Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1012 This thing is a good helper for men
In the Wujiang area, there was a severe drought without rain, and migratory locusts covered the sky.

The government ordered his arrest, but with little effect.

The price of rice is four taels of silver per stone, and the beggars are full of roads, and many people die on their pillows.

Folks use bad food and rotten residue as a delicacy, or eat tree scraps and elm bark to make a living.

A lunar eclipse followed, which was interpreted as a bad omen.

During this period, Hong Chengchou finally led his troops out of the customs to Liaodong.

Hong Chengchou is a native of Fujian. He started his career in Shaanxi.

He led the army to strangle the leader of the road rebels, and he was good at using soldiers. He had a group of "Hong soldiers" under his command.

Hong Chengchou has been on the battlefield for so many years, he has fought both easy and difficult battles, and has accumulated rich combat experience.

Therefore, Mi Chen Liao Dongfang slightly won the appreciation of the Ministry of War and Chongzhen.

Just when Hong Chengchou led the troops out of the pass, a conflict broke out between the Qing soldiers and the Ming troops.

It turned out that Huang Taiji ordered Jierharang, Duoduo, Adali, Luo Luohong, Boluo and other brave generals to lead an elite guard army of 500 people.

There were 60 people from [-] families including Subbandai, a member of the Dorot tribe of Mongolia, who came to Xingshan to accept the surrender.

He ordered a flag soldier to be sent behind to rescue him.

Jierhalang stole through Jinzhou at night, and was detected by Ming soldiers when he returned.

Therefore, Wu Sangui, General Soldier of Songshan, Liu Zhouzhi, General Soldier of Xingshan, Liu Zhaoji, and Zu Dashou all dispatched troops, totaling more than [-] soldiers, trying their best to intercept the Qing army of more than [-] soldiers.

The Qing army is all elites under Huang Taiji's command, together with Ji Erhalang and others who are brave and capable of fighting, they are struggling to attack the Ming soldiers.

The Qing army of more than a thousand people once surrounded the always brave Wu Sangui in the middle.

Relying on his youth and bravery, Wu Sangui fought back and forth with Jierhalang, a warrior on the battlefield.

But the servants around him suffered a loss after all against the heavily armored Qing army.

Not everyone's armor can be cast as finely as the general.

Wu Sangui fell into a precipitous place all at once, but fortunately Liu Zhaoji rescued him after killing and injuring hundreds of people.

In this battle, the Ming army lost thousands of people, and the two sides killed evenly, and the Qing army had a slight advantage.

Just like that, Jierhalang led the remnants to encircle and suppress Wu Sangui, but he could turn around and rush out, and the Ming army could not stop it.

Zu Dashou and the others thought they would seize the opportunity to perform well before the arrival of Governor Hong Chengchou, but they never thought that they would almost lose Wu Sangui.

When Hong Chengchou arrived at the command, he learned about this and sorted it out carefully.

Then start killing and standing up!
Cheng Deru, the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, was timid before the battle, but Hong Chengchou killed him with Shangfang sword.

Guan Ningjun was shocked by the methods of Hong Chengchou, the new supervisor.

If you say you want to hang your head on the camp gate, you can hang it. The key is to be a deputy commander, and the position is not low.

Huang Taiji decided to besiege Jinzhou after receiving the news that the Ming army supervisor had come to help him.

"This Hong Chengchou has some tricks."

Hearing Huang Taiji's praise, Fan Wencheng at the side echoed:

"Your Majesty, this person is quite capable of dealing with ordinary thieves.

But if he was dealing with the hammer bandits, as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, he lost all his old territory and dared not fight back. "

"No, no, it shows that this person is quite judging the situation."

After several battles, Huang Taiji had a clear understanding of He Jinzhao.

If this person could be easily dealt with by Da Ming Supervisor, he would have been wiped out by Da Qing long ago.

The Qing army would plunder the whole of Shanxi, and it would not always plunder the vicinity of the capital of Daming, and finally had to run to Shandong.

"I heard that He Jinzhao sent someone to Guangdong?"

Although Huang Taiji was on the front line of Ning Jin, he had been scanning for news about the hammer bandits.

"It is estimated that he intends to use the sea to make money like Mao Wenlong, or to leave him a way out."

It was difficult for Fan Wencheng to judge, what was the significance of He Jinzhao's move.

After all, Guangdong Province was too far away for He Jinzhao, who occupied the three northwestern provinces, and it was not easy to control. It was more like an enclave.

Just like Daming's control over Phi Island.

Huang Taiji shook his head: "I believe that He Jinzhao definitely didn't want to prepare for himself on a whim.

People like Xiang Zhen and him don't need to stay back at all, because the rebels under their hands will directly kill my whole family. "

Fan Wencheng didn't take this kind of talk, even though the internal strife among the top officials of the Qing Dynasty was extremely serious, whoever gets involved in this kind of thing will die.

"Send more people to inquire. In addition, you can contact the pirate Zheng Zhilong for a while. Doesn't he need ginseng and fur from Shenyang and other places?"

Huang Taiji felt that no matter what, He Jinzhao had to be blocked, and he must not be allowed to develop in Guangdong with peace of mind.

"Yes."

The officials on the side were recording the emperor's orders.

"I also heard that Chongzhen sent people to the territory of the Hammer Bandits." Huang Taiji said rather displeasedly:

"Then He Jinzhao and I are allies, he won't hook up with Chongzhen again, and wants to deal with me together?"

There are precedents for such things.

Huang Taiji knew that Wu Guojun was able to be knighted only by beheading Mang Gurtai in He Jinchao's array, so that he is now in the limelight.

He and He Jinzhao must have cooperated with each other, and when Azig went to Beijing to plunder, they defeated the Qing Dynasty together.

Moreover, Chongzhen also sent his personal eunuch Gao Qiqian to Shenyang to discuss the peace talks, and then nothing happened.

Could it be that Chongzhen had already negotiated peace with He Jinchao, so he cut off the peace negotiation with the Qing Dynasty?
"Your Majesty, considering Jinchao's cunning, this possibility is extremely high."

Ning Wan, I said something with certainty.

The faces of several people in the tent were a little dignified.

The hammer bandits want to use the hands of the Ming army to consume my Qing Dynasty?

"In this battle, we must fight steadily and eat up the Ming army who came to help."

After all, when the two sides are fighting, one side is fighting behind the scenes, and even in order to allow the two sides to fight for a long time, they will not hesitate to end the fight.

Just to allow both of them to shed more blood and consume their own strength.

Out of prudent considerations, Huang Taiji adopted a gradual strategy of "from far to near, encircling Jinzhou to trap it", and made steady progress.

In order to prevent the soldiers from becoming slack after besieging the city for a long time, he also adopted the method of farming in shifts and changing defenses regularly.

Taking three months as a period can not only allow the soldiers to rest, but also maintain their unfailing vigor so that the siege can persist.

In the initial stage of encircling the brocade, that is, when Huang Taiji inspected Yi and Jinhou, he instructed the Qing soldiers to divide into two wings and camp near the city of Jinzhou.

One is to cut off the way for Ming soldiers to communicate, one is to make it easier for Ming soldiers or Mongols who surrendered to Qing soldiers to communicate with Qing soldiers, and the other is when the crops are ripe, it is easy for Qing soldiers to harvest, so that Ming soldiers cannot take the opportunity to steal.

It was not easy for the Qing soldiers to encircle the brocade.

The Ming army maintained a strong military force on the front line of Ningjin.

After Hong Chengchou saw Huang Taiji's intention clearly, he fought against the siege with all his strength and kept attacking to prevent the Qing soldiers from approaching the front of the city.

At the same time, Ming soldiers who aided Jin came out of the customs one after another, and moved closer to Jinzhou and Songshan.

The Qing soldiers wanted to completely surround Jinzhou, so they had to attack reinforcements from all walks of life.

Especially the strongholds outside Jinzhou City had to be pulled out and cleaned up one by one.

The battle between the two sides has been in a stalemate.

Small-scale fights were unusually frequent.

Compared with the chaos in the Central Plains, the chaos in Liaodong.

The Shanshan land controlled by He Jinzhao is somewhat peaceful.

The only thing that makes him feel particularly uncomfortable is that the severe drought is still going on, and there are even locust plagues.

Because of severe drought in Liangji, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Huguang and other places, locusts broke out.

Locusts don't care whose territory they belong to, as long as there is food, they will come in groups.

Fortunately, He Jinzhao has been ordering all-out efforts to fight the drought in the past two years. The locust plague is not very serious, but the border with Shanxi has suffered disasters.

He Jinzhao took Zheng Zhipeng to the Hall of Valor in Hequ County during Qingming.

At the same time, I also visited a group of disabled soldiers. After all, all those who could be released as officials were sent out.

All are military-to-dry models.

Those who are seriously injured spend money to support them.

Almost all of Hequ County has become the military city of He Jinchao's original team, and most of his family members live here.

Zheng Zhipeng walked around with He Jinzhao, and he could see where the operations of his Zheng family and He Jinzhao were.

After all, in the pirate business, there are very few who can really wash their hands.

Whether to provide for the aged or not is a question only considered by big bosses.

Most of them want to get rich and return to their hometowns, but most of them don't have this life, and they will die in the bottom of the sea.

He Jinzhao stood on the county seat of Hequ County, watching the people around him struggling to kill the locusts. This kind of thing reproduces very quickly and lays a lot of eggs.

If you give them a little living space, you can gather tens of thousands of them.

"Marshal He, locusts have appeared even under your rule, and it may be even more difficult for all parts of Daming."

Zheng Zhipeng has always been in the south and rarely sees this kind of scene.

He Jinzhao frowned slightly. The common people were not in the right state to catch the locusts, and it was mostly futile.

Have to figure out a way.

Regarding Zheng Zhipeng's words, He Jinzhao did not pick up on it, it was something Chongzhen and the local government should worry about.

In today's land of Shanshan and Shaanxi, He Jinzhao himself can't even take care of the problem of managing the fields by himself.

"Go and call the genius doctor Li Qingli."

He Jinzhao gave an order.

Li Qingli is a direct descendant of Li Shizhen, who developed his medical skills under the hammer bandits and enjoyed a great reputation in the local area.

Even surpassed Wu Youxing, who was good at curing plagues.

After all, this kind of thing, or someone who has experience in family traditions, can be more convincing.

"Marshal, do you think locusts can strengthen yang?"

"No, it was your great-grandfather Li Shizhen who said it."

Li Qingli froze in place on the spot, this is obviously what you said, Marshal He, how could it be put on my great-grandfather.

Then I will become an unworthy descendant?

"Marshal, my great-grandfather never said that."

He Jinzhao looked at him and said, "I told you, this is the secret recipe of your Li family, and it was specially dedicated to me."

Li Qingli:? ? ?

Zheng Zhipeng:? ? ?

Niu Youcai:? ? ?

"You are talented, your brothers went outside to find some common people, bought some locusts and came back, saying that frying and eating can strengthen yang. This is the secret recipe of the genius doctor Li Shizhen."

He Jinzhao patted his chest and said, "Let's just say that the commander-in-chief, Ye Yu Ba Nu, is a little weak. Most people don't tell him the secret recipe specially sent by the genius doctor Li Qingli, that is to say, we are all members of the military who say so."

"Yes."

Niu Youcheng resolutely carried out He Jinzhao's order.

Li Qingli's eyes were glazed, and now he really became an unworthy descendant.

Zheng Zhipeng looked at He Jinzhao, he could be regarded as a person who occupied half of the country, so he just poured dirty water on himself?
The emperors of all dynasties wished that they were a saint with no flaws at all.

How come He Jinzhao doesn't care about anything anymore.

"Can this work?" Li Qingli wanted to make a final effort: "Commander, if this folk remedy doesn't work, wouldn't my great-grandfather's reputation be ruined?"

"No, I said it worked, and my subordinates also said it worked. The person who said it didn't work can only be his own body that is really bad. Most men will not admit that their body is really bad, especially in front of a group of men."

He Jinzhao patted Li Qingli on the shoulder and said:
"I believe that if your great-grandfather knew about my painstaking efforts, he would happily agree. If you really don't agree, please give your great-grandfather another dream at night to explain my theory."

Li Qingli wanted to cry but had no tears, so he could only nod his head and recognize Li's folk prescription.

Otherwise, the Marshal personally sent him to explain to his great-grandfather, it would not be too long.

Even though Li Qingli knew that this kind of thing would not happen normally, the commander-in-chief called him here just to put an end to the panic.

Niu Youcheng took people to the field outside, yelling at the commander-in-chief to buy some locusts to eat.

Hearing this, the people around were struggling to catch the locusts. If the commander wanted to eat this stuff, would he still need to spend money?

This is not slapping us in the face!

Naturally, someone asked the commander-in-chief why he wanted to eat this stuff.

Niu Youcai first showed an embarrassed look on his face, and then he heard the people next to him say: "Could it be that the commander-in-chief has no food to eat?"

"fart."

Immediately Niu Youcheng took out Li Shizhen's signboard, and even showed Li Qingli, saying that fried locusts can strengthen yang is Li's folk recipe, so the commander wanted to try it.

"This folk prescription can go there and can't be said outside."

"real or fake?"

The women next to them couldn't believe it. They were not afraid of hammer bandits, and even joked about whether they were dying.

"I'll ask the commander in chief to have a try when I go back first." Niu Youcheng walked back carrying a cloth bag.

"Can you make the commander-in-chief the first in such a dangerous matter of testing medicine?"

"That's right, this isn't a genius doctor's folk remedy. It's sure to be useful. I'll give it a try. When I get home, I'll work hard with my mother-in-law to try to have two more children. The mother-in-law will also make preparations for the men in the family."

With the final decision of the old village chief, the feeling of catching locusts in the field is completely different from before.

He Jinchao sent someone to find the cook, and told him to deep-fry the food wrapped in egg liquid or something, and then treat Zheng Zhipeng to eat.

Zheng Zhipeng ate two pieces and felt a bit bland.

He Jinzhao asked someone to get some fine salt to dip in, and was too lazy to look for chili noodles and cumin noodles.

"Marshal He, can this kind of thing really happen?" Zheng Zhipeng also thought it tasted good.

Tiangong Kaiwu recorded in detail the oil yield of more than ten kinds of oil.

These military dependents in Hequ County are not people who can't afford a little oil.

He Jinzhao smiled without saying a word. In terms of strengthening yang, it has not changed since ancient times, and everyone is [-]% pursuing it.

Who doesn't want to be stronger, and even show off to each other.

Then, with Hequ County as the radiation, the news that eating fried locusts can strengthen yang spread like wildfire under the hammer bandits.

Locusts - danger!

(End of this chapter)