There is no shame in being a soft persimmon

Chapter 046

"Congratulations, lord, your military morale is ready!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance and said, "How did you go about the things I told you?"

"I'm about to tell my lord that five thousand sets of military uniforms have been made!"

Song Xiance likes his current job very much, because almost all the women in the military uniform factory are women, and there are very few women in Zuoqianhu Factory, and all of them are sallow and skinny, like bean sprouts.

However, as a large amount of grain was purchased and distributed as wages, these women were able to eat well, became nutritious, and became rosy. In the past, it seemed that there were no good-looking women in the entire Qianhu household. Now it seems that no matter whether they are

The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law look quite upright.

Cheng Shijie said: "The military uniform factory cannot stop. We are going to purchase cotton immediately and rush to make cotton clothes. It is already September and it is already unbearably cold at night."

Song Xiance breathed a sigh of relief. Those female workers in the quilt factory who had tasted the benefits were unwilling to go back to the past. With the completion of the production task of 5,000 sets of military uniforms, these women often came to Song Xiance to intercede.

Song Xiance, who was originally short in stature and ugly in appearance, has now become a hot commodity. Song Xiance, who has not touched a woman for more than 30 years, and a widow.

This can be regarded as an old house on fire, and it is out of control.

Song Xiance not only had an extra daughter-in-law, but also two children.

"There is one more important thing that needs to be reported to the lord!"

"What!"

"We're almost out of money!"

Song Xiance smiled bitterly and said: "Steel factories, iron ore factories, carriage factories, clothing factories, textile factories, as well as building barracks, building houses, gun bureaus, and armored crossbow bureaus, money is needed everywhere. We bought more last month.

Forty-six thousand shi of grain... In order to increase production capacity, our manpower is no longer enough, and we have begun to recruit refugees. Now Ninghai City has exceeded 20,000 people..."

"What did you say?"

Cheng Shijie frowned: "There are more than 20,000 people in Ninghai City, and there are more than 4,000 people here. You have recruited four to five thousand refugees in less than a month?"

“The main need is population!”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Speak directly, how much money is left?"

Song Xiance said: "There are less than four thousand taels of silver!"

"That's it, I'll give you three more crystal carriages!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "There are too many things like this in Dengzhou, and they need to be sent to the capital or Nanjing for sale."

"Save it for me!"

Originally he wanted to train the troops for a few more days, but due to money problems, he could not wait to attack Zhensan Mountain. If he continued like this, he would go bankrupt.

Although Cheng Shijie said that Ning Haijun was short of food and equipment, this was actually wrong. What he lacked was only sophisticated equipment, not ordinary equipment.

In fact, Cheng Shijie's family background is quite rich now. His equipment comes from three sources. One of them is when Jin Yousheng was in charge of Cheng Shijie and Qin Wu defeated his entire army and gave him a batch of equipment. The second one is from the period when Qin Wu's troops were wiped out.

The seizure, and finally the equipment obtained by selling the credit to Jin Yousheng.

When annihilating the powerful bandit Qin Wu's headquarters, he seized more than 4,000 pieces of all kinds of messy equipment. If the troops were armed according to Qin Wu's method, these equipment could arm more than 5,000 people.

In addition to the fifty pairs of iron armor, 600 spears, 200 waist knives, and six bowl-mouth blunderbuss that Jin Yousheng sent before the war, the number of spears and spears that were later captured was more than 1,300. Only the soldiers were included.

, Cheng Shijie owns more than 1,900.

As for waist knives, he has 200 fine steel Tang Heng knives purchased from later generations, 200 knives sent by the guards, more than 600 knives captured, and he also has more than 1,000 knives.

In addition, three artillery pieces and more than 60 muskets were captured.

When trading military merits, Cheng Shijie exchanged 120 fire blunderbuss and 5,000 kilograms of gunpowder. Adding the previous 1,000 kilograms, he had a total of more than 6,000 kilograms of gunpowder. He had three types of fire blunderbuss in total, one hundred and eighty-seven.

branch.

There are one hundred war horses, a total of more than 2,500 spears, a total of 289 pairs of iron armor, and a total of 133 pairs of leather armor. Some of them are in tatters and have not had time to be repaired.

Cheng Shijie's Ning Navy only had about 2,500 soldiers on the surface, but he actually owned a gun bureau with more than 300 people in total. These were gun soldiers and craftsmen plundered from Zuo Qianhu and other Qianhu.

composition.

Not only did Cheng Shijie look like a gun, thousands of other households also regarded the gun as a scourge. It was not that the Ming Dynasty had no skills, but the people responsible for managing the Ministry of War were civil servants. In order to make money, the civil servants did everything they could to make gun barrels.

The high-quality steel products were sold, and the craftsmen had no choice but to make a meal without straw.

Therefore, these craftsmen took advantage of Cheng Shijie. As for the Armored Crossbow Bureau, there were not many craftsmen, because excellent crossbow craftsmen were treasures in the hands of any Qianhu household. These craftsmen were based on Zuo Qianhu, with a total of eighty-seven.

Craftsmen, in order to increase production capacity, Cheng Shijie sent them more than a hundred young apprentices aged fifteen or sixteen.

As a mobile force, Cheng Shijie formed another baggage transport force based on two hundred young men. These soldiers were only equipped with waist knives transported from Dengzhou Guard. The quality of these waist knives was not as good as those captured from Qin Wu.

Well. However, the only change is that these transportation vehicles take the form of four-wheeled carriages.

The baggage transport troops had not yet had time to form an army. First of all, they lacked carriages. Although Cheng Shijie could bring high-quality bearings from later generations, the problem was that the axles were too heavy, and they could only be forged by hand in this era.

As the 5,000 sets of military uniforms were distributed, Ning Haijun's appearance changed dramatically. Ning Haijun's military uniform was completely different from the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty Guards. It can be said that this military uniform does not even look like a military uniform, but more like a certain person's uniform.

A servant of a wealthy family.

Wearing a black shirt, black pants, black shoes, and wearing a black scarf, you will look like a killer in later movies and TV shows.

In fact, the style of clothing is not very important. No matter what kind of clothing it is, once it forms a scale, it will be quite shocking. Two thousand five hundred people, divided into a square formation of fifty times fifty. This is because of the basic organization of Ning Haijun

, each team has twelve people, four teams form one sentry, plus the deputy sentry commander, there are exactly fifty people.

The Ning Navy has a total of fifty combat sentries.

"Meet the general!"

Cheng Shijie said loudly: "Fellow soldiers, do you still remember what a soldier is?"

"Protect our home and country, and protect our hometown!"

"Very good, very correct!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "There are many veterans among you. These veterans have their own fields. This general will not distribute these lands to everyone on a per capita basis. Do you want to know the reason? Because if they are divided evenly, some people will face

The enemy will wet his pants, run away, be timid, surrender, or even... think about dealing with obstacles. It is unfair for real warriors to distribute these fields evenly. Therefore, military fields are only awarded to real warriors.

Warriors, during the Han Dynasty, a Han soldier, armed with a Huanshou sword and a big yellow crossbow, traveled thousands of miles and fought for thousands of miles. One Han could defeat five barbarians. In other words, without five or more times the strength, the barbarians could face each other.

They have no courage against the Han army. The same goes for the Tang army. In the Tang Dynasty, if you wanted to be a soldier, they would be given 180 acres of land!"

"so much?"

"Is it much?"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "In my opinion, it's really not much. If you have the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army in the future, I will reward you with three hundred acres, five hundred acres, or even one thousand acres of land!"

"Report!"

"speak!"

"The general is bragging!"

"Ha ha……"

Cheng Shijie said solemnly: "I am really not bragging. The Tang Army only has 627 prefectures, while our Ming Dynasty has 547 guard posts. However, the Tang Army can have up to 1,200 people in one Zhechong Prefecture.

The total strength of the army was only about 600,000, but the Tang army fought westward from Chang'an to the shores of the Caspian Sea. You may not know where the Caspian Sea is, but I can tell you that the Caspian Sea is 14,000 miles west of Chang'an. They fought eastward.

They reached North Korea, went south to Annan, and went north to Hanhai. Don’t they deserve to have a thousand acres of land?”

"qualified!"

"Do you want the land?"

"think!"

"It's actually very simple to want land. Cut off an enemy's head and come back, and I will give you ten acres of land!"

"Report!"

"speak!"

"If you chop off ten enemy heads, can you give them one hundred acres?"

"That's right!"

"Report!"

"If I chop off a hundred heads, will I be given a thousand acres of land?"

"Go away, general, don't talk nonsense!"

All the soldiers burst into laughter.

Cheng Shijie said: "Distribute the equipment and get ready to go!"

"yes!"

Any army builds its absolute self-confidence through victory. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, a young novice monk in Huangjue Temple, never thought that one day he would be able to sit on the throne, speak of the Constitution of Heaven, and govern all directions. Because at first he was just

A nine-captain, as he won victory after victory and expanded his army again and again, after eight years of fighting in the north and south, he finally had 100,000 troops and 200,000 troops.

It took sixteen years from the time when the Ming Dynasty was established in the first year of Hongwu (1368), to defect to Guo Zixing in the twelfth year of Zhizheng (1352), and when Zhu Chongba changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, Cheng Shijie deliberately did not train Ning Haijun in the tactical skills, but only basic training. He knew basic military training. Although he was not a soldier, the problem was that Hansteel Group itself was a large military-supporting unit, and more than one-third of all employees were veterans.

Soldiers, and the rank of the Minister of Arms of Hansteel Group is higher than the deputy director of the office of this agency. He is an active-duty lieutenant colonel, equivalent to the deputy regiment level.

Hansteel Group conducts half-month rotation training for all employees every year. It is a full off-the-job training, and it only trains basic movements such as the three major steps of the queue, the four-way turn, squatting and standing up.

Not to mention that Cheng Shijie was not a soldier, even if he was a real soldier, it would still not work to copy the military training regulations of later generations, because the combat objects are different, the combat objectives are different, the weapons and equipment are different, and the training and organization methods are different.

Need to explore.

In the first battle of Ning Haijun, the opponent was a very weak one. Although Zhen No. 3 was nicknamed Zhen Sanshan, in fact, the number of bandits was very small, only more than a hundred.

Even if there were not more than 2,500 Ning Haijun and only Cheng Shijie's 500 servants, he would still be confident enough to kill Zhen Sanshan.

There is actually no shame in picking up soft persimmons and pinching them. Some pinching is good. At least when you don't have enough strength, this is the safest way.
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