The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 744 Infernal Affairs

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo were extremely careful in selecting personnel for their own safety and to ensure the completion of the task.

The loyalty of the infiltrators is the most important thing. All of them are selected from the family members of the Han generals who defected to the Qing Dynasty and the bannermen of various cattle records. The minimum condition is that the family is complete.

If they betrayed the Ming Dynasty, not only the head of the family would be questioned, but their children and grandchildren who stayed in Shengjing would be cut to pieces.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty lacked supplies, but there were a lot of gold and silver treasures. Hundreds of traitors who performed special tasks received a large amount of gold and jewelry as activity funds.

Six or seven hundred spies were trained intensively by Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo for a period of time to master certain skills, and then followed Jierhalang to detour to Faming's army to Shaanxi, and some of them went to Guizhou and Guangxi via Sichuan.

Daming has fallen into chaos, and the original guide system has existed in name only.

In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had broken through too many Ming cities over the years, and obtained a large number of documents and seals from the Ming government, including several official seals at the governor level.

It is too simple to give Infernal Affairs a legal identity, and the guides used are all genuine official products of Ming Dynasty.

In this era, the road guides that are equivalent to ID cards are only written records, not only without photos, but even simple portraits.

It is estimated that even if they are inspected by government servants and officers and soldiers, they will not be able to distinguish the authenticity. If Infernal Affairs gives the inspectors some money, they will definitely be able to pass the customs safely.

Huang Han was arranging Jiang Xin, Lu Yuanhua, Dou Kuai, and Xie Hu to sneak into Pyongyang's defense line to do Infernal Affairs. Unexpectedly, Hong Jie was about to send Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo to sneak into Daming to do things.

Soldiers who, deception also!The ancients never deceived me.Compared with Huang Han and Hong Xie, Emperor Chongzhen was not "deceitful" at all, and he was definitely an honest man.

At this moment, this honest man is still waiting for the good news from Yang Sichang's "Four Directions and Six Corners, Ten Sides to Spread the Net".

Little did they know that the Manchu Qing was going to play tricks again, and it wouldn't be long before the Ming Dynasty became even more turbulent, and there were more than ten sides who needed to set up their nets?

But at this time, the salaries have been distributed, and the burden faced by the grassroots farmers has increased. Seeing that they can't survive, those who rise up will set off a climax of rebellion, and Daming will definitely make things worse.

Chongzhen got a share of Huang Han's crackdown on Shanxi merchants last year, and he has a lot of money. With the expectation of the suppression of wages, Chongzhen, who is eager for quick success, can't wait.

He allocated a large amount of money and food to Yang Sichang to increase his troops, hoping to fulfill his long-cherished wish to encircle and wipe out the bandits as soon as possible, but he didn't know that the food and money he finally got was very little used to recruit young and middle-aged men into the army.

The civil officials repeatedly cheated, and the military generals were banned repeatedly. They all mastered the knack of embezzlement of military pay, and they all joined forces to deceive the civil officials sent by Yang Sichang to check the troops.

More than half of the people who passed the inspection were temporary refugees and beggars, and some were local hooligans and gangsters.

If such an army is really pulled out to fight against the bandits, more than half of them will run away during the march, and a small half of them will choose to join when they encounter bandits.

This was the case in the last few years of the Chongzhen Dynasty. Most of the Ming troops who suppressed the bandits became transport teams that sent equipment and troops to the bandits.

However, the bandits of Ming Dynasty were too unbearable. Not only was the alliance with each other loose, but each of them couldn't get rid of their gangster spirit.

At present, they have not put forward the political program of "equal land without tax" at all, and they still adopt the style of destroying one side after winning one land, and they are growing savagely.

Manchu Qing, 'Red Banner Army', Rogue Bandits, and Ming court four-party game, the honest Chongzhen must suffer the most, and the winner who laughs at the end must be the most "deceitful" one!
The "Red Banner Army" launched a spring offensive to capture more than half of North Korea. After stabilizing the situation, it launched an autumn offensive to capture Pyongyang. It was a planned task for the Qing army to clear the Korean Peninsula before the end of the year and actually control the Yalu River.

Originally, there was no intention to wipe out the Qing army remaining in North Korea, but now it is reported that Duduo, the culprit of the Yangzhou Ten-Day Massacre, is in Pyongyang City. Down.

After Sun Chuanting, Song Pengfei, Liu Fenyong, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Chenglu, Jin Sheng, Huang Long and other civil and military generals learned of the general's request, they all geared up.

Of course, they were not satisfied with arresting a traitor king, they were all eager to arrest the son of the old slave, the upright Jiannu pro-dynasty Tianque.

While perfecting the plan, it is constantly revising the plan, and it is necessary to prevent excessive pressure on the Qing army, causing Doduo to feel the danger and abandon Pyongyang and flee back to Liaodong.

If it is intended to encircle [-] cavalry in Liaodong and try to wipe out the enemy, it must be very difficult, because the world in the north of Liaodong is too vast, with more mountains and mountains, and less of the natural danger of the Yalu River.

It is not easy to set up a line of defense within a radius of several hundred miles that will not be overwhelmed by [-] cavalry. How many people must be mobilized?How much labor is invested?

The terrain advantage of the Korean Peninsula is obvious. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, making it impossible for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to break through in three directions: east, south, and north.

Going west was their only way, but the beginning of August when the attack was launched was a few months when the Yalu River was full of water, and the river was blocked by warships constantly coming and going, making it impossible for Jiannu to cross the river in the middle and lower reaches.

According to local conditions, it is Sun Chuanting's plan to arrange a huge encirclement circle for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and then gradually tighten it. In order to ensure that there will be no omissions, he must be personally on the scene.

Although Shen Ming, Yu Fei, etc. did not participate in the offensive and defensive battle of Seoul, they were also very busy.

They led naval warships to conduct uninterrupted sneak attacks along the coast and along the river, intercepted a lot of supplies and food, and killed and captured no less than [-] soldiers and civilians of the Qing Dynasty.

The vast majority of the Marine Corps are educated young people. As long as they land, they will observe the terrain record data, and immediately draw maps and make sand tables when they return to the warship.

Using the mountains to ambush the cavalry was Sun Chuanting's mastermind. When he proposed it, he received strong support from Huang Han, because in history, he used the mountains to ambush Gao Yingxiang's old cavalry.

Kong Youde chose to focus on defending the Pyongyang defense line, and even more than half of the Qing army in the Uiju area was transferred away. Due to the frequent harassment of the "Red Banner Army" navy and marines, the remaining two to three thousand Qing troops dare not approach the sea and rivers at all. within fifty miles.

In addition to the fact that the Marine Corps did not have cavalry, the "Red Banner Army" that fought in the Korean War had [-] battalions with a total of [-] cavalry, and the cavalry of the Guards Battalion also had less than [-] cavalry.

The large territory south of Kaesong has just been acquired, and the resistance force has not been completely eliminated. There will always be five thousand cavalry left to patrol the newly established prefectural capital and county.

Therefore, the number of cavalry participating in the battle for Pyongyang was [-] more than that of the Manchurian cavalry, and the total number was about [-].

(End of this chapter)