Several Taoists looked at the 3,000 civilian warriors led by the prefect Lin Tianqing. They were surrounded by the Ming army in just one encounter and the entire army was captured. The whole process was as fast as the wind.
Everyone looked dumbfounded.
"Is the Ming thief already so sharp?"
More people were silent and could not say a word.
Just now, many people, like Lin Tianqing, thought that they could go out of the city to fight and defeat the enemy. But now that Lin Tianqing's fate is ahead of them, everyone has shut up.
Lord Yan patted the battlements and sighed.
"It's a pity that Magistrate Lin is so loyal and brave. I will tell the court truthfully about Magistrate Lin's bravery and loyalty. Someone will come and build an altar for Magistrate Lin. I will pay homage to Magistrate Lin and send him on his way."
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"Everyone, the Ming thief came with the victory in hand and showed his sharpness. It seems that it is not feasible to go out of the city to defeat the enemy. Now we can only defend the city with deep ditches and high fortresses. From today on, whoever dares to go out of the city to fight will be killed!"
Everyone was silent.
In this situation, if they were asked to leave the city, he would not even leave the city. This time they would go out to see them off.
Someone is silently observing and calculating the flags and armor of the Ming army. The more he calculates, the more alarmed he becomes. The armor ratio is already very high, and the flags are very strict and neat. Especially when they listen to their military drum calls and advance and retreat in an orderly manner, he
Mom is no worse than the Eight Banners Bashan stationed in Jiangning before.
Why did the Ming army suddenly become so sophisticated?
When Nanjing surrendered half a year ago, a lot of money and food was spent on the reconstruction of the capital camp in Nanjing city, but at first glance it looked fake.
How did the Ming army do it? How did Lu Jianguo do it?
"I didn't expect that the Ming army's armored cavalry numbered over ten thousand!" Yan Woggong sighed, "In the past six months, our Qing Dynasty has been attacked repeatedly in Jiangnan, Huguang, Huaiyang, Jiangxi, and Shandong. We have suffered defeats one after another and lost countless troops.
Ten thousand, tens of thousands of armors and countless artillery pieces were also captured by the Ming army, sigh."
Everyone suddenly realized, yes.
The Qing army had unknowingly defeated so many formations, lost so many soldiers, and lost so many equipment and firearms. No wonder the Ming army was able to rise so quickly. This damn army was faster than building it. They were all directly obtained from the Qing army.
It's all stripped off.
Who is to blame?
Is it blame Hong Jinglue or Zhang Cunren, Shang Kexi, Tan Tai, or Yan Wogong?
"In order to strengthen the defense of Jiangning City and wait for reinforcements, this strategy proposes to expand the city's combat troops to 12,000, and divide them into four sides. In order to facilitate unified command, they are temporarily assigned to Jingbiao. The three general soldiers and the Central Army of Jingbiao will
Each group is divided into three thousand, and they guard one side."
Taking advantage of the situation, he proposed a plan to reorganize several teams in Jiangning City.
All the armor and equipment were taken out to equip these 20,000 soldiers, and they were all assigned to the strategic battalion.
This is obviously an opportunity to annex.
Several generals couldn't help but stand up and object. The reason was naturally that in the current war, doing so would disrupt the original structure and disrupt the command, which would reduce combat effectiveness.
Mr. Yan wrote down the names of several people.
Soon after, an order was given to several people to be transferred out of the original troops and transferred to the east of Jiangning. They were responsible for commanding the 3,000 soldiers in the east and the 10,000 people and village warriors assigned to them.
"This is a military order. Anyone who violates it will be killed immediately!"
The servants of Jingbiao Brigade were fully armed and came to read out the military orders. Most of them were ready to kill people who did not obey the military orders. After receiving the order and weighing it, the officers finally agreed.
The 5,000-strong people who supervise and supervise Biao, as well as the officers above the team commander, are all transferred, and all the officers are increased by one level.
General soldier.
However, when 5,000 officers were transferred into the 3,000-man team, there were obviously more officers, so there were several officers in one position.
Of course, if that's all it is, that's fine.
But when they hurried to Dongcheng, they discovered that there was a huge problem.
It was said that there were three thousand warriors and ten thousand civilian warriors, but in the end it was discovered that the so-called three thousand warriors were three thousand newly selected from the civilian warriors. They did not even have a piece of armor. Most of them only had simple swords and guns, and lacked shields.
Bows, and no firearms.
Even the artillery on the east wall only has a few large ones, and the rest of the small and medium-sized cannons have been transferred.
Facing these 13,000 people, the officers who were rushed to supervise Biao Fubiao Battalion were all stunned.
Obviously, Yan Wogong played a trick on them. He said that the eight thousand soldiers were expanded to ten thousand soldiers, but in fact, all the original eight thousand soldiers were transferred to the three general soldiers of his three standard battalions, each with three soldiers.
Thousands of troops will be stationed on one side, and an additional one thousand new soldiers will be recruited into the camp.
Eight thousand soldiers plus one thousand new soldiers, the new soldiers were only a little over 10%, so it had no impact, especially since he had all the good equipment under his command.
The three thousand soldiers to the east turned out to be unequipped country warriors, accompanied by ten thousand strong men.
This trick is really smooth.
But what to do now?
Looking at the camp to the east composed of farmers who had just put down their hoes, handicraftsmen who had stopped working, urban homeless people, etc., they could only squat on the ground and frown.
the other side.
After Yan Wogong transferred all the officers of the 5,000 standard battalion, he immediately reorganized these 5,000 people with his 3,000 standard battalion. Based on the three standard battalions, each was expanded to 3,000 people, with each battalion having 1,000 people.
The number of people was expanded to 1,000 for the Supervision Bureau and 700 for the Fubiao. They were all completely dispersed and not integrated into the entire battalion.
More than 300 new recruits will be added.
Although after the expansion, there are still only a thousand veterans in each battalion, they are retained in the integrated system. One battalion has become three battalions, and the original skeleton sub-organizational structure is basically still there.
After the reorganization was quickly completed, Yan Wogong distributed silver like crazy. Each of the nine thousand soldiers was given twelve taels of silver. His own headquarters had three thousand scriptures and another ten taels.
Officers are even given double bonuses based on rank.
Even the Xie Cong Min Zhuang who was attached to them received a reward of one tael of silver and one dou of grain each.
The city defense soldiers on the north, south, west, and north were all rewarded with silver. As a result, the east side became a motherless child and no one cared about it. Not only were the minzhuang's one tael of silver and one dou of grain missing, but the three thousand soldiers' ten taels of silver were also missing.
without.
The generals were very dissatisfied and went to see Mr. Yan to inquire.
Yan Wogong directly rebuked them for wanting to mutiny and surrender to the enemy, and then arrested a dozen of the leading generals and deputy generals, beheaded them directly, and hung their heads outside the government office.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This shocked the other officers' faces and hurriedly retreated.
Fortunately, Duke Yan did not send troops to capture them.
The officers who returned to the camp became more and more angry as they thought about it. My governor and governor have gone to mobilize reinforcements. Let us work together to defend Jiangning City, but how can you treat us like this?
You have devoured our soldiers and horses, robbed our weapons, and now you are not going to give us a reward?
Treating us differently, do we not treat us as human beings?
Everyone sat together to discuss, and the more they thought about it, the more angry they became. Some people wanted to shout that they should just rebel, but they didn't have the courage, or they hadn't thought of making a confession yet.
But we couldn't just let it go. The officers were timid, but the brave soldiers below gave up.
Because the news had spread a long time ago, saying that the other three sides of the family were treated very well. The soldiers were rewarded with money and food, and the people who were strong were also rewarded with money and food.
Now everyone is looking forward to being rewarded with silver and grain, especially this grain.
In the end, someone took the lead in making trouble and surrounded the officers, asking them to come out and speak. The helpless officers did not dare to speak back, and did not dare or were unwilling to confess. Finally, they became cruel and simply took them with them.
The brave soldiers who made the fuss went directly to plunder the large households and shops in the east of the city.
Since you are unkind, I am also unjust.
If the manager doesn't reward money and food, then let's make enough food and clothing ourselves.
There was chaos in the east of the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers bravely took to the streets to loot. The scene once made people think that the Ming army had entered the city.
After hearing the report, Yan Wogong just said to a group of officials and generals, "This strategy did not kill those ruffians by mistake. They were going to cause chaos a long time ago."
He directly defined the soldiers stationed in the east of the outer city as mutiny, and then sent troops to block the main gate streets leading to the east city of the outer city, set up barricades, and stationed troops.
Then they sent troops to surround them on three sides, slowly pushed into the east city, and began to clear the area and quell the chaos.
No one expected that this powerful enemy was approaching the city, and Jiangning City had already suffered a defeat, but it would actually trigger civil strife.
Fortunately, although the officials felt that this was the result of Duke Yan's desire to seize military power, the rebels were now composed of strong civilians who lacked armor and weapons and did not pose much of a threat.
The city was in chaos. Dongcheng soldiers made trouble and looted the city, but Jingbiao began to suppress the chaos.
Things are orderly outside the city.
"What are your plans, Your Highness?"
The defense deployment and strength of Nanjing City are now under Zhu Yihai's control. As long as he is willing to enter the city, it can be said that there is not much pressure.
But Zhu Yihai has not issued military orders for a long time.
Those who participated in the military meeting were all civil and military generals, and Zhu Yihai did not hide much from them. He said bluntly, "The current situation is very favorable to us. The city of Nanjing is now surrounded, and the Tatars are already hurriedly deploying troops to help.
Not only soldiers from Su Song, Hangzhou, and Ningtai, Anhui, but also soldiers from Yanzhou, Jinan, Shandong, and Jingxiang, Wuchang, Huguang, are also being mobilized,"
"Your Highness, distant water cannot quench the near thirst. We can definitely capture Jiangning City before they arrive."
Zhu Yihai asked with a smile, "Why are we in such a hurry to capture Jiangning City? If we capture Jiangning City, will the Tatars be so anxious again and desperately send reinforcements south from Huguang, Shandong and other places?"
"What do you mean, Your Highness?"
"At this stage of the war, in terms of overall strength, we are still far inferior to the Tatars, but we have still taken the initiative and mobilized the Tatars to run for their lives. And we have cut off their canal and water transportation, and the Yangtze River
Shipping, etc., the Tatars are fighting an asymmetric war with us."
"It's like saying that there are 1,800 eight-banner garrison troops in Suzhou City now, plus a few battalions of green flags, which add up to 5,000 Qing troops. In terms of strength, they are actually not weak. Although we demolished Suzhou City three times before, the defenses of Suzhou City are now
It can still provide a lot of help to the Qing army. It will be very difficult for us to attack by force.
But what if these 5,000 Tatars from Suzhou come to aid Jiangning? Even if only a part of them are sent out, will Suzhou have flaws and opportunities everywhere? The entire canal from Suzhou to Jiangning has been destroyed. Even if they go overland, but we
We have been developing here for more than half a year, and the foundation of the people is already good. There are many rural brave militia groups. Only in the area of intelligence, we have a complete advantage."
Whether it's an ambush halfway or a blockade along the way, there are always opportunities, and even an attack on Suzhou is an opportunity.
The same principle applies to Hangzhou, Taiping, Anqing, etc.
"Your Highness is saying that you are using Jiangning as bait to lure the snake out of its hole and besiege the city for reinforcements?"
"I still have the same idea as before. At this stage, we are not competing with the Tatars for the gains and losses of a city or a pool, but the main focus is to eliminate the Tatar troops.
The Eight Banners of the Tatars only have 200,000 troops, and their armored elites number only 50,000 or 60,000. Including the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han, there are not many. Therefore, every time we annihilate a Tatar, they lose one. For example, we have annihilated at least five in total now.
Six thousand Tatars and eight banners in Manchuria. Even if there are slaves among them, it is already a huge loss to the Tatars. As long as we can do this a few more times, the Tatars will definitely die if ten or twenty thousand soldiers are killed.
It hurts the muscles and bones.”
Besieging Jiangning City without attacking it first will give Mr. Yan the opportunity and reason to further rectify Jiangning City, annex and incorporate those who should be included, secretly instigate rebellion when it is time to do so, and kill the die-hards when they should, and some who are wavering.
Those who should be forced to rebel will be forced to rebel.
On the other hand, they can besiege the city for reinforcements, mobilize the Qing army to come for reinforcements at all costs, so that the Ming army can seize those cities, and even encircle and ambush some Qing troops along the way, and defeat them one by one.
In fact, in order to save Jiangning, the Qing army did not hesitate to reinforce Jiangning at any cost. The price was very high. Even if there was no ambush, the consumption of money and food alone would be staggering. The consumption of war resources and potential was huge.
War requires not only soldiers and generals, but also money and food.
Every time you mobilize and consume the enemy, it will be more difficult and slower for the enemy to move out next time.
Tan Tai of Yanzhou had 20,000 troops and wanted to go south through the canal that was completely destroyed by Zhu Yihai. Especially in this freezing winter, it was very difficult and costly.
In the same way, it is even more difficult for Hong Chengchou and Luck Dehun to return to Jiangning from Huguang. The last time they went to reinforce Huguang it was extremely difficult and took more than two months. It will be even harder to come back now because Jiangxi now has the entire province.
Recovery, Anhui erosion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "So I plan to redeploy the troops."
Zhu Yihai pointed at the map. Although Nanjing still had a few thousand soldiers, they were basically controlled by Yan Wogong and there was nothing to fear.
In fact, it is only necessary to leave some soldiers and horses here to watch.
"The navy is responsible for guarding Yangzhou and blocking the Yangtze River."
"The imperial camp, horse and infantry, are divided into two groups. One group is responsible for garrisoning Zhenjiang and entering Suzhou to deal with the troops coming from Susong, Zhejiang and the west. The other group is responsible for garrisoning the Dashengguan area in the west, and part of the navy is responsible for
Cooperate and coordinate to capture Wuhu and Anqing, block the soldiers coming from Huguang, and cooperate with the local soldiers and horses of the provincial camp in Jiangxi and Anhui to carry out a large-scale sweep of Anhui."
"Your Highness, it's winter now. Do the soldiers need to rest?"
"We need to rest and recuperate, and the Tatars also need to rest and recuperate. Now is a rare period of emptiness for the Tatars. We have to sweep through Susong and Anhui again before they come to their senses. We must strive to completely cripple the local green camp.
Capture those cities and transport away all the money, food and resources.
"Don't you keep it?" someone asked.
"If we don't rush, if we destroy both sides of the Yangtze River at this stage, the rear will be better protected, and it will also make it more difficult for the Tatars when they come back next time."
"We are on the offensive side now, and the city is our obstacle. Our purpose is to annihilate the enemy's effective forces, seize as much supplies as possible, and leave the rest alone."
"Your Highness, Jiangning City sent people to discuss peace again, and took the initiative to send one million taels of silver."
"Take the money and blast them away." Zhu Yihai now has the upper hand and has no desire to negotiate peace.
"How about we talk first and delay the time?"
"No, we now need to accurately convey to the world that we have complete advantages and are still determined to restore the Central Plains and drive out the Tartars. Negotiating peace will affect the speed of our efforts, disturb the minds of the soldiers, and shake the people.
Determination and will!”
"The minister suggested that the envoy Chen Hongfan could be beheaded to show his determination." Chen Qianfu suggested.
Zhu Yihai thought for a while and nodded, "Chen Hongfan is a big traitor. This person deserves to be killed. Just kill this traitor and spread the word to the world to show your determination for the Northern Expedition!"
He doesn't care about the fact that the two countries are not at war with each other to do this. Chen Hongfan already knows that the minister is a traitor and has committed a heinous crime. How can he be called the envoy of another country?
He is just a traitor and traitor, and everyone will find him and punish him!