The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 345 Eagle's Nest Pier

Eagle's Nest Pier, a fully enclosed military pier, will be garrisoned in the future, and the strong fort can be equipped with eight 24-pound heavy guns.

This is the middle position, and the shells are fired at the maximum elevation angle. If you go east, you can hit the city of Jinzhou, if you go west, you can hit Langwobao, and if you go north, you can hit the artificial river for seven or eight miles.

When the defense system is completed, Jinzhou, Wolf's Nest Fort, and Eagle's Nest Pier can directly respond with artillery fire. Artillery observers can use binoculars to direct artillery fire to cover the entire enemy army entering this bottleneck area.

After introducing the defense system, Wang Zhanpeng said with confidence: "General Qin, as long as there are 3 'Red Banner Army' hot-armed troops stationed in Jinzhou, Wolf's Nest Fort, and Eagle's Nest Pier, [-] or [-] horses who came to build slaves will be defeated. Another two thousand cavalry can attack flexibly, leaving thousands of Jiannu to attack is no problem."

Qin Yuyi has been thinking in the opposite direction, thinking how many troops the slave chieftain can bring to break into the Jinzhou defense network. After much deliberation, she can't think of a good way. She thinks that unless Jiannu also has heavy artillery that can hit several miles, the Eagle's Nest pier can be smashed first. effect.

She thought that Wang Zhanpeng was not blindly confident, and said with a smile: "Using the 'Red Banner Army' to hold on to this line is solid, I'm afraid the court has other plans, and how to deploy defenses in the future will have to be decided by civil officials."

Wang Zhanpeng said: "The main land taken by the 'Red Flag Army' should be determined by the mentor. There are at least 10,000+ acres of abandoned fields between Jinzhou South and Lushun City. Here, you can cultivate, fish, and trade. , give me the 'Red Banner Army' to operate for a few years, and it will definitely become a prosperous and good place.

This officer reckons that no matter whether the land recaptured from Jiannu is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai or the governor of Liaodong, no one will come to garrison this place that faces Jiannu at any time. I'm the Red Banner Army 'Do my part. "

Qin Yuyi took it for granted and said: "General Wang is right, stationing here is a hard job, and it is precarious. There shouldn't be any civil servants and military generals who are stupid to come here to fight, and it will be useless for them to bring troops. If there is no heavy artillery produced by the Huang family, there will be no Miniguns, self-generating guns, without ten or twenty thousand men who dare to fight, they can't defend here."

Wang Zhanpeng said: "Yes! Only our 'Red Banner Army' has the strength to gain a foothold here. No matter which way the Ming army comes, they can only stay in Lushunkou."

In fact, both Wang Zhanpeng and Qin Yuyi had plans in mind. They both wanted to lead their troops to garrison here, because it was the most dangerous place and the easiest place to gain military merit.

In the evening, Wang Zhanpeng personally took Qin Yuyi to the camp of the Jinzhou Waiming Army with only a dozen officers who were skilled in bows and horses in the engineering battalion.

Song Pengfei, who had heard the news a long time ago, had already made arrangements to open up a separate area in the camp for the women's battalion, and the outer perimeter was a camp for [-] women temporarily recruited by the medical soldiers.

Huang Han fully considered the cruelty of the battle, and predicted that military and civilian casualties would be unavoidable, so he arranged for the medical soldiers to find some bold and careful women for simple hygiene training, and taught them how to deal with wounds. take care of.

All the Ming troops knew that the general's concubine led the female soldiers to escort more than a dozen cannons to reinforce the Jinzhou front line, and their morale was boosted for a while.

Especially those Dongjiang soldiers, they have never been valued in their life and are often excluded, but this time it is completely different.

First, Shenshuying and Jinyiwei accompanied them to fight, and then the Governor and Angel crossed the sea and rushed to the front line of Jinzhou.

It is said that they did not intend to go back after completing the task of preaching the decree. They all resolutely chose to stay and fight side by side with the robes, and vowed to live and die with the soldiers and civilians fighting in Jinzhou.

Liu Zaiqi led 56 educated subordinates to compile these stories into short stories and spread them widely. The current Jinzhou Waiming Army camp has a distinctive feature, that is, there are many classes, many people who listen to the stories, and actively More soldiers and civilians are required to be literate.

The propaganda team has been established for more than a month, and the results have been remarkable. Liu Zaiqi recruited all scholars, and more than half of them were scholars from Beizhili who had been slaves for less than two years.

Nine times out of ten, they were blessed by Jiannu to destroy their families, and they could become propaganda members to call on tens of thousands of Han people to kill slaves. Of course, they would never tire of it.

There were actually more than a dozen former Liaodong students in the propaganda team, and several of them were former granshan students.

There are more than a dozen of these Ming scholars who have been slaves for nearly ten years, and they have gradually become numb and lost their enthusiasm. Now they are not only aroused by Liu Zaiqi's enthusiasm, but also practice hard to load self-generated guns, because they will never be slaves again and vowed to build The bloody battle to the end.

The 56 propaganda team members mingled with soldiers and laborers every day, told stories, taught everyone literacy, helped Dongjiang soldiers who could not write to write family letters, and assisted the town governor to organize soldiers to study every night.

The scholars in the propaganda team put on the uniform of the Ming Dynasty and were all issued with waist knives, and officers above the corporal commander were all issued with self-generated guns. Because of Liu Zaiqi's outstanding performance and rapid progress in practice, Song Pengfei awarded him a spare Mini gun .

Huang Han used four spare Miniguns, and Song Pengfei didn't hesitate to use three spares. Now that he found that the chances of personally going into battle to kill the enemy were getting less and less, he only kept one Minigun for emergencies. The remaining three shots were given to Zhao Kun, Wang Zhanpeng and Liu Zaiqi respectively.

After observation, Song Pengfei found that everyone under Liu Zaiqi's command knew Mongolian and Jurchen's language, and more than half of them could speak fluently. When interrogating prisoners, he often invited Liu Zaiqi to send people to help.

In the past two days, Liu Zaiqi and his 56 team members told the most stories about the patriarch's concubine, General Qin Yuyi, who was about to lead a group of female soldiers to Jinzhou to participate in the war.

This kind of topic is the easiest to attract attention. Governor Huang's concubine is actually a general in the imperial court. Too many Dongjiang soldiers are so envious that they salivate three thousand feet.

Everyone knows what is good or bad, not only the generals on the front line of Jinzhou are not afraid of death and actively demanded to fight, but the governor of Shuntian, who is far away in Funingwei, even rushed here specially, and now the concubine of the chief general of the "Red Banner Army" also brought hundreds of female soldiers coming.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been encouraged, and everyone is ambitious, and their morale may be as high as that of a bullfight.

Unexpectedly, the good things didn't stop there, all the people in Dongjiang town were overjoyed, because they got a pair of mandarin duck jackets produced by the Huang family.

The reversible Ming army fat jacket is made of real materials, which is more than a little higher in quality than the uniforms issued by the imperial court, with full consideration of warmth retention and wear resistance.

Although the Dongjiang soldiers have eaten well these days, they still dress like beggars. Now they are all wearing brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets, and their spirits have taken on a new look.

The clothes were released in a timely manner. Seeing the continuous drop in temperature, the night had already begun to be difficult. Dongjiang soldiers got fat jackets to solve the big problem. The clothes during the day can be used as quilts at night.

(End of this chapter)