Daming wolf ride

The entire army of Jinzhou is stationed in Dengzhou to rest and reorganize, and it is not at all trying to wipe out the remnants of the rebels as stated in the memorial to the court.

From Kong Youde's Wuqiao uprising last year to the current defeat and killing of the soldiers, this rebellion dominated by Dongjiang Liao soldiers has lasted for nearly a year.Man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters. Within a year, the places where the rebels passed by were devastated, and the people were killed and injured, and the suffering was unspeakable.Northern Zhili and Shandong are better, but the territory of Denglai is already sparsely populated, especially the territory of Dengzhou, which can basically be said to be ten rooms and nine empty.

Before the rebellion, there were more than 21 households in Terengganu Prefecture. As of the latest data obtained by Dayong yesterday from Song Guanglan, the former Terengganu Road, there are less than [-] households in the prefecture.

The residents of the Central Plains of Dengzhou City were also killed by the rebels. Now, in addition to more than 1 family members of the rebels, there are also [-] refugees taken in along the way led by Dayong. The total of the two is less than [-]. It is also mostly old and weak women and children.Relying on these old and weak women and children to cultivate the fields in Dengzhou, the situation is really worrying.

However, to appease the common people and resume production has become a matter of great bravery. The reason for this is that the court has not yet appointed new officials in Dengzhou prefecture and county, and the local gentry have also been slaughtered by the rebels. On the other hand, the reason lies in Dayong himself, because he wants to control Dengzhou in his own hands, so that he can obtain a base with less pressure to raise troops. [

Jinzhou was an important military town outside the pass for the Ming Dynasty. After the apocalypse, it was in danger of being attacked by the Eastern captives almost every year. Therefore, everything in Jinzhou was based on military defense.Although there are some forts around Jinzhou, it is impossible to garrison fields on a large scale. No one can guarantee that the cavalry of the Jin army will not come to snatch and set fire to the crops when the crops are harvested.Moreover, the weather outside the customs has not been as good as the past few years. It has been dry for several years, and the winter is even more unusually cold. If the crops in the field can be harvested one-tenth, it is not bad.Coupled with the severe shortage of manpower in Jinzhou, it is impossible to have enough manpower to support itself.The so-called strategy of "defending Liao land with Liao people and supporting Liao people with Liao soil" has long been bankrupt. The Han people in the former Ming army outside the pass were killed by Nurhachi when Xiong Tingbi gave up Guangning and Ningjin. That "Liao soil nourishing Liao people" probably refers to the strategy adopted by the current Hou Jin.

The experience of going south also made Dayong no longer believe in the so-called food and grass supply of the imperial court. After asking Jiang Wanli, he also knew that when Yuan Chonghuan was guarding Ningyuan, the Jin army led by Nurhachi crossed Jinzhou and directly attacked Ningyuan.If Mrs. Hong leads the army to attack again and adopts the strategy of encircling the points to fight for aid, Dayong will have to worry about the consequences of Jinzhou's food shortage.He didn't want to pin his life on the Ming army in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and he didn't want to be trapped in the Daling River like Zu Dashou and wait to die by cannibalism.

No matter how you look at it, Jinzhou is a desperate place, and everything depends on the military strategists transported from the rear.Dayong's decision in Jinzhou is not entirely up to him. In addition to the prefect of Jinzhou, there is also the governor of Liaodong.Without Qiu Hejia's support, Dayong didn't believe that the officials outside the pass would support him as a martial artist desperately.

The idea of ​​not being trapped in Jinzhou can't be erased in Dayong's head once it is formed, and Dengzhou, which is full of rooms and empty spaces, seems to be a good choice for Dayong.The biggest problem now is that Shi Dayong is only a general of Jinzhou, and has nothing to do with this Dengzhou. How can he let the general of Jinzhou occupy Dengzhou, where the governor's office of Denglai is located.

Cao Bianjiao offered a method to Dayong based on what he had seen and heard in the Northwest.

Kou, ready-made, Li Zhongfu and Geng Zhongming are still operating under the banner of the rebel army under the supervision of the Jinzhou army. As long as the rebel army does not disappear for a day, the imperial court will not let the Jinzhou army return outside the pass.

Dayong thought so deeply, so within a few days after the whole army returned to Dengzhou, a letter of urgent report was sent to the capital.Although the rebel generals Li Zhongfu and Geng Zhongming in the urgent report are staying in Dengzhou honestly, this does not affect Dayong's deep concern for the rest of the rebel army in the report.

With a large amount of bribes and "facts", Gao Qiqian, who returned to Beijing, testified for Dayong's report, and Yang Yufan, who was busy counting grain and silver in Laizhou City, also patted his chest to report to the court. The remaining activities are true, and the Jinzhou Army is doing its best to eliminate them.Supervisor Zhu Dadian also emphasized in the report that the rebellion of the remaining rebels still needs to be quelled by the Jinzhou Army, and the terrorist rebellion will resume with other soldiers and horses.

With the joint efforts of many parties, the imperial court did not let the Jinzhou army return to Jinzhou quickly. The Ministry of War came with an official document, asking Shi Dayong to lead his troops to stay in Dengzhou to fight the rebellion.As for what to do with the people of Dengzhou, the official document from the capital did not mention a single word, and only asked the Jinzhou army to help them on the spot if they had surplus food, pending further disposal by the court.

Such an arrangement could not be better for Dayong, so after a week of recuperation, he immediately began to carry out post-disaster reconstruction, and began to send people to the capital with a lot of money to find out who the new governor of Denglai was about to be appointed by the Ministry of Officials. Those who are going to make good friends with these officials in advance, so as not to ruin their hard work by making irresponsible remarks when they arrive.Don't expect them to give you their full support, or at least shut them up.

In fact, if Dayong knew that the ministers in the cabinet had discussed it, in view of the great loss in Denglai, there was no point in setting up a governor alone. After the Second Mansion of Denglai was put under the rule of Shandong again, he would have to vomit blood.

The first thing to do in the post-disaster reconstruction is to count the existing population in the territory, select officials, gather the scattered people in one place, allocate food from the army rations so that they can survive, and at the same time, hurry up to bring them back before the weather turns cold. Wheat is planted.Although this cannot restore production to before the military disaster, it can at least allow these hungry people to barely survive until the beginning of next spring.

If you want to grab the autumn seeds, it is definitely not possible to rely on these old and weak women and children, so Dayong set his sights on the tens of thousands of rebels who surrendered to him

During the fifth reorganization of Pingdu, the Jinzhou Army absorbed 4600 Sichuan troops, consisting of two infantry battalions, personal battalions, wolf cavalry troops, and a small number of light cavalry sentry and heavy battalions. The whole army has a total of more than 2000 people.But the actual armored soldiers are actually only 2600 people, and the remaining [-] people can only be regarded as half auxiliary soldiers and half combat soldiers.

Along the way, the Jinzhou Army sacrificed more than 1000 soldiers, so the core number of soldiers was only about 3000, but the number of rebels who surrendered to the Jinzhou Army reached [-].How to reorganize, absorb and digest these rebels has become a top priority for Dayong.

The establishment of the Dirty Divide Alliance allowed the military rations in Laizhou City to be continuously transported to Dengzhou. Of course, these rations were not for nothing, and Dayong gave a lot of real money for this.

The subordinates all complained that Dayong gave away several 10 taels of hard-earned real gold and silver, and took out several 10 taels to buy food that should not have been paid, but Dayong insisted on doing so.He said a few words to Jiang Wanli who stayed in Laizhou in charge of purchasing grain, "What the world lacks today is not gold, let alone silver, but food. With food, there will be people's support, and there will be food." The morale of the army, without food, no matter how many soldiers and horses we have, we will lose them all when we arrive."

"The gold and silver are gone, we can grab them from the enemy again, but if the food is gone, we don't even have the strength to grab it, which one is more important, don't I need to say more?"

After these words of Dayong were passed on to the generals by Jiang Wanli, most of them expressed their support and no longer complained about Dayong's waste of the gold and silver that his brothers had robbed with their heads.The representative figure is Li Dashan, a bandit guerrilla who always likes to sing a few words against Dayong. [

To him, Dayong made him dare not complain with just one sentence, "Do you still want to eat human flesh?".