Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

It wasn't until he walked out of the big camp that Wu Shigong did a lazy waist.Needless to say, this oldest yoga movement makes Wu Shigong's muscles and bones relax quite comfortably.Because today is a very tiring day.

When Maoshi arrived at Daying, Wu Shigong and other military officers first waited outside the tent of the Chinese army, and they had to wait for Gao Qiqian to read the imperial edict to Liu Yulie.The content of the imperial decree was nothing more than to remove Liu Yulie from the governor's dispatch.

And after reading the imperial decree, Liu Yulie ignored the hypocrisy of the new governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, and the supervising army Gao Qi, and immediately left the camp with his entourage to return to the capital.

Then it was waiting for the reinforcements brought by Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to enter the camp and settle down.After waiting for Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to finish their lunch with dry rations, all the military officers entered the Chinese army account and began to formally discuss the military situation.And this morning, Wu Shigong just waited so foolishly for the past.

But when discussing the military situation in the afternoon, Wu Shigong changed from waiting stupidly to standing still.It's not that Wu Shigong stood alone. It should be said that all the military officers in the Ming army led by Liu Yulie had no right to speak in this discussion of the military situation.

The military officers who discussed the military situation with Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian were mainly military officers who brought reinforcements.Especially those military officers from Liaodong definitely have the right to speak in the Chinese military account and among the military officers.

Wu Shigong and the others can understand this situation. The defeated general not only does not speak bravely, but he is not even qualified to speak.But looking at the arrogant faces of those generals in Liaodong, I always felt a little uncomfortable.

"I'm so breathless!" It seemed that Liu Zeqing also felt the same way as Wu Shigong.So after saying this grumbling word, he leaped vigorously, without stepping on the stirrup, and jumped directly on the back of his horse.

Seeing Liu Zeqing's acrobatic move, Renlaifeng immediately widened his eyes and stomped his hooves excitedly.Just around the corner not knowing what to do.

"Don't move around!" Wu Shigong slapped the horse's neck, waited until Renlai calmed down a little, stepped on the stirrup and stepped on the horse.

At this time, there was a commotion around the camp, and according to Zhu Dadian's order, the soldiers were cleaning up the surrounding area of ​​the camp.

After more than three months of sit-in war, coupled with Governor Liu Yulie's wholehearted appeasement, the army vented their fighting spirit, and in the end, because Liu Yulie knew that he would be dismissed, he inevitably felt a little bit self-defeating, so.The military discipline of this Ming army is quite lax.

So originally around Daying, although it wasn't as exaggerated as Liu Zeqing said it was full of brothels, it was still full of tent areas.Among them, those who trade in skin and meat, and those who supply soldiers with food... Anyway, they became a gathering area for merchants.And the entire barracks has become disfigured like a gypsy tribe.

certainly.In this case, the soldiers in the camp had little money.It is also impossible to get any military pay.In order to satisfy their own desires, a group of bold underground businessmen even colluded with soldiers to start a business of reselling arms.And Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion also found a lot of treasures from this underground ordnance black market.

At that time, Liu Yulie had already let go of the situation outside the camp.However, after Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian took office today, they immediately ordered to clean up the situation outside the camp and restore the appearance of the barracks.

"It's such a big move. It looks like a war is really going to happen." Liu Zeqing sighed looking at the flying tents outside the camp.

"Brother Hezhou is still good at running the army, and the military discipline is strict. The sons of our front battalion are very good now. There is no such chaos around the front camp. The troops will be sent out the day after tomorrow. Our front battalion and those in Liaodong The soldiers are the forwards, so we should go back earlier and make arrangements."

At that time, under Wu Shigong's strong advocacy.No one is allowed to approach the former camp.And Liu Zeqing also followed good example.In addition, the Runing Battalion has maintained strict training.And there are comparisons in the army. Seeing the training of the Runing Battalion, the other troops in the front battalion also have some training, so the soldiers in the front battalion are in good condition.

And Wu Shigong will not go to grab these credits, so of course he should also praise the former camp leader Liu Zeqing here.Anyway, what the real situation is, these military officers in the former battalion are also tacitly aware of it.

Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind this time to completely wipe out Kong Youde's rebels and stop recruiting.Therefore, when Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian went out to fight, Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, was sentenced to death as the leader of the disaster, and he and Zhang Tao were executed as a sacrificial flag.Yu Dacheng, the former governor of Shandong, Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng and others were sent to serve as troops.

Originally, according to the official rules of the Ming Dynasty and Sun Yuanhua's performance after Kong Youde's rebellion, he should be more guilty than death.But Sun Yuanhua was unfortunately involved in the party struggle between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru at this juncture.

Although the first assistant Zhou Yanru wanted to save Sun Yuanhua from the death penalty and asked Xu Guangqi for help, Sun Yuanhua was still framed by political enemies Yu Yinggui, Li Mengchen, and Lu Zhenfei, and was even tortured in prison, which made Sun Yuanhua hard to argue.In the end, it was inevitable to die.It should be said that Sun Yuanhua was somewhat wronged.

However, as the direct superior of Kong Youde's rebel army, he caused such a big rebellion.In addition to bringing turmoil to Shandong for more than a year, this rebellion also completely lost hope of saving the war situation in Liaodong, and also brought a huge financial burden to the Ming court.Therefore, judging from the results, Sun Yuanhua deserved to die.

But from another point of view, Sun Yuanhua's death also made the plan of comprehensively studying Western military system and equipment presided over by him and Xu Guangqi come to an abrupt end after just a start.This also made the hope of the Ming Dynasty to use firearms to fight against the Jin army, one less possibility.

However, even this prototype of reform, which was all inherited by Kong Youde's rebels, will also show amazing combat effectiveness.And we will also see later.Therefore, this really makes people sigh!

Therefore, Sun Yuanhua's talent is to be an excellent technical official. In modern times, he can also be an excellent scientist. He is not suitable, especially not suitable to be an official in power in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty.Repeat this exclamation again: Men are really afraid of entering the wrong line!

The content of today's military discussion is to let Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's former battalion coalition, plus 5000 troops from Liaodong as the forward, forcefully cross the Shahe River and control the east bank of the Shahe River.Then cover the follow-up main force of the Ming army to cross the river.After that, all the troops of the Ming army were concentrated, and the siege of Laizhou City was first solved.

And specific to the striker's arrangement.The coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing will first go to the upper reaches of the Shahe River, block the flow of the Shahe River with sandbags, and then the Liaodong Army will directly cross the river from the exposed riverbed.The coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing had to protect the Duhe dam from being destroyed by the rebels, and also cover the flanks of the Liaodong Army to prevent them from being attacked by the rebels' flanks.

In a word, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's coalition forces will do all the dirty work.The main operations will be undertaken by the Liaodong Army.From this arrangement, it can be seen that Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian underestimated the combat effectiveness of the original Ming army.

But Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing were not selfless enough to use their main force to confront the rebels head-on.Therefore, the two of them are still very satisfied with this battle plan.

When we returned to the front camp, the entire camp was already filled with smoke.The military attaches dispersed as soon as they entered the front battalion, and all returned to their own troops to arrange departure.

Now the number of people in the entire front battalion has exceeded [-].The nearly [-] extra people were all civilians recruited (arrested) by the troops of the former battalion from nearby in the past three months.

And Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion also exceeded 3000 people.Among them was Wu Shigong in the name of recruiting domestic slaves.More than 800 auxiliary soldiers were newly recruited.Now the number of auxiliary soldiers in the Runing Battalion has exceeded 600.

It's not that Wu Shigong can't recruit more, because except for skilled craftsmen.Wu Shigong also had very high physical requirements for recruiting domestic slaves.otherwise.Compared with those civilian husbands, the treatment of Wu Shigong's family slaves is quite happy.Those civilians in other troops, don't they all have to crush the camp of the Runing camp?

Of course, when Wu Shigong recruited domestic slaves, he recruited the family members of those auxiliary soldiers together.And within these three months, Wu Shigong has sent people twice to send the recruited craftsmen and families of auxiliary soldiers back to Runing Mansion.But it also made it some time ago.The large amount of food that the Runing Camp had collected with great difficulty has now dropped to a level that can only last for half a month.

In addition, there are more than 200 cavalry drawn from each battalion, all of which are now under the command of Wu Shigong.These cavalry have also been enriched into the cavalry of the Runing Battalion.So now the ex-army's scouting and strangling.All are undertaken by the Runing Camp.

But as soon as he entered his camp, Wu Shigong saw a group of his soldiers forming a group, as if admiring something, they were all amazed.

"Why are they all gathered together? What happened?" Wu Shigong also became curious. He handed over the reins of the crazy horse to the guards behind him, and walked into the crowd of onlookers.

"My lord, Commander Liang has received good things this time!" Yu Ji who was on the side hurried over and said to Wu Shigong with a smile.

Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, the onlookers automatically separated a passage.Wu Shigong walked to the middle and took a look, "Hey!", good guy, there are four cannons shining with metallic brilliance lined up in the middle of the crowd.

"It's really a good thing!" Wu Shigong was also happy.Until now, Wu Shigong had only purchased three one-pound cannons from the underground ordnance black market, and this time Liang Hui's harvest would exceed the sum of the previous ones.

"It's not too good!" Although Liang Hui's words were very modest, he still couldn't help being proud, "This artillery is not the same as the artillery of our Runing Battalion. Its shells are the same as those of our Runing Battalion. None. And this time with these artillery, only 34 rounds of shells were collected. This number is too small." Liang Hui explained.

Wu Shigong took a closer look, and found that it was indeed the case, this time the four cannons were larger than the one-pound cannon, but smaller than the three-pound cannon.Visually, the caliber seems to be a two-pound gun.It is not a standard configuration of the Runing Battalion artillery.

"It's nothing." Wu Shigong comforted, "It's good to have artillery. Even if it doesn't come in handy this time, after dragging it back to Henan, ask Yang Goudan to make more artillery shells. It will always be useful. This How much did the artillery cost?"

"Just 1000 taels of silver." Liang Hui's expression became even more complacent.

"So cheap?" Wu Shigong was also overjoyed.

"A 100 yuan shield is also included." Liang Hui's ostentatious expression made one unable to resist punching him in the face.

"Hey!" Wu Shigong, who was in a very happy mood, couldn't help joking, "I said you, Liang Hui, if you don't become the commander of this artillery team, you will definitely be able to make a fortune even if you go to collect trash!"

Wu Shigong's joke caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding soldiers.

This time, the Runing Battalion bought some spears, waist knives and shields in addition to the seven cannons from the underground ordnance black market.These are also mainly equipped for those auxiliary soldiers.

The harvest of guns, gunpowder and armor is quite small.The main reason is that it is impossible for other troops to sell the guys who eat indiscriminately!But some of those bulky artillery fell out of the underground ordnance black market.

After the joke was over, Wu Shigong immediately shouted: "Sanhe! Come here!"

Li Sanhe at the side immediately ran to Wu Shigong's side.

"Three Rivers. Let your cavalry get ready. The army will set out the day after tomorrow, and our front battalion will be the vanguard. After dinner, disperse your cavalry. In front of us, until the banks of the Shahe River, as long as it is suspicious , whether it is men, women, old or young, it is better to kill the wrong one than to let it go. And if someone wants to cross the river to the east bank of the Shahe River, he will be killed."

"promise!"

Although the rebel spies were afraid to cross the Shahe River because of the strangling of the Runing Camp cavalry.However, there were still some spies from the rebel army, dressed in plain clothes and mixed among the refugees, infiltrating into the west bank of the Shahe River to find out information about the Ming army.And Wu Shigong's order is aimed at this situation.

"The other officers also returned to the camp immediately. Arrange your troops and prepare to leave the day after tomorrow. Remember! This time there is really going to be a war!"

"No!", "No!", "No!"...

In the night, a large group of cavalry gathered behind the gate of the front camp. Dozens of soldiers pushed open the heavy wooden door, making a "creak, creak" sound.

Although it is already the end of the month, there is no bright moon in the sky.But the stars in the sky are still swaying with faint starlight.The mountains in the distance seem to be covered with a layer of soot, which is particularly hazy.

Standing on the wall above the camp gate, Wu Shigong watched the cavalry drive their fast-trotting horses out one by one from the opened camp gate.When all the cavalry had left the gate of the camp, they gathered together and gave a deafening shout of encouragement to each other.

Then, they dispersed and formed into spy teams under the leadership of their respective team leaders.Then they formed a fan, and the teams galloped straight to the distance.

Wu Shigong looked at the backs of those cavalrymen, and couldn't help feeling sad in his heart.Those cavalrymen disappeared into the twilight one by one. I don't know how many good boys never came back!

The Battle of Shahe officially kicked off. (to be continued..)