Chapter 222: Preparing for War
Leaving CD City), Yang Lin is like a wild horse, in addition to resting in various states and counties along the way, in addition to simply checking the implementation of the new policy in various places to understand the situation, he quickly whipped up his horse along the way and ran towards Shunqing City.
By the time he returned to Shunqing Mansion in mid-September, all kinds of news about the Tatars had already been compiled into a book and placed on the table.
The Manchus invaded Hanzhong in mid-May, but then the Manchu invasion had to be temporarily interrupted due to the unstable situation in Shaanxi and the emergence of rebellions in various places.
As a last resort, Haoge, the prince of Qingsu, ordered Shangshu Xingne and others to go to Bizhou (now Bin County, Shaanxi), Gushan Ezhen to Qingyang (now Gansu), and Gushan Ezhen Bayan and Morgen guard Li Guohan to Yan'an, so as to exterminate the anti-Qing forces in various places.
After hearing that the Manqing had to suspend the pace of entering Sichuan because of the instability of the rear, Yang Lin said happily: "As the saying goes, the arrogant army will be defeated, and the Manchu Qing has been quite smooth since entering the customs.
Hanzhong is closer to northern Shaanxi, and Haoge can calmly transfer troops, if he continues to be arrogant in the future, he will definitely suffer a big loss. ”
When everyone heard Yang Lin say this, their faces showed disbelief.
There was another controversy over the direction of the Manchu invasion.
But Hanzhong is on top of the four (Sichuan), and the Tartars who control most of Hanzhong can drive straight into the four (Sichuan) at any time, and everyone is quite helpless in the face of such a dangerous situation, as Yang Lin said, he is fighting in the nest, and the Tartars have completed the strategic layout, and are now concentrating on preparing to give themselves a fatal blow.
As for the direction of the future Tartar invasion, although many people think that it is very likely to take the post road network from Beijing to CD), which enters the four (Sichuan) Guangyuan, Baoning Prefecture Langzhong, Tongchuan Prefecture Zhishu Yuxian (now Santai County) to CD).
In that year, the Mongols invaded the Southern Song Dynasty, and the troops were divided into two routes from Lizhou (now Guangyuan), one along the Jinniu Road to take the CD), the other along the Jialing River to the south, and successively captured Baoning Mansion (Langzhong) and Shunqing Mansion (Nanchong), and then the troops were divided into two routes, one way through Suining Hui to attack the CD), and the other road continued to attack Chong (Qing) along the Jialing Road.
Considering various realities, Yang Lin did not reduce his defense against Rice Cangdao in addition to focusing his defense on the banks of the Jialing River.
The rice cang road is in disrepair, many bridges in the middle are damaged, the road is blocked, and it is difficult to provide for large-scale road marches, but the soldiers are dangerous roads, and everyone does not dare to be careless.
He ordered the county government of Tongjiang County to be temporarily relocated to Seoul (one of the eight pillars of the four (Sichuan)), not only to rebuild its city, but also to send a battalion of Liao Qifang to live in Seoul to ensure the safety of Rice Cang Road.
Considering that security brigades have been established in various places one after another, and considering that the many hills in northern Sichuan are not conducive to the battle of the Tartar cavalry, Yang Lin still adopts the combat method of luring the enemy into a deep decisive battle, in addition to sending multiple secret agents to Zhao Ronggui's department in Long'an Mansion and Liu Jinzhong's department in Baoning Mansion, the main force will be retracted to the city of Shunqing Mansion to deal with possible changes.
Based on the above strategy, in the direction of Bazhou and Dazhou, only Liao Qifang's 2nd Regiment was arranged to prevent the Manchus from entering Sichuan from Micang Road and to protect the flank.
In order to deal with Liu Jinzhong's possible betrayal, Wang Shuji's 8th Regiment was stationed in Pengzhou to prevent the Tartars from descending the Jialing River to Fucheng.
In the six counties under the jurisdiction of Tongchuan Prefecture, Yang Fuquan's 9th Regiment ordered active deployment to protect the security of the flanks.
Intensify the training of militia groups in various localities, especially in the counties where the Tartars may invade the Micang Road and Jinniu Road, and where the Liukou may invade the south. Different from other places, northern Sichuan belongs to a hilly area, there are many mountains and hills, there are large cottages every more than ten miles, affected by the Yujie Shouchuan, plus in the past few years, in order to prevent the raids of rogues, local rioters and local bandits, all over the country have re-strengthened the cottages.
Usually, many valuable things have already been moved to the cottage, and when the rogues attacked, everyone beat gongs and drums to move to the cottage to live, and then went down the mountain to work after the rogues fled.
The military situation was urgent, Yang Lin knew that the war could not be spared, in order to avoid panic at that time, Yang Lin actively prepared for war after returning to Shunqing City.
When the Mongols invaded, Yu Jie's method of setting up mountain cities all over the country, guarding the point but not the line, and echoing the point from afar, tried to ensure the safety of the four (Sichuan).
As a traverser, I know the general context of historical development, and now in the face of the Tartars' entry into the Kou, in addition to adopting the tactics of Yujie Mountain City and Cottage, it is to gather heavy troops in Shunqing Mansion City and fight to the death with the Tartars.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues invaded Sichuan, and once went deeper into its territory.
Under the alliance of soldiers, local local rioters were rampant, and local rioters occupied cottages, and some even captured prefectures and counties.
Yang Lin was born, although he quelled the rebellion of the local rioters, but it was also difficult to change the structure of the people's lives that day, that is, everyone was born in order to resist the disaster of the local rioters.
When the local rioters came, everyone gathered on the cottage, and the local rioters fled far away, and everyone went down to the village to work.
Now in the face of the Rogue Tartars, in addition to continuing to preserve this way of life, that is, to train the soldiers, so that the various cottages can echo each other.
On the basis of each township, a squadron of lieutenants is trained, and an infantry squadron is stationed in each county.
If the rogues and Tartars come, in addition to the people gathering in the village to protect themselves, the local soldiers will gather to deal with them, so that they can not concentrate on attacking the cottage.
In order to boost morale, in addition to publicizing the various southern walls of the yamen and the bulletin boards of the bazaar, various deeds were published through the "Popular Daily".
Hundreds of rogue robbers attacked Liujiamiao, the people gathered in the village to protect themselves, and more than 100 soldiers from the surrounding three townships attacked the enemy camp at night, and the local tyrants fled in the wilderness.
Thousands of rogue robbers came to attack Hejiazhai, the people gathered in the village to protect themselves, more than 200 local soldiers fought with them for a day and a night, the officers and soldiers arrived, the inside and outside should be combined, and the corpses of the rogues were completely annihilated.
In the past few years, there have been endless stories of confrontation between the people and the local tyrants and rogues, and most of the successful cases published in the "Popular Daily" hope to inspire everyone through various successful deeds.
In addition to propaganda, what is more important is the construction of local security regiments, and the clerks of the military offices in each county are replaced by meritorious people who have gone into battle to kill the enemy and made meritorious contributions, or retired squadron leaders and brigade captains in the army.
In the direction of the rogue and the Tartars, beacons are arranged to quickly and accurately disseminate various information.
In the direction where the Liukou and Tartars may attack, there is often a brigade of regular troops stationed in each county town.
In each township, there are local soldiers who train a squadron, and the government exempts them from paying a certain amount of wages during the training and during the course of carrying out the task.
The county infantry brigade and the squadrons of the township soldiers can form a strong security battalion, if the Tartars and rogues come to attack, the local soldiers need to quickly assemble, and then cooperate with the regular army to harass each other and protect the safety of the people.
In addition to the building of local security regiments, the volunteer army has also been readjusted to a considerable extent.
In addition to leaving the 9th Regiment of Ma Mingluang and the Lim Shi Tai Militia Regiment in the direction of CD Province, the stations of various departments were readjusted.
Yang Wei's 2nd Regiment and Hong Zhenglong's militia regiment were stationed in Tongchuan Prefecture, and Liao Qifang's 4th Regiment and Liu Jinfu's militia regiment were stationed in Pengzhou, Bazhou, and Dazhou (among them, Liu Jinfu's militia regiment was stationed in Tongjiang County, Dehancheng), guarding the two wings.
In the direction of Shunqing, a total of two cavalry regiments of Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie were assembled, the escort regiment, Yang Cheng's 1st regiment, Long Zhijiao's 3rd regiment, Yang Bingyi's 5th regiment, Jing Keqin's 6th regiment, Feng Youqing's 7th regiment, Wang Shuji's 8th regiment, Wang Zhibang's 10th regiment, a total of eight infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, as well as Chen Huaixi's naval army.
Now there is one battalion of warships, four sampan battalions, two transport battalions, and a total of seven battalions of soldiers and horses, cruising on the Jialing River, the Fujiang River, and the Qujiang River to ensure the smooth flow of grain routes.
Up to now, the escort regiment has reached the level of 5 infantry battalions, which exceeds the number of regiments of the first type.
The 1st-7th regiments also reached the 4th battalion establishment of the A regiment, and the 8th-10th regiments also reached the scale of the 3rd battalion and the B regiment.
As for the various militia regiments, they are mostly composed of two infantry battalions.