Daming wolf ride

In Pingdugou, in addition to supervising the training of sergeants every day, Shi Dayong spends more time reading the house copy of the pond newspaper he bought from Pei Shaokuan.The recent Tang newspapers are almost all news about thieves in Shanshan, Central Plains and Huguang.

Shi Dayong learned from the Tang newspaper that the imperial court dismissed Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and asked him to remain as the governor of Yansui. Chen Qiyu, the former governor of Yansui, suddenly became Hong Chengchou's boss. The governor of the five largest provinces is responsible for the military affairs of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan provinces, and specializes in dealing with thieves.

However, after Chen Qiyu received the imperial decree to be promoted to governor of the five provinces, he did not use troops immediately because the weather was too cold to use troops.Therefore, he first asked for an order to depose Jiang Yunyi, the governor of Yunyang who had fled after seeing the thief, and then transferred Lu Xiangsheng, the deputy envoy who led the Tianxiong Army, from the Central Plains to be the governor of Xunyang.

Lu Xiangsheng was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. Although he was a scribe, he was good at riding and shooting, skilled in general strategy, generous and righteous. He was the magistrate of daimyo during the "already changed" and recruited thousands of people into the capital of Wei.After the siege of Beijing, the three prefectures of Daming, Guangping, and Shunde were appointed as soldiers, and the recruits were not disbanded. They were called Tianxiong Army, and they were carefully trained and elite troops.

After Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army to take office, Chen Qiyu immediately dispatched troops and generals to surround him on all sides, and ordered the four ministers of Shaanxi, Yun, Henan, and Chu to lead troops to discuss. [

The governor of Shaanxi, Lian Guo, was stationed in Shangnan and blocked in the northwest;

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, was stationed in the house and bamboo, and blocked in the west;

Henan governor Xuanmo stationed in Lushi, blocking in the northeast;

Tang Hui, governor of Huguang, was stationed in Nanzhang and blocked in the southeast.

Chen Qiyu led his elite troops from Nanyang to Junzhou City, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, and attacked from Zhuxi in Yunyang Prefecture. In more than ten battles, there were good news, nearly 5000 people were beheaded, and 11 leaders were captured.Deputy General Liu Qian attacked between Pingli and Zhuxi, and the guerrilla commander He Renlong pursued to Ziyang, winning a big victory.

In Ziyang's first battle, He Renlong beheaded more than ten thousand people.Chen Qiyu took advantage of the victory to pursue, stepped up the encirclement, and ordered the four governors to continue to guard the four key passages. His generals He Renlong, Liu Qian, and Xia Gao guarded Lueyang and Mian County; Yang Zhengfang and Yu Shiren guarded Baocheng; Chen Qiyu personally led Yang Hualin, Liu Guo The town is stationed in Yangxian County, with careful layout, step by step, and continuous shrinking of the encirclement.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, who was demoted to the governor of Yansui, knew his shame and stepped forward. He commanded Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, He Huchen, the general soldier of Ningxia, and Yang Qi, the general soldier of Guyuan, to attack with all his strength in his jurisdiction. , Du San, Yang Laochai, Hao Linan, Liu Daojiang, Ke Feitian, etc.But the main force of the thieves did not suffer any losses.Under the pressure of Shaanxi, the bandits from various tributaries who originally traveled between Shaanxi and Shanxi entered Shanxi one after another.

In Shanxi, Sun Xianzu, the general soldier of Ningwu, was in charge of suppressing the rogues.There are 36 battalions of thieves in Shanxi, with a population of about 20. Hundreds of thieves' names appeared in Shanxi's military newspapers to the court, such as the so-called Eight Great Kings, Sweeping King, Xing Honglang, Black Killing God, Cao Cao, and Troubled Times. Wang, Crashing the Sky, Chuang Jiang, Man Tian Xing, Lao Huihui, Chuang Wang and so on.These thieves and kings use themselves as alliance leaders.

In order to suppress the bandits in Shanxi, Chongzhen replaced Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, and Sun Xianzu, the commander-in-chief of Ningwu, who were ineffective in "suppressing bandits". .Yansui Town Army entered Shanxi under the leadership of generals Li Bei, Ai Wannian and He Renlong.Lintao General Cao Wenzhao led "[-] horse infantry officers and soldiers who were selected one by one and experienced many battles" to Shanxi to join the bandit suppression campaign in Shanxi.

After the Shaanxi government army entered Shanxi, the bandits were deeply frightened and began to escape to Hebei and Henan, which border Shanxi. The range of activities of the bandits expanded to the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan.The thieves in the Central Plains of Henan posed a threat to the safety of the capital. The imperial court attached great importance to this and hurriedly dispatched troops to surround the thieves.

In a recent Tang newspaper, Shi Dayong suddenly saw the name of an acquaintance appear on the list transferred to Henan by the imperial court, and this person was Zuo Liangyu.There is only one sentence about him in the Yong newspaper - "Vice General Zuo Liangyu of Changping led 450 soldiers from Changping to aid northern Henan."

Has Zuo Liangyu become a lieutenant general?

Shi Dayong was a little depressed. When he was in Jinzhou, Zuo Liangyu was still a general at the same level as him. He went to Beijing to show victories, but he didn't get any rewards. Zuo Liangyu was promoted to a lieutenant general!

I can't compare people to others, and I don't know what kind of bad luck I have. Since the day I entered the customs, everything has not gone well, and now I am trapped in this Pingdugou. The commander-in-chief was transferred to and fro, playing happily, but he could only stare blankly, Shi Dayong really couldn't stand this grievance for a while.

Wang Hong is really good at handling things, he actually bought wine and meat back.On New Year's Eve, Shi Dayong gave the army a rare chance to drink wine, and he himself drank from a large bowl. After drinking heavily, he fell drunk immediately, and the generals finally carried him to the tent to rest.

The four years of Chongzhen ended with Shi Dayong getting drunk.

Guo Yi, who was sent to the capital, and Shao Wu, who was dispatched to Jinzhou, did not return, and the food in the camp was in crisis. After delivering 2 taels of silver again, Lin Jiantai secretly sold 200 dans of food to Shi Dayong.This time the price is a little more reasonable than last time, but it is also sky-high.

During the Chinese New Year, the officers and soldiers did not want to fight, and neither did the rebels. The two sides did not ask each other as before. [

The matter of appeasement is still in progress. It is said that the envoys of the imperial court will come to Laizhou to meet Kong Youde after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

With nothing to fight and nothing to do, Shi Dayong devoted all his energy to training the captured soldiers and the two thousand Sichuan troops.

Just after the Lantern Festival, news came that at the request of Lu Wang Zhu Changfang, who was enfeoffed in Weihui, the emperor ordered Tang Jiuzhou to lead the Changping army, Ni Chong and Wang Pu to lead the Beijing battalion, and a total of [-] troops went to Henan to fight against the bandits.

However, under the coordination of the lord Wang Ziyong, the bandits fought in Shanxi, northern Henan, and southern Jinan at different times.

In order to unify the power of affairs, the Henan gentry asked the imperial court to use Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, to supervise the military affairs of the three provinces. This is also an extension of Hong Chengchou's previous position as the governor of the three sides.

The Ministry of War thought this proposal was very good, and decided that Hong Chengchou would move to Tongguan to control the military affairs of the three provinces, and command the military operations of the three general officers Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang and Liu Wenhu in a unified manner.However, Chongzhen did not approve the resolution of the Ministry of War, but adopted another method-to increase the power of the governors of Shanxi and Henan provinces.He gave the governors of Shanxi and Henan provinces the power to kill first and then play. If some generals below the generals and guerrillas disobeyed the command and violated military orders, the governors of the two provinces could kill first and then play.

The five years of Chongzhen may have been really unfavorable. Bad news came from all over the country that the generals were not very obedient.Three eunuchs, Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, and Xie Wenju, were successively sent to serve as the supervisors of the three towns of Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang, and Zuo Liangyu.

It has nothing to do with Shi Dayong whether the emperor sent civil servants or eunuchs to supervise the army, and he didn't bother to ask. Besides food, he also has another headache now--soldiers don't seem to be able to train well.