Dominate the Country

Mid-July, Linru Town.

Outside the small town, the flags of the Qing soldiers of the Shaanxi Green Camp were flying all over the sky. The Qing Shaanxi Admiral Wang Tenglong led his four camps, including the Tongguan Assistant Deputy General Xue Zong, the Xi'an City Defense Camp Deputy General De Leng'e, and the Shangzhou and Tongzhou camps, a total of 8,000 people, and had already rushed to Linru Town.

This marching speed was really "slippery". You know, Chen Ming was going to fight the enemy in the east first, but he never expected that Wang Tenglong would not even wait for Hebei Town, which was supposed to join forces with him, and directly led 8,000 people to rush to Linru Town.

Chen Ming, who gathered his troops in Xiangcheng, laughed directly. This couldn't be better. The Shaanxi Green Camp was not only left alone, but also sent directly to Chen Ming's edge. If he didn't eat them, he would be sorry for Wang Tenglong's "diligence and thoughtfulness". Although the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp has been synonymous with the elite Green Camp soldiers for more than 200 years during the Qing Dynasty, Chen Ming is not afraid of them at all.

The main force of the Chen Family Army, the 4,000 Chen Family Army assembled by Chen Ming, was directly transferred from Xiang County to the northwest, and the troops and equipment rushed to Linru Town along the Beiru River at the fastest speed.

Chen Ming's current forces have been completely direct. He expanded the musket battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion and a part of the right battalion of the personal guards, the military police, the reconnaissance team and the medical team, which were separated from the battalion, as well as a guard team and tank team edited by him, into a teaching brigade of more than 3,000 people.

Veterans led new recruits, and the musket unit had a second organized battalion. Chen Ming emptied the funds of the Firearms Bureau and raised all the muskets they had made recently, and finally gathered enough weapons for the expansion of the troops; the number of artillery battalions did not increase, but the artillery battalion had twelve more artillery pieces, including eight two-jin cannons and four three-jin cannons; the cavalry battalion broke through the 500 mark for the first time, and in order to raise horses, Chen Ming had a lot of trouble with the logistics department;

The two fully staffed armored battalions were mainly composed of the soldiers and horses of the right battalion of the personal guards and the veterans of the guards, and a large number of new recruits and even prisoners of war were added. Anyway, two fully equipped armored battalions were formed;

In addition to the tank battalion with a number of 300 people, and the gendarmerie, reconnaissance team, medical team and other parts, the total strength of this teaching brigade has reached 3,120 people.

In addition to Chen Ming's right battalion of personal guards, which had expanded to 800 people, and the team's logistics troops, the force that Chen Ming firmly grasped in his hands occupied half of the entire Chen family army.

At this time, in addition to the mobile force in Chen Ming's hands, the seven battalions of Chen Erbao, Chen Wenzan, Chen Jianbai, Chen Hongtao, Huang An, Gao Jinghui, and Lu Long were all fully replenished with military strength, and their equipment was also excellent. Except for firearms, they were not much weaker than Chen Ming's direct troops. However, the equipment of several independent teams and the battalions organized by logistics was much worse. The musketeers among them even took the muskets seized by the Chen family army. Because of the problem of gun and artillery production, those muskets that had been sealed for reserve had to be unsealed immediately, and the excellent products were selected from them to re-enter the army.

Of course, these troops were the second- and third-rate goods in the Chen family army. They were okay to shock the local area, but the Chen family army would not use them unless it was absolutely necessary.

Chen Ming led the army all the way to Linru Town. Along the way, he could already feel the uneasiness of the local people. Soldiers pass by like combs. There is no way. The military rules and discipline of the Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers are known to be lax. Moreover, in some places under the rule of Chen's army, people have cut off their braids because they can't stand the pigtail tax. If the Qing soldiers see this, they will be beheaded.

Chen Ming, who felt this uneasiness, also strengthened his belief-in order to win the hearts of the people as soon as possible, it is necessary to keep the enemy out of the country. Then God will let the officers of the Qing Dynasty be as arrogant as Wang Tenglong, so that Chen Ming's burden will be much lighter.

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Linru Town. From the name, you can see the relationship between this town and Ruzhou and Beiru River. Located at the junction of Ruyang, Yiyang and Yiyang counties, it can be said to be the "northwest gate" of Ruzhou.

This is the direct entrance between Ruzhou and Heluo. Wang Tenglong led his men to rest in Luoyang for a while, and then rushed to Linru Town without stopping, for no other reason than to compete for merit.

Wang Tenglong, who has been promoted to the rank of admiral, is a Han Chinese and is not good at literary affairs. It is impossible for him to become a general or a prime minister, or a central official or a local governor in one step. However, if he has made merit, he can use it to confer titles on his wife and son. Wang Tenglong is fighting for his son and grandson.

So he did not wait for the part of the Hebei Town troops allocated to him by Henan. Wang Tenglong believed that the 8,000 Shaanxi soldiers under his command were enough to attack Lushan directly and capture the father and son of the Chen family alive.

Just as ordinary people from other places could not imagine that Ruzhou would suddenly have such a rebellious army under the banner of anti-Qing, when Wang Tenglong first heard the news of the Chen family army, he only thought it was nonsense. After he received the same news, he realized that something really strange had happened in Henan, the heart of the Central Plains.

But Wang Tenglong immediately laughed at He Nanbing, thinking that the Henan Green Camp had been in the peaceful land of the Central Plains for a long time and had long forgotten how to fight. That was why they had been defeated in battles and suffered heavy casualties. It was extremely embarrassing!

Finally, when the Fude army was defeated in Yancheng, and the news that the Guide Town and Yunyang Town armies were also defeated by the Chen family army, Wang Tenglong took a closer look at the Chen family army. But in his heart, he still deeply despised the Chen family army, the Henan Green Camp, and the newly added Hubei Green Camp.

Because no matter whether it is Henan or Hubei, these two places are stronger than Shaanxi. You know, the so-called Shaanxi admiral has a more specific title: Guyuan admiral. Guyuan is in the eastern part of Gansu. The jurisdiction of the Shaanxi admiral includes Shaanxi and the eastern part of Gansu, while the Gansu admiral, to be precise, the Ganzhou admiral, is limited to the more barren western part of Gansu.

The Guyuan admiral was moved back to Xi'an in the 29th year of Qianlong. The admiral at that time was Li Shisheng, who was appointed as the admiral of Yunnan in August last year and is now fighting with the Burmese army. The successor, Wang Tenglong, was the previous governor of Ganzhou. He had eaten enough sand in the barren land of Gansu. Wang Tenglong, who was born in the Gansu Green Camp, certainly looked down on the Henan Green Camp, which had been defeated one after another against a group of bandits.

This time, the four provinces encircled and suppressed the Chen family army. Wang Tenglong didn't care what the governors-general of Henan, Anhui, and Hubei thought. In his eyes, this was a good job for him. It should be clear that the Chen family army was a rebel who cut off his braids and raised the banner of "anti-Qing and restoration of Han". This was a rebel who stabbed the court in the heart. If he defeated them in one battle, Wang Tenglong believed that he would definitely earn a bright future for his children and grandchildren. His Majesty, who was wise, would definitely remember him!