Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 439 The decisiveness of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Daqi's temptation
Hearing Li Yan talk about the number of Manchurian Eight Banners Army, everyone was not too surprised.

There are not many Jurchens. The Eight Banners of Manchuria with about 7 people was able to be formed before, because they absorbed the wild Jurchens and changed a small number of Mongols, Han Chinese, and even Koreans into the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

However, the fighting power of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the past was really strong, which fully explained what it means to be "Jurchen is less than ten thousand, and full of ten thousand is invincible".

However, with the substantial increase in firepower such as flintlock guns, bright cannons, tiger squat guns, and grenades in the new army of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the obvious improvement in equipment levels in other aspects, the Jurchen's sturdy combat effectiveness in cold weapon battles was greatly reduced. restricted.

What's more, compared with the times of Nurhachi and Huangtaiji, the Manchurian Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty is inferior in combat effectiveness.

In addition, before the Qing Dynasty was supported by King Sanshun's cannons and muskets, but in the First Battle of Yangzhou, Kong Youde's army was almost wiped out, which also reduced part of the Qing Dynasty's combat power.

Thinking of this, the officials of the Military Affairs Council became even more excited, and they were full of confidence in this Northern Expedition.

Immediately Zhu Dadian asked: "How many Qing soldiers are there now?"

Li Yandao: "The green battalion of the Qing captives mainly came from surrendered officers, Shunjun, and even bandits. In the past, the Qing army actually had high requirements for the quality of the soldiers of the green battalion.

However, after the Battle of Yangzhou, the Qing army will probably relax restrictions in this regard in order to increase its troop strength as soon as possible.

Therefore, the Chief of Staff estimated that there were at least 15 Green Battalions in Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Beizhili, and Shandong, and possibly as many as 20. "

Hearing the figure of 20 to [-], some people couldn't help frowning—this amount is quite a lot, and even if the combat power is not high, it will bring considerable obstacles to the Ming army's Northern Expedition.

"Can you instigate rebellion against some of the green battalion army?" Yang Tinglin stood up and said, "Now that the Qing Dynasty is in decline, I believe it should not be difficult to instigate the green battalion army?"

Li Yan smiled, "It's not difficult. The Military Intelligence Department has already done this, but we won't see the results until we launch the Northern Expedition."

Hearing this, many people nodded.

If he could instigate part of the Green Army, Daming's chances of winning this time would undoubtedly increase a little.

After discussing the military strategy and military situation, the ministers of the Military Affairs Council then discussed logistics and military supplies...
This military meeting was held for three consecutive days before it was completely over.

When the time came to September [-], the Shaanxi army divided into four groups and launched a battle to recover Xi'an Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, and Yulin Town at the same time.

A few days later, Yulin City.

Seeing the slowly opening city gate and a crude "Ming" flag rising from the top of the city, Li Guo and Gao Yigong couldn't help looking at each other.

Gao Yigong said: "It's the green battalion guarding the city again, directly opening the door to offer the city? It seems that it is not easy for us to fight a battle."

Previously, after the Qing captives shrunk their line of defense in Shaanxi, the remnants of the Shun army led by Li Guo and Gao Yigong took advantage of the situation and occupied the new and old Anbian camps, Liushujian and Ningsai camps in the west of Yulin Town.

After receiving Lu Daqi's order for them to recover Yulin Town, the two marched eastward along the Inner Great Wall.

I thought there would be many fierce battles. After all, Yulin Town is an important frontier fortress with many fortresses.

Unexpectedly, when they walked all the way under the flag of the Ming army, the camps and fortresses they encountered were either empty or only old and weak soldiers were stationed.

In this way, within a few days, the two brought their soldiers and horses to the city of Yulin.

Originally, I thought that Yulin City was strong and dangerous, so the Qing prisoners would send people to guard it, right?

Unexpectedly, Qinglu even abandoned Yulin City.

After hearing Gao Yigong's words, Li Guo sighed: "This means that we are flying the Ming army's banner. If we are flying the Dashun banner, even if there are only a thousand green battalion soldiers in Yulin City, most of them will stick to it."

Gao Yigong showed a complicated expression, and said: "What do you mean by saying that? Dashun is gone. When Yulin Town is taken down, we will accept the reorganization of Master Lu. Let's forget about the past. "

Li Guo sighed: "It should be forgotten—it's not easy for people like us to survive."

Then he looked to the south again, "Going south along the Wuding River is Mizhi. I don't know when we can go back and have a look."

Gao Yigong said: "You have the nerve to meet the villagers. After accepting the reorganization, tell Master Lu that you should be able to go back for a few days. I won't go back, I don't have that face."

Li Guo said: "I'm afraid that Mi Zhi doesn't know many of our living people now."

Gao Yigong only felt that the more these things were discussed, the more frustrated he became, so he said: "Stop gossiping, and go to the city quickly. Now that Yulin has fallen, we will recover Shenmu and Fugu as soon as possible, otherwise it will not be so easy if we want to make contributions in the future. .”

After finishing talking about beating horses, let's lead the soldiers into Yulin City first...
The prefectural city of Xi'an is also the county seat of Chang'an and Xianning, where Li Dingguo and Lu Daqi successfully met.

But when the two met in the city that was more than half destroyed, there was no joy on their faces to recover the important city.

"I've met Lu Dushi." Li Dingguo saluted Lu Daqi with his hands clasped.

Lu Daqi has been a supervisor in Shaanxi for nearly a year, and he is not as particular as before. He also wears a military uniform instead of a civil servant's attire.

He raised his hand and said, "Li Junmen doesn't need to be too polite, just sit as you please."

Li Dingguo was not polite, and sat down on a stone pier, but his posture was very upright.

Lu Daqi looked at Li Dingguo and sighed: "We have conquered Xi'an this time, and we have not fought a single major battle. The Qing captives who were eliminated were only machine guns, and they were all green battalion soldiers. Even the city of Xi'an was destroyed by the Qing army, and the people of the entire Xi'an Prefecture There is no one in a hundred, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain to His Majesty."

Li Dingguo also frowned, and said: "Who would have thought that the Qing captives would retreat so decisively."

Lu Daqi said: "It's still too late for us to start - if the army is launched in late August, the Qing captives in Xi'an Mansion may not be able to leave, at least some of them will be left behind by us."

Li Dingguo didn't answer.

The time for the Shaanxi front army to launch the war was set by the Military Affairs Council, and the purpose was to cooperate with the actions of the other three front armies.Therefore, there is no way to let the Qing captives in Shaanxi slip away.

In fact, Lu Daqi was not very satisfied with the Military Affairs Council. He felt that after having the radio station, he, the governor, was subject to some undue constraints, so he wanted to take advantage of the unsatisfactory opportunity of this war to unite some people to play His Majesty, so as to Seeking to restore the former governor's power that was more liberal.

Li Dingguo was his first target.

Never thought that Li Dingguo would not answer this question.

'I don't know if this kid didn't understand, or he didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the court. '

It was difficult for Lu Daqi to speak clearly about such matters involving court politics, and if Li Dingguo didn't answer, he had no choice but to give up.

So he said: "Since the Qing captives gave up Xi'an, they must have chosen to give up Shaanxi and retreat to Shanxi.

Next, if we achieve our goal of forcing the Qing captives to increase their troops to the west, we must attack Shanxi. "

Li Dingguo finally answered and said, "It should be like this."

Lu Daqi asked, "What do Li Junmen think about the attack on Shanxi?"

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)