Li Zicheng entered the reserve list of the Dangkou Army like this......

He's definitely coming.

A post man has a fart future, he can neither be promoted nor rich, and at most he eats with food, but here his nephew is already a sentinel chief, although he does not have the official title of the imperial court, but in fact, if he needs it, a thousand households can do it.

In short, joining the Dangkou Army is definitely promising.

By this time it was already nightfall.

Yang Xin returned to his headquarters at the top of the mountain, sitting in the early autumn night breeze and looking at Huishan, who was still in the midst of war.

The firelight of the mortar shells on Toumao Peak can be faintly seen without a telescope, and the firelight that falls in a parabola across the sky turns into explosive flames on the tin mountain that can also be seen, making the eye-catching Longguang Pagoda disappear from time to time. This tower has already suffered a lot of shells, in fact, Kong Youde's main bombardment is this tower, and he wants to use cannonballs to collapse this tower.

It is the center of the Xishan Fort, and once it falls, it will definitely hit many defenders, and even the broken bricks that are blown up can fall and smash people.

But it's clear that the tower is sturdy.

And to the west of this artillery position, along the ridgeline of Toumao Peak, Ermao Peak, and Sanmao Peak, there is a bright light of torches that can be seen from time to time, which is the militia transporting ammunition to Toumao Peak overnight, and they start from Qianqiao with manpower and baskets, carrying ammunition along the mountain road to insert a ridge at an altitude of nearly 300 meters, and then follow the trail of the ridge to the artillery position.

It is true that Yang Xin only sent the Turbulent Kou army to participate in the war, with a total strength of only 12,500 people, but in fact, 30,000 reserve militiamen were mobilized in the rear, and they were like a front team, undertaking all auxiliary tasks, and there were more than 5,000 people transporting ammunition to Kong Youde alone.

They need to carry everything that Kong Youde's brigade fought in Toumaofeng with a basket.

But the vast majority are still below.

The trench system that was still being excavated day and night was stretched forward, and at this time the four twenty-four-pounder guns had reached the front line, waiting for the trench system to be dug through and then entering it, avoiding the artillery fire of the Hengshan fort until it advanced to a mile or even half a mile, and then began to bombard the fort.

And the victorious army has not yet counterattacked the top Maofeng.

It is estimated that it is still in chaos.

It was clear that they were a little caught off guard at the start of the day.

It is said that they have been preparing for this for nearly three years, spent countless amounts of silver, and even have foreign aid, so it can be said that they ran into modernization all of a sudden, thinking that they had the chance to win, but they still lost the war as soon as they started.

It's hard to accept emotionally.

More importantly, we have to adjust our strategy next, after the Chang'an army suffered a heavy defeat, or even lost nearly half of it, their current strength is already at a disadvantage, at least with the current strength in Wuxi, it is difficult to take the initiative to attack and launch a large-scale field battle. That is, relying on Hengshan Fort to block this side to attack to the south, and then find a way to recapture Maofeng back to block the Dangkou army's bombardment of Xishan Fort, but now it is their turn to attack on the back is not so easy.

Now they're a little at a loss for a while!

However, Yang Xin couldn't beat it for a while.

The location of the Hengshan Fort is so good that this fortress built on the mountain can't even dig tunnels, and all those who try to walk through the Hengshan Pass will be aimed at the guns there.

The only way to do that is to attack hard.

All that remains is for Kong Youde to hold on to Toumao Peak and then wait here for the trench system to be dug through, bombarded with twenty-four pounder cannons, and then concentrate on the elite to attack until the defenders surrender, in short, he needs some time.

However, there is still some trouble in the capital, it is obvious that Sun Chengzong will not support him to continue to troublesome Jiangnan, even the Apocalypse, this time he can't really face the obstruction of the Apocalypse, His Majesty the Emperor is obviously ready to stop, and there are wild boar skins in the north, once the autumn harvest is over, he will definitely come out to grab grain, and he will not be able to survive this winter without grabbing grain.

There's a lot of trouble!

Even just got the news that Li Dan died of illness, but this time he did not die in Pingdo, but in his own hometown of Quanzhou, where his son Li Guozhu and godson Zheng Zhilong were already fighting for the inheritance he left behind.

"Uncle, the prefect asked to see me."

Yang Huan said.

"Bring it here!"

Yang Xin said.

Soon Zeng Ying, the governor of Changzhou, was brought over.

"Brother Zhong Han is here to congratulate the officers and troops on their victory?"

Yang Xin said.

The two of them have also known each other for a long time, so they don't need to be too polite.

"It's the great victory of the Marquis of Hejian, right?"

Zeng Ying saw that no one moved a stool for him, so he simply found a stone to sit down on.

"Isn't the Dangkou Army an official army? Although the Dangkou Army is not subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, it is also a serious official army, Yang led the official army to the south and encountered the local rebellion of the party, fought against the sun, captured thousands, isn't it a great victory? ”

Yang Xin said.

"The group training will become a chaotic party? They had orders from the Nanjing Military Department. ”

Zeng Ying said.

"Huh? Could it be that the Nanjing Military Department is plotting rebellion? ”

Yang Xin said exaggeratedly.

"Isn't it the Hou of Hejian who resisted the decree?"

Zeng Ying said.

"I can't call it, Yang holds the sword of Shang Fang, and he has the right to make decisions on the spot, and this is a conflict between Chang Jiejun and the loyal army, Yang has to come, it is too much to say that the will of resistance is too much, when His Majesty's holy decree was issued, he didn't know that something happened here, Yang was also worried, worried that the conflict between the two sides would cause chaos, it was obvious that Yang had done a good job, and now the two sides have stopped fighting!"

Yang Xin said.

Zeng Ying looked at him deeply.

"Hejian Hou, if you open Huishan and go south, how will you continue the trip? Zeng is a native of Jiangxi, and he has no land in Susong's mansions, and now he is a bystander, and he has come to ask Hejian Hou to tell the truth. ”

He said.

"What's the matter? Someone wants to back off? ”

Yang Xin said.

Obviously, the battle during the day has shaken some of the gentry again, after all, they have that bit of courage, if the Chang'an army wins, even if it is a draw, they can still be brave, but the fiasco is another matter. Chang'an's army was defeated, so of course the Changsheng army could also be defeated, they spent so much silver, but the result was bound to fail, so you have to think about it. In the final analysis, this is also their daily operation, and they really can't be expected to do things with one mind, hesitation, looking left and right, and retreating are the norm.

Zeng Ying did not speak.

"What do they want? If I go south and just turn those militias into militias, they will be ashamed to let them go? ”

Yang Xin said.

Zeng Ying nodded silently.

"Look at my face, look at my scars, look here, look here!"

Yang Xin poked his face like a woman poking her delicate skin in an advertisement.

"I really want to coax them, temporarily agree and then go over first and then regret it, anyway, I won't admit it afterwards, say that it is your own nonsense, those gentry have no ability to bite me, at most they will bite you to death. But I don't like to deceive people, and I don't like to cheat people, so I can only ask you to go back and tell them, let them wash their necks, and wait for me to go under the knife! This time, none of them will run, I will put the gentry of Susongjiahu and Hangzhou in one pot, and turn all the land east of Huzhou and north of the Qiantang River into a militia area, don't they dare to buy rifled guns to shoot me black guns? Then you have to be prepared to suffer my revenge! ”

Yang Xin said very hideously.

"Hejian Hou, don't forget that you are still a minister of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zeng Ying took a deep breath and said somewhat shockedly.

"That's right, just because I am a minister of the Ming Dynasty and loyal to Your Majesty, I want to turn all the fields in these places into imperial fields and solve the problem of Your Majesty's lack of money once and for all. Six million acres of fertile land in Suzhou Mansion, this is not counting the hidden field, plus the hidden field is estimated to be eight million, in the past, it was known as Suhu ripe, the world is full, even if one acre of land is rented to His Majesty, the entire Suzhou Mansion is still six million stones! Wufu plus Zhaoyi City is 20 million a year, and with these militia Huangtian, the Ming Dynasty does not need to mention any shortage of money from now on.

Look, am I not faithful enough?

Wufu plus Zhaoyi City, with a population of more than 10 million, more than 3 million young and strong, and 300,000 elites can be obtained by drawing one out of ten.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are also there.

As long as I do this well, the Ming Dynasty will never lack money and food, and there will never be a shortage of elite soldiers, so why don't I do it as a loyal minister, a real loyal minister, not those who boast of themselves? ”

Yang Xin said.

"Hejian Hou, aren't you afraid of chaos in the world?"

Zeng Ying said.

"If there is chaos, you will be killed, whoever makes trouble will kill whom, and if you kill a million, no one will naturally make trouble, let alone how chaotic? Yang has now beaten Huishan, and he raised his arms in Wuxi City, without my hands, those tenant serfs will solve the gentry by themselves, so who do you think can make trouble? Those gentry? Did they themselves carry muskets into the streets? Or do you organize the students of each college into an army? Jokes, they can't incite the people and still mess around, they make a mess? They don't even need the army to make a rebellion, and those people will tie them up in front of Yang themselves. ”

Yang Xin said.

Zeng Ying was speechless.

He knew that what Yang Xin said was right, now the people in Wuxi City were already unstable, and a large number of poor people were being connected in series, so that the two battalions of the Changsheng Army had to stay in the city to be on guard, which was also the main reason why the gentry were a little unable to hold on.

They are afraid that they don't have to wait for Yang Xin to fight Huishan, and the people of Wuxi will do it themselves.

"Hejian Hou, why do you bother?

If you want money, they can give you money, if you want land, they can give you hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, and if you want them to pay taxes, even if the gentry pay grain in one piece, they can agree, as long as you no longer insist on dividing the land, everything else is negotiable.

It is no good for you to divide the land.

You can't get anything out of it.

On the contrary, it will force them to learn from Xu Du, and even turn themselves into enemies in the world. Even if you want to do it for the people, you don't need to divide the land and let them reduce some rent, they don't have to agree, Songjiang has reduced some of it, and they don't have to hold on to it to the end.

In the end, you have no grievances.

Even if someone assassinates you, it is only his own doing, and these gentry don't know it, so why do you have to do it? ”

Zeng Ying said in an almost pleading tone.

Yang Xin sighed, and then looked at Zeng Zhifu with sincere eyes......

"No, I'm going to divide their land, what can they do to me?"

He said.

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