Chapter 172: The Achilles' Heel of the Han Army
After leaving Lingzhou, Chen Xiong kept looking back! He also wanted to go back to his hometown to see, but his ancestors didn't know how to live on that mountain now! After hundreds of years of migration, he couldn't even find his home in his last life! Nowadays, the towns and villages of later generations are still exactly the same wilderness, and it was not until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Lingnan that the ancestors of the Chen family fled to the mountains to open up wasteland.
Political House of the Junta.
Deputy Director Wang Huacheng frowned and counted:
Not considered pro-military! Five, sixth, seventh, eighth, nineth, one army has 50,000 people, and five armies have 250,000! There are more than 100,000 sailors, 200,000 city guards and 50,000 internal guards, a total of 650,000! There are also 200,000 Zhennan Army and Anbei City Guards, and 100,000 militiamen!
950,000 plus the lord's own soldiers, there are 1 million horses! By the way, there are also 40,000 cavalry and 50,000 Han'an troops! There are still more than 100,000 city guards in the state capitals of Guangxi!
More than 1,250,000! Vice President Wang is more and more shocked!
"Chief Wu will have a total of more than 1.25 million Han troops in the spring of next year, and with the government service, there will be more than 1 million sword soldiers!" Now there are more than 10 million people in Lingnan at most, but the army is already one out of ten!
Zhao Lao also frowned when he thought about it! The number of the Han army has approached Nanming, and it has become the third warlord in the world, of course, the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of Nanming.
Chief Wu nodded: "Poor soldiers and martial arts have always been a disaster, but there are at least two million Manchu infantry horses!" The Manchu Qing Dynasty could dispatch at least a million, and the Han army could dispatch only half of the men! ”
Lin Guozhong nodded: "More than one million soldiers and horses are enough to defend Lingnan!" But to destroy the Manchus, we have to continue to expand the army! ”
"Fortunately, half of the Han army is from outside, otherwise Lingnan's manpower will also be drained!" Vice President Wang sighed! It was also prescient for the Han King to recruit the exiles!
Zhao Lao shook his head: "Although it is already very urgent to draw one out of ten, but with the support of the lord's Spirit Valley, it will not be a problem to expand the army by one million!" However, it is difficult to solve the problem of school and training! ”
Thousands of troops are easy to get, and one will be hard to find!
"Okay, let's not talk about that, the lord will be back in two days!" Wu Jiu sighed deeply, he was always cautious when the lord was away, for fear of causing trouble.
Completely defeated Annan's army of nearly one million, so that the prestige of the Han king reached its peak. No one in the Lingnan Han or any tribe dared to openly resist the Guangzhou military government, and even Qiongzhou Island began to take the initiative to surrender.
The Luzon Spaniards and Dutch were more wary of the Han army, and the officers and soldiers on the border of Fujian and Hunan provinces were even more panicked!
Zhu Ciyun of the Southern Ming Dynasty summoned the three elders again!
Shi Kefa, who hurried back, immediately saluted and asked, "Why is the Holy One so urgent?" ”
The young prince frowned and said, "It's already confirmed!" Annan was completely defeated, and he was no longer able to fight against the Han army in ten years! The Han king, who occupied the northern territory of Annam, became more and more powerful! ”
This! Shi Kefa couldn't believe it: "Annan's million barbarian soldiers were completely defeated in two months?" ”
Emperor Hongguang nodded helplessly, Annan did not become a quagmire, but became the help of the King of Han!
The emperor stopped, and Chen Shoufu immediately spoke: "The provinces of Guangxi have changed their flags, and even the tribes dare not disobey the Guangzhou Military Government!" It is reported that the Han army's land and water army has reached one million! ”
An army of millions! Shi Kefa couldn't help but shudder! Once more than 100,000 or 200,000 Han troops have already fought all over the south of the Yangtze River, if the Han army goes north, the imperial court will collapse immediately!
Even the young emperor frowned, this Han army is more terrifying than the Tartars! After all, Tartars are always alien! And King Han is already a great hero in the world!
Defeat the Tartars and defeat Annan, expand the territory to save the displaced people and stabilize the southern country! Qian Qianyi also admires King Han very much, but they are destined to be enemies of life and death!
"Hehe, although the Holy Han Army is strong, it is also an internal and external trouble!"
Seeing Qian Cifu's confident appearance, Hongguang asked anxiously: "Cifu Gao, please come quickly!" ”
Shi Kefa frowned, what wonderful theory can this straw bag have!
Chen Yan also sighed slightly! The young emperor is still impatient!
Qian Qianyi nodded calmly: "Although the Han army is strong and strong, it lacks good generals!" Many of the generals are mud legs! Although Annan is temporarily powerless, King Mingzong will taste his courage in lying down! The king of Han slaughtered millions of soldiers and civilians, and the people of Annam hated it to the core, and the disaster of Annam broke out at any time! Not to mention pirates such as Hairen and Yiren, there are two deadly ones within the Han army! ”
Two deadly! Even Chen Yan Shi Kefa couldn't help but listen carefully!
Qian Qianyi was full of smiles, and after taking a sip of tea, he spoke again: "King Han is really a mouse-eyed!" Dare to mention the surplus grain tax, this is a great crime that has never been heard of for centuries! Taxation is related to the gentry and the world's scholars, if there are no scholars who study the past and the present to rule the people by virtue, the world will not return to the point of drinking blood and not knowing etiquette and barbarism! Although the Lingnan gentry and the heads of various tribes gave in temporarily, they would definitely not be reconciled! This is a big disaster that is difficult to survive in Lingnan! The king of Han has already cut himself off from the world, from the gentry and scholars! ”
Qian Qianyi is right, most of the students in Guangzhou College have left this month, if it weren't for the fear of angering King Han, all the students would have returned home!
Chen Yan nodded: "What the second assistant said is extremely true!" In the future, Chen Xiong will no longer have any more people available. ”
Shi Kefa also agreed, but with Chen Xiong's domineering, those gentry in Lingnan didn't dare to go too far!
"Well, the second auxiliary high theory, and another fatality of the Han army, I haven't been able to understand it!" The gentry rebounded, and Emperor Hongguang had already expected it! However, the Han army mainly relied on the army, and no matter how wasteful the gentry were without soldiers, they could not harm the military government.
The second theory is Qian Qianyi's real insight, and he said solemnly: "The saint knows that the Han army mainly relies on the 30,000 personal soldiers of the Han King to support the million-strong army of the Guangzhou Military Government. But now the armies are getting stronger and stronger, and the military power is held by the generals. And the elite soldiers of the Han army lord will become fewer and fewer as they fight, and over time: the guest is strong and the master is weak! When the army of millions of people is concerned, it can't be said to be the coffin of the King of Han! ”
After speaking, Qian Qianyi was also sparse! What about an army of millions, people's hearts are fickle, and sometimes the more soldiers and horses, the more dangerous it is!
Emperor Hongguang pondered for a moment, and then immediately blushed: "Haha, Qian Cifu should be a great scholar of the imperial court!" ”
The more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, and Emperor Hongguang felt: Qian Qianyi is his Zhang Liang and Zhuge !
Chen Yan was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect this! Qian Qianyi is right, this is the biggest weakness of the Han army! If it is used well, even part of the Han army can be used by the imperial court!
Phew~ Shi Kefa is entangled and happy! The army that King Han worked so hard to build, who would have thought that an army of millions was also a double-edged sword!
"Qian Cifu, although this is the case, it is absolutely impossible to happen in a short period of time! Millions of soldiers and the people of Lingnan all respect the King of Han, and the military spirit will not change for at least ten years! Shi Kefa still couldn't help but tell the truth.
Emperor Hongguang was secretly angry, this Shi Ge Lao is really stinky and hard!
Qian Qianyi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled lightly: "If there is no external force, it is difficult to change the morale of the army!" However, there are gentry and scribes in the Han army who slowly control the military power and gossip, and there is my orthodox Ming outside. ”
Qian Qianyi clasped his fists and saluted, once again expressing his loyalty to Daming!
The young Hongguang immediately felt the warmth of the loyal ministers, Qian Cifu was really a charcoal in the snow!
"The second assistant is really a godsend, sit down quickly, don't be tired."
Qian Qianyi looked flattered and hurriedly replied: "Thank you, Lord Longen!" The fate of the great tomorrow will eventually prosper! ”
Hongguang is even more fortunate, even Chen Yan began to be full of confidence!
Shi Kefa bowed his head and sighed! Maybe Qian Qianyi is right, people's hearts are the most difficult to control! He knew that Chen Xiong had low emotional intelligence, and it was difficult to win people's hearts! But he relied on domineering, Chen Xiong didn't die, who would dare to resist!