Chapter 727: The First Battle of Pingliao
It feels good that there is no natural enemy Sun Chuanting, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Lao Huihui led the men and horses through Heishuiyu in Zhouzhi County, and there was no Ming army ambush, and they walked without danger.
Gao Yingxiang did not forget Jin Minghu, one of the eighteen generals he appointed.
Send people to Taihang Mountain to find the "winged tiger" department with strong soldiers and horses, and ask them to go down the mountain to join forces with the "Generalissimo of Fengtian Advocate Righteousness and Civil Martial Arts" to conspire with each other.
Zhao Shisan, Jin Minghu, and others are having a good time now, because the "Red Banner Army" actually controls most of Shanxi, and the Taihang Mountain where they are stationed is actually in the middle of the conquest of the generals and the sphere of influence of the imperial court.
Since he told the 800 bandits who won the trust of Zhao 13 and Jin Minghu because of their heroic battles with the Qing army, and accepted them as the "Red Banner Army", everyone enjoyed the treatment of regular soldiers.
This Biaoshan bandit armed force has more than 1,000 regular soldiers and flag guards of the "Red Banner Army", and the big and small leaders are all "Red Banner Army", with a total strength of more than 10,000 and a total population of nearly 100,000.
Thinking that he had the possibility of becoming a general of the Ming Dynasty, the leaders of the "Winged Tiger" department had a new mental outlook, and during this time, they spared no effort to strengthen the training of their subordinates, and their discipline and combat effectiveness were greatly improved.
It is impossible for the old bandits among the rogues and bandits to be poor, and they have accumulated many good things, but the gold and silver treasures in their hands are difficult to use to buy food and supplies.
Jin Minghu and Zhao Shisan were completely different, they could not only get military salaries and food supplies, but also use the accumulated gold and silver to buy food from the nearby "Red Flag Grain Store".
Due to the particularity of the "Winged Tigers" department, the seizures and return to the public were not attributed to the headquarters of the "Red Banner Army" but to the collective of the "Winged Tigers", and were distributed by Zhao Shisan, Jin Minghu, Qi Yuguo, and other generals after joint consultation.
Therefore, the financial autonomy of the "Winged Tigers" is much greater than that of the regular barracks of the "Red Banner Army," and they have money and are able to buy daily necessities and some consumer goods from the commercial banks and grain stores of the "Red Banner Army" system.
Now generals such as Zhao Shisan, Jin Minghu and others can often drink the general's Triumph series of liquor.
The family members of this Biao people also work in the mountains, and they can also earn some income by farming, hunting, collecting mountain medicinal materials, etc.
No matter how often he goes out to the mountains to rob landlords and fight local tyrants, and constantly eats black and fights bandits, and rogues make some extra money, the small life of the "winged tiger" department is of course prosperous.
They formed an armed separatism in the mountainous areas of Shanxi, Henan and Beizhili.
More than a dozen county towns and state towns in the region have been infiltrated by flag guards, and most of the county lords and governors have reached a tacit understanding with the "winged tiger".
Because there is a strong bandit in the mountain, who is famous, and once beat the Qing army to lose their armor.
Therefore, no other Liukou was willing to come here to brush the tiger's beard, and no official army dared to enter the mountains to suppress them, and the nearby mountain towns were less likely to be affected by the war.
For Huang Han, the current top priority is not to kill the Liukou, but to complete the five-year Pingliao plan.
Everything is ready, the first battle of Pingliao is about to begin, and the target of the sortie is Seoul, North Korea, and the landing point is Ganghwa Island.
Liang Tingdong, Zhang Fengyi, Zheng Xiaowen, Yang Yipeng, Kong Wenshi and other civil officials all knew that this battle was destined to go down in history, and they all asked to serve in the army.
After receiving the approval of the general of the conquest, they rushed to Tianjin and went to sea with a few family members and a light car.
Today's Tianjin Wei is unprecedentedly prosperous, with merchant ships, cargo ships, and warships flowing endlessly, and more than 50 passenger four-wheeled carriages on land enter and leave the station within an hour.
Not only do you run more than a dozen shifts a day in Beijing, but also run Yongping Mansion, Tiger Cave City, Santun Camp, Zunhua, Baoding, etc., and even Jinan Mansion, there are regular shifts.
Due to the fact that the river has just been opened, the north-south water transportation has resumed, and the inland river wharf that has been deserted for a winter is also busy, and groups of slender men shout the trumpet and lean forward and strive to move forward, and a large amount of grain transported from Jiangnan and Huguang is distributed here.
Tianjin Wei's territory belongs to the "Red Banner Army" for nearly a year and a half, Yang Hanwei, Zheng Xuewu led two battalions of men and horses to garrison here, and now the original Ming army has been completely transformed, at the end of last year, when the army was greatly expanded, part of it turned into a regular soldier, and part of it became the guard army.
This time, Zheng Xuewu's battalion will lead three thousand households to participate in the Korean War, and Yang Hanwei's battalion and three thousand households will stay behind.
The territory of the "Red Banner Army" is different, and the biggest feature is that there are no beggars and vagrants.
The Ming Dynasty had no human rights, and when the guards found beggars, they would arrest and send them to brick kilns to fend for themselves.
In the absence of a sufficient subsistence job for all, the presence of healthy people begging on the streets cannot be tolerated, and forced labour is a must.
There are no beggars, everyone is self-reliant, there are old ladies with small feet who participate in the management of the city to make a living, there are a large number of public toilets and water supply and drainage systems, and the prosperous and tidy Tianjin Wei has attracted many officials and businessmen to settle here.
Because Huang Han attaches great importance to medical and health care, he has been training medical teams to open hospitals, and now dozens of modern hospitals have been opened in Gyeonggi and even the entire Daming Prefecture, and blood transfusion and infusion therapy have gradually been recognized by the public.
The direct result is that the people who should have died in history did not die because they received relatively scientific treatment, and it is very likely that they will live for a few more decades after they escape.
The most typical example is Xu Guangqi, who now plays Tai Chi for half an hour every day, teaching and educating people in the morning and guiding graduate students to engage in scientific research in the afternoon, feeling that he is getting younger and younger.
Wu Youxing, Li Zhonghua, Li Zhongzi, Shen Langzhong, Ma Yuanyi, Jiang Xiji, Ye Zifan, You Cheng, and other medical scientists with official status received financial and human support from the "Red Banner Army," and everyone was refreshed.
When they take up a post in a certain place, a new hospital will be opened in a certain place, and they will also sit in the hall to consult with each other.
Scientific medical treatment and strengthened health control have reduced the tragic number of pregnant women who died of childbirth by more than 70 percent, and the infant mortality rate has been greatly reduced.
In order to prevent ordinary people from risking pregnant women to give birth at home in order to save money, the system has made a provision that all military families can enjoy the benefit of going to the hospital to give birth for free.
It is not the military and civilians in the system, and the medical services provided by the hospital are not cheap, and more than ninety percent of them are enjoyed by high-ranking officials and nobles, because the small people of Shengdou cannot afford it.
The hospital of the "Red Flag Army" system is called "Renyixin", and the brand of Chinese patent medicine produced is also "Renyixin", which is taken from the five constants of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith" in the Han civilization.
How can the "Renyixin" hospital under the "Red Banner Army" be built to serve the rich? Wouldn't it ruin the good reputation of the military and civilians?