"Don't miss it when you pass by, drink tea and eat everything......"

"Master, come and take a look!"

"I'm busy, I'll talk about it next time."

At noon, under the reflection of the sun, a newly built city appeared lively.

The scale of the city is not small, it should be very prosperous, but take a closer look, this should be a prosperous city is very deserted at the moment, and the shops that have not been short of business in the past have sent men to solicit customers, but tourists are hurrying by, and no one wants to stay outside at this time.

"You soldiers can't buy things and don't give money!"

"What's wrong with you taking some chickens and ducks? I don't know if you are going to put down the rebellion? ”

On the deserted street, there was a sudden noise.

This kind of noise not only attracted the men and managers of the surrounding shops, but also attracted a team of generals who had just returned to the city from outside the city.

"What's going on over there?"

Among the generals, when Geng Bingwen's voice sounded, he was followed by Wu Jie, Marquis of An Lu, and Ning Zhong, who served as the governor of the Chinese army.

Everyone followed Geng Bingwen's gaze, but at a cursory glance, it was a few soldiers wearing Ming army armor and looking like a man holding chickens and ducks to leave, but they were stopped by the vendors at the stalls.

"What are you guys making a fuss about?!"

Ning Zhongce stepped forward immediately, thinking that he would repel this group of soldiers, but he never thought that the soldier looked at Ning Zhong's armor, and just raised his chin for a moment of fear and said: "I will go to the battlefield in a few days, I can't eat in the army, let's get some meat to eat, and this merchant will ask us for money." ”

"......" Ning Zhong frowned, he seemed to have heard some joke, and asked directly: "It is natural to buy things and give money, you don't want to give money and rob it, where is the military discipline!" ”

"You don't belong to the general." Those soldiers confronted Ning Zhong with cold faces, and Geng Bingwen and others in the rear also rode their horses to the front of the battle with black faces.

"Whose soldiers are you?"

"They are the people of Commander Yang and Commander Pan!"

In the face of Geng Bingwen's questioning, the group of soldiers had a tougher attitude, and such an attitude made Geng Bingwen, Ning Zhong and others, who were strict in governing the army, angry in their hearts for no reason.

"Presumptuous! Who taught you to talk to the Marquis of Changxing like this! ”

One person rushed out of the team and scolded viciously, and when the group of soldiers saw this person, they were also so frightened that they let go of the chicken and duck in their hands and knelt on the ground.

"Commander Yang, teach your soldiers well."

Geng Bingwen glanced at Yang Song, who walked out of the team, his skin was dark, and his cheeks were a little plateau red, which was left by the long-term battle in Songpan.

It's just that what about the courage of the battle, such an obvious act of bullying and hegemony will only make the army lose the support of the people.

Even if you win the battle afterwards, you will inevitably be impeached by the speaker.

"Let's go"

After giving an order, Geng Bingwen continued to lead people back to the county office.

After a short time, they crossed the empty streets, and finally turned over and dismounted at the gate of a county office.

They walked into the county office, and the hanging plaque was engraved with a few large characters......

【Zhending County Ya】

"When will the soldiers and horses of the Sichuan Metropolitan Division and the Huguang Metropolitan Division arrive?"

"It will arrive around July 25th."

Walking into the county office, Geng Bingwen began to arrange people to carry out the sand table in an orderly manner, and a carved and arranged Hebei, Shanxi and half of Daning, Liaodong sand table appeared in front of everyone.

On the sand table, Xu Kai, who led 5,000 cavalry, was stationed in the river at the moment, where a finger-sized red flag and carved wooden cavalry were erected.

Zhending, which is 300 miles away, is simply planted with 14 flags, carved with 13 foot soldiers and 1 cavalry wood carving.

In the south of Zhending, there are four foot soldiers on the south bank of the Yellow River who have not crossed the river, representing the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Sichuan and Huguang divisions.

Looking to the northwest of Shanxi, the northeast of Datong, and the northwest of Huailai City are two wood carvings, with the flag of "Fang Zhao".

The three mansions of Beiping, Yongping and Baoding are planted with yellow flags that are very different from them, and there are seven wood carvings with six steps on one horse.

In the direction of Daning, they returned to their flag colors, with one of Bu Wan's flags in the Yanshan defense line and Chen Heng's flag in Daning City.

In the west of Liaoning, Liu Song, Wu Sheng, and Wu Shouan were planted outside the pass, and there was also a banner in the Bohai Sea against them.

Combined, this group of people has a total of five wood carvings, while Bohai has six wood carvings.

At this moment, the number of wood carvings represents the strength of both sides.

There are twenty-three wood carvings already in place on the side of the Ming army, and counting the four south of the Yellow River, it is twenty-seven, that is, representing 270,000 troops.

On the side of the Bohai and Yan armies, there are thirteen, representing 130,000 troops.

The Ming army was 270,000 to 130,000, and occupied all the geographical advantages except for Juyong Pass, which was either condescending or dangerous.

"It's already the tenth day of July, and in two months, the Bohai Sea will snow in winter, and Beiping will become cold, so we can't delay it."

Geng Bingwen observed the battlefield, although the number of troops in his hands was the same as that of the Bohai and Yan armies, judging from the news given from the south, the artillery in Bohai's hands was sharp, and he could not delay time.

"When the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Sichuan Metropolitan Division and the Huguang Metropolitan Division arrive, we will immediately send troops north."

He gave the time to send troops, and the generals also wrote it down when they heard it.

In this detail, Geng Bingwen also planned in detail how the 200,000 army would cross the river, and how the 130,000 army would be deployed at present.

In his unhurried arrangement, Wu Jie, Ning Zhong, Li Jian and others were instructed one after another.

The three of them have been training all year round, and although they have not led troops to fight, they have also accumulated experience.

This time I led the troops to the north, and I learned a lot of experience along the way, and I am no longer as immature as I was more than a month ago.

It's just that compared to their opponents, their immaturity still exists.

Soon, the main force of the Southern Army arrived in Zhending and garrisoned Hejian, Wuji, Anping, Mozhou, Xiongxian and other places.

The news of the arrival and stationing of the southern army soon spread to Beiping City in the messages of monks from all over the country.

When Zhu Di received the news, it was already July 14.

"An army of 200,000 people, this scale is larger than the scale of Song Guogong and Ying Guogong's crusade against Naha, and the scale of Lanyu's northward fishing in the sea."

In the carrying hall of the Yanwang Mansion, Zhang Yu, Meng Shan, Qiu Fu and others gasped after hearing the number of the southern army.

Even Zhu Di was silent at the moment.

As a resourceful person and a person in charge of spying on the news, Yao Guangxiao is still thinking about his string of Buddhist beads at the moment.

Sitting next to him was Zhu Gaochi, the son of Yan Shizi at the moment.

Zhu Gaochi didn't know how to fight, so he had been studying all this time.

It's just that he doesn't have this talent, and after studying for a few months, he still hasn't made much progress.

"Has Shanhaiguan taken it?"

Zhu Di was silent for a long time and finally spoke, and Zhang Yu also made a fuss when he heard this: "Not yet, the soldiers and horses under Wu Shou'an are stubborn in resistance, and Zhu Neng and Zhang Wu can't take advantage of them." ”

"We have to get through Liaoxi first, and then step up to take Daning, so that we can have the time and opportunity to deal with Geng Bingwen." Zhu Di said his plan, but this plan has been implemented for more than 20 days, Shanhaiguan has not been taken, and there is no good news from Guangning, which makes everyone a little hesitant.

Zhu Gaochi saw that everyone didn't speak, and he guessed:

"Gao Xu's side hasn't reported victory for half a month, maybe he has suffered a lot of damage after taking Liaonan, and he is now regrouping his troops and horses."

"No, it won't." Zhu Di shook his head and vetoed this possibility: "The second person didn't say anything about the dead or injured when he came last time, and he also wanted us to quickly attack Shanhaiguan, which means that there is no major damage on the second child's side, and now he is probably in a hurry to take Guangning." ”

Zhu Di's eyes have been in western Liaoning, and he has not jumped out of Daning.

It's not that his vision is like this, but that Guangning hasn't been won yet, and it is very likely that he will be cut off if he rushes to Daning.

Daning is not as good as Beiping, although Beiping is also covered with a dense water network, but at least the terrain is spacious.

But Daning is not only densely covered with water networks, but also mostly undeveloped water networks, with a lot of silt and tidal flats, making it difficult to march and easy to be ambushed.

Besides, even if he enters Daning, what can he rely on to take Daning?

On the contrary, if he can find an opportunity to hit Bu Wan hard, then he may be able to take down Daning with Chen Heng.

Zhu Di is still planning and planning, but he doesn't know that what he thinks is impossible has now become a foregone conclusion.

"Drive!"

"Drive!!"

"Lift the horse! I have an emergency military situation!! ”

In the Yan Mountain, when the sound of horses' hooves came from the north of a pass, I saw five or six Ming soldiers who were going south in embarrassment waving their horsewhips to let the people at the gate of the pass lift their horse guns.

Seeing this, the defenders of the city gate hurriedly raised their horse repulsion guns, and the general also led people to rush into the pass.

In the pass, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in the city, and even the merchants never saw it, only the soldiers who came and went.

The general was familiar with the terrain and hurriedly led people to rush to the yamen of the Qianhu Pass Pass.

He hurriedly showed his waist card and broke into the yamen.

Faced with his sudden visit, and still looking so embarrassed, Bu Wan, who was discussing how to guard the Yanshan defense line in the middle hall, frowned.

"Li Yuan, you don't stay in Huizhou City, why are you coming to Songting Pass?"

Bu Wan questioned the embarrassed Li Yuan, but when Li Yuan heard this, he suddenly walked and knelt down, and said with a crying voice: "General, Daning is lost, Chen Du commanded Tongzhi to be captured, and the twenty-two guards of Daning have all been broken by the Bohai Shuren!" ”

When Li Yuan finished speaking, everyone's breath in the middle hall stagnated, although they knew that the military situation could not be fake, but at this moment, how much they hoped that Li Yuan was joking with them.

"General! It's true, now the Bohai Shu people have led the army south, and they are only thirty miles away from here! ”

Li Yuan knocked his head down, and the dull voice represented that he was not lying, but the more this was the case, the more panicked everyone became.

There are 10,000 defenders in Songting Pass, and 1,000 in each of the other passes, although the number is different, they all have one thing in common, that is, their families are all in the various cities of Daning Twenty-two Guards.

Bu Wan took them out to guard against the Yan army, but turned back and lost his home.

If this news spreads, the more than 14,000 people in Yanshan will probably mutiny.

"How did you get out?"

Bu Wan helped Li Yuan up, and Li Yuan cried and said: "I was stationed in Huizhou City, and I heard the shouting of killing early in the morning, and the Bohai Shu people led troops to raid the city, and brought the families of Zhang Ming, Li Hang and other thousands of officials from Daning to the city of Huizhou. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Ming and the others simply opened the city gate, so that the last general hurriedly rode out of the south gate before he could go up the city wall.

"Bohai Shu people!" Bu Wan and the generals gritted their teeth when they heard this.

Their families are still in the 22nd Acropolis of Daning.

If Zhu Gaoxu uses this method to deal with Huizhou, will he use this method to deal with all the people concerned?

For a while, everyone turned their attention to Bu Wan.

Although they were angry, none of them wanted to see the bodies of their families.

Moreover, the Yanshan defense line already had Hu soldiers in the north, Yan troops in the south, and the Bohai Navy in the east.

At present, the north and south have been taken by the Yan army and the Bohai navy, and they have completely become a lonely army.

Although there is enough grain and grass to eat for three months in Songting Pass, how long can this last?

The idea of surrender appeared in everyone's minds, and even not only them, even Buwan was shaken.

Bu Wan is different from Wu Gao, he is not from Huaixi, nor is he a big family, so there are only a dozen people in Daning City who are related to him.

Now that Daning has been taken, if he continues to resist, God knows what Zhu Gaoxu will do to him.

Moreover, Bu Wan did not think that he could defeat Zhu Gaoxu with more than 10,000 people in his hands.

"The whole army will go out of Beiguan, and then send a message to the king of Bohai County......"

After a long time, Buwan closed his eyes and spoke with difficulty.

"Yes." After receiving Buwan's answer, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Buwan eventually surrendered, so that their families could be saved.

It's just that being defeated like this, everyone feels uncomfortable.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Not long after, with the sound of the horn, all the Ming troops in Songting Pass left the city, and Li Yuan, who had fled back before, was also ordered to go to the north with a worried face, and brought the news of Songting Pass's willingness to surrender to Zhu Gaoxu.

After an hour of going north, he finally saw the red-background-black-bordered Vermilion Bird Banner that covered the sky and the sun, and even more saw the many women, boys, and children who were wrapped up in the army and came in carts.

Seeing this, Li Yuan hurriedly dismounted, untied his saber, took off his helmet and walked to his phalanx, to show that he had no intention of being an enemy.

In just one word, more than 100 cavalry rushed out of the team and surrounded Li Yuan and the others.

"I am ordered by the command of Budu to come and surrender, please don't embarrass our family."

Li Yuan stubbornly spoke, and the Bohai spirit cavalry surrounding them heard the words, and quickly brought the news to the rear.

Soon, Zhu Gaoxu, who was riding a yellow horse, appeared in front of Li Yuan with someone.

Li Yuan saw Zhu Gaoxu during his last northern tour, and he is still deeply impressed, after all, the scene like the one he held and threw the wild horse at that time was too shocking.

"Commander Li Yuan, see Your Highness......"

Li Yuan lowered his head and half-knelt, but saw Zhu Gaoxu dismount and help him up: "When you left before, I thought you looked down on me, but now it seems that you are here to persuade them." ”

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to relieve Li Yuan, which made Li Yuan's face red, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Looking at his appearance, Zhu Gaoxu also smiled: "I also brought your family, go and reunite with them." ”

patting Li Yuan on the back, Zhu Gaoxu asked people to get out of the way, signaling Li Yuan to take care of himself.

Seeing this, Li Yuan also said in shame: "The commander of Budu has already led the whole army out of the city, waiting for His Highness to surrender. ”

"Okay, I see, you should be credited with this matter." Zhu Gaoxu patted Li Yuan again, and Li Yuan turned around and got on the horse in shame when he saw this.

Instead of going to see his family, he went south to report the news.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu also said to the Qianhu official next to him: "You take a thousand brothers to the south and go with him to take over the army." ”

"Yes!" The officials of the thousand households responded, and without thinking, they led people to follow Li Yuan, and sent people to the rear team to continue to recruit people.

After they left, Zhu Gaoxu also turned on his horse and led the team to the south unhurriedly.

He wasn't worried that Bu Wan would ambush him, after all, Li Yuan had already seen that he was carrying the generals' families, unless Bu Wan dared to lead troops to kill all the relatives of his subordinates, otherwise he would not have the courage to attack him.

Relieved, Zhu Gaoxu began to lead the team to continue marching south.

After killing thousands of people in Hara Wu and capturing more than 3,000 Hu soldiers, he did not rashly continue to pursue the remnants of the Wuliang Ha tribes in the north, but returned to Daning in the south, and at the same time divided 3,000 troops to Zhu Quan, Zhao Mu, and Chen Heng.

The four soldiers and horses carried the general's family, but in less than half a month, they recruited the twenty-two guards of Daning, and now as long as they take down Bu Wan, the 14,000 people on hand, then Daning will only be left with Chen Song's department, who does not know the news.

As long as he is taken, the southern soldiers in Liaoxi will be reduced to 12,000.

At that time, Wu Sheng and Wu Shou'an will either surrender or flee in small boats, no matter what they do, it will be difficult for them to hold Liaoxi.

The biggest obstacle between the Yan army and the Bohai Sea will soon disappear, and then he will be able to prepare his warship with peace of mind.

He dared to conceive of crossing the sea to attack Denglai, and he was naturally absolutely sure.

First of all, most of the Han soldiers in Liaodong and Bohai were coastal disciples transferred to Guanwai from Jianghuai and Shandong, and they were familiar with the sea and rivers, as long as the warships were stable enough and the artillery was strong enough, the naval divisions of the Southern Army could not deal with them at all.

As for the route to cross the sea to the south, Lao Zhu had already formulated this for Zhu Gaoxu.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, Lao Zhu sent people to personally plan the route of crossing the sea from Dengzhou in Shandong to Jinzhou, and appointed Ma Yun and Ye Wang as commanders to lead 10,000 Ming troops to cross the sea from Dengzhou and Laizhou in Shandong to land in Jinzhou, southern Liaoning.

Since they can, there is no reason why they can't.

Now he only needs to follow the original course and take the Imperial City Islands between Jinzhou and Dengzhou during the period.

However, at a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, there are still Imperial City Islands to rely on during the period, and to build forts, Zhu Gaoxu has nothing to worry about.

It's just that he can think of crossing the sea from Jinzhou and knows the route, which means that the Southern Army knows better and understands better.

Therefore, he had to speed up the construction of warships, and take advantage of the fact that the southern army transferred the naval division from the south to the north to take the imperial islands and build forts in advance.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu gradually saw the Buwan army waiting to be surrendered in the mountains and valleys.

Tens of thousands of people almost filled the valley less than a mile wide, and Bu Wan and the others also took off their armor and waited for surrender in front of the battle.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward immediately, and said with a smile when he met Bu Wan's four eyes: "Commander Bu Du, don't come unharmed." ”

Facing Zhu Gaoxu's greeting, Bu Wan lowered his head, he didn't know what to say to Zhu Gaoxu, could it be cheeky to talk about the two of them on their northern tour back then?

"After you and your family are in the battle, all the troops can march north, and after entering Daning, you will be able to know my Bohai policy towards Daning."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much about his own policy, first, the army had just surrendered, and if someone instigated it, the 10,000 army was likely to mutiny.

It is better to arrange for them to go north, and when they return to the Weizhou Office in Daning, they will naturally know what the policy of Bohai is.

Hearing this, Bu Wan and the others began to go north with an army under the supervision of two thousand Bohai elite horsemen, and Zhu Gaoxu also took his own 1,000 people into the intact Songting Pass.

In the middle hall of the thousand households, there are also the sand tables of the Yanshan defense line, as well as the "Grain Book", "Fish Scale Atlas", "Military Register" and other books.

Zhu Gaoxu sat down and looked at it slowly, and sent someone to the south to inform the Yan army Zunhua garrison who was guarding Songting Pass.

These documents were only a rough look in his hands, and he constructed in his mind how to plan Daning's self-sufficiency plan.

First of all, it must be stationed in Daning according to the original stipulation of 15,000 military households and their families, which is about 15,000 to 70,000 people.

These 70,000 people need to be distributed in Daning's 22 Wei, 3 Institutes and 8 Guan, and the local more than 210,000 mu of cultivated land will be equally divided for self-sufficiency.

Calculated, it is almost at least three acres of cultivated land per person, and the output is slightly higher than that of Liaodong, and there can be seven buckets of real grain per mu, that is, three acres of total output of two stones and one bucket of real grain.

At most, this amount of food would keep the local people from starving, so he had to encourage them to open up the land.

Zhu Gaoxu has also seen the livestock situation in Daning, with more than 4,000 ploughing cattle and more than 6,000 horses and mules.

The more than 6,000 horses and mules are now all taken by Liu Song to Yizhou in Guangning, and when Liu Song is taken, the nearly 10,000 animal power can be distributed to the people of Daning according to the household registration.

A family of ploughing oxen, as long as they do not collect taxes and subsidize some food, they do not need to be encouraged, they will spontaneously open up the wasteland.

"Fifteen thousand soldiers and horses ......"

Zhu Gaoxu leaned back in his chair and pondered, then sat up straight and began to study and write.

After calculation, Daning's military salary is 300,000 stone military rations, 120,000 guan military salaries, as well as cotton, cloth, salt and other things.

As for the opening of the people of Daning, according to the calculation of two catties per person per day, it is 340,000 stone per year.

The total of the two is 740,000 stones, counting the output of Daning, it is enough for him to only subsidize 600,000 stones, compared to 2.4 million stones in the Hongwu period, the burden is much lighter.

However, the pressure on Daning's side has been reduced, but the pressure on Liaodong's side has increased.

Before setting off from Daning, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhao Mu roughly calculated that Jilin City could be self-sufficient, but after the population of Daning moved to Liaodong, Liaodong had a population of 680,000.

These 680,000 people are only the majority, and there are no less than 120,000 people in western Liaoning, which adds up to 800,000 in the entire population of eastern Liaoning.

These 800,000 people need to consume 3.5 million stones every year, while the local people can only solve 700,000 stones, and they have to make up 2.8 million stones for Liaodong.

If we add the reduced military rations and salaries of the Daning, Liaodong and Bohai Navy, in addition to the 15,000 defenders of Daning, Zhu Gaoxu has to maintain the scale of 75,000 people, and the additional military rations and salaries are 1.5 million stones, or 600,000 guan.

All of them are added up, and Bohai's expenditure is 90,000 troops, 1.8 million stone of military rations, and 720,000 yuan of military salaries.

Combined with the 4.8 million stone rations of almost a million people, the total is 6.6 million stones, and the military salary is 720,000 yuan.

This amount is almost equivalent to one-seventh of the financial revenue of the Ming military tun and household department in the 30 years of Hongwu.

"The bigger the plate, the poorer I become......"

After settling the account, Zhu Gaoxu gave birth to a kind of heart that wanted to die.

He enriched the population of Liaodong, and with this number of Liaodong population, the Han people were probably able to develop the Northeast more than 500 years in advance.

It's just that he may not have started to develop the Northeast yet, and the financial burden of the Northeast will crush him to death.

With the money and food he has now, he can carry this burden until September at most, and if he doesn't find another way, then he will wait for the finances to collapse.

Rubbing his swollen temples, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on Beiping on the sand table.

"Let's get a million stones from my father first......"

"Bohai Chronicle": "Wan Jiu on the side, and defend the land for the country's merits, Jiashen, led the troops to the dying, Wan did not want to fight, so he surrendered, so he led his people"

"Ming Shizong Record": "Jia Shen, led the troops to Songting, there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in its pass, and then Wan Su raised the position, then opened the city and tied himself, and led the troops to surrender. ”

(End of chapter)