The king of the Ming Dynasty is here!
As soon as they took action, they truly occupied most of the territory in Jibei, Dongchang, and West Yanzhou—they said they occupied it, but in fact they did not send power to the countryside, nor did they station troops in dozens of counties. That would be too much of a distraction! Therefore, the occupation of the Ming Dynasty King's Division only consisted of officials going to the county and "black gun and mule soldiers" patrolling the countryside.
Don't underestimate the significance of "mule soldiers" patrolling the countryside. The North Country is still in turbulent times, and there is no village that does not arm itself. Just look at the outer walls, gates, and trenches outside the gates and walls of these villages.
Although there are only a few dozen counties in Jibei, Dongchang, and Xiyanzhou, there are thousands of armed villages. Every village is actually a "small city"... The current Northland is actually the era when castles were everywhere!
No matter how strong Emperor Zhu's troops were, it was impossible to occupy all the castles. Therefore, the sign of occupying a territory is not to occupy all the castles, but to occupy several castles with index significance-the county seat, and then send cavalry to patrol everywhere.
Because no matter how powerful the "village chiefs" and "village owners" here in the Central Plains are, they can only organize a group of old farmers to fight with the neighboring village. Organizing a cavalry that can control traffic between various cities is a no-brainer.
Therefore, whoever can control the county seat and at the same time send cavalry to "rule" the transportation lines in the countryside will truly occupy the territory.
If the Ming army did not have the "black cavalry" who could compete with the Qing cavalry in the countryside and gain the upper hand, they would have basically occupied dozens of county towns, and they could not be considered to have completely occupied the territory of the three prefectures.
Moreover, without controlling the countryside and transportation lines, in order to ensure that dozens of county towns were not lost again, a large number of troops had to be sent to defend them, making the situation very passive.
But now, Shi Kefa's 8 battalions of "mule soldiers" (more than 4,000 people in total, equipped with 2,000 flintlock rifles) have become an existence that the Qing Army's Zhenglu Banner cannot resist!
Therefore, most of the territory in Jibei, Dongchang, and Xiyanzhou has belonged to the Ming Dynasty King's division.
However, the main campaign goal of the Ming army in Shandong - to encircle the point and mobilize reinforcements to severely damage the main force of the Qing army, was still not achieved.
Faced with the rapid change of hands in most of the three prefectures of Jibei, Dongchang, and Xiyanzhou and the defeat of the Qing cavalry, the Shunzhi Khan in Beijing could no longer sit still.
For many days, a meeting of political kings and ministers was held in the yurt outside Fengtianmen, discussing how to go south to rescue Dezhou City.
The twelve political kings and ministers were also divided into two groups. Among the inner court academicians, Sony, Ning Wanwo, Feng Shuan, and Sun Zhixian (he and Sony shared hardships and ate donkey meat and burned it in Dengzhou together, so they were Promoted to be the co-organizer of the bachelor's degree), seven of the six internal ministers, including Baiyintu, Zhuobutai, and Namushenge, all advocated "prudentness", that is, let's take a look...
The four major scholars, Fucha Esehei, Gang Atai, the interior minister, Suksaha, the interior minister, and Banbulshan, the interior minister, all advocated an immediate attack.
In addition, Chen Tai, the Minister of Internal Affairs who led the infantry battalions stationed on both sides of the Yellow River, also expressed his support for sending troops.
In addition, Emperor Taishu Duduo, Zheng Wang Jierharang, Chang Adai from Taiyuan, Laoqin from Luoyang, Henan, and Shang Kexi from Pingyang all took the exam and advocated caution.
Therefore, the meeting of kings and ministers on political affairs was held for several days in a row. The two sides who advocated sending troops and those who advocated restraint just insisted on their own opinions, and no one could convince the other.
Although Emperor Shunzhi is inclined to send troops, his own strength is limited. If powerful factions such as Duduo, Jierhalang, Chang Adai, Lao Qin, and Shang Kexi do not send troops, his own strength plus those who were deceived by him will The Mongols don't seem to be sure...
Just when Emperor Shunzhi was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do, worse news came one after another more than ten or twenty days before the end of Shunzhi's tenth year.
The Ming army entered Hejian Prefecture, which belongs to Beizhili!
In addition, notices were posted all over Beizhili, announcing "three years of food-free". They also attacked prefecture and county cities everywhere. After breaking the city, they did not occupy it. Instead, they opened warehouses to release grain, and hunted down the officials and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. The trouble was over. Later, they also robbed all the Han people in the prefectures and counties (actually there were not many) and burned the cities to the ground!
Completely like a bandit!
And they were relatively powerful bandits. In less than 20 days, they had broken through the cities of Ningjin, Qingyun, Wuqiao, Yanshan, Nanpi, Jiaohe, Bucheng, Jingzhou and other cities belonging to Hejian Prefecture.
The entire Hejian Prefecture fell into panic, and the entire Beizhili also knew the reality - Daming is back!
"This, this, this... what does this Shi Kefa want to do?" Emperor Shunzhi asked loudly, "Is he the governor of the Ming Dynasty or the governor of the bandits? How come he does everything the same as the bandits?"
It is impossible for Shi Kefa to answer this question, at least not yet.
"Your Majesty, this is obvious!" Sony replied, "He just wants to force us to send troops... He has deployed heavy troops in Texas and is waiting for our army to go over for a decisive battle."
"He, is he sure of winning?" Shunzhi asked.
"No!" Suksaha replied.
"No!" Sony's answer was the same as Suksaha.
It is rare for the two main offensive and defensive factions to agree.
Sun Zhixian, who was promoted by Sony to the position of co-organizing bachelor, added for Big Brother: "For him, winning or losing is the same!"
"Can this be the same?" Shunzhi was a little surprised.
"Of course it's the same!" Sun Zhixian said, "The Ming army today is no better than in the past. Even if our Qing heavenly soldiers can win, we will kill ten thousand enemies and lose eight thousand... How many eight thousand do we have in the Qing Dynasty?" Can it be damaged?”
"How many more? We can't even make up one!" Nurhachi's nephew, Aixinjueluo Baiyintu, said with a mournful face, "The number of old Manchu men we have is only 4,000, plus the men from Eight Banners and Mongolia, we can also make up. It’s less than 8,000!”
The so-called Eight Banners Mongolia refers to the Mongolia incorporated into the Eight Banners, not the nomadic Mongolia on the grasslands. The difference between the Eight Banners Mongolia and the nomadic Mongolia is that the Han military flags are the same as those of the Han people. They look a bit similar, but they are not the same thing.
The Mongolian cavalry of Senggelinqin, known in history as "the last backbone of the Eight Banners", are actually the nomadic Mongolian Three Alliances of Eastern Mongolia training troops, and they are not soldiers of the Eight Banners at all...
Now the Eight Banners Manchu and Eight Banners Mongol Dingzhuang here in Shunzhi Khan have more than 6,000 people together. Counting the more reliable Han army, there are just over 10,000.
Once you win the battle, it's gone...
"Aren't there still nomadic Mongolians and green flag soldiers?" Fucha had a black forehead and a big black face. He looked loyal, so Shunzhi didn't care that he was born with a white flag and got closer to Dorgon. Reused.
"Aren't we a Manchurian family now?" He said with a black forehead, "We can't tell each other apart, so why can't we afford to die?"
"That's right!" Emperor Shunzhi nodded, "We can't just watch the Ming army do the work of rogue bandits! Who will collect next year's spring cloth and autumn grain after they make such a fuss?"
Now in the Qing Dynasty, there are two taxes in spring and autumn. Cloth is collected in spring and grain is collected in autumn, that is, spring cloth is collected and autumn grain is collected. Spring cloth comes one piece per household and can be folded into colors. Autumn grain is 5 cents per acre, and it can also be divided into colors.
If you don't lose color, you have to add fire consumption. The fire consumption does not belong to the court, but to the officials below who want to eat, drink and be greedy...
In addition to spring cloth and autumn grain, there were also corvee services in winter and summer. The corvee service was quite heavy. A soldier had to serve for 30 days a year and had to prepare his own rations to build roads, cities and houses for the Qing Dynasty.
There is no way to deal with such a heavy burden. The population is small, the territory is small, and we have to fight against the monster of the Ming Dynasty. What should we do if we don't ask the people for more?
"Sony!" Shunzhi asked again, "If the spring cloth and autumn grain in southern Zhili next year are all gone, will the imperial court's finances be able to maintain it?"
"This..." Sony said in his heart: What a waste! Before the war started, I could barely make ends meet, but now that the war started, money was flowing like water, and it was all maintained by the old foundation left by Huang Ama.
Shunzhi saw that Sony was silent and snorted coldly: "I, the Qing Dynasty, no, it is the Mongolia that has no retreat and must send troops!"
