Lord of Ming Dynasty

At present, Lin Chengcheng is mainly stationed in Jiangxi Prefecture. Most of the prisoners are in Jiangxi Prefecture. There are 50 prisoners and 20 prisoners of hard labor. The punishment camps for labor education are mainly located in the core area of ​​Zhejiang Prefecture, with 30 inmates.

After talking about Gao Zhixiang with Liu Liangzuo, Zhang Qiang turned over the memorial about the captives jointly reported by Lin Chengcheng, Mi Chun, and Zhou Porridge, thinking about how to solve this problem.

Zhejiang Province has stabilized. Even if there is some hard work, only some criminals in the punishment camp and some criminals in the hard labor camp can bear it. The number of these people will not exceed 10. Zhejiang Prefecture can still afford it. Zhang Mingzhen, Xin The governor and governor of Zhejiang Province who took office, in the memorial, the local government can only bear the burden of [-] people, food and grass, how long will it be impossible, let the cabinet quickly remove the vacant posts, such as road construction, river digging, repair Bridge, and some other jobs, he wants to keep for the people, and these people can't let these people occupy these jobs.

Zhang Qiang smiled wryly, Zhang Mingzhen is really a good official for the country and the people.

When he first took office, he presented himself and the cabinet with such a difficult problem.

And Jiangxi Prefecture, which has just turned into the fast lane, does not need so many people. Turning them into ordinary people will endanger the locality. Mi Chun also does not want to bear such a large population. If possible, he also hopes to absorb only 20 captives. It is still necessary to perform well, and it may be converted into the hands of the common people. He does not want any of the [-] labor camps.The cabinet also felt that it was not an option to support such a large population, so it left the problem to him.

At the same time, the cabinet transferred this issue to Wei Wuji, Minister of the Ministry of National Defense. Wei Wuji wanted these people very much, but he was afraid that they would turn against him, and he would not need so many people. He only agreed to send [-] good-behaved people to the border to serve as civilian husbands for the army. , transporting food and grass, building fortifications and so on, and nothing else.

Liu Liangzuo looked at Zhang Qiang's wry smile and asked, and Zhang Qiang told him about it.

Liu Liangzuo said: "Why don't these captives make deals with the Nanming Kingdom? The Ming army is not good at anything, but they have many ways to use the surrendered soldiers and generals, or they all wish to have more troops."

Chapter 477 Shocking Enemy Arrangement

After listening to Liu Liangzuo's suggestion, Zhang Qiang thought it was a good idea.

Giving the prisoners of Nanming Kingdom and supporting some of their veterans who have experienced the test of war has always been the tactic of the Huaxia Army to win over Nanming Kingdom, but the relationship between the two parties is not always so harmonious due to a series of reasons.

There are both cooperation and hostility. For a period of time, both sides complain that the other party is not good for themselves, and they are not completely inclined to the other party; at the other end of the time, due to the common enemy, the two parties have to fight the enemy back to back like the closest comrades-in-arms. Temporarily forget the unhappiness of both sides, and fight against the enemy together; but most of the time, the two sides maintain an invisible and unhealable distance, treat each other as enemies, and guard against each other.

This is because after all, Longwu Nanming is the orthodox and legal heir to the throne recognized by most people in the southeast, and the Huaxia Army, which is also in the southeast, is regarded as an illegal and rebellious person because it was born out of the Nanming regime.

Such a form is a natural enemy, just like a cat and a mouse. No one can make up for the cat's natural wildness. I don't know when the cat will eat the good friend of the mouse as a snack. The mouse also knows that the cat is his own enemy. No matter how close I am with the cat, I also keep a distance at all times, lest the cat recover its wild nature one day and bite him to death.

Now it seems that the Huaxia Army is born with the wildness of a cat, because it is relatively powerful, and at the same time bears the notoriety of betrayal. It is a rebel bandit. This is what the people of Nanming think. The powerful Huaxia army kept a distance because they were scared of being tricked.

Although exchanging extra captives for Gao Zhixiang and others cannot bridge this rift, it can ease the relationship between the two sides, so that the Huaxia Army will not immediately deal with the crisis of being surrounded by all sides.

Because Zhang Qiang was going to wipe out the Yongli Ming Army and Li Guozhongzhenying Dashun Army in Hubei Province, as well as Chen Youzheng's anyway, he attacked the Lu Guoming Army, mainly attacking Hong Chengchou, the original Qing army who had defected to Lu State. , The Huaxia Army will never allow such a powerful force at its doorstep.

This force is not only strong, but also constantly improving. They are good at learning, which is what Zhang Qiang fears.

"Okay, I will leave this matter to you and Minister Zhang Liang. It must be done well, and Gao Zhixiang and the people who also want to join us will be brought back. We don't want them to do anything, but just make one for outsiders." A role model, it is good to take refuge in us, if you don't take refuge in us, you will kill him, understand?"

Zhang Qiang exhorted Liu Liangzuo.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, I will definitely take care of this matter for you, what about my affairs?" Liu Liangzuo asked.

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "You don't need to do the dispatching and arrangement of the prisoners in the punishment camp. Let the people below do it. I'll just let Gu Yuesheng watch it by the way. He is the highest administrative official here, and he also has a part in these matters." , he doesn't care who is in charge? You go."

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, please listen to my good news." After speaking, Liu Liangzuo really left this time to go to work.

Zhang Qiang also got on his horse and took the guard battalion outside for a walk.

Wuhan Fufu City is simply a large barracks, and it is also extremely busy, with a large population of people, as well as people who have lost their land and homes because of the war; Order of the Guards Brigade officers and men.

The [-]st Guards Brigade was stationed outside the city and was always a combat force, an elite force. The [-]nd Guards Brigade was stationed inside the city, responsible for protecting government offices, key figures, officials, and Zhang Qiang, and at the same time assisting the garrison to maintain order.

Zhang Qiang took the guard battalion around the city.

It can be seen that Hong Chengchou is still doing well here. If such a tall city is really mobilized from Jiujiang Prefecture to attack, even if it breaks the city wall and rushes into the city, it will face serious damage, otherwise it will not be possible to win here.

Because this is a relatively important big city on the Yangtze River, and it is also an important channel of the Yangtze River, the city is extremely huge, with a circumference of more than 60 miles, and the city wall alone is more than 20 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of an eight or nine-story building. All kinds of street fighting fortifications are built towards the bunkers of the age of firearms. They are all at important intersections, official residences, and large mansions of a small scale are like independent bunkers, small forts, such fortifications , To attack it, you must use cannons, causing countless casualties.

Even if the enemy used bows and arrows, it was not easy to capture. If it was firearms, even shields would be useless. Such a big city would be difficult to take down without tens of thousands of casualties. Zhang Qiang had to secretly call out luck.

Surrounding an Oboi and scaring away Hong Chengchou, as long as [-] Qing troops are stationed here, it is really delusional for the Huaxia Army to take this big city with a field brigade.

Dorgon's death was really timely. As soon as he died, Hong Chengchou immediately turned to Lu State in fright, and at the same time withdrew his troops. Although he knew that he had prepared for two years, just to stop the advance of the Huaxia Army, he wanted to be here. Compared with the Huaxia Army, he still felt that he should thank Dorgon for his death now that he saw the Fucheng of Wuhan.

After seeing it in the city, and then going outside the city, Zhang Qiang was even more surprised. Hong Chengchou not only took out the same method that the Huaxia Army used to deal with him, but also made many changes.

For example, the three trench defense lines, he made six trench defense lines, each about a mile apart, just in time for the heaviest [-]-jin red cannon on the city to hit hundreds of meters outside the trenches of the first defense line Where to support the infantry guarding the trenches.

There are more fortress camps and passes outside the trenches than the Huaxia Army.

There is a large satellite city built more than ten miles away from Fucheng. The satellite city is mixed between the old towns and villages. Relying on the terrain, mountains, mountains, ravines, and rivers, it constitutes a dangerous defensive fortress. If there are enough troops, build a 10,000+ people defend here.

In this era without tanks, if Zhang Qiang wanted to capture the outer line of defense with volleys of guns, he would have to compete with the enemy. This is Hong Chengchou's desire to bring the Huaxia Army to the same level as them to fight the Huaxia Army.

Tunbao, the camp is built in front of the trench, and in the middle, judging from the traces of the fort, the enemy must have deployed a lot of heavy long-range weapons such as cannons, ballistas, and trebuchets. If the Huaxia Army wants to attack here, they have to take Bring out the latest weapon of the Huaxia Army, flowering ammunition, otherwise, it will take tens of thousands of catties of solid shells to destroy these strong camps and forts with solid shells.

Now these fortifications are occupied by the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army has weakened these fortifications, because at present, the Huaxia Army is really not worried that the enemy has such a large force, or such a powerful army to attack here, because the Huaxia Army is here. It has already reached a hundred thousand troops. Unless the enemy has another strong force of 70 to [-], otherwise, just to break through their outer defense line, they will have to spend hundreds of thousands of troops, fighting against the Huaxia Army.

A cavalryman ran over, and after passing several inspections and notifications, he came to Zhang Qiang and said, "Report to the governor, the [-]th Field Brigade of our army was ambushed by the enemy when it attacked Jingzhou Mansion, and lost a hundred households of heavy soldiers." The team, when our cavalry was rushing, was besieged by enemy cavalry and infantry on the way. A cavalry scout squad was wiped out, and a squadron of hundreds of households suffered heavy losses. Brigadier Wang Yuqun was dispatching the entire army to attack the enemy. Carry out a siege."

Zhang Qiang knew that if it was just such a small matter, Xiao Fei would not send someone to tell him, there must be other things, or more important things to discuss and report to him.

He thought for a while, then turned around and said to the messenger beside him, "Let the First Guards Brigade break out of camp immediately, let's go to Xiaogan County."

Chapter 478 Responding to the Dashun Army's Guerrilla Warfare

What I was worried about still happened. Li Guo, the nephew of Li Zicheng of the Dashun Army, a tiger still cunningly used their own traits of rogues to ambush the Huaxia Army that has been advancing all the time.

It was the first time for the Huaxia army to face the Dashun army. They didn't know enough about this guerrilla-fighting army, and they didn't remind them that what they had been subjected to was always the way the regular army fought. I have never been in contact with it before, and now this defect has been caught by the enemy, and the Huaxia Army has suffered damage as a result.

Although the news Xiao Fei sent was small, judging from the fact that he sent a messenger to report this matter, it must be more than just this small matter, and the Huaxia Army must have suffered heavy losses.

Zhang Qiang didn't dare to delay, after the [-]st Guards Brigade was assembled, Zhang Qiang set off with them, and arrived at Xiao Fei's headquarters, Xiaogan County at night.

Xiao Fei brought all the generals of the Huaxia Army to greet him.

Entering the county government, Zhang Qiang discussed with them how to deal with it.

Xiao Fei introduced the situation first.

"So far, our army's supply troops, that is, the militia team responsible for escorting food and grass supplies, have suffered heavy losses. Merlin Yu's No. 20 Field Brigade has not received complete supplies for three days, and he is attacking Jingmen County. At the same time It is also responsible for guarding Yichang Mansion and the city of Yichang Mansion. Although there are scattered cavalry brigades deployed to patrol and garrison the surrounding area, the enemy is too cunning, and their whereabouts are uncertain. Today they are in Yichang Mansion, and tomorrow they will run around Jingmen County. gone."

"You mean the No. 20 No. [-] Field Brigade that the enemy attacked first?" Zhang Qiang asked, frowning.

"Yes, the enemy previously harassed Mei Linyu's No.20 Field Brigade. Mei Linyu was very annoyed. While organizing troops to defend Yichang Mansion, at the same time, he wanted to attack Chen Youzheng's troops in Jingmen County. Their strength was stretched and they lost 1 militiamen. The troops only killed and wounded one of the enemy's partial divisions, defeated the enemy's 2 troops, and captured two to three hundred fish that slipped through the net. The enemy completely cut off our food, grass and ammunition to Yichang Mansion, and lost an [-]-pounder gun. Three twelve-pound guns, twenty nine-pound guns, six six-pound guns, and about [-] Jinkai [-] matchlock guns, [-] Jinkai [-] matchlock guns, and [-] short-fire guns , are all the three short-shot guns that we equipped your guards with in advance."

He glanced at Zhang Qiang worriedly, "As for food and grass, there are countless horses, militia troops, and 5000 captive soldiers transporting them."

Zhang Qiang looked up at him, tapped his fingers on the table, "Brother Zhu's Seventh Field Brigade secretly withdrew from Xiangyang Mansion, moved quietly behind Chen Youzheng, blocked all intersections in that direction, and waited for orders. The cavalry troops maintained pressure on Chen Youzheng, and the rest of the troops withdrew to Yichang Mansion to hold on, while looking for fighters and waiting for orders."

"Let Qin Mo's No. 20 20th Field Brigade quietly enter Hubei Prefecture, move to fight in the mountains and forests of the county town near Yichang Prefecture, and block that direction. At the same time, keep in touch with Mei Linyu's No. [-] [-]st Field Brigade, and protect his troops at all times. flank.

The enemy has 30 troops. Although they are not elite soldiers, if 30 people rush over, it will be 30 pigs, and our 1 troops can't stop it.

So our solution is to besiege them in the Jingzhou area, besiege them to death, and then gradually oppress them, but don't rush to eliminate them. The more troops they have, the more they need to fight for food and grass. I don't think they will go to our regular soldiers. Head-to-head, one is worried that we will not be able to do it, and the other is to relieve their pressure on food and grass. After all, 30 people need to eat. "

Xiao Fei slapped the table, "Yeah, why didn't I think of it, we don't need to fight them at all, we just need to guard the key passes, they won't be able to run away, and they can only starve to death, or fight us for their lives, and we will fight on the battlefield. The Huaxia Army has never failed. Why bother playing hide-and-seek with them in the complicated terrain? Even sending troops to chase them down, isn’t this a trick of the enemy, and let the enemy play us by the nose? "