Zhao Han returned to Jiangxi. As soon as he arrived in Ji'an, before his butt was hot, he received a military report from Yangzhou.
Daming dispatched officers and soldiers from Jizhen to quickly wipe out the uprising soldiers. He also dispatched Xuanda officers and soldiers to go south and ordered Jizhen soldiers to go west, trying to surround Li Zicheng to death in Henan.
At this time, the Tartars sent troops to besiege Jinzhou.
And this time is different from the past, Huang Taiji changed his tactics. He even ordered to farm outside Jinzhou City, as if he didn't intend to leave, and wanted to starve the Jinzhou officers and soldiers to death.
The Jizhen soldiers were quickly transferred back, and Li Zicheng escaped unharmed, and continued to deal with the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
"Jinzhou is gone, or Daming is gone." Zhao Han handed over the military newspaper.
After reading it, Pang Chunlai sighed.
Li Banghua looked at the military newspaper and said: "The way the Tatars fight is exactly the same as our way of conquering the fortified city. While besieging the city, we divided the land outside the city and formed a peasant association, turning the fortified city of Ming Dynasty into an isolated city. This time, the Tartars are garrisoning the fields after besieging the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city dare not come out."
"Once the siege exceeds half a year, Jinzhou soldiers may surrender." Pang Chun said.
Li Banghua added: "The court of the Ming Dynasty is likely to use all its forces to rescue the besieged Jinzhou. If the Ming army is defeated, the Ming army will be wiped out, and the northern rogues will definitely take the opportunity to become bigger."
Zhao Han said with emotion: "It seems that the Tartars robbed a lot of food and grass last year, otherwise they would not have the capital to besiege Jinzhou for a long time."
Since the reign of Tianqi, Jinzhou and Ningyuan have been the front lines. The Guan Jinning defense line has been blocking the Qing army, and the Tartars can only take a long way to cross the Great Wall to invade the invaders.
It's not that the Tartars haven't thought about long-term siege, but that there is not enough food to support this method of warfare.
Last year, it was too cool to grab, and the Tartars had enough food and grass, so they used this deadly move with no solution. The Ming court either sat back and watched the Jinzhou defenders surrender, or mobilized a large army for a battle.
Once the battle fails, the Liaodong defense line will collapse!
Most of the northern Zhili area is full of Manchu spies.
The Ming Dynasty's finances collapsed ahead of schedule, and the Manchu Qing also surrounded Jinzhou ahead of schedule. The reason for this is nothing more than bullying Daming's lack of food and grass, even if there is a battle, it can only be resolved quickly. The Ming army, which was eager to enter the army, must have made many mistakes and omissions. Huang Taiji was able to find all kinds of opportunities to attack.
Li Banghua said: "The court of the Ming Dynasty had to save Jinzhou. If they did not send troops to rescue, everyone in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan would be in danger. Maybe the frontline generals would surrender directly. Rescue would lead to defeat, and the slaves could fight all the way to Shanhaiguan." Zhang Xianzhong , Li Zicheng took the opportunity to grow stronger, and the Ming Dynasty has no more elite soldiers to use. We must quickly fight to Jiangbei."
Fei Chun said: "After the autumn harvest, we can't fight big battles. There are famines everywhere in Jiangnan and Zhejiang. This year's disaster relief has run out of food, and it will take at least half a year to recuperate. We hold the Dongting Lake granary and Jiangxi's grain production. We will harvest tomorrow summer." After that, there will definitely be enough food to fight as you like!"
"Why is there no food again?" Li Banghua was a little depressed.
Fei Chun said helplessly: "Officers and soldiers can rob food, rogues can rob food, and Tartars are also robbing food. Not only can we not rob, but we have to take out food for disaster relief. How much can we leave after going back and forth?"
"By the way," Zhao Han thought of a question, "Did the sea merchants come back from Annan to sell grain?"
Fei Chun replied: "We shipped a lot, but only enough for Guangdong to consume. Guangdong suffered another drought this year, and it was a major disaster for the whole province. Mr. (Pang Chunlai) ordered that the land tax be exempted, and Guangdong will not store a single grain of rice this year." All the grain brought back by Annan was used to fill the holes in Guangdong, otherwise the price of grain in the counties of Guangzhou would be so high that people would starve to death.¡±
"Oh, what a disaster." Zhao Han sighed.
The hellish weather at the end of Ming Dynasty, either here or there was a disaster, Zhao Han had the same headache as Chongzhen.
After discussing for a while, Zhao Han made a decision: "Then after the autumn harvest this year, we will not fight any big battles, just take Fujian. By the way, we will rectify the administration of officials and train more officials. If the expansion is too fast, various problems will appear."
"To attack Fujian, it is enough to send a few thousand people." Li Banghua said.
Fujian is sandwiched between Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong, and the surrounding area is all Zhao Han's territory.
? In Fujian Province, there is also an uprising by Qiu Lingxiao and his son, who have already occupied one of the eight counties in Tingzhou Prefecture.
Under internal and external difficulties, Fujian officials tend to lie flat. They couldn't even defeat Qiu Lingxiao's rebel army, how could they dare to fight against Zhao Han?
?The plan for the second half of the year is thus determined: consolidate the territory, recuperate, rectify the administration of officials, and win Fujian.
After the meeting, Zhao Han returned to the back house.
Fei Rulan and Pan Qimei, who were about to give birth, sat under the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade, occasionally standing up and taking a few steps.
"Little brother!"
&Don't think too much about it. "Zhao Han held her hand to comfort her.
Fei Rulan heard the yelling from next door and asked worriedly, "Is Seventh Sister still alive?"
"Soon." Zhao Han said.
After struggling for another half an hour, laughter finally came from the next door, and then Po Wen shouted: "There is one more, there is another one!"
Zhao Han hurriedly ran, and not long after, the room cheered and celebrated again.
Grandma Wen ordered to handle the first and last, opened the door and said to Zhao Han: "Congratulations to Zongzhen, the wife gave birth to twins, the elder sister is in front, and the younger brother is in the rear."
"There are rewards, there are many rewards!"
Zhao Han walked into the room. Pan Qimei was already weak and drenched in sweat, smiling at Zhao Han with a pale face.
The next day, Zhao Han quietly issued an order.
All death row prisoners in Jiangxi Province were taken to Linjiang Mansion to be hanged, and all their bodies were sent to Zaoge Mountain.
Taoist priest Liu Kaihua received the secret order and hurried to Ji'an to have an audience: "The general town, the holy place of Taoism in Zaoge Mountain, how can we get so many autopsies?"
"If you don't dissect the corpse, how can you know the structure of the human body?" Zhao Han asked back.
Liu Kaihua still didn't understand, and said, "But"
"No, but," Zhao Han interrupted directly, "the dissecting room is built in Ziyang Medical College, so as to understand how the blood circulates throughout the body, and understand how the internal organs work. The "Huangdi Neijing" can be temporarily put aside, this is for Don¡¯t think too much about curing diseases and saving lives.¡±
Liu Kaihua hesitated to speak, but finally chose to obey orders.
Zhao Han originally planned to let the doctors develop on their own, but Pan Qimei really scared him when she gave birth this time.
? Tossing back and forth for more than ten hours, it is good luck not to have one dead body and three lives. Modern medicine must start exploring in advance.