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Chapter 102 The High Supervising Army Has Arrived in Baoding
A few miles south of Baoding City, Lu Xiangsheng was in the big tent of the Chinese Army.

Zhang Cheng sat down next to Yang Tinglin, leaned closer to Yang Tinglin, and said: "The general is not familiar with the situation around the capital, so I would like to ask Mr. Yang to help me find some plants in Tianjin, or Fangshan and Laishui. Farmers who have grown sweet potatoes and rice."

After Lu Xiangsheng sat down firmly after the big case, he heard Yang Tinglin ask Zhang Cheng: "Zhongchen, why are you looking for these farmers and villagers? Even if you grow these crops now, it's too late to relieve the army's food shortage."

Zhang Cheng smiled, and then said: "The final plan is for the future. The rain is not frequent, and the grain production in Xuan Town is insufficient. I heard that this sweet potato has extremely low requirements for geographical advantages.
Zhang Cheng wanted to find one or two farmers, and brought this thing to Xuan Town for trial planting. If this is the case, there are many forests and valleys in Xuan Town, and sweet potatoes can be planted for food.
In the future, it can be introduced to other places in Shaanxi and Henan. If it can feed the displaced people, the disaster of civil disorder will be solved easily. "

Yang Tinglin sat under Lu Xiangsheng's head, and was thinking about what Zhang Cheng said. After a while, Fang said: "This sweet potato seems to be planted in the south of the Yangtze River, but I haven't heard of its high yield. It is required by the right location, but it is not as fine as other grains."

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this. For sweet potatoes, they are the potatoes of later generations. The output of this thing is not very high now, but it can be planted anywhere. Because this sweet potato has always been resistant to cold, waterlogging, and alkali, it is adaptable to various soils and environments. , and is also highly resistant to insects.

Although it is not suitable as a staple food, if sweet potatoes are planted in various forests and valleys in Xuan Town, it can indeed alleviate the shortage of grain to a large extent.

If this is the case, after the sweet potato is successfully planted, a large number of refugees can be recruited to train a strong team. In this chaotic world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they can seek breakthroughs and make unworldly feats!
At that moment, Zhang Cheng got up, bowed deeply to Yang Tinglin, and said, "So, please trouble Mr. Yang to worry about Zhang Cheng."

Before Yang Tinglin could say anything, Lu Xiangsheng, who was sitting at the top, said: "Zhongchen, if you have the heart for the people, I will definitely support you. When the Eastern captives retreat, we will make a long-term plan."

Zhang Cheng saw that the conversation had come to this point, and the foundation was laid, so he continued, "Yes, Governor, according to the reports from the sentries and the evidence from the captives, the Tartars seem to divide their troops into several groups and go south to plunder;

Now the brigade of the Tartars Yuetuo and Dudu seems to be looting in the direction of Renqiu and Hejianfu; The situation of Dingfu is realistic; only Hauge's troops actually divided their troops to loot in the direction of Gaoyang and Qizhou. "

Lu Xiangsheng didn't express his position, but asked tentatively: "Zhongchen, according to your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

The purpose of Zhang Cheng's visit this time was to persuade Lu Xiangsheng to lead his troops to Gaoyang. As far as he knew, Emperor Chongzhen once suffered the fall of Gaoyang and Sun Chengzong's family was in distress.

What's more, if you send troops to Gaoyang to rescue people in distress, and Sun Chengzong is in the city, it should not be a big problem to provide some food and grain.

Thinking about this, Zhang Cheng said: "The intention of the last general is to lead the army to Gaoyang, and quickly solve Gaoyang's danger with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit. Without further division of troops, our army can also fight with one of them."

Lu Xiangsheng leaned on the chair, looking like he was thinking. He originally intended to go to Zhending Mansion to beg for food. Firstly, Zhending Mansion had Shenwu Youwei stationed there, and secondly, it was a big city where the governor of Baoding was stationed, so it was relatively cheap to raise food and grass. .

After a while, he said: "Loyalty, where is the army going? It's a serious matter. We still have to wait until the captives' whereabouts are confirmed before we can make an agreement. Don't fall into Dongnu's tricks."

Zhang Cheng then said: "In the end, sentry cavalry will be arranged, and multiple sentries will be sent out. We must find out the movement of the captive cavalry, thinking that our army will stop."

This is the end of the conversation, so there is no need to say more, as long as this introduction is left here, according to his memory, at the beginning of November, the Qing army probably had less than [-] people, and they stormed Gaoyang County for three days.

At that time, Sun Chengzong, who was at home at the age of 76, led the army and civilians in the city to defend the city. When the city was broken, he was captured and died at the hands of the Qing army. His five sons, six grandsons, two nephews, and eight nephews died in battle. At that time, more than a hundred members of the Sun family were killed, and the news spread to Beijing. Chongzhen was furious about this, and complained that Lu Xiangsheng was not in a hurry to rescue, which caused Sun Chengzong's family to be in trouble.

It is now the fourth day of November, and judging from the date, it is still urgent. What we need to do now is to try our best to find out the specific movements of the Qing army, so that we can further persuade Lu Xiangsheng to aid Gaoyang.

Afterwards, the three chatted about the military and about sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn, etc., and Zhang Cheng resigned and returned to the camp.

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On the second day, Director Gao Qiqian led nearly 4 King Qin troops from various towns in Liaodong to Baoding and camped in a wilderness north of Baoding City.

On the sixth day of November, Chen Xinjia's cavalry brigade rushed to the foot of Baoding City first. Their infantry was left behind, and it should take about two days for them all to arrive.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Gao Qiqian, Director General of the Army, invited Chen Xinjia and Lu Xiangsheng to Baoding City. The generals and generals of all towns accompanied them into the city to discuss the strategy of fighting the slaves.

According to several days of sentry investigations, after the Qing army left Baoding, the troops were indeed separated, and their Yuetuo troops rushed to Hejian, and the front of the soldiers had already passed Renqiu; However, Tang County has already entered, and the front of the soldiers is approaching Zhendingfu.

At the same time, in the cities of Gaoyang, Lixian, Boye, and Qingdu, traces of captive cavalry were found. It is suspected that some soldiers of the Qing army Hauge looted. The junction of the state and Gaoyang was looted, and there was a tendency of troops to attack Gaoyang County.

In addition, there are nearly [-] captive cavalry raging in Qingdu County, and about [-] to [-] captive cavalry in Li County, and several teams of Qing troops with about a thousand cavalry, wantonly looting in the countryside around these three counties. In Boye and Gyeongju, one or two of these cavalry should be looting.

From yesterday evening to today's morning, Gao Qiqian, Lu Xiangsheng and others have successively received requests for help from Wen'an County, Renqiu County, Gaoyang, Li County, Boye, Qingdu, Tang County, Dingzhou, Qizhou and other places. The side confirms the authenticity of the information obtained by the sentinel.

Historically, when the Qing army entered Daming this time, it was like entering an uninhabited land. Most of the soldiers and horses such as Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian could only chase after them. The cities everywhere were as big as Baoding, Zhending, and Dingzhou. Such prefectures may be able to defend because of the large number of strong soldiers in the city.

And those smaller counties were ravaged by the Qing soldiers the year before last, and most of them could not hold on now, and there was almost no rescue between the cities.

At this time, the Qing army divided up and went south to plunder, and even if they knew that no one would come to rescue them, they all treated dead horses as live horse doctors. Especially recently, I heard that Lu Xiang promoted the Xuanda army and repelled the Qing army at the foot of Baoding city. Later, when troops were stationed in the north of Baoding City to rest, they sent people to ask for help.

Although they were not sure that Lu Xiangsheng would lead the troops to rescue them, but for them at this time, there was no other way.

Today, Gao Qiqian convened a meeting in Baoding City, also to discuss how to divide the troops to rescue the various places.

(End of this chapter)