Nanzhao, Yexian, Yuzhou, and the three northern cities of Nanyang, plus the three eastern cities of Biyang, Tongbai, and Wuyang, were all quickly occupied as the Ming army advanced from the north and east.
The Tatars left without fighting, abandoned the city after hearing the news from afar, and fled to the forts and villages in various places. They were also supported one after another, and with an imperial edict, they all dispersed and returned to farming.
The Ming army only sent the first corps from the first town out to the north, and only sent one corps from the 18th town to the east to advance, and they captured six cities.
Quickly dispatch officials to select officials on both sides, organize and train Baojia, clear fields, register households, provide relief to victims, and resume production.
It's hot.
The Li Baoquan post stationed in Cuizhuang Township in Nanzhao also caused a sensation in the entire army because all the unmarried war auxiliary soldiers in the post were married there. The emperor's handling of this matter also caused various towns to pay tribute to their brothers in the army.
The wave of wives.
While everyone was suppressing the bandits and recruiting peace, they were busy with the military-civilian marriage, which was very lively.
The imperial camp only sent two associates to enter the outskirts of Nanyang and capture six cities, but this put great pressure on Nanyang Basiha and Wuguan Nikan. They could only continue to urge the Hubei Eight Banners to speed up their retreat northward.
The suicide of King Guangen of Yunyang and the surrender of Xu Qiyuan and others further intensified the panic of the Tatars.
Xu Qiyuan and others were killed after surrendering, which was unexpected but seemed reasonable.
End of July.
The two sworn brothers Zhu Pengfei and Zhu Dingguo stopped in the Gucheng area and began to turn around to reorganize their troops, eliminate bandits, recruit fortresses, etc. They were also very busy.
Zhu Shengli from Hunan and Li Chixin from Yiling had already gone down the river and entered Jingzhou, which had been evacuated.
This important town in Jingjiang changed hands again.
A few years ago, Li Chixin and others failed in their first attack and retreated. Later, after joining the Shaotian Dynasty, they succeeded in attacking again, but quickly evacuated on their own initiative, and now they finally came back again.
The sun and moon flags were placed on the top of Jingzhou City and fluttered in the wind. This empty city also seemed energetic.
A few days later, the armies of Zhu Shengli and Li Chixin and the Shunjun army captured Gong'an, Shishou, Jianli, Mianyang, Qianjiang, Tianmen, Hanjiang and other cities, and finally arrived all the way to Hanyang and Wuchang.
At this time, the Qing troops in the three towns of Wuhan, Hanyang, Hankou, and Jiangxia had all evacuated. The Ming troops from Jiangbei, Jiangxi, also went up the Shuo River and recovered the empty cities of Huanggang City and Wuchang City in Huangzhou Prefecture.
On the first day of August, the two armies successfully met at the mouth of the Han River.
Mid-Autumn Festival.
During this festival, Zhu Yihai rode into Nanyang City, Zhu Pengfei, Zhu Dingguo and Gao Bizheng's regiment from the Yunxiang camp in the upper reaches of the Han River, the Emperor's Royal Camp Zhongjun Group from the Shaanluo camp, Zheng Zunqian, Zhu Zhongyi, Liu Mu's regiment, and Jingjiang camp from the east of Henan.
Zhu Shengli, Li Chixin, Yuan Zong's regiment, and Zhang Mingyang, Jin Shenghuan, Zhang An, and Wang Deren's regiment from the Jiangnan camp also rushed to Nanyang to join forces.
The entire Hubei and Henan provinces declared liberation.
This time, almost no troops were wasted. The imperial court chased the Tatars from behind. The Tatars evacuated one city, and the Ming army recovered another city.
Regarding the emperor's deployment, many generals believed that they had missed an excellent opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Qing army. However, the emperor insisted that no general be allowed to send troops to intercept and surround the Qing army in violation of the order.
Just like herding sheep, they were all driven from Huguang to Xiangyang, to Nanyang, and finally to Wuguan and Shangluo.
Huguang and Henan were conquered without a fight.
Soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered in Nanyang.
However, the emperor had no intention of rushing into Guanzhong, and did not propose a plan to attack Wuguan.
Instead, a decree was issued again on the reorganization of troops and horses, and the reorganization of various towns was to be accelerated.
The first town of Jin Gongyu was located in Shandong, and the second town of Zhang Quan was located in Hebei.
Zheng Zunqian's seventh town was stationed in Jiangbei, Liu Mu's eighth town was stationed in Jiangxi, Zhu Shengli's ninth town was stationed in Hunan, and Zhang Shipeng's tenth town was stationed in Sichuan.
Yuan Zong's eleventh town was stationed in Guizhou.
Zhu Zhongyi's 18th Town is stationed in Henan, Zhu Pengfei's 19th Town is stationed in Shaanxi, and Zhu Dingguo's 20th Town is stationed in Hubei.
Meng Xian led the third town in Zhejiang, Zhang Pengyi led the fourth town in Jiangdong, Lu Xiangguan led the fifth town in Fujian, and Zhang Mingyang led the sixth town in Guangdong.
Yang Boxing led the 12th town in Guangxi, and Liu Shixun led the 13th town in Yunnan.
Zheng Jiwu led the 14th town in Gansu, and Li Chixin led the 15th town in Liaodong.
Zhang Mingbin's 16th Town and Qin Yiming's 17th Town guarded the capital and accompanied him.
The three towns of Jingying are the 21st to 23rd towns, which are respectively stationed at Yingtianfu in Nanjing, Fengtianfu in Tokyo and Shaotianfu in Xingjing.
The four naval towns are towns 24 to 27, which are located in Lushun, Liaodong, Qingdao, Shandong, Zhenjiang, Jiangdong, and Guangzhou, Lingnan.
Seeing that the Qing army in Huguang retreated into Wuguan, Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to send troops to attack.
But an unexpected order was given.
Except for the 16th Town, the 17th Town Royal Camp, and the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Towns of the Jingying Town, the other towns returned to their respective defense area garrison after celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanyang to complete the
Reorganization with local troops.
In the eleven provinces of Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Liaodong, in addition to the 15,000 soldiers stationed in each new imperial camp town, there is also a garrison town with 15,000 soldiers.
Settling in remote mountainous areas, plowing and guarding.
There will no longer be any villages or towns in other provinces.
Each province has one or two regiment training towns, which are used for farming in peacetime, training in winter and spring, and assisting defense in wartime. Generally speaking, there is one town in one province, one association in each province, one standard in each prefecture, and one battalion in each county. In peacetime, they are only stationed in the local area.
We conduct training in the area to assist in defense, and do not leave the defense area unless there is an important battle.
It turned out that all the foreign towns were integrated and jointly operated with the imperial camps.
Those who were cut off from Yuyingwai Town were given priority to enter Tun Town. Those who were cut off from Tun Town were given priority to join the regiment training. Those who were cut off from the regiment training could be given priority to be post soldiers and local government officials.
"Now that the army has gathered, why doesn't Your Majesty attack Guanzhong in one fell swoop, wipe out Nikan and Wu Sangui together, and then march straight to Beijing?"
"The Tatars have moved their capital to Yanbei," Zhu Yihai said calmly while eating a piece of osmanthus mooncake to the generals and ministers who arrived in Nanyang. "Now the army is gathering in Nanyang, but Nanyang cannot supply such a large army.
Food, grass and equipment, the more soldiers there are, the heavier the burden will be.
And Nikan now has a large number of troops gathered at Wuguan. If we attack by force, he will definitely resist."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhu Yihai is unwilling to attack Wuguan. Wuguan is more dangerous and the casualties will be high in an attack. Moreover, Wu Sangui will definitely sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. It is better to withdraw all the troops and return to the plan.
Settled in the area, let them reorganize with the local troops, merge with local armed forces such as outer towns and villages, and further recruit and surrender fortresses, exterminate bandits, etc. This can not only solve the problem of food and grass supply, but also stabilize the local area, especially in Xinjiang.
The recovered provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Hubei, as well as Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Bashu and other places in the southwest where there were many chieftains and were not very stable.
Nowadays, Henan, Hubei and other places need a lot of food and grass to relieve the people and cannot supply too many troops gathered here.
Moreover, the imperial court is pressing hard, and Nikan is very likely to join forces with Wu Sangui. It would be better to just leave a few people here to block the situation, because Nikan will not be able to afford it.
He could either leave the Pass and fight the Ming army, or he would have to continue to Guanzhong to borrow a way from Wu Sangui.
He even went so far as to kill the rebel Wu Sangui and seize Guanzhong.
The less pressure on Zhu Yihai, the more likely Nikan and Wu Sangui will get into trouble.
For Zhu Yihai, he was very satisfied that he was able to successfully regain the three provinces of Shandong, Henan, and Hubei this time, and he won them without any blood.
Next, instead of rushing to fight Nikan and Wu Sangui to fight for Guanzhong, it is better to take a step back, wait, and stabilize the few lands in hand first.
In particular, Jin Shenghuan, Li Chixin, etc., who have been left undisposed of, should be reorganized in outer towns and villages.
With the lessons learned from Wang Guangen and others, Zhu Yihai would never really trust a military leader like Jin Shenghuan. In the past, he had to consider the overall situation, so he could only tolerate him first, appease them, and let them become warlords of a separatist side, which would have no influence on their local power.
You can only tolerate misbehavior.
But now that we have this condition, we must first regain military power.
Only by taking away the military power of these military leaders and reorganizing these local armed forces can we talk about local governance and local financial rights and stabilize the rear.
Zhu Yihai is pretty good to Jin Shenghuan and others.
After all, when they chose to surrender, they also contributed to his resurgence, so as long as they are willing to hand over military power now, he will not do the same thing as crossing the river and destroying the bridge.
"Shen Qing!"
Zhu Yihai handed over an imperial edict he had prepared earlier to Shen Wenzhong, the general envoy.
Shen Wenzhong read out the edict.
"Jin Shenghuan listens to the order!"
Jin Shenghuan was granted the title of Duke of Chang State, hereditary, with the rank of General of the Hussars of the Jin Dynasty. He was granted the title of 1,600 households. He was also granted the title of Crown Prince Taibao. He was also appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army and the Right Commander of the Fifth Army of the Jin Dynasty. He was awarded the first armored seat in Tokyo and rewarded 100 servants.
Granted 1,600 acres of Yongye land and 3,000 acres of land in Taiwan.
The three generations of ancestors were posthumously given the title of Duke of the country, and the mother and wife were given the title of imperial edict.
One of Yin's sons was appointed to the Imperial Guard, one to the Imperial Academy, and the other to the Martial Arts Hall.
He was given a python robe, a jade belt, a silver seal and a gold seal.
Reward 10,000 silver dollars!"
Jin Shenghuan has been feeling restless since he entered this hall today.
The emperor issued an order to garrison the imperial camps in various provinces. After Liu Mu's eighth town was stationed in Jiangxi, he became very uneasy. Liu Mu's eighth town was originally the merger of the two towns' imperial camps, and the troops and horses were basically full. After the war in Yingzhou,
Not much was lost.
Now they have to be stationed in Jiangxi, and they have to merge with his outer town in Jiangxi and Zhang An, Wang Deren and other troops, so there is no place for them.
Sure enough, now the emperor directly wants to transfer him to the court.
The official title given was quite high.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, the Governor-General of the Left Army, and the Governor-General of the Right, according to the current new military system, the Imperial Government’s Governor-General of the Five Armies has generally resumed some of the responsibilities of the Governor-General of the Fifth Army in the early Ming Dynasty. The Governor-General of the Five Armies is now assigned the power to command troops.
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The Ministry of War is responsible for the deployment of troops.
The military command power under the jurisdiction of the Dudu's Mansion was also divided into five, and each of them was under the jurisdiction of the five Dudu's Mansion.
Both the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are directly responsible to the emperor, and the Ministry of War is also under the leadership of the cabinet. However, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is not under the leadership of the cabinet and only listens to the emperor's dispatch.
The Ministry of War is responsible for formulating strategic decisions, handling national defense affairs, recruiting, reviewing, and deploying troops.
The Fifth Army Governor's Office is the highest command authority of the national army, responsible for the command and training of the Ming Dynasty's army, the garrison of the army, and the rewards and punishments of the Ming Dynasty.
The five military governors' offices are not subordinate to each other, but are directly subordinate to the emperor.
Moreover, when going on an expedition, the emperor selected generals and formed separate marching camps.
In this way, the power of dispatching troops, the power of commanding troops, and the power of holding troops are divided into three parts. The Ministry of War has the power to send troops, but it has no power to command troops. The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has the power to command troops, but has no power to send troops. The two restrain each other.
After the mid-late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's Five Military Governor's Office actually abolished its responsibilities and returned them all to the Ministry of War.
Now the emperor has restored the Five Armed Forces Governor's Office step by step. In fact, it has restored the emperor's military power. Especially now that the Five Armed Forces Commander's Office is not under the cabinet and is directly responsible to the emperor, it not only reduces the power of the Ministry of War, but also reduces the power of the cabinet.
, to strengthen the emperor’s control of military power.
Each of the five military governors controlled several provincial armies, but they did not divide the country into five major war zones. Instead, they were under cross command just like the twelve guards in the Sui Dynasty who controlled the army.
For example, Jiangdong Province is under the former Military Governor's Palace, while the adjacent Jiangxi Province is under the Right Army Governor's Palace, Zhejiang Province is under the Left Army Military Governor's Palace, Fujian Province is under the Central Military Governor's Palace, and Guangdong Province is under the Hou Army Military Governor's Palace.
Guangxi was under the jurisdiction of the former military governor's office.
Through such cross-commandation, we try to weaken the military commanding power of the Five Army Governor's Office and avoid threats. Instead of putting the southwestern provinces of Lingnan into the Rear Army Governor's Office and Jiangnan and Fujian into the Right Army Governor's Office.
Each of the five military governor's offices does not have a chief governor, but only the left and right governors, and the left and right governors share the same magistrate, etc.
The left and right governors were of very high rank. After all, they nominally commanded one-fifth of the country's military, but they only had the power to command troops but not to deploy them. The real military power was in the hands of the emperor. The Prime Minister's Office assisted in handling military affairs, and the cabinet had no real military power.
The left and right governors are all officials stationed in Beijing. In fact, they are not as good as the commanders of the towns and generals of the various associations. After all, they cannot directly command the army.
This is a typical rise and fall.
In particular, the power to command the military was completely deprived of him. The people he had worked hard to recruit and train in Nanchang for several years now had no military power at all.
But in this situation, he no longer has the power or strength to refuse.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He understands that no matter whether he agrees or not, he will not be able to go back to Nanchang. Even the Jiangxi soldiers and horses he brought with Nanyang will soon follow him.
The towns were reorganized.
In the past few years, the emperor has come step by step to where he is now. He had expected this day, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Now that we have finally reached this point, there is absolutely no room left.
"Mr. Chang Guo, are you dissatisfied with the reward?"
After Shen Wenzhong finished reading the edict, he saw that Jin Shenghuan did not come forward to thank him and accept the edict, so he reminded him directly.
"I don't dare. I was just too happy for a moment and got carried away. I'm being rude!"
Jin Shenghuan trembled. He thought of Wang Guangen, Liu Chengyin, Huang Chaoxuan, Zhang Xianbi and other generals who rebelled against Emperor Shao Tian and were eventually killed.
"I, Jin Shenghuan, would like to express my gratitude to Your Majesty for your great kindness. Long live, long live, long live!"
Knowing that he had no room for resistance at all, Jin Shenghuan was filled with frustration. He remembered that when he was under Zuo Liangyu, he was used to the domineering generals. As long as he had soldiers in his hands, the emperor could do nothing.
So he followed Zuo Liangyu south to the side of the Qing Dynasty, and later followed Zuo Menggeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and then raised troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty. Everything he did was just for the power in his hands. As long as he had troops and territory, it didn't matter who he was loyal to.
But now, the emperor's authority is as powerful as the sky, which makes him unable to resist at all.
Although he has been occupying northern Gansu in the past few years, the imperial court has also distributed his power bit by bit through Zhang An, Wang Deren and other generals, and gradually taken away local administrative, financial and taxation powers.
, has long been facing the imperial court, and even his soldiers are paid by the imperial court. If he really wants to rebel, few people will probably follow him.
Now this ending doesn't seem too bad.
After all, there is still a hereditary prince. Even if he is reduced to a lower rank, he can still be passed down for seven or eight generations.
Wang Deren was granted the title of Duke of Yuzhang County, with a real title of 1,000 households, a prince Shaobao, a reward of 5,000 pieces of silver, and the governor of the Jin Youjun Dudu Mansion.
Zhang An was granted the title of Duke of Changjun, with the title of a thousand households, a prince Shaobao, a reward of 5,000 pieces of silver, and the governor of the military governor's office after the Jin Dynasty.
Other leaders of various regiments in Jiangxi, such as Mr. Yan Luo, Jie Chongxi, Cao Dahao, Zhang Zisheng, Hong Guoyu, Wang Laiba, Fu Dingquan, Yang Qilong, Wei Ruqing, Wang Sanyan, Ning Wenlong, Chen Derong, Luo Yafu and other former rebel generals are all recruiters.
Ma rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and was later reorganized into Tuanlian.
This time, they were all promoted to nobility by Zhu Yihai. Each of them was given the title of Baron Hou Bozi based on their level of merit and merit, and was promoted to a higher position.
Some were transferred to the imperial camp, some to the central government, and some to other provinces, in exchange for further comprehensive reorganization of local regiment training and control.
Faced with the emperor's decree, Jiangxi generals all stepped forward to thank him and accept the decree.
Zhang An is from the barbarian tribe. He led the barbarian army known as the Longwu New Army. He once reported 50,000 troops. Later, he was inspected, reorganized, and retained 5,000 to be stationed in northern Jiangxi. This time, he was also among the disbanded and reorganized troops, and they were to be stationed in the mountainous areas of southern Jiangxi.
A garrison town was established, but Zhang An was not appointed as the commander-in-chief of the regiment town, but he was also transferred to the court.
He was very dissatisfied and protested in court, but the emperor comforted him by saying that he would be promoted to a more important position in the court, and the officers of his Longwu Army also received more rewards and important positions.
The elite Dongmen of the Longwu Army will also be promoted to the imperial camps of each town for re-use. The remaining ones will also be the main force of the towns in southern Ganxi. The court will allocate fields to them and grant them land, and even if they are eliminated, they will be given priority to purchase land.
Qualifications for selling official land at a different price.
No matter how much he objected, Zhu Yihai comforted him with a smile on his face, but did not compromise at all.
In the end, he could only accept the order and retreat with resentment.
Everyone looked at this barbarian and felt very worried for him. If the Emperor Shengming hadn't acted like this and defied the Emperor in such a disobedient way, his head would have almost fallen off.
But even if he is not beheaded now, after entering the court, he will probably have to sit on the bench for the rest of his life until he dies. He is really a mountain barbarian. Doesn't he have a weak head?
These military leaders in Jiangxi and northern Jiangxi were eliminated at once.
The military leaders in Hubei, Hunan, Hanzhong, Guizhou and other places were actually easier to deal with. These places had been reorganized several times before. This time the emperor also transferred some military leaders to the central government for promotion, and some were transferred to other provinces for appointment.
Some foreign towns, tun towns and original provincial camp troops were also transferred from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hu, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and went south to Yunnan, Guangxi nobles and Hainan to garrison to form new tun towns.
Many of the outer towns and villages that were eliminated during this reorganization were also transferred to train as post soldiers, and the post roads leading to Sichuan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan, Hunan and Guizhou were restored, and posts were established in various places.
There are also many officers from other towns and villages, such as regiment training, who have been converted to civilian positions this time.
The emperor's intention is very obvious. He only trusts the imperial camp and the Beijing camp, and is replacing the provincial camp and outer towns with the imperial camp. Although everyone feels a little unfair and disappointed about this, they take it for granted. It would be the same with anyone else.
The emperor's current disposition can be regarded as taking care of everyone.
"Give everyone one year to complete the reorganization. In one year, you have to clear out the bandits and bandits in your respective defense areas, reorganize, train, suppress bandits, and calm the people. This is your main task in the next year. Food,
The imperial court will fully provide you with wages and armaments, but you must also show results.
Another point is that the food and salary I have given is generous enough. If anyone dares to deduct the soldiers' pay or even empty their pay, the consequences will be very serious. My eyes and ears are in every corner of the army.