The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 118
Huang Mingli, Huang Mingdao and a group of officers went to Shanhaiguan to select soldiers and ships the next day. Mao Yuanyi had already reported the losses of the Huang family to the governor Sun, and the final result was to double the replenishment.

For this reason, the Master Supervisor also publicly stated that as long as he dared to attack and build slaves, he would gain two hundred if he lost 100 people, in order to encourage the generals to fight the enemy bravely.

Seven days later, Liaodong Economic Strategy added four straw boats and eight horse boats under Huang Sheng's command. There were gunners, sailors, and gunmen. 110 people.

These sea boats and a hundred soldiers are not Huang's private property and servants, they are battalions recruited by the Ming Dynasty to receive military pay, they are only under the command of Zanhua General Huang Sheng, and Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao are the military attaches of the Ming army. Direct leadership.

These soldiers were all personally arranged by Mao Yuanyi, Huang Mingli and the others went to the water battalion and cavalry battalion to carefully select them.

Mao Yuanyi knew that sailors and gunners could at most protect themselves, and only cavalry and infantry who dared to fight could make meritorious deeds, so he lobbied the battalion leaders to let the Huang family choose good soldiers to be servants.

The reputation of Huangjiashan Island was also well-known in Shanhaiguan. When the soldiers heard that the Huang family was recruiting servants, everyone volunteered.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty tacitly allowed officials to support servants, and adults brought their servants to serve in the army.The imperial court will also pay the family members of the adults with military pay higher than that of the battalion soldiers.

Now that Huang Sheng had money, he became much more courageous. He immediately recruited 24 cavalrymen who were skilled in bows and horses, and [-] infantrymen with outstanding martial arts skills as servants, which happened to be the number of people in the general banner of the Ming army.

Of course, the sixteen cannons on the four straw boats were top-quality products supervised by Sun Yuanhua himself, and they were also four-pound cannons.

Before Huang Mingli and the others came back, Mao Yuanyi also asked them to hurry up to train and practice, and strive to quickly form combat effectiveness.

Recently, the generals in Liaodong have no results in their attacks. Many generals may just pull their troops out to pretend that there are no Jiannu stationed at the destination.

Only Mangui and Zhao led the troops to fight Jiannu fiercely and suffered casualties several times, and gained a small amount of gains.

Huang Mingli made a promise to Mr. Mao that if the Huang family needed to attack again, he would die.

Huang Sheng now has more than one hundred gunners and sailors, exactly one hundred horse archers and heavy infantry pikemen, more than one hundred young musketeers he personally educated and trained, and more than 400 armored coachmen.

With more people, the required expenses have also increased a lot. The annual military salary and benefits need 5000 taels of silver.

Chariots, war horses, the Huang family's meticulously crafted armor, flintlock rifles and armor-piercing sharpshooters, as well as reported damage and consumption during training, the cost is diluted on a four-year cycle, with an average of 3 taels of silver a year.

The investment in armor and weapons was the largest in the first year, and nearly 100 taels of silver were needed to perfectly equip a warrior who could land and fight.

The military salary and military equipment provided by the imperial court add up to only 7000 taels a year, because the Huang family only has one hundred soldiers and one general banner servant, and the imperial court pays [-]% off the military salary.

This is still the preferential treatment of someone above Mr. Huang Sheng.

No wonder the number of Ming army generals does not exceed [-]%!The imperial court's requirement for the battalions is to train every day, and the actual operations of the generals are only practiced every three days.

Originally, I thought that these generals were too bad, but now it seems that it is justifiable.

During training, if the clothes of the soldiers are torn, they cannot be replenished in time, and the generals have to figure out how much they consume. Of course, their solution is to practice more than practice less, and in the end they simply do not practice and let everyone bask in the sun.

Generals would be thankful if they could get half of their military pay, and they still had to feed their confidantes, and finally, with the little money in the hands of ordinary soldiers, it was an extravagant hope to feed their wives and children.

Under such circumstances, who would have the slightest enthusiasm to fight for the country?Everything has a cause and effect. Wen Tian, ​​Wu Xi, military equipment slack led to the subjugation of the country, and everyone became the slaves of the barbarians!
When the supplementary soldiers arrived at Huangjiashan Island, Huang Sheng immediately mixed them up. Now there is an understaffed cavalry general banner, the general banner officer Heihu, 36 people under his command, and a trainee general banner officer Han Kuan.

Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao are already the highest ranking officers of the Huang family and cannot be used as cavalry. They are now the two main commanders of the Huang family's troops.

There are 63 heavy infantry spearmen and 20 coachmen. Ten troop carriers can be equipped immediately to form two general banners that are also understaffed. The two general banner officers are Li Dagang, Cheng Quangong, Han Guang, and Cao Hucheng. flag officer.

This is the entirety of Huang Sheng's Leng Weapon Jiading troops, a total of 110 and nine people. Now if we want to eliminate a slave patrol team of more than 30 people, the Leng Weapon troops alone will be enough.

Huang Sheng removed ten cannons from the warships of the Ming army under his command, and installed them on the private warships that had been rebuilt and reinforced. These four warships were different from the Ming warships.

In this era, the bombardment of warships must be sideways, using the artillery on the left and right sides of the ship to fire.

In addition to the four cannons on the left and right sides of the warship that can be concentrated to one side and fire at the same time through the track designed by Huang Sheng, the warship of the Huang family has one cannon installed at the bow and stern, which can cause damage to enemy ships when advancing and retreating. .

Huang Sheng made the best use of the situation. His small boat was only six four-pound guns in total, but its speed was twice that of the No. [-] Fuchuan, more than [-]% faster than the unimproved warship of the same size.

Huang Sheng was afraid of casualties, so he was going to play Mangkuai with the enemy at sea.

Using head-on attack plus tail cannon bombardment when fleeing, using the stupid method of ants eating elephants, approaching the enemy ship many times to shoot a few shots, the enemy's large ship came across and prepared to fight back decisively out of the enemy's range.

Then change the angle where the enemy can't bombard and continue to harass. If this entanglement continues, the enemy ship will definitely not be able to bear it. Gradually, artillery will be destroyed by myself, and I have a telescope ahead of them to observe.

When they find that almost all of their artillery has been killed, they can take a thunderous blow. Under the cover of carrying guns and flintlock guns, the soldiers can join the enemy ship to play gang battles, and it is very possible to capture the enemy ship.

As early as the end of last year, Huang Sheng taught the women at home how to deal with trauma, how to suture, how to disinfect and bandage, and all the first aid knowledge he knew. Huang Dongshan was the first to learn it. He was in charge of these women. training.

The original purpose of Huang Sheng was that if Huangjiashan Island needed to defend the territory, they could provide medical treatment to the wounded soldiers or their families.

Later, it was discovered that the frozen sea could not freeze Huangjiashan Island and Juehua Island together, and Jiannu would have no chance to attack this place in a few years.

Now those women who are serious about learning have not gotten any chance to practice so far, and they are starting to slack off.

(End of this chapter)