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The fierce north wind has failed to succeed. Chapter 47: Heading West

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    The period from the end of the sixth year of Apocalypse to May of the seventh year of Apocalypse is also the time for the Funing Town Exhibition.  Funing Town was originally a military town composed of guard soldiers and conscripted soldiers. However, after successfully expelling the Dutch from Penghu, Wei Zhongxian, the "wise and powerful" Wei Gonggong, believed that the situation in the Fujian Sea was at ease, so he immediately ordered the dismantling of Funing Town.  All the recruits are now in Funing Town. Most of the elite soldiers in the past have changed their careers and gone to work as pirates.  In addition to the tens of thousands of direct descendants brought by Huangshi, the Xiapu generation also has tens of thousands of male military households and three thousand hectares of military villages. In theory, a total of 120,000 male males are all complete guard military households. If it is only theoretically speaking, Huangshi  Not only do they not have to pay them a single military salary, but they can also take away 20% of the military camp's income every year to prepare for military town expenses.  If Huang Shi really does this, then his mobilization force will be sharply reduced to about 3,000 soldiers plus 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, and he may not be able to equip these 3,000 soldiers with weapons. This is almost the same as the Ming army's military town.  Normal mobilization force.  If it were to support a feat like the expedition to the southwest, the number of troops Huangshi could dispatch would definitely be no more than 5,000, and the number of combat-effective ones would never reach 2,000. This is not to mention the issue of the loss of servants, soldiers and military camps.  Under normal circumstances, the military strength directly under the jurisdiction of a governor-level military commander is only this small. The civilian group believes that this can ensure that the military commander will never have the ability to separatist rule and cause chaos.  It's just that Huang Shi doesn't just plan to be a normal general. In his ambitious plan, he wants to train tens of thousands of combat troops and turn the entire military camp in Funing Town into a large "industrial zone."  In early December of the sixth year of Tianqi, Bao Bowen and other workers had already arrived in Fujian, which was more than half a month earlier than Huangshi expected.  Because all the silver in stock was left to the Dongjiang Town Zuo Xie, Huangshi could only misappropriate businessmen's funds from Liu Qingyang's loan to maintain the operation of Funing Town for a period of time.  Since it was misappropriation of funds, Huangshi was very careful to allocate only 50,000 taels of silver in December. Although this number is nothing compared to the huge sum of 2.7 million taels, this amount of money is of great help to the former Changsheng Island officers and soldiers who have always been short of funds.  That's quite a lot of land.  After all, they didn't dare spend 50,000 taels of silver a month in the past.  With sufficient financial support.  Huangshi can devote all its manpower to restoring production capacity.  The machine tools were quickly assembled and Huangshi in the south of the Yangtze River, which had abundant water resources, could start mass production of machines instead of a large number of windmills.  However, in order to stabilize the water flow and facilitate control, Huangshi made plans from the beginning to build several small reservoirs.  For Huangshi's "heavy industry", reservoirs are batteries, windmills are motors, and waterwheels are motors. Although Fujian does not seem to need too many motors, repairing a few more "batteries" is always a precaution.  After formulating a plan to fully develop the army.  The production of armor and helmets is of course the top priority in Funing Town.  When Huangshi was transferred from Dongjiang Town to Funing Town, Emperor Tianqi graciously issued a special edict to Nanzhili, ordering the Nanjing Arms Depot to give priority to the military supplies in Funing Town.  But the emperor¡¯s edict is one thing and its execution is another.  Huang Shi knew very well that the food in the Nanjing Arms Library was by no means so delicious, so when he went to Quanzhou in the first month of the year, Huang Shi only asked Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, that he needed a large amount of leather armor and gunpowder. As for the various types of iron armor, he didn't mention a word at all.  After the middle of Ming Dynasty.  If generals at all levels want to obtain weapons for their troops, they generally have to pay one-tenth of the value of the weapons, which is also the main income of the civilian officials in charge of the arsenal.  Therefore, generals at all levels are generally unwilling to equip their battalions with relatively expensive weapons such as armor and shields. If they have money, they spend it on their own servants.  Although it is ridiculous that the country¡¯s generals should spend money to buy equipment for the country¡¯s army.  However, Huang Shi did not have Mao Wenlong's courage to challenge the unwritten rules, and Mao Wenlong's situation was enough to eliminate all Huang Shi's "bloodiness".  Therefore, Huangshi still plans to pay the money honestly and continue to follow his own path of being a walleye.  Of course, Huang Shi only picked some relatively cheap things and only had to pay the arsenal officer 2 taels for a pair of leather armor. This time, Huang Shi requested 5,000 sets of leather armor for his fire gunners.  After three months of wrangling and haggling.  With the help of some "old friends" in South Zhili, Fujian Governor Zhu Yifeng tried his best to help Huangshi get these things.  After approval from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War in South Zhili, Huang Shi sealed red envelopes for Zhu Yifeng and his friends in South Zhili respectively, and then sent people to the Nanjing Arsenal to pay the money and get the armor back.  This batch of leather armors are the most common ones with limited defensive capabilities, but the biggest advantage is that they are lightweight. A set of leather armors only weighs 20 kilograms.  Fighting in the southern mountains is not a big burden.  In addition to not wanting to spend money, Huangshi had other considerations.  That is, no matter whether it is the various heavy armors produced by the Ministry of Industry, or the muskets and Franco machines, they have no guarantee of credibility at all and will never be returned if they are counterfeit.  So although Huang Shi now has the right to allocate weapons from the Ministry of Industry, he still prefers to produce armor and helmets, especially heavy infantry.The most important piece of armor.  Thanks to Bao Bowen's efforts, Funing Town began to produce steel in the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. In the late first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, those precious machine tools in Huangshi finally began to resume operation.  In the first month of the first month, Huangshi obtained another 50,000 taels of silver from Liu Qingyang. With the support of these funds, Funing Town was transformed into a military town with a half-guard station and half-recruitment system. The soldiers and workers in the battalion received a fixed salary of one tael per month.  of.  Of course, the rest of the people can only be free and cheap labor. At present, some of them have to continue farming and fishing. However, Huangshi only collects a 10% tax. This part of the tax allows Huangshi to free other military households to do manual labor.  .  In February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Japanese shogunate launched an attack on the Choshu clan.  However, in terms of incompetence, the shogunate's army is not much compared to the Changshu domain army that Yang Zhiyuan encountered when he went to Japan last time. Yang Zhiyuan's first report to Huangshi claimed that the only difference between the two is: the shogunate  The army is more numerous.  In order to preemptively prevent the humanitarian disaster targeting the people of Changzhou, Yang Zhiyuan and Panshiying will naturally not sit back and watch.  Yang Zhiyuan reported to Huangshi that he planned to use the border fortresses of the Changzhou Domain to hold back the armies of the shogunate and Japanese princes coming from several directions, and to use the Changzhou New Army and the Panshi Battalion as mobile forces to defeat the punitive forces one by one.  By the end of February in the seventh year of Tianqi, Funing Town had produced 600 new armors.  The armor used by the Funing Army is not only a breastplate but also matching protective armor for shoulders, arms, legs, shins and other parts.  Huangshi first sought He Dingyuan's opinion before determining production requirements.  The latter requires that the weight of the complete set of armor should not exceed thirty-two kilograms.  This number is about 70% of the weight of the heavy cotton armor of the whole body, which is equivalent to the weight of the iron scale armor Sun Chengzong gave Huang Shi.  He Dingyuan believed that this weight would not affect the tactical movements of the infantry. Huang Shi passed this opinion to the Funing Town Military Industry Department and asked them to operate it on their own.  Anyway, Huangshi's main idea is to increase the iron content of the armor. The iron content of the chest plate is almost 100%, which should be able to reduce the weight and improve the defensive effect.  Huang Shi was also very satisfied with the armor produced. The Military Industry Department even further reduced the weight of the armor to thirty kilograms, which is only ten kilograms heavier than the gunner's leather armor.  In addition, Funing Town¡¯s standard helmets will be integrated with Funing Town¡¯s armor.  In this way, when the helmet is attacked, the important blow force will be borne by the chest. This helmet weighs five kilograms.  At the beginning of this month, Huang Shi took another 50,000 taels of silver from Liu Qingyang.  After receiving the money, Huangshi immediately trained 8,000 new soldiers.  Including the original troops, there are now more than 15,000 combat troops with military pay in Funing Town.  There are still nearly 2,000 people in the Military Industry Department who want military pay. A monthly military salary costs 17,000 taels plus training expenses and maintenance expenses.  The money spent on the army in a month has exceeded 30,000 taels.  Liu Qingyang¡¯s trading group began to gain income last month in March of the Seventh Year of the Apocalypse. The Dark Council is optimistic about the prospect of trading profits, even after excluding the necessary interest.  The profit for the whole month of February also reached about 150,000 taels of silver.  The first order Huang Shi issued after reading the report was: Liu Qingyang had to hand over one hundred thousand taels of silver in March.  After getting the money, Huangshi expanded the Military Industry Department. After the expansion, the Funing Town Military Industry Department suddenly had more than 8,000 people. The military salary Funing Town had to pay this month was as high as 24,000 taels.  In front of the generous military pay, many girls from Fujian mountainous areas began to be tempted, and some began to marry into Funing Town.  ???In this month, Jerry Yang has continued to send good news.  Under the joint "persuasion" of the Panshi Camp and the new military base of the Choshu Domain, the southwestern vassals of Japan repented and withdrew from the unjust war against the people of Choshu.  These feudal clans also expressed their willingness to further strengthen cooperation with the Choshu clan.  It's just that "sending troops privately is tantamount to treason." Moreover, Japan is still a "country without conquest" designated by Zhu Hongwu, so Huangshi did not dare to blatantly collude with Japanese vassals, so he had to leave all these tasks to Kuroshima Kazuo.  After all, Morusui Shinji was the elder of the Changshu clan who asked him to come forward to help Huangshi run the business.  It's still not very reassuring.  Yang Zhiyuan also reported to Huang Shi that the main force of the Japanese shogunate had fought hard for a month.  Still stopped at the border fortress of the Choshu domain.  Although the troops garrisoned in the fortress are also the old-fashioned troops of the Choshu Domain, they are equipped with a large number of artillery, and these forts are old-style bastion structures designed by Changsheng Island engineers for the Choshu Domain.  The Japanese shogunate army, which was mainly equipped with bows and arrows, bamboo spears and samurai swords, was unable to do anything about the fortress of Changzhou Domain and could only hope to capture it through a long-term siege.  According to Yang Zhiyuan, the Panshi Camp and the Changzhou Domain New Army suffered almost no losses in the previous battle and are currently recuperating in the rear to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the shogunate next month.  At the same time, Yang Zhiyuan also reported that after witnessing the power of the new army of the Choshu Domain, the prestige of Shoushi Shinji in the Choshu Domain has just reached a new peak.  The soldiers of the Choshu Domain also swept away the tense atmosphere at the beginning of the war, and the call to "fight Kant¨­ and burn Edo" suddenly became louder.  keepMr. Sui Su had secretly asked Yang Zhiyuan for instructions on the issue of public opinion guidance. Yang Zhiyuan therefore asked Huang Shi to express his next action strategy.  In April of the seventh year of Tianqi, Huangshi got another hundred thousand taels of silver from Liu Qingyang.  Although Funing Town did not expand this month, Huang Shi ordered a salary increase for the soldiers. The monthly salary of ordinary soldiers was increased from one tael to one to two and a half taels.  This salary is already comparable to that of the Guan Ning Army, and is much higher than the three-coin silver standard for recruiting troops in Zhejiang Province and the province.  Of course, the majority of soldiers in Funing Town firmly supported Huangshi's decision, and Huangshi took this opportunity to restore the silver coin system and still call it military coupons to the outside world.  This time Huang Shi learned a trick and forged threads on the corners of the silver coins to prevent others from scratching off the leftovers.  The silver coins in this trip are still 70% silver, so if no one exchanges them.  Although Huangshi has raised wages.  But in fact, no more money was paid.  Huangshi maintained its credibility by allowing silver coins to be freely exchanged.  Although some recruits exchanged their silver coins for silver taels themselves, under the influence of the veterans, most Fujian recruits trusted Huangshi. The silver coins were indeed convenient and the value was written clearly so that they would not be cheated.  This salary amount immediately caused a sensation around Funing Town.  Take the land tax in Fujian as an example. The agricultural tax set by Emperor Wanli was only 5 cents per mu per year. A stone of good rice was only four coins.  The soldiers in Funing Town received one or two to five yuan in military pay a month.  What ordinary farmers and fishermen earn in a year may not be as much as what a soldier earns in a month.  It¡¯s April.  For a whole month, a large number of people came to Funing Town every day to sign up to be soldiers.  However, Huangshi has already ordered that when recruiting troops, military households in this town should be given priority.  These men who came to sign up to join the army were disappointed, but many of them asked to join the army and start from ordinary military households in Funing Town.  Even after telling them that there was no further plan to expand the army, many people still expressed their indifference and insisted on becoming military households to work for Huang Shibai.  As long as there is a mouthful of food, that's all.  Since the people were so enthusiastic, Huangshi was too embarrassed to disappoint them, so he recruited tens of thousands of people to do manual labor and even saved the usual settlement expenses.  We have manpower.  After more reservoirs and waterwheels were built, Huangshi further introduced a three-shift system.  Anyway, the military company has trained thousands of workers, so there is absolutely no need to worry about craftsmanship.  After a month of burning the midnight oil, by the end of April, the Military Industry Department had produced 1,700 sets of armor. Adding to the production in March, Funing Town had already stocked 3,000 new armors.  The end of April.  Yang Zhiyuan led the Panshi Battalion to Funing Town. The Changzhou Fan people's just war for regional autonomy ended in mid-April.  To be more precise, the military conflict was over after the Allied Forces of the Choshu Domain and the Panshi Army fought with the Shogunate Army on April 8th. All that was left was the work of the politicians.  On the Changshu side, there are 3,000 modern troops as the core, and nearly 10,000 peasants with high morale to protect the country and land as the auxiliary force; and their enemies are more than 50,000 peasants from the Kanto region, and thousands of "swordsman" wearing armor.  "Master" they have been fortifying the city for two months.  As a result of the battle, under the bombardment of field artillery, the Tokugawa shogunate's army began to collapse as quickly as his predecessors who first encountered this army.  In this era, the Tokugawa banner warriors were indeed stronger than the armies of the Choshu clan and the armies of the southwestern lords.  They also tried to keep their formation moving forward into hand-to-hand combat.  But when the new army used terrifying chain bombs and shotguns, this force, known as Japan's strongest, also began to flee.  The last few samurai were also beaten into colanders by fire guns After defeating the shogunate army, the coalition forces conducted a day-long pursuit. When night fell, the coalition forces had killed tens of thousands of soldiers and captured more than 20,000 prisoners.  According to Huang Shi's instructions, Shusui Xinji then showed the style of a true statesman. He not only fed tens of thousands of prisoners but also released them unconditionally.  The conditions finally proposed by the Choshu Domain surprised the shogunate and left them speechless. They had never seen such reasonable, well-founded, and restrained conditions in Japanese history, especially in the context of such an unprecedented fiasco. In order to prevent the Choshu  The feudal lord repented, and the Tokugawa shogunate impatiently sent envoys to sign a new treaty with the Choshu clan, thus restoring peace to Japan.  After the Panshi Battalion arrived in Fujian, there were a total of 9,000 officers and soldiers in the three field battalions of Funing Town: Fire Fighting, Panshi, and Frontier Selection, with a total shortage of 6,000 men.  By the end of April in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huangshi's eight thousand recruits had completed basic training. He immediately replenished all three field battalions to full strength. He also selected some seed officers and soldiers from the three old field camps and put them together with the remaining recruits.  Tianyi camp.  By the first day of May in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the three battalions of Fire Fighting, Panshi and Selection in Funing Town had 15,000 officers and soldiers, twenty-four artillery teams, three horse teams, three engineering teams and three baggage teams each.  Among them, the twenty-four infantry groups have a total of 6,000 spearmen and 3,600 fire gunners. Huang Shi has 3,000 new armors and 2,200 remaining old-fashioned iron scale armors in his hand, plus 3,600 more.  Leather armor finally completes the armor of the infantry unit.  Needless to say, the baggage corps has no armor, and the artillery corps has all its armor removed.Now the artillery no longer needs to go up and fight.  The engineering team gave a batch of leather armor.  As for the cavalry team, Huangshi once again deducted all their iron armor and only recharged their leather armor.  He Dingyuan came over and complained fiercely.  But Huang Shi really ran out of goods.  In order to get armor for the infantry, he also took back all the armor of the inner guard. Besides, within the Funing military system, the main job of the cavalry was to investigate and pursue Huangshi. There was a good reason why he did not provide armor for Huangshi. He Dingyuan finally had to accept the reality.  Before He Dingyuan left, Huang Shi comforted him and said: "Brother He, don't worry. Wait for another two months and the infantry armor will be almost ready. Then I will start producing breastplates. That is equipment for the cavalry." One leg has already been stepped out.  He Dingyuan, who was at the tent, retracted his legs as soon as he heard this: "Commander, I have heard you say this for several years, but every time there is a shortage of supplies, you steal the infantry from the cavalry without even thinking, Commander-in-Chief."  If the artillery has no horses, it will be taken from the cavalry, and the inner guard will simply take men from the cavalry. "Huang Shi said with a smile, "Isn't it true that Brother He has trained his troops well, but the natural supplies can't keep up.  "No, Marshal, you are relying on someone again." He Dingyuan flatly denied this statement.  He retorted loudly: "Every time a certain person says to train more cavalry, Marshal, you always say you have no money. But every time you have some money, you will expand the infantry, artillery, engineers and even heavy equipment. The cavalry will always be cut again and again."  . There is no hope at all. This time when the commander-in-chief of Fujian expanded the army to 8,000 infantry, I would not believe it if he said he had no money." "Eight thousand infantry for ten steps sounds like a lot.  The money for horses is enough to support a thousand cavalry. Let¡¯s go to the southwest mountains. One thousand cavalry is obviously not as useful as eight thousand infantry.¡± ¡°No matter where we go, one thousand cavalry can¡¯t defeat your eight thousand infantry.¡±  That¡¯s no reason not to form a cavalry team!¡± He Dingyuan shouted louder and louder, and the veins on his neck became stretched.  "I know, I know." Huang Shi smiled and was not angry at all. Seeing that He Dingyuan's resentment had reached a certain level, he decided to reveal a secret to him: "Okay, actually, I have bought a batch of good horses, and you have definitely not seen it.  "What a good horse?" "Brother He, how much does the best horse you have ever ridden weigh?" "Well, it weighs more than 550 pounds. It was less than 6 pounds. That was back home in Shaanxi."  At that time, the 400-pound ponies in Liaodong were not as good as the horses in Shaanxi. "The Mongolian horses are generally more than 200 kilograms, which is very hard for one person.  Huangshi's horse, a large horse, is a carefully selected one and weighs just over five hundred pounds.  He himself weighs one hundred and eighty kilograms, plus the armor, weapons and horses weighing dozens of kilograms already have no energy left to wear any horse armor.  "Shaanxi's Hetao horses are indeed world-famous, but those big horses are rare, right?" "It's rare that horses weighing more than 400 kilograms are the most common." Huang Shi nodded and stretched out a finger to shake at He Dingyuan.  Huang: "Brother He, after I came to Xiapu, I ordered a group of stallions with Hongyi. These horses are all over 1,200 pounds." He Dingyuan was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "Barbarians can talk nonsense.  Ma has never heard of such a big land. ""That means you won't do it if I really buy Brother He?" He Dingyuan looked at Huang Shi suspiciously and the latter raised his tea cup leisurely and started drinking tea:  "Yes! Why not? But I heard that a big horse weighing more than 600 kilograms is already worth more than one thousand taels of silver. Really, a big horse weighing more than a thousand kilograms still costs ten thousand taels of silver." "Hongyi sells it cheaper than this.  I made an appointment with the Jesuits in the twelfth lunar month of last year to help me find ten male horses and twenty mares to be transported here and raised for a month. They would weigh 1,200 kilograms and I paid them a total of 200,000 taels of silver. "Huang Shi.  What Yan Ming wants is that after the stallion arrives, it will also be used for breeding.  He Dingyuan calculated in his mind that in addition to carrying people, the 1,200-pound horse could also carry a heavy-duty vest weighing 70 to 80 pounds. This really made him overjoyed: "When will the horse arrive, sir?" "It is estimated that it will be transported this year.  It's coming." Huang Shi's words made He Dingyuan dumbfounded. He murmured: "But it's only April now." "Yes." Huang Shi admitted this without blushing or heartbeat: "We'll wait until these horses arrive.  Just start breeding and when the pony grows up, Brother He, you can form a strong horse team. "" The third day of May in the seventh year of Tianqi.  After Xiapu Huangshi paid this month's military pay with the silver coins in his inventory, he still had a surplus of ten thousand taels.  The military camp has gained a lot.  The harvest in the military town is enough to guarantee hundreds of thousands of mouths in the military town.  At the end of last month, Huangshi ordered Liu Qingyang to pay 200,000 taels of silver this month. The money arrived yesterday.  Huangshi checked the attached report because Huangshi kept transferring a large number of people.?Liang Liu Qingyang has not yet made up for the shortfall.  "Don't worry, there are still more than two years." Huang Shi is quite happy that in the past four months, he has smashed 350,000 taels of silver into a Funing army with nearly 20,000 people.  In addition to the 17,000 troops of the four field battalions, Funing Town also has a 700-person internal guard, a 200-person teaching team, a 1,500-person rescue team, and a supply force of varying numbers directly under the town.  The General Staff Department, the Military Intelligence Department, the Logistics Department, and the Military Justice Department.  Counting the 8,000-person Military Industry Department, the core organization of Funing Town is close to 30,000 people.  A month's military pay is more than 40,000 taels of silver.  Including training, canteen and other expenses, Funing Town's maintenance fee has exceeded the 70,000 mark.  Fortunately, the military households in the military town are not only self-sufficient, but can also help Huangshi share some of the burden and serve as potential troop complements.  "Sooner or later, when I have more money, all the male military households in Funing Town must undergo basic military training. Otherwise, what kind of military households are they called?" After receiving the huge sum of two hundred thousand taels of silver, Huangshi immediately announced that he would  Going out to the southwest: "This time our Funing Army will mobilize all 15,000 officers and soldiers from the three battalions of Fire Fighting, Panshi, and Selected Front. We will also mobilize 500 internal guards, a thousand-man rescue team, and the town's baggage  In addition, the General Staff Department, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Military Justice Department also sent people to accompany them, a total of 18,800 officers and soldiers." Everyone in the audience below was in high spirits.  The scale of this troop dispatch is truly unprecedented. All the generals in Funing Town were filled with excitement and excitement.  "Grant the rank of General Zhao Manxiong to General Zhao. When I am away, General Zhao will be fully responsible for the military affairs of the old camp in Xiapu. After I leave, General Zhao can recruit another two thousand recruits from the military households for training, and at the same time let the Tianyi Battalion's  "Two thousand officers and soldiers are ready to fill the vacancies in the three battalions ahead." "General, I will do my duty to fulfill the commander's trust." "Okay, I am going to supervise the military affairs of the four provinces in the southwest, so I have reported it.  The governor of Fujian and the Ministry of War asked them to grant General Yu the title of Chief Military Officer guarding Fujian. However, General Yu will still be stationed in Xiamen, and he will not interfere during the holidays. General Zhao will remember to give more to General Yu.  Don't be disrespectful when sending greetings." "General, I understand. Please rest assured." "Well, the following is a military arrangement. I will send out the fire-fighting camp together with the fire-fighting camp on the tenth day of this month.  On the 5th, He Guerrilla will be responsible for leading the team; on the 20th, the Selected Front Battalion will be sent out to lead the guerrilla team. "As the first batch of troops, the internal guards and engineers will be responsible for exploring roads and terrain to help the ground forces behind.  Troops march.  The main job of the internal guards is to direct traffic, while the engineers are responsible for sketching roads and estimating the passage of large forces.  The engineering team of the fire-fighting battalion was specially selected and handed over to Ouyang Xin's command. Together with hundreds of guards officers and soldiers, they would take a boat to Guangzhou in advance to book the route along the march of the large army to conduct advance reconnaissance.  ¡­ On the seventh day of May in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after four months of fierce fighting in Liaodong and severely damaging the Dongjiang Army, Huang Taiji looked around. The strategic encirclement network that once tightly tightened around Hou Jin¡¯s neck was frequently falling apart.  He immediately changed his previous humble attitude and asked the envoy to send a letter to Yuan Chonghuan. In this letter, Huang Taiji ridiculed Yuan Chonghuan's four-month peace negotiation behavior and openly provoked: "even if it can strengthen several cities, all its cities and fields  Can He be as strong as possible? If the war continues, I will be favored by heaven and find my Ming Emperor in Beijing to escape to Nanjing. What will his name be? " The vanguard of the Jin army arrived at Liaohe on the seventh day of the fifth lunar month.  The eighth day of the lunar month.  Later, the Jin army crossed the Liaohe River and set foot on the western Liaoning territory.  After receiving Yuan Chonghuan's memorial, the Ming court finally issued a decree to praise him and ordered him to strengthen his alert to prepare for a possible attack by the Jin army.  However, nearly a month after receiving Mao Wenlong's alarm, the generals, troops, military households and ordinary businessmen in western Liaoning still had not received any alarm.  On the eighth day of May, Yuan Chonghuan's words of "Jin Tang Yi Gu" were still in his ears. After Mang Gurtai led the Jin Pioneer's 200 cavalry, they arrived at the gate of Guangning Zhongzuo Suo (Daling River).  The generals of Guan Ning's army who were guarding the city were caught off guard, and they raised two thousand Guan Ning's cavalry and tens of thousands of merchants and civilians in the city to surrender.  On the ninth day of May, Mang Gurtai's 200 cavalry arrived at the gate of Youtunwei (Xiaolinghe) in Guangning. Three thousand Guanning cavalry in the city asked to surrender. After receiving Mang Gurtai's consent, they peacefully laid down their weapons and became honest with the men, women, and children in the city.  On the spot, we headed east towards Liaoyang.  The tenth day of May.  When Hou Jin Bingfeng arrived at Jinzhou, the guard Zhao led Jiao was shocked when he saw Hou Jin's cavalry suddenly appearing outside the city. He quickly sent an envoy to ask for surrender but asked for a day's grace from Hou Jin's army.  This gave him time to persuade his men to surrender together, and the Jin army agreed and then bypassed Jinzhou and continued southward.  That afternoon, a scout ran towards the Houjin Pioneer Cavalry.  Lord Beile, General Songshan, requested to surrender.  Mang Gurtai tilted his head and glanced at the spy and said strangely: "ButI haven't reached the city yet.  "The detective horse quickly rolled off his saddle and dismounted to apologize to Mang Gurtai and said, "Forgive me, Lord Baylor.  The servant accidentally walked too close and was seen by Matsuyama Mingjun.  " After being discovered by the Tashan garrison just now, Hou Jin Zhenqi Niulu, because of the arrogance he had cultivated along the way, went directly to persuade him to surrender. As a result, the Tashan garrison asked them to tell Mang Gurtai that if their lives could be guaranteed, the garrison would be willing to open the city.  Surrender. ¡°Okay, but demolish the city before they leave.  Save us the trouble.  " "I'm a slave, go and give the order.  "When Mang Gurtai rode his horse to the foot of Songshan City, the Guan Ning cavalry in the city was supervising the merchants and people in the city to work together to tear down the city that the country had just built in less than a month at a cost of 500,000 taels of silver.  A naked city. ¡°Okay, let¡¯s leave it at that for today and tell the guard to start tearing down the walls early tomorrow morning.  " When Mang Gurtai came out the next day, he told the Ming army who was demolishing the wall: After the demolition of the city was completed, they would carry the materials in the city on their backs and then walk to Liaoyang. After May 11, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Jin army side  Continuing to move south, they spread out to expand the search area. On the same day, tens of thousands of Guanning cavalry stationed in Xingshan, Tuanshan, Dading and other places asked the Jin army to surrender.  Or they could not repair the castle and then carry the things in the city and go to Liaoyang to gather. At this time, the Ming army in the direction of Ningyuan finally got the warning. The Guan Ning cavalry stationed in Lianshan, Xiaotuanshan and other forts abandoned them without hesitation.  The castles retreated swarm towards Ningyuan. After that, the Jin army captured a total of 17 cities, fortresses and forts outside the pass of the Ming army. By May 13th, the seventh year of Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money after the Ningyuan battle.  The twenty large and small fortresses outside the Pass, which cost five million and took eighteen months to build, were all abandoned within four days. During this period, the Ming Dynasty transported millions of taels of grain, gunpowder, cannons, bows, and arrows to these fortresses outside the Pass.  The armor, swords and shields were all given to the Hou Jin Army in vain. On May 14, Jierhalang had led the reinforcements to catch up with Mang Gurtai's vanguard: "The road is really difficult to walk and it is densely packed with people.  " "Oh, I've run away a lot.  "Mang Gurtai sighed repeatedly. Since the day before yesterday, the beacon fire in western Liaoning has ignited hundreds of thousands of people, businessmen, and military households between Jinzhou and Ningyuan. They fled southward, which made Mang Gurtai catch a lot of people.  ¡°Sanbeile is so greedy.  "Jierhalang laughed. Mang Gurtai looked at the people following Jierhalang and frowned: "Why did you bring so many people here?  " There were only more than a thousand cavalry behind Jierharang. He explained calmly: "Jinzhou guard Zhao Shujiao changed his mind and refused to surrender.  " "Oh, what is King Khan going to do with him?  " "Jinzhou Jiancheng Shenhao King Khan attacked it the day before yesterday, but it was very difficult to defeat. There were many firearms and cannons in the city.  " "Haha" Mang Gurtai laughed a few times and looked back to the north: "It's not easy for the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in western Liaoning to have a son.  " "Haha, but more than one Dafu Fort defender also refused to surrender.  " "Well, that's two.  How was the battle at Dafu Castle?  " "King Khan also sent people to fight, but it seemed that he couldn't defeat it.  " "Now there are so many things that we can't move them here. If we can't pack them down, we won't pack them."  "Mang Gurtai has become very happy again in the past few days. Since Huang Shi left, the days have suddenly become better again: "The last time I entered western Liaoning, it was like entering an uninhabited land. This time, it was like this again.  Will Ningyuan surrender?  " "Haha, let's go take a look.  "    "good.  " Jierharang is in a good mood. This trip to western Liaoning looks like it will be very wonderful: "Three Belles, our two blue flags have been fighting in Liaodong for so many years. Although Mao Wenlong and Chen Jisheng's soldiers were not fully clothed, they built a shed with a wooden fence.  It's called a castle, and the best it can do is just put some mud on it, but we've never won so easily.  This road in western Liaoning is full of majestic cities and strong walls. I have also seen that the equipment of the Guan Ning Army's surrender is really a powerful force. How could it be so vulnerable?  " "Humph, what else does Mao Wenlong's soldiers have besides one life?  And these guys in Liaoxi are so full that they can't bear to die?  " "Even if they are reluctant to die, why don't they try to fight?  Besides, Liaoxi is completely defenseless.  " "Well, Mao Wenlong has been holding back all day long to fight back to Liaodong's subordinates, and naturally he has this ambition. He has a deep hatred for us, so he naturally has to open an eye when sleeping; Yuan Chonghuan thinks about peace talks all day long, and naturally he doesn't even take the most basic precautions.  With such a rat in charge, Guan Ningjun would never learn to fight in ten thousand years.  "After Mang Gurtai finished speaking, a look of worry suddenly appeared on his face: "Those who eat more than those in western Liaoning and fight more than those in LiaodongThose desperate guys are the truly terrifying ones. You have never seen those beasts in Liaodong.  "" Hearing the sound of drums coming from far and near, the engineers and internal guards on the mountain put down their work and turned together towards the official road. The officer on the horse looked solemn, straightened his helmet carefully, and slowly held his hand  He raised it to his ears and saluted the approaching troops together with the other locals. The golden sunlight shone down from the zenith and the official road on the ground was soon filled with the shining luster of helmets and weapons, forming a metallic river.  Countless white feathers on this silver river point toward the sky like sharp swords, and the densely packed gun blades between them sway rhythmically. The rumbling footsteps vibrate the earth and the cheerful drum sounds are like a flexible little one.  Birds and flaming viper flags flew around the team. The guards, engineers and soldiers on the mountain straightened their chests and maintained their salute posture motionlessly, just like statues erected on the mountain.
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