Chapter 767: Jiannu has a hard time
He Luo will have a secret talk with Dolgon before coming to Pyongyang, patting his chest and saying that he will spare no effort to assist Duoduo in bringing the men and horses back to Liaodong, and at this time, Duoduo will take the initiative to provoke the "Red Banner Army".
In fact, Ho Luo would have persuaded Duoduo to leave, but this young and vigorous master did not accept his advice, and he had to wait and see, saying that he would take a hard look behind their butts when the "Red Banner Army" attacked Pyongyang City to see the effect.
No way, the family is a prince, He Luohui is just a Jia Lae Zhen, the status of Duoduo is 108,000 miles apart, Duoduo refuses to retreat immediately, and he doesn't dare to take his own people to go first, so he can only accompany his master.
It is a pity that the "Red Banner Army" waited for Pyongyang to attack Pyongyang and plagiarize people's back roads, and the "Red Banner Army" did not attack Pyongyang and directly attacked Duoduo's camp.
Duoduo was furious, he knew that the "Red Banner Army" had not enough troops to trap his 13,000 Manchu Mongolian cavalry outside Pyongyang, and now the purpose of pressing over was obvious, and he refused to accept the enemy on his back.
It seems that it is impossible to run away from it cheaply. Go empty-handed!
The Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry did not meet the battle, and the infantry and artillery of the "Red Banner Army" did not participate in the pursuit, and retreated to the outer line of Pyongyang on the same day.
The cavalry followed unhurriedly for a whole day, and forced the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry back for more than 200 miles before setting up camp, with hundreds of military dogs participating in the patrol, and the possibility of being successfully attacked by the enemy did not exist.
Including the cavalry of the Guards Battalion, the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" will not return to participate in the battle for Pyongyang City, but will participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Duoduo as a mobile force.
Anyway, Kong Youde, who didn't have a war horse, couldn't run, and Liu Fenyong personally led two thousand cavalry on the outskirts of Pyongyang to pick up the missing and make up for the leaks!
Kong Youde is bitter! After completing the spring ploughing, it was not his turn to harvest in the autumn, and seeing that the wheat was yellow, the "Red Flag Army" was killed.
On August 8, five days after the "Red Banner Army" took over the outlying positions in Pyongyang, no one was worried about being attacked by the Duoduo Division, and Liu Zaiqi, Jiang Xin, and others took 10,000 troops from the General Guard and nearly 200,000 Han people and Koreans who could be found to harvest wheat.
The area around Pyongyang has a mediocre year, the land is not fertile, and most of it is grown with wheat, the rest is miscellaneous grains, and no new crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and maize are grown.
On average, the harvest of one mu of wheat field can reach only nine buckets, and the wheat field cultivated by 4 million mu can harvest 3.6 million stone wheat.
It is estimated that less than 1 million acres of land for growing miscellaneous grains can also be obtained at least 500,000 stone of miscellaneous grains.
With this food, two million people can be fed.
Because there are many mountains in Korea, after the war, a large number of mountain people or soldiers and civilians who fled to the mountains will be found or will take the initiative to go down the mountain and ask to be taken in.
It is estimated that the area from the east of the Yalu River to Kaesong should be able to find at least one million people, plus more than 100,000 troops dispatched to eat, and the surplus food can meet the needs of 500,000 immigrants.
Hoarding areas south of Kaesong have been formed, most of which are cultivated with rice, and only a small amount of sweet potatoes and potatoes are cultivated due to the limited number of breeding.
There is no mistake in this year's harvest, and the average yield per mu is close to two stones of rice, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of surplus grain to meet the needs of one million people.
After the seizure of Korea, the "Red Banner Army" system had enough food to provide a large number of hungry people in the interior and transfer them to the "Hangang Province" for reclamation.
Jiannu lost this land and couldn't buy grain through the Jin merchants, how will they live next year's spring famine?
In the year of the Apocalypse, Xiong Tingbi's plan was to trap and starve to death Jiannu, and launch an all-out attack to completely pacify Liaodong when the population of Houjin died due to a serious lack of food.
Under the leadership of Huang Han, the "Red Banner Army" system was like an arm, blocking the Yalu River and the coastline, and guarding the border walls of Xuzhen, Xuanda, and Taiyuan, so that Jiannu could not get a grain of rice or an iron nail.
Another large-scale attack will be launched on the eve of the autumn harvest next year, making it impossible to harvest normally in the areas where Jiannu is entrenched, and making the already unsustainable food shortage of the tun people even worse, and it is estimated that many people will starve to death in winter.
The first thing he did when he entered Pyongyang was to evacuate the first line of defense, and all of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians he thought could not be trusted were put on the second line of defense.
Kong Youde retreated to Pyongyang City and resisted stubbornly, and made up his mind not to surrender! Why is this person so stubborn, like Wang Ba who eats a scale and hammers and is determined to be a traitor to the end?
It was a few days after the end of the Battle of Seoul, and the news of Geng Zhongming's sudden death was published in the Daming Di Newspaper, causing Huang Han to hide the news but couldn't do it, so he simply didn't care.
Soon the "Red Flag Daily" continued to publish articles by commentators, and of course they would not say a good word for Geng Zhongming, but on the contrary, they all unanimously recognized that evil has evil retribution.
Kong Youde also has sources, he even got the Daming Mansion newspaper and the "Red Flag Daily", and learned that Geng Zhongming, who had defected and surrendered, killed three or four thousand Jiannu and Tartars and died suddenly and unexplained.
Knowing that Zhang Cunren was captured, he slashed at the entrance of the Jingshi Cai Market for three days, and it took 3,600 knives to swallow his breath, and the meat was eaten by the soldiers and people of the Jingshi.
Kong Youde believes that surrendering is a dead end, and being captured cannot escape the bad luck of a thousand cuts.
Obviously, Geng Zhongming's death and Huang Han are not unrelated, so it can be seen that surrendering the "Red Banner Army" may be self-defeating, and there may be a glimmer of life in resisting the reinforcements that are waiting for the master.
Over the years, Kong Youde always can't help but reminisce about the past, thinking that when he retreated from Denglai, he had hundreds of artillery, more than 10,000 men and horses, and carried more than 500 miles of snowflakes and silver.
Now it can be asserted that it is not a coincidence at all, Huang Han has been calculating the Denglai rebels for at least half a year.
Huang Han was so insidious and vicious, he designed a trap early and waited for the Denglai rebels to take the bait, and whenever he remembered that sea adventure, Kong Youde was always indignant.
It's not that I haven't thought about betraying the Qing Dynasty and joining Ming Kong Youde again, but he will always pass the Huang Han level, Geng Er has already tried, if he Kong Youde is sent to be slaughtered again, wouldn't it make the world laugh off his big teeth?
Kong Youde convened the generals stationed in Pyongyang to discuss the matter, and Zhang Hongmo, Yang Huazheng, Liu Shiying, Sheng Zhong, Chen Bianwu, Fang Xianke, Liu Wuyuan, and other generals listened attentively to Kong Youde's reading of the "Red Flag Daily" that described the fate of Zhang Cunren and Geng Zhongming.
Most of these were Ming generals who were either captured in the battle of Dalinghe in the fourth year of Chongzhen, or who voluntarily surrendered to Jiannu, some were the Guanning army of Zu Dashou, and some were subordinate to Zhang Chun's reinforcement of Liao.
They heard that their old friend Zhang Cunren was cut by a thousand knives and eaten by the soldiers and civilians of Beijing, and they were dripping with cold sweat.