Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 251

Songjiang.

Li Yuchun, the commander-in-chief of Songjiang Township, received a military order to appease Hong Chengchou in the south, ordering him to immediately lead the Songjiang Township, and the Green Battalions of Shanghai and Jinshan Associations went south to reinforce Hangzhou. The Songjiang defense was handed over to Li Chengdong, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiading.

After receiving this order, Li Yuchun looked left and right for a while, and finally threw it aside and ignored it.

The next day, a new military order came from Jiangning. Governor Tu Guobao of Jiangning will also lead a total of 8000 people including Suzhou Fubiao to go south, and Li Yuchun is required to lead his troops under the command of Tu Guobao.

Li Yuchun threw it aside again after reading it.

His cousin Li Yuanshan picked it up and looked at it, then frowned, "Jiang Ning is in a hurry, it seems that Hangzhou is really dangerous. Are we really not going?"

Li Yuchun snorted coldly, "Hong Chengchou is a bird, and Tu Guobao is a ball?

If we hadn't helped this national treasure back then, how could he still be sitting in the position of governor of Jiangning now? "

"It's hard to violate military orders."

"I only listen to Mr. Yan. According to the latest news, Mr. Yan has been appointed as the governor of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River by the regent. Jiangxi, Henan and Zhejiang and Fujian are all under his governor. This official order should come down soon."

"Where is Master Hong?"

"The six provinces of Luechuan, Lake, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi were changed."

The two brothers sat there smoking a cigarette, "What's going on in Hangzhou?"

"What else could be going on, it must be the Nine Kings again." Li Yuchun has long been used to Zhu Wu now, Zhu Wu didn't come to bother him during this time, on the contrary, he was not used to it, and always felt empty, Although the subordinates of the Nine King Zhu Wu still maintain an underground contact with him, the two sides trade from time to time.

Even because Li Yuchun is now in Songjiang Mansion, the business is even bigger.

But I haven't seen Zhu Wu for a long time, and I really miss him a little.

He loves and hates Zhu Wu at the same time. Ever since he met Zhu Wu, he has also met his nemesis in fortune-telling, and he can't escape his control everywhere. But on the other hand, since he met Zhu Wu, Li Yuchun's The future is also very good, not only promoted to the chief soldier of a town, but also Songjiang, which has such a good territory.

Not to mention that since cooperating with Zhu Wu in secret, the source of money has been even more extensive. It is not an exaggeration to make a lot of money every day. Not only does he make a lot of money, but his brothers also get rich along with him.

Now he has 1 town marks under his command, plus a few battalions of old brothers from Xiezhen and Guerrilla, and more than [-] horses under his command, he has managed to have no vacancies, because he has too much extra money, so he has no interest in drinking blood now Yes, the brothers under his command now get a lot of money and food, and they can often do some extra work to earn some extra money, which greatly improves the morale of the army.

The brothers are also very supportive of him, the leader of the army.

"Our family members are still in Hangzhou." Li Yuanshan had to remind his cousin that these military officers had left their family members in Hangzhou before. Although they made a lot of money in the past few months, they all married wives and took concubines when they were away. But the main generals in the army all have small families in Hangzhou.

Li Yuchun rubbed his head, feeling a little helpless.

"Procrastinate first, find a reason, and deal with it."

So Li Yuchun kept reporting to Jiang Ning in Songjiang Huating, saying today that the green camp in Songjiang Mansion owed wages for a long time, and the brothers were very dissatisfied.

Two days later, it was reported that the equipment and armor in the army were severely damaged, and they had not been replenished. They had been encircling and suppressing the rebels in Jiangsu. The soldiers fought hard and suffered high casualties. There are many disabled people who died in battle, but the court has never paid pensions and subsidies.

It is said that many soldiers’ wives, holding their children and the elderly, knelt in front of the camp gate to beg for money and food. Because there was a shortage in the army, there was no way to pay for the aftermath. Nowadays, many families of brothers who died in battle, and some disabled soldiers who left the camp, I can only build a shack outside the barracks and beg for the day, which is very pitiful.

Ask for salary today, ask for pensions tomorrow, and replenish ordnance the day after tomorrow.

Then the day after tomorrow, please pull out the food again.

Li Chengdong, deputy general of Jiading, was very active and wanted to go to Songjiang to take over the defense. He was originally the general of the Songjiang army. But who knows that this land is rich.

It's just that Li Chengdong is very unlucky, he obviously came to Songjiang to take defense under the order of the imperial court.

But as soon as he crossed the Wusong River and entered the Songjiang Mansion, he was attacked by the Ming army. The 500 forwards disappeared immediately, and Li Chengdong was stunned.

Then he was about to send troops to chase after him, but soon a large group of Ming troops appeared in his hometown Jiading Mansion, attacked his hometown, and captured his three cities of Baoshan, Wusongjiang and Liuhe, forcing Li Chengdong to turn back halfway.

After finally returning home, I found that the Ming army had already withdrawn and looted the three cities.

Li Chengdong wanted to cry, but he did a careful reconnaissance and found that something was wrong. Liu Hebao was indeed captured by the navy of the Ming army in Chongming, but there were many doubts about Baoshan, which was close to Songjiang, and his striker. .

He boldly speculated that someone might have ambushed his forward in the name of the Ming army, and then went around and copied his two cities of Baoshan and Wusong.

And Li Yuchun is undoubtedly the only one who can have this strength in Songjiang Mansion.

But Li Chengdong is just speculation, and there is no actual evidence.

When he stabilized the rear, he sent troops to Songjiang for the second time, keeping an eye out, and deliberately sent a team of newly recruited water thieves to play his banner as the forward, but secretly sent an elite Ye Bushou to watch from behind.

Sure enough, after crossing the Wusong River, we met the Ming army again.

It is indeed under the banner of the Ming army.

But careful Ye Bushou still found that this Ming army was very elite, but its equipment was obviously a bit of the green battalion style, especially the range of their action routes, which would not have been possible without the cover of the Shanghai green battalion stationed nearby.

And they also found that these Ming soldiers wore hats and wrapped their heads, but they still couldn't completely conceal the fact that they shaved their hair and kept braids. Even if they wrapped the braids and hid them under the hats, they still couldn't escape deliberate observation.

Li Chengdong was furious, and it was obvious that Li Yuchun sent troops pretending to be the Ming army to attack his forward, but refused to let him enter the Songjiang prefecture.

"mean!"

Cursing at the despicable Li Chengdong, he had to garrison Wusong Jiangbei, and then sued Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangning, Tu Guobao, and recruiting Southern University scholar Hong Chengchou.

It's just that Li Chengdong has no definite evidence that Li Yuchun sent troops pretending to be the Ming army to attack.

Both Tu Guobao and Hong Chengchou sent people to question Li Yuchun. Of course, Li Yuchun would never admit it, and even bit Li Chengdong back, saying that Li Chengdong was stationed in Jiading, and he had no way to manage the army. The looting caused public grievances to boil.

Now that he led the troops to move to the defense, it was his own problem that the local Mingyu rebels attacked the troops and even ransacked the rear.

Why didn't such a thing happen in Songjiang where he was stationed?
Even when Li Chengdong was stationed in Songjiang, he caused a local rebellion. He came here from Jiaxing to quell the rebellion. There have been no large groups of rebels.

Only Li Chengdong's Jiading is always not peaceful.

To say that he sent troops to pretend to be the Ming army to attack his forwards, and even plundered his rear, isn't this a dream?I was in Songjiang, how could I go around behind him to loot Liuhe, Baoshan and other places?

Anyway, it's a war of words.

Li Yuchun scolded Li Chengdong for being insane, and blamed him for his incompetence.

Li Chengdong insisted that it was Li Yuchun who refused to give up the Songjiang mansion, so he deliberately sent troops to pretend to be the Ming army to make troubles, and both sides insisted on their opinions.

With such a lively scene, the Ming army would naturally not miss the opportunity, so the Ming army in Chongming and Taihu Lake, as well as the township groups in Su and Song, also joined in one after another, fishing in troubled waters.

They even deliberately pretended to be the subordinates of Li Chengdong and Li Yuchun, and acted under their banner.Li Chengdong, who pretended to be Li Yuchun's tribe and attacked Jiading, Suzhou, and even Yang Chengzu and Tu Guobao's tribe, pretended to be Li Chengdong to attack the towns in Songjiang, and even used their banners to demolish some villages of landlords who supported the Qing Dynasty and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

For a moment, Su Song was in chaos.

Tu Guobao didn't dare to go south anymore, so he had to stay in Suzhou City and kept writing reports to Hong Chengchou of Jiangning. These messy reports were handed over to Hong Chengchou's desk, but he didn't bother to read them.

Beijing has already decreed that he has made great contributions to appease the south, and so on.

But of the so-called six provinces, only half of Huguang is in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and the rest, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong and Guangxi, are still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

The name of this strategist is in name only, and it is said that he will be reused as a reward for meritorious service, but he is very clear that the regent is very dissatisfied with him in Jiangnan, especially when he sees that it is Mr. Yan who takes over, he feels powerless.

Can Yan Wogong be compared with him?
He was already the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and Yan Wogong was just a juren. In just half a year, he quickly rose to the top. He admitted that Yan Wogong did have some skills, but he was just trying to appease him. The troops put down Su Song's rebellion.

But those are nothing at all. Some mobs can be calmed down by anyone. It can only be said that Yan Wogong just happened to be at the right time and took a huge advantage.

Hong Chengchou felt that the so-called Yan Wogong's great talent was actually just a tool used by the regent to deliberately suppress him.

It's not that Mr. Yan is too powerful, it's that he has lost the appreciation of the regent.

But Hong Chengchou felt that the unrest in the south of the Yangtze River was not his responsibility.

It was all because of the mishandling of the Beijing court. When Nanjing was captured, he had already played to the court. He should continue to go south in one go, at least to capture and destroy Lu Jianguo, who dared to set up a flag, and take Changsha back.

But the imperial court was anxious to return the troops to the imperial court, and even Yunyang and Changsha did not collect them. It even caused a Lu king to supervise the country of Shaoxing and Chen Bing on the banks of the Qiantang River in eastern Zhejiang.

The orthodox banner of the Ming Dynasty is still there, and rebels are everywhere, so it is normal.

It's ridiculous to put all the responsibility on him now.

However, after Hong Chengchou sighed, he decided to accept the arrangement of the court and go to Wuchang as soon as possible.

Although he made a big mistake before, the imperial court responded in a timely manner this time. They dispatched [-] elite soldiers from the Eight Banners to the south and divided them into two groups, one pointing to Wuchang and the other pointing to Shaoxing. Under the forceful attack, the banner that the Ming Dynasty barely maintains will soon break and fall, followed by an avalanche-like defeat.

Li Chengdong, Li Yuchun, Tu Guobao, Hong Chengchou didn't want to pay attention to these nonsensical reports, and left it to Yan Wogong to have a headache and see how he dealt with it.

(End of this chapter)