Chapter 544: The Yellow River is frozen

The teenagers still take honesty and good equestrianism as the first consideration, followed by having martial arts, and finally being a powerful fierce man, so the horses among the common people have become fragrant and sweet.

More than 20,000 people were persuaded back, leaving more than 5,000, of which 3,000 were responsible for taking care of the war horses, pulling horses, and pack horses.

At present, there is no requirement for the families of these more than 5,000 people to cross the sea to Lushunkou or the western Liaoning corridor to reclaim land, and there is too much population during this time, and there is no shortage of people outside the customs for the time being.

Moreover, the vast majority of these people have not suffered from the scourge of rogues and slaves, their families are relatively intact, and their lives can still go on, and they have been attached to the "Red Banner Army" for a few days, and the trust between them still needs to be stabilized.

When some of the soldiers who volunteered to join the army were given the opportunity to become regular soldiers, they knew that the military salary would be enough to support their families, and they saw with their own eyes that the soldiers who had won military merits would be promoted and made rich.

At that time, the town magistrate proposed that the "Red Banner Army" must enter the system to farm and work, and it is believed that it will come to fruition.

Tens of thousands of inspired men who appeared among the hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged people took the initiative to sign up to join the army, and the number of people who were selected and selected was one out of five, and the overall quality and quality of these men were far greater than those who had become displaced people who had served with the army according to the standard of one out of two.

As a result of the continuous drawing, more than 5,000 people have taken the initiative to join the army, and the number has exceeded 20,000.

Huang Han no longer needed so much labor to accompany the army, and more than 10,000 people who were drawn were released from labor and sent to the corridors of southern and western Liaoning to reunite with their families and prepare for a worry-free New Year.

Most of these people have served for more than half a year, and according to their performance, they will be rewarded with at least one tael of silver and one stone of miscellaneous grain when they come to their new home, not including the remuneration they deserve that has already been received by the family.

The resettlement of displaced people outside the customs is not a unified standard, and the hundreds of thousands of former thieves are basically resettled in Ningyuan Waiguo.

Tuntian is a newly integrated 1 million acres of cultivated land between the northeast of Ningyuan and the south of Tashan, and this year there are a large number of new tun people, and Tuntian can also develop hundreds of thousands of acres to the west, and there are still many mountains where maize can be planted.

The first line of defense built around Tashan Nanbao, which was about fifty miles away from Ningyuan, could not withstand the attack of Jiannu in any case.

When the offensive and defensive battle began, the "Red Banner Army" would inflict a lot of casualties on Jiannu here, and then retreat to the main defense line centered on Ningyuan, and it was the territory that would never give up from here to Shanhaiguan.

Later, the Jin army came to attack Liaoxi, which would not cause the people to be coerced or killed, and although Tashan South Fort was the first line of defense, it was not paper-based, and the ravines and ravines were enough to block the cavalry raid.

If Jiannu wants to attack, it is necessary to play a battlefield battle, and it is not a problem for thousands of regular soldiers and thousands of guards to hold on for ten days and half a month in the face of the attack of twenty or thirty thousand Jiannu.

Every family of Tunmin will participate in military training, and they will also simulate how to retreat in an orderly manner when Jiannu attacks in peacetime, and Ningyuan built a waiguo that extends all the way to the sea, and such a large territory is more than enough for 500,000 people.

It's just that the loss of millions of acres of tuntian in the northeast of Ningyuan cannot be avoided, and if Jiannu still launches an attack after the autumn, the loss will be minimal.

These Tunguska savages did not have the ability to take down Ningyuan City, which was heavily garrisoned by the "Red Banner Army" thermal weapons troops.

After a few months of getting along day and night, the laborers who were drawn were accustomed to the military career, and they were very satisfied that they could earn food and salary for their families while being able to eat and wear a uniform on a full stomach.

When they learned that they had been released from labor and were about to go to their new homes, many people were reluctant to leave, and too many were crying silently.

The propaganda team and the town magistrate began propaganda again, telling these people not to worry about not having the opportunity to earn food and wages, and that if they went to southern Liaoning and Ningyuan, they could ensure that the family could not worry about food and clothing.

Presumably, there are at least 10,000 or thousands of Xintun people outside the customs this year, who are very pleasantly surprised before the New Year, of course, because the men in the family have not only come back but also raised strong, and have also brought back food and silver for their families to have a well-fed New Year.

More than half of the laborers who were drawn were eliminated, and those who were left behind were naturally strong or skilled people, plus more than 5,000 people selected from tens of thousands of strong men who took the initiative to sign up for the army.

Because most of these people who took the initiative to join the army were yeoman farmers or tenants, among them there were also hunters, artisans, and many horse households.

They were not forced to make a choice, and many of the people who thought they were outstanding in martial arts or skilled in riding came with a longing and followed the "Red Banner Army" with the good wish of making military achievements and striving to obtain a glorious lintel for an official and a half-year.

Huang Han led the "Red Banner Army" to be stationed in Zhangde Mansion and Weihui Mansion, which not only ensured the safety of King Lu, but also ensured the smooth completion of the cash-for-work relief, and also improved the defense of the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, so that the thieves could not flow eastward.

Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou, Xu Dingchen, and Lu Xiangsheng have not been idle in the past few months, they have reorganized their men and horses, and with the border army with combat effectiveness as the main force, they have taken the momentum of encirclement and killed the Qinyang and Jiyuan areas where the 36 battalions of Gao Yingxiang, Lao Huihui, and the Eight Kings are entrenched.

There are a lot of concentrated generals, basically including all the battalions that can be fought in the north of the Ming Dynasty, including more than 6,000 Guanning troops led by Wu Xiang and his son, Zu Kuan, and Zu Dabi, and the men and horses brought by Wu Zimian, the chief military officer of Yansui.

There are also He Renlong, Wang Servant, Ai Wannian, Wang Chengen, etc., among which there are thousands of soldiers of his old friend Deputy General Huang Weizheng and General Han Zhikuan, and the most fierce is still Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew.

In mid-November, the surging Yellow River froze three feet, and the Liukou, who was already about to fall into a desperate situation, crossed the Yellow River and entered the territory south of the Yellow River in Henan.

As a result of the freezing of the Yellow River, there was no natural danger to rely on, and the world where the rogues could move was even broader, and no matter how many officials and troops tripled, they could not complete the encirclement and suppression, and it became a chase war.

At this time, the territory south of the Yellow River in Henan was not destroyed by the Liukou, which meant that the Liukou would receive a large amount of food, supplies, and gold and silver treasures.

The officers and soldiers who followed and killed were uneven, such as Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, and Wang Servant who were not keen on killing rogues, and they took the opportunity to loot and did a great job.

This is actually a historical turning point, at the end of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Liukou crossed the Yellow River, which made the weak Ming Dynasty worse, causing tens of millions of people to fall into dire straits, directly leading to the death of millions of people.

The funniest thing is the content of the primary school textbook in the late seventies: "King Li Chuang led the peasant army to the edge of the Yellow River." The team is ready to cross the Yellow River to eliminate corrupt officials and landlords and bullies, and to rescue the suffering people. ”