Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 203 The World Shakes ([-])

On New Year's Eve of the seventh year of Huaxing, in Taiyuan, Shanxi, Li Taiping was sitting in the battalion headquarters with a sad face.Today, the development of the Fourth Battalion in Shanxi and Shaanxi is not going well.

The Tartars mobilized more than [-] troops to station in Shanxi and Shaanxi. Since Datong had already been captured, the Fourth Battalion lost an extremely beneficial ally.Without Jiang Guan's powerful firepower to attract the Tartars, Li Taiping had no choice but to step up to the front and resist.

Now the fourth battalion is also fighting on two fronts. Here in Shanxi, he has to deal with the Ta-Han army commanded by Prince Azig of the Tartars.However, Mei Renxin, a preacher in Shaanxi, had to resist the attack of Wu Sangui, Mo Ergen, Li Guohan and other troops.Fighting on two fronts is exhausting.

Because of the fierce fighting, Mei Renxin had no choice but to retreat step by step, gradually abandoning Tongzhou Fucheng, Pucheng, Baishui, Chengcheng, Heyang, Hancheng and other cities, and steadfastly defended his troops in Fuzhou.Of course, although the Fourth Battalion withdrew from these sites, it was only because of the strong mobilization mechanism and resolute resistance of the security regiment that these cities had already exhausted their resources.After relocating the few remaining population to Fuzhou, the county towns of Tongzhou prefecture where the security regiment was based were almost empty, leaving the Tartars with an uninhabited barren land.

But even withdrew to Yanzhou, Wu Sangui and others still pursued closely, so after several months of resistance in Yanzhou, the army continued to withdraw to Yan'an, joining forces with Wang Yongqiang.

Although Mei Renxin suggested to Li Taiping that he should lead his troops back to Taiyuan, considering the offensive of the Shaanxi Tartars, if Mei Renxin brought back the troops from the Fourth Battalion in Shaanxi to Shanxi, Wang Yongqiang might not last long.

After receiving Li Taiping's order, Mei Renxin could only continue north to Yan'an.Fortunately, at this moment Wang Yongqiang also knew that the Tartars were powerful and aggressive now.If you don't join forces with the four battalions, you will be defeated by the Tartars one by one.Even though he was a bit reluctant to give up his territory, Wang Yongqiang still gave up the southern counties of Yichuan and Ganquan to Mei Renxin.

Although such continuous resistance has largely delayed the Tartars' offensive momentum and consumed the Tartars' strength.But the people under the security regiment also made huge sacrifices. Thousands of people lost their lives every time a county was vacated.After one war after another, northern Shaanxi almost turned into a blank land.Of course, the inability of the Tatars to replenish on the spot also lengthened the logistics transportation distance.If the fist is stretched out too far, it will naturally lose its strength. Finally, Mei Renxin and Wang Yongqiang teamed up to drag Wu Sangui and others to Yan'an Mansion.For this reason, the Fourth Battalion sacrificed several captains, and Wang Yongqiang's subordinates Liu Daying, Zhao Tiegun and others also sacrificed heroically.

On New Year's Eve, Li Taiping didn't want to worry too much, so he decided to go and drink with his concubine Ji.Because Qiu Tianxing did not imitate the famous [-] regiment policy in his previous life, nor did he enforce monogamous marriage, so as long as he has the ability, the cadres of the security regiment can find as many women as they want.Of course, even if Qiu Tianxing formulates a monogamy policy, everyone still won't have only one woman, because there is only one wife, and the rest are all concubines.After entering Taiyuan, Li Taiping first confiscated a number of homes, and later some people took refuge in begging for mercy and offered their own female relatives.Li Taiping's heart twitched when he saw those handsome faces and graceful figures standing in front of him pitifully.So he accepted it logically, and naturally those big families that should have been suppressed were also in danger.The power of role models is infinite, and the person who sends the daughter off next is like a crucian carp crossing the river.

Li Taiping's abilities were limited, so he only kept a dozen of the most outstanding women, and rewarded the rest to his confidants.Of course women like it, but Li Taiping prefers to let himself have the rights of women.The ancients said that those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black.This has been separated from the regiment headquarters for too long, and Li Taiping's thinking has gradually returned to this era.Seeing that Siying had suspended its actions to suppress the landlords and gentry, these people cheered one after another, and in turn supported Siying wholeheartedly.After all, as long as the Fourth Battalion didn't suppress them, they would hate the Tartars even more, otherwise they wouldn't have followed Jiang Guan to set off an upsurge of anti-Tartars in Shanxi.Therefore, this also stabilized the rule of Siying in Shanxi in a disguised form.

But even so, Li Taiping's territory in Shanxi continued to shrink.The north retreated from Ningwu Mansion and Daizhou all the way to Yizhou, less than two hundred miles away from Taiyuan.In the east, Pingding Mansion was almost lost, and the remaining troops could only stick to Shouyang County.In addition, the rest of the troops still have the territory of the rebels from all over the country. Although they regard themselves as the leader of the alliance, they still refuse to give up the specific territory.So calculated in this way, the area occupied by the Fourth Battalion in Shanxi is less than half.Had it not been for the Second Battalion's uprising in Shandong to divide some of the Tazi's troops, the pressure on the Fourth Battalion would have been even greater.

Just when Li Taiping was about to give up his worries about military affairs and go to concubine Ji for entertainment, a piece of information was delivered to his desk.This is a piece of information from the headquarters, and it took more than a month to arrive at the Fourth Battalion.At this time, the information had been deciphered, and when Li Taiping saw the content of the information, he suddenly became ecstatic.At this moment, his mood is extremely smooth, and the entire sweat pores seem to be ventilated, and the heavy pressure is gone forever.At this time, he no longer had the idea of ​​looking for concubine Ji, but got up and walked to the wall where the map of Shanxi was hung, looked carefully, and then punched Pingding Prefecture heavily.This time he was ready to fight back. He sent troops from Shouyang to pass through Niangziguan, exit Jingxing, and enter Zhengding Mansion in Zhili to give the Tartars a look.

Therefore, Li Taiping hadn't lived for many years, and hurriedly summoned Yao Huaisheng, Li Jiusheng and others.Now because of Qiu Tianxing's change of organization, Yao Huaisheng and Li Jiusheng have also been promoted to the captains of the column, and there are more than ten thousand soldiers under them.In addition to Yao Huaisheng and Li Jiusheng, Li Taiping took advantage of the expansion to promote his relatives to the position of column captain.Li Taifu, the captain of the first garrison brigade originally stationed in Hancheng, Shaanxi, also became the column leader of the third column, and Li Taigui, the captain of the second garrison brigade stationed in Heyang, Shaanxi, also became the column leader of the fourth column.Because Kan Pei, the captain of the fifth column, led his troops to station in Yizhou to resist the Tartar army, Kan Pei did not return to Taiyuan.

In addition to these direct descendants, Li Taiping also recruited He Liang, He Zhen, Ji Yanwu, Ren Zhen and others from the independent brigade.Because Ren Zhen was loyal, Li Taiping also let him lead a team alone.Although they still bear the name of the Independent Brigade, this is only to create a scene where the Fourth Battalion has many followers and Li Taiping's title of leader is worthy of the name.Moreover, the annexation of the independent brigade would make some ambitious semi-independent forces fearful and even alienated. In order to resist the situation of the Tartars, Li Taiping naturally would not do so.Of course, Li Taiping didn't treat them badly either, each of their independent brigades had as many as 6000 people, tripled in size, they could be regarded as half a column.

After learning that Jiang Ning was restored, Yao Huaisheng, Li Jiusheng and others were overjoyed.Now the Fourth Battalion is struggling in Shanxi and Shaanxi. This is really good news. It is foreseeable that the climax of the anti-Tartar situation in Shanxi and Shaanxi will come again.They are more optimistic about the prospects of the security team.Even if someone is vacillating, a decision must be made at this time.

Sure enough, when Li Taiping spread the news that Jiang Ning fell into the hands of the headquarters, the two provinces fell into madness.The anti-Tartar martyrs were overjoyed. After taking down Jiangning, the Northern Expedition may be born soon, so they don't have to fight alone.But the Tartars were terrified. Although they tried their best to conceal the news, they were still stabbed by the bandits.

Under such a good situation, Li Taiping assembled four columns and ten independent brigades, with a total of [-] troops to counterattack and put down, trying to break through Niangziguan and enter Jingxing.The Tartars suddenly panicked, and the original plan to send an army south to Jiangning was shelved.

(End of this chapter)