"Huang Qing, Feng Qing, Lu Qing, Shizhongying, are you willing to arrange this?" Zhu Yihai asked the founders.
Huang Zongxi and others are also in their prime of thirties and forties. After experiencing life and death today, they have a clearer understanding of many things. Lu Jianguo's various behaviors far exceeded their expectations.
"I just failed to get elected, and I don't dare to bear the heavy responsibility of this patrol."
Feng Jingdi and several others also thanked him and declined the official appointment, thinking it was too much.
"My lords, you do extraordinary things in emergency times. If it were a peaceful time, you would naturally follow the salary according to your salary. But now in the time of national crisis, there is no need to follow the old system in everything. You have ambitions and are more loyal.
, there is no lack of talent and ability, and these have been witnessed by Lonely."
"Your Highness, I am ashamed that the Shizhong camp was destroyed when it was newly established."
"You are worthy of it. Your performance today makes even Wu Sangui, the dog thief who surrendered, feel ashamed. He led Guan Ning's army and received generous pay from the court. Is there anyone like you who has shown such loyalty and bravery? With such fearlessness.
The spirit of sacrifice?”
"He is far worse than you! You are good, and Shizhong Camp is also good!"
"Originally, Gu wanted you to continue to lead Shizhong Camp, but I felt that this would be a bit of a big deal, so I decided to transfer a sentry from the Guqin Army Flag Bearer Camp to rebuild Shizhong Camp. You will take on more important positions.
Do more for ZTE’s recovery.”
After some persuasion, Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi and others accepted Zhu Yihai's appointment, and Zhang Shixun also took over the banner of Shizhong Camp with a whole group of officers and soldiers from the outpost of Banner Camp.
Zhu Yihai personally wrote the Zhongying Banner to him and presented it to them.
"Your Highness, those two Tatar prisoners, please give up the secrets and surrender to the light, and are willing to join the Shizhong camp."
Zhu Yihai shook his head disdainfully, "I will never believe these people's lies. They are not the Ming army who surrendered due to the situation in the Central Plains, but the slaves who live outside the pass and have joined the Eight Banners of the Han army. These people are invaders."
The vanguard of the Ming Dynasty, they were no softer than the Tatars in fighting before."
"Your Highness, I think we still have to step up our efforts to expand our troops, why not just leave them behind and observe them while using them?" Shen Chenquan suggested.
"Even if we really need to use them, I won't use these people now. Didn't we select more than a thousand men under Chen Wu before? If these people show their strength in this battle, they can be further reused."
Zhu Yihai had no good feelings towards those prisoners, whether they were Jurchens or Han bannermen.
Everyone has blood on their hands.
Like Chen Wu, who plundered the countryside, he chose and kept a small number of the Tatars. He would not easily retain these Tatars.
He has only a few core and reliable soldiers. If he absorbs too many miscellaneous soldiers at once, he will only suffer from indigestion. Even if he will definitely expand his troops in the future, he must do so slowly.
Otherwise, once you suffer from indigestion, poor control, and lose control of the army, everything will be lost.
The Shizhong Camp was almost destroyed, but Zhu Yihai valued the Shizhong Camp's courage to fight today, so he was willing to use a sentry from his Bannerman Camp to rebuild it.
The army needs a sense of honor, and with such a glorious history and such loyal experience, this army is extremely precious and deserves to be vigorously developed.
"Today is a bloody victory. All soldiers will be credited with meritorious deeds and will be rewarded heavily!"
Zhu Yihai still has a lot of money in his hands, including money raised from Linhai, money brought by Pang Tianshou, money borrowed from Haimen, money from local tycoons in Ningbo, and of course, he also made a fortune from Chen Wu.
Soldiers and horses were recruited, rewards and pensions were given, and money was spent like water, but Zhu Yihai was not reluctant to part with it.
There is nothing to be gained by not giving up.
The army is the most expensive thing. If you have money that you don’t need to spend on the army, where can you use it?
In Meishan Village.
After the war, everyone was still busy, cleaning the battlefield and making statistics on the aftermath.
After Zhang Mingzhen simply bandaged up, he asked Zhu Yihai for orders, took the light cavalry who had rested in a hurry, and continued to search for the defeated Tatar army.
In the stockade, after interrogation, the prisoners were not killed for the time being. They were used as livestock, helping to build the stockade, pull the bodies, and dig graves.
Pensions for those killed or disabled in battle were distributed as soon as possible.
Those who are local to Meishan Village are given directly to their wives, sons and daughters, and those who are not married are given to their parents or brothers. Soldiers from other places are first deposited in the account of the camp, and when they return, someone will be sent back to the soldier's home or sent there.
When the ingots of silver were actually given out, the small Meishan Village was still very shaken.
After all, this is the end of the world. How long has it been since those soldiers and guards received proper food and pay? The so-called good care and good care are even out of the question. Even the food and silver rewards are difficult to cash in. Now Lu Jianguo actually directly fights the war.
Just pay the pension.
The first consequence of this was that all the young people in Meishan Village actively signed up to join the army. Even half a day later, people and young people from nearby villages also came to sign up.
Many people came not only for the generous pay, but also with hatred for the Tartars. During this Tartar raid, thousands of people died at the hands of the Tartars in the surrounding villages, and many people formed a bloody feud with them.
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Zhang Shixun quickly recruited a battalion of men, and finally Zhu Yihai's four battalions also added many recruits, and there were still many young people who wanted to sign up to join the army.
Seeing such enthusiasm, Zhu Yihai also planned to recruit more troops.
So we simply expanded the Banner Camp and Shizhong Camp by one battalion, and finally let the Yongwei Second Battalion and Zhenbiao and Shenji each expand by one battalion. Originally there were four battalions, but now they have ten battalions.
It directly expanded to 10,000 troops.
The weapons and equipment carried by the army were insufficient, so the recruits wore civilian clothes and carried sharpened wooden guns and bamboo spears as weapons.
Although weapons are insufficient, morale is extremely high.
On the roadside outside Meishan Village, the heads of hundreds of real and fake Tatars were stuck on sharpened wooden stakes, which was very inspiring.
Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi and other local nobles in Yuyao actively donated their property to help the army. Even the major families in Meishan Village, which had just experienced a military disaster, also generously donated money and food.
Homemade weapons such as matchlocks, spears, bows and arrows, spears, and machetes were also donated to His Highness Lu Jianguo.
The expansion method used by Zhu Yihai to convert four battalions into ten battalions was to directly transform one battalion into two battalions. One battalion was divided into two sentries to build a new battalion, and then two sentries were used as the backbone of each battalion. Then one sentry became two sentries, and the two sentries became
One battalion.
For a time, almost all officers were promoted.
The commander became the team commander, the team commander became the sentry commander, and the sentry commander became the battalion officer.
Even ordinary soldiers were promoted from third-class soldiers to second-class soldiers, and second-class soldiers were promoted to first-class soldiers.
This kind of promotion made the whole camp more excited and excited.
Although the number of combatants dropped sharply in this way, Zhu Yihai felt that this method would ensure that the newly established battalion head could gain combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.
However, the change from one to two is the limit that Zhu Yihai can accept for the time being. The fourth battalion's soldiers were only 3,200, but now they have been expanded again and again, and they have soared to 10,000, which has doubled several times.
Not only are experienced officers scarce, but there is also a serious shortage of veteran backbones, let alone weapons, food and pay.
In today's battle, nearly three hundred captured Tatars were killed, and some horses, armor, and weapons were seized, but it was only a drop in the bucket.
However, these armors and equipment were very sophisticated, especially the equipment of the Tatars, which was very high-quality, so Zhu Yihai directly added it to the first battalion of flag bearers.
The First Flag Bearer Battalion is the personal army that Zhu Yihai wants to focus on building. If they have good equipment, they must be attacked first.
He now has several battalions of men and horses, but what he lacks the most are war horses and cavalry who are good at riding and shooting. The reason why he was not able to completely annihilate the Tatars today was because there was not enough cavalry to pursue them.
Everyone is busy outside.
Zhu Yihai was resting at the home of a wealthy family in the village, and the injured Huang Zongxi and others were also recovering here.
"The interrogation revealed that this group of Tatars came from Haining across the river. Because rebels have appeared in Ningshaotai areas recently, the Tatars in the north of the Yangtze River were confused about the situation here, so they sent a few troops across the river.
Reconnaissance, the one we met came across the sea by boat from Haining."
Zhang Mingyang and Zhu Yihai reported the results of the interrogation, "We received unexpected news that the Haining Guards in the north of Qiantang River had not yet been occupied by the Tatars. The battalion officer guarding Zheng Jiwu, the officer in charge of the Qianhu Zhu Gang, the fellow monk Gu Yinshi and other soldiers refused
Defend, and even killed the invading puppet general Wang Dengxuan not long ago."
"Xuanyang, on the north bank to the west of the Qiantang River, had been captured by the Tatars. The commander of the Tatars sent surrendered general Lang Jindou to lead the troops to guard it. Yu Gongnai sent his deputy Liu Mu to lead his troops to raid at night. The local Yishenxiang responded bravely. Yuhang's old order
Qiu Ruojun, the chief of the Ministry of War's Staff Division, and Yao Zhizhuo, the former deputy general of Pingyao, captured Yuhang Beiling in response."
"Hangzhou was defeated and beheaded one after another in the east and west, which shocked Hangzhou. I heard that Bolo, the commander-in-chief of the army in Hangzhou, was also shocked and angry."
Hearing this news, Zhu Yihai was also very excited. Although he had always believed that Yu Ying's strategy of deploying defenses in the Qiantang River was actually wrong in the long run. After all, fighting a head-on battle with the Qing army was not the same as the Red Army's counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
Is it the same as positional warfare?
On one side is the overwhelming Qing army, which is unstoppable, and on the other side is the Ming army, which has lost two capitals and been defeated again and again. At this time, the two sides are facing each other head-on, with no hope of victory.
Hongguang's plan to use the Jianghuai River as a line of defense failed. How can the Qiantang River be defended?
However, Yu Ying still made great contributions by running on the front line during this period. At least she stabilized her position.
"The Tatars sent several battalions across the Yangtze River to go south. I guess they were caught off guard by the sudden drastic changes in eastern Zhejiang. Now they must come to find out the situation and come up with countermeasures for counterattack and siege."
"It is very possible that the Tatars are preparing a major counterattack."
Zhu Yihai combined his own memories of history to make inferences.
In any case, although the Qing army now holds Hangzhou and does not go south, they have strong troops and horses after all. In fact, it is not difficult to guess why the Qing army does not continue to go south.
First, the Qing army advanced too fast this year. From Beijing to Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Nanzhi, and Zhejiang, it can be said that the two armies swept almost half of China.
Although the situation was overwhelming, there were only tens of thousands of troops after all. Along the way, they recruited surrenders and rebels, and the surrendered troops received were hundreds of thousands of troops, which was more than ten times that of the Qing army going south.
At this time, whether it was Shandong, Huaiyang, Nanzhi, or Jiangxi, Hubei and other places, the rear areas were still unconvinced by the Manchu occupation. Many gentry officers and soldiers, and even the remnants of the Dashun Army, were still fighting against the Qing army.
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The Qing army also had to take care of the rear. It had to be wary of those who surrendered, and it also had to be constantly on guard against the revolting troops in the newly occupied areas in the rear. Their offensive had indeed reached its peak, and they had little energy left to continue fighting.
Combined with the trend of history, the Jiangyin 81st and Jiading Three Massacres will soon occur, and these are also the actions of the Tatars in purging the newly occupied areas.
Jiangyin City held out for eighty-one days.
The main forces of the Qing army that attacked Jiangyin and Jiading were generals who surrendered to the Qingming Dynasty. For example, those who attacked Jiangyin were Liu Liangzuo and Kong Youde. Later, Liu Liangzuo and Kong Youde, two great traitors, could not defeat them, so Boluo, who was stationed in Hangzhou, personally led the Eight Banners.
Go north and mobilize cannons with Nikan to attack the city.
In this brutal city defense battle, the Qing army also lost several teeth. For example, Xu Dingguo, the traitor who killed Gao Jie, one of the four towns of Hongguang, died in the battle against Jiangyin.
The one who attacked Jiading was Gao Jie's former subordinate Li Chengdong. After Gao Jie's death, Li Chengdong came to the Qing Dynasty and caused the Jiading Three Massacres in Jiading.
"Haining can no longer be defended. It is said that the commander-in-chief Bolo not only sent several troops across the Yangtze River south, but also sent two groups of troops to attack Fuyang and Haining to wipe out the two wings of Hangzhou."
When Zhu Yihai heard the news, he pondered for a long time.
"Guxiang led his troops across the sea to rescue Haining and caught the Tatars by surprise. What do you think?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.
