Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1106 Negotiate peace?

On October 1656, 10, Chang Kaisheng arrived at Yantai Port on the ship of Captain Ji Wen. Several of their ships unloaded more than 11 tons of rice, some prisoners in labor camps, and southern goods such as tea, salt, and cotton cloth at Heishui Port. , and then shipped hundreds of livestock, a large amount of building materials, timber, and coal to the south and returned to Yantai Port - and stopped at Jeju Island on the way, and accepted more than 150 mixed-breed horses eliminated by the horse management system from the ranch ( The shoulder height is 155-[-] cm), and the utilization rate of its cabin can be described as extreme.

After these more than 200 war horses arrived in Yantai, the number of reserve mixed-breed war horses in the cavalry regiment immediately jumped to a new level, reaching more than 7500 horses.In addition, the regiment previously owned more than 4000 Mongolian war horses and more than 12 mixed-blood horses. The total number of new and old war horses is nearly [-], which is enough for more than [-] cavalrymen of the entire regiment to go to Qingzhou Prefecture with two horses. It’s been a while since Marshal Mo’s vigorous implementation of the “Twelve Years of Horse Administration” plan has not yielded real results, but it has gradually exerted some effect. It really is a great achievement.

While the number of horses—especially the mixed-breed horses called "big horses in yellow" by the Qing army—has increased, the number of cavalry has not decreased.Most of the earliest cavalry on the east bank came from Polish mercenaries and Shandan people in the Amur River Basin. In addition, the [-] Shunjun cavalry brought by Li Zhengang was also an important part.Now more than ten years have passed, the earliest people have gradually withered, many people died in battle, and many people retired to settle down, but the mainland is still sending cavalry here every year as planned: Polish prisoners of war, Cossacks, Tatar cavalry, Ottoman soldiers in exile, etc. There are all kinds of things, quite messy, and there are a lot of them.

Coupled with the fact that the people from the east bank continued to recruit recruits for training in the Second Mansion of Denglai (there are many people who can ride horses in Shandong), the number of cavalry did not decrease but increased, gradually increasing from the initial 3000 to about [-]. Combat strength, equipment, and self-confidence are getting stronger and stronger, and the same number of Manchurian Eight Banners are often not at a disadvantage. The reason for Lai's attack on Grass Valley is that it's fun to be killed by the big horse of the thief in yellow?The light armor, the three-meter-long lance, the sharp saber and the taller horse are simply the nightmare of the green infantry of the Qing army!You can form an formation to deal with them, and they won't charge hard, but they stare at you like hungry wolves. As long as you show a flaw, they will pounce on you and tear you to pieces. After all, the battlefield is always in control In the hands of the more mobile.

But if you think that the 4000-odd cavalry of the bandits in yellow has reached the peak, then you are very wrong!Just in September, more than 1000 Gauchos arrived at Yantai Port by boat from Jinshan Port, Australia. They are currently undergoing training in the barracks at the wharf. It is believed that they will be incorporated into the cavalry regiment in a few months.In addition, it is said that there are still more than 6000 Gaoqiao cavalry in Jinshan Port, waiting for the immigrant ship to return to Shandong. In this way, the total strength of the cavalry regiment is likely to exceed [-], and three full brigades can be formed. cavalry.

What is the concept of six thousand cavalry with complete armor?This means that the position of the people on the east bank in Denglai Prefecture is becoming more and more stable, and it means that the more than 2 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners stationed in Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture can no longer take advantage of their mobility to harass and delay the east coast army—do not fight On the front, it is very difficult to use the terrain to fight ambushes, encounters, smuggling, harassing food roads, etc. In short, the people on the east coast are more powerful in countering the opponent's small cavalry, and can deal more severe blows to the enemy.

In addition, the [-] elite cavalry that can be dispatched at any time can also greatly deter rebels who harbor evil intentions.Also last month, a battalion commander of a certain division of the servant army stationed in Laiyang accepted the official position of the Qing court and led hundreds of people to defect. As a result, he was defeated by [-] cavalry dispatched urgently halfway. Dozens of people were killed and captured, which greatly deterred the minions of the servant army.

"The cavalry wing is getting stronger and stronger, and Denglai Second Mansion is becoming more and more stable now—well, Laizhou Mansion is still in a tug-of-war—the Qing court has nothing to do with us. After the destruction of 3 people, more than 5000 people from Shen Yongzhong's department were also attacked by Zhang Neng and other troops of the Shun Army who quietly entered Jiangxi in cooperation with Guo Sheng's elite main force. Within a few days, more than [-] people were reimbursed, and the remaining less than [-] remnants Under Chen Tai's support, the defeated general managed to gain a firm foothold at the junction of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. His morale was low, his equipment was incomplete, and he lost the ability to fight again in a short period of time. Haha, Guo Sheng really underestimated him. He is the king of Jiangxi." Chang Kaisheng stood on the balcony on the second floor of the Zhifu Island office building, drinking high-quality Xinhua coffee, and said to several military officials around him.

Ever since the people from the East Bank launched a series of offensives in Jiangxi last summer and autumn to support the Shun and Ming armies, the situation in Jiangxi has changed fundamentally. The army has lost consecutive defeats, and has basically lost control of the entire province. Currently, Chen Tai, the servant of the Ministry of Officials who hastily withdraws troops from the Fujian battlefield to rescue Jiangxi, can barely maintain the front line, so that the main force of the Shun army will no longer invade Nanzhili, As far as the various prefectures in Zhejiang are concerned, the situation can be described as extremely bleak.

And Chen Tai drew troops from Fujian to rescue Jiangxi, which naturally made it easier for Zheng Chenggong who was making troubles in Fujian.Although the soldiers and horses under this man's command were unbearable, the victory was due to the large number of people and the strong appeal. All the way forward, the main political battle was supplemented by the military. The gentry from all over Fujian joined forces, and soon the Zheng family covered most of Fujian Province. .Although Zhao Guozuo, the admiral of Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, was also a rare talent, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. After Chen Tai took away 3 elite troops to rescue Jiangxi, he could no longer resist Zheng Chenggong's soldiers. He finally lost Fuzhou City at the beginning of this year, and he was betrayed and sacrificed by his subordinates on the way to break out of the encirclement and escape.

Fujian and Jiangxi were finally "recovered" after several years of tug-of-war, and the situation in the southeast has suddenly changed. Now Guangdong has Li Chengdong, Fujian has the Zheng family, Jiangxi has Guo Sheng and Wang Deren, and southern Zhejiang is also under the guerrilla forces of King Lu. Within a certain range, the strength of the Qing court was compressed to the limited territory in Zhejiang and Nanzhili, and the total force was only [-] to [-]. Although its combat effectiveness was not bad, its control over the situation was obviously not as good as before, and it was heard that Veteran Jierharang has been itching recently, and people in Hangzhou are fluctuating. In a short period of time, at most, he will expel the King Lu guerrillas and consolidate the remaining territory. It may be difficult to make progress. After all, they still have "trapped thieves" by their side. As for Ningbo Mansion, this is a big bomb, a blockbuster that may explode at any time.

And the unfavorable situation in the southeast seems to have spread to the southwest.In the first half of the year, Wu Sangui and Li Guohan led [-] troops to defeat Zhang Xianzhong's army and occupied central Sichuan. As the territory controlled by them became larger and larger, the front of the troops became more and more blunt.The chieftains, local bandits, bandits from Zhang Xianzhong's tribe, the Southern Sichuan Ming army, and He Zhen's tribe in Shangluo Mountain all caused troubles for Wu Sangui, causing Wu Sangui to change from the previous situation of triumphantly, and gradually began to fight with people from all walks of life. There was a saw-saw in the middle of Sichuan—but according to some secret gossip, Wu Sangui and Li Guohan also had a rift. Li accused Wu of repeatedly delaying the military plane, but only knew that he wanted money, food and soldiers, and he was perfunctory in suppressing the bandits; But Wu accused Li of disobeying orders, concealing defeat as victory when going out in battle, and looting places with his troops, causing public dissatisfaction.The confrontation between the two caused the Qing government a lot of headaches. At present, Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi, has been ordered to go south to mediate. At the same time, he has supervised the sending of a batch of grain and soldiers to Chengdu. I hope that the two can put aside their prejudices and work together to pacify Sichuan for the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible.

All kinds of unfavorable situations gathered together, and the final pressure was concentrated on Prince Azig who was sitting in Xiangyang.The young aristocrat of the military affairs in the central region of the governor, at present, seems to be at a loss for the well-developed water system of Huguang and the fortress area built by the Shun army for ten years. Coal mines have been dug in Jiangxi to provide fuel for the gunboats on the east coast) messing up the attack and logistics lines of the Qing army. The troops sent their heads; sometimes they managed to gain a relatively stable foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, but the Shun army frantically invited the gunboats on the east bank to search and intercept the river day and night, leaving the Qing army crossing the river without food and grass. Without reinforcements, most of them were defeated or surrendered in the end, and so on.

Perhaps the simple interception on the river will not have much effect, but if the Shun army on the opposite bank has a complete fortification group (the east bank has sent engineers to help the Shun army design forts in the south of the Yangtze River many years ago), and the soldiers will use their lives (Li Guo has personally led If the 20 troops of the rear battalion rushed from Changsha to Yueyang to supervise the battle), this would be enough to make the Qing army feel very troublesome.What's more, the Qing army and the Shun army have repeatedly fought back and forth in Huguang for many years. The local people fled severely and the order of agricultural production was on the verge of collapse. With the national strength of the Qing Dynasty, it was very difficult to support [-] troops who were not engaged in production all the year round and fought high-intensity wars in Hubei. Yes, after all, the coldest period of the Little Ice River has not yet come, and the grain output is just like that. In the north, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei (Shandong has been rioted by yellow-clothed thieves, and it needs other places to pay for it) and other places all year round. The army has reached its limit, and the Qing army in Hubei is indeed a little bit unable to fight - they are like a big boxer now, and the opponent is very thin, but the problem is that he consumes a lot of energy for being so strong But he was still unable to completely knock down the opponent. Although he had a great advantage, the opponent could only be beaten passively, but if he couldn't knock down the opponent, he couldn't knock down the opponent. This was very helpless.

Since the opponent cannot be completely defeated in a short period of time, and the national strength is seriously consumed, should it be time to find a way to negotiate a peace?Of course, the Qing court was very clear-headed, and they knew very well that if they could not win quickly, they would face big trouble for the overall situation. Therefore, they did not intend to negotiate a peace with the Shun army, the Ming army, or the Western army at all, but planned to negotiate a peace with the yellow-clothed thieves alone.They can see very clearly that the root of all their troubles now lies with this group of overseas giants. Once a peace agreement is reached with the yellow-clothed bandits, not only the more than [-] elite troops in Shandong will be liberated, but the more than [-] Qing troops in Zhejiang will be liberated. The army can also withdraw to wipe out the enemy troops in Fujian and Jiangxi, and Azig in the central region can also resume its offensive against Jiangnan, and all problems will be solved easily.

The question now is, are the thieves in yellow willing to accept peace talks?If they are willing to negotiate peace, what are their conditions?The Qing court was pragmatic. After seeing the source of their troubles, they quickly sent a negotiating delegation headed by the heavyweight Tan Tai to Qingzhou Prefecture, and in September, they submitted the peace negotiation request to Chang Kai in Yantai. Victory in front.

After Chang Kaisheng received the request, he was a little surprised and at the same time understood. After discussing with his staff for a while, he simply ordered all the standing committee members to come to Yantai to hold a standing committee meeting to discuss the matter together.At this time, it was held in the office building of Zhifu Island. Chang Kaisheng, Liang Xiangjian, Wei Boqiu, Huang Yi, Tang Mengxu and others gathered together, drinking tea and smoking while discussing the peace proposal proposed by Man Qing.

"Then, we have discussed until now, and we have almost reached a conclusion. That is to temporarily put it on hold, and if we don't make a positive response, what should we do and continue to do? Then let's vote with a show of hands." Chang Kaisheng looked at the people sitting on the balcony and smiled. said.

The environment in the hospital is noisy, and a chapter has been written against all interference codes. Thank you for your support.

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