Wanli 1592

Chapter 1107 Declaring War Edict
In the past, strong men transported food and joined the army. In the past, it would have been fatal. Not to mention all kinds of forced recruitment, some people even made profits from it and ignored human lives.

But right now there are no gentry in various places, and the decree is smooth all the way. It is sent directly from the imperial court to Nanjing through the Grand Canal, from Nanjing to the state capitals, from the state capitals to the counties, from the counties to the townships, and then to the peasant associations below.

The Farmers Association immediately announced the news, held a farmers meeting in Xunzhuang, announced the grain transportation route and preferential policies, and those who had spare labor immediately signed up. Most farmers wanted to be exempted from paying agricultural taxes next year, so they rushed to sign up .

Basically, there are more than 30 people. The farmer’s association selects 30 people according to the principle of priority for more children in the family, distributes name tags, hangs them on their bodies, and sends them to designated places for transportation. Rely on brand names, so brand names must not be lost.

In just one month, hundreds of thousands of civilians gathered from all over the country to participate in this transportation, together with the army's own auxiliary soldiers, it met the needs of the army.

The logistics are complete, and there is no problem with the march of the frontline soldiers. In mid-December, except for Qi Dayong, an army that has just arrived in the capital of Guizhou and is preparing to advance to Wujiang Pass, the other four troops are already in place, waiting for orders You can send troops.

The whole of Guizhou was jittery, and the chieftains, big and small, kept silent.

They were shocked by Qin Jun's combat ability, equipment and overall situation. After being shocked, they were afraid that they might not be able to withstand Yang Yinglong's coaxing for a while and join the gang.

The difference between the Qin army and the Ming army is so great that they cannot be compared at all. They are surrounded by the aura that only the elite of a hundred battles can exude, which is very frightening.

Not only that, these troops have strict military discipline and strict orders and prohibitions. They do not enter the city, demolish houses or disturb the people.

Everywhere they go, they don't enter the city, they only camp. After setting up the barracks, they also firmly defend the surrounding areas of the barracks. Sentinels, sentries, cavalry and patrol soldiers are indispensable, and they are not allowed to enter and leave at will, just like guarding against tigers. It seems that they are the real tigers in the eyes of people who don't know here.

A truly combative army is not the kind of beast army that kills people like hemp, eats human flesh and drinks human blood, but an army with strict military discipline.

This kind of army is often able to fight more persistently and intensively, which is much higher than the three-axe fighting style of the general beast army, which is exhausted again and again.

The chieftains are not illiterate, let alone idiots. They have read as much as those elders and know a lot. For example, seeing the Qin army like this, they can predict the final result of this war in their hearts.

Yang Yinglong will probably die a miserable death.

And, the imperial court has made up its mind this time to completely resolve Yang Yinglong's worries and completely reform the country, otherwise, the imperial court will not mobilize such powerful manpower and material resources to support this war.

And after the war, it is estimated that the family property accumulated by the Yang Yinglong family for more than 600 years will be seized by the court to make up for the losses of this war, and even these unlucky ones may suffer.

For this reason, they have prepared a lot of gold and silver treasures in private, and plan to congratulate the army when the army overcomes Hai Longtun.

There are quite a few people predicting how long it will take for the court to pacify Yang Yinglong. Some say one year, some say eight months, some say half a year, and of course some say three months. No one knows how long it will take to pacify Yang Yinglong, but, It must be pacified.

And as early as the beginning of December, when the imperial army arrived at Sinan Mansion and Tongren Mansion, Yang Yinglong knew that the imperial court had decided to use troops against him, and it was a cruel one, and would never waver and withdraw its troops.

As long as he is not a fool, he must know that the imperial army's entry into Guizhou to threaten the surrounding area of ​​Bozhou is definitely not to open up wasteland, nor to travel around the mountains and rivers, but to deal with him.

And soon the imperial court's official declaration of war also confirmed his guess.

Yang Yinglong arrogantly disobeyed orders, raised an army privately, used utensils with dragon and phoenix patterns privately, used eunuchs to serve him without authorization, repeatedly led troops to invade Sichuan, Guizhou and other places and harmed the people, etc., and sentenced Yang Yinglong to 40 crimes. After the death penalty, it was officially announced that [-] imperial soldiers had entered Bozhou.

Not even a surrender.

40 million.

Yang Yinglong was terrified.

He read all the replies from the three major chieftains, but his words were vague, and he couldn't see clearly his movements and wishes.

But how well Yang Yinglong understands that this is a perfunctory word at a glance, these guys must have seen their own weakness, and they don't want to take this muddy water, even if they want to watch themselves die!

Yang Yinglong was flustered all night, when Tian heard the wind, he rushed over to discuss with him, but it only made Yang Yinglong even more flustered.

When the panic reached the extreme, he held a meeting. The people who came to the meeting heard the news and all had their own plans, but those who had a way out seemed to be less willing to work for Yang Yinglong, so compared to the previous meeting, this The number of people attending a meeting is directly reduced by half.

They are all people who know the current affairs and know that the imperial court is determined to deal with Yang Yinglong. Yang Yinglong's grasshopper after autumn will not last for a few days.

Yang Yinglong scolded them angrily.

When grabbing benefits, one by one followed him, and when they encountered danger, they all abandoned him!
He ordered on the spot to take the army to attack them first, and then wipe out the imperial army.

His sons Yang Chaodong and Yang Weidong, as well as the general Yang Zhu persuaded Yang Yinglong that those little chieftains are nothing but grass, and whoever is strong will follow whoever is strong. As long as the imperial court's invading army is wiped out, won't they all be as obedient as grandsons?
"Easy to say! 40! That's not four thousand, not forty thousand! How could it be so easy to clean up?!"

Yang Yinglong roared quite frantically.

Yang Chaodong immediately said: "Father! The imperial court announced that it is 40, but in reality it must not be that much. Most of them are transporting food and grass, and there are only 10,000+ people in the sky. And if we mobilize, we may not be able to produce [-] troops. We still have natural dangers, a favorable location, mountains of food, and a lot of weapons. We can stick to it!

The army of the imperial court came from afar, and they consume a lot of food every day. They can't last long. As long as we persist, we will be able to force the imperial court to make peace with us. You can continue to be the king of Banzhou! "

Yang Yinglong really calmed down after what Yang Chaodong said.

Yang Yinglong thought so too.

Although the imperial court is strong, it will not be able to mobilize 40 troops to attack him no matter what, that is a fantasy.

This is the same as Cao Mengde's 83 troops in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Zhuge Liang's 30 troops to pacify Nanzhong.

83 troops were dispatched to fight, and every day people ate horse chews, and Cao Cao would be poor in a few days. How many heads of grain officials could Cao Cao chop off?What battle are you fighting?

So Xiao Ruxun's ability to mobilize 10,000+ troops has already surpassed the sky, and the rest are estimated to be civilians who transport food.

(End of this chapter)