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Chapter 655 Turns out it was a duel between Qin soldiers (first update)
Everyone agreed with He Jinzhao's slightly warning words.

So what about those who surrendered to Hong Chengchou?
After the Qin rebellion was put down, he pulled out four hundred leaders, big and small, and all of them beheaded.

If the people present really surrendered to Hong Chengchou, it would be a luxury to keep their heads.

Surrendering to Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, will not end in the end of the appointment.

If Yang He could still surrender, he would have already become He Jinchao's prisoner!
"Surrender?" Zhang Xianzhong laughed a few times: "Marshal He, no matter how the officers and soldiers unite, our thirteen families have no fewer than [-] to [-] weapons, and the number of officers and soldiers can still exceed us?"

"Wars have never been judged by the number of people. Besides, we have a large number of people, but the overall combat effectiveness cannot beat the official army. This has to be admitted."

Gao Yingxiang added that after traveling through Beizhili with He Jinchao, he knew that Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army was not a bragging.

Only by avoiding the eyes and ears of the officers and soldiers along the way, could they enter Beijing by chance.

If you want to repeat the previous record, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve.

It was precisely because Gao Yingxiang went out to fight against the strong that he realized that his weight and background were far behind Daming's.

If people lose once or twice, they can continue to recruit surrounding troops to stop and eat you.

But the cards in your hand are getting less and less, this is reality!
If it weren't for Brother He walking left and right in the gap between the officers and soldiers' siege, jumping out of the encirclement unexpectedly.

Based on Gao Yingxiang alone, he would really run headlong into the encirclement of the officers and soldiers, and then he could only face the ending of being hacked into pieces in the capital.

Now Zijin Liang, the leader of the 36th Battalion, is still wandering around Henan. Having him attract targets in Henan can relieve the pressure, and the Ming court pays more attention to Henan than Shanxi!
After the Yuan Dynasty, Xiangyang lost its strategic position as "the waist of the world", and Kaifeng's strategic position rose sharply.

Neither large-scale battles nor long-term confrontations between the two armies have occurred in Xiangyang.

The basic situation of political geography in this period was still the confrontation between North and South.

The political centers of the north and the south were Beijing and Nanjing respectively. The struggles between Zhu Yuanzhang and Yuan Shun Emperor, Yan Wang Zhu Di and Jianwen Emperor, Shunzhi regime in the early Qing Dynasty and Nanming Hongguang Emperor continued to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Revolution of [-].

The main traffic artery connecting Beijing and Nanjing is the Grand Canal that runs through Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces. The strategic value of Huainan East Road in the middle of the canal has been greatly enhanced, and it has become a must pass for the Northern Expedition and the Southward Expedition.

The north-south transportation hub in central my country also moved eastward from Xiangyang to Kaifeng near the Grand Canal.

There are more than a thousand miles in Henan, and Liang (Kaifeng) is in the middle of Wanhu. If there is something going on in the world, it will be the place of the Four Wars!

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Turban Army once captured Bianliang and designated it as the capital of the country. The Yuan Army fought back with all their strength and took it back.

When Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, he used Kaifeng as the base for the Northern Expedition and Western Expedition. In the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's army also fought for Kaifeng three times with the Ming Dynasty officials.

It can be seen that the military strategists and politicians at that time attached great importance to Henan. Chongzhen's control of Beijing also relied on the water transportation of the Grand Canal and the tax support of Henan.

Because all the land in Beizhili was occupied by the emperor's relatives and eunuchs, they could not collect much tax, so he relied heavily on Henan.

In this historical stage, apart from the short-lived separatist rule at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was no recurrence of the long-term political division like the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Local rebellions that ravaged the Central Plains like the Eight Kings Rebellion have basically disappeared.

The conflict between the Han nationality and the northern nationalities intensified. The Yuan Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and other ethnic minority regimes conquered the Yangtze River and unified China.

With the sharpening of ethnic conflicts, the scale, duration and intensity of border wars have all become stronger.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the military first paid attention to frontier preparations to prevent Hu Qi from going south, so the main force of the army, food, grass and equipment were deployed on the northern defense line.

It is no longer like the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties, in order to prevent rebellion in the interior, set up huge warehouses, arsenals, and garrison heavy troops in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The easing of conflicts between the central and local governments, the reduction of inland separatist regimes and rebel wars, and the intensification of border conflicts are mainly due to the continuous strengthening of the authoritarian and centralized regime since the Song Dynasty.

The supreme ruling group gradually brought local military, administrative, financial, and judicial powers to the central government, and local governors were directly appointed by the emperor, supplemented by the policy of "emphasizing literature and restraining military affairs", which effectively restricted the development of local separatist forces and made the imperial power increasingly consolidate.

At the same time, the above-mentioned changes also caused the Song and Ming Dynasties to be poor and weak, and they were always passive when fighting the northern nomads.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng and others entered Henan, they were able to develop and grow rapidly in a short period of time. There is really no king in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king.

Once officials and troops intervene in Henan, they will show their true colors.

In the inland wars from the Yuan Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the time of positional warfare was shortened, and it was rare for two large armies to attack and defend a certain area for a long time.

In the large-scale wars of this period, the weaker side often adopted the strategy of mobile warfare and avoiding reality to protect itself, such as the guerrilla strategy of the Red Scarf Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the peasant uprising army at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

If you follow the traditional tactics of defending the strong fortress to defend against a strong enemy, it is usually difficult to resist.

Like Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, Li Zicheng marched into Guanzhong and Beijing as the queen, and the Qing soldiers attacked Xi'an and Jiangnan after entering the pass. In these battles, the defenders also used Tongguan, Ningwu, Yangzhou and other fortresses to defend, but with little effect. It can't stop the attacking side from advancing like a bamboo.

The main reason for this situation is the advancement of weaponry and combat technology.

Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, gunpowder and firearms have been widely used in the military. Although they cannot replace cold weapons such as bows and arrows, knives and guns, they have already had a significant impact on army tactics.

The strategy of the Ming court to protect Henan was decided by Chongzhen. It is best for the rebellious people to rot in the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and not go out to cause harm.

The officers and soldiers of Datong Mansion and Xuan Mansion can ask He Jinzhao's cheap father-in-law Lin Danhan to help contain them.

Presumably He Jinzhao brought back a large number of cattle and sheep from the grassland, which would surely suppress the Mongols on the grassland.

Anyway, they ask Daming for silver rewards every year, when will they ask for it?

Taken together, the rebel army mainly dealt with the official troops in Shaanxi and other places headed by Hong Chengchou.

Regarding King Gao Chuang's analysis, Ge Liyan and others all agreed.

In this way, the scale of the official army is restrained by the foreign aid of our rebel army, and there will be fewer official troops that our own side will actually deal with.

The situation in the world is not stronger than Qin!

The mountains in Qindi are tall and thick, and the real people are passionate and brave.

The common people favor martial arts and less literature, and the folk customs are tough, tough and courageous, with the style of frontier fortress.

Therefore, the rebellion of the six (six kinds of rebellious groups in the Qin land) also started here, and they died to perish the world!

This encirclement and suppression campaign was a duel between the army of the Ming Dynasty and the rebels of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qin soldiers under their respective command.

(End of this chapter)