Hong Chengchou suggested that Dorgon send troops next summer to ensure that the wheat harvest was about to be harvested.
After repeated discussions, Zhao Han decided to send troops in the spring!
Because winter wheat can be planted in all the territory of the Datong Army. After the winter wheat is planted, peasant soldiers and civilians can be recruited directly in Northern Hubei, Northern Anhui, Northern Jiangsu, Runing Prefecture, and Nanyang Prefecture to cooperate with the Datong regular army in spring operations. This way there will be no
Delay farming time.
In northern Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other regions, spring wheat was being sown at that time.
Zhao Han suddenly sent troops in spring, which happened to be during the Qing's farming season. The Manchus had to mobilize a large number of civilians, which made it impossible for farmers to sow wheat.
Even if Zhao Han loses this battle, as long as the defeat is not too disastrous, the Qing Dynasty will be severely weakened, and the wheat production of that year will definitely be seriously reduced!
Despite the vast territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they actually had no control over the countryside.
Even small counties cannot be controlled. Many remote small counties are still governed by the civil servants left by Li Zicheng.
This kind of local control has a lot of room for maneuver. Xu Ying can send countless spies to Henan!
In addition, Xu Ying also sent people to Shaanxi to try to contact Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.
As long as there is a fight between the Datong Army and the Manchu Qing Army, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai will be able to seize the opportunity to start an uprising in Shaanxi. They still have tens of thousands of elites left, and it is easy to conquer cities and territories.
By that time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were making trouble in Shaanxi, and Zhao Han was directly attacking Liaodong from Dongjiang Town. The two battlefields behind enemy lines were enough to drink a pot of Qing.
Zhao Han's peasant soldiers are equivalent to reserve forces. They can be assembled at the front line in two months and can be trained on the battlefield in one month. He seems to have a small number of soldiers, but in fact he has a lot of soldiers. If there is not enough food, he will explode the troops in minutes.
Two hundred thousand.
This battle has a great chance of winning.
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Guangxi, Pingyuefu.
Judging from the population composition of Guangxi, 50% are Zhuang people, 30% are Yao people, and 20% are Han people.
But Pinglefu is very special. Less than 20% of the population is Zhuang, and most of them are immigrants from other places. They have a collective title called "Eastern Migrant Soldiers".
The soldiers are the wolf soldiers.
The Yao people in Pinglefu often rebelled, and it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to suppress them, so they moved a large number of Zhuang warriors here. They selected terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and allowed the warriors to form strongholds and garrison the fields.
Separated from the Han people.
Most of the Zhuang people in Pinglefu are military immigrants, and their existence value is to suppress the Yao people.
Not only that, Han officials also deliberately provoked conflicts between the Zhuang and Yao people, causing the Zhuang people and the Yao people to form a feud, so that they could rule very easily.
But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed.
The Zhuang people took the initiative to reconcile with the Yao people, and even formed marriage alliances. A large number of Yao people, as well as Han people who had lost their land, and Zhuang people who had no land to cultivate, formed villages to reclaim the barren mountains, and truly realized the ethnic unity of Han, Zhuang, and Yao
Great fusion.
These mixed villages have become a key development target of the Datong Army.
After half a year of operations, the Datong Army finally occupied He County, recruited the soldiers from Dian Deng Village, annihilated the soldiers from Daning Village, and completed the household registration and field allocation in He County.
A regular division could only capture half of the county in half a year, mainly due to terrain reasons and because the soldiers were disgusting.
After the main force of the soldiers was dispersed, they formed groups of seven to engage in guerrilla warfare in the mountains.
Poisonous arrows were extremely difficult to guard against and could emerge from the woods at any time. More than 30 members of the Farmers' Association alone were killed.
It was early winter, and the Datong Army continued to attack.
They had just received a military order to change the unit designation to the 10th Division of the Datong Army, and promoted Liu Xinyu, a Hunanese, to the position of division commander. This man was a rebel from Hunan. He led two states and four counties to surrender to Zhao Han, and he followed Zhang Tieniu to fight in Guangdong and made meritorious deeds.
The chief missionary officer of the Tenth Division is named Ding Jiasheng. He is also a rebel. He practiced the "Datong Collection" secret book by himself and took Duchang County to defect to Zhao Han.
Ten thousand officers and soldiers of the Datong Army, with more than a thousand soldiers and many civilians, advanced by land and water to attack Bianpeng Village.
Bianpeng Village is located not far to the northwest of Zhongshan County in later generations. It is close to the river and backed by mountains, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The leader of the Liangfeng Village had already captured Pinglefu City, gathered the leaders of each village's soldiers and proclaimed himself king, and there were also some Han and Yao forces who joined him.
They even followed the river and captured Yangshuo County.
If it weren't for the threat from the Datong Army in the rear, these soldiers would probably have captured Guilin!
This time there is a decisive battle, and the location is Bianpeng Village.
He County also has the Bianpengzhai area, which is a rare grain-producing area in Pingle Prefecture. There are basins between the mountains and rivers for irrigation, and the soldiers' leaders are reluctant to throw them away.
The leader of the soldiers is called Wei Changyi. Wei is a surname of the Zhuang people, which means "buffalo".
This man was extremely Chinese. Not only did he take the daughter of a Han gentry as his wife, he was also educated himself and established himself as the "King of Pingle".
The two sides lined up on the edge of the Fu River and fought openly.
For Wei Changyi, this is the only way to fight. If we form a stronghold to defend ourselves, those damn Datong troops will directly divide the fields nearby.
That's how Deng Deng Village surrendered. The Datong Army surrounded the village and invited Han people and Yao people to divide the fields. Those Zhuang fields were all divided up in front of the village, and three thousand Datong soldiers were left to station here to help.
Leading the people to plow the fields and dig canals.
Then various announcements were made, saying that as long as they were willing to surrender, the soldiers could redistribute the fields.
After two months of confrontation, the leader of Dian Deng Village surrendered en masse with his soldiers due to internal pressure. The strong people in the village were also dispersed to divide their fields and formed mixed villages with Yao people and Han people.
By the Fujiang River.
The formation of the Datong army was much denser, but the formation of the soldiers was extremely loose.
However, the combat power of the warriors should not be underestimated. It is said that Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang Formation drew lessons from the warriors.
There are seven people in a team, four are the main combatants and three are the assistants.
There are cavalry, and they all fight with lances.
The infantry includes shield soldiers, cannon soldiers, spearmen, archers, crossbowmen, skirmishers, loose-armed soldiers, etc. In addition to conventional weapons, there are also javelins, palm arrows, medicine arrows (poison arrows), etc.
Before the war started, the Datong cavalry rushed out, holding a trumpet and shouting: "Brothers of the Han, Yao, and Tong (Zhuang) ethnic groups, the Datong army does not distinguish between ethnic groups. Brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups are equal. Don't work for the leader of the army camp anymore.
, as long as they lay down their weapons and surrender, everyone can share their fields..."
The composition of the soldiers of the 10th Division was extremely complex. Half of them were taken away by Fei Ruhe to form a new army, and many officers were taken away by Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang. Most of the soldiers who were replenished were Hakka, Miao, Zhuang and Yao.
Today, 60% of the division's officers and soldiers are Han Chinese, and the rest are all southern ethnic minorities.
The cavalry rushed out and shouted in various languages, including four in Yao language alone.
"Form up, move forward!" Wei Changyi hates this kind of shouting. He has a Yao army under his command, and this summer he was directly shouted into defection.
Both sides were a coalition of various ethnic groups, and they began to advance step by step, with their respective cavalry cruising on the sides of the battlefield fighting.
The Tenth Division of the Datong Army also has 2,500 cavalry, but most of them belong to the Southwest Cavalry.
The average shoulder height is only 1.18 meters, which is much shorter than the war horses of Jeju Island. But they are very capable of climbing mountains and carrying goods, so they can barely charge and fight.
The soldiers on the opposite side also have this kind of war horses...
"Bang bang bang bang!"
The dragoons fired first, shooting down more than twenty enemy cavalry in an instant, and frightened the remaining enemy cavalry into turning around and running away.
On the front battlefield, more than 20,000 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of Han and Yao troops, are speeding up to kill the Datong army.
"Boom boom boom!"
After a shelling, the Han and Yao troops collapsed.
However, the soldiers on the opposite side were arranged in a very loose formation, in groups of seven, jogging towards the Datong Army at a high speed.
They are natural warriors. They are military immigrants specially transferred to Pingle Mansion by the Ming Dynasty to suppress the riots. In addition to farming since they were young, they have also been engaged in military training. Meritorious service in combat is their only chance to stand out.
The dragoons quickly circled the flanks, dismounted and fired at the soldiers.
Zhao Han did not have enough cavalry in the north, but he was a nouveau riche in the south. He spent nearly 100,000 taels of silver to purchase war horses from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. 2,500 dragoons were enough to dominate the southwest.
Those soldiers, who were shelled from the front and shot from the side, did not collapse and continued to charge towards the Datong Army.
Even Wei Changyi, who proclaimed himself King Pingle, was charging with his own soldiers.
A bunch of life-threatening lunatics!
"Boom boom boom boom!"
There was another round of shelling, and the leader of one of the martyrs was blown to pieces by a shell. But the martyrs had not broken up yet, and they continued to charge forward in groups of seven.
After three consecutive rounds of shelling, more than 2,000 soldiers were finally routed.
"Crossbowmen!"
After the archers and crossbowmen of the soldiers rushed to the shooting range, they immediately stopped and started firing arrows.
The rest of the soldiers were still trotting forward.
If it were a traditional battle, the fighting of the soldiers would be more orderly. However, the Datong Army's firearms were too powerful, and they had to charge so quickly.
The rattan player of the Datong Army raised his shield to protect the friendly forces.
In fact, it's not a big problem if you don't take cover. The crossbows of the soldiers are relatively poor and not very powerful. As long as you don't get hit by the vital points after wearing armor.
The real thing to be afraid of is poisonous arrows!
"Throw the gun!"
After another charge, the harpooners charged forward and threw their javelins.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
A small number of firecrackers from the soldiers also started shooting. After shooting, they immediately drew their swords and rushed forward.
More than 20 people from the Datong army fell, half of them were hit by javelins. The rest were hit by poisonous arrows, and they didn't know what kind of poison they were. They had chest tightness, shortness of breath, and general weakness. The poison exploded very quickly.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The last round of shelling, this time with shotgun shells, caused a large area in one blast.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang bang!"
3,500 Datong Fire Gun Soldiers, 20-step ultra-short range firing.
Of the 2,500 Datong dragoons, 1,000 were separated to deal with the local cavalry, and the rest chased after them and fired again.
After all, the soldiers are still human beings. Faced with such terrifying firepower, tens of thousands of them collapsed immediately.
Wei Changyi was not dead yet, and he was still charging forward with his remaining troops. He felt that as long as he charged into close combat, he would be able to defeat the Datong Army, which only had powerful firearms.
"Grenadier!"
Five hundred grenadiers with super long arms and strong physiques threw thousands of enemies at the rushing soldiers.
The rattan players, wolf spearmen, and spearmen were also in full formation, and the fire gunners retreated to fix their bayonets.
There was no need for close combat anymore. The leader of the bandits, Wei Changyi, was killed by ten thousand enemies, and all the remaining soldiers turned around and fled.
The dragoons put away their muskets and drew their swords, rushing over to kill them. Any enemy who did not put down their weapons and surrender would be killed with a single blow.
The Datong Army suffered losses, and the casualties suffered in guerrilla warfare in the mountains were far greater than in frontal combat.
After half a year of attacking Pingle Mansion, they were finally able to capture them all. Wei Changyi, the leader of the bandits, was killed in battle, and most of the other soldiers' leaders would choose to surrender.
It’s really hard to fight here in Guangxi!
Ethnic issues are also extremely complex and must be managed step by step.
After taking Pingle Prefecture, the next step is Guilin Prefecture and Liuzhou Prefecture.
In the absence of sufficient food and grass, Guangxi is expected to fight for another year or two. Each time it sends troops to occupy one or two prefectures, and then quickly conducts civil and political governance. The locals will accumulate enough food before sending out troops. During this period, they will also be busy with the work of suppressing bandits in the mountains.
Guangxi is so difficult, but Sichuan is going very smoothly.
Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu have jointly sent troops to attack Wang Xiang in Chongqing Prefecture with Yang Zhan.
The sooner you capture Sichuan, the sooner you will gain grain-producing land. There is always a lot of grain in the Sichuan Basin. Especially the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance!
