Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 386 Reconstruction Planning 2
Denley soon became lively.

The first one to come to Dengzhou was Cheng Ji.This guy brought tens of thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of farmers, and dozens of technicians who were proficient in drilling irrigation wells and building water trucks, and even forty screw pumps came over in advance!Needless to say, he definitely came prepared.As soon as this guy arrived, he pulled Yang Menglong to enclose the land in a hurry. He wanted to enclose 10,000+ mu of fertile land and set up a huge farm. He wanted the land in Denglai to grow round potatoes and golden wheat, and then planted these Stuff turned into little money in his pocket!
The second one to run over was naturally Cheng Jun.He also came prepared, not only bringing more farmers and technicians, but also thousands of catties of cotton seeds.He bought these cotton seeds from the Spaniards at a high price. It is said that they came from some kind of bird in Latin America. The cotton fibers produced are much thinner than ordinary cotton, and the cloth woven is fine and smooth, very Exquisite, such a good stuff naturally cannot be let go.He plans to try to grow this kind of mainland cotton in Denglai. If it succeeds, he will plant it in large quantities. Growing cotton can make more money than growing grain!

The third person who ran over was Boss Zhu, who co-founded a canning factory with Yang Menglong. He wanted to set up a large-scale canned sea fish processing factory in Denglai and sell delicious canned food to the world!

The owner of the horse carriage factory arrived fourth. This man sold a thousand four-wheeled carriages this year and made a lot of money, but his pursuit of wealth has no limit. He also came to enclose land. Want to start a big farm...

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The merchants' movements were frighteningly fast. They had already set their sights on Denglai when Yang Menglong decided to send troops, making preparations for a share of the post-war reconstruction.They have no hesitation that the Heluo new army will kill the rebels with a destructive advantage. All they have to do is to recruit manpower, prepare various equipment, and prepare for a big fight!In just one month, 20 or 3000 businessmen came upon hearing the news, and each businessman ranged from dozens to hundreds of people, bringing a large number of people to Denglai.By the end of October, the fleet sent to Liaodong to recruit people came back. Basically, except for the fact that the sails could not hold people, the places where people could stand were full of people.Since Dongjiang Town was opened, there has never been enough food and pay. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have an average annual military food of less than [-] shi. It is common for people to starve to death.The Denglai rebellion dealt them a fatal blow. There was no hope of transporting food from Dengzhou, and Tianjin was not very enthusiastic about it. Dongjiang Town suddenly fell into famine, and people starved to death every day. A large amount of wasteland was recruiting refugees, and there was a rush of people who responded, and the people who rushed onto the boat almost sank the boat.More than a dozen ships went out to sea and brought back more than [-] people. All of them were sallow, hungry, and skinny, which made people feel sympathetic.

"Huang Shuai asked us if we could make another trip and send them some food and cotton cloth. As for the people, except for the fighting soldiers, we can take as many as we like!" said the captains responsible for pulling people to Dongjiang Town.Mentioning the situation in Dongjiang Town makes everyone sigh.

At that time, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town was Huanglong.After Mao Wenlong's death, in just three years, Dongjiang Town had three general soldiers.First, Chen Jisheng took over Mao Wenlong's class, and was killed by Liu Xingzuo a year later and replaced him; Liu Xingzuo surrendered to Houjin in Chongzhen four years later, and Huang Long took over as the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town.Unfortunately, not long after Huanglong took over, Pidao broke out in mutiny, arrested him, and cut off his ears and nose.According to the original trajectory of history, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, Huanglong will die in Lushun, and Shen Shikui will succeed him as the commander-in-chief until the fall of Pidao in the tenth year of Chongzhen.One of the major consequences of frequent replacement of the general is that the order is changed from day to day, and the people of Dongjiang Town are fluctuating. In addition, the court's attitude towards Dongjiang Town is getting colder and colder. , It was only thanks to North Korea's aid that it did not starve to death, but its combat effectiveness was also greatly weakened, and it was no longer able to contain Houjin.In fact, since Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town has been in a state of being beaten, completely powerless to fight back, until they were completely wiped out.

Yang Menglong looked at those Liao people who were shivering in the cold wind in early winter, sighed, and said, "Hurry up and give them a few sets of cotton clothes, let them eat a few good meals, and let them recover a little bit of vitality." The dozen or so captains said: "I plan to ask you to make another trip to deliver a batch of ordnance, food, and cotton cloth to Dongjiang Town. You can spend the winter in Dongjiang Town to avoid the freezing period of the Bohai Sea, and come back next year. How about that?" Like, would you like to?"

The captains showed hesitation. It is already early winter. The weather in the Bohai Sea is unpredictable, the wind is high and the waves are rough, the rain and snow are continuous, and there is also sea ice.A relatively young captain asked: "I don't know how much ordnance and how much food and cotton cloth will be transported?"

Yang Menglong said: "Three thousand powerful crossbows, one million crossbow arrows, one thousand five hundred pairs of iron armor, three thousand horizontal knives, three thousand firecrackers, five thousand catties of gunpowder, thirty thousand catties of iron materials, fifty thousand catties of grain and beans, and cotton cloth. 100 horses, [-] shi for the horses..."

Every time Yang Menglong uttered a number, the captains' eyes widened, and their eyes widened. When they heard that there were twenty cannons and three hundred barrels of bacon in the supplies, they all showed disbelief. He slapped his chest fiercely, "Run! This subordinate will risk his life to run!" That eagerness, as if he was afraid that Yang Menglong would go back on his word.

Yang Menglong was also afraid that they would regret it, so he rewarded each of them with 100 taels of silver, and then ordered the goods to be loaded onto the ship.This batch of supplies was collected by Yang Menglong with a lot of effort. The food was transported by the food transport team he hired with great painstaking efforts. The ordnance was directly allocated from the Heluo New Army, and the strong crossbow was eliminated... That's right, the 220-step mountain crossbow has been eliminated, and the Heluo new army is about to replace it with a more powerful formation-breaking crossbow, and it is an upgraded version. These mountain crossbows can't be wasted, so they can be given to the Dongjiang army. Every extra gold soldier you shoot to death will be earned.

"Why do you spend so much money on Dongjiang Town? You are not afraid that they will never come back?" Qi Hu looked at the sweaty rebel prisoners carrying goods onto the ship with their upper body bare against the cold wind of early winter. asked with a smile.

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "If they never come back with these supplies, it means that they are really stupid and hopeless!"

Zhong Ning said: "General, I still don't understand why you spend so much money on Dongjiang Town. You know, Dongjiang Town's record has not been very good..."

Yang Menglong gave Zhong Ning a white look: "I asked you to take a group of soldiers who have been hungry all year round to fight. Can you give me a good record?"

Zhong Ning said honestly, "How can it be possible to let the horse run but not let the horse graze?"

Yang Menglong said: "You also know that it is impossible?" He pointed to the vast sea and said: "Since ancient times, no dynasty has ever been able to completely defeat a powerful nomad in a head-on confrontation. Never! Want to completely defeat Jiannu First, they must be isolated. Nomads are all like this. Isolation makes them weak, weak leads to civil strife, and civil strife leads to siege from all over the world. Huns, Turks, Tubo, Jurchen... This is how the grassland empires that once flourished for a while died. Now What I want to do is to strengthen Dongjiang Town, turn it into a thorn between Jiannu and North Korea, and even take back North Korea from Jiannu, and block Jiannu to the south of the Yalu River!”

Qi Hu said: "In this way, Jiannu will have no way to obtain manpower, money and food from North Korea, and even the entire southern Liaoning will be disturbed by Dongjiang Town, and a large part of the army must be allocated to guard against Dongjiang Town .”

Yang Menglong nodded: "Yes!"

Qi Hu said: "The next step is to use troops against Mongolia. The vigorous and vigorous division of the Heluo New Army will sweep across the prairie. With both kindness and power, Mongolia will be pushed to the battlefield against Jiannu. In this way, there are mountains and seas in the south. , with North Korea and Dongjiang in the east, and Mongolian cavalry in the north, under attack from three sides, even if Jiannu is several times stronger, he will only be crushed!"

Yang Menglong said excitedly: "Mr. Qi, you are really the roundworm in my belly. You guessed all my thoughts correctly!"

Qi Hu turned around, leaving him with a handsome back: "The idea is very good, but it doesn't work at all!"

Yang Menglong was dumbfounded: "Why doesn't it work?"

Qi Hu strode away: "Use your own brain!" But he felt a little emotional in his heart... That stupid guy who doesn't even know how many troops Houjin has in one Niulu and one Jiala is actually planning a three-sided siege of Houjin , it really is not easy!This plan is not new. During the reign of Emperor Apocalypse, the Ming army has been implementing this strategy. Therefore, in those few years, although Nurhachi rampaged like a raging wild boar in western and eastern Liaoning, defeating the Ming army time and time again, Houjin's situation became more and more embarrassing.It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty failed to adhere to this strategy. The Guan Ning Army has been acting as a pig teammate who regularly provided Houjin with food, weapons, and coated slaves. The Ming Dynasty refused to continue to support the Mongols against Houjin. The worst Yes, the important aspect of the three-sided siege——Dongjiang Town, let his own people be crippled, and the strategy of the three-sided siege completely failed.With regard to Ning Jun, a pig teammate, continuing to serve as the captain of the transportation team, and a large number of lawless frontier generals and Shanxi merchants continuing to provide information to Houjin to sell military supplies, Yang Menglong's three-sided siege strategy can only be a dream.But it was not easy for him to see the fatal weakness of the grassland empire.

Haifeng sent Yang Menglong's angry cry: "Is there someone like you who is the chief of staff!?" The kid must have been so angry that he barked his teeth and claws.

Yang Menglong was so angry that he bared his teeth and claws, but the Liao soldiers were extremely excited and full of energy.The heavy cannons, sets of black armor, horizontal knives that cut iron like mud, and the piles of grain and horse fodder, all stimulated their adrenal hormones and made them There is endless strength.They raced against time to load the goods, and their thin bodies were running like flying on the trestle bridge carrying heavy sacks. They were too tired to run. They lay down on the ground, panting heavily, and beat each other excitedly. Said: "With so much food and cotton cloth and such excellent weapons, Huang Shuai will definitely be able to regain the lost ground and lead everyone to fight back to their hometown!"

Call back home!The wish of hundreds of thousands of Liao people who are struggling in Phi Island in North Korea is as simple as that.Whoever can lead them back to the Liaodong Peninsula and recover Shenyang, they will sell their lives to whoever, the banner points to, go forward bravely, death will never follow!
In fact, going to sea in this season is equivalent to dancing on the edge of death's scythe. It is a life-threatening job, but the captains don't care about it. They loaded the cargo that would have taken more than ten days to load in five days, and then they couldn't wait to set sail. , completely disregarding the high winds and waves, and the dangers.After an arduous voyage, they finally arrived at Phi Island and sent the life-saving supplies to Dongjiang Town.The voyage, in which three ships sank midway and two hundred crew members perished, was costly.But these costs are worth it. In fact, from the moment Yang Menglong took Denglai, Hou Jin's nightmare began.

(End of this chapter)