Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Shigong wondered to himself: How did the Ming army's bandit suppression camp turn into a vegetable market?So he looked over from a distance and saw that Li Lu was arguing with a military officer wearing a general's robe, so he asked Zhao Ming, "Who is that man?"

"Oh, it's Nanyang General Sun Wei. For the past few days, General Sun has been at odds with Li Gueran." Zhao Ming replied.

"What's going on?" Wu Shigong became interested.

"Isn't it just that Nanyang Mansion is too small! There are two military battalions in a small mansion. If Li Gueran eats more, General Sun Shen will eat less. The two of them are so unhappy."

Wu Shigong laughed when he thought about it.The total number of soldiers in Henan set by the Ministry of War is only in the early 500s, and because Nanyang Mansion is located at the intersection of several provinces, a general was set up, and [-] soldiers were assigned to garrison.

But when Wei Zhongxian intervened, Li Lu, the garrison, went in. In addition to the garrisons in two counties, he also allocated 200 troops from General Sun Shen.General Sun Shen has already suffered from being dumb.

But it's not over yet. After the extermination of the Holy Spirit Society's riots and meritorious service, Li Lu added another 600 soldiers.And after this Ruzhou victory, Li Lu was promoted to a guerrilla, and a guerrilla battalion with 3000 troops was to be established.

This is interesting. If Li Lu's troops were transferred from General Sun Shen, there would be 3000 guerrillas stationed in two counties in Nanyang Prefecture, but only 500 generals stationed in the entire Nanyang Prefecture in name. [-] people, no wonder Sun Shen will go crazy!

And Li Lu also obviously noticed Wu Shigong's arrival, and his waist straightened a lot, so after a few more quarrels, Li Lu turned his head and left, and broke up with Sun Shenjiang.

Seeing Li Lu coming with his own soldiers, Wu Shigong smiled and said, "Li Guerrilla is so majestic! I want to salute you here!" After speaking, Wu Shigong pretended to salute Li Lu.

Li Lu immediately stopped Wu Shigong with a smile.He laughed and scolded: "Brother-in-law! Don't you know how I got here as a guerrilla? Don't humiliate me!" Then Li Lu smiled and greeted Zhou Xun who was saluting the old commander.

Of course Wu Shigong no longer pretended to Li Lu, he asked: "How many people did you bring this time?"

"I put together five hundred." Li Lu had nothing to hide from Wu Shigong, "But I spent a lot of money this time! I have all the horses for them, and I even asked that Yang dog here of you I bought a batch of armor and weapons. But I said brother-in-law, that Yang Goudan is too bastard! The price is so ruthless, you want to squeeze me out of my brother?"

Wu Shigong rolled his eyes at Li Lu: "It's good to sell it to you! To be honest, no matter if you take the money to the armory warehouse in Nanbei City to buy armor and weapons, can you buy such good armor and weapons? The price is so high. Is it cheap? You know, our own armor and weapons in the Runing Army are not enough, and what Yang Goudan gave you are all approved by me. Don't be dissatisfied!"

"Okay! Okay!" Li Lu smiled and raised his hand in surrender, "I understand, you and Yang Goudan are both profiteers. Anyway, this is the last time, and you will be responsible for any wars here in the future. Who told me to marry my sister to you?"

Wu Shigong laughed all of a sudden, thinking that Li Lu didn't hold his chin when he spoke.If his father-in-law Xue Lian heard this, he would immediately give Li Lu a big mouth.But Wu Shigong also knew that Li Lu was joking.So point to Li Lu and Zhao Ming.He joked: "Look at the two of you, you are both of the same virtue. When you hear about the war, you hide behind me. You are still the hero of the Ruzhou victory."

"Those who are capable work harder! Those who are capable work harder!" Zhao Ming also joked on the sidelines.The three of them chatted happily.

Then, the guerrilla Chen Zhongzhi and the defender Jiang Cheng, who together with Wu Shigong put down the Denglai Rebellion, also came over. After they made friends with each other, they discussed the issue of mutual help.

Chen Zhongzhi brought 100 people this time.Jiang Cheng brought more than 600 people, and they were in a very subordinate position in the entire bandit suppression army, so it was a matter of course for him to unite with Wu Shigong.

That night, Wu Shigong was before turning off the lights again.I visited some military officers such as Cao Wenzhao who met during the battle to recover the four cities of Yongping.Afterwards, Wu Shigong rested early, waiting for the general military meeting of Governor Chen Qiyu tomorrow.

When the military meeting started the next day, all the previous procedures were normal.Anyway, Ang Chang nodded, and then Chen Qiyu delivered a nonsense opening remark.Anyway, Wu Shigong, the capital officer, has become a small role among the military attaches in the entire Chinese military account, so he is happy to hide in the corner and make soy sauce.

But Wu Shigong didn't realize that he was making soy sauce, Governor Chen Qiyu glanced at Wu Shigong's soy sauce bottle several times.Chen Qiyu was also a little puzzled, could it be that this high-ranking and three-faced, absent-minded Du Si in the Chinese military tent also has such a good military vision?

And the military discussion finally came to the point.In front of a map hanging in the tent of the Chinese army, an aide of Governor Chen Qiyu began to explain in detail Chen Qiyu's strategy of suppressing bandits.

At this point, everything is normal.After the staff member finished his explanation, it was time for the military council to discuss.There is no other content, it is nothing more than discussing where the He Zhiming army will be stationed?He Zhiming's army pursued and suppressed the bandits.

In fact, there is no problem with assigning tasks.Guest troops such as Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu were basically chasing and suppressing bandits, while the local Ming troops in Henan were basically stationed there.The reason why Chen Qiyu asked the military officers to discuss it was to let them express their determination, and then Chen Qiyu was about to assign tasks.

But what is surprising is that before the discussion was over, Governor Chen Qiyu suddenly asked: "Li Guerrilla, Commander Zhao, and Wu Dusi, you three are a powerful army that won the great victory in Ruzhou! This time, the governor has to rely a lot You guys!"

The governor of Henan, Xuan Mo, who was sitting on the side, groaned for a while, then stroked his beard and said, "Since Governor Chen is so optimistic about the three, then the three should be ready! Remember! Love the people!"

This time, if we go out to suppress bandits, some of the local officials and troops in Henan will be dispatched, and those military officers with backgrounds, Xuanmo, don't want to offend them, so the fringe military officers Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng were originally scheduled to go out.But since Governor Chen Qiyu has taken a fancy to the troops of Wu Shigong and the other three, Xuan Mo will follow suit.Of course, due to Li Bingbeidao's impeachment memorial, Wu Shigong and the other three troops had a very bad reputation in the Ming court and the Henan local government, so Xuanmo also asked them to pay attention.

People are really afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong!However, Zhao Ming's title of gossip king is indeed well deserved. During the chat yesterday, Zhao Ming had already told Wu Shigong the news he had inquired from Chen Qiyu's cronies. The three of them were also mentally prepared.

But at this time, the behavior of the three of Wu Shigong was a little weird.Just now, Chen Qiyu called these three people according to their official titles in the Ming Dynasty.And now, it should be answered in the order of title.

As for Li Lu and Zhao Ming, you looked at me and I looked at you, but they just kept silent.Instead, Wu Shigong spoke first without hesitation: "Your order!"

However, this behavior that did not conform to the rules of the officialdom made Chen Qiyu stunned.But he didn't care too much, seeing that it was Wu Shigong who spoke, Chen Qiyu also fell into his arms.

So Chen Qiyu continued to ask: "How many soldiers did each of your three departments come this time?"

Li Lu and Zhao Ming still didn't speak.What three parts?In addition to the personal soldiers, there is only one part of the Runing Army, called Li Lu and Zhao Ming, how should they answer?

But Wu Shigong knew that Governor Chen Qiyu was criticizing him as soon as he heard it, because he was asking questions knowingly.When entering the camp yesterday, the Runing Army led by Wu Shigong had already been counted by military supplies, but how could Chen Qiyu, the coach, not know?

But Wu Shigong thought about it carefully and didn't know where he offended Chen Qiyu.Today is the first meeting between Wu Shigong and Chen Qiyu.In the past, one was in Henan, and the other was in Shaanxi.But what did I do wrong?

Puzzled, Wu Shigong could only reply more cautiously: "Report to the governor. Our three divisions have a total of [-] regular soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers."

Seeing that it was Wu Shigong who came forward to answer, Chen Qiyu took a closer look, and suddenly realized that the three departments were all following the orders of the chief in front of him!

Chen Qiyu felt a little angry.As a governor of literati background, Chen Qiyu also paid special attention to etiquette.Although he also knew that the three departments of Wu Shigong were in an alliance, but in today's discussion of the Chinese military account, at least he had to do some superficial work in front of himself, the governor, right?And the Dusi in front of him is too clueless.

So Chen Qiyu snapped: "Li Guerrilla's guerrilla battalion is rated at 3000 people, Wu Dusi's Runing battalion is rated at 200 people, and Guidewei also has more than 5000 military households. The governor also understands that you keep some soldiers." Stationed locally, but this time, you should send out five thousand troops. Now you have only sent out fifteen thousand soldiers, how can you take the governor's transfer order seriously?"

At this time, Li Lu and Zhao Ming were dead pigs who were not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, so they remained silent, watching Wu Shigong's actions, but Wu Shigong followed suit.

According to the rules, once the governor got angry, the military officer who was reprimanded should kneel down and plead guilty.But Wu Shigong's temper also came up.There are too many military officers in the Chinese military account who are empty-paid and short of troops, so why should the governor in front of him stare at him?

So Wu Shigong didn't kneel down at all, and replied flatly: "We and the three departments have been short of clothing and food, and the military salary has not been paid for several years. Originally, many soldiers fled. But after the Ruzhou war, there were a lot of casualties. , there are even more shortages, and there is no pension to recruit new soldiers. This time when I came to Shanzhou, I had the cheek to borrow some food from the Guan Zhifu, otherwise, even these people would not be able to come. "

As for Wu Shigong's words, Li Bingbei who was listening suddenly jumped up. (To be continued..)