Chapter 615: The North and South of the Ming Dynasty

At that time, Zhou Lin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, was secretly transferred to the Beijing Division by Jiajing to purge the powerful ministers related to the Beijing Division, and then stayed in the Beijing Division and became the commander of the Beijing Battalion, responsible for the garrison of the Beijing Division.

Jingwei and the 12th regiment battalion were corrupt, Zhou Lin had no choice but to transfer the Qin army from the three sides of Shaanxi into Beijing, the Eastern Party controlled the government at that time, and there were many difficulties in this, and the result was that in addition to the 5,000 soldiers brought at the beginning, there were only 4,000 more people in the past few years.

Emperor Jiajing returned to power, and Zhou Lin, who had been suppressed, began to gradually transfer troops and rotate, but he also had to take care of the training of the mighty battalion in Baoding with Deng Hua, so a total of more than 15,000 people were mobilized on the three sides of Shaanxi, which is also the Mongolian tribe on the grassland has been beaten by Huazhou, and the pressure on the border town can be transferred for the sake of the troops.

On the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, Liaozhen has always been known as the strongest in the world, but this assessment is because Liaozhen has the most soldiers and the richest.

However, the battle performance of Liaozhen and Huazhou is enough to show that there are many soldiers and food, and there is a lack of training and actual combat experience, and such soldiers are not as good as farmers.

It was a barren land, but there were still barbarian Mengyuan and Western Regions tribes around to plunder and loot, and it was naturally a desperate battle in order to live and produce materials. Moreover, there are many forces around the three sides of Shaanxi, all of which are barbaric and bloodthirsty barbarians, these tribes are complex in size and have different situations, even if they invade the border, they will not unify the time, as a result, the Ming army in Shaanxi is almost non-stop fighting all year round.

After Zhou Lin and Deng Hua came to Beijing, they saw that the garrison of Beijing, Baoding, Beizhili, and even the army of Xuanhua and Jizhen were too far apart in quality and combat power compared to the border army in Shaanxi, and it was really a waste of such good equipment in their hands.

At that time, it was already realized that although the Mongols outside the Great Wall were gone, they were more dangerous and threatening, and the most convenient way to train the mighty battalion soldiers was far from quenching their thirst, and the most convenient way was to transfer the Qin army into the north of Zhili.

This time, the Huazhou army invaded the south, and the 15,000 Qin troops transferred finally played a big role, and Zhou Lin led the 15,000 Qin army as the core to defend Luanzhou.

Luanzhou is the Tangshan of later generations, out of the key position of Liaozhen to enter the customs, it is the only way, it is the second center of Jizhen, originally this kind of border town is a general, foreign officers, especially the officers of other border towns want to command, are subject to all kinds of constraints, very troublesome.

However, this time, Jizhen lost more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in the battle of Guangning outside the Guan, and there were only 30,000 soldiers and horses left in the town, which was too far from the 15,000 Shaanxi strong army brought by Zhou Lin, as well as the 50,000 soldiers and horses in Jingying, Xuanhua and Baoding.

Therefore, Zhou Lin was also forbidden at this time, and the soldiers and horses of Baoding and Xuanhua were still sending reinforcements to Luanzhou and Jixian County, and the soldiers of Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong were also mobilized, and the soldiers of the local guard station were stationed locally, and they were also reinforcing towards Beizhili.

The surroundings of Beizhili and Jingshi have become large barracks, and the soldiers and horses of North China are rushing over by various means, and the residents of Jingshi, Baoding, Tongzhou, and Tianjin have long been rumors and frightened, no matter what class of people they are, they all want to flee as soon as possible.

After all, these years have been good, everyone is still doing business and making some money, in case of being affected by the military disaster, everything is over, it will be ashes.

But at the moment of the war, the various towns have long been under management, and the entry and exit of residents have been strictly inspected to prevent spies from leaving the city or entering, and the residents living in the city are even more panicked, but there is nothing they can do, but the spies in Huazhou are different from those in the past.

They are all relying on the big merchants in the city, and they have long been fighting with the official and the military, and it is very convenient to go out of the city and enter the city with a large amount of silver, besides, the government also needs these merchants to buy and sell goods and stabilize the situation and people's hearts, and the military also needs to rely on these merchants to buy military supplies.

As for the Sanjiang firms, they have long been withdrawn from the Beijing Division, and the rest of the merchants are said to be from Jining and Nanzhili to fill in the gaps.

Emperor Jiajing deployed troops and horses day and night here, arranged defenses, and on the other hand, he had to deal with the chaotic situation in the world.

It stands to reason that at this time, there will be great chaos in the world, and it is a good opportunity for the cult and Taoist sect to stir up trouble, and in fact, the White Lotus Sect has indeed moved its mind.

The Jiang sect leader of the Luoyang White Lotus Helm received the so-called oracle one after another, saying that Maitreya had sent down the decree and the Mandate of Heaven was abolished, and the Mandate of Heaven at this time should be in the White Lotus, and believers everywhere should have risen up and obeyed the Mandate of Heaven. However, when the cotton gentry rebelled, it was just because of the anger and resentment of the tax supervisors, and the white lotus rose up in a hurry, and the three northern provinces suddenly became a spark of fire.

Now that foreign enemies are invading and the imperial court has suffered repeated defeats, isn't the situation better than at that time, as long as things happen, you can reap greater success, and the government is currently busy raising grain and grass and mobilizing people and soldiers, and it is naturally not as strict as before for local public security, and it must be more convenient.

However, what these people didn't expect was that the scene of attacking the prefecture and county was gone, and there was no need for the government to take action.

At present, it is an extraordinary situation, and the government will not be polite, after receiving the prisoner, it will be killed immediately, and it will not be delayed, and it is a little funny to say that in some cases, the White Lotus Sect has bumped into great luck, and in the case that no one cares about it, after it really makes trouble, it is just about to make some bigger moves.

But he didn't expect that the private soldiers of the cotton gentry did not move, and the officials of the government did not know, but the local green forest Xiangma was viciously killed and cut down mercilessly.

I really don't know when these reckless characters were so selfless, the White Lotus Sect has been making trouble for a while, and the real achievements have not been much, but they have wasted the remaining strength after the Cotton Gentry Rebellion, and they have been confused by the current situation and the resistance encountered, and they don't dare to continue to make trouble, so they simply shrink back.

All this is Huazhou's actions, the White Lotus Sect's troubles during the Cotton Gentry Rebellion are good for diverting the attention of the Ming Dynasty court and allowing Huazhou to calmly dispatch, so it sent personnel to incite and secretly help each other, but at this time, the two armies of Huazhou and the Ming Dynasty were at war.

Although the White Lotus Disaster can make the rear of the Ming Dynasty unstable, but if it starts like this, according to the characteristics of the White Lotus Sect like locusts, it will definitely cause disasters everywhere, and all that remains is a ruin that is difficult to recover, and it will cost Huazhou's strength, so naturally they can't be allowed to do whatever they want.

Shandongbei Zhili and Henan, Huazhou salt merchant joint venture has already controlled most of the green forest cottage and the power of the rivers and lakes, these people let them get up to deal with the Ming Dynasty army has no effect, if it is against the rabble of the White Lotus Sect, it is very effective, for a time the front line is chaotic, the three northern provinces are in good order, no one makes trouble, this is also a strange thing.

At the beginning of April of the 23rd year of Jiajing, in Fujian, the soldiers and horses from Yizhou began to launch, steadily attacking to the north, there was almost no suspense, after defeating the two guards of Quanzhou, the officials of Quanzhou Prefecture either surrendered or fled, plus Yanping Mansion, which had long been taken by the Yizhou army, half of Fujian's territory was taken down.

The helpless Fujian general soldiers had to lead the 20,000 soldiers and horses that were temporarily put together, and went to the junction of Fuzhou Mansion and Quanzhou Mansion, preparing to die and die for the country, and the soldiers below were naturally panicked.

Who would have thought that as soon as the army called itself the Huazhou Army came into contact, the other party was actually defeated, and the Fujian General Army suspected fraud, but on the battlefield here, the gunboats at sea could not help at all, and tried to pursue it, the Huazhou Army from Zhangzhou did not have the courage of the past, and the Ming army tried to attack the city of Quanzhou, and the resistance was not fierce, and after supporting it for three days, it actually abandoned the city and fled.

At this time, the generals of the Ming army can be described as stunned, completely unaware of what happened, since it is a victory, they will pursue, all the way to the territory of Zhangzhou, all the way is a small victory, the original strong Huazhou army seems to have no strength, all the way to defeat.

It took more than half a month, the Fujian general soldiers finally believed that the other party must have something they didn't know, so it became so vulnerable, when entering the edge of Zhangzhou, the resistance of the Huazhou army was a little stronger, and the cautious Ming army generals stopped their footsteps and camped on the spot, and quickly reported to the Yamen of the Nanjing Military Department, saying that the fighters were very good, and they should send troops to reinforce Fujian and recover Zhangzhou.

The document said sincerely: the fighter plane is precious, and it cannot be easily let go, the war situation in the north is erosive, and if Zhangzhou wins, it will greatly strengthen the morale of our Korean army......