Kowloon wins

Chapter 922 Winter Rest
After a bloody battle at Wudaogou, Yue Zhongqi's troops were destroyed by more than half, and they were no longer able to fight anymore, but with only [-] remnants left in their hands, Dunduobu dared not to attack Zhenyuan City again. Staying longer, Bu Yi withdrew to Zhenyuan City, hastily gathered the rout troops, and then led the remnant troops to flee westward the next day, all the way to Geda City (now Daban City), and thus passed Tianshan Mountain, and the whole army withdrew. Northern Xinjiang, stationed in Luntai City (now Urumqi).

The Junggar army retreated in a panic this time, not only did they not burn all the food and supplies stationed in Zhenyuan City, nor did they massacre civilians like in previous years when they were defeated. For the sake of courage, there is no lack of reasons for being shocked by the precedent of the extermination of the Waixiersu family, and this is naturally a good thing for the Qing army. After Yue Zhongqi's troops cleaned the battlefield, there was no reason to To put it mildly, he directly swung his army and captured Zhenyuan City, but he did not move forward, but rested on the spot, and while urging supplies to the rear, he waited for the main force led by Hong Qing to complete the attack on the southern border. Thorough cleaning everywhere.

On the ninth day of September in the second year of Chengde, the main force of Hongqing's troops arrived at the old city of Gaochang, and successfully joined forces with Yue Zhongqi's troops from the east. It is decided that the northern Xinjiang will be invaded and suppressed in the near future. In addition to reporting the victory, I will once again ask for immigration to the frontier. I will also set up a new army camp in Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Weiwu, and recruit [-] young men from Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces to enter the camp. Training, as a backup supplement.

On September 1000th of the second year of Chengde, the victory report and Hongqing's playbook arrived in Beijing together. Merchants from all over the country, especially the salt merchants in Yangzhou, took advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale fundraising campaign. In just a few days, more than [-] taels of silver had been raised and remitted to the Ministry of Households. Countless literati wrote poems and essays to celebrate the successive victories on the front line. For a while, Yue Zhongqi became famous and was hailed as the god of war in the army, unparalleled in the limelight.

The front line has won big victories one after another, and the number of enemies wiped out is tens of thousands. This is certainly something to be celebrated, but Emperor Chengde doesn't seem very happy, nothing else, the front line won too fast Well, how long has it been? It has been less than half a year since the army left Beijing in April this year, and Qinghai and southern Xinjiang were pacified. After the game is over, the formation and training of the new army in Fengtai Daying, which Emperor Chengde cares about the most, has just begun. Although more than [-] soldiers and horses have been mobilized, the training is still unsatisfactory—— Lord Thirteen Illness, it's hard to tell if it's real or fake, but it's an indisputable fact that he will no longer participate in the army. Even Emperor Chengde went to Prince Yong's mansion to visit his illness in person, but he couldn't make Thirteenth Lord "well". The new army training in Fengtai Camp can only rely on Heda to preside over the overall situation, so the effect is naturally not much better.

Emperor Chengde needs victory, and there is nothing else. If the front line is defeated, the situation in the country will inevitably deteriorate, and it will be difficult for Emperor Chengde to sit firmly on the dragon chair. Emperor Chengde is still clear about such a truth. It's just that such a quick victory is definitely not what Emperor Chengde likes to see, but such an idea can't be made public, otherwise, the hat of "faint emperor" may be put on him by Emperor Chengde In desperation, Emperor Chengde could only play the trick of delaying. On the one hand, he rewarded the three armies, and rewarded meritorious generals. There were not a few knights, especially Yue Zhongqi, who received the most. The first Jin waited, and then the second son, He Min, Li Mingliang and other heroes also got a lot of money. The former was promoted to the third-class marquis, and the latter was granted the first-class uncle. There were also rewards such as Zhuangzi, gold and silver to appease the soldiers; He didn't say a word about Hongqing's proposal of immigrant frontiers and the establishment of new barracks, and he never issued an order to march in the army. He only said that all matters are important and must be carefully considered.

With Emperor Chengde's careful thinking, with Hongqing's IQ, he would not be unable to see through it, but Hongqing was helpless when he understood it. After all, Emperor Chengde was the emperor, and he refused to issue an edict. It's not good to act rashly on one's own. Although righteousness is a mysterious thing, it is absolutely necessary if one wants to stabilize the world. There is no choice but to go to this chapter again, and Hong Qing can only enter this chapter again, and compare the immigrant real border with the The importance of recruit training was explained in detail.

With Hong Qing's chapter so high, Emperor Chengde couldn't just sit back and ignore it, but he obviously still refused to give up the idea of ​​delaying the progress of the war, and with great fanfare he issued an order to all his ministers to deal with Hong Qing. Not only courtiers are allowed to submit the manuscript, but also officials of the third rank and above in each province are required to discuss the matter. Not only that, but also let the "Beijing Times" report on this matter, encouraging scholars all over the world The poets also participated in it, and for a while, the whole country was sensationalized, and the officials and the people were all uproarious. There were those who were in favor and those who were against it. It was lively, but the time was unknowingly dragged to the end of October. After heavy snowfall, the road to the army was closed, and there was no possibility of sending troops to the northern border within the year.

With heavy snow like this, most of Emperor Chengde's purpose has been achieved, and naturally he will not allow the boring chaos to continue, and soon issued an imperial edict, first comforting Hong Qing with kind words, Then, he gave a discounted promise to the two things proposed by Hongqing--the immigrant will follow Qinghai's example, and the people will be voluntary. Xinjiang is the first choice. As for the recruit training camp, I agree with Hongqing to set up recruit camps in Zhangye and Jiuquan, and to recruit [-] young men from Gansu and Shaanxi to join the army. The matter is handled by Shaanxi Governor Yanxin.

Although the imperial edict arrived late, it was finally issued. Regarding this, Hong Qing had nothing to say except a wry smile. After thanking her, she could only stay in the old city of Gaochang , rearranging the sequence of troops - more than [-] soldiers were selected from the Third Infantry Army to fill the vacancies in the First Division of the First Army and the Second Division of the Second Army, and more than [-] soldiers were selected from the Third Army Those who are good at riding were added to the First Cavalry Division, and the remaining backbone of the Third Army was sent to Zhangye and Jiuquan to be responsible for the training of recruits for a period of three months. The third army was rebuilt in the future, and the new army reorganized from the Sichuan army led by Li Minxing was dispersed by Hongqing and distributed to various cities in southern Xinjiang for defense to prevent any changes in the tribes in southern Xinjiang.

The days of winter military training are undoubtedly boring, but they are necessary. There is nothing else. In the past six months, although they have won many battles and seemingly invincible, in fact, they have exposed many flaws in training , There are problems of one kind or another in every branch of the army. If they don't solve them, something will happen when they encounter the battle-tested Russian army in the future. For this, Hong Qing knows it very well. I didn't plan to go to northern Xinjiang this year, but now, it's very convenient to have a winter to train the troops. Of course, Hong Qing didn't forget to improve the practice of land return and immigration. The second matter——Emperor Chengde only gave a discounted order, but Hongqing didn't care, nothing else, he had the power to cut off the five northwest provinces in his hands, so he would not be reluctant to use it, and he did it several times in succession. If the Dao military order continues, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces cannot help but not cooperate.

Immigration is actually a good thing for the country, but it may not be the case for the people. There is no other way. The people of the country love their homeland. In addition, it is as difficult as heaven to let the people of the country go to the frontier on their own initiative. No matter how favorable the conditions in the official documents are, there are absolutely very few people who are willing to go voluntarily. Di Na's so-called voluntary principle is nothing more than empty talk when it comes to immigration. Hong Qing knows this very well, so naturally she will not follow it. Of course, Hong Qing does not dare to take it seriously. Blindly oppressing, otherwise, it would be trivial to cause a whole body of infamy, and it would not be fun to stir up civil uprisings. For this reason, Hongqing played a side-by-side game-the five northwestern provinces below strictly ordered to clean up local law and order, except Except for the heinous death row, all other criminals, whether they are criminals of theft or assault, together with their family members, will be transferred to the frontier customs for reclamation. The development fund expenditure of "Eight Banners Firm".

With Hong Qing's order to appease the local public security, all the local officials can't be idle. Whether they like it or not, they have to follow it. No matter what, Hong Qing's "official butcher" The name is really scary, no one is willing to take their own official hats to take risks, besides, those prisoners are the most troublesome things for the governments everywhere, and they are all packed away. In terms of local governance, This is a good thing, so there will not be too much resistance. Of course, unjust, false and wrongly decided cases are inevitable. Such charges of disturbing the people naturally fell on Hong Kong. On Qing's head, Hong Qing, who had already been prepared for this, didn't care much about it. In his opinion, it is really not a big deal if a little infamy can be exchanged for the stability of the border. As for how future generations will evaluate this Hongqing didn't care about the immigration measures, what should be done as usual, what is interesting is that Emperor Chengde took a tacit attitude towards this, even though many local officials were quite critical of such immigration measures , the first book expressed its opposition, and Emperor Chengde also stayed in the middle, so the matter was settled.

(End of this chapter)