Chapter 242 240 [Sending Troops Across Provinces] (Added Update for Silver Alliance "Nuan Yang 1314")
Last year, Jiangxi suffered from floods and droughts. If we were exploited by the government and gentry again, the word "hungry" would be left in the history books.
Especially in the second year, the "hungry" may be more severe than in the disaster year.
But under the rule of Zhao Han, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Jiangxi, except for a few areas in the north, had a great summer grain harvest!
All the people are jubilant and beaming with joy.
When mobilizing troops and food and wages, Zhao Han threw a piece of information to Zhang Bingwen: "The king's brother-in-law (brother-in-law) has become the governor of Huguang."
Zhang Bingwen finished reading and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, he doesn't care about southern Hunan."
Today there are three governors in Huguang. The governor of Huguang, Fang Kongzhen, is Zhang Bingwen’s brother-in-law. Dai Dongmin, the governor of Yunyang, was dedicated to conquering the rogue bandits; Wang Zhiliang, the governor of southern Hunan, was dedicated to dealing with Zhao Han.
Fang Kongzheng had just taken office. The former governor was Yu Yinggui, who was now in prison in Beijing.
Yu Yinggui was from Jiangxi, and his relatives had joined Zhao Han. However, he was accused by the court not of being a thief but of sabotaging Xiong Wencan's "recruitment plan". He was impeached by Yang Sichang and was thrown into jail.
These frontline governors all think Xiong Wencan is a fool!
For example, Dai Dongmin, the governor of Yunyang, resolutely resisted the policy of appeasement. He believed that small groups of bandits could be recruited, but large groups of bandits must be suppressed by force, unless they were willing to disband the troops after being recruited. Dai Dongmin commanded dozens of battles, and Zhang Xianzhong was beaten until he was forced to recruit troops.
"Who is this Wang Zhiliang?" Zhao Han asked.
Wang Zhiliang, the governor of southern Hunan, was Zhao Han's main enemy.
Li Banghua thought about it carefully, and suddenly had an impression: "When I was the Minister of the Ministry of War, this man was working as a secretary in the cabinet. The emperor was discussing affairs in the Wenhua Hall, and I met Wang Zhiliang several times. I heard that he was an excellent poet. I don’t know if we can fight.”
"Shaanxi people know a lot about military matters." Zhang Bingwen added.
Wang Zhiliang is not well-known in history, but his son Wang Hongzhuan is famous and is proficient in Neo-Confucianism, history, Yi studies, poetry, epigraphy, painting, and calligraphy. Wang Hongzhuan refused to be summoned by Kangxi and hid in Huashan Mountain to live in seclusion. He was called "the leader of Guanzhong's voice" by Gu Yanwu.
After researching and researching, there is no more information about this person, so just start fighting!
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In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, early June.
The Datong army set out in four groups.
North Road:
Gu Jianshan, the chief general, led the navy to cruise the Yangtze River. Li Hui was the deputy general and led the navy to cruise on the Xinjiang River. The main purpose is to guard against the invasion of officers and soldiers from Zhili and Zhejiang in the south.
West Road (upper):
Huang Yao, the leader, attacked Liling from Pingxiang. Li Zheng was the deputy general and attacked Liuyang from Wanzai.
West Road (bottom):
Zhang Tieniu, the main general, led two thousand vine-armored soldiers and crossed the mountains and ridges directly to Lingxian County. Liu Zhu was the deputy general and attacked Chaling from Yongxin.
South Road:
With Fei Ruhe as the main general, he attacked Longchuan from Changning. Jiang Dashan was the deputy general and attacked Heping from Dingnan.
In fact, to attack Guangdong from Jiangxi, it is best to go south along the Meiling Ancient Road. However, Shen Youlong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, had already put down the civil unrest in Guangxi and stationed troops in Nanxiong for defense, making it almost impossible to conquer by force.
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Since Zhang Tieniu had no baggage or auxiliary troops, although Zhang Tieniu's marching route was the most difficult, he set off early and arrived at the battlefield first.
There were endless wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army killed nearly 100,000 people in Lingxian County, and only about 5,000 people remained. Therefore, many Hakkas moved in during the Kangxi and Yongzheng years.
Although Lingxian County at this time belonged to Huguang, the majority of people were from Jiangxi, and the local language was Jiangxi dialect.
When Zhang Tieniu traveled day and night and rushed to Xiayang Town outside the county, two thousand Tengjia soldiers had been hungry all day. Unfortunately, the sneak attack on the county town failed. The thieves in the city saw the Tengjia soldiers from a distance and were so frightened that they quickly closed the city gate.
They could only return to Xiayang Town. Instead of grabbing food, they divided their forces to guard the beginning and end of the town, holding weapons to observe the surrounding situation.
More than a dozen military missionary officers also wore rattan armor.
Seeing that the whole town was in ruins and every house closed its doors, the missionary officer rang the gong and shouted along the street: "Old cousins of Lingxian County, we are soldiers of King Zhao Tian, and we are here to kill the bandits of Lingxian County. Don't be afraid, if we rob , it’s useless for you to close the door. I don’t want your food, I don’t want your money, and anyone who has a ladder can borrow it. Please come out with the carpenters in the town, and we will pay to hire carpenters to make siege ladders!”
After shouting like this for a quarter of an hour, the town residents finally believed it.
Because when other thieves came to Xiayang Town, they violently broke in and stole food, money, and even beautiful women. But these vine-armored soldiers in front of them are very orderly, and they look different from thieves at first glance.
A shopkeeper opened the door and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, generals!"
The missionary officer bowed his hands and returned the greeting: "May I ask my cousin your name?"
"My surname is Liu and my given name is Ansheng," the shopkeeper asked, "Do you want to attack the county?"
"It turns out to be Shopkeeper Liu," the missionary said, "Yes, we are here to borrow ladders, twenty pairs are enough. We are all soldiers of King Zhao Tian. We do not rob the people, but only fight bandits."
Shopkeeper Liu immediately shouted: "Come out, everyone, these are King Zhao's good soldiers!"
The residents of the town opened the doors one after another, then knelt on the ground around the missionary officer, crying hoarsely: "General, help me, those bandits are not human beings, they only come here to rob me once every ten and a half months, I can't survive this life!"
"My daughter was also snatched away, and I don't know whether she is dead or alive!"
"The food at home is gone, and the money is gone. If this continues, we will starve to death!"
"..."
The missionary officer shouted: "Folks, don't panic. Borrow all the ladders at home. If the ladders are not enough, we will tear down the door panels and make them. As long as we have ladders, we will immediately go to the city to kill the thieves!"
The residents of the town immediately took action and moved in wooden ladders.
The county seat of Lingxian is not very tall, only more than four meters tall. Two civilian wooden ladders can be tied together to attack the city. But it was still not enough, so I had to remove the door panels and use nails and rope to make a simple wooden ladder.
That afternoon, two thousand rattan soldiers, carrying more than twenty wooden ladders, all rushed to the county seat hungry.
The bandits here are from Yongning County.
The little overlord, the leader of the thieves, has captured Yongxing County and is enjoying happiness in the more prosperous Yongxing. Those who stayed in Lingxian County were all weaklings, with only more than 1,800 people. The leader of the thieves was called Tianquan Monkey.
When the monkey heard that King Zhao sent troops, he was so frightened that he ran away immediately. But he was reluctant to part with his wealth and beautiful women, so he simply stayed in the city and sent his confidants to Chaling to ask for reinforcements.
This guy was sitting on the tower when suddenly the vine-armored soldiers came up the stairs and shouted quickly: "Over there, move the rolling wood and oil over there!"
Because there was no time to prepare in advance, the bandits in the city had very few defensive materials, which were not enough to defend various sections of the city wall.
Only two thousand vine-armored soldiers were seen, carrying more than twenty siege ladders, and they all jumped into the moat.
Both the rattan armor and the ladder were buoyant, and they quickly crossed the river and landed ashore easily, setting up the siege ladders on multiple city walls.
"It's the Vine Armor Soldier!"
"King Zhao Tian used this method to recruit vine armor soldiers!"
The thieves and bandits who had listened to "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" shouted in horror, and many simply turned around and ran away.
"ah!"
Suddenly there was a scream, but it was the thieves carrying the boiling oil. They fell down because they were too panicked, and several thieves' feet were burned by the hot oil. They no longer cared about defending the city, and fled one after another, leading other bandits to flee wherever they went.
Zhang Tieniu took the lead and climbed up on the wooden ladder.
There are several thieves here who want to push the ladder away, but more vine armor soldiers are holding down the bottom of the ladder below.
At a height of more than four meters, Zhang Tieniu climbed up in the blink of an eye.
His current weapon was a steel knife, and two small axes were attached to his waist for throwing.
"kill!"
Zhang Tieniu climbed up the city wall, raised his shield to block the vital points, and raised his hand to strike out with his sword.
Many other places were attacked one after another, and the vine-armored soldiers chased and killed the bandits.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the thief-headed monkey immediately ran towards the city wall near the river, climbed the rope and slipped away quickly, and then swam to the other side of the river and into the mountains.
After this battle, only two of the Tengjia soldiers were injured, and the bandits' hot oil and rolling wood were not even used.
After searching the whole city, more than 600 thieves were captured.
"How to deal with these people?" asked the missionary officer.
Zhang Tieniu looked ferocious: "Kill them all!"
They were part of a surprise attack. They needed to rest for a day, eat and drink enough, and then rush to the next county. How could they spare manpower to guard the prisoners?
The missionary also knew this and did not stop it.
More than 600 thieves were tied up and killed one by one by wiping their necks. The people in the city were not afraid, but cheered and cheered. They had been severely harmed by these thieves.
Women from the city were hired to cook with the rebels' grain, and all the soldiers took off their armor to rest.
The missionary officers, however, could not rest. They had to run around to gather together the surviving big families in the city and ask each of them to send someone to defend the city. After preventing the vine armor soldiers from leaving, the rebels who successfully escaped came back. In addition, large households were asked to collect boats and mules to transport rattan armor and grain. Zhang Tieniu had to go to Chaling along the river bank.
(Note: Chaling has been upgraded to a state. I have written it wrong before. Thank you for your correction.)
Over at Chaling, although Liu Zhu was the deputy general, his military strength far exceeded that of Zhang Tieniu.
Liu Zhu had 2,000 regular soldiers, 2,000 peasant soldiers, and more than 6,000 grain transport teams under his command. There were also more than 900 missionaries, expatriate officials, backbones of the peasant associations, and medical soldiers in total.
After entering the Chaling territory, missionary groups, officials, and farmers' associations immediately took action and went to various villages and towns to preach policies. Not only the farmers responded enthusiastically, but even the gentry and landlords warmly received it. They had suffered miserably from the bandits and had no intention of keeping their land, as long as they could save their lives.
A few days later, Liu Zhu led his troops to appear in the northern part of Chaling Prefecture, and together with thousands of food transport teams, the rebels in the city were frightened to death.
Although most of the rebels were locals, several of the bandit leaders escaped from Jiangxi. They had already been beaten out of the shadow by the "Heavenly Soldiers". Liu Zhu's army was still ten miles away, so he packed up his troops and abandoned the city and fled toward the southeast.
It's exactly in the direction of Lingxian County!
Zhang Tieniu's two thousand vine-armed soldiers ran into more than five thousand fleeing bandits two miles north of Hukou Town.
There was no need to form a formation at all, and he didn't even bother to put on his rattan armor.
Zhang Tieniu asked his soldiers to put on rattan armor, hold rattan medals and steel knives in their hands, and then kill directly towards the enemy who was more than twice as many.
"Run quickly! King Zhao knows magic, and he has recruited heavenly soldiers here!"
When the old thieves saw the Datong military flag, they turned around and ran away in fright. They were really frightened. They had fled from the north, but they encountered enemies in the south for no reason, and they became more and more convinced that King Zhao Tian really knew magic.
Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu had a very smooth start because they were playing weak chickens.
As long as Anren and Youxian are captured, the strategic goal of the first stage will be achieved.