240 [Send troops across provinces] (for the Silver League Nuanyang 1314
In Jiangxi last year, floods and droughts took turns. If we were exploited by the government and gentry again, the word "hungry" would be left in the history books.
Especially in the second year, the "hungry" may be more severe than in the disaster year.
But under the rule of Zhao Han, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign, in Jiangxi, except for a few areas in the north, there was a big harvest of summer grain!
All the people are jubilant and beaming with joy.
When mobilizing troops and food and wages, Zhao Han threw a piece of information to Zhang Bingwen: "The king's brother-in-law (brother-in-law) has become the governor of Huguang."
Zhang Bingwen finished reading and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, he doesn't care about southern Hunan."
Today, there are three governors in Huguang. The governor of Huguang, Fang Kongzhen, is Zhang Bingwen's brother-in-law. The governor of Yunyang, Dai Dongmin, specializes in conquering rogue bandits; the governor of southern Hunan, Wang Zhiliang, specializes in dealing with Zhao Han.
Fang Kongzheng had just taken office. The previous governor was Yu Yinggui, who is now in prison in Beijing.
Yu Yinggui was from Jiangxi, and his relatives had joined Zhao Han. However, he was accused by the court of not being a traitor to his clan, but of sabotaging Xiong Wencan's "recruitment plan". He was impeached by Yang Sichang and was thrown into jail.
These frontline governors all think Xiong Wencan is a fool!
For example, Dai Dongmin, the governor of Yunyang, resolutely resisted the strategy of appeasement. He believed that small groups of bandits could be recruited, but large groups of bandits must be suppressed by force, unless they were willing to disband the troops after recruiting. Dai Dongmin commanded dozens of battles, and Zhang Xianzhong was beaten to death by him.
Recruitment.
"Who is this Wang Zhiliang?" Zhao Han asked.
Wang Zhiliang, the governor of southern Hunan, was Zhao Han's main enemy.
Li Banghua thought about it carefully and suddenly had an impression: "When I was the Minister of the Ministry of War, this man was working as a secretariat in the cabinet. The emperor was discussing affairs in the Wenhua Hall, and I met Wang Zhiliang several times. I heard that he was an excellent poet.
I don’t know if we can fight.”
"Shaanxi people know a lot about military matters." Zhang Bingwen added.
Wang Zhiliang is not famous in history, but his son Wang Hongzhuan is famous. He is proficient in Neo-Confucianism, history, Yi studies, poetry, epigraphy, painting, and calligraphy. Wang Hongzhuan resolutely refused to be recruited by Kangxi and hid in Huashan to live in seclusion.
Known as "the leader of Guanzhong's voice".
After researching and researching, there is no more information about this person, so just start fighting!
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In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, early June.
The Datong army set out in four groups.
North Road:
Gu Jianshan is the chief general and leads the navy to cruise the Yangtze River. Li Hui is the deputy general and leads the navy to cruise the Xinjiang River. The main purpose is to guard against the invasion of officers and soldiers from Zhili and Zhejiang in the south.
West Road (upper):
Huang Yao, the chief general, attacked Liling from Pingxiang. Li Zheng, the deputy general, attacked Liuyang from Wanzai.
West Road (Part 2):
Zhang Tieniu was the chief general and led two thousand vine-armored troops to march directly over the mountains and ridges to Lingxian County. Liu Zhu was the deputy general and attacked Chaling from Yongxin.
South Road:
Fei Ruhe was the chief general and attacked Longchuan from Changning. Jiang Dashan was the deputy general and attacked Heping from Dingnan.
In fact, to invade Guangdong from Jiangxi, it is best to go south along the Meiling Ancient Road. However, Shen Youlong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, has already put down the civil unrest in Guangxi and has stationed troops in Nanxiong for defense, making it almost impossible to conquer by force.
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Since Zhang Tieniu had no baggage or auxiliary troops, although Zhang Tieniu's marching route was the most difficult, he set off early and was the first to arrive at the battlefield.
There were endless wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army killed nearly 100,000 people in Lingxian County, and only about 5,000 people remained. Therefore, many Hakkas moved in during the Kangxi and Yongzheng years.
Although Lingxian County at this time belonged to Huguang, the majority of people were from Jiangxi, and the local language was Jiangxi dialect.
When Zhang Tieniu traveled day and night and rushed to Xiayang Town outside the county, two thousand Tengjia soldiers had been hungry all day. Unfortunately, the sneak attack on the county town failed. The thieves in the city saw the Tengjia soldiers from a distance and were so frightened that they hurriedly gave the city gate to the officers and soldiers.
They could only return to Xiayang Town. Instead of grabbing food, they divided their troops to guard the beginning and end of the town, holding weapons to observe the surrounding situation.
More than a dozen military missionary officers also wore rattan armor.
Seeing that the whole town was in ruins and every house closed its doors, the missionary officer rang the gong and shouted along the street: "Old cousin of Lingxian County, we are the soldiers of King Zhao Tian, and we are here to kill the bandits of Lingxian County. Don't be afraid, if we rob
, it’s useless for you to close the door. I don’t want your food, I don’t want your money, anyone who has a ladder can borrow it. Please also invite the carpenters in the town, and we will pay to hire carpenters to make siege ladders!”
After shouting like this for a quarter of an hour, the town residents finally believed it.
Because when other thieves came to Xiayang Town, they broke in violently, stole food, money, and even beautiful women. However, these vine-armored soldiers in front of them were very orderly, and they looked different from thieves at first glance.
A shopkeeper opened the door and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, generals!"
The missionary officer bowed his hand and returned the greeting: "May I ask my cousin your surname?"
"My surname is Liu and my given name is Ansheng," the shopkeeper asked, "Do you want to attack the county?"
"It turns out to be Shopkeeper Liu," the missionary said, "Yes, we can borrow twenty pairs of ladders, which is enough. We are all soldiers of King Zhao. We don't rob the people, but only fight against bandits."
Shopkeeper Liu immediately shouted: "Come out, everyone, these are King Zhao's good soldiers!"
The residents of the town opened the doors one after another, and then knelt on the ground around the missionary officer, crying hoarsely: "General, help me, those bandits are not human beings, they only come to rob me once every ten and a half months, I can't survive this life!"
"My daughter was also taken away, and I don't know whether she is dead or alive!"
"My family has no food and no money. If we continue like this, we will starve to death!"
"..."
The missionary officer shouted: "Folks, don't panic. Borrow all the ladders at home. If there are not enough ladders, we will tear down the door panels and make them. As long as we have ladders, we will immediately go to the city to kill the thieves!"
The residents of the town immediately took action and moved wooden ladders one after another.
The county seat of Lingxian is not very tall, only about four meters tall. Two civilian wooden ladders can be tied together to attack the city. But it is still not enough, so we can only remove the door panels and use nails and ropes to make simple wooden ladders.
That afternoon, two thousand rattan soldiers, carrying more than twenty wooden ladders, all rushed to the county seat hungry.
The bandits here are from Yongning County.
The leader of the thieves, the Little Overlord, has captured Yongxin County and is enjoying the blessings of Yongxing, which is even more prosperous. Those who remain in Ling County are all weaklings, with only more than 1,800 people. The leader of the thieves is called Sky-turning Monkey.
When Tianfanhou heard that King Zhao sent troops, he was so frightened that he immediately ran away. But he was reluctant to part with his wealth and beautiful women, so he simply stayed in the city and sent his confidants to Chaling to ask for reinforcements.
This guy was sitting on the tower when suddenly the vine-armored soldiers came up the stairs and shouted quickly: "Over there, move the rolling wood and oil over there!"
Because there was no time to prepare in advance, the bandits in the city had very few defensive materials, which were not enough to defend various sections of the city wall.
Only two thousand vine-armored soldiers were seen, carrying more than twenty siege ladders, and they all jumped into the moat.
Both the rattan armor and the ladder were buoyant, and they could easily cross the river and reach the shore quickly. The siege ladders were placed on multiple city walls.
"It's the Vine Armor Soldier!"
"King Zhao Tian used this method to recruit vine armor soldiers!"
The bandits who heard "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" shouted in horror, and many simply turned around and ran away.
"ah!"
Suddenly there was a scream, but it was the thieves who were carrying boiling oil. They fell down because they were too panicked. Several thieves' feet were burned by the hot oil. They didn't care about defending the city anymore and ran away in pain, destroying everything they passed.
The other bandits were also routed and fled.
Zhang Tieniu took the lead and climbed up on the wooden ladder.
There are several thieves here who want to push the ladder away, but more rattan soldiers are holding down the bottom of the ladder.
At a height of more than four meters, Zhang Tieniu climbed up in the blink of an eye.
His current weapons were replaced by a steel knife and two small axes attached to his waist for throwing.
"kill!"
Zhang Tieniu climbed up the city wall, raised his shield to block the vital points, and raised his hand to strike out with his sword.
Many other places were also attacked one after another, and the vine-armored soldiers chased and killed the bandits.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the thief-headed monkey immediately ran away from the city wall near the river, climbed the rope and quickly escaped, and then swam to the other side of the river and into the mountains.
After this battle, only two of the Tengjia soldiers were injured, and the bandits' hot oil and rolling wood were not even used.
The whole city was searched and more than 600 thieves were captured.
"How to deal with these people?" asked the missionary officer.
Zhang Tieniu looked ferocious: "Kill them all!"
They were part of a surprise attack. They needed to rest for a day, eat and drink well, and then rush to the next county. How could they spare manpower to guard the prisoners?
The missionaries also knew this and did not stop it.
More than six hundred thieves were tied up, wiped from the neck and killed one by one. The people in the city were not afraid, but cheered and applauded. They were greatly harmed by these thieves.
Women from the city were hired to cook with the rebels' grain, and all the soldiers took off their armor to rest.
The missionaries couldn't rest. They had to run around to gather the surviving big families in the city and let each of them send someone to defend the city. To prevent the rebels who had successfully escaped from the cane armor soldiers from coming back after they left. In addition, they had to let the rebels who had successfully escaped come back.
The wealthy family collected boats and mules to transport rattan armor and grain. Zhang Tieniu wanted to go to Chaling along the river bank.
(Note: Chaling has been upgraded to a state. I have written it wrong before. Thank you for your correction.)
Over at Chaling, although Liu Zhu was the deputy general, his military strength far exceeded that of Zhang Tieniu.
Liu Zhu had 2,000 regular soldiers, 2,000 peasant soldiers, more than 6,000 grain transport teams, missionary groups, overseas officials, backbones of farmers' associations, and medical soldiers, totaling more than 900 people.
After entering Chaling County, the missionary group, officials, and farmers' associations immediately took action and went to villages and towns to preach the policy. Not only the farmers responded enthusiastically, but even the gentry and landlords warmly received them. They had suffered terribly from the bandits and bandits, and they did not want to return.
As long as you can keep your property, you can save your life.
A few days later, Liu Zhu led his troops to appear in the northern part of Chaling Prefecture, and together with thousands of food transport teams, the rebels in the city were frightened to death.
Although most of the rebels were locals, a few of the bandit leaders had escaped from Jiangxi. They had already been beaten out of the shadows by the "Heavenly Soldiers", and Liu Zhu's army was still ten miles away, so they immediately packed up Xiruan and abandoned the city.
Escape toward the southeast.
Exactly in the direction of Lingxian County!
Zhang Tieniu's two thousand vine-armed soldiers ran into more than five thousand fleeing bandits two miles north of Hukou Town.
There was no need to form a formation at all, and I didn't even bother to put on the rattan armor.
Zhang Tieniu asked his soldiers to put on rattan armor, hold rattan plates and steel knives in their hands, and then went straight towards the enemy, which was more than twice the number.
"Run quickly! King Zhao knows magic, and he has recruited heavenly soldiers here!"
When the old thieves saw the Datong military flag, they turned around and ran away in fright. They were really frightened. They had originally fled from the north, but they met the enemy in the south for no reason. They became more and more convinced that King Zhao Tian really knew magic.
Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu had a very smooth start because they were playing weak chickens.
As long as Anren and Youxian are captured, the strategic goal of the first stage will be achieved.
