Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

On October 11th, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, [-] miles north of Ruzhou City, in the camp of the Ruzhou Army.

"To this day, I know that forming an army is easy, but raising an army is difficult! Hey!" Yu Zilian shook his head and sighed.

In fact, Yu Zilian did not say a word, that is: "The aftermath of the soldiers and the compensation are even more difficult!"

After the establishment of the Ruzhou Army, it was both ability and luck. Yu Zilian has been relatively smooth.But when he started raising the army for a long time, he found himself in a big trouble.

In a word: it is food and salary!No matter how powerful the army is, as long as there is no food and pay, it will be disbanded sooner or later.The reason why Yu Zilian has been able to survive until now is that besides farming in the northern part of Ruzhou, his status as a civil servant can get some food and salaries from the imperial court, which solves part of the problem; if he is lucky enough to win all the time, he can support the war with war, which solves the other part In addition, because Wu Shigong wanted the Ruzhou Army to block the west wing, he subsidized some of the Ruzhou Army's weapons and food at a very cheap price.

But Yu Zilian knew that this was not a long-term solution.Because Henan is not the main battlefield, Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army has an embarrassing status in the court, so the food and pay allocated by the court is getting less and less.

What is even more frightening is that Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong still have personal grievances, so Wu Shigong may cut off the supply of weapons and food for the Ruzhou Army at any time.Besides, the last time Wu Shigong was arrested by the imperial envoy also left Yu Zilian with lingering fears, and he didn't want to have any relationship with Wu Shigong again.

However, as the battle progressed, the Ruzhou Army's funding gap was getting bigger and bigger because of the severe drought.Almost all of the farmland was spent, and Yu Zilian had to in turn allocate grain and grass from the army to the local disaster relief.

Even more distressing.No matter how many victories one after another, the Ruzhou army will inevitably suffer casualties.The money for pensions and medical treatment flowed out like running water, making Yu Zilian wish he could turn into a cornucopia. [

For this reason, Yu Zilian could only take the initiative to disarm the army, first reducing the Ruzhou Army to 2000 people, and then tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, struggling to support the operation of the Ruzhou Army.He finally realized that Wu Shigong had been worrying about the financial problems of the Runing Army for a long time.

Sometimes Yu Zilian envied a military officer like Zuo Liangyu very much.If you are as shameless as they are and have no bottom line in doing things, then you can resort to the trick of plundering the people.

"My lord! The soldiers are rewarded too much, and the military pension is too heavy. Can you save a little or two, and you can support it for a longer time." Zuo Yin persuaded.

"I can't bear it!" Yu Zilian said in desperation, "It's not just to make the soldiers worry about their future, and it's very different from that Wu bastard. Erlang treats me like a father and brother. I should also treat Erlang like a younger brother. All of us in Ruzhou Army One heart, thanks to Erlang not being afraid of being disabled!"

Yu Zilian did learn a lot from Wu Shigong's Runing Army.Therefore, he also learned the advantages of treating soldiers well and paying attention to pensions in the Runing Army.Although this standard was still far from that of the Runing Army, it was definitely regarded as being well paid in the official army at that time.In addition, Yu Zilian always took the lead in fighting, so he maintained the Ruzhou Army into a very united group.

I thought of my hard work.Yu Zilian couldn't help complaining: "The Ming Dynasty is so...! Hey! Sometimes I admire Wu Bifu. After so many years and so many troops, he still Can it be maintained? It’s not that I have lost some of my reputation. Now, if I can make Erlang healthy and healthy, I really don’t need those false names.”

"Sometimes I figured it out. This Ruzhou army is not my private soldier, but also an official army. I have been procrastinating for a while. Saving one person is one person. One day I can do nothing. The most I can do is to let go and return to my official position." It’s just farming and studying in Changzhou.”

"Why did your lord say that?" Zuo Yin immediately accused, "Ten thousand tigers are looking at your lord! Besides, your lord just passed by, how can you think of begging for bones? Searching all over the court and the public, how many people are like your lord?" Pulling up a strong army with nothing? I really want to give my lord a blow."

Yu Zilian hurriedly bowed to the left, and apologized: "Sir, you taught me a lesson. Thank you, Zilian! However, long-term plans also need to be considered. Now that the Tartars outside the pass have committed crimes against the capital again, I ordered the King of Ruzhou Army Qin, No matter what, let's pass this level!"

"What kind of arrangements do you think the adults should make?" Zuo Yin asked.

"It's a matter of eating the king's salary and being loyal to the king! The whole army is ready to go north to serve the king in three days!" Yu Zilian made a decisive decision.

Zuo Yin had no objection to King Quqin.However, Zuo Yin still had some opinions about the deployment of the whole army: "My lord! Ruzhou is the foundation of our army! Should we send more people to stay behind to prevent the prying eyes of the Shaanxi bandits and other families?"

"Let's not leave a single soldier, the whole army will be mobilized!" Yu Zilian has already figured this out, "The Tartars are powerful, and going to three or five thousand is of no use, it is better to go to battle with all, at least it will make the Tartars a little scruples .As for the root of Ruzhou, I will ask Bifu Wu to send troops to maintain it."

"Ah?" Zuo Yin thought he had an auditory hallucination, "Why would your lord think of Wu Zongbing? Isn't that leading wolves into the house?"

"Ruzhou is the gateway to Henan. If you want to protect Runing and Guide to be peaceful, Mr. Wu has no choice but to send troops." Yu Zilian explained.Then he was silent for a while, and praised Wu Shigong in a rare way: "That Mr. Wu is still a man of faith, and he has never regretted his promise. If it were someone else, it would be the real way to lure the wolf into the house." [

These words also made Zuo Yin silent.They all know the "piss" nature of those officials in Ming Dynasty. If other officials are allowed to "intervene" in the tuntian villages of the Ruzhou Army, when Yu Zilian King Qin returns, those tuntian Zhuangzi may be swallowed up by them, not even bones left up.

"But if Zongbing Wu regrets his promise and refuses to leave, it will be troublesome!" Zuo Yin finally advised.No matter how you think about it, you can't rest assured that you pin your hopes on the reputation of people with personal enemies.

"Hey——! Who would want to do this if there is a way to go!" Yu Zilian sighed, "Actually, there is nothing wrong with those common people falling into Wu Bifu's hands. Besides, King Qin is very dangerous this time. Retire. If that's the case, it's better to let these family members of Erlang follow Wu Bifu, at least have a full meal!"

That night, Yu Zilian wrote a letter to Wu Shigong with his own handwriting. There were only eight big characters in the letter: "I will go to King Qin and entrust Ruzhou temporarily!"

On October 11th, [-]th year of Chongzhen, in Liu Zeqing's mansion in Caozhou, Shandong.

Liu Zeqing gave detailed instructions to the confidant in front of him: "You must try to meet Chang Jing's elder brother and confirm the time for him to send troops. The Tartars have already been active in Tongzhou and Dezhou. We will go north alone, and we may fall into a tight siege. Let Chang Jing old man The younger brother will go with us, and there will be a support between the two armies. Remember! We must let brother Chang Jing strengthen ties with our army."

These years, Liu Zeqing has followed what he said to Wu Shigong back then: the practice of preserving strength, plus there is no war in Shandong, so his Caozhou Army has always maintained a [-]-strong army.Of course, there are only four thousand servants with combat effectiveness at most.

Because of the income from the saltworks, plus Liu Zeqing wantonly annexed land due to the disaster year, and then conducted business with Wu Shigong, his small life is actually quite beautiful.

But when the imperial edict was issued this time, Liu Zeqing was upset.Why is Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, stationed in Dezhou, can resist the Qing army from invading Shandong in his hometown, but his own Caozhou army wants to go north to serve the king?

But the imperial edict cannot be ignored.That was Quqin Wang, not an ordinary deployment of troops to fight, at least Liu Zeqing had to make a gesture of loyalty to the king.

So Liu Zeqing prepared to send five thousand troops to the north.But because he was afraid of danger on the way, he thought of Wu Shigong, and wanted to go north with Wu Shigong's Runing Army.

"But Commander! The villain must be traveling day and night and dare not neglect, but it takes more than ten days to go back and forth. Can the Commander survive the delay?" the confidant asked.

"It's not easy to find a way? You don't have to worry about this matter. Also! In case Brother Chang Jing refuses to send troops, let him explain clearly, then I will make another arrangement."

"It's handsome!"

"Then go quickly!"

Seeing his cronies leave, Liu Zeqing began to ponder: what reason to delay for a few days?It's still the old way, let's take sick leave!Just bedridden.After solving this problem, Liu Zeqing walked to the back house contentedly. A few days ago, Liu Zeqing took in a concubine, and now he really needs to be "bedridden".

On October 11th, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Li Lu was in the camp of Nanyang City.

Li Lu stood on the high platform of the school grounds, facing more than 7000 soldiers and shouted: "Brothers! How has the Lord treated you these years? You can also "touch" your chest and think about it. I don't want to talk nonsense. This The second master is going to Qin Wang!"

"Those bastards at the border who have no balls can't even make a tight opening, and they keep letting the Tartars into the capital. Master, who came out of the capital, couldn't help it. He wanted to meet the Tartars and see what they were up to." Is it three-headed and six-armed?"

"In a word: voluntary! Those who are willing to go with me are welcome, and those who are not willing will not be embarrassed. Later, if you want to go, the brothers will come to the front to register. If you really don't have brothers to accompany you, you will go by yourself. At most 100 catties were thrown there, and I want to let the Tartars see the demeanor of the men in the capital!..."

Before Li Lu could finish speaking, the soldiers below were furious: "I am willing to fight the Tartars with the commander!"

Li Lu has always been very kind to his soldiers, he made a lot of money, and the soldiers also got small profits, so now that Li Lu encouraged them, those soldiers couldn't contain their emotions.

Half an hour later, Li Lu listened to his subordinates report with a red face: "Marshal, more than 5000 brothers have signed up!"

"There are too many people! Let's draw [-] yuan! But the brothers who sign up will be rewarded!" Li Lu said with a wave of his hand.

"Master! Are there fewer people?"

Li Lu immediately laughed out loud: "We only have [-] horses, and each of us can run faster. And I must be walking with my brother-in-law. Why do you bring so many people? Do you think I'm so stupid? Don't you think about the safety of your brothers first?"

Hearing this, the cronies around suddenly laughed lightly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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