I am one year older than Chongzhen

Huang Yi did not order the Xinghe Army cavalry to launch a surprise attack. He just asked the generals leading the team to monitor him secretly!

With a thousand rebel cavalry far away from the Dengzhou city, it was indeed a good opportunity to encircle and annihilate them.

But Huang Yi refused to do it!

It wasn't that the Xinghe Army couldn't defeat the rebels, but Huang Yi was worried that the attack would be too harsh and would scare away Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others.

The result was just like history. Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, etc. led more than 10,000 soldiers and family members, carrying a large number of artillery and gold and silver treasures to join the slaves by boat.

There are 3,800 Xinghe Army cavalry, and they are all well-equipped armored cavalry. Defeating a thousand rebel cavalry is like picking something out of a bag.

It is also possible to form an encirclement and complete annihilation!

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Hu Xiaogu, Exun Zhaqin, Yu Shaoshan, Luo Buqi, etc. saw the fighter opportunity and asked for a fight one after another!

Huang Yi clearly informed the generals that the purpose of Xinghe Army's participation in counter-rebellion was to completely annihilate the rebels.

In order not to alert the enemy and to paralyze the rebels, they deliberately negotiated with the rebels.

The generals understood and stopped asking for battle.

Seeing that Wang Zideng came again and brought more than ten loads of gold, Huang Yi knew that the rebels had been fooled.

Taking money can also make the rebels full of illusions and not flee to the sea. Where can you find such good things?

Huang Yi deliberately showed a greedy look when Wang Zideng showed off his gold.

Let Wang Zideng feel that wealth and silk are attractive to everyone.

And when the prince Deng proposed that the army should not approach Dengzhou City for 150 miles, he fully agreed.

Not only that, Huang Yi also hosted a banquet for Wang Zideng and his party of 27 people, allowing Wang Zideng and his party to drink spirits produced in the base area.

When Wang Zideng and his party left, each war horse carried two jars of strong wine.

This is of course Huang Yi's gift to Li Jiucheng, Mao Chenglu, etc.

After Wang Zideng went back, he told everything he saw. The old generals in Dongjiang Town all felt that Huang Yi was nothing more than this. I'm afraid he was just like you and me.

The Xinghe Army has stood still, which shows that Huang Yi is sincere!

Li Jiucheng came to a conclusion!

He even discussed with the old brothers in Dongjiang Town whether they could come up with a way to drag Xing Hejun into the water!

Geng Zhongming felt that this matter was unreliable. He was so confident in his words that Huang Yi, the leader of the Xinghe Army, was equivalent to taking both black and white!

If he were in Huang Yi's situation, there would be no way he would join the rebels.

The old generals in Dongjiang Town all felt that Geng Zhongming was knowledgeable, and they all thought that if they were in a situation where the court and the rebels wanted to win over him, they would definitely be sold at a high price!

No matter what happens in the future, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Jiucheng, Mao Chenglu and others breathed a sigh of relief and began to collect food and grass to hoard supplies to consolidate defense!

During this period, the rebels broke into two counties and several towns, robbed all the wealthy businessmen and dignitaries in the city, and obtained gold and silver treasures worth no less than one million taels of silver.

Li Jiucheng was so happy as he waited, going out with one hand and in with another. Didn't the gold and silver treasures come back again?

The Xinghe Army deliberately stood still, but the Ming Army under Liu Yulie did not dare to take the initiative to attack the rebels.

There is no other way, if you suffer a loss, you will gain wisdom!

When they were just transferred by the imperial court to quell the rebellion, Yang Yufan and Chen Hongfan, the general officers in charge, were all thinking about making achievements and did not hesitate to move forward in fear of the enemy.

However, the fighting effectiveness of the rebels taught them a bloody lesson.

If it weren't for the willingness of his servants to risk their lives, the heads of Yang Yufan, Chen Hongfan, etc. would have been displayed on the flagpole by the rebels!

Now that they have spent a lot of money to escape the crime, and finally gathered together the troops, are they going to be sent again to help the rebels return to their original form?

It can't be!

The rebels retreated and our army advanced. The rebels killed us and our army entered the city and held firm. We will never let the rebels seize the city!

Are the rebels burning, killing and looting outside the city? None of my business!

With Huang Yi's secret support, Liu Yulie felt at ease. He instructed his subordinates and generals:

It doesn't matter if we can't defeat the rebels. Our army can stick to the rebels and make them unable to defeat and get rid of them!

All the generals understand that our army does not passively avoid war, but is always looking for opportunities to fight. The official and censor have nothing to say about this attitude, and the Holy Emperor can only approve it!

After the rebels reached a private agreement with Huang Yi, they would not take the initiative to provoke the Xinghe Army. Basically, we remain more than a hundred miles away from the Xinghe Army.

How can the Xinghe Army be idle when they don't have to confront the rebels?

Thousands of men and horses fought from the yellow leaves to the snowflakes, killing three to four thousand gangsters and hundreds of famous gangsters.

Not only did the imperial court not urge troops, but they also continued to receive awards.

Half of Shandong is in turmoil. Who is a rebel and who is not can't be distinguished by their hair or scalp.

Killing bandits and bandits can also lead to a harvest of heads. Of course, Huang Yi sent Wang Kun and Liu Yulie to the court to report successive victories.

Therefore, during this period of time, there were frequent good news, and the results were small but many.

The army that has been winning battles will not be impeached by the Yanguan Yushi, and the emperor's tolerance has been greatly improved.

Therefore, the Xinghe Army swept away all the pests in Denglai and became invincible!

There were too many prisoners, and as many as three hundred thousand people came to seek refuge.

Something strange happened!

Many young adults volunteered to become soldiers.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the emphasis on literature over military affairs became more and more intense. There was a slang among the people: Good iron cannot be hammered, and good men should not be soldiers!

Most of the soldiers were children of military families, and generals who couldn't muster the number of soldiers had to recruit more young men.

Most of the members of the Xinghe Army were Han people who had been slaves, and some were Mongolian prisoners who were enslaved by the chiefs.

These people have no other path to choose from, and becoming the Xinghe Army best reflects their value.

Now Huang Yi has a reputation, a territory and a population, and a lot of money and food in his hands.

Every time the army is expanded, they are selected from the auxiliary soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers who are short of personnel are selected from the labor force.

It was basically impossible for strangers to directly become regular soldiers of the Xinghe Army. Former Ming soldiers or rebels who defected to the army had to become auxiliary soldiers first and be screened by Wen instructors and town governors.

Ordinary people who want to become regular soldiers of the Xinghe Army must start as handymen. If they perform well, they can become auxiliary soldiers within three months.

It is a good thing that thousands of young and middle-aged people take the initiative to become soldiers and should be encouraged.

When the literature teachers and young soldiers were registering, they discovered a new situation. Thousands of young and middle-aged people were former miners, many of whom were from Liaodong.

This is not surprising. Before Ye Bohskin lost his mind, there were millions of Han people in Liaodong.

After several massacres of wild boar skins, less than one-tenth of them were able to survive in Liaodong.

Hundreds of thousands of Liao people fled to Denglai.

The organizational power of the Ming court was too poor, and most of the bureaucrats at all levels were bastards.

It’s just that the Liao people were not properly resettled, but they were also discriminated against, bullied, and even taken away by Denglai soldiers to work in the gold mines.

The rebels burned, killed and looted along the way. Although they did not go into the mountains to kill, the miners working in the gold mines in the mountains could not survive.

The reason is simple. The mine owners are all wealthy businessmen, big landowners, and gentry. They live in manors, towns, and even in Dengzhou City.

The output of the miners is gold, silver, copper, etc. Their food and clothing are sent up the mountain by the mine owners on a regular basis.