Chapter 181

The eleventh year of Chongzhen was a year of ups and downs, in sharp contrast to the first half of the year and the second half of the year.

In the first half of the year, almost all anti thieves were wiped out. The situation was very good. Seeing that victory was in sight, who promised that in the second half of the year, the bad news came one after another.

It is the so-called hope is as great as disappointment. After Chongzhen received Hong Chengchou's urgent apology, the whole person collapsed on the Dragon chair.

This time, the troops of the Tartars entering the pass far exceeded the expectations of Chongzhen and the officials of the court. At this time, the soldiers went south in two ways to attack cities and land. They were crazy and rampant. The daily war report was either that the city was captured or that the Lu Ming army was defeated.

This made Chongzhen look forward to that Hong Chengchou could destroy the Xiaohua king as soon as possible and then return to the capital. Who ever thought it would be like this in the end.

At the same time of disappointment, he was also angry. Almost immediately, he wanted to make a decree to arrest Hong Chengchou and return him to Beijing, copy his family and ask for a crime, so as to vent his anger.

Fortunately, Hong Laogou is not as stubborn as Lu Xiangsheng. He can't rub the sand in his eyes, nor is he as upright as sun chuanting. He has been sent to prison several times. Instead, he is cautious, never makes enemies with others, and gives full play to the golden mean.

This made all the officials of the court plead for him. In addition, at this time of crisis, it was the time of employment, and Hong Laogou's past achievements and achievements, Chongzhen finally suppressed his anger.

Finally, Hong Chengchou made meritorious service and went to Liaodong to preside over the overall situation. He sealed sun chuanting as governor of five provinces, Prince Shaobao, and left Shilang of the Ministry of war. He gave Shang Fang a sword to go out of the customs to encircle King Xiaohua.

It was also the luck of Hong Laogou. After the death of Jiliao Governor Wu aheng, chaotang was unable to agree on a successor. In addition, Chongzhen had originally had the idea of transferring Hong Chengchou, so the old dog escaped.

As the imperial court's residence newspaper was sent to all parts of the country, Hong Chengchou took tens of thousands of troops and fought a decisive battle with the anti thieves under Ruzhou City, and the news of the great defeat spread.

Countless people were in an uproar, because this is the first time that the anti thief defeated the official Army on the front large-scale battlefield, or Hong Chengchou's Qin army. How can we not look at it and be shocked?

For a time, the name of huawang shocked several northern provinces, almost everyone knew, and soared directly to the top of the anti thief list.

At this time, Qin Huan, the king of China, was leading tens of thousands of troops to the East, ready to advance into the North China Plain.

Compared with before, everything was pulled by mules and horses, but this time it was upgraded to a carriage.

There are thousands of large and small vehicles, and the team stretches for more than 20 miles, with great momentum.

After defeating the Qin army of Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army fought fiercely with Tartars in the north, resulting in the whole Central Plains. No longer able to threaten the existence of the Ming army of the Chinese army, King Qin completely released himself.

Take the avenue, raise the flag and take the luxury car.

The happiest thing is that those women don't have to sit in the basket and cross the mountains on mules and horses.

Of course, not all women can take a car. Qin Huan stipulated that only the king and women with wrapped feet or literate women can take a car. Others can only walk and ride horses.

Even Niu Er, the big gun collar, and Qian bin, the literati, have to ride on horseback. They can't do anything special.

Qian bin may also have suffered the loss of not being able to ride a horse last time. Although he was bitter, he didn't say anything.

After the end of the war, Qin Huan repaired for ten days. After much thought, Qin Huan decided not to go south to Huguang, but to recruit some people on the plain.

After all, the people of Huguang have not reached a desperate situation, while the people of Henan are suffering from death.

It's better to recruit some young boys or young girls and strong women than to recruit people in Huguang.

Because those who were pulled back from the death line by him will be grateful to him, the king of China, and have a strong sense of belonging to the Chinese army.

Ten thousand prisoners, including more than 4000 Qin troops, were all incorporated into three infantry battalions, making the number of the three battalions increase instead of decrease, reaching 3000 per battalion, 700 sword shield soldiers and archers, and 1600 spearmen.

Of the remaining 6000 soldiers, the older ones were incorporated into the engineering camps, and the rest were all incorporated into the war camps. As a result, the number of Engineering camps reached 8000, and the five war camps were restored to the scale of 3000 or 15000 per battalion.

Only the number of young firearm soldiers was reduced to 4000, and each battalion was beaten back to its original form, only 800, but at last it reached the level of one firegun for each person.

Now that he was famous and powerful, Qin Huan was still going to recruit young people, but he didn't want them to fight with fire guns.

Instead, they decided to make up a separate camp for the young people recruited in the future, so that they can learn to read and train at the same time, and join the army or politics in two or three years.

In the future, the five firearm battalions will take these 4000 veterans as officers and recruit young men aged 17 or 18 to expand slowly.

Veterans who are too young are transferred to train young recruits.

The number of people in the pro Wei camp and the women's camp is still only 2000, but the pro Wei camp has a full 1500 war horses, which is already quite large. With the support of 2000 women soldiers riding tall and short legged horses, they gallop back and forth in the wilderness, which is frightening to death.

Because the military uniform as like as two peas and a female soldier battalion, the women soldiers have similar equipment, except for carrying many bags on their backs.

The number of women in the Houying camp has also soared due to the packaging of all the rich women's dependents in Ruzhou City, which is almost close to more than 10000 people. After all, the Houying camp has only been unable to get in and out, and only literate women account for 2000.

It is precisely because of these two thousand people that nearly 50000 troops are arranged to eat and drink Lhasa every day. Who should eat meat, who should drink hot, and who should have the same room today has never made a mistake.

The army first followed the official road to the southeast, first to Jiaxian county and Xiangcheng, then turned East, and arrived at the boundary of Xuzhou under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng government ten days later.

At this time, it is early November, and the temperature is getting colder and colder. Fortunately, everyone has cotton padded clothes, but how many people in the Central Plains have cotton padded clothes?

Along the way, the farther to the East, the more dignified the people's faces became. Especially in the plain, all southerners and large family members were stunned by the doomsday scene.

Including King Qin.

Because most of the villages along the way have been abandoned. At a glance, the fields are bare, countless cracks are as dense as cobwebs, and big feet can sink in.

On both sides of the official road, thick bones can be seen everywhere. Occasionally, one or two fresh bodies are pecked by crows and wild dogs. In this case, the Chinese army will consciously dig a pit and bury them.

Qin Huan could not help but lift the curtain of the carriage and watch the scene outside from time to time.

The cold wind whizzed in, so that Li and Liu could not help wrapping up their fur coats. Both women dared not look at the scene outside, and their faces were still frightened.

"See, this is the evil done by you big families. If you end up like this today, don't complain about heaven and others, because heaven circulates and cause and effect will be rewarded..."

Qin Huan didn't want to let them go, so they pulled them over and let them lie down by the window. He taught them with righteous words. From time to time, he would slap them on their hips.

Although the two women have completely returned, their position has not changed, so Qin Yucai plans to start from the two and transform them, so that they can influence and change the ideas of other large family members in the future.

Even a little better, as long as they have a shame in their hearts, time can eliminate the resentment in their hearts. In the future, they will be betrothed to their own men. After having children, they will be able to behave themselves.

Both women were ashamed and speechless.

Qin Huan thought that their preaching had played a role. He was very satisfied. However, the two women were ashamed because of their indecent posture.