Chapter 64: Under the Northern Expedition (End of the Book)

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In 1664, the central government moved to Nanjing, and Lynch was transferred from Hainan to Zhongshu Province. With-Dream- . lā

The spring rain is dripping down, the willows are still clinging, and the south of the Yangtze River is an intoxicating scenery, but under the beautiful scenery on the surface, it is a bloody purge.

There are many gentry families in Jiangnan who have made outstanding contributions to the resistance against the Tatars, but they will not let go of those gentry and officials who serve the enemy, and all of them will be liquidated. Once upon a time, these officials took advantage of the prestige of the pigtailed soldiers, flailed the gentry, occupied wives, raided homes and exterminated clans, and now retribution has come.

All traitors and traitors who served the enemy and had no merit to atone for their sins in the process of liberation of the south were all confiscated, and their movable property was paid into the official to offset their military expenses, and the women in the fields and houses were rewarded with meritorious officers and soldiers.

In the end, there is a tendency to expand the purge, and it is inevitable that there will be wronged gentry, but this is an unavoidable price.

Horse-drawn carriages walked down the streets of Nanjing, and a group of tied women and children were pulled up to the auction hall in tears, and the curtains were closed in an orderly manner.

Lynch: "The Li Dynasty and the Nguyen Dynasty sent envoys from the sea. ”

Order: "Li Di still wants to be the first rat at both ends?" ”

Lynch: "North Korea says they don't dare raise troops because they have a weak military. ”

Shou Xuan snorted coldly, "Now that the uprising is uprising, I admit that he will have the same status as Nanyang Siam, Vietnam, and Laos in the future, and there will be no more tributary system, and the Li Dynasty will be an independent country in the East Asian Alliance, but this independent status needs to be exchanged for their own blood." ”

"I think I've made our attitude clear, but they still don't have the guts."

"You tell them again, if they don't raise troops, I don't mind changing people, or even changing families to rule the peninsula."

"Yes."

Shou Xiang thought about it for a while, the strength of the Li Dynasty was indeed weaker, and the Tatars could open up the peninsula with 10,000 troops, and it was normal for the Li Dynasty monarchs and ministers to be afraid.

"Our navy is assembled in the port of Ningbo, and in this way, the first detachment of the Pacific Fleet will be organized and sent to the peninsula to tell Li Chao that the port will be opened to us. Donggang Town's main force is transferred to Busan, and with our fleet to protect it, Li Li can't find a reason, right? ”

Lynch: "Yes, I'm going to liaise with the Navy." ”

"What did Ruan Chao say?"

"Congratulations on our great recovery."

"Heh," Shou Xuan said with a smile, "Ruan Phuc is worried about whether my promise to support him in destroying Lord Zheng back then is still valid. ”

"Do we need to keep our promises?"

"Of course, let Ruan Phuc be reassured that I will send troops to the Red River Delta after dealing with the mainland, so let him wait."

Shou ordered to light his pipe, and the curling light smoke rose and swirled around the carriage, and he asked in a deep voice, "How is the situation in Yajing?" ”

"The emperor said several times that he wanted to abdicate."

Shou Xiang occupied Nanjing for a year, and many forces watched his next move, but many people were disappointed, and Shou Xiang did not move the emperor to Nanjing, and remained in Yazhou, the southernmost area. Some local forces still hold the Ming Dynasty clan in their hands, and there are many people who take risks, but in the face of the absolute strength gap, it is just a small wave.

"Your Excellency, we have obtained the understanding of the Senate," Lynch's eyes were full of anticipation.

Shou Zhi nodded slightly, "Then do it." ”

In the orderly plan, Nanyang and Chinese mainland established ties with each other through a permanent covenant, with cross-positions at the top of the two sides, and Nanyang's banks and companies seizing most of the economic interests, but the two sides would not be unified under one political system for the time being. On this premise, the Senate agreed to the follow-up of the order, and they needed a spokesperson for their rights and interests in the mainland.

"Yes, Your Excellency," Lynch touched the brim of his hat with his hand, "oh, forgive my faux pas, Your Majesty......"

"Humph......"

Yes, the empire no longer needs the signboard of the Ming Dynasty, and the order still keeps its promise, and Zhu Youliang's family is all shipped to the southern continent, and they will get a vast estate, enough to maintain a prosperous life for the rest of their lives.

It is difficult to govern the mainland, and all kinds of affairs are anxious. In the face of the vast occupation area, Nanjing used various methods, including Nanyang students, uprising officials, and former Ming military officers to fill official positions.

The energy of maintaining order was basically devoted to industrial construction and the expansion of the armed forces.

Hanyeping, Jiangtong Group, Antong Group, Masteel Group, Jiangnan Light Textile Group, Zijin Mining, one after another enterprises have laid the foundation, which is a feast of capital and a feast for military nobles. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war were taken to the mines, hundreds of steam engines were brought in from the South Seas, they were the real source of strength for the central government, and the advantages of industrialization were overwhelming.

In terms of military expansion, the army recruited 50,000 young people from the south to supplement the army.

The Dianbai Brigade was expanded to the 7th Mountain Division, and the armband was Prince Yue Fei.

The original Guard Flag Division and the Youth Corps Division formed the new 1st Army.

With the Imperial Division as the backbone, the 9th Division was expanded, and the armband was the Serpent Elf, and a new 2nd Army was formed.

With the Calvary Division as the backbone, the 10th Division was expanded, and the armband was the Red Devil, and the first army was formed.

With the 5th Division as the backbone, the 11th Division was expanded, and the armband was Tropical Lightning.

The personnel of all units are basically full and the guns are complete, but there is a shortage of cavalry, artillery and other technical arms for a while, so they can only be replaced by dragoon regiments formed by captured war horses.

During the period of army expansion and training, each unit sent detachments to attack northward.

The vanguard of the 2nd Army captured Yangzhou and Gaoyou, but stopped in place for fear that the Tatars would open the embankment.

The vanguard of the 1st Army traced up the Han River and occupied Xiangfan.

After Li Dingguo recovered his vitality, he sent troops from the Golden Triangle, occupied western Yunnan, and confronted Zhang Guozhu across the Nu River.

The Li Dynasty cut off the tribute, declared war on the Tatars, the Northeast garrisoned the Eight Banners to attack the peninsula, the Korean army and Donggang Town retreated to the defense line of the Nakdong River, the Busan ring defense belt, the Northern Fleet 6 battleships were stationed in the port of Busan, and the fleet commander Murong Yu promised that if the land was defeated, the fleet would help the Li Dynasty retreat to Jeju Island.

The Tatars were transferred to the peninsula to the army of only more than 10,000 people, with the goal of robbery and plunder, and they had no determination to attack the fortifications. The DPRK army's 20,000 spearmen and 10,000 Donggang troops jointly held the defense line on the Nakdong River, and the peninsula fell into a state of guerrilla warfare for a while.

In the autumn of 1645, a full-scale Northern Expedition was launched.

The 7th Mountain Division, the 11th Infantry Division, and the Ming Army's reorganized training army guarded the southwest.

On the western front, the two divisions of the 1st Army were divided into two routes, and the Guard Flag Division took Zhuanshui as the supply line, crossed the ancient Sanguan Road, and passed through the three passes of Yiyang, namely Wusheng Pass, Jiuli Pass, and Pingjing Pass to the north, and conquered Xinyang. This ancient road has a history of 000 years, as early as the era of Tianyi merchants, it was the north-south traffic artery, the lifeline of Tianyi merchants, and the copper road. The Youth League Division entered the Nanyang Basin through Xinye, crossed Fangcheng Mountain and Luyang Pass, and conquered Lushan County, and then the main force of the division rotated to the right flank and attacked and advanced towards Yuncheng, Linying, and Xuchang. The route of the two-way march was completely consistent with Yue Fei's main offensive route in the ten-year Northern Expedition of Shaoxing.

The 5th Division was stationed in Wuhan and was a mobile force.

The Eastern Front was the main direction of attack, and nearly 100,000 people from the 2nd Army, the 1st Army, the Guards Division, the Heavy Cavalry Division, and the Logistics Force marched north along the canal.

The raids of the Tatars in the north and along the Grand Canal were demoralized, and the Northern Expeditionary Army surrendered wherever they went.

On the ancient battlefield of Xuzhou, the Tatars concentrated their last field forces, numbering as many as 80,000.

After the deaths of Yue Le and Aobai, the Tatars could not even find a qualified commander to lead this large army. The elders will wither, and most of the kings are children. King Doni of Xinjun was cut down and served in front of the army, and Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun, struggled to resist the 1st army in Kaifeng. The three ministers could only send the generals of President Leerjin, the king of Shuncheng County, who had no combat experience, to assist him with Doni.

The first army pressed Xuzhou head-on, and the notorious Calvary Division held high the blood-red battle flag, and everywhere it went, the enemy army was terrified.

The guard led the 2nd Army, the Guards Division and the Heavy Cavalry Division to make a detour from the western flank, passing through Yongcheng from Suzhou, crossing the Yellow River at Dangshan, and occupying Fengxian.

The enemy Xuzhou battalion must accept the battle.

In order to defend the order, he adopted the method of Na Huang, and he himself acted with the Guards Division and the Heavy Cavalry Division, each division marched to the battlefield separately, and concentrated before the battle.

On the day of the battle, there were four and a half infantry brigades and heavy cavalry divisions concentrated on the battlefield, numbering about 20,000, except for the Guards Division, all divisions were not fully formed, and many detachments were located on the periphery and in the rear.

The Tatars had 70,000 soldiers, and in the telescope, the golden helmet of the commander of the army, Leer, was inlaid with pine nuts and coral stones on the golden top, and the gorgeous helmet with a drooping mink tail was shining with gold.

Before the war, the order was to make a final speech.

"Xuzhou place, more than 50 large-scale battles in the past dynasties, right and wrong are difficult to discuss, but historians have noticed that it is in this ancient battlefield that determines the rise and fall of many generations of dynasties, the rise and fall of one after another, so there is a saying that won the Central Plains in ancient times. Today, I have the honor of personally leading 100,000 soldiers to conquer the slaves and destroy the enemy, and this country belongs to you. ”

……

Field artillery fired deadly projectiles.

The commander of the heavy cavalry division, the major general, drew his straight sword, "Behind me!" ”

Four thousand heavy cavalry formed a shocking horizontal formation, quickly approached the enemy line, and then laid down their straight swords.

"Long live the Emperor!"

(End of book)