Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 162

Shaanxi is originally a poor place, and since the pre-Ming Dynasty has been in chaos for more than 20 years, the county towns in various places have already been dilapidated, and even the moats of some county towns have been blocked by silt.

When the county is surrounded by tens of thousands of people, the soldiers and civilians in the city are often frightened, and the army has no intention of fighting.

It has only been five years since the Tartars entered the customs, and there are still wars and rebellions in various places. The public opinion has not yet returned to the Tartars, and the ethnic conflict is still the main contradiction.If more than ten years pass, I am afraid that the anti-Tartar hearts of the people under the rule of the Tartars will gradually fade away.

In this way, after being surrounded by the Fourth Battalion, the people in the city would often initiate riots and open the city gate to welcome the security regiment.When the security regiment entered the county seat on the frozen river, the city fell without a fight.

The Shaanxi people deserved to be the descendants of the Qin Empire. They were brave and good at fighting, and supported the four great empires of Qin, Han, Sui and Tang with their own strength.Although they no longer have the courage of their ancestors, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion reorganized into the Tartars is also a good fighter among the green camps across the country, and has made great military exploits in maintaining the rule of the Tartars.

Of course, there are also counties that refuse to surrender, and the Independent Brigade comes in handy at this time.After He Liang and He Zhen's subordinates attacked in turn, the resistance eventually ended in failure.

After receiving the supplies from the county seat, Li Taiping continued to re-equip the troops.Because of the previous failure, Li Taiping was also heartbroken about the loss caused by a single unit.One type of arms cannot conquer the whole world, so Li Taiping set up cavalry, armored soldiers, archers, crossbowmen, shield soldiers, gunfire soldiers, engineers, medical soldiers and other arms.Of course, due to the lack of equipment, the number of these arms is small, but the shelf is built first, and the equipment can be expanded at any time in the future.As for the largest number is the reserve brigade, it's just that the members of these reserve brigades are still stuck in the era of using farm tools and sticks as weapons.Of course, the main function of these reserve brigades is to replenish troops and move supplies.That is, the auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands in the Tartar army.

In this way, Li Taiping led his troops all the way to the south, conquering Hancheng and descending Heyang, leaving a brigade to garrison every county he occupied. Develop organizations such as farmers' associations and farmers' guards.Li Taiping promoted his two clan brothers to be captains, and then stayed in Hancheng and Heyang.Li Taifu is the captain of the first garrison brigade, stationed in Hancheng.Li Taigui was the captain of the second garrison brigade, stationed at Heyang.

After making arrangements for Hancheng and Heyang, Li Taiping led his troops to Chengcheng.It's just that when Li Taiping came to Chengcheng with his army, Chengcheng had already been captured by Ji Yanwu of the anti-Tartar army.

In the past few days, the Fourth Battalion swept all directions in the northern part of the Tongzhou Prefecture, and their reputation had already reached Ji Yanwu's ears.It was also inspired by the Fourth Battalion that Ji Yanwu gathered the people and captured Cheng County.When he learned that the Fourth Battalion was approaching Cheng County, Ji Yanwu was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to ask Li Taiping to join him.

After learning that Cheng County was captured, Li Taiping felt a little regretful at first, as a city in a county has some wealth anyway.And when the guards came to report that Cheng County had sent someone to ask to be attached.Li Taiping was overjoyed in his heart, his own power is still weak, if he wants to achieve great things, he needs the help of others, this kind of people who bring the city and subordinates to surrender is Li Taiping's favorite.

Therefore, after entering Chengcheng, Li Taiping appointed Ji Yanwu as the captain of the third independent brigade, with more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command.

After Hancheng, Heyang, and Cheng counties were captured one after another, the Tartar officials in Tongzhou were panicked.Although he intends to escape to Xi'an, the magistrate has the responsibility of guarding the land, and the crime of losing the city is not a small one.But these Tartar officials are not happy to take refuge in these rebels.They are not those mud-legged people who don't know the general trend of the world. After the fall of Nanchang last month, these people knew that Remnant had no chance.Moreover, these traitors are not the remnant regime. Even if they take refuge in the past, there will be no good results. In the future, they will still be defeated and die. An adorable descendant.In the end, if one's luck is overwhelming, maybe you can wait for reinforcements from the imperial court before the city falls?In that way, I can make a lot of money, and promotion and fortune are just around the corner!

As a result, some officials closed the gates of the city tightly to prevent them from swearing to the death, while some cowards took off their official uniforms and fled out of the city.

Five days later, Li Taiping divided his troops and captured Baishui, Pucheng and Chaoyi, and gathered his troops under the city of Tongzhou.

At this time Li Taiping had dispersed the strength of the six garrison brigades.Although more than 1 people were sent out, there are still 1 people under his command at this time, and nearly half of them are from the independent brigade.Although many people from the Independent Brigade were killed and injured during repeated sieges, they were all locals from Shaanxi, and they knew each other very well, and many relatives and old friends came to seek refuge.In order to take the overall situation into consideration, Li Taiping could not prevent these defectors from entering the independent brigade, let alone forcibly pull the defectors from the independent brigade into his own brigade.He could only tie the three independent brigades tightly to his side, and use his direct subordinates to occupy the six counties that had been captured.

Now that the prefecture city is ready for battle, it is time to consume the strength of these independent brigades.Of course, in order to prevent these people from complaining, Li Taiping also sent his own troops into battle, which is considered as training.

After conquering the capital city of Tongzhou, Li Taiping will also take a break from his military affairs.The successive rapid expansions had already given him some indigestion.Not to mention the team that Mei Renxin brought to Fuzhou.Just my own troops in the same state capital together with the independent brigade will be close to 1000.However, although there are many soldiers and horses under his command, they are all rookies. Firstly, they are not popular, and secondly, their combat power is not high. They must be trained strictly to supplement their equipment.The old Ding who followed him to Shaanxi lost nearly a hundred along the way, and lost more than 58 when he fled north to northern Shaanxi. Now it is only about [-]. The lowest position of these old Dings is now the team leader.There are [-] people in a team, only the team leader is an old man, and the rest are newcomers.It can be seen that Li Taiping's control over the army is weak.Moreover, the language barrier also greatly affected the integration of the troops. In order to train their subordinates, some officers began to learn Shaanxi dialect.

This is really a good time for careerists, and Shaanxi is a good place for careerists to make a fortune. As long as there is food, there will be soldiers.The soldiers of Qin were brave, good at fighting and not afraid of death. They were much better than those tofu soldiers in the south, especially the tofu soldiers in Jiangnan Province who surrendered without a fight when Duoduo went south to capture Nanjing.

Anyway, it was the right time for Shanxi Jiang Guan to disturb Shanshan and Shaanxi. Taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to take down the Tongzhou capital and Yanzhou to gain a geographical advantage, it was human harmony to win over the anti-Tartar army in northern Shaanxi and take advantage of the people's resistance psychology.For a moment, Li Taiping actually felt that he had both the right time, the right place and the harmony of people.

At this moment, Li Taiping, who jumped out of the small circle of Tongbai and came to the big stage in northern Shaanxi, suddenly felt proud, thinking that he had finally become a hero in this world. Shangluo Mountain was as excited as when it entered Henan.

When Siying and Wang Yongqiang teamed up to make a huge disturbance in northern Shaanxi, the Tartars in Xi'an also responded hastily.It's just that in this era, the speed of information dissemination is slow, and the speed of troop movement is even slower.

When Wu Sangui led Mo Ergen, Li Guohan and other Tartar troops into the Tongzhou capital, Li Taiping had already captured the Tongzhou capital. Everyone eats a piece of meat from the Tartar officials to show that they will fight the Tartars to the end. After eating the meat slices, each person gets a bucket of food.

The Tatar flag was fluttering outside the city, and the troops in the city were mobilized, and the war was imminent.

(End of this chapter)