Su Ning, Qi Men, and Hou Men were all small counties with weak military strength, they were no different from Wuyuan County.
The commander of the local guard post didn't have a few thousand soldiers under him, so he didn't have the strength to fight against Yang Jing's 50,000 soldiers.
Yang Jing had split his 50,000 soldiers into three groups, each with 16,000 soldiers to attack three counties. He wanted to take down the three counties as quickly as possible so that he could gather his forces to deal with the full-force attack of the Xin 'an Guards.
The reason why he did not mobilize all of his 100,000 soldiers was because Yang Jing did not want to expose his strength so quickly.
Placing fifty thousand soldiers out of the public's sight would make the Xin 'an Guards think that he only had these soldiers and make them underestimate the enemy.
This way, they would not immediately inform the surrounding prefectures to come and help, so that Yang Jing could capture them all in one fell swoop.
Yang Jing was right. In just one night, the soldiers he sent took down three counties.
Other than the commander of Qi Men who was a little tough and sent troops to resist for a moment, the other two counties quickly surrendered and allowed Yang Jing's troops to enter the city.
Wuyuan County Wartime Command Center.
"Report!"
A scout quickly ran in with a military report in hand.
"The frontline has reported that our army has successfully taken down Su Ning, Qi Men, and Hou Men counties.”
Yang Jing was a little excited. He opened the military newspaper and couldn't help but praise.
"Good!"
"Well done!"
"How are the casualties?"
"Have the buildings and important information in the city been preserved?”
The scout nodded." No one died. More than 20 people were injured. Doctors have been sent to treat them.”
"The battlefield is mainly at the city gates. Moreover, we sent out our troops at night. Those good-for-nothings in the three counties did not expect this at all. They did not care about anything else and rushed to fight, so all the documents and materials in the city were preserved.”
Yang Jing nodded.
Preserving the buildings would allow him to spend less effort and save more money when he planned the construction of these three counties in the future.
Keeping those books would preserve some cultural treasures. At the same time, he could quickly grasp the basic situation of the people in the city based on the information.
After all, the place where he raised his army was in the south.
The south was a piece of meat that countless forces coveted but did not dare to lay their hands on.
It was because this was the territory of the Donglin Party, and every citizen in the city was inextricably linked to the Donglin Party.
Neither Chongzhen nor Li Zicheng dared to provoke the Donglin Party. Even the Manchu Dynasty was afraid of them. They only dared to cooperate with them and did not dare to use force against them.
And now, Yang Jing's actions were stirring up trouble on the heads of the Donglin Party. Moreover, the trouble had already been stirred up, and there was no way to take it back even if he wanted to. He could only brace himself and charge forward.
Under such circumstances, Yang Jing had to understand the Donglin Party well enough to know which of them could be moved and which could only be moved slowly.
After all, he still did not have the strength to go against all of the Great Ming's Donglin Party. If he made a mistake, it was very likely that he would trigger the encirclement and suppression of the various forces of the Great Ming.
Because the Donglin Party had long taken root in the entire Ming Dynasty.
He couldn't rush to clean up this group of people, so he could only plan slowly.
Now that the three counties had been successfully taken down, the Hui Provincial Government would not sit idly by. They would quickly gather their troops to eliminate Yang Jing, so they had to take the next step immediately!
Thinking of this, Yang Jing turned to look at Huo Qubing, who was standing beside him.
"General Huo, I'll have to trouble you for the rest!”
Huo Qubing cupped his fists and accepted the order. He said with a serious expression,"Please rest assured, Grand Marshal. I will not fail my mission!”
"Within seven days, we will definitely take down the entire Hui Prefecture!”
Yang Jing nodded and waved Huo Qubing away.
This was the arrangement they had made beforehand.
After the surrounding three counties were taken down, Huo Qubing would lead fifty thousand soldiers to sneak into the three counties.
Then, he would establish a war command center in Su Ning County, which was the closest to the Xin An Guard of Hui Prefecture. With Huo Qubing as the commander, he would command his soldiers to deal with the Xin An Guard's 100,000 soldiers.
As the commander of the army, Yang Jing and Wang Meng led the remaining 10,000 soldiers to guard the Wuyuan County base camp. They were responsible for the deployment and command of the army, as well as the logistics.
In a war, the main focus was on command and logistics!
Whether the army attacked, defended, or retreated, these were all decided by the marshal of the base camp. In battle, excellent command was very important.
Furthermore, sufficient rations and supplies were even more important!
During the Yongle reign, Zhu Di died on his fifth northern expedition.
However, later generations knew that the Northern Expedition had failed because of the lack of food supplies in the rear. The country had no money to support this emperor who liked to attack cities and seize land to continue fighting.
Looking at the current situation, whether it was against Li Zicheng's invading army or against the Manchu Eight Banners Army, they had suffered repeated defeats because of the lack of food supplies in the rear, causing hundreds of thousands of troops to be unable to exhaust themselves at the front line. In the end, they could only retreat resentfully.
Food wasn't a big problem for Yang Jing. He had a few million tons of food in his hands. Even if he stopped the farm production, it was enough to feed his army for a long time.
As long as he could do a good job in the rear, he could supply soldiers to wherever he needed them, and send food to wherever he needed it.
If the rear was in place, even if the Ming army wanted to fight a tug-of-war with him, he was confident that he could exhaust the other party to death.
After all, the Ming army did not have so much food!
Huizhou Prefecture Xi County Xin 'an Wei Du Si Yamen.
Xin 'an Guard Commander Wang Tianhao sat at the head of the table with a gloomy face. A group of thousand-men, who had been urgently transferred from various parts of the Hui Prefecture, stood on both sides of the hall in fear, not daring to breathe loudly.
Wang Tianhao picked up the teacup on the table and threw it angrily at the scout who was kneeling in the middle of the hall.
Bang!
The teacup smashed heavily on the scout's forehead, causing his head to bleed.
The scout did not dare to scream. He could only lower his head, grit his teeth, and endure the pain as he knelt on the spot.
"What do you scouts do?!”
"Wuyuan County has been occupied for more than half a month. Why didn't anyone notice?!”
"Now that they have attacked three counties in a row, more than half of the Hui Prefecture has been occupied!”
"Do you want to wait for them to attack my yamen before informing me?!”
The scout trembled and said,"I have failed in my duty."”
"But those bandits are too cunning.”
"After they took down Wuyuan County, they immediately sealed off the county. The people inside can't enter, and our people can't enter either.”
"When we saw the tight security outside the city, we thought that Wuyuan County was no different from usual.”
"Who knew that they would attack the surrounding three counties. We only just found out about it.”
"And…I heard that the leader of that group of bandits was the former Wuyuan County Magistrate, Yang Jing!”
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