Duke Yan held his troops back, using the excuse that he was short of money and food, the Green Camp was in ruins, and the Yangtze River and the Canal were cut off by the Ming Navy. He insisted on waiting for the autumn grain collection before sending out troops.
He stayed at the Jinglue Yamen and wrote to the regent, asking for the reorganization of Jiangnan Green Camp.
"I suggest that we set up a water transport governor in the south of the Yangtze River, and two governors of Jiangning and Fenglu. The governor and the second governor each set up a standard battalion, divided into two battalions on the left and right, with eight generals and four thousand soldiers each, as well as special troops and wandering soldiers.
Three thousand per battalion.
There are one admiral of Anhui, one admiral of Su Song, and one admiral of Jiangning Caojiang in the Green Camp. They are each divided into five battalions in the center, left, right, and front, with eight generals and five thousand soldiers.
In addition, eight town general officers were set up in Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Pukou, Anqing, Chitai, Dongshan, and Guangde, seven deputy generals such as Langshan were set up, and battalion generals in Jinshan and Changzhou were appointed to conduct guerrilla warfare, garrison, and command battalions.
In addition, the five southern provinces have set up five economic battalions, and the governors of the three provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Henan have supervised five battalions, each with five thousand.
In Jiangnan Province, the budget quota is 5,000, the supervisory quota is 5,000, the canal quota is 4,000, the three admirals each have 5,000, the two governors have 4,000 each, the eight town generals have 3,000 each, the seven assistant generals have 1,000 each, and the participating generals and guerrillas
Waiting for 18 battalions with 10,000 people, the total number will be 68,000!"
"In addition, the remaining generals, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, and garrison camps will be disbanded and merged."
"In addition, there will be a governor in Henan, a second battalion of 2,000 in Fubiao, an admiral, and a third battalion of 3,000 in Fubiao. There will be general troops in the three towns of Hebei and Nanyang, and three towns in Kaigui, with two battalions of 2,000 in each town, and a deputy general in Kaifeng.
, garrison the following seven generals and one thousand soldiers. Henan Weihui, Runing, Guide battalions each have their own generals, one thousand soldiers each, Cizhou camp Dusi, Songshan garrison, etc., five hundred each.
Jiangxi has the governor of Jiangxi and the governor of Nangan. Each of Fubiao has two thousand left and right battalions. There is one admiral with a raise of five thousand. There are two generals of Nangan and Jiujiang. Each battalion has five thousand. Yuanzhou and other four deputies of Sixie Town are set up.
The total number of soldiers is 2,000 each, Guangde and other battalions are joined by generals, and each navy battalion in Fuzhou has 600 soldiers each...
In Zhejiang, there are governors, governors, and admirals, with a supervisory bid of 3,000, a governor's bid of 2,000, and a promotion bid of 3,000. There are two commanders of Hai and Quzhou towns, three battalions of Qiantang and Taizhou naval divisions of 3,000 each, and seven corps including Jiaxing and Huzhou.
There are three deputy generals and three battalions of pacesetters each, each with 2,500 troops. There are three deputy generals in Yanzhou and Chuzhou, Jinhua, with 1,600 pacesetters each...
Yan Wogong reorganized all the green camps in Jiangnan, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and even Fujian provinces in one fell swoop, creating a green camp establishment of nearly 200,000 people.
Then use this list to request food, pay, official titles, ordnance and equipment from Beijing.
Yan Wogong described the situation in the five southeastern provinces as very serious. He pointed out that none of the original surrendered troops could be used. They had false credentials and false names. Officers were depleted of pay and rations. Their equipment was backward. There was insufficient training. In any case, most of them were unusable.
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So now we need to dismantle all the original guard posts and battalions in the five provinces, reorganize the new green battalions, provide real troops with real pay, and supply equipment and equipment. In particular, we must rebuild a Yangtze River Navy and a Zhejiang Navy, so that we can compete with the Ming Army.
naval confrontation.
Before that, the imperial court should stop marching southward, reorganize the Green Camp, re-dredge the canal, and ensure the safety of navigation in the Yangtze River before heading south.
Otherwise, although the Eight Banners are elite and capable of fighting, without the support of food and salary, and without the assistance of the Green Battalion, they will go south alone and go deep behind enemy lines, and will be in great danger. The siege of Kangkara and Changzhou is the biggest lesson. Jiangning clearly has troops, but it is
It was impossible to go to the rescue in time because there was no food and wages and the canal was blocked.
Now that Yangzhou has been lost again, fortunately Huguang has recovered, so the military offensive should be suspended now and focus on reorganizing the Green Camp and restoring local stability. Only after money and food are accumulated can large-scale troops be deployed.
He also took the opportunity to impeach the former governors, admirals, and general soldiers in Jiangnan. Anyway, there were not many useful minions.
The Eight Banners were not included in Yan Wogong's army reorganization list. He suggested that all important towns and places in the south should be garrisoned with the Eight Banners, and that Prince Baylor should be sent to lead them instead of being under the jurisdiction of local governors. Not only Jiangning, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou should garrison the Eight Banners, but also Yangzhou
, Zhenjiang, Huai'an, Fengyang, Anqing, Jiujiang, Taiping and other important towns must also garrison the Eight Banners.
In this way, the Eight Banners and the Green Camp can support each other and ensure that the south is worry-free.
Of course, not to mention the garrison of the Eight Banners, just the reorganization of the 200,000 green battalions from the five provinces south of the Yangtze River would require the order of the imperial court. After all, according to what Yan Wogong said, the original soldiers lacked armor and weapons, and the navy was even more serious in fighting.
There are no ships, and there is even a shortage of artillery for city defense, river defense, and warships. It is not easy to replenish these equipment.
Not to mention 200,000 soldiers and horses. Even if one soldier is worth one tael of silver a month, he still needs 200,000 taels of military pay a month, which is more than two million a year. But in fact, one tael a month is not enough. Yan Igong also
As I said, the Ming army's military pay has been greatly increased. An auxiliary soldier can earn three taels of silver a month, and an armored soldier can even earn four taels or five taels of silver a month.
There are also Anjiayin and others.
Therefore, in order to boost morale, our Jiangnan Green Camp also has to increase military pay.
At least three taels of silver a month.
Among Yan Wogong's suggestions, there is another important point, that is, he believes that most of the generals and soldiers recruited by the imperial court to be surrendered and resettled in the places were either born as bandits or from the Ming army. These people are full of bad habits, and the officers like to withhold soldiers' pay.
, soldiers are timid and afraid of getting into trouble, these people are useless, it is best to send them home and recruit some honest and good people, such as farmers, miners, etc., instead of those people in the market who are cunning, timid and dishonest.
Finally, he did not forget to impeach Jiangbei Admiral Liu Liangzuo, saying that the Earl of Guangchang fled before fighting and abandoned the city one after another, so he really deserved to be killed.
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Beijing.
There were two memorials in front of Dorgon, one was sent by Hong Chengchou, who had disappointed him, and the other was sent by Yan Wogong, who had high hopes for him.
The memorials sent back by the two managers, one reported good news that Huguang was prosperous, and the other reported sorrow that Jiangnan was in ruins.
However, Hong Chengchou, who reported the good news, was still in Anqing and could not participate in the Huguangda War. Although Yan Wogong, who reported the news, said that Jiangnan was corrupt, he also recovered Hangzhou and Huzhou, saved Songjiang and Jiaxing, and had just solved the siege of Changzhou. The third time
Recover Suzhou.
"I didn't expect that the situation in the south has reached such an extent. What do you think of the memorials of these two managers?" Dorgon asked.
Chen Mingxia, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Bachelor of Arts, said bluntly, "I thought that although Yan Jinglue was reporting worries, he could still see that he was doing practical things. However, although Hong Jinglue was reporting good news, the situation in Huguang could be said to have nothing to do with him.
It doesn’t matter at all.”
"Furthermore, although Huguang reported a great victory, I believe that Huguang is truly corrupted. Previously, the Ming army broke into Xiangyang, captured Jingzhou, and raided the north of the Yangtze River. Every time they entered a city, they demolished a city and relocated its people, leaving thousands of miles uninhabited.
, there is no cockcrow for a hundred miles. Although the siege of Wuchang ended unexpectedly, and Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Changsha and other places were successively recovered, Huguang has been destroyed and it will be difficult to recover within a few years. Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Changsha and other cities are just defeated.
Just a few empty cities."
"Furthermore, the Ming army was only defeated due to the great victory of Huguangda. They still held positions in Yunyang, Badong, Pianyuan, Hengyang and other places. These places are remote and dangerous, making them easy to defend and difficult to attack."
"Huguang was originally a granary, but now Huguang and Susong, two granaries and grain producing areas, have been destroyed. This is the most troublesome."
Dorgon agreed very much with what Chen Mingxia said.
"Secretary Qian?"
Qian Qianyi, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and in charge of the Secretariat, stood up and said, "I thought the worst was the water transport. Now the Yangtze River, canals and even sea transport are all under the control of the Ming army. If this matter is not resolved, the court will no longer be able to send grain, and the money will be sent to the capital."
, without the grain and silver from Huguang and Jiangnan, the imperial court will be unable to pay even the salaries to hundreds of officials."
"Are the Han soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River really so useless?" Dorgon sighed. Since he led his army to invade Beijing, he has been sitting in the middle of the court and has never taken a step south. He doesn't know much about the Han soldiers in the south.
But what was reported below was really shocking.
Admiral Wu Shengzhao of Su Song rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, General Li Chengdong of Jiading rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, Governor Zhang Cunren of Zhejiang Province abandoned the city and fled, Admiral Tian Xiong of Zhejiang Province committed suicide in fear of crime, and others such as Liu Liangzuo abandoned many cities in succession.
Not to mention that Luck Dehun reported every day during these days to impeach An Ning Chi Tai and other green camp Han soldiers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. How incompetent they were, so that he, the Eight Banners reinforcements, could not get supplies on the way, and had to wipe their butts to regain their lost territory.
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Although he clearly had the elite Eight Banners, but could not defeat the enemy, Luckard went crazy with anger.
Chen Tai, the governor of the new canal transport who had just lost Yangzhou, also impeached Liu Liangzuo, saying that he had abandoned Yangzhou and other places before, but after he went south, he sent troops to him southward, but he only sent him 3,000 old, weak and green battalions, causing him to be in Yangzhou
When Chengcheng faced the main force of the Ming army, Yangzhou was lost again.
Seeing Dorgon's silence, Qian Qianyi made a suggestion, "I dare to suggest that it is better to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty first, recognize the position of Lu Jianguo as the Ming Dynasty, and stand side by side with the Ming Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties."
Chen Mingxia sneered, "What does Qian Gong mean by this? Don't you still miss your old master?"
Qian Qianyi had always looked down on this guy who was a villain. Chen Mingxia was a prodigy in the 16th year of Chongzhen. He was first awarded the Imperial Academy editorship, and later was awarded the second branch of Hubing. His official career can be said to be very good, but he was just unlucky.
Unfortunately, Li Zicheng quickly invaded Beijing.
This guy was not willing to let ten years of hard study go to waste, so he immediately went to welcome King Chuang to Beijing, and became a Hanlin of the Dashun Dynasty. But who would have thought that the Qing army entered Beijing not long after, and this guy immediately went to welcome the Qing army.
, do Hanlin again.
Originally, when he heard that Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhaiguan, he planned to go south to Nanjing to go to Hongguang Dynasty. However, after hearing that Ruan Dacheng had designated him as a submissive, he turned around and returned to Beijing to meet the Qing army.
Relying on the recommendation of Wang Wenkui, the governor of Baoding, who was a comrade in the original court, he became a Hanlin scholar. In Dorgon's case, although Chen Mingxia was young and inexperienced, he was indeed smart and knowledgeable, and he was shameless.
He was willing to flatter Dorgon, so he was highly appreciated, and his status rose rapidly, and he even became the leader of the Zhongnan people who were demoted to the Qingming official.
Qian Qianyi, the former Donglin leader, naturally became an obstacle in front of this backward leader.
"Your Highness the Regent, I am not thinking of the old Ming Dynasty, I am just considering the imperial court. At present, Huguang and Jiangnan have been completely corrupted, and the Lu Supervisor does have some skills. He can quickly control people's hearts and always cause us problems.
Destruction, if we continue like this, it will hurt both sides, and for the imperial court, this is the worst situation."
"It's better to pretend to make peace and stabilize the south, and then wait for us to stabilize the northern parts of the Central Plains, restore the two major granaries of Huguang and Jiangnan, and rebuild a naval fleet. Then we can go south in a big way and destroy them in one fell swoop. The Ming army is now relying on
They are just the navy. As long as we make up for this shortcoming, it will be easy to destroy the Ming army. Even if they escape to Fujian and Guangdong, we can chase and annihilate them all the way!"
"The temporary contraction is just to punch more powerfully next time."
Dorgon was very satisfied with this explanation, which indeed made some sense.
