Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2018 Upheaval ([-])

On September 1687, 9, in Maping County, Liuzhou Prefecture, there was a light rain.

The commander of the Silver Spears and Jiejun made Hao Ping sit in the huge government office, looking at the information in his hands, and remained silent.Outside the door was the concubine of the former magistrate of Liuzhou in the Ming Dynasty. Her husband defended the city and caused some casualties to the Shun army. The conqueror took a fancy to her and took him into his back house.

In all fairness, this concubine is quite attractive and young, so she is favored by Hao Ping.However, since last night, her new owner has been staying in this study, as if forgetting about her, and has been discussing something with several confidantes and generals, which makes her very wronged.

However, she is just an insignificant "item", a plaything that can be discarded at any time, so after looking outside, she left unhappy.Hao Ping glanced at her disappearing figure, but said nothing.He has been here in Maping County for some time, and the initial complacency has been disturbed by the recent series of news. I also feel helpless.

Yes, that's right!What troubled Hao Ping a lot was the news from Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Lianzhou and other places in the east. The Dongguo people who had a good relationship with them suddenly sent troops and took down many state and county.The most important thing is that they captured Wuzhou City, the first-class hub between Guangdong and Guangxi, and completely cut off the route from Guangxi to conquer Li Yuanhao's regime.

The move of the Dongguo people is undoubtedly the essence of the three characters of steady, accurate, and ruthless.When Cao Cao won Hanzhong, he uttered the famous sentence "Once you have Long, look back at Shuyan", because a Hanzhong cannot satisfy his appetite, and he wants a more prosperous Shu land.In the same way, if Shunguo wins Guangxi Province, how can he not be envious of Guangdong Province, which is close at hand?Therefore, the people from the east bank won Wuzhou, which was indeed a drastic move, which made Changsha surprised and angry.

Hao Pinggui is the commander of the Silver Spears and the Jiejun Army, and the confidant general of Dashun Emperor Li Laiheng. Recently, he also received two orders, which made him very confused.He has been with Li Laiheng for many years, he understands Li Laiheng's temper, and knows that these two so-called warnings mean nothing, it may just be Li Laiheng's indignation in a moment of anger, and it has not shaken his trust in Hao Ping.However, in the past two days, the aides reminded themselves that even if the emperor does not blame him, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be some officials who like to invite fame and pedantry to take the opportunity to impeach him. Bad impression, this is not a small trouble.

Hao Ping took this very seriously, but he didn't have any safe solution.Of course he knew that the source of everything was the Dongguo people, but he didn't know how to turn it around.As a last resort, he summoned the advisers and generals around him to discuss together to see what to do.For this reason, he even postponed the day of going south in person, and asked his top general Wang Wanchun to lead the main force to attack Nanning Mansion (there is basically no suspense anyway), while he stayed in Liuzhou to discuss countermeasures.

Hao Ping also had a closer look at the situation in Wuzhou, Xunzhou and other places in the past two days, and had a general understanding of the movements of the people on the east coast.He knew that the Dongguo people had now controlled many prefectures and counties in the two prefectures of Wuzhou and Xunzhou, such as Cangwu, Tengxian, Rongxian, Beiliu, Yulinzhou, and Pingnan, six cities located on the transportation line.In addition, most of Lianzhou Prefecture has been controlled by the Dongguo army, and its main force has gone northward and entered the border of Hengzhou in Nanning Prefecture. It is estimated that this city that has secretly fallen to them will not be able to stop the people from the East Bank for a few days.

Hao Ping also took a look at the map, and found that Lian, Wu, and Xun prefectures had all "occupied" except Bobai, Lu Chuan, Guiping, Wujing prefecture, and Gui county, which had no time to take care of them due to insufficient troops.Although many people on the east bank of the prefectures and counties only deployed a small amount of troops, such as dozens or hundreds of blue-clothed elites, plus a few hundred to a thousand puppet troops with poor combat power, it can be said that it is empty. Already extremely, but people don't care!In the entire Lian, Wu, and Xun prefectures, there are no established troops that can threaten them, so these people can basically hold the ground.

The Dongguo people's current strategy seems to be to occupy the county seat as much as possible, abandon the countryside, control the main traffic routes, and don't even pursue grain collection and taxation. All they want is to expand the territory as soon as possible.If you analyze it carefully, Hao Ping is also a little creepy. This is completely rushing towards them, trying to compete with them for time!

And if he thinks about the locations of these counties under his control and the possible marching routes of the people on the east coast, Hao Ping becomes even more irritable. In the underdeveloped areas of Guangxi, fighting with various local cooked and fresh fans and Han official chieftains, the power was restrained, and the local resources could not be effectively used for a while, so as to enhance the overall strength of the country, so as to consolidate their integrity, Wu , Xun Sanzhou opportunity.

From a longer-term perspective, if Guangxi is occupied but there is no outlet to the sea, and the waterway of the Xijiang River is cut off, then life will be really difficult.Because the three relatively good prefectures of Liuzhou, Guilin, and Nanning alone can support the local officials and military system of the Dashun court, as well as the suppression of local separatist forces that may exist for a period of time?If not, they have to subsidize from Hunan. What's the point of taking it?Carry a burden for yourself?

So, the people from the east bank are really vicious, they actually targeted Da Shun so much!

It's a pity that Changsha's order to Hao Ping is to strictly restrain the troops and not to have a frontal conflict with the Dongguo people.The subtext of this sentence is that they can secretly cause trouble for the people on the east bank to attack the city, but they are not allowed to dispatch Dashun's own army on the surface, so as not to lead to an unmanageable bad situation.

However, Hao Ping was also somewhat disapproving of this.The Dongguo people are ambitious and have been trying to turn Dashun into their own puppets for many years to prevent their ambition to unify China. This is a fundamental contradiction and cannot be reconciled.This time I bowed my head to them to show weakness, what should I do in the future?Continue to retreat?There are only a few dozen people in a county, and they bring a bunch of useless puppet soldiers. I'm afraid they don't even dare to come out of the county. In the end, the Dashun Shengbing, who has tens of thousands of dragons, dragons, and tigers, is as fearful as a tiger. Not daring to step forward, whose shame is this?

Whenever Hao Ping thinks about this place, he cannot sleep at night.He is a courtier of Dashun, and he may not have the desire to assist Ming Jun to rule the world, fight for the founding of thousands of households, and achieve a good story in history.This time the court of Dashun made a plan to attack Ming in two ways, and he himself was very excited, feeling that he was one step closer to his dream.But now the Dongguo people gave them a sap. This feeling is really complicated, and Hao Ping didn't know what to do for a while.

In fact, according to his original intention, this time he should decisively mobilize the elite—not many, 1 people are enough—to take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the people on the east coast are not stable and their forces are extremely scattered, and beat them back all at once. Take Wu, Xun and Lianfu into the bag.He believed that the local gentry, chieftains, and officials were also Chinese descendants, and they would not turn to outsiders of unknown origin like the people from the east coast, so once they took action, they should be powerful and easy to catch.It's a pity that the Changsha side didn't allow him to do anything, but they also warned him that his ineffectiveness in combat caused these eastern states and counties to be quickly occupied by the people from the east coast. The concubine who is very confused is not in the mood anymore, it is really embarrassing.

"Boss, Lianzhou has fallen, and Wuzhou can't last long. Now there is only a chance to take advantage of Xunzhou Prefecture." A master said: "If you send a smart and capable person, take a lot of blanks and tell yourself to go secretly. , communicate with the people of insight in Dashun, and order them to submit quickly, so that the ambitions of the Dongguo people can be curbed."

"The commander-in-chief had better choose some loyal and reliable deployments, and put on the uniforms of pseudo-Ming soldiers to slow down and block the advancing speed of the Dongguo people. Most of their security regiment sergeants are bandits and bandits, and even a private salt dealer It's ridiculous to be a commander. If my Dashun Heavenly Soldiers can attack it, it will be very effective." Another master also spoke, and in his words, he was also trying to persuade Hao Ping to make up his mind to "make small moves".

They believe that people on the east coast should not react too aggressively to such a level of incident, because this is a small move within the scope of the bottom line of both parties, and it is tacit.Through these small actions, they should be able to occupy some states and counties before the people on the east coast, making them a nail in the control area of ​​the east coast, laying a good foundation for the future breakdown of relations between the two countries and a comprehensive counteroffensive.

After listening to the words of the two masters, Hao Ping almost agreed in his heart, and then he consulted the opinions of several generals around him, and finally decided to do so.You can't fight with people from the east coast, so you can only play these games and chat for fun. Thinking about it is also very depressing.

Hao Ping knew that the Sichuan side had recently won consecutive victories in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, defeating tens of thousands of Ming troops, and the situation has become extremely clear.This was mainly due to the fact that Sun Kewang's party members came to vote one after another, which opened up many important places. Therefore, even though the rest of the Ming army (mainly Li Dingguo's men) fought desperately, due to various reasons, they still inevitably suffered a lot of defeats.

I heard that Li Dingguo, who was originally ill, had no choice but to lead the last few elite soldiers to fight a decisive battle with the West Route Army dominated by Dashun Zuoying.However, Liu Zhonggui is also an extremely cunning master. He has huge advantages in military strength and financial resources. He has always avoided a decisive battle with Li Dingguo as the main force. When the state of the army has fallen to the bottom, it is easy to deal with their last embers.It's just that Li Dingguo also came out of the dead. Fighting is his old profession. It is estimated that Liu Zhonggui will not be able to easily get his wish. It is estimated that there will be a war between the two sides in Yunnan.The only difference is probably that the Shun army can afford to lose, but the Ming army cannot afford to lose.

Hao Ping is very concerned about the battle situation of the West Route Army, and the Changsha court has always sent a special summary of the military situation, so he is under a lot of pressure now. He is afraid that he has not completely settled Guangxi here when others take Kunming. But it was all gone.

"The situation in Guangxi should be focused on the east rather than the west. This is already a consensus recognized by the government and the public. The puppet Ming court in Yunnan and Guizhou is already a grasshopper after autumn, and it will only be a few days away. The most important task of our department now , it is no longer entering Yunnan from the flanks to help Zuoying stabilize the overall situation, but to seize as much territory as possible. I don’t want to have all of Guangxi, because Wuzhou has been lost, but Nanning and Xunzhou still want to fight for it How about this, Mr. Liu, I would like to ask you to bring a letter of mine, and go to Gaozhou on the way to meet Mr. Qiu, and win him for me. Commander Sun, after you go back, select the elite of each battalion, and then bring a blank Tell me a few words, go to Xunzhou, and act according to the camera. Mr. Zhao, you go to Hengzhou..." The plan was made, Hao Ping no longer hesitated, and began to give orders, and those who were named by him also stood up one after another. , intending to try this somewhat difficult task.

Wealth and wealth are sought in insurance, the world should be like this!

While the Shun army in Liuzhou was having a hard time worrying about the actions of the people on the east coast, near Hengzhou, Nanning Prefecture, General Li Yuanyin and Chaozhou Dayao guerrilla Qian Jinbao had just returned from collecting food from the countryside.His followers have now expanded to more than [-] members, more than half of whom were recruited locally in Guangxi.Guangxi Province is poor and the people are tough. There are not a few people who are willing to follow him to serve as soldiers and eat food. Therefore, he quickly recruited [-] soldiers from the people on the east coast, and even slightly exceeded several hundred. It can be seen that the people of Guangxi Province Enthusiasm to join the army.

This time they had a little trouble in the countryside.That is, when besieging a stockade that refused to pay for food, it was unexpectedly unable to attack for a long time, and more than [-] people were killed or injured, which surprised people, and then became furious.In the end, they blasted open the gate of the village with the cannons they borrowed from the people on the east coast, completely annihilating the resistance that caused them great trouble.After the interrogation, it turned out that there were dozens of officers and soldiers of the Shun Army hidden in this house. It is said that they came from some kind of silver guns and soldiers who beat his subordinates with skillful volleys on the wall of the village. Come, smash their offensive again and again.

I believe that if the yellow-clothed cannon was not used in the end and this guy Shunjun's gunpowder was exhausted, this village would not be so easy to eat.Qian Jinbao's men also captured some prisoners after the war, including a Shunjun Yuhou, surnamed Lu, who was also from the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army.Qian Guerrilla is also a knowledgeable person. He knows that Marquis Yu of the Shun Army is in charge of security, military law, intelligence and other work. He is a mid-level military officer.For example, there are twelve commanders in the Silver Gun Xiaojie Army, and the most trusted confidant of all commanders is Zheng Daguan, Marquis of Duyu, which shows the importance of this position.

Qian Jinbao guessed that this Marquis of Lu Yu came to lurk in the countryside of Hengzhou, and his intentions were not simple, and he was probably not here to contact and support the gentry of Hengzhou.Therefore, he immediately put him under strict surveillance, and with the looted food, he rushed to the East Bank camp outside Hengzhou City, and handed over Lu Yuhou to the East Bank military police.

After torture and interrogation, it turned out that Lu Yuhou was ordered by General Wang Wanchun of the Shun Army to spy on intelligence and contact the local area.He even wanted to enter Hengzhou to surrender the defenders, but the people from the east bank came too fast and besieged Hengzhou City.He once wanted to return to Nanning, but he was not reconciled, so he lurked down and planned to play by ear, but in the end he was unlucky and fell into Qian Jinbao's hands.

The result of this interrogation made the people on the east bank a little bit vigilant.This Shunjun is indeed eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. Nanning city has not been captured yet, yet they sent people to a remote place like Hengzhou to do work. This is clearly aimed at Dadong. From the shore.Moreover, this was ordered by Wang Wanchun, the general on the front line. I heard that Hao Ping, the general in charge of the entire Guangxi army, is still in Liuzhou. Is he also planning some kind of conspiracy against the army on the east bank?

Sun Wu, the deputy commander of the gendarmerie who came to Lianzhou with the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang New Army, had no doubts about this.Recently, the situation in Xunzhou Mansion has been relatively chaotic. For example, Wu Jingzhou was gained and lost a while ago, so that Tang Moyu had to mobilize troops to counterattack, which finally affected the offensive on Fucheng.If it is said that there is no conspiracy and incitement by Shunjun, who will believe it!

Sun Wu felt that it was necessary to go to Xunzhou recently, to finalize some matters with Major Tang Moyu, and to formulate a solution for these infiltrated Shunjun troops, although it seems that their strength is quite insufficient at present.However, now the Second Division of the Zhejiang New Army has almost been assembled and mobilized. At the latest in mid-October, this army can go south to the two ports of Qinzhou and Wuzhou with a large amount of supplies. It will be much more comfortable, and how many occupied counties are afraid to go out of the city to collect food and taxes like now.

By the way, let me finally mention the fate of the captured Shunjun Lu Yuhou.This gentleman confessed under torture, but he didn't intend to surrender, he just wanted to die quickly so as to save some crimes.He was finally secretly executed by the East Bank military police on the night of September 9, and his body was buried in the fruit forest in the back mountain.A few days later, it was dug up by the local gentry, sent to Shunjun, and buried in the suburbs of Changsha.

The death of Marquis Lu Yu indicated that the people on the east bank had made no secret of their hostility towards the Shun army who dared to come and grab the territory.They are determined to win Wuzhou, Lianzhou, and Xunzhou, even if they go to war for it.Even if a certain place was subverted and occupied by the Shun army through small actions, they would not hesitate to use bayonets to drive these people away and regain these places.

The Nanjiang-Xunjiang line is the termination line of the military operation on the east bank, and the goal must be achieved no matter what. It seems that the Shun army who has no intention of going to war can't stop it.

(End of this chapter)