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Both Shaanxi and Shanxi fell into the hands of the Tiger-Character Banner. Yang He failed to become the trilateral governor to suppress bandits in Shaanxi as he had done in history.
Similarly, he did not focus on recruiting peace and use both appeasement and suppression as in history.
Because he knew that it was impossible for Tiger Flag to accept the imperial court's recruitment.
The Tiger-Character Banner, which was entrenched in Shanxi and Shaanxi, was already in a state of separatism. It was not easy to recruit the Tiger-Character Banner. Moreover, the imperial court tried to recruit the Tiger-Character Banner several times and offered Liu Heng the position of earl, but failed to do so.
He didn't think that he could recruit the Tiger Flag rebels to the imperial court with just one mouth.
The Daxing Emperor could give the leader of the rebel bandits a count, but today's emperor is headstrong and self-willed. He hates the bandits who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty the most. He will not use his title to recruit people. At most, he will give him the title of a few guerrilla generals.
So he knew that the road to recruitment would not work.
But he was not helpless.
When he was summoned by the emperor, he had already thought of how to deal with the tiger-character flag, and presented his ideas to the emperor.
There are three steps to deal with the Tiger Flag.
The first step was to use the soldiers and horses in Henan to block the invading rebels within the borders of Henan Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture.
Then soldiers and horses were mobilized from surrounding provinces and came to Henan to assist the Henan soldiers and horses in encircling and suppressing the rebels. Relying on the national power of the Ming Dynasty, they slowly consumed the elite divisions of the rebels.
After all, the Tiger Character Banner only occupies Shaanxi and Shanxi, which is far from being the essence of the Ming Dynasty, and it is even less able to compete with the Ming Dynasty in terms of national strength.
Tiger Character Banner has always been able to conquer cities and territories with overwhelming force, relying on its own elite soldiers and generals.
Although there were not many elite divisions in the Ming Dynasty, there were many soldiers and horses.
In Yang He's view, as long as the elite troops of the rebels are consumed, the imperial court can start to counterattack to regain the lost territory and completely wipe out the Tiger Flag rebels.
As for how many Ming soldiers and horses it would take to consume the rebel elite division, he was not too worried.
The Ming Dynasty's soldiers, horses and Dingkou were countless times that of the rebels. If a hundred thousand troops were not enough, they would have had two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, or even five hundred thousand.
As long as he can destroy the Tiger Flag, everything will be worth it in his opinion.
More importantly, he received the emperor's approval and support.
Although he was the governor of military affairs in Henan, soldiers and horses from various provinces were continuously sent to Henan for him to use to consume the rebels.
This was a conspiracy, so he was not afraid that Liu Heng, the leader of the rebels, would see his plan.
Just when Yang He was mobilizing Henan soldiers and horses, the Tiger Banner army did not stop at all after capturing Luoyang City. It divided into two partial divisions and went to Mengjin and Yanshi respectively.
One is the only way from Luoyang to Huaiqing Mansion, and the other is the passage to Kaifeng Mansion. It can be said that these two locations are critical.
However, because Luoyang City fell too quickly, there were not many defenders in Mengjin and Yanshi, and reinforcements did not rush over immediately. Moreover, as all the soldiers and horses of Ruzhou Guards went to Luoyang City, Ruzhou was empty and became The tiger banner army in Nanyang Prefecture is the priority target to attack.
The military operations of the Tiger Flag Army in Henan Province are in full swing in Henan Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture.
Liu Heng, who was far away in Datong Town, immediately received the military report that the Tiger Character Banner army had occupied Luoyang City.
"Lord, Yang Yuan is here." Zhao Wu whispered in Liu Heng's ear.
Liu Heng put down the pen in his hand and raised his head to look at the door.
I saw Yang Yuan walking towards this side through the yard.
Yang Yuan handed the gun to the guard outside the door and walked into the custody room.
"You came just in time. The First Military Division just sent news that Fu Fan was captured and a large amount of goods and food were seized. The food alone is enough to support the army's consumption in Henan." Liu Heng smiled at him Yang Yuan came to the front and said.
It is much more cost-effective to attack Henan than to attack Shaanxi.
The Tiger Character Banner captured Shaanxi. Even if they confiscated the feudal prince's palace in Shaanxi, the little things captured were not enough to sustain Shaanxi's consumption. The Tiger Character Banner still needed a blood transfusion to Shaanxi.
The Tiger Character Banner captured Shaanxi, which was a loss-making business economically.
Henan is different, it is really rich.
Just the gains from capturing Henan Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture were already comparable to half of Shaanxi.
Yang Yuan said: "Henan is rich, but the court also values it. I have received news that Sichuan and Huguang have dispatched large armies and are rushing to Henan. It seems that the situation is to encircle and suppress our army in Henan."
"This is a good thing." Liu Heng was not anxious at all when he heard the news. He said, "The departure of the soldiers and horses from Sichuan and Huguang means that there will be a gap in the strength of the troops in these two places. We only need to annihilate them all in Henan." With reinforcements from the two places, we can then send troops to Sichuan and Huguang to fight."
"My lord, are you deliberately asking the imperial court to move Sichuan and Huguang soldiers and horses to Henan?" Yang Yuan looked surprised.
Liu Heng waved his hand gently and said: "How can I be so capable and control how the imperial court mobilizes troops and horses? I remain unchanged in response to all changes. If the imperial court does not mobilize troops and horses from these two places to support Henan, we will have to do the same." To attack Henan, if the imperial court mobilizes troops from surrounding provinces, we can hunt down rabbits and solve the problem together."
"We only have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Henan, will there be a little less?" Yang Yuan said worriedly.
The tens of thousands of troops of the Tiger Character Banner in Henan have to face encirclement and suppression by soldiers and horses from several provinces.
Liu Heng picked up the big teapot on the table and took a sip of the boiled water in it. After putting it down, he said: "The elite divisions of the Ming Dynasty are all concentrated on the front line of Shanhaiguan. There are not many other places. The first division mainly faces local guardsmen. Ma, if you still can't win Henan like this, let's stop using Chen Xunping's first division and replace him as soon as possible."
"Lie to Kangxi"
The Tiger Character Banner follows the route of elite soldiers.
With the military firepower of the Tiger Flag, in the field, a combat division could rub tens of thousands of Ming Guan Ning elites on the ground.
How many thousands of Ming Dynasty's Guanning elites were in Liaodong?
No.
In fact, there are only a limited number of elites like Guanning Cavalry in Liaodong, and most of them are ordinary soldiers.
The Ming Dynasty really had tens of thousands of Guan Ning cavalry, and the Eight Banners soldiers holding down the fake gold had already been rubbing against the ground, so they would not have to rely on fortified cities to resist the fake gold army.
"Lord, should we expand our army? Once we win Henan, Sichuan and Huguang will also be our target. If we don't have enough troops, we will easily miss the opportunity to capture these two places." Yang Yuan said.
Hearing this, Liu Heng smiled bitterly.
Of course he wanted to expand his army. If he had enough soldiers and horses, he could overthrow the Ming Dynasty now.
But no.
Currently, the Tiger Flag has less than 100,000 troops, including cavalry, dragoons, combat divisions, and heavy baggage troops. Peasants and soldiers are not included.
Moreover, the peasants and soldiers had no pay, otherwise the Tiger Character Banner's finances would have been ruined long ago.
