Chapter 1100 Each takes what he needs
Zhang Pucheng received Huang Qu's reminder and quickly realized the subtleties of the current situation in Fushan County. Those ideas just now were too unrealistic. Now he should consider how to maintain a peaceful and stable relationship with the Haihan people. In the future, whether the black gauze hat on your head can be stabilized depends to a certain extent on whether the Haihan people can stay calm and not cause trouble. Judging from the strength it showed against Wanjiajun, the local government was definitely unable to restrict it in terms of force. All the Fushan County government could do was try its best to communicate with the Haihan people and negotiate good terms. Although Zhang Pucheng regretted the previous agreement with Wan Jiajun, in the face of new external threats, all he could do was to copy the previous handling methods to ensure peace in the areas under his rule.
However, at this juncture, Zhang Pucheng and Huang Qu did not dare to go out of the city to meet the Haihan people in person. They sent the messengers who had been to the Haihan camp last time to express to the Haihan people the Fushan County Government's "responsibility for the fight that took place outside the county today." "Concerned attitude", by the way, I asked about the Haihan people's tone of voice.
At this time, the Haihan Army was also busy gathering prisoners of war and cleaning the battlefield. Although this battle did not last long, the number of prisoners captured was several times that of the previous day's battle. The local garrison and the refugees stranded here who had not yet been transported were not as many as the number of bandits captured in this battle. The Zhifu Island headquarters did not expect that there would be such a large number of prisoners in this battle before the war. Now even the shackles brought here were not enough, and some prisoners of war could only be temporarily detained with barbed wire.
"There are so many prisoners of war, I'm afraid we won't be able to transport them all in one trip!" Harugong jumped off his horse and handed the reins to his subordinates, and said excitedly to Chen Yixin.
This was the first time Harugong personally went to the battlefield to lead a battle after time travel. Although the time was short, the results were indeed quite fruitful, and the process went smoothly beyond his expectations. The two cavalry companies under his command shuttled back and forth on the battlefield, cutting and smashing the enemy's formations, and blocking most of the bandits trying to escape from the battlefield. The mobility of the cavalry was fully demonstrated in this battle. It can be called a textbook battle.
Chen Yixin also responded with joy on his face: "Now we can add a wave of labor force to Zhifu Island... By the way, the bandit leader Wan Meng has been captured!"
"Captured alive?" Harugong didn't know that Wan Meng was the person he personally ordered to arrest on the battlefield, and he was quite excited when he heard the news.
"He's alive, but he fell off his horse and broke one of his legs." Chen Yixin said, "I'm just waiting for you to come back and interrogate him together!"
After finally catching the bandit leader of Wanjiajun, naturally he will not be executed easily. The information Haihan needs to collect most urgently is about the main population centers in Fushan County and the remnants of the Wanjia Army hidden in the mountains. This Wan Jiajun has been a local bully in Fushan County for several years. He may know the situation in the county better than the local government, and he should be able to get a lot of useful information from his mouth.
However, before they had time to interrogate Wanmeng, the envoy from Fushan County had already arrived outside the Haihan camp to ask for a meeting. It happened that Harugong also wanted to use the results of this victory to impress the local government, so he brought the envoy to the camp and let him see Wan Meng who was being held incommunicado.
"We hope to have a meeting with Zhang Zhixian as soon as possible to discuss how to rescue and resettle the large number of refugees in Fushan County." Harugong expressed Haihan's attitude to the envoy: "If necessary, we can annihilate Wanjia The merits of the military bandit gang were handed over to Zhang Zhixian to report the merits to Dengzhou Prefecture.”
The messenger's eyes lit up when he heard this. He came to inquire about Haihan's story this time. One of his tasks was to persuade the Haihan people to hand over the captured bandit leader to the local government for disposal, whether dead or alive, this was a big deal for the Fushan County government. No small feat. But now that Harugong took the initiative to mention this matter, it saved him a lot of saliva. However, the other party requested an interview with Zhang Pucheng, which required further negotiation of details.
"Tomorrow morning, outside the east gate of the county?" Zhang Pucheng was very excited after hearing the report. This kind of credit cannot be obtained at any time. A stubborn disease like Wan Jiajun who has existed in Dengzhou Prefecture for several years can Once they were eliminated, the success in quelling the rebellion was enough to be reported to the Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Department, and the superiors might also use this to report their merits to the court, and the benefits were immeasurable.
"Tomorrow I will go out of the city to meet the Haihan people. Mr. Huang will stay in the city and plunder the formation for me on the top of the city!" Zhang Pucheng quickly made a decision and thought it was worth taking the risk.
Huang Qu didn't raise any objections this time. Although he didn't quite believe how well-intentioned the Haihan people were, since the other party took the initiative to meet and negotiate, there was no reason to refuse such a request. If he could really report merit to his superiors on the grounds of Wan Jiajun, he also believed that the weight of this merit could at least be reported to Shandong Dusi. It was basically a certainty to get a reward, and maybe he could get a promotion because of it. After all, the Jiaodong Peninsula ascended There are still many vacancies in the military in Lai and Liangfu. Now as long as you can have military merit, you have a good chance of getting promoted.
"In that case, I will gather the soldiers in the city tomorrow to escort Mr. Zhang at the east gate." Huang Qu also immediately expressed his support. Anyway, he and Zhang Pucheng are now trapped in Fushan County. They are like grasshoppers tied to a rope. Instead of being hung up and down like this, it would be better to talk to the Haihan people, maybe you can use your strength to gain fame.
Harugong set the meeting time until the next day, mainly because they were too busy dealing with prisoners of war and cleaning the battlefield. After the battle, they contacted Zhifu Island through the radio and asked them to send more ships to the upper reaches of the Jiahe River to transport prisoners of war.
According to preliminary statistics, more than 1,100 prisoners of war were captured in this battle, more than 170 enemy people were killed, and a large number of weapons, including several native cannons, were seized. However, Haihan failed to maintain a record of zero casualties in this battle. Two of Harugong's cavalry troops were killed, six were wounded, and several horses were injured. On the contrary, the infantry and artillerymen responsible for the firepower output on the frontal battlefield did not suffer any battle damage. Only one person was slightly injured due to the explosion of the rifle. Although Harugong felt sorry for the casualties suffered by the cavalry in this battle, he still accepted it calmly. After all, a small amount of cavalry was used to accumulate ten times the infantry. If the casualties could be kept in single digits, it was considered a pretty good job. Such a record is also due to the advanced weapons equipped by the cavalry, which allows the soldiers to take a preemptive strike during the battle and cause damage to the enemy while maintaining a certain safe distance. The cavalrymen who were killed and injured almost always happened when they used their sabers to engage the enemy in close combat after the bullets were fired. On the one hand, this proves the necessity for cavalry to equip muskets. On the other hand, it also exposes the shortcomings of cavalry's combat skills in using cold weapons.
Harugong believes that this is mainly due to lack of combat experience. Compared with veterans of the Navy and special operations battalions who have performed many missions overseas, although the cavalry unit has been established for several years and daily training has never been relaxed, actual combat Experience is indeed relatively lacking. Many cavalry soldiers officially set foot on the battlefield for the first time after coming to Shandong. The strength they can display will be more or less compromised. If they want to improve, they can only hope to be trained and trained in actual combat. Summary after the war.
Haihan chose Zhifu Island in Dengzhou as his base. One of the purposes was to prepare for crossing the Bohai Bay to the north to establish a base in the Liaodong Peninsula. The enemy he would face then was the Manchu people outside the pass who were good at fighting on horseback. People, if the quality of the cavalry is not good enough, they will suffer a lot when they go to Liaodong later. Harugong came from a world hundreds of years in the future. He knew that one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty army could not defeat the Qing Dynasty was that the cavalry skills were inferior to others, so he always attached great importance to the cultivation of the combat capabilities of his troops, including war horses, weapons and equipment, and training. We are trying our best to provide the best conditions in terms of methods, but what we lack now is indeed combat experience.
However, the cavalry tactics that Harugong learned and mastered were almost all based on the equipment of muskets. He actually did not know much about the techniques of real cold weapon combat, and the skills he could teach to his subordinates were relatively limited, and the South It is difficult to find military attachés from the Ming Dynasty who are skilled in cavalry combat to assist in teaching. Therefore, although the cavalry battalion has been established for several years, the improvement of the soldiers' cold weapon combat skills is significantly slower than that in other fields. Harugong can only hope for the moment. Practical combat can allow some of them to realize some combat skills.
Of course, Chen Yixin and Harugong would not let these prisoners of war just sit idle before they were transported back to Zhifu Island. After conducting body searches and preliminary identification of the prisoners of war, the Haihan Army took these prisoners of war to the existing construction site in batches and asked them to do some rough work such as leveling the ground, excavating earth, and transporting sand and gravel to further expand the camp. Be prepared. It is a little regrettable that there are not enough labor tools in Haihan camp, so it is impossible to make full use of the labor force of prisoners of war, and can only use about half of them.
The refugees who had already boarded the ship before the war had to return to the shore because the limited transportation capacity had to be used to first send the more dangerous prisoners of war back to Zhifu Island, while the ordinary people could only stay here to wait for Haihan. Immigration ships were sent later. However, the refugees had no complaints about this arrangement. Most of them had watched the previous battles on the boat and by the river, and witnessed how the local overlord Wanjiajun collapsed in an instant. For The combat effectiveness displayed by the Haihan Army was naturally convincing. The arrival of a large number of prisoners of war replaced the physical labor that originally needed to be done by the refugees, so it seemed that there would be no problem in staying for another day and a half.
Before nightfall that day, more than 500 prisoners of war were transported from the river bank strongholds, and the remaining prisoners of war and refugees had to wait for the fleet that would arrive the next day. However, all the captured leaders of the Wanjia Army stayed here to prepare for the exchange conditions in the subsequent negotiations with the local officials.
The next day, Harugong led a company of cavalry and slowly rode out of the camp, heading towards the east gate of the county. In the previous day's agreement, he did not mention whether he could bring armed entourage, and he did not intend to take the risk of asking Da to make fun of his own life. Although the local government did not show obvious hostility, there was not much contact between the two parties, and they could not It is guaranteed that the Ming officials in the county will have kind thoughts towards him, and there may be remnants of the bandits in the slums outside the city. As long as you bring a company of cavalry with you, you can basically ensure the safety of your life.
There was originally a market outside the east gate of the county. In the past, people who lived by the sea would transport their catch from Jiahe River to the market in the county for sale. Over time, the buying and selling of various local commodities spontaneously gathered here. It is a relatively lively place in Fushan County. However, during the Denglai Rebellion, a large number of refugees from all over the country poured into the county to escape the war, and the bustling market here quickly turned into a refugee camp. Most of the businessmen with some property decisively sold their goods and left here to flee south. . Various shops were quickly taken over by the refugees and turned into chaotic dormitories.
After Harugong's cavalry company arrived here, they quickly cleared out a former teahouse, kicked out the few refugees living here, and then simply tidied up the house, leaving only a set of tables and chairs, and the rest. All the junk was thrown out.
When Harugong and his party arrived, Zhang Pucheng and Huang Qu also saw it on the top of the city. When things came to a close, Zhang Pucheng couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and specifically told Huang Qu: "If the Haihan people are not well-intentioned and take my officer to threaten Kaicheng, Mr. Huang must not be fooled!"
Huang Qu nodded and said: "The situation will not deteriorate to this point, Mr. Zhang, don't worry."
He comforted Zhang Pucheng, but he couldn't help but think in his heart that if the situation mentioned by Zhang Pucheng really happened, then of course it would be better to surrender in Kaicheng, at least to save his life. Otherwise, with the small number of defenders in the city, they would not be able to stop him for a few times. After arriving at the city, they would inevitably be angered by the Haihan people. They might be dragged out and beheaded, which would be too unfair.
Zhang Pucheng bravely climbed down the tower and asked the defenders to open the gate. Different from the pomp and display put on by Haihan, he only led four personal entourage, plus two bearers carrying the sedan chair, out of the city to meet the Haihan people. It's not that Zhang Pucheng doesn't want to show off, it's just that there are only a few dozen people stationed in the city by the county government. If he takes a few more people out of the city, the city's defense will become even weaker. However, when he left the city, several local squires and landlords came to see him off after hearing the news, which gave Zhang Pucheng some psychological comfort. At least the local leading figures expressed their support for him to go out of the city to negotiate with Haihan people. Public opinion was still On your own side.
Of course, Zhang Pucheng also knew the purpose of these people, which was simply hoping that he could deal with the Haihan people outside the city and prevent Fushan County from falling into war.
(End of chapter)