Chapter 184 Sweeping the Central Plains
Everyone is looking for a father, so Yinzhen can't fall behind.
There is no one else to choose from in his situation.
Yinzhen fell into the arms of the Lord because there was also Yingkou Port. Although Yang Feng prohibited any military supplies from going to Manzhou, it did not prohibit civilian supplies and ships from going there. In fact, even the Ming Dynasty's own merchant ships often went to Yingkou Port to buy some local specialties such as ginseng and deer antlers. The Beiyang Fleet also proposed a comprehensive blockade. However, the Yang Yaoren may have been too arrogant and did not take Yinzhen seriously, so the merchant ships transporting European missionaries were still heading north.
But how can Yinzhen have this condition?
His control area was centered on Xuanhua, mainly Rehe and Chahar in later generations. With the only remaining surviving Mongolian alliances in the foreign vassal Mongolia, Chechen Khan, Xilingol, Ulanqab and other alliances, forming a half-established small group. His overall strength was stronger than Yinzhen and had a total army of 100,000. However, his political environment was dangerous than Yinzhen, and the latter was united, but his basic base was only 30,000 Eight Banners. Those Mongolian princes just used him as shields. After all, if he blocked there, the Ming army could not threaten Dongmeng, but it would be nonsense to say that those princes really treated him as a root. Those princes now don’t even pay much attention to his father, let alone him.
But he has no money.
There is a place where he produces a lot of money. Later generations of Tang Dahu could only make a living by planting ya tablets. What did he use to maintain his finances? In this way, he could only reach out to the rich Shanxi old wealthy people, but his father now relies on the money bag of Shanxi merchants. In order to compete for wealth, the two men and women have never stopped fighting openly.
And his relationship with the fourth brother is also very tense.
When the Jidong East was defeated, he made a mistake in his judgment and believed that the Ming army would then advance north along the Liaoxi Corridor, so Shengjing would not be protected. On the contrary, Xuanhua, which was surrounded by mountains, was safer, and if it was not possible, he could escape to Guanzhong. So he fled to Xuanhua, while the smarter-minded Lao Si headed straight to western Liaoxi. As a result, the Ming army did not continue to pursue him at all. He was stunned and could only stay in Xuanhua, which had nothing to do with resentment, while the fourth Lao Si took over the sign of Shengjing left behind to control Long Xing
He had long been salivating about the territory of the fourth brother, and now he didn't take the bannermen seriously, and the Mongolian princes who were ready to move also wanted to expand the pastoral area eastward. The two families hit it off and stared at Manchuria with greedy eyes. Now the main target of the Yinzhen Group has long stopped fantasizing about counterattacking Zhili. His target has become his own brothers, and the subordinates of both sides even had small-scale wars in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, so the current development of the fourth brother also put a lot of pressure on him.
The fourth brother hugged the thighs of the Yangyi, with foreign soldiers and foreign guns and cannons. His strength increased rapidly. Even in order not to be annexed by the fourth brother, he had to find a supporter of the same level. Only the Rakshasa people can play this role.
Berekov quickly turned his head toward the south under the escort of the Qing army.
Just when he arrived in Xuanhua and was taken to Yinzhen's headquarters to enjoy fine wine and beauty, Yang Feng also ended his worship activities in Zhongdu. This Ming Zhongdu city, which had no sense of existence, was actually to satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang's little mentality of returning in glory. However, in terms of military and political economy, it was a complete waste. However, since Yang Feng still considered himself a minister of the Ming Dynasty, he could only continue to retain it.
Yang Feng's worship was just a routine matter, and the main highlight was to cut Yinzhi in front of the imperial tomb.
After the third prince and Zhou Peigong were captured alive in Baoding, they were kept in prison and did not deal with it. At first they went on a hunger strike, but later they saw that Yang Feng had no movement. In addition, they might have been hungry for a long time and had fantasies that Yang Feng might not kill them, so they actually started eating again. As a result, Yang Feng was used as a sacrifice now. Of course, Zhou Peigong did not have this qualification. He was not qualified to be so, and he was not qualified to deface Emperor Renzu's eyes in front of the Ming Dynasty tomb. He just pulled him to Fengyang Street and chopped him, while Yinzhi was actually a small blade by the executioner in front of the enchanting hall.
"How many are this?"
Yang Feng looked at the third prince who was wailing on the execution platform in front and asked the servants standing beside him. Although the Lingchi scene was terrifying to be honest, Prince Yang, who had been killed in the sea of blood many times, had long been immune to this scene. Thinking of the handsome guys in the braided scene, he looked at the ferocious and evil-like guys wrapped in the bloody fishing nets in front of him, and small pieces of flesh down, which was quite exciting.
"Report to Your Highness, three."
The attendant said.
"Three? Are you right? Why are there only three?"
Yang Feng said in disbelief.
"Report to your highness, there are indeed three. The thirteenth prince Yinxiang was killed by you, the ninth prince Yinzhen was caught by the cavalry brigade in Yi County, and was nailed to death by a spear during the battle. This is the third one. However, the second prince Yinreng, the pseudo-pinning prince, was castrated by you. The other fourteenth prince Yinzhen is still receiving customers, and there are fifteenth prince, sixteenth prince, and eighteenth prince are still training because they are too young! No one else has been blamed yet."
The attendant said.
"Uh, that's how it is. It seems that I have not done enough in my job!"
Yang Feng said with great remorse.
By the way, Kang Mazi created only nineteen sons in total, of which the nineteenth son was created in Xi'an. Two of them died, but in fact there were seventeen left. Now seven of them fell into his claws, three of them were killed by him, and one of them was about to be their little husbands, and he was not satisfied with this. In addition, this is not considered Yinreng, who was yanked by him. Speaking of which, the girl idols in these braided dramas will be considered a life-threatening life to meet a demon like him.
Poor Yinzhi was tied to a shelf, allowing the executioner to cut his flesh with a knife, and the work was not completed in one day. Generally speaking, he had to feed some food every day during the intermission, and he had to breathe and then continue the next day. The poor third prince could no longer enjoy the girls' admirational gaze, and could only wail in dying, finally heading towards death.
Of course, Prince Yang was not interested in seeing how he ended up with 3,600 kills here. In fact, after completing the memorial process, he had to leave immediately.
"Old Zhang, I will give you the great task of governing Huai. If you do it well, I will reward you with a marquis!"
On the dock of Linhuai Pass, Yang Feng patted Zhang Penghong's shoulder and said.
Lao Zhang is the new commander of Huai, and his headquarters is stationed in Fengyang. In order to facilitate work, he also serves as the governor of Fengyang. Originally, Fengyang Prefecture was the central government of Zhongdu, and there were some miscellaneous institutions. However, Yang Feng was not interested in restoring these things, and just set up a governor like Ying Tian Shuntian. Lao Zhang is also the most respected among the surrendered ministers. Although he was only a governor of Huai and was also the prefecture, the Fengyang Prefecture was scary at this time. Shou, Si, Su, Ying, Bo, and almost most of the thirteen counties in five prefectures and thirteen counties in Anhui Jiangbei were affiliated with Fengyang Prefecture. Originally, he was the governor of Liangjiang, who was re-elected by the governor of the river, and Kang Mazi's main hero in governing the Yellow River. Now he is going to continue to govern the Huai River for Prince Yang.
"Respect the order!"
Lao Zhang bowed and said.
His work is much easier than before. He used to rely on stone and soil to control the Yellow River. Now he is playing with steel and cement. Why can that work be bad?
In order to control Huaihai, Prince Yang specially opened a cement factory here, and Warwick Steel also opened a supply of steel bars. You should know that Huaihai Shipping is a key project in Yang Feng's design. Although he has started to build railways, inland shipping will always be the cheapest and most effective mode of transportation, especially part-time agricultural irrigation. In the future, he plans to fully connect the Huaihe River to the Yellow River and add another water channel between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.
This is not an exaggeration. The branches of the Yellow River system and the branches of the Huai River system have actually been separated by dozens of miles recently. The two Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were connected, but the amount of water and the size of navigation capacity.
Yang Feng nodded, then boarded the boat and left Fengyang amid the kneeling and worshipping of the people on the shore, flowed east along the Huaihe River, and then separated from the fleet of ministers such as Huang Baijia. The latter returned to Nanjing to take charge. He led the headquarters to enter the Grand Canal in Huai'an, and then continued northward to Xuzhou along the canal. At this time, the Fourth Army divided into two groups, one by the army headquarters, the cavalry brigade and an infantry brigade along the Ying River to Xuchang, and the other three infantry brigades and heavy artillery brigades rushed north along the Wohe River to Bozhou. At the same time, the First Army also occupied Guide without bloodshed and rushed to Kaifeng along the Yellow River. When Yang Feng's headquarters arrived in Xuzhou, they had already entered Kaifeng City.
Yang Feng's gear fleet entered the Yellow River and continued northward. In Guide, he met the Fourth Army's right-hand side, which had arrived from Bozhou by land. Then a large group of people followed the First Army and ran to Kaifeng. When they arrived in Kaifeng, the Fourth Army led by He Jin had already captured Xuchang on the left and attacked Luoyang along the Ruhe Valley. The First Army also captured Zhengzhou, and then the two armies stopped at the same time. The former used Ruzhou and the latter used Zhengzhou as the base, waiting for Yang Feng's central army to arrive, and then launched a formal attack on Luoyang. In fact, no real battle occurred in the army along the way. Instead, He Jin's troops fought several battles with the bandits and cleaned up the garbage for the people in this area. Nanyang, Xinyang and other places all actively sent people to surrender to the Ming army.
At this point, Yang Feng basically completed the strategic goal of sweeping the Central Plains.
The Ming army's current control area just includes the triangular plain area of central and eastern China's terrain. It starts from the Yanshan Mountains in the north, turns to the Taihang Mountains to the south, sweeps across the Yellow River across the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, then turns to the Dabie Mountains to the southeast, crosses the Yangtze River and then passes Huangshan, Wuyi Mountain to the sea. It can be said that it has captured all the best places in the farming era in one's hands, and then left a bunch of mountains and small plains to keep them before slowly getting down. The most important thing next is the tip of this triangle...
Luoyang.(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!