Chapter 1205 Qin Lang
Yacheng, official hall.
A pair of exquisite sand table models of the Luzon Islands made of clay are placed on the table. Different colors represent the islands, roads, rivers, oceans, woods, villages, mountains and hills.
Small flags of different colors represent several forces on the island, and can also indicate the corresponding quantity.
Compared with ordinary paper maps, this kind of sand table model that can intuitively display topography and landforms is undoubtedly more vivid, intuitive and vivid, and it is also conducive to studying military deployment on the sand table.
"Next, at present, there are a large number of Turkish troops gathered in the south and north of San Francisco, and the east of Xinjin Mountain. According to reconnaissance, although they have been defeated by us several times, they have not injured their muscles and bones, and their numbers are still increasing. among."
Qin picked up several flags with different beasts painted on them and stuck them on the sand table.
On the map, the huge Luzon Islands are quite decently drawn, without too much distortion. Now on Luzon Island, countless beast flags have appeared around the central plain, even in the central area surrounded by both ends of New San Francisco. On the plain, many wild animal banners also began to appear.
A flag represents at least one hundred soldiers.
So many small flags are really scary.
Although Qin Lang also knew that although this flag represented a hundred people, it could not be wrong, but it couldn't really be a hundred soldiers. But even if there are too many mobs, it is still quite scary.
"They are planning to play crowd tactics with us, trying to overwhelm us with a numerical advantage."
Shan Sili sneered a few times disapprovingly, "Next, if it was so easy to succeed, then we would not have been able to win Wu'an, let alone wipe out the Zuoxi rebels, put down Juding, and even break Heman."
"That's right, I think, we still have to take the initiative to attack. No matter how they gather, let's concentrate our troops and horses, and focus on fighting all the way first, and defeat each one. It just so happens that we have now obtained the official status of the imperial court, so we don't need to be sneaky anymore If it develops, arrest all these barbarians and serve as slaves to help build cities, roads, mines and fields!" Jia Wu proposed loudly.
Qin Lang stared at the sand table, "The ears of rice are golden, and it's time to harvest. Harvesting takes time, and the rice will fall to the ground if it is delayed, and even germinate immediately. And after the early rice is harvested in summer, we have to rush to plant the late rice, Harvesting, sun-drying, plowing, and transplanting rice seedlings, this is the busiest season of double-grabbing, and it only takes about ten days, so you have to be busy."
"We don't have that much time to deploy too many people to fight, at least we have to prepare to harvest rice now."
"But those Tibetans will not let us feel at ease to harvest the rice first and then plant the late rice before coming to fight with us!"
Qin used the governor of San Francisco, Shan Sili, who was newly appointed as the training envoy of the San Francisco regiment, and Cao Shenjun, the San Francisco state soldier, and Jia Wu's attitudes were very clear.
But Qin Lang looked at the sand table, but obviously had other plans.
Luzon needs to harvest early rice and plant late rice, and Wu'an is actually similar, so although he recruited the old troops this time, he can only come to some servants first in a short time, and more troops will have to be recruited after the double robbing is completed. Come together.
"The rice is not easy to cultivate, so it should not be wasted. Moreover, the farming season must not be missed. If the autumn is delayed, there will be no harvest."
In Qin Lang's view, judging from the current situation, even if it is a plan to defeat each of them, with so many soldiers, it is estimated that after one or two battles, it will be delayed to double grabbing time, let alone fight one by one.
"First ensure the summer harvest and grab the farming season, and then come to clean them up." Qin Lang said slowly.
"But how can Fanzi cooperate?"
Qin Lang paced to the sand table, tapped the sand table a few times with his fingers, then grabbed a few blood shield golden lion flags, and inserted them in the positions he had just chosen.
"Divide the troops and garrison them."
Qin Lang's plan surprised everyone.
"The natives on the island can be divided into two categories. One is the Barangay village community from Boni country, and the Dajiawu community from Champa and Funan earlier. In fact, these two groups were also Very fragmented, with many loose alliances formed, without an effective organization."
"Although there are many of them, their equipment is very backward, especially those big houses, which still carry bronze swords, animal teeth, spears and arrows, so I think we can change our thinking to deal with them."
Qin Lang proposed to build more forts near the two centers of New San Francisco. It doesn’t need to be too big or too strong, even if it’s a small earthen building, small wooden village, or small stone fortress, where dozens of people and hundreds of people are stationed, and then they form chains with each other. It can also play a powerful role.
Based on the equipment of the natives, it is more difficult to attack the city.
"We chose to build these small forts on some estuaries along the west and south coasts of Houhu Lake, and then built some forts on the coastal estuaries in Xinjinshan Bay, San Francisco Bay, and Batangas Bay. We have Control of the sea, connect these fortresses with Houhu and Nanhu through the sea, form an overall defense, and divide and intercept the natives."
Batangas is a native transliteration, which originally means beams and pillars. It is said that because it is located on the seashore and there are many typhoons and rains, the houses of the natives often collapse, so the local people attach great importance to the beams and columns of the houses. They are all stout and very famous, so they got such a name.
It is like the name of Luzon, which is also a transliteration from the natives. The original meaning is that the tall rocky capes at the entrance of Manila Bay are like wooden pestles for pounding rice, and Luzon means wooden pestles.
Manila is because on both sides of the Pasig River that flows into the sea, there are many aquatic plants called Nila, which are very beautiful.
The Qin family's previous attacks on Masier in Batangas and Mayeh Village in Mindoro were very successful, which shows that the strength of the natives is indeed mediocre.
"Everyone, the rainy season is coming." Qin Lang reminded everyone of an important fact.
Although Luzon is in the South China Sea, its climate is actually similar to that of Linyi and Funan. Every year is divided into a rainy season and a dry season, which can also be subdivided into a cool season.
Generally speaking, the period from the Dragon Boat Festival to Mid-Autumn Festival is the rainy season, while the period from September to the beginning of the next spring is the cool season, and the period from February to May is the dry season.
Belongs to a typical monsoon tropical rainforest climate, high temperature, rainy, high humidity, and many typhoons.
Although Luzon Island, especially the central plain where the Qin family is located today, is in a unique location, the east and west sides are protected by two large mountain ranges, which can reduce typhoon attacks, and the wetness of the rainy season can provide good rain for rice.
Early rice is affected by water shortage in the dry season at first, and later by typhoons in the rainy season. With the fertile land and sufficient rainwater, the yield is not very high.
If the crops are not harvested in time, a sudden typhoon may completely wipe out a season's harvest.
And during the rainy season, it is very inconvenient to fight wars. The water volume of rivers soars, and floods occur in many places. During typhoons, the sea is not calm, and the rough seas affect sailing.
If you want to fight, try to wait until the cool and dry seasons.
"We use defense instead of offense, let them fight, and we will fight back at the door."
"Then set up strongholds and fortresses at some important estuaries along the coast and lakes, threatening their rear at any time. If they dare to attack with all their strength, we will copy their lairs from behind. If they divide their troops and stay behind, then it will be more convenient for us to wait for work."
Typhoons are frequent during the rainy season, and the precipitation increases. The Qin family can completely stay in the various castles and fortresses to wait for work, while the natives will be hit by storms and flooded by rain.
The Houhu mentioned by Qin Lang was previously called Donghu Lake or Xuanwu Lake. It was later called Neihu Lake. It is a huge freshwater lake with a length of hundreds of miles and an area of nearly a thousand square kilometers. It is next to San Francisco and has a river leading into San Francisco. bay.
The distance from the south end of Houhu Lake to Batangas Bay is only 120 miles, and this road is basically a plain.
At the southwestern end of the Neihu Lake, there is a rather large village of Barangai, with more than a thousand households. The natives call it Water Tank, because it is said to be rich in pottery.
Qin Lang pointed to this place, and sent a fleet of ships from San Francisco Bay Pier, carrying soldiers along the Qin River into the Houhu Lake, and then sailed a hundred miles in the Houhu Lake to reach the Water Tank Village by the lake.
After taking down Water Tank Village, build a stronghold fort along the lake and river there.
Then at the same time, another fleet was sent to the southwest from San Francisco Bay and circled to Batangas Bay, a hundred miles south of Water Tank Village. Shan Sili had already broken through this village before and recruited them, but later they were captured by the natives. The coalition forces attacked again, and it is said that tens of thousands of people in the village were slaughtered.
Although it is not known whether it is true or not, the village belonging to the Qin family has indeed lost contact.
Qin Lang plans to capture this village again, and then establish a stronghold, one south, one north, and Shui Can Village to block both ends of this more than 100-mile-long plain corridor.
This corridor is far less expansive and fertile than the central plain, but the reason why Qin Lang attaches great importance to it is that the Batangas Port itself is the core of the Batangas Peninsula, and the Bicol Peninsula, which extends to the southeast, also passes through Batangas. This corridor of geese leads to the shore of the back lake, and then connects to the Central Plains of Luzon.
Therefore, Qin Lang believes that the passage between Shuican Village (Kalanbang in the native language) and Batangas must be under control, so that the tail in the southeast of Luzon Island can be cut off and the natives there cannot come.
After controlling this plain corridor at the same time, it also took away the most fertile area of the Batangas Peninsula, and squeezed the natives here to the mountains, or blocked them in the corridor.
Facing the natives who still had an absolute advantage in number, Qin Lang thought it was necessary to build more strongholds, and by the way, he could entrust some retainers there.
We can’t all crowd in the central plain, this treasure land is Qin Lang’s private land, at most we can share some corners and corners with everyone, it’s impossible to share them all.
Conquering the natives is a long-term war, and it cannot be settled in one battle, so he did not plan to send troops everywhere, and then try to fight the natives to decide the outcome. This is unrealistic.
"Maye Village should also go to rebuild the stronghold at the right time and garrison the fields."
Seize strategic locations such as coastal areas and estuaries, and then enfeoff your retainers, blooming in all directions!
Next, Qin Lang divided Luzon into several war zones. He supervised the military in various parts of Luzon, and then set up several towns, defensive envoys, defensive envoys, and regiment training envoys.
The governor of the state government, the county magistrate, and Zhu Cao joined the army are responsible for administration, justice, and finance. However, prefectures and counties do not care about the military, and are only responsible for public security. Sima is in charge of judiciary and public security in prefectures, and county captains are in charge of public security and litigation in counties.
Qin Lang also specially set up the post of general judge under the governor of the state. This general judgment is different from deputy officials like Chang Shi and Sima. It is stipulated that the general judgment and the governor are in the same state affairs, and all official documents that need to be signed by the governor must be signed by the general judge to be effective.
This is his borrowing from the general judge of the Song Dynasty. The general judge of the Song Dynasty is not essentially a subordinate of the governor, but exists like a prison state. The governor, and later the third term.
Qin Lang first cut off the military power of the governor, and then set up a new power to judge and divide the governor. It is also considering that Luzon is a private land, and it will be governed by the Qin family in the future, and there will no longer be officials from the court, so it must It has to be as perfect as possible from the beginning.
Military power is always vested in the Dudufu, and then the Dudufu, outside the prefectures and counties, has set up a military system of town defense envoys and guarding unity envoys.
Defense envoys focus on guarding, such as state cities, ports, castles, etc., while regimental envoys focus on daily security maintenance, united soldiers training, etc. This is actually similar to the northern and southern yamen of the imperial court. The defense envoys are responsible for stationing and guarding during non-war times, which is equivalent to the imperial army of the northern yamen. The regiment training envoy is responsible for the usual troop management, recruitment and selection, training exercises, etc.
The state government has finances, but no army.
Defense envoys and regimental training envoys have defense areas and soldiers, but no financial rights, food, equipment, etc., all need supply and support from the state and county.
The right to send troops is in the hands of the governor.
While civil and military divisions govern each other, they also restrict each other to avoid chaos.
At the same time, Qin Lang also stipulated that civil servants in prefectures and counties, including official positions, are also appointed every three years, with one exam every year and one exam every three years. The performance evaluation is strictly conducted like the imperial court, and those who fail in the evaluation will be demoted or dismissed. Those with excellent grades will be promoted after passing the exam, and those with average grades will also be relocated.
All the armed forces of the vassals are under the command of the Dudu Mansion. They are usually led by the training envoys of each regiment, and the defense envoys are under the command of the Panshang or guards.
The state Sima and the county lieutenant commanded the patrolling archers, as well as the local security guards to maintain law and order.
Renamed Batangas as Yancheng, and granted the seventh son Yaoling the magistrate of Yancheng. Changed Kalamba to Lancheng, and granted the eighth son the county magistrate of Lancheng...
Qin Lang selected thirteen strongholds at one go, all of which were key locations along the coast and at the mouth of the lake, and set up counties, townships, forts, villages, etc. in these places, and discussed with Qin Yong and others to send ships to transport troops to build castles and fortresses. It doesn't need to be built very big, and it doesn't need too many people. It can accommodate one or two hundred people at the beginning.
Take supplies such as grain, grass, ordnance with the ship, and prepare for long-term garrison.
One of the characteristics of these places is that the fleet of the Qin family can directly reach the supply place. There are good ports, estuaries, and fertile plain land in the surrounding area, which will be conducive to development and transportation in the future.
(end of this chapter)