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

Chapter 446
The soldiers ate seafood until they vomited. Yang Menglong didn't mean to dislike it at all... It's not easy to eat seafood in Henan. I vowed to make up for all the losses of the past few days.Not only him, Zhaji Chongweng, Shi Tianbao and others also ate like crazy, even Hong Niangzi and Li Yan also ate a lot, and everyone said it was delicious.

When he was full, Yang Menglong arranged for Li Yan and the others to rest, while he and Qi Hu went for a walk by the beach.He boarded Danya again and looked at the sea. He saw that the sea was as blue and smooth as a square of marble, with petrels skimming the waves, and pieces of white sails slowly drifting over from the horizon. Go in and out according to their respective channels, take a large amount of cargo to sea, or unload a large amount of seafood at the port.The seawater in the salt field not far from the port has dried up. Salt workers shoveled the sea salt left on the concrete floor into piles, and soon white hills were piled up.Sea salt is salty and bitter due to too many elements in the chimpanzee group, and it also contains a lot of sand, which is unpalatable. Therefore, after drying out, it needs to be melted with fresh water, filtered, and then boiled in a sharp-bottomed pot to remove most of the chimpanzee. Group elements, then add soy milk for seasoning, and at the same time add kelp powder to increase the iodine content, so that the boiled refined salt is as white as snow, without a trace of impurities, and without a trace of bitterness, and the taste is excellent.The salt factory is more than ten kilometers away from the salt field. The reason why the salt factory was built so far away was not because it was idle, but because two natural gas wells were drilled there, and the gas production was huge. Natural gas was used to cook salt and even coal All saved.

Of course, there is no need to transport salt to Yantian. They use moso bamboo from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to pave a bamboo canal stretching for more than ten kilometers. Pour it into the bamboo canal, and then the salt water flows along the bamboo canal to the salt factory, which is very efficient.The refined salt produced in Denglai has already gained a reputation, and the supply in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is in short supply, and it may even become a royal offering, with a bright future.

"Going to fight?" Qi Hu asked, looking at Bai Fan in the distance.

Yang Menglong asked: "How do you know?"

Qi Hu said: "In the past few days, wars have been ignited one after another on various islands in the Bohai Sea, and the military envoys from Dongjiang Town have all rushed to Dengzhou to ask for help. Don't you know?"

Yang Menglong let out an uh.

Qi Hu looked at him and asked, "Why did it take you so long to come?"

Yang Menglong said depressedly: "Don't mention it, I originally wanted to come here by boat, but the grandsons in Tianjin Wei said that a typhoon was coming, so they didn't dare to go out to sea, so they had to come here on horseback. This journey is so good for me, my buttocks are blooming." !"

Qi Hu said: "There was indeed a strong wind in the past two days, and the waves on the sea were more than ten feet high, and seagoing ships dared not go out to sea."

Yang Menglong said loudly: "But it takes only one day to take a boat from Tianjin to Dengzhou! They did it on purpose, they must have done it on purpose!"

The straight-line distance from Tianjin to Yantai by sea is only about [-] kilometers. With the speed of seagoing ships, he can get there in one day and one night. However, because of a typhoon, he ran for a whole week. Yang Menglong was very depressed.

Qi Hu chuckled: "You must have offended someone, they deliberately punished you."

Yang Menglong kicked a stone into the sea angrily, and said, "Damn it, I'll settle the score with them later!" Then he looked serious and asked, "Is the army ready? Is there enough food and fodder? Are there enough armor, crossbows, and arrows? How is the training of the troops?"

Qi Hu's face was also full, and he said: "The Denglai New Army currently has 700 soldiers, and most of them have received half a year of training. 700 people, 800 cavalry, and the rest are pikemen and horizontal swordsmen. There are 200 crossbows in the armory of the new army, 200 million crossbows with [-] bolts, and [-] long spears [-] swords, [-] sets of armor, [-] pairs of armor..." A series of bamboo tubes were poured out like beans, and it was obvious that no one knew the situation of Denglai's new army better than him.

Yang Menglong was a little surprised: "There are actually 1000 or [-] cavalry?"

Qi Hu said, "Yes."

Yang Menglong scratched his head, wondering: "Why didn't I know there are so many cavalry in Shandong?"

Qi Hu rolled his eyes: "There are a lot of thieves in Shandong who rushed to the state. Governor Zhu spent a lot of effort to recruit them and kicked them to Denglai's new army. I selected disciplines from among them. It took a lot of effort to train these 1000 or [-] cavalrymen." He sighed regretfully: "Unfortunately, Shandong horses are not as good as Liaodong horses and Mongolian horses after all. The training time is also short, otherwise a lancer could be trained among them."

Yang Menglong squeezed his chin and said, "I'll find a way to solve the problem of the horses in the future. You just need to tell me whether this cavalry can go to the battlefield, and whether it can fight when it goes to the battlefield."

Qi Hu said proudly: "The soldiers I have trained, whether they are infantry or cavalry, can come when they are called, and they can fight when they come!"

Yang Menglong breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good! At first I was worried that without cavalry, it would be very difficult to fight against Jiannu, but now it's okay, with such a cavalry, there is a better chance of winning."

Qi Hu said: "Five days ago, I ordered all the ministries to end the training and enter a state of combat readiness. Now there are only a few hundred recruits still training. The troop carrier is also ready, just waiting for you."

Yang Menglong smiled openly: "Not bad, old man, with you as the chief of staff, I can save a lot of trouble!"

Qi Hu snorted, and said: "It's useless to say less, pay more, and give more bonuses to be a good boss..."

Yang Menglong began to squeeze his chin again: "We are not in a hurry to raise wages or pay bonuses. The top priority is to win this battle... I plan to leave only 1000 people to guard the camp, and the remaining 700 people will all go to the battlefield. ,what do you think?"

Qi Hu said proudly: "Even if you don't keep a single soldier, no one would dare to come to Denglai to make trouble!"

Yang Menglong couldn't help but think of those shrews with big arms and round waists, full faces, chasing and beating men with sickles and poles, and laughed: "That is, that is! Leave those one thousand recruits to guard the camp, two thousand eight hundred One archer, one thousand two hundred cavalry, plus pikemen and swordsmen, enough for Jiannu to drink a pot." He looked at the sea and sighed: "It's a pity, our warships will be destroyed in a short period of time. I can't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with this big battle... As long as they can come, even just one, I can easily wring out Jiannu's blood."

Qi Hu was a little puzzled: "What can a warship be used for?" In his opinion, those warships are very annoying things. Every long voyage consumes a lot of expensive rigging, canvas, tung oil, asphalt, etc. Materials, and they are not very useful, at most they will expel the pirates.A warship with one or two hundred cannons densely lined up looks really imposing. The problem is that the effective range of these cannons is only about [-] meters, and they can only fire solid bullets. If they fire explosive bullets, the opponent should I laughed, how unlucky are those who can be killed by the bombs of this era?It is a dream to expect them to support the landing force with firepower.

Yang Menglong just smiled and didn't speak.He didn't tell Qi Hu that as early as two months ago, two warships had been equipped with 120mm naval guns, each with ten guns.He didn't even tell Qi Hu that those naval guns were not only equipped with high-explosive bombs using collodion as the propellant and collodion, but also the white phosphorus bombs he made. A sailing battleship can die!
The era of artillery is at hand.

"How long will it take to board the boat here and arrive at Lushun?" he asked.

Qi Hu said: "If everything goes well, boarding the ship from here to Lushun will only take a day's voyage."

Yang Menglong chuckled: "It's good to be daring, we can meet Jiannu for real soon!"

Qi Hu shook his head: "It's not that easy...Thousands of people and horses have to board the ship, and countless materials and equipment have to be loaded on the ship, especially cavalry horses. It takes a lot of effort to get two to three thousand horses on board!"

Yang Menglong's heart turned cold: "How long will it take?"

Qi Hu said: "It will take ten days and a half months at the earliest before our army can complete the assembly in Lushun and go to the battlefield."

Yang Menglong shouted: "Ten days and a half month? After ten days and a half month, the bones of Lushun defenders can beat drums!"

Qi Hu spread his hands: "I also know that this is too slow, but there is no way... This is a very objective thing."

Yang Menglong pinched his chin and began to come up with bad ideas: "You said, let's transport the people there first, use the supplies stored in Lushun in Dongjiang Town to fight Jiannu a few times, and return them when our supplies arrive?"

Qi Hu snorted: "There's a fart store in Dongjiang Town!"

Yang Menglong was stunned: "No savings at all?"

Qi Hu said: "We sent them more than 3000 armors, thousands of crossbows, thousands of horizontal knives, thousands of spears, and thirty artillery pieces. These weapons sound like a lot, but for Dongjiang Town It’s just a drop in the bucket, they don’t even have enough for themselves, how do you expect them to have savings?”

Yang Menglong asked nonchalantly: "The food..."

Qi Hu said: "That's not enough. According to the information I have, Lushun's food storage can only last for half a month at most. If there are thousands more troops, it can only last for seven days at most."

Yang Menglong went crazy: "This doesn't work and that doesn't work, what should I do!?"

Qi Hu sympathized: "You know it's difficult?"

Yang Menglong said with a sad face: "It's too difficult..."

Qi Hu said: "It's not difficult, it's not difficult, what do you want?"

Why does this sound so familiar?

The champion Hou of the Ming Dynasty, the Doubi God of War of the Ming Dynasty stared at the sea angrily with his eyes puffed up, his face was puffed up like a toad.

The sea breeze blows from the Liaodong Peninsula, bringing the smell of blood.In Lushun across the sea, the Ming army and the Qing army are fighting to the death.

(End of this chapter)