Chapter 850: The Lonely City Is Hard to Defend
It is obvious that the "King of Hanjiang County" is not ready to forgive the traitor generals, and the calming officials are understanding, interrogating, and mobilizing grassroots officers and soldiers to report the crimes of these generals.
This time, a new situation also appeared, more than 300 Jiannu and 20,000 Tartars were recognized as voluntary surrender by the pacification officials, and all of them were given preferential treatment.
Knowing that almost all of the Jiannu soldiers had Han blood on their hands, Huang Han also resisted the urge to carry out a massacre.
The Battle of Pingliao gradually entered a climax, and they would have to face more than 100,000 or 200,000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, and if these people all had the will to die and fought hard with the "Red Banner Army", the possibility of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of them also existed.
Whether they want it or not, it is imperative to give the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry a way to live, and of course these people who took the initiative to surrender to Cheng could not be sent to labor reform, and all of them were left to be used as auxiliaries.
The Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry with apprehension surrendered to become auxiliaries, but they didn't expect to get the opportunity to eat three meals, and there were cooking cakes every day, and they would definitely be able to eat four taels of meat in five days.
Their enthusiasm was high, and many of them took the initiative to find the magistrate to swear allegiance and express their desire to join the "Red Banner Army."
The assessment of riding skills is really difficult for more than 2,000 Tartars and Jiannu, and their riding skills are indeed stronger than the vast majority of the "Red Banner Army".
Of course, the magistrates would not digest all the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry that had just surrendered in a short period of time, and they turned a hundred or so Chinese Jurchens and Mongols into justice.
The rest organized them to study on the grounds that they were not culturally qualified, and asked them to voluntarily shave their pigtails and regrow their hair.
Knowing that those who learned Chinese quickly would be treated as regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" as soon as possible, more than 2,000 people were studying seriously, and propagandists and anti-pacification officials took the opportunity to brainwash them in the form of pyramid schemes.
Huang Han led the "Red Banner Army" to take all of North Korea and obtain a large amount of territory, and operated Chifengwei and encircled many territories.
All must be taken by all the tails, and the more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city will not all be left behind, and the tuntian fields in the east, south, and north of Jinzhou will at least temporarily give up farming next spring.
This is the front line, which may face a surprise attack by the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry at any time, and the gains of the cantonment outweigh the losses, and the soldiers and civilians who cannot get the allocation of 50 acres of tuntian fields can be evacuated to "Hanjiang Province" and Chifengwei to work and cultivate.
There is not much grain in Jinzhou City, which should be enough for more than 100,000 people to consume for about two months, but when cleaning up the property of traitors, Jiannu, and Tartars, the gold and silver treasures collected in hand are more than 2 million taels in silver.
It is enough to leave two battalions of type B and 6,000 general guards to guard Jinzhou, and only 3,000 households and less than 20,000 people will be left behind.
As long as the output of 150,000 mu of fertile land is maintained to meet the middle and lower standards, the grain harvested will be enough to feed the more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou City.
On the outskirts of Jinzhou, more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians have surrendered and been taken prisoner, and 120,000 people will be dispersed to work in mining areas and tun areas.
In order to ensure the defense of Jinzhou, 30,000 infantry and engineers of the "Red Banner Army" led more than 100,000 Jinzhou soldiers and civilians to build a defense line from Jinzhou Port to Jinzhou's southeast Jiaozi Mountain and to Jinzhou's Beitai Mountain.
Repair the forts and waiting platforms built by the original Ming army on the west bank of the Xiaoling River, and restore several fortresses in the north of Jinzhou.
Jinzhou Port to Jinzhou Beishan District is a hundred miles, the original Ming defense system is intended to focus on Jinzhou to build a fortress Great Wall to cut off the western Liaoning corridor.
Although the plan was good, it was a pity that the Ming army had no heart to fight, and all of them were huddled in the city and fortress, waiting to be broken by the Jiannu and Tartars one by one, and many castles built by the people and money were useless.
The "Red Banner Army" carried out repairs on the original Ming defense system, and due to the cement possession, the fort after repair was undoubted.
There are observers in the fort and waiting platform to monitor the defense line 100 miles east of Jinzhou using clairtelescopes and fixed telescopes, and there are several thousand cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" maneuvering, and the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry will definitely lose their troops if they touch the Jinzhou defense line again.
After the completion of the new defensive line, the Tashan defensive line will become the second line, leaving only sentry posts and a small number of defenders, and most of the garrison troops will enter the west of the Xiaoling River.
Jinzhou City is only 50 miles away from Jinzhou Port, and for the "Red Banner Army" with a strong naval division, it is impossible for the enemy to break through the city that the "Red Banner Army" wants to hold within 100 miles of the coast.
It is a consensus that a lonely city is difficult to defend, and the "Red Banner Army" can continuously provide support from the sea to the cities attacked by the enemy, such as soldiers, horses, food, and equipment, and there is no doubt that the attacking side will eventually face a crushing defeat.
For three days in a row, the "Red Flag Daily" published an article on its front page informing the people of the world that the "great victory in Jinzhou" had captured 150,000 Manchu soldiers and civilians and beheaded 2,000 or 3,000 Qing troops.
The second edition of the commentator's article explained that today's Qing army is a litter of weasels and rats, and the "Red Banner Army" is pointing at the place, and the Qing army is looking forward to the wind.
It was not only the Han army and Goryeo soldiers in the Qing army who actively surrendered, but also the Tartars and real slaves who chose to surrender.
It is an indisputable fact that the "Jinzhou Great Victory" captured a huge amount, and the eunuchs, soldiers and civilians who read the "Red Flag Daily" were amazed at the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army had actually declined.
No one doubts the authenticity of the five years of Pingliao, and everyone expects Wang Shi to set the Liaodong Day in the north, and comfort the ancestors and ancestors with this good news when the sacrifice is made.
Jinzhou is in the bag, the new defense line is in full swing, and it is impossible to defeat Jiannu within two years, and it is impossible to completely annihilate it.
But if the Jiannu and Tartars who were subdued and frightened chose to surrender, they could also avoid being in a state of conquest all the time on the prairie.
For this reason, Huang Han changed the bloody pattern of killing them and patiently promoted the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners and surrender of troops, with the aim of giving hope to the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who had lost the vast land of Liaodong.
Even if the slaves went to the prairie and lived a hard life of nomadism, fishing and hunting for a few years, they might bring their tribes to join the more affluent "Red Banner Army".
There is no need to worry too much about the Mongols and Jurchens not accepting the king, not only to adopt the mode of divide and rule and small tribes to prevent it from happening, but also to constantly recruit a large number of young and middle-aged people to form a pioneer group.
The biggest advantage of the Han people is not only that they are smart and industrious, but also that they have the world's largest population advantage, and when they go to the Americas and Australia to explore and break free, they only need to bring one-third of the different ethnic groups, which can greatly reduce the proportion of the population of the northern nomads.
As the mineral deposits in the north continue to be explored, some preferential policies were given to the Han people who worked and did business outside the customs, and several large cities were built in the distant steppes to form a resource-based economic belt.
In the long run, it is not a dream to achieve long-term peace and stability!