Since the third day of the first lunar month, the number of people arriving in Liaonan has exceeded a thousand, and the number continues to increase every day. Although Cheng Shijie still has food, the problem is that the construction and manpower of factories are temporarily saturated, and there are still sixty or seventy days before spring plowing.

God, if these people are allowed to live a free life, those working people and immigrants will definitely not be happy and will have disagreements.

Why can they eat and drink for free while we need to work?

Under this circumstance, Cheng Shijie temporarily adjusted his deployment and selected the young and strong people among the refugees to be included in the project's 100 households. By the 23rd of the first lunar month, a total of 209 young and strong 100 households had been added. These two hundred and nine

Hundreds of households were distributed with twenty carts, fifty sledgehammers, and fifty shovels to each of them, all the way north.

Cheng Shijie asked Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army to go north from Tieshanbao and Shibao respectively, waiting for the opportunity to occupy Fuzhou and Haizhou. These two hundred engineering households moved forward all the way, repairing the roads along the way, and abandoned the castle.

In the future, the decisive battle with Jiannu may be moved northward.

Pushing the war away from Gaizhou and Jinzhou can also avoid causing panic among the people in the fields.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Bingyu Valley, eighty miles north of Fuzhou City.

This is the territory of Zhuanghe City, Dalian City in later generations. According to legend, Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty once camped here during the Eastern Expedition. Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty came here to assist the army and saw that this is indeed a place where "one man can guard the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it".

He gave it the name "Bingyu", and later it became known as Bingyu.

Although the sound is the same, the meaning is completely different.

The military strategic position here is very important. Because this area is mountainous, there are only two roads from north to south. One passes through Xiuyan City in the east of Fuzhou Wei and Fenghuang City in the northeast of Fuzhou Wei. These are the routes from Liaozhong to Liaonan.

Two of the four channels.

Fenghuang City is the Fuzhou Guard Fenghuang Mountain Guard House for Thousand Households, and it is also the current nominal hometown of Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie was very courageous. He took advantage of the time when Huang Taiji had no time to pay attention to southern Liaoning, and occupied the territory step by step. If Xiuyan City and Phoenix City were blocked, Jianu would only be able to stop there even if he sent troops.

If the defense line can be stabilized in Fuzhou, Cheng Shijie can start developing Gaizhou.

Eighty engineering units, with a total of nearly 8,000 people, then arrived at Baxiuyan City and Fenghuang City to carry out emergency repairs on the two abandoned castles and at the same time dredge this section of nearly 400 miles of disrepaired official roads.

The Dongjiang Army marched into Haizhou and occupied the central and southern part of the Liaohe Plain. Its purpose was the same as the strategic purpose of the Ning Navy, which was to push the location of future battles to the Liaohe Plain.

These Liaodong people who had just arrived in southern Liaoning needed to work in groups of dozens of people at the intersection of their journey, dragging huge stone rollers to compact and flatten the roads that had been in disrepair, and to repair the abandoned fortresses along the way.

, re-draining ditches that have been filled with silt and decay.

More than two hundred projects were carried out by hundreds of households, all the way forward, until February 24th, the fifth year of Chongzhen, along the Fenghuang City, Xiuyan City, Shiqiaobao, Songlinbao, Xiamabao, Shimenbao, Xinghai

There are a total of twelve castles connected to the city including Gangu City, Ancient Castle, Wangtai Town and Haizhou City.

These castles have basically undergone simple repairs and have preliminary defensive functions. As more and more territory is seized, Ning Haijun's forces become more dispersed.

Cheng Shijie's current strategic layout in southern Liaoning is actually the same as Sun Chengzong's. He relied on the dangerous terrain to build fortresses and slowly advanced. Every time he advanced to a place, he was nailed there as firmly as a steel nail.

Once it has become an impregnable fortress, we can continue to advance.

To put it bluntly, Cheng Shijie bullied Jiannu because of his poor ability to attack fortresses. Jiannu conquered Guangning, Tieling, and Shenyang cities all with the help of spies. If the spies were eliminated, they would have no choice but to suffer a bloody blow.

Sun Chengzong was sure of Jian Nu's situation, and adopted this method of fortifying the stronghold to fight the war, squeezing the Jian Nu's living space bit by bit with the fortress group, forcing the Jian Nu to take the initiative to attack the strong fortresses.

Based on Jiannu's poor performance in previous battles, even if it can be defeated, a lot of people will die. How many people are there in Jiannu? How can it withstand such consumption?

This is also a helpless solution. Although Ning Haijun is not like other Ming armies, other Ming armies were discouraged by Jian Nu. They have long lost the courage to fight with Jian Nu. No matter how much they train or how much money they pay,

Useless.

Is it okay to let them defend the city, but go out to fight in the field? Believe it or not, they kidnapped you first? Sun Chengzong had no choice but to use this stupid method.

Cheng Shijie actually didn't want to learn from Sun Chengzong. If he had tens of thousands of cavalry, he would definitely fight to the death with Jian Nu. But the problem is that although Ning Haijun's cavalry has more than 2,000 people, they can barely maintain their strength in a three-on-one situation.

Undefeated, two against one, he actually couldn't defeat Jiannu. This has been tested in practice.

In this case, Cheng Shijie had no other choice.

Although Ning Haijun's infantry has the strength to fight against the slave cavalry, the problem is that the infantry is always at a disadvantage when facing the cavalry.

As long as Jiannu sees the intensive firepower of Ning Haijun's thunderbolts, will they still charge upward?

The answer is yes, unless the Jiannu's brain is caught in the door or kicked by a donkey, they will charge in the hail of bullets.

Since Ning Haijun's cavalry did not have a suppressive advantage over Jiannu, Cheng Shijie could only adopt this method, using fortress tactics to advance step by step and wrest the initiative back from Jiannu. It was best to force Jiannu to come.

Fight a tough battle that they are least good at.

Since then, a new problem has arisen: Ning Haijun's military strength is seriously insufficient.

"Expand the army!"

Shen Mingyu pointed to the twelve newly renovated castles along the standard Haizhou Guard and Fuzhou Guard lines on the map and said: "The twelve castles on this line must be garrisoned, even if each castle has a division of 260 people.

We also need twelve divisions and 3,120 people."

Ning Haijun's entire army has exceeded 20,000 men, and all of them are combat soldiers. But the problem is that the navy accounts for more than one-third of the number, as well as more than 2,000 cavalry, and six of Cheng Shijie's bodyguards.

The company has 12,000 troops.

In fact, the number of infantry soldiers in the Ning Navy is only about 12,600 in the two command divisions. If another 3,120 people are deployed, the entire army's field strength will only be 8,000.

Although 8,000 men and horses is a lot, the problem is that Jiannu has eight flags, and each flag has more than 7,500 men and horses. Once a fight begins, Ning Haijun's chances of winning are not high.

What's more, the base camp of Jinzhou City, as well as Gaizhou City, Haizhou City, and Fuzhou City will definitely have to stay behind. If the troops are divided again, Ning Haijun's strength is really not enough.

Until now, Cheng Shijie also realized that something was wrong with Ning Haijun.

Of course, this is not a big problem.

Ning Haijun is a field army that focuses on fighting. In the past, Ning Haijun did not need to defend the base camp of Ninghai City, because there were no bandits who did not open their eyes and followed Qin Wu's example and took the initiative to attack Ning Haijun.

But Jiannu was different. Jiannu was not afraid of Ning's navy. He marched straight into the palace and attacked Huanglong. This was also Jiannu's habitual method of using troops.

Not to mention Jinzhou and Gaizhou, the heartland areas, as long as they are given the opportunity to establish slaves, they will even dare to attack the city of Beijing.

"To expand the army, we must expand the army!"

Zhang Yu also wanted to expand the army. After all, the 1,200 people in Cheng Shijie's bodyguard bureau were drawn from the Right Dusi, who originally had fewer people than the Left Dusi, and now they are even fewer.

Zhou Yandong sneered and said: "You make it easy for you. Do you know how much money we spent in December last year? It was more than 80,000 taels of silver. Our Ning Haijun has a weak foundation, and the army in the field has not even earned a penny. All of it is

Expenditures include land reclamation and water conservancy projects, and the state capital’s expenses are getting tighter and tighter!”

After arguing for a while, Admiral Zhongning realized a serious problem. They all looked at Cheng Shijie in unison: "I wonder what the commander-in-chief wants?"

"It is imperative to expand the military. As for the issue of military expenditure..."

Cheng Shijie solemnly said: "Our rule at Ning Haijun is that when we have no money, just grab a ticket!"

"But now even the slaves are poor..."

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "This is actually not a problem. Our Ning Haijun can cultivate at least three million acres of farmland this year. Even if we collect three tons of taxed grain per acre, we still have 300,000 dan. If we buy some from the people, the food problem will be solved."

To be self-sufficient, we only need one prerequisite. We must block the Jiannu in Phoenix City, Xiuyan City, Shiqiaobao, and Songlinbao. The Jiannu cannot go south. Liaonan is our back garden. My opinion is to expand the army.

, but there is also a problem. It will take at least several months for the new army to form combat effectiveness, and the Jiannu will not give us time..."

"What does the handsome man mean..."

"I plan to establish the Ning Navy Garrison Command and Envoy Division, which is the third commander of our Ning Navy Infantry Force. You guys look down on Jiannu too much. You put one division in each fort. You are looking down on Jiannu!

"

Cheng Shijie considered the words while thinking: "My commander-in-chief's plan is to divide the Ning Navy into two systems: field and garrison. The field system will remain unchanged for the time being, and the garrison system will have one reorganization bureau and two divisions garrisoned in each castle.

There are a total of 750 troops directly under the army, with one garrison commander. The newly established garrison department has fifteen bureaus under its jurisdiction!"

The generals were overjoyed.

Since then, Ning's navy has expanded to 11,200 men.

Cheng Shijie continued: "The other one is the Right Dusi. The Right Dusi is dissatisfied with the number of staff. Now we will do it together. We will recruit another 2,500 people and make the left and right Dusi have the same establishment. All of them will have 6,800 people!"

Having said this, Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance next to him.

As Cheng Shijie's eyes fell on him, Song Xiance quickly understood what Cheng Shijie meant.

There are more than 26,000 Dongjiang Army troops in southern Liaoning, and Cheng Shijie is ready to plunder them.

He has been raising the Dongjiang Army for more than two months. Although Cheng Shijie has the power to control the Dongjiang Army, he does not give these Dongjiang Army names. Ning Haijun does not regard them as his own, and the Dongjiang Army also thinks that he is not his own.

.

Now it is Song Xiance's turn to take action and communicate with the Dongjiang Army generals in private. As long as they are not stupid, these Dongjiang Army soldiers will choose their own way.

In later generations, there was another saying called "freedom referendum".

…

Wangtai Town is located in the transition zone between the foothills and the plains of Haizhou. The terrain outline is in the shape of a broad leaf. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west. The terrain includes low mountains, hills, and plains.

At this time in Wangtai Town, more than 2,000 Dongjiang Army soldiers were building fortifications along the valley. These Dongjiang Army soldiers were very enthusiastic about their work. Many of them had gained several kilograms of meat because of more than two months of heavy meals.

They heated the stones piece by piece, and then poured cold water on them. The stones would expand due to thermal expansion and contraction, and would crack into pieces. The stones would be sent to the kiln, burned into lime, and then used as building blocks.

The materials were mixed into three-component soil and compacted into a city wall.

The Dongjiang Army Staff General in charge of garrisoning Wangtai Town is Shang Keyi.

"Woooo..."

When the meal horn sounded, the Dongjiang Army soldiers who were working hurriedly put away the tools in their hands and started lining up. They first went to wash their hands in front of the wooden basin prepared by the cooking soldiers. Of course, there was hot water in it, and each team was assigned one basin.
To be continued...