Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 425 Want to borrow my knife
Compared with the incomprehension of the scholars, the instructors under Yang Chao actually did not understand.

"Can a good man fight?"

Countless people have complained privately.

Yes, as long as an individual, after systematic military training, can become a qualified soldier, there is no doubt about it.

The scholars that Yang Chao had recruited before, whether they were recruited from the refugees in Xinjiangkou or the refugees in the north, when they went to the battlefield, under the constraints of military law, they could charge forward like ordinary soldiers, and they could kill with a knife .

And when these scholars discovered that they could kill with knives just like others, their worldview also changed. It turned out that they were the same as ordinary people, and what gentlemen said was just an excuse for cowardice.

So if it wasn't recorded in the file, but the difference between scholars and soldiers could not be distinguished from the appearance, those scholars who killed people with knives would be like other soldiers, swearing loudly, fighting, and hooking up with girls all day long, maybe They feel that living like this is more real, and they have transformed from scholars with halos into real people again.

Now this group of scholars who have lost their arrogance have become elite figures in Yang Chao's army. They are more likely to be promoted than illiterate soldiers. Those who are better, such as those who have been injured, will be promoted to be a deputy next to the middle-level officers to help these officers process documents and accumulate command experience.

The appearance of this batch of scholars now is the appearance of this batch of scholars in the future. Yang Chao firmly believes in this.

As for the difficulty of teaching the instructors, Yang Chao told them to beat them word for word, beat them hard, and use sticks to tame these disobedient kittens. It's all a habit. Yang Chao is not their real father, and the army is not theirs. mansion.

The stick is the best teacher. After a month of beatings, they may be dissatisfied in their hearts, but no one has spoken out loudly, let alone questioned them face to face. They have finally learned to obey.

I have to say that these scholars are still smart. Knowing that after obedience, their learning ability is indeed better than that of ordinary soldiers. They can master formation, stand in a military posture, and turn left and right faster. Few people are beaten because they can't distinguish between left and right.

The only assassination technique is inferior to those poor soldiers. This is because their muscles have not been exercised for a long time and their activity level is too low. Let a poor child who is used to plowing the land with a hoe and chopping wood with an ax pick up a spear to assassinate. It is easier to give in first than to a scholar who only knows how to hold a pen and hug a woman.

After contacting for two full months, the scholars finally mastered the assassination skills and were able to reach the level of ordinary soldiers contacting for half a month to a month. They finally walked out of the new barracks and began to enter the formal army.

At this time, the scholars had been fully appointed. Although they were depressed and depressed, they were all honest and honest. No one tried to escape. Those who tried to escape were arrested and beheaded in public. The fact of the bloody forest told them that they He's really just a big soldier, and he really wants to go to the battlefield and fight hard.

After sending this group of scholars to the front lines in Xuzhou, Suzhou and other places, it was already March of the second year, March of the first year of Longwu (the first year of Longwu in this book is 1646 AD).

The entire land of Ming Dynasty is still full of wars.

The Manchu Qing forces in the north, after complicated political struggles, Hauge came out of the mountain.

When Yang Chao received the secret report from the sea road, he still felt very weird. He felt that Dorgon should not be able to defeat Hauge.

Could it be that beheading Duo Duo by himself is equivalent to breaking one of Dorgon's arms, making him unable to suppress Hauge's forces?

When the Eight Banners were first established, they were indeed like eight tribes, each governing their own way. Whether it was living or dispatching troops, they all took the banner as the unit.

At that time, the Nurhachi regime had just been established, and they were able to unite as one without fear of splitting up. However, over time, there would still be conflicts of various interests, even brothers often fighting, not to mention this kind of tribal organization.

However, Nurhachi has a lot of capital, not to mention that those who control the Eight Banners are all his brothers, and he has a lot of sons. The most outstanding Huang Taiji is Lao Ba, and his sons are enough to control one banner.

It was different in the hands of Huang Taiji. At that time, the Eight Banners had developed even bigger because of the looting business, the intrigue was more powerful, and the power was more complicated. The leaders of the Eight Banners were no longer Huang Taiji's brothers. , and cousins ​​and uncles, so it's hard to be single-minded.

Therefore, Huang Taiji adopted the method of reducing the vassal and centralizing power, doing everything possible to strengthen the emperor's power and weaken the banner owner's power.

It is a pity that he died before completing the centralization of power, but he has already achieved half of it. In the later period of Huang Taiji, the military operations of the Eight Banners no longer follow the complete independent actions of each banner.

The Eight Banners organization began to transform into a pure life organization, becoming a group that provides personnel for military organizations.

When he arrived at Dorgon's place, this situation became more obvious. Yang Chao had encountered soldiers of the Eight Banners many times, all of them were from each banner, and the soldiers were no longer led by a certain banner owner, but by the most capable generals.

However, the Eight Banners organization that is undergoing transformation is still very complicated, and the banner owners still have a lot of power, so Dorgon still has to look at the faces of these banner owners. Without the support of these banner owners, he cannot control the court.

When his position was stable, he could hand over the military power to his two younger brothers, but after one younger brother died in battle, he lost an arm. Naturally, some political opponents did not want him to hold the military power alone, so they pushed Hauge to divide the power.

Yang Chao thought that this was the reason why Hauge was used, and he thought it was a compromise made by Dorgon who could not withstand the pressure of other dignitaries.

However, when he heard that Hauge led troops to Shaanxi to destroy the Ming army who took the opportunity to revolt because of the lack of troops after Azig left, Dorgon adopted a series of political methods in the north.

Such as enclosure.

Soon after the Eight Banners entered the customs, the dignitaries of the various banners were nostalgic for the manors in the northeast, hoping to leave after robbing the city of Beijing.

At that time, on the one hand, Dorgon restrained them with Huang Taiji's last wish to establish Beijing as the capital, and on the other hand, he began to allow various dignitaries to enclose land near Beijing. I can't control it, the banner owners, princes, Baylor, and meritorious ministers are racing to enclose land, so where do they care about official land and private land?

The result goes far beyond the confines of Huangzhuang.

But Dorgon didn't dare to risk offending all the nobles and let those slave owners hand over the land they ate.

As for the original owners of the occupied land, Dorgon allowed these people to invest in various banner villages in the name of my Qing Dynasty to cultivate their original land for the new owner. People became the coats of the Manchu nobles and gave them a bite to eat.

This is the first enclosure after entering customs.

It should be said that Dorgon saw this kind of harm. The landlords and farmers who had their land taken away rebelled near Beijing for half a year, so Dorgon never allowed new enclosures.

But unexpectedly, after Hauge came out of the mountain this time and went to Shaanxi, Dorgon began to allow the enclosure again, and the scope of the enclosure was larger, and there were more dignitaries in the enclosure. In the past, only banner owners, princes, and Baylor were allowed As well as enclosing land for meritorious ministers, this time simply all bannermen above Jiala Ezhen have the right to enclose land.

In the past, the scope of the enclosure was only concentrated in a few counties with Huangzhuang around Beijing, but this time it was directly extended to the entire North Zhili. The aggressive enclosure movement took away the farmers' land in the entire North Zhili, but helped Dorgon win To the middle-level figures of the entire Eight Banners.

After seeing Dorgon's methods, Yang Chao couldn't help but feel chills in his heart. He lamented not only for the people in Beizhili, but also for the Hauge forces.

Hauge's military operations went very smoothly. In Shaanxi, he quickly suppressed the uprising of several loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty who were hiding in the deep mountains. Then he went south non-stop and began to attack Sichuan. At the junction of Sichuan and Chu, he directly shot and killed Zhang Xianzhong. .

Hauge's contribution is unrivaled. Azig and Duoduo won many battles, but they failed to kill Li Zicheng, but Hauge killed Zhang Xianzhong.

It’s just that Hauge didn’t know that the victory of the military operation was no longer a real victory. Taking advantage of the fact that he left, Dorgon had already divided and disintegrated the strength of the Eight Banners. The backward force in China has already abandoned Hauge.

And even if it was a simple military victory, Dorgon didn't want Haoge to grab too much. After Haoge defeated Zhang Xianzhong and drove the rest of Zhang Xianzhong to Guizhou, he originally asked for orders to attack neighboring Hunan, but Dorgon Dagon asked him to come to Jiangxi, and the excuse was very reasonable, that is, the Ming army was attacking Jiangxi.

The three-way and four-way encirclement of Jiangxi, which was set up last year, began to be implemented years ago. Yang Chao sent Lu Mo to take charge of the command. He entered Fuliang County from Huizhou Prefecture and began to attack the Eight Banners Qing Army in Raozhou.

Although Raozhou was not successfully defeated, the [-] Banners in Raozhou and Nanchang were firmly held back.

However, the progress of the Zhejiang soldiers and the Fujian Ming army was very unsatisfactory.

Fortunately, the Zhe soldiers attacked in a limited area. Although they failed to achieve results, they withstood the counterattack of Wang Deren, a general in the middle of Wang Ti, and defended Xianxia Pass.

But the Zheng family army in Fujian is too shameful. One hundred thousand heroes on the sea attacked Guangxin and Fuzhou, but they fled in embarrassment after being beaten by Jin Shenghuan, and fought all the way back to Fujian. The most shameful thing is that Fujian and Guangdong troops jointly attacked Ganzhou and were defended Gao Jinku here not only killed back to Guangdong, but also let people take the opportunity to invade Guangdong, and captured Nanxiong and Shaoguan. If it weren't for the limited strength of the Qing army, they might be able to attack Guangzhou.

The Zheng family was defeated, and the Fujian court was shaken. At this time, they remembered Yang Chao's good fortune, and desperately urged Yang Chao to send troops, asking for money and food. At this time, Hauge led the elite of the [-] Banners to Nanchang.

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, he understood Dorgon's intentions from thousands of miles away, and he wanted to borrow Yang Chao's knife to help him kill Hauge, a thorn in his side.

(End of this chapter)