A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 629
History has proved that human beings are the best civilizations at learning, including all races.

Of course, it does not include the kind of ethnic groups that rule many with a small number, because once they learn advanced civilization, they dig a grave for their own race. Therefore, they will inevitably suppress the main ethnic group and make the country more and more ignorant and dark.

After the Battle of Luoyang, Chuangjun was defeated. During the period of Li Zicheng's hibernation, perhaps, he was deeply stimulated by Wang Dou and after deep reflection. After Li Zicheng returned, he began to send officials to guard the city, and set up camps. Give the fields and work hard to train elite soldiers.

However, he may have been too stimulated by Wang Dou. After discussing with his staff and literati, Li Zicheng actually shouted the slogan of "no payment for five years". This is also one of the effects brought by Wang Dou. Paying food.

When Wang Dou saw this information, he couldn't help laughing, and said to his subordinates: "I have to pay the grain and tax in the second year, and Thief Li has not paid the grain for five years? Just wait and die."

He has a reason to say this. Li Chuang's subordinates can easily spend hundreds of thousands, millions, without paying food, huge military force, army expenditure, where is the source of food and salary?I had no choice but to insist on being a bandit again, eating up big households, blackmailing local landlords and gentry, and desperately looting cities and towns.

This kind of style is okay in the early stage, but it is not stable, and it will die in the later stage.

Taking a ten thousand step back, even if Li Chuang wins power, there is no place in the world to plunder, so can he stop paying food?Certainly not!
However, the people who are used to free fees will instantly change from benefactors to deep-rooted enemies if they are charged. Shengmien, Doumiqiu, ancient famous sayings, not to mention losing the hearts of the people in an instant, the world may become chaotic again .

So, "Welcome the King of Chuang, but don't pay the grain"-in one sentence, Li Zicheng's formal financial source was cut off, and it also proved that he was short-sighted and had no one under his command. important function.

Li Zicheng fought old battles, and he was very clever in tactics, but he was too short-sighted in strategy, so he could not avoid the fate of making wedding dresses for others. It is not unreasonable for later generations to be nicknamed the king of wedding dresses.

Of course, the slogan Li Zicheng yelled at this time was extremely powerful, and countless people flocked to join him. He divided the fields in Henan Province and won the hearts of the people. After the officers and soldiers entered, they desperately resisted.

At this time, Fu Zonglong, the newly-appointed governor of the three sides, had just arrived in Shaanxi. After Luoyang City was broken, he received a strict order from the court to send troops quickly to suppress the thieves.

Like Henan, dry locusts ravaged all over Shaanxi, and the supply of food and salaries for the officers and soldiers who were recruited and suppressed was beyond their means. In the end, all the soldiers in Guanzhong were paid, and local complaints abounded.

In the twelfth lunar month, Fu Zonglong finally dispatched troops, leading tens of thousands of soldiers from Sichuan and Shaanxi, with He Renlong and Li Guoqi as generals. The military discipline of these officers and soldiers is not very good, and they are fighting in foreign countries. Burning, killing and looting are inevitable. The landlords and gentry of the country also brought some brave men back home with them, and they were even more brutal.

So as soon as they left the customs, there was fierce resistance all the way.

At this time, Liu Fangliang, the left-behind general of the Henan government, who was also a member of the experienced army, used the technique of luring the enemy to go deep, and secretly set up an ambush on Quemen Mountain.

In several cities, the morale of the officers and soldiers was high, and they were ambushed without knowing it.

The Ming army from all over the country, they are not the Jingbian army, the sentinel cavalry ability is low, and the middle ambush is commonplace. Liu Fangliang ambush the elite by the river in the forest. As soon as the spectrum meets, the Qin army collapses. He Renlong is the first to run, and Li Guoqi follows it .

The two led their family, Ding Jingqi, and ran all the way to Lingbao day and night, leaving only Governor Fu Zonglong behind, and most of the Sichuan and Shaanxi soldiers and horses were besieged.

A steady stream of intruders came from the Henan government and surrounded Fu Zonglong and others.

On the twenty-seventh eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Qin army had eaten all their food, and Fu Zonglong killed the horses and mules to enjoy the army.

On the first day of the first month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, gunpowder, lead, and arrows were exhausted in the camp. Fu Zonglong led all the troops to break through the encirclement. To Li Chuang.

Fu Zonglong was held, and he shouted: "I, the governor of Qin, unfortunately fell into the hands of thieves, and I have thieves' ears on both sides."

The thief spat on Zonglong and forced him to surrender. Zonglong scolded the thief and said: "My minister is also, if you kill him, you will kill your ears. How can you surrender the thief to delay death!"

The thief was angry, drew a knife and struck Zonglong, hit his brain and fell. After hearing about it, the emperor said: "If this is the case, it can be called simple loyalty."

He was restored to the Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and Prince Shaobao was added. He was posthumously Zhongzhuang, and Yinzi was buried in hundreds of households in brocade clothes.

Wen Zonglong died, congratulatory Long Xingye ran back to Qin, the emperor was helpless, and blamed him for his sin and meritorious service...

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At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Bo Cao of Jingnan became Jiao, and the courtiers of Bo Wang of Ningnan led his regular army battalion and new army battalion to the south.

Just came back from the war, went home to rest for less than a month, and set out again, the soldiers of the second town had some complaints, but in terms of obeying the military orders, the two subordinates still did a good job, so the complaints belong to the complaints, and the soldiers still pack their bags , followed Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen to the south.

From Yutian, Zunhua to Kaifeng, Henan, the distance is more than 2000 miles. Even if they walk fifty miles a day, the two subordinates will have to walk for more than a month.

What troubled the two of them was the food and grass of the army.

According to the grain and grass supply system of the Ming Dynasty, when the army fought, part of the grain and grass would be supplied by the imperial court, and most of the grain and grass would be supplied by the local government.

The grain and grass supply system of the Ming Dynasty was an important reason why the soldiers were reluctant to go out. Even the double military merit accounting also made many troops discouraged.

Naturally, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen did not have a professional supply battalion like Wang Dou's. At most, some civilians would not be able to carry much food and grass with the army.

I don't know why, all the way south, the two generals faintly felt the surrounding hostility. Many local governments along the way did everything possible to evade, unwilling, or supplying less food and grass. In the end, the two had no choice but to buy food with money.

With the seizure of Yizhou and the reward from the imperial court, the two still have some silver in their hands.

However, all the way to the south, the four fields are depressed, and the lack of food in the cities and towns is part of it. For some reason, there are always various forces that make the two of them fall into trouble. With money in hand, they often have the embarrassment of not being able to buy food and grass. Lu Xiangsheng was the same back then.

In this way, the army was marching, but they were often hungry and cold. In addition to the cold winter months, not far from the New Year's Day, the soldiers were not very willing to fight, and there were many complaints. .

Of course, going south to suppress thieves, there is still something that makes the two of them warm. For example, when passing through Zhuozhou, not only the general of the Jingbian Army in Laishui sent 30 rods of bird guns and [-] rounds of powerful medicine as promised. , And also brought a lot of grain, rice, beans and other things to the second general.

Marching to Baoding, Zanhuang and Gaoyi from Zhending, Baoding General Soldier Hu Dawei, and Zanhuang guerrilla Xu Yuee provided a lot of help to the two of them, especially Xu Yuee, who was pregnant at this time, with a high belly bulge , Still rambling, arranged food and grass for the two, and made the second general grateful.

However, when talking with Hu Dawei and others, everyone was feeling emotional. It seemed that the officers and generals around them were becoming more and more hostile to them, especially Xu Yue'e, who was squeezed out intentionally or unintentionally. She is enthusiastic.

Going south from Lincheng, you can see thousands of miles of barren land, a vast expanse of yellowness, or not a single resident is seen for a hundred miles, or there are large groups of refugees, except for slightly larger towns, there is almost no human habitation.

At this time, the supply of food and grass for the army became even more difficult. Under the hunger and cold, the soldiers could not avoid looting.

At the beginning, the two beheaded and killed some looting officers and soldiers with tears in their eyes. In the end, they couldn't stop, and there were many people who sneaked out of the camp to rob grain and rice.

Cao Bianjiao sighed: "I really don't know how the Marquis of Yongning marched thousands of miles without looting back then."

At this time, all the high spirits from the first expedition were gone, and what surrounded the hearts of the two was the confusion about the future.

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The first month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, Shengjing.

Dorgon, Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, caressed the emperor's throne on the Chongzheng Hall contentedly, and after a thousand fights, this seat finally fell into his own hands.

In his mind, the emperor's throne should have belonged to him long ago. Back then, Emperor Taizu intentionally passed the seat to himself, but he didn't want to let Huang Taiji snatch it away, but after a round, didn't he return it to him?Thinking of this, Dorgon laughed contentedly.

Different from the historical situation, at this time Erbaiqi is strong, Hauge is dead, and Fulin is a little kid, so of course he can't compete with Dorgon.

People are frightened, and at a time of crisis, what the Manchurians need is a ruthless character like Dorgon, not a little butt like Fulin who can still suckle.

Daishan, Jierhalang and other ministers did not want civil strife in the Qing Dynasty, so they all compromised with Dorgon.

Coupled with the support of the Mongols, the head minister of the Erhuang Banner was even less capable of resisting Dorgon's power, so after the death of Huang Taiji, there was no dispute, and the throne of the emperor fell into Dorgon's hands.

Of course, all parties expressed their support for him, and there was a strong call for the unity of the Qing Dynasty, so Dorgon also made a series of compromises in order to quickly ascend the throne.

Continuing to use the name of the Qing Dynasty is one, treating Fulin kindly is two, and not cleaning it up after ascension is three. From the current situation, these measures are still effective, and quickly stabilized the domestic situation in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, what was left to Dorgon was a dilapidated situation.

Liaodong was defeated, and the Manchurian soldiers killed more than 1 people. In Shengjing, almost every family wore hemp and filial piety.

In addition, many Mongolian soldiers were killed and injured, and the Han Eight Banners were almost finished.

Many tribes in the Mongolian tribes of the Outer Domain were also robbed by Wang Dou, and they went back and forth twice, and everywhere was naked. If there was no relief from the Qing Dynasty, many surviving tribes might disappear permanently in the grassland when a snowstorm came.

Not to mention, the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Ministries of the Outer Fans, the reason why they took refuge in the Qing Dynasty was not to take advantage of the situation?At present, the cheap hole is occupied, but stealing chickens will not make a fortune. It is inevitable that some Mongolians are divorced from their virtues.

More importantly, after Huang Taiji's painstaking management, the Qing Dynasty has already faintly surrounded Daming.

The current encirclement, not surprisingly, has holes everywhere, and nothing is there.

(End of this chapter)