I want to be emperor

Chapter 111 Loyal Chen Yongfu

For war, of course we need food and grass!

But Chen Yongfu didn't have much food and grass on hand, and it was expected to consume a lot of money when he sent troops to the north and south, so he could only ask local officials and gentry for it.

Theoretically speaking, the imperial court paid Chen Yongfu's sentry troops in the field camp, but there was not much in total, not to mention that they had to go through several hands in the middle. If 1 taels of silver were issued, Chen Yongfu could get two 3000 taels of silver. Two is not bad.

In addition, this year the rebel army went east to stir up wind and rain, and the little money and food that the imperial court had was basically filled in the battlefield in the Central Plains, but Chen Yongfu and the others who were watching a theater in Nanyang were ignored.

So in the first few months of this year, Chen Yongfu didn't see half of his salary.

But this effect is actually not big, because before Chen Yongfu's army was not supported by the imperial court's salary!

There are thousands of people under his command, and the daily consumption of food, drink, chewing, and weapons is not a small amount. Counting on the imperial court's salary, they would have starved to death long ago.

On weekdays, Chen Yongfu solved the problem of raising the army by himself.

For example, during a battle, the local government gentry stationed or passing by donated part of the military supplies. Sometimes in order to get these local government and gentry to pay for food, it often required repeated negotiations with them.

don't give?

Chen Yongfu would just sit and watch the bandits attack the city, watch the show by himself, and then send someone to ask those officials and gentry, the bandit army is about to attack the city, will you give me money, hurry up, hurry up Give me some money and I will immediately lead troops to kill you to keep you safe.

Or as soon as the thieves came, he would retreat with the army, leaving those officials and gentry to face the thieves alone...

Of course, in most cases, officials and gentry can see the reality clearly, and they will give some more or less, and it is rare to say that they are stubborn and stubborn.

Of course, there are exceptions, but these people who can't see the reality generally end up badly. For example, the famous Iron Rooster Song's family in Ruzhou, I heard that the ancestral house has become a den of thieves...

When the Township Protection Army attacked Songjiazhuang, it was normal for the officers and soldiers in Lushan County to be indifferent.

However, the nearly [-] officers and soldiers in Luyang Pass over there also pretended not to see it. It was purely the fault of Songjiazhuang itself.

This Song Pinghe is a famous iron cock!
But usually nothing is left out, even Huang Guangmao went to ask for military supplies in order to suppress the bandits, but he returned without success.

Now being attacked by thieves, you still want officers and soldiers to rescue him?

Although there is everything in the dream, but what kind of dream do you have in broad daylight...

In addition to the sponsorship of the local government and gentry, Chen Yongfu and many other officers and soldiers also let the soldiers go out to eat on their own. Well, to put it bluntly, they just turned a blind eye and let the soldiers plunder by themselves.

This part of the income is also very important, and can basically account for about [-] to [-]% of the daily income of the army under Chen Yongfu.

In addition, Chen Yongfu also set up a card to collect some money and food, and set up a caravan to do some business, but this part of the income was relatively small.

Looking at the sources of military supplies under Chen Yongfu's department, it will be found that Chen Yongfu solved the problem of food, grass and salary by himself, basically not relying on the salary allocated by the imperial court.

So don't say that Chen Yongfu doesn't want to go to the Lu family and the main force of the rebel army to die, he is not loyal to the king and serve the country, he is loyal.

In the case that the court did not provide food and salaries, he tried his best to raise military supplies to maintain an army of several thousand for the court to suppress thieves.

This is not a loyal minister, what is a loyal minister?
If it were someone else, they would have given up their burdens long ago or simply rebelled.

This time he was going on an expedition to suppress bandits, so Chen Yongfu naturally had to go to the local government and the local gentry to ask for military supplies as usual.

It's a pity that Chen Yongfu's mouth was worn out in the first three days. The adults and gentry in Nanyang Prefecture only collected ten thousand catties of grain and 1000 taels of silver for him...

Later, Chen Yongfu didn't bother to pretend to be rough with them, and directly said that Xuan Mo's order had been issued, and he was going to take the army to the Lu family to garrison.

He also said that although the Lu family did not have military supplies for him, as long as he went to the Lu family, Hong Chengchou would allocate a batch of military supplies to him, and he would not worry about eating and drinking when he went.

When Chen Yongfu stated that he wanted to take away all the troops, not even a single soldier was left for Nanyang City, the officials and gentry in Nanyang Fucheng panicked.

Today's defense in Nanyang City is basically supported by Chen Yongfu.

If Chen Yongfu really wanted to lead his troops away, he could only rely on the thousands of ordinary guards, government servants, and young adults in Nanyang City. If he killed hundreds of thieves, he would probably be able to take down Nanyang City.

After some threats from Chen Yongfu, the officials and gentry in Nanyang City allocated another batch of grain and silver.

Of course, they also made a request: when Chen Yongfu led his troops to the north, he couldn't take all the troops away, especially those soldiers who had to stay behind.

They were also afraid that Chen Yongfu would run away with all the soldiers after taking the money and food...

Chen Yongfu was also a happy person, he agreed to this expedition on the spot, and he would take half of them, that is, [-] soldiers to the north, and the remaining [-] soldiers would stay in Nanyang City.

In addition to soldiers, Chen Yongfu also brought [-] guard soldiers and [-] young men who were temporarily recruited.

A total of 5000 troops were assembled to go north to Nanzhao County to wipe out the thieves who ran over from Funiu Mountain.

It took Chen Yongfu five days to deal with those officials and gentry, and then he led the army northward without any hassle.

When he first started going north, he still didn't pay much attention to the rural protection army, thinking that they were just a group of ordinary thieves.

But this attitude only lasted for one day. After he led the army to the north for a day, his whole attitude changed.

Because he discovered the Jingqi of the thief army!
He also knew from the spies before that there was a group of about a hundred cavalry in the bandit army, but the spies didn't have the courage to get too close to these bandit cavalry, they just watched from a distance, but there was no way to confirm the bandit cavalry How is the actual combat power.

According to his many years of experience in suppressing thieves, Chen Yongfu judged that these were just ordinary thieves running around on horseback.

He has seen a lot of thieves on horseback, but they can only walk on horseback, that is, they run faster, and they can't be used as real cavalry in real fights.

But this time, he found that the rogue cavalry who appeared on the opposite side were real elite cavalry.

You asked him how he knew, of course it was because of the actual battle.

He sent a half-baked cavalry of about a hundred people forward, as a vanguard to open the way for the army, and encountered bandit cavalry passing by.

After the encounter between the cavalry of the two sides, the half-baked cavalry on the officer's side were quite confident at first, and pretended to line up to rush up. As a result, the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi did not turn around and run as they expected, or rushed over foolishly. .

Instead, you have to bend your bow and shoot arrows directly on horseback...

This posture scared the half-baked officers, soldiers and cavalry on the opposite side to death.

The cavalry general among the officers and soldiers is also knowledgeable. When he saw the bandit army on the opposite side bending his bow and shooting arrows on horseback, he knew he had encountered a tough stubble.

This can be used for riding and shooting. Any fool knows that there is a group of professional cavalry on the opposite side. They are not comparable to the half-baked cavalry who can barely ride a horse and can't even charge with a knife on horseback.

The leading Ming army cavalry general ordered to retreat decisively.

But even if they retreated in a timely manner, twenty or thirty riders were killed or injured.

After these half-baked officers, soldiers and cavalry fled back, Chen Yongfu knew that the bald-headed, uniformed gray military uniforms of the Township Protection Army were definitely not ordinary thieves.

Seeing that his arm was shot by the ruffian cavalry, with the pale cavalry captain on his face, Chen Yongfu frowned: "This is definitely not an ordinary ruffian, and an ordinary ruffian can't pull out a gun with hundreds of numbers. Elite cavalry who play cavalry and archery."

"Absolutely impossible!"

Looking at the whole world, except for the Mingbian Army, Dongyao, and Mongolia, which have a relatively large number of fine cavalry, the number of fine cavalry in other places, especially in the hinterland of the Central Plains, is very small.

He, Chen Yongfu, has thousands of troops under his command, and there are not many cavalrymen who can ride and shoot under his command. The hundreds of cavalrymen under his command are all half-baked, and there are only a few dozen people who count as elite cavalry.

Zuo Liangyu is relatively powerful, but his subordinates are only a few hundred elite cavalry.

Chen Zhibang in Ruzhou had just over a hundred elite riders under his command.

Most of the so-called cavalry in the hands of these people still rely on half-baked mounted infantry to make up the numbers.

Therefore, Chen Yongfu absolutely does not believe that ordinary thieves can also produce hundreds of elite riders.

"Could it be that the intruder and the elite under the command of the big thief crossed Funiu Mountain and went south?"

"But I've never heard of the thieves under the thieves, such as the thieves of the Township Protection Army, and there is no such a person as the 'General' Luo Zhixue under the hands of these big thieves."

"Where did these thugs come from?"

"And this Luo Zhixue, who is it?"

With these questions in mind, Chen Yongfu's attitude instantly became cautious.

The vanguard cavalry was unfavorable in attacking, and losing twenty or thirty cavalry was nothing, but the point was to find that the opponent had hundreds of fine cavalry.

There are hundreds of fine cavalry, who knows what else is behind, if thousands of soldiers in heavy armor appear again, they will die!

So he ordered the army to stop going north and choose a place to build a camp.

The situation of the enemy ahead is unknown, so if you head north rashly, you might not know how you will die.

Chen Yongfu used his troops cautiously. He only went north for one day, and he stopped to garrison and set up camp after only fifteen miles out of Nanyang City.

"Looking at it like this, these officers and soldiers will stay here for at least two or three days."

Wang Xiazi came with the heavy task of delaying the speed of the officers and soldiers going north. He wanted to buy time for Luo Zhixue to lead the [-]rd Infantry Battalion and a large number of luggage from Li Qingdian.

Before Luo Zhixue led the army to Zhaozhuang, the officers and soldiers could not be allowed to go to Zhaozhuang. Otherwise, the tactical concept of keeping the enemy out of the door would fail, and it would easily become a refueling tactic.

This is also the reason why Xiazi Wang did not flinch when he encountered the officers, soldiers and cavalry, and rushed up to do a wave.

He wanted to give these officers and soldiers a disarm so that they would not dare to go north easily, so as to buy enough time for Luo Zhixue, the main force in the rear.

Now it seems that his battle plan is relatively successful!

Although I don't know how long it can scare the other party.

But it doesn't matter how long it lasts.

(End of this chapter)