I have a cornucopia

Chapter 102 Yuandudu is possessed!

It was the end of October in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.

Anton Wei.

In the rustling autumn wind, Qingxu Yangfeng, the governor of the Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty who was promoted from a scholar to the fourth rank in six months, was conducting a military parade. At this moment, Governor Yang was wearing heavy armor, a red official robe, and a cloud swallow on his chest. Bu Zi, wearing a black gauze on his head, holding Shang Fang's sword in his arms...

It's like Yuandudu is reincarnated.

And now, he is indeed just like Yuandudu back then, with His Majesty the Emperor placing all his hopes on him.

A life-saving straw!
After Sun Chuanting was defeated and left Tongguan, he could really be said to be Chongzhen's life-saving straw. After all, the only one left with mobile combat capabilities north of the Huaihe River and south of Shanhaiguan was the Shandong Group headed by him. This group includes his uncle Yang Daxun's Shandong General Military Headquarters, which has 10,000 troops, but only 2,000 of them are elite. In addition, including his 5,000 retinues, there are also the Confucius and Mencius knights with a total strength of about 20,000 retinues.

Of course, the knights can just ignore it.

But their retinue is indeed well-equipped and well-trained.

Although they are indeed far behind the elite servants of the generals, with sophisticated armor, a large number of high-quality firearms, and especially the unity of the clan, if it is a battle of hundreds of people, even if the servants can win, Pay a heavy price.

But this is only theoretical. First of all, it is impossible for all of his uncle to come. The 10,000 troops are maintained by Shandong gentry to guard Linqing. Dezhou, the northern gate, is originally for defense. Things like this are going out of the province to fight. , even if Chongzhen gave money, he could only spare 4,000 members at most. As for the Knights of Confucius and Mencius, because this is not the responsibility of the regiment, it can only depend on the loyalty of the gentry to the emperor...

Therefore, this kind of military system is the most backward, but it is indeed the fastest to achieve results in this era.

None of us have thousands of people.

After all, the so-called expansion means to capture some strong men.

Did Ming Dynasty say that twenty thousand means it must be twenty thousand?
For less than two thousand, Yang Feng already has a conscience.

As for twenty thousand...

The soldiers that everyone uses their own money to raise are not for the emperor to protect the country.

In addition, Yang Feng can recruit another 20,000 infantry.

So what if he gave military expenses, what these soldiers had spent before, the good land for these soldiers’ families, and the clan’s care for their families after they were killed or injured, will the Emperor pay them all together?
So in the end the Knights of Confucius and Mencius came, less than two thousand.

After all, even if the Wu family is like this, they are only three thousand elite servants.

Just use it!

In other words, he could still piece together an army of 50,000.

As for the retinues, Yang Feng is the only one who has more than a thousand retinues under a single knight. The most left is Laiyang, which only has a thousand servants. Thousands of them are put together in many states and counties, but everyone knows this kind of collage. , the followers of one family are indeed united, but several families still want to unite?
Are you kidding me?
The standard configuration is for friendly troops to remain immobile when they are in trouble.

It's not that there is nothing at all. At this time, there are still one-seventh of the gentry who think about their emperor and can use their own private army to help the emperor. Even if Chongzhen still hangs himself as he did in history, he can still smile. , how much more does he want?
Including Yang Feng's own, that's seven thousand.

In addition, Xuzhou Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jin Shenghuan's department can be expanded to 10,000 people, but he, the truly elite, does not even have 2,000.

That’s ok too.

Then I can only laugh.

One-seventh of loyalty.

As for the level of several thousand people...

There are a total of 20,000 Knights of Confucius and Mencius. Isn’t it too small to send 7,000 troops to protect the emperor?

So in the end, a total of 11,000 regular troops were sworn in front of Yang Feng, plus 10,000 temporarily recruited infantrymen or civilians.

"mighty!"

the cavalrymen marching past shouted.

They still have the same armor as the Qing army, even the new ones after the expansion. They are also distinguished according to the colors of the Eight Banners, but the huge black cross on the chest makes the entire team completely different from the Qing army. After all, this cross is really It's so eye-catching, and these thousands of crosses also give this legion a somewhat uniform aura, and you can see a sea of ​​crosses as far as the eye can see.

Anyway, Yang Feng's explanation for this is to use the cross to symbolize the destruction of the bandits.

Therefore, it is also called the army of destroying the captives or the army of destroying the pirates, but this is just Yang Feng's retinue. As for the armor of the retinues of other Confucius and Mencius knights, they can do whatever they like, but most of them are still cloth armor, and some are full iron armor, but regardless of Yang Feng's subordinates, All other knights of Confucius and Mencius have an outer robe, which is blue and embroidered with the logo of Dacheng Hall.

"This can also be a gentleman's camp."

Lu Zhenfei looked excitedly at this green torrent, with the black symbols of Dacheng Hall floating in the blue.

Yang Feng nodded cooperatively.

In fact, these civil servants are easily excited by this.

Regardless of their nature, at least they are in line with the aesthetics of literati. The symbols of the Dacheng Palace symbolize what they respect, especially those at the front of this legion, those genuine knights, and the specially made one among them. On the blue-covered carriage, the huge statue of Kong Sheng stands, just like the True Cross on Harding's battlefield. He is a prince, so the green-covered carriage is completely reasonable. I have to say that Yang Feng's play was well done, enough to make all the civil servants who watched it couldn't help but feel a bit of lofty ideals, as if they had seen what they had been pursuing, to educate the world with the way of saints and sages, and that all people would follow. The prosperous age when Confucius and Mencius were respected.

Then Su Dunsheng walked up to them with a solemn expression.

"Mr. Haoyue, Tongguan fell ten days ago, and Sun Boya's life and death are unknown."

He said.

"Uh?"

Yang Feng and Lu Zhenfei turned to look at him at the same time.

"This is impossible. Even if Sun Boya was defeated and suffered heavy losses, how could he be captured so easily with the natural danger of Tongguan? It was less than a month since his defeat in Jiaxian County. It would take more than ten days for Li Zicheng to catch up to Tongguan. Could it be possible in one night? Capture the natural danger of Tongguan?"

He Tengjiao, who came with Lu Zhenfei, said in shock.

He is now officially under the control of Yang Feng. After all, Yang Feng is the governor of Qingxu, and he is the military commander of Xuzhou. However, he will not be able to stay in Xuzhou for long. Chongzhen is already preparing to transfer him to Huguang as governor, but he does not believe that Sun Chuanting was defeated. Tongguan can indeed understand. After all, Sun Chuanting defeated Jiaxian in September 20th, and he lost Tongguan at the end of October? Even if Li Zicheng chased him with cavalry, it would still take more than ten days to chase him from Nanyang to Tongguan. He couldn't go to Tongguan and attack directly, right?
That’s Tongguan!

It's not a small county. "This is a letter from my father from Qixian County."

Su Dunsheng said.

As he said this, he presented his father's letter to Lu Zhenfei.

After Su Jing was defeated by Sun Chuanting, he immediately fled back to Qixian County, where he was stationed.

Because Kaifeng is currently in the water, his Henan patrol is actually stationed in Qixian County. In addition, the Zhou Wang family is actually also in Qixian County. It is the safest place. After all, it is backed by Shandong. Caozhou has the Knights of Confucius and Mencius, as well as Guide. The Ding family's team training can easily obtain reinforcements. Lu Zhenfei opened the letter somewhat anxiously. There was actually not much content in the letter. Su Jing was not in Tongguan, but among the retinues Su Dunsheng had given him before, he had arranged for several of them to go to Tongguan. At this time, the entire western Henan Province was in chaos. There were rogue bandits, defeated troops, escaping gentry officials, and hungry people who followed Li Zicheng to eat. They didn't need to worry about being discovered. In short, these retinues witnessed Li Zicheng's capture of Tongguan outside Tongguan City. .

They also knew that Sun Chuanting was in Tongguan.

As for whether Sun Chuanting died in battle or escaped after Li Zicheng invaded Tongguan, they didn't know.

It can only be confirmed that Li Zicheng captured Tongguan.

But since he captured Tongguan, everything else is no longer important, and Xi'an's fall is inevitable.

Sun Chuanting could escape, but he would inevitably die in the end.

If Li Zicheng didn't kill him, Chongzhen would have to kill him. Chongzhen had placed all his hopes on him. This was the case with Chongzhen. Anyone he placed all his hopes on would usually end badly in the end. Yuandudu, Yang Sichang, and Sun Chuanting were all like this. Now it's Yang Feng's turn. Fortunately, Yang Feng is beyond his capabilities.

"It's so stormy!"

Yang Feng sighed with a look of concern for the country and the people.

Lu Zhenfei and He Tengjiao also fell silent. With wry smiles on their faces, they looked at the Knights of Confucius and Mencius who were still reviewing.

The scene before me seemed like irony.

What's the use of this?
The prerequisite for Yang Feng to send troops to threaten Li Zicheng was that Li Zicheng was blocked at Tongguan. At that time, he could not attack Tongguan in front of him, and Yang Feng's army pressed behind him. Unless he gave up Tongguan and retreated, he might be blocked on the bank of the Yellow River. But now that Tongguan has fallen, it is meaningless for Yang Feng to send troops again. What's more, the military supplies for Yang Feng's troops also have to be transported, and they may even fall into the same situation as Sun Chuanting. In the front, Li Zicheng sticks to Tongguan, but behind there is no food supply, and then He was dragged to death and then Li Zicheng counterattacked and was defeated.

Of course, we really can't blame Yang Feng for this. He was able to gather this army in less than a month. It can be said that he did not delay intentionally.

It can only be said that Sun Chuanting lost too quickly, giving him no chance to rescue him.

"I'm going to report it now. We've given up on sending troops, and it's time to go north to Linqing. Once Li Zicheng goes north to invade the capital, we still have to rescue the capital."

Lu Zhenfei said sadly.

"Don't worry, Mr. Haoyue. Although this junior does things unconventionally, he is loyal. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to send troops to rescue Sun Boya. But if Yang is still alive, he will not let him cross the Lugou. As long as I am here, who can Don’t even think about disturbing the Holy Master!”

Yang Feng patted his chest and said, just like Yuandu Du, who patted his chest and promised not to let the enemy take a step beyond Jixi.

Of course, if Chongzhen ran away on his own, it would be none of his business. In fact, this was inevitable. Chongzhen had been preparing to go south for more than half a year. Sun Chuanting was just his struggle, but he had a backup plan.

Besides, Governor Yang only promised not to cross the Marco Polo Bridge, but Li Zicheng didn't take the Marco Polo Bridge either. He went south via Juyongguan Pass.

As for the official notification of Sun Chuanting's defeat and death, it was sent to Anton Guard five days later. However, Chongzhen did not pay any tribute to Sun Chuanting's death, and even suspected that he did not die at all but just escaped. We can't blame Chongzhen. After all, he was humiliated by Hong Chengchou, so he was more cautious about Sun Chuanting's death, and Li Zicheng also captured Xi'an as quickly as in history. Then he began to sweep away the various places in Guanzhong that were still holding on for the Ming Dynasty, and Bai Guangen and Chen Yongfu also surrendered to him one after another as in the original history. At the same time, Liu Fangliang, who was arranged by him to stay in Henan, led his army across the Yellow River, went north to quickly capture Weihui, and even entered southern Shanxi to continue marching towards Lu'an and other prefectures.

At this time, in fact, many local gentry had already begun to make preparations to welcome the king.

Chongzhen couldn't borrow money because the nobles were already waiting for Master Wang, but Master Wang was carrying a stick. This was something they really didn't expect. Fortunately, I, Master Wang of the Qing Dynasty, rescued them.

On the other hand, the Shun army sent by Liu Fangliang to make a tentative attack on the east of Henan was repulsed by the cavalry sent by Yang Feng for reinforcements.

Chen Yongfu's son tried to kidnap Su Jing in Qixian County and fled westward, but was rescued by the retinue protecting the latter. He fled westward with his men, while the Knights of Confucius and Mencius led by Wang Zuntan also crossed Weishan Lake to reinforce Caozhou. At the same time, the old guys from the Shandong Tongshan Association also officially issued a rally order. Confucius and Mencius knights from Jiaodong, Qingzhou and even Jinan gathered to reinforce Andongwei and Caozhou respectively in order to block the Shun army from outside the borders of Shandong Province. . Under the order of Yang Feng, Jin Shenghuan led his army to move from Xuzhou to Guide. Together with the Ding family regiment training in Guide, they cooperated with the Confucius and Mencius Knights on the northern front.

Of course, they are all defensive.

As long as the Shun army did not try to advance eastward, they would not have the guts to provoke them.

Even the Huaiyang salt merchants, under the pressure of Lu Zhenfei himself, collected 500,000 taels to reward the army.

And Ma Shiying crossed the Huaihe River again.

He can be regarded as the backup for the armies in Xuzhou and eastern Henan.

But in fact, it was all a false alarm. After all, Li Zicheng did not go eastward in history, but Yan Shenggong did not need to make his tens of thousands of years of Emperor Dashun's tablet this time.

As for Yang Feng...

He was busy with the autumn harvest, so he had no time to meddle in such noisy matters. It was not like he didn't know Li Zicheng's next goal.

This autumn's harvest is related to whether the area under his control can survive the winter safely, especially those sweet potatoes that have to solve storage problems. However, this requires real technology, at least he doesn't understand it, so he chose the simplest one. , is also a way to minimize the loss of mistakes...

"When we go back, we pile them all into the kang hole, and then bury them with sand. Don't let them freeze. Let me tell you, I will share the sweet potatoes with you. If you starve to death this winter because the sweet potatoes are spoiled, it can only be said that it is Yourselves are in danger."

Governor Yang stood next to the scale he took out of the cornucopia and said to the people who were receiving sweet potatoes.

His warehouse is divided.

Solve it yourself.

Anyway, all he can remember is that they can be piled in the hole of the fire kang.

As for poor storage and freezing, and then starving to death because they had nothing to eat, that really can only mean that their lives are in danger. Fortunately, this method of maximum dispersion also spreads the losses to a minimum.

"Ah, there is another way. After you go back, cook them all, then cut them into slices and dry them in the sun. If you feel that you can't say they can be preserved well, you can try this method and cook them again when you eat them."

He went on to say.

The people who had shared the sweet potatoes knelt on the ground excitedly, kowtowing to him as if they were worshiping gods.

(End of this chapter)