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Chapter 23 Knights of Confucius and Mencius

In fact, Yang Feng wanted to transform the Hunan Army.

In a sense, he has already reached the end of his life.

No matter what more advanced things he wanted to do, he no longer had time.

Technically he still had twenty months left in total.

At the end of August in the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army stationed in Yizhou to complete control of southern Shandong.

Twenty months.

Besides transforming the Hunan Army, what else can he accomplish?
  This is the simplest, most effective civilian armed system, and facts have proven that it is indeed somewhat effective.

After all, the foundation itself exists.

The current place is based on these rural eunuchs and the sons of the imperial family as the core, and then adds their clans as the backbone, and their domestic slaves as thugs, and finally controls their respective tenants to form a local power. It's just that in the past, due to system restrictions, the ban on force was not lifted. As long as the ban on force is lifted, an army will be formed in minutes, and the combat effectiveness will be at least stronger than the cannon fodder under the current Ming army system. Cannon fodder has no combat effectiveness. Their combat principle is to turn around and run away when the enemy is in battle. Being able to fire three shots is considered worthy of the emperor.

This kind of army is so bad that anyone with a higher level is better than them.

The Hunan Army is indeed just a little stronger.

But being stronger is better than being so bad. Yang Feng does have a stronger one, but he doesn’t have that much time!

In just these twenty months, he didn't know how many crises he had to encounter and resolve!

But the transformation of Hunan requires a big banner.

Who else in Shandong is more suitable for this banner than Yan Shenggong?
  Of course, the key is actually money.

So who else in Shandong is richer than Yan Shenggong?
  As for the consequences...

What consequences could be worse than the original history?

"It's just that, if that's the case, Yu Chao Ting is somewhat..."

Zhang Xiucai from Juzhou hesitated to speak.

Of course, everyone knows what he means.

Although everyone claims to support the Ming Dynasty and destroy the Qing Dynasty and defend the Tao with blood, in reality they are engaged in local regiment training. Chongzhen is not a fool. What's more, even if he is indeed not very smart, the princes in the court are not fools either!

Everyone understands.

It's actually taboo to play like this.

Not to mention the local gentry, wouldn't the Tang king be imprisoned under the high wall of Fengyang in the end?

"Everyone, do you think the imperial court can protect our family's fortune now? Not to mention our family's fortune? Now the imperial court can't protect our lives. We built our own captives and invaded Shandong. Have you ever seen a single soldier from the imperial court? Dozens of cities in Shandong Millions of civilians were killed in various places due to the massacre by Jianlu. How many gentry and wealthy families were among them? Did the imperial court save even one of them? The tragedy of Luji Gong is still before our eyes. Looking at the situation around us, where are the gentry who have not suffered?
  How many Mengyin gentry died? "

Yang Feng said.

Everyone was dejected.

"The fourth son of the public family was abducted by the rebels, and his life and death are unknown."

Zhao Xiucai said.

He was talking about the grandson of Gong Nai, the leader of the Mengyin gentry and one of Zhu Changluo's teachers.

Of course, Gong Nai has been dead for many years.

"Look, this is the reality. Since Jin Shang came to the throne, the Jianqi invaders entered the pass five times. How many gentry died in the whole of Beizhili and Shandong? How many aristocratic families were slaughtered when Jinan city was destroyed? Sun Chengzong, with the honor of the emperor's master, finally Wasn't everyone just being massacred?
  Not to mention us, weren't even the vassal kings slaughtered in the same way?

This was killed by Jianlu.

How many people did Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong kill?
  My father was harmed by it.

Rivers of blood flowed from the gentry everywhere, and even King Fu was inevitably killed.

The court can no longer protect us.

But we cannot wait to die. "

Yang Feng said.

Zhang Zhaosheng sighed, this fact is very sad.

"I admit that I just want to do group training with you to protect ourselves, and no matter what the court does, we have to do it. What can the court do to us? How many of us in Shandong are officials in the court? If they can even do this little thing If not, don't go back to Sangzi in the future. Even if the court disagrees, the most it can do is to issue an order to let us disperse, and we just don't have to worry about it, and Jianlu's sword didn't chop on their heads. What is the court? We support them. We pay taxes to support them, so they have to protect us. If they can't protect us now, we have to protect ourselves.

Don't they reflect on it, are they fulfilling their duties while eating and drinking from us?

The court agrees with this, so we have to do it.

Even if the court doesn't agree, we have to do it.

Otherwise, next time the Jianlu invaders invade Shandong, or the rogue bandits come over, shall we stretch our necks and wait to die? "

Yang Feng said.

Everyone looked at each other.

"It seems that this matter must be done by Yan Shenggong." Du Li said.

Everyone nodded.

"Let's raise a big banner first, and tell Duke Yan Sheng after we arrive in Qufu that this is to protect the tomb of Saint Confucius. We are all Confucian disciples. This time the invaders disturbed the tomb of Saint Confucius. We Confucian scholars have the responsibility to protect the religion. Therefore, I ask Yanshenggong to report to the Ming court, and we, the Shandong scholars, will form a group to protect the saint.

We are all scholars. In order to protect the saints, we have to temporarily put down the sage books, pick up swords and spears, and mount war horses, so we can be called knights.

We respect Confucius and Mencius.

Therefore, it can be called the Knights of Confucius and Mencius.

We officially established the Knights of Confucius and Mencius in the Dacheng Hall of Qufu Confucian Temple. "

Yang Feng said a little excitedly.

Knights of Confucius and Mencius...

No problem.

The Knights Templar were established in the Jerusalem Temple. The Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty formed the Knights of Confucius and Mencius in the Dacheng Hall of the Confucius Temple in Qufu. Then the Dacheng Hall was the headquarters of the regiment. Scholars from all over the country were Confucius and Mencius knights.

Since he is a knight of Confucius and Mencius, it is reasonable for a knight to have a varying number of retinues. A knight like Yang would need at least three to five thousand retinues. In the same way, powerful scholars in the place can recruit retinues according to their abilities. In fact, it is a group training. What Yang Feng needs is to build his own retinue in Anton Guard. As long as he builds enough weapons to protect himself, the rest will be easy to operate. You must know that Shandong is stuck on the flank of the canal. If the Qing army wants to go south, it must solve Shandong's resistance. Similarly, if Jiangnan does not want to be bloodbathed, it can only support Shandong. If possible, you can even bring Chongzhen or Chongzhen's son to play with the emperor and control the princes, or send him to the south of the Yangtze River and play the role of Gu Zhong of the Ming Dynasty.

If he blocks the canal, the Qing army will not be able to go south.

While he watched the excitement, the Qing army could march to the Yangtze River.

The Jiangnan gentry can figure it out!

Of course, these guys in front of him at this moment do not have such long-term ideals as him. What they are thinking about now is self-protection. After all, facts have proven that Chongzhen cannot protect Shandong.

The Qing army entered the pass five times.

The sixth time is inevitable.

If you don't think of a way to protect yourself, should you wait until the next time they enter the border to kill your whole family?
  Just when Yang Feng was bewitching these guys, their great victory came to an end. Yang Daxun led the cavalry to hunt down the fleeing Qing army, and returned one after another with the heads of the Qing army and the captured horses. By nightfall, they had brought back a total of more than 370 Qing army heads. This number was basically the vast majority of those who escaped. Even if there were still those who escaped, they would not exceed fifty. However, their battle was easy, because the Qing army's war horses had actually not eaten for two days and two nights. They were so hungry that they were chewing tree bark when they were in Yishui City. In this season, there were no weeds in the city.

The Qing troops who escaped from the city only ran thirty or forty miles, and their horses collapsed one after another.

What's left is that Yang Daxun led the cavalry to chase the Qing army who was escaping on foot and played a game of shooting rabbits.

At this point, the Yishui victory came to an end.

Of course, the report to the court still had to be compiled.

In the end, after a group of people including Jing Shufan worked all night to make up, a report jointly signed by Jing Shufan, the magistrate of Juzhou, and Yang Daxun, the commander of Andongwei, was completed.

The Jianlu army marched north from Ganyu. The Anton Guard commanded Hu Ranyue, Wang Zong, Yang Daxun, and health student Yang Feng, Su Dunsheng and other troops. They were divided into two groups, advancing by land and water to attack the Longwang River. Yang Feng, the health student, had ten thousand men. Undeservedly brave, together with Yang Daxun and Su Dunsheng, they led the cavalry to defeat the Jianlu forwards. Hu commanded and other troops landed on the flanks. The 20,000 Jianlu troops were defeated, discarding countless supplies, and then fled towards Juzhou. Yang Daxun, Yang Feng, and Su Dunsheng followed Hu's military orders and led thousands of elite cavalry to the north, and joined forces with the Xiangyong Army recruited by Meng Jiashi, the magistrate of Rizhao County, to advance westward, and entered Juzhou before Jianlu arrived. Juzhou magistrate Jing Shufan and other local officials, as well as students Du Li, took the martial arts examination Song Zhimei led two thousand young men and reinforcements to defend Juzhou, and fought bloody battles with Jianlu for many days, Yishui, Mengyin, and the local gentry village in Juzhou Nai, Cao Wusheng, Zhang Zhaosheng, Gao Dao, etc. all gathered young people to rescue Juzhou.

The final battle took place at the foot of Juzhou City.

During this period, the student Yang Feng fought bravely against the enemy, entering and exiting the enemy's formation three times, and defeated the Jianlu again.

The Jianlu army fled.

Yang Feng and others pursued Guan Shuai's shop and captured and killed numerous people.

About two thousand Jianlu troops fled to the west. Zhang Zhaosheng and others led Yishui and Mengyin Qingzhuang to pursue them and besieged them in Yishui. Then Yang Feng and other troops returned to the division. The coalition forces broke through Yishui and wiped out all the Jianlu troops. Yang Feng On the battlefield, Niu Colu and Chen Tai, the leader of the Jianlu general Xianghuang Banner and the guard army, were captured alive.

This is the final battle report.

There is nothing fictitious about the number of enemies, the number of beheadings, or the number of captured enemies...

This is already unreal.

By the way, in all these years of fighting between the imperial court and the Qing army, when has there ever been a great victory in which thousands of people were beheaded?
  This time, thousands of people were beheaded for real.

A total of more than 3,500 people were beheaded from the battlefields of Lian Juzhou, Anton Guard, and Yuli, all of which were human heads.

Prisoners cannot be fake.

There is no need to exaggerate further.

As for Yang Feng's mess, everyone ignored it at his request. In fact, everyone was willing to ignore it. After all, with these, their merits were drastically reduced. There are no dump trucks and there are no spells. They are all the result of everyone fighting the enemy bravely. There is no fantasy element. They are all obtained by fighting the enemy bravely with their passion for the Ming Dynasty and their daring loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor. .

We, the Yimeng Mountain Area, have been loyal since ancient times. We are all mountain people who live in a bad environment and are good at hunting and so on.

Of course you can fight.

Yang Shengyuan also has martial arts passed down from his ancestors.

During the time of Taizu, his ancestors fought for the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that his father died for the Ming Dynasty, so he can be regarded as a loyal man.

Then this final report was sent to the imperial court by Jing Shufan, the magistrate of Juzhou...

There is no other higher official.

(End of this chapter)