The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 283 Owning a Water Camp
Knowing that Huang Han needed time to train his troops, Chongzhen was not prepared to use the "Red Banner Army" to go to Shaanxi to participate in the suppression of bandits.
Due to the relationship between Huang Han and Zu Dashou, he was not prepared to send the "Red Banner Army" to Liaodong.

Huang Han was happy to have no combat missions in the short term, so he used his precious time to improve the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army".

Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai, Liu Zhilun was the governor of Shuntian, and Zheng Guochang was the chief envoy of Beizhili. Of course, Huang Han lived a happy life.

The food and salaries of the "Red Banner Army", except for the drift of the Ministry of War, were not dared to be deducted by officials at all levels outside the capital. Huang Han only needed to give a part of it to honor the gods of all walks of life.

Before resigning, in order to thank Huang Han for his reminder, Liang Tingdong stood on the last post and approved a water battalion with a total of [-] soldiers under Huang Han's command.

The water battalion of the "Red Banner Army" is composed of several warships that were not frozen in the port when Juehua Island was breached by the Houjin Army in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and supported by the Denglai Navy. Three No. [-] blessing ships and seven Cangshan ships.

There are a total of [-] large and small sea-going ships, with about [-] sailors and gunners, most of whom are old and weak.

What Huang Han wanted was the convenience of having a water camp, he didn't care how many sea-going ships the imperial court would give, and he didn't mind that these ships basically had no combat effectiveness.

Because Shanhaiguan, Denglai, Dongjiang Town, Liaozhen, and Tianjin Wei all have their own water camps, but the scale and the number of warships are very different. I am afraid that only Denglai and Dongjiang Town have the ability to fight at sea.

If the "Red Banner Army" is stationed close to the Liaohai Sea and there is no water camp, wouldn't it be a sigh of relief?Therefore, Huang Han put all his thoughts into the establishment, and it might not be easy for the court to check the actual number of soldiers in this water battalion in the future.

Since the Ming Dynasty used troops in Liaodong, so many materials needed to be transported, Liaohai was originally a busy place for shipping.

Close to the port of "Tiger Cave" city was the original government-run dock. Later, an accident happened on Juehua Island, a large-scale supply place outside the customs that Daming painstakingly managed.

In the sixth year of Tianqi, there was a rare extremely low temperature, and the sea surface between Juehua Island and Ningyuan, which was more than a dozen miles away, had a rare opportunity to be frozen enough to run thousands of troops.

Ever since Juehua Island was raided by the cavalry of the Houjin Army, this area of ​​water has never been so frozen in a year, and it is rarely even completely frozen in the future. It is absolutely impossible to run a horse on the ice.

However, the lucky Houjin army mistakenly seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How wronged would it be for an island to be raided by tens of thousands of cavalry?But Daming is so unlucky, and Jianu is so lucky.

So there is some fucking truth in saying "God bless the Qing Dynasty".

Juehua Island was raided, and the water camp of Juehua Island was almost wiped out. According to historical records, more than 5000 warships and merchant ships parked there were burned by the Jin army. The loss of sea-going ship price silver alone may exceed 1000 million taels.

This of course led to a sharp decrease in the number of ships in need of maintenance, and many government-run docks in Liaohai were abolished and private docks closed down.

In Hongwu and Yongle years, the total cost of a sea-going ship with a displacement of more than 5000 tons, not including equipment, and decoration, was only about [-] taels of silver, but at that time, one tael of silver could buy four stones of polished rice.

Later, due to the increase in silver production and the surplus in foreign trade, a large amount of silver from foreign countries poured into Daming. As a result, the value of silver depreciated sharply. It should be multiplied by at least three times.

Huang Han did not use the original Thousand Households to build the "Tiger Cave" city, but deliberately built it directly on the seashore close to the dock and port.This is completely different from how Ming Dynasty built castles.

Most of the seaside castles in Ming Dynasty are far away from the coastline, at least five miles or more, because of the Japanese pirates for a long time, if the enemy drives straight in from the sea, the city is close to the sea, and the artillery on the enemy ship can directly bombard the city. Wouldn’t it be destroyed in an instant? Entering the city?

Therefore, most of the Daming cities were built deep by the sea, and pirates had to disembark and land for offensive and defensive warfare if they wanted to capture the city. This created opportunities for the Ming army to encircle and wipe out the pirates who landed.

When Huang Han built the "Tiger's Cave" city, he never worried about the artillery fire of enemy ships, because he believed that the cast steel cannons he planned to produce by using the advanced steel mold hollow casting method were far superior to the cast iron cannons commonly used in this era, and the range would also be increased. big.

I don't know how many times the accuracy of firing heavy artillery on a stable fort is as high as firing on a swaying ship. What's more, what if a few solid shells hit a concrete fort?The casualties caused may not be so great, and it is possible for the enemy ship to be hit by a few solid shells, penetrate the cabin and be sunk.

The city of "Tiger's Cave" became a large construction site when it just started to freeze. Last year, due to the rush of time, we only had time to build a single city wall, warehouses, factories, and some residential buildings.

The shops along the street, the fort, the city gate building, and Huang Han's own mansion were not fully started.

When the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, it is also the time for large-scale construction of homes. It is not afraid of spending money to ensure the quality, and it is Huang Han's urban planning to leave iconic buildings.

Food is the lifeblood. In the last Ming Dynasty, it represented every living life. The "Red Banner Army" was not short of food. That's because the food borrowed out last year was returned to the warehouse at the end of the year, and the autumn harvest was also good. There was a lot of grain, and a lot of grain and meat were snatched back when I went to Harqin in winter.

Huang Han has a lot of grain in his hands, and it is estimated that there will be a surplus of more than 20 shi before the autumn harvest this year. If the situation this year is not worse than last year, it can be speculated that the grain stored in the warehouse will reach a peak before winter.

Therefore, it is especially important to store grain safely. When the outdoor temperature rises enough to allow construction, the first batch of projects to be done is to build a cylindrical granary.

The east of the "Tiger Cave" city is close to the sea. The foundation of the city wall is repaired with reinforced concrete mixed with stone materials. The city wall extending [-] steps east along the horse path of the city wall connects a blockhouse-shaped building.

The height of the city wall is only about three or four feet, generally between eleven and twelve meters. The blockhouse next to the sea is as high as ten feet and thirty-three meters.

When the glass factory is able to silver-plate the glass to produce reflectors, Huang Han will cancel the smoky way of transmitting messages like beacon towers, and use concentrated lights to navigate, and can also set simple light passwords to observe distant information over distance.

There are three floors below the top floor of the bunker, and each floor will be equipped with four to eight artillery pieces. The bottom one is of course the heavy artillery, because there is already a solid foundation made of reinforced concrete, which is enough to carry four 32-pound heavy artillery pieces. recoil.

(End of this chapter)