I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 270 This Commander Takes You to Grab the Territory

Chapter 269

"Hello, Mr. Gao, I am Ma Haitao, Xinghai's judge, and a disciple of Dean Yang."

"Nice to meet you!"

Gao Jie couldn't believe it. When was he called "Sir"?
In the Ming Dynasty, the word "Mr." still refers to the respectful title of a learned elder or an adult man with status.This is the first time in Gao Jie's life that someone called him "Mr. Gao!"

Ma Haitao can be regarded as a well-known figure in Liaodong. He is not only the judge of Xinghai City, but also Yang Qingyun's personal student. Xinghai City and Zhenhai City are both special cities in Liaodong. In Cheng Shijie's plan, this city It has the same administrative level as Jinzhou and Haizhou.

And Yang Qingyun, like Chen Zilong, was an official at the fifth-rank magistrate level of the Ming court, and even served as a member of the Liaodong Management Committee.

Not to mention him, even a person who has the reputation of a scholar or a person who has made a name for himself is not qualified to be honored as a gentleman in front of Ma Haitao, they can only call themselves students.

And what about Gao Jie?Before he took refuge in Cheng Jialong, Gao Jie was just a rogue, at most he was a relatively good one among the rogues, how many untouchables like Gao Jie came from in Daming?Although he is one of the three generals under Li Zicheng's command, the problem is, let alone him, even if Li Zicheng is in Liaodong, who would look at him seriously?
However, Gao Jie won the asylum of Cheng Jialong, the eldest son of Cheng Jialong, with his property worth nearly 50 taels of silver. The first job Cheng Jialong entrusted to him was to recruit craftsmen and cast steel statues.

But it is precisely because the steel statue in Jinzhou City is about four feet three feet nine inches high, of which the base is about one foot six feet high, and the statue is about two feet seven feet nine inches high.Of course, this is just a design drawing. The Liaodong Management Committee even designated an area of ​​[-] to [-] mu in the southern city of Jinzhou City as the construction site for this statue.

In all fairness, Mrs. Xing is Gao Jiexian's helper. With the help of Mrs. Xing, Gaoji's Gaoji Labor Service Company is becoming more and more famous and has more and more employees.Although Gao Jie is white, no one despises him. After all, he is a disciple of Mr. Cheng, and because he has no official position, he has to be called Mr.

"Mr. Gao, please bring your people and follow me!"

Cheng Shijie built a huge Farmhouse Four Sages Square in Zhenhai City, which also attracted Yang Qingyun's attention. He also wanted to build the Four Sages of Medicine Family in Xinghai City. This project naturally fell to Gao Jie's construction team.

As for the 10,000+ taels of silver for the construction of the Four Sages of Medicine (Huangdi, Qibo, Qinyue people (Bian Que), Zhang Ji is the "Four Sages") square, in Yang Qingyun's view, this is not a problem at all.

Gao Jie has now become a member of the Liaodong Management Committee, the magistrate of Xinghai City, and the guest of honor of Yang Qingyun, the dean of Liaodong Medical College, which Gao Jie did not expect.

Ma Jingtao introduced Gao Jie to Yang Qingyun of Xinghai, and Yang Qingyun told Gao Jie about Xinghai's needs to be established, and the needs of the Doctor's Four Sages Square.

Xing, who followed Gao Jie, took a pen to record Yang Qingyun's needs.

Opportunities are fair to everyone, the key is to see if they can be seized.Of course, some people are good at seizing opportunities, while others create opportunities without opportunities.

The Han family, located in Shunhe, Macheng, is a person who is good at creating opportunities.When Cheng Shijie saw Han's daughter Zhang Lian'er, Zhang Lian'er was already dying.

This scene made Cheng Shijie feel familiar. That's right, when Cheng Jiayue was seriously ill, Cheng Jiayue was also like this. Zhang Lian'er opened his mouth and was almost speechless.

Cheng Shijie became anxious immediately: "Military doctor, come here and cure her!"

The biggest difference between the Ninghai Navy and the other armies of the Ming Dynasty is that it has sufficient military doctors and medical personnel, and there are health workers in the establishment above the post. As for Cheng Shijie, he has a team of more than 40 doctors all year round. Of course, following Cheng Shijie now is the cavalry commander of Ning Haijun, which is a medical team with more than 200 people.

As two experienced doctors stepped forward to check Zhang Lianer's condition, one of the doctors checked and replied: "Reporting to the commander, her problem is not serious, she is just hungry!"

"Just hungry?"

"Yes, a humble job will not diagnose errors!"

"Okay, great!"

Cheng Shijie hurriedly asked someone to set up a pot. Normally, Ning Haijun's field rations would bring three to four catties of dried meat, fifteen to six catties of fried rice, or compacted flour cakes, and dehydrated steamed buns.

Because dry steamed buns or noodles will not deteriorate in a short period of time, but the taste is very bad. Cheng Shijie is not like ordinary soldiers. The half-month ration he carries weighs more than 30 kilograms, and a small amount of salt, fried rice, and fried noodles are added. In addition to cakes, cakes and steamed buns, there are also some dried fruits, dried milk and tea.

Seeing that Cheng Shijie cared so much about Zhang Lian'er, Mrs. Han took the initiative to stay in front of Cheng Shijie. She asked Zhang Yuan, the son, to watch over his younger sister, while she built a stove for Cheng Shijie and looked for firewood.

Whether it is fried noodles or fried rice, in fact, there is no need for fire, and water can also be eaten with it. Cheng Shijie considered that Zhang Lianer was too young and because he had been hungry for too long, so he cooked a pot of rice porridge in a pot.

When the rice porridge was ready, Mrs. Han fed Zhang Lian'er and drank a bowl. After eating a bowl of rice porridge, Zhang Lian'er wanted to drink another bowl. Cheng Shijie said: "Okay, we can't let her eat more. Otherwise, the stomach will be broken!"

Hearing Cheng Shijie's words, Zhang Lian'er was a little unhappy, her mouth raised, and she didn't even look at Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took out a silver coin of one or two silver and said with a smile: "Lian'er, I will do a magic trick for you!"

Cheng Shijie threw the silver coin into the sky, caught it with both hands, then clenched his fists, stretched it out in front of Zhang Lianer and said, "Guess which hand the silver coin is in, if you guess right, I will reward you with a steamed bun. You guessed wrong, I will reward you with a can!"

Han Shi looked at this scene and wanted to laugh a little. Could this be magic?

Isn't this finding a reason to reward his daughter with canned food?
Han Shi knows about canned food. This kind of canned food can be stored for a year or two without spoiling. Whether it is the fruit or various meats inside, she hurriedly gave her son a wink.

Zhang Lian'er's expression was broken, and she secretly said in her heart: "Although I am young, I am not stupid, okay?"

She pointed to Cheng Shijie's left hand and said, "It's definitely not here! Then it must be in the right hand!"

Cheng Shijie didn't expect that little Zhang Lian'er would be so quick-witted. It is true that Cheng Shijie has no silver coins in his right and left hands. In fact, there are no silver coins in his hands.

Cheng Shijie stretched out his left hand: "You guessed it right!"

Cheng Shijie took out a [-]-gram canned fruit and handed it to Zhang Lian'er.

Zhang Lian'er took the can and bit it with her teeth.

"Stop biting, you'll break your teeth!"

Cheng Shijie opened the can for Zhang Lian'er, and watched Zhang Lian'er eating the can with a look of doting.

The military doctor of Ning Haijun began to check the bodies of these rogues, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. The originally abandoned village, namely Shunhe Village, had turned into a huge refugee camp.

In all fairness, although Ning Haijun did not fire a single shot or arrow in this battle, he forced more than 1 people under He Jiuyi's command to surrender, but in fact, Ning Haijun did not take advantage of it. He is a big eater. Although Ning Haijun claims to have half a month's ration, on average, he can only last for half a month, not full.

Because of these rogues, the dry food carried by the more than [-] of them really couldn't last for a few days.

However, Ning Haijun's discipline was strict, and Cheng Shijie ordered Ning Haijun's officers and soldiers to take out their own dry food to help the bandits. They did not complain and resolutely carried out Cheng Shijie's order.

As more and more Ning Haijun soldiers took out the dry food bags, took out the dried meat from it, pulled out the knife, chopped it up and threw it into the dried meat pot, soon, the water vapor rising from the hundreds of cauldrons Bringing a strong smell of meat, the rogues drool even more, pushing forward uncontrollably, and the scene began to become chaotic.

When the Ning Haijun soldiers saw that the refugees were commotioning again, they were furious. They swung the sticks in their hands until the wind roared and cursed repeatedly, telling them to maintain order.

After getting along for so long, the refugees seem to have figured out the temper of these Ning Haijun soldiers, knowing that they look fierce on the surface, but in fact, as long as you don't run away, attack them, or deliberately cause riots, they will not embarrass you , very well spoken.

All the rogues yelled: "Master Jun, do me a favor, let's share the food!"

"We're all starving!"

"Master Jun, do you want to starve us to death and save some food?"

"That's right, we're going to starve to death!"

"Master Jun, please do me a favor, we kowtow to you!"

Facing the heavily armed Ning Navy cavalry, these rogues did not dare to snatch them, but played the bitter card.

Cheng Shijie got up, looked at the gangsters and said, "Don't be confused, hurry up and line up to get the food! Women, children, old people and sick patients come to the front side, and middle-aged men go to the other side, hurry up..."

As Cheng Shijie's words fell, hundreds of Ning Navy officers and men repeated Cheng Shijie's words in unison.

Regardless of whether these rogues understood or not, these Ning Haijun soldiers began to end with sticks.

"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair, young and strong are at the back!"

"Go back to your team, talk about you!"

"Are you going back?"

"If you don't go back, I'll have someone throw you back!"

With the entry of Ning Haijun soldiers, the current order immediately became better. Cheng Shijie now feeds the rogue captives with Ning Haijun's rations, and the cavalry's dry food bags are full of high-quality food, rice. It is also fragrant and soft rice, and thick noodle soup.

Don't say that these rogues have never eaten these things, even if they are rich landlords, they can only eat good things during the Chinese New Year.

There are also young and strong rogues who want to pretend to be sick with the cheek, but it is not easy for them to hide from the eyes of Ning Navy cavalry officers and soldiers. Once they are discovered, they will be dealt with well.

Until Cheng Shijie announced that he would not be given food if he found that he jumped in line indiscriminately, and calmed down the gang of dishonest guys.

Ning Haijun's soldiers moved quickly, distributing food.Children, old people, women, and sick patients each received a bowl of rice and a spoonful of broth, while the young and old each received a bowl of soup cooked with fried rice, noodles, dried meat, and wild vegetables. These refugees were all very hungry. He was not afraid of the heat, so he raised his head and poured it into his throat, but his whole body was convulsed by the heat. Even so, he couldn't bear to spit it out, but stretched his neck and swallowed it hard.

Seeing their appalling appearance of eating, Cheng Shijie shook his head speechlessly.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhao Wencai and said, "Where is our army?"

"There are still more than 600 miles away from us. According to their speed, I am afraid they will not be able to transport the food!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Send a cavalry back and inform Yuan Shiliang and Meng En that you can ignore the cannons, but the food must be brought up, and refugees can be recruited along the way. There are more people and more strength. For this battle, I can prepare 200 million troops. Don't worry about them consuming stone grains on the road!"

Han shi boldly asked: "Marshal, what do you plan to do with us?"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly, and waved his hand: "All of them will be registered as military households, and let them join the Ning Haijun to farm. Hehe, after this battle is over, our Ning Haijun may add hundreds of thousands of military households!"

Han said solemnly: "We have many people, but this..."

"But what?"

"This will require a lot of food. Do you have so much food to feed us?"

Cheng Shijie smiled, pointed at Qiao Siniang behind Zhao Wencai and said, "You are... Qiao Siniang, right?"

"Marshal, do you still remember the humble job?"

"We are one of the few female generals in the Ning Navy, how could this commander not remember?"

Cheng Shijie said: "Tell her, does this handsome have so much food?"

Qiao Siniang looked at Mrs. Han and said, "How many of you are there?"

"We have 10,000+ people!"

"Haha, let alone 10,000+ people, even if there are millions of people, we still have enough food. At worst, we sell less food and make less wine..."

Qiao Siniang told Han: "Our general has reclaimed 9000 million mu of land in Liaodong, and planted tens of millions of mu of high-yield potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. I dare not say that there are too many. It is not a problem to feed people in several provinces." !"

This is not Qiao Siniang's bragging. Now the main force of the Ning Navy is in Luzon to pay the Luzon natives. It is difficult to kill the millions of Luzon natives by just killing them. Running in the deep mountains and old forests of Luzon, this made Ning Haijun's clearance efficiency drop a lot.

However, in order to implement Cheng Shijie's plan, Liu Qingsong began to think of a bad move, that is, to transport the grain from Luzon, which was originally planned to replace the tax revenue of Liaodong, directly to Tianjin by sea, and then to the capital.

However, because of Cheng Shijie's current needs, Luzon's grain transport ships began to berth at Wusongkou, and then transferred to Jiangnan. In this way, once Luzon's grain decreases, famine will definitely occur. Once there is famine, it can be compared to using a knife. The clearing efficiency of the light cannon is much higher.

Although the way of doing this is a bit tragic, the problem is that Cheng Shijie is willing to do what Ai Gong said, the crime lies in the present, and the merit lies in the future.

Only when the Chinese in Luzon become the absolute majority of the population and the aborigines disappear, can this Luzon, like the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Central Plains, become the territory of Ming Dynasty forever.

After the first meal, the captives began to quiet down, and Han Shi and Qiao Siniang were used by Cheng Shijie to organize the captives.

They are like the military households in the Tuntian in Liaodong. Ten households are one family, and one hundred households are one hundred households. 35 people.

The real reason why Cheng Shijie chose Han Shi to come forward was because she was a woman, and women had a strong affinity, which could save trouble when doing statistical work.

The other thing is that Ning's navy officers and men do these things, which is a big talent for small use, but the Han family does not have this problem.

Zhao Wencai said: "The combat power of the rogues is very poor. We can beat ten of them one by one! Now that their main force is concentrated in Macheng, should we go all out and wipe them out?"

"This commander has never doubted that the fighting power of our Ning navy officers and men is not difficult to defeat them, but the problem is that we have too little food."

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "The terrain here is very unfavorable for our cavalry. Once these rogues run into the Dabie Mountains, we can only watch them escape!"

"The general is in a hurry!"

"Who doesn't want to make contributions?"

Cheng Shijie said: "But there are still opportunities, don't be discouraged!"

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In Macheng, there are boundless waves of people everywhere outside the city. This is the Eight Great Kings, one of the four main forces under Gao Yingxiang's command. The big banner with the big "Zhang" embroidered on each side can clearly explain their identity.

Zhang Xianzhong was a hero who made Emperor Chongzhen want to eat his flesh and drink his blood. In fact, Zhang Xianzhong also made the gentry all over the world itch with hatred.

There is no way, Zhang Xianzhong is too cruel to the gentry. Every time he attacks a place, Zhang Xianzhong will find someone to collect the list of the local gentry in advance, and then arrest them according to the list. The hiding place, in fact, the gentry who fell into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong would have the same fate if they confessed or not, and Zhang Xianzhong would torture and kill them.

If other rogues attacked Macheng, these gentry, officers and soldiers would probably have run away long ago. However, the problem is that what they encountered was Zhang Xianzhong, and they also knew Zhang Xianzhong's character. Surrendering would not end well, so they could only bite the bullet and resist .

Fortunately, the equipment under Zhang Xianzhong's command is not good, and there are not many artillery pieces. It is very difficult to blow down the city wall.

Macheng is located in an area where no one cares, and the folk customs have always been strong. There are many bandits, big and small, so the city walls are relatively strong. After Zhang Xianzhong attacked for more than half a month, Macheng was still not captured.

Zhang Xianzhong was not in a hurry, because his troops came too fast, and it was the season of inactivity, the food in the city would definitely not be too much, and the officers and soldiers in the city could not last long.

It is precisely because there is not much food, even if it is captured, the city will not be able to feed Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of horses. Of course, two-thirds of his tens of thousands of horses were recently kidnapped. There are only more than [-] people in the old camp in Shaanxi.

In order to obtain more food, Zhang Xianzhong asked his adopted sons and grandchildren, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, each to lead a team to look around for food.

What Cheng Shijie met was Sun Kewang's army.

In fact, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi all followed Zhang Xianzhong and did not attack. When He Jiuyi did not report his whereabouts to Sun Kewang for a day, Sun Kewang realized that something was wrong.

Then, Sun Kewang sent his general Feng Shuangli to lead his [-] cavalry to look for He Jiuyi, but they found Ning Haijun's arrival. Seeing that Ning Haijun was armed to the teeth, and the army formation was extremely strict, Feng Shuangli did not dare to fight Ning Haijun and retreated directly. , Report the situation to Sun Kewang.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard that an army cavalry had arrived in Macheng, Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about attacking Macheng. Instead, he surrounded Macheng with thousands of bandits. from the village.

Heshun Village is located in the southeast corner of Macheng, at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, about 90 miles away from Macheng.Since most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops were refugees, the marching speed was not high, and it took three and a half days to reach Heshun Village on a mountain road of more than 90 miles.

Zhang Xianzhong was not surprised by the pursuit of the officers and soldiers. He dug up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family and destroyed the Fengyang Imperial Tomb. If the officers and soldiers did not pursue him, Zhang Xianzhong would feel strange instead.

Tens of thousands of rogues swarmed towards Heshun Village like locusts, and Zhang Xianzhong's elite troops were the first to appear. Among the many rogue armies in the world, Zhang Xianzhong's strength was actually the strongest. Lao Huihui and Li Zicheng included the leader of the rogues. Gao Yingxiang, they couldn't stand enough in front of Zhang Xianzhong.

Gao Yingxiang only has more than [-] cavalry under his command, with varying levels of skill, while Lao Huihui has more than [-] cavalry. The number of cavalry is about the same as that of Zhang Xianzhong. More than half of the rest of the cavalry were Daming frontier soldiers who could not survive.

It can be said that this is Zhang Xianzhong's capital in Hubei, Henan and Anhui.This cavalry is definitely a headache to put on the Great Plains. According to their experience, so many cavalry rush up, no matter how strong the officers and soldiers are, they will be scared to death, and they will collapse after a little rush. .

It is a pity that what they encountered this time was the Ning Navy cavalry. Although the Ning Navy cavalry is weaker than the Jianslave cavalry, they can rely on their superior equipment to kill the Jianslave Day Festival defeat.

In the face of Zhang Xianzhong's amateur cavalry with uneven skills and poor equipment, the Ning Navy's cavalry phalanx stood still.

Sun Kewang pointed to the dark Ning Navy cavalry formation and said: "Father, this is the official cavalry!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the cavalry of the Ning Navy. At this time, the cavalry of the Ning Navy is like a solid wall of iron and steel. No matter how cold the wind blows, the strong enemy will not move at all.

Zhang Xianzhong murmured: "Chongzhen boy, are you finally willing to let this tiger out? Ning Haijun is worthy of being a world-renowned powerful army. There is no army comparable to this military discipline alone!"

Li Dingguo, Zhang Dingguo sneered now: "What's the matter? No matter how strict the military discipline is, can it beat our 10,000+ army?"

At this time, although Zhang Dingguo was brave and resourceful, and made many military exploits, he gained a lot of fame among the rogues in just a few years, and was known as "the enemy of ten thousand people".

But Zhang Dingguo is young and energetic after all, he doesn't take Zhang Xianzhong's words seriously, is it a big deal to be strict in discipline?If you can win battles by relying on strict discipline, what else do you need to train? If you practice discipline every day, you will be fine!
Obviously, the current Zhang Dingguo has not yet realized the importance of discipline to an army. He has to wait until he has suffered a lot before he can realize this, clean up military discipline, and make great achievements in battle.

"Dingguo, don't underestimate the enemy!"

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at this confidant and the second child of his four adopted sons, and said calmly: "However, what Dingguo said is not unreasonable. The impact of the army will surely be defeated. However, Ning Haijun dared to confront our army in the wild, it is still courageous."

Zhao Wencai looked at the more than [-] cavalry in front of the rogue formation. Judging from the appearance of the horses, Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry looked messy, but the problem was that these cavalry were all veterans who had killed people and seen blood. They were not like other cavalry. The army of rogues roared loudly, shouting for beating and killing.Instead, they were silent like the Ning Navy cavalry, waiting for the order to attack.

Zhao Wencai looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Commander, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers are interesting, no wonder they can kill the Ming army!"

"Why, are you afraid?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhao Wencai and said, "You don't even fear the mob like them, do you?"

"The handsome is joking!"

Zhao Wencai said with a faint smile: "The last general is only thinking about the commander in chief. The commander in chief has tens of thousands of rogues. The commander in chief must prepare land for reward!"

"I still have a measly 80 mu of land!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Brothers, don't worry, I have plenty of land. Even if the land is gone in the future, don't worry that I won't reward you. If there is no land, I will take you to grab the land!"

"Willing to die for the commander in chief!"

The six thousand Ning naval cavalry roared so loudly that they soared into the sky.

"Let me trample them to death!"

Zhang Xianzhong roared with a ferocious face.

(End of this chapter)