Win the Ding 1617

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In Kaifeng, on the Majiakou embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, there are crowds of people and heavy traffic.

The surface of the Yellow River is almost covered by boats of all sizes.There were children watching the excitement, pointing to the huge white sails on the boat, and making clear laughter.

The slightly older children picked up clam shells and caught frogs in the reeds on the shallow water bank. Occasionally, they were lucky enough to catch one or two fish from the Yellow River, or picked up some fish from the reeds. The waterfowl's eggs were cheered excitedly and showed them to their parents.

However, their parents didn't care about it, just scolded the children aside, and followed the leaders to do their own work non-stop.

Along the river embankment, a simple trestle bridge was built with thick timber, forming a temporary pier several miles long.On the pier, flags of different colors are planted in sections, allowing ships carrying different cargoes to dock at corresponding berths.At one o'clock, when a tank boat stops, sails drop, and anchors, someone will board the ship to check the goods. After the inventory is approved by both parties, hundreds of former refugees are now called "rogues" by the officials and gentlemen. Under the leadership of their respective leaders, the men and women will rush to the temporary pier in an orderly manner, unload and transport the goods on the ship one by one, and after putting them into the warehouse, they will turn back and transport them again.

Chuangcao's family mobilized nearly 8 people, thousands of carts, and nearly [-] mules, horses, and donkeys in order to move these materials.

After Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai jointly conquered Kaifeng, the momentum became even more massive, and the number of troops became stronger and stronger.The number of people is 60 million, and rumors are more than one million.In fact, there are only about 50 to [-] elite soldiers, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.The other [-] million people include various craftsmen, grooms, and transport teams... all kinds of non-combatants belonging to logistics.There are also the so-called black clothes, yellow crowns, three teachings and nine streams that came from the so-called admiration of righteousness, etc., to see that the appearance is beneficial to the peasant army, and the weeds who come to make a living and climb the dragon and the phoenix.

There are 10,000+ men, women, old and weak family members accompanying the camp alone.In addition, there are a large number of recruits who have not received training, and they are also in the 60 million.The good thing is that the cavalry are indeed elite soldiers, and each soldier has two or three horses.

However, fortunately, Kaifeng was opened.The seizure was huge. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, the commanders of the two groups, have never seen so much money and food. Now that we have money in our hands, we should simply be local tyrants!

The generals at all levels who entered Cao's Second Battalion had longed for the fine and sturdy Nanzhong equipment as early as in the west of Henan. Not long ago in Kaifeng, they witnessed the excellent equipment of the junior Wang Long and Luo Hu. Have that terrible fighting power.They even asked to change the weapons in their hands.

What's more, Kaifeng has millions of residents and many important towns around it. If there is no trade, no matter how prosperous the place is, it will turn into a desert.

So, Wang Long went to Jinan again to collect food and weapons.Cloth, medicine.They are all the objects of his big purchases, and what he pays for the goods are gold and silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, and rare books harvested in Kaifeng City.

"As long as you are willing to take it, we will dismantle the iron tower and ship it to you without any problem!"

You have money to buy, and I have goods to sell. This kind of thing naturally hit it off for the Nanyue Army and the peasant army of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

but.Looking at the huge purchase list proposed by Wang Long, even though Li Huayu was bold, he could only gasp.

The number is simply too large!

After a cursory look at the list Wang Long brought, the warehouses in Denglai and other places would be emptied just for the grain, rice, oil and salt.At least 400 million shi of grain and rice, and oil and salt must be supplied to a million people for at least three months.Although there are not so many people in Chuang Cao's second camp, Wang Long revealed the answer with a smile: "First, we need to prepare more goods. Second, although we don't have that many people, There are quite a few mule and horse mouths!"

In Shandong for several months, Wang Long, Luo Hu and the two also learned to give the horses some salt every day to keep them full of energy.Now this approach has been recognized by the generals of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai camp, and has been approved by the two commanders, and it is officially promoted as a rule in the army.

Therefore, salt should not only meet the needs of people, but also the needs of mules and horses.

However, what troubled Li Huayu even more was the number of weapons.

Compared with the food, rice, oil and salt enough for millions of people to eat for several months, and the cloth enough for these people to sew several sets of clothes for four seasons, "Forty twelve-pounder guns, sixty eight-pounder guns, and one hundred six-pounder guns , 20 doors of Dafo Langji, complete with ammunition, [-] guns, complete with ammunition accessories, thorns, etc., [-] pieces of high-quality and fine Nanzhong breastplates, [-] iron helmets, and high-quality dragon leather armor [-] collars, [-] collars inlaid with iron cotton armor, [-] collars in coconut shell armor, [-] pieces of bronze-backed iron tire bows, and [-] pieces of knives and guns of various colors." Even Li Huayu, who is used to seeing large numbers of officials since childhood Generation, also faced with this list a little flustered, a little caught off guard.As for things like gunpowder, arrows, porcelain jars, all kinds of cured meat, salted eggs, spirits, life-saving kits, etc., there is simply no indication of how much you need, but just indicate in small characters after the item name, All clearance!As long as there is, let's break into Cao's family and make it round!

"Damn! Wang Long, what are you going to do?"

"My lord, who made your guy so sharp?" Wang Long slapped Li Huayu with a playful smile. Uncle wants these guys, what do you ask our uncle to do? They are all old brothers who were born and died together? Kaifeng just broke right now, and the master has money and hard goods in his hand, so let us beg you, right?"

"But the cannons you want, the swords, guns, firearms and armor, are too many?!"

Li Huayu lowered his voice and talked with Wang Long, "Let's not talk about me right now, even the entire Ming Dynasty may not have so many heavy artillery and Dafo Langji made by Nanzhong! Even if I want to sell them to you, I have to buy them from After the Nanzhong is cast little by little, it will be shipped northward by sea!"

"It doesn't matter! When I went out, my uncle and the head of the family both said that as long as the eldest son is willing to help, we will pay all the purchase price in one lump sum. Then, you will give us as much as you have arrived!"

Seeing that Li Huayu's tone was loose, Wang Long, who was well-versed in the world, hit the snake with the stick, and he reciprocated his own conditions, paying the full amount in one lump sum, and those cannons, knives and guns can be delivered in installments!

The words have reached this point.What else can Li Huayu say?He called the officer in charge of military supply and business, who was also an acquaintance of Wang Long, "Go and discuss it, come up with a charter, and report it to me when you come back."

Sending away the thankful Wang Long and others, trying to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, Li Huayu took out the secret language book to communicate with his father from the leather book stored in the cabinet, wrote it himself, and sent the peasant army to Jinan University. Secretly report the purchase to the father.

After a few days.Kuai Ma brought back Li Shouhan's reply from Tianjin. "This matter is feasible. But it must be kept absolutely confidential. Except for civilian supplies such as food and cloth, the rest of the military supplies must be paid in batches." In addition, Shou Han told Li Huayu in his letter that the current enemies of the Peasant Army are Zuo Liangyu and Sun Chuanting It took some time for the other departments to clash with the Southern Guangdong Army.At this time, we might as well rely on the hands of the peasant army.Beat up the military power relied on by those guys who oppose the New Deal in the DPRK and China and stumble the Southern Guangdong Army overtly and secretly. It is best to catch them all!

The New Deal was vetoed in disguise by the bigwigs in the DPRK and China.It really made Li Shouhan very angry. Once Ning Yuanbo got angry, the consequences would naturally be very serious.In addition to forcing the palace together with the court and the public when there are discussions and rumors in the court, our Uncle Ning Yuan has a ruthless countermeasure to deal with it.

When he received the imperial decree from Chongzhen asking him to send troops, he gave the court a clear answer.As long as the new policies proposed by Ben Bo are carried out, Ben Bo can guarantee that whether Liao thieves or bandits, they are just a bunch of jumping clowns!It can be eliminated overnight!

but.Li Shouhan also knew that most of the scholar-bureaucrats in the court who opposed the New Deal were from Jiangnan.To them, all kinds of taxation and one-off errand payment are the big enemies who kill their father and take their wife.How can it be promoted in its own fundamental place?Therefore, they supported Zuo Liangyu in various forms, both openly and secretly, helping him to make meritorious service, expand the army, and provide military pay, ordnance and various supplies.The purpose is to use Zuo Liangyu's military power to fight against the Southern Guangdong Army!

On this point, Li Shouhan saw some clues in the appointment and removal of personnel not long ago.Emperor Chongzhen released Hou Xun, who had been imprisoned for something, and was reappointed as the right servant of the Ministry of War and the censor of Youqian capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Zuo Liangyu of "India" and others suppressed the officers and soldiers, and asked him to organize the officers and troops to attack from the north and the south in order to recover Kaifeng quickly.

Chongzhen probably lost his head after suffering consecutive setbacks, and made this personnel appointment that made Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army system furious.Forget about anything else, the Baoding and Hebei supervisors are bullshit, but they should never be included in the jurisdiction of this freshly baked supervisor.You know, in Shandong at this time, our Young Master Li Huayu is running the business for Uncle Ningyuan.What does it mean to assign Shandong to Hou Xun to command and control at this time?Previously, the emperor decreed that Shandong, Denglai, Tianjin, and Jimen should be Li Shouhan's jurisdiction. The words are still in my ears, but now they don't count?

Compared with his son, Hou Xun, the father of our talented Hou, is even better at spreading hatred!He was from Guide Prefecture, Henan Province, and he knew the situation in his hometown in the Central Plains better at that time. After taking over, he went to the imperial court and put forward a comprehensive plan for the strategy of using troops. It can be a picture of the dynasty. From Qin to Henan, Wang Qiaonian was defeated once, and then Fu Zonglong was defeated. The powerful soldiers and horses in the world are all owned by thieves. A team of tens of thousands of thieves rides like a wind and rain. Funded by the soldiers. The officers and soldiers only ask where they are going. If the soldiers reach them, the soldiers will be hungry. Even with the spirit of giving swords, it is impossible to make the county magistrate of the closed city go out to see him, transport a bunch of grass, and feed him A piece of rice. This is why it is often frustrated. Today, the bandits are under pressure, and Quanyu has already fallen into it. The vassal king calls for help, and the hope is like a cloud. However, from another day, the Central Plains is the heart of the world; from today In other words, it is the ear of the broken district. From the words of the vassal king, Weicheng is solid; from the perspective of the world's safety and danger, Weicheng should not be in a hurry. The minister is the commander of all ways, and he is a thief. Aid? But the seven towns under the command of the ministers are only tens of thousands of soldiers, and the four towns have not yet arrived. Feng He went forward, regardless of the righteousness of the eldest son, and made the group of thieves look forward to measuring its reality and playing with the court. ... Therefore, for today's plan, if there is any definite opinion, it is best to use Henan to appoint it. Order Baoding Fuchen Yang Jin, Shandong Fuchen Wang Yongji to guard the river in the north; Fengyang Fuchen Ma Shiying, Huaixu Fuchen Shi Kefan to stop the bandits Chong; the Qin governor, Sun Chuanting, entered Tongguan; the minister led Zuo Liangyu to solidify Jingxiang. This is why he cut off his way to escape. There are millions of people who came from the thieves in the township, and now there are 15 people and ten horses. Tens of thousands of calculations, one liter of solar eclipse for a person, three liters of solar eclipse for a horse, you will get 50 bells of millet per day wherever you go. There is no fault of Liangyu. Liangyu is the former minister of the minister, and every time he makes his ministers cry, he has the heart of repaying him. He kowtows to the father of the minister three times. He dare not disturb the grass and trees. Such a personal favor, how can he be willing to betray the country? In the past, the governors and governors controlled the obedient side, and there were too many soldiers and too few food, which made it difficult to dispatch. Sincerity envoys have to go to their troops, declare to the generals, drum up loyalty, and feed the whole town with the food provided by Nanzhong. The ministers will not agree There is no need for your Majesty to issue a military order to charge the war period. There is an opportunity to take advantage of it. That is, when the east goes out to join Sun Chuanting, the group of thieves are attacked from the front and back, hungry and harassed. This is not a plan, but the Central Plains has already collapsed in a hurry, and the danger of losing the calamity is dangerous. The snakes and hogs wantonly provoke. I am afraid that the disaster will not be limited to the vassal kings. This is a worry for the community, not a small plan for success or failure."

It cannot be said that Hou Xun's mind is not clear enough.His calculations are clear.After Kaifeng was conquered by the peasant army, the strength of the Ming army and the peasant army had changed quietly but irreversibly. The court could no longer actively seek the main force of the peasant army to fight as it had done in previous years.As far as the combat effectiveness of the troops on both sides is concerned, the situation where more than a thousand officers and soldiers can chase down and kill tens of thousands of peasant troops for dozens of miles is gone forever.Right now, the imperial court can only hold on tight.bide your time.Therefore, Hou Xun objected to the court's decision to take the recovery of Kaifeng as a top priority, and advocated that the governors and governors of Shaanxi, Baoding, Shandong, Fengyang, Huaixu, and Huaixu should stick to their own territory. Instead, he went to Hubei to sit in Zuo Liangyu's army and act on camera.

It is very clear in his memorials.Right now, Henan is already a thousand miles away, and food is in short supply. Nearly one million rebels are concentrated here, and there will be a food crisis in a short time.At that time, he will lead Zuo Liangyu's troops to the north from Huguang, and together with Sun Chuanting, governor of Shaanxi, will attack the peasant army in Henan.

In all fairness, Hou Xun is much more powerful than his gifted son who can only recite the wind and the moon on the Qinhuai River and make some poems without illness.This can be regarded as a proposition with a bit of strategic vision.Moreover, it is also harboring evil intentions!Because the peasant army of millions, led by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, is currently guarding the Yellow River, relying on the waterway, and has a large amount of goods and goods seized in Kaifeng, so naturally they will not go hungry.Even if it is difficult to provide for them, don't forget that they are called rogues by the court!Walking is their forte, and walking to the enemy is their forte, and they will never squat in Henan and starve as Hou Xun wishfully imagined.However, Hou Xun's proposal to instruct the governors of the provinces bordering Henan to protect their borders and "stop their escape" is just a replica of Yang Sichang's "Ten Faces".The key here is that when the peasant army decides where to go, whether the supervisors and governors who are responsible for preventing blockages can withstand it.Once the anti-blocking fails, the top officials who bear the brunt will inevitably become Hou Xun's scapegoats, which is exactly where Hou Xun is vicious.

What made the southern Guangdong army roar with hatred was that this freshly-baked Governor Hou actually blatantly claimed to be the top of the mountain, and gave Li Huayu, who was in charge of the military, horse money and food affairs in Shandong and Denglai in Jinan at this time. The order ordered Li Huayu to quickly prepare half a year's food and wages for 30 horses, so as to supply Zuo Liangyu's troops who were about to go north to be commanded by Lord Xunhou. "The military situation is urgent, and there must be no mistakes. Those who disobey the order, the governor should act according to the military law and the imperial sword!" Enmity?

However, even if you want to vent your anger on your son and build up your prestige, please find someone who is easy to bully you!For example, Baoding governor Yang Wenyue and the like, the father and son Ning Yuanbo, are you, a short-term supervisor who has just been released from prison, able to shake?Do you really think that your old subordinate and good friend has 30 horses in his hands, so you can humiliate the Li family father and son unscrupulously?

In fact, Zuo Liangyu, the so-called 30 horses, was trying to frighten the old officer.He thought to himself that the strength of Pingzui Town is far inferior to that of the Peasant Army. The two sides are no longer rivals at the same level. If the whole army goes north, it may be swallowed by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, who are now in full swing.

In order to perfuse Hou Xun's face, he sent general Jin Shenghuan to report first with 30 soldiers to serve as guards for Hou Xun's pro-army.In fact, Zuo Liangyu’s troops were only 30 soldiers, and the rest of the troops were mostly a large number of troops he assembled through recruiting, surrendering and accepting rebels. States and counties, the general term for methods such as plundering people's wealth) and other methods to raise their own wages.This time, he fully agreed to go out to listen to Hou Xun's dispatch. The implication was that the food and pay of [-] horses was used to signal Hou Xun to retreat when he knew the difficulty.

However, Hou Xun misunderstood Zuo Liangyu's intentions. While patting his chest and saying that he could raise the food and salaries of 30 people, he issued a letter to force Li Huayu to quickly raise the food and salaries of 30 people for half a year and submit it to Xie Xingyuan Ting Use it, treat Mr. Li as a fat sheep that can be slaughtered at will.

How can such a person keep it against himself? ! (To be continued..)