Lord of Ming Dynasty

The way out in his heart is actually to go to Sishan Prefecture, where the enemy's military strength is weak, in the northwest of Shaanxi and Gansu. Although the population is small, the land is barren, and there are mixed ethnic groups, there are many conflicts, but it is the only one in the Zhongzheng Camp if they don't want to live under others, or they will be dismantled and wiped out. way out.

He did not agree with Gao's decision to join the Huaxia Army.

And Zhang Qiang didn't take them seriously. In Zhang Qiang's eyes, they were desperate beasts, and they would eventually perish.

His eyes were still fixed on Hong Chengchou's Qing army, and the recent conflict between the Nanming Kingdom and the Yongli Daming Li Dingguo Department.

The contention between the two sides in the territory of several counties has gone from a verbal battle at the beginning, to repeated frictions and small-scale battles, to the point where the generals of both sides led troops to besiege each other's cities.

The battle between the two Nanming countries was even more tragic. No one would accept the other, and everyone thought that the other party was not strong in combat power, and they were all enemies on the same level. Therefore, it was possible to face-to-face duel. If the Qing army came, this kind of This situation will not happen. There is a half chance that the Ming army will run away first, avoiding the Qing army, and then wait for the opportunity to start a few small-scale battles, gain some military merit, exaggerate the military merit and report it to the court, and wait for promotion.

Chapter 5 and Eight

Although Nanming Kingdom and Yongli Daming had various conflicts, they still maintained a trace of restraint. A large-scale battle did not break out. Instead, they negotiated for several months. Longwu Nanming wants to recover these Ming troops in the name of righteousness, and the civil servants in Yongli Ming also want to join Longwu Daming as soon as possible. Now that there is only one emperor and one lineage, they will not serve Longwu Is it still respected by Zhu Yihai, who was captured by Lu State?

Obviously, by this time, no one with a not-so-smart mind would do that.

The state of Lu has perished.

If there is still a large wave of powerful generals in the Lu State, and the separatist warlords, you can try it. The problem is that Hong Chengchou works hard, and those who surrender will be rewarded with high salaries. Those who surrendered were all killed long ago, or those who were driven away were like mice burrowing into the ground, never daring to show their heads again, or like Zhang Huangyan, who fled thousands of miles away, and until now no one knows where he fell to the ground and hid. Still, he was captured by the Qing army and secretly escorted to Beijing.

However, it is impossible for such a thing to be kept secret in the Qing army, at least it is impossible to keep it secret for so long, it has been a month. That mouth has already been passed on from one hundred to another, making it known to all.

So up to now, Zhang Huangyan's whereabouts are still following what others say, and I don't know why.

The only people who can pledge their allegiance now are the Nanming Longwu lineage.

You cannot ignore the influence of orthodoxy on the people of this era, or the influence of the banner of righteousness. Even if Kangxi is so great, he has been in power for half a century, and almost killed his nine sons. Those who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty were not wiped out.

It took 200 years for the obsession in the hearts of the Ming people to be exhausted, and then the Qing Dynasty planted countless seeds in the hearts of the people. When Zhang Qiang died in the later generations, the influence of the Qing Dynasty not only did not weaken, but Because of the cultural impact of the Baodao people, and the peaceful evolution of the Chinese people by the American emperor, many people still miss the Qing Dynasty. The court dramas of the Qing Dynasty are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the Ming Dynasty was taken out and blackened.

It can be said that the Chinese are a nation that deeply understands forgetting, a collective of interests, and without the 200 years of precipitation and wear-off of the magician of time, one thing will not be wiped out. People will use the past to criticize the present , and then waiting for the present to become the past, also known as an excuse to bash another present, is always dissatisfied.

So Zhu Yujian of Longwu Nanming should be happy. Many chieftains and ethnic minorities hiding in the deep mountains bowed their heads to him and turned to fight with the soldiers of Yongli Daming. Maybe they wanted to use this righteous name No. to obtain their own interests, but invisibly doing Longwu Nanming a favor and spreading the influence of Longwu Nanming.

Therefore, in the fight with Longwu Nanming, Li Dingguo suffered a big loss. The Ming army generals in several counties or territories he controlled in Yunnan Guizhou betrayed him and took refuge in Longwu Nanming, which made him lose Yunnan Guizhou several times. In the territory of three counties, Longwu Nanming extended his tentacles deep into Leyun and Guizhou.

After defeating Li Dingguo, the Burmese Baimang royal family also played tricks and sent envoys to Longwu Nanming to make Longwu Nanming the suzerain state, of course in name, although Longwu Nanming controlled Guangxi and Guangdong. Half, Leizhou Peninsula, Qiongzhou Island and other places, but if they want to go to Myanmar to receive the fruits of victory, there is still a Li Dingguo Ministry in the middle.

The fact that Burmese people can reach Guangdong Province through Laos, Annan Kingdom, and other places does not mean that people from Nanming Kingdom can reach Myanmar through these places, because Annan has long since rejected Daming as the suzerain country, not even Daming, let alone only What about the Nanming Kingdom, which is a mere half-life province?

But the name is also the name, this name can increase the influence of Longwu Nanming, and some things can be done smoothly, such as win over Wen Anzhi.

Occupying the convenience of the Yangtze River in Sishan Prefecture, Kui Dongzhou, where the Dashun Army's original line of soldiers and horses were entrenched, Wen Anzhi, the nominal cabinet scholar of the Yongli Ming Dynasty, the highest military and civil affairs chief in the country, and a high-ranking official acting on behalf of the emperor He changed his mind quickly, as if he could settle down a group of unruly Dashun army's rough separatist warlords in a complicated situation, and lead them to fight against the Qing army for the Yongli Ming Dynasty and work hard. His ability And resilience is unparalleled.

After a period of time when his mood was gloomy and he had the heart of retiring, he changed his mind and sent envoys to contact Su Guansheng of Longwu Nanming, and handed a surrender form to Zhu Yujian, expressing his heart of obedience.

With Wen An's surrender, the power of Nanming Kingdom extended from Guangdong Province to Sishan Prefecture, forming a winding S-shaped map of power, enclosing part of the Qing army and Li Dingguo's power in the southwest corner, and at the same time giving Nanming a The war channel against the Dajin Kingdom, the Nanming Army can directly reach the Three Gorges through the Nanming sphere of influence in Yunnan, Guizhou, and then attack the Dajin Kingdom in Shaanxi and Gansu, the Jin Army.

Longwu Longyan Dayue immediately dispatched a reinforcement of 2 soldiers with [-] civilians to deliver supplies to support the Dashun Army who had surrendered to the Nanming Army in the Three Gorges, and at the same time went to take Wen Anzhi to the capital of the Nanming Kingdom where he was. , Guilin Mansion.

Yes, Long Wu saw that Zhaoqing Mansion in Guangdong was too close to the Guangzhou Mansion of the Huaxia Army stationed with heavy troops, and that Zhaoqing Mansion was a small mansion with insufficient supplies and population, so he moved the capital to Guilin Mansion.

Compared with Zhaoqing, Guilin is not only located inland, it is not easy to be attacked by the sea and the Chinese army, but also has countless terrains to block the attackers. You can set up troops on all sides and set up light cards to intercept the attackers. At the same time, there are heavy troops here. The Nanming army stationed in the hinterland of the city was high and thick. Kong Youde had been operating it for several years, and even the fortifications outside the city could be restored to their original strength. Setting up heavy troops could protect the safety of Longwu and the safety of the civil and military officials of the court.

As the state city of Guangxi Prefecture, it is obvious that the supplies, population and tax revenue here are much higher than those of Zhaoqing Prefecture in Guangdong Province. Longwu Nanming's relocation this time has brought the strength of Nanming Kingdom to a higher level.

The only thing to pay attention to is the rebellious army that Li Dingguo refused to surrender.

That’s right, Li Dingguo’s tribe without a master was not only poached, not only resisted by the original Ming people, but also called a rebellious and chaotic army by the Nanming Kingdom just like Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng was a bandit. It is called the chaos army, and the threat is of course higher than that of Li Zicheng.

Longwu is a shrewd person, he is good at taking advantage of the situation, and he turned Li Dingguo's troops into a rebellious army. Unless Li Dingguo surrendered like Wen Anzhi, he would lose his righteousness. A Ming army general rebelled a few days later, making Nanming's forces penetrate into Yunnan for the first time. This made Li Dingguo very annoyed, but he didn't want to tear himself apart, so the war has not yet started.

Sadly, Li Dingguo found that not only did he not save Yongli Daming over the past ten years, but it led to the demise of Yongli Daming. He fell into righteous guilt. He couldn't pass his own level, so even though Nanming was aggressive, and his generals or civil servants kept surrendering to Nanming, he didn't stop him, but hid in the house and sighed, lamenting life, and became the young marshal Xiao Zhang of Yunnan Province , a decadent life, watching the enemy seize his territory, watching the enemy invade the people of Yunnan Prefecture that he tried his best to protect.

Chapter 5 Nine Infiltrated

Li Dingguo was reminiscing about the past, drowning his sorrows with wine, and had no choice but to do anything about Nanming's poaching, but the Huaxia Army gradually achieved results in Huzhou, Guangzhou and Hubei.

As in the past, after the Huaxia Army came, they first sent troops to occupy various important places, and then sent people to many extinct villages. The converted captives, the captive camps performed well and reached the length of detention, and the captives who did not want to be soldiers, even committed some crimes The convicts from the hard labor camps who were light and harmless to the Huaxia Army were also released, disrupting the order, and mixing them from Zhejiang Prefecture and Fujian Prefecture, which were the first to stabilize, and accepted nearly ten years of performance under the rule of the Huaxia Army. People who are good and willing to contribute to the Huaxia Army immigrated, mixed with some retired Huaxia Army soldiers, grassroots officers, and militiamen from Jiangxi Prefecture to form grassroots villages.

These grassroots villages were placed in no man's land, in cities, and on the edge of towns, and then those soldiers who were captured by Li Guozhong's battalion who committed minor crimes and were willing to settle down for the people, as well as other coerced civilians, Disrupted the formation of some other grassroots villages, separated from the more loyal grassroots villages of the Huaxia Army and inserted them.

Some displaced persons and refugees were placed among these villages, as well as Nanming people from Guangxi Prefecture, as well as local Huguangzhou people.

Another kind of village is to find deserted villages in the important positions of these villages, or the original villages with a small population, and take the wounded soldiers, disabled soldiers, old soldiers who have been discharged from the army, and at the same time have the absolute loyalty to settle here. The families of the militia squads to be trained are placed here.

This is the basic composition of a township. Those retired militiamen, prisoners of the Qing soldiers, prisoners of the Ming army, and militia squads are formed into a militia squadron and placed in the town of this township to serve as grassroots defense tasks.

And the county seat puts a garrison camp, a formal garrison camp, maybe the garrison camp is understaffed and understaffed, but there are only a hundred households and more than two hundred people in the district, but the deterrent power lies there, and the dispatched officials bring The government servants and the new local government officials and catchers have become the basic security guarantee for the county.

After the officials in the county seat were in place, the garrison battalion began to recruit soldiers. They recruited young men from these villages and young people in the county seat, and formed a militia security team to patrol the county seat and defend the county seat. The garrison battalion only served as a deterrent. Two hundred or so people, plus retired militiamen and disabled field brigade soldiers, formed the local security force, which may not be enough to resist the enemy's attack, or not enough to suppress the uprising rebels, but maintain law and order and ensure the security of this area. It is enough for civil government to function normally.

Moreover, there are field brigade troops patrolling key places in some counties, and field brigade soldiers and garrison regiments are stationed in some key counties. With a large force of regular troops stationed in the field brigade, the enemy or those who want to destroy them will not cause a wave of waves in the state surrounded by large forces.

With the stabilization of Huzhou, Guangzhou and Hubei, those people who went to Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan, and Shaanxi and Gansu also began to return. Most of the people who went to the Huaxia Army's territory were sent back, and a small part was sent back to Jiangxi. And Guangxi state absorbed.

Without the war, business quickly started to operate. At the beginning, the government caravans from the Huaxia Army territory brought urgently needed supplies and food and grass for free distribution or to supply the people with work relief. Later, various caravans also came from the Huaxia Army territory. Arrived, brought various items, and the two states began to prosper.

Later, the caravans from Nanming also came, along with the smuggled caravans from the Zhongzhen Camp, Yunnan-Guizhou Caravans, Qing Army caravans, and Dajin Kingdom caravans, and even people from the mountains came out of the mountains to trade Some mountain goods.

Compared with these two states that have just recovered from the war, Jiangxi Prefecture, which has been out of war for a long time, is much more prosperous.

Jiangxi prefecture was next to Nanming's Guangxi prefecture and Guangdong prefecture, and the business with Nanming made Jiangxi prefecture prosper rapidly.

The convenient and rapidly expanding road system makes Jiangxi Prefecture a trade center connecting the north and the south, and the east and the west.

In comparison, the half of Anhui Prefecture occupied by the Huaxia Army, which is still at the forefront of the confrontation, is a bit bleak, but also because he has long since gotten rid of the war, the people are actually richer, and you will never eliminate the landlords and rich people. People, the landlords and rich people in these places popped up very quickly. Perhaps compared with the period under the Ming Dynasty, these landlords and rich people are much more peaceful, but their wealth is not as low as that time, because Many small workshops and medium-sized workshops, and even government-controlled factories.

The supplies here are quite rich, and the people here are all red-faced. The only thing that scares them is the Chinese militiamen, soldiers from the garrison battalion, and soldiers from the regular army of the field brigade who are patrolling everywhere wearing new military uniforms.

All kinds of fortifications let people know that the war still exists, and it is not far away, but the distance of tens of miles, maybe one day the Qing army will fight again.

When people are enjoying peace, they still feel uneasy in their hearts. At the same time, those who are capable still want to go to Zhejiang Province, because there is absolutely no war shrouded there, and there are even fewer militias and village guards than here.

Compared with here, Jinling Mansion, where heavily troops are stationed, is the front line of the war. Relatively speaking, there are fewer people and more troops, and most of them are elite troops. You can even see people wearing sea soul shirts and armor on the coast. , Marines with smoothbore flintlock guns patrol the towns, and cavalry patrol the coastal coasts.

But none of this stopped the group of people. In the dark night, at a blind spot where the cavalry patrolled, they took a small boat and quietly landed on the beach under the cliff. a village.

After changing into the clothes given by the locals and dressing up in disguise, they sneaked deep into the inland, with fewer and fewer people accompanying them. In the end, there were only three people traveling together, one was a clerk from a local shop, and the other two were a sturdy man. Big man, a man who looks like an old scholar.

"Lord Shoufu, why do we have to land from here, isn't it good to go directly by sea? Do we have to travel thousands of miles to disguise the territory of the Huaxia Army?" The big man touched the dagger in his arms anxiously, looked to the left Looking to the right, he asked the elderly scholar beside him in a panic.

The old scholar waved his hand impatiently, "What do you know, don't ask too much, just protect the old man, you don't need to take care of the old man's affairs, and you have to pretend to be normal, hide your accent, if not , just shut up, that little brother, how long will it take for us to reach the county seat?"

The guy dressed as a servant smiled and said: "My lord, I still have to walk for two or three days and reach the county seat. You should try not to talk too much, and I will handle everything. Otherwise, the Huaxia Army will be very strict in interrogation. You have forged fakes in your arms." Documents and identities can't stand the eyes of the gang of yamen servants, they rely on this to make a living. To tell you the truth, the Huaxia Army punishes spies very severely. swing" or "fear my lord".

Chapter 5 and Ten of Zhang Huangyan's Travels