Lu Ming

"What are you, look at this."

The speaker was Qian Tieshan.The burly old Qian was picking up a machete at this moment, and swung it down at a wooden shelf in front of him.

The outcome was as expected: the knife broke.Looking at the section again, the iron material mixed with black impurities can be distinguished with the naked eye... This grade of iron material is used as high-quality ore in the kiln area.

In addition, there are bows that break when you pull them, the barrel is full of burrs, the three-eyed gun that makes people shudder, and so on.

"Can this damn country not be subjugated? Look at what's stored in this military center, it's not even equipped with a coat! No wonder they don't even want Tartars."

After the inspection, Zhang Zhongqi said helplessly and a little angrily.

"You're wrong about one thing." Qian Tieshan smiled, with a young look on his face: "The Mongolian warriors outside, including the equipment on Bao Yi's body, also got it from Santunying."

Qian Tieshan continued to explain: "With the poor appearance of the Tartars, it would be nice to be able to match the coat with a set of leather armor. It is impossible to have iron armor, let alone three layers of inner and outer layers. These left-behind banner soldiers are good. The equipment is all picked up from the local arsenal, if you don’t believe me, you can go to see the mark, it is guaranteed to be produced in Ming Dynasty.”

"Then what about these?" Zhang Zhongqi reached out and drew a circle around.

"Civilian officials' apportionment." Qian Tieshan spread his hands and smiled awkwardly: "No one can stop the civil service system of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry from earning money, so the money in this treasury is all rubbish used to write off accounts. Defective."

"Every military supply base will basically have this kind of waste warehouse. This is already an open unspoken rule. Generals want to buy good armor, so they have to buy it for extra money. Poor ghosts, guest soldiers, and those straightforward things who need to be educated , will be sent to lead garbage arms into battle, and then lose their lives."

After listening to Qian Tieshan's narration, all the helplessness and anger of the people present finally turned into a long sigh.

After inspecting the armory, the cross-travelers also went to see the grain depot, sundries store and the fodder factory outside the east gate.

Except for the grain depot and fodder factory, which still had enough grain and fodder for two cows, the rest of the warehouses were as expected, and there was nothing left in them, all of which were snatched by the Eight Banners army.

After roughly counting the remaining food and grass, the people who traveled through found that these supplies were just enough to last the defenders for three months.

Now Zhang Zhongqi had something to say again: "It seems that Comrade Huang Taiji said that he would occupy the city and not leave, but in fact he was a little forced."

Others nodded in approval.

The change of Jisi this time was the first time the Manchus entered the customs.Throughout the process, not only did the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty deal with the chaos, but Huang Taiji and the soldiers of the Eight Banners also fought cautiously, crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Therefore, despite the huge results that were unimaginable beforehand, the rulers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whose country was small and poor, still put themselves in a weak position. Yes, they are all postures that can shrink their heads at any time.

The food and grass for the past three months has been of great help to the traveler.In addition to the first batch of grain and grass that followed, the transportation team that will depart from Tianjin in the future can reduce the scale, cancel the large convoy, and only use horses to transport some other materials.

The subordinates are busy, and the military personnel are checking supplies, so what are the intelligence agencies doing?incite defection.

The two heads of the intelligence department, who have been unknown for a long time and almost never spoke about the campaign plan, finally started to get busy after taking down the Santun camp this time.

Yao Jianshe and Xue Haiyuan are currently in the side hall of the General Military Mansion, organizing a surprise interrogation of the prisoners.

Last night, there were more than 70 prisoners who were still breathing, including the lightly and seriously wounded.Among these people, those who were seriously injured were directly chopped off, and most of the people left now are lightly wounded and some surrendered coats.

The first to be interrogated were naturally these Surrender Coats.As for those steadfast and unyielding Tartars, they are all locked up first, and they will talk about it when they are free.

Since they can surrender, these coats belong to the kind of people who value their own lives more seriously.Such people usually don't need any serious punishment, and there are no various doctrines and ideas to arm them in this era, so soon, these twenty or so people poured out all the information they knew.

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Even though the profession of coating also has the tail of money, these people are still very different from the real Tartars; after all, one is a slave and the other is a slave owner.

The Baoyi people seem to be helping the evildoers, plowing and fighting for the slave owners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the root of the problem is not with these people.

All the coatings were Han Chinese living in Liaodong before this.These ordinary farmers and military households were massacred and arrested after Nurhachi raised troops.During the reign of Chongzhen, it can be said that there were no Han people in Liaodong—all those who survived were turned into coatings.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Qing Dynasty became a semi-slavery country. The Baoyi people had already lasted for several generations at that time, and their descendants had long been assimilated and became real Manchus.

Therefore, the root lies in the Ming court.

It is precisely because of the weak national power of the Ming Dynasty and the faintness of the imperial court that they retreated step by step and gave up all the vast land and people in Liaodong to the Qing Dynasty, causing them to become wrapped in helplessness—but whoever has a choice, who wants to be arrested To be a slave without dignity?

Regarding this issue, the time travel crowd is also very helpless.

More than a decade or even a few years ago, these coats were actually the people of Ming Dynasty, who honestly farmed the land to the military households who handed over grain to the general.

Now that these people are being captured and surrendered, and their masters are changed every day, this meeting will fall into the hands of the crossing people... Forget it, let’s send these people to Southeast Asia after using them. No one treats them as slaves there. If they do a good job, they can enslave some natives to open up plantations and become real masters.

Chapter 445 Triangle

After changing the master's coat again and crying bitterly, expressing that he wants to be a new person, he got a good treatment.

Some of them were wounded and stitched up by military doctors, and then everyone ate delicious horse broth soaked cakes.

In the seventeenth century, the so-called "fragrant" horse broth did not exist.Eating dead horses in the army is not such a good condition, but just throw a handful of salt in the pot, cook the horse meat and eat it.

That kind of taste is of course good in the mouths of Mongolians and banner soldiers who cook half-raw meat all day long, but whoever dares to serve a bowl of this kind of stuff with strong smell and bloodshot eyes...he will have chrysanthemums Difficult.

Seasoning is not a high-tech thing, it is nothing more than grinding star anise and cinnamon produced in the south, and then mixing them in proportion.Not to mention five-spice powder, daily condiments including thirteen spices, fried chicken powder, etc., have long been tampered with by the cross-travelers and sold everywhere for money.

There are also "standard seasonings" in the military supplies that accompanied the northbound fleet to Tianjin.These small packages sealed with oil paper have standard grams. The cooks only need to open the specified number of small packages according to the weight of the water in the pot, and the soldiers can eat five-spice horse broth, thirteen-scent horse broth, and cumin. Horse broth... In short, the taste is not bad, it can definitely be swallowed.

So the packers who surrendered were given large pieces of horsemeat and cakes.

After eating, they were stunned for a while and saw Ming officials in red robes.The familiar style of official robes made the packers a lot more relaxed-these soldiers in strange green jackets made them feel at a loss.

Zhang Zhongqi could not wear a red robe in theory, and his real level was not qualified at all, but no one cared about this issue at this meeting.

After the "senior official" in a red robe appeared on the stage, he first introduced himself: the general who came to King Qin from the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Then Mr. Zhang expressed his opinion on these coats: as long as they cooperate well, obey orders and obey orders, then not only will the previous affairs be cancelled, but they will also be rewarded with silver.

In addition, after this incident, Mr. Wang also promised that in the future, he will share the land and coat with everyone in a village called "Philippines" in the south.

After going through this set of soft and hard methods of appeasement, no matter what the gang of coaters really think, at least on the bright side, they have shown enough willingness to cooperate.

That's enough, as long as you are willing to cooperate, then someone can start working.

The two bigwigs from the intelligence department, who had been observing the group for a long time, each picked out a bag and went to the city.

According to the rich experience in the workplace, these two coats belong to the kind of people who are cowardly and dare not make troubles.So after these two were picked out, they put on their armor again and were assigned to the two turrets in the southwest and southeast.

The two turrets are facing the corridor mountain road from west to east at the foot of Santunying.

According to the confessions of the coaters, these days, every other day, at most two days, in the direction of Zunhua on the front line of contact with the Ming army, there will be messengers passing by, reporting safety along the way, and the terminal is Erbeile Amin stationed Yongping City.

Generally speaking, the courier departs from Zunhua to the east early in the morning.The distance between Zunhua and Santunying happened to be forty miles, and the messenger would pass by around nine o'clock in the morning.

This is the purpose of the emergency surrender coat across the world: to fool the messenger.

This time the starting time is just right.Not an hour after the two Baoyis went to the turret, the special forces team members who were serving as observation posts three miles to the west sent a message: three cavalry Tatar soldiers were coming along the mountain road.

"Da da da" the horse's hooves sounded, and when the knights came to the city of Santunying, a familiar head popped out from the west turret: "Lin Bao, how is the situation ahead?"

The ones who can be sent out to work hard at this time are naturally the coaters under the banner.Zunhua is now facing military pressure, and the regular Tartar soldiers are all preparing for battle in the city, so these three knights and the man on the top of the city happen to know each other.

When the knight across the moat looked up, he found that the person he was familiar with was Lan Na who was asking the question, so he put his hands around his mouth and shouted: "Zunhua is fine, the Ming dog dare not approach."

Bao Yi on the turret smiled all over his face: "Well, it seems that the brothers can live in peace for a while."

"That's not true." The knight named Lin Bao yelled again: "Eat your bones with peace of mind."

After yelling, the three riders walked away again, and waved to another coat sticking out its head in the southwest corner.

What the three knights didn't notice was that, after just a few words, the coated man named Lanna had a thick layer of sweat on his forehead - the feeling of being pressed against the back of the waist with a dagger is really uncomfortable.

Fortunately, everything was safe and sound, and the messenger continued on the road without any doubts.The harmonious ending of this scene also indirectly saved the messenger's life: Once the situation happened just now, the three riders would definitely be killed immediately by the special forces ambushing behind the city wall.

In that case, the troops would have to be forced to launch the next stage of attack in advance, which was not what Qian Tieshan and the others wanted.

Not long after the messenger left, a message was sent from the lookout post arranged in the east: the Tatars had left the city for three miles and were continuing eastward.

After waiting for a while, when the lookout posts stuck at both ends of Santun camp reported that everything was normal, the suspension bridge at the south gate was lowered.At the same time, a long column of pack horses rushed out of Jingzhong Mountain Pass on the opposite side of the mountain road, crossed a short valley of a few hundred meters, and rushed straight into the city.

The packhorse team has been waiting behind the mountain for a long time.Now due to the war, the Ming people on the mountain road have disappeared, so as long as the messenger passes by, the supplies can be transferred.

It is worth mentioning that, early this morning, the Taoist priest Xuan Chengzi on Jingzhong Mountain took several colleagues from the three circles (abbot, teacher) down the mountain to prepare for the army... He stood on the top of the mountain last night, drinking tea , while seeing the meteor shower shot out by the bullet below clearly.

As a result, this group of people was driven back—no one was allowed to go down the mountain in the last half month, and if one person went down the mountain, the whole village would be circumcised, wrong, the whole village would be killed!

After the packhorse team entered the city, they quickly unloaded the supplies hoarded in the valley.Then hang two bamboo baskets on the left and right sides of the horse's back, put a few human heads in them, and cover them with a piece of cloth, so those who don't know think they are melon dealers.

After reloading the "cargo", the packhorse team quickly left the city and went back to the valley to continue reloading supplies.

After going back and forth several times in this way, all the supplies were transported into the Santun Camp.

When the pack horse team left the city for the last time, there were a hundred more soldiers from the Flying Tiger Battalion.

There was a reason for this group of people to appear: Except for those coats who had voluntarily turned their backs on the dark side, the rest of the captives, genuine Tartars and loyalists, would be escorted all the way to Tianjin.

These diehards hadn't had any food since last night, and many of them were slightly injured and bled, so they were all depressed now, with their hands tied to the saddle, and they had no interest in resisting in front of sharp sabers.

It is necessary to drive all unrest factors out of Santunying.Since the battle developed relatively smoothly and achieved the best results planned in advance, early this morning, a reserve team of 200 Guards Battalions from Tianjin had already marched towards this side on horseback.

In the next step, when the two hundred soldiers arrive at Santunying, they will be responsible for defending the city; all the other mobile forces will set off to attack the remaining three cities in the east.

The 200 people in this area not only have to defend the city, but also prevent any army (including the Ming army) from the west of Zunhua from passing through the intersection of Santunying.In this way, there will be great pressure on the defenders who cannot even fill half of the city wall, so there must be no hidden dangers in the city, and these prisoners must be sent away.

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Three days later, on April 3, 1629, 4 city defenders rushed from Tianjin to Santun Camp.

This part of the guard battalion transferred from Shanghai has been practicing equestrianism hard since coming to Tianjin, and it finally came in handy.

After the 200-man troops arrived at Santun Camp, there were only a dozen non-combat attrition due to riding in the mountains, most of which were minor injuries that could continue to fight. This number is quite good.

And using these three days, the whole army was trained, the soldiers were full and Ma Teng, and the King Qin's Intervention Army sent by the imperial center far in the south, finally made all preparations to start the second half of the battle.

Santunying has an excellent location, 40 miles from the west entrance of the corridor, and 40 miles from the east entrance of the corridor.

After exiting the east entrance of the corridor, go all the way south along the Luanhe Plain, and then walk 40 miles, and you will cross the first county town to be "recovered" in the plan: Qian'an.

Regarding the second half of this battle, it is completely different from the tactics used in the early attack on Santunying.

The three cities of Qian'an County, Luanzhou County, and Yongping Fucheng are almost an equilateral triangle, each with a side length of forty or fifty miles.

Different from Santunying Military City, the above three cities are all ordinary cities with a large number of civilians living.These low-defense cities opened their doors and surrendered as soon as the Eight Banners soldiers attacked, so they did not suffer much damage.

So far, after the Eight Banners army withdrew outside the customs, there are still many Ming people living in the three cities, but the defenders in the cities have been replaced by banner soldiers.

In this way, the three cities located on the plain would not be able to sneak attack at all.

Because the residents inside and outside the city were mixed with Tatar soldiers, the crossing army could neither hide on the plain nor infiltrate the special forces.

Even if the small troops infiltrate, once the two sides start fighting, there may be smoke in the houses outside the city at any time, and horses may run out to report the news at any time-many of them live scattered, and there is no way to make dumplings.

In this way, the sneak attack is not established. No matter what method the intervening army uses to attack, the other two cities not far away will definitely get news.

Therefore, the cross-travelers can only fight in an upright manner, and they will fight continuously.

This style of play has high requirements for the troop's reconnaissance, communication, and command software. Therefore, Qian Tieshan and the others have done a lot of preparation work in the past three days, and have also worked out the best battle plan: siege + block.

Chapter 446 Silly Dog

At noon on April 4, shortly after the messenger from Zunhua passed by Santunying again, two small troops set off from Santunying one after another, heading eastward.

These two teams are composed of a small number of special forces + cavalry from the Flying Tiger Battalion, each with 50 people and 100 horses.

The purpose of the two teams is to block.They will be on the two sides of the triangle, at suitable places that have been scouted in advance, to block the Tatar soldiers who may reinforce Qian'an County from the direction of Yongping and Luanzhou.

After the two teams set off, they moved forward at a constant speed on the road. After nightfall, they would bypass Qian'an and rush to their destination.

After the two teams of snipers left, at 300:200 p.m., the east gate of the Santun camp opened wide. 500 soldiers from the Flying Tiger Battalion, 1000 soldiers from the Guards Battalion, and some special operations personnel totaled more than [-] people, and the number of horses exceeded [-]. Passed through the "big army" and set off in turn.

From this moment on, Santun Yingcheng has become a "dead place", no one is allowed to pass through the gate, and the battlefield information is blocked from here.

After the army set off, it also adopted the most horsepower-saving uniform jogging mode.Along the way, the cavalry marched along the Luan River, stopping to drink their horses from time to time, and their speed was not fast.

In the evening, the army passed Qinghe County at the east entrance of the corridor.

Qinghe County has long been deserted, and even the nearby villages and towns, Ming people were either arrested or fled south. Many of these meetings were carried out by the cross-travelers in Tianjin Wei.

After the troops passed by Qinghe, they were considered to have left the corridor.The Luan River turned at a right angle here and began to flow southward; the troops followed suit, and after walking for more than ten miles, set up camp in a river bend forest land that had been surveyed in advance.

At this moment, the cross-travelers are already in the Luanhe Plain. Twenty miles to the south is Qian'an County, and to the east is Yongping Mansion. If you continue to the east, you can see the sea and Qinhuangdao.

Yelang is sparsely populated, since it is a field camp, there must be no such thing as a tent.The soldiers settled the horses, set up the pots for dinner, and then lay down by the campfire wrapped in felt blankets.

There is a reason for choosing to camp here: a forest of miscellaneous trees blocks the flames of the bonfire, so that it will not be seen by Qian'an County.

Due to the fact that there was a military disaster in the Luanhe Plain, the night was very calm. The outer observation posts did not find any pedestrians or business travelers rushing through the night, and the troops had a good rest.

At dawn the next day, when the sky was slightly white, everyone had already had a full meal of compressed biscuits soaked in horse broth, and the horses also chewed black beans and drank enough water from the Luan River.

The pre-war mobilization and deployment with the characteristics of time travel began again.

By this time, there was no longer any need for the troops to cover up their tracks, so the soldiers raised their knives and roared three times collectively, before getting on their horses with a murderous look.

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La Erzhen Hetuo, the inlaid blue flag armor, stood at the head of Qian'an County, looking at the smoke and dust rising from the north, his face was full of confusion.