It didn't take long for the rogue soldiers who recovered their combat effectiveness to fight out of Mopan Mountain in three ways, and the thieves led by Yan Zhenghu laid down Jiaocheng, and Wenshui coerced tens of thousands of people to enter Taiyuan.

After the two thieves Xing Hongniang and Shangtianlong broke the two cities of Wucheng and Xiangyang, the number of people doubled instantly, and now they are heading towards Fenzhou.

The third way is even more powerful, and the thief head is the famous Zijin Liang King and the "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong.

This road of thieves is simply overwhelming, even down to Qinzhou and Wuxiang, and Liaozhou is known as 100,000 people.

With the "Red Banner Army" taking the initiative to attack Beiyu and threatening that the Ningyuan and Jinzhou defense lines were impregnable, it would be difficult for the 350,000 men and horses of Dongnu and Tatar to shake it, and there were signs of improvement in border affairs.

The "Red Banner Army" fought the northern captives and fought the Dongnu without a single defeat, and had the right to speak and credibility in the imperial court, so they threatened that the defense lines of Ningyuan and Jinzhou were impregnable, and basically no adult thought that Huang Han was boasting about himself.

There was no suspense about Fang Zhenghua playing Ming to pacify Denglai, and when Chongzhen just felt that he could celebrate the New Year with peace of mind, civil strife broke out on a large scale.

Shaanxi was shattered by the bandits, and now Shanxi has been broken by a small half, and hundreds of thousands of millions of homeless people are forced to leave their homes and start fleeing, and in the absence of food and clothing, these people will soon turn into mobs and gangsters.

Chongzhen was already a little afraid of the combat effectiveness of the "Red Flag Army", but he wanted the Ming Dynasty to have more troops like the "Red Flag Army" that could win battles.

The emperor couldn't sleep well, and every day he wondered what to do next? Is it possible to send a part of the "Red Banner Army" into the customs to go to Shanxi to suppress the Kou?

Dividing his troops was the only way to weaken the border generals, but the emperor was worried that the unstable defense line of Guanning would directly lead to Jiannu being able to attack Shanhaiguan.

If there is a mistake in Shanhaiguan, it will shake the Jingshi, and the capital will have to face a defense battle, and the land of Gyeonggi will inevitably be ruined again.

Chongzhen, who was in a dilemma, lived a miserable life, and he was really helpless in the face of the chaos of the Ming Dynasty.

In mid-December, Huang Han led most of his men and horses to Gaotai Fort.

This city, which has always been garrisoned by the Ming army, is not small, with a circumference of more than five miles, and is now of course the territory of the "Red Banner Army", and the number of military and civilian households living here has reached as high as 15,000.

That was due to the fact that with the "Red Banner Army" stationed on the front line of Ningyuan, the southwest of Ningyuan seemed to be safer, which directly led to the migration of the guards and tunhu families between Ningyuan and Jinzhou to the west.

Most of these people are Liao people, and they were originally the targets of the Guanning army led by Zu Dashou, and when Jiannu kills them, these people will become cannon fodder.

The "Red Banner Army" was not afraid of offending the Guanning Army at all, and when it was found that Liao people had entered the Ningyuan defense line, as long as they were people with their families, they were allowed to enter for screening.

As long as a single young man has a certain Liao family as a guarantee of his innocence, he will also be accepted, and then he will be given acres of land for resettlement.

Anyway, the consistent policy of allowing entry and not allowing entry and exit is adopted here, and even if they are mixed in with the spies in the cantonment areas where military management is strictly enforced, these people will not be able to make waves.

Yang Tang to stop boiling is like taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle, transferring Zu Dashou's soldiers, and then luring the Liao people in his jurisdiction to cross the Ningyuan defense line, the ancestral family will not be able to bear it for a long time, and the Zu Dashou organ will make bets at both ends, and in the end it will definitely become a person inside and outside!

The western expedition was a complete success, and although the gold and silver treasures seized were only eighty or ninety thousand taels in silver, they were almost enough to give a reward to the soldiers who had the ability to behead them.

Many Tartars died from shelling and shooting, so the verification of battle exploits was carried out in coordination, and under normal circumstances, several heads were counted as a full level of effective capture.

However, it is completely different to calculate the number of decapitations given to cavalry, and the number of beheadings obtained during the charge duel is counted as one.

The "Red Banner Army" was very strict in its nuclear skills, and it was not like other Ming armies that rushed up to cut off their heads, and it didn't matter who killed them, or who got the enemy's heads, the military merits belonged to them.

This kind of distribution is too unfair, and it will lead to inactive killing, and when you grab the head, you can fight by yourself.

The "Red Flag Army" confirmed the merits of the war through the on-site records of the pacification officials and the soldiers proved each other, and the phenomenon of ripping off skin would exist, but it could be basically accurate, and Huang Han also stipulated the reward method for not letting honest people suffer.

It is true that military merit means reward and promotion, but a soldier who is too calculating and a soldier who bears it silently will be completely different when examining political literacy, and it is of course the latter who will be promoted in the end, even if his military merit is less.

There is such a typical case in the "Red Banner Army", Wang Zhicheng is on a rampage in every battle, he only kills the enemy and never harvests the enemy's head, but his current position is higher than most of the robes who followed Huang Han in the same period.

Artillery can shoot a large area of scattered shells, and a single cannon may be able to kill dozens or hundreds of enemy troops, and it is very unrealistic to give people a head reward at the level of a few dozen taels of silver.

Wouldn't it lead to everyone asking to be an artilleryman, and Minnie's gunners could kill three or five or even a dozen enemies with their hands and feet when the enemy was charging in a group, and for the sake of fairness, they could not be rewarded according to the order of tens of taels.

At present, in the "Red Banner Army", only when the cold weapon is hedged, the first-level tartar is cut down and given 20 taels of silver, and the first-class real slave is given 40 taels of silver, and the use of hot weapons to kill the enemy army is counted as first-class nuclear merit at the third, fifth, and seventh levels.

The "Red Banner Army" is constantly improving, its regulations are constantly being standardized, and of course the calculation of military merits is also advancing with the times.

Huang Han stayed in Gaotaibao for a few days, settled some of the rescued Han people, visited the ordinary people of Shandong who crossed the sea to Tunbian, and gave each family a few catties of mutton and a bucket of wheat for the New Year.

General Pingliao personally went from house to house to send warmth to the war victims, and of course received too much praise, and many Shandong people who were apprehensive when they first arrived immediately felt much more at ease.

Iron mines, coal mines, and kiln factories are all producing, and the preparation of materials in the cement plant requires too much strong labor, and now too many men are crushing stones to prepare for the big production in spring.

In large houses heated by honeycomb coal stoves, there are often dozens or even dozens of women collecting shoe soles, spinning, spinning wool, knitting sweaters, and weaving cloth.

Knitting sweaters is a new thing that has gradually emerged in the past two years, and the initiator is, of course, Huang Han.

It's strange to think about it, spinning, spinning linen, and weaving are much more complicated than spinning wool to weave sweaters, why didn't anyone in Daming think of knitting sweaters?

Da Ming's first sweater came from Cailian's hand, which was of course the result of Huang Han's guidance.

How smart the Han people are! With this point, several of Huang Han's maids not only learned to knit sweaters, but also led all the women in the mansion, and then the families of the generals who lived in Tiger's Den City were keen to knit a sweater for their relatives in Rongbian.