Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 408 Prelude ([-])

"I grass your ancestors!" Gao Cuihuan angrily scolded the twenty or so soldiers in front of him who bowed their heads, but he didn't dare to go up to beat them.Unable to vent his anger, he turned around in a hurry, and it took a long time before he calmed down a little.It's not that he hasn't learned a lesson. During the training period in Dabo, he beat some North Korean soldiers under his command several times because they didn't train seriously.Who knew that these North Koreans could not train well, but they learned to make small reports. They reported Gao Cuihuan's beating of soldiers directly to the training staff of the East Bank Army.

After hearing this, the training staff officer felt that it was not a big deal - because even the East Coast Army couldn't prevent officers from beating and scolding soldiers, but after all, it was written in the military regulations that soldiers should not be beaten, so he pinched his nose and punished Gao Cuihuan fined him a month's military salary and training allowance: six yuan and fifty cents, which made Luo Rucai, a man from Yan'an who came from the peasant army, extremely depressed.

Of course, these North Korean soldiers did not end well, and they basically did all the dirty and heavy work in the future.This is clearly bullying you, and the East Coast military officer turned a blind eye to this.Because these North Korean soldiers got off to a bad start, they dared to accuse their superiors of beating soldiers.Therefore, they who broke the unspoken rules of the East Bank army soon got a tragic end.

This time it's the North Koreans' bad deeds again!In the routine confrontation with No. 6 Squadron just now, they were the first to hold a spear (without a spear point), and they were beaten back by the spearmen from the peasant army on the opposite side after only a few encounters. .Their disintegration caused a chain reaction. The Japanese soldiers of No. 6 Squadron immediately launched a decisive attack from the flank. After some final resistance, the East Coast officer as the referee immediately judged that No. 5 Squadron was defeated, and Gao Cuihuan, the The strong man is once again very angry.

After this competition, No. 5 Squadron ranked last and will be responsible for washing, cooking and cleaning for all 1 squadrons of No. 8 Brigade. This makes Gao Cuihuan not angry.In fact, cleaning and so on are trivial matters. Next, it is said that the Qing army is likely to come to attack Dengzhou, so the army on the east bank is bound to break out with them.The stand-up team will definitely not be able to stay out of the matter. At this time, the combat effectiveness of the army is still so low. How can you let Gao Cuihuan not be impatient.Today is the [-]th of July. According to the speed estimated by the staff, the Manchu and Qing army will arrive at the Yantai Fort within half a month. At that time, you will take this gang of mobs in your hands into battle. Are you kidding yourself with your life?

However, Gao Cuihuan's worries were quickly confirmed to be delayed a little bit, and Li Zicheng, who was far away in Shaanxi, helped him a lot.After leading his army back to Shaanxi, Li Zicheng began planning to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Qing army in Shanxi, Henan and other places. On the first day of July, Li Zicheng ordered Li Guo to guard Yan'an, and then sent generals Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu and others to lead the army into Shanxi , Henan, and Kinki areas, with great fanfare all the way, the hearts of the people who had already fallen to the Qing Dynasty suddenly floated.On July [-]th, Guo Sheng, an old friend of the Dong'an people, led his troops from Henan to Wu'an, and immediately sent [-] musketeers to capture Linming Pass to stand in front of the large army.

In the face of the 10-strong counterattack organized by Dashun, Wang Jing, who was on the front line of the Muslim, Shun, Guang, and Dazong soldiers, immediately asked the Qing court for help: "The 80 bandit soldiers should be divided into three groups. 30 for Da and Juyongguan; 30 for Guguan along the way; 20 for Zhangde and Shunde along the way”;

Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty who was far away in Beijing, attached great importance to Li Chuang's counterattack. He knew that the only enemy of the Manchu Qing was the peasant army, because they were the only ones who could fight, and they had the strongest will to fight.As for those Nanming troops, are they also called troops?Just like paper, asking for military pay and harming places is top-notch, and fighting is a scam.Even better, the monarchs and ministers of the Nanming Hongguang regime are now begging for peace from the Qing army. They also regard the peasant army as the number one enemy, and "suppressing thieves" is their top priority.The territory that the Qing army really controls at present is only the Hebei area, and only some areas in Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi have been recruited, which is far from effective rule.Therefore, Nanming didn't come to trouble Man Qing at this time, but instead troubled Li Zicheng, which made Dorgon smile crookedly and at the same time completely saw the nature of Nanming's weakness.

Originally, many Manchu and Qing nobles tended to return to the outside of the customs after making a fortune. At this time, when they saw the ugly state of Nanming's army collapsing thousands of miles under the threat of the Qing army going south, and the monarchs and ministers were so short-sighted, they all felt that maybe You can really sit in the world for a while.Coupled with the constant bewitching of the surrendered Hanchens-if you don't destroy Nanming, how do you let them traitors behave, Dorgon gradually strengthened his determination to seize the world.

And to seize the world, in Dorgon's view, the only enemy is Li Zicheng's nearly 30 soldiers and horses.Li Zicheng's old battalion can still fight. Dorgon knows this very well. Although it may not be as good as the Manchurian elite, it is still much stronger than Wu Sangui and the second-highest Guan Ning army.According to various reports, when Li Zicheng retreated from Beijing, he took away 4 to 7 old battalion soldiers; and among the more than [-] troops in Gansu and Qinghai to quell the chaos, there are also many elites capable of fighting, about [-] to [-]; Among the scattered old battalion soldiers staying in Shaanxi, Hubei, and Shanxi, Li Zicheng has about [-] or [-] troops in his hands.

As long as the 20 to [-] most capable troops are wiped out, the remaining [-] troops are no problem at all, and the Ming army led by Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and others can defeat them one by one.Therefore, Dorgon immediately mobilized a large number of Eight Banners powerful troops and incorporated miscellaneous Ming troops to Shanxi and Henan to attack Li Zicheng's army.And the Gushan Ezhen Bahana, Shi Tingzhu and other ministries that had gone south to Jinan also rushed to Shanxi for reinforcements under the order of Dorgon. Governor Fang Dayou and others had thousands of people on hand, among them, only [-] soldiers were stationed in an important city like Jinan, which was extremely empty.

Of course, only Wang Aoyong, Fang Dayou and others know that emptiness is not emptiness, and it is difficult for outsiders to know.Even Mo Ming and others who are far away in Yantai, they are not majored in history, so how could they know such details?Some of the so-called "reference materials" given to them by the local people are only a rough outline, but more detailed ones are not available.Therefore, although the Manchu Qing had only a few thousand soldiers and horses in Shandong, Wang Aoyong, a courageous traitor, used the prestige of the Manchu Qing to start bluffing and cheating, recruiting one county after another.

Moreover, as the Ming army in Qingzhou was appeased, the Qing court also sent Ke Yongsheng, a traitor who was born in the Han army banner, to be the commander-in-chief of Jiaozhou Town.After Ke Yongsheng took office, he used the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Han army banner he carried as the core to recruit the surrendered Ming army, local village bravery, and even banditry to rapidly expand his strength.Wang Aoyong provided material support to Ke Yongsheng, and Ke Yongsheng became a solid backing for Wang Aoyong to recruit the locality. The two worked hand in hand and cooperated quite tacitly. With their efforts, the entire government of Qingzhou quickly recruited.

However, the total number of the Qing army is only a few thousand, and it is already very difficult to control the four prefectures.Moreover, there are still many places in the control area that have not yet been recruited properly.For example, Zhou Zuoding, the magistrate of Dashun County in Tai'an Prefecture, resolutely refused to surrender. Wang Aoyong appeased him several times, but Zhou Zuoding "refused to accept it", so he was still unable to regain the county seat close to his elbow.In addition, there are tens of thousands of hungry rebels in the countryside of Shandong, such as Ma Yingzhao and Song Eryan, who "rebelled against the hard things" and "rebelled against the thief with a big book on the banner". It was cut off, which made Wang Aoyong and others have no intention of going east to occupy Laizhou for a while, but just sent people to appease them.

Li Zicheng's large-scale counterattack in Shanxi and Hebei forced the Qing government to shrink the front line and withdraw the main force to deal with the battle with Li Chuang that would determine the fate of both sides.As a result, the situation in Shandong became even more chaotic. The Qing army, the remnants of the Ming army, the remnants of the Shun army, local bandits, and people from the east bank each occupied one side, and they were all making final preparations before the coming of the war.

After transferring all 8 squadrons of the stand-up team to Yantai Fort, Mo Ming organized 4 squadrons from the newly recruited Shandan people, Japanese samurai, and the remnants of the Shun Army, all of which were transferred to the rear. Bo and Heishui two places, while stationing and training.

The 8 people in the eight squadrons in front of them have once again increased the training intensity, and strive to increase their combat power before the war comes.Even, Mo Ming was ready to let them go out and use battle as a substitute for training, which would add some trouble to the Qing army.However, most of the ships have gone out to sea for fishing at present, and it is inconvenient to transfer for a while, so this idea is temporarily shelved.

In addition to the stand-up team, most of the security team under Mo Ming's command, which had increased to 200 people, were also released to investigate the external enemy situation with all their strength, so that the people on the east coast of the Yantai Fortress could roughly know what they were doing.It went on like this for a few days, until the last day of August, Zhao Yingyuan, who was far away in Qingzhou, suddenly sent someone to Yantai Fort to hand over a letter to Mo Ming. The troops went to "suppress thieves", but Zhao Yingyuan couldn't do it. At present, the Qing army has gradually lost patience with Zhao Yingyuan, so Zhao decided to go anyway, and invited all the former Dashun generals such as Qin Shangxing, Guo Bapai, and Zhai Wu. , Song Eryan and others gathered in Qingzhou, preparing to conspire for major events.And Mo Ming was also one of his invitees.

"Zhao Yingyuan, originally lacking in strength, was recruited by the Qing army, but now seeing that the Qing army wants to use up his strength by suppressing bandits, this guy refuses to agree. Damn, anyway, I just want to be an independent emperor. But It’s okay for them to make such a fuss, but it’s time for Team 1 to take a walk after training for so long, I’d like to see what this fight is about.” Mo Ming lightly flicked the letter paper in his hand, smiling Said.

(End of this chapter)