Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 761 Sword and Fire

late at night.

Zhu Yihai was still reviewing the memorial under the lamp.

The long night is long, no desire to sleep, dozens of beauties in the harem, but no desire to enjoy.

It was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the New Year was approaching. This was the first New Year since the emperor returned to Beijing. The court had been busy for a long time for the Zhengdan Dynasty. This court meeting was of great significance.

The emperor looked down at a memorial in his hand. It was played by Zhu Pengfei, the admiral of the No.15 town stationed in Shaanxi. It was a secret letter written by the adoptive son himself. Straightforward.

The content is not a simple greeting, but the current situation in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Generally speaking, everything is within the emperor's expectations, and the situation is still under control, but the situation is not optimistic. It's not that it will get out of control, but this time, taking advantage of the rebellion of Mi Layin, the emperor directly wants to break through the pustules. Thoroughly removing hidden dangers in the Northwest is still a relatively long step.

The Shaotian Dynasty did not actually control the Guanlong area before, and the foundation here is still relatively weak. Especially after the turmoil since Chongzhen, the Northwest is also suspicious of Emperor Shaotian and the Ming Dynasty. Now that there is chaos, some people inevitably think that the court Recklessly.

Not only Huihui native officials and patriarchs resented the emperor, but even Han gentry and landlords began to complain, thinking that the emperor did not appease the Huiren, which led to the random killings, and everyone’s wealth and life were seriously threatened. Tao, some even say that the emperor is tyrannical.

This reaction was actually expected by the emperor.

After all, no matter how loudly the slogans are shouted, few people can really calm down when their vital interests are really endangered. It is not a big deal when watching the excitement. If the fire burns to the side of their own house, they will panic and wish to immediately Just pull down the neighbor's house so that you can protect yourself, beggar your neighbor, and don't care about other things.

Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui entered Shaanxi according to the order, and then formed a new army in Guanzhong, and established the vanguard left and right armies, each with [-] troops.

These soldiers are composed of the Green Camp of the original Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian Eight Banners, Wu Sangui's subordinates, and some foreign towns, regiment training, and village towns. Reorganize, set up camps and divide troops according to the establishment of the imperial camp.

As for the officers, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong and others were the main ones, and a lot of surrendered generals capable of fighting were transferred over, and some imperial generals and civilian officials were also arranged.

After Hong Chengchou and the others hurriedly reorganized this army in a short period of time, they made an oath at Tongguan, and then marched westward along the Weishui River.

According to the legend of Mi Layin, the Hui people in various parts of Guanlong raised their troops, and for a while, there were all kinds of wars in Guanzhong.

Under the leadership of Zhu Pengfei, the No. 15 town of the imperial camp stationed in Shaanxi quickly suppressed the rebellion near Chang'an Mansion, and then divided troops to garrison Chang'an City, Tongguan, Wuguan, and Lantianguan.

Instead, the task of encircling and suppressing the rebellion was handed over to Hong and Wu's vanguard army.

So Hong and Wu divided their troops. Governor Hong Chengchou led Xu Yong and Zhao Liangdong to lead the vanguard left army [-] to the south. He sat in Fengxiang Mansion and personally led the troops to encircle and suppress the rioters in the counties in Fengxiang Mansion. He sent Xu Yong to Xing'an Mansion and Zhao Liangdong to Hanzhong Mansion. Peaceful chaos.

Wu Sangui went north, took the town of Tongzhou, sent Gao Jinzhong to Suide Yulin in Yan'an, and Zhang Guozhu to Binzhou and Fuzhou.

When Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui left Beijing, they knew that the mission this time was to kill people, so when they divided their troops, they also directly issued a killing order.

The Muslim armed rebels were killed directly.

They even openly asked the vanguard to let go of their hands and feet to quell the chaos. The so-called let go of their hands and feet naturally means allowing the soldiers to plunder while quelling the chaos, but they are not allowed to rob the Han people.

After Mi Layin occupied Lanzhou, he also split up with Ding Guodong to attack Ningxia and Hehuang.

The chaos between the two sides began.

Hong Wu's left and right vanguard troops were not the imperial camp with strict military discipline. They were composed of old troops, rebels, bandits, and local bandits. After the reorganization, the military discipline did not change. Restrain these two soldiers and horses to some rules, but they didn't.

Because the emperor asked them to open the way to kill people, and even the emperor didn't give them military pay and food, everything had to be replenished on the spot.

And if they want to command this newly reorganized miscellaneous army, they must mobilize their morale. The best way is to allow them to plunder, and even deliberately take out the beheading technique that is hardly used in the imperial camp now.

The first level of beheading rewards two silver dollars, which is not much.

Compared with the head-level merit rewards of the previous imperial camp, the beheading skills of the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty were far more than this. Beheading the first-level captives was 50 taels, Dongyi was 30 taels, Xifan was 20 taels, and there were also [-] taels of bandits. Woolen cloth.

One person can be promoted to one level by beheading one, and the beheader will be rewarded with silver rewards, and the first-level skills that exceed the number of upgrades will also be converted into silver rewards, and young men and women who are captured and beheaded will also be given official positions, and the reward silver will be [-]% off.

Now give the vanguard a head and two taels, and if it is a woman or child, only eight dollars will be given.

However, if it is a raw prisoner, a young and strong man is given three pieces of silver, a young and strong woman is given two pieces of silver, a young man is given five pieces of silver, and an old man is given one piece of silver.

Captives captured alive gave more beheadings.

As for the three points of the seized spoils, the person who captured them kept one and paid two, and one of the two points went to the camp for military use, and one point was turned over to the provincial government for the aftermath and peace of the people.

As for whether it is captured on the battlefield or obtained by looting, it depends on the general.But now Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and the others have directly explained clearly to the generals below that as long as there are rebellious Huihui villages and scripture halls, they must be wiped out, and the property of these rebels can naturally be seized.

Many people can calculate such a simple account, and if they don't understand it, someone will tell him.

Therefore, the 30 vanguard troops took the standard battalion as a unit and divided the roads to encircle and suppress them. They were quite fierce and brave, and their morale was extremely high. Experienced veterans, although not as good as the imperial battalion in terms of equipment, have weapons, guns, arrows and guns no matter what. Compared with those who came back hurriedly with flails, hoes, iron forks, long spears, and hunting bows, they are more than stronger A star and a half.

What's more, this is a professional army against the peasants.

Basically, no one can stop it.

Regardless of whether there are thousands or tens of thousands gathered around, they are often crushed by a battalion or a target of hundreds or 2000 people.

When they were routed, all that remained was to take the prisoners.

Behead those leaders, and then divide and encircle and make an forced landing. Those who dare to resist will be killed directly, and the rest who can't escape can only surrender.

And when the vanguard really only killed those leaders and those who resisted, and did not kill those who surrendered, more people chose to surrender.

They fought in the old and new religions, and they were brave when they returned to the Han Dynasty, but it was only a small-scale weapon fight, and the real war, they are too far apart. If they are given a certain amount of time, they can adapt and improve their organization. Can have the power to fight.

But now, it's just a crash.

The vanguard army was also unwilling to kill more, because killing one would cost at least [-]%, and capturing prisoners alive could exchange for more rewards.

Because of the rewards, they not only surrounded and captured Huihui who had assembled and rebelled, but also wiped out all the Huizhuang wherever they passed. Direct bombardment and fire attack, after attacking, directly slaughter such recalcitrants.

They are very good at this kind of thing.

For example, Wu Sangui used to massacre many cities. He slaughtered Pucheng and other cities in Shaanxi. Needless to say, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Gao Jinzhong, Zhang Guozhu, etc., these people were the leaders of the army in troubled times. Organized many refugees and went to Chongming Island to do smuggling and other businesses. Later, they voted for King Yiyang and won the rank of commander-in-chief, fought with other generals, and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Guozhu was originally a general of the Ming Dynasty army. Later, he went to Chongming to support Yiyang King, and then went to eastern Zhejiang to grab territory. He was beaten and fled to the sea. Run to surrender.

Killing good men for meritorious service, plundering troops, and looting supplies on the spot, these things are all fucking proficient.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the official army or the bandit army, or even the local regiments and villages, which one was not like this, otherwise it would not be able to survive at all.

Zhu Pengfei did not take part in these with the fifteen towns. After he wiped out several rebel groups near Chang'an at the beginning, he divided his troops to guard the important strongholds of Chang'an City, Tongguan, Wuguan, and Lantianguan, and then let Wu Sangui They sweep around.

Zhu Pengfei sent some Yebushou to follow the vanguard army, stare at the vanguard army, and continuously summarize the information to him, and Zhu Pengfei then reported it to the emperor.

To say that Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and the others are really good, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Gao Jinzhong and Zhang Guozhu are also very good at fighting, and the [-] vanguard army is also very fierce.

The more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the more they suppressed, the more morale became stronger. In just two months, the rebellion in various prefectures in Shaanxi was almost wiped out. There were reported tens of thousands of beheadings and hundreds of thousands of prisoners.

There are prisoner camps everywhere, and officials from all over Shaanxi are a bit overwhelmed.

Zhu Pengfei's latest report reported to the emperor that Hong and Wu have basically put down the rebellion in Shaanxi and uprooted the Muslim villages in various places. Now Hong Chengchou gathers the left army and crosses Longyou to attack the so-called Longshang Qinzhou Tianshui City in Xiaojiangnan.

And Wu Sangui left Binzhou, went north along the Jing River valley, and attacked Jingzhou, the gateway.

Although it was snowing heavily in the northwest, it was freezing cold.

However, the morale of the vanguard army was still high, and they were all screaming like chicken blood, and they were still shouting to go to Lanzhou City to make dumplings for the New Year.

During the two months when Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui were in Shaanxi, Mi Layin and Ding Guodong did not send troops into Shaanxi, but they came several times and were defeated.

He Hongqi, who had flirted with Milayin in Longnan, saw that the situation was not going well, so he also crossed the Xiqing Mountains and marched from Jiezhou Minzhou along the Taoshui River to Lanzhou.

But what made Zhu Yihai most uncomfortable was that because of He Hongqi's vacillation and even ambiguity at the beginning, Mi Layin and the others were able to quickly establish themselves in Hexi, and even quickly seized the control of Hehuang, and even sent troops towards Ningxia.

Mi Layin and others also spread postings about killing people everywhere, and the chaos broke out in Huihan in Gansu Province was even more severe. In just a few months, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed.

After Zhu Yuanzhang regained Gansu, he immigrated 50 people to Gansu, where he established guards and forts, and restored the control of the Hexi Corridor.

Now Gansu has millions of people, but in a short period of time, it has lost at least [-]% of its population.

Zhu Yihai picked up the pen, but after hesitating for a while, he still wrote it.

"It is said that Zhu Dagang, the admiral of the No.14 town, who intends to reorganize Ningxia, will immediately set off with the army and march westward along the Yellow River."

"Decree to He Hongqi in Longnan, ordering him to lead his troops to take Lanzhou directly to atone for his crime!"

"Order Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui to take Lanzhou before the new year, otherwise they will be dealt with as delaying the military aircraft!"

(End of this chapter)