Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

On the [-]th of the first lunar month, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, issued an order to "restrain all towns and governors" to the Ming army who encircled and suppressed the peasant rebel army.In other words, Hong Chengchou issued an order to the leading governors and military attaches for him to officially take office.

In fact, by this time, Hong Chengchou's original plan to mobilize the army to encircle and suppress Henan had come to nothing. Of course, this could be attributed to the Gansu mutiny and Li Zicheng's delaying Hong Chengchou's army in Shaanxi, but this also revealed that the Ming army's reaction was rather obtuse.

Although the Ming army had an advantage in terms of total numbers and combat effectiveness, each branch of the Ming army fought independently and did not cooperate with each other, and even failed to report news.This makes the peasant rebel army often have an opportunity to take advantage of, and even occupy a dominant position in some parts.

For example, this time the bandits were suppressed in Henan.Only the Ming army in Henan was fighting alone, and none of the Ming troops in neighboring provinces came to support them.And in the end, it even appeared that only the Runing Army fought alone, and was finally mobilized by the peasant rebel army, causing Fengyang, the central capital, to fall.

And now, it has revealed that the defenses of the Ming army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are very weak. As the "region of wealth in the south of the Yangtze River" of the Ming Dynasty, it has lost its former tranquility.

Now that the first plan has gone bankrupt, Hong Chengchou is about to rearrange his troops. He plans to mobilize troops from Shaanxi, Yunyang, Sichuan, Huguang, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places for joint operations to compress the peasant rebel army in the present-day Hubei area, and then join forces attack.

So Hong Chengchou began to dispatch troops and generals, and the soldiers and horses of Li Lu, the nearest famous general, were of course the first to receive the dispatch order.But what surprised Hong Chengchou was that Li Lu rushed to the bandit suppression camp with only five hundred of his own soldiers.

Hong Chengchou was furious on the spot, and immediately wanted to use military law against Li Lu, and beat him with dozens of army sticks.But Li Lu suddenly showed the temper of a man in the capital.He cursed loudly: he counted the hardships of the Yexian battalion and the fear of other Ming troops.In the cursing, Hong Chengchou, Xuan Mo and all the civil and military officials in the camp were scolded.

And Li Lu's scolding words are not unreasonable, even though he has been promoted to the chief soldier.But until now, because the time is too short, the rationed soldiers of this general army town have not been approved by the Ministry of War, so Li Lu, the general army officer, still brings the [-] soldiers from the original guerrilla battalion.

But relying on these 3000 people, Li Lu also kept his garrison area in Ye County and other two counties, and indirectly supported Nanyang Fucheng from falling, and even supported Ruzhou City together with Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion. The crisis in the state city.No matter how you say it is a great achievement.

But Li Lu forgot that civil servants would not reason with military officials, and his map guns were fired so loudly that no official in the battalion interceded for him.Therefore, Hong Chengchou has to uphold the original sentence for the sake of face.Li Lu looked doomed.

Seeing the serving sergeant coming to hold him up, Li Lu also panicked.In desperation, he threw out a shocking news: the peasant rebel army is heading towards Fengyang!

This is not because Li Lu concealed it when he saw Hong Chengchou. The main reason is that the news of Zhang Xianzhong's troops was only the guesswork of the officers of the Runing Army in Ye County. The accurate news was when Li Lu rushed to the bandit suppression army.It has not been passed on from Wu Shigong yet.However, in order not to suffer from the flesh and blood, Li Lu could only throw out this uncertain news first.

But this news stunned Hong Chengchou, Xuan Mo and other officials like a blow to the head.This went to great lengths to suppress the bandits.But the emperor's ancestral grave was wiped out.This matter is also a little too big!

Hong Chengchou didn't bother to punish Li Lu anymore. He sent scouts towards Fengyang and asked Li Lu about the details of the peasant rebel army.

But what can Li Lu say?It was the Runing Army who fought the battle, and it was the Runing Army who rescued them back and forth. He has been busy hugging his wives in Ye County.Therefore, the intelligence reported to Li Lu by the Runing Army, the speculation and analysis of the officers of the Runing Army, the hearsay news and Li Lu's own imagination, these things were all mixed together.They were all thrown to Hong Chengchou by Li Lu.

Hong Chengchou, who was in a turbulent mood, did not notice the exaggeration in Li Lu's words.On the one hand, he prayed to the gods to open his eyes, so that Fengyang could be preserved miraculously; on the other hand, he began to rack his brains to obtain some results. Although he couldn't shirk much responsibility, at least he had to perform some acts of redemption.

On the other hand, Xuan Mo was always a little gloating.This time the peasant rebel army entered Henan for the second time.Xuanmo also suffered a lot, but fortunately, all the influential cities in Henan were saved.

And now it's the turn of the surrounding provinces, let those governors also have a taste of "the suffering of the old man!".Fortunately, Xuanmo's city is quite deep, and he has been immersed in Confucianism for many years, so he immediately woke up, and kept silently saying in his heart: "Be careful of independence! Be careful of independence!"

On the second day, Li Lu, who had been restless all night after getting mad, saw a 180-degree change in the treatment he received.And this change is exactly what Xuan Mo pushed forward.

When he was in Xuzhou, Zhou Junwu, who felt that it was boring to stay in the Runing army, proposed to leave, and Wu Shigong just happened to send him to Zhu Dadian's army.

This week Junwu was not afraid of hard work, he rushed day and night to the army of Hong Chengchou and Xuan Mo, and immediately told his teacher, Xuan Mo, what he had seen and heard in the Runing Army.

Although he was mentally prepared, Xuanmo was still taken aback when he learned of the true strength of the Runing Army. After calming down, Xuanmo also guessed that this time the Runing Army alone dealt with all the peasant rebels.

What surprised Xuanmo even more was that Zhou Junwu told Xuanmo: Runing Army is not a tripartite coalition of Runing, Guide and Ye County, this army is completely under the command of Wu Shigong alone.

What kind of concept is this?This shows that Wu Shigong should be treated with care. If he offends Wu Shigong, he can completely ignore his nominal civil superior as a warlord;

Then Xuan Mo's choice will be easy.Try to win over Wu Shigong and make him a confidant. As for Zhou Junwu's grievances, it will be the price of his growth.Therefore, Li Lu immediately became Wu Shigong's favorite dog and gained Xuan Mo's attention.So when meeting Hong Chengchou again, Xuanmo said a lot of good things about Li Lu.

No matter how high Hong Chengchou's position is, Henan governor Xuan Mo will always give him face.Besides, Hong Chengchou is now worried about the news of Fengyang, and has no intention of punishing Li Lu, the local general.So after Xuan Mo interceded, he sold Xuan Mo a favor.

So until Li Lu returned to Ye County, he felt a little dizzy about the unpredictable treatment he received.Even when he saw the food and weapons that Xuanmote approved for him to bring back to Ye County, Li Lu seemed to be in a dream. (To be continued..)