: Two-sided attack

In June of the second year of Longwu (1645), when Confucian scholars of Neo-Confucian scholars and Confucian scholars of the Ming provinces fell into endless quarrels over their respective political views, the Central Army embarked on the journey again.

On the day of the dispatch of troops, hundreds of thousands of Nanjing people spontaneously came to Yanziji to bid farewell, which was something that had never happened before.

But Wang Pu knew that the Central Army was increasingly favored by the Ming people, and the Nanjing people came to see each other spontaneously to bid farewell, not only because there were many Nanjing children in the Central Army, but also because the Central Army drove away Jiannu and the Tartars, bringing a stable and happy life to the Ming people.

This time, the Central Army was divided into two groups. Wang Pu personally led the infantry battalion and the baggage battalion to attack Liaodong. Huang Degong, Shi Lang, Zhang Yanlin, Li Ang and other four battalions to go out to fight. Liu Rushi led the infantry second, third, fourth, and fourth battalion, artillery battalion, second battalion, third battalion, fourth battalion, and sixth battalion to attack Shanxi. Hongniangzi led the cavalry first, second battalion and third battalion to go out to fight.

Wang Pu led each camp on the sea route and arrived in Zhigu, the important town of Beizhi in July.

When Wang Pu led his army to Zhigu, the governor of Beizhi Qu Shisi and the governor of Beizhi Tang Sheng had been waiting for more than half a month. In order to cooperate with the Central Army in fighting against Jiannu, Qu Shisi mobilized three battalions of security teams, and all three battalions were replaced with old-style muskets eliminated by the Central Army.

Zhigu Pier.

Wang Pu strode down the gangway surrounded by generals such as Li Chengdong, Huang Degong, Shi Lang, Zhang Yanlin, and Li Ang. Qu Shisi and the officials of the North Railway who had been waiting on the dock quickly bowed, while Tang Sheng and his subordinates kicked their legs to Wang Pu at the same time and gave a standard military salute.

Wang Pu returned a military salute to Tang Sheng and his subordinate officers, and shook hands with officials such as Qu Shizi and others in the Northern Direct.

That afternoon, Wang Pu inspected the northern cowboys accompanied by Qu Shisi and Tang Sheng. The northern cowboys of these three battalions were young and middle-aged people between the ages of eighteen and forty. Wang Pu could feel that many cowboys were murderous intent. Obviously, the hands of these cowboys were stained with the blood of Jiannu and Tartars.

What surprised Wang Pu even more was that the northern cowboys in these three battalions were actually all cavalrymen!

This was entirely the result of the killing of Hu. Since the Ming Dynasty issued the killing of Hu, a large number of martial people have moved from southern provinces to Beizhi to settle down. Qu Shixi selected young and middle-aged people between the ages of eighteen and forty to form security teams in various prefectures and counties, and then sent weapons and equipment, and the officers of the Central Army conducted military training on them.

Unlike the security teams in other provinces, the security team in Beizhi was given a specific mission by Wang Pu and the court from the beginning. This security team can almost be regarded as the reserve of the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty! In addition, it is undeniable that the situation faced by the security team in Beizhi is much more severe than that of the other provinces.

To the east of Beizhi is Jiannu, to the north is Tartars, and to the west is Wu Sangui. Therefore, whether it is training or equipment, the North Direct Security Team is much better than the security teams in other provinces.

For example, Wang Pu did not give these equipment to Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, and Scarfaced Mixed Battalion, but gave the Beizhi security team. This is enough to show the special status of the Beizhi security team. In fact, Wang Pu has already regarded Beizhi as a forefront base for land expansion, and Qu Shisi is also operating completely according to this idea.

After the inspection, Qu Shixi sent Wang Pu to his temporary governor's headquarters and said, "Prince, since the promulgation of the killing of Hu, there have been tens of thousands of people moving to Beizhi every month. Now the population of Yongping, Shuntian, Xuanfu, Baoanzhou and Huailaizhou has become saturated. The newly moved people's officials plan to be placed in Baoding and Hejian Prefectures."

Wang Pu nodded gently, and the result was originally as expected.

By the time the Ming Empire arrived in the Chongzhen Dynasty, land annexation was quite serious. At that time, most of the land had been concentrated in the hands of a few nobles, and most of the people had lost their own land. However, the Hu Linggong clearly stipulated that as long as he was willing to move to Beizhi to settle down, the government would distribute the land according to the mouth. If no one was willing to come with such generous conditions, there would be a ghost.

The tradition of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce has been in China for thousands of years, and the Chinese people's land complex is quite strong.

Seeing that Wang Pu had no intention of speaking, Qu Shixi continued: "Yongping Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, Xuanfu, Baoan Prefecture, Huailai Prefecture, and all subordinate counties have formed security teams. At present, there are more than 200 security teams registered in the official registration and more than 40,000 people. There are more security teams that have just been formed or have not been registered in the official registration."

Wang Pu's expression changed slightly after hearing this. So, the total number of cowboys in Beizhi has exceeded 100,000?

This was unexpected by Wang Pu. He did not expect that the power of killing Hu Ling would be so strong, and he did not expect that the expansion of the civilian armed forces in Beizhi would be so rapid. In more than half a year, this semi-official and semi-civilian armed force had grown to more than 100,000 people!

The killing of Hu clearly stipulates that the people of Beizhi and Shandong can organize their own armed forces without the permission of the government. The nature of which is similar is local regiment training, or landlord armed forces. The only difference is that these landlord armed forces are not controlled by one or several large landlords, but are jointly controlled by most "landlords", because every regiment in the regiment training is a landlord.

A powerful civilian armed force is a double-edged sword. If used well, it will be a vanguard of external expansion. If used poorly, it will in turn threaten the rule of the court. However, at this stage, this armed force will only be a vanguard of external expansion of the Han people, and it cannot be a threat from the court.

Qu Shixi said again: "In order to cooperate with the Central Army in the battle against Jiannu, the officials specially selected elite soldiers and strong generals from each government to temporarily form three cavalry battalions. The security teams of these three cavalry battalions were formed earlier. Many of them had been to the desert and fought with the Mongolian Tartars. They were considered veterans who had seen blood."

Wang Pu suddenly said, "Where are shooting, how are you practicing?"

Qu Shixi said: "It's okay. I've been practicing for more than a month, but it's incomparable to the Central Army."

Wang Pu asked: "Qubutang, what is the recent situation of the Mongolian Tartars on the grassland?"

Qu Shisi said: "The Mongolian Tartars have turned against Jiannu, and the Tartars are also attacking each other. The entire prairie is in chaos. Our security team also goes to the grassland to hunt every now and then. The war horses and equipment of these three cavalry battalions are almost stolen from the Korqin people."

"It's better to be messed up, the more chaotic the better." Wang Pu said again, "Where is Jiannu?"

Qu Shixi said: "Jiannu is not easy to deal with. In the past six months, more than a dozen security teams have been sent to Liaodong to hunt, but they have not caught anything, but have lost many people!"

Wang Pu asked again: "Where is the food, grass and supplies?"

The killing of Hu Ling clearly stipulated that in Beizhi and Shandong people could form armed forces on their own, but the food, grass and supplies needed for training or expedition were prepared by the security team, so Wang Pu asked this question. He was worried that Qu Shisi's three security camps lacked food and grass, which would drag the Central Army behind.

Qu Shixi said: "Don't worry, the security team will never drag the Central Army down, but..."

Wang Pu smiled and said, "Mr. Qu, please rest assured. After placing Liaodong, I will definitely act according to the provisions of the order to kill Hu. The land, population, livestock, and food belong to the security team."

Qu Shixi smiled and said, "Then the officer thanked the prince for the brothers of the security team."

Wang Pu's face suddenly darkened, and he shouted in a low voice: "Qu Shizi!"

"There is the official!"

Qu Shishi straightened her chest urgently.

Wang Pu said in a deep voice: "Early tomorrow morning, I will lead the security teams of three battalions to head towards Shanhaiguan. After leaving the customs, we will advance along the western Liaoning Corridor to face Shengjing to attract the attention of the main force of Jiannu. The king led the Central Army to follow up from the sea. Once Duoduo led the main force of Jiannu to welcome him, he would detour to the side of Jiannu and attack and annihilate them on both sides!"

"yes!"

Qu Shizi agreed with a loud promise.

Shengjing, Duoduo Mansion.

Duoduo sighed in front of him. The life of Jiannu has been very difficult recently. After the defeat in the Battle of Jining, the eight banners of Jiannu were only left with more than 10,000 bannermen in Zhengbai Banners, but they had to support nearly 200,000 young, young, women and children. And now there are no Han people enslaved them, so the difficulty of life can be imagined.

Originally, there were Koreans who provided food to Jiannu, but at the beginning of the year, a rebellion broke out in North Korea. In anger, Duoduo led 2,000 cavalry to flatten the Korean Peninsula. This rebellion almost wiped out the Koreans. The total population dropped sharply from more than 300,000 before the rebellion to less than 300,000. The Korean civilization, which has always regarded itself as a small Chinese, was directly killed by Duoduo back to the primitive society.

Wherever Jiannu passed by, the cities and villages turned into ruins. There were basically no inhabited villages on the Korean Peninsula. All the Koreans who could be found had been slaughtered. Most of the remaining 20,000 to 30,000 people were hiding in deep mountains, forests or uninhabited islands, and relying on hunting and fishing to make ends meet.

Although Duoduo was killed so happily that he vented all the resentment in his heart on the Koreans, it also caused great trouble to Jiannu. Since the old slaves started their army, Jiannu has lived the life of slave owners. They do not work or grazing, and have basically lost their life skills.

But you have to eat something if you have more than 200,000 mouths. Who can I eat?

Entering the pass to plunder? Jiannu no longer has the courage or strength. Seeing that the pitiful grain stolen from North Korea was about to be eaten up, when he was desperate, he had to rob the Korqin people! Although the Korqin people are Jiannu's most iron ally, now the disaster is coming, Duoduo can no longer care about so much.

The Korqin tribe was originally the most powerful tribe among the Mongolian tribes, with 100,000 armors, but the 100,000 cavalry were completely destroyed in the Battle of Jining, and hundreds of thousands of old, young, women and children immediately lost their support. However, the old, young, young, women and children still had millions of cattle, sheep and livestock in their hands. The poor Korqin people did not know that their cattle, sheep and livestock had already attracted the covetousness of their evil neighbors.

With heavy footsteps, Suksaha strode in and said proudly: "Master, the food from each banner is almost gone."

Duoduo frowned and said, "I understand, I am trying to find a way."

"Master, what else do you have to think about?" Suksaha said, "At this point, I have to grab the Korqin people."

Duoduo sighed and was about to speak, a Goshha suddenly hurried into the hall and knelt down and replied: "Master, Liaoxi is urgently reported!"

"Xi Liao?" Duoduo's face changed slightly and he said in a deep voice, "Speak quickly!"

Goshha said: "Returned to the horse exploration, more than 10,000 Ming cavalry left Shanhaiguan and were approaching Shengjing."

"More than 10,000 cavalry?" Duoduo asked in a voice, "Is it the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty?"

Goshha shook his head and said, "This group of Ming cavalry has no banner, and its weapons and armor are also very messy, unlike the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty."

"That's the security team of Qu Shisi, the governor of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Zhi." Suksaha said angrily, "These damn Nanming barbarians have always been plundering them before, but now they dare to plunder us in reverse. The sheep actually want to eat wolves. This is really a mess."

Duoduo said in a deep voice: "Look again and see if this group of Ming cavalry is following the Ming Central Army?"

"twitter."

Goshha agreed to take the order.

Watching Goshha turn and leave, a terrifying chill flashed leisurely in Duoduo's eyes. If this Ming cavalry did not follow the Ming Central Army, Duoduo decided to eat them! Recently, more and more South Ming barbarians have come out of the pass to burn, kill, and rob, and their behavior has become more and more rampant.

We should teach these arrogant Nanming barbarians a lesson.

In Songshan, Qu Shizi was standing on the dilapidated city wall to commemorate the ancient sites.

Back then, Songshan was a military center in western Liaoning and a bridgehead used by the Ming Dynasty to resist the Iron Cavalry of Jiannu. In the Battle of Songshan, more than 100,000 troops of Hong Chengchou, the commander of Ji Liao of the Ming Dynasty, collapsed overnight. However, Wang Pu stood out in this battle and attacked Shengjing to capture the slave chief Huang Taiji alive, and gradually grew into a pillar of the Ming Dynasty court.

But now, the solid city has long been ruined. Apart from the dilapidated earthen house camps in the city, Qu Shisi could no longer find any traces left by the Ming border troops.

"Report..." Amid the loud trumpet, a cowboy hurriedly stepped onto the city and said breathing, "Governor General, I found a brigade of Jiannu cavalry thirty miles away."

"Oh?" Qu Shishi asked anxiously, "How many cavalry are there?"

The cowboy replied: "At least ten thousand!"

"Okay!" Qu Shixiu said excitedly, "It seems that Jiannu has moved all the way this time, someone is here!"

A personal soldier came forward and responded: "Here."

Qu Shixi said: "If you send the order, all the brigades will be more vigilant, beware of the Jiannu raid, and then condemn the quick horse to send a message to the prince!"

Outside Songshan, there are more than a hundred large and small warships of the Ming Navy moored on the sea surface.
Chapter completed!