Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 44
According to Zhu Yihai's temper, Ah Wu, who is useless in fighting, looting and harming the people, is a very powerful waste, so he should directly lead his troops to kill him.

But a group of people around him said that they should be appeased, not only Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen said so, but even Shen Chenquan and other civil servants who accompanied him also had the same attitude.

Zhu Yihai was so angry that he had no choice but to temporarily suppress his anger.

"The orphan gave him a chance and sent someone to deliver an order to him, asking him to immediately gather the rebels and come here to listen to the order."

Dong Zhining, who was originally a student of Ningbo Liukuang, was awarded the post of judge in Dali Temple at this time, and he recommended himself and was willing to pass the decree.

After Ma Jixiang personally led a team of Yongwei Battalion Qingqi and escorted the imperial envoy Dong Zhining to pass the decree, Zhu Yihai ordered to go to Cixi County to rest and wait for Chen Wu to come.

Along the way, Zhu Yihai remained silent, feeling extremely annoyed.

Speaking of which, there are so many generals like Chen Wu in the troubled times, almost all of them are like this.But Zhu Yihai was very angry, especially after he had just left Ningbo and encountered such a thing, he was even more unwilling to tolerate it.

He wanted to reverse this trend, and he didn't want to continue like this.

This Chen Wu brought tens of thousands of people from Jiaxing to Ningbo, and robbed him as soon as he arrived. The generals and officials thought it was normal.

How is this normal?
If everyone thinks this way in the future, then why bother, just surrender.

After rushing to Cixi County, Wang Zhiren was personally responsible for guarding the county. There were six battalions of troops, four battalions were stationed inside the city, and two battalions were stationed outside the city.

The Cixi County in the Ming Dynasty was not actually in the Cixi of the later generations. The Cixi County of the later generations was actually the three mountains of Linshanwei in Shaoxing Prefecture at this time, and Cixi in the Ming Dynasty was on the left side of the Ningbo River, just across the Cixi River from Fucheng. But thirty or forty miles.

Zhu Yihai waited in Cixi, but he didn't see Chen Wu coming to plead guilty, nor did he see his rebel soldiers coming according to the order.

dawn.

Zhu Yihai called everyone together.

"For half a day and a night, there was no sign of Chen Wu, nor did any of the rebel soldiers under his command come forward, gentlemen, what do you say?"

"It's better to wait!" Shen Yanjia suggested.

"It's going to be a mess, it will take some time."

Zhu Yihai said, "You can't just sit and wait. I just think that you have to be prepared. Governor Wang and Zongbing Zhang, you should mobilize for battle and do it when it's time to do it."

"Your Highness, there are more than ten thousand chaotic soldiers under Chen Wu's command. We only have six battalions of recruits, and the number of soldiers is only a few thousand. Two-thirds of them are new recruits, so don't start a war easily." Xu Dianchen dissuaded.

"There are more than ten thousand defeated deserters, what is there to be afraid of? A group of deserters dare not fight, how can they go north to resist the captives?"

"Wait a little longer, maybe it's already on the way."

Everyone didn't want to fight, or they didn't have much confidence in their battalions of recruits. When they heard that there were tens of thousands of soldiers in disorder, they panicked.

Zhu Yihai had no choice but to wait.

In the afternoon, when Ma Jixiang finally came back, Dong Zhining and Chen Wu could not be seen.

"Where's Chen Wu? Where's Dong Pingshi?"

Ma Jixiang was a little embarrassed, originally wanted to make a contribution to show in front of the supervisor, but who knew that after a very hard trip, he ended up messing up the errand.

"The minister and Dong Pingshi were galloping all the way, and encountered several groups of rebellious soldiers. It was very dangerous. After finally meeting Chen Wu in Songpu, after reading the will to him, Chen Wu..."

"How is Chen Wu?" Zhu Yihai asked impatiently.

"Chen Wu said that he had just withdrawn from the Jiaxing Tartar army. He had no supplies, no food and grass, so he had no choice but to send troops to the countryside to collect food. However, the gentry and landowners refused to pay the food. They had conflicts because of reasons and helplessness, please forgive me, Your Highness."

"Where are you, Chen Wu, and Dong Pingshi?"

Ma Jixiang kept talking, it turned out that after Chen Wu met them, he found out that Ningbo now has His Royal Highness Lu Jianguo, and he also heard that Jian Guo is leading the Sixth Battalion to Shaoxing, etc., so Chen Wu made several requests.

The first request is to ask for payment, saying that they have no food and payment now, and more than 1 brothers are still hungry, so please ask Jian Guo for payment. Chen Wu asked for 10 taels of silver.

The second request is to invite officials. Chen Wu heard that Wang Zhiren became the governor of the Beijing camp, and Zhang Mingzhen, a guerrilla in Shipu, became the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang. Even Huang Binqing of Zhoushan was named Su Lubo, so he asked the supervisor to give him a job as well. Earl, it would be nice to have another governor.

The third requirement was that he hoped that Jian Guo would allow him to lead his men to garrison Ningbo, or garrison Wen Department.

"Is this a request he made personally?" Zhu Yihai asked, his face was already very ugly, and his tone was very low.

Ma Jixiang also knew His Royal Highness Lu Jianguo's temper. It would not be too much for Chen Wu to raise these requests with Emperor Hongguang.

But it is too much to ask Lu Jianguo for this request.

Who is Lu Jianguo? He is ruthless.

Taizhou beheaded the North envoy's surrender, and Ningbo killed Xie Sanbin, both with their own swords.

Jian Guo would never agree to Chen Wu's requests.

The fact is just as he expected, it is absolutely impossible for Zhu Yihai to agree.

"Where's the director and commentator?" Zhu Yihai asked again.

"Chen Wu stayed with Dong to judge the affairs of the army." Ma Jixiang said so, in fact he took Dong Zhining as a hostage.

"Snapped!"

An angry Zhu Yihai slapped the table directly, and got up angrily, "What a guts!"

Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen and others also looked at each other in blank dismay. It can only be said that this Chen Wu has a lot of courage and a big appetite.

"Needless to say anything, dispatch troops, and put down the rebellion immediately!"

Zhang Mingzhen stepped forward, "Please lead the town mark of our camp, go straight to the Songpu bandit camp, and take the head of the traitor Chen Wu to offer!"

Capture the thief first and capture the king first. A chaotic soldier like Chen Wu, who leads his subordinates to flee, does not have much fighting spirit. What's more, now that the two sides know their identities, Chen Wu is still waiting for a reply from here, and maybe he is still thinking about how to bargain. Chances are that Jian Guo, with only a few thousand troops, would dare to beat him.

After all, normal people think that Chen Wu, who is leading an army at this time, has to do his best to win him over, especially the newly self-appointed Highness Jian Guo.

Therefore, Zhang Mingzhen felt that he took a battalion of soldiers to attack the bandit camp by surprise, and there was a great chance that he could kill Chen Wu. When Chen Wu died, his defeated soldiers would be even more scattered.

They can be recruited easily.

"Okay." Zhu Yihai agreed decisively, and then made some arrangements, asking Zhang Mingzhen to lead the Zhenbiao Battalion to wait until dark before moving, and at the same time send the Second Yongwei Battalion to assist.

But Wang Zhiren led the second battalion of the Beijing camp to attack Chen Wu's scattered rebellious soldiers in different places.

Not only should Chen Wu be captured, but the main officers under him must also be captured.

"Those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy. Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be escorted to Cixi without death."

Zhu Yihai wanted to personally go to suppress the rebels, but a group of people disagreed, and they felt that it was not enough to keep the Bannerman Battalion and the Shenji Battalion.

Some people even proposed to withdraw to Ningbo Fucheng now, on the grounds that Fucheng has high walls and is not safe enough here.

For this battle, Zhu Yihai was very confident, and Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen felt that there was no danger.

Chen Wu claims to have thousands of troops under his command, but they estimate that there is a lot of water. They crossed the sea from Jiaxing, and there cannot be too many people, at most a few thousand. Among these thousands of people, it is estimated that there are only a few soldiers, and some may be Family members even followed those who fled.

As for the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, everyone knows that even the soldiers on the nine sides are corrupt, let alone Chen Wu, the general soldier of Jiaxing appointed by Emperor Hongguang. The servants who have fought in the war are better at fighting, and the rest are the servants of the officers at all levels.

Now it is relatively scattered, so there is no pressure to fight this battle.

Although these battalions are small in number, after all, they have already washed away the old and the weak from the original Zhejiang battalions, and left the elite. The newly recruited soldiers are also young and strong, regardless of Wang Zhiren or Zhang Mingzhen It's the old army.

Wait until dark.

Zhang Mingzhen led Zhenbiao and the Second Yongwei Battalion to take the lead in dispatching. They chose to attack in the dark because they wanted to be quiet and catch Chen Wu by surprise. In essence, this battle was not a confrontation between the two armies, but a beheading operation.

Later, Wang Zhiren and the lieutenant also commanded a battalion to attack.

In Cixi city.

Zhu Yihai didn't sleep.

He waited for Zhang Mingzhen and the others to set off for half an hour, then called Zhang Mingyang and Matim.

"Leave the four hundred auxiliary soldiers from the Banner Bearer and Shenji Battalions, and the rest will follow me."

"Your Highness, where are you going?"

Zhu Yihai asked his personal soldier Yang Boxing to fetch the cotton armor for him, and said calmly, "Of course it is to quell the chaos."

"Your Highness?" Zhang Mingyang, who had always been calm, couldn't calm down anymore. This was not the arrangement before.

"Shen Wenzhong."

"Wei Chen is here."

"You stay here. If anyone comes, you pretend to be resting here alone and send them away."

"I don't dare." Shen Wenzhong quickly shook his head.

However, Zhu Yihai had already put all his flintlock pistols in his waist, "I am now Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the Bannerman Battalion, and I have to fight in person in this first battle to quell the chaos."

"Your Highness, the battlefield has no eyes, how can it be a joke?" Zhang Mingyang couldn't help being annoyed.

"Zhang Qing, I am not the emperor of Taiping, and I will not be able to sit and enjoy peace in the future. I want to supervise the country immediately, and open the peace with swords and guns. So from now on, stop talking, check your equipment quickly, and set off .”

Matim of the Shenji Battalion has a calm face. Although he is now the guerrilla general of Lu Jianguo, he still considers himself a mercenary captain. The second reward, the brothers are very satisfied.

So don't say that Lu Jianguo is going to fight in the middle of the night, they are willing to go to Daoshan.

What's more, for these mercenaries, they are eager to fight, because fighting can not only reflect the value, but also create additional income.

"What are you afraid of? The two battalions are protecting you. Don't you even dare to go through the defeated army? If that's the case, what's the point of attacking Huanglong in the future?"

After tidying up, Zhu Yihai carried two pistols on his body, a sword on his back and a bow on his back, and a blunderbuss on his shoulders.

"Hurry up, it won't take a while for General Zhang to finish his work, and we won't even have a bite of soup."

Zhang Mingzhen wanted to block the door to prevent Jian Guo from going out, but stood there hesitating for a while, but in the end he didn't block the door, and after Jian Guo walked out, he couldn't help but followed.

In fact, in his heart, he quite liked this kind of supervisor, and was even more eager to participate in this battle against chaos.

As he followed Jian Guo out, he justified himself in his heart, leading two battalions of soldiers to protect Jian Guo, everything will be fine, nothing will happen.

Didn't emperors like Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Cao Cao, Li Shimin, Liu Yu, Chen Baxian, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Di all battle-tested and conquer the world immediately?

Maybe Taizu appeared, and Daming will also produce a mighty emperor on horseback?
(End of this chapter)