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    374 Taking advantage of harm

    The soldiers marched fast all the way with their helmets on.  There were 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, of which 3,000 were iron cavalry from the four foreign armies brought by Yang Ling from Beijing, and the other 2,000 were the Dezhou defenders.

    Yang Ling was in Dezhou, not at all to stay in this important military town to oversee the war, his ambition was in Yang Hu.  He stopped in Dezhou because the importance of Dezhou was no less than that of Jinan. If he didn't settle here well, he couldn't rest assured to help Tai'an.

    Liu Liujing has 30,000 cavalry, and the quality of the army is higher than that of Yang Hu, but the number is small, and he is especially not good at attacking fortifications. According to common sense, there are not several times as many elite soldiers. It is as difficult as heaven to conquer a military fortress that has been painstakingly managed for many years  .  However, the low morale of the officers and soldiers led to a serious decline in combat power. In addition, the Texas defenders were mixed and came from different sources, so it was difficult to achieve a unified order. The result was that there were more reinforcements, but it did not achieve the effect of 1+1=2  The effect, on the contrary, is weaker than before.

    This is the principle of wooden barrels. If the lengths of the wooden barrels are different, the maximum capacity of the wooden barrel does not depend on the long wooden plank, but on the shortest wooden plank.  Defending the city requires the overall cooperation and coordinated operations of the troops.  The strength of an army's combat effectiveness and the victory or defeat of the entire battle depend largely not on the superiority and prominence of a few individuals or a certain team, but more on its overall condition and whether it has some prominence.  weak link.

    The Dezhou Army has officers, patrols, township soldiers Ding Yong, and civilians, and the officers and soldiers come from four places, and there are many factions on the hills. It is difficult to knead such a group of people.  When Dezhou was about to go to war, Yang Ling decisively used punishment to establish his prestige, purge the various armies under different leaderships, and establish Luo Shiquan's absolute command and personal prestige, so that he can shoulder the responsibility of sticking to Dezhou.

    He arranged the two largest reinforcements in Baoding and Tianjin to Sangyuankou and Shierliancheng respectively, and transferred all the local defenders in Dezhou back to Dezhou City.  , Guaranteeing the safety of this military fortress in Texas.

    After the morale of the army steadily improved, Luo Shiquan ordered a door, which was enough to command the Dezhou defenders. Then Yang Ling suddenly swore to his master, and personally led a group of soldiers, quietly left Dezhou City at night, and drove to Tai'an in the starry night.  Yang Zishuai's banner at the head of Dezhou City did not withdraw, Liu Liu and Liu Qi had no idea that Yang Ling had quietly left the city and took twelve thousand people with him.

    At this time, there were still 26,000 officers and soldiers in Dezhou City, and under normal circumstances, they could be in a stalemate with Liu Liu's army.  The casualties were heavy, so the attack turned into a stalemate. On the surface, they were still aggressive, posing a posture of wanting to fight, but their actual intentions had changed to drag Yang Ling and the Dezhou army, and cooperate with Yang Hu to capture Tai'an and Jinan.

    Yang Lingming's plan to build the plank road and cross Chencang secretly is not unreasonable, but in order to reduce Yang Hu's poison in Shandong and minimize the loss of Ming Dynasty, this is the only way, otherwise the situation in Shandong will become more and more festering, and the vicious circle will lead to bandits  Can suppress more and more.

    The government publicizes how thieves and robbers and white-clothed soldiers are doing evil and threatening the rioters. In fact, some things are difficult to explain to the outside world.  The common people were stealing, and Yang Hu and Liu Liu gathered tens of thousands of troops in just a few months. It was not only a method of coercion and temptation, but also one of the reasons for the harsh governance of the court.

    In order to ensure the supply of horses for the Ming army for more than a hundred years, the people of Hebei and Shandong have put a heavy burden on the corvee of the horse households.  In order to ensure good horses, they have to pay a high price, not only delaying farming, but also compensation for losses when the horses they raise die or the breeding of stallions fails to reach the quota.  Counting is really miserable.

    When the frontier army does not need so many horses for the time being, the government will not confiscate all the mature horses. They also cannot afford to raise such a large military horse, so they still have to raise them in the homes of the common people.  Horses are the source of a large number of war horses that Yang Hu and Liu Liu's teams quickly amassed and used.  The people's burden was so heavy that some people lamented that "the most troubled food in the south of the Yangtze River is the most troubled horse in Hebei".

    ? At the same time, in Hebei and Shandong areas near Gyeonggi, there are not as many wealthy gentry and merchants as in the south, but bureaucratic landlords are like crucian carp crossing the river.  In the case of Yan Shenggong, as one of the big landlords in Shandong, he owns millions of acres of fertile land.  What is that concept?  The people in the nearby counties are all his tenants. If you are a little bit harsh and greedy as a landlord, the people in several counties will suffer a lot.

    The horse government squeezed and merged land, and land mergers caused the reduction of pastures, which in turn made the horse government¡¯s exploitation more serious.  The reason why he chose to join the bandits because he looked at the imperial court.  even some??Yuan County?  Where did she come from, where is she going, do you know anything about it?  "

    Seeing that the lord was very concerned about this matter, the man hurriedly replied: "Master, Hong Niangzi also wears a white cloak, but she wears a red scarf on her head. We have all heard of this. At noon the day before yesterday, there were suddenly several  Thousands of people appeared at our place, but I was terrified, and after seeing their appearance, I realized that they were Hong Niangzi's people."

    "She" The man looked at Yang Ling's face, lowered his voice and said, "Compared with other robbers, she is quite reasonable, and she is not allowed to rob the poor.  To bully a woman is to smash the old rich man¡¯s house in the east of the town. The old Wang¡¯s family has money, but if they let them have a penny, there is not much left, and the rest is given to a few orphans and widows in the town.¡±

    The man slammed his mouth, as if it was a pity that he didn't give it to him, and continued: "They lived in the village for a long time, and I didn't see the red lady who was said to be all red, so I just listened to their people.  Chattering, those people are casual, they don't have anyone behind their backs. I heard that they came all the way from Qufu back to Qingzhou, and then went around to Huimin and Linyi. They said they couldn't get along with Yang Hu, and they were going to meet Wuqiao  That's bubbling."

    Yang Ling was taken aback. Now the bandits are moving fast, all the cities are defending themselves, there is no brigade of officers and soldiers to protect them, and there are no messengers to come and go. If Hong Niangzi doesn't go to the big cities and big towns, but walks between towns and towns, those people are not in the mood now  Gu Deshang went to the prefecture and county to report, but the news was extremely delayed.

    If Hong Niangzi goes to join Liu Liu and Liu Qi, they will add another main force.  Yang Ling was flustered, and when he settled down, he realized that Hong Niangzi recruited troops rather than indiscriminately. The current number should be less than 5,000, and the offensive and defensive momentum of Dezhou will not change. Then he calmed down and said sadly: "She   went to Wuqiao?"

    The honest commoner said: "They didn't go. I don't know where they got the news. It said that Master Yang came from Dezhou, and he was a Duke of the state. Their leader, Hong Niangzi, suddenly changed his mind and didn't go with Liu.  Mixed with the flow of air, their people went all the way, went to Xiajin, crossed the Qinghe River, and wanted to find a man named Zhao Crazy."

    Yang Ling was stunned for a moment: "From Qinghe to Shandong, this is going to Shanxi. She Is she avoiding me?"

    Seeing the official standing there blankly, the old farmer didn't dare to leave, so he stood in front of him with his waist bowed. It took Yang Ling a long time to come back to his senses.  The head said: "Well, thank you, you can go."

    Yang Ling was in no mood to continue shopping. He sighed, restrained his smile and walked back slowly: "I came to Shandong, and she avoided going to Shanxi, alas! The crime of rebellion, the catastrophe, red lady, red lady, you still want  How long will it take to get into trouble before you give up?"

    Although Yang Ling felt a little lost, he felt relaxed for no reason: "Shandong's bandit suppression, inevitably, the white-clothed army that attacked Yang Hu would bring Hong Niangzi's men and horses to meet her on the battlefield.  Isn't it a taste? Now that she has left Shandong, she just happens to let go of her hands and feet.

    In any case, the country's major affairs are important, especially this rebellion. I am about to use it to reform the imperial political system that has never been touched before.  Fortune pushed himself to this position, so he couldn't live up to God's good intentions.  If you can't live with your mind in life, even if you live to be a hundred years old, you will still be young!  Let's put aside the personal relationship between children and daughters."

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