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Chapter 23 Advance to the Central Plains II: Love Hate Vendetta 1

Yuan Shizhong eliminated Ma Yingxian with the support of Zhao Yingyuan. After Zhai Wu's personal soldiers, Gong Wencai, who was still watching from both sides, had to obey his arrangements honestly when he saw this. In fact, Gong Wencai also wanted to surrender to the Kingdom of Daxia. Although he accepted the recruitment, he also wanted to find a promising master.

However, after winning the horse to take the exam, everything will not be fine after Zhai Wu's personal soldiers. These two people still have a large number of troops and horses in Suizhou and Xiayi.

However, at this time, one of the Alin-A legion had approached Guide Mansion to the east. The leader of this legion was Lin Maochun, one of the three guerrillas in Dongjiang Town in the past. To this day, the three guerrillas have become the commander of the army. Although they are not as good as Guo Tiancai in the title, it is very difficult to reach this level fifteen years later (who was equal to the Hanhai Army in 1632).

One of the two major legions of Akdun in Shandong, Wang Chengluan, who is also one of the three guerrillas, also approached Yucheng.

Under the threat of the two major legions, most of the Zhai Wu tribes in Xiayi and the Ma Ying tribes in Suizhou surrendered after a few of them resisted and were killed by their own people.

"I've been in Anxi"

After the two armies entered Guide Mansion, Wang Chengluan appeared and he began to show up and speak out.

"Although there is a little longer and colder in winter, it is not like the southern and northern Moons. There are black soils, and the soil is extremely fertile, with forests, arable land and pastures. In most cases, if you farm, you don't need to consider irrigation at all. Such land does not require too much cleaning and can be collected. Each household has 50 acres of good fields."

"The journey is long. If you are willing to go, you can register now. Those who have registered can own a house in Anxi. Everyone, ordinary farmers have a small brick courtyard with all the facilities at home. You don't have to bring too much stuff on the road, you can check in after you go."

Seeing the disbelief of everyone's eyes, Wang Chengluan smiled and said, "If you are willing to go, your luck will be very high. Our country has recently won the Crimea land. The climate is similar to that of Hebei, but it is all the big plains and fertile black soil. You can harvest a large area by sowing the seeds. Even I envy you so much."

Gong Wencai said: "What you said is good is good, but there are Hu people around there, so I'm afraid it's unstable."

Wang Chengluan said: "The Great Xia Kingdom that can be defeated in this world..."

Seeing everyone looking at him curiously, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, "That's... not to mention that there is a whole army guarding me there, and most of the surrounding tribes have a good relationship. What's the instability of it?"

Yuan Shizhong asked, "Then on this road..."

"You only need to bring your food for ten days, and all the rest will be arranged by the government."

In the end, Yuan Shizhong and Gong Wencai agreed to go to Crimea. Gong Wencai didn't want to go at first, but when he thought that Yuan Shizhong had left, it was inappropriate to leave him alone. Finally, he gritted his teeth and decided to follow Yuan Shizhong. In this way, Yuan Shizhong's subordinates had about 20,000 people, plus 100,000 people, while Gong Wencai's subordinates had 10,000 people, plus 50,000 and 150,000,000, which was enough to stabilize the current Crimea (the area north of the Crimean Peninsula and south of the Don River, about two Hainan provinces in later generations, all of which were fertile plains).

Yuan Shizhong and Gong Wencai are the last two teams in Henan Province that still retain the style of thieves in the past. After solving these two troops, the rest will be easier.

After the matter was over, Qu Chengen couldn't help but admire him secretly. He said to Wang Chengluan: "Old Wang, everyone said that the three guerrilla warfare under the command of Mao was a good player, but he was too loyal and honest. Unexpectedly, his temperament changed when he came to Daxia."

Wang Chengluan said: "This is called one time and another. Our ability is not necessarily worse than that of Kong Youde and others, but it is just that our luck is not good."

...

After solving the problem of the small Yuanying, Lin Maochun stayed in Guide Mansion, while Qu Chengen and Kake Duli all went south. Kake Duli marched from north to south along Henan Prefecture, Ruzhou and Nanyang Prefecture, while Qu Chengen marched south along Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Runing Prefecture.

By the end of May, the Hanhai Army had completely occupied Henan Province.

At this time, the pace of the Dahan Navy suddenly stopped, which made the nervous Dashun Kingdom and the Ming army general breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is it because summer is coming, and they are all from the northern border, afraid of heat, and will not go further south until autumn is coming?"

No.

As mentioned earlier, when the Great Xia Kingdom captured the three provinces of Hebei, in addition to adding a legion dominated by infantry to each of the three provinces, three new legions were also formed in Shanhaiguan. Adding the legion of Sun Chuanyu, Zhuketu, Chuckdan and Xiao Alin, there were a total of seven mobile legions.

One of the corps was led by Yang Tingdong to Gansu. After he arrived in Gansu, he used surrendered soldiers to train two corpses mainly composed of infantry in Gansu, Ningxia, and northern Shaanxi. Together with Xiao Alin's corps, a total of four corpses fought with the Dashun Army in Baoji and were defeated.

Nikanliu had a legion guarding Gansu, and a legion guarding the Guanzhong plains, while Xiao Alin led two legions to Henan.

In this way, the Hanhai Army of Hubei Dashun Army had four more corpses and an army of nearly 50,000 people, which formed a strong deterrence to the Dashun Army of Hubei.

After Xiao Alin and Yang Tingdong's army went west, there were still five legions left in Beijing.

In early June, Nikanlius Sun Chuanyu guarded Beijing and personally led the three legions of Zhuketu and Chukdan to the south, and arrived at Guide Mansion in mid-June.

Like Duoduo in history, they also regarded Guide Mansion as the rear of the south again!

Unfortunately, when Nikan led his army to Guide Mansion, the plum rain season also came, and they had no choice but to wait for the rain to stop.

Of course, readers can't help but ask when they see this, since the Great Xia Kingdom has many cavalry and artillery, why not wait until the autumn is low and cool and cool before heading south?

This involves Nikan's military construction and training ideas.

"Although Hanhai Army mostly comes from the north and is not afraid of the cold, at least according to the current situation, the land north of the Yangtze River must be taken down. Even if you attack in autumn and winter, you still have to arrange military forces to garrison the local area after occupying it. You still have to face the hot summer. Instead of waiting until you occupy this place to adapt to the local climate, why not adapt early? Besides, your own army is not that delicate. As long as you do a good job of preventing the growth of plague, you can still fight in the summer."

In order to ensure the grain route, Nikan set up large grain and grass in Cao County, less than 100 miles from Guide Prefecture, and built a wide floating bridge on the Yellow River between Cao County and Kaocheng.

Cao County, from Xuzhou and Guide Mansion are all very close to Cao County, and it is a great place to stay in the rear.

After the wooden boards on the pontoon bridge pass by ships, chains and rivets, ten war horses can be driven side by side - of course, they still stagger when passing through the pontoon bridge, so they naturally cannot ride on the horse, so they still have to lead the horse.

...

Just as Nikan and his army were staying in Guide Mansion, the news from the north soon reached Xuzhou in the east and Bozhou in the south.

At present, the south of Guide Prefecture belongs to the Nanzhili area, including Bozhou, Suzhou, and Suining areas, all belong to the General of Xuzhou, the left governor of the Five Army Governors' Office, and the Marquis of Dongping (poor Liu Zeqing, originally this title belonged to him) and the jurisdiction of Mou Wenshou.

In this area, except for the former Henan General Xu Dingguo who rushed south from Henan, Bozhou was guarding him by Xu Dingguo.

After learning that the Hanhai Army was heading south in a large-scale manner, Mou Wenshou could no longer sit still.

On this day, he personally brought 150 cavalry, as well as his son-in-law, Xuzhou's general, brave general Deng Jiushao, his fourth son, guerrilla general Mou Guojun, known as "Sailubu", set out from Xuzhou. His destination was Bozhou.

As the marquis, he actually wanted to personally lead the inspection of Bozhou. It is not unreasonable that Mou Wenshou, 52 years old this year.

Since Xu Dingguo retreated from Henan to Bozhou, he has almost caused all the disasters in Bozhou. Due to the lack of food and salary, he has released his subordinates to rob him every now and then. He is not like Yuan Shizhong, who only robs the big households and does not disturb the small households. He is a big household and a small household.

Therefore, during the three years he was stationed, the entire Bozhou became Henan, where "white bones were exposed in the wild, and no rooster crowed thousands of miles away". The memorial to impeach him flew to Nanjing like snowflakes. However, in order to stabilize him, the Nanjing court suppressed the memorials. In order to avoid continuing to rob him, he ordered Mou Wenshou to supply him with stable military rations.

Among the four towns in Jiangbei at this time, Mou Wenshou was actually the highest prestige, so it was the best arrangement to let him subdue Xu Dingguo.

Of course, Xu Dingguo was originally under the jurisdiction of General Fengsi and Guangchang Hou Liu Liangzuo, but in the end, Sun Chuanting reminded the court, "Now Liu Liangzuo's younger brother Liu Liangchen has defected to the Hanhai Army in Liaodong, and it is inappropriate to let Liu Liangzuo border them." Therefore, Bozhou was only assigned to Mou Wenshou's jurisdiction not long ago.

There are other reasons why Mou Wenshou wanted to go to Bozhou to inspect in person.

Although Xu Dingguo was tyrannical, his military soldiers were still quite capable, but he only had 3,000 troops. When the imperial court asked him to guard Bozhou, he must not be his favorite 3,000 troops. There was a flat horse between Henan and Bozhou, and there was almost no danger to defend. A mere three thousand troops could not be defended at all.

In the past, under the rampage of Li Zicheng's army, the "rebel army" in various places also rose and responded. Among them, Li Jiyu, a native of Dengzhou, was also a very powerful force. Li Jiyu finally accepted the invitation from the Ming court and was assigned to the name of Xu Dingguo, the general of Henan at that time, as deputy general.

Like Yuan Shizhong and Gong Wencai, Li Jiyu's troops were also home to the family. He claimed to have 10,000 young and strong men, and naturally followed 30,000 to 40,000 families.

Li Jiyu is very skilled in martial arts and is very good at sticks. He selected 3,000 people from the farmers who defected to him to practice sticks. Although he was not as good as the elite of the official army a few years later, it was quite amazing compared to the various rebels.

Three thousand long stick soldiers, plus seven thousand weapons with a mixed range of young and strong men, Xu Dingguo's biggest reliance besides his own three thousand infantry and cavalry.

Moreover, both of them had no hesitation in history and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. This concept is necessity and the two were tied together.

After Xu Dingguo harmed Bozhou, he asked Li Jiyu's family to get a bargain. All the good fields near Bozhou were cheaper. Fortunately, these fields were the only places in Bozhou that support so many Dingkou.

Mou Wenshou set out in person when he learned that all the bandits in Guide Mansion had surrendered to the Daxia Kingdom. If only Xu Ding Kingdom was the only one, he thought that although this person was unbearable, it would not be necessary to surrender to the Daxia Kingdom. However, Li Jiyu, who was born in the thief, could not be taken lightly.
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