The tenth day of the sixth month of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

The three brothers Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo led 20,000 soldiers and horses to break through the Dragon Gate and pry open the side wall to enter the pass, break through the Dragon Gate Pass Fort, and besiege the Dragon Gate Acropolis.

The Acropolis was firmly defended, and there were many firearms in the city, and after the three Azig brothers besieged the city for two days and could not break the city, they abandoned the acropolis and left it alone, divided the army, plundered all the way to the south, and marched into Baoan Prefecture together.

On June 13, Huang Taiji personally led an army of 30,000 to break through the northwest direction of Zhangjiakou Fort, Shangzhuang Fort, Xinkou Fort, three days later the army gathered on the right Acropolis of Wanquan, and after detecting the defenders of the city head and the many artillery, he waved his division to the south, looted all the way in the form of a net, and the three Azig brothers marched towards Baoanzhou.

At the same time, after besieging Chicheng for several days, the Eastern Route Army also gave up attacking this fortified city, scattered its forces, and swept all the way towards Yanqingzhou.

Daishan of the Western Route Army also spread 30,000 soldiers and horses in an all-round way, sweeping from Datong Town to Shuozhou and Ningwuguan.

Because the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen had written various states and counties, and those who fell in the city were beheaded, so there was no Ming army in Xuanda and Da to go out of the city to block Jiannu.

After Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, returned to aid Xuanfu, he was afraid that Jiannu would invade the Jingshu area from Yanqing Prefecture and Huailaiwei, so he urgently ordered Zhang Yingchang, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, to garrison Yanqing Prefecture, and several generals from Xuanzhen also gathered in Yanqing and Huailai.

Cao Wenzhao's 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry has been fighting for several years, running back and forth, fighting fires everywhere, and not long ago he just galloped day and night to help Datong, and he was already sleepy and tired of people and horses when he entered the town.

In addition, Cao Wenzhao had just taken over as the commander-in-chief of Datong, and he didn't even know how many generals there were in his town and how the distribution of troops was, and he didn't know the strength of Jiannu and the route of the march.

Moreover, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao are Datong people, their Cao family's clansmen are in the city, and many of his own soldiers and generals are also Datong people, in this case, he does not dare to throw down the town to attack, if Datong City is captured, he and the families of all the generals under his command will suffer.

The other border troops all cowered in the cities they guarded, and only when there were small groups of Jiannu around, they would come out to put on a show, and force the small group of Jiannu to retreat and then retreat back into the city.

So far, no large-scale military towns or prefecture towns have fallen, but the people outside the city who have not had time to flee have been killed.

After the four roads, the Jin army was like locusts, like a hundred ghosts walking every day, the places where they passed were ten rooms and ten empty, villages, towns and fortresses all fell one after another, all the property such as grain, money and silver, cloth, cattle and sheep were taken captive, the young and strong people were killed or taken captive as laborers, women were all taken captive, and the old and children and other weak people were all killed.

The two terrains of Xuanda are like hell, crying and shaking the sky and ambushing corpses all over the field.

……

After drinking a few large bowls of lamb wine, He Qizheng fell.

Bitou Pass and Laoying Fort also fell into Qin Chuan's control one after another.

At this point, the entire Northwest Raiders are over.

Qin Chuan also completely controlled the northwest region of Shanxi.

This area starts from Guandi Mountain in the south, reaches the Outer Great Wall in the north, starts from Yunzhong Mountain in the east, reaches the Yellow River in the west, is more than 400 miles from north to south, 300 miles from east to west, and has 16 forts in two passes, three states, four counties, and 16 forts.

The population and land of the entire region have not yet been counted, but Wang Jizong has roughly estimated that excluding the two places in Jinglelan County, there are about 500,000 mu of cultivated land in the newly occupied areas, at least 7.8 million mu of abandoned land, and more than 2 million mu of land that can be cultivated.

In fact, this amount of land is not much, and the arable land in a later Lan County is much more than this.

The territory of the newly occupied territory was about twice the size of the original territory, but the population was only about 1230,000, including 20,000 troops.

If all the abandoned land is reclaimed, the population will not be enough, and the population will at least double.

If all the land suitable for reclamation were to be cultivated, it would take three or four times as many people to plant these fields.

That is to say, including the three places in Lou Fu Jingle Lan County, Qinchuan's territory can support 800,000 people, but now he only has 200,000, and there is still a gap of 600,000.

Wen Cheng was establishing an internal affairs system in various prefectures and counties, while Wang Jizong was counting population and land, and resettling ordinary people, military households, and so on.

When they were done, they set up porridge sheds along the Yellow River, raised boats, and recruited the hardest-hit Shaanxi victims.

Wen Suxin, who had been appointed by Qin Chuan as the Financial Secretary, sent a group of officials from the Financial Secretary to go around to count the seizures of the entire Northwest Raiders.

The exact figures have not yet come out, but preliminary estimates include nearly 300,000 stone of grain, 800,000 taels of silver, more than 13,000 taels of gold, nearly 4,000 military horses, and countless other mules, horses, cattle, sheep, and silk and cloth.

The place with the most seizures in the northwest of Shanxi Province is the small plain in the northwest of Lanzhou, where there are more than 20 officials and gentlemen, landlords and old wealth, and the big officials and gentry on this land have contributed more than 150,000 stone of grain.

There were many Ming troops who were captured or surrendered, more than 14,000 people, and there were three generals above the garrison, in addition to Li Baba and He Qizheng, there was also a guerrilla general named Zhou Shun, who was the guard general who took the initiative to open the door and surrender in Baode City.

Of the more than 14,000 soldiers, nearly 2,000 did not want to be soldiers anymore, so Qin Chuan asked them all to withdraw from the army and hand them over to Wang Jizong to settle down and farm.

After a period of screening, more than 1,000 people were eliminated, most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled who were not suitable for the battlefield, and some were difficult to train, and there were even many officers.

After the screening was completed, all of these soldiers were scattered and interspersed and organized into six new battalions, which were placed in several military forts such as Hequ, Yatouguan, and Laoying Fort, and began to undergo rigorous training.

The main thing is to train the marching troops, obey the password and other disciplines, but also to train the Guan Emperor's own battle formation tactics, fighting cooperation, etc., and at night to memorize military regulations, including Li Baba He He is all the officers must participate in the training, but also to memorize military regulations, and those who can't recite it during the assessment will also be punished.

In view of the fierce and vicious spirits of Luo Daniu, Liu Youzhu and others, and the fierce combat power of Emperor Guan's army, Li Baba He Qizheng and other officers also obediently carried it.

According to what Qin Chuan said when they surrendered, they were all treated according to the treatment standards of the Guan Emperor Army, giving them three meals a day, two dry and one thin, meat every day, a monthly salary of one or two for the big-headed soldiers, and the officers were not collected at night and the officers were paid more and more silver layer by layer.

This salary is similar to that of the Ming army, but the food is much better than that of the Ming army.

At first, the soldiers were overjoyed, but within two days something went wrong.

Because these soldiers were used to being lazy, they complained one after another after two days of training, because the training volume of the Guan Emperor Army was too large, and the military regulations were too strict, and those officers beat people at every turn, and they were not lighter than the officers of the Ming Army.

There are many ** hooligans among the descendants, and there are also unruly people, almost every day there are people who disobey the discipline, and even begin to have thorns to take the lead in making trouble.

On the seventh day of training, on the training ground of the new barracks of Laoyingbao, several recruits were in a mess because they couldn't remember the password, and one of them, the former small flag officer named Li Defa, was scolding and pushing his companions while laughing and scolding, and Luo Daniu, who was not far away, immediately walked over and scolded a few times with a cold face.

Li Defa looked unhappy and muttered: "What the hell, what's the matter?" ”163

"What do you say?"

Luo Da Niu heard it word for word, and immediately walked in front of Li Defa, staring at him with the copper bell leopard eyes.

Under the gaze of hundreds of people on the school ground, Li Defa was not to be outdone, raised his chin and responded: "Don't you just remember the password?" What are you talking about, what are you doing? What are you going to say, and you're not allowed to say a few words? ”

"Yo ho, your mouth is quite hard."

Luo Da Niu rolled up his sleeves, beckoned to him, and said, "Come, I won't use military law to pressure you, I have come out with two tricks, and I will teach you how to be a man." ”

"I'm afraid you won't make it?"

Li Defa didn't dare to admit it in front of everyone, and relied on his own fists and kicks, even if he came out with his sleeves rolled.

When he stood still, Luo Daniu beckoned again: "Let's do it for you first, come on." ”

"Humph!"

Li Defa's face was full of anger, and he rushed over with his legs.

As soon as he got close, before he could swing his fist, Luo Da Niu suddenly took a step forward and kicked him in the chest, kicking him out several steps away.

Li Defat fell heavily to the ground, humming and chirping and unable to get up.

Luo Da Niu didn't intend to let him go, strode over and kicked him in the thigh.

"You fucking hit the official and still have a hard mouth, Lao Tzu won't give you any hardship today, and you won't be able to float to the sky in the future?"

Hundreds of Xiandeng battalions, who were maintaining discipline in the vicinity, quickly arrived, armed with weapons, and watched the surroundings.

The recruits on the school field watched quietly, and no one dared to say anything.

……

After dinner in the evening, in the recruit barracks of the old camp fort, Li Defa lay on the bed and gritted his teeth, the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, he suddenly got up and got out of bed, and went out to other barracks before the curfew.

His soldiers had long been dispersed, but there were still a dozen old acquaintances in the nearby barracks, and several of them had good friendships.

As Le Duc Fat walked back and forth in several barracks, it wasn't long before the barracks began to stir.

Li Defa returned to his barracks, stood at the door, and shouted inside: "This kind of pig and dog life is not as good as this, can you fucking stand it?" ”

The recruits looked at him, but no one said a word.

"Go to the damn Guan Di Army, Lao Tzu is going to Xuanda, he wants to be a soldier in the imperial court, eat and drink spicy and leisurely, before he goes, Lao Tzu has to make a scene, let those bitches know that we are not easy to mess with, which of you is willing to follow Lao Tzu?"

There was silence in the barracks for a moment, and suddenly someone answered: "Fuck it, count me as Lao Tzu, and I can't live this day." ”

"And I, I also feel that it is better to be a soldier for the surnamed Qin than to be a soldier for the imperial court."

"Good!"

Li Defa closed the door of the barracks, called the people over, and whispered a few words.

……

At that time, there was silence in the new barracks of the old camp fort, and most of the recruits who had been training for a day were asleep.

"Kill!"

In the silence, a shout suddenly came from one of the barracks.

"Kill!"

Immediately afterward, several nearby barracks rang out with shouts of killing, screams, and the sound of bed boards slamming.

The sleeping recruits woke up one after another, and in the darkness they didn't know what was happening, thinking that there was an enemy attacking at night, and they panicked around, thinking that the other party was an enemy when they met someone, and soon scuffled together.

Bomb the camp.

What the army fears most is to bomb the camp at night.

Fortunately, Qin Chuan confessed that these recruits had not been trained enough for a month, and they were not given weapons, and the battle formation training was only replaced by wooden sticks, and there were no sharp weapons in the barracks.

The recruits of the bombed battalion could not find weapons, so there were no mass casualties.

The Guan Emperor army on duty hurriedly blew the whistle and quickly rushed over to block the gate of the barracks.

Luo Daniu, who was asleep, jumped up from the bed, went out with a knife, and after not finding the enemy, he ordered 1,500 to go to the camp first, surrounded the military camp with torches, and then advanced inside while shouting.

The torches and neat shouts around made the recruits in the barracks come back to their senses one after another.

Soon, they learned that this was not a night attack, but a bombing of the camp.

When the situation was brought under control, Luo Daniu began to investigate that the barracks were blown up first.

After questioning dozens of recruits, Luo Daniu was furious: This was not an ordinary bombing camp, but a mutiny.

It's just the other way around.