Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 20 Protecting Food
Time back to a few days ago.This winter is difficult for everyone, Dongjiang Town is difficult, Houjin is difficult, and Li Jinguang of Lushunwei is also difficult.It is common for soldiers to receive insufficient military pay, but this year there is not enough food.As the saying goes, when the house leaks, it rains overnight, and some bad rumors began to spread in Lushunwei.It is said that Jin Bing has no food for the New Year, and he is coming to Lushunwei to collect food!
This is a big deal.In these years of drought and frost, Lushunwei couldn't get enough of the food he produced. If he was still attacked by the golden soldiers, how could he survive this winter!

The most nervous thing was Li Jinguang, who was afraid of his subordinates' mutiny, so he immediately mobilized his troops to deploy defenses, and was ready to teach the Houjin army who came to collect food a lesson so that they would not dare to covet the food here.

However, in this way, the post-gold spies in Lushun Guard discovered the abnormal mobilization of the Ming army. Some of them thought it was a sign that the Ming army was going to launch a large-scale military operation in order to claim credit!So of course I have to report to my chief Li Yongfang!

In this way, the two sides in the front have the illusion that each other thinks that the other side is going to attack them, and they start marching towards each other by mistake...

"My lord, the spies who went to Lushunwei reported that they had successfully spread the rumors. Now the relationship between Lushunwei and Jinzhou is very tense, and it may be triggered at any time." Changyi reported to Chu Yun.

At present, the Fuliao Battalion has been stationed in Wanghai Fort, and it has also organized the surrendered Jin soldiers and surrounding villagers to reinforce the fortifications of Wanghai Fort.

"Let the spies stay in places such as Lushun and Jinzhou, and try to increase the conflict between the two sides. It is best to let them fight." Chu Yun said, "Hehe, since the Ming army dare not take the initiative to attack the Jinbing, we have to give They're a little exciting."

"The spies also said that Lushunwei has asked the imperial court for help. I believe that the imperial court will soon let Liaodong governor Yuan Daren go east, Denglai and Denglai go north, and join Lushunwei to attack Houjin. Now part of the main force of the Jin army is still in Korea. It's so beneficial to us!" Changyi rubbed his hands excitedly, "I've been in Dongjiang Town for several years, and I haven't seen a better opportunity than this!"

"That's right, it's a pity that it's useless to count on the imperial court, otherwise there wouldn't be the defeat of Salhu." Chu Yun frowned.

He who came from later generations knew how powerless the imperial court was in the late Ming Dynasty, especially after Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the sky should not be called out, and the earth was not working, let alone recovering southern Liaoning, he could not even keep his own country.

"Besides, Denglai and Denglai states have to come here by sea. It takes too long to prepare the food and grass for the army and horses, which is far less fast than the golden soldiers." Chu Yun continued, "The nomads come and go like the wind. Compared with the long-term preparations we need, Their advantage should not be too obvious."

"What your lord said is that the golden reinforcements are coming soon, how should we deal with it?" Changyi admired this officer who was younger than himself even more.

Chu Yun walked to the edge of the city wall and touched the city wall he had set on fire. The scorched marks on it had been covered by heavy snow.

"Let the smelters on the island go all out to produce guns and cannons, and launch reserve military service to encourage them to join the army, and then set up the fourth infantry brigade," Chu Yun said.

"Fourth Infantry Battalion?" Changyi's eyes lit up.

"The next battle is too important for us. We must go all out. If we win, we will have land, resources, and population. If we lose, we will be huddled on the small Guanglu Island!" Chu Yun resolutely said.

That's right, although there is an industrial revolution system, Chu Yun found that the size and resources of Guanglu Island limited the development of his power and population size.Even if a lot of income can be obtained through trade, it is far behind the national industrial machinery.And if there is no large-scale development, Chu Yun's speed of gaining civilization points will decline.This is something Chu Yun cannot tolerate. He still needs a large number of civilization points to ignite real, cross-age inventions such as steam engines, internal combustion engines, and electricity!

"In addition, let the transportation squadron work overtime to transport ammunition and food to Wanghaibao. We don't care about our savings in the past few months. We can grow from 300 people to the current scale, even if we are disabled, we can make a comeback." Chu Yun said again. Said.

"The subordinate understands, and the subordinate immediately gives the order." Chang Yi said.

When the Fuliao camp was preparing for the upcoming battle in an orderly manner, Jinzhou's request for help reached Shengjing, the headquarters of Houjin.Houjin intends to counterattack Lushunwei

Liaonan's gesture was greatly shocked.Huang Taiji couldn't believe it and read Li Yongfang's appeal letter several times before confirming that Li Yongfang was not joking with him.

Although Huang Taiji and others never believed that the Ming army had the guts, but after discussions with the high-level Houjin officials, it was still Paizhenglan banner owner, 40-year-old Sanbeile Mang Gurtai who led ten Niulu, and Fuzhou Nearly [-] Han Chinese soldiers from , Gaizhou, and Haizhou went to support Jinzhou.

Compared with Goryeo's 7000-strong army, the heroic Zhenglan Banner bannerman Mang Gurtai and his [-]-strong army are already a great face to the Lushun Guard's Ming army.

At the same time, out of the consideration of aiding Goryeo, the Ming court also agreed to Lushunwei's request, and sent Governor of Denglai to send [-] troops, and Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town sent [-] troops to assist Lushunwei's [-] Ming army.Yuan Chonghuan, governor of Liaodong, was also sent to take advantage of Houjin's emptiness and seize the opportunity to sneak attack Houjin's lair.

But as Chu Yun said, there was no hope for the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty.The governor of Denglai sent troops to Lushunwei. It will be a matter of the year of the monkey. It is hard to say whether Lushunwei will still be under the control of the Ming army by then.

Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, did not dare to act lightly after receiving the imperial edict of Jin Laochao after the sneak attack.It's not that I don't want to rush for hundreds of miles and hit Huanglong directly, but I can't do it.After Jin was at war with Goryeo, Huang Taiji never left Liaodong.Therefore, even if the main force of Jinbing has three banners to attack Goryeo, and the force of one banner goes south to Jinzhou, there are still four banners in Liaodong, among which the two yellow banners of Huang Taiji are the main force of the main force.Want to fight Shengjing at this time?Yuan Chonghuan refused in his heart.

Of course, although the Ming court can't help much on the frontal battlefield, it has already held back Houjin's large army.This is enough.

Before Manggurtai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner, went south, Mao Wenlong, who was defeated in Pidao, really pretended to respond to the imperial court's call to support Lushunwei, and issued a "calling order" to all his generals, roughly meaning Those who have the strength and ability to support the Lushun Guard, the premise is that they have the ability.

Chu Yun also received a similar order, which made him dumbfounded.Maybe Mao Wenlong was just putting on a show, but for the sake of being civilized, he, Chu Yun, really wanted to play the real game with Hou Jin!
(End of this chapter)