Runing is also a place of government, plus some neighboring states and counties in Kaifeng and Nanyang, no matter how barren it is, as long as you grit your teeth and support it, you can always barely maintain it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Besides, Yuan Zongdi in Hubei is also trying to find a way to raise military rations, even if the water is far away and the fire is near, he is really hungry, and he can fight the autumn wind with the Taiping army in Anhui. This was suddenly transferred from Runing to Guide, and there was not much food, but he was always worried about whether the Qing army in Xuzhou would be killed, and he was worried about whether the Qing army in Kaifeng would suddenly cut off the passage between Guide and Runing, so no matter how it was calculated, Li Laiheng's decision was a mistake.

However, Li Laiheng really had no choice, he was nominally the king of Shun canonized by the Dingwu Imperial Court and the leader of the loyal battalion, but in fact, except for Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi, who listened to him, the rest of the generals didn't listen to him at all.

In view of the lessons learned over the past decades, Li Laiheng now attaches special importance to the construction of the base area, and the attack on Henan is not only to resist the Qing Dynasty, but more importantly, Li Laiheng wants to lay more territory for the soldiers of the loyal battalion. Hubei alone is not enough to support the loyalty camp. When he was in Hubei, in order to grow rapidly, Li Laiheng did not stop the generals from coercing the young and strong of the people, and as a result, the grain production in Hubei came to a standstill, even worse than when the Qing army occupied it. When Yuan Zongdi found that he could not continue like this, it was no longer possible to change production in Hubei if he wanted to resume production in Hubei. Not to mention anything else, how many people are willing to let those generals in the loyalty camp release the young men who they forcibly dragged away? How many young people from Hubei in Li Laiheng's own camp did "Lafuzi" come over?

Hubei's lesson can only be a lesson, and at present, including Li Laiheng himself, there is no way to put people back, because these young men are now the property of each battalion, and they are the confidence of the generals to speak. There are tens of thousands of people in other people's camps, but there are only a few thousand people in your camp.

What Li Laiheng can do is to restrain the generals from harming the localities, especially the newly occupied territories. However, none of these "big cowards" who were cursed in the Ming and Qing dynasties could change their previous habits, even if they knew that they were not good, they were unwilling to change.

The Liukou acted like a rogue, and it can be said that he was deeply imprinted in the bones and blood of these old generals when he first established the camp. If Dashun could sit firmly in the world back then, maybe with the passage of time, these old generals will gradually change, but it is a pity that Dashun has not been able to sit firmly in the world, resulting in these old generals have been struggling for survival all the time for more than ten years. The Ming Dynasty didn't want them, they used them, the Qing Dynasty wanted to suppress them, in order to survive, they could only use the most realistic and effective way to expand themselves, obviously, coercion, looting and other rogue behaviors are the best means. There is really no way to rob it, so they will nest there and watch themselves "lose weight" day by day.

The battalions are now much younger, some in Hubei and some in Henan, and the generals are complaining that they have no food to eat on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are desperately pulling people to fill the army. This approach seems ridiculous, but Li Laiheng knows that this method is actually the only way to preserve strength. Including himself, the old generals of the Loyal Battalion are all proficient, and those young men who are brought in are actually cannon fodder, and they are also the best cover to protect their descendants. Just as in Kuidong, all the generals are "hungry". human appearance, but the backbone of their descendants is still preserved. The "thin" ones are those cannon fodder, and without those cannon fodder, the ones who are really "thin" are their old foundations. Without the old foundation, the loyalty camp will not exist, which also means that the last strength to break into the camp will not exist.

Li Laiheng was quite interested in the affairs under the rule of the Taiping Army, and he sent people to Hunan and Jiangxi to investigate, and was very interested in "building villages and townships", but he could not restore the place like Zhou Shixiang, because what he and his subordinates did was the greatest scourge to the locality. If they can't solve the basic supply of food and grass for a day, they won't be able to stop their rogue behavior for a day, and in the end, it will be a dead circle. No matter how much space they occupy, they will never be able to become their real base.

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The area around Runing has been so scourged that it has become a barren land, and the old generals are clamoring to go to Germany. They didn't dare to go to Kaifeng, because although Wu Sangui's army was in Luoyang and Zhengzhou in the west, the Qing army in Kaifeng had to keep an eye on Wu Sangui, and it was impossible to free up many troops to deal with the loyal battalion. But after all, the Qing army is heavily armed in the Kaifeng area, who dares to guarantee that Aobai will not turn around first to pack up the loyalty camp. Moreover, the loyal battalion showed its attitude to support Emperor Dingwu, and Wu Sangui was the Yongli Emperor of Fengli, and now although Emperor Yongli is dead, Wu Sangui did not say that he wanted to change to Emperor Dingwu of the southern capital, so in essence, Wu Jun and the loyal battalion are hostile relations. In addition, Yongli died unclearly, and Li Laiheng clearly rejected Wu Sangui's solicitation, which of the people in the loyal camp dared to go to hang under Wu Sangui's nose, they were all fine.

Li Laiheng thought about it and agreed to go to the Guide area. He also knew that even if he didn't go, Dang Shousu, He Zhen, Wang Guangxing, and Wang Youjin would go by themselves. Rather than let the loyalty camp fall apart, it's better for the big guys to go together, no matter how bad it is, at least they can form a group. Ta Tianbao and Hao Shaoqi did not act with Li Laiheng and them, and this will still be circling in the Nanyang area. The reason why the two of them did not join Li Laiheng was mainly because the strength of the two was relatively strong, and Hao Shaoqi had always been ambitious, and the King of Han in his hand had not been sent to Nandu until now, so Li Laiheng also deliberately kept a distance from him, so as not to be pitted by Hao Shaoqi in the future.

There were not many Qing troops in Guide, and the elite ones were all taken away by the old thieves, and the remaining green battalions heard that the big gangsters were coming, and they surrendered and ran, and some simply grabbed a handful of people in the city and left, leaving an empty city for the loyal battalion to stare at.

Life is getting worse and worse, especially at the end of the year, not only Li Laiheng is worried, but the generals are not in a good mood. The New Year, not to mention those cannon fodder, but the old brothers have followed themselves for so many years, and this New Year's Eve can't help but show it. But if you want to express it, you have to have money and food, wine and meat, where can you get these? Kaifeng, dare not go; Xuzhou, I heard that there are also many Manchurian soldiers stationed in Xuzhou, which is a hard bone and not easy to gnaw. In the end, the old generals set their sights on Fengyang, Maozhou and Luzhou in the south.

The spies who scattered out inquired about the information and understood that the place in Fengyang had been plagued by the Eight Great Kings in the early years, and it was originally a poor place. Didn't you hear Huazi sing, "Say Fengyang, sing Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since there was an Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years." The place is already poor, what good can there be, but Luzhou is different, there has been basically no military disaster in the past 30 years, so if you can fight it, you will definitely make money. Besides, I heard that the Taiping army attacked Luzhou several times and failed to take it, if the loyal battalion can help them take Luzhou, the Taiping army will definitely have to show something.

Li Laiheng was also tempted, and felt that it was a good choice to fight Luzhou, although Kuenbu, the Jiangnan governor of the Qing court, was a guy who could fight, but there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and he had so many battalions and tens of thousands of dollars, it should not be difficult to clean up Kuenbu. So, just after Zhengdan, all the loyal battalions of Guide drove to Yongcheng, and then approached Fengyang, and it didn't take much effort to defeat Maozhou. But just when the old generals were gearing up to defeat Kuenbu in one go and completely seize Fengyang and Luzhou, Li Laiheng received a letter from Jiang He, the governor of Anhui, and then received a big gift from Kuenbu through Jiang He.

Just sending a big gift is not enough to make Li Laiheng retire, because this gift is not enough. However, Jiang He's attitude made him have to be cautious, and Jiang He's letter revealed that he was persuading Kuenbu to surrender, and the matter was presided over by his family marshal himself, hoping that King Shun would not spoil his family's marshal's good deeds.

Jiang He is just a governor, Hou Ye, Li Laiheng is the king of Shun, but he can not give face, but this matter involves Zhou Shixiang, and Li Laiheng can't make up his mind. So he summoned the generals to discuss the matter, but the generals were all concerned about whether he Kuenbu wanted to surrender to the king of Qi, and first got a vote to fill the stomachs of the brothers. Only Liu Tichun thinks that it can't be like this, it is important to fill his stomach, but it is a big deal to turn his face with the Taiping Army because of this. Li Laiheng thought the same way, but they couldn't stand the party and defend themselves, so they had to fight, so they could only fight hard. After he thought about solving Kuenbu, he would return Luzhou to Zhou Shixiang, so that the king of Qi would not say anything.

No, when the two armies were in formation, there were countless artillery pieces in the Kuenbu army, and they were in a desperate posture, and if they were forced to attack, the casualties would definitely be very large. Li Laiheng didn't want to fight, and Jiang He hurriedly sent an envoy to him, promising him to allocate a batch of money and grain from Anqing to solve the urgent need of the loyal camp, so Li Laiheng decided to withdraw from the army. As soon as he retreated, the party guards who wanted to fight had no moves, so they could only retreat.

Li Laiheng retreated to Yongcheng, although Jiang He promised to allocate a batch of money and grain to him, but it was not a long-term solution after all. His loyal battalion can't always rely on the help of the Taiping army to live. To put it mildly, if this grain and grass cannot be solved by itself, it will be a big hidden danger every day. In case the Taiping army has the intention of annexing the loyal camp, what will he Li Laiheng do to stop it?

Li Laiheng decided to convene a meeting of the generals in Yongcheng, and the tone was set at the meeting, and the future development of the Loyal Battalion was decided. The meeting took place in a small village on the edge of Suishui that had been dilapidated for many years. The houses in the village have collapsed and collapsed because no one has lived in them for many years, and the only building that is still intact is a Taoist temple. I don't know which true monarch is enshrined in the view, and the mud tire has long been exposed.