Section XXIII
After defeating the Jungger East Route Army, the Fifth Army's march was greatly accelerated, and the new annexed army that was stagnant in the area of Daizhou and Baode immediately recognized the current political situation, and plunged into the arms of Zhao Liangdong without hesitation. The gentry and landlords in the northwest of Jin Province were also much more active, so Zhao Liangdong quickly understood what it meant to eat a pulp pot to welcome the king, in short, the situation was very good. Under such a premise, the entry of the Han army into Jin is naturally a matter of course.
After entering the Wuniu Mountains, Lin Feng had a new understanding of Zhao Liangdong's military ability, which is indeed a good thing for the Han Army Brigade, because since Lin Feng raised the army, the armed forces of the Han Group have maintained a record of total victory, whether it is the famous general Tuhai of the Qing Army, or the fierce Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces outside the Guan, all of them were beaten by Lin Feng, so in this case, the Han Army naturally breeds a certain arrogance, as far as the current reality of China is concerned, one of the most powerful armies is the "Eight Banners Iron Cavalry." The other is the Mongolian cavalry, since these two strong soldiers are defeated generals, then the other troops are naturally not a problem, so many people in the Han army, including Mu Tianyan and other senior generals, are all arrogant and arrogant when analyzing the enemy's situation.
The rows of human heads now hanging upside down on the road undoubtedly subvert this view, and every hundred or so paces you will see the execution warrants issued by Trivia, whose tone is so stern and the words that are terrifying that it is really terrifying, when in fact these extremely barbaric and bloody orders have also been thoroughly carried out, and the withered and shrunken heads on both sides of the official road are bloody evidence. From the analysis of the hairstyles of these heads, most of them are not Mongolians, but Han Chinese, and the yellow table paper next to them is marked one by one with the words "helping the traitors", and the further you go, the more spectacular this terrifying scene is, abandoned houses, fences abound, many cottages on both sides of the official road have been razed to ruins by the Han army brigade, dead bodies and crows are everywhere, at this time Lin Feng and others know how fierce this war is, how cruel, and how hard-won the victory.
The Han army, which followed the Fifth Army into Shanxi, had a total of nearly 50,000 people from ten armies, most of whom were elite cavalry, and they moved very quickly. Under the arch guard of Zhao Yingkui's department of the Second Army of the Guards Cavalry, Lin Feng was at the forefront, and rushed to the capital of Daizhou on the sixth day of the army, and at this time Zhao Liangdong's main force had moved to Baode and peeked into Jinzhong.
At this time, the situation in Shanxi entered the most critical moment, in which the Manchu Dynasty, as the original government, has basically withdrawn from the performance stage, throughout the province, the southern Jin region is controlled by Yang Qilong's peasant rebel army, from the east of Taiyuan, the Weishui Valley to the north is occupied by Geerdan, and the northwest region of Shanxi has also been included in the control of Lin Feng, and the real Manchu government in the hands of only Taiyuan District and a city.
Lin Feng was amazed by the garrison of Taiyuan, because since the middle of January this year, Taiyuan has been besieged by Geerdan's 30,000 troops, for several months, the Mongolian army under the personal command of the Western Mongolian Khan Geldan has launched no less than 20 large-scale siege battles, and the small-scale harassment and impact are countless, but it is a pity that these Mongolian heroes can't gnaw this bone, tens of thousands of iron cavalry have suffered heavy casualties against the Taiyuan city wall, as far as the information in hand, Now it is not a famous general who is presiding over the resistance in Taiyuan City, but Yu Chenglong, the governor of Shanxi in the Qing court.
Originally, as the governor of a province, this kind of thing can't talk about this weak scholar, the reason why Yu Chenglong took the post of general is because in the previous field battle, Shanxi Admiral Etai unfortunately died on the battlefield - but was killed on the way to escape very dishonorably, and at the same time, there were only a few of the generals and generals under his command who died and fled, so when the Mongolian army came to the city, the governor could only take it hard.
Lin Feng's understanding of Jackie Chan only stays on the governance of the Yellow River, to be honest, he does not know much about the history of the Qing Dynasty, and before because of the relationship between the Chinese history examination system, most of his energy when he went to school was spent after 1840, although he heard of this famous Qing Dynasty minister who went down in history, but it also belonged to the level of "heard", and I vaguely remembered that this person seemed to be very temperamental, and he was also very good at showmanship, and it was said that because of the failure to govern the Yellow River, This Lord Hedu once shackled himself and went to Beijing to plead guilty, and it can be said that he was famous and spread all over the world, which is not inferior to the super girl.
is such a person, now he can actually command the war, and repeatedly defeat Geerdan, the hero of the party, this is indeed an incredible thing, so when Lin Feng saw Wang Shirong's intelligence summary, he couldn't help but be amazed, you must know that the military is not as good as being an official to play politics, it is a bayonet to see the red and immediately the work, no matter how good it is, there is no way to put on a show, and it is useless to be false and fake.
However, after Wang Shirong's introduction, Lin Feng still understood some key things. After Jackie Chan acted in Shanxi, political affairs are still very good, whether it is persuasion, river governance or road construction and education are done quite beautifully, my official reputation is very good, the two sleeves are not to take the people's wealth, at the same time the words are also well written, the poems are good, in the north Shilin is also very prestigious, in the government agencies into a stable and sophisticated very good person, some time ago during the court turmoil, the Manchu and Han governors in the northern provinces have disputes, on his Shanxi has been stable, Etai was surrounded by him to obey, willing to do the second-in-command, This shows his political ability. This time, after the Mongolian army defeated the Qing army in the field battle and besieged Taiyuan, Yu Chenglong ascended the city to fortify with the support of the people of the city.
In fact, last year, he did not have the ambition of the Central Plains, in his mind, the unification of Mongolia is far more important than the march into the Central Plains, Genghis Khan has a message: as long as the Mongols are united, then I can make the sky cover the place, all become the Mongol pasture. As a great admirer of Genghis Khan, the Great Khan of Geldan certainly did not violate this admonition. The change of things began when Lin Feng entered Beijing and Yang Qilong raised troops in Henan, because of the turmoil in the Central Plains, the border defense force of the Qing court was greatly weakened, and Geerdan's iron cavalry effortlessly defeated these border troops, so in this case, Shanxi simply became an undefended piece of fat, and it was simply not bitten in vain, so the brigade set out to loot the border city, and the increasingly weak resistance of the defenders stimulated the ambitions of the Mongols more and more, and the object of plunder also went deeper and deeper into the interior, and finally developed into the present army southward to try to occupy Shanxi.
With the intervention of the Lin Han military group, this war slowly left the grasp of Geerdan, if it was earlier, he may still have some battlefield initiative, but now with the defeat of the Eastern Route Army, his situation is becoming more and more difficult, his main force is trapped under the fortified city, the northwest gate of Jin is opened, hundreds of thousands of Han troops poured into Shanxi like a tide, approaching step by step, the battlefield situation is extremely dangerous, and the Junggar army is in a dilemma, so in this case, he had to give an order on Pegasus to recall the Western Route Army that attacked Shaanxi, while beginning to think about how to get a decent result for this war.
At this time, Lin Feng's main force of the Chinese army had approached the Daizhou capital, and the Zhao Guangyuan Department of the First Army of the Han Cavalry followed the Hutuo River to the south, and converged with the Zhao Liangdong Department of the Fifth Army in Yuanping, and thousands of elite cavalry drove the Zhungar East Road Army that had fled all the way to the south, and the rumbling iron hooves trampled on the rivers and mountains in the table, and the north gate of Taiyuan Xinzhou was in danger, and even had a skirmish with the Geldan Khan tent rangers in the east of Mucheng, which was at the forefront.
No matter how Geldan blockaded, the news of hundreds of thousands of Han troops marching west into Shanxi finally reached Taiyuan City, and at first hearing the good news, the ancient city with heavy casualties and dying miraculously burst out with amazing vitality, once again driving Geerdan's siege army off the city. This is really an embarrassing and surprising message, in fact, just last year, the military and civilians of Shanxi under the leadership of the governor of Jackie Chan, have been extremely hostile to the Lin Han group, and Taiyuan governors, since Jackie Chan began, the word "Lin Feng" is always added in front of the word "bandit" and other words as a modification, gritting teeth and hating the enemy, but in terms of psychological analysis, it may not be sad for Emperor Kangxi, although the monarch's father is indeed distressed, but the sadness of a few days has passed, It's not a big deal, the reason why I really hate Lin Feng is that this treacherous villain actually instigated Yang Qilong and other grass cowards to cause trouble in the world for his own selfishness, and made a big mess in Shanxi Province - this is two natures with Kangxi being beheaded, Xuan Ye, this stupid X was cut off, and everyone sang and sang about the Yangtze River at most, and the waves swept away everything, or the hair should be like Sun Zhongmou's sigh, which is an emotional entanglement, but the peasant uprising really endangered the harmonious society of the people of Shanxi, which is a conflict of interests, This is, of course, an unforgivable crime.
But now the times have changed, under the threat of the Mongolian iron cavalry, the political consciousness of the people of Taiyuan has grown by leaps and bounds, the current situation is extremely clear, everyone in Hecheng understands that if the Junggar army wins, then according to the war style of the Mongolian army, no one in Taiyuan will survive, and on the other hand, if the Han army wins, then most of the people of Taiyuan will not be able to welcome the new life.
Fortunately, Lin Feng, the king of Han, also understood this, for this war, the peaceful liberation of Taiyuan is really of great significance, both in the battlefield situation and in the political needs have a decisive role, so when Zhao Guangyuan and Zhao Liangdong began to march into Xinzhou, the envoy of the Han King Qin has quietly set off under Wang Shirong's arrangement, and the military command department will arrange the Mongolian army to be paid in advance to communicate with Yu Chenglong in Taiyuan City.
As soon as the diplomatic envoys of the Han army left the camp of the Chinese army, Lin Feng received news that surprised him: the envoy of the Great Khan of Geldan was waiting outside the gate with wine and fat sheep.