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Chapter 478

If Huang Taiji had not reclaimed wasteland and land in Shuanghe Guta, Liu Mingyu would have turned around and returned without hesitation, using Guangning Acropolis to attract Huang Taiji's attention, and at the same time mobilized the Fourth Brigade and Third Brigade of the Liu family army to advance eastward, surrounded Huang Taiji's troops, and thus fought an encirclement and annihilation battle.

However, after Huang Taiji reclaimed more than 1.7 million mu of wasteland, this situation was different. With the fertility of the black soil in Liaodong, even without the blessing of chemical fertilizers, the yield per mu of wheat can easily exceed two stones. If the weather is strong, it will not be a problem to reach three stones.

What's more, Huang Taiji also planted some potatoes and sweet potatoes. Even if calculated based on the minimum yield, Huang Taiji can get harvest and feed a million people.

If Huang Taiji had so much food, he would be able to fight violently. Although with the combat effectiveness of the Liu family army, he was not afraid of Jiannu, the problem was that Liu Mingyu's money and food were not only used in the army. In fact, the military expenditure of the Liu family army only accounted for about 15% of Liu Mingyu's income.

Forty-five percent is used for education, thirty percent is used for infrastructure, and ten percent is used for scientific research and development. Liu Mingyu decided to destroy Huang Taiji's hope first.

That's right, the nearly two million acres of land near Ningguta is where Huang Taiji hopes. Liu Mingyu also speculated that Jiannu would not farm, and there should be some Ming people captured by Jiannu. They could reclaim 2 million acres of land in one go, and the number would not be less than 100,000 people, and there might be more.

For the huge Ming Dynasty, Jiannu was too small and lacked foundation. Liu Mingyu raised his fist and could smash this so-called big gold into the mud at any time.

Although Liu Mingyu had absolute confidence, the soldiers of the Liu family army were a little uneasy.

"The Marquis really doesn't care about Guangning City?"

"How could it be that I don't care!"

"Then how can we march to the northeast..."

"Just, we are more than 600 miles away from Guangning City now, and it will take at least five days for us to go back!"

"Besides, our Liu family army is not just our army!"

"Can Guangning City last for five days?"

"No need to persist for five days, our Liu family army's cavalry can reach Guangning City in at most two days. At most five days, our Liu family army can use the sea of ​​people to subdue Jiannu!"

"That's right, it's more people than us, and Jiannu is even worse!"

The four prefectures and fifteen counties in southern Liaoning have a population of nearly 2 million. With the whole people being soldiers, it is not a problem to raise more than 100,000 troops. Moreover, this has been effectively trained, and if the fact of the war is too tight.

There is also the Naval Military Academy of the Liu Family Army in Lushun, where there are more than 3,500 student soldiers. If you really need them, you can also bring them to the battlefield.

You should know that more than a quarter of the population in southern Liao were composed of rebels from the Kong Youde tribe in Shandong. They can be regarded as the army of the Dongjiang Army. Even if these people were removed from their armor and returned home, their equipment was better than the Dongjiang Army at the time.

Speaking of this, no one objected.

Although there are not many defenders in Guangning City, their families are all there, they have received corresponding training, and they are equipped with sufficient weapons and equipment. If they can't defend for another two days, it will be unreasonable!

Just as Huang Taiji attacked Guangning City, Ma Chenggong, the commander of the Fifth Brigade in Haizhou, immediately attacked the combat readiness state. There was no way, and now the Fifth Infantry Brigade is only left with an empty frame.

When Liu Mingyu established the Navy War Brigade, he drew more than 2,800 soldiers from the Fifth Brigade, almost one regiment. When attacking the senior officials, he drew another regiment to form the Second Brigade. This time he went north to attack Jiannu, and now the entire brigade of the Fifth Brigade and the brigade's direct troops are only 12,000 troops.

Although there are a large number of people, the four prefectures and fifteen counties in southern Liaoning are now in front-line combat, and the Fifteenth Brigade cannot go out in its entire army. It can draw up to 8,000 combat personnel.

Despite the difficulties, the Fifth Brigade of the Liu Family Army was ready to go to the expedition to support Guangning, but Liu Xingzhi, the chief of staff of the Fifth Brigade, said: "Brig Commander, you must consider it carefully..."

“What to consider?”

"Our strength is seriously insufficient!"

"Just, when did our Liu family army fight a battle with absolute strength? When did we face Jiannu, we won't win more with less? Are you doubting the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Fifth Brigade?"

"Brig Commander Ma, I mean... I have no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Brigade. The soldiers of the Fifth Brigade can easily tear Jiannu to pieces! But the problem is... How to solve the problem of food and supplies!"

Liu Mingyu started out as a warlord, and he was also very worried about the emergence of vassal states in his army. Now Liu Mingyu is actually a vassal state, with administrative jurisdiction, financial power and military power of vassal states during the Tang Dynasty. In fact, as Liu Mingyu's strength grew, he became less and less concerned about the central court.

But the problem is that Liu Mingyu is also controlling and preventing the Liu family army from becoming a vassal state. First of all, the Liu family army does not have a war zone similar to the vassal states. Whether it is the Sixth Brigade or the Fifth Brigade, all brigades are actually field corpses, and the garrison regiments are local garrison troops.

Without orders from the General Staff or Liu Mingyu, the Fifth Brigade did not have the power to launch a war, even if it was just support.

However, the General Staff of the Liu Family Army responded very quickly. He came up with a combat plan just four hours after receiving the news. The General Staff of the Liu Family Army used this Huang Taiji invasion to train the troops' blitzkrieg!

Blitzkrieg is a concept proposed by Liu Mingyu, a puppet army fan, when he gave lectures to the staff. The Liu family army can use the mule-horse transformation of the army to march quickly and attack lightning.

Although it is mule-horse transformation, thanks to the road construction in southern Liaoning, taking the current four-wheeled heavy-load carriage as an example, a carriage can carry twelve to fifteen fully armed soldiers on the roads in southern Liaoning, and can use such a carriage every day to achieve a marching speed of about 150 miles.

Five hundred four-wheeled carriages can carry four or five thousand soldiers and one thousand four-wheeled carriages, basically pulling all the equipment and personnel of the 8,000 troops of the Fifth Brigade to achieve a marching speed of 150 miles per day.

Of course, it is OK in southern Liaoning, but barely possible in Daning, so there is no such convenience in other places, because the requirements for roads of four-wheeled carriages are too strict.

The operation code-named "Breaking Wind" began to be officially implemented. The commander of the Fifth Brigade Ma successfully received the order and immediately began to assemble the 8,000 troops of the Fifth Brigade. The two regiments of the personal guard brigade left Jinzhou at the same time and went to Haizhou to replace the defense work in Haizhou.

Of course, the 8,000 troops of the Fifth Brigade carried more than 200 tons of grain and forage, 260,000 lead bullets, 5,000 artillery shells, and 2,000 rocket shells. They used 1,050 four-wheeled carriages, equipped with armor, military uniforms, crossbows, medicines, bedding, shoes and socks and other miscellaneous supplies, and moved them out of each warehouse to load them onto the carriage at a price.

Will the complete annihilation of Jiannu affect Liu Mingyu's layout? This has caused a headache for the General Staff. If it is just a defense and counterattack, it will have no impact on the Liu family army at all.

Just as the Liu family army headed north to support Guangning City, under Guangning City, Huang Taiji launched an attack on Guangning City. There was no way to prevent it. This year's autumn harvest has been destroyed by the Liu family army. Huang Taiji's attack on Guangning this time was to make a fool of himself and attract Liu Mingyu's main army back.

As soon as Liu Mingyu did not replenish his supplies, he would be consumed on the road, and the troops would be exhausted by the torture. In this way, Huang Taiji could usher in his first autumn harvest.

But the problem is that Liu Mingyu was not deceived and led his army to rush all the way, regardless of the harassment along the way, and targeted Shuanghe Guards.

Now it's Huang Taiji's turn to sit on the wax. Unless he leads his army to meet Liu Ming in Shuanghewei, he can only save the grain fields by delaying or defeating the attack of the Liu family army.

But the problem is, this is not a good idea at all.

There is no need to overestimate Liu Mingyu's character. Even if the crops that are being filled now are being grouted, Liu Mingyu will definitely cut them all or use a war horse to trample them. Huang Taiji cannot even receive a grain of food, and even the foundation of the arable land where Shuanghewei is located will be destroyed. In the future, he can only find another place to reclaim wasteland.

However, I have not been busy for a year and the time for cattle and sheep to gain weight is delayed. Such losses are very heavy for the Jurchens.

They have no savings and no ability to resist risks. The only way is to continue to capture Guangning City and use the food stored in Guangning City and the crops outside Guangning City.

As the whimpering horn of the Niujiao sounded, Huang Taiji began to dispatch troops.

The red flags inlaid, the blue flags inlaid, the blue flags inlaid, and the white flags inlaid each produced some light cavalry. These light cavalrymen stepped on their war horses and began to surround Guangning City, looking for defense loopholes in the city.

In Huang Taiji's opinion, the cannon is a stupid guy, especially the cannon as thick as a large barrel, which will definitely be heavier, and it will definitely be inconvenient to move.

At this time, the attack moved from the north gate of Guangning City to the south gate. Sure enough, there was no stinking golden juice on the south wall, nor did it encounter the cannon with extremely thick gun barrels.

In fact, Guangning City's application of gold juice is only concentrated in the direction of the North City. At this time, the southeast wind is blowing. If gold juice is used in the South City, the stench will float into the city. Therefore, there is no such material in the direction of the South City.

As the whimpering battle horn sounded, more than a thousand elite Eight Banners rushed out, pressing on both sides, and the strong bow in their hands sounded at the defense line on Guangning Prefecture City, with sharp arrows like rain.

However, at this time, rows of mountain mulberry crossbows slowly emerged on the city wall, which could not even be seen by people. If you look down from the sky, you will definitely find that the Liu family soldiers on the southern city wall were pitifully few, with only one or two hundred people. Except for one or two hundred soldiers of the Liu family garrison regiment, more people were wearing various clothes. These people leaned against the wall and stomped on them, putting arrows on the mountain mulberry crossbows, putting strings on them, and then handed them to the Liu family soldiers.

These Liu family soldiers did not expect the people to help now, so they let them use their strength to mount the crossbow machine, load crossbow arrows, and hand them to fire.

A soldier from the Guangning Garrison of the Liu Family Army held a crossbow and pulled the motor of the Later Jin Light Cavalry, who had approached less than fifty meters away from them.

"Dang thump..."

As the metal tremolo sounded, each sound seemed to pull everyone's heartstrings heavily. Crossbow arrows shot out, and many Later Jin light cavalry seemed to be slashed hard, and rushed forward with a strange cry. They fell heavily. The cavalry on the horse's back was thrown out, and fell to the ground and twisted into an extremely strange shape. After twisting for a few times, they stopped moving.

Even more unlucky, he was hit by several arrows in a row. His chest cracked and spurted out a stream of dirty blood from it, falling from the horse's back like a gripper. The Later Jin Light Cavalry, who had been hit by a round of crossbow arrows, let out a beast-like howl, spreading even more, and the sharp arrows in his hands shot out one after another, fast and fierce. The people who looked at the shooting effect were shot and were shot in the head, and screams came one after another.

"Squat down, squat down, who made you get up? Do you all want to die?"
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