Hong Chengchou suggested to Dorgon to send troops next summer to see when the wheat will be harvested.
After repeated discussions, Zhao Han decided to send troops in the spring!
Because the land of the Datong Army can grow winter wheat. After the winter wheat is planted, farmers and civilians will be recruited directly in northern Hubei, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Runing, and Nanyang to cooperate with the regular army of Datong in the spring battle, so that the farming season will not be delayed.
In northern Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shanxi and other regions, spring wheat is being sown at this time.
Zhao Han suddenly sent troops in spring, which happened to be the farming season of Manchu. The Qing Dynasty had to mobilize a large number of peasants, which made it impossible for farmers to sow wheat.
Even if Zhao Han loses this battle, as long as he does not lose too badly, the Manchu Qing will be seriously injured, and the wheat production of that year must have been severely reduced!
Don't look at the vast territory of Manqing, in fact, it is impossible to control the countryside at all.
Even, small counties cannot be controlled, and many remote small counties are still governed by the civil servants left by Li Zicheng.
This kind of local control has a lot of room for manipulation, and Xu Ying can send 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 Qing army fought, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai would be able to take the opportunity to start an incident in Shaanxi. There are still tens of thousands of elites left, and it is no problem to attack the city.
At that time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were making troubles in Shaanxi, and Zhao Han went straight to Liaodong from Dongjiang Town. The two battlefields behind the enemy were enough to drink a pot.
Zhao Han's peasants and soldiers are equivalent to reserve forces. They can be assembled at the front line in two months, and can be trained on the battlefield in one month. He seemed to have few soldiers, but in fact he had a lot of them. If it wasn't for the lack of food, he would explode another 200,000 soldiers every minute.
This battle has a great chance of winning
Guangxi, Pingyuefu.
?From the perspective of the population composition of the entire Guangxi, the Zhuang nationality is 50%, the Yao nationality is 30%, and the Han nationality is 20%.
However, Pingyuefu is very special. The Zhuang nationality accounts for less than 20%, and most of them immigrated from other places. They have a collective title called "Dongqian Cubing".
‚Zbing, that is, wolf soldiers.
The Yao people in Pingyuefu often rebelled, and it was difficult for the Ming court to suppress them, so a large number of Zhuang soldiers were moved here. Choose a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and let the soldiers set up a stronghold to garrison the fields, surround the settlements of the Yao people with the garrison army, and separate the Yao people from the Han people.
Most of the Zhuang people in Pingyuefu are military immigrants, and their existence value is to suppress the Yao people.
Not only that, Han officials also deliberately provoked conflicts between Zhuang and Yao, making Zhuang and Yao form a feud, so that they can rule very easily.
However, at the end of Ming Dynasty, the situation changed.
The Zhuang people took the initiative to make peace with the Yao people, and even became relatives by marriage. A large number of Yao people who were separated, as well as Han people who lost their land, and Zhuang people who had no land to cultivate, formed villages to reclaim barren hills, and truly realized the national integration of Han, Zhuang and Yao.
These mixed villages have become the key development targets of the Datong Army.
?After half a year of action, the Datong Army finally occupied He County, and recruited the soldiers from Diandeng Village, wiped out the soldiers from Daning Village, and completed the work of organizing households and dividing land in He County.
A regular division only took down half a county in half a year, mainly because of the terrain, and because the soldiers were disgusting.
After the main force of the Cu soldiers was dispersed, they played guerrilla warfare in the mountains with seven of them.
Poisoned arrows are hard to guard against, they may emerge from the woods at any time, and more than 30 members of the peasant association alone died.
It was already early winter, and the Datong Army continued to attack.
They had just received a military order, and the unit designation was changed to the Tenth Division of the Datong Army, and Liu Xinyu, who was from Hunan, was promoted as the division commander. This person is a traitor in Hunan, who brought two states and four counties to submit to Zhao Han, and then followed Zhang Tieniu to fight in Guangdong to make meritorious service.
The chief mission officer of the Tenth Division was Ding Jiasheng, who was also a traitor. He practiced the secrets of "Da Tong Ji" by himself, and took Duchang County to defect to Zhao Han.
10,000 officers and soldiers of the Datong Army, with more than a thousand soldiers and many civilian husbands, marched by land and water to kill Bian Pengzhai.
Bianpeng Village is located not far from the northwest of Zhongshan County in later generations, facing the river and backing the mountains, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The head of the Cubing village of Liangfeng Village had already captured Pingyuefu City, gathered the leaders of the Chubing villages to make himself king, and also had some Han and Yao forces attached to him.
They even brought down Yangshuo County along the river.
If it weren't for the threat of the Datong Army from the rear, these soldiers would probably have captured Guilin!
This time it is going to be a decisive battle, and the place is Bianpeng Village.
There is also the Bianpeng Village area in He County, which is a rare grain-producing area in Pingle Prefecture. There are basins between mountains and rivers for ?Charge quickly.
The rattan player of the Datong Army raised his shield to cover the friendly army.
In fact, it¡¯s not a big problem if you don¡¯t cover. The bows and crossbows of the soldiers are relatively poor, and the power is not very great. After wearing the armor, it is enough not to be shot at the vitals.
The real thing to be afraid of is the poisonous arrow!
"Throw a gun!"
After another charge, the javeliners charged and threw their javelins.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
A small number of firecrackers from the Zubing also started shooting. After shooting, they immediately drew their swords and rushed forward.
More than 20 people from the Datong Army fell, half of whom were shot by javelins. The rest were hit by a poisoned arrow, and they didn't know what kind of poison it was. They had chest tightness, shortness of breath, weakness all over, and the toxin exploded very quickly.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The last round of shelling, this time it was shotgun shells, and it was a large area with one blast.
Of the 2,500 Datong dragoons, 1,000 were sent out to deal with the local cavalry, and the rest chased and shot again.
After all, Zu Bing is also a human being, facing such terrifying firepower, tens of thousands of people collapsed immediately.
Wei Changyi wasn't dead yet, he was still rushing forward with the rest of his troops. He felt that as long as he rushed to close combat, the Datong army would definitely be defeated, and the Datong army was nothing but powerful firearms.
"The grenadier!"
Five hundred grenadiers with super-long arms and strong physiques threw tens of thousands of enemies at the rushing soldiers.
The rattan players, wolf gunners, and spearmen are also on standby, and the firecrackers retreat to put on their bayonets.
There was no need for melee combat anymore, the leader of the bandit, Wei Changyi, was blown to death by tens of thousands of enemies, and all the remaining soldiers turned and fled.
The dragoons put away their guns, drew their knives and rushed over to kill them. Any enemy who did not put down their weapons and surrendered would be killed with one blow.
The Datong Army suffered a lot, and the casualties in guerrilla warfare in the mountains were far greater than those in frontal combat.
After attacking Pingyue Mansion for half a year, they were finally able to take all of them. The leader of the bandits, Wei Changyi, was killed in battle, and most of the other leaders of the soldiers would choose to raise their villages and surrender.
Here in Guangxi, it's really hard to fight!
Ethnic issues are also extremely complex, and governance must be done step by step.
After winning Pingle Mansion, the next step is Guilin Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion.
In the absence of sufficient food and grass, it is estimated that Guangxi will continue to fight for one or two years. Each time troops are sent to occupy one or two prefectures, and then civil affairs are quickly carried out. The local area has accumulated enough food before dispatching troops.
Guangxi is so difficult, but Sichuan is very smooth.
Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu have sent troops together to attack Wang Xiang in Chongqing Mansion with Yang Zhan.
The sooner you take Sichuan, the sooner you will get a grain-producing area. There is always a lot of grain in the Sichuan Basin. Especially the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance!