The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 35 actual combat exercises
Huang Sheng didn't know that he was already well-known, he kept a low profile, and took the time to train his servants as soon as he came back.

This is a special operations exercise. For this reason, I specially found a section of the city wall that is about the same height as Wanghai Pier, and asked all the servants to throw out their own flying hooks like small iron anchors to practice climbing the city wall.

Gu San asked craftsmen to make some sturdy ladders according to the sketches drawn by Huang Sheng. As long as those who successfully climbed to the city wall put down the ladders, fully armed soldiers could climb to the city wall.

In fact, Wanghaidun is only a little over ten feet high. In the eyes of Huang Sheng, who has seen many high-rise buildings in later generations, it is only the height of a two-story building.

It’s just that the servants are all packaged into humanoid tanks. It is too difficult for them to step on the ladder to climb the wall, so they can only resort to a sneak attack. .

Everyone knew that this time the slave garrison was to be counted. If successful, there would be too many such opportunities in the future, and all the slave forts along the coast might become the next target.

Everyone was so excited that they practiced hard during the day and slept on the ship at night in order to adapt to the life of drifting at sea.

Huang Sheng checked the savvy and mobility of the servants, and finally determined that the first person to climb the wall wearing only cotton armor was Heihu, because he was best at using a flying hook. Maybe he was a Mongolian man who was good at lassoing horses before. It is also the fastest to climb a distance of less than four meters with a rope.

Of course Heihu was happy. At this moment, he felt honored. He puffed up his chest and peeked at Han Guang. He still remembered the last ambush in Ningyuan, where Han Guang personally assassinated the Jiannu vest in front of him. Desperate look.

Because he received a reconnaissance mission, he didn't even meet Jiannu's Mao in the end.Han Guang looked at Heihu's gaze, smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up.

Han Guang also trained hard, wanting to win the first task of climbing the wall of the pier, but unfortunately his ability to throw the flying hook is not as good as Li Dagang, and even worse than Heihu, so of course he failed.

Hei Hu couldn't help grinning with joy, and the others applauded him when they saw that he was selected by the adults.

Huang Sheng still went to drink with Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua every now and then. Although the relationship between the three of them was very harmonious now, Huang Sheng still deliberately planned to get closer to them.

This is how people are, only when they communicate frequently can there be a tacit understanding. The friendship between gentlemen can only be as light as water, and it can only be done by scholars. How can the friendship between officials be as light as water?Strong as wine, of course!
Master Sun Yuanhua really spared no effort to help Huang Sheng. He learned that Huang Sheng was going to cross the sea to attack Jiannu, so he arranged for people to dismantle the four thousand-jin Flang machine guns on Wu Xiang's navy warship and replace them with four Men himself supervised the manufacture of much lighter copper-cored iron cannons.

The six gunners who fled back to Shanhaiguan after the fall of Guangning had already been ordered by him. Master Sun Yuanhua severely reprimanded them and gave them a way out.

Huang Sheng treats these six gunners equally. It is very rare for them to choose to flee back to Daming. Jiannu seized the artillery of Daming, and he also attaches great importance to the gunners. If they stay in Guangning and surrender, it is estimated that life will be better than fleeing back to Daming and being punished as coolies. many.

These gunners soon felt that their fortunes were lucky. All the brothers here were like a family, fed and clothed warmly, and paid the army on time and in full.Master Huang has too few people under his command, but everyone is in high spirits, and they actually want to take the initiative to attack Jiannu.

These six gunners are all from Liaodong, and they have blood debts with Jiannu. At this moment, they are also throwing themselves into training in full swing.Huang Sheng sent six servants to learn how to shoot and carry guns. They were selected from Cao Hucheng's batch of thirteen servants.

Quan Yong and two other stalwart servants also began to practice wearing three layers of armor to assassinate. Huang Sheng wanted to train newcomers and replace a few cavalry. In this era, infantry spearmen are the best to train, and cavalry archers are the most difficult to train. .

It may take four to five years if a farmer is lucky enough to train a farmer to Cheng Quangong's level. Cavalry skilled in bows and horses are too precious, and of course they cannot be used as infantry spearmen if conditions permit.

The training exercise lasted half a month, and it was the end of September. Although Huang Sheng still felt a little rushed, he had to start taking action. Why?
Because we can't wait any longer, time is not allowed, if the sea freezes, it will be troublesome, the sea ship can't calmly dock, and all plans will come to naught.

On September 26th of the fourth year of Tianqi, Huang Sheng bid farewell to two friends, Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua, and set off. The two No. [-] blessing boats were firmly tied together, like the double-bottomed fast boats of later generations, with two horse boats tied behind them.

Huang Sheng now has six gunners, six gunner apprentices, 11 sailors, nine veteran fighters, three new fighters, and four Lumi blunderbuss shooters under his command. They are also his own loaders.

Gu San, Gu Shanhai, and Zhang Laifu were left behind in Ningyuan's family. They took the recruited craftsmen to seize the time to produce the accessories needed to transform the "Guangning".

For this attack, Huang Sheng brought all his strike forces, including himself a total of 40 people.But the ones who really attacked the enemy were the nine old soldiers who had seen blood and themselves.

Four sea ships quietly came to the south of Gaizhou, and docked in a bay surrounded by hills, leaving some sailors and all the gunners on board to monitor the movement of Jiannu. Huang Sheng personally took Huang Mingli and others to hide on the mountain and used the telescope again Observe the situation at Wanghaidun.

The two sailors Ma Cheng and Liu Liangcai are locals, and of course they also came to the shore to participate in reconnaissance. They are very familiar with this area, and they led everyone to find a good hiding spot. Not only can they have a panoramic view of Wanghaidun, but they are also not easily caught by the enemy Watching sentry found.

The servants have already adapted to Huang Sheng's working methods, knowing that the adults are trying to ensure everyone's safety as much as possible, so each battle is only a few breaths, but the preparation work will take many days.

Whether they are veterans or newcomers, none of them felt impatient. They all observed with binoculars from different positions, and recorded crookedly with pencils and small notebooks.

The pencils were produced by carpenters hired by Huang Sheng. They are not complicated and have no technical obstacles, but the quality is far inferior to that of later generations of famous brand products, so they can be used with improvisation.

The leader of the garrison at Wanghaidun is Jiannuba Yala, whose name is Muli Buke, and he is a veteran.He didn't know that his every move was being monitored by the Ming army. This kid was enjoying a happy life.

This spring he brought eight armored infantry from Niulu to guard here. Although there was no chance of looting nearby, he was happy to be at ease.

They brought more than forty ahas. To the east of Wanghaidun, there are many farmlands formerly occupied by the Ming army. Now they have only been abandoned for three years. The fertile land that has not been cultivated for three years has had a good rest, and the soil is at its most fertile.

In the spring, the slaves used whips to drive out a few Mongols and more than 1000 Han people. They planted more than [-] mu of wheat, which had already been harvested and put into storage the day before yesterday. Bitter in my heart, why is Gou Jiannu always so lucky?
The measurement unit of stone is too unreliable, and no one can determine how heavy it is, because it is actually a volume unit, ten liters is a bucket, and ten buckets and a stone is also called a dendrobium.

In the Ming Dynasty, a stone of polished rice could reach 180 catties, a stone of rice was only a little more than 150 catties, and a stone of wheat was even lighter, about 130 catties.Of course, the catty that Huang Sheng calculated was not the [-]-gram catty in the Ming Dynasty, but the modern-day [-]-gram catty.

Mulibuke looked at the piles of wheat in the Tunpu, feeling a little overjoyed, thinking about the future in his heart.

Food in Liaodong is too expensive now, and the wheat left over for the rations of our own people may be sold for 8000 to [-] taels of silver, and we can cultivate more fields next year.

Those Han people were really good slaves, they waited on the fields honestly all day long, and they didn't dare to speak out even after being beaten, but the two Mongols were too difficult to raise, so they snatched their horses and ran away if they didn't pay attention.

Fortunately, I discovered it quickly, and immediately rode my horse to chase after it. I shot one of them on the spot, and finally caught the other.Originally, he planned to beat this boy to death in front of those Ahhas, but the woman beside him was too soft-hearted.

Now I have to use a pair of shackles found in this pier to lock up this boy. It seems that it is best to arrest the Han Chinese as slaves in the future. The Mongols who refuse to surrender are best killed with a knife, and they cannot be kept around as slaves. too dangerous.

During this period of busy autumn harvest, not only the Ahhas are exhausted, but also myself and a few vests. After a few days of rest, hurry up and wander around Lushunkou, trying to catch some more Han people. The land here Too many are too good to grow crops, the more people the better, next year we can grow hundreds of acres of wheat.

At this time, a skinny boy stretched out his head, found Muli Buke and quickly shrank back.

When Muli Buke, who was thinking about something good, saw him, all his good mood was ruined, and he cursed: "Aqina, the horse is not cleaned well, be careful, I will beat you to death."

The Han child was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and he looked malnourished. He secretly cursed: "Gou Jiannu, you are Aqina, you are all Aqina."

He has been captured by Jiannu and served as a slave for more than two years. He is a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and is very smart. After two years, he can basically understand Jiannu's language. He knows that the name Jiannu gave himself means pig.

He is Zhao Shimin, the youngest son of Zhao Guoxing, the sixth-rank advisor of Gaizhou Wei. Two years ago, Gaizhou Weicheng was in chaos at night. Gaizhou.

Later, there were people shouting and horses neighing, fighting everywhere and the sound of firecrackers. His father was actually just a civil servant. Hearing the movement of Jiannu attacking the city, he also took the sword and took two grown-up brothers and a few servants out to participate in the defense of the city. battle.

His father and elder brother never came back. The city was full of fire and crying. He, his sister and the whole family fled towards the east gate under the guard of a few loyal servants.

Along the way, they kept running into Jiannu who rushed out to slash people. They were lucky to survive and finally escaped from the chaotic city of Gaizhou.

At dawn, my mother and several aunts disappeared, and only an old servant was beside Zhao Shimin's sister and brother. His sister was 16 years old this year and had already been betrothed to the Liu family, the promotion official in Guangning. If it hadn't been for the fall of Guangning, the Liu family would have died Unknown, she should have been married long ago.

The road was full of fleeing crowds, and they all ran desperately towards Lushunkou. Suddenly there was the sound of rumbling horseshoes behind them, and then the helpless cries of the Han people. .

A Jiannu in shining armor chased after him, and chopped off the head of an old servant who had served Zhao Shimin since he was a child. The Jiannu turned around on the horse and ran towards Zhao Shimin again.

(End of this chapter)