Chapter 424 Destruction of the Ming Dynasty. The Dream of the New Army II
Abatai has outstanding military exploits and thinks highly of himself, but because he is the son of a concubine, his status is relatively humble among his brothers. He is often not treated fairly in terms of merit and rewards, and he is often full of complaints.
Abatai's mother, Ilgenjueluo, became Nurhaci's seventh wife in the 14th year of Wanli (1586). Ilgenjueluo was of ordinary origin. She was not favored by Nurhaci during her lifetime and did not receive any honors after her death. Not even the dates of birth and death were left, and there was not even a few records in the history books of the Later Jin Dynasty. Abate's mother's lower status affected his future ranking among his brothers. However, because of his age advantage , Abatai participated in the war earlier than his brothers and made achievements earlier, so Nurhachi still regarded him more highly.
At this time, he controlled the two strongest remaining troops of the Eight Banners, the Lianghuang Banner and the Baya Lebing, so he was the toughest among the three forces. If not for the cold winter in the Northeast, Abatai might have defeated Huang Taiji and Jilha long ago. Both sides of Lang were destroyed.
The severe cold in Liaodong wiped out all mankind's will to fight, and all military operations in all aspects were terminated.
Yin Feng took this opportunity to launch his own land policy in the Liaodong occupied area: confiscate all official land within the jurisdiction of the Liaodong capital of the Ming Dynasty, as well as all the land of the pseudo-later Jin Kingdom established by Jianzhou Wei Jurchen, and measure it uniformly by the Jinghai Palace. After that, nearly one-third of it will be distributed to all the soldiers participating in the war and the Chinese company's logistics personnel. The remaining Liaodong land will be sold to wealthy businessmen throughout the Ming Dynasty at an auction meeting in the coming year. The ownership of the mines and forests belongs to Yin Feng's Jing. It is owned by Neptune Mansion, and the mining rights and logging rights in these places will also be publicly auctioned.
The nearly one million refugees in Liaodong did not receive any benefits, nor did they lose anything. These people had nothing to begin with. Now some of them can return to the countryside to farm with their land deeds. Most of the people in Liaodong were originally military households affiliated with the Liaodong Dusi. In the future, they will work for the new landlords - the Zhonghua Company and the Jinghai Prince's Palace, wealthy businessmen and landlords from all over the country, and meritorious soldiers of the Chinese Army. For them, restoring stability and a life with guaranteed life is more important than anything else.
The Liaodong people started to rebel against the Liao Dynasty during the Wanli period when the mining supervisors and tax envoys started to have civil uprisings, mutinies, and then Tubarbar and Jurchen rebellions, followed by Nurhaci's Houjin Eight Banners sweeping across the land of Liaodong. In the past few decades, the people of Liaodong have not lived a single day. In the days of stability, although they did not identify with the Chinese army at first and only regarded them as Southern barbarians, the military discipline of these "Southern barbarians" was much better than that of the Ming army and the Eight Banners soldiers. More importantly, their force was strong enough to ensure that Everyone's lives, these southerners brought a large number of workshops and businesses that they had never heard of, giving these Liaodong refugees the opportunity to make money to support their families, and also allowed them to gradually accept the rule of the Chinese army. In the Jinzhouwei area, the local People have begun to rush to work in the Chinese military shipyards and firearms factories.
On the snowy New Year's Eve, most of the Chinese army officers and soldiers in Liaodong were warming themselves by fires in wintering camps; millions of refugees and immigrants from all over Liaodong were also hiding in their homes. Although life was still difficult, they could finally see There is some hope.
In the dense forest north of the Huifa River, the remnants of the Houjin Eight Banners were short of food and clothing and had to spend the winter in the wild. Since the food of the Houjin Kingdom was all stored in Hetuala and Jiefan City, Hetu After the Battle of Ala City, Jurchen villages in various places generally lacked food and were unable to supply the remaining forces of the Eight Banners.
Not long after the Battle of Hetuala, the Yehe tribe raised a flag to rebel, and were almost wiped out by the troops led by Abatai. Casually, Abatai also looted all the food and grass in the nearby villages. At this time, those savage Jurchens, Haixi The Jurchen tribesmen were the first to leave the Eight Banners and dispersed back home. Many Jurchen tribes fortified their walls and cleared the fields, swept away all their food and property and fled north. At this time, the remnants of the Eight Banners who retreated north were in a desperate situation in the ice and snow. Abatai and Huang Taiji, Ji Erhalang and others were at their wits' end: the Eight Banners' basic base areas had been lost, their most loyal troops were starving, and their morale had almost completely disappeared. In addition, the weather was cooling down rapidly, forcing the three parties to rear the Jin Eight Banners' forces. Spending the winter in the jungle.
In the severe cold weather in Liaodong, the Chinese army, pioneering groups and immigrants from various places hid in the winter camps around Hetuala and Jiefan City to warm themselves up, while the remaining tribesmen of the Eight Banners starved to death and froze to death in groups in the ice and snow. Many temporary Eight Banner villages and camps were starved to death. The wounded soldiers died first, and then a large number of healthy soldiers also died. On the contrary, the women were able to survive the severe cold and hunger.
Yin Feng and others did not know at this moment that the special battalion had discovered Huang Taiji's body in a dense forest camp in the Songhua River Basin. At the same time, the body of Nurhachi, who was hidden in the dense forest, had also been reported by the Jurchen Eight Banners prisoners.
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Zhang Pan knelt down and bowed in front of Yin Feng. Yin Feng sat firmly in his seat and looked at him with a smile.
Yin Feng was now accustomed to others kneeling and kowtowing to him as he moved his body and cultivated his Qi. He waited for Zhang Pan to finish the ceremony, then stepped forward to help him up and said, "Why do you need to perform such a ceremony?"
"The king is open-minded and allows me to lead the troops into battle and kill the enemy with my own hands. Although I don't know which one of my family members was killed, after this battle, I have no regrets."
Yin Feng asked Zhang Pan, Yan Siqi and others to sit down, and then suddenly asked: "Brother Zhang, do you want to disband and return to the field and leave the Chinese Army?"
Yan Siqi looked at Zhang Pan in surprise: "Old Zhang, what's going on?"
Zhang Pan lowered his head and said calmly: "Zhang's great revenge has been avenged. He has no regrets in this life. From now on, he only wants to live in the fields, read and pass down family traditions."
Yan Siqi shook his head repeatedly: "Brother Zhang, although you are a little soft-hearted, you dare to fight and charge, and the battlefield feels good. It is a pity to leave the Chinese Army like this,"
Zhang Pan looked back at Yan Siqi and smiled faintly: "Our Chinese army is already invincible at home. Where will we attack next?"
Yan Siqi was startled, raised his eyelids, and looked at Yin Feng.
Zhang Pan said this to Yin Feng. Yin Feng nodded and did not intend to hide anything. He said directly: "Now that our army has established its wings, both the northern and southern capitals are at the point where our troops are pointing. What's the next step?" , I plan to rule the world,"
This is the first time Yin Feng has revealed his ultimate goal without concealment in front of his men.
Yan Siqi laughed: "Zhenquan is willing to conquer the world for you,"
Yin Feng nodded, looking at Zhang Pan's hesitant eyes that kept avoiding his gaze, he sneered and said: "Zhang Pan, are you willing to serve for me? Among the Liaodong soldiers in the Chinese Army, you have the most meritorious deeds, and also The most capable fighter, don't you want to be ranked in the position of Huo Qubing and Ban Dingyuan in the history of the future? The ultimate goal of my Chinese army is not the world of China, but the world of the whole world."
"Zhang Pan, do you know how big the world is?"
Yin Feng stood up and pointed to the world map hanging on the wall - this was a world map that was drawn by Matteo Ricci himself and was sent to Yin Feng by the Jesuit China Missionary Society after Matteo Ricci's death. , this map does not include Australia, Antarctica, nor the detailed terrain of Northeast Asia. It has many flaws and is no longer as accurate as the world map used in geography classes in enlightenment schools and military academies run by the China Company.
Zhang Pan had taken a geography class in a short-term training class at the military academy, and he was initially dubious about the authenticity of this world map. When Matteo Ricci took out this map, most of the scholar-officials in the Ming Dynasty had a dubious attitude. People think about whether they need to go to sea to practice it in person to prove the authenticity of this map. It can be seen that the mainstream people in Ming Dynasty culture are completely ignorant of the spirit of scientific evidence.
However, at this moment, Zhang Pan understood Yin Feng's subtext, and immediately stretched out his arms and said: "Zhang is only willing to expand the territory for China. Can he be remembered in history... Zhang has no such extravagant hopes."
After Zhang Pan left, Yan Siqi approached Yin Feng's desk and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the ship owner, it seems that this Pan is still half-hearted and unwilling to attack the Zhu family's court."
Yin Feng sneered: "The general trend is that he can't help but choose. Don't worry about him. I plan to transfer Zheng Zhilong back and let Zhang Pan be responsible for the strategy in the Indian Ocean. You, you took a risk in this battle of Hetuala , but we finally won the battle. Next, you are going to go south to North Korea. After solving North Korea, we will compete in the Central Plains."
Yan Siqi stood up excitedly and was about to salute when Yin Feng said: "Wait a minute, before you return to Liaodong, you first go to Zhejiang."
"Zhejiang," Yan Siqi was puzzled for a moment and then immediately responded: "Go and meet that Yu Zigao."
"Yes, his new army already has more than 15,000 people. After Mr. Xu Guangqi returned to the capital, their military pay has not been settled, and there have been two mutinies. I think Yu Zigao is a famous general of Zhongliang after all, and he can be regarded as my student. , I don’t want him to have a confrontation with the Chinese army. You are familiar with him, so go and see if it is possible to bring him over."
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During the Ming Dynasty, half of the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River was under the control of the Chinese army. The sea ban had long since disappeared. A large amount of overseas trade made the south of the Yangtze River increasingly prosperous. The scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River originally had an attitude towards the Chinese army that they could not afford to offend or hide. The family moved to the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty government. They raised funds to train a new army, planning to make a comeback one day. As time went by, the inaction and depravity of the Confucian scholar-official class once again became the mainstream; living in peacetime, preaching morality, and preparing for war were considered irrelevant. The most important thing is to start a war with a high profile and call others traitors. This social trend has killed countless soldiers time and time again since the Song Dynasty. Soldiers after the Song Dynasty are considered to be people who were born in the wrong era.
The New Army was called Yuyao Tuanlian. After it first gained scale, it lost its stable source of pay. Xu Guangqi, the founder of the New Army, is now an important minister in the cabinet, but he has a high position but no real power. The surrounding ministers are all focused on the party. It was impossible for him to do some practical things by himself in fighting for peace. Without his prestige and ability, the wealthy merchants and scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River would simply not be willing to invest money in the bottomless pit of the New Army.
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