"It seems that this car battalion is still very useful."

Yang Qing looked at the battle report and said.

The battle on the banks of the Zihe River ended with the arrival of two other brigades of marines reinforced after the capture of Weixian, plus the arrival of the cavalry brigade, and Bolo fled the battlefield in a hurry with the remaining 15,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.

However, the losses of the Ming army were also very large.

Two infantry brigades of 8,000 people, in this cold weapon battle casualties of 2,000, fortunately, because of the super protection ability of plate armor against cold weapons, the vast majority of them were injured, and the real dead were only 400, but this is already the heaviest casualties of the Ming army in this battle. And the most important equipment in this battle is still the side van, although many side cars were crushed by the dead body, it is indeed the strongest defensive effect against the cavalry......

In this way, there is no need to adapt it for the time being.

Yang Qing's original plan was to gradually line infantry after the production capacity of flintlock muskets increased, but for the time being, at least in the north, it is still cautious.

Continue to maintain the establishment of the vehicle battalion.

The original arquebus was then gradually replaced with a flintlock pistol, which affected mobility but was not a problem on the northern plains, while the cavalry tactics had an incomparable advantage over the hollow phalanx, which could protect the infantry to the greatest extent in the face of nomadic cavalry attacks.

Especially when it's raining.

After all, flintlock pistols are the same, they are useless in heavy rain, and there is no essential difference in this until they are upgraded to a flintlock pistol.

As for the South, there is no other way.

The rivers here are undulating and mountainous, and it is impossible to play with the chariot battalion, not to mention that the southern battlefield will not face a large-scale nomadic cavalry, even if it rains heavily, bayonets alone are enough to deal with it. At this point, don't apply Europe, the situation of the Ming Dynasty is different from Europe, except for the Czech Republic, which briefly used chariots in the wars of religion, other countries have not used this kind of thing, mainly because it is a broken terrain similar to the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Although they also have the Great Plain of Eastern Europe.

But in the rainy season in the Eastern European Plains, it is difficult for chariots to move, and in winter the snow is also difficult to walk......

The mustache can testify.

Therefore, in this kind of thing, we cannot completely apply the Europeans' set, we must according to the situation of the Ming Dynasty itself, whether it is the North China Plain or the northern grassland or even the northwest desert area, in the face of the super mobile nomadic cavalry, the Ming infantry must keep chariots to protect themselves.

It can even be improved later.

The infantry-driven vans were improved to the vehicle-mounted infantry of the carriages, so that mobility and protection could be taken into account, and the chariot city surrounded by hundreds of four-wheeled carriages in the open grassland, with cannons and flintlock muskets, basically made the nomadic cavalry despair. With this tactic, it is completely possible to sweep the grassland, but the premise is that Yang Qing has enough horses, in the final analysis, horses are the basis for conquering the grassland, there is no other way, no matter how he accelerates the development of science and technology, it is impossible to fundamentally solve this problem.

"Master Hou, this is the list of all the arrests."

Yang Yong handed him a list.

Here is a list of those smugglers, from those in charge of the smuggling business, to the local officials who provide them with protection, and even the officers of the garrison......

The Navy is not used.

The navy was all instructed by Yang Qing.

But those coastal defense patrols that were reformed from the old guards are not, in fact, there are not many, mainly Antonwei's, and the Haizhou military households of the Ming Dynasty actually belong to Antonwei. After the militia was reinstated, these guards became militia officers who maintained their establishment, and in addition, a small number of militia were recruited to maintain coastal patrols.

The same is true everywhere else.

Anton Guard's officers were all on the list of smugglers.

There are also food providers.

Although these people should not be counted theoretically, after all, the internal grain trade in the Ming Dynasty is legal, and it is not illegal for them to sell grain to those smugglers, but it is illegal for those smugglers to smuggle to the north.

But......

But Yang Qing just wants to do things.

He has to get his hands on the military expenses for this war, which has been going on for less than two months! He has already exhausted the reserves of the two major capitals of Xuzhou and Dengzhou, and even the second-line reserves of Huai'an are about to be exhausted, not to mention that he will have to relieve the hungry people in Shandong next. The cause of this war was the famine in Shandong, in fact, relief had already begun, in addition to the cities that had been conquered to open warehouses and release grain, the relief grain transported from the south had also been put into Shandong to be distributed by the army, which also led to the price of grain to rise again.

It's all money!

Although this war also silenced those who wanted the court to pay to redeem the emperor, the military expenditure of more than seven million taels still made Yang Qing very unhappy.

The household department is really out of money.

At present, the household sector is supported by loans and government bonds.

This has to be done by a wave of raids.

In addition, the vast majority of those who sell grain know where their food goes, and they are not all innocent in this regard.

"Catch them all!"

Yang Qing signed without hesitation.

"It's just that the criminal department, such a large-scale arrest may not be signed!"

Yang Yong reminded him.

The criminal department will definitely not sign it, even if the criminal department has changed to the neutral Huang Boduan, he will not sign this driving sticker, this arrest list is unreasonable, he will sign if he catches smugglers, but it is too much to arrest those who sell grain.

"I've got it!"

Yang Qing said.

He knew this very well that he was taking this opportunity to make things happen and provoke a war between the DPRK and China.

Yang Yong didn't say much, took the list to find the criminal department and gave it to the matter, after he left, Yang Qing looked at the map in front of him, and then said to Steawell who was waiting on the side: "Send a report to Xuzhou, this war will end here!" ”

"Jinan is not fighting?"

Stilwell was stunned.

On the same day that the Battle of Zihe ended, the Ming army also conquered Jiaozhou, and the day after the end of the Battle of Zihe, when the heads of the five thousand Qing troops were piled up under the city of Qingzhou, the Qingzhou gentry led by Xue Fengzuo were in the city anyway, and opened the city gate for the Ming army. His teacher Lu Shanji was Sun Chengzong's main assistant in Liaodong, and when the Qing army entered the customs and plundered in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he organized the gentry of his hometown Dingxing to defend it, and was martyred after being defeated.

In this way, the Qing army in Shandong was basically wiped out, and only the stronghold of Jinan remained.

However, this stronghold is strong.

Not only the original Jinan, but even Boluo also withdrew to Jinan, making the total strength of the Qing army in Jinan reach nearly 40,000, and there are 40,000 Qing troops led by Duoduo himself on the north bank of the Daqing River.

This is an absolutely strong force.

The supplies of the Qing army were also sufficient.

Jinan was the general logistics base of the Qing army in Shandong.

What's more, Bolo brought the news that Dolgon re-walked on the road of the Holy Lord Mingjun for the Jinan gentry, and there is also such an exciting tax system, even if the Jinan gentry will not fight a tube of chicken blood and regain their hearts on our Qing Dynasty, at least the matter of opening the door to welcome the king will not be done, so the battle of Jinan must be a strong attack, and it must be a bloody strong attack.

It's completely unnecessary.

This is already autumn, if you can't take Jinan before the arrival of winter, the Ming army will not be able to launch an offensive in winter.

And Jinan itself was of little strategic significance to the Ming army.

This was very important for the Qing army, because once the Ming army conquered Jinan, the next step was to cross the Daqing River to cut the canal from the rear and isolate Liaocheng, the key point of the Qing army's canal defense. However, the strategy of the Ming army itself was not to attack along the canal, and Yang Qing's strategic plan for the recovery of Beijing from beginning to end was to land by sea, and both the canal line and the western front were secondary.

The only value of retaking Jinan was to lock the door for the Qing army to return to Shandong.

But......

With Dorgon's courage, he would no longer worry about Shandong, so there would be no need to risk attacking Jinan.

The main thing, of course, is that it's too expensive.

"Don't fight, Zhang Pengyi retreats to Changqing, let Duoduo cross the Daqing River, and the other armies maintain the defensive line of Zhangqiu, Zouping, and Qingxian, if Duoduo doesn't attack, let's not attack. Those militia groups were disbanded, and all the militia soldiers who participated in the battle were given sweet potatoes as seeds, and the money and food for their demobilization were counted separately. As for Xie Qian's righteous army and those who surrendered to the Eight Banners Han Army and North Korea, they were all sent to Xuzhou, and they were integrated into various armies after reorganization and training in Xuzhou. ”

Yang Qing asked.

Of course, the main thing is to screen.

The combat effectiveness of those Qing troops who surrendered was still sufficient.

"If Duoduo does not attack, then the Tenth Army will take over the Ninth Army to garrison Luxi, the Ninth Army will retreat to Xuzhou to rest, and the Fifth Army, which has just gone north to reinforce, will take over the Eighth Army, and the military headquarters will be located in Zhangqiu. The Marines withdrew to Dengzhou to rest, and the Eighth Army did not have to withdraw to Yizhou, but could stay in Qingzhou in the future, and then another army would be transferred north to replace it. On the Shandong battlefield, two armies were maintained, one army was stationed in Zhangqiu Zoupingqing County on the outskirts of Jinan, and the second army was ready to support. The same army on the Luxi front, the other army supported on the second line in Xuzhou, and the marines continued to be stationed in Dengzhou and were ready to reinforce at any time. ”

He continued.

The strength of his garrison is determined by the transport capacity.

Shandong's arrival enabled him to obtain two water transportation lines, the Daqing River and the Xiaoqing River, and the materials from the south could be shipped directly to Laizhou, and then exchanged for inland river ships in Laizhou to be transported to the front, and the supply capacity of materials he was able to guarantee for the north was greatly increased.

However, it also brings the problem of hunger.

He had to transport grain to the north to relieve the hungry people in Shandong, and not only once, but at least until the sweet potatoes were popularized, Shandong still had to rely on relief. In other words, in the next few years, the imperial court must carry the financial burden of Shandong, which can be said to be on its back, and must pay money every year to fill this hole. This is also the reason for his lack of interest in continuing this war, it is indeed not difficult to fight, but it is not easy to feed.

And immigration is not easy.

This area has not always been the battlefield where the population has been sharply reduced, and all the prefectures in Jiqing and Denglai have been the least damaged by the war.

This is the core area of Shandong's population.

From ancient times to the present, even the Great Yuan Dynasty, which was able to make the population lower than the war years in peacetime, still maintained a sufficient population density here.