The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 833
The Ming court didn't know the importance of Yunyang. Since the Chenghua year, there had been a governor of Yunyang. The first three governors in the Chongzhen year were Jiang Yunyi, Lu Xiangsheng, and Song Zushun.

The current governor is Zuoqian capital censor Miao Xuntu. Compared with his predecessor, this governor Miao should be a wimp.

This is not surprising, as it was the case in the Chongzhen Dynasty. The high-ranking officials of the court were not as good as the next crop. In the end, most of them were wimps or bastards.

Although Miao Xuntu, the governor of Yunyang, was a coward, he was lucky. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, when he succeeded Song Zushun, who was of a certain level, the "Red Banner Army" had already taken root in Jingzhou and Kuizhou and even invaded the Han River Basin.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Xiangyang and Nanyang had been basically controlled by the "Red Banner Army", and Kuizhou Mansion had been governed for two years, so Yunyang was preserved.

After Ma Fulin came to Yunyang, the governor Miao Xuntu's position was correct, and he did not interfere with the deployment of the "Red Banner Army" at all.

The "Red Banner Army" doesn't care whether the officials of Ming Dynasty are weak or not, as long as they are obedient, they can accept it. Anyway, it won't take long before the military and financial power of the entire Yunyang Prefecture will be seized.

The Xi'an defenders broke through the siege overnight after eating a full stomach. The besieged bandits and the Qing army were busy in the middle of the night and the whole day. Because the number of soldiers and civilians who ran out was as high as 10,000+, many people escaped in the chaos.

The organizational structure of the rogue bandits was in disarray, and it had expanded so fast during this period that many of the rogue bandit leaders who were equivalent to the hundred generals of the Ming Dynasty could not recognize all the soldiers under their command.

More than [-]% of the rogues were illiterate, and they did not know the routine of the "Red Banner Army" to identify captives and surrender. As a result, many Ming generals who put on the uniforms of pawns mixed in with the rogues and waited for an opportunity.

Of course, these people are not planning to fight back, but they will run into the mountains and dense forests to try to go to Tongguan or Shangzhou when they get the chance.

On April [-]th, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Ma Shouying, etc. invaded the basically undefended city of Xi'an. Qin Wang Zhu Cunshu, Rui Wang Zhu Changhao, and many county kings and town generals gave up resistance and chose to surrender.

In fact, it is not to blame these princes, who have no soldiers and no food, there are only two ways to go, suicide and martyrdom, and surrender to try to survive.

The proud Gao Yingxiang did not kill the royal family of Zhu Ming, but guarded the royal families of King Xiang, King Qin, and King Duan in a separate courtyard of the original Qin King's mansion.

Gao Yingxiang talked about his credit, and distributed half of the gold and silver treasures collected from Xi'an to the Qing army. These properties were no less than 800 million taels in silver.

But Jierhalang, Azig, Fan Wencheng and other civil and military generals of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not happy.

Because the planned transfer of the "Red Banner Army" seemed to be aborted, what made them feel even more disturbed was that they had not received instructions from Shengjing for more than two months.

Not only was there no envoy from Sheng Jing, but none of the envoys they sent back to report the victory came back.

This is not surprising, the elite tenth battalion of the "Red Banner Army" was dispatched.
The first battalion of "flying troops" in training also took part in the operation by raking grass and beating rabbits. Hot air balloons were floating high in the sky, and fixed telescopes could see tens of miles around.

The Manchurian cavalry appeared, and the pilots transmitted the semaphore back to the ground. As long as the Hanzi, Yang Danian, Wang Zhicheng and other battalions were nearby, they would dispatch cavalry to intercept and kill them. It was nothing to block the connection between the Qing army in Shaanxi and Shenyang.

"The beacon fire lasts for three months, and the family letter is worth ten thousand gold." The Mongolian cavalry, thousands of miles away from their homeland, suddenly lost contact with their old nest, and one can imagine their mood.

It's been too long since I came out, and now I got a lot of yellow and white things. Many Manchu and Mongolian cavalry began to homesick, and their morale plummeted.

Azige, Jierhalang, Fan Wencheng and other senior generals discussed and organized a sentinel team of [-] horses, including [-] Ba Yala, [-] vests, and [-] Horqin light cavalry.

The team is led by senior veteran Baya Latizhangjing Fucha Haninga. Their main task is to find out what caused the inability to contact Shengjing.

Quite different from the Qing army, the quality of the rogue troops, which more than doubled in size, has improved dramatically. This is entirely the result of several months of training and the acquisition of 10,000+ Ming army equipment.

Both Xianyang and Xi'an were almost self-defeating, the city remained intact, and all the fire-proof artillery became the equipment of the heavy barracks of the rogues.

Many gunners and musketeers of the former Ming army surrendered, making Gao Yingxiang's confidant General Liu Zhe train a firearms force of more than [-] troops.

At this time, there was a problem with the alliance between the Qing army and the rogue bandits. The key point was who belonged to the Jiang army?
Forty percent of the bandits in Xiong Wencan's army turned back again. There is no doubt about the ownership of these 10 horses. They originally came here to join the leader Gao Yingxiang.

Even taking Xianyang and Xi'an, the total number of captured and surrendered Ming troops was as high as 15, half of whom surrendered to Jiannu. Zuo Liangyu also got the title of county king on an equal footing with Li Zicheng.

Next, they will face a big problem. The Manchurian cavalry and the Ming army who surrendered to them will never have enough food for half a month. Gao Yingxiang will need to provide food and grass in the future.

Now that Zuo Liangyu has been reused by Jiannu, and he manages [-] to [-] Ming soldiers, how can Gao Yingxiang have the obligation to provide them with food and grass?
In the end, Fan Wencheng's plan was unanimously recognized. In fact, he appointed Zuo Liangyu the king of Lintao County with a conspiracy. Lintao is the future capital of Gansu Province, Lanzhou.

There is no Gansu Province among the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. The territory of Shaanxi is much larger than that of later generations, including half of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu Province.

Among the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty, apart from Gansu Town, which is more than [-] miles away from Xi'an, only Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, and Guyuan Town are still garrisoned by the Ming Dynasty, which is also the origin of Hong Chengchou's tripartite administration.

Fan Wencheng's plan was very simple. He went west to harvest grain all the way, and he did not hesitate to hit Dacaotan in Qinghai and Ganzhou.

In the future, Zuo Liangyu's tribe can be stationed in Lintao Mansion for a long time and become a veritable Lintao County King.

Fan Wencheng knew that Lin Dan Khan fled to Dacaotan in the end, died of smallpox due to bad luck, and there were many Mongolian tribes there.

If the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry and Zuo Liangyu's tribe can gain a foothold in Lintao, it is very possible to conquer the Mongols and lay down a piece of land in the Northwest.

In the event of a mistake in Liaodong, there will be a lot more room for the master to choose. He can go north to attack and manage Mobei, or move west to manage Qingtang.

Widening the distance is beneficial to the Manchurian and Mongolian allied forces, which are good at cavalry. If the battle line is stretched, the "Red Banner Army" team will lose sight of the other, and it will be even more difficult to annihilate the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry.

The worst plan in the future may be that the "Red Banner Army" still sticks to the Great Wall defense line like the Ming Frontier Army, restores many guards in Liaodong, and the prairie is still the home of the Mongolian cavalry.

(End of this chapter)