In fact, there is no need for special propaganda, when the news spread that the Qing army had gathered 290,000 troops and was preparing to fight, the people in eastern Hebei immediately became anxious. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

That's a real rush.

This year, they lived like a dream, the farmers who used to eat bran and vegetables and were difficult to find overnight food can now eat big white steamed buns, especially after the emperor swept the north, and even they even ate meat a few times, and the government did not charge harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, including forced labor, and built roads or something not only to manage the full but also to pay a lot of wages, in the slack season, go to those iron mines to cut stones and crush them into powder, find a magnet to suck a horse-drawn cart that goes to the countryside to buy it with money, and then in exchange for money, you can buy cloth and salt, Buy all kinds of farm tools.

It can be said that you don't have to worry about food and clothing.

It was a day that had been dreamed of for generations.

And the reason why there is today, all thanks to the emperor's gift, now the common people of eastern Hebei love the emperor is from the bottom of their hearts, this is the real holy lord Mingjun, those gentry boast of the holy lord Mingjun They don't know what it is, but it will definitely not be as long as they are rented, let alone half of the land tax will not be collected.

Ordinary people are not stupid, they know who is good to them.

What's more, they are not only emotional factors for the emperor, but also more important things, now the people of eastern Hebei are looking forward to getting more immortal seeds day and night, and then like those righteous people, one acre of land can produce thousands of catties, or even thousands of catties of grain.

The highest record for potatoes is 3,000 catties per acre.

Three thousand pounds!

The old peasants all bowed down to it as a sacred object.

But unfortunately, because it must be given priority to the military, all the harvested potatoes were purchased by the emperor and then stored in the warehouses around Ningyuan in accordance with the agreement when the seeds were provided. At the beginning, the emperor exchanged rice with them, and those righteous people actually didn't eat potatoes, Yang Feng had rice, of course, he wouldn't let the first batch of precious seeds be eaten by the righteous people, that is, it was a violent thing, and now the people in eastern Hebei can only go to the yamen in various places if they want to plant, and exchange their surplus grain for it.

The same is true for those hybrid corn seeds.

And the work of changing is just beginning.

Don't think that Yang Feng is a pure good boy, he dares to play the people's war, that is confident enough, just after learning that the Qing army is about to attack, the first thing he did was to suspend the exchange of those immortal seeds on the grounds that Jidong was approaching the war zone, when the battle was over, and when to start again.

So those ordinary people are not in a hurry!

These immortal seeds are more important to them than their lives, and the emperor can guarantee that they can eat enough now, but the immortal seeds can ensure that their children and grandchildren will also have enough to eat.

Therefore, as long as the Qing army fights, their good life will be gone, and their hope for the future will be gone, and then those brocade guards will move again in the people, and the woodblock prints with the emperor's portrait will be pasted on the streets and alleys, and the portrait of the emperor will be pointed forward with his fingers, and the four big characters on his head I need you! The common people don't know what they should do, this is a very fair exchange, the emperor gave them everything they have now, and the emperor can give their children and grandchildren the same everything, so when the emperor needs them, they will have to give their lives in return. Immediately after that, countless young and middle-aged people flocked to the county offices in various places, where they received all kinds of weapons, and the weapons that the army had seized in more than a year were innumerable, such as swords and spears, and there were a lot of inferior birds, and if they were not enough, Shanhaiguan would continue to make them.

At this time, the river thawed, and all the hydraulic hammers were activated, and a few strokes of a wrought iron hammer were a spearhead, and an ash pole was a spear.

It's just a trifle.

Countless volunteer detachments rose from the ground.

As for officers, it's simpler.

Such a cold-weapon army does not need professional cadets, those bandits under Li Zicheng can run rampant in the world, and who doesn't understand how to cut people with knives!

Besides, this is not the long-standing South.

Yongpingwei, Kaipingwei, Funingwei, Lu Longwei, etc., there are a bunch of guards here, it can be said that they are a mixture of military and civilian, even if the guards have long lost their meaning, then this is still the hardest hit area of the previous Qing invasions, there are countless veterans who have fought in the people here, they used to be errands to eat food, but now they are really fighting to defend their interests, just pick them, they can lead these volunteers to fight, anyway, they are not required to fight with the Qing army in the field, their main task is to defend the city, Then replace the main force of the Ming army and prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army.

It's a simple job.

The righteous people, including Liaoxi, were also armed.

These people are more loyal to the emperor, and they are different from the people of eastern Hebei, as long as they hold the barrier of eastern Hebei, then the homeland outside the Shanhai Pass will not be destroyed, so their will is firmer, so these people are integrated and supplemented into the Ming army, relying on their belief and will to defend their homeland for the decisive battle in the field.

Even only one battalion was dressed as a Swinger, and the other second Swinging Brigade that was still training with old-fashioned bird guns was transferred to Jidong by Yang Feng, and these people cooperated with the volunteers who were also composed of their relatives to play the Spanish Grand Phalanx. Two musketeers with two infantry posts, with six hundred volunteers armed with large spears, were enough for one Spanish column, and the 2nd Brigade of the Dangkou had sixteen infantry posts, which could form eight Spanish columns, which was enough for one legion.

If nothing else is said about this thing, at least there is no pressure to fight those green battalions and Mongolian cavalry.

In fact, after understanding the essence of this set of tactics, even Wu Sangui immediately realized that as long as the soldiers were tenacious enough, then the cavalry would cry in front of this kind of phalanx, maybe it was not easy to say against the heavy infantry of the Eight Banners shield car, but the Mongolian light cavalry could almost be said to be defeated by it. At this time, the Ming army was not lacking in tenacious will, so the Spanish phalanx was also popularized in the main force of the Ming army, although the guns were sharpened in battle, but fortunately, this tactic was not so complicated, those veterans of the Guanning Army who could have been said to have been in a hundred battles, and they could play decently with a little training.

As for the performance on the battlefield, then we will see when the time comes.

And in addition to this there were grenadiers.

The black powder grenade is also a good thing, and the Spanish phalanx really doesn't dare to suppress the Eight Banners heavy infantry, after all, the shield cart is still very effective in resisting bird guns, but if the Spanish phalanx is equipped with grenadiers, it will be different. However, the limit of this thing is the output, even if Yang Feng asked Xiaoqian to send dozens of tons of potassium nitrate, and Zheng Zhilong mined a large number of sulfur mines in Taiwan, the output of gunpowder has increased significantly, but the cast iron shell casting of the grenade is still stuck in the neck.

This thing can require skilled workers.

Of course, it is no problem to match Wu Sangui's 70,000 army with 3,000 pieces, although the number is not much, but it is still no problem to blow up the Qing army's shield car array with flowering bombs.

In short, that's all Yang Feng can do.

As for the final result......

There is nothing to care about, in fact, his eastern Hebei defense, the main goal is not to really hold eastern Hebei, all he needs is Wu Sangui before he gets the news and rushes back from the front line in Liaodong, don't lose the west of Jieshi Mountain, and the ship that sent the letter departed from Shanhaiguan, crossed the sea to Gaizhou, and sent the news to him on the front line, and then he returned to Gaizhou and returned to Shanhaiguan by boat, which was at most five or six days, that is to say, all he needed was that Wu Sangui could hold five or six days.

As long as he comes back, then he won't lose.

It's a big deal to play the Great Summoning Technique in front of the battle!

After arranging these, Yang Feng hurriedly returned to Gaizhou.

The day after he arrived in Gaizhou, Huang Fei's Denglai sailor arrived.

Lao Huang as the governor of the forbidden army's naval division, but has been playing the role of the transport captain, he is also eager to perform, even Dengzhou's nest does not care, leaving 5,000 old and weak guards Dengzhou, he took 20,000 sailors on hundreds of large and small warships, and drove to Gaizhou with an extremely spectacular scene, and Zhang Mingzhen, who was anchored on Lianyun Island, was ready to go north to Liangfangkou at any time.

"You're North Korean?"

Yang Feng looked at a general kneeling in front of him and said.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes."

The latter said cautiously.

This is Lin Qingye, a general in the North Korean army, belonging to the hardcore pro-Ming faction, North Korea had to submit to the Qing Dynasty and assist in the war against the Ming Dynasty as a vassal, he secretly sent intelligence to the Ming army many times, and connived at his subordinates to shoot at the sky, and fled to Liaodong Island after being informed, and the Ming army Shicheng Island general soldier Ma Denghong partnered, originally in history, the two first surrendered to the Qing and then ran south, but they were not sober and ran to Liu Zeqing, Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and they were captured by the Qing army and executed, and now they are both under Huang Fei's hands.

"I remember that there is also a North Korean under Pingxi Hou, right?"

Yang Feng asked Liang Cheng.

"Yes, a man named Cui Xiaoyi, because he didn't want to return to Jiannu, he moved his family to return, and during the battle of eastern Hebei, he was promoted to garrison with his military exploits."

Liang Cheng said.

"Very good, you are all loyal to me, follow me well, I will let you return with glory, you are a general soldier in North Korea, I will reward you with a deputy general, Ma Denghong is the chief soldier, you are his deputy general, I will set up the fourth town of the Forbidden Army Water Division separately and be commanded by the two of you, you will be responsible for the operation of the Yalu River Estuary in the future, just like Mao Wenlong back then, you will decide how to fight yourself, in short, just take the head of the Tartar for credit! Save 10,000 Tartar heads, and I'll reward you with a baron! ”

Yang Feng said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Lin Qingye said excitedly.

The emperor didn't say what kind of Tartar it was, this was to encourage them to slaughter the village at the mouth of the Yalu River, and now all the Qing army can fight is in the west of the Liaodong Peninsula, and almost all of the east are old, weak, sick and disabled who can't crawl, and it is very easy to slaughter.

Yang Feng looked at him with a deep smile on his face.