Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 332
When the morning fog completely cleared, the Ming army's first crossing of the river was over.

On Tingchao Pavilion, Zhu Yihai looked at the many boat fragments left on the river, but smiled.

"The cannon on Jiangzhou on the opposite side is quite fierce."

Ruan Jin also praised, "I didn't expect the Tatars to use this trick to cross the river, and now it's only half a year later. We return the same way to the other, and they can still be fooled."

"I think it's a good deal for a bunch of broken boats and scarecrows to exchange so much ammunition for them."

"The artillery behind the tartars stopped just now, probably because they ran out of ammunition?"

A group of generals were discussing very easily there, how many guns and soldiers there were in the coastal defense of Jiangzhou Fort, and even how many ships and how many gunpowder. Zhu Yihai knew these details very well. It's over.

The sun is great after the fog.

Huang Binqing looked at the sky for a while, "I guess it will be foggy again tonight."

"Then shall we do it again?"

"I think it's fine."

"Let the sailors be careful, if the Tartar ships dare to come up the river, they will be smashed to pieces."

At this time, there were still many broken boat platoon fragments in the river. Zhu Yihai reminded the navy to strengthen the defense in the river, and not to let the Qing army navy ships approach for reconnaissance, so as not to let them see through the feigned attack by this straw boat with guns.

one day.

The warships of the navy of the Ming army cruised in the middle of the river, but they did not approach the Jiangzhou Fort, but they did not allow the warships of the Qing army to come to the center of the river. Chen Jin sent some navy ships to try to fight, but after a face-to-face meeting, the big bird of the Ming army's imperial camp The gunboat came, and several boats lined up, bombarded their sides, and wiped them all out.

Only a few lucky guys swam back to Jiangzhou, and then the Qing army was silent and completely honest.

Shortly after dark.

The Ming army began to repeat the old plan, but this time it was a small batch of fires, and each time a hundred boats lined up, only holding fires but not beating drums.

Jiangzhou Chen Jin added ammunition during the day and stepped up his guard at night.

When the officer came to report, he found a boat sneaking up in the river.

Chen Jin sneered.

"Sure enough, as expected by the governor, these bright thieves are still ruthless, wait for them to get closer, and give me a bombardment."

Because of the failure of the water battle in the river during the day, Chen Jin did not dare to let the Ming army's ships get too close. He only hoped to use the super long range of the fort to sink the opponent's ships in the middle of the river, and use water to catch some fish that slipped through the net. The battalion and infantry battalion intercepted and killed.

The cannonballs started again.

Loud bang.

Glittering in the dark night, shining on both sides of the river.

Mr. Yan stood on a high tower in Zhenjiang city in his cloak, looking out.

"Father, Chen Jin is so strict in guarding against death. I'm afraid there will be no chance for Jian Guo. Why does he have to land in Zhenjiang instead of crossing the river from other places?" Yan Wogong's youngest son asked his father.

My father-in-law Yan laughed.

"You, you are still too young. The art of war is the most mysterious. What you pay attention to is false and true. What you want is to grasp the initiative and take the initiative. Where does the initiative come from and how to seize the opportunity? It depends on tactics to mobilize the opponent."

"Look at Jianguo's aggressive crossing of the river. It is clear that they will land at Jingkou, go down to Zhenjiang first, and then attack Jiangning. This is also a commonly used southward attack route. There are many suitable landing ferries, such as Changshu in the lower reaches and Caishiji in the upper reaches, these are the Yangtze River ferries that are very suitable for landing, and they are all located around Jiangning.”

"do you understand?"

"I seem to understand a little bit." The third son of Yan said, "Father's intention, Jian Guo is a plan to build plank roads in the open and cross the old warehouse secretly. On the surface, he wants to attack Zhenjiang by force, but in fact he wants to land in Changshu or Caishiji?"

"wrong."

"what?"

"What is false is real, what is real is false. The way of using soldiers, how can people guess the intention so easily. You are still too young. You should take a good look and see how the prison country uses soldiers."

"Father, can Jian Guo really take back Nanjing?"

"Is it important to regain Nanjing?"

"Of course, that's Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty."

Yan Wogong smiled, "It is true that Nanjing is very important, but it is not important. Today, the two capitals together are not as important as His Highness Jian Guo. In this world, His Highness Jian Guo is the only thing that cannot be lacking now."

"The son can't understand the father's words more and more."

"If you don't understand, just study hard. You just need to remember a little bit. Don't worry about the gains and losses of advance and retreat. Instead, you have to look at the overall situation. All advances and retreats are for the purpose of strengthening yourself and weakening the enemy."

Jiangzhou was bombarded all night.

Then a dozen more guns were fired.

The next day, after the white mist dissipated, Chen Jin's Zoujietang newspaper was sent to Yan Wogong again. Yan Wogong praised it loudly, and then pulled out a lot of gunpowder for Chen Jin and transferred some of Zhenjiang's cannons to Jiangzhou. .

noon.

Chen Jin took the investigation report handed over to him by the Chinese Army and was furious.

"Bastard, how dare you resell gunpowder, and even secretly sold several cannons, these damned fellows!"

"It's unreasonable to be so bold."

"Arrest them all for me, I want to be upright and typical, and cut off all the unforgiving ones!"

Several navy generals helped to intercede.

"Junmen, it is better to spare their lives in wartime now, and let them take their crimes and make meritorious deeds."

"Yes, there are too many people involved. If they are all arrested and hacked, then the Jiangzhou shore defense will be paralyzed. Why don't you write down the crimes of these people first, and ask them one by one after the war."

The generals of the standard battalion persuaded Chen Jin for a long time before calming down his anger.

"Forget it, then write it down first, and we will settle the ledger together later."

A lieutenant said worriedly, "Junmen, it's a little unreasonable for this bright thief to attack like this. It seems to be a feint attack these two days."

Chen Jin actually felt something was wrong, especially after last night, but he successively reported victory to Zhenjiang Yan Jinglue and Jiangning Governor Ma, and made the battle so thrilling, it showed that the army came with all their strength twice, They were all repelled by him.

Now that it's just a feint attack, where should he put his face?What's more, in the past two days, how many stored ammunition he destroyed, and how many cannons were even blown up. Now that the other party is just a feint attack, then his effort will be ridiculed by others, or even seriously dereliction of duty.

"Feint?"

"Do you have any evidence?"

"If we hadn't fought back vigorously, the Ming thief fleet would have already attacked Zhenjiangdu. In the past few months, how we were suppressed by the Ming army navy on the Yangtze River, don't you remember?"

"Whoever dares to shake the morale of the army and talk nonsense, don't blame me for being rude!"

Chen Jin was furious, and the generals had no choice but to shut up, and even wondered if they really thought wrong.

While Chen Jin was teaching his generals, someone in the Zhoushang barracks was secretly colluding with officers.

"Mr. Zhao Qian, the incident has been vented. Admiral Chen Lei Ting is furious and wants to kill us all."

A chief executive of Zhoushang Coastal Defense Fortress was terrified when he heard about it, "What should we do?"

"Chen Jin has now been persuaded by his subordinates, saying that he will settle accounts with us after this battle is over, so let's keep quiet for now."

But Mr. Zhao Qian is not at all easy, "This Chen is too ruthless, he wants to kill us, but also wants us to work for him before we die. Damn it, I will be a soldier under him, and I will be unlucky for eight lifetimes." Yes. The water camp to the south of the family not only has large ships and giant cannons, but also has at least three taels of silver a month. I heard that they add six buckets of rice now. It is enough to support the family and it is very nourishing."

"What about us, what do we have?"

"The officers, not to mention, starting from the General Manager, not only the monthly silver is higher than ours, but they also have additional famous rations for their own soldiers. Officers at all levels enjoy a corresponding amount of famous rations. They don't need to be empty Lu Jianguo will directly give their officers a certain amount of military salary."

"Four generals, five generals, eight guards, ten commanders, fifteen guerrillas, sixty generals, and eighty admirals. Not to mention admirals and generals, they can get five more for every thousand." The soldier's salary is still that of a first-class soldier.

Mr. Zhao Qian shouted there indignantly, "A first-class soldier in the Ming army gets four taels of silver a month, and Mr. Qian takes five extra, which is 22 taels of silver.

Some people’s bosses are directly battalion officials, and they still have 200 taels of silver a month, plus ministers’ silver, etc., adding up to 500 taels of income for battalion officials in January.

The admiral of the family led tens of thousands of troops. In January, I heard that 650 taels of silver per month, plus others, more than 1 taels of silver a year. "

"The Lu Jianguo pays generously. Usually, the third-class soldiers pay one cent and three cents a day, and if they go out to fight in the province, they get an extra penny a day.

People also have a lot of money to support the wounded. It is said that the upper class is 20 taels, the middle class is 40 taels, the lower class is [-] taels, and the silver for the dead is [-] taels.

What do we have?
It used to be one qian and three silver taels a month, and three buckets of rice, but they were deducted and deducted again and again, and in the last month there were only three qian or silver taels left.

Yan Jinglue said it nicely, real soldiers and real pay, but in the end, it was added to February or two silver, but has it actually been paid?Isn't it also half paid and half owed?

Three buckets of rice are gone, how much better than before?

Those of us who are officials, I am a dignified boss, and the annual salary is only 15 taels of silver. My mother, it is only a little more than one tael of silver a month. This is a sixth-rank official.

The green camp of the Qing army is famous for its low salary, which is basically inherited from the Ming Dynasty. For example, the dignified admiral, a first-rank military official, has a yearly salary of only 81 taels, and the monthly combined silver is only six taels.

Therefore, the Qing court added several items of salary silver, vegetable candle charcoal silver, and heart red paper silver to military officers, adding up to 50 taels a year, or [-] taels a month.

Although it has increased by nearly ten times, but for a dignified first-rank military official and a general who controls a province's green battalion, is this little money worth nothing?
As for Mr. Zhao Qian, he is only a rank six, and even the Shunzhi court has not given them other treatment other than salary and silver for small officers of this level. What kind of salary and so on, they have no share for the time being.

Their obvious income is 15 taels of silver this year, and then that bit of Lumi.

Yan Wogong reformed the green battalion in the south of the Yangtze River, and added a salary of two to one month to the soldiers, and added a salary to the general officer and the chief officer.

Mr. Qian’s salary increase is 36 taels a year, and the general manager is 24 taels a year.

The defense of the fifth rank added 48 taels of salary, the fourth-rank Dusi added 72 taels, and the guerrilla added 120 taels.

Mr. Zhao Qian now adds three taels a month, but it is still only a little over four taels a month, which is not as good as a small soldier in the Ming army. A senior soldier in his family has at least four taels a month.

Can't compare to the generals of the Ming army, or even a small soldier, who would be happy?
Mr. Zhao Qian used to be an officer of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Ming Dynasty had a shadow appropriation system for military service, which was similar to the current grain system in the south. It turned out that the followers of the generals of the Ming army could also shadow the quota, money, and food.

But now the pro-military famous food system implemented by the Ming army in the south is more formal, comprehensive and generous.

But my father-in-law is strict with rectification, the good ones are not learned, and the bad ones are all learned.

Everyone finally found a way to make a living and resold some gunpowder, but now Chen Jin wants to chop off their heads.

This is completely dead.

"Damn it, it's the other way around. I'm still here to fight for them, but they're plotting against us in every possible way. So what's the point? It's the other way around!"

"Yeah, there is no way to survive. If you rebel, let's contact other brothers and rebel together."

Mr. Zhao Qian stroked his beard, "Why don't we just keep doing it, let's find a way to capture this Chen Jin, and then use this Jiangzhou fort and more than a hundred cannons to surrender to Lu Jianguo. !"

The officer who came to report the news didn't expect Mr. Zhao Qian to give a thumbs up if he was bold.

"Brother, I'll do it with you!"

"Dry!"

(End of this chapter)