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  Chapter 398 396 [Guangxi Babing]

  Hong Chengchou suggested to Dorgon to send troops next summer, to see when the wheat will be harvested.

   After repeated discussions, Zhao Han decided to send troops in the spring!

  Because the territory of the Datong Army can grow winter wheat. After the winter wheat is planted, farmers and civilians will be recruited directly in northern Hubei, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Runing, and Nanyang to cooperate with the Datong regular army in spring combat, so that the farming season will not be delayed.

  In northern Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other regions, spring wheat was being sown at that time.

   Zhao Han suddenly sent troops in the spring, which happened to be the farming season of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty had to mobilize a large number of peasants, which made it impossible for farmers to sow wheat.

  Even if Zhao Han loses this battle, as long as he doesn’t lose too badly, the Manchu Qing will be seriously injured, and the wheat production of that year must have been severely reduced!

  Don't look at the vast territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, it is impossible to control the countryside at all.

   Even, small counties cannot be controlled, and many remote small counties are governed by the civil servants left by Li Zicheng.

   This kind of local control has a lot of room for manipulation, and Xu Ying can send countless spies to Henan!

  In addition, Xu Ying also sent people to Shaanxi to try to contact Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

  As long as the Datong Army and the Manchu Qing Army fight, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai will be able to take the opportunity to revolt in Shaanxi. There are still tens of thousands of elites left, and it is no problem to attack the city.

   At that time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were making trouble in Shaanxi, and Zhao Han went straight to Liaodong from Dongjiang Town. The two battlefields behind enemy lines were enough to drink a pot.

  Zhao Han's farmers and soldiers are equivalent to reserve forces. They can be assembled at the front line in two months, and can be trained on the battlefield in one month. He seemed to have few soldiers, but in fact he had a lot of them. If it wasn't for the lack of food, he would explode another 200,000 soldiers every minute.

   This battle has a great chance of winning.

  …

  Guangxi, Pingyuefu.

  From the perspective of the entire population of Guangxi, Zhuang 50%, Yao 30%, and Han 20%.

   But Pingyuefu is very special, less than 20% of the Zhuang people, and most of them immigrated from other places. They have a collective title called "Dongqian Cubing".

  俍bing, that is, wolf soldiers.

  The Yao people in Pingyuefu often rebelled, and it was difficult for the Ming court to suppress them, so a large number of Zhuang soldiers were moved here. Choose a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and let the soldiers set up a stronghold to garrison the fields, surround the settlements of the Yao people with the garrison army, and separate the Yao people from the Han people.

  The Zhuang people in Pingyuefu are mostly military immigrants, and their existence value is to suppress the Yao people.

   Not only that, but the Han officials also deliberately provoked conflicts between the Zhuang and the Yao, so that the Zhuang and the Yao formed a feud, so that they could rule very easily.

   But at the end of Ming Dynasty, the situation changed.

  The Zhuang people took the initiative to make peace with the Yao people, and even became relatives by marriage. A large number of Yao people who were separated, as well as Han people who lost their land, and Zhuang people who had no land to cultivate, formed villages to reclaim barren hills, and truly realized the national integration of Han, Zhuang and Yao.

  These mixed villages have become the key development targets of the Datong Army.

  After half a year of action, the Datong Army finally occupied He County, and recruited the soldiers from Diandeng Village, wiped out the soldiers from Daning Village, and completed the work of organizing households and dividing land in He County.

  A regular division only took down half a county in half a year, mainly because of the terrain, and because the soldiers were disgusting.

  After the main force of the 俍兵 was dispersed, they played guerrilla warfare in the mountains with seven of them.

  Poisoned arrows are hard to guard against, and may emerge from the forest at any time. More than 30 members of the peasant association alone died.

  It is early winter, and the Datong Army continues to attack.

  They just received the military order, the unit designation was changed to the 10th Division of the Datong Army, and Liu Xinyu from Hunan was promoted as the division commander. This person is a traitor in Hunan, who brought two states and four counties to submit to Zhao Han, and then followed Zhang Tieniu to fight in Guangdong to make meritorious service.

  The Chief Propaganda Officer of the Tenth Division is called Ding Jiasheng, who is also a traitor. He practiced the secrets of "Da Tong Ji" by himself, and took Duchang County to defect to Zhao Han.

   Ten thousand officers and men of the Datong Army, with more than a thousand soldiers and many civilian husbands, marched by land and water to kill Bian Pengzhai.

  Bianpeng Village is located not far to the northwest of Zhongshan County in later generations, facing the river and backing the mountains, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

  The masters of the Zubing villages in Liangfeng Village had already captured Pinglefu City, gathered the leaders of the Zubing villages and established themselves as kings, and there were also some Han and Yao forces attached to them.

  They even followed the river and brought down Yangshuo County.

  If it weren't for the threat of the Datong Army from the rear, these soldiers would probably have captured Guilin!

   This time it is going to be a decisive battle, and the place is Bianpeng Village.

  He County also has the Bianpeng Village area, which is a rare grain-producing area in Pingle Prefecture. There are basins between the mountains and rivers for irrigation, and the leader of the soldiers is reluctant to throw them away.

  俍The leader of the army is called Wei Changyi. Wei is a common surname of the Zhuang nationality, which means "buffalo".

  This person has a very high degree of Sinicization, not only marrying the daughter of a Han gentry, but also educated himself, and proclaiming himself the "King of Pingle".

  The two sides lined up on the edge of the Fujiang River, fighting upright.

  For Wei Changyi, this is the only way to fight. If they formed a stronghold to defend themselves, those damned Datong troops would directly divide the fields nearby.

  Diandengzhai surrendered like that. The Datong army surrounded the village and recruited Han people and Yao people to divide the land. Those are the fields of the Zhuang people in the village, and they were divided up helplessly, and 3,000 Datong troops were specially left here to help the people plow the fields and dig canals.

   Then they made various calls, as long as they were willing to surrender, the soldiers could redistribute the fields.

   After two months of confrontation, the owner of Diandengzhai led his soldiers to surrender collectively due to internal pressure. The Zhuang people in the village were also dispersed to divide their fields, and formed mixed villages with Yao people and Han people.

  Fu River.

  The formation of the Datong army is much denser, but the formation of the soldiers is extremely loose.

  However, the combat power of the Chu soldiers should not be underestimated. According to legend, Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation used the Chu soldiers for reference.

  A team of seven, with four leading and three assisting.

   There are cavalry, and they all fight with spears.

  Infantry includes shield soldiers, blunderbuss soldiers, spearmen, archers, crossbowmen, skirmishers, sanshou and so on. In addition to conventional weapons, there are javelins, sugar palm arrows, medicine arrows (poisoned arrows) and so on.

Before the battle, the Datong cavalry rushed out and shouted with their trumpets: "Brothers of the Han, Yao, and Tong (Zhuang) ethnic groups, the Datong Army does not distinguish between high and low ethnic groups. Brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups are equal. Don't work for the master of the Zubing village anymore. , as long as you lay down your arms and surrender, everyone can share the land..."

  The composition of the Tenth Division was extremely complicated, half of which was taken away by Fei Ruhe to form a new army, and many officers were taken away by Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang. Most of the recruited soldiers were Hakka, Miao, Zhuang and Yao.

   Today, 60% of the officers and soldiers of the division are Han Chinese, and the rest are all southern minorities.

  The cavalry rushed out to shout, and they shouted in a variety of languages. Yao language alone shouted four kinds.

   "Array, advance!" Wei Changyi hated this kind of yelling. He had a Yao army under his command, and this summer he was called out to defect.

  Both sides are coalition armies of various races, starting to advance step by step, and their respective cavalry are cruising and fighting on the side of the battlefield.

  The 10th Division of the Datong Army also has 2,500 cavalry, but most of them belong to the southwest horses.

  The average shoulder height is only 1.18 meters, which is much shorter than the war horses in Jeju Island. But mountain climbing is very good, and it is also good at carrying goods, and it can barely charge and fight.

  The soldier on the opposite side is also this kind of war horse...

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  The dragoons fired first, shooting down more than 20 enemy cavalry immediately, scaring the rest of the enemy cavalry to turn around and run away.

  On the frontal battlefield, more than 20,000 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of Han and Yao troops, are speeding up to kill the Datong army.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   After a bombardment, the Han and Yao troops directly collapsed.

  But the soldiers on the opposite side formed a very loose formation, a group of seven, speeding up and jogging towards the Datong Army.

  They are natural fighters, military immigrants specially transferred to Pingyuefu by the Ming court to suppress the riots. In addition to farming since childhood, they have also undergone military training. Combat meritorious deeds are their only chance to get ahead.

  The dragoons quickly went around the flanks, dismounted and shot at the soldiers.

   Zhao Han didn't have enough cavalry in the north, but he was an upstart in the south. It took nearly 100,000 taels of silver to buy war horses from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. 2,500 dragoons are enough to rule the Southwest.

   Those soldiers, who were bombarded from the front and shot from the side, did not collapse and continued to charge towards the Datong Army.

  Even Wei Changyi, who proclaimed himself King Pingle, was charging with his own soldiers.

   A group of desperate lunatics!

   "Boom boom boom!"

   There was another round of shelling, and the leader of one of the soldiers was torn apart by a shell. But this group of soldiers has not yet broken up, and they still charge forward in groups of seven.

  After three consecutive rounds of shelling, more than 2,000 soldiers were finally defeated and fled.

   "Bowmen!"

  The archers and crossbowmen of the Zongbing stopped immediately after reaching the shooting range and began to shoot arrows.

  The rest of the soldiers were still trotting forward.

  If it is a traditional battle, the battle of the soldiers will be more orderly. However, the firearms of the Datong Army were too powerful, and they had to charge so quickly.

  The rattan player of the Datong Army raised his shield to cover the friendly army.

  In fact, it’s not a big problem if you don’t cover. The bows and crossbows of the soldiers are relatively poor, and their power is not very great.

   What I'm really afraid of are poison arrows!

   "Throw a gun!"

   Charged again, and the javeliners charged and threw their javelins.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  忍兵 A small number of firecrackers also started shooting, and immediately drew their swords and rushed forward after shooting.

   Datong army fell down more than 20 people, half of them were pierced by javelins. The rest were hit by a poisoned arrow, and they didn't know what kind of poison it was. They had chest tightness, shortness of breath, weakness all over, and the toxin exploded very quickly.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The last round of shelling, this time it was shotgun shells, and it was a large area with one blast.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  3500 Datong firecrackers, 20-step ultra-short-range bursts.

   2,500 Datong dragoons, 1,000 were sent out to deal with the enemy cavalry, and the rest chased and shot again.

  俍bing is still human after all, facing such terrifying firepower, tens of thousands of people collapse immediately.

   Wei Changyi is not dead yet, and he is still rushing forward with the rest of his troops. He felt that as long as he rushed to close combat, the Datong army would definitely be defeated, and the Datong army was nothing but powerful firearms.

   "The Grenadier!"

  Five hundred grenadiers with super-long arms and strong physiques threw tens of thousands of enemies at the rushing soldiers.

  The rattan players, wolf gunners, and long gunners were also on standby, and the gunners retreated to mount their bayonets.

   There was no need for melee combat anymore, the bandit leader Wei Changyi was killed by thousands of enemies, and all the remaining soldiers turned and fled.

  The dragoons put away their guns, drew their knives and rushed to kill them. Any enemy who did not put down their weapons and surrendered would be killed with one blow.

  The Datong Army suffered a lot, and the casualties in guerrilla warfare in the mountains were far greater than in frontal combat.

   After attacking Pingyue Mansion for half a year, they were finally able to take all of them. The leader of the bandits, Wei Changyi, was killed in battle, and most of the other leaders of the soldiers would choose to raise their villages and surrender.

  Guangxi is really hard to fight!

  Ethnic issues are also extremely complex and must be managed step by step.

   Take Pingle Mansion, the next step is Guilin Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion.

  In the absence of sufficient food and grass, it is estimated that Guangxi will fight for another year or two. Each time troops are sent to occupy one or two prefectures, and then civil affairs are quickly carried out. The local area has accumulated enough food before dispatching troops.

  Guangxi is so difficult, but Sichuan is very smooth.

  Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu have jointly dispatched troops to attack Wang Xiang in Chongqing Mansion with Yang Zhan.

  The sooner Sichuan is captured, the sooner the grain production area will be obtained. There has always been a lot of grain in the Sichuan Basin. Especially the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance!

  (end of this chapter)