The two sides faced off for a long time. In the end, although Huang Taiji took the initiative to retreat, the new emperor was still not sure what his intentions were.
There is great knowledge in retreating troops. It can be a complete retreat, that is, retreating outside the customs.
It can also be a semi-retreat, that is, giving up the active attack and turning to plundering in the Jifu area.
If the Braid Army doesn't attack, I'm afraid the most disappointing thing will be the 450,000 Japanese soldiers. This means that the reward for killing the enemy will escape.
Fortunately, I had two taels of silver in my pocket, otherwise this trip would have been in vain...
For a certain new emperor, it was a good thing after all that he could defeat the enemy without a fight and return to the capital with his losers.
Of course, he also laid a minefield for himself. So many Japanese soldiers came from afar and couldn't be sent away with just a few taels of silver.
But feeding 450,000 "foreign combatants" put a lot of pressure on the court.
Each person is paid two taels of silver per month, and the monthly military salary is as high as 900,000 taels!
In the end, after discussing with the conscripting general Hota Masamori, who led the army, it was decided to implement differentiated treatment.
Each person in Ashigaru received one tael of silver per month, each samurai received three taels of silver per month, and so on for generals above the two, gradually rising.
In this way, the monthly salary can be reduced to about 600,000 taels per month, and a certain new emperor also agreed to employ this standard until the beginning of spring.
At that time, we will discuss with the Tokugawa generals whether to lead the Japanese army out of the customs for the Northern Expedition of Emperor Taiji.
Without fighting, they can still pocket one tael of silver per month and have enough to eat. Naturally, the Ashigaru people are very happy.
The samurai had no objections to this, so as long as the many daimyo and leading generals were appeased, the matter would be successfully resolved.
According to the standard of one-fifth of the troop dispatch scale, a certain new emperor issued coupons for Qianqi Department Store. With these coupons, you can buy your favorite products without paying.
For example, if a famous person sends a thousand troops, he can get coupons worth two hundred taels of silver. The more troops he sends, the more benefits he will get.
More importantly, in order to appease these customers, a certain new emperor allowed them to jump in the queue for shopping, that is, they could buy goods and send them back to their hometown without waiting.
This is spending money to buy peace, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Without so many Japanese soldiers coming to help in the battle, Huang Taiji's fellow was really planning to kill him.
Li Shiwen still complained about this, but a certain new emperor saw it openly. If the money was not spent, Huang Taiji would kill himself.
After watching for a long time near the Miao River, Huang Taiji withdrew his troops, which showed that Huang Taiji did intend to directly attack Wang's division despite the fleet's artillery fire.
Perhaps with the help of tanks and fleets, the Wang Division can finally repel the Braided Army, but it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
There are only five brigades of the East Palace Guards, and the rest are Baigan Army, Qin Army, Yulin Army, Baoding Army, Shandong Army and Hong Chengchou's troops.
If they are all crippled, if there is a Northern Expedition next year, then a certain new emperor will have to rely on the Japanese army to do it.
The wars of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were life-and-death contests, but the word "life-and-death" must be read in pairs.
A certain new emperor did not want to die, let alone cripple his troops.
If the King of Ming Dynasty cannot recover within five years, it will actually be more beneficial to Huang Taiji, and he can concentrate on developing north of Tieling.
In comparison, Huang Taiji's trip was not in vain, it could even be called a small victory.
Not to mention that the soldiers and horses were not damaged at all, they also robbed about 300,000 people in the Jifu area, and the amount of food taken away was roughly estimated.
As for livestock, silver, silk cloth, tea, porcelain and other things, it is impossible to count. This can be regarded as a very successful robbery.
Before leading his troops south, a certain new emperor asked Yan Yingyuan to notify the people in Shuntian and Yongping Prefectures to retreat to the big cities as much as possible to avoid being affected by the war.
But many people didn't listen, because Huang Taiji hadn't sent troops to knock on the gate for a long time, and maybe he wouldn't come back this time.
It was this kind of luck that led to the subsequent tragedy.
He kept saying that his homeland was hard to move, but in the end, Huang Taiji’s men forcibly invited him to travel outside the customs for the rest of his life...
The Jifu people at the emperor's feet suddenly became Northeastern veterans!
For the imperial court, if Wang Shi could regain the entire Northeast in the future, these people would be considered to have made outstanding contributions to the land reclamation of the Northeast.
Due to the widespread planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes, although the yield is not high, only about one or two stones per acre, these two crops have the advantage of not consuming water.
In the absence of adequate irrigation, for farmers, harvesting one or two stones of potatoes per acre is considered a good harvest.
These two crops are harvested in many places. A certain new emperor has already decreed that agricultural taxes do not need to be converted into silver, and the full amount of crops can be collected directly.
The taxes and fees are not high. One acre of land only charges 30 jins. Farmers can hand over even crops. After excluding the cost of renting the land, each acre of land can leave at least nearly 100 jins for them to eat.
For a certain new emperor, it is not a big problem to feed 450,000 Japanese soldiers. They will never let these temporary losers starve to death. Maybe they will eat better than they do in the mainland.
In a sense, it is a good thing that the Emperor Taiji can enter the customs to "plow the land", because many wealthy gentry in the Jifu area are still playing tricks on a certain new emperor.
Even if Jifu's cultivated land is 5 million acres, a certain New Emperor sent a dog-legger to fight for four months and only managed to collect 4.14 million shi of grain and more than 2.62 million taels of silver.
The amount seems quite large, but this is the insurance fee for twenty years, which is only one stone per acre!
According to Zhang Guowei and Li Shiwen, who even dispatched factory guards to check out the situation, Jifu's cultivated land is conservatively estimated to be 7 million acres.
However, the registered area is only about 4 million acres, and the remaining half has been swallowed up by the local tyrants, who are unwilling to even spit out the grape skins.
Now, once the Braid Army withdraws from the pass, the factory guards can go to various places to conduct detailed investigations on the grounds of investigating casualties.
A certain new emperor believed that after more than two hundred years of reclamation, the cultivated land of Shuntian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture amounted to at least tens of millions of acres. If agricultural taxes could not be collected, it would have been embezzled.
The proposal of "divide a small family into an acre" was strongly opposed by the local government. For the local tycoons, this was a tactic that would take their lives.
On the one hand, these guys actively formed regiments and armed forces to defend their property.
On the other hand, he resists "dividing himself into a small family" and plans to continue to secretly fight against a certain new emperor.
Send the King's Master to chase Braid and rescue these things?
A certain new emperor's answer was - save me!
Aren’t you capable of resisting me?
Can!
Now Huangtai Chicken will give you a place with beautiful scenery for free, so you can enjoy yourself!
As the saying goes, you can eat mountains if you rely on mountains, and you can eat water if you rely on water.
What to eat on shit?
Go figure it out for yourself!
Therefore, a certain new emperor allowed Huang Taiji to leave his territory with his braided army without any intention of sending troops to pursue him.
Kill someone with a borrowed knife?
No!
This is called undercover, lurking, and grabbing territory in advance!
When the Ming Dynasty King's army regains the Northeast, these people will be the builders of the Eastern Wilderness.
Seeing her eldest son return safely made her beautiful biological mother so happy that the stone hanging in her heart fell to the ground.
According to the two daughters-in-law, during the days when a certain new emperor led the troops into battle, his beautiful biological mother went to bed every day...
This is obviously because he has little confidence in his biological son. Even if a certain new emperor has no ability to beat people, his ability to survive is five-star!
A certain new emperor also introduced the situation of the father who dumped the blame, so that his beautiful mother would not miss it and find it difficult to talk about it.
One day, a couple will be happy for a hundred days, but a hundred days will be the day for a couple to be at odds!
After learning the lesson, this time the scapegoat ran faster than a rabbit.
According to Hong Chengchou, we were just one step away from reaching the foot of Tianmu Mountain.
If the Spaniards are chasing after them, I guess the scapegoat will go up to the mountains to fight guerrillas...
I heard that the old enemy Queen Tian also escaped from danger, and the beautiful mother was obviously not in a good mood.
No one would feel comfortable rising from a noble concubine to a queen and being on equal footing with herself.
To be precise, the beautiful mother is now the empress dowager, one level higher than Tian Xiuying.
If the beautiful mother wants to bring down that old woman, she has to rely on the eldest son of a certain new emperor to have a future.
The little fat house is probably going to win in this life. Although the Spanish are defeated, if Zheng Zhilong doesn't beat him to a pulp, the little fat house's plan to study in Europe will probably be ruined.
It would be possible to take a French warship over, but if the news leaks out and the Spaniards find out, they will probably intercept and kill them on the way at all costs.
After what happened before, the happiest person is probably the little fat house.
Being able to continue to stay in the capital and have good food, drink, sleep, and fun every day is what he misses most in his life.
Feng Quan, who originally planned to accompany the vassal king to Europe for his appointment, could make the move first, but a certain new emperor could still stay in office until he found a suitable person to take over his job as Minister of Rites.
Feng Quan was reluctant to leave the capital. After all, thanks to a certain new emperor, living in the capital could witness the rapid development and changes, taste various delicacies, and watch various hot programs.
If it doesn't work, you can only choose someone else. As long as you are good at dancing, you can be considered by a new emperor.
Qiu Minyang, the ambassador to Japan, has lived a very prosperous life in these years. Without delaying business, he drank and talked with General Tokugawa and took his family to visit the mountains and sights.
A certain new emperor didn't mind. This time, thanks to Qiu Minyang's help and explaining the pros and cons, General Tokugawa agreed to mobilize 450,000 heavy troops to help.
When the braid army retreats, there will be 450,000 mouths...
A certain new emperor never thought that one day he would become a big dog in the eyes of others!
It is very expensive to keep so many Japanese soldiers in captivity. Even if they are all infantry, big dogs can't afford it.
The latest plan is that in the spring of next year, Master Wang will lead the Japanese army on a large-scale northern expedition, at least to make back the cost of dog food.
Next year is 1647 in the Western calendar, which is the fourth year of Haojing or the twentieth year of Chongzhen.
The original five-year agreement between father and son was calculated from the 18th year of Chongzhen, which is almost half of the past.
Without the money and food support from the scapegoat, it would be really difficult for a certain new emperor to challenge Huang Taiji alone.
Therefore, we should take advantage of the fact that there are still three years left, and quickly push forward. No matter whether it can be successful or not, we should fight first and then talk about it.
The goal of this Northern Expedition is not to regain the Western Liaoning Corridor, but to take Liaoyang directly and attack Shenyang on the way.
Even if Huang Taiji is not defeated, his braided army must be severely damaged and lay a solid foundation for the second Northern Expedition.
After the Luo Rucai Group was wiped out, the two gangs Li Zicheng and Chai Shihua fled to the Western Regions, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo was destroyed, and Zhang Xianzhong was arranged to leave North America.
Except for the 30,000 to 40,000 field troops in the south who were responsible for exterminating the remnants of the rogue bandits, the rest were brought by Hong Chengchou to garrison in the Jifu area.
After taking inventory, the troops that can be mobilized include the 14 brigades of Donggong Guards, Tang Tong, Luo Dai, Yang Guozhu, Gao Jie, Liu Guangzuo, Meng Ruhu, Hu Dawei, Li Fuming, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke and other departments.
As well as Sun Chuanting's 20,000 Qin troops, 30,000 Yulin troops, 5,000 Shandong troops and 5,000 Baoding troops each.
Yang Wenyue, the governor of Xuanda, can still send 10,000 troops, and Wang Zaijin, the governor of western Liaoning, can send 30,000 cavalry to assist in the battle.
The French army under the command of the Marquis of Turenne numbered 15,000 men, and the German mercenaries numbered 60,000.
Including the 450,000 Japanese troops and Beichang under Sun Yingyuan's jurisdiction, the total force that a new emperor can command exceeds 800,000!
The task in winter is to recharge your batteries, check money, food and ammunition, and make plate armor, guns, and grenades in preparation for the spring expedition.
At least five brigades of East Palace Guards, plus four general military officer headquarters, must be left behind in the capital. Li Chengdong continued to be his general water transport officer.
Mou Wenshou led his troops to Jining. Once there were changes in the south of the Yangtze River or the Huaihe River, he could go south along the canal to provide support at any time.
Zheng Zhilong arrived in Beijing just before New Year's Eve because he took the fleet to recover Luzon Island.
After the Spanish hegemonic fleet retreated, it did not return directly to the mainland. Instead, it stayed in Manila Bay, hoping for an opportunity to counterattack.
As a result, Zheng Zhilong's fleet blocked the port and gave them a heavy blow. During the breakout, hundreds of warships were sunk and destroyed.
Zheng Zhilong then set out to regain the occupied Manila area, while Zheng Zhifeng led the fleet to pursue them all the way until they reached Batavia.
After Zu Dashou chose Minduro Island to settle, not long after his front foot arrived, the Spaniards landed on their back foot.
However, not only were these guys small in number, with only one company, they also made the fatal mistake of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly.
The two sides fought only once, and the entire company was defeated by the Liao soldiers under Zu Dashou.
All the captured loot belonged to Zu Dashou, including the two speedboats.
But Zu Dashou's men did not need to fly this kind of Xiyi warship, so they simply used it to make a deal with Zheng Zhilong.
In exchange for a bunch of locally produced goods and twenty fishing boats, both parties were very satisfied with the result.
Zu Dashou didn't expect that he could beat Xiyi violently before finishing dealing with the natives on the island.
I heard from Zheng Zhilong that these Western barbarians had massacred the local Ming people many times before, and this time they could be regarded as revenge.
Not only did he come to Nanyang and make great achievements, but he also captured a lot of good things. Zu Dashou and his subordinates were naturally very happy.
The captured Spaniards were sold to Zheng Zhilong at a price of one hundred taels of silver per person. Zheng Zhilong sent people to escort them to the capital, and he could earn another one hundred taels by reselling them.
The previous promise to Zheng Zhilong was also fulfilled, and this guy became the first duke after the Chengzu era.
