Li Laiheng replied: "The Manchus are an army that has been defeated for a long time and have become insignificant. Therefore, Master Liu has been unable to fight any big battles in the past two years when he left the northeast. The main thing is in the northwest. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are both at that time."
Heroes cannot be ignored. From now on, Dashun's military focus should be concentrated on Hanzhong and Yunyang Jingzhou.
As for the southeast, there is no quarrel between the Zheng family and our dynasty. I have already ordered Xu Du to try to appease the Zheng family. If he can join the dynasty, he will be granted the title of Duke and King."
The military generals of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Dashun could only be granted the title of marquis like Chen Yongfu and Jiang Quan at the most. Li Laiheng's promise to the Zheng family to be granted the title of duke or king was indeed very attractive.
There is no conflict of interest between Dashun and the Zheng family. As long as Zheng Zhilong is willing to go north to Kaifeng and enter the DPRK, Dashun will not directly interfere with the Zheng family's maritime trade.
However, if the Zheng family continues to compete with Dashun, Li Laiheng is also ready to open another sea trade base in Ningbo and develop a navy directly related to Dashun.
In fact, he has already made two preparations. Since the beginning of this spring, he has ordered Liu Xiyao to recruit craftsmen and sailors at Ningbo Port to start building ships to prepare for future confrontations.
"Although Sun Kewang was a hero for a while, according to Longyi Guards' information, after Sun Kewang abandoned Chang'an, he used arrows to shoot him to death in Hanzhong and Wu Sangui during their hunting trip in the name of hunting.
Although Wu Sangui was capricious, despicable and cunning, he was cunning and resourceful, good at fighting and capable of attacking. After all, he was the king of the world. Sun Kewang could not use Wu Sangui. Instead, he shot him alive under the pretext of hunting and accidentally injured him, which made him lose popularity. I think Guo Junzhenping
The time to the southwest is not far away either.”
Li Guo was lying on the royal bed, as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Dashun's heavy troops are gathered in the northwest. What proportion of all the soldiers, horses, and grains account for the annual income of Dashun? These troops and horses are all in Guojun Town."
Under his command?"
Li Laiheng pondered and said: "Most of the troops are in the northwest. The army in the middle of the palace, the army in the rear, and the army on the right of the palace. There are about 100,000 elite troops who are always fighting in the northwest. It is indeed a big burden."
Although the Dashun Army still maintains the organizational structure of the Five Halls Field Army in the front, rear, left, right, and center, Li Laiheng has begun to reform and is preparing to abolish the mountain top atmosphere of the army left by the Five Battalions during Li Zicheng's period.
In the future, the organizational structure of the five major field armies will be completely disrupted, and the highest-level standing establishment of the army will only remain at the division level. Higher-level establishments will only be temporarily established during wartime.
After the Peace, the scope of powers and responsibilities of the Military Government and the Military Academy will continue to be strengthened. Correspondingly, more staff officers from the Military Academy will be transferred from the positions of staff officers to the positions of leading military officers, gradually forming a staff
The practice of mutual transfer of officers and leading officers.
Veteran generals who are purely from the military will also be slowly replaced as time goes by. In the future, the people in charge of the army will mainly be officer cadets who came from the camp academy and the martial arts hall, and they will also bring knowledge to the army.
The new trend completely avoids the possibility of warlords appearing.
It's just that the war in the northwest is tense now. After all, a rough estimate shows that there are nearly 100,000 strong soldiers in the Bashu area occupied by Sun Kewang.
After the Western Camp retreated to Hanzhong, Sun Kewang not only left a large number of troops to prepare for the border in Hanzhong, but also transferred many of Wu Sangui's remaining troops away from the front line of the Shunxi battle and dispatched them to the Yunnan and Guizhou areas. After the collapse of the Hongguang court, the remaining Nanming troops
In the chaotic state of power, they used the name of the Western Ming Dynasty to expand their territory wantonly.
After Datong was captured, a group of profiteers led by Fan Yongdou were sent to Taiyuan for public trial, then skinned and stripped, and all their property was confiscated.
The Dashun Army used extremely ruthless means to suppress the tyrannical and evil gentry who had blood feuds among the survivors of the former Ming Dynasty; it also adopted very cruel methods of purging those traitors and barbarians who colluded with the Qing army during Dorgon's occupation.
There were Shun officers and soldiers in almost every county. At the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty's ruling order, they used weapons such as public trials to quickly unite and control the hearts and minds of the local indigenous residents.
A considerable number of former Ming officials and gentry thought that after Dorgon was defeated, they would be able to enjoy the peace of the new dynasty with the huge wealth they had obtained through various means since the Ming Dynasty.
They never expected that they would send away a Qing Dynasty who was willing to rule the common people with you as long as you shaved your head; what they would receive was a Dashun who wanted to dig out the foundation of the gentry.
Therefore, when Sun Kewang retreated to Hanzhong, although most of the gentry knew nothing about the Taiping Emperor who succeeded to the throne in Chengdu, this did not prevent the officials and gentry from forgetting Sun Kewang's past history and followed the West with a large amount of property.
The camp withdrew into Bashu.
These people never expected that Sun Kewang would understand clearly the power of Dashun's various new systems in Chang'an, so soon after he returned to Chengdu, he would also implement camps, militia, official promotion and other systems in Sichuan, and put the butcher's knife in place
On the neck of the official gentry.
The Xiying Army is expanding aggressively into Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Dashun Army is also expanding equally rapidly in the south.
After Hao Yaoqi pacified Jiangxi Province, he personally supervised the troops going south from Ganzhou and crossed the undefended Wuling Mountains. With the assistance of Zhang Jiayu, the Guangdong Jiedushi envoy of Dashun, he easily rushed to the city of Guangzhou.
Soon the soldiers and civilians of Guangzhou took the initiative to surrender.
At the same time, Du Yinxi, who was entrenched in western Hunan, also persuaded Chen Zilong to leave the mountainous area where Miao Yao lived and join Dashun.
Only He Tengjiao was still entrenched in Chenzhou, and the Wugang area remained stubborn. Soon, the Dashun Army, under the command of Ma Bao, Ma Jinzhong and Lin Chengcheng, moved south from Yuezhou, occupied Changsha, and then moved westward to Wugang.
The city captured He Tengjiao alive.
On the way to Wuchang, He Tengjiao jumped into the water several times and tried to commit suicide. Unfortunately, he was rescued by the soldier Shun who was responsible for guarding him.
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After being imprisoned in Wuchang for several months, he saw that the Dashun army had no intention of punishing him harshly, so Fang Yizhi came forward to smooth things over for him. He was released by the government and was able to open an academy in Wuchang to make a living.
After Hunan and Guangdong were pacified, Qu Shichun, the governor of Guangxi, wanted to organize troops for the Northern Expedition and even borrowed hundreds of Portuguese soldiers and dozens of cannons from Macau.
But soon Ma Bao sent a letter of persuasion to surrender written by Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to Guilin. After reading the letter, Qu Shichun cried several times and was still unwilling to surrender to Dashun. However, the soldiers and civilians of Guangxi were extremely disappointed with Zhu Yousong after reading the letter.
All the states and counties surrendered to the army one after another. Qu Shichi was unable to survive alone and decided to hang himself.
However, Qu Shichun's attendants did not want him to die in vain. After desperately saving him, the officials in Guilin City asked the Dashun army to surrender in the name of Qu Shichun. When Qu Shichun woke up, the entire territory of Guangxi had been occupied by the Shun army.
He had no choice but to go north with the army and return to his hometown in Changshu to teach.
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