Dominate the Country

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It was mid-June, and news came one after another from Chen Guang and Chen Liang.

Emperor Qianlong did not mobilize the "Eight Banners and Tigers" in the capital, but mobilized the troops from Jingzhou. With Jingzhou General Yongrui as the commander, he sent out two thousand troops to control many troops in Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Anhui. Together with Asiha, the governor of Henan, he gathered together to suppress the bandit army in western Henan.

The Chen Jiajun became the Western Henan Bandit Army in the words of Emperor Qianlong, and all these orders and decisions were made public in the Di Bao. It was not difficult for the Chen family's secret camp to collect it. Also sent was the personal information of Jingzhou General Yongrui.

Chen Ming said "Oh" after reading it. No wonder it started with the word "Yong". It turned out to be a clan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He became the general of Xi'an more than ten years ago, and then fought back and forth in Jingzhou and Hangzhou. A person of Yongrui's status has no great abilities, but his status is there, he can only be a general of peace. If something goes wrong, we still have to rely on truly capable officials. Like Agui or something.

Chen Ming didn't take Yong Rui seriously, nor did he care about the two thousand Eighth Banners soldiers coming out of Jingzhou. What he cared about was the soldiers sent out by Shaanxi, Hubei, and Anhui. Judging from the positions of these provinces, we can expect that the Shaanxi Green Camp will definitely attack Luoyang, Anhui and Henan will join forces and attack from the east, and then the troops from Hubei and Hanzhong will be indispensable from the south. .

"Ming'er, Runing's offensive needs to be strengthened. Ruyang [Fucheng] must be captured." Chen Hui is a smart man, and he can fully understand the Chen Jiajun's intention of sending troops this time. So now that he had received the intelligence from the dark camp, he immediately sensed the huge threat from the south, and set his eyes on Ruyang.

After destroying Ruyang Prefecture and knocking out the nerve center of Runing Prefecture, after the Qing army entered Henan through Wusheng Pass, the convenience of collecting materials and manpower along the way would be reduced by at least half. If the Chen Jiajun could push forward from north to south and capture Wusheng Pass before the Qing troops in Hubei were assembled, the Qing troops would be in even greater trouble.

However, this wish is as unrealistic as if Chen Jiajun went east to conquer Huaining, the capital of Chenzhou, and to the north to conquer Luoyang, the capital of Henan. Chen Jiajun does not have that strong military strength. Even if they only go all the way south, they don't want a piece of Runing Mansion's territory.

"In addition, there are many prisoners of war who have surrendered in the mines, road construction teams, and coolie camps. It would be too wasteful to just let them continue to work as coolies. We are currently short of troops. Should we integrate them into the army?"

Chen Hui was always protected by his personal guard Zuo Ying. Five hundred elite soldiers could protect his safety. However, Chen Hui knew very well how short of manpower the Chen family army had on the battlefield. Especially after the General Mansion publicized the idea of ​​cutting braids and retro crowns, there was a backlash in the villages and towns under Chen Jiajun's rule, and more manpower was needed. Chen Ming even sent out the boy scouts that were originally established, which shows how short of manpower it is.

Chen Ming's eyes quickly scanned the documents Chen Hui handed him, and a look of surprise flashed across his face, "There are so many?" He really didn't expect that the militiamen who had been captured in just a few days would Yong and even the Green Camp soldiers were all crying and wiping away their tears anyway. Just because of one bite of food?

"There are going to be 1,500 people. Of course we can't just let them do hard work."

"These people are not as good as our own army in terms of combat effectiveness and loyalty, but they are enough to fight with favorable conditions."

Chen Huijin asked: "How do you plan to organize them?" He really didn't understand military matters. Fortunately, Chen Ming never let him down.

"Use the squad and platoon as the organizational structure, disrupt them all, and stuff them into the existing team. They will be used as auxiliary troops. As for whether to use them as cannon fodder in the future war, or they can only stay in the rear, that is It depends on the level of the specific officer.

Military pay is comparable to that of the Boy Scouts. Give them another idea, follow the team to charge three times, or play as a vanguard once, and then they will become our regular soldiers. "

"These people have already cut off their pigtails, and the fact that Chen Jiajun has cut off his pigtails has now spread to most of the world. With the Qing soldiers' ability to kill people and take credit for their merits, if these people just surrendered voluntarily, I'm afraid they will There is no escape from death. "After all, the Qing Dynasty is now at the peak of its national power, and the Qing soldiers are at an absolute upper hand. This is different from the princes and marquis who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the middle and late stages of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, such as Wei Jun and others. of.

A flicker flashed in Chen Hui's eyes, "Yes, even if you surrender, you will inevitably die. We cut off our pigtails and raised the banner to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty. If we were caught by the court, we would be cut into pieces with a thousand swords."

Listening to Chen Hui's words, Chen Ming knew that his cheap father was still worried and had no hope for the prospect of 'revolution'. Said: "Dad, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has millions of troops and endless money and food. But can Mr. Qianlong really dispatch a million troops to besiege us? Doesn't it need soldiers to defend such a large territory north and south of the Yangtze River?"

No matter how many troops the Manchu Qing Dynasty has, they can't kill us with one stick. The situation in this world will still change in the future! "

As far as Chen Ming knows, the Qing-Burmese War currently taking place in Yunnan will last seven years. During these seven years, the Qing army suffered heavy losses, and in the end they only won a nominal victory. Although Burma surrendered, it did not suffer serious losses in the true sense. .

In less than two or three years, the second Jinchuan Rebellion in history took place. In history, Emperor Qianlong was very determined and pulled all the border troops in the northeast to Kangding. It took several years to completely conquer the area. This was not the Qing army's initiative to attack Jinchuan, but the Jinchuan people did not forget their old grudges and took the initiative to provoke it. In other words, the Qing soldiers had no choice but to fight, unless the Qing Dynasty could sit back and watch Jinchuan grow bigger, or the Qing Dynasty itself was tied up by other things. The second Jinchuan Rebellion in history might also be because the chieftains of Jinchuan saw the Qing soldiers fighting in Yunnan and the stalemate of the Qing-Myanmar War and thought they had an opportunity.

Anyway, if the wheel of history does not change significantly, the wind and waves stirred up by the small wings of the Chen family army will not be able to blow away the Qing-Myanmar War and Jinchuan. In the next two or three years, the Qing soldiers in the southwest will not pose too much threat to the Chen family army.

Of course, it is also possible that the Chen family army has grown into a behemoth in two or three years. The Qing court was forced to not even care about the stability of the southwest, and mobilized the country's elite troops and money and food to fight the Chen family army with all its heart. No one can say for sure!

Isn't Qianlong angry now? The three green camps of the front and back towns, tens of thousands of regular soldiers were destroyed by the Chen family army. Is this the pacification of the Jinchuan, the Dzungar, and the Hezhuo? How long has it been since the Qing Dynasty suffered such a big loss? It actually came from the heart of Zhongzhou? Unforgivable.

Chen Ming returned to his residence and just made a little noise, Li Xiaomei threw an eye dart over. Chen Ming knew that the child must be sleeping.

Little Chen Ding is already seven months old, and his whole body exudes a milk fragrance. The child was brought up by Li Xiaomei herself, although the Chen family had found a wet nurse for the child when they were in the mountain stronghold.

Chen Ming would not raise any objections. The Chen family was not from a wealthy family. Li Xiaomei was willing to breastfeed the child herself. The wet nurse became a decoration, and the old lady and Gao said nothing. When Chen Ming was little, wasn't Gao also the one who nursed him? And Chen Ming had been away fighting for half a year, so Li Xiaomei taking care of the child herself was a relief.