Chapter 527: The bulls move forward together

In early April, Shaanxi General Zhao Neng led 25,000 Denglai Army to pass Tongguan. The Ming army's guard general led the army to surrender. When he passed through Henan, Shaanxi and Henan Governor Li Xianfeng made up for him 8,000 Henan soldiers. The remaining vacancies were waiting for Zhao Neng to go to Shaanxi and recruit soldiers on the spot.

From Shandong to Shaanxi, even if you pass through Henan, it is impossible to ensure a complete logistics transportation line. Even if you have the transfer of the Yellow River waterway, it will be too expensive.

Fortunately, there are now a group of wealthy merchants in Shanxi who are trembling and don’t know how to show their performance with the Grand Marshal. Hou Shan, the manager of Lingshan Trading Company under the Finance and Trade Department, arrived in Shanxi in early February to allocate military supplies there.

Those rich merchants could mobilize a large amount of supplies, and the mountains and Shaanxi were familiar with each other. After the Shaanxi army led by Zhao Neng passed by Shaanxi, the remaining military supply was left to them. According to the letter sent back by Zhao Neng, these Shanxi merchants did a good job.

And to a certain extent, these Shanxi merchants were responsible for the information ahead. Because of their business with East and West Mongolia, as well as the black market businesses with Shaanxi governments and thieves, they were familiar with the ground in Shaanxi and had close ties with officials and various forces.

The Shanxi merchants were already scared after being slaughtered by Pingyao. After that, they had thought about finding some ways to deal with Shandong. However, the large tribes on the grassland were captured little by little by little by Shandong, and the provinces around Shanxi were gradually annexed by Shandong. They had no intention of resistance. Instead, they began to worry about whether they would be liquidated after the world was pacified. It would be fine if Shandong was simply a force group.

These martial artists will always rely on the transshipment and trade of merchants, but Jiaozhouying is still a commercial group with huge amounts of funds and the support of the alliance between Fujian merchants and Huai merchants. This is a strong competitor. Destroying Shanxi merchants will not harm Li Meng or have no obstacles.

The Shanxi merchants who were worried about being liquidated suddenly found that Shandong gave them a chance to perform. This was really ecstatic. Those who could do their best but not to help.

In addition to intelligence, helping the Shandong Salt Gang system contact various forces in Shaanxi, persuade those hard-working officials to surrender, establish good relations with the remaining local tribes, etc., has really saved Shandong a lot of effort.

Zhao Neng marched into Shaanxi, and the only dissonance was Li Xianfeng, the governor of Shaanxi and Henan. Although he knew that this was the trust of the King of Qi, this position still made him feel that he was being roasted on fire. Now Shandong's territory is only a place of five provinces, and he actually managed the two largest provinces by himself.

Of course, he is now responsible for the logistics and supply of the two generals Chen Liu and Zhao Neng. He is also in charge of the two provinces for the unity of power and responsibility. However, in such a dangerous position, whoever wants to speak in front of the King of Qi, if there is any accident, is the risk of beheading and extermination of the clan. As a result, in addition to being busy every day, he also has to write to the King of Qi one after another, saying that he is responsible for the two provinces, which is really a transcendence, and ask the King of Qi to arrange the candidates for the governor of Shaanxi as soon as possible.

Li Meng was too lazy to pay attention to Li Xianfeng's request. In early April, he was busy and anxious. Chen Liu's troops had already advanced to the Shuanggoukou, 30 miles away from the Han River. Now he had already set up the camp there to prepare for the siege in Xiangyang.

Chen Liu, the chief general of the Central Plains Army, also wrote an urgent letter to Jinan, asking the general to allocate 16 pounds of field artillery there. Such artillery requires at least ten. Xiangyang City is the most powerful city in the world. The Shun Army is not as scheming as the Ming Army. It is difficult to use any tricks to trick the city gates. According to the spies who passed through the Han River to reconnaissance, now outside Xiangyang City, it is actually a variety of offensives built by Shandong, and a circle of fortifications, forts, and a trenches outside Xiangyang City.

In dealing with such city defense, spears and muskets are obviously useless. Chen Liu also thought it through, and he could only knock it open with a cannon.

The Weapon Manufacturing Bureau has planned to open a factory in Nanyang Prefecture to cast cannons for the Central Plains Army. This battle may not be a quick battle. Nearly 70 artillery and ammunition have been loaded and shipped to further strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains Army.

The two prefectures in Yanzhou and Dongchang in Shandong, and the two prefectures in Xuzhou and Huai'an in southern Zhili, a total of 6,000 soldiers were trained. However, these people did not want to supplement the northern army of Pingnan General Ma Gang, but were boarded in batches in Haizhou and Jiaozhou at the end of March, and were transported to North Korea by the Zheng family's fleet to replenish the North Korean garrison troops.

According to the report document that lasted dozens of pages, after being instigated by the spies from the Shandong Salt Gang in Liaodong, nearly 50,000 Han people from Liao entered northern Korea through various channels.

This is also because most of the forces of the Manchu Tartars were concentrated in the west of Shengjing and Liaoyang to confront Mongolia, and the control over the rest of Liao Town was much relaxed. Moreover, many Jurchens walked from here to Jilin and Ningguta again, saying that it was unstable here, so it would be better to go back to Lao Linzi to live a peaceful life point.

In this case, the control of the lower part was naturally relaxed, and the escape of the Han people gradually became uncontrollable. Wang Hai had no new policies to do for these Han people. He just copied the law from Shandong and set up a military farm. A large number of Korean landlords and officials who had once had a relationship with the Tartars were fined and confiscated, and a large number of landless refugees appeared in North Korea.

But these people couldn't cause any storm. After no land, they were immediately forced to be enrolled in the military farm. The Han and Koreans were about one to four.

Except for the part that maintains their food and clothing, the rest of the food produced by the Korean military farmer was all expropriated. The production task of the Han people who came to join was much easier, but the price of enjoying the support of the Korean military farmer was to serve in the military service. Eighty-year-old Han people were incorporated into the village guarding team and army of the military farmer. They had to use their own force to maintain their safety and situation.

In addition to the production of the military farmlands, the taxes and grain north of Seoul were no longer controlled by the Korean court. These were forcibly levied by the Korean garrison troops as their own supplements.

In other words, in addition to the 5,000 troops brought to North Korea, Wang Hai was able to mobilize nearly 20,000 young and strong men to fight, but lacked enough weapons and training. The shipping organized after the first month of the year, the materials and production tools transported there were solved this problem.

There were also some ridiculous things in the report sent by Wang Hai. For some reason, some of the Han people knew that the Korean garrison was not an army sent by the court. Seeing Wang Hai having such a big scene in North Korea, they began to think about taking this strength for themselves.

The Qing army of the Tartars captured the population inside the pass, and they were often arranged to farm in the same place. This time, many people came to join us and were familiar with each other. Those who were ambitious were often the powerful roles in the village. This initiative was really incited.

But they thought it too simple. Wang Hai did not expect that the Han people rescued from the Tartar cavalry would rebel. Why did they not raise up to resist under the rule of the Tartars and rescue him, but instead they would be in trouble?

Perhaps the Eight Tatar Banners gave these Han people too much intimidation, and the wastes of the Ming army left them with a deep impression. Perhaps they thought that the Han people's soldiers were all that kind of cowardly waste.

The riot was very sudden, and several large villages of military fields started together. After rough training and weapons, the village guards of military fields, attacked the military field camp. Wang Hai did not expect it or prepare, but the secret whistle arranged strictly according to the wartime march was sent out in time.

When the Han people's rebellion team was about to reach the fence, two thousand people were already dressed in full swing to fight, and the others were about to be completed.

This time, the Korean garrison troops finally made these rebellious Han civilian teams realize what a strong army is. Wang Hai, the chief general of the Korean garrison troops, had no compassion, but let his subordinates kill people.

Sometimes, if you don’t use your strength, you will not be able to suppress these ignorant villagers. No wonder they were captured by the Qing Tartars and no wonder some people were constantly transferred to the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Han Army.

Thousands of people died that night. From then on, the Han people recruited completely implemented the orders of Jiaozhou Camp. They no longer dared to have any wrong thoughts or complain. This is the case.

The 6,000 soldiers sent this time were prepared for the preparations after the spring was enlightened and the roads could be passed. According to the information revealed by informants and spies, the Tartars would organize an offensive against North Korea, completely destroy the enemies here, and then block the port to ensure their own retreat.

After clearing North Korea, we then gathered the forces of the Eight Banners and various subordinate troops to fight against most of Mongolia on the grasslands west of Shengjing, and opened up the current encirclement.

Wang Hai was confident that with the help of firearms, he could defend his territory and wait for the more than 6,000 reinforcements to join. No matter how the Tartars carried out their next move, he would not defend like this and would launch an offensive.

"Prince, Henan is vast and cannot be sold to the villain as the price is not a problem."

"Your Majesty, the lower official has a lot of money, and there are a lot of wasteland in Beizhili. You can say bluntly that the land price is still too low, even if it is twice as high. The lower official does not like to provide multi-layer gunships, but the lower official is willing to provide strong assistance."

"Prince, in addition to our Fang family, there are also many business people in Yangzhou and Jiangnan. I want to buy land. Please ask the prince to be kind!"

"….. There are also some maritime merchants in Guangdong who want to buy land, so please forgive me..."
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