The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 294
The "Red Banner Army" recruits have been trained for more than half a year, and now they are conducting actual combat exercises. The subject is to land on the beach and establish a beachhead and continue to extend to seize the enemy's entrenched city.

Huang Han transferred Wang Zhanpeng from the cavalry battalion three months ago to give him a new appointment. He became the chief general of the engineer battalion. Not only a few cavalrymen who participated in the demolition and seizure of the city were transferred to the engineer battalion as officers under his command, but also Huang Kezao, Xiang Cheng Liang and Liu Zaiqi are three unranked praise paintings.

The members of the engineer battalion are selected from the military service. Now there are two commanders plus a hundred led by Wang Zhanpeng, a total of about 800 people.

Wang Zhanpeng now takes a brother from Baizong to study blasting almost every day, because the head of the family told him that urban offensive and defensive battles will be fought in autumn, and the first troops who will make the first contribution may be the blasting team of the engineering battalion.

The reason why Huang Kezao, Xiang Chengliang, and Liu Zaiqi were attached to the army by Huang Han as a praise painting is because they have culture and flexibility. Now they are all participating in training two general engineers to quickly build pontoon bridges, docks, lookout post...

Carpenters are making wooden pontoons as carriers for building pontoons, and they don’t have any advanced skills. They just choose light-density fir and poplar, soak them in tung oil and dry them in the shade to make them into flat tubes.

The designed buoy weighs 240 kg and can be carried by one person for running, and has a buoyancy of [-] catties. It can be used as a life-saving tool at sea, because the buoy can completely prevent two or three people who fall into the water from sinking to the bottom.

When splicing the pontoon bridge, there are fasteners, iron chains and anchors to fix it, and the top is covered with prefabricated wooden boards with anti-skid grooves, which can be done quickly by infantry and military service with wheelbarrows.

In order to allow the cavalry to adapt to cross-sea raids, they have never stopped sailing during this period of time. Humans are very adaptable. After a period of time completely living on sea ships, there are many fewer people who still get seasick.

However, many war horses could not adapt, and the situation of hundreds of Arabian war horses was much better. It is possible that these war horses were transported to Daming by sea boats for a long distance.

The Arabian war horses that could not adapt to sailing should have died during the long journey of trafficking, and the one who successfully set foot on the land of Ming Dynasty should be Ma Qiangqiang.

Although Huang Han wanted to abort the battle for Dalinghe City, he joined forces with the official censor and gave a memorial to the court to hope that the court would not build Dalinghe City, but unfortunately it was wishful thinking, and construction of Dalinghe City started at the end of April.

However, there is a slight deviation from history, and it started more than two months earlier. It was because the army concentrated in Jinzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty was more than [-] than in history, and how much food and grass were consumed every day by people eating horses and chewing?

These grains and grasses were transported thousands of miles from the pass, and the cost was unimaginable. After the construction of Dalinghe City was completed earlier, and the defense system was improved again, the passengers and soldiers could be sent back to Shanhaiguan earlier, which also saved expenses.

It is also due to the large number of soldiers in Jinzhou that the hoarding of food and grass has correspondingly increased.

Huang Han's memorials are public, of course Sun Chengzong knows the content, whoever builds the Dalinghe City must be responsible for it, and must ensure that the city can be defended, which more or less attracted his attention.

The first thing to bear the brunt of defending the city is to have soldiers who dare to fight, to have food, water, and charcoal fire.

Since Dalinghe City was built twice and destroyed twice, the foundations are still there. The Ming army dispatched 4 to [-] horses to set up camps, including [-] white-armed soldiers, and [-] to [-] civilians and soldiers participated in the construction. Much sooner.

When the city wall reached a certain height, Sun Chengzong ordered Zu Dashou to hoard grain, charcoal and firewood to make preparations for long-term defense.

He told Zu Dashou very clearly that Huang Han, the general of Yongping, asserted that Guan Ning's army built Daling River City was a waste of money and people, because they had no ability to defend this city.

When Zu Dashou heard Huang Han's name, he hated his teeth so much. Knowing that this son looked down on his Zu Dashou's soldiers, he was even more furious. He swore secretly: "Didn't you think that the Guanning Army would not be able to defend Daling River City after repairing it? Lao Tzu Dalinghe City must be managed as solid as gold."

Guan Ningjun was very careful this time, because everyone knew that Dalinghe City under construction was their garrison. Wouldn't it be a joke with his own life if he took too much rebate for the project and left a tofu project?

Therefore, there has been a deviation in history. A city with high quality and quantity is growing at an astonishing speed, but Jiannu does not know what is the reason. The Ming army started to build Dalinghe City a few months earlier than in history. There is no corresponding response.

Just like this, the Ming army was lucky enough to obtain a construction period that was more than four times longer than in history, and finally the city was completed.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren and other generals led [-] Guanning troops to garrison the newly built Dalinghe City, which is the same as in history.

The slight difference is that the rest of the Ming army and civilian husbands evacuated safely after completing their missions. In Dalinghe City, there were fewer [-] laborers who had no combat effectiveness, and more grain reserves that could last for about half a year.

Huang Han paid close attention to the construction progress of Dalinghe City all the time, worried that Jiannu would still find out that the Ming army led tens of thousands of horses to fight fiercely within a few days after starting to build the city.

Unexpectedly, there was a deviation in history, Dalinghe City was actually completed, and now the white soldiers have withdrawn and returned to Shanhaiguan.

"Tiger Cave" city is only more than [-] miles away from Shanhaiguan, and the communication is very convenient. Qin Yuyi came to Shanhaiguan when she led the female soldiers under her command to practice in the field.

Although her troops are less than [-] female soldiers, it is impossible to directly enter Shanhaiguan without the official dispatch document from the Ministry of War or the supervisor.

Qin Yuyi brought only two soldiers and asked to visit her brother in Guancheng, and was approved. She met Ma Xianglin at the Baiganbing station.

The [-] white soldiers went to Jinzhou to garrison at the end of last year, and they were not transferred back to Shanhaiguan to garrison until the completion of Dalinghe City this year. It has only been less than ten days since they came back.

Ma Xianglin was very sorry for not being able to attend his sister's wedding due to military affairs.

Now Huang Han is not only a sworn brother but also a brother-in-law. He has received a gift from Huang Han that his wife brought to his uncle, which is a telescope as a gift.

The military binoculars are all made of brass, basically without decoration. The gift binoculars are made of sterling silver to depict mountains and rivers and then gilt. This is of course the masterpiece of jewelry making masters headed by Peng Jiawang.

There is no officer who does not like binoculars, and General Ma Xianglin is no exception.

When he saw the binoculars, he ran to the city wall of Shanhaiguan with the shaft and looked at the mountains. He found that this good thing could clearly distinguish which battalion livery the messenger who came on horseback from seven or eight miles away was wearing.

(End of this chapter)