in the middle of the Mongolian coalition army. On the left was the Chahar Department, and on the right was the Zhalut Department. On the wide and flat grassland, they watched the Houjin Army The battle formation slowly approached.

Although the front is wide and flat, the grassland also has ups and downs and hills, and it is not endless.

On the left side of the battlefield left by the coalition forces, there was a low ridge with green grass stretching for hundreds of meters.Behind the uplift, tens of meters away, is an unknown small river flowing.

On the reverse slope, a thousand musketeers lay silently on the ground, waiting for the order to move.

The two armies faced each other at a distance of several hundred meters. Amin saw the bulge of the grass and also saw the small river.He didn't think how many people could be hidden in such a narrow place, nor did he think it would have any impact on frontal combat.

With the sound of the whimpering horn, the Mongolian coalition army launched first, and more than two thousand cavalry rode out from the two wings shouting and galloping towards the Houjin army.

Let's shoot, let's stop at this!
Amin sneered, waved an order, and also sent cavalry to intercept the enemy.

Due to the superiority in armor, the bows and arrows shot by the Mongolian soldiers with light leather armor mostly did little damage to the Jin army.On the contrary, the bows and arrows of the Houjin Army can show their power.

The war horse galloped like two torrents, rushing forward, about to hit each other fiercely.

However, the Mongolian cavalry didn't do what the Hou Jin army expected. As soon as they reached the range, they hurriedly shot the arrows in their hands, and then turned around. Relying on their superb riding skills, they swept across the battlefield horizontally and rushed to the left.

This round of bows and arrows did little damage to the rear golden cavalry, and galloping to the left was more like leaving the battlefield.

Later, the Golden Cavalry also changed direction, and the enemy's behavior was more like cowardice, which aroused their excitement and fierceness, and they uttered strange screams and curses, and chased after the Mongolian army.

The Mongolian cavalry swept across the battlefield, changed direction again, and galloped back to the main formation along the raised grass.

The cavalry of the Jin army shot arrows, shot some Mongolian cavalry off their horses, and then chased after them with bows and arrows again.

A Min observed the battlefield, and felt that it was possible to use the momentum of the pursuit to disrupt the enemy's formation, and launch a general attack by himself...

A loud arrow shot into the air and made a sharp whistle, interrupting Amin's thoughts.

On the raised grass, a long row of closely arranged figures suddenly stood up and fired a salvo at the passing rear golden cavalry.

Amidst the roar of gunfire, the rear golden cavalry fell down with their horses and men.

Amin's eyes widened suddenly, he was familiar with the gunshot!

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(End of this chapter)