Chapter 161 Don’t eat sprouted potatoes

Chapter 160

On October 11th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie landed in southern Liaoning at Haizhou Port. Sun Zhiwan was stunned when he officially set foot on the land of southern Liaoning.

He was really shocked. The entire Haizhou was not nervously preparing for war, but a construction scene in full swing. He was a little unbelievable. Is this still the sparsely populated Liaodong?

When Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liaodong's strategy, Sun Zhiwan, who had just been crowned, followed Sun Chengzong to Liaodong and inspected many places in Liaodong. Liaonan had already fallen. He had scouted Haizhou with Mao Yuanyi's armed forces, although he did not

Arrive at the seaside, but in the northwest direction of Haizhou.

However, the current Haizhou is a world away from the former Haizhou. The official road from Haizhou Port to Haizhou City was originally built to be almost seven or eight feet wide, but now it is widening.

The official road is almost half of it, three to four feet wide.

Large vehicles were driving on the original official road. On the official road to the north, countless civilian workers were working intensively. The wooden hammers and round stone rollers worked alternately to smooth the loess paved road.

Pressed to be as smooth as a mirror.

Sun Zhiwan is a man who has seen the world. He secretly sighed in his heart. Whether it is Shuntian Mansion, Baoding Mansion, or Hejian Mansion around Beijing, even the imperial roads in Beijing may not be of this level.

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Along this road under construction, Cheng Shijie's motorcade moved forward slowly. After walking for about thirty miles, there was a horse-changing inn. Different from ordinary inns, this inn was divided into four, with the

It is a wide official road, with the castle on the left and right of the post station. However, the post station is divided into civilian and military areas, and these two functional areas are clearly distinct.

Cheng Shijie naturally took the military passage and could also enter the post station with priority. This post station is different from the general inn station that covers an area of ​​several acres or more than ten acres. This inn station covers an area of ​​more than a thousand acres, like a small city.

In fact, the inns in Liaonan are divided into three specifications: A, B, and C. The inns in level C are determined based on the passenger flow or the flow of people. They cover an area of ​​about 20 to 30 acres. The inns in level B are the next.

Such important stations cover an area of ​​between 500 and 800 acres.

Class A is the highest level, with land ranging from 1,300 to 2,000 acres. The inns close to ports and military towns are all Class A inns. Sun Zhiyi didn't know this, but he found that the neat houses in the inn were

The texture of these houses is very strange. They are different from thatched houses and adobe houses in the mainland. The walls are blue-grey and feel hard and cool to the touch.

In fact, the officers' mess and the soldiers' mess are both cooked in the same pot, but the soldiers have long tables, one for each team, while the officers have tables for four.

Since Nurhachi unified the Jurchen tribes and then launched an army to rebel, they have been fighting. The bloody and protracted war has created their bloodthirsty instincts and inhuman physiques. They are not afraid of any powerful opponents or any fortresses.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. What is important is that there is a tall iron roller device built on the roadside, and the pungent smell is emitted from here. The huge roller is connected to a turntable through a strange mechanism, and two horses

The mule pulled the turntable and kept turning, and the drum also turned with it.

More than two thousand cavalry began to march towards Haizhou.

"That's it!"

The chassis was resealed, and two peasants from a distance came over with buckets full of sand. Then a young man wearing green miscellaneous clothes immediately took it and poured the sand into a wooden cylindrical container. There was a faint trace on the inner wall of the container.

There are many vertical and horizontal ink lines drawn around it, and there are also some symbols that no one can understand...

However, Jiannu destroyed more than half of Zhang Chun's gunpowder in the first wave of attacks.

Sun Zhiyi had seen the best army of this era, but even so, he had to admit that the quality and mental state of the soldiers in front of him were outstanding. They were fulfilling their duties all the time, rather than being perfunctory.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Pick the head in lime and send it to Tianjin by speedboat to report the victory."

Cheng Shijie listened to Zhou Ning's report. During this period, Jiannu had used many methods to destroy the trench barbed wire tactic. In fact, this tactic had no solution and could only be filled with human lives.

When the meal bugle sounded, Sun Zhidan also went to eat with the Ning navy soldiers. Of course, his identity was there. He was definitely not dining with the big-headed soldiers. He was an officer who went with Wu Sheng, the general of the soldiers.

canteen.

A bold Buddhist slave reached out, grabbed a piece of potato, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"delicious!"

At this moment, Song Xiance, who had been sitting upright, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "They dare to go, they are falling into the commander's plan!"

This time the general leading the troops was Abatai.

More than two thousand people on horseback sped up, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, shaking the earth and the earth.

Huang Taiji went out in full force this time, mobilizing the Eight Jurchen Banners, the left and right Mongolian battalions, and the Han Army Banner, which amounted to a hundred thousand troops. He originally wanted to use the power of Mount Tai to press on Haizhou, with the goal of a quick victory.

Arriving at Cheng Shijie's festival hall, Zhou Ning hurriedly introduced the recent results to Cheng Shijie: "Jiannu has conducted thirteen tentative attacks on our defense line these days, but it's just a pity!"

"Thank you, Marshal!"

More than two thousand riders slowly crossed the river in the dark, and Abatai was worried about an ambush by the Ming army.

Sun Zhili was once again shocked by Cheng Shijie's generosity. In the Taizihe camp, Ning Haijun had a small total force of more than 10,000 soldiers, more than half of whom were auxiliary soldiers and non-combatants.

Although Cheng Shijie did not give a single order, and did not even appear in front of the entire army. He just arrived at the front line in his carriage, and the number of soldiers in the entire army suddenly increased sharply.

Under Cheng Shijie's order, the new soldiers of the Guards Division formed a unit of sitting divisions, lined up with long spears and held dog-leg knives, and rushed towards the sheep. With the flash of the knife, one by one the sheep were stabbed to death.

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "Go down and rest first, I know it!"

Winter came very early in Liaodong. It started to snow at this time last year. Although it is not snowing now, it is still obviously cold.

"Meet the Marshal!"

When approaching the Haizhou front line, Sun Zhiwan was even more surprised by the remaining sixty miles of road. Almost all of this road was paved with stones, which was actually cement. Starting from the southern end of these two roads, there was no more

The two-wheeled carriages that were common in the world were replaced by large four-wheeled carriages that were speeding by. The carriages were wide, the body was long, and the horses were strong. Some of the horses used to pull the carriages made Sun Zhiwan drool at the sight.

The heads of the Han army were worthless to the Ming army. If all the Jian slaves killed were beheaded, a few could create some small landowners for the Ning navy officers and soldiers.

"What did you say? Another surprise force from Jiannu is preparing to attack our army?"

Sitting on the carriage, Sun Zhilan had more things to think about. There was actually no tension in Haizhou about the approaching war. It would be false to say that there was no tension. What they were nervous about was working overtime to build roads, or...

Dredge ditches and build houses.

“It’s already pretty good!”

When it comes to Tianji kitchen knives, I have to mention that this is the time-honored Chinese brand Wang Mazi. There is a blacksmith named Tian Laowan in Qingzhou, Shandong. His ancestors have been blacksmithing for nine generations. Tian Laowan has superb craftsmanship and the quality of the knives, scissors, fire sickles and other ironware he forges.

Outstanding and very easy to use. People often praise that as long as it is handled by Tian Laowan, even the shovel and mud will not stick at all. Therefore, Tian Laowan's blacksmith is well-known in the local area and has a good reputation.

The training effect is quite good, but the problem is that the logistics and military quarters officer yelled: "They are all prodigals. Wherever this knife was stabbed, the sheepskin was cut into a sieve!"

But this time, facing this line of defense that can only be described as shabby, they feel like a dog biting a tortoise. No matter how powerful the opponent is, they can find loopholes in the battle, involve them, and isolate them.

, separate them, surround them, and finally annihilate them; no matter how dangerous the Xiongguan Fortress is, they can attack it through a series of means such as buying spies, digging tunnels, long-term siege, heavy artillery bombardment, etc. If they cannot conquer it, they can still retreat calmly.

, what are you afraid of?

But this damn barbed wire fence can't be cut with knives and can't be bombarded. It's not afraid of fire or flooding. It seems very weak, but there are almost no effective ways to destroy it!

There are also those bloody trenches. The Ming army collectively learned from the rats and hid in the trenches. No matter how you bombarded them with artillery, the most you could do was to let them hear the sound. The Jiannu soldiers were so angry that they were itching their teeth.

, but there is nothing we can do!

Mang Gurtai stared at the abominable barbed wire, gritted his teeth and said: "Which bastard came up with such a damaging trick? Let me catch him, he must eat all these barbed wires!"

"Detour?"

Just like in later generations, with the war between Da Mao and Er Mao, more than one-third and nearly half of the Er Mao population fled abroad, and most of them were young and strong backbones.

"No problem, if you can't make a sheepskin coat, you can make sheepskin boots. Anyway, it won't be wasted!"

Five or six attacks on the barbed wire failed to achieve any results. Instead, they sent hundreds of heads to Ning Haijun. Looking at the endless barbed wire and the spider web-like trenches, the Jiannu soldiers felt sad in their hearts.

A feeling of powerlessness.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Pass this command to all the soldiers in the army and give them half a catty of meat!"

But the problem is that Ning Haijun's tenacity made their intention of a quick victory completely in vain. The damn barbed wire fences, minefields and trenches made them helpless. Let alone attacking Liaonan, they even wanted to see Haizhou City.

The walls are very difficult.

As Cheng Shijie's order was conveyed, the logistics department immediately delivered baskets of juicy onions, garlic, cabbage, and several baskets of red tomatoes. Finally, a team of breeders drove thousands of sheep to the camp.

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There are two roads in front of Abatai, one is to go all the way east, fight out from the back of the Ming army, and support Huang Taiji to break through the Ming army's barbed wire defense line, and the other is to directly attack Haizhou City.

Ning's navy officers were happy, but the slave-building army was not, very unhappy.

Therefore, when he entered Liaonan and saw such a busy road construction scene, Sun Zhilan couldn't help but feel strange. In addition, the impression left on him by the villages and towns in Liaonan County can be summed up in two words: "vitality."

Tian Laowan had no children, only a daughter named Tian Qing. After Tian Laowan died, Tian Qing married a Shanxi businessman named Wang. Although her husband, Shopkeeper Wang, was unattractive and pockmarked, he was honest, kind and shrewd.

He was capable and good at management. Tian Qing passed on the iron forging skills passed down by his father and generations of people orally to his husband, shopkeeper Wang, and the brand Wang Mazi was established.

The conscience of heaven and earth, this is not Cheng Shijie's idea, but the businessman himself in the late Ming Dynasty. Various advertising items also save the management committee's management funds.

You will never see people dying of hunger on the roadside in southern Liaoning. On the main road northeast of Haizhou, there are checkpoints set up to collect registered refugees. Some government officials in black clothes with "traffic control" armbands on their arms maintain the road.

Traffic and order, there is a temporary refugee camp built of adobe and thatch on the roadside, and there is a constant flow of horse-drawn carriages with the flags of various merchants on the road.

"yes!"

Skilled cooking soldiers stepped forward to peel the skin, remove the internal organs, remove bones and cut the meat, wash and cut the vegetables with quick hands and feet, and some peeled a large number of potatoes and put them into the pot with the mutton to stew...

Next, Sun Zhiwan had no intention of watching anymore. Cheng Shijie's motorcade set off again. In his impression, the roads in the world seemed to have not been repaired since he was born.

Huang Taiji shook his head and said: "It's only a matter of time before they deploy this kind of barbed wire fence on the banks of the Liao River. I'm afraid that if we move like this, they will move too!"

"Why don't you need it?"

"Master, we found a grain transport team of the Ming Army ahead of us. They haven't noticed us yet and are cooking."

Secondly, the second point is that the people here did not flee in panic, which shows that the people in southern Liaoning have strong enough confidence in Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun.

While eating the delicious food, Sun Zhidao was a little strange, where did Cheng Shijie's money come from?

Yue Tuo said: "King Khan, if it really doesn't work, we can only go around!"

"Don't be polite to them, just kill them!"

There were bursts of scraping sounds of metal rubbing against the inner wall of the drum. The rotating shaft of the iron drum was a key part wrapped with iron sheets and iron rods. This shaft did not rotate when the drum rotated.

"yes!"
To be continued...