Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 75
"What about the officials, gentry and common people in the two prefectures?"

Huang Degong couldn't keep up with Chongzhen's thinking.

The two prefectures of Dongchang and Yanzhou are both the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If you say give up, you will give up?Aren't you afraid of impeachment by the censor?
Your Majesty, you were not like this before.

Chongzhen did not explain to Huang Degong, because the explanation was unclear.

Only Jin Xuan and Wang Jiayan with insight can understand his intentions.

"As the saying goes, if people lose their land, they will lose all their land. If they lose their land, all their land will survive. Therefore, the land can be given up, but the officials, gentry and common people of the two governments cannot give up."

"Immediately send flying cavalry to various states and counties in Dongchang Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture."

"All the officials, gentry and people in Dongchang Mansion were evacuated to Jinan Mansion, and all the officials, gentry and people in Yanzhou Mansion were evacuated to Xuzhou in the south."

"I will send an urgent message to Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui. Jinan Prefecture can abide by the rules, but not retreat to Qingzhou. The bottom line I give them is to defend the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou."

"The minister leads the decree." Huang Degong could only send flying cavalry.

Well, in fact, dozens of mule cavalry were sent.

What Daming lacks most now is high-quality war horses.

As soon as the flying cavalry was dispatched, Huang Shi'an came over happily.

Huang Shi'an is Huang Degong's nephew and one of the general soldiers of the twenty-eight towns.

This time, when Huang Degong went north, he brought Huang Shian's elite soldiers with him.

"My lord, uncle." Huang Shi'an grinned until his ears reached his ears.

"It seems that the harvest this time is not small." Chongzhen asked with a smile, "How much is the beheading?"

"Returning to the Holy Lord, there are more than 11 real slaves who have been beheaded this time, including [-] Baijia, more than [-] each from the Eight Banners Han Army and the Jiang Army, and a total of more than [-] people have been beheaded."

"Good job!"

"Mr. Huang, tell the warriors that if you behead a true slave, you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver for the first level, and for beheading the Eight Banners Han army and those who surrendered, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for each head! After returning to Xiazhen, together with this month's battle The salary will be distributed together!"

"Really? This is really great. On behalf of the whole town, I would like to thank Shengshang Long En!"

"Hey, this is what you deserve, and I should be the one who thanks you."

"Uh, this, I don't know what to say, my lord, I don't know how to speak, anyway, I have sold the lives of the soldiers in this town under my command to Daming."

Chongzhen nodded happily, this is what he wanted.

It's nonsense to talk about family and country feelings to these big soldiers, and only money will work, otherwise, who the hell is willing to pay so much money?

But having said that, there shouldn't be a loss this time, and the captured weapons and equipment should be worth a lot of money.

"By the way, there should be a lot of vans, Fran cannons, and bird guns that were seized, right?"

"This is still being counted, but there are about fifty vans, 15 No. [-] Franc cannons, and at least five or six hundred bird guns. In addition, there are spears, armor, and gunpowder."

"All the seized items will be returned to the public, and will be distributed by Uncle Jingnan. Do you have any objections?"

In order to completely change the status quo of the Ming army and avoid becoming a general's private soldier, the right to collect food and pay is only the first step. The second step is to return the captured battlefield to the public.

This step is crucial.

Otherwise, the army will inevitably become a warlord.

Huang Shi'an's face changed when he heard the words.

Originally, according to the unwritten practice, all these captured battlefields should be controlled by their town, and it is up to him to sell them or use them for military expansion.

"My lord, what about the property found on Jianu?"

"There is no need to hand over the property, but all the weapons and equipment must be handed in!"

Meals have to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step. The sudden attempt to transform the Ming army into the people's army of later generations is purely a dream, and it is easy to tear the egg if you take too many steps.

"The minister leads the decree." Huang Shian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words.

……

The next day, Jinan Fucheng, Licheng.

Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui were standing on the tower of Ximen with worried faces.

Outside the city gate, Jiannu is digging trenches, and it seems that they will be besieged for a long time.

"Wang Butang, I have visited the other city gates at the end of the day. There are Jiannu digging trenches outside the four gates. It seems that Jiannu really intends to besiege Licheng for a long time and trap us in the city to death."

"Hu Junmen, why don't you try to launch a counterattack? There don't seem to be many Jiannu outside the city."

"My lord, it's really not that the last general fears the enemy and fights cowardly. It's really that these townspeople in the city are unstoppable. Let them defend the city and let them go out to fight Jiannu in the field. They are looking for death."

Hearing what Hu Xinshui said, Wang Jiayan frowned even more.

Hu Xinshui thought for a while and said: "Lord Ministry, before Jiannu has completed the siege, hurry up and send flying cavalry to Xuzhou for help, or you won't be able to get out any later."

Wang Jiayan was also a little hesitant when he heard the words.

At this moment, there was a continuous sound of horns outside the city.

"Hey, the sound of the horn... Could it be that Jiannu is about to withdraw his troops? No, I must have heard it wrong."

Before Hu Xinshui finished speaking, he began to shake his head. Although there are not many Jiannu troops, there are only four to five thousand people in all four directions, but it is more than enough to besiege Licheng.

Therefore, it is absolutely not possible to withdraw troops due to insufficient troops.

Other factors made it even more impossible to establish slaves and withdraw troops.

Now there is no army in Shandong that can threaten Jiannu.

"No, you heard correctly, Jianu really withdrew his troops." Wang Jiayan said.

In fact, Wang Jiayan didn't need to say it, Hu Xinshui saw it himself.

Jiannu really withdrew, leaving the undug trench and retreating southward.

Just when Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui wondered whether this was Jiannu's trick to lure the enemy, and whether it was necessary to send a team of Ye Buxuan out to investigate the situation, a mule cavalry secretly appeared outside the city.

The mule cavalry actually arrived outside the city an hour earlier.

"Which adult is in the city? Two hundred miles to rush, there is an urgent delivery!"

"Urgent delivery?" Wang Jiayan frowned and asked, "Where did you come from?"

"Anshan Town." The mule cavalry said as he untied the yellow silk bag from his back.

"Put the urgent delivery in the hanging basket." Wang Jiayan motioned for him to put down the hanging basket.

After a while, the hanging basket was taken back, and the attendants took the yellow silk bag and handed it to Wang Jiayan.

Wang Jiayan unpacked the package, took out the letter and read it hastily. He was immediately overjoyed: "Hu Junmen, the Holy Majesty and Uncle Jing Nan won a battle in Anshan Town, beheading more than a thousand ranks!"

"Really?" Hu Xinshui suddenly said, "No wonder Jiannu suddenly withdrew his troops from Licheng."

However, Wang Jiayan's expression quickly became serious again: "The Holy Majesty also ordered me to abandon the two prefectures of Dongchang and Yanzhou. Jinan prefecture can abide by the rules. government."

"The Holy One sees thousands of miles." Hu Xinshui bowed to Xuzhou, and said, "The Grand Canal runs through Dongchang and Yanzhou, and Jiannu can mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources along the canal, so these two prefectures can't defend it." Even the Jinan Mansion is hard to defend, and it is really the best policy to surrender the three prefectures east of Qingzhou."

Wang Jiayan: "The reason why the Holy Majesty ordered us to abandon the Dongchang and Yanzhou prefectures is probably more than that."

"Oh?" Hu Xinshui asked in a daze, "The Holy Majesty has another intention for this move?"

"Of course." Wang Jiayan said, "You only focus on defending Hu Junmen, but the Holy Majesty is thinking about counterattacking. When the Xuzhou battlefield falls into a stalemate in the future, you and I will go west to Dongchang and Yanzhou. , you can cut off Jiannu's retreat!"

When Hu Xinshui heard the words, she just curled her lips, thinking that she wanted to fight back?It would be nice to keep Qingzhou Mansion.

Wang Jiayan didn't say anything more, he just sent postmen to various counties in Dongchang and Yanzhou, and ordered the officials, gentry and common people of the two prefectures to retreat to Jinan and Xuzhou respectively.

……

That night, Baiyintu, who was going south from Licheng, joined Aobai who was going north.

Looking at the disheveled Aobai, Bai Yintu couldn't help but get angry.

"Take off Oboi's armor!" Bai Yintu was so angry that his beard was shaking.

The two white-armored soldiers couldn't help but push Oboi to the ground, and then stripped him of his armor.

Bai Yintu picked up the whip and whipped it, the back of Oboi was bloody with a few blows, Oboi endured the pain and didn't have the face to make a sound.

If you do something wrong, you should be punished if you lose the battle.

It was not until he was exhausted from the convulsions that Bai Yintu threw the whip to Bao Yi next to him, and asked how many people Oboi had lost?

Aobai didn't dare to respond directly, so he said about him: "Gaodi's surrendered troops lost more than 15 people, and the Zhenghuang Banner Han army lost almost one and a half cows. In addition, they also lost 500 vans, [-] No. [-] Frang machine gun, more than [-] bird guns, and a certain amount of gunpowder, lead and food."

"Don't avoid the important and take the light." Bai Yintu refused to let go.

"I'm asking about the bordered yellow flag. How many of our warriors with the bordered yellow flag died?"

"One of our Xianghuang Banners died this time..." Aobai muttered.

"Did a warrior die?" Bai Yintu heaved a sigh of relief, but that's okay.

However, Aobai immediately said the word Niulu, which left Bai Yintu stunned.

It took a long time for Bai Yintu to realize that Xiang Huangqi's death this time was full of cattle!
At that moment, Bai Yintu was furious again, took the whip from Bao Yi's hand and whipped it towards Ao Bai.

And this time, it wasn't just Oboi's back that was slapped, but a slap on the head and face. In just a moment, there were more than a dozen eye-catching red marks on Oboi's face and neck.

Aobai still didn't make a sound.

The other Jiannu were silent.

It was not until he had vented his anger that Bai Yintu ordered to go south to pursue the Ming army.

This disastrous defeat was not just a simple loss of Xianghuangqi's Niulu. If he could not catch up with this Ming army and kill them all, it would not be enough to wash away the shame.

To make matters worse, Dorgon will definitely make a big fuss about it.

At that time, not only Oboi will be unlucky, but Xianghuangqi will also be unlucky.

Dorgon is likely to use this as an excuse to deprive the Niulu of Xianghuangqi.

After all, Dorgon has long been eyeing Xianghuangqi.

Therefore, the Ming army that brought them the shame of inlaid yellow flags must be eliminated.

As for the risk of doing so, Bai Yintu never thought that the reason why Oboi suffered such a disastrous defeat was because he underestimated the enemy. He has a lesson from Oboi's past, and he will never underestimate the enemy.

(End of this chapter)