Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 172
Winter goes to spring, spring leaves summer solstice.In a blink of an eye, the security regiment headquarters had been stationed in the Dabie Mountains for more than half a year.

At this time, after the transition between winter and spring, the regiment members have somewhat adapted to life in the mountains.And it's not just the security group who live in the Dabie Mountains. After many times of expansion, the security group discovered that there are still some villages a hundred miles away, and successfully established grassroots organizations in these villages.

In the past six months or so, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has made the best achievements. Even in the mountains, a large number of fields have been developed, which can make up for [-]% of the consumption.But compared to the achievements of the intelligence department, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is not so conspicuous.

With the support of a large amount of funds, the foreign affairs department has continuously sent out information collectors, which is commonly known as elaboration in this era.

After the efforts of the Foreign Affairs Division, the First Battalion, Second Battalion and Fourth Battalion are also trying to send people to De'an Mansion to find the regiment headquarters.Therefore, after repeated verifications and careful trial and verification, he was brought to the regiment headquarters.In this way, the regiment headquarters resumed contact with the first, second and fourth battalions.In this way, Qiu Tianxing also understood the current status of these three battalions.

Now Chen Chen from the first battalion is really not doing well. After arriving at Yingzhou Mansion in Jiangnan Province, Chen Chen hid in Huoqiu.Chen Chen, who was weak and weak, did not dare to attack the county seat, so he could only lead his troops to set foot in a remote mountain village.Now it has controlled dozens of villages and towns scatteredly.The local Tartar government thought it was just the bandits who had gathered in the forest and went down the mountain, so they didn't pay much attention to it.As long as the money and food are handed over and the county is not attacked, it is enough, so I just turn a blind eye and close my eyes, especially Caozhou Prefecture in Shandong Province, which is separated from Yingzhou Prefecture in Jiangnan Province by Guide Prefecture in Henan Province. The Yuyuan Army there has been making trouble for a long time .After the beginning of the year, it became more and more powerful, the entire Caozhou Mansion fell, and the imperial army was organizing soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress it.Moreover, the fighting in Shanxi and Shaanxi has become more and more intense, and the entire north is turbulent.Naturally, the Tartar officials in Yingzhou Prefecture don't want to be troublesome, as long as they can guard the city and pay the grain and tax.As a result, the No. [-] Battalion, which had devoted itself to development, lived in peace with the Tartar officials in Yingzhou Prefecture.

This is also because Huoqiu is located in the south of Yingzhou Mansion, it is too far from the north, and there is a Guide Mansion separated.Chen Chen, who had no information, didn't know that comrades from the Second Battalion had opened up a base area eight hundred miles away from him.If he knew that the Second Battalion was active in Caozhou Mansion in Shandong, Chen Chen would have to pull the team to the north of Yingzhou Mansion, and then march into Guide Mansion to form a corner with the Second Battalion.

However, although the first battalion is developing slowly, it is not without good news.At least Chen Chen's personal problem has been solved, this is the only one among several battalion commanders!Because of the urgency of the war, several battalion commanders had no time to think about personal issues.After the beginning of spring, Chen Chen married Zhi Ningfeng, and naturally incorporated Zhi Ningfeng's forces into the first camp.Zhi Ningfeng was originally from Yingzhou Prefecture, so naturally the First Battalion also received support from the locals of Yingzhou Prefecture.

Compared with the slow development of the First Battalion, Qiu Tianxing was surprised to find that the Second Battalion and the Fourth Battalion were no longer the former Wuxia Ameng.Especially the fourth battalion, after entering Shaanxi, almost felt like a dragon entering the sea.

Taking advantage of Jiang Guan's east wind, Li Taiping of the Fourth Battalion stirred up the situation in Shaanxi and Shanxi, turning clouds and rain.Li Taiping dragged Wu Sangui to the capital city of Tongzhou for nearly three months with his own efforts.During these three months, the Fourth Battalion quickly digested the land they had just won.In the end, Li Taiping concentrated the power of Tongzhou, Fuzhou, Puzhou, Jiangzhou, and Jiezhou, and defeated Wu Sangui's army, which was already exhausted, in one fell swoop.The battle lasted for more than three months. Although the Fourth Battalion suffered heavy casualties, Wu Sangui's losses were not small.There were more than ten generals killed in battle alone, including Fu Wenyuan, He Qilong, Chen Taihe, Zu Bangwen, Wu Sanbian and others.It was precisely because of the excessive losses of the generals that Wu Sangui felt sorry for his own strength, which slowed down the siege.Although the capital city of the same state could not be defeated for a long time, Wu Sangui also divided his troops to ravage the counties, but was repelled by the strong strength of the counties.In the end, the lost soldiers had to retreat to the camp, and then they were defeated by the coalition forces of various states.

The impact of the big victory in Tongzhou Capital City was huge, like dominoes, causing a series of wars.

Because Li Taiping held Wu Sangui's Ta-Han army in the south, Wang Yongqiang's troops in the north could sweep Yan'an Mansion, Yulin Mansion, and Suide Prefecture without any pressure.After unifying northern Shaanxi, Wang Yongqiang sent troops to Shanxi at the request of Li Taiping to support the Shanxi Anti-Tartar Rebel Army.Therefore, Wang Yongqiang entered Fenzhou Prefecture, Shanxi from Suide Prefecture, less than five hundred miles away from the provincial capital Taiyuan.At the same time, the rebel army in Qinzhou also began to go northward, passing Wuxiang, Jinyushe, and Xugou, approaching the provincial capital forty miles away.

The South and West armies approached Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and saw that Taiyuan was about to fall, and the loss of Taiyuan meant the loss of the whole of Shanxi, which had a great impact on the prestige of the imperial court in the north.In desperation, Dorgon, the regent of the Tartars, didn't care about Jiang Guan, a fierce tiger, and could only decide to let the Tartar army that besieged Datong go south to rescue Taiyuan.As a result, the siege of Datong eased slightly.The situation in Shanxi continues to be stalemate, which is of great help to the development of the Fourth Battalion.

The situation in Shanxi has also affected Shandong. Shanxi is fighting like a raging fire, and Shandong lacks reinforcements.Tong Yangliang, the original general soldier of Yizhou, was promoted to governor of Xuanda Shanxi.When he went to Shanxi to take office, he took the Shandong soldiers under his command to Shanxi, which made Shandong insufficient.Moreover, Shanxi was fighting so viciously, the Tatars were short of major generals, even soldiers and horses to guard the capital, so how could they have extra troops to support Shandong.

In fact, it was enough for the remaining Shandong soldiers and horses to suppress the Yuyuan Army, but at this time Sun Zhi came to Shandong. Therefore, a fire in the second battalion was ignited in Caozhou Mansion, and instantly detonated the southern part of Shandong. .And those religious bandits who could not be suppressed have also risen one after another, and the whole Shandong has become turbulent, which makes the Tazi court very worried.

Shandong and Shanxi are too close to the capital, and the two provinces are like a pair of pliers holding the capital. Once one party loses, or even both lose, then the capital cannot be kept.

It's just that Shanxi is more harmful now, and the Tartars can only encircle and suppress the rebels in Shanxi wholeheartedly, and they can only rely on Shandong Province for Shandong.Of course, as a neighboring province, Jiangnan Province also sent troops to help Shandong, but it was only a drop in the bucket.

After seeing the situation of the first battalion, the second battalion and the fourth battalion, although Qiu Tianxing was very happy at first, he became worried after a while.Weak stems and strong branches!The position of the headquarters is in jeopardy.

(End of this chapter)