Chapter 740: Infernal Affairs
For the sake of my own safety and to ensure the completion of the task, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan were extremely serious when selecting people.
The loyalty of the infiltrators is the top priority, and all of them are selected from the Han generals who defected to the Great Qing Dynasty and the bannermen of each Niulu, and the minimum condition is the integrity of the family.
In case they defect and defect, not only will the head of the family be questioned, but their children and grandchildren who remain in Shengjing will be cut by a thousand cuts.
The Manchus were short of supplies, but they had a lot of gold and silver treasures, and hundreds of traitors who carried out special tasks received a large amount of gold and jewelry as funds for their activities.
After six or seven hundred spies were trained by Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan for a period of time, they mastered certain skills and followed Jierharang to Shaanxi, and some of them went to Guizhou and Guangxi via Sichuan.
The Ming Dynasty has fallen into chaos, and the original road guidance system has existed in name only.
In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has broken through too many cities of the Ming Dynasty over the years, and has obtained a large number of documents and seals of the Ming government, and even the official seals of the governor level have several.
It's too simple to give Infernal Affairs a legal identity, and the road guides used are all real official products of the Ming Dynasty.
In this era, the road guide equivalent to an ID card was only a written record, not only did it have no photos, but it also did not have a simple portrait.
It is estimated that even if they meet the officials and officers and soldiers to inspect them, they will not be able to distinguish the authenticity from the fake, and Infernal Affairs will definitely be able to pass the customs safely if they give the inspectors a few pieces of silver.
Huang Han was arranging Jiang Xin, Lu Yuanhua, Dou Kuai, and Xie Hu to infiltrate the Pyongyang defense line to do Infernal Affairs, but he didn't expect that the Red Gang was about to send Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan to infiltrate Daming to do things.
The soldier is treacherous! The ancients did not deceive me. Compared with Huang Han and Honggang, Emperor Chongzhen is not "tricky" at all, and he is definitely an honest man.
At this time, this honest man is still waiting for Yang Sichang's "four positive six corners, ten sides of the net" to bring good news.
As everyone knows, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is going to play tricks again, and it won't be long before the Ming Dynasty is even more wolf-smoking, and it is necessary to open the net to wait for more than ten sides?
However, at this time, the salary has been distributed, and the burden faced by the grassroots peasants has increased.
Chongzhen got a piece of the pie from Huang Han's crackdown on Jin merchants last year, and he had a lot of money on hand, and with the expectation of collecting money, Chongzhen, who was eager for quick success, couldn't wait.
He allocated a large amount of money and food to Yang Sichang to increase his troops, looking forward to completing his long-cherished wish of encircling and annihilating the Liukou as soon as possible, but he didn't know that the food and salary that he had finally obtained were very little used to recruit young and middle-aged people into the army.
The civilian officials withheld the quota at all levels, and the military generals were repeatedly banned, and they all mastered the trick of greedy military salaries, and they all united to deceive the civilian officials sent by Yang Sichang to be responsible for checking people.
More than half of the people who passed the inspection were temporary homeless people and beggars, and some were local hooligans and gangsters.
If such an army really goes out to fight with the rogues, more than half of them will run away on the way, and the vast majority of the small half will choose to join when they meet the rogues.
This was the case in the last years of the Chongzhen Dynasty, when the vast majority of the Ming army that suppressed the Kou was about equivalent to becoming a transport team that sent equipment and troops to the Liukou.
However, the Daming Liukou is too unbearable, not only is the union loose with each other, but also one by one can't get rid of the gangsterism.
At present, they have not put forward a political program of "exempting all fields from taxation" at all, and they still adopt the style of destroying one side after taking over a piece of land, and they are growing up savagely, and they torture women, humiliate women, and wantonly slaughter, causing anger and resentment in the heavens and people.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty, the 'Red Flag Army', the Liukou, and the Ming Dynasty are playing in all directions, and the honest Chongzhen must suffer the most, and the winner who laughs at the end must be the most "treacherous" one!
The "Red Banner Army" launched a spring offensive to take more than half of North Korea, and after stabilizing the situation, it launched an autumn offensive to seize Pyongyang.
Originally, there was no intention of completely annihilating the Qing army that remained in Korea, but now that Duoduo, the culprit of the 10-day massacre in Yangzhou, was in Pyongyang, Huang Han decided to hold a meeting to adjust the deployment, and strive to leave all the 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry below Duoduo behind.
Sun Chuanting, Song Pengfei, Liu Fenyong, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Chenglu, Jin Sheng, Huang Long and other civilian and military generals learned of the request of the general to be captured, and everyone was gearing up.
Of course, they are not satisfied with arresting a traitor king, they are eager to catch the son of the old slave, the serious 800 Jiannu pro-dynasty Tianque.
While refining the plan, he was constantly revising the plan, and it was necessary to prevent too much pressure on the Qing army, causing Duoduo to abandon Pyongyang and flee back to Liaodong when he felt in danger.
If it is intended to set up an encirclement of 10,000 cavalry in eastern Liaodong to try to completely annihilate the enemy, it will definitely be difficult, because the world in the northeast of Liaodong is too vast, with more lofty mountains and mountains, and less natural dangers of the Yalu River.
How easy is it to set up a defensive line within a radius of several hundred miles that can ensure that it will not be overwhelmed by 10,000 cavalry, and how many people will have to be mobilized? How much labor is put in?
The topographical advantages of the Korean Peninsula are obvious, and it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, making it impossible for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to break through in the east, south, and north directions.
The only way to go west was for them, but the beginning of August, when the attack was launched, was a few months when the Yalu River was abundant, and the endless warships on the river blockaded it, and Jiannu could not complete the crossing in the middle and lower reaches.
It was Sun Chuanting's plan to arrange a huge encirclement for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry according to local conditions, and then slowly tighten it, in order to ensure that there would be no omissions, it was necessary to be immersive.
Although Shen Ming, Yu Fei and others did not participate in the offensive and defensive battles of Seoul, they were also very busy.
They led the naval warships to carry out sneak attacks along the coast and along the rivers without stopping, intercepting a lot of materials and food, and killing and capturing no less than 10,000 Manchu soldiers and civilians.
The vast majority of the marines were intellectuals, and as soon as they landed, they would observe the terrain and record data, and immediately draw maps and make sand tables when they returned to the warship.
The use of mountains and mountains to ambush the cavalry was Sun Chuanting's mastermind, and he received strong support from Huang Han when he proposed it, because in history he used the mountains to ambush Gao Yingxiang's old cavalry.
Kong Youde chose to focus on defending the Pyongyang defense line, and even more than half of the Qing troops in the Uiju area were transferred, and because the "Red Banner Army" sailors and marines frequently harassed them, the two or three thousand Qing troops left behind did not dare to approach within 50 miles of the sea and the river.
In addition to the Marine Corps, which did not have cavalry, the 13 battalions of the "Red Banner Army" that fought in the Korean War had 1,000 cavalry, and the cavalry of the Guards Battalion could not reach 18,000 men.
Soon after the territory south of Kaesong was taken into possession, the resistance was not completely eliminated, and five thousand cavalry were left to patrol the newly established prefectures and counties.
Therefore, the cavalry participating in the battle for Pyongyang was 2,000 more than the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, and the total number was about 12,000.