Dominate the Country

The battle of Li Shiyuan was not large in scale and was not very eye-catching in the thick war history of the Fu Han Army. But for the current battle of Chenzhou, the battle of Li Shiyuan was a symbol. It marked the beginning of the mobile warfare of the Qing cavalry!

Between Chenzhou and Zhoujiakou, between Zhoujiakou and Yancheng. On the second day after Zhoujiakou was captured by the Fu Han Army, the Qing cavalry became completely active. They not only attacked and killed the small-scale patrol troops of the Fu Han Army and the transport troops, but also wanted to subtly divide the connection between the front and back of the Fu Han Army.

Chenzhou has been captured by Gao Yuanhou, but the battle of Li Shiyuan with huge casualties has dimmed Gao Yuanhou's military exploits by three points.

Chen Ming's next target is Shangshui, or the area south of Yinghe River, all the way to Xinyang. This large area is Chen Ming's attack target. As for the future layout in eastern Henan, now that he has Zhoujiakou and Chenzhou City, he can relatively prevent the Qing army in the north from attacking the area south of Yinghe River.

Of course, with the city as the center and the countryside around it, and the Qing army cavalry being numerous, there will inevitably be some entanglements in the future.

It can even be said that if you want to completely protect Chenzhou, you will inevitably have to turn several counties into places like Xuzhou, Yancheng, and Xiping.

Use fortresses to separate the land, and then connect the fortresses in series to form solid chains.

Tiehulu Hutong in the east of Chenzhou City.

Chen Youhe smokes a pipe, a long pipe with a silver jade mouth, and a silk bag under the pipe that flickers. Chen Youhe exhales a puff of smoke, and the white smoke covers his wrinkled old face. Compared with three years ago, the big boss of Chen Yihe is much older.

Below Chen Youhe, his third brother Chen Qinghe and his eldest son Chen Yiyuan, who is not much younger than his third uncle, stare at their eldest brother and father without blinking. Whether they can become officials, whether they can become "good" officials, all depends on the words of the old man.

When the Fu Han Army captured Chenzhou, some of the chess pieces buried in the secret camp were exposed. Chen Qinghe and Chen Yiyuan discovered that several of the new friends their family had been in contact with in the past two years were from the Fu Han Army.

If there was only one, it would be a coincidence. But there were four at once. Chen Qinghe and Chen Yiyuan knew that the head of the Chen family, their eldest brother and father, had long been secretly connected with the Fu Han Army.

The Fu Han Army had just captured Chenzhou, but no one believed that the Qing Army could take Chenzhou back from the Fu Han Army. As for the Fu Han Army's determination to defend Chenzhou, look at the chess pieces that popped out of the Fu Han Army's secret camp one after another? This is the best performance of their determination to take root in Chenzhou. Otherwise, who would put the precious secret chess pieces up next year?

The Chen family has suffered a lot under the Qing Dynasty in the past few years. The family's treasury and granary were squeezed out by the Qing Dynasty.

When the Fu Han army entered Chenzhou City, Chen Yiyuan shouted that he would no longer be slaughtered and that he wanted to revive his family business. But now that there is another brighter and more glorious road at their feet, Chen Yiyuan can forget about the four words "revive the family business".

How can doing business be as pleasant as being an official? Not to mention that the officialdom of Chen Han does not prohibit the relatives of officials from doing business.

For this one, Chen Ming felt that it was - taking off his pants to fart, purely for this purpose.

You stipulate that the relatives of officials are not allowed to do business, so the family really does not do business? Look at Zhu Ming, then look at the Qing Dynasty, and finally look at the Red Dynasty after the reform and opening up. Why bother to cover up the truth?

This regulation is just a small benefit for the Chen family. What really excites Chen Qinghe and Chen Yiyuan is the word "official".

In China, a society where officials are the most important, the word "official" represents too much. In recent years, Chen Huizu has relied on the word "official" to scrape off three or five feet of land in Chenzhou.

"Alas. Since you have made up your mind, I will sacrifice my old face to beg you for the last time. But I will make it clear to you two first. The judicial system of the new dynasty is strict. Since you have entered the official career, you must be clean and take care of yourself. If you commit a crime, don't come to me again. I don't have the face to forgive you."

Just when the two sides were fighting fiercely outside Chenzhou City and the Qing cavalry was roaming the fields, the rule of the Fu Han Army in Chenzhou City was unexpectedly stabilized. It was just a small seedling, but with the surrender of many Chenzhou nobles and wealthy families such as the Chen family, it grew rapidly as if it had been on shit. It climbed branches and took root in every corner of Chenzhou City.

At the same time as the Chen family and other wealthy families joined the Fu Han Army, a group of Chenzhou officials and families loyal to the Qing Dynasty were ruthlessly uprooted.

It was their bad luck that they ended up in Chenzhou, a place of fierce fighting. If it was in the non-war zone of the South Country, Chen Han would have let many of the small ones go. But now it is not the case. Now we must root out the roots and get rid of all the "outliers".

Chen Yiyuan had a sneer on his face. Unlike his uncle Chen Qinghe who was swallowing his saliva beside him, Chen Yiyuan had been looking forward to this day. When the Chen family was forced to pay money and grain, did all the money and grain really go into the hands of the state? It would be good to have one third.

Chen Huizu took a piece, and these officials and officials, and the slaves who followed Chen Huizu's ass and showed off their power, all made a lot of money. What made Chen Yiyuan even more angry was that many people had clearly humiliated him and the Chen family. It was because the Chen family had only one Juren, but no real Jinshi official. Ever since he heard that Chen Han wanted them to sign a "letter of surrender", Chen Yiyuan was looking forward to this day.

"Uncle, I'm not talking about you. Are you scared to death for just one execution?"

"There are hundreds or thousands of times more people dying in the world every day than the number of people we have to supervise execution. Now is a chaotic world, and the world is not peaceful yet. How can you be afraid of chopping off heads? This is not our heads being chopped off?" For the first time, Chen Yiyuan felt that it was a wrong decision to enter the officialdom with Chen Qinghe. How could he achieve great things and become a high-ranking official with such a timid courage?

Chen Yiyuan was very excited about the job he had taken on, because among the several people he was supervising the execution of, there were two people who had ridiculed and mocked him several times in the past. In a word, Chen Yiyuan had a grudge against those two people!

Now he was supervising the execution of his enemies, how comforting it was.

"Come on, prepare a food box for me." Chen Yiyuan's mind was full of revenge. Before the beheading, he had to go and see those two guys in person. Thinking of going to see the two enemies with a food box, the latter were stunned and even cried and begged. "Hahaha, so happy, so happy." Chen Yiyuan laughed up to the sky.

It was already the first day of October. At noon, a pigeon from Lushan brought good news.

At midnight on this day, the Crown Princess gave birth to a lovely little princess for Chen Ming. Both mother and daughter are safe!

Chen Ming was overjoyed. In the past few days, he had been sending prisoners and accumulating military supplies, while on the other hand, he was full of worry about his wife and children far away in Lushan. Now that the good news has come, I can finally feel relieved. "My daughter is fine, my daughter is fine."

Although this newly born baby is not a little prince, she will surely be loved by everyone. Because it was because of her appearance that women in her father's backyard became pregnant one after another, and she is also the eldest princess of Chen Han. Whether from a good omen or from reality, no matter from which angle, she will not be lower than a legitimate second son.

Chen Ming was so happy that he was happy when the army attacked the next day.

Two brigades of the garrison division stayed in Chenzhou and Zhoujiakou, and Chen Ming led the remaining troops to attack Shangshui County on October 2.

The latter's road was really difficult, and the Fu Han army filled in potholes and dents along the way.

The Qing army did have a lot of cavalry, and it was really a headache to harass them. On the route from Yancheng to Zhoujiakou and from Zhoujiakou to Chenzhou City, the Fu Han Army had no military stations and no solid camps. It was indeed very difficult for the transport team to safely transport supplies under the threat of the Qing Army's cavalry in the short term.

Small-scale transport teams were completely extinct, and regular troops had to be added to the transport teams to escort them.

However, no matter how powerful the Qing Army's cavalry and cavalry were, they could not launch an attack on Zhoujiakou and Chenzhou City, especially after several bridges on the Ying River were occupied or blown up by the Fu Han Army, it became inconvenient for the Qing Army to travel back and forth.

In the seven or eight days after the capture of Chenzhou, Chen Ming first sent a large number of prisoners of war back to Yancheng, and the Qing Army also figured out what a hot air balloon was. Hot air balloons often rose in the Fu Han Army camp in Zhoujiakou. As long as the wind was not too strong.

It rose dozens of meters in an instant, and the balloon team had a panoramic view of the area within a radius of more than ten miles from Zhoujiakou.

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The atmosphere in Shangshui County Government was tense. After seizing Zhoujiakou and Chenzhou, the Fu Han army finally came.

Enhui, the main general, and Tiebao, the deputy general, were not incompetent. They had eaten a lot of fools in the northwest in their early years. In the battle of Tangzhuang not long ago, Wang Tenglong had to thank Tiebao for saving his life.

Below the two of them, there were more than 10,000 Qing troops in Shangshui, and there were still remnants of Wang Tenglong around. Five or six thousand Gansu and Shaanxi cavalry were crippled by the cavalry brigade of the Fu Han army, but at least there were more than 3,000 cavalry. But the morale was very low.

"Come on." Enhui clenched his fists tightly.

"Chen Ni relied on the hot air balloon to deceive people and seized Zhoujiakou by cheating. Then he took advantage of the unstable morale of our army to seize Chenzhou. But in my Shangshui, it's not that easy."

Enhui came to Chenzhou later than Chen Huizu. He was a talent stationed in Shangshui when the Qing army began to operate the Chenzhou defense line. Shangshui, a county town that used to be inconspicuous, was the product of his two years of hard work. In Enhui's opinion, the entire Shangshui was impregnable.

Let's not talk about the ditches, trenches, fortresses, breastworks, etc. outside the city. There are five artillery positions of various sizes inside the city wall of Shangshui County, with a total of thirty cannons, all of which are Western-style cannons made in Jingshan!

If the cannons arranged on the city wall and the artillery positions outside the city are counted, the number of large and small artillery in Shangshui is close to three digits.

In addition, Shangshui City was also transformed into a military fortress by him. The defense of the entire Shangshui County is definitely not just relying on a city wall. Important buildings in the city, such as the county magistrate's office, county school, warehouses, barracks for the training army and the Green Camp, as well as the houses of the Ye, Deng, and Gao families in the county town, were all converted into small independent fortresses, learning from the way the Fu Han Army fought defensive battles in the past. The core of the position is the bunker - water, food, and ammunition are stored inside, so that even if the position is lost, the soldiers inside can hold out for a long time alone.

The main streets in the city are also all built with barricades. The people were driven out of the county town more than a year ago, and the nails planted by the dark camp in Shangshui County were almost useless.

Enhui is very confident in Shang Shui's defense. Even though he did not expect that the Fuhan Army could build an extra-large Kongming Lantern, rendering the many artillery positions he had spent a lot of effort building in the county useless, he still had a strong impression of Shangshui County's defense. Full of confidence.

If it were Enhui who attacked Shang Shui himself, he really couldn't think of any way Chen Ming could take advantage of Shang Shui.

"Everyone, the enemy has arrived, and Chen Ni has sent troops to trade. The time has come for us to repay the emperor's kindness." Enhui cupped his fists and arched his head towards Beijing, and said with a solemn expression: "In this battle, our army has its back against the fortified city. There are iron walls inside and iron cavalry outside. This is a God-given opportunity for us to make great achievements. We must use this battle to defeat Chen Ni's army and boost the morale of our Qing army."

"My lords, please do not let down the high hopes of your Majesty."

"After returning, immediately prepare your troops for war and be ready!"

A group of military generals, including Deputy Commander Tie Bao, stood up and gathered in the center of the hall, knelt down on one knee, and shouted loudly: "Make great contributions and repay the emperor's favor." Just when Chen Han was extremely busy with the floods and relief work in the southern country, The Manchu Qing Dynasty also used a very powerful trump card, and all the important Han officials in the court, as well as a large number of guerrillas and green camp officers above the rank of general in the army, raised their flags and joined the Han military flag. Among them, a group of key ministers headed by Liu Tongxun were further carried by Qianlong into the Manchu Army Banner, or the Shangsan Banner. From now on, Liu Tongxun will no longer be Liu Tongxun, but Liu Jia Tongxun. He has truly become Qianlong’s slave!

This great gift has benefited many officers in front of me.

Qianlong also rewarded all civil and Wuhan members who joined the banner with large tracts of land in the northeast. Many people's lands are now filled with North Korean sticks. From spring to now, today's grain has been stored in some highly efficient lands.

…

South Korea, Busan Port.

The once prosperous and largest port in North Korea has disappeared. It is a place where the enemy and we have seen each other many times.

When winter came, the Qing army retreated into Jinju City. The Port of Busan was guarded by a North Korean army. Then they were defeated by a North Korean army under the banner of Zhuangyong Battalion.

Kim Ki-dae is the leader of this North Korean army. This former high-ranking disciple in Seoul is now covered in weather.

There was an unconcealable sadness between his brows. It has been three months since the city of Jinzhou was broken and Li Zuo disappeared on the way to break out of the siege, and there are still no survivors or dead bodies. It can be said that only the possibility of survival remains. In fact, Li Zuo had no chance of survival. That king now hides for three months.

In the past three months, not only the Koreans were frantically looking for their king, but the Qing army was also carefully identifying prisoners. In the end, Li Zuo was not found.

Jin Ji continued to resist the Qing army under the banner of Zhuangyong Battalion. Behind him was Li Zou's queen Jin, who had already moved to Jeju Island for a long time. The throne of the King of Joseon is still vacant, but Kim Jida knows that those close members of the royal family have quietly sent people to China. They themselves did not miss any opportunity to establish relations with the Han army and gain prestige in front of the people.

For example, Enyanjun Li Yin, former Enxinjun, current Yanlingjun Li Zhen, Enquanjun Li Qi.

They are all the sons of Crown Prince Zhuang Xian and the concubine brothers of Li Zuo.

Kim Ki-dae's flag was flying high over Busan Port, but what was different from the conspicuous general's flag was the embarrassment and unbearable condition of the North Korean army. There are two to three thousand North Korean troops under Kim Ki-dae, and at least half of these soldiers are real North Korean officers and soldiers. Many of them are even members of the Imperial Guard in Seoul, such as Kim Jida’s old headquarters in Longhu Camp.

But now this army looks quite embarrassed. Their uniforms are in pieces, and most of the officers and soldiers look dishonest. The meal was coming soon, and large iron pots were set up outside each camp, and every pot was simmering. At first glance, the colors are red and green, which looks pretty good to the eye. When you look closer, you can see that it is a pot of gnocchi soup, and it is made of stick noodles.

The red ones there are chili peppers, and the green ones are the least valuable kelp on the beach. If you stir it with a spoon, you can also find small fish, shrimps, conches, chopped crabs, etc. They were all picked up from the beach.

This is the food that Jin Ji's soldiers are eating now, and this alone cannot allow the soldiers to eat as much as they want.

North Korean society has a strict hierarchy, and there is no equality between officers and soldiers in the army. The lower-level soldiers only had one bowl of gnocchi soup to eat, while the lower-level officers could eat freely. The junior officers and the lower-level officers above each can also have a big rice ball. As for low-level officers and then up to middle-level officers, the food is even more nutritious. Not only were they full - they all had white rice, but they also had soup and vegetables, even if the soup was just the simplest kimchi soup, miso soup, etc., even if the dishes were just canned food and pickles given to them by the Fuhan Army.

The Fuhan Army's own supplies can still be guaranteed, but Jeju Island has already hosted hundreds of thousands of North Korean officials and civilians. Together with Kim Ki-dae and a bunch of other resistance forces, the total number is 30 to 40,000. Overall, Logistics supply is already very difficult. It is enough for the people under Jin Jida to eat half full every day.

Of course, the food will be even better for mid-level officers and higher-level officers and Kim Jida himself.

The Fu Han Army was not short of materials, but they were not short of just a few people. There were so many "nobles" on Jeju Island. Even if there were only canned food, bacon, and dried meat in Jin Ji's tent, there was still a big banquet. There were sour, sweet, fragrant, and spicy food. A group of people gathered at the table, and there were also beautiful women who sang and danced to entertain them. Everyone was eating with oil dripping from their mouths.

No matter how many times these people shed tears when they fell asleep at night.

In a year, the glory of the past was completely away from them.