golden scales

Wu Sangui was worried day and night in Shaanxi, seeing that the men in his hands transferred 5 to Liaodong today, and [-] to train tomorrow.In just a few months after Wang Shi took back Beijing, the original [-] troops are now only less than [-], and all the pawns that should be thrown out have been thrown away.

This feeling of cutting flesh with a blunt knife made Wu Sangui extremely painful. It was not that he had thought about fighting to the death and rushing out of the Great Wall to the Mongolian grassland to become a wild king.However, the eldest son Wu Yingxiong was sent as a hostage, and the old father was also under surveillance in Beijing.The son can be reborn after he is gone, but the father is the only one!

Finally, at the beginning of September in the 19th year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui received a document from the Ministry of War, ordering him to select [-] elites to go to Jinzhou to participate in the war. .

This kind of meat dumpling from the sky made Wu Sangui, who is as cunning as a wolf, extremely cautious.Who doesn't know that once Wu Sangui returns to Liaodong, the sky will be high and the sea will be wide, how can Xiao Donglou, an outsider, fight against him, a local snake?The Crown Prince is not a naive and foolish person. What is the intention of this transfer?

"Military sect, most likely Liaodong can't be defeated." Wu Sangui's subordinate Guo Yunlong stepped forward and said: "Now that you guys have been in the foreign land for a long time, if you don't go back, I'm afraid the army's morale will be lost."

Wu Sangui narrowed his eyes, looked at the gradually dimming sky outside the tent, and said quietly: "I know that this is a fleeting opportunity, but I always feel a little uneasy, as if I am facing an abyss at night and I don't see it, but my heart is cold."

"Junmen, why don't we turn back halfway!" Guo Yunlong gritted his teeth and waved his arm in a chopping gesture.

Wu Sangui was almost laughed out of anger: "Stupid! How about Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde back then? They messed up half of Shandong, and in the end they had to escape to the east by sea? Our army has been out of the customs all the way, and there are elite Ming troops stationed along the way. The situation can keep up with the situation." Do Li Jiuzheng and Kong have a derby?"

Guo Yunlong has long been used to using his own "ignorance" to set off the "wiseness" of his boss, and now he followed Wu Sangui's tone and said: "Junmen, you can only act after you leave the customs."

Wu Sangui thinks about stretching out his head and cutting his head, but shrinking his head is also a blow.Instead of being trapped to death with the notoriety of being a repeated villain, it is better to make a loyal appearance and go out to gamble on him.Even if he didn't win the bet in the end, maybe there will be someone in future generations to reverse the case for him!

"Return to the Ministry of War. Our Ministry will set off on the second day of September. Please prepare food and grass along the way with the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion." Wu Sangui finally made a decision.

That night, the news spread throughout the entire Liao army camp, and the camp was filled with joy.

The only thing that worries the soldiers is that they are reluctant to part with those training officers.With the instructor present, the general and the school cannot abuse the soldiers at will and regard them as slaves.If they leave the customs, will these trainers still stay in the army?

"The training officer is a permanent position in the army. No matter where he goes, he will share weal and woe with everyone in the army!" The training officers sent to the Liao army were also very excited.After being idle for so long, it was finally my turn to play a role.Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the trainer is the forward battalion where the crown prince and Wu Sangui compete for the morale of the army. As long as the morale of the army is on the trainer's side, Wu Sangui may not have the ability to fight against it even if he wants to.

Standing in the dark, Guo Yunlong saw with his own eyes how the trainer comforted the restless soldiers, and he was very worried.He really wanted to report this to his benefactor, but he was worried that these trainers would really incite the soldiers to rebel against the Wu family.That is not beautiful after all.And even if Wu Sangui wanted to make a move, he would get outside the pass.Make some excuses such as acclimatization, epidemics, etc. to get rid of these annoying flies.

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"My son is not worried about Wu Sangui's rebellion at all." Zhu Cihong said: "Wu Sangui sold Haoge, and Donglu will definitely not be able to return. He has no roots in Mongolia, and he can't even support himself when he goes there." Herding sheep seems simple, but it is not something that laymen can do well.

"If he dares to make trouble in the pass, the Third Guards Division and the First Guards Division along the way will be able to deal with him. And once the food and grass are cut off, the morale of the army will be lost." Zhu Cihong said: "Not to mention the instructors. "

After hearing the crown prince's report, Emperor Chongzhen finally felt more at ease.But he couldn't understand why he sent a eunuch to Tang Tong's side, and Tang Tong immediately turned against him.And the crown prince sent a bunch of "eunuchs" to supervise the army, even to the level of a hundred people.On the contrary, it has firmly controlled the morale of the army... Don't everyone hate eunuchs to the bone?

Regarding this point, Zhu Cihong actually explained it, but "ideological education" and "humanistic care" are really beyond the emperor's understanding.Not only Chongzhen, but most of the civilian and military generals in the Ming Dynasty had a very simple way of thinking about management and control. It was nothing more than "prestige" as the mainstay and "blessing" as the supplement.The prestige then makes the subordinates fear, and the blessing buys the hearts of the people.After this kind of thinking is put into practice, the effect is that the "prestige" is disgusting, and blessings are more like charity, which makes people unable to feel grateful.

The final result is that the soldiers are not willing to really work hard at all. They go to battle when they get the military pay, and refuse to go out if they can't get it. Not to mention honor and dignity, they even lack the professional ethics of mercenaries.

This situation continued until Zhu Cihong took charge of the army. He was not worried that the soldiers would be domineering, and even deliberately promoted it.Because now the military spirit of the Ming Dynasty is not too domineering, but too little dignity.Soldiers have no dignity, just like bandits. It is okay to rob houses, but it is delusional to fight and kill the enemy.Therefore, cultivating the sense of honor and dignity of soldiers is also one of the responsibilities of the trainer.

"What about after arriving in Liaodong?" Chongzhen asked again.

"Xiao Donglou can definitely solve him." Zhu Cihong said.

It is reasonable for the Ministry of War to transfer Wu Sangui's 2 horses, because he knows that even if he brings all the troops with him, it will only be around 3000.These Liao soldiers are indeed more powerful than the strong men who are intimidating, but there are only 3000 truly hardcore elites.These 3000 people are what Wu Xiang said to Chongzhen: his "adopted son", Wu Sangui's "brothers"—he and Wu Sangui wore commoner clothes, but these 3000 people wore silk; These [-] people are big fish and big meat.

As long as the three thousand iron army is subdued, the other troops will either collapse at the first touch, or move upon hearing the wind-move to the upper air.

How many soldiers does Xiao Donglou have now?

In August of the 19th year of Chongzhen, the Second Guards Division, headquartered in Ningyuan, was officially expanded into the Second Guards Army, with three reorganized divisions under its jurisdiction.Each division has a quota of more than 4 members, so the main combat strength of the entire army has reached 5 people. In addition to the army directly under the division and the personal guards of senior officers, the three newly assigned divisions will be [-] catties. The Heavy Artillery Bureau, an army directed by the general artillery bureau, and the total strength of the Second Guards Army approached [-].

Under the tilt of the policy of giving priority to army building, the distribution rate of flintlock guns for all formations is close to 50.00%, and the firearm penetration rate of the main first division is close to 60.00%.In addition to the artillery units of the battalion, division, and army, how much incense did Wu Sangui have to burn to escape this catastrophe?

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"Wu Junmen see how our army is doing?" Xiao Donglou was sitting on the grand reviewing platform, beside Wu Sangui who was once a king but is now uncertain.

On the school field, teams of elite soldiers in new military uniforms marched along with banners, shouting to kill the sky.

Prior to this, Wu Sangui had already watched the firecracker live ammunition exercise, and saw with his own eyes that the dummy used as the target was covered with bullet holes.I have also seen the live ammunition being fired at the target, and the mounds the size of a small military fort collapsed one by one following orders.Xiao Donglou even asked him to set the order of shooting, so as to prove that these gunners "shoot where they point".

It is not a dream for any one person to run rampant in the world as long as he has such a strong army in his hands.However, what terrified and puzzled Wu Sangui was that Xiao Donglou's loyalty to the crown prince and Daming was so unbelievable.Until Yang Kun, the counselor beside him, explained the mystery: This army is indeed terrifying, but what is really terrifying is the crown prince who can build such a strong army in a short period of time.

This sentence is also Yang Kun's own declaration of "upwind".After saying this, Yang Kun confessed Wu Sangui's plan to Xiao Donglou, and thus obtained the title of Major Staff Officer to participate in the military affairs of Ningyuan.

In October and a half of Chongzhen's 19th year, Liaodong was already icy and windy, and Wu Sangui's heart was like the world that was dripping into ice outside.In just ten days after arriving in Ningyuan, he went from being a guest of honor to a defeated general who was betrayed by all relatives and put under house arrest.Originally, he thought that Liaodong was going to fight and everyone had to borrow the power of his Wu family, but after Xiao Donglou showed him the power of the Second Guards Army, he completely wiped out his last hope.

Liaodong does not need Wu Jiajun.

Liaodong needs more than [-] young and strong men to reclaim vast land, build fortresses, and transport materials.This seems like hard labor to ordinary people, but it was a relief to the soldiers of Guan and Liao who were suffering from running around.

They finally escaped the fate of being hungry and full, being slaves, and fighting to death.Now, the officers and soldiers who performed well among them were all allocated land and drank the soup.Those who are slow to respond and timid also have their own work. Those who can farm become tenant farmers, and those who cannot farm can sell their physical strength.

Those who are really determined to rely on their military background, feel that they can do nothing but fight and kill people, and they don’t want to do anything. They can also receive training and join the Second Guards Army to continue serving as soldiers.Moreover, the military salary and treatment here are far higher than those given by the Wu family, and there is no need to change the surname to "Wu" to be the head of the family and the adopted son.

The entire army of 5000 men melted like ice meeting the scorching sun.

Wu Sangui was not relieved because of this, the officers of the Fifth Army Supervision Department and the police from Shuntian Mansion came to "greeting" in turn, trying to squeeze out the wealth that had been swallowed up by the Liaoxi generals for decades.

This is why Wu Sangui is still alive. (To be continued..)

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