Win the Ding 1617

There was no gong and shouting, no majestic flag, umbrella fan and other ceremonial guards. Amidst a series of "My Lord!" "My Lord!"

At the meeting place, there were officers of all levels and many veterans of the various troops. Almost all the battalion officers were old people from Nanzhong, especially the soldiers and horses of the Guards Brigade, the Second Town, and the Navy and Land Battalion. There is family property in Nanzhong.Some time ago, there were many rumors, saying that Li Shouhan was unable to take care of things due to illness, and I was afraid that Nanzhong would be in chaos soon, and the imperial court would send people to Nanzhong to take charge of the overall situation.Is this okay? !The imperial court sent people, why should they? !They're here, wouldn't we hand over the foundation of the country that we have won in so many years of bloody battles to others?For a time, the army was raging.

But today I saw Li Shouhan walking in front of him slowly with a smile, greeting those familiar officers and veterans, and calling out some of their nicknames.This move immediately brought tears to the eyes of everyone present.

For more than a year, they traveled from the southern country with warm mountains and soft waters, across the ocean, and went north to Qinwang.In the ice and snow, fight to the death with the Liao bandits.This in itself is an extremely challenging move, belonging to the kind of protracted battle with no prospect of victory in sight.

"I have to talk to my lord, since we have returned today, then we should guard our territory and live our lives. Let's stop talking about King Qin!" This was the thought of more than one officer in private.

This kind of review meeting has been held more than once by the officers.According to the tradition of the Southern Guangdong Army, the so-called "you can't escape without talking about military achievements, and you can't escape without talking about problems." In such meetings, everyone can speak freely regardless of their official rank.As the saying goes, the speaker is innocent, and the hearer is a good warning.So, officers and veterans out there.With almost one thought, he wanted to persuade Li Shouhan not to go north to King Qin for the time being.It's too cold to kill people in this cold north!

The troops sat in groups according to the organizational system, and the venue formed a circle according to tradition.Between the aisles stood several huge buckets of water.It was filled with warm tea for everyone to quench their thirst.

Li Shouhan, like everyone else, sat on a bamboo chair with a backrest, listening to everyone's opinions with a smile.

"Missy is doing a great job in this attack on Tashan! If there are more ponytail grenades, we will definitely be able to blow up a road, and follow the strategy of Missy to separate the two white flags of the Liao bandits!"

"Yes! It's a pity that not only are there few grenades, but they don't seem to be strong enough! A ponytail grenade can be thrown out in a circle. It can also be thrown dozens of steps away! However, only two halves exploded, at most four or five petals. If A few more pieces can be exploded, those iron shells are like our shotguns, flying around and killing people, no matter how many fortifications and trenches the Liao bandits have, they are not enough for us to fight!"

Several officers of the Guards Brigade, and officers of the Navy and Land Battalion.If you think that your identities are different, you have said the wrong thing.The lord didn't care about it, so he took the lead first, and picked up the unimportant topic to hit the head first.When they spoke, Mo Yu, Shi Lang and the others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Talking about weapons is naturally the best.

Several people's problems were found very accurately, and their eyes were very sharp.The horsetail grenade that exploded the Dorgon brothers almost collapsed on the Tashan battlefield.There is indeed a problem of insufficient power. The main problem is that the black #火#powder used, if the amount of charge is small, the shell case made of cast iron will be exploded in two, and the charge will be too much.It also affects the throwing distance.Moreover, there are no prefabricated fragments in the shell casing, and it can only be randomly exploded by the power of the gunpowder explosion. Only a few pieces can be exploded.

"That's right! Not only the horsetail grenade is not powerful enough, but the double-barreled short-fired gun is also not powerful enough! The range is too short! And the armor-piercing power is not enough. When I rushed up with people, I once knocked over the short-fired gun A slave in white armor, who would have expected this thief to stand up again staggeringly! If it wasn't for the hand of my brother who was sick, a few people went up to reward him with a bayonet, I'm afraid I would have become his military exploits !"

A sentry officer of the Guards Brigade also began to make complaints about the shortcomings of the double-barreled short-barreled melee weapon in actual combat.

"My lord, I once chatted with a few soldiers in the Beijing camp. They said that whether it is the artillery or the thunder of the Jingying Shenji camp, they all have some condiments in them. What croton, chamaejasma, arsenic And so on, as soon as it explodes, the poison will fly around with the shrapnel, and all those caught will fall." Someone's eyes were shining, and they began to provide Li Shouhan with ideas.

Li Shouhan didn't say a word, just signaled to the Military and Political Department next to him to record everyone's speech one by one.

Seeing that Li Shouhan was listening carefully, the man was immediately very excited.For the military system of the Southern Guangdong Army, if there is a suggestion that is adopted after it is put forward and is effective in practical application, the proposer will be rewarded heavily.

"My lord, my subordinates also participated in the Battle of Tashan, Miss. Later, I followed General Shi to Liaodong. The weather in Liaodong is freezing, and my subordinates ordered them to use files before using horsetail grenades. Slightly dent the shell casing a few times, leaving shallow traces. In this way, when attacking the city or encountering harassment from the Liao bandit cavalry, when thrown out, the power of the explosion will be much greater."

Li Shouhan was well aware of the power of gunpowder.There is no way, before the advent of nitrate#化果#oil, it can only be like this.If the pitiful three-acid and two-alkali production in Nanzhong is used to make gunpowder, I am afraid that the entire industrial system will be ruined.As for adding various toxic and harmful substances to gunpowder, this point can be studied by each army by itself.After all, this kind of immoral tactics made those oriental dwarves complain endlessly.

However, the prefabricated fragment processing technology proposed by the sentry officer of the Guards Brigade is worthy of careful study by He Jing's military industry department. If every grenade thrown out can have seven or eight or even If there are more than a dozen fragments, then there is another way to deal with the cavalry attack of the Liao thieves.

It seems that in the cavalry song summed up by Marshal Lin when he dealt with the Ma family cavalry, he only talked about volleys of platoon guns and bombardment with grenades.

"The enemy's cavalry don't need to be afraid, they are calm and brave to attack it, the target is big and easy to hit, and it is easy to shoot and kill with a row of guns. We aim at it! We smash it! We destroy it! The invincible Red Army is us, defeated The enemy has millions of soldiers. Try to learn how to fight cavalry again, and we will win every battle.”

In my mind, the song that my grandfather sang in a hoarse and old voice, the Red Army went north and entered the Shaanxi-Gansu area from the grassland.The "Song of Fighting the Cavalry", which was summed up by dealing with various local armed forces and minority cavalry along the way, made Li Shouhan have mixed feelings.

It seems that no matter when, the most important point for the infantry to win the cavalry is strict discipline!No matter which cavalry came rushing, neither panic nor panic.If you don't shoot randomly, that's half the battle.In the famous dwarf king-themed movie shot, the British infantry were formed into square formations to meet waves of Napoleon's cavalry.

It seems that due to the limitation of the geographical environment, like the Southern Guangdong Army, which lacks horses to form a large-scale cavalry unit to fight the Liao bandits on the plains, if they want to win, they can only rely on strong discipline and strict training. Brutal infantry, formed a strong army formation, and equipped with a large number of artillery.Add countless horsetail grenades to fight against the Liao bandits who are good at cavalry and also have a lot of firearms.

While Li Shouhan was still thinking about how to fight the Liao bandit cavalry on the plain in the future, someone over there mentioned the matter of fighting the Liao bandit cavalry.

However, instead of suggesting to the lord how to deal with the Liao thieves, he raised objections to King Qin's move into the Central Plains and northward to Liaodong.It can be seen that it has been more than a year.The ice and snow in Liaodong and the wind and sand in Qilu land really left a mark on the hearts of the soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army.

"My lord, our Southern Cantonese army just needs to guard our own territory. The affairs of the Central Plains are left to the emperor and court ministers!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was a voice of agreement.It can be seen that he is unwilling to get too involved in the affairs of the Central Plains. This sentiment should already have a large market among the Southern Guangdong Army and officials in various places in the Southern Central Plains.This kind of emotion is very important to Li Shouhan's strategic layout.There are hundreds of harms and no benefits.

"My lord, we have a good life in the south, why do we have to go to the Central Plains to go hungry and cold?"

Li Shouhan heard the voices of the lieutenant officers and soldiers for a long while, and tapped the ground a few times with his bamboo stick, and the very noisy venue just now suddenly fell silent.

Li Shouhan cupped his fists and saluted to the north: "Da Ming's kindness to my family is as great as a mountain. If there is no great Ming's conquest of Annan, how can my family's ancestors have a foundation? And your majesty also treats me very well, adding an official Xu Jue, I am a small frontier official, and your majesty will not abandon it." , Tired of meritorious deeds, promoted, and now has the honor of the Duke, how can he abandon Daming and ignore His Majesty."

After firmly occupying the position on the moral high ground, Li Shouhan continued to speak for these officers who were mostly citizens of Ming Dynasty.

"Furthermore, Daming is the country of our parents, where our ancestral home is. Over the years, we have bought me dyed cloth, steel, granulated sugar, and exported me silk and cotton. Farmers and laborers have come in a steady stream to work for me in the south and provide taxes. Even if Daming has It’s not good in every way, but the benefits of business travel and immigration are enough to make up for it.”

"But Jiannu is ambitious, trying to take over the country of my parents, destroying the great Ming that is of great benefit to me. If he does, we will have no face to see our ancestors in the ground, so how can we feed and clothe our wives and children?"

These words analyzed the benefits of maintaining a close relationship with the Ming court from an economic point of view, and immediately hit the heart of the people present.These officers and veterans, even those with few fields in their families, have at least hundreds of acres of good flood and dry land.The natives or new immigrants from the inland were recruited to farm, and after the harvest, the goods were sold to grain merchants in exchange for various necessities.There are even those with bright minds who invest the land harvest into various concentrated fund construction projects organized by the General's Mansion, ranging from small ships to large roads.Those who dared to take risks even invested funds in Ruo Shui's mission to Fusang to recover the old place of the Yin Shang.

Seeing what Li Shouhan said, his face turned red, Shi Lang and Zheng Sen hurriedly stood up, rushed forward, one fetched hot tea by the water tank, and the other supported his father-in-law to sit down.As the saying goes, disciples do their best when they have something to do.Shi Lang was about to say a few words for his father-in-law. He himself thought that at least those guys from the navy and land battalion and the brothers from the Guards Brigade would listen to what I said. They were all beaten by me. Lord of battle.

However, someone got ahead of him.

Zheng Sen's father, Admiral of the Southern Guangdong Army's navy, and Li Shouhan's in-law Zheng Zhilong, walked to the center of the venue and began to explain to everyone why the Lord wanted to enter the Central Plains.

"You can still remember that when we went north this time, the lord ordered people to build a large number of roads between Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, between Fujian and southern Jiangxi, and between Guangdong and Huguang. These three roads cost me a lot in southern Guangdong. The army has at least 4000 million silver dollars! From labor to rations to tools, except for the 1000 million yuan invested by the lord, most of them are silver obtained from merchants everywhere. You think that everyone’s money has no place to spend, and you have to spend it among the mountains. Is it possible to pave a road with silver?"

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd, and everyone laughed in good faith at Zheng Zhilong's words.

"Who doesn't know, the road from Fujian to Zhejiang has been repaired. Rice goes to the north, raw silk tea comes to the south, and those master craftsmen."

"Exactly! Wherever our roads are built, the reputation of the lord will spread! Our Nanzhong goods will be sold there!"

"A few days ago, I received a letter from my family saying that the immigrants from the mainland to Nanzhong are not only from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, but also from Yunnan in the west, southern Jiangxi, Huguang, and even Zhejiang in the north!"

"Wow!" Zheng Zhilong flung his red cloak back handsomely after confirming the great benefits brought by opening up the north-south road from the mouths of the officers, "It's so profitable. How can I give up!"

"If we can't communicate and trade with the mainland, where will we sell the grain, rice and oil produced in the fields? Where will we sell all kinds of ironware from the mine and smelting plant?"

The crowd was instantly speechless.

"If there is no continuous flow of people from the mainland, how can my Nanzhong reclaim thousands of miles of fertile land? You must know that without people to reclaim, those thorny and barren lands will not turn into good paddy fields by themselves! These are not all The contribution of the inland settlers? Don’t forget, it’s a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River. Most of the rice, oil and salt we eat depends on our input from Nanzhong. Even the rich land of Nanzhili has many merchants and even scholars Officials and gentry immigrated to Nanzhong. If we ignore the affairs of the Central Plains, where can we make up for the people and various goods in Nanzhong? Where can we sell them?"

"Master Zheng is absolutely right!" Li Shouhan took a sip of tea, rested for a while, regained his composure, and then spoke again.

"How much is the protection price of a good polished round-grained rice from Nanzhong in Fuzhong? Do you know?"

These people are big and small landowners, how come they don't know the grain purchase price of the General's Mansion?

However, they have long ignored the grain purchase price of a few cents.Instead, focus on those industrial bonds used to protect the purchase price.These industrial certificates are collected and resold to businessmen from the inland, and they can get huge profits just by sitting on the ground.On the one hand, Nanzhong's industrial products were circulated to the inland at extremely low prices, squeezing out the market share of those blacksmiths and weavers in the inland, thus turning more people into bankrupts.They had to join the army of refugees. On the other hand, these people also obtained an income far higher than the market price of food.It can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Li Shouhan just pretended not to know about the little black market business of his subordinates.After all, those industrial coupons are issued to others to offset the price of grain, and how they are circulated is completely allocated by the invisible hand of the market. How can they be forced to order?

"Now our Southern Guangdong Army provides millions of food and salaries to the imperial court every year to resist the attack of the Liao bandits and fight against the bandits in the interior. Why did you come here?"

Li Shouhan held the bamboo stick in his hand, and slowly inspected the people present.

"Subordinates are stupid, please show me!" Hundreds of people, led by Zheng Zhilong, the highest official, shouted in unison.

"Since the day I raised my army, my country has a wish, to let all under the four seas be my land of great Ming, and the people in the world can live and work in peace and enjoy peace. But you are all leading soldiers to fight People, their knowledge is naturally far superior to those moths in books who only know how to search for chapters and excerpts. Do you think that by relying on the way of benevolence, forgiveness, and sages, you can achieve the realm of peace in the world? Shit! The heart of the world, the heart of the world A family depends on strength!"

When everyone heard Li Shouhan swearing at others, they were immediately overjoyed. "It's a great thing for my lord to swear at people. Being able to swear at people proves that my lord is in good health!" Many people have already started planning to find a place to have a drink with their confidantes after going back today. .

"No one, and I don't have the ability to turn beans into soldiers. Without soldiers and horses, how can we solve the emperor's problems? How can we give the world a peaceful world? Without money and food, how to raise troops, how to build giant ships and cannons? How to build strong armor soldier?"

"If it weren't for the tens of millions or even tens of millions of Ming people in the mainland, I would have closed the door in He Tinh and Hue to be an overseas emperor. Wouldn't it be better to dominate one side? Why bother the court once If something happens, I will prepare my own food and pay, and go northward to help the court without fear of storms? Many of you followed your princess to fight against Tashan Mountain, and together with my son-in-law, Shi Lang, who rode a dragon and quickly stood up to the artillery fire of the Liao bandits in the hinterland , braved the wind and snow to fight to the death, for what? Didn’t I have so much money that I had nowhere to go, and gave tens of millions of silver and food to the court, so that those moths would be greedy for ink? Take out money and food to continue building How many roads are there to facilitate the transportation between the mainland, Lingnan and Fujian? What are they for?"

"My lord is for the country of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the common people in the world!"

With the two sons-in-law Shi Lang and Zheng Sen raising their arms and shouting in unison, Li Shouhan's prestige climbed to a new height once again.

However, Li Huamei, who was on the sidelines, was quite dissatisfied with his father's actions, "Why do you say so much, just tell the people below, what we want is the righteous name given to us by his old Zhu family, what we are doing is Isn't it enough to keep getting benefits from this broken pot in the Central Plains?"

However, what he thinks in his heart is one thing, but on his face, he raised his arms and shouted with her husband Shi Lang, as a role model for everyone. (To be continued..)