"Bang! Bang! A series of gunshots rang out, and death screams rang out not far away. This is the school field outside Taixing County, Yangzhou Prefecture, where soldiers on the east bank are being executed. The prisoners who were executed included more than ten people, including the county commander Li appointed by the Qing court, the county official Qian, and the regimental training general Sun, all of whom were officials and gentry who had resisted when the East Coast army attacked Taixing County, and the people on the East Coast were naturally merciless to them.

"If one person is connected, the whole family will suffer!" "Forget your ancestors, Mu Monkey and crown!" A golden-eyed Estonian soldier from the east coast recited a propaganda slogan to the onlookers in Liaodong accent Chinese.

However, their interest was obviously not here, and when they saw an East Coast officer in a raincoat walking towards the condemned prisoners tied to wooden poles with a pistol, they immediately became excited: "The foreign Tartars have gone up to mend their knives!" ”

The officer on the east coast, who was checking the life and death of the prisoner, was slightly stunned when he heard the title of "foreign tartar", he looked like he had a bright face, and he was called a foreign tartar at this time, you can imagine his mood. However, he quickly adjusted his mind and carefully examined the situation of the prisoners who had already undergone rounds of baptisms of gun. The ones who had just shot were all new recruits from the 3rd Brigade of the Stand Up Team who were using muskets for the first time, and coupled with the poor accuracy of the smoothbore guns, it was not uncommon for some of these people to slip through the net.

The East Coast officer in the raincoat seemed to vent his anger at them who were called foreign tartars, and he shot every one he found who was still panting in the head, and the flying brains and blood splattered all over the whale intestine raincoat on his body. But he didn't care. Continuing to scrutinize the next prisoner. It's chilling to watch.

"The Qing court's Gushan Ezhen Zhun Tower led 2,508 banners to be stationed in Huai'an Mansion, and there were more than 2,000 Han military banners in Gaoyou Prefecture. The subordinates are ashamed, these Qing court officials are all ignorant of everything, and if they want to get more accurate information, they are afraid that they have to capture some Qing army officials. "The captain of the security team, Kurhan, now has a slight knowledge of Chinese, and he speaks much more fluently than before.

"It's nothing, we're going to go to them soon, anyway." Mo Ming, who was watching the execution with a saber, said indifferently. "Taixing small county, there is not much oil and water, then we will wave the army westward, and we will meet Shi Zhangjing (Shi Tingzhu) in Jiangdu County (that is, Yangzhou City) for a while. I heard that Lord Shi is 'resourceful and sensitive', and the soldiers under his command are also the leaders in the Han army, shouldn't we go to such 'heroes'? Moreover, I have always heard that Yangzhou is rich, and Lord Shi has been sitting in Yangzhou for more than a year, and he wants to come to the palace very much. Now that the East Coast is in financial distress, I am afraid that I have to ask Lord Shi to borrow some silver and tweed. ”

Kurhan looked at Mo Ming stunned. I don't seem to understand what he's talking about, is this praising Shi Tingzhu?

Mo Ming looked at his stunned expression, and immediately lost the ** to continue, only to see him slap the back of Kurhan's thick neck, and said angrily: "Go and rectify the troops, from now on, carefully explore the movements of the Qing army in the direction of Taizhou, Jingjiang, and Jiangdu, and hunt and kill all the Qing army scouts and scouts, and strive to make them deaf and blind." ”

It is said that Kurhan's security force has now expanded to 300 people, including soldiers from the indigenous origin of Sakhalin, wild Jurchen hunters from the Amur River, and a few spies from the horse team of the Shun army. Mo Ming treats them as pro-guards, and the treatment is naturally excellent, with silver and women, and they are extremely popular. However, he also watched these simple-minded savages very closely, and he often paid unremitting attention to the daily training, drilled the mountains and cross-country training, and often sent them to the Liaodong area by boat to play the trick of touching the sentry with the Qing army. The lesson of the Eight Banners in history is too profound, and Mo Ming doesn't want the most elite force at hand to degenerate in a good living environment.

Kurhan answered, and then quickly went down to distribute the manpower. The direction of Jingjiang (east) basically does not need much care, that county town was once emptied by the people on the east bank the year before last, and now the people are not prosperous, and even the landlords are armed with two or three kittens, so they don't need to pay attention to them at all.

As for Taizhou in the north, Kurhan's people have detected a little eyebrow, there is a green battalion of more than 1,000 people stationed there, and it seems to be Zuo Mengeng's subordinates. Zuo Mengeng's combat strength is extremely poor, Zuo Liangyu had intended to enter Huguang before he died, but as soon as he heard that the Shun army was coming, he was so frightened that he ran away, and he didn't even dare to touch the troops of "thieves and rebels", what is the use of such a green battalion? Well, it's a bit useful when it's taxed.

It is the west that needs to be taken care of. It's a pity that the people here in Taixing are all rural villagers, and the situation in Yangzhou City is completely black, some people say that there are "10,000 real Manchurian officers and soldiers", some people say that there are only "a few thousand Han troops", and some people also say that there are "30,000 green battalions". After the interrogation, the people on the east coast also gave up, and simply deduced and investigated by themselves, and when it was a big deal, they were careful when advancing, and each department kept a good distance and drove slowly in. Now the main force of the Manchu Qing should be in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are tens of thousands of green battalions in the north of the Yangtze River, and they are scattered everywhere, so how can they compete with the people on the east coast?

This time, it took several days to climb 6 at the junction of Taixing and Jingjiang, and then it took another day or two to capture Taixing City. If we don't act quickly, those rich merchants, landlords, and Qing court officials are afraid that they will have to transfer their property again, and then the people on the east coast will still make a fart! Just like here in Taixing County, a county town has seized more than 10,000 taels of silver and more than 2,000 stones of rice grain, which is a big disappointment.

You must know that the last time the local government wrote a letter to say that it was in financial difficulties, and asked Mo Ming to go back to the local area with some silver to help the emergency, Mo Ming had already followed the instructions to go back with 200,000 taels of silver, which was not less than the 100,000 yuan required by the local people. But the problem is that the local finances are in difficulty, and the finances of my Heishui area are also very difficult, and now there are a lot of miscellaneous troops here, and the annual military salary to be paid is more than 470,000 yuan, about more than 500,000 taels of silver. This financial burden is extremely heavy, but fortunately, the navy's military pay is shipped from the mainland to Jinshan Port, otherwise I am afraid that the finances here will go bankrupt immediately.

After gritting his teeth and sending 200,000 taels of silver to the mainland this time, the silver deposit in the silver vault of Heishui Port has dropped to less than 700,000 taels, which is enough to pay for a year's military expenses. And although those black soldiers don't get military salaries, they now want people to fight hard, how can they get ten yuan and eight yuan, which is tens of thousands of taels, in short, the finances here are also very poor. The second brigade of the forward team will be reorganized soon (the original second brigade has been transferred back to the mainland), which has to be filled in with 2,000 more soldiers a year and a small 100,000 taels of silver, which is not counting the settling-in expenses, and even more if it is counted. Oh, by the way, there is also the silver that asks North Korea and Japan to buy grain every year, and these two sums add up to a total of 340,000 taels of silver, which is also a big hole. All in all, the Blackwater Pioneer Team is also very poor now, and if they don't come out to fight Grass Valley, they will probably not be able to sustain it next year.

On May 1, 1647, 25oo soldiers of the East Coast Army, who had rested for a day, were stationed in Taixing County, and by the way, they transported the looted materials, personnel, and livestock to the transport ships anchored on the shore, and then the main force drove out of the county in turn and went to Jiangdu County in the west along the road. They traveled cautiously along the way, scouting horses and scouts to report back, and heralds shuttling back and forth between the various departments, all of which seemed to be in good order. After all, except for the 1,000 people from the 4 squadrons of the 3rd Brigade of the Standing Force, the people here have at least been in battle formations several times, and they have also won battles, and their morale and experience are very high, so the appearance of this army will naturally not be bad.

In the middle of the troops, 5,000 military men and 8,000 Korean masters were in the middle of the troops, and they drove more than 100 heavy freight wagons with shock-absorbing springs and bearings from the east coast, more than 600 ordinary mules and horses of the Ming Dynasty, more than 1,500 Korean dwarf horses, and more than 800 donkeys and mules, and carried out field marches with a large amount of water, forage, ammunition, camping equipment (and even a small amount of cement and logs). The Advance Team, the Eight Banners New Army, and the East Coast 6th Army walked in turn in the wheat fields on both sides of the road, trampling the growing wheat seedlings to a mess, and it seems that it will be difficult to have another harvest this year.

The cavalry led by Yang Mingyang, captain of the 6th Army, has now expanded to more than 2,500 people, and has been officially renamed the First Cavalry Wing, under the jurisdiction of the 1st and 2nd brigades (1,000 people each, and the other 500 people are directly under the wing commander). At this time, the first cavalry regiment, except for the 500 veterans from Poland who were still fully armed and guarded, the remaining 2,000 people took off their equipment and packed them on horseback, and now it was not time to fight, they were reluctant to ride their horses.

It is said that after several years of uninterrupted transportation by the people of the East Coast, there are currently forty or fifty European horses raised on the Hallasan pasture on Jeju Island. Among them were about twenty Andalusian horses, fifteen Lusitano horses, and seven or eight Turkmen horses, which had been used in the Hallasan pastures to breed and improve the large number of Korean dwarf horses in the area, and sometimes the people of the east coast would bring some Mongolian horses to breed in order to improve the heavy war horses suitable for the cavalry of the east coast. A lot of these hybrids have been bred so far, but veterinarians are still watching further and then continuing to breed in the hope of producing horses that have stamina, weight, and sprint.

However, this is all for the future, at least for the time being, the cavalry on the east coast can only march and fight on Mongolian horses. The Polish cavalrymen could only silently put away their armor and cavalry guns, and then fought like a Tatar using light cavalry tactics.

On May 6, the slow-moving army on the east bank finally came to the blue-gray city wall of Yangzhou after spending some time crossing the canal, and at this time, the latest information also came back: the Qing army in Gaoyouzhou, Taizhou, Xinghua, and Baoying was in tandem, but there was no reinforcement of Yangzhou City. (To be continued......)

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