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After a few months, Jiangxi's large-scale anti-bandit campaign came to an end, and 24 large and small bandits in Jiangxi were wiped out before and after, and 41 were recruited, and the entire territory of Jiangxi was appeased.

But what made Qin Mu dissatisfied was that this time he let Gu Xiancheng escape again, he was really an immortal little strong. After his hundreds of men and horses ran to the vicinity of Yuanzhou and were surrounded and suppressed by Cui Feng, he was the only one who was nowhere to be seen, and he didn't check for a long time overnight, but he still didn't find out the whereabouts of this guy, so Yan Gaofei was also severely criticized by Qin Mu.

In terms of the deployment of troops in Jiangxi, Qin Mu also made corresponding adjustments, transferring 1,500 men and horses to garrison Yuanzhou, and another 10,000 men and horses to defend Nanchang. Now he is the governor of the two provinces, and he has every authority to make such a disposition.

As for the original commander of Jiangxi, Zhou Ning, Qin Mu directly shoveled him on the grounds that Jiading Bo Zhou Kui had surrendered to the enemy, and he stayed there where he was cool.

After the original Nanchang garrison selected some young and strong, all the old and weak also returned to their hometowns and people. Cui Feng led an army of 10,000 to take over the defense of Nanchang.

This time, Qin Mu went south to Yueyang, in addition to inspecting the development of warships and artillery, he also had to inspect the training of garrisons in some places and the summer harvest along the coast of Dongting Lake.

After he arrived in Yueyang, although there was still a rain from time to time, on the whole, the impact on the summer harvest was not very great.

As for the training of the garrisons in various places, although the General Staff Department has formulated strict training jihua, the military department, and the military training department are responsible for supervision, Qin Mu is still not at ease if he does not come to see it himself. After all, the Manchu Iron Cavalry of this era is really not blown, and its combat power is really eye-catching.

At present, the Qin army is mainly cold weapons, and hot weapons and equipment only account for about 20% of the whole army.

When Qin Mu galloped into the barracks of the Yueyang garrison, the soldiers were training in full swing, and the shouts of killing were deafening.

The successor of the Yuezhou guard was Liu Yongzhi, a general of the Great Western Army who surrendered in the First Battle of Liuyang, and the only rebel general who was reused by Qin Mu.

Liu Yongzhi knew that as a general, he wanted to be recognized by the Qin army. When Qin Mu entered the camp, he was crawling with the soldiers on the school ground, under the scorching sun, he was like ordinary soldiers, covered in mud, and his clothes were all soaked with sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water.

When he came up to meet Qin Mu, Qin Mu found that he still had a wound on his cheek, and he didn't even bother to bandage it. The wound was covered with dried blood and a layer of dust.

Qin Mu waited for him to finish his salute, and then ordered: "Liu Yongzhi listened to the order and ordered you to immediately lead the firearms battalion and rush to Partridge Ridge, twenty miles away, at full speed to conduct an actual combat drill. ”

"The last will obey." Liu Yongzhi agreed.

"This official is waiting for you at Partridge Ridge, don't let this official down." After Qin Mu said this, he took the guards out of the camp on horseback, and went away with a stream of yellow dust.

Although Qin Mu did not limit how long Liu Yongzhi would arrive at Partridge Ridge, he said that. undoubtedly gave Liu Yongzhi a whip, and almost didn't let him jump.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Chinese army's big drum sounded urgently, like thunder, and the battalion sergeants quickly assembled when they heard the sound. Liu Yongzhi temporarily entrusted the affairs of the camp to Yue Zhongliang. Then he gave an order to Lin Shaoxing, a thousand households in the firearms battalion: "Lin Shaoxing listens to the order, and you are limited to quickly lead the men and horses of your headquarters and prepare chariots, weapons and ammunition." Dry food, with Ben will go to Partridge Ridge, and the Governor is waiting for us at Partridge Ridge. This is not a drill, this is a war, who dares to procrastinate perfunctorily, military law is engaged. ”

Liu Yongzhi gave an order, and 1,200 soldiers of the firearms battalion immediately rushed to the horse shed and the carport under the command of Lin Shaoxing.

Their standard equipment is one bird gun, one medicine canister, 300 rounds of lead bullets, 1 cane, 5 catties of dry food, 1 water bladder, and 5 iron-shelled thunderbolts (i.e., grenades).

In addition, there is a carriage for each carriage, each with a hundred tigers and arrows, and five thunderbolts. Each of the 100 houses also has a light Franc cannon.

These weapons are stored in a neat and orderly manner due to the frequent drills in peacetime, and now give an order, a thousand households command a hundred households, a hundred households command the general flag, and the general flag commands the chief, and in the midst of a loud roar, the soldiers quickly prepare their own weapons and ammunition, dry food and drinking water in accordance with the usual drills, and the scene is busy and orderly;

Nearly a pillar of incense later, 1,200 men and horses roared out of the barracks with more than 100 chariots, and the roaring and neighing of people and horses lifted up the billowing yellow dust and rushed towards Partridge Ridge.

Half an hour later, Liu Yongzhi led all the firearms battalion to Partridge Ridge, all the soldiers were wet with sweat, Qin Mu was stationed on the Horse Ridge, and a black flag was waving in the wind. Qin Mu was also very surprised that Liu Yongzhi could arrive in such a short time, but he still did not hesitate at all, and without waiting for the army to stop, he immediately let Li Shi give orders with the command flag.

Liu Yongzhi saw the flag order, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to immediately set up a chariot formation, and the ten Franco cannons roared first, followed by more than 100 tigers rushing arrows in unison, and countless rockets flew all over the sky like flying locusts;

The soldiers lined up behind the chariots, in a row of hundreds, in five rows, and fired in sections with birds, each soldier had to shoot two shots to test their filling speed;

After firing a shot, the soldiers quickly took out the paper bag from the powder canister, bit through the paper shell, poured the fixed propellant into the barrel, rammed the charge with a cane, loaded the lead, tamped the lead, opened the fire door, lowered the gunpowder, closed the fire door, and after a series of actions were completed, they waited for the order to continue the volley.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After two volleys, another earth-shattering thunderbolt is thrown.

Since all the weapons were fired with live ammunition, there was no fake, and the sound of artillery rumbled, rockets filled the sky, and the gunfire continued like firecrackers during the New Year.

This time, Liu Yongzhi was very satisfied with both the speed and the actual combat effect, and he gave Liu Yongzhi high praise, and at the same time rewarded twenty big fat pigs from the firearms battalion and let them slaughter a big meal.

Qin Mu will do this everywhere these days, he only looks at the effect of actual combat drills, does not listen to reports, and does not look at showmanship.

Of course, this will increase a lot of expenses, but he is not afraid of spending money, only afraid that he will not be able to spend money in the future.

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In the north, after Dolgon occupied the Jingshi, he did not immediately loot like Li Zicheng, but used Fan Wencheng's strategy to use various means to win over the Han bureaucrats and landlords, claiming that those who surrendered first would be given high-ranking officials;

At the same time, he mourned for Emperor Chongzhen, played the name of "revenge for the monarch's father" by the Han people, and then announced the abolition of the three salaries (Liao, Lian, and Xuan) to increase the distribution, and these means were used, and many bureaucratic landlords in the north surrendered to the Manchus.

The Qing army defeated the Dashun army twice in Baoding and Dingzhou, and even Li Zicheng was wounded by arrows, after that, the Dashun army retreated again and again, and the Qing army then attacked Shanxi, the original Datong general Jiang Hao was dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's elevation of himself, and killed the Datong guard Zhang Tianlin on the sixth day of June, and surrendered to the Qing king Azig.

Speaking of Jiang Jiu is really not a good bird, when he had a heavy army, when Li Zicheng attacked Shanxi, he obediently surrendered without firing a single arrow, Li Zicheng looked down on him very much, and was ready to kill him, the reason was "The imperial court is to send the town to the point, if you are the first to surrender?" At that time, it was Zhang Tianlin who persuaded Jiang Hao to avoid death, and now when he saw that Li Zi was defeated and retreated, he immediately killed his benefactor Zhang Tianlin and surrendered to Qing.

Jiang Huang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty made the Dashun army's Shanxi battle situation chaotic for a while, Azig was like a bamboo, and the counties below Datong were invincible, and the Qing army then attacked the Taiyuan city defended by Chen Yongfu.

Chen Yongfu only had 10,000 horses, because Li Zicheng did not care about his old hatred of shooting and wounding, Chen Yongfu was very loyal to Li Zicheng, and he implemented the practice of clearing the wilderness and defending Taiyuan.

However, Jiang Jiu's surrender made the soldiers in the city panic, Chen Yongfu could not hold on for a few days, Taiyuan City was breached, and Chen Yongfu's whereabouts were unknown.

By this time, the Qing army had taken control of most of Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi. Seeing that things were going so well, the ambitious regent Dolgon, despite the opposition of many Manchu ministers, asked the six-year-old Shunzhi to move the capital to Beijing as soon as possible.

Dolgon's move can be said to be Sima Zhao's heart, and many bureaucratic landlords in the north began to defect south to Nanjing in large numbers after seeing the true face of the Qing army. And the infinitely naïve Hongguang monarch and minister, at this time, also sent envoys to the north, hoping to unite the Qing army to exterminate the "traitors".

The envoy sent by Hongguang was called Zuo Maodi, and in the edict brought by Zuo Maodi, Emperor Hongguang proposed four things: burying Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou. With Shanhaiguan as the boundary, the land outside the customs was given to the Qing Dynasty, 100,000 yuan per year, and "10000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, 100,000 horses of silk satin", and the founding of the country was convenient.

Dolgon was dismissive of Hongguang's edict. directly imprisoned the messenger Zuo Maodi.

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PS: Next, I plan to use a chapter to briefly explain the major events of the Hongguang Dynasty, and then directly cross over to the plot of the Qing army's southward movement.

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