Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 347

Jiangning city head.

Several Daotai watched the [-] Minyong led by the magistrate Lin Tianqing, who left the city within less than a cup of tea, and were surrounded by the Ming army after only one encounter, and then the whole army was captured. The whole process was as fast as the wind.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"The bright thief is already so sharp?"

More people were silent and could not say a word.

Just now, like Lin Tianqing, many people thought that they could go out of the city to fight and frustrate the enemy, but now that Lin Tianqing's fate is in front of them, everyone shut up.

Yan Wogong patted the battlements and sighed.

"Prefect Lin is loyal and brave. It's a pity. This scripture will truthfully tell the court about the bravery and loyalty of Prefect Lin. Come and build an altar for Prefect Lin. This scripture will pay homage to Prefect Lin and send him on his way. "

"Everyone, the thieves came here with the victory, showing their sharpness. It seems that it is impossible to go out of the city to defeat the enemy. Now only the deep ditch and the high fortress stick to the city. From today on, whoever dares to go out of the city to fight lightly will be decisive!"

Everyone was silent.

In the current situation, even if they were asked to leave the city, he wouldn't even go out. This is to send them off.

Someone was silently observing and counting the banners and armors of the Ming army, and the more they counted, the more frightened they became. The armor rate was already very high, and the banners were strictly organized, especially when they listened to their drums and orders. Damn, it's not worse than the Eight Banners stationed in Jiangning in Bashan before.

How did the Ming army suddenly become so sophisticated?

When Nanjing surrendered half a year ago, the rebuilding of the Beijing camp in Nanjing also cost a lot of money and food, but it looked like it.

How did the Ming army do it, and how did the Lu Jianguo do it?
"Unexpectedly, the armored cavalry of the Ming army has already exceeded ten thousand!" Yan Wogong sighed, "In the past six months, my Qing Dynasty has been attacked repeatedly in Jiangnan, Huguang, Huaiyang, Jiangxi and Shandong. Wan, the Ming army also captured tens of thousands of armor and countless artillery, sigh."

Everyone suddenly realized, yes.

The Qing army has lost so many battles, lost so many soldiers, and lost so many equipment and firearms without knowing it. No wonder the Ming army can get up so fast. I picked it off.

Blame it?

Blame Hong Jinglue or Zhang Cunren, or Shang Kexi, or Tan Tai, or Yan Wogong?

"In order to strengthen the defense of Jiangning City, this strategy proposes to expand the number of combat troops in the city to [-], and divide them into four directions. Each divides three thousand and guards one side."

He took advantage of the situation and proposed a plan to reorganize several troops in Jiangning City.

Take out all the armor and equipment to equip these [-] soldiers, and put them into the standard battalion of economic strategy.

This is obviously an opportunity to annex.

Several generals couldn't help standing up to oppose it. The reason was naturally that in the current war, doing so would mess up the original organizational system and disrupt the command, which would reduce the combat effectiveness.

Yan Wogong wrote down the names of several people.

Not long after, he ordered several people to be transferred from the original army and transferred to the east of Jiangning to be responsible for commanding the [-] soldiers in the east and the [-] people who were strong and brave.

"This is a military order, and anyone who violates it will be executed immediately!"

The servants of the Jingbiao brigade came in full armor and read out the military order, and they seemed to kill people immediately if they did not obey the military order. After receiving the order and weighing it, the officers could only agree in the end.

The 5000 men and horses who supervised and supervised the bids, and the officers above the team leader were all transferred away, and all the officers were increased by one level, the team leader was added to the total, the general was added to the deputy thousand, the deputy thousand was added to the thousand, etc., and the lieutenants were added. soldier.

However, 5000 officers were transferred to a team of 3000. Obviously there were too many officers, so there were several officers in one position.

Of course, if that's all, it's fine.

But when they hurried to Dongcheng, they realized that there was a big problem.

It was said to be 3000 warriors and [-] civilian warriors, but it turned out that the so-called [-] warriors were [-] people newly selected from the civilian warriors. They didn't even have a piece of armor. Most of them only had simple knives and guns, lacking shields and bows. , and no firearms.

Even the cannons on the east wall are only a few large ones left, and the rest of the medium and small cannons have been transferred away.

Facing the 3000 people, the officers of the Supervising and Bidding Battalion were all stunned.

Obviously, Yan Wogong played their tricks, saying that [-] soldiers were expanded into [-] soldiers of the Second World War, but in fact, the original [-] soldiers were assigned to the three standard battalion commanders under his command, and each led three soldiers. Qian guarded one side, and an additional thousand recruits entered the camp.

Eight thousand soldiers plus one thousand recruits, the recruits are only a little more than [-]%, it doesn't matter, especially since he has all the good equipment under his command.

The [-] soldiers in the east turned out to be all unarmed warriors, matched with [-] inferior men.

This trick is really slippery.

But what to do now?
Looking at the group of peasants who had just put down their hoes, handicraftsmen who had stopped working, and urban homeless people, they could only squat on the ground and grieve.

the other side.

After Yan Wogong transferred all the officers of the 5000 standard battalion, he immediately reorganized the 3000 people with his [-] standard battalion. Based on the three standard battalions, each expanded to [-] people, each with [-] people. Expanded into the supervising bid of [-] and the bidding of [-], and they are all completely dismantled, and the entire battalion is not merged.

In addition, more than 300 recruits were added.

Although after the expansion, there are still only [-] veterans in each Jingbiao battalion, but they are retained by the whole system, one battalion has been transformed into three battalions, and the original skeleton sub-organizational structure is basically still there.

After quickly completing the reorganization, Mr. Yan distributed money wildly, nine thousand soldiers, each with ten taels of silver, and his headquarters with three thousand scripture marks, and another ten taels.

Officers are doubled according to their ranks.

Even the Xie Cong Minzhuang who belonged to them received a reward of one tael of silver plus one bucket of grain per person.

The city guards on the south, west, north, and south all had rewards, but those in the east became motherless children, and no one cared about them.Not only the one tael of silver and one bucket of grain for Minzhuang, but also the ten taels of silver for the three thousand soldiers.

The generals were very dissatisfied, and they went to Yan Wogong to ask about it.

Yan Wogong directly reprimanded them for mutiny and defection to the enemy, and then arrested a dozen leading generals and lieutenants, chopped them off, and hung their heads outside the yamen.

This is also the rest of the officers who were shocked, their expressions changed drastically and they hurriedly retreated.

Fortunately, Lord Yan didn't send troops to take them.

The officers who returned to the battalion became more and more angry. My governor and governor went to rescue soldiers. Let us work together to defend Jiangning City, but how can you treat us like this?

Swallowed our soldiers and horses, robbed our ordnance, and still don't reward us?
Treating them differently like this doesn't treat us as human beings?

Everyone sat together to discuss, and the more they thought about it, the more angry they became. Some people wanted to shout out, but they didn't have the guts, or they didn't think about going to the Ming Dynasty.

But we can't just let it go, the officers were discouraged, but the soldiers below quit.

Because the news had already spread, saying that the other three sides of the family were treated very well, soldiers were rewarded with money and food, and the people were also rewarded with money and food.

Now everyone is looking forward to rewarding silver and grain, especially this grain.

In the end, someone took the lead in making a fuss, surrounded the officers where they were, and asked them to come out to speak, but the helpless officers were forced to dare not rebel, and dared not or were unwilling to vote. These brave soldiers went straight to looting the big households and shops in the east of the city.

Since you are not benevolent, I am not righteous either.

If we don't pay money and food, then we can do it ourselves to have enough food and clothing.

There was chaos in the east of the city, and more than 1 soldiers bravely took to the streets to loot. The scene once made people think that the Ming army had entered the city.

After Yan Wogong heard the report, he just said to the officials and generals, "Sure enough, this strategy did not kill those army ruffians wrongly. They would have made a mess long ago."

He directly defined the soldiers stationed in the east of the outer city as mutiny, and then sent troops to block the main gates and alleys leading to the eastern part of the outer city, set up barricades, and sent troops to garrison them.

Then sent troops to encircle on three sides, slowly pushed into the east city, and began to clear the field to quell the chaos.

No one expected that this great enemy was approaching the city, and Jiangning City had already lost one game, yet it would cause civil strife.

Fortunately, although the officials felt that this matter was caused by Yan Wogong who wanted to seize the power of the army, but now those rebellious soldiers are composed of a group of unarmored and poorly armed civilians, and they are not much of a threat.

The city was in chaos, Dongcheng soldiers rioted and looted the city, but Jingbiao began to suppress the chaos.

Outside the city is orderly.

"What are your highness' plans?"

The deployment of the city defense in Nanjing City, the actual strength of the troops, is now under Zhu Yihai's control. As long as he is willing to enter the city, it can be said that the pressure is not great.

But Zhu Yihai did not issue the military order for a long time.

Those who participated in the military meeting were all civil and military generals, and Zhu Yihai didn't hide much from them. He said bluntly, "The current situation is very beneficial to us. The city of Nanjing is now surrounded, and the Tartars are already hastily mobilizing troops to help. Not only soldiers from Susong Hangzhou, and Ningtai, Anhui, but also troops from Yanzhou, Jinan, Shandong, and Jingxiang, Wuchang, Huguang are also being transferred.”

"Your Highness, far water can't quench near thirst, we can definitely take Jiangning City before they arrive."

Zhu Yihai smiled and asked, "Why did we take Jiangning City in such a hurry? If we take Jiangning City, will the Tartars rush southward for reinforcements from Huguang, Shandong and other places in such a hurry?"

"What does your Highness mean?"

"At this stage of the war, in terms of overall strength, we are still far inferior to the Tartars, but we have always held the initiative and have been mobilizing the Tartars to exhaust themselves. And we have cut off their canals, water transportation, and the Yangtze River. Shipping, etc., the Tartars are fighting an asymmetrical war with us."

"It's like saying that in Suzhou City, there are [-] Eight Banners garrisoned, plus a few battalions of Green Banners, adding up to [-] Qing troops. In terms of strength, they are actually not weak. Although we have demolished Suzhou City three times before, but now the Suzhou City Defense It can still provide a lot of help to the Qing army. If we want to attack by force, it will be very difficult.

But what if the five thousand Tatars from Suzhou came to aid Jiangning?Even if only part of it is mobilized, isn't Suzhou full of loopholes and opportunities?The entire canal from Suzhou to Jiangning was destroyed. Even if they took the land route, we have developed here for more than half a year. The foundation of the people and the people is good. There are many township militia groups. We have a complete advantage in intelligence alone. "

Whether it's an ambush halfway or a block along the way, there are plenty of opportunities, and even attacking Suzhou is also a chance.

The same is true for Hangzhou, Taiping, Anqing, etc.

"Your Highness is saying that Jiang Ning was used as a bait to lure snakes out of their holes and besiege the city to fight for aid?"

"Gu is still the same idea as before. At this stage, instead of competing with the Tartars for the gains and losses of a city or a pool, the main goal is to eliminate the troops of the Tartars.

There are only 20 people in the Eight Banners of Tartars, and there are only [-] to [-] elites in armor, and there are not many in the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han. Therefore, every time we wipe out a Tartar, they lose one. For example, we have wiped out at least [-] to [-] now. The Eight Banners of Manchuria, even if there are coated slaves among them, it is already a serious injury to the Tartars. As long as we can do this a few more times, if the Tartars die with [-] to [-] soldiers, it will definitely hurt the tendons moving bones. "

Surrounding Jiangning City and not fighting first will give Yan Wogong the opportunity and reason to further rectify Jiangning City. Those who should be annexed and incorporated, those who should secretly instigate rebellion, and those who are stubborn will be killed as soon as they are pitted. Some are vacillating What should be forced to be opposed is forced to be opposed.

On the other hand, it is possible to besiege the city and fight for reinforcements, mobilizing the Qing army to come for reinforcements at any cost, so that the Ming army can capture those cities, and even surround and ambush some Qing troops along the way, breaking them one by one.

Even, in order to save Jiangning, the Qing army spared no expense to reinforce them. The price was very high. Even if there was no ambush, the consumption of money and food would be astonishing, and the consumption of war resources and potential would be huge.

War requires not only soldiers, but also money and food.

Every time the enemy is mobilized and consumed, the enemy's next dispatch will be more difficult and slower.

Tan Tai's [-] troops in Yanzhou wanted to go south from the canal completely destroyed by Zhu Yihai, especially in this freezing winter, it was very difficult and costly.

In the same way, it is even more difficult for Hong Chengchou and Luck Dehun to return to Jiangning from Huguang. It was extremely difficult for them to reinforce Huguang last time. It took more than two months. It will be even more difficult to come back, because Jiangxi is now the Restoration, Anhui erosion.

"So I plan to redeploy the soldiers."

Zhu Yihai pointed to the map. Although Nanjing still has several thousand soldiers, it is basically under the control of Yan Wogong, so there is nothing to fear.

In fact, it is only necessary to stay behind some soldiers and horses to watch.

"The Navy is responsible for defending Yangzhou and blocking the Yangtze River."

"The imperial battalion, horses, infantry, and horses are divided into two groups. One is responsible for garrisoning Zhenjiang, entering Suchang, and dealing with the soldiers and horses that are about to come from Susong and Zhejiang. Cooperate and coordinate, take Wuhu and Anqing, block the soldiers from Huguang, cooperate with the local troops in the provincial battalion of Anhui, Jiangxi, and carry out a big sweep of Anhui."

"Your Highness, it is already winter, do the soldiers need to rest?"

"We need to rest, and the Tatars also need to rest. Now is a rare period of emptiness for the Tatars. Before they recover, we must sweep Su Song and Anhui again, and strive to completely destroy the local green camps. Take all those cities and transport all the money, food and resources away.

"Don't keep it?" someone asked.

"Don't rush for a while. If you destroy both sides of the Yangtze River at this stage, the rear will be better preserved, and it will also make it harder for the Tartars to make a comeback next time."

"We are now on the attacking side, and the city is our obstacle. Our purpose is to annihilate the enemy's vital forces, seize supplies as much as possible, and leave the rest alone."

"Your Highness, Jiangning City sent people to discuss peace again, and offered to send one million taels of silver."

"Take the money, come and blow away." Zhu Yihai now has the upper hand and has no desire to negotiate a peace.

"Why don't we talk first and delay the time?"

"No, we now need to accurately convey to the world that we have complete superiority and are still determined to restore the Central Plains and expel the determination to fight against the Tartars. Negotiating a peace will affect the speed of our efforts, disturb the minds of the soldiers, and shake the soldiers and the people. determination!"

"The minister suggested that the envoy Chen Hongfan should be beheaded to show his determination." Chen Qianfu suggested.

Zhu Yihai thought for a while and nodded, "Chen Hongfan is a big traitor, this person should be killed, so let's kill this thief and spread the word to the world to show the determination of the Northern Expedition!"

He doesn't care about the fact that the two countries are at war and don't kill them to make it happen. Chen Hongfan is a minister and a traitor, and he has committed a heinous crime. He is also worthy of being called an envoy of another country?
He is just a traitor and traitor, everyone can punish him!
(End of this chapter)