Hong Chengchou suggested that Dolgon send troops next summer to see when the wheat harvest was about to be harvested.

After repeated discussions, Zhao Han decided to send troops in the spring!

Because the territory of the Datong Army can be planted with winter wheat. After the winter wheat is planted, the peasants and soldiers and people will be directly recruited and dispatched in northern Hubei, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Runing and Nanyang to cooperate with the regular army of Datong in the spring battle, so as not to delay the agricultural time.

In northern Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shanxi and other regions, spring wheat is being sown at this time.

Zhao Han suddenly sent troops in the spring, just in time for the Manchu cultivation season. The Manchus had to mobilize a large number of people, which made it impossible for the peasants to sow wheat.

Even if Zhao Han loses this battle, as long as he doesn't lose too badly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be greatly damaged, and the wheat yield of that year will definitely be seriously reduced!

Don't look at the Manchu Qing Dynasty's territory, in fact, it can't control the countryside at all.

Even, it is impossible to control small county towns, and many remote small counties are still governed by civilian officials left by Li Zicheng.

With this kind of local control, there is a lot of room for maneuver, and Xu Ying can scatter countless spies to Henan!

In addition, Xu Ying also sent people to Shaanxi to try to contact Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

As long as the Datong Army and the Manchu Army fought, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai would be able to take advantage of the opportunity to start an incident in Shaanxi. They still have tens of thousands of elites left, and it is not a problem to attack the city.

When the time comes, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai will make trouble in Shaanxi, and Zhao Han will kill Liaodong from Dongjiang Town, and the two battlefields behind enemy lines will be enough for the Manchu Qing to drink a pot.

Zhao Han's peasant soldiers are equal to reserves, and they can assemble at the front line in two months, and train on the battlefield in one month. He seems to have few soldiers, but in fact there are a lot of soldiers, if it weren't for the lack of food, he would have exploded another 200,000 troops in minutes.

This battle has a great chance of winning.

……

Guangxi, Pingle House.

From the perspective of the population composition of the whole Guangxi, 50% of the Zhuang nationality, 30% of the Yao nationality, and 20% of the Han nationality.

But Pingle Mansion is very special, less than 20% of the Zhuang people, and most of them are immigrants from other places. They have a collective title, called "Eastward Soldiers".

The soldiers are the wolf soldiers.

The Yao people of Pingle Mansion often rebelled, and it was difficult for the Ming court to suppress them, so a large number of Zhuang soldiers were relocated. Choose the terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, let the soldiers form a fortress in Tuntian, surround the Yao settlement with the Tuntian military village, and separate the Yao people from the Han people.

Most of the Zhuang people in Pingle Mansion belong to military immigrants, and their existence value is to suppress the Yao people.

Not only that, but Han officials also deliberately provoked the conflict between Zhuang and Yao, so that the Zhuang and Yao people formed a feud, so that they could rule very easily.

But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation had changed.

The Zhuang took the initiative to reconcile with the Yao, and even became in-laws. A large number of Yao people, as well as Han people who lost their land, and Zhuang people who had no land to cultivate, formed villages to reclaim barren mountains, and truly realized the great integration of Han, Zhuang and Yao.

These mixed villages have become the key development goals of the Datong Army.

After half a year of action, the Datong army finally occupied Hexian County, and recruited the soldiers of the lantern village, exterminated the soldiers of Daning Village, and completed the work of dividing households and fields in Hexian County.

A regular division only defeated half of the county in half a year, mainly because of the terrain, and the soldiers were disgusting.

After the main force of the army was dispersed, they played guerrilla warfare in the mountains in a group of seven people.

Poisoned arrows were so unguardable that they could emerge from the forest at any time, and more than 30 members of the peasant union alone were killed.

It was early winter, and the Datong army continued to attack.

They had just received a military order, the number of the unit was changed to the 10th Division of the Datong Army, and Liu Xinyu, a native of Hunan, was promoted to division commander. This person is a Hunan thief, who took two states and four counties to obey Zhao Han, and followed Zhang Tieniu to fight Guangdong for meritorious service.

The chief missionary of the 10th Division is called Ding Jiasheng, who is also an anti-thief, and he practiced the secrets of "Datong Collection" by himself, and took Duchang County to Zhao Han.

10,000 soldiers of the Datong Army, with more than 1,000 soldiers, and many people, advanced by land and water to kill Bian Pengzhai.

Bian Pengzhai is located in the northwest of Zhongshan County in the later generations, not far away, facing the river and back the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The lord of the Liangfeng village has already captured the city of Pingle Fu, gathered the leaders of the soldiers of each village to establish himself as the king, and there are some Han and Yao forces to attach.

They even went down the river and knocked down Yangshuo County.

If it weren't for the threat of the Datong Army in the rear, these soldiers would probably have captured Guilin!

This time it's going to be a decisive battle, and the location is in Bian Pengzhai.

He County also has the Bian Pengzhai area, which is a rare grain production area in Pingle Mansion. There are basins between the mountains, and rivers for irrigation, and the leaders of the army are reluctant to throw them away.

The leader of the soldiers is called Wei Changyi, and Wei is a Zhuang surname, which means "buffalo".

This person has a very high degree of sinicization, not only taking the daughter of the Han gentry as his wife, but also reading books himself, and establishing himself as the "King of Pingle".

The two sides lined up on the edge of Tomie and fought in a dignified manner.

For Wei Changyi, this can only be played. If you form a village to defend yourself, those damn Datong troops will directly divide the fields nearby.

That's how the lantern village surrendered, and the Datong army surrounded the village and recruited the Han people and the Yao people to divide the land. Those are the fields of the Zhuang people in the village, and they were divided before their eyes, and 3,000 Datong troops were specially left here to help the people plow the fields and dig ditches.

Then he shouted that as long as he was willing to surrender, the soldiers could redivide the land.

After two months of confrontation, the owner of the lantern village was forced to surrender collectively with his soldiers due to internal pressure. The Zhuang people in the village were also broken up and divided into fields, and formed mixed villages with Yao people and Han people.

On the banks of the Tomie River.

The formation of the Datong army was much denser, but the formation of the soldiers was extremely loose.

However, the combat power of the soldiers should not be underestimated, and according to legend, Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array has a reference to the soldiers.

Seven people in one team, four people in the main battle, three people in support.

There were cavalry, all of them fighting with spears.

Infantry includes shieldmen, birdmen, pikemen, archers, crossbowmen, skirmishers, skirmishers, and more. In addition to conventional weapons, there are javelins, hammer arrows, medicine arrows (poison arrows), and so on.

Before the start of the battle, the Datong cavalry rushed out, carrying a loudspeaker and shouting: "Han, Yao, and Gu (Zhuang) brothers, the Datong army is equal regardless of ethnicity. Don't give your life to the owner of the village, just lay down your arms and surrender, everyone can divide the land......"

The composition of the 10th Division was extremely complicated, and Fei Ruhe was half of it to form a new army, and Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang were to draw many officers. Most of the soldiers who were re-replenished were Hakka, Miao, Zhuang and Yao.

Today, 60 percent of the officers and men of the division are Han Chinese, and the rest are all ethnic minorities in the south.

The cavalry rushed out to shout, and the languages were varied, and Yao alone shouted four languages.

"Array, forward!" Wei Changyi hates this kind of shouting, he has a Yao army under his command, and he was directly shouted to defect this summer.

Both sides were a combined army of various tribes, and they began to advance step by step, and their respective cavalry roamed around the flanks of the battlefield.

The 10th Division of the Datong Army also had 2,500 cavalry, but most of them belonged to the Southwest Horse.

The average shoulder height is only 1.18 meters, which is much shorter than the war horses of Jeju Island. But the mountain climbing is very strong, and the carrying of goods is also very strong, and it can barely charge and fight.

The soldiers on the opposite side are also this kind of war horses......

"Bang bang bang!"

The dragoons opened fire first, and immediately shot down more than 20 enemy cavalry, causing the remaining enemy cavalry to turn around and run away.

On the frontal battlefield, more than 20,000 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of Han and Yao troops, were speeding up and killing the Datong army.

"Boom, boom!"

After an artillery bombardment, the Han and Yao troops collapsed directly.

But the soldiers on the opposite side lined up in a very loose formation, in groups of seven, and accelerated towards the Datong army.

They were born warriors, military immigrants from the Ming court, who were specially transferred to Pingle Mansion to suppress riots. Since childhood, in addition to farming, they have also undergone military training, and meritorious service in combat is their only chance to get ahead.

The dragoons quickly circled the flank, dismounted and fired at the soldiers.

Zhao Han did not have enough cavalry in the north, but he was an upstart in the south. Spent nearly 100,000 taels of silver to buy war horses from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and 2,500 dragoons were enough to dominate the southwest.

Those soldiers, who had been shelled on the front and on the sides, had not yet collapsed and continued to charge towards the Datong army.

Even, Wei Changyi, who established himself as the king of Pingle, also led his own soldiers to charge.

A bunch of madmen who don't want to die!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Another round of shelling, in which the leader of one of the troops was torn apart by a shell. But this army has not yet broken up, and it still rushes forward in groups of seven.

After three rounds of shelling, more than 2,000 soldiers finally fled.

"Crossbowmen!"

The troops of archers and crossbowmen of the soldiers, after rushing to the firing range, immediately stopped and began to fire arrows.

The rest of the soldiers were still trotting forward.

If it is a traditional battle, the battle of the soldiers will be more orderly. However, the firearms of the Datong army were too powerful, and they had to charge so quickly.

The rattan player of the Datong Army raised his shield to cover the friendly forces.

In fact, it's not much of a problem if you don't cover, the bow and crossbow of the soldiers are relatively poor, and the power is not very great, so you can not be shot after wearing armor.

What I'm really afraid of is poisoned arrows!

"Throw guns!"

After another charge, the javelinmen charged and threw their javelins.

"Bang bang bang!"

A small number of musketeers also began to shoot, and immediately after firing, they drew their swords and rushed forward.

More than two dozen people fell in the Datong army, half of whom were pierced by javelins. The rest were poisoned by the arrow, and I don't know what the poison was, chest tightness and shortness of breath, weakness, and the toxin exploded quickly.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The last round of shelling, this time it was shotgun, and the first hit was a large area.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

3500 Datong Gunner, 20 steps ultra-short distance rotation.

2,500 Datong dragoons, 1,000 were divided into local cavalry, and the rest chased over and fired again.

After all, soldiers are also human beings, and in the face of such terrifying firepower, tens of thousands of people collapsed in an instant.

Wei Changyi is not dead yet, and he is still rushing forward with the remaining troops. He felt that as long as he rushed to melee combat, he would definitely be able to defeat the Datong army, which was just powerful firearms.

"Grenadier!"

Five hundred grenadiers with extra-long arms and strong physiques threw 10,000 enemies at the rushing soldiers.

The rattans, wolf-soldiers, and pikemen were also on standby, and the musketeers returned and loaded their bayonets.

There was no need for close combat, the thief leader Wei Changyi was killed by 10,000 enemies, and the remaining soldiers all turned around and fled.

The dragoons put away their firearms, drew their swords and rushed over to slash and slash, and any enemy who did not lay down their weapons and surrendered, rushed forward and slashed to death.

The Datong Army suffered losses, and the casualties of guerrilla warfare in the mountains were far greater than those in frontal combat.

After attacking Pingle Mansion for half a year, he was finally able to take it all. The leader of the thieves, Wei Changyi, was killed, and most of the rest of the leaders of the soldiers chose to surrender.

This side of Guangxi, it's really hard to fight!

The national issue is also extremely complex, and it must be dealt with in an orderly and gradual manner.

To take Pingle Mansion, the next step is Guilin Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion.

In the absence of sufficient grain and grass, Guangxi is estimated to have another year or two. Each time, troops were sent to occupy one or two prefectures, and then the civil administration was quickly carried out, and the local food was accumulated before sending troops, during which they were busy with the work of suppressing bandits in the mountains.

Guangxi is so difficult, but Sichuan is very smooth.

Huang Qi and Qin Liangyu had already jointly sent troops to attack Wang Xiang of Chongqing Mansion with Yang Zhan.

If you take Sichuan as soon as possible, you will get grain production land one day earlier, and there has always been a lot of grain in the Sichuan Basin. Especially the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance!