Zhu Yihai was still reviewing the memorial under the lamp.
The long night is long, and I have no intention of sleeping. There are dozens of beauties in the harem, but I have no intention of enjoying it.
It is the twelfth lunar month of winter and the New Year is approaching. This is the first New Year since the emperor returned to Beijing. The whole court has been busy with the Zhengdan Dynasty for a long time. This court meeting is of great significance.
The emperor lowered his head and looked at a memorial in his hand. It was presented by Zhu Pengfei, the admiral of the 15th town stationed in Shaanxi Province. It was a secret document written by his adopted son himself. The writing was very neat, not to mention the level of calligraphy, and the words were simple.
Straightforward.
The content is not just a simple greeting, but the current situation in Shaanxi and Gansu.
Generally speaking, everything is as expected by the emperor, and the situation is still under control, but the situation is not optimistic. It does not mean that it will get out of control, but this time, taking advantage of the Milayin rebellion, the emperor directly wants to open the pustule,
It is still a relatively big step to completely eliminate the hidden dangers in the northwest.
The Shaotian Dynasty did not actually control the Guanlong area before, and its foundation here was still relatively weak. Especially after experiencing the turmoil since Chongzhen, the northwest was also suspicious of Emperor Shaotian and the Ming Dynasty. Now that there is chaos, it is inevitable that some people think that the imperial court
Recklessly.
Not only the Hui native officials and religious leaders resented the emperor, but also the Han gentry and landlords began to complain, believing that the emperor failed to appease the Hui people, which led to the current mass killings, and that everyone's property and life were seriously threatened. This was the result of the emperor's lack of control.
Tao, some even say that the emperor is tyrannical.
This reaction was actually expected by the emperor.
After all, no matter how loudly the slogans are shouted, when their vital interests are really endangered, few people can be truly calm and watch the excitement without taking it too seriously. Once the fire reaches their own house, they will panic and want to immediately
They would pull down the neighbor's house to protect themselves and beggar their neighbors without caring about anything else.
Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui entered Shaanxi according to the order, and then formed a new army in Guanzhong, establishing a vanguard and left and right armies, each with fifteen thousand.
These soldiers are composed of the original Qinglu Camp, the surrendered troops of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, Wu Sangui's subordinates, as well as some outer towns, regiments, and villages. They can be called a mixed bag, but they are also young, strong and brave men, and they are relatively elite. It's just that these new soldiers
Reorganize, set up camps and divide them into troops according to the imperial camp's establishment.
As for the military officers, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong and others were the main ones. They also transferred many capable generals and also arranged some imperial camp generals and civilian officials.
After Hong Chengchou and the others hurriedly reorganized this army in a short time, they took an oath at Tongguan and then marched westward along the Weishui River.
Mila's seal was circulated to the Hui people in various places in Guanlong to raise troops, and for a while there was a war in Guanzhong.
The Fifteenth Town of the Royal Camp stationed in Shaanxi, under the leadership of Zhu Pengfei, quickly wiped out the rebellion near Chang'an Mansion, and then divided its troops to garrison Chang'an City, Tongguan, Wuguan, and Lantian Pass.
The task of encircling and suppressing the rebellion was instead given to the vanguard army of Hong and Wu.
So Hong and Wu divided their forces. Governor Hong Chengchou led Xu Yong, and Zhao Liangdong led the vanguard left army with 15,000 soldiers to go south. He took command of Fengxiang Prefecture and personally led troops to encircle and suppress the rebels in the counties in Fengxiang Prefecture. He sent Xu Yong to Xing'an Prefecture and Zhao Liangdong to Hanzhong Prefecture.
Calm chaos.
Wu Sangui went north and took command of Tongzhou Prefecture. He sent Gao Jinzhong to Suide Yulin in Yan'an and Zhang Guozhu to Pizhou and Yanzhou.
When Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui left the capital, they knew that their mission was to kill people, so when they divided their forces, they directly issued a killing order.
The armed rebels of the Hui people were killed directly.
They even openly allowed the vanguard army to free their hands and feet to quell the chaos. The so-called "free hand" naturally meant that the soldiers were allowed to loot while quelling the chaos, but they were not allowed to rob Han civilians.
After Mirayin occupied Lanzhou, he also divided his forces with Ding Guodong to attack Ningxia and Hehuang.
A chaotic fight began between the two sides.
Hong Wu's left and right vanguard armies were not imperial camps with strict military discipline. They were composed of various old armies, rebels, and even bandits and bandits. The strict military discipline did not change after the reorganization. In other words, Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui could have
The two soldiers should be restrained, but they didn't.
Because the emperor just asked them to open roads and kill people, and the emperor did not even give them military pay, food and grass, everything had to be supplied locally.
And if they want to command this newly formed mixed army, they must mobilize their morale. The best way is to allow them to plunder, and even deliberately bring out the beheading theory technique that is almost no longer used in the imperial camp.
The first-level reward for beheading is two silver coins, which is not much.
Compared with the previous imperial camp's beheading merit reward, the decapitation merit of the Ming Dynasty frontier army was far more than this. The first-level beheading skills of the northern captives were fifty liang, the eastern barbarians were thirty liang, the western bandits were twenty liang, and the bandits were beheaded.
There are also twelve liang.
Each person can be promoted to a level by beheading one head, and the beheader will be given a reward of silver. The head skills exceeding the number of upgrades will also be converted into a reward of silver. Captured and beheaded young men and women will also be given official positions, and the reward will be 40% off.
Now give the vanguard a head and two taels, and if they are women and children, only eight coins.
However, if the prisoner is a living prisoner, three pieces of silver will be given to a young and strong man, two pieces of silver to a young and strong woman, one and a half pieces of silver to a young man, and one piece to an old and young man.
Captured prisoners alive gave more than beheaded.
As for the three-thirds of the captured loot, the person who captured it kept one and paid the other two, of which one was returned to the camp for military use, and the other was turned over to the provincial government for the purpose of rectifying the aftermath and bringing peace to the people.
As for whether it is captured on the battlefield or looted, it depends on the general. Now Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and the others have made it clear to their generals directly that as long as the rebels return to the village or the scripture hall, they will be wiped out. These rebels will
Property can naturally be seized.
Many people can calculate such a simple account, and if they don't understand it, someone will tell them.
Therefore, the 30,000 vanguard troops used the standard battalion as a unit to carry out encirclement and suppression in separate routes. They were quite fierce and brave, and their morale was extremely high. Although they were newly reorganized, they were all young men in their twenties and thirties, and they were still soldiers with several years of experience.
Although the equipment of veterans with five years of experience is not as good as that of the imperial camp, they still have swords, guns, arrows and muskets. Compared with those who rush to pick up flails, hoes, iron forks, spears, and hunting bows, they are still better.
More than just a little bit.
What's more, this is a professional army fighting against farmers.
Wherever it goes, it is basically unstoppable.
Regardless of whether thousands or tens of thousands of people gathered from various places, they were often overwhelmed by a battalion or a target of several hundred or two thousand people.
After they were defeated, all that was left was to capture the prisoners.
Kill the leaders, then divide and surround them and make a forced landing. Those who dare to resist will be killed directly. The rest who can't run will naturally have to surrender.
And when the vanguard really only led the leaders and those who resisted, and refused to kill those who surrendered, more and more chose to surrender.
They were brave when they fought in the New and Old Religions, and when they fought in the Hui Han Dynasty, but they were just small-scale armed fights. They were too far apart from a real war. If given a certain amount of time, they could adapt to and improve their organization, maybe they would be better.
Able to fight.
But now, it's just a rush.
The vanguard army was not willing to kill too many. Killing one would cost at least 30%. Capturing prisoners alive could exchange for more silver rewards.
Because of the reward for the silver, they not only surrounded and captured the Huihui who gathered for rebellion, but also wiped out all the Huihui villages in their path. When they encountered some Zhuangzi who resisted fiercely and stubbornly resisted, they even directly deployed artillery bombardments, which they could not capture for a while.
Direct artillery fire attack, attack in, and directly slaughter such stubborn resisters.
They're very good at this kind of thing.
For example, Wu Sangui massacred many cities before. He massacred Pucheng and several other cities in Shaanxi. Needless to say, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Gao Jinzhong, Zhang Guozhu, etc., these people were military leaders in troubled times. For example, Gao Jinzhong was a refugee from Liaodong before, and later in Huaibei
He organized many refugees and went to Chongming Island to engage in smuggling and other businesses. Later, he surrendered to King Yiyang and gained the rank of general. He then fought with other generals and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Guozhu was originally a general of the Ming Dynasty. Later, he went to Chongming to support King Yiyang, and then went to eastern Zhejiang to seize territory. He was beaten and lost his helmet and armor and fled to the sea. He then relied on looting everywhere to recruit young men and another army.
I ran to settle down.
Killing good people for deeds, plundering troops, and plundering supplies on the spot, these are all things that he is damn proficient at.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the official army or the rebel army, or even local regiments and local villages, none of them were like this, otherwise they would not be able to survive at all.
Zhu Pengfei and his fifteen towns did not participate in this. After he annihilated a few rebel groups near Chang'an at the beginning, he divided his troops to guard the important strongholds of Chang'an City, Tongguan, Wuguan, and Lantian Pass, and then left Wu Sangui alone.
They raided everywhere.
Zhu Pengfei sent some soldiers to follow the vanguard at night, keeping an eye on the vanguard, and continuously summarized the information to him, and Zhu Pengfei reported it to the emperor.
Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and others are indeed very good, Xu Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Gao Jinzhong, Zhang Guozhu and others are also very good at fighting, and the 30,000 vanguard troops are also very fierce.
The more they fought, the more courage they gained, and the more they suppressed their morale. In just two months, they had almost wiped out the rebellion in various prefectures in Shaanxi. Tens of thousands of people were beheaded and hundreds of thousands of prisoners were reported.
There were prisoner camps everywhere, which made officials all over Shaanxi a little overwhelmed.
Zhu Pengfei's latest secret report reported to the emperor that Hong and Wu had basically wiped out the rebellion in Shaanxi and uprooted the Islamic villages in various places. Now Hong Chengchou gathered the left army and crossed Longyou to attack Longshang.
Qinzhou Tianshui City in Xiaojiangnan.
Wu Sangui left Pizhou and went north along the Jinghe River Valley to attack the gateway to Jingzhou.
Although it is snowing heavily in the northwest and it is freezing cold.
However, the morale of the vanguard troops was still high, and they were howling as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Each one of them was still shouting to go to Lanzhou City to make dumplings for the New Year.
During the two months when Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui were in Shaanxi, Milayin and Ding Guodong did not send troops into Shaanxi, but several troops came and were defeated.
He Hongqi, who was originally flirting with Mila Yin in Longnan, saw that the situation was not good, so he also crossed the Xiqing Mountain and marched from Minzhou in Jiezhou along the Tao River to Lanzhou. The two sides fought in the Weiyuan area, and the fight was fierce.
But what made Zhu Yihai most uncomfortable was that because of the initial vacillation and even ambiguity of He Hongqi and others, Milayin and others were able to quickly gain control of Hexi, and even quickly seized control of Hehuang and sent troops towards Ningxia.
Milayin and others also spread rumors about killing people everywhere, and the chaos that broke out among the Hui-Han people in Gansu became even more severe. In just a few months, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives.
After Zhu Yuanzhang regained Gansu, he immigrated 500,000 people to Gansu, established guard posts and forts there, and restored control of the Hexi Corridor.
Gansu now has a population of millions, and has lost at least 10% of its population in a short period of time.
Zhu Yihai picked up the pen, hesitated for a moment, and then put it down.
"The message was sent to Zhu Goutang, the admiral of the 14th town reorganized in Ningxia, to immediately assemble the army and march westward along the Yellow River."
"A decree was sent to Longnan to congratulate Hongqi, ordering him to lead his troops directly to Lanzhou and atone for his sins!"
"Order Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui to capture Lanzhou before the New Year, otherwise they will be punished as delaying military flights!"
