Chapter 234: Jingjiang River
belongs to Changzhou Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. Because it is located on the Yangtze River waterway, its geographical location is very important.
Wang Xijue said: "The Japanese pirates did not specifically send troops to attack Jingjiang County. Currently, there is a small Japanese pirate force on the island, with about a hundred people." "Jingjiang County has not been
conquered by the Japanese pirates, and our ships are all parked in the isolated island." The Japanese pirates have not yet discovered the fishermen's wharf behind the mountain."
Wang Xijue looked at Su Ze nervously. Looking at the entire Yangtze River Basin, only Su Ze could lend a helping hand.
"Lin Deyang!"
"My subordinates are here!"
"Blow the drum to gather the troops!"
"That's your order!"
Lin Deyang walked out of the tent and beat the big drum in the center of the military camp.
When the soldiers heard the drums, they immediately put down what they were doing and rushed to the barracks to start packing.
This was an action that had been practiced countless times. When the drumming stopped, the soldiers in the entire camp had already brought their equipment and luggage and stood in the square.
Xu Shixing, Wang Xijue and Xu Guo looked at Su Ze in surprise. It only took a moment for the drums to sound and the soldiers had already been assembled. What kind of elite soldiers were these?
Su Ze had also put on his cotton armor. Lin Deyang stood behind him holding a blunderbuss. The soldiers lined up neatly and looked at Su Ze.
"Board on board!"
Su Ze turned to Wang Xijue and said,
"Brother Wang, please come with me on board the ship."
Wang Xijue was stunned for a moment, then thought of the ships of silk at home trapped in Jingjiang, gritted his teeth and followed Su Ze. Walk towards the pier on the Huangpu River.
When Su Ze led the team to leave, Xu Shixing and Xu Guo seemed to have had a dream.
Li Zhi came over and said to the three of them: "This is how the regimental training envoys work resolutely. You can rest in the military camp now." The two thought for a while and
realized that it was safest to stay in the camp because of the chaos outside.
Xu Shixing cupped his hands and said, "Sorry to bother you."
The Yong boat sailed out of the dock. Although Wang Xijue was from a water town, he had never been on a boat on the river. The rocking hull almost made him vomit out his guts.
Looking at Su Ze, everyone on the ship was performing their duties. The soldiers in the cabin were also sitting cross-legged on the ground, checking their equipment.
Su Ze was sitting on the bow of the ship, looking at the waterway map and the map of Jingjiang, thinking about how to fight.
As the first battle of the Anti-Japanese Anti-Smuggling Corps, it was natural to make a name for itself. It was not difficult to defeat the Japanese pirates on the island, but the difficulty was how to bring the Wang family's ship back.
Su Ze was studying the battle plan, while Xu Shixing and Xu Guo in the camp were observing Su Ze's camp.
"Brother Xu, I didn't expect that Su Rulin is a versatile man in both civil and military affairs. This Anti-Japanese General Regiment is an elite force."
Xu Guo also said in admiration: "There are such people in the world!"
The soldiers who stayed in the camp were doing their own thing. He was on duty and did not relax because the large troops went out to fight.
Although it is just a new military camp, the layout of the camp is very reasonable, and the barracks are neat and orderly.
Accompanying Xu Shixing and others was an underage recruit. This time Su Ze took only 150 soldiers with him, and the remaining soldiers were left in the military camp.
"What is this place?"
"This is the canteen."
Xu Shixing asked: "How many meals a day?"
"Three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The regimental training envoy said that it is natural for soldiers to eat food. If you don't have enough to eat, how can you have food? Strength training."
"Can I go in and have a look?"
The accompanying recruit was stunned for a moment, but nodded and accompanied the two of them into the cafeteria.
Although it was said to be a canteen, it was actually just a shed with two rows of long tables. It was not yet time to eat, so the stools were buckled on the tables and the floor was swept clean.
Xu Shixing looked around and saw no other dining areas. He asked, "Does the regiment training envoy Su also dine here?" The
recruit nodded and said, "Of course, the regiment training envoy dines with us every day. What do we eat? You can eat whatever you want."
Xu Shixing said with emotion: "Su Rulin is rigorous in running the army, and he deserves to be the queen of the generals." "
How is the food?"
"The standard set by the regiment training envoy is to give two taels of meat every two days, a full daily staple food, and vegetables. We planted them in wasteland near the camp, and the regiment training envoy also bought chickens and ducks, which have not grown up yet."
Xu Shixing and Xu Guo looked at each other, good guy, this food is already as good as the meals of a wealthy family in Suzhou Prefecture, just this alone Everyday food and drink cost a lot of money.
"Ru Lin's training is really good!"
Xu Shixing sighed again. He followed the recruits to visit the school grounds, armory and granary. Naturally, he was filled with admiration all the way.
Li Zhi arranged the two of them in the officer's barracks. After the recruits sent them to the barracks, he said:
"Two gentlemen, we will play the drum three times during dinner. Gentlemen, just go to the cafeteria."
Opening the door of the barracks, the two men I was surprised by the neat environment in the barracks.
There are neat quilts on the wooden bed. The officer's barracks are for four people to a room, and all personal belongings are neatly placed on the table.
Xu Guoben's barracks in the military camp had always been dirty and messy, but he didn't expect that this room was cleaner than his own.
"Su Rulin is very strict in military management. I am convinced."
Xu Shixing also said: "With such strong soldiers, Brother Wang's ship should be safe."
But the two fell silent again.
With such an anti-Japanese and anti-smuggling group at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it will probably be even more difficult for large households in Suzhou Prefecture to evade banknote tariffs in the future.
When the Japanese pirates leave, this elite force may become a nightmare for Suzhou's wealthy families.
Now the westerly wind blowing on the Yangtze River happened to blow the Yong boat towards Jingjiang. After it was getting late, Su Ze and his party had already seen the lonely mountain on Jingjiang Island.
"Watch the flag and follow my ship to the shore." While the sky was still bright, Lin Deyang waved colorful flags at the four Yong boats behind him. The flag bearers on the boats behind him also replied to the message. The five boats found a natural harbor to dock. passed.
The elite gunners headed by Lin Deyang began to sit in the cabin to inspect the gun. They cleaned the gunpowder chamber, wiped the barrel clean with a purge, and finally loaded the gunpowder and lead shot before jumping off the Yong ship.
"Formation!"
The sky was getting dark, but Su Ze gave the order, and the soldiers quickly gathered around him. The regiment training soldiers without muskets, armed with various weapons, formed a mandarin duck formation.
Although Wang Xijue had never seen such a formation, seeing the order of Su Ze's command and the neat appearance of the troops, he knew that they were elites, and he had a little more hope for the success of this trip.
Because it was getting late, Su Ze did not risk a night march. Instead, he set up camp and sent out scouts to patrol the night.
Su Ze's [Art of War] skills and experience continued to increase, and as he became more and more proficient in giving orders, the entire camp began to operate in an orderly manner.
Sure enough, we still need to practice. Su Ze lamented that leading troops to fight cannot be done on paper. Only by leading troops personally can we know that we will encounter so many troubles.
Su Ze's [Art of War] skill has reached Level 5, and he personally trained this army, but there were still big and small accidents on the road.
Su Ze's basic skills like setting up camp and dispatching scouts were not as smooth as Lin Mojun's. Thinking about it, how high is Lin Mojun's [Art of War] skills? Level 10?
What about Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang who can command thousands of people? Level 15?
Just leading such a hundred people gave Su Ze a headache. So what kind of pervert is Bai Qi and Han Xin who can command hundreds of thousands of troops?
However, compared to the Japanese pirates who make a living by robbing, Su Ze's troops are already the elite among the elite.
In fact, it was indeed the case. Su Ze felt that he was inferior because he had seen Lin Mojun training for a long time, so he had an inferiority complex.
In fact, his opponents were even worse. Those who fled to Jingjiang Island were not even the elite Japanese pirates, but just some small Japanese pirate groups who followed Xu Hai's landing and wanted to take the opportunity to rob some.
The more than 100 Japanese pirates on Jingjiang Island were even divided into more than a dozen small groups and scattered around Jingjiang Island to rob.
Early the next morning, the scouts sent by Su Ze discovered a group of twenty Japanese pirates. Su Ze decisively attacked and commanded the soldiers to rush forward.
A goes up and the enemy collapses.
The result of the battle was mediocre. Two real Japanese warriors rushed up with Japanese swords, and were grabbed by the wolf-handed hands of the Yuanyang Formation. The swordsman immediately went up to touch up the sword. Although the new recruits in the regiment were nervous, they stood in front of Pao Ze, who practiced together day and night. , they calmed down quickly.
Everyone has memorized their own fighting steps. Isn't this just like working in a textile workshop?
Two real Japanese pirates rushed up to deliver them, and the remaining Japanese pirates fired a few arrows that were blocked by the shields of the vine armor soldiers. When the Japanese pirate team felt the "point pricking their hands," Su Ze arranged for the soldiers behind them to pounce on them.
Lin Deyang was not even willing to use a musket, and treated the Japanese pirates as a practical exercise.
Naturally, Su Ze would not leave the Japanese pirates alive. After wiping out more than a dozen Japanese pirates, naturally someone with a sword and ax would come forward to cut off the Japanese pirate's head and send it to Su Ze to record his merits.
Looking at the heads piled neatly in front of Su Ze, who was just holding a notebook to record the military achievements of each team, Wang Xijue felt a chill.
From the beginning of the battle, the entire army was ruthlessly harvesting the Japanese pirates. Except for the initial panic when encountering the enemy, the entire battle was even a bit boring.
There were no passionate slogans or fierce fighting. Every Yuanyang formation team and every soldier in the team just did their own thing well, and the Japanese pirates were defeated.
The battle was over, and the soldiers disposed of the spoils in an orderly manner.
Wang Xijue has also seen many troops, and he has seen soldiers vying for military honors, and even officers and soldiers who kill good people and take credit for their merits.
"Brother Rulin, how did you train? Why is no one taking the credit?"
Su Ze recorded the military achievements of each team and said to Wang Xijue: "Discipline."
"Only the knives in each formation are qualified to harvest the trophies of the head search. Axeman, if other soldiers grab the trophies, not only will there be no credit, but the whole team will also be punished." "
Each Japanese pirate's head will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and all team members will share it equally. If there is a defeat in the battle, the head will also be deducted. Count."
"What will happen if the head is reversed?"
Su Ze said coldly: "Taking the team as a unit, if there is no result in the whole battle, everyone in the team will be whipped ten times." "
If the head is negative , , we will be expelled from the military camp."
Wang Xijue took a breath and said: "Brother Su is willing to expel such an elite?"
Su Ze thought to himself, if you know that the real leader of the Qi family's army has a negative number, the whole team will be beheaded. You know that I have been very merciful in leading the troops.
Su Ze said: "Compassion does not control soldiers, justice does not control wealth, what matters on the battlefield is discipline." After the
statistics were completed, Su Ze announced the results on the spot. Sure enough, one team did not gain anything, and those teams that gained more had high morale. The team also clenched their fists, waiting to avenge their humiliation in the next battle.
After the victory in the first battle, the anti-Japanese general group's confidence increased greatly. Su Ze looked at the +100 military experience and simply gave up and went directly to Gushan and began to search for Japanese pirates on Jingjiang Island.
The Japanese pirates, who were originally thought to be invincible, were killed like chickens under the harvest of the Yuanyang Formation. Most of the members of the Anti-Japanese General Corps came from poor households in Suzhou Prefecture. Many of them lost their lives because of the Japanese rebellion. In the land, many people also lost their families because of Japanese pirates.
With a deep-seated hatred for the Japanese pirates, the Anti-Japanese Corps became even more enthusiastic about killing the Japanese. They followed Su Ze and began to fight across the entire Jingjiang Island.
Wang Xijue saw more and more military achievements in his credit book, and the piles of severed heads of Japanese pirates were getting higher and higher. He also changed from the panic at the beginning to calmness.
By the time Su Ze and his party arrived at Gushan Town, they had killed a total of seventy-eight Japanese pirates, and Su Ze's [Art of War] skill had also been upgraded to Level 6.
Su Ze did not relax because of the skill upgrade. Seeing that it was getting late, Su Ze led people into Gushan Town.
The big families in Gushan Town have already fled into Jingjiang County, and now those who stay here are the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot escape.
Su Ze defeated a group of Japanese pirates outside Gushan Town. Although the people of Gushan Town saw it, when Su Ze made a request to enter the town for repairs, the mayor who stayed behind still hesitated.
Su Ze saw the hesitation of the old mayor, and just smiled and said:
"Old man, we are the Anti-Japanese and Anti-Smuggling Corps of Shanghai County. We just want to camp on the streets of the town for repairs and get a mouthful of hot water. Absolutely. It won't disturb the people."
The old mayor also saw Su Ze and others killing Japanese pirates outside the town. When he saw the blood on Su Ze's body, he was afraid that they would commit murder, so he had no choice but to agree.
Su Ze ordered the soldiers to enter the town and ordered Lin Deyang to serve as military judge. All soldiers who disturbed the people would be severely punished.
That night, Su Ze and all the soldiers camped on both sides of the street. Even though there were many vacant houses in the town, Su Ze did not go in to rest.
The soldiers ate dry food with them at night, and the only thing provided in the town was some hot water.
Wang Xijue woke up from the morning fog. He grabbed his sleeping bag and saw the lively scene.
The people in Gushan Town set up pots in front of their homes one after another, and the hot smoke from fireworks intertwined with the mist.
Wang Xijue finally knew what it meant to "eat the slurry in the pot to welcome Master Wang".
(End of chapter)