In this case, the slaves would only use the remaining heat of the carcasses of war horses or cattle to maintain the body temperature of their masters, and escape all the way, killing cattle and horses along the way!"

Cheng Shijie has no innate prejudice against Hu Erqi, a Jurchen. As long as he is willing and has no objections, Cheng Shijie will reward him with wealth, but don't even think about power and influence. It is absolutely impossible.

Now the population of Ming Dynasty has expanded to the limit of the land. Whether it is Liaodong or northwest, Cheng Shijie will not give up an inch of land.

"I agree with your analysis!"

Cheng Shijie took off his cloak from his own body, put it on Hu Erqi's body, patted his shoulder and said: "Hu Erqi, I have given you an order to mobilize all the experts in the Dongjiang Army who are good at tracking and follow the direction in which Jiannu escaped.

Keep chasing and see what kind of fish I catch this time!"

"yes!"

At this moment, Lin Xuzong came over and said: "Commander, Mr. Sun Futai has sent another letter.

When Cheng Shijie opened the letter, he found the same rhetoric again, but with a new reason, which Cheng Shijie had to accept.

After Sun Yuanhua celebrated the New Year, he began to write letters to Cheng Shijie to communicate about his coming to inspect southern Liaoning. Cheng Shijie naturally did not want to have multiple mothers-in-law, so he did not agree.

It was not until the ice and snow began to melt at the end of February that Chen Zilong, who was in Shanghai, was ready. He brought more than 30 trucks of research materials, as well as more than 100 agricultural experts and their families, a total of more than 800 people.

Eleven sand ships were hired by the Jiangnan Shachuan Gang and were ready to set off, striving to arrive in Liaonan in early March.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua had no choice but to bite the bullet and confess to Cheng Shijie. He was telling Cheng Shijie that his teacher Xu Guangqi had worked hard over the years to cultivate Ming Dynasty's own improved seeds that could adapt to cold and drought tolerance. To this end,

Xu Guangqi planned to ask him to come to Liaonan to inspect the environment in Liaonan.

Cheng Shijie was overjoyed when he heard the news.

Although the seeds of later generations are better than the seeds of the Ming Dynasty, with higher yields and fewer pests and diseases, the problem is that in order to prevent farmers from saving seeds privately, the seeds of later generations are genetically locked. After three seasons at most, they will completely degrade.

But Cheng Shijie is not short of money to buy grain seeds every year, but the problem is that his transportation capacity is very limited. With a transportation volume of 50 to 60 kilograms, if he transports wheat, he can only plant six or seven acres. Corn is better, because corn seeds

Each acre of land only requires four kilograms, and Nunu can transport thirty or forty acres of seeds.

Whether it was corn or sweet potatoes, Cheng Shijie kept good seeds for future generations but could not use them, so he could only worry.

Now it's good. Xu Guangqi, an agronomist, is willing to cultivate and has an independent and complete technical team.

Cheng Shijie looked at Lin Xunzong and said: "Reply to Governor Sun, Master Sun, as quickly as possible... No, I will reply in person!"

Having said this, Cheng Shijie immediately waved his hand, and the guards around him drove Cheng Shijie's carriage and RV slowly. Although the road conditions in southern Liaoning were not very good now, the problem was that Cheng Shijie only had one carriage and RV.

Ning Haijun's command vehicles are only four.

Even if you encounter uneven roads, you can carry them over.

Cheng Shijie's carriage covers an area of ​​about fifteen square meters. Even if Lin Xuzong and Song Xiance got on the carriage, the living room area would not be too crowded.

Cheng Shijie handed Sun Yuanhua's letter to Song Xiance.

Song Xiance glanced at it hastily and said immediately: "Congratulations, lord, double happiness. This is a good thing!"

“It’s indeed a good thing!”

Cheng Shijie pointed to the map on the carriage and said: "This matter can not only be done, but also requires vigorous cooperation. I am planning to combine the Maqiao Town, Xinqiao Town, Shuangqiao Town, Liuqiao Town and Luoshan Town in Jinzhou Acropolis.

Five towns, 50 farms and 100 households, a total of 700,000 acres of wasteland, more than 770,000 acres of pasture, and 910,000 acres of forestland, a total of approximately 2.39 million acres of land, are allocated to

Xu Guangqi conducted agricultural experiments."

2.39 million acres, approximately 1.15 square kilometers, was the scope of a medium-sized county in later generations.

Cheng Shijie continued: "I will transfer another fifty, not eighty projects, to build a new city on the basis of Maqiao Town, named Zhenhai City, in order to revitalize Ning Haijun! This Zhenhai City will be built on the basis of Maqiao Town.

Haicheng will be used by Mr. Xu Ge’s team of agricultural experts.”

"It's just that this will delay our Ning Haijun's land reclamation plan!"

"It's all little things!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "When experts like them cultivate new seeds, even if the harvest is five or six tons more per acre, it will benefit the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people. This matter should be taken action sooner rather than later."

"yes!"

"Boqi!"

"Students are here!"

"You should keep an eye on this matter. I want to ensure the quality and the progress of the project, and it must be fast!"

Song Xiance said: "Lord, there is still a victory to report!"

"right!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Although Emperor Chongzhen is a pauper, even if he is reported, they will not give Ning Haijun a reward. Let's just treat him as warm and give him a face!"

This time, in order to reply to Sun Yuanhua's letter, Cheng Shijie used his privilege as the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy to directly send the letter and a group of guards from the Guard Bureau, totaling fifty cavalry, to Dengzhou as a messenger to report the victory of Haizhou.

The use of Ning Haijun's combat machines was quite efficient. In just four days, Cheng Shijie's letter arrived in Dengzhou Fucheng. This time Cheng Shijie did not make his own decisions, but asked Sun Yuanhua for instructions. Was this a great victory in Haizhou?

Report to the court.

When Sun Yuanhua received Cheng Shijie's letter, he was a little unbelievable. How did he think Cheng Shijie changed his gender?

In fact, it is not that Cheng Shijie has changed his gender, but that Cheng Shijie's nature is like this. As a person of later generations, he naturally knows the importance of food to a country and the importance of the development of agricultural technology.

If Xu Guangqi really succeeded in producing hybrid rice or hybrid wheat in the Ming Dynasty, even if it could produce one or two hundred kilograms more grain per acre, Cheng Shijie would personally lead his troops to the capital to help Xu Guangqi, and use a knife to force Emperor Chongzhen to give Xu Guangqi a

The title allows him to enjoy the treatment of a national scholar.

In Cheng Shijie's letter, he expressed to Sun Yuanhua that he would not only provide Xu Guangqi's team of agricultural experts with a county town dedicated to the office, residence, and research and experimental sites of Liaonan Agricultural College.

By the way, Cheng Shijie also spent 100,000 taels of silver out of his own pocket to build the Liaonan Agricultural Technology Research Institute to build their experimental site and a community where experts live.

Cheng Shijie provided these agricultural experts with housing according to the treatment of General Ning Haijun and General Qian. The housing was a three-entry courtyard covering an area of ​​three acres. It was built in a red brick and red tile building scale and the main frame was unified. However, the experts were not accepted.

DIY.

As long as the experts need it, they can put forward construction opinions and environmental planning. As long as they are agricultural experts who come to Liao Lai, Cheng Shijie will give them a subsidy of thirty taels of silver every month, and each will provide two servants and two maids, who are responsible for the experts.

their diet and daily life.

Cheng Shijie took care of all the living expenses of the agricultural experts in southern Liaoning, including food, housing, transportation, and clothing. Each expert was provided with a two-wheeled carriage, a groom, and two horses.

Crossbow horse...

Faced with Cheng Shijie's treatment, Sun Yuanhua himself was a little moved. This was too good to be true. No matter how Sun Yuanhua analyzed Cheng Shijie's true purpose and intention, should he set off for Liaonan or need to go to Liaonan?

South.

Just when Sun Yuanhua was about to put down the letter, he saw Cheng Shijie's last sentence in the letter.

This is a typical example of how a small amount of words means a big deal.

"On February 17, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the leader of the Zhengbai Banner and the fifteenth brother of the thief chief Taiji, Beile Duduo, led more than 12,000 Zhengbai Banners to invade Haizhou. The weather suddenly changed and the temperature dropped sharply.

The Jiannu slaves suffered heavy casualties, with numerous people freezing to death. The Ning navy beheaded a total of 4,056 people, the Han army had 5,949 heads, and several were captured..."

"Bangdang..."

The tea cup in Sun Yuanhua's hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

"Wow..."

Hearing the movement in the study, the loyal Chinese Army Major Peng Jianhong rushed to the study with a knife, running and shouting: "Someone, protect Lord Futai, someone come and protect Lord Futai!"

Xu Dacheng also rushed into the study in disheveled clothes.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Peng Jianhong, who was panicked and stern in appearance. Although he was a little unhappy, considering that he had no one to use, he still encouraged Peng Jianhong and promoted him from the general banner to a sixth-grade Zhongxian Colonel. Peng Xiaoxia finally got there.

The real captain is the rank of a hundred officers.

"Thank you, Lord Futai!"

"Get down!"

Xu Dacheng straightened his clothes: "Master Futai, what happened?"

"look by youself!"

Sun Yuanhua was speechless about Cheng Shijie's luck. How difficult was it for the Ming Dynasty to behead first-class slaves? As a witness to the Ningyuan victory, Sun Yuanhua had a say.

One of the reasons why the Ming army had tens of thousands of soldiers going into battle but only reported a hundred or dozens of levels was not that there were really only a hundred or dozens of enemies killed, but that it was difficult to capture the heads of those at the highest level.

Once the war goes badly, Jiannu immediately retreats. Before withdrawing, he will try his best to take away the corpses of the dead to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Ming army. Even if all the enemy troops are wiped out, some corpses will be scattered around the battlefield.

Some of the heads could not be found, and some of the heads were smashed and broken, making it impossible to tell whether they were true or false, and they could not be counted. Therefore, the heads captured were often only a small part of the number of enemies actually killed.

Just like in the Wanli Korean War, the famous Ming Dynasty general Li Rusong attacked Pingxiang. At that time, Pingxiang was defended by 25,000 troops led by Japanese Governor Konishi.

According to statistics, the Ming army only captured 1,647 Japanese heads. However, the total number of Japanese casualties was more than this. Together with those who died from artillery bombing, smoke and other reasons, the total losses exceeded 10,000 people.

above.

The Ming army suffered 796 casualties and 1,492 injuries ("Reporting the Battle of Pyongyang and Kaicheng" in Song Yingchang's "Essentials for Restoring the Nation").

Given the personality of the Japanese army, it is impossible to abandon an important city with only more than 1,000 casualties. As for those who were killed by artillery, those who were burned to death in the earthen forts, those who fell into the river and drowned, those who were killed in the battle on the south bank

For most of the dead, their heads cannot be found.

According to Korean history records, more than 10,000 Japanese troops were wiped out in this battle, and countless prisoners were taken. The number of escapees was less than one-tenth of the total. Let us take a look at the relevant records of Japan: Chapter 4 of "The Korean War in the History of Japan"

Pages 97-98; Chapter 7, pages 251-252, points out that after the Battle of Pyongyang, the Konishi Yukinaga Department lost more than 11,300 people, and when it was transferred to Wangjing, there were only 6,600 people left, a reduction of nearly two-thirds.
To be continued...