Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Alas! Last year in Dengzhou, this year in Xuzhou, why can't we celebrate the New Year at home!" Wu Shigong couldn't help sighing.

"That's right! Old Commander! Why do our Runing Army have to fight every Chinese New Year? It's really a ghost!" Zhou Xun also grumbled.

It is now the eighth day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and the Runing Army has set up its own camp at forty or fifty miles in Xuzhou, and has stayed in the camp for two days.

These days, the Runing Army has not taken any action, because they no longer need to worry about the battle in Xuzhou.Knowing that She Tatian had entered Xuzhou, Zuo Liangyu rushed over with his army.Zhu Dadian, governor of Shandong, who finally assembled the rescue army, also led an army of more than 8000 people, including [-] Guanning cavalry and [-] soldiers from Tianjin, into Xuzhou.

This immediately highlighted the problem that there are too few monks and too many monks. The credit is only so much, and everyone wants to grab it, so they all sent a letter to Wu Shigong to ask his Runing Army to stop She Tatetian, a peasant rebel army, from escaping at the border of Xuzhou. , and these two armies are rushing to wipe out this peasant rebel army.

And this order is also in Wu Shigong's arms.Wu Shigong also didn't want his Runing Army to suffer any more losses, so in the past few days, he spent the new year with the whole army with the rewards from Guide Mansion and Xuzhou.

"Stay for another two days! If nothing happens within two days, we'll go home!" Wu Shigong said decisively.

The current Runing Army is still unable to leave, because the news from the front said that the Shetatian Department has just engaged in battle with two Ming armies.If this peasant rebel army fled to the direction of the Runing Army after the battle, and if the Runing Army did not stop them, they would definitely re-enter Guide Mansion.Isn't this creating trouble for Wu Shigong?

But waiting two days is different.By that time, the strength of the Sheta Tianbu was almost exhausted.Wu Shigong can completely leave the Nanyang Army Corps, which lacks an infantry regiment, here, and with the cooperation and support of the Runing Army Corps behind him, it can completely plug this gap.

As for Wu Shigong himself!He must rush back to Runing Mansion with the troops from the headquarters.In the end, the threat of the three 10,000+ people from Zhang Xianzhong's department is still there.You can rest assured when you go back.

"Isn't the old commander staying here? In a few days, Shetatian will be wiped out. There must be a feast in Xuzhou, and the old commander will be able to appreciate the customs of Xuzhou!"

Zhou Xun's words made the senior officers around Wu Shigong laugh out loud.Wu Shigong also scolded with a smile: "I don't know the little Jiujiu in your heart? Our Runing Army didn't do much in Xuzhou, and the officials in Xuzhou may still hate our Runing Army for driving the Shan bandits over. Besides, following the It's no fun for Governor Zhu and Zongbing Zuo to eat leftovers, so it's better to go back and defend our hometown earlier."

Wu Shigong knew that he could always get some food and money for attending such a banquet.But compared to the foundation of the Runing Army in the Runing Mansion, these benefits are very few.

Besides, Wu Shigong's relationship with Zhu Dadian and Zuo Liangyu was not good. Compared with them, Wu Shigong's official title...was nothing.In this official banquet.Isn't Wu Shigong looking for torture?So Wu Shigong didn't want to attend such a banquet in his heart.

He Fei who was on the side poked his head over and asked, "Master! The villain has been exploring the neighborhood for the past few days and found a lot of iron ore and coal mines. Is our Runing Army going to occupy one or two of them? one?"

"Go! Go! Go! Don't come up with any bad ideas! Now we don't have so much energy!" Wu Shigong laughed and cursed again.Then he pointed at He Fei and said again. "But your words also reminded me. When our headquarters is gone, you can stay here and make a good deal of it. Don't return those mines to the place so easily. If you don't get any benefits, let them wait for the waste. Mine. Don’t be afraid! Don’t even let the mine supervisor of Xuzhou Iron Mine go! But I’m not worried about this, it’s not the first time you, He Fei, have done this kind of thing!”

Wu Shigong's words caused a burst of laughter from all around.Wu Shigong went on to say: "We also need to find more iron ore craftsmen to send back to Runing. The charcoal is fine, iron materials and iron ore, as long as they can be transported, they will be transported to our Runing as soon as possible. Others We also need to search carefully for things. Anyway, we have always been thieves. There is no way! Our Runing Army is still too poor!"

Wu Shigong's words made the officers laugh even more.On the side, several leaders of the peasant rebel army who had just surrendered thought to themselves: "Such a rich army is still crying poor? It really is... really I voted in the right place!"

This time in order to increase their own strength.Wu Shigong took the cavalry and veterans of the peasant rebel army who had surrendered to him, and gathered some young and strong captives to form an auxiliary regiment of 2000 people.

However, Wu Shigong also made it very clear to these captured auxiliary soldiers: joining the army is voluntary, and the military pay is [-]%.And after this battle, they will also be scattered and filled into the various units of the Runing Army.Only after passing the military technical assessment in the future, can he receive full military pay as an official soldier of the Runing Army.

But it is such a harsh condition.It also made those captives sign up enthusiastically, because their precarious and poor life was really scary.

But after entering the Runing Army, the sophisticated equipment dazzled them, and the rich diet made their mouth water.Although the rules of the Runing Army are quite big, and they can't fully adapt to it for a while, but compared to such a stable life, these rules are still tolerable.

Therefore, the main impression these captured auxiliary soldiers have on the Runing Army these days is that they are rich.Some well-informed people even found out that the [-]% of their military salary is enough to make a living for the whole family, so working hard or something is not a big problem.

For the current Runing Army, the expansion of the territory is actually thinning out its own strength in disguise.This time the run between Nanyang and Guide of the Runing Army is also due to this reason.

Now that the Runing Army has its own private iron mine, the demand for iron materials is not in short supply.Besides, the short board of the Runing Army is silver, and it is impossible to spend a lot of financial and material resources to open a new iron mine in Xuzhou.

Therefore, in addition to being an essential place, the Runing Army will also temporarily stop expanding the control area.The Runing Army would rather go out and occupy land in the form of the Jimin Reclamation Firm, which integrates military and merchants, than to actually control a new area.

Besides, the Xuzhou Iron Mine is also a royal private property managed by the inner court. If Wu Shigong does anything, there will be no luck like the last time at the Nanyang Iron Mine.It's better to just grab one vote. (To be continued..)