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Moreover, their land was seized by the gentry, and Mao Jue was able to give them a way to survive when they were desperate. These people were also grateful.

To be honest, I blame Mao Jue for this matter. He really didn't expect that after the Japanese pirates suffered a disastrous defeat this year, they would dare to attack his shipyard, so he didn't have troops in Xiongjin. It was burned and more than 300 people were killed.

Surprisingly, the Japanese pirates did not grab anything. After only occupying the shipyard for a day, they hurriedly retreated.

"Tell them! I will take care of everything, let them organize as many people as possible, and return to the shipyard. The food and relief will arrive in a few days!"

Amid the thousands of thanks, more than a dozen village elders kowtowed in gratitude and retreated. Amidst their yelling, the refugees all over the street slowly packed up the old luggage in their hands, and walked slowly towards the seaside again.

But this time, the lifeless Xiongjin seemed to have a little more vitality called hope.

Mao Jue, on the other hand, became even more angry and rushed to the Yamen of Xiongjin County. In the Japanese pirate attack more than ten days ago, Yin Shu asked for help from Xiongjin County, but instead of being rescued, the bastard city guard closed the city tightly. Dozens of workers on the shipyard were slaughtered at the gate of this city.Now that Mao Jue is back, we must settle accounts with him!

But when Mao Jue rushed into the county government office in a rage, he found that the revenge had already been paid, and he was greeted by a long and sad face.

"Master Li, why are you here?"

The unlucky Zhang Chengshou has disappeared, and he doesn't know what crime he was charged with, and which dark cell he was put in. The person who greeted Mao Jue was a city guard surnamed Li who had just come to take office in the past two days, and was in his office. After greeting, Mao Jue saw an old face he was familiar with in the back hall.

The behind-the-scenes leader of the Dongren Party, Jeonju Li Yuanyi!

It's just that the old guy's demeanor was not as good as it was a few months ago, and a black cloak covered most of his shameful old face, and the old guy clasped his fists in a panic.

"General Mao, something big is not right!"

"Jeju has fallen! Those goddamn Japanese pirates threatened to attack me next year if they don't return the three people that Wang Jing robbed, and shake off all the grievances and grievances between the old man and the Japanese! "

I'm afraid the latter sentence is what Li Yuanyi is really worried about, otherwise he wouldn't have betrayed Li's North Korea for his own benefit back then.

But the old guy's words really gave Mao Jue a headache and knocked his head. I really don't know whether the Japanese pirates are too strong or the Li Dynasty is too weak. Jeju is Jeju Island, a tourist attraction for later generations, and it is also a part of Jeolla Province. In the case of victory, it can still be lost here. With such a stronghold, the Japanese pirates really can fight wherever they want on the entire peninsula.

"Lord Li, even if your dynasty reduces its army, there are tens of thousands of troops capable of conscripting good fighters, right? The Japanese pirates are only a few thousand, so it shouldn't be a problem to recover Jeju Island, right? Why is it so urgent to come here?"

"Hey, General Mao, don't make fun of the old man. I don't know who knows what happened in the battle of Neilin Mountain? To regain this Jeju Island, it must be the Great Tomorrow Army. I hope the general will see what the old man has always done. For the sake of obedience, give me a hand!"

The old guy simply bowed sadly. With his appearance, Mao Jue suddenly realized that even if Li Chao had the strength to recover Jeju, he would not dare to use it!Once the general who marched into Jeju finds something from the Japanese pirates, he will be doomed, and the Li family in Quanzhou can also become history. It seems that he is the only military general who knows the inside story and is willing to join him. Li Yuanyi will not come to him. It's really weird.

"Master Li, it's not that I, Mao, don't want to help you. The Dongjiang fleet belongs to Mao's father, and it is ready to be dispatched by the court at any time. I can't adjust it. You have seen this Xiongjin. The boat I just got up was burned by Japanese pirates." , and just this month, our troops are still in the bloody battle with Jiannu at the Daling River, with heavy casualties, and in a short while, the general will really not be able to spare any troops to help you!"

If you don’t take advantage, you’re a fool! This old guy begs himself, if he doesn’t scrape oil from him, his hairy head will be caught by the door. Besides, what he said is not a lie, the Tieyi Corps He just came back from the Liaodong battlefield full of scars, so he couldn't immediately go to Jeju to give his life to this old guy, right?

"The time can be delayed. Now, no one in the DPRK is willing to lead troops to fight. The parties are evading in a mess. It will take several months to prepare for the Japanese attack. As long as they are ready before March next year!"

This Li Yuanyi was really on the road, with his old face turned flat, he clasped his fists heavily and bowed down again.

"As for what General Mao needs? I will give it to Li with all my strength!"

Chapter 128. Foreign Mercenary Corps

The phoenix is ​​always like this. It decays under the invasion of time again and again, but it can be reborn in the raging fire, and it is even more dazzling, making people dare not look directly at it. Mao Jue's Xiongjin Shipyard is now like that phoenix. After more than ten days of looting by the Japanese, it once again regained its vigorous vitality.

In fact, food and salaries have not yet arrived, and more than 5 workers are completely without salary and food. They can only rely on the small grains allocated by Xiongjin County to make ends meet. There is only one meal a day, and no one can eat enough.

But these tens of thousands of craftsmen are still working hard, as if they have already considered themselves as human beings, working hard, the wood drying on the beach is carried to the shipyard by workers like ants, and the ponds on the beach It was also quickly cleaned up. On the third day, the 75-meter-long keel once again showed its proud figure in the six ponds.

You can only know the value if you lose it. Even if Mao Jue is a Ming person, this shipyard is the last hope for these refugees. If it is gone, they will have nowhere to go. They will either starve to death or become despised degenerates. For fear that Mao Jue would not be happy, these workers worked so hard that hundreds of people were exhausted in one day, forcing Mao Jue to have no choice but to order three shifts. During the rest time, these refugee workers were not allowed to go out and had to rest and sleep in the dormitory .

This gentry's influence in Li's North Korea made Mao Jue admire again. On the third day, before Mao Jue's own supplies arrived, the supplies obtained by Li Yuanyi through the relationship with the Dongren Party had already entered the shipyard first. The supplies include the iron tools Mao Jue urgently needs, food, clothes and clothes, and there are even truckloads of coal, limestone and volcanic ash. There are many mountains in Li Dynasty, and there are really a lot of volcanic ash resources. It is not difficult to obtain materials, but it is difficult After transporting it from the mountains to the shipyard, Li Yuanyi, a retired leader, actually mobilized [-] Koryo soldiers to transport it. The old face of the old guy is really valuable.

With these things, Ke Gongjue has more places to play.

"One, two, three, down!"

Amidst the chants and shouts, on a sandbank deep into the sea to the east of the shipyard, the solidified concrete block was pushed into the sea with a crash, splashing a large amount of water, and the shipyard worker pushing the wheelbarrow immediately trotted backwards. Going back and forth like this, a small piece of tidal flat buried under the high tide sea has been paved.

On the nearby stone mountain, there are also hundreds of shirtless workers who are desperately beating and digging on the granite stone mountain with hammers, transporting the gravel down continuously. In the shipyard, in the burning furnace , followed by lime powder, mixed with volcanic ashes in the pool and stirred into cement, and then placed in wooden troughs one by one to solidify into concrete blocks.

At the end of the Warring States period, Li Bing and his son of the Qin State also filled in water to build Dujiangyan in the same way. However, Mao Jue was not so ambitious. He was satisfied with filling a few hundred square meters. The location of the Xiongjin Shipyard is indeed good, with great tidal currents. With inland river tidal flats, ships are built when the tide is low, and the boats can be pushed directly into the sea through the inland river when the tide is high. But in terms of defense, there is really no danger here. , A large number of Japanese pirates climbed over the wall of the shipyard built by Mao Jue and rushed in to kill and set fire. The surrounding area is still sandy, and there is no place for defense, so Mao Jue is cruel this time. Build an English-style coastal defense castle at the offensive position.

Once the big fort stands on the sea, the Japanese pirates shut down the ship, Xiao Zao, the thousand stone ship dare to come again?Can't kill him!

However, no matter how good a ship is, it needs people to guard it, but what Mao Jue lacks most now is people. Even if you add Yizhou and the territory of the two counties, the population is only about [-], less than [-], excluding the old and the weak. The sick and disabled, including men from [-] to [-], are only about [-]. This is thanks to the fact that Dongjiang Town is almost built by refugees from Liaodong. Most of the old and weak are filtered out by war and famine. Yes, most of the people who can survive are strong, and this is the only way to achieve such a ratio.

Mao Jue now has an arsenal under his control, which needs manpower, a brewery, which needs manpower, a cement plant, which needs manpower, road construction, which needs manpower, building castles, which also needs manpower, and the biggest farming still needs manpower. After all, there is nothing to eat. The mountains are empty, Mao Jue's social model is undoubtedly advanced, but unfortunately the population can no longer keep up with his pace of industrialization.

In particular, Tieyi is still a military town. Mao Jue's Tieyi corps suffered heavy losses in this battle. They will soon face expansion and reorganization, and manpower is needed. Mao Jue is almost out of corps in Tieyi. This shipyard?As a result, Mao Jue was forced to create a system that had been able to affect the huge military town under his command for an unknown number of years.

Foreign Mercenary Corps System!

The source of soldiers directly selects young and strong refugees from Nankaido, and the treatment is more than one level lower than that of Mao Jue's Tieyi Corps. There are only five hundred yuan of military pay, one stone of coarse grain, and two buckets of fine grain every month. I am afraid that even weavers cannot be recruited, but among the refugee group who have almost no wages and only take care of food, it is no less than the temptation of a wealthy son-in-law.

And if you want to be a regular worker and a foreman, you need skills and qualifications, but to be a soldier, you just need to have the strength!

So as soon as Li Yuanyi's food arrived and everyone had enough to eat, Mao Jue immediately ordered conscription, and [-] foolish Koreans were recruited into the army, forming three regiments of bears. Tianjin Mercenary Corps.

With the source of soldiers, it is easy to handle. Mao Jue now has a lot of the most precious military resources officers in his hand these days. After the battle with the Japanese and the cruel night-time melee in the Battle of Daling River, the soldiers who survived are amazing. Most of them are qualified to serve as low-level officers and whistle chiefs, and there is no shortage of higher-level talents, such as the deputy artillery commander, Sun Chun, the son of Xiaochun. In the Eight Banners position, but with his combat awareness, he actually brought about 80 artillerymen and more than [-] guards to delay the attack of a Niulu in the Zhenglan Banner, creating an opportunity for Mao Jue to besiege the Huangtaiji Golden Tent.

But now Mao Jue didn't have many officers on hand, only more than 100 personal guards around him, so Wen Meng was pushed out as the chief instructor.

Although the end of August is close to autumn, the autumn tiger is still very hot, the sun is so hot that people are getting oily, and the side of the shipyard is still busy, and the laborers carrying the big logs are sweating like rain, transporting logs, There is no time to rest at all, and the carpenters with axes and saws also have no time to light a cigarette. The wood on hand is smoked, and they are used in the pond, soaking in the wet and salty sea water to build the plank of the ship. Half of the boatman's body was soaked white and swollen.

On the other side, [-] Korean mercenaries were basking in the sun.

In this battle, Meng Guang's arrows hit eight arrows, and there were countless slashes and scratches on his body, but Mao Jue was squatting in the office to recuperate, but this guy was already alive and well in the tidal flats Even Mao Jue wondered if he had a mental illness. He was more enthusiastic than ever about "fucking" men.

Just listening to his rough voice almost suppressing the noise of the shipyard, it echoed ugly on the tidal flat.

"Fuck me, cheer me up! What a blessing you are! Look at the other end, you can't get a hundred dollars for a month of hard work, you don't have to do anything, just stand, and you can get it in a month." I got [-] liters, and I have cigarettes! I have wheat to eat! You don’t want to repay the kindness of the general. Are you animals? Say you! Stand up straight for me, if you dare Bend and squat until dark!"

Now I don't even have a flintlock gun at hand, and I can't let these recruits idle, so the most exhausting military posture training and queue training take up the schedule of the mercenary regiment. At first I heard that soldiers don't have to work, It’s enough to just stand and walk. A group of young people from Goryeo applied for the job like a head-scratcher, but when it comes to hard work, nine out of the first ten here regret it. The voices of the folks and brothers working hard, they can't wait for a change.

Whoever stands knows!

It's okay to quit now, as long as you keep your head, Mao Jue will let it go generously. Of course, Mao Jue doesn't care if you can still eat, work and sleep with your wife without your head.

Almost one personal soldier looked at thirty people, standing on the beach like a stance, and each of the Korean recruits dared not even move, in case they offended these Ming military masters, so as to be caught out and squatting, that thing In fact, recruits who have squatted once will not dare to do it a second time even if they are tired and cramp.

But today seems to be their lucky day. On this day, they had just conducted military posture training for half an hour. On the beach, a shadow of a sail suddenly appeared from the sea level. The castle has not yet been cast. For the sake of coastal defense, Mao Jue ordered Several five- to six-meter-high wooden frames were set up on the shore, and the guards on them were blowing whistles and shaking two small flags in their hands. Wen Meng couldn't help turning his head when he heard this, and looked at the flags for a while, the old man's face There was an excited complaint on his face.

"Fatty Su, the bastard, finally came!"

He also blew his whistle violently, and Mao Jue's personal soldiers who were walking in the queue, known as the Living Hades, walked out of the queue, and the Korean soldiers in the queue immediately sat on the ground limply, but soon, these guys Gathered together in twos and threes, took out the scythe, one of them held one in his mouth, and then began to swallow the clouds, with expressions of enjoyment on their faces.

Later generations followed the pace of the US military in World War II. Camel cigarettes, Coca-Cola, jeeps, and chewing gum brought a cultural color of the US military to the world. During World War II, each soldier in the US military could distribute five to seven packs of cigarettes a week. It really helped the recruits calm down after the cruel and bloody battles, and allowed the blood-stained veterans to enjoy the rare tranquility in the trenches. Victory, indeed, has a little credit for cigarettes.

So whether it is the pro-corps or the mercenary group, Mao Jue can supply two packs of cigarettes a week. I have to say that with this thing as a spiritual potion, the desertion rate of the mercenary group is actually lower than that of the pro-corps. Unable to bear the craving for cigarettes, Wen Meng ran back to surrender himself. Wen Meng was angry and laughed, and made him squat for three days with a cigarette in his mouth.

At one end, a group of rookies who didn't even have military uniforms sat around and puffed their clouds. On the other end, Wen Meng also surrounded Mao Jue to the beach. The boat was getting closer and closer, and the boat could still be seen clearly. Su Changmei's chubby face