Chapter 108 Prepare for a rainy day

However, from another aspect, Yan Chongxi actually completed the task he gave him excellently. Originally, he asked Yan Chongxi to control the whole Jinnan within half a year, but Yan Chongxi had completed the task he had given before the end of June and completely controlled Jinnan in his own hands. In this way He has the ability to draw more people to do more things.

What's more, Jinnan is very important to Xing Tianjun. After all, Xing Tianjun is in the mainland. For a long time, it has been a problem for the military and civilians in the jurisdiction to eat salt. It is necessary to secretly traffic salt through salt shackers to solve the problem of the soldiers and civilians eating salt in the jurisdiction. Therefore, it is a great economic burden for Xing Tianjun, and After Xiezhou took it, Xing Tianjun solved the problem of eating salt. At the same time, he also controlled an important salt production area in the mainland, so that Xing Tianjun had stable financial resources, not to mention the iron production in Pingyang Prefecture, which is a very important iron-producing place in Daming at present. Nowadays, whether it is a war or the restoration of agriculture, iron is impossible. The lack of resources to control the whole Jinnan is very important for Xing Tianjun, which is the foundation for them to fight the world in the future.

And according to the report sent by Fu Deming, Xiao Tianjian learned that he had found more than 2,000 blacksmiths and thousands of iron ore miners in the area of Pingyang Prefecture alone. This is a very important resource for Xing Tianjun. In a short period of time, the weapon production of Xing Tianjun can reach another level to meet his expansion of troops. Requirements.

Therefore, after Yan Chongxi attacked Xiezhou, Xiao Tianjian, on the one hand, sent an order to Fu Deming to expand production in Pingyang Prefecture as soon as possible based on the original iron fields. First, he should expand the production of the ironmaking industry with maximum strength. Second, he should vigorously increase the production of firearm to support the use of the army. At the same time, he ordered Yan After Chongxi immediately rested, he dispatched Diao Zheng to lead a group of people to go out of Jinnan, to Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion to assist Liu Bao in guarding the control area of Xingtian Army south of the Yellow River, resisting the invasion of Jingfu and Shandong officers and Shandong officers to the area under the control area of Xingtian Army, and relieve Liu Bao's immediate pressure.

Besides, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng's headquarters in the area of Jinbei. In the past two months, their activities in Jinbei have also been quite effective. First, they captured Shuozhou, then Kailanzhou, and then threatened Xinzhou by force, greatly restraining the officers and soldiers of Shanxi and the Xuanda officers and soldiers going south to rescue the Zhuzhou counties in Jinnan. It controls a large piece of the ground.

However, what is different from other Xingtian army operations is that Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng's soldiers and horses are mainly cavalry. The number of troops is not very large, and their mobility is strong, but their attack ability is relatively weak. After all, they are less equipped with artillery, although the Fan family secretly transported them the self-made fire produced by Jinnan. However, cannons can't be smuggled to them, so most of the artillery equipped by their subordinates are old-fashioned artillery plundered from all prefectures and counties in Jinbei. The craftsmen have modified the gun racks to use with the army, so the firepower is not strong and it is not suitable for large-scale offensive battles. This is also their past few months. It's just that a few states and counties have been captured, and there is no reason why they can attack Xinzhou, the northern gate of Taiyuan.

However, this does not mean that they don't have much credit. On the contrary, what the two of them have done can even be said to be much better than anyone else. They have created an elite cavalry regiment with more than 5,000 troops for the Xing Tianjun, and robbed a lot of war horses by entering the Mongols from time to time. Cattle and sheep have reserved a large number of horses. Among these cavalry, there are not only Han people in the north of Jin, but also a large number of Mongolians who have lost their tribe due to tribal disputes. There are also a considerable number of local party members, and even Bohai people and Koreans who ran from Liaodong to Jinbei.

These ethnic minorities have no faith. Most of them have a deep blood feud with the later golden tar. They can't survive in Liaodong or even the grassland. Finally, they chose to join Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng and became members of the Xing Tian Army. For these people, Xiao Tianjian told Wang Chengping. And Li Lingfeng and others should try their best to strive for it. As long as they agree with Xing Tianjun, they will treat him equally. If they do well, they will be promoted, and if they should be reused. Most of these people were nomadic before, and each of them has a good riding skill. It is most suitable to train cavalry, and the speed of formation is fast and short-term. It can be used to kill the enemy.

In addition to the military training method and discipline promoted by Xing Tianjun, the cavalry of Xing Tianjun, led by Wang Li and others, have been tempered into a very disciplined and combat effectiveness cavalry team in the past few years. When they go into battle, they rely more on discipline and mutual cooperation, not to mention their riding skills. Superb, even some cavalry with slightly poor riding skills in the army, under effective discipline and mutual cooperation, can exert their strong combat effectiveness in cavalry battles.

After all, cavalry does not necessarily have to have strong personal riding skills and combat ability. Historically, Napoleon's cavalry' personal skills are not very strong, but under a perfect military organization, their combat effectiveness is very strong, and they can often make their opponents unable to fight, and their source of combat effectiveness is to rely on perfect organization. Sex and discipline and mutual cooperation.

In other words, now the Ming cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry and even the post-golden tartar cavalry are more concerned about their personal skills and combat ability. Although the tarsars are claimed to be the strongest in the world, in fact, they are not stronger than the Mongolian cavalry in terms of individual skill fighting ability. On the contrary, they are one-on-one. The ancient cavalry is more powerful, but the Mongols are now a plate of scattered sand, not the opponents of the more cohesive Tatar army. They have to follow the instructions of the Tatars and act as the cannon fodder of the post-golden Tatar.

Since the beginning of the establishment of the army, Xiao Tianjian instilled organizational discipline in his subordinates, requiring that no matter when and what kind of arms, they should cooperate with each other. Therefore, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng also accepted his concept. When forming their cavalry regiment, they subtly put Xiao Tianjian's concept of governing the army. The new low-level officers who have been indoctrinated to their subordinates and constantly supplemented to them have received relatively strict training, so the cavalry under their command has stronger discipline, so even if they do not absorb the cavalry of these ethnic minorities, the combat effectiveness of their cavalry will never be tolerated. Xiaoshi.

In recent years, they have repeatedly penetrated into the grasslands of Guanwai, plundered the Mongolian tribes in the grassland, and fought with Mongolian cavalry, but they have tested their concept of governing the army, making the cavalry under the command of Wang and Li very strong.

Although this time they hit the flag of the Xingtian Army, officially declared their identity, and were located around Xuanda. The Xuanda cavalry of the imperial court dealt with them, but they could only suffer losses. After several fights, Xuanda soldiers retreated from them and did not dare to fight against them.

And now they have not only captured Shuozhou and Qilanzhou, but also separated some people and horses, crossed the Yellow River from the Great Wall, entered the northern part of Shaanxi, began to move around Shenmu and Yulin, and began to establish their own circle of influence there. Although the local border troops besieged and suppressed them many times, he They mostly adopted the method of guerrilla warfare. They left as soon as they touched and ran away. The officers and soldiers couldn't help them. On the contrary, many officers and soldiers defected to them, so that there were signs that they would gradually control the northern Shaanxi region.

This point is very important for Xiao Tianjian to go north in the future. Although it is not his focus to use troops in the north at present, he should first establish a strong cavalry team belonging to the Xingtian Army over there. For the future, the Xing Tian Army will go north and the Tatron as the enemy. There is no harm in the benefits.

(I know I'm guilty, and it's a chapter of more than 2,000 words. I promise that it will break out on Monday and apologize to everyone!)