Qiming 1158

Chapter 1576 Human Subsistence Improvement Plan in Eastern Liaoning
Over the years, Su Jue first led the army into Liaodong to destroy the remnants of the Jin Kingdom, and later guarded Liaodong for the Daming Kingdom.

After the situation stabilized, he was instructed to send troops into Goryeo to assist the revival forces in Goryeo to control the situation in Goryeo and eliminate opponents, in order to make Goryeo into the Goryeo province of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, and made a lot of contributions.

In addition, after destroying the human enemies, Su Jue led the soldiers to incarnate as human pioneers to open up wasteland in areas where humans were at risk.

In the case of land reclamation, they not only have to face the cruel natural environment, but also need to face a huge number of powerful wild beasts. They need to face these powerful large carnivores and risk their lives to destroy them to prevent them from attacking the wild animals. Invasion of human territory.

It has to be said that in the land of Liaodong in this era, the human settlements are in a situation of absolute weakness, and the strongholds are connected by traffic routes. is the mainstream.

And even if it is a human settlement, it will face the invasion of large predatory beasts because the surrounding areas are mostly undeveloped jungles.

Of course, the terrifying Homo erectus, who can use tools and weapons, is not to be messed with.

When both sides were in a state of natural organization, the large predatory beast and the terrifying erect ape were basically in a state of love and killing each other, and neither could do anything to the other.

The situation changed when a new organizational form beyond the natural organization appeared on the land.

As a people's army, and as a human army, the Ming army will of course stand on the side of human beings unconditionally.

In this era, the human condition is still dominated by the idea of ​​not protecting animals. In this era, protecting animals is basically the same as delivering food to your door. Large carnivorous beasts applauded and praised them.

Of course the Ming army would not be so brainless.

Therefore, after the Ming army stationed in Liaodong, in order to protect the people and provide a better living environment for the immigrants, under the deployment of Su Jue, a large number of elite troops were dispatched to eliminate the beasts part-time. Scale action against the beast.

Humans are of course not the opponents of carnivorous beasts one-on-one, but after humans who are good at using weapons form a combat team, after training, skillfully setting traps and strategies, they can suppress the beasts and kill a large number of beasts.

From the sixth year of Hongwu, Su Jue organized the elite army of the Liaodong Fifth Corps to attack the beasts that invaded the human settlements with sophisticated equipment and excellent sense of cooperation.

In the beginning, there were some casualties due to inexperience, but the reason why Homo erectus can stand at the top of the food chain is because they are smart enough and good at using tools.

They will summarize research and have experience, so very quickly, the army has rectified a lot of experience.

They studied tigers, wild wolves, big bears, wild boars, leopards and other beasts, summed up their living habits, movement trajectories, weaknesses, etc., and then summed up a set of effective combat plans.

After this combat plan was put into use, the lethality of the Ming army against the beasts increased as a collective index, and there was almost no defeat.

Tigers, brown bears, leopards and other beasts like to fight alone. Once they encounter groups of Ming troops, there is almost no possibility of survival. Ming soldiers carry steel knives, spears, bows and crossbows, shields, and armor. Fighting with beasts, beasts can hardly do any damage to them.

Creatures such as wild wolves and wild boars are gregarious animals, and those who are active and foraging for food are often in groups, and have strong fighting power, which is very difficult to deal with.

In particular, wild boars are absolute beasts, and they have strong active aggression. They often attack earlier than the soldiers of the Ming army, with extremely fast speed and strong impact.

What's worse is that they have rough skin and thick flesh, and cold weapons such as spears, steel knives, and crossbows are difficult to kill them effectively, nor can they immediately reduce their attack power, but will arouse their ferocity and make them more violent. Attack the Ming army.

Their violent impact can overwhelm well-trained Ming shield soldiers, and then destroy them wantonly and attack Ming soldiers.

During the initial period, more than [-] Ming soldiers died under the impact of wild boars, and more than [-] were injured, more than the number of soldiers killed or injured by tigers.

As a result, the wild boar was regarded by the soldiers as the number one and most dangerous opponent than the tiger.

After suffering, the soldiers of the Ming army also learned to induce them with food and traps. After they were attracted by the food and fell into the traps, they killed them, which could reduce casualties.

Later, everyone discovered that wild boars can't climb trees, and also discovered the advantages of firearms against such group-action beasts, so they began to use firearms on a large scale.

When deciding to slaughter wild boars, soldiers often set up ambush in places with many trees around the wild boar habitat, lure wild boar herds with food, and then shoot in groups with muskets.

In the end, it is a gunpowder weapon, which is much more lethal to wild boars than cold weapons, and has loud movements, loud sounds, and intensive shooting. The power is quite impressive, enough to deter wild boars.

Well-trained musketeers just shoot. Although wild boars have thick and sturdy skin, they will inevitably be defeated in the face of gunpowder kinetic energy muskets. Even if lead bullets can't break the defense, the feeling of being hit is absolutely unpleasant. .

It is true that lead bullets do not have such a strong penetrating power, but the projectiles are large and most of them are irregular. On the battlefield of that year, many people died of internal organs rupture just because they were hit in the limbs.

They are all flesh and blood raised by their fathers and mothers. No matter how strong the wild boar is, there is no reason not to be afraid of muskets. In the end, they can only escape in embarrassment, and even some unlucky ones have their heads exploded, and they will die on the spot.

Those who can't die on the spot can't live. As long as they are injured and bleed, lead poison and fire poison will make them unable to heal after being injured, and they will die slowly, and they will no longer be able to continue to attack human settlements and steal food.

The wild boar herd is undoubtedly the most lethal beast to the farmers and farmland in human settlements, and it is also the beast that farmers hate the most. Therefore, whenever the soldiers of the Ming army carried a large number of wild boar corpses back to the human settlement, they could always harvest. Lots of praise.

It’s just a pity that although the wild boar has a lot of meat, the meat quality is not good, it is very woody, it needs more strength to chew, and it has a great demand for the teeth, and the wild boar has a strong smell. It is not experienced by an experienced chef. It's really hard to swallow when it is prepared with fire and strong ingredients.

For the soldiers of the Ming army who were well-paid and could eat domestic pork from time to time, this thing was a chicken rib, but for the farmers in Liaodong who generally lacked oily and meaty ingredients, they didn't care about it.

The soldiers of the Ming army would cut off the still clean wild boar and distribute it to the local residents for free, and teach them how to cook, as an additional benefit, and it can be regarded as avenging the local people.

Because the slaughter of wild beasts is becoming more and more skilled and the credit is getting bigger and bigger, the peasants in the Liaodong area all regard these soldiers fighting the beasts as heroes on the front line.

The effect of their existence and hard work on consolidating the local people's heart is no worse than a series of preferential policies implemented by the Ming government, which makes the local residents' evaluation of the Ming government quite high.

Su Jue personally led the army to encircle and suppress the wild boars, drove the wild boars to gather, and then directed the soldiers to bomb the wild boars with Thor cannons, blowing the flesh and blood of the wild boars into the air. .

The fighting of the Fifth Corps greatly improved the living environment of the people in Liaodong, and gradually drove the beasts away from the human settlements, which made great contributions to the smooth promotion of the Liaodong immigration plan.

Because of the superposition of military merits and civilian merits, Su Jue's identity as the central representative was the first to be confirmed.

At the same time, Su Jue is also the most low-key and calm commander in the army. He is not very keen on fame and fortune. Whatever Su Yonglin gives, he will take it. Su Yonglin will not mention it, and he will never fight for it by himself.

He likes to immerse himself in things and do all kinds of things, and he is very interested in any challenging task, fully committed, and then solved, so as to gain satisfaction.

As for the official reward after the fact, it was not the most important thing to him.

Su Yonglin admired his character, so he was relieved to hand over the entire Liaodong Military Region to him, and he never made any mistakes.

So all the honors he got are well deserved.

(End of this chapter)