Win the Ding 1617

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Looking at the iron gate of Jiqingwei, one of the trophies that Chen Tianhua transported from Hong Kong Island to Hue by fast boat, Shouhan could clearly see the unhappy smiling face between the lines in the victory report.

However, unlike the other leading generals, Chen Tianhua's vicious methods are also jaw-dropping.

All the adult descendants of the Deng family were beheaded, and the other four families, according to the plan and according to the reward list of the five families seized from the Deng family that day, asked the other four families to hand over their personnel who participated in intercepting the South China Army team.

In the victory report document, Chen Tianhua made the following suggestion to Shou Han:

For this group of people, they must either be beheaded or sent to mines and forest farms to do hard labor. In short, they cannot be so cheap.We must set an example, anyone who dares to confront our army will end badly!

This guy!What a ruthless method!His suggestion reminded Shou Han of the famous Shaved Lord and the Eight Great Kings who were scolded by later generations for 400 years. They were all famous figures for massacres.

"It is beneficial to kill more, but since this generation has violated our army, we must not let it go unpunished. The commander of the North Route Army, Chen Tianhua, the battalion office will report the roster and number of this generation, and the navy will take over. The older generation will be dispatched to the land of Xinna!"

Throwing down the pen in his hand, looking at the few lines of writing on the document, Shou Han was quite satisfied. [

Allocating these thousands of people (from young and strong to old and weak women and children) to Shizhou is the proud work of Shou Han.In this way, the ten prefectures that have recently been roughly surveyed and mapped. (Oh, that is the Australian region we are familiar with. As one of the bargaining chips in the negotiation, the Dutch transferred this land to the South China Army.) It became the place where the South China Army used to distribute these criminals.Here, it was named Shizhou by Shou Han with no integrity, which probably means another state besides Kyushu.

"It's time to let the children of the training fleet go to the direction of the ten states!" Staring at the newly made rough map of the ten states on the wall, looking at the huge map that almost occupies the entire wall, thinking about the future The land that is called the country that rides on the back of a sheep and sits on a mine cart appears, and a large amount of wheat and wool are produced on this land, as well as jellyfish, poisonous snakes, poisonous spiders, and crocodiles that live on this land. , great white sharks and other aborigines.Shou Han felt more and more that it was right and wise to send the five great families and similar people to this land in the future!

Ten days later.The [-] ships of the practice fleet sailed like clouds and set off for Hong Kong Island, where they would accept the thousands of exiles handed over to them by the Northern Route Army, and then escort them to ten states for resettlement, and build a simple port there .and immigration settlements.For the safety and livelihood of this group of people.The South Central Army will issue them self-defense weapons of the same standard as those in each fort.Simple copper cannons, small Franglers, matchlock guns, and ordinary ones such as knives and spears.It is more common equipment.Along with it, there are many production tools such as farm tools made of wrought iron and Jiuzhuan steel.

These people are not only exiles, but also pioneers.

The commander of the training fleet, Chu Tianlei, naturally would not do trivial and complicated things like an ordinary junior officer. After he and Chen Tianhua explained clearly to their subordinates, they sat aside to drink tea and talk, which was naturally effective. The subordinates went to handle the delivery of materials and personnel.

"Brother Chu, please!"

Filling a small teacup with hot tea, Chen Tianhua cupped his hands to signal for Chu Tianlei to use the tea.

"it is good!"

Chu Tianlei took a sip, and suddenly an image popped into his eyes, but he had never seen it before.

Standing behind Chen Tianhua's side, a big man besides a few personal soldiers, although standing with his hands down, was still full of murderous aura and prestige.

"Who is this?"

Chu Tianlei pointed at the man with a four-foot firewood chopping knife on his back, and asked Chen Tianhua a question.

"Winter Solstice, come and meet General Chu."

Greeting Liao Dongzhi to come over to meet Chu Tianlei, Chen Tianhua proudly introduced Liao Dongzhi's background to Chu Tianlei.

"Brother Liao is a good man. He was the first to raise the banner of anti-grain and anti-tax righteousness in eastern Guangdong. Later, with the Liao family as the backbone, it once had nearly [-] soldiers. Unfortunately, good and bad are mixed, and they were soon besieged by local officials and regiments in Guangdong. , the subordinates collapsed. The officers and troops chased and killed them all the way, but fortunately they encountered our army on the ground in Chaozhou.”[

"General Meng did not give up and took Dongzhi into custody. Later, he gave Dongzhi food and weapons, and sent more than a hundred people to help Dongzhi regroup his subordinates and reorganize the camp. Dongzhi now has 2000 troops under his command, all using Nanzhong Army equipment. Trained by the instructors sent by the general! Fighting with the general's direct subordinates is already equal in combat effectiveness!"

Both Chen Chu and Chen Chu knew very well that Liao Dongzhi's team now belonged to the peripheral forces of the South China Army, and there were no fewer than ten teams in Guangdong with a similar status, not to mention those who were still in power in name. A team that maintains relative independence, but has received training and funding from the South China Army, such as Wu Liuqi's regiment training.These people are all included in the power that can be used.

Once necessary, Shou Han issued an order, and within a few days, at least a hundred cities in Guangdong will change their flags.

"Brother Chu, why did you go to sea again this time? Is the battle going wrong with Xu Huanshan of the right-wing fleet?".Chen Tianhua was half concerned, half selfish.He was eager to know what the situation in Guangxi was like, and how did Xu Huanshan, who also accepted the task of disrupting Guangxi, do?

"Which part do you want to hear?

Chu Tianlei slyly blinked his small eyes, which were blurred by the sea breeze, and deliberately teased his comrade.

"Stop being wordy! Tell me quickly! The military report is not very clear. You are the most well-informed guy who travels around, transporting supplies and grass. Tell me quickly! If there is anything inconvenient about him, I will Bian also went west to help him one or two."

Xu Huanshan's actions in Guangxi were much smoother than Chen Tianhua's.

The Xuan Fu envoys, appeasement envoys, Tu magistrates, and Tu magistrates in various parts of Guangxi, Xu Huanshan, a tiger, is not polite at all.Attack the past one by one.Those chiefs of various ethnic groups who have served as local officials in Guangxi since the Song Dynasty's battle of Nong Zhiguang and the suppression of Nong Zhiguang have been in bad luck.

The hatred accumulated from beating enemies in the past made them watch helplessly as Xu Huanshan stormed the fortresses and official villages that were said to be indestructible, dragged out the majestic chieftains in the past, and executed them in front of the slaves.

Xu Huanshan and Chen Tianhua had similarities in what they did afterwards.

First, all kinds of debts and personal dependencies are declared null and void.Those who serve the army are free, and can share land, oxen, iron plows, and hoes, and purchase all kinds of luxuries and daily necessities in their eyes at unimaginably low prices.

Then it is to spread the land system of the South China Army in various places.If there is a shortage of land, Xu Huanshan is very generous in pre-distributing the land of the next target to those who are willing to serve as the leading party for the South China Army.

The last trick is to draw salary from the bottom of the pot.

Xu Huanshan not only asked Shouhan to send the village chief to perform grassroots administrative affairs, but also asked to send teachers and doctors.Popularize culture to the villagers in those backward villages.Wide literacy and reading, medical treatment and medicine will reduce the high mortality rate, and at the same time.Propose the concept of cleanliness and sanitation in the stockade.Came with all three.It is the caravan of the Hanyuan firm.These people use all kinds of daily necessities to buy all kinds of mountain goods in the hands of the villagers, and they put forward the prices of the purchased goods in various places.The villagers found that it was more than a few fingers cheaper than buying from the master chieftain before!

for a while.The Zuojiang River Basin was turbulent, and all kinds of native officials, such as the Cen family and the An family, conferred heads one after another.Moreover, Xu Huanshan's troops not only did not decrease, but continued to expand.Every time a chieftain's official village was laid down, at least more than a thousand troops were added. Surrounded by more and more soldiers, Xu Huanshan suddenly discovered that he had to either fight Nanning and Guilin in Guangxi by himself, or go west to fight Yunnan. Among the many cities in the territory, two-thirds of the former native officials' jurisdictions are already in their hands!Therefore, I had to hold down the eager momentum of my subordinates, and sent the already inflated outrageous troops battalion by battalion to let the ships that brought supplies transport these people back to the Nanzhong area, or sent them to Jiulongjiang, Reclamation in places such as the Chao Phraya River, or to other places, in short, it is gradually digested.

"Ah! Unexpectedly, Huanshan looks crude and careless, but it is so delicate in fighting!" Seeing that my colleagues are so smooth, they have acquired half of Guangxi's country and mountains in just a few months. above.Comparing the two groups of troops, the North Route Army seems to be falling behind the West Route Army!

"It can't be compared like this! Guangxi is all native officials, and the tigers just have to be like Li Kui, just pick up the ax and chop off the head! Anyway, the uncles in the provincial capital will at most think it is a fight between the chieftains. You don't want to be here. It’s the same! All kinds of human relationships, such as yearly friendship, fellowship, relatives, same clan, same clan, are intertwined, like a rotten mud pond, it’s good that you didn’t get swallowed by this rotten mud pond!”

Having said that, how could a competitive person like Chen Tianhua accept this reality?

"Don't panic, there are plenty of opportunities for you to make meritorious deeds!" Chu Tianlei moved closer to Chen Tianhua with a hint of mystery on his face, "I have a feeling that my lord is planning a big move right now, and I'm there every day to supervise and raise food Raising wages, constantly calculating the capacity of the navy, the workers in the shipyard are working overtime to build the ships, and the sailors recruited from various places have learned Mandarin and simple calculations after training in the Qiongzhou Prefecture camp. After mastering the essentials of operation, they were sent to me to practice the fleet for sea operations, and to get familiar with the ships in my hands. Think about it, if the lord hadn't made a big move, would he have supervised him so hard? Right now in this sea, in the This South China, including Tianzhu in the distance, who is the opponent of our South China Army?"

The eyes of the two met in the air, and they both saw the meaning hidden deep in their hearts from each other's eyes, and they understood each other.

Chen Tianhua ordered the soldiers on duty outside the house to fetch the residence newspapers collected these days, and the two of them read them carefully.

Since the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Ming court can be said to have intensified internal and external troubles.

On the fifth day of February, the Shaanxi Peasant Army captured Xingshan and killed Liu Dingguo, the county magistrate.On the 21th, go down to Qutang.On February [-], Kuizhou Mansion (now Wanyuan, Xuanhan, Daxian, Liangping, Hubei, and Jianshi County, Hubei), Daning, and Taiping were besieged.Because of encountering Shizhu's consolation envoy and the female general Qin Liangyu who was appointed as the general soldier, she led the famous Majiabai soldiers to block the way of the peasant army's advance, so it was a last resort.In March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, several battalions of rebels including Lao Huihui who entered Sichuan entered Qinzhou from Yangping Pass (northwest of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province), and returned to Shaanxi, where they joined Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others who had returned to Shaanxi earlier.

That year, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces had no rain from August to April in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and the land was barren for thousands of miles. The people were starving and people ate each other.It created a great opportunity for the various peasant armies to expand their strength, and the various ministries of the Ming army who attacked the peasant army used another magic weapon for promotion and fortune-killing the good and pretending to be meritorious.Help the Peasant Army expand its power from another angle.

And just when Chen Tianhua started to tear down the fences of the five great families.The peasant army Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng ushered in the first crisis in their lives, the famous siege of Chexiangxia.The mountains around here are steep, the canyon is easy to enter and difficult to exit, and the government army has blocked the roads everywhere.It just happened to catch up with the rain in the Chexiang Gorge located in the Han River Basin.It's half a month at a time.Raise food everywhere.Look for firewood everywhere.Even the horses in the army were slaughtered. In desperation, the peasant army also took out their life-saving trick.Jewelry with heavy gold.Come buy a living!

Under the plan of Li Zicheng's counselor Gu Junen, the various ministries of the Peasant Army pooled their treasures to bribe Chen Qiyu, then governor of the five provinces, and the people around him, claiming that as long as their lives were guaranteed, they were willing to put down their weapons and go home to farm, or accept Zhao An.

With the help of the yellow gold, the white silver, the bright white beads, the green emeralds and emeralds that can drip water, Governor Chen agreed to accept the surrender of the peasant army. Be confused for a while, go astray, God has the virtue of being good at life, and always wants to give people a way out.

As a result, the subsequent developments made Governor Chen's eyes drop to the ground.Not long after leaving the carriage gorge, they received food, grass and supplies provided by the officers and soldiers. After eating and drinking enough to restore their physical strength, the peasant army killed the placement officers in each team with hidden daggers, short knives and other weapons, and robbed the soldiers in the cities along the way. Jiazhangku raised the flag of rebellion again.

As for Governor Chen, he lost his official position and life because of this incident not long after.The vacated post of governor of the five provinces was replaced by Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides who insisted on suppressing thieves, as Minister of the Ministry of War.Responsible for the military affairs of the five provinces of Shanxi, Shanxi, Chu, Henan and Sichuan to suppress bandits.

The Central Plains is like this, and the Northland is even more corrupt.Yellow Wolf, the chief of slavery in Liaodong, sent troops west to Chahar for the second time in order to incorporate the various tribes of Monan Mongolia into his own system.On the way back to the division, when passing through the Xuanda area, they attacked the Xuan and Da areas in four directions in the name of the Ming border generals harassing its territory, killing its people, and hiding people who fled.At that time, many castles along the border were lost, soldiers plundered Datong, and captured Desheng Fort.The capital was shaken, and Chen Hongfan, the commander-in-chief, was ordered to guard Juyong, and the governor Ding Kuichu to guard Bauhinia and Yanmen.Lingqiu, Baoanzhou and other places fell successively, and officials from all over the place died in their posts.

"Damn it! This Jiannu clearly regards Xuanda, Gyeonggi and other places as their granary and money bag. They come here to grab something from time to time, get something back to enjoy in their den of thieves, and come back after fattening up." Grab it once!" Chu Tianlei dropped the mansion newspaper in his hand, a little bit aggrieved.

"Brother Chu, have you noticed? There's something strange about it!" Chen Tianhua's fair face showed a slight tinge of red, but the soldiers around him shuddered a little when they saw this expression. , that is, he wanted to kill someone in his heart!It's just that everyone doesn't know who he is going to kill right now.

"Since the second year of Chongzhen's founding of the slaves, the first soldiers came to Beijing, the world was in chaos, and the refugees from Shaanxi revolted and fled to various places. In recent years, they have haunted all provinces in the Central Plains, Sichuan, Hubei and other places. But this time , was surrounded by Chexiang Gorge, and was about to be wiped out. Why did Jiannu, who fought with Mongol Dazi in the north, suddenly attack all parts of Xuanda with an army that had just finished a battle? How could it be such a coincidence? ?”

The two couldn't help but fell into contemplation. The peasant army attacked the provinces and consumed Daming's manpower, material and financial resources internally. This made Daming's already stretched financial resources even more insufficient for those troops that did not kill the enemy and disturbed the people. The slaves and the Mongols who were conquered by the Jiannu, while the Jiannu sent troops to Xuanda area at all costs when the peasant army was about to be wiped out, harassed the heartland of the Ming court, and forced the main force of the official army to go north to deal with the Jiannu. Thereby reducing the pressure on the peasant army.Before the main force of the official army arrived, Jiannu had already made a fortune in the Xuanda area and left.This kind of calculation, firstly, helped the allies in the actual sense, secondly, increased their own economic strength and war potential, and thirdly, achieved the goal of weakening the strength of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone!

"It seems that among Jiannu, there are some masters! Brother Chen, if you and I meet Jiannu on the battlefield in the future, we must be careful, or we will fall into their tricks!"

Three days later, Chu Tianlei's fleet sailed south from Hong Kong Island, escorting more than [-] exiles to the Shizhou area.There will be a new home for these people.

Not long after Chu Tianlei left, another boat came with a messenger.

"Investigate! Chen Tianhua, the former commander of the North Route Army and the head of the battalion office, was killed too much during the bandit suppression in Xin'an County. After discussion, it was decided to give Chen Tianhua a two-level retention sanction! I hope Chen will take the crime and make meritorious service."

After the messenger finished reading the official document, he winked at Chen Tianhua narrowly.

"Master Chen, my lord has something to say, please come back to Hue with me, he has something to tell you." (to be continued...)