Training is known to increase productivity and reduce casualties in battle.

"Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime!" It is not a verbal talk, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the soldiers and civilians have strengthened their training in the sound of military songs, sweating like rain one by one.

At the beginning of February of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Central Plains was cold in spring, and the people on the official road leading to Nanyang shouted horses.

That was the Tianxiong Army and the Tang Wangbu, which had grown to 6,000 people, and the "Red Banner Army" Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun, Pei Yuanwu, and Gu Rushan, who had grown to nearly 20,000 horses.

The Rogues are good at destruction, and they don't need any cities that have already been taken.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and others have been ravaging the area of Xiangyang and Nanyang for 40 days, and they have robbed all the gold and silver treasures, grain, and livestock that can be found.

Knowing that King Lu Yan and the "Red Devils" had killed more than 40,000 people along the way, where were they willing to stay and desperately start committing crimes again.

Huang Han knew that there were a large number of hungry refugees, and he could not exterminate the Liukou.

After analyzing the Henan intelligence summarized by the flag guards, it can be predicted that the Liukou will not choose to fight the Tianxiong Army and the "Red Flag Army".

Lu Xiangsheng and Tang Wang should have regained the lost territory with a flick of their fingers, and the elimination of the Liukou must be far away.

The "Red Banner Army" will not stupidly follow the armed march behind the rogue buttocks, but will still adopt the usual policy of recovering a place and pulling the people back from the brink of starvation.

The area of Xiangyang and Nanyang should be relatively rich places in Henan, with fertile land and beautiful water, and its ability to deal with natural disasters if it does not encounter military disasters is much better than that of other places.

The largest tributary of the Yangtze River system, the Han River, winds around the Jianghan Plain and leads directly to Xiangyang.

This section of the waterway can be navigated by flat-bottomed river ships of less than 100 tons, and the Tangbai River is connected by the Tangbai River from Xiangyang to Nanyang in the northeast direction, and there are more than 100 miles of waterway that can also be navigated by inland river ships with a displacement of less than 30 tons.

In ancient times, shipping was the lowest cost and the most efficient transportation, and it was because of this that Huang Han spared no effort to develop the shipbuilding industry once he had a foothold and capital.

After seven or eight years of development, embezzlement, robbery, and construction, Huang Han not only owned a large number of merchant ships and warships used for sea trade.

It also has hundreds of cargo ships, passenger ships, and gunboats suitable for the Yangtze River, the Han River, and inland waterway shipping with navigable capabilities.

Huang Han issued an order to Zhao Kun, Gu Zhun and other generals, and specially selected 300 young men from the guard battalion to be promoted to officers, and these young officers were to serve as grassroots officers and pacification officers, so as to strengthen the organizational structure of the "Red Banner Army" in the interior.

The reason why the seedlings were selected to join the pro-guard battalion was because Huang Han trained these thousands of people as reserve officers, which was equivalent to the officer training team in later generations.

Three hundred junior officers were released, money, food and weapons were given, and after six months, these young men would bring out 10,000 regular troops.

Once Xiangyang, Nanyang and nearby cities are recovered, the "Red Banner Army" will not leave here, and will next relieve the refugees and reclaim the ownerless land, the first thing to do is to encroach on the fiefdom of King Xiang and his king.

Tang Wang was originally a responsible person, and now his family will not care about those fiefs when things change, and the "Red Flag Army" will take the lead in organizing refugees to reclaim the fields belonging to Tang Wang's family, and they should not be resisted.

Moreover, the land of the "Red Banner Army" or landlords and bureaucrats was paid rent and national tax according to the standard of the lease agreement signed with King Lu and King Zhou, and the ownership of the land was not changed.

However, the "Red Banner Army" provided seeds, ploughing cattle, and so on, collected half of the harvest, and took over all the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that the peasants needed to bear, thus preventing the peasants from taking risks when they were exhausted and facing starvation.

Three years ago, the "Red Banner Army" was very domineering, enclosing the land of more than a dozen vassal kings and county kings and directly arranging for the tun people to cultivate, and only then did they make up the agreement to pay the rent, and the effect was very good.

Even King Lu, King Zhou, King Fu, etc. pinched their noses and recognized it, and in the end, the landlords, big and small, could only accept the status quo.

It is not that the landlords have a high consciousness, but that they know each other and know that the "Red Flag Army" is not a waste of fame, and that they can get an average of 10% of the annual land output as rent, and they can endure the evil anger in their hearts during drought and flood.

After all, natural and man-made disasters are continuous, and it is an indisputable fact that there is no strong force as a guarantee, there is no large-scale reclamation, and no water conservancy facilities for irrigation and flood drainage are built without spending blood.

In troubled times, who can organize the displaced people to settle down with peace of mind? Only Huang Han, who has the "Red Banner Army", has such financial resources, military force, and dominating power.

The current "Red Banner Army" has been developing for more than three years, and its personnel have doubled, and it has become more domineering in handling land disputes in the areas it has infected.

Of course, the Borderlands are in the bag, and as long as the Lordlands find that no one is plowing in the spring, it will be regarded as a fertile land that is about to be wasted, and the people will be arranged to cultivate it in time.

King Xiang has been inherited for more than ten generations, how many fiefs there are, how big the business is, and how much cash in the family is more than one million taels?

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng did not kill Zhu Yiming, the king of Guiyang, Zhu Changfa, the king of Fuqing, Zhu Changcheng, the king of Jinxian, and so on, but they did not let them go, and it was necessary to torture them.

After squeezing out the line of King Xiang, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Luo Rucai and other thieves led their subordinates to live a good life with plenty of money and food for forty days, and they coerced many young and middle-aged people.

There are more than 200,000 people who can fight with weapons, including more than 50,000 core people.

They refused to consume the strength they had just accumulated to fight with the Tianxiong Army and the "Red Flag Army", and chose to avoid the war.

The officers and troops in the interior are really poor, and they have long been not the standard of the Ming Dynasty, with 30% cavalry and 70% infantry.

In most of the Ming army, only a few generals had horses, and the rest were infantry, and the vast majority were infantry without armor, only cold weapons, broadswords, and spears, and even few bows and crossbows.

Why did Chongzhen not chase the Ming army after seven years, but the Liukou constantly surrounded the Ming army and killed the Ming generals?

The reason for this is that the Ming Dynasty became poorer and poorer, and the quality and equipment of the Ming army became worse and worse.

The more the rogues fought, the richer they became, the equipment of the old battalion became more and more neat, and the military quality of the big and small leaders improved rapidly after studying war in the war without interruption.

Gao Yingxiang judged the situation and decided not to fight with the strong army, and the layout was divided into four roads and three directions.

They didn't flee at all, they walked more calmly, if they found that the pursuing Ming army dared to advance alone, they would concentrate their forces to surround and annihilate them like the calculating brave general Cao Wenzhao.

The total number of the old battalion horses of the rogues is more than 15,000, and they have the ability to run.

With such strength, it will be much easier to deal with the pursuing soldiers, the quality of the infantry of the Ming army is not high, the speed of the march is not as fast as the rogue infantry, the number of cavalry is too small, and it is very likely that the rash pursuit will follow in the footsteps of Cao Wenzhao.