Section 35 Consolidation (Part 1)
Author's note: Something happened in the afternoon, and the second update was postponed to the evening-
Many gentry who came to attend the meeting looked at the large red flag in the venue in a complicated mood, because it was a color representing the Ming Dynasty, and the style was very close to that of Deng Ming's personal army, and it was also a rectangular flag.
"Of course this is not the banner of the Ming army, but to pay tribute to Prince Kang who was fighting on the Jiangnan front. Isn't he a Zhenghong Banner?" Deng Ming denied that he used the red banner to pay tribute to the Emperor Yongli who was in Myanmar and led the Ming Dynasty's anti-Qing War. As for whether Jieshu was a Zhenghong Banner, he also said casually. Anyway, no one would come out to question: "As for the question of whether the pennant flag is a four-point flag..." Deng Ming did not think much about this issue, and blurted out the same words as the words Kangxi was said to the Southeast Governor: "As far as I know, Prince Kang likes this kind of pennant flag very much."
"Is that true?" Many gentry asked curiously. As rich people in the countryside, they were still very curious about the affairs of the imperial family.
"Yes." Although it was a nonsense, Deng Ming did not need to take it back. Anyway, these people could not have seen Jieshu's house in Beijing. Deng Ming went to the original site to see him. He was changed to Prince Li at that time, and it was said that he had burned it once. Under a curious question, Deng Ming briefly introduced the location of Jieshu's house, the approximate area and the courtyard, and also drew a few sketches for the congressmen to see based on his impression.
Another famous prince is Prince An Yue Le. Although this man's palace has long been gone in Deng Ming's previous life, it happened that his palace had a full picture drawn by ancient people. Deng Ming had seen it. When a group of people asked with admiration, Deng Ming spent a group of views of the Yue Le family to satisfy the members because he could not control his desire to show off. This should be nothing right? Anything that does not touch military secrets generally will not attract Deng Ming's special attention. For example, Deng Ming was a little surprised after the "Kangxi" case last time. He did not expect that a few unintentional words would have such great consequences. For this reason, Deng Ming had to pretend to be profound in front of Ren Tang and refused to further explain his intelligence source on the grounds of "military secrets".
"Okay, okay, we still have a meeting." Deng Ming painted a group of paintings to satisfy the senators' desire for knowledge, so he asked everyone to go back and sit down quickly, and he also announced that the Jiaodong Gentleman Conference had begun.
The arrangement of the venue today is completely different from that of the Imperial Parliament. Deng Ming always stood to speak to the parliamentarians in the Imperial Parliament, but today he prepared the rostrum and the large red flag to satisfy Deng Ming's desire to play roles.
In order to make himself feel more immersive, Deng Ming even hired a group of heroes from the world to cheer for him. For this reason, he also rehearsed in advance and paid for it. After the last battle in Gaoyou Lake, Deng Ming had always felt pain. If he played a cheerleader without dubbing, the atmosphere would definitely be much worse. Gaoyou Lake was fighting for life and not making trouble, but today's would be very safe. Deng Ming decided to satisfy his wish.
"Before the conference begins, I will inform you about the war that broke out in the Huaiyang generation in Jiangnan." Why did someone think of Jie Shuji when he asked Deng Ming just now? It was because Deng Ming had just received some information sent from Jiangnan, and these information were shared by Deng Ming and the heroes before the conference began: "Some people are spreading rumors that Prince Kang ended his long-term confrontation with the Ming army on the 22nd of last month and took the initiative to send troops to attack the imperial army--well, it is the Western Sichuan Army..."
Deng Ming recited the movements of the Qing army every hour. Although according to the Sichuan Army's operation record standards, these were the most rough post-war statistics and reports, intentionally ignoring a large number of command and operation details, and the judgments of officers at all levels of the battle, emergency orders and battle determinations were not mentioned at all. However, it was enough for the audience in the audience to listen with relish, and this was also the most detailed military report they had ever heard.
According to the mutually verified recollection records of officers, Deng Ming told the gentry that Prince Kang had made no progress in the attack in the morning, and the Ming army also patiently adopted a defensive attitude, and did not turn to the counterattack until the Qing army showed signs of withdrawing troops in the afternoon. Before the war, the Ming army knew the movements of the Qing army. Not only did they know that the purpose of the Qing army was to test the number of troops put into the Qing army, the purpose of the attack and the time of the initiation were also clear. Ten thousand Qing troops were wearing armor and attacking for the whole morning, but they did not know that the Sichuan army was responsible for defending them had more than 15,000 armored troops; while the Sichuan army was very clear about the number of their reserves and proved the accuracy of the intelligence through actual combat.
The counterattack of the Sichuan Army easily defeated the Qing army's attack column. The Qing cavalry responsible for covering was defeated by Sichuan's standing cavalry. All Qing cavalry suffered heavy losses, with only four or five hundred cavalrymen under the Sichuan-Shaanxi Supervisor's bids not suffering any losses because they were always on the wall.
When the Ming army chased the defeated soldiers and rushed into the Qing army's camp, Prince Kang's reserve troops rushed into the battle. Until this time, the Qing army had no idea about the scale of the Ming army's counterattack. As a result, the Chongming army joined the war without the Kuidong Army, and the Green Camp collapsed.
"...Prince Kang and Ebilong fled in the chaos. The Man Eight Banners they brought ransomed without any damage. Only seventeen were captured because they were lost, dropped or were sick. They were then redeemed by Lin Qilong, the governor of the Cao Transportation, at the price of 1,000 taels of silver per person. The food expenses during the captive period were calculated separately; in this battle, twenty-two Han Eight Banners and more than 1,600 Mongolian Eight Banners were captured. Lin Qilong each paid a ransom of 100 taels of silver. Among them, many of the Mongolian Eight Banners were seriously injured, so they also needed to pay medical expenses. After they could not move for the time being, they would have to pay monthly care expenses until they could get out of bed and leave." Deng Ming paused for a moment and turned another page. This was the last page of the report: "In addition to the baggage in Prince Kang's camp, the baggage in Prince Kang's camp
In addition to the Eight Banners soldiers, the Sichuan Army, Kuidong Army and Chongming Army captured more than 40,000 prisoners, of which 12,000 were armored. After confiscating the armor, these armors were redeemed by Lin Qilong, Caodu, at a price of fifty taels of silver per person. Most of the Eight Banners were seriously injured..." When he saw this, Deng Ming knew that Lin Qilong must have earned another agency fee this time: "The armorless soldiers were also released after Lin Qilong paid their food expenses for them. Jie Book, who had just fled back to Xuzhou, seemed to have continued to flee north, but perhaps Lin Qilong sent an envoy, so he did not take any further action but collected scattered soldiers in Xuzhou. After accepting the 40,000 prisoners sent by Lin Qilong, he restored his troops to about 90,000, and the loss was estimated to be around 20,000."
"The above are rumors." Deng Ming used this sentence as the conclusion of the long report and then took out some Tangbao from the Qing army. In theory, this was the Qing Parliament. The members present were supporters of the Qing court: "Prince Kang reported to the court that he did not expect to fall into winter battles in advance, so he was not prepared for cotton clothes. Moreover, the winter in Jiangnan this year was particularly cold, which caused a large number of soldiers to get sick because they did not have a cold-proof robe. Despite this, Prince Kang said that he had no war robe to protect the cold. Despite this, Prince Kang
Ebilong, Li Guoying and others defeated 200,000 Deng Ming's party members in Huaiyang and killed Sichuan generals Zhao Tianba, Li Laiheng, and Zhang Huangyan, all seriously injured, and were not aware of their life and death. Through interrogation of the prisoners, it was found that Deng Ming led the most elite troops and his confidants Zhou Kaihuang, Mu Tan and Ren Tang had sneaked into Shandong and prepared to attack Beijing. Now Prince Kang has left 20,000 soldiers suffering from typhoid fever and 1,000 wounded soldiers to Lin Qilong for care, and led the 90,000 troops back
Xuzhou, just waited for the imperial court to send orders to Shandong to suppress bandits. By the way, the auxiliary minister Ebilong reported to the court about the Eight Banners soldiers, saying that the nearly three thousand Mongolian Eight Banners that followed were particularly unsuitable for the climate in the south of the Yangtze River. Almost half of them were killed by the plague because of the heat. This time, the remaining ones became sick due to the sudden drop in temperature. However, Ebilong hoped that Beijing could send more Mongolians to him to fill the vacancies, and he guaranteed that he would
He would pay attention to the Mongols' warmth problem; as for the Manchu and Han Eight Banners, Ebilong said that there was no need for more supplements for the time being, and he felt that the strength of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners in the army was too strong. Putting so many elite troops in Jiangnan would weaken the security of the capital, so it was suggested that Beijing consider transferring 50 to 70% of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners in his hand back to Zhili to guard the capital." Deng Ming put down these reports and raised his head to the gentry present and said, "The above is the real situation."
"The court will win."
"Prince Kang Shenwu!"
The gentry cheered one after another, and they were all familiar with pretending to be confused. However, the gentry were also sincerely happy. After Prince Kang suffered such a crushing defeat, he could not try to solve Jiaodong by force in the short term, and he also needed to replenish troops to guard against the Ming army heading north. It seemed that the recruitment of Jiaodong was a foregone conclusion.
"Okay, now I announce that the Qing Dynasty's conference I called was officially held." Deng Ming waved his hand calmly and powerfully.
"Ula!" The cheerleaders in the training saw Deng Ming sending out gestures and immediately cheered according to the requirements during rehearsal. Originally, this kind of slogan would probably be more imposing if the guards called this kind of slogan, but Deng Ming thought about it and still spent money to hire some extras instead of letting his guards make guest appearances.
"This will be a winning conference!"
"Ula!"
"This will be a battle meeting!"
"Ula, Ula!"
"This will be a solidarity conference!"
"Ula, Ula, Ula!"
The atmosphere was very warm and Deng Ming was very satisfied. Although the gentry didn't know why Deng Ming was so excited, it would definitely be no harm to protect the country's openness. Some people also shouted a few more fun.
"It's just one pipe, well, it's better to have another globe, that's perfect." Deng Ming made a look of thinking about the future of the world revolution, and thought of it with a little regret.
Chapter completed!