The spring of the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign has arrived soon.
Since the beginning of spring, the entire Yan'an Flag Guard Army has been mobilized to build battlements on the abandoned forts in Heilong Mountain, and transported 20 large Franco cannons to the mountains. After the parapets were repaired, under the guidance of Yan'an Battalion General Yang Yanchang , conducted a massive siege drill.
Yang Yanchang organized this siege drill not to attack any city, but because of Huanglong.
The person he admired most was Huang Long, a native of Shenyang. In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, he regained Luanzhou occupied by Hou Jin. While the infantry attacked the city, he concentrated on using artillery to destroy the battlements and clear out the defenders. He won the first place in the battle of Luanzhou.
However, in this era, the road is thousands of miles away, and as a regional warrior, it is difficult for him to leave the simple folk customs of Yan'an. Ever since he returned from aid to Liaoning, Yang Yanchang knew that it might be difficult to see Huanglong in the future.
Unless Huang Long becomes the commander-in-chief of Yansui.
But years ago, when he was shocked to hear about the Wuqiao mutiny, Huang Long had his ears and nose cut off by Geng Zhongyu, the younger brother of guerrilla Geng Zhongming, Yang Yanchang knew that he might never see him again in this life.
Yang Yanchang has always been greedy for enjoyment without doing anything.
The Yan'an Battalion was led by the generals to conduct self-training exercises every ten days. The three thousand battalion soldiers were constantly engaged in exercises with the three thousand banner troops who served as commanders. He did not show up and focused on studying the population growth rate of Yan'an Prefecture during the drought.
In the past three years, his two aunts have given birth to five children for him, plus the five children given to him for free, everything is perfect.
Only this time, Yang Yanchang wanted to do something to continue the artillery command skills displayed by Huang Long in the Battle of Luanzhou.
Of course, he didn't count on himself. In his life, he started by trying a hundred households and strived to build a hundred households. He didn't count on fighting a big war or anything like that.
However, Commander Ren Quan'er of the Yan'an Guard still had hope of fighting a big war, so he wanted to replicate the three thousand battalions and three thousand banner troops at the fort of Heilong Mountain, Liu Chengzong's hometown. The battle for Luanzhou that took place before.
How much they can learn depends on their own luck. After all... the drill was quite a failure. Their artillery was unable to accurately hit the battlements, let alone fire out even barrages from the breach at the top of the city to both sides.
But Ren Quan'er has always been serious about studying.
Learning is beneficial.
Apart from anything else, the calligraphy taught by Li Bei is still being written; the assassin skills taught by Li Bei are still being practiced by Ren Quan'er.
Just waiting for General Yang Shen to cheer up and plan to take back the power of Yan'an Mansion, Commander Ren can test the assassin's skills on him.
In the seventh year of Zhengde's rule, famous thieves were killed and given a rank, which was hereditary.
General Yang Shen, a famous thief, was able to appoint Quan'er to the capital to command the envoys.
In fact, during the entire fourth year of Chongzhen, Ren Quan'er's heart was very complicated.
The folk customs of Yan'an Prefecture have been simple since ancient times. Although there was still a severe drought in Yulin Town last year, the harvest south of Mizhi was pretty good. Except for the death of four county magistrates from the seventh to ninth ranks, two of Mr. Qian and one prefect. Except for the three governors who were run away in anger and beaten by the people, nothing happened to Yan'an Mansion.
It is normal for an official to be angry to death due to his excessive temper. After all, under the careful training of Commander Ren, even if Yan'an Prefecture, a country with simple folk customs, has a bumper harvest, the government will never see a grain of grain.
Not only the government, but also the guard station can't be seen.
Who are the people still staying in Yan'an Mansion now?
A random person has at least the following qualities: joining the army, being a thief, not repaying debts, begging, selling his wife and children, selling himself, robbing, eating rich households, killing people, eating Guanyin soil, cannibalism, defeating the army and being defeated, and saving money many times. Half of them have rich survival experiences such as Li Bingjia, being led by the Lion Battalion to resist taxes, and being trained as commanders to evade taxes.
This group of people harvested grain from the fields, and even if Liu Chengzong came back, let alone the King of Heaven, they would not be able to collect royal taxes from them.
On the contrary, the main task of Yan'an Guard Commander Ren Quan'er in the past year has been to restrain the people as much as possible, not allowing them to take food from the government and guard posts, to insult officials less, and to try not to beat him next time the governors of the three sides come.
But this work is more difficult to carry out.
He appointed Quan'er to recruit people to farm in the military field of Yan'an Guard. When it was time to harvest the grain, the grain was still not ripe in the ground, so the recruited people rushed to harvest it in the dark. After harvesting, they drove the grain in small carts and disappeared into the endless night. Inside, Ren Quan'er was left with dark cave dwellings.
The wind passing through the valley seems to still carry the curses of the people: Do you still want to harvest the grain that grandpa planted? Bah, dog officer!
Nowadays, the people of Yan'an Prefecture do not accept any superior leadership, and have concluded a set of philosophy of life that is very consistent with their own interests.
Regardless of whether it is the Lion Army, the King of Farmers, the King of Sweepers, Lao Huihui, Hong Chengchou, Huang Hu, Chuang Jiang, or any commander, the help and weapons provided to them are only to make them work hard and harvest their wool.
Then if you help them to collect them, collect their weapons, and don't sacrifice your lives for them, you can in turn wipe out the leaders.
It's like a black hole here.
The government officials were destitute, and the thieves who left Yan'an Prefecture were not very happy to come back. They could not afford to offend the villages of Yan'an Prefecture.
After experiencing a long period of famine, drought and war, Yan'an Prefecture, with its simple folk customs, has reached an unprecedented level in terms of military knowledge and weapons and equipment.
The four counties of Fushi, Yanchang, Ansai, and Yanchuan in Yan'an Prefecture are the places where Liu Chengzong once fought. They were merged by Chengyun. The biggest thing in common among the four counties is that they have few villages.
But back then, in order to make it easier for the Lion Battalion to purchase supplies and to prevent them from being robbed by others, the villages were placed in places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Each village has several hundred people, ranging from men, women, old and young, ranging from just old enough to walk to ninety-nine. On average, two people have a spear, four people have a sword, six people have a bow, eight people have a set of armor, and ten people have a Guns, twenty men and one cannon.
Although the level of equipment is uneven, leather armor, cloth cover, locks, two crotches, and cotton armor are all considered armor; single-eyed, three-eyed, and bird guns are all considered guns; Wankou, tiger squatting, Yongzhu, and Fran machine , are all considered guns.
However, there are many people in the village who can provide professional and technical guidance, such as former Lion Camp veterans who have recovered from injuries, and deserters from the Ming Dynasty's border army. Coupled with the training of people's strength, the villagers look like they are wilted in the sun. They are malnourished, have yellow faces and thin muscles, but with the sound of drums , pulled out were two or three fully armed centurions.
The peasant troops who came back from other provinces did not need to collect food, but they could still enjoy the treatment of serving as commanders and envoys, and they could become brothers and exchange knowledge with the local people.
But whenever I want to collect grain from a village, and then I want to walk in Yan'an Prefecture, I will either step on landmines on the way, or I will be hit by cannons and cannons for a while while walking, but I still can't find any treatment.
Anyway, life is a multiple-choice question. You have to choose one to leave the province happily or go to heaven happily.
Yan'an Mansion is no longer the Yan'an Mansion it used to be.
Originally, the development pattern of the bosses was very healthy. After winning the battle in Shanxi, they returned to northern Shaanxi to sell their stolen goods; after defeating the battle in Shanxi, they returned to northern Shaanxi to recruit troops.
But now, they don't dare to return to northern Shaanxi. After returning to northern Shaanxi after winning the battle, their elite soldiers want to settle down in the villages established by Chengyun.
After the battle was defeated, the remaining defeated soldiers even wanted to settle in northern Shaanxi.
Last year, there was a leader named Bai Guangen. He was defeated in Shanxi and came back to recruit troops. All his people had settled in the village. Bai Guangen wanted to recruit people, but he was scolded by several security chiefs.
Those security guards are all not in good health, some are lame, and some are missing a hand, but each one has a bigger temper and a higher prestige. When they scold him, he will say: "I and the commander will defeat Huanglong." Shan, you are still holding the horse for Huntian Monkey!"
He can't be beaten. Compared with the security chiefs, the young leaders who come up later are considered juniors. They have no temper at all when they are scolded. If the one who is revealed is a bandit leader, there is one commoner who stays in Yan'an. Counting one, they are all bandits.
Moreover, no matter how powerful the bandit leader is, he would not dare to cause trouble in Yan'an Prefecture. First of all, three village chiefs can pull out a team comparable to thousands of officers and soldiers. Secondly, there are Ren Quan'er and Yang Yanchang's 6,600 battalion flag troops. Keep them in check and don't allow them to cause trouble in their hometown.
The security guards were all happy when they saw the new arrival. They limped to the county government office, scribbled a note and handed it to the household secretary, and the household registration was lost.
In some places, the county was not known, and in some places the county officials did not dare to say anything. The imperial court discovered such a big problem in Yan'an Prefecture when Zhang Nian was arrested and died in Beijing.
Just in time for the rebellion of the Shen brothers, the emperor changed the governor of the three sides. However, Yang He did a good job in recruiting Liu Chengzong, so he threw Yang He to the Ministry of Rites.
The new governor of the three sides is Hong Chengchou. He has long wanted to solve the problem of Yan'an Prefecture. After some investigation, he was pleasantly surprised. After the chaos, the people of Yan'an Prefecture were actually resting and recuperating. Every family basically had enough food to eat, and some still had some surplus food.
Hong Chengchou made a calculation in his mind and concluded that collecting taxes would at least solve the Yan'an camp's salary arrears problem.
This is what he thought:
The combat effectiveness of the Yang Division is obvious to all. They defeated the Liu thieves many times in Yan'an Prefecture, the entire division arrived and obeyed the command when aiding Liao Dynasty, and they fiercely pursued the thieves in Shanxi and beat the common people without committing any crime. They are loyal and reliable, and they are the normal troops that Shaanxi can use.
It's just that the imperial court has recently found it difficult to replenish its soldiers' wages and food, which makes the powerful generals useless and can only guard Yan'an Prefecture.
General Yang also assured Hong Chengchou that as long as they had enough pay and food for three months, the Yan'an battalion could be mobilized immediately, whether it was to enter Shanxi to quell the rebellion or to blockade both sides of the Yellow River.
Hong Chengchou found the crux of the Yan'an problem. There was no organization in one place. Places like Yan'an Prefecture, where there was extensive mutual protection among villages, also had their own leaders, and the leader was the Bao Chang.
To solve the problem of tax collection, these people need to be brought together to discuss.
He didn't believe it. Do these people really think that Yan'an Mansion can go on like this forever?
Hong Chengchou stationed himself in Yan'an Prefecture last year and sent out invitations to the chief ministers from all over the country, but no one came.
Later, he used the old method. Since you are like a piece of iron, I will break them down one by one. Two security chiefs accepted his invitation and were recommended to the rank of Qian Zongzong by him.
Hong Chengchou was very happy. Everything was difficult at the beginning. As long as these two people had the official status of Qian Zong, other security chiefs would naturally come to him and the tax collection issue would be solved.
Unexpectedly, before the other security chiefs came to seek refuge with him, the two chief security officers returned home and were hanged from a tree and beaten to death by the villagers.
This is not a matter of one person getting promoted and getting rich. Each village does have some surplus food, but it is not enough to pay taxes to the court. Moreover, there are countless people who have hatred against the court gathered in the village, so there is no way to collect taxes.
More than 500 people from the two villages marched toward Yan'an Fucheng, armed with guns and cannons and beating gongs and drums. By the time they reached Fucheng, they had become an army of more than 3,000 people.
This impregnable city seemed to have the four characters "Open in case of troops" written on the city gate. There was no obstruction at all. The villagers set up cannons directly in front of the prefect's Yamen, and Yang Yanchang was so frightened that he rushed to persuade everyone.
Anyway, I can’t speak to anyone. When I speak, I mean that you villagers have no brains. Yan’an Mansion is struggling to survive, and it has just been able to survive, and it has done such evil things again. Although you are not afraid of killing the governors of the three sides, don’t I? Are your soldiers still willing to suppress you? When the time comes, everyone will drop grass, what good will it do to you?
All in all, everyone still gave Hong Chengchou a good beating.
Yang Yanchang thought that the governors of the three sides were very unhappy when they left Yan'an Mansion. They were very rude and did not even say goodbye to their savior.
When I got back, I didn't dare to mention the tax collection in Yan'an Mansion again. Ren Quan'er had even written a memorial to impeach the governors of the three sides and force them to rebel against Yan'an Mansion, but he just didn't use it.
The situation in Yan'an Prefecture is very complicated now, but it is also very safe.
The officers and soldiers could not enter, the post station could not be repaired well, and the bandit leaders who had gone out did not dare to come back. When the bandits came back, they became obedient people who were only loyal to themselves, and they could not get enough of the simple villagers even if they played ruthless criminals.
Which one is a kind person, Ren Quan'er's banner army, Yang Yanchang's camp, villagers from all over the country, or Gao Yingxiang from Shizigou?
So Ren Quan'er was very distressed and wanted Liu Chengzong to come back to Shaanxi every day.
For Ren Quan'er, this is no longer just a question of loyalty or disloyalty. The fact that no one is taking charge of the overall situation in northern Shaanxi makes him very uneasy, because his status is quite rare in the general environment of Yan'an Mansion. It is not a human feeling inside and out.
First of all, he cannot serve the imperial court. Serving the imperial court means that the Yan'an Prefecture will collect taxes. The villagers will mobilize the army to kill him tomorrow after collecting the taxes.
Secondly, he had to guard against Yang Yanchang serving the imperial court. No matter how Yang Yanchang had no prestige and had been the nominal leader for so long, if Yang Yanchang wanted to serve the imperial court, he would definitely be killed first.
Finally, he had to guard against Gao Yingxiang. The Gao family army in Shizigou was also an army that should not be underestimated.
Of course, others were in a similar situation to him, and they were all wary of each other, and no one wanted to take the risk of being too aggressive, causing the court to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress him.
But Ren Quan'er knew that this strange balance would not last long. When the leaders outside could no longer support it, sooner or later the imperial court would put its heavy hand on Yan'an Mansion again.
With this uneasy mind, Ren Quan'er led the flag army in Chief Liu's hometown to surround the fort built by Chief Liu, practicing hard on the engineering skills from Liaodong, and occasionally adding a little bit of the city defense skills he had figured out. .
Watching the artillery smashing the earthen fortress into pieces, Ren Quan'er rubbed his hands on the Liujiamao in Black Dragon Mountain and exhaled, silently praying in his heart: "Emperor Taizu... Emperor Zhenwu bless you, and let Chief Liu come back soon!" "
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