Chapter 674: Cannon Reaches the Japanese Kingdom
Sure enough, Yang Chendong nodded. As he thought, Yela bet heavily and wanted to pull the Jurchens into his chariot, all of which was not unexpected by him, after all, the Jurchens really became stronger, or more than a hundred years later, at this time, they could be bullied casually by the Ming and Mongolians, and the Warats, which was equivalent to forcing them not to become strong, but their strength in later generations was somewhat unexpected.
After a little hesitation in his heart, Yang Chendong agreed in one bite. At this time, he wanted to build a skill in the steppe where the heroes were competing for deer, and he also needed a large number of elite cavalry, and the combination with the Jurchens was beneficial to both sides, and he had no reason to refuse.
"Okay, Young Master Ben agreed." Yang Chendong did not use his national government to speak this time, which means that he really accepted Yela's proposal in his heart.
"Thank you, Sixth Young Master." Yela raised his head excitedly, although he believed that no one should refuse his proposal before he came, but when Yang Chendong agreed, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Two hours later, Yela left, leaving the camp with only a dozen of his own soldiers, accompanied by a large amount of silver taels on horseback. According to the agreement between him and Yang Chendong, they only have ten days at most to recruit troops, after all, after a long time, the disappearance of 10,000 Northern Ming troops cannot be hidden, and if they don't leave at that time, they may be entangled.
Yang Chendong's target was not the Beiming Military Guard Station in the Nuer Gandusi area, he would not waste too much time and energy here. Shortly after Yela left, Yang Chendong issued two orders. First, the reconnaissance battalion was released to control the surrounding twenty miles, and once it was discovered that the scouts of the Northern Ming army appeared, they would stay whether they were captured or killed, creating a vacuum in this area, and giving Yela ten days to buy.
Second, the cavalry strengthened the 2nd Regiment of Lu Zhuo, as the vanguard army, crossed the Liao River first, and entered the eastern Tatar region along the Ulugu River, to find out the situation there and at the same time find a foothold suitable for the army, and make preparations for the advance of the army in all aspects.
The reason why the cavalry was chosen to strengthen the second regiment was mainly because the proportion of Mongolian cavalry in this army was relatively high, and the commander of the third battalion, Temur, was the vanguard of the vanguard, so that if something happened, he would be able to have more room for maneuver.
The second reinforced cavalry regiment and the reconnaissance battalion were sent out one after another, and while waiting for news from Yela, the army was also digesting the results of the previous battle. There are more than 6,000 captives, and how to arrange them has become a matter that must be solved at the moment.
If it was before, it would naturally be arranged to send them all to Chiji City and hand them over to the city lord of Yin Qian to deal with. But now where they are standing, how difficult it is to send these more than 6,000 people to the sea. In the middle, you have to pass through a lot of Beiming Guards, and it is basically impossible to be unaware.
"Choose the warriors to join the army, and the other unqualified people will arrange for them to go to the logistics to catch the carriage." Yang Chendong shook his head with a headache, and looked at Wu Sheng, the commander of the Third Division, and Chen Bo, the political commissar.
The strength of the Northern Ming Army is uneven, and it is impossible to absorb all of them into the army, otherwise, once the battle starts, they will be affected by the morale of the enemy army, and they will flee or even defect to the scene, and they will suffer the loss.
"Sixth Young Master, will the selected qualified soldiers give them horses?" Chen Bo asked for instructions. Although a lot of horses were captured in this battle, if each person apportioned one, I am afraid that it would still be a little insufficient.
"No, they used to be cavalry, and they were arranged according to their ability, and if they were not cavalry, they should be arranged to be infantry. In this way, after forming ten infantry battalions, it is necessary to hand them over to the independent regiment of Humang. Yang Chendong shook his head, resources must be used reasonably, it is not the cavalry that gives them war horses, they can't give full play to their due strength, what he wants is elite soldiers, not quantity.
"Understood." Wu Sheng and Chen Bo nodded and went down to make arrangements. Yang Chendong, who was left, looked at the complacent Hu Mang on the side, and coughed lightly, "Go back and disrupt the auxiliary barracks, and let them be the backbone to lead the newly joined Northern Ming Army, hoping to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." ”
"Yes, don't worry, young master, I'll arrange it right away." Hu Mang nodded solemnly, the burden on his body was heavy, and naturally the responsibility was heavier. This is the young master training himself, he must, and he must take advantage of this to perform well.
The military camp was busy, the Beiming prisoners were all disrupted, began to participate in all kinds of assessments, and finally under the leadership of Hu Mang, Wu Sheng and Chen Bo, a total of more than 1,200 cavalry and 4,000 infantry were absorbed, and the remaining more than 1,000 people were transferred to the logistics department responsible for cooking because of physical fitness.
There are more than 600 cavalry people, all of whom have joined the cavalry reinforcement regiment led by Chasing Wind, which is still three battalions, but each battalion has jurisdiction over ten companies, and it has completely become a reinforced battalion. The 4,000 infantry men were disorganized into ten battalions and joined the independent regiment led by Hu Mang. The regiment also reached the treatment of a division, with a total of 16 battalions and 6,400 men.
The logistics battalion, battalion commander Yang Er, and the allocation of ten companies, a total of more than 1,000 people, can be regarded as Yang Er's general addiction in advance.
The Northern Ming prisoners were diverted and entered the run-in period. At this time, nine days had passed since Yela's departure, and in the afternoon of that day, a cavalry team of more than 2,000 people appeared outside the base camp, and it was Yela who had not left long ago to defend it.
He had long known from the mouth of the reconnaissance battalion that Ye La had returned, and Yang Chendong personally went out to greet him, and what he saw was a team that came from afar, but it did carry a strong murderous aura.
"Sure enough, they are worthy of the Jurchen cavalry, just by looking at this frame, you can see that their strength is not bad." Yang Chendong said with a sigh.
Ye La came back, took the silver taels given by Yang Chendong as a settlement fee, and brought a full two thousand five hundred horses. These people were eventually divided into Yela commands, and together with the five hundred cavalry that had been captured before, a total of about 3,000 cavalry, the Jurchen cavalry regiment was formed.
In this way, Yang Chendong now has more than 20,000 soldiers, except for about 5,000 infantry, all the others are cavalry, and his strength has nearly doubled compared to before. It gave him more confidence to enter the Tatar and Warat regions.
The good news is not only that, nine days, day and night to build the iron suit, under the auspices of Wu Huo, with hundreds of blacksmiths have created more than ten horses of the iron suit, when the white dragon horse is covered by the iron coat, it is extremely majestic.
"Tell Wu Huo that they can rest in the carriage when the army is in a hurry, wait for the army to stop, fire in the furnace and continue to forge, and strive to put the horses of the first and second guards in iron clothes as soon as possible." Looking at the iron clothes shining with black light under the seat, Yang Chendong said heroically, "Order, the army will rest for a day today and march towards the Ulugu River tomorrow!" ”
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Above the sea, the deep blue is endless, and it always gives people a sense of mystery and horror.
An extremely ordinary transport ship was heading in the direction of Japan under the escort of more than a dozen warships. On the deck of the transport ship, a large tarpaulin towers over. It was guarded by hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.
No one knows what a powerful weapon lies beneath this tarpaulin. This is the most advanced artillery that Japan purchased for 10 million taels - the Type 59-1 130mm cannon with anti-deflagration shells (range 30 km) through Princess Junko Ohara contacted the Ming Dynasty.
The agreement was reached a long time ago, but it was not traded until a year later, not because Japan's backyard emperor Hikohito had any concerns, but because he had limited money in his hands. However, this incident could not be discovered by the great shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and it took a full year to collect all the silver taels without being able to openly raise money from everywhere, or even without using the national treasury, and this was still the result of Emperor Hikohito secretly selling two imperial properties.
The silver was finally enough, and then he arranged for his henchman Hirai and the former princess Junko's chief of the bodyguard, Kobayashi, to come to the sea to trade with the mercenaries. Fortunately, the transaction went smoothly, but when they saw the Type 59-1 gun on the transport ship, both Minister Hirai and Kobayashi were really shocked by the height of the artillery. exuded a cold aura, like a steel work of art, which made the two of them amazed.
After paying the money, Hirai and Kobayashi suppressed the excitement and excitement in their hearts, and escorted the transport ship towards Japan.
The wind is blowing...
A storm is coming...
Unsuppressible.
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Tide Sea! Lake Bell! Ulu Bone River! Saihan Mountain!
Tatar, Warat, Mongolia. The vast area that belongs to them seems to be the sea in addition to the mountains, and the vast grasslands in addition to the sea.
The capital, called Lingji Spring in the Ming Dynasty, is a large town in the eastern region of Tatar. At this time, four hundred miles east of the capital, Yang Chendong led the main army along the bank of the Ulugu River to join the cavalry reinforcement regiment of Lu Zhuo's division as the vanguard army.
The so-called Tatars or Tatars are a general term for the different nomadic peoples who appeared in the Eurasian steppes in different regions and eras, and are not a specific ethnic group or group.
In East Asia, it was first seen in the Tang Dynasty Turkic inscriptions and some Chinese records, and there were successively translations of "Datan, Tatar, Tatan, Tatar, Tata, Dada", and the scope of their designation varies with different eras, and the Liaojin period refers to the Tatar department in the east of the Mongolian Plateau; The Ming dynasty refers only to the Tatar regime established in the eastern part of the Mongolian plateau; In Europe, it was first used to refer to the Bolgars, and later became the collective name of the Turkic-speaking ethnic groups in Russia for the countries of Eurasia.
Tatar is also the name given to Mongolia by outsiders; The name Tatar is derived from the nine surnames Tatar of the Mongolian steppe.