Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() The army march is quite boring, so in the next few days, during the march, many officers and soldiers kept talking about this food grab operation, and regarded it as a kind of entertainment.

On this day, Zhou Xun bragged in front of Yu Ji again: "Only someone like you who has never seen the world would be afraid of such a small Jiupincangyun ambassador."

"I think back then, when our lord was in command in the capital, we were brothers and sisters with that Chongwenmen tax ambassador. Do you know what that Chongwenmen customs ambassador is? He is the most prestigious ninth-rank official in the world. So Why do our lords take this Ninth Grade Official seriously?"

"So I said Brother Yu, follow our adults, just be bold, don't look forward and backward all day long, grab what you want, and kill what you want. You can't go wrong if you listen to our adults. What's the point of grabbing some food? Huh? It’s okay to grab a few women!”

"Except for our brother Zhou!" Seeing Zhou Xun talking happily, Liang Hui interjected.

Liang Hui's words caused the people around him to burst into laughter.Because although Zhou Xun escaped from marriage at the time, he disliked his fiancée for not looking good.But as Queen Qin, after he married his fiancée, Zhou Xun had a deep relationship with his wife.It seems that the daughter of an official's family is indeed educated and capable, and this is the reason why she must marry a virtuous wife.

So in public, Zhou Xun's henpeck has become a joke inside the Runing Battalion officer corps.Of course, those officers thought that Wu Shigong was the one who was most afraid of his wife in the Runing Camp, but no one dared to mention it in front of Wu Shigong.In addition, they no longer comment on Yang Goudan.

Just as these people were talking and laughing, several galloping horses suddenly appeared in the distance.Wu Shigong's former army immediately made preparations to meet the enemy, and only after the horses approached did they realize that it was a false alarm.These are the cavalry sent by Wu Shigong to investigate the front.

Putting these cavalrymen in front of Wu Shigong, the leading cavalryman gave a military salute to Wu Shigong and said: "My lord, a group of refugees were found fighting within four or five miles ahead."

"Oh?" It's not surprising that there are refugees. Now that disasters are happening again and again, the groups of refugees on both sides of the road, and the officers of the Runing Battalion are all familiar with it.However, Wu Shigong was a little interested in the infighting among the refugees.

Out of caution, Wu Shigong ordered: "Sanhe, you just take a cavalry centurion to have a look and find out the situation before we talk."

After Li Sanhe set off with the cavalry centurion, Wu Shigong's army also stopped advancing and rested on the spot, waiting for the news to come back.

After a while, I saw Li Sanhe escorting a convoy back.But the owner of the motorcade surprised Wu Shigong.That is Wu Shiwen, Wu Shigong's fifth elder brother.

Wu Shiwen is also really unlucky.At that time, he went to Guizhou to be a county magistrate. Later, because of the invasion of the She'an rebellion, he abandoned the county and fled, losing his official position.Later, through Wu Shigong's efforts, he was finally restored to his official position through meritorious service, and he came to Shandong and became a county magistrate again.

But this stable day has not passed for a few years, and this time it encountered a situation where riots broke out in Shandong.After escaping once, Wu Shiwen no longer has the psychological burden of abandoning the city and fleeing.When he learned that there were traces of rioters around the county seat, he didn't send anyone to find out the exact situation. In order to save his life, he immediately dropped everything and fled the county seat with his family.

Wu Shiwen did not give up on his colleagues. Before fleeing, he also notified all the officials and big households in the county.It can be seen that all the top leaders in the county have fled. This person has the mentality of following the crowd. All the officials and many wealthy households also formed a convoy with their families, and fled his county together with Wu Shiwen.

Wu Shiwen thought so, as long as he fled to Jining City, he would send someone to notify his fourteenth brother, Wu Shigong.Wu Shiwen didn't know that Wu Shigong would go north to fight this time, but Wu Shiwen knew that Wu Shigong had a strong army here. Although that army was stationed in Runing Mansion, it was not far from Jining City.For the safety of the fifth brother, the fourteenth brother Wu Shigong should also lend a helping hand.

Even if the fourteenth brother Wu Shigong couldn't come to the rescue without the order to dispatch troops, at least he stayed in Jining City, which was heavily guarded by troops, and his life was always guaranteed.You know, Jining City is the hub of the canal, and the imperial court has always stationed troops here.

As for the court's investigation of Wu Shiwen's charges of abandoning the city and fleeing in the future, we will talk about it later.At least for now, you must save your own life first.Anyway, it wasn't the first time Wu Shiwen faced this kind of situation.

But in the process of escaping, there was an accident.The composition of Wu Shiwen's team is all people who were originally in the position of superiors.When they encountered a group of refugees obstructing their convoy, the domestic slaves of Wu Shiwen, of course, waved their whips to drive away these refugees who did not have long eyes blocking the way.

But in this turbulent time, the fear of the government and the observance of the law by those refugees have basically disappeared.

So first it was a quarrel, and then the quarrel turned into a small friction, and the small friction turned into a big fight.If it weren't for the misalignment of those refugees, the large number of refugees would have swallowed up the convoy long ago.

But even so, when Li Sanhe's cavalry arrived, killed the refugees and rescued the convoy, the entire convoy had already lost a lot of manpower.Fortunately, most of these manpower are domestic slaves of those officials and gentry, and the losses of those officials and their families are relatively small.

After Wu Shigong met Wu Shiwen, the fifth elder brother, and knew that Wu Shiwen had fled the county, something big must have happened.So Wu Shigong hurriedly saluted each other with Wu Shiwen's family members, found an empty carriage, and asked Wu Shiwen alone what happened?

"Fifth brother! Where did the rioters near your county come from?"

"I don't know either! I also met a ghost and slept all night, and the nearby counties are in such a mess."

"Then what do you know?"

"I know that there seems to be an army mutiny. I don't know which one it is! But I heard that it is the Ming army that set off here in Denglai to rescue Liaodong. Eh? Fourteenth brother, why did you bring the army here? yes?"

"It was also the order of the Ministry of War that I also took the Runing Battalion north to rescue Liaodong." Wu Shigong smiled bitterly, "Then where is this mutinous army operating?"

"I really don't know!" Wu Shiwen really didn't know, he was just thinking about running away.

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Although he inquired for a long time, Wu Shigong still didn't learn any useful information from the fifth brother Wu Shiwen.After finishing the conversation, Wu Shigong met with the military officers who had gone to other officials who had escaped to find out the situation, and learned that those officials did not know much more than his fifth brother Wu Shiwen.

Now Wu Shigong was in trouble.You must know that the current Wu Shigong is not in Henan, which they are familiar with in Runing Camp, but in Shandong, where they are unfamiliar.

How big is the sudden turmoil in Shandong?How many mutiny troops?Where are they operating now?How far is it from your own army?Wu Shigong didn't know about this.

And Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion only had 200 people, and it was impossible to send a large number of cavalry for long-distance reconnaissance. They could only reconnoitre the area about [-] miles away from the army.

And now Wu Shigong's task is to rush to Shanhaiguan.Should we continue to move forward according to the original mission?Or station on the spot to resist the chaos?Or is it that the army is so powerful that they retreated to Henan?

Wu Shigong felt his head suddenly grow bigger!