Chapter 114: Attacking Chongqing, prisoners who were transformed and upgraded

Liquor is limited, and the dukes and princes are no exception. No one will let themselves lose their temper and leave a deep impression on the third prince.

After drinking and eating, everyone dispersed. But the only ones who could live in the county government office were Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng and Huang Li.

The three of them tacitly agreed that they did not go to rest. They drank tea in the quiet room and talked about it, but they were discussing their future actions.

There were so many people, and all three of them had reservations about what they said, including Huang Li.

"I am serious about attacking Chongqing as soon as possible." Huang Li pointed on the spread out map, "The Eight Banners soldiers from Xi'an are heading south from Hanzhong. If they get news of Wushan's defeat, they may stop in Guangyuan or Baoning to wait for reinforcements.

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"After our army occupied Chongqing, it formed a confrontation, or in other words, it restrained the Xi'an Eight Banners soldiers. They did not dare to easily advance eastward and attack our various departments in eastern Kui."

Liu Tichun said slowly: "The garrison in Chongqing should not exceed three thousand. Our army has the convenience of a navy. It can reach the city of Chongqing in a few days, and we are very sure of capturing Chongqing."

Li Laiheng said: "After conquering Chongqing, does Mr. Huang have follow-up plans?"

Huang Li smiled and said: "I would like to ask the Duke of Anhui to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Chongqing, plus a navy, and we should be safe."

Liu Tichun smiled and raised his head. Although he did not speak, he already showed that he would obey the arrangement.

Let's talk, time passes very slowly, it's not late at night yet, the eight of them are still sleepy, discussing and formulating a small strategy for Yu Jin's future.

The moat stretches far and wide, with small ditches that have not been filled in. Thousands of prisoners are cowering outside.

That young man has not brought too many surprises and shocks to people. Yiling Xiaojie and Wushan Xiaojie annihilated 70,000 to 80,000 Qing troops, but they have not completely broken the favorable situation of the eight-province capital campaign.

That kind of spirit of fearing weak enemies, when we heard it from the young people, we felt arrogant, but we were extremely relieved.

Before, when the Qing army took advantage of the victory to retreat to Yunnan and Guizhou, the military supplies still relied heavily on Shaanxi. The route was from Shaanxi to Chongqing along the Jialing River, then to the southwest and up the Yangtze River to Xuzhou (Yibin City) for military needs.

Li Laiheng took a few glances at the foot of the mountain. This was the altar used by a little man called Mr. Huang, who I heard was Prince Zhu Ba, when he attacked the city yesterday.

They froze inside all night and had no food or water in the morning. The prisoners looked dirty, miserable and listless.

I used Liu Tichun's defense to contain the Qing army, and waited until they were exhausted before launching a counterattack. I didn't think Yu Jinya was used as a bait. Yu Jinya didn't care, which made me relieved.

Before Wushan City annihilated the small Qing army in Qichuan, the defenses in eastern Sichuan and northern Sichuan were shockingly strong. In Yu Jin's opinion, Chongqing, which is of great strategic significance, still has 2,000 people.

"Please invite Duke Jing to come and take charge of Wushan. I am relatively unfamiliar with this place, Xiaoning, and Xiaochang. It will not help stabilize the place, and recruit troops to expand the army."

"What you are doing, Qichuan dialect, does not mean what you are doing." The supervisor explained to Li Laiheng, laughing, but he did not care at all about the prisoner being beaten by mistake.

The Ming army pondered for a while and said: "It may take the Duke of the country to hold on for several months before he can launch a front-line operation."

Yu Jin nodded and said with a smile: "Leave the inside information to the Duke, and leave the inside information to your superiors. Do you know if the Duke is worried about it?"

Li Laiheng and other new supervisors went over with a smile, took out their tokens, and greeted the officers and soldiers of Huang Li who were guarding the prisoners.

In the early morning, the sky was no longer gray, and it was not as clear and cloudy as the last few days.

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"After returning to Xingshan, shrink the defense line, build more trebuchets, rockets, mines, and wooden cannons, build less fortifications, and concentrate on defending Liu Tichun's core position that is hundreds of miles away."

Maolu Shan lowered his head and said: "If the Qing army comes to attack, I only need to rely on strong defense. Is it necessary to mobilize troops to implement combined internal and external operations?"

After saying that, I kicked him again and cursed: "Go to work slowly, you deserve a beating!"

Yu Jinya and Mao Lushan looked at each other and laughed in unison.

I'm fine in the first place, but I'm still pretending. The most annoying thing is not that.

Of course, the overall situation is still one where the enemy is weak and you are strong. It is not impossible to change the situation in a short period of time.

"Well, people have found that the meat can be eaten." Li Laiheng speculated, because we drank the broth last night, which was really a rare delicacy.

"The delay in telling me this shows that you are honest." Mao Lushan said solemnly: "I suspect that you will take action at the right time and start another earth-shattering battle."

With sharp eyes, Li Laiheng realized that the soldier seemed to be one of our companions. But he had been promoted to two levels and was unreasonable towards us supervisors and acted like a coward.

"Clear all the bricks and stones, wait for the wood to be transported, and put up the fence..." When they got closer, Yu Jinya gave instructions and explained today's work to the prisoners, "Work hard so that you can eat and have enough to eat."

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Yu Jin felt sleepy, so he followed the current, said a few words of humility, and stood up to say goodbye.

"Work!" Li Laiheng scolded in a low voice and walked over with eyes wide open.

"In addition, the craftsmen in Xingshan were divided into two parts. One part was sent to Wushan to produce weapons and ammunition on the spot; the other part was in Xingshan, and the weapons and ammunition produced were sent back to Liu Tichun."

The most important thing for success or failure is the correct strategy and correct route. When a strong enemy is weak, it is even more important to walk on thin ice, so as not to make a mistake even half a step away.

The spell was so powerful, it should have summoned thunder, and it blew open the city wall in one go. Only now do we know how Yiling City was suddenly breached, and how we became prisoners.

Therefore, during the Shunzhi period, the food and wages needed by the Qing army to retreat from Qichuan, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places had to be prepared from Shaanxi and Gansu, transported to Hanzhong, in front of Lueyang, up the Jialing River, and transported by water to the rear line.

"He, he, not him yet..." Li Laiheng's voice was loud and commanding, fully demonstrating his inferior aura as a supervisor.

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Those who were upgraded together with Li Laiheng included a small group of prisoners of the Huguang Qing Army. A few thousand were gathered to replenish the retired Huangli, and the remaining ones became supervisors and the highest-level coolies.

Huang Li continued: "Linguo Gong led 20,000 horses to return to Xingshan tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and took away one-third of the grain and grass supplies captured in Wushan."

"What are you doing?" The prisoner was so frightened that he moved forward and asked in a trembling voice.

However, the crisis has been temporarily relieved, and at most the Qing army will be unable to form an encirclement and suppression force within a few months. Perhaps the Eighth Prince has not yet devised a clever plan that can shake things up and create another miracle.

The Ming army smiled and scratched his head, and said without any embarrassment: "Actually, some of you above know that the sky is low and the earth is thick. I definitely don't have a chance to fight. I want to compete with the soldiers of the Four Banners."

Li Laiheng immediately became angry, swung the stick, and hit him thoughtfully. While beating him, he cursed: "Who dares to call me a fool? He is the fool, and his whole family is a fool."

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"Seventeen thousand troops attacked Chongqing, and 10,000 troops retreated westward to attack Fengjie and Yunyang. Although there were no battle losses in Wushan and there were no troops under the Wang Rong Banner, we could gather up enough troops by replenishing the prisoners of the Qing army in Huguang and retreating.

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Putting aside his thoughts, Li Laiheng and other supervisors walked to the edge of the trench, observing, pointing, and selecting prisoners who looked worse in spirit and stronger in physique.

"I'm sure time still allows. After attacking Chongqing, we can go back north along the Jialing River and retreat to Baoning and Guangyuan in northern Sichuan..."

"Supervisor, I'll work it out!" After breakfast, Li Laiheng carried a stick and went to the prisoner-of-war camp to supervise the prisoners of the Qing Dynasty in Qichuan to work.

"Slow down, slow down." Li Laiheng poked the poor prisoners with a stick, telling us to move slower, and cursed, "Anyone who is dragging his feet deserves a beating."

The prisoner was beaten until he screamed and huddled on the ground holding his head until Yu Jinya was grabbed by another supervisor.

Li Laiheng blinked his eyes and laughed, "It's really weird, it sounds like a curse."

"Let's pick people, pick ten for each person." Soldier Huang Li waved his hands with an expression on his face.

Many of the prisoners didn't even have hats on them, revealing their bald heads that had just been shaved off their braids. Li Laiheng's sense of superiority in his heart was even weaker, as some of the braids were shaved off by us yesterday!

"Chongqing has more than two thousand soldiers, Kuizhou's capital city has only two thousand eighty-seven hundred, Fengjie has one thousand and seven, Yunyang has one thousand..." Yu Jin pursed his lips, showing a look of joy.

Yu Jin is also bragging, I really want to beat up the Four Banners Soldiers, break Yu Jin's fear of the Manchu soldiers, and also take off the fig leaf of the Four Banners Soldiers.

"Mr. Huang's far-sightedness, long-sightedness, and deep planning are astonishing!" Yu Jinya pushed the tea cup away and admired her heartily.

The prisoners were not vague about what they were going to do. They were driven fiercely by the overseers, gathered together, and walked towards the gap in the collapsed city wall.

Mao Lushan nodded repeatedly and said: "The development in a few years, or even more than ten years, has basically been determined. Even if there are no adjustments, there will be no small changes. I am afraid that it will affect my husband's rest. I really want to talk all night long. How can I do that?"

Have fun."

Li Laiheng grinned secretly. He was very lucky that he was defending in Beicheng at that time. When cleaning the Wushan city wall, we saw too few Qing soldiers who were crushed to death.

Gao Hongzhi sat respectfully in his chair, watching the Ming army read the prisoners' confessions. He looked fierce on the outside, but he was constantly making waves in his heart.

The Ming army bowed their hands to express their admiration and gratitude.

I mean, you yawned.

In fact, that is not what I meant. Qichuan is in dire straits, and it is still difficult to raise food supplies. We have to rely on Shaanxi and Gansu to transport grain to support the Qichuan Green Battalion.

The city is not quite empty yet, but there are still a few damaged carts, broken wood and other debris left.

It was wrong. Li Laiheng and others who were watching from a distance thought so and retreated from the discussion.

But that didn't affect Yu Jinya's mood. She had long hair and a stick missing from her hand, as well as a shovel and a pickaxe.

"Without my husband to take charge of the front line, I am the most worried." Mao Lushan laughed.

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