Chapter 188 Progress goes well

After the three people and horses of Xing Tianjun began to take action, their actions were very fast. This time, they sent troops, which was also the first time for Yan Chongxi and others to be alone. At the same time, it was also a test of the results of this reorganization. After the departure, the three-way people and horses were all secretly competing, so the progress was very fast.

In addition, the number of officers and soldiers in these three places is limited, and they can only rely on the scattered soldiers in the hands of various large households to deal with the attack of the Xingtian Army. Therefore, in the face of the well-trained soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, the government in the three directions can be said to be helpless. They can only shrink in the city as much as possible and ensure that the city is not lost as possible.

But Xingtian Army's strategy was originally to occupy the countryside and have no intention of attacking the city. Their main goal was to focus on the Zhuangbao, which was located outside the city. They attacked and contained the officers and soldiers in the city with a small number of troops, so that they did not dare to easily go out of the city to fight against the Xingtian Army, and then concentrated their superior forces. The strategy of fighting a tough battle, a single Zhuangbao can't fight at all in the face of their fierce attack. Within a short time, they fell one after another.

And the war itself is fighting logistics, which is the same for any army. The reason why Xiao Tianjian chose to launch at this time is that after the summer harvest, Xing Tianjun's grain is also relatively sufficient, and his soldiers and horses have been initially changed and expanded. Whether it is military strength or morale, It needs to be tested through this action, and even with the accumulated energy, it needs to be released.

The small Yangcheng County is not enough to support them at present, so expansion has become a must. What he wants is not only the territory, but also the money and food in the hands of those large households, but more that he needs more people to support his military strength.

Therefore, when all kinds of soldiers and horses take down a Zhuangbao, they take out the money and food of the rich people in the Zhuangbaobao and take out part of the relief to the poor and the exiles around them. At the same time, the Xing Tianjun also strictly abides by the military discipline and will never harm the ordinary people. Although not everyone can strictly observe the military discipline, their actions are still affected. With the recognition and welcome of the people all over the world, often when the Xingtian Army began to gather troops to besiege some strong castles, there will be a large number of people who come here at the news and risk their lives to help the Xing Tianjun, making the progress of all kinds of soldiers and horses very smooth.

And after each capture of a village by the Xing Tianjun, Fu Deming's subordinates immediately redistributed the land of the large family to the local villagers, and left one or two security chiefs to deal with civil affairs in the local area, organize the township soldiers to defend themselves, and the main force immediately attacked the next target.

When encountering Zhuangbao, which was particularly difficult to conquer, people from all walks of life took the initiative to give up according to Xiao Tianjian's requirements. First, they swept away their surroundings, isolated them, and then gathered troops to attack. In this way, the trapped Zhuangbao was either completely broken or automatically surrendered.

In less than a month, Yan Chongxi's soldiers and horses on the other side basically took down the whole territory of Yuanqu County. There was only one Yuanqu County. Even the official road from Yuanqu County to Xiezhou was also controlled by Yan Chongxi, and the west was firmly controlled the passage between Yuanqu County and Huaiqing Prefecture.

The Luo Li Battalion, which is responsible for attacking Qinshui County, has also progressed quite quickly. In about a month, it swept the boundary of a hundred miles of Qinshui County, and pulled out more than 20 large Zhuangbao, which basically isolated Qinshui County. It even goes directly to Yicheng County, west of Qinshui County.

As for the first battalion of Li Shuanzhu, which sent troops to Zezhou, after entering the area south of Zezhou, he and Zhao Erlu once again divided their troops and began to attack and plunder in the south of Zezhou. It was also a month to sweep more than a dozen Zhuangbao in the south of Zezhou, and the cooperation of Wang Chengping's cavalry shocked Zezhou. Dozens of miles in the south of Zezhou are also under the control of Xing Tianjun.

And Xiao Tianjian has not been idle in the past month. Anyway, the autumn broadcast is over now. Taking advantage of the local agricultural leisure, on the one hand, he summoned the people to build the village wall of Dongye Town, and on the other hand, he dispatched a large number of rural soldiers in Yangcheng in three directions, and continuously transported all kinds of captured materials back to Shuangfeng Village in Yangcheng County. It's in the lotus village.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also selected several dangerous caves in the mountains south of Lianhuazhai, and stored a large amount of food and materials into these caves as a strategic reserve for the future of the Xingtian Army to meet the future needs. In several caves, a small number of soldiers were stationed to garrison. .

Not only that, Xiao Tianjian also ordered the villagers of the local villages and villages in Yangcheng to dig cellars in their own yards or in the mountains near the village, or look for caves to clean up. If necessary, as a place to hide or store grain, be prepared to deal with the invasion of a large number of officers and soldiers, according to According to Xiao Tianjian, this is called digging deep holes to accumulate grain to meet the needs of time.

In addition, he moved to Shuangfengzhai during the central dispatch period. On the one hand, he paid attention to the progress of the three-way soldiers and horses, and on the other hand, he also supervised the construction of weapons in Shuangfengzhai, and continuously transferred all kinds of ammunition and materials to the three-way soldiers and horses to ensure their logistics supply.

In the past month, Xiao Tianjian has been very busy living in Shuangfengzhai. While dealing with military affairs, he has to allocate people and horses while paying attention to the production of weapons in Shuangfengzhai.

After nearly a year, Shuangfengzhai has basically built a large-scale workshop base. All kinds of workshops are built one after another in the village. All kinds of raw materials and resources are constantly coming in and out of the village. Nearly a thousand craftsmen are busy here, which can be called a prosperous town.

Tiezuo and gunpowder workshops are the most important workshops in the village. They basically ensure the military needs of the Xingtian Army. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is an arsenal, and the production scale is also expanding day by day. The number of blacksmiths alone has reached an unprecedented number of four or five hundred people, and the sound of iron in the shed has not stopped all day long. After that, even at night, there are night shift craftsmen who are busy fighting at night in the iron work.

A brand-new bird kit is produced by these craftsmen, either delivered for use in the army, or stored in the warehouse. It turned out that the output of 200 bird kite a month, after the craftsmen were fully proficient in the process, and under the guarantee of sufficient supply of raw materials, the output increased again, monthly The output has almost reached more than 300 pieces, and basically more than one firearmed soldier can be newly armed in a month. Naturally, there is no need to say much about the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army. At the same time, the original task of building bayonet after the production of agricultural tools gradually meets the local needs and the increase of iron craftsmen is also officially mentioned. When it comes to the production schedule, a bayonet for the bird gun was created and distributed to the army together with the new gun, which greatly improved the melee ability of the fireman. At least now, once the enemy gets close to the fireman, the gunman puts a bayonet on the bird gun and becomes a short spear soldier, no longer without a fight back. It's strong.

And the ironmaking process in Dongye Town has also been greatly improved in the past three months. Originally, iron furnaces were made of coal for iron, but now it has basically changed to coke iron smelting, which has greatly improved the quality of the iron produced, and the output of refined iron has also been greatly improved. In this way It provides high-quality raw materials for the iron production side, so that the quality of the bird shot is also improved one after another. Today's bird shot is gradually getting thinner and thinner, and the accuracy is higher, and the weight is lower than that of the earliest produced bird. It is much lower, and the weight is reduced to about ten catties. If the fireman can maintain a better shooting accuracy after strict training, even if he no longer uses a supporting short wooden rod.