The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 393 Ningyuan City

Ningyuan City is backed by the hills of western Liaoning and faces the Liaohai Sea in the south. It sits at the throat of the middle part of the western corridor of Liaoning and is the main traffic route from eastern Liaoning to the Central Plains.

The circumference of this square city is seven li, which is slightly larger than Jinzhouwei. The city wall is two feet seven feet high, and there are four gates: Dongchunhe Gate, South Yanhui Gate, West Yongning Gate, and North Weiyuan Gate.

There is a semi-circular urn built outside the city gate, and strong forts are built at the four corners of the city wall to erect heavy Hongyi cannons.

The Ningyuan city wall used green striped stones as the foundation, the standard city wall was built with large blue bricks, the inner wall was built with huge stone blocks, and the middle was a layer of rammed earth.There are two-story pavilions and archery towers on each side of the city, and there are slope-shaped horse paths on the inner walls of the city, so that cavalry can drive horses directly to the city.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, this city and Shanhaiguan were not captured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty after the current Jin Dynasty. It was a gift from Wu Sangui to Jiannu when he surrendered.

Now that Huang Han has won this city, it is even more impossible for it to be captured by the Hou Jin army, because it has the unique condition of being close to the sea.

Ningyuan was besieged, and all the warships of the "Red Banner Army" could come to reinforce them. At that time, the heavy Hongyi cannons could fire shells at the maximum elevation angle to seven or eight miles away. There is no difficulty.

Besides, Ningyuan Wharf is only less than fifteen miles away from Chunhe Gate, and the artillery fire at the top of the city is also fired at the maximum elevation angle. The superposition of the strike surface and the warship artillery can almost cover the entire distance from the East Gate to the harbor. How can Jiannu station troops here? The siege of Ningyuan City?

This time, Huang Han played out of the ordinary, and offended many civil servants and military generals. He wanted to manage Ningyuan, and manage the fertile and beautiful fertile soil of the Liaoxi Corridor from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan for more than [-] miles.

When the excluded Ningyuan general Zuolin boarded the ship, Huang Han told everyone that if they did not adapt to Ningyuan's new mode of leading troops, the generals could ask to be transferred.

As long as the imperial order is issued, the generals can immediately finish their studies and go to their posts. During the study period, they will not be prohibited from communicating. I hope that all the generals will show their talents. At that time, everyone's property and family members can be taken away.

After hearing Huang Han's words, [-] or [-] generals including lieutenants Jin Guochen, He Weizhong, generals Zhang Tao, Wang Zhifu, and guerrilla Bai Yongfu expressed their gratitude loudly, saying that they would contact them as soon as possible and strive to leave Ningyuan as soon as possible.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was common for civil officials to form cliques for personal gain. How could the military officials stay out of it?

Therefore, some generals really belonged to the people in the court, and they sent their servants to contact the superiors to complain about their grievances, talking about Huang Han breaking the official rules.

The officials in the imperial court could not change the "Red Banner Army"'s involvement in Ningyuan, nor could they constrain Huang Han's action of inspecting Ningyuan's soldiers and horses to pay according to the actual number of troops.

Because it was beyond the reach of the whip and because the emperor was eager to rectify the country's soldiers and horses, he was full of expectations for Huang Han's reforms in Ningyuan.

In the absence of any trouble in Ningyuan, the minister who dared to suspend the reform in the memorial is purely self-defeating.

In the end, the big bosses of the imperial court made the decision that we could not afford to offend us. The battalion soldiers are the imperial court’s men and horses, and it doesn’t matter whoever takes them with them.

Soon there were only a small half of the people left in the study class, because a small half of the generals had been transferred.

its not right?A small half of the generals have been transferred away, and there should be more than half of them in the study class, why are there only a small half of them?
That's because those who can find connections to transfer away are all well-connected generals. Under normal circumstances, these people are also rich and powerful. They have been accompanied by four confidant servants, so one person is five people.

Most of the remaining generals in the study class are not of high rank, and some of them do not have four servants in total, and the military pay they can usually deduct is also limited.

Life is simple now, and the food is even better than they usually eat. They basically have no objection to practicing literature and martial arts here.

It would be even better if there were no instructors brainwashing them to instill some words every day. These warriors are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but they are afraid of someone nagging every day, and they are even more afraid of analyzing themselves every day, and even more afraid of criticism and self-criticism.

Huang Han's tricks made the rest of Ning Yuan's military officers in the study class live like years every day. They all wanted to end this kind of study as soon as possible, and mechanically obeyed the instructor's instructions one by one, hoping to return to the original team after being judged qualified.

They would rather ride horses and rush to kill on the battlefield than engage in self-criticism and self-criticism. Doing so is too tortured and immoral.

At this time, Huang Yizhou and Huang Han are hurrying to integrate their troops. Ningyuan does not have as many troops as the Thirteenth Battalion. Except for the more than [-] Guanning cavalry stationed in Ningyuan in the first month who entered the pass to participate in Denglai's suppression of the rebellion, Ningyuan on paper There are more than [-] horses.

After checking, the shortage is not very serious. Some people have [-] cavalry. Since more than [-] cavalry were transferred away, the cavalry accounted for less than [-]% of the cavalry, and only [-] were zero.

After three days of marching, running, and standing in a military posture, the old and weak soldiers were basically unable to adapt to the intensity of the regular training of the "Red Banner Army", and it soon became apparent that, except for those with special skills, [-] soldiers were eliminated.

Skills include gunners and gunners with shooting talents, and more technical arms gunners and loaders. Even those who serve horses are considered skills, and the amount of training can be appropriately reduced.

Huang Han didn't let the veterans who had been eliminated and had no ability let go, and those whose hometowns were in the customs didn't let them go back to their original places, but took them all into the Guards Army.

The hometown of these veterans is not a good place. In fact, there was basically no royal paradise at the end of the Ming Dynasty, unless it was slightly better to go to Nanzhili.

However, when the Manchu Qing went south, Yangzhou, which was rich in the world, could not avoid the massacre. 80 people died in the Yangzhou Ten-Day Massacre.

Nanzhili was the main source of taxes for the Ming Dynasty. Even the vassal kings did not exist there to ensure the court's taxes, and basically they did not go there to recruit soldiers. Therefore, it was impossible for the people of Nanzhili to serve as soldiers outside the customs.

The old and weak soldiers who were eliminated may not be from Shanshan, Henan, or Shandong. There are bandits and rebels in these places, and these people basically have no way to survive when they go back.

Because being a refugee will starve to death nine out of ten, and basically no one will laugh at the end when being a refugee is a dead end, and the chance of survival as an officer is also slim.

Inland officers and soldiers were killed by rebels and rogues innumerably, and the number of commanders-in-chief and guerrilla generals who were killed was countless. Even the fierce general Cao Wenzhao did not live past Chongzhen for eight years.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao's bravery was due to the fact that the enemy was a fledgling rogue, so every time Cao Wenzhao charged with his iron cavalry, he could beat thousands of rogues with a thousand cavalry and flee.

(End of this chapter)