Dominate the Country

ps: Three more updates will continue today. Chapter 1!

It was a cloudy day on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and there was no shadow of the moon at night. Chen Ming did not accompany his parents, wife and children in Tiezhai, but came to Phoenix Terrace, which had been peaceful for a long time.

Phoenix Taipei Fort.

The gunpowder had been swept clean, and this fortress that had remained unmoved despite being hit by General Weiyuan fifty or sixty times during the war was now filled with a strong smell of meat.

Chen Ming, Chen Erhu, as well as the leaders of the left and right artillery teams and the leaders of the left and right troops of Phoenix Terrace, the six of them set up a table at the North Fort. They were cooking hot pot and singing. A jar of five kilograms of Baofeng wine was about to be eaten. Bottomed out.

There was a rush of footsteps outside. Chen Ming's eyes lit up, and he looked at Chen Erbao unexpectedly. He raised his head and drank half of the wine in the bowl: "It seems our hero is back!"

"Young Master. Fortunately, we have fulfilled our mission!" Huang Zicong strode into the right fort with a cold air and pride on his face. Behind him was the tall and powerful Chen Dawei.

Chen Dawei was Chen Ming's two personal bodyguards at the time, and now Chen Dawei is still Chen Ming's personal bodyguard. Although he wears a guard captain's hat on his head, Huang Zicong has become a sharp knife in the reconnaissance team.

Huang Zicong, who has been a fierce fighter since he was a child, has a fierce spirit in his bones, and his brain is stronger than that of Chen Dawei, who is full of muscles. After being recommended to the reconnaissance team by Chen Ming, he quickly showed his talents.

"The garrison of Lu's camp was shattered by my shot. The grain stored by the army in Tumenji was also ignited by our fire..." Huang Zicong expressed his team's contribution excitedly and proudly.

And this is the reason why Chen Ming came to Phoenix Terrace on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month instead of staying in Tiezhai to celebrate the Lantern Festival with his family.

"It's a pity that the fire of Tumenji can't be seen here..."

Winter is coming to an end. With the addition of the five to six hundred miners, the strength of the Chen family army has reached the 1,000-man mark. At the same time, all the men under fifty and over fifteen in the four villages have received a certain amount of military training, and all the women have Put your feet down, and those big-footed wives also joined in. The Chen family does not require them to fight in battle, but requires them to know how to load gunpowder and transport ammunition and supplies when the village is most critical.

Because after the beginning of spring, the enemy Chen Jiajun will face is the entire Nanyang Town.

After Chen Jiajun retreated into Funiu Mountain, Chen Guang sent information to the mountains twice in a month since the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is the number of successes, and the number of failures must be several times more: Baoning, the commander-in-chief of Nanyang Town, has arrived. Lushan and the entire Nanyang Town are on the move.

Of course Chen Ming would not think that Baoning would bring over all the soldiers and horses in Nanyang Town, but it was very possible for Baoning to bring over one or two thousand troops. This is the biggest crisis since the Chen family’s uprising! ! It was impossible for him to do nothing and just wait for the Qing army to be ready to attack.

Although Chen Ming already felt very confident, after all, the Chen Jiajun now had a thousand troops.

"This is just the beginning."

With a smile on his face, Chen Ming poured a full bowl of wine for Huang Zicong: "Take it." Then he poured a bowl for himself. "Everyone also pick up a bowl and give a bowl to our heroes."

This night, he believed that the night sky in Tumenji would be particularly bright.

…

At noon the next day, Baoning received an urgent report from Tumenji. The guard was assassinated and the warehouse was burned by a fire that destroyed most of the stored grain. The fire also ignited the gunpowder.

"waste!"

Baoning was so angry that his chest hurt. Most of the food, that's three thousand stones facing up? The entire Tumenji has more than 5,000 stones of grain reserves. Three thousand stones are enough for the entire Nanyang Town for one month, as well as gunpowder. Fortunately, the guard of Lu's camp had been assassinated, otherwise Baoning would have had to kill him.

"Order Lu's camp to strengthen its defense, and use the left team officer to lead Lu's camp on its behalf."

Baoning suppressed his anger and issued a very correct order. The first lunar month has not yet come out, and the climate in Lushan will have snow in early February. The new year is over, but the real spring has not yet arrived. This is not the time to march.

You will not raise an army out of anger!

Baonyeong is not very old, but he has a calm personality. After he arrived in Lushan years ago, he did not immediately launch an offensive against the Chen family because of the Chen family's arrogance. They just let the Lushi camp overwhelm the Tumenji, and then ordered the villages and towns along the middle and lower reaches of the Yinma River to smash the ice of the Yinma River, cutting off the Chen family's fundamental reliance on rapid travel inside and outside the mountains.

This may seem very conservative and poor, but he actually achieved the key point of quickly stabilizing the situation in Lushan.

The furious Baoning used a more severe attitude to mobilize the people from all walks of life who were about to gather in Nanyang Town. Chen Ming also returned to Tiezhai and continued to train the more than 500 new miners. Huang Zicong and his team stayed at Phoenix Terrace, always watching the changes and movements of Tumen's Qing army.

There is no need to doubt the loyalty of the five to six hundred miners who were rescued from the private mines by the Chen family. These people who were bought into private mines were either penniless and penniless early on, or they had a lot of stories of grievances. Even when the Chen family was cleaning up the miners in various mines, they found many of them. Missing people. It seems that they are all 'disappeared'.

Each of the five to six hundred people had muscles and looked strong and healthy. But this is just an appearance, it does not really mean how good these laborers are. The Chen family also runs a private mine. How come they don't know the fate of these slave workers? Very few can last beyond three years. Even though their bodies look strong and powerful, they are overdrawing their own vitality and their bodies are almost empty.

After these people followed the Chen family up the mountain, they knew very well the importance of these five or six hundred people to the Chen family. Chen Hui, Chen Cong and others were constantly nourished by oil and water + medicinal materials every day, and their training level at the beginning was also very high. As long as they can clearly distinguish left and right, they can line up, stand in a military posture, walk in unison, and run in unison.

It wasn't until after the New Year that the blackness and yellowness of these miners' faces faded and blood appeared, that Chen Ming began to increase their training volume little by little. I don’t dare to really let go and practice hard.

Chen Ming could never forget what the doctor on the mountain said about this group of miners: They were hollowed out!

But don’t underestimate this group of miners. These people have an innate sense of discipline and organization. With a little training, Chen Ming could not help but admire the advanced nature of the working class!

Compared with the refugees and mountain people recruited by the Chen family, this team of five to six hundred miners has unknowingly moved ahead of the former.

Especially the thirty burly men selected by Chen Ming, all of them were strong and sturdy. Regardless of whether their bodies were really hollowed out or not, they were now more powerful than the other. The stone lock wheel weighing one hundred kilograms kept ringing for half a minute without stopping.

These people were taken into his guard by Chen Ming and provided with good food and drink. Each of them was equipped with double iron armor, a cotton-padded jacket, and used heavy weapons such as broadswords and axes and hammers. In hand-to-hand combat, thirty of them could defeat ten times the number of Green Camp soldiers. Although this unit is a heavy armored force destined to decline, when the Chen Jiajun has no source of gunpowder and can only restrict its use, and when there are a large number of cold weapon troops with the Chen Jiajun, such an elite force is a must. of.