The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 95
When Wansan heard that he was going to be locked back in the cell again, the tough guy temper that was going all out immediately dissipated.

The personal guards dragged him down, ignoring his begging for mercy, Tang Qing'an stood up from the table, looked at the drawn map of Liaodong, and fell into deep thought.

When he led hundreds of people out to sea the previous time, although he had the ability to predict the general situation, he finally had the confidence to do everything he could.

It's different now.

The wealth and lives of more than [-] people were tied to him.

Many decisions are not taken lightly.

What's more, if he fails, will there be a second "Mao Wenlong"? If not, the situation in Liaodong will completely turn to the barbarians.

And will there be "Yuan Chonghuan" who will turn the tide in Liaoxi?

Now that he has come to the Red Chamber, as a Han Chinese, the national responsibility in his blood cannot be left to him to do whatever he wants.

What is the population of Liaodong?

Nobody knows.

The official record of the Great Zhou Dynasty is 40, and no one knows this number for sure.

Because this is directly copied from the yellow book of the previous Ming Dynasty.

Since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there has not been a unified, nationwide inventory of farmland and household registration.

In this life, there is no reform by the famous official Zhang Juzheng to measure the land of the whole country.

After the unification of the Central Plains, Liaodong directly belonged to Dazhou, and retained the 25 guards and two prefectures established by the Ming Dynasty. According to the statistics of "Liaodong Zhi", the 25 guards of Liaodong had about 110 million in the Hongwu period. its family members.

Modern scholars Ge Jianxiong, Gao Wangling, Cao Shuji, etc. have verified that the population of the Ming Dynasty in 1600 was 2 million.

It is estimated that in 1600, the local Han population in the Liaodong capital would not be less than 370 million.Moreover, Liaodong is also a place where criminals are exiled.

Therefore, before 1616, the population of the Han nationality in Liaodong would not be less than 400 million.

Tang Qing'an rearranged the memories in his mind and deduced that the entire Liaodong was between 500 million.

This is a relatively accurate number predicted by domestic historians and foreign scholars in later generations.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Liaoxi Corridor accommodated several 10 people, and the Dongjiang Town established by Mao Wenlong accommodated a million people.

The rest of the millions of people fell under the rule of the Later Jin Dynasty. If there is no accident, in two or three years, under the rule of the Liaozuo barbarians, there will be a policy of massacre and extermination against the Han people.

The tragedy is not detailed, only the numbers are listed.

300 million disappeared, and only less than a million people survived.

This is the deduction that Tang Qing'an saw from some scholars before he traveled.

This is a history of blood and tears of the Han nationality, but it was buried in a necessary environment.

More than [-] Liao people.

The entire Golden State is already miserable.

"Please General Zhao, General Xu, Liu Chengmin, Chen Kaiwu, Guo Ying, Huayan to discuss matters."

The guards outside the door heard the order and immediately rushed out to pass the message.

Soon, a ban was lifted.

There is a big black mountain and a small black mountain in Beizhen, and Jinzhou also has a big black mountain and a small black mountain with the same name. The difference is that the two black mountains in Jinzhou are far apart.

From Lianhua Mountain in the north to Fenghuanggou in the south, a continuous mountain range runs from north to south, from Xinjin to Jinzhou City.

Like a sharp sword falling on the land, the plain in this area is divided into two sides from top to bottom. The east side is against Liaodong Bay, and the west side is against the Yellow Sea.

It has also become a barbarian raid, and Jinzhou's defense line is tens of miles long.

The farthest is the military fort known as Nantianmen, with mountains on both sides, separated from the mountain road, and the Xiagouzi cottage of Nantianmen, which is seven or eight miles away, has been wiped out by barbarians.

Zhou Bing stationed Xiaoheishan's bunker, on the northern edge of the mountain range, out of the forest is a plain, close to Liaodong Bay.

The barbarian cavalry was raging in this area. They dared not enter the mountain, and Zhou soldiers dared not go out of the mountain.

It had been more than half a month, and the soldiers in Heishan Fort seemed to have forgotten about Wansan. Following Li Bosheng's strict order, no one dared to leave the camp at will.

The entire Black Mountain Fort seemed a little lonely.

The soldiers were bored, and looked listless except on the days when they were out for drills.

Until Wansan came back.

He was still wearing a martial robe, swaggering outside the gate of the fort, and triumphantly ordered the guards to open the door and let him in.

"Look, what color am I wearing? It's made of silk, take your paws away."

Wansan slapped his dirty hands away, touched the marks on them distressedly, and glared angrily. The soldier just smiled smirking.

"San'er, I thought you were dead long ago. Some time ago, I estimated your first seven days and burned paper money with you."

"Go, go, I'm blessed and fateful, how can the general be willing to wait for a hero like me, not only entertained me with delicious food and drink these days, but also promoted me to the official position, I am now the captain."

Sanshi is the team, and the captain is in charge of thirty battalions, and is the highest position among low-level military officers at the grassroots level.

Chief Qian Li Bosheng came over, and when he saw Wansan in the crowd, he felt a toothache for a moment. He had received the military order a long time ago, and knew that this person was not only fine, but even got promoted.

Starting from Nantianmen, the changes of Zhou Bingbao in various places soon alarmed Fuzhou.

The barbarian general in Fuzhou is Morgan, Jiala Ezhen with the white flag inlaid, in charge of the five Niulu barbarians in his hand.

Today's barbarians are not like before. They are all assigned coats of slaves, and they can take them to the battlefield.

Although the status of these coated slaves is low, they are higher than the rest of the Han people. If they have a record, they can still raise the flag.

"I said that the general of Jinzhou didn't seem like a turtle with a shy head. After only being honest for two months, he couldn't help but returned to his original nature.

I used to be afraid that he would kill him and leave the city, but now that he is like this, I am relieved. "

Morgan has fought with the old slave all his life, from a young soldier to Jiala Ezhen, he is extremely fierce.

Seeing that the battalions in Jinzhou dared to go out of the city to guerrilla their own teams, they dared not shrink back, but stepped up their actions, confronting each other head-on.

The barbarians used to be short of horses, but now they don't lack horses. Instead, they have a lot of horses. This is because they have won successive battles from the grasslands and the Zhou Dynasty.

On the other hand, all battalions in Jinzhou are short of horses. Relying on their actions in the mountains, they went out of the mountains and set up ambushes at the intersections to ambush the squadrons who attacked Caogu.

Every place first won a few small victories, and when the barbarians reacted, they became more vigilant. Instead, they suffered setbacks one after another, and the battle reports kept sending back to the rear.

What's more, the barbarians took advantage of the victory to pursue, or counter-ambushed Zhou soldiers, and captured the third and fourth army forts, and the loss was even greater.

After only half a month, more than a thousand soldiers have been killed or injured in Jinzhou. Although the battle reports from various places say that hundreds of barbarians have been killed, only less than thirty heads have been received.

Zhao Gouyong is a veteran, and he knows the habits of the army well. It is expected that he would kill less than 50 people at most, and more than half of them were killed.

Thanks to the generals who have always severely punished generals who killed good people and pretended to be meritorious, they never tolerated one case, so a lot of such behaviors were reduced.

When fighting, most of the battles were lost, not only lost armor and weapons, but also compensation money and food, and the battalions began to ask for military equipment.

This battle cannot be fought like this.

Zhao Gou used to come to the general's mansion and asked to see the general.

Tang Qing'an welcomed Zhao Gouyong in, and as soon as the two met, Zhao Gouyong advised Tang Qing'an and took back the original promise.

"How's morale?"

Zhao Gouyong hesitated for a while, did not speak nonsense, and replied truthfully, "The morale of each battalion is as usual, but it is slightly higher."

"In that case, why worry."

Zhao Gouyong went on to calculate the pen battle, and if the fight continued like this, within two months, the whole army would not be able to pull out a fully equipped battalion.

Tang Qing'an sighed.

In today's Great Zhou, only the Liao army composed of Liao people can really compete with the barbarians.

Elite soldiers cannot be trained, they have always been honed in the flames of war.

Whether it is Qi Jiguang or those fierce generals in the late Ming Dynasty, they are all elite soldiers who have been trained step by step on the battlefield.

Although I have Qi Jiguang's art of war for reference, letting my second brother train in the army is just to lay a solid foundation. If you want to have elite soldiers, you have to forge them on the battlefield in the end.

In the past, I was afraid of losing and didn't dare to go out to fight, but after meeting Na Wansan, I thought about it instead.

It is the era of the later generations themselves. When they fought against the small southern countries, because they did not engage in military affairs for many years, they relied on the skills on the training ground to go to the battlefield. In the early days, many things that should not have happened happened.

Although they were still advancing and winning in the early stage, compared with the momentum of the year, they finally fell behind.

It shocked the whole world that year. With such power and power, it should be unstoppable against that small southern country.

Then the great people saw the opportunity to correct it, and immediately arranged for the military regions to conduct rounds of battle in this country, and began to train their troops on the battlefield.

This small country has become our whetstone, sharpening a daunting sharp edge and achieving the peerless peace of two generations.

At that time, my own country was also economically poor, but I still chose this way, and I got the Golden State, with 20 people, so I started to look around.

He is petty, and he is reluctant to break pots and tiles, which shows that he is an ordinary person after all, and he cannot compare with the vision and mind of a great man.

How can I be so hesitant when I want to compete with the barbarians in Liaodong.

That old slave of the barbarian tribe was only a few people back then, if he had the same worries as himself, how could he have achieved what he is today.

"Fight, not only fight, but all departments."

Tang Qing'an ignored Zhao Gou's abacus, wars are about logistics, and sometimes you can't just think about the economy.

The rich play the rich, the poor play the poor.

Now that there are so many Liao troops under his command who want revenge, he should take advantage of the trend instead of blindly suppressing them.

"This is our whetstone. Whoever can win the battle, I will promote him. If he is promoted by leaps and bounds, his morale will be like a rainbow."

He dared to make this decision because the thousands of vengeful Liao soldiers in the army were not afraid of death. As long as their morale did not drop, he would dare to support them.

Jinzhou's military report was sent to Jinzhou, as well as Tang Qing'an's military plan.

Any actions taken by the army in the mainland need to be reported, to obtain the consent of the civil officials, and even to act directly according to the plans of the civil officials.

Liaodong is no better than the mainland, and Tang Qing'an has Shi Nai's support, so he dared to do this.

When Shi Nai received Tang Qing'an's letter, Jinzhou had already acted.

He didn't care about this, but frowned, looking at what Tang Qing'an said in the letter, he predicted that the barbarians would attack Beizhen within a month or two at least, and no more than three months in length.

After hesitating for a moment, Shi Nai agreed to Tang Qing'an's plan.

(End of this chapter)