The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 227
Qin Liangyu came in a hurry, and the guards waiting outside told the Patriarch that the two generals should be talking with General Huang at Peony Pavilion at this time.

Of course the old lady wouldn't go upstairs, she didn't even want to stay in such a place for a moment, calling for her daughter and daughter-in-law to leave immediately.

Qin Liangyu was also extremely disappointed in his heart, thinking that Huang Han was too young after all, and it was inevitable to be frivolous when he was a teenager, and it seemed embarrassing to use.

Hearing her mother's shout, Qin Yuyi knew that she had already gotten into trouble and came out from behind her sister-in-law without saying a word.

There were so many people here, Qin Liangyu had the sense to say nothing, but just gave his daughter a hard look.

The melon-eaters watching outside were even more enthusiastic. The Yichun Courtyard did not know what kind of official luck it had given. A few days ago, the elders of the court and the masters of Fantai came here for a visit. Today, the famous Mrs. Qin Liangyu came here again.

It seems that the story of Yichunyuan is very bizarre, very fragrant and legendary!In this way, rumors spread like wildfire, and the gossip about Qin Yuyi and Huang Han's private decision for life became the talk of many good people at the drinking table.

It didn't take long for the emperor to hear about it. He was inexplicably astonished. Qin Yuyi was a descendant of a hero who was worshiped in the Daming Temple. With such rumors, how could the court sit idly by?He quickly ordered Cao Huachun to send someone to investigate.

The Yichun Courtyard became the focus again. When the four beauties were guessing in the Peony Pavilion whether Huang Han was fighting with the Tartars, more than [-] members of the "Red Banner Army" had been out of the customs for two days.

The men and horses have now left Da'ankou and marched northeast for nearly two hundred miles, but they don't know how far they are from Harqin Qingcheng.

Based on historical knowledge, Huang Han came to the prairie that originally belonged to Duoyan Sanwei to attack the Harqin Tartars. He only knew that the general location of Qingcheng was between Chengde and Chifeng in later generations.

The exact location was unknown, and Huang Han was not worried about not being able to find Qingcheng, because he knew that there were very few cities on the prairie, and the Qingcheng of the Harqin Tartars should be a place where the Tartars traded hundreds of miles away.

The "Red Banner Army" fully dispatched eleven elite cavalrymen of the general banner to reconnaissance with a large force twenty miles ahead. They were separated by four or five miles, which was equivalent to combing the prairie from the front of fifty miles.

This is not a no-man's land. With such a large search area, there should be nine out of ten yurts encountered by Tartars.

As long as the Mongols are caught and they are separated and tortured separately, it is not too difficult to get the specific location of Karaqin Qingcheng.

Liu Zhilun has been keeping in touch with Huang Han since Jiannu left the customs, and the "Red Banner Army" frequently practiced and was able to freely enter and leave the governor's jurisdiction with Liu Zhilun's consent and support.

At that time, Huang Han explained that the frequent activities of the "Red Banner Army" at the pass of the Great Wall where Jizhen is located will make the Tartars and slaves nervous and unsafe, and it will make the Ming army no surprise, and the "Red Banner Army" will launch another surprise attack in the future War can be sudden.

Huang Han and Liu Zhilun cooperated to kill the enemy without exception, adopting surprise tactics, and every time they would first feint a shot to confuse the enemy.

Therefore, Liu Zhilun had great trust in Huang Han. Seeing that the "Red Banner Army" was mobilized frequently under the pretext of training, he sensed the undercurrent.

The firearms training of the "Red Banner Army" is willing to spend a lot of money. Now they are all conducting live ammunition drills. The scrapping rate of bird guns and carrying guns is not small, and the consumption of gunpowder is too high. Their own gunpowder workshop has just started production, and the supply of skilled workers and raw materials is not enough. in perfection.

Therefore, the output of gunpowder produced by Huang's is not high, and it is barely enough to maintain normal drills, and the gunpowder reserves required to launch large-scale military operations are not enough.

At the end of September, through Zheng Guochang, Huang Han received three thousand catties of black gunpowder produced by Daming’s Gunpowder Bureau in Gyeonggi, and granulated the gunpowder again to increase the power of the explosion.

At the beginning of October, Liu Zhilun also helped Huang Han get three thousand catties of black gunpowder. Therefore, the "Red Banner Army" currently has enough gunpowder reserves to launch an attack. There are ten black powder bags of thirty catties.

This time, if it is necessary to blast and attack the city, the cavalry under the command of Wang Zhanpeng, who has several actual combat experience, will not let the cavalry do such a thing in the future. Song Pengfei's firearms troops will specialize in training engineers, including the blasting team.

Liu Zhilun only saw Huang Han on November [-]th, and on this day he learned that the target of the "Red Banner Army" going out of the customs was Harqin Qingcheng, more than [-] miles northeast of Da'ankou.

He suddenly felt excited, and actually wanted to personally lead the [-] cavalry of the Fubiao Battalion to participate in the action.

Huang Han politely declined Liu Zhilun's kindness, and asked him to lead the Fubiao Camp to sit in Da'ankou in person in case of accidents.

He also emphasized that if the governor did not come to Daankou in person, the "Red Banner Army" would have to dispatch at least two generals from the already stretched troops to defend Daankou.

Because this is the retreat route for the "Red Banner Army" to leave the customs. In case the Jiannu or Tartars also came to attack and occupy Da'ankou, wouldn't the "Red Banner Army" who returned after the bloody battle in Karaqin Qingcheng Is it the same fate as the Hou Jin army who withdrew from the Luanzhou battlefield?
It turned out that Huang Han was very fond of him, and he handed over the back of the "Red Banner Army" to himself. Liu Zhilun felt a heavy responsibility.

He no longer insisted on going out with him, because he knew the virtues of the civilian and military generals under his command, and he was not at ease to hand over the backs of himself and the "Red Banner Army" to these teammates who could not be trusted with all their hearts.

Liu Zhilun not only brought more than [-] cavalrymen from the Fubiao Battalion, but also [-] infantrymen. The former garrison general at Da'ankou also had more than [-] troops. thousand.

Da'ankou was breached by Jiannu last year. After the Jin army returned to the north this year, the Daming frontier army immediately repaired the destroyed Great Wall pass. Da'ankou was repaired and reinforced, and Liu Zhilun personally deployed defenses. This dangerous pass can completely withstand construction. The slave tartars attacked with more than 2 horses.

Huang Han, who was out of the customs, walked with his subordinates for two days without catching any living people, not even the dead ones. It seems that there are no Tartars in the large area from the side wall to here.

If you can't catch your tongue, you can only rely on the scouts of the "Red Banner Army" to explore the location of Karaqin Qingcheng. This is simply unacceptable and illogical. Winter?

Huang Han's judgment was right, the Tartars had too many cattle, sheep and horses, and it was impossible to gather them all in one place for the winter.

Because these herbivores need vast pastures to get enough food, if they are too concentrated, once spring begins, there will be too many cattle and sheep in the nearby pastures, resulting in insufficient food.

(End of this chapter)