My Daming New Empire

This injury, without the poisonous attack, didn't even affect his normal journey.

Everyone ate some dry food one after another, rested for half an hour, and then began to form a group of ten people and began to march towards the village.

They just want to attack when the opponent has just eaten lunch. When a person has just finished eating, because of insufficient blood supply to the brain, there will be a short-term sleepiness.

At this time, almost everyone in the village was at home.

When the heavily armed Habayashi guards appeared at the entrance of the village, the people on duty in the village found them and rang a gong at the entrance of the village.

However, what appeared in front of them this time was not Japanese warriors, but soldiers in colorful clothes that they had never seen before.

This is actually the camouflage uniform of later generations. Although the fabric is different, the thick cloth woven with cotton and linen also has a certain degree of wear resistance.

Villagers swarming in blocked the main road to the village. They carried broadswords, sickles, hoes, and shovels in their hands, and looked at the approaching Ming soldiers with hatred.

Zhang Wu was also feeling uneasy at the moment. Although he believed in his own strength very much, it was still a bit difficult for him to make a decision in the face of different situations on the battlefield for the first time.

He walked to the front and shouted loudly: "Does anyone understand Daming dialect?"

A native man in Ming costume walked up to him and said loudly, "People of Ming Dynasty, you are not welcome here. The officials and lords in the capital offended you, but our villagers here did not offend anyone."

Although his accent is somewhat Cantonese, but Habayashi School has local language teaching, simple communication is not difficult for Zhang Wu.

Zhang Wu also felt a little unreasonable, and his tone was a little lacking. "Now that Ming and Bengkulu are hostile, we can use our strength to eliminate all opposing forces. However, God has the virtue of being good at life. If you agree to our conditions, we can let you go."

The native whispered a few words with several leaders who looked like leaders, and then said loudly, "Tell me your conditions."

"We need a hundred shi of rice, and three large ships to transport the grain away. If our conditions are agreed, we will not attack."

The native said directly: "One hundred shi of grain is fine, but the boat is not. The boat is the tool for our villagers to survive."

Kepaxing is located south of the equator, where rice is grown three times a year, and food is not unusual for the locals.One hundred shi of grain is only the annual harvest of more than ten mu of land, and they don't take it seriously.

But boats are different. They mainly rely on boats to communicate with the outside world. Every boat is the most precious wealth of a family.

Zhang Wu thought for a while, then took out three gold coins from his pocket and said, "I can buy them with gold coins, this is the last condition."

Several people on the other side bowed their heads and discussed a few more words, and the native who understood Daming dialect said: "Okay, we can agree to your conditions, but you are not allowed to enter the village, wait downstream, and we will row the boat to the village soon. Go downstream."

Zhang Wu looked at the sun and said, "We give you half an hour, and only half an hour."

The food and ships can be obtained without fighting, which relieves the spirit of a group of cadets and soldiers. They did not expect that this mission could be completed so easily.

But Zhang Wu didn't dare to be sloppy, and turned around and said, "Arrange three teams to monitor the movement in the village. If you see someone going out of the village to report the news, attack immediately."

Fortunately, their worries did not arise.

It may be that the appearance of the Japanese made these natives terrified, and they did not have the determination to resist to the end.Now it only needs a small price to exchange for peace, and they are even more unwilling to fight to the death with the seemingly gentle soldiers of Ming Dynasty.

In less than three minutes, the three crude boats were rowed down by more than a dozen villagers, and the cabins were filled with husked rice.

Zhang Wu happily gave the other party his only three gold coins, and then asked people to check whether there was any tampering on the boat.Several soldiers jumped down the river, inspected the hull, and nodded.

Only then did Zhang Wu call everyone on board. "After the battle is over, you can go downstream to find a boat. We won't row your boat away."

150 people, an average of [-] catties of rice were loaded on each boat, and then [-] people were loaded on board, and the side of the boat was almost close to the water.

But now they were going downstream, and there were so many of them, they quickly rowed out of sight of the villagers.

A villager asked suspiciously: "Didn't it mean that the people of Daming would kill people when they came? Why do they give us back the gold now?"

The native man in Ming costume said: "Da Ming is a state of etiquette, today these are soldiers of Ming Dynasty, and those who kill are Japanese, they are not as good as animals."

And Zhang Fengshan at the stronghold got the news that Zhang Wu and the others had brought back the food, and learned that there was no fight at all, and it was done only by spending three gold coins.

He suddenly realized that Daming's identity was not unrecognized here.

They went down the river, and when the river turned east-west and flowed to the sea, they finally found the person who responded.

On the edge of the river, the soldiers who came here to select the site in advance had already dug several shallow wells on the ground and set up three large pots.

These three large iron pots are already the largest belongings they can carry. Although these three pots are far from enough for 500 people, at least they can boil water and soup, and they can also solve the food problem for everyone.

Everyone worked together, put grass in the well, and then poured rice into it.

The rice was soaked for two hours, by which time it was already dark.However, these soldiers couldn't rest yet. Some were in charge of expanding the defense line, while the rest began to fish out the rice and pour it directly on the grass-covered ground to dry in the shade.

Afterwards, they lit the cauldron, put the oil in the cauldron with the pigskin they carried, poured the dried rice into the cauldron, added a little salt and sugar, and started frying the rice using the felled wood as a spatula. .

There are only three pots, and one pot can fry about 150 catties of rice at a time, and only [-] catties at a time.

And one hundred shi of rice is almost 1 catties, and each pot needs [-] pots of fried rice.It takes about two quarters of an hour to fry a pot of rice. These people work day and night, and it takes more than three days to fry all of them.

But no one finds it hard or tiring. Compared with those Japanese pirates who have to face life-and-death battles, compared with the soldiers of the young army who have to chase and fight with the enemy, they are already happy enough.

The capital of Bengkulu has almost become an empty city, but Liu An and the others still need two days to set up an effective operating system here.

Wars are never just fighting on the battlefield, but more about testing a general's ability to plan strategies.Every soldier's food, clothing, housing, transportation, fever and diarrhea, rain and wind in the theater, and roads and bridges, all these things are combined to form the most important foundation for victory besides weapons.

However, although the army has not yet been dispatched, two forward troops and several harassment troops have been sent out.

The number of Japanese pirates is too small, and now there are only more than 600 people left, but there are tens of thousands of people who fled north.

They are not like the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, who have weapons such as muskets, and can only defend against the enemy with Japanese knives.Therefore, if you don't want to see all the casualties in this team, you must rescue them.

As for the 500 people from Habayashi School, no one counted them.These people are the seeds of the army's development, and one death on this kind of battlefield is enough to make people feel distressed.

Even for their sake, Liu An didn't dare to neglect, and directly sent a battalion of pure muskets to help.

Pang Ying waited here for a few days, and finally rushed back with reinforcements. It doesn't matter who these people are mainly going to rescue, as long as they are willing to go, that's enough.

The war has entered the real stage of decisive battle under the situation of you chasing each other and you running and blocking each other.

Thank you, thank you for the reward of bamboo sticks, thank you for your support

Chapter 29 Changes in Ming Dynasty

"Mahamu and his son beheaded outside Chengtian Gate on the ninth day of April. At that time, the people in the capital were all rejoicing. Since then, the Oala tribe has disappeared."

Zhu Zhanji knew that although the Wala tribe was in decline, the real confidant of Daming was the Tatars.But in this time and space, the development of the Beimingshan Copper Mine has tied the Tatars there, and it will no longer be a disaster.

Zhu Zhanji nodded, and Zhongguan Mao Xun continued to report: "On the sixth day of April, Your Majesty decreed that the king of Gu, Zhu Sui, and his two sons should all be abolished as ordinary people. Because he had reported in advance, he was exonerated."

There were early signs that Zhu Di would abolish Zhu Wei. This time Zhu Zhanji took his clan to sea, and the Gu Palace did not send his son or county king to accompany him.

Zhu Zhanji didn't have much interest in these things, and asked: "How are the two banks doing now? Is there any conclusion to the embezzlement of the military expenses of the guard that happened in March?"

Mao Xun immediately asked his entourage to find out the summary information about the two banks, and reported back: "The bank has been open for more than four months, and now the military guards of the Ming Dynasty are used to letting the soldiers receive their own salaries, but the practice of exploitation is repeated. There are still quite a few superiors asking for the salaries of low-level sergeants on a monthly basis. Your Majesty has now ordered the Ministry of War to bring officials from the Ministry of Punishment to form a delegation of governors and inspectors to go to various places to conduct investigations."