Chapter 583: The Two Heavy Armed Groups (Part I)

Eliminate the Shanxi Jin merchant group, this plan has been in Li Xing's heart for a long time, but due to the situation, it has not been implemented, and now the Central Plains Liukou has been eliminated, Li Xingzhi believes that Xu Dingguo at both ends of the first rat does not dare to embarrass the Jingbei Army.

Now the official army has suddenly won Henan and even Huguang, and the Shun army has surrendered more than 300,000 troops, even if they go to Wucunqing, there are nearly 200,000 young and strong, and Li Xingzhi does not want to send these soldiers and horses to various places for resettlement, but intends to integrate them all into the army, the reason is that the Shun army is no longer able to surrender troops, and they are also veterans who have been on the battlefield, which is a few points stronger than the Jingbei Army's collection of young and strong.

It's just that such a large-scale expansion of the army will inevitably affect the logistics support of the Jingbei Army, in order to integrate this batch of military horses, then Li Xingzhi must have enough money and food to appease the people's hearts, the rich and rival Shanxi Jin Shang Group is the best money bag of the Jingbei Army at present, and they are destroyed, and I am afraid that half of the Jiannu in Liaodong will starve to death in the vast forest and snow fields in less than half a year.

"Your Highness, a few merchants, are also worth a slave and maid?"

Zhang Cheng was a little depressed, and you said it for a long time, which means that you didn't say it, our dignified celebrant is in charge of the eunuch, and the dignified Ming minister, to deal with a few merchants, you can afford to lose this person.

"Father-in-law Zhang, don't underestimate them, according to Lone's estimates, the local garrisons in Zhangjiakou are under their control, in addition, each of them has a different number of soldiers, Zhangjiakou, it's not so easy to fight, this time the Ninth Town Jiang Xiang Department cooperates with Father-in-law, in addition, the Jinyi Guard of the Beijing Division may have also been dispatched, and I hope that Father-in-law Zhang can show his skills and eliminate the Jin merchants for Lone."

Li Xingzhi smiled dumbly, Zhang Cheng's dog thing is still quite good, at least he didn't report to Chongzhen when he was supervising the army in Shandong, the so-called draft does not forget to dig wells, and now people have this small wish, and they can't meet it, so it hurts the hearts of those who depend on themselves.

"Soldiers? …… That's done, but His Royal Highness has to lend me a few cannons, Zhangjiakou is an important border town, the wall is high and the city is wide, there are no cannons, and the slaves and maids are afraid that they can't get those few merchants who are indiscriminate. ”

Zhang Cheng rubbed his hands excitedly, God opened his eyes, I didn't think that we could also lead the army, if we can eliminate the Jin merchants this time, next time we will ask His Royal Highness to let us lead the troops to fight Jiannu, and then we, a person who has no roots, will be able to leave a name in history.

To appease Zhang Cheng, Li Xingzhi summoned all the generals and generals of the Shun army into Xingyuan, the reason is that the results of Zhuxianzhen's victory have all been counted, and what the Jingbei Army has to do now is to take advantage of the aftermath of the victory to seize as much territory as possible.

According to the statistics of Shi Xu Yixian, the governor of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Gu Junen, the new governor of Henan, the Jingbei Army suffered a total of 8,763 casualties in Zhuxian Town, 1,300 war horses, 43,000 catties of medicine, 67 pieces of various artillery pieces were damaged, more than 300 arquebuses were scrapped, and the rest of the cotton armor, spears, wolf whisks, and boring rakes were also damaged to a certain extent.

Relative to the battle losses, the results of the Battle of Heluo were incomparably brilliant, the main force of the Puppet Shun was almost completely annihilated, and the Jingbei Army surrendered a total of 313,000 prisoners, including more than 230,000 young soldiers, more than 3,400 artillery pieces of various kinds, including 80 Hongyi cannons, 310 major general cannons and nearly 3,000 small cannons of various kinds. There were twenty-six thousand horses, and countless other guns, knives, spears, swords, bows and arrows.

Li Xingzhi did not want to retrain the Shun army and the captured weapons, but was ready to directly integrate them into various towns, and replenish the current 20 towns of the Jingbei Army to 10,000 people, and the remaining 100,000 infantry were reorganized into independent towns to independent ten towns, and the towns of each independent town would still be in charge of the Shun army's surrendered generals, and even their deputy generals and team officers, Li Xingzhi did not want to ask too much.

Gu Lin is not suspicious of employing people, suspects are not needed, in history, the pseudo-Qing Dynasty can use hundreds of thousands of Ming Shun troops as the front to fight all the way to Yunnan, Li Xingzhi is naturally confident that he can use them to sweep the world for himself.

After Li Xingzhi, Xu Yixian, Wang Zhong, Gu Junen and others discussed, the town generals of the ten newly compiled towns were Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, Dang Shousu, Liu Tichun, Wu Ruyi, Liu Rukui, Ma Bao, Ma Chongxi, Ma Shouyao, and Tian Jianxiu, who surrendered to the official army in Lushan, but Gu Kecheng, the former deputy general of the Shun army, was transferred to Wang Fuchen and An Ba.

Such an appointment made the leaders of the rebel armies who surrendered secretly surprised, they thought that they and others could save their lives, even if they were lucky, who knew that Li Xingzhi could still give them military power, which also dispelled the doubts of the generals to a certain extent.

Of course, Li Xingzhi also made certain adjustments, that is, to break up and reorganize their original subordinates, and for such an arrangement, Li Laiheng and others also knew that this was the proper meaning of the question.

As for the remaining more than 100,000 old and weak, Li Xingzhi decided to follow the strategy of Gyeonggi and Shandong in Henan to settle on the spot.

In order to appease the 300,000 military horses and the morale of the Jingbei Army who won the battle, Li Xingzhi instructed the Beijing Division to urgently allocate 5 million taels of silver to transport the Kaifeng camp to reward the three armies and resettle the old and weak of the Shun army, of which 3 million taels were given to the towns of the Jingbei Army gathered in Kaifeng, and 2 million taels were the resettlement expenses for the old and weak of the Shun army.

In order to appease the morale of the army, Li Xingzhi also sent some literate and hyphenated officers from various towns to the newly compiled 10 independent towns to publicize the welfare benefits of the Jingbei Army, as well as the regulations on rewards and punishments.

In these years, whoever can give you food will give you your life, Li Xingzhi doesn't believe that he has smashed so much silver, and those soldiers who surrendered to the army will still think about being a rogue again, even if there are people with ghosts, there will not be too many.

"Generals, Lone Cheng Emperor's order, waved Heluo, less than two months, Crazy Kou Bing disappeared, now resist the king's master, only Shaanxi Sun Chuanting and the south stay behind, before Lone has asked the Empress Dowager Yizhi, Sun Chuanting will return to Beijing on the same day, but Shaanxi has not replied so far, Lone expected to be good, Sun Chuanting This is to sit and watch the victory or defeat of the Lone and Shun Army, now he has become the head, the Central Plains is clear, it is a good opportunity to restore Shaanxi and the southern capital, so Lone intends to form the Western Expeditionary Army and the Southern Expeditionary Army, and completely purge the world to dare to resist the separatist forces of the Wang Division."

After the towns and towns entered the camp and finished their salutes, Li Xingzhi briefly recounted the Jingbei Army's next operational policy.