Chapter Nine: Yuanjiang Mansion (I)
Five days later, all the generals had arrived, and all the soldiers and horses had been gathered. On the first day of Ma Siliang's return, Li An instructed him to count the soldiers, horses, grain and grass of the whole army.
Li An is also preparing to integrate the military system, and now there are the remnants of the Great Western Army in the army, the remnants of the Shun Army and the Ming Army, as well as the Tusi Army and the Siamese Army. However, it is necessary to use troops against the Yuanjiang Mansion immediately, and rashly integrate the military system, which is not conducive to the morale of the army, and wait for the Yuanjiang Mansion to take it, and then integrate the military system.
In the early morning of July 24, after breakfast, Li Ang instructed Li Sixing to prepare a horse, and after a while, Li An's black horse was led over. Turning over and getting on the horse was clean and neat, Li An couldn't help but sigh that King Jin's body was really powerful, not only with great strength but also agile, worthy of being called "Little Captain Chi". Subsequently, Li An took Li Sixing to the barracks.
At noon, Li Dingguo ordered the account to be raised, and Jin Tongwu, Wu Sanxing, Ma Siliang and others came to the big tent of the Chinese army. After everyone entered the account, they stood in two columns and saluted Li An, who was the head of the leader. After the salute, Li An asked Ma Siliang to report the soldiers, horses, grain and grass first.
Ma Siliang cleared his throat and said loudly: There are a total of 21,470 soldiers, 9,850 stone of food, and forage.
After Li An listened, he calculated a little in his heart that the soldier's ration could be increased to 2 catties per person, which was enough for the whole army for one month, so he instructed Ma Siliang: "Siliang, from the day of the siege, the ration of the whole army will be increased to 2 catties per person per day in the future." ”
Ma Siliang said yes, and then Li An pointed to the map hanging in the tent and said: "We are now in Menggen's Mansion, in the southernmost part of Yunnan, let's talk about where we should fight next?" ”
Li An didn't say his plan, he asked first to see how the generals planned and whether there was a better plan than himself.
Wu Sansheng took the lead and said: "We are Meng Lian Xuanwei Division to the west, and Yuanjiang Mansion is to the north. The last general thought that to attack Yuanjiang Mansion, one was that Yuanjiang Mansion was a large city in the southwest with sufficient money and food, and the other was that the people in the city were more open-minded, and they could raise soldiers and horses after the capture. ”
Jin Tongwu, Ma Siliang, Lei Zhaosheng and other three generals also nodded in agreement with what Wu Sansheng said, and Li An smiled when he saw this: "Haha, the four of you are no different from what this king thinks. ”
Wu Sanxing, Jin Tongwu, Ma Siliang, and Lei Pilgrim are rare generals in Li An's hands, and there are no generals in his hands except for these four people. Li An also felt happy when he saw that the four of them were in line with what he thought.
He immediately ordered that he was the commander-in-chief and commanded the whole army, Wu Sanxing was the deputy, Jin Tongwu was the vanguard, Ma Siliang was in charge of the grain and grass and the rear army, and Lei Pilgrim led the camp. He also ordered Wang Gongfu to be appointed as the prefect of Menggong Mansion, and instructed Wang Gongfu to take care of Menggong Mansion after he led the army away, and not to make it chaotic.
On July 25, the whole army marched towards Yuanjiang Province.
Yuanjiang Mansion is no longer ruled by the Na clan, and has been changed to the rule of Liuguan. In the first month of the sixteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1659 AD), the Qing army captured Kunming. The governor and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou were set up, basically continuing the Ming Dynasty's system of government, state, department, county and Tusi.
Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty fled into Burma, and awarded Na Song, the prefect of Yuanjiang Prefecture, as the governor, his son Na Tao, and his younger brother the military rank of general; In September, under the contact of Li Dingguo, Na Song and the general soldier Xu Mingchen raised the flag against the Qing Dynasty; December failed.
The Yuanjiang Military and Civil Mansion was changed to Yuanjiang Mansion. The Qing government took this opportunity to "change the land and return to the stream", abolished the Niuwu Yuyi chief lawsuit (Jiangcheng, Luchun), and divided the jurisdiction into the soldiers who established military exploits for the Tuqian General and the Tu Garrison; The indigenous aristocracy was appointed as Tuchino, etc.
In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1660 AD), the prefect of Liuguan was set up; The configuration of the deputy general of the Yuanjiang Association is the later judgment of the Jingfu Governorate. The prefect is from the four pins.
In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1661 AD), Yuanjiang Mansion was promoted to Yuanjiang Military and Civil Government, and the prefect of the Military and Civil Government was the fourth product, so now Yuanjiang Mansion is governed by the four-product prefect sent by the Qing court.
Early this morning, Qian Zongmin, the prefect of Yuanjiang, received the news that there were a large number of Ming troops outside the city, and after the deputy general of the association ascended the city tower, he saw the high Mingzi banner and the Li character banner, and Qian Zongmin knew that Li Dingguo was coming.
In an instant, Qian Zongmin lost his square inch, grabbed the hand of the deputy general next to him and said: "It's over, it's over, Li Dingguo is calling, we can't hold it, go to Kunming for help." The deputy general immediately arranged for someone to go to Kunming to ask Wu Sangui for reinforcements, and then the three horsemen rushed out of the east city gate and galloped towards Kunming.
At this time, the army outside the city was burying pots to make rice, and the soldiers cheered when they heard 2 catties of rice per person.
After the soldiers were fed, Li An ordered the siege of the city in a quarter of an hour, Lei Pilgrim took the first camp to start checking the equipment, the gunners began to fill the gunpowder, the gunners corrected the muzzles, and the whole army was ready to go.
A quarter of an hour later, Li An first sent more than 500 people to the camp to carry out a tentative attack, and at the same time several cannons fired at the city, with the deafening sound of cannonballs, one by one shells smashed into the city tower, most of the shells smashed into the air, only one shot hit the city tower, smashed the head of a Qing soldier to pieces, and then rolled all the way to take away the legs of several Qing soldiers.
Seeing such a tragic situation, the Qing soldiers scattered in all directions to avoid the shells, and the formation on the city was scattered for a while. More than 500 besieging Ming soldiers carried the ladder and accelerated instantly, and when the artillery opened fire to disrupt the city, they quickly set up the ladder under the city and began to climb up.
Seeing that the Ming army had already attacked the city, the deputy general of the association hurriedly organized people to pour gold juice and fire oil down, and threw rolling wood and stones. A Ming soldier couldn't dodge, his face was splashed with gold juice, he covered his face with his hands and fell down the ladder, and several Ming soldiers below were also taken down.
Lei Pilgrim, who commanded the siege, saw that the Qing army reacted quickly, and hurriedly asked the archers to release arrows to the city.
The Ming army seized the opportunity and quickly landed in the city, Zhang Erhu took the lead in the city, several Qing soldiers saw the Ming army coming up, and killed Zhang Erhu with a spear, Zhang Erhu held a knife in one hand and a shield in one hand. A knife slashed at a Qing soldier who rushed over first, and the rest of the Qing soldiers saw this and stabbed the spear in their hands at Zhang Erhu, and couldn't dodge it for a while, four shots pierced into his body, and Zhang Erhu yelled at the Qing Ming in pain, and turned around and slashed at the remaining 4 Qing soldiers.
There were Ming troops on the head of the city one after another, most of the Ming army was killed by the deputy general, only a small part of the Ming army is still in the city, Zhang Erhu is the leader of the few, suffering a few gunshot wounds and still fighting in the city.
A steady stream of Qing soldiers came to support, and the Ming army's offensive was gradually defeated, and Zhang Erhu also died of exhaustion under the siege of more and more Qing soldiers. After this wave of offensive was repulsed, Lei Pilgrim immediately organized a second wave to start climbing the city, and gradually the Ming and Qing dynasties started a tug-of-war at the head of the city, and both sides fought to the death.