Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 210
Although the personal soldiers don't care much, but no one below does not know what the personal soldiers do. Once a crime is caught by the personal soldiers, it is basically no good, because there is absolutely no favor in front of the personal soldiers , The guards only listen to Li Jing alone.

Li Jing was away on an expedition and left the captain of the personal army in Jiang County. Everyone knows what effect it will have.

But Li Jing didn't expect Shitou to come to Anyi. Could it be that something big happened at home?
Listen to the soldiers guarding outside the tent say: "Brother Shitou is here, the commander is inside, go in quickly."

Immediately the tent door was opened, and Zhou Shitou strode in.

Seeing Li Jing, Zhou Shishi knelt on one knee and said loudly: "See you, Commander!"

Li Jing waved his hand: "Get up! Why are you here?"

Zhou Shitou clasped his fists and said, "To report to Commander, Mr. Yuan ordered me to come here. The imperial envoy who was conferred by the imperial court came the day before yesterday, and asked the Commander to go back to accept the order."

Li Jingjing nodded and said, "What did Mr. Yuan say?"

Zhou Shitou said: "Mr. Yuan asked me to tell the commander-in-chief that there is also a supervising army with the imperial envoy."

Li Jing was taken aback, and sent a supervisor?Where is this sung?I am just a small general, sending a fart to supervise the army.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing suddenly understood that he appeared out of thin air, and first served as Jiangzhou's garrison, and before he received the canonization, he was promoted as a general.The emperor didn't believe the credit reported here, so he sent a supervising army over to check the authenticity.

Thinking about how the emperor was so suspicious of the officials below, Li Jing secretly sighed in his heart. Although Zhu Youjian was diligent in his work, how could he be busy with so many things in the country alone?But he still doesn't trust the people below, he wants to ask about everything, he is really exhausted and deserves it.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian's talent is limited, there is no way to solve many problems at all, and he likes to blame others when problems arise.Above the court, the cabinet changed people like a lantern, and officials from various departments withdrew when they made mistakes. In the past few years since he took the throne, including Cui Chengxiu, the minister of the Ministry of War has changed seven terms, and two of them were killed.

The Secretary of the Ministry of War is equivalent to the Minister of Defense. With such frequent changes, how can strategy and tactics be implemented.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian has no knowledge of people. Sun Chengzong, who should be appointed as Minister of the Ministry of War, he abandoned. Instead, he appointed a bunch of idiots.

The officials in charge of the Ministry of War do not understand military affairs, and the generals who lead the troops to fight sometimes can ignore them. After all, the officials in the court are far away from them, and it is impossible to keep an eye on them.

But the supervising army is more annoying. The supervising army travels with the army, right beside the general commanding the battle.

The responsibility of the supervising army was originally to supervise the generals below to execute the orders above, and at the same time to verify the performance, such as how many enemies were killed during the battle.

However, since the supervising army is often served by eunuchs, they are people close to the emperor. Relying on being able to report directly to the emperor, the generals below dare not offend them. These people often point fingers in the army, and often come up with random ideas when fighting , Interfering with the general's combat plan, what's more, directly bypassing the general to command.

Especially during the reign of Chongzhen, the supervision of the army was intensified. Because these people were afraid of death, they often transferred the elite soldiers of the army to protect themselves.

When fighting, the elite soldiers are all in the hands of the supervising army, and the generals can't command at all. Can this battle still be fought?

With these guys who don't know how to fight at all participating in commanding marches and fighting in the army, can the Ming Dynasty do well in foreign wars?Basically, nine times out of ten lose.

What's even more exasperating is that the supervising army is fine after losing the battle, but the general who led the army was unlucky, and all the generals who were blamed were blamed, and there was no place to reason.

Now that Zhu Youjian got such a thing for Li Jing, Li Jing suddenly felt a headache.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing understood why Yuan Keli sent Shishi over.

When the supervising army arrived at Li Jing's territory, he naturally began to point fingers again. Yuan Keli was afraid that if the gang of personal soldiers would arrest him in anger, it would be impossible to deal with it.

Shaking his head, Li Jing put aside the matter of supervising the army for the time being, and said to Zhou Shitou: "Forget about this, accompany me to the front and have a look. These things will be discussed after I take down Jiezhou."

Zhou Shitou nodded, walked out of the camp first, took the reins of the horse from his subordinates, bent down and said, "Commander, get on the horse."

Li Jing smiled, patted Shi Shi on the shoulder and said, "I'm not too old to ride a horse."

Shitou leaned down and said, "Come on, Shitou hasn't served the commander in a long time."

Li Jing had no choice but to grab the reins, pretend to be the saddle, put his feet on the back of the stone, and use the strength of the stone to stand up, turn over and jump on the horse. "

Leading Li Jing onto the horse, Zhou Shitou beckoned to a group of his own soldiers, and everyone mounted the horse one after another.

Li Jing came to the front line with his own soldiers on horseback. When Chen Dazhuang saw it, he hurried over and said, "Marshal, you are here. The officers and soldiers in the city have gone out of their way, and they can hide from the guns. I bombarded them twice in a row." Turns out, the officers and soldiers are fine."

Li Jingjing nodded with a smile and said, "I'm not a fool, so I'm standing there waiting for you to blow me up!"

Seeing that there were no officers and soldiers on the city wall, Li Jing said: "We have repeatedly used artillery to help the rogues attack the city. The officers and soldiers thought they already knew the details, so they took precautions in advance and only went up the city wall after our shelling stopped. Look, the wall There is no one on the ground now, what is the use of firing cannons, it is just a waste of shells."

Looking up at the artillerymen standing on the sentry towers, Li Jing sighed and said: "In war, you have to adapt to the situation. The purpose of my construction of the sentry towers is to increase the attack distance of the artillery and suppress the artillery of the officers and soldiers. Now that the goal has been achieved, why do you still use it?" Shelling on the sentry tower? Now you divide the artillery into three parts, one part does not move, and monitors the officers and soldiers on the city wall, and orders the soldiers to advance part of the sentry tower to approach and suppress, and the other part to go down the tower and advance [-] steps forward , shelling on flat ground."

Chen Dazhuang slapped his head and said with a smile: "I thought that when the commander-in-chief built the sentry tower, he had to bombard it, but I forgot what the sentry tower is for."

Li Jing shook his head and said, "Put the cart before the horse! That's it! Get ready to go!"

Chen Dazhuang nodded, hurriedly ordered a part of the artillery to come down, and then ordered the infantry to push the sentry tower forward.

The big moves of the rogues below the city naturally cannot be hidden from the eyes of the officers and soldiers on the city.

Zhou Kang watched the rogues struggling to push the sentry tower towards the city wall, and immediately knew what the rogues were going to do.

Zhou Kang wanted to order the soldiers to bombard the bandits, but seeing the rogue artillery on the watch tower opposite, he gave up his idea.

Once the artillery of the officers and soldiers is on the city wall, it will inevitably attract the shelling of the enemy, which will only increase the casualties in vain.

Seeing the rogues' aggressive attacks and sharp weapons, Zhou Kang suddenly had a question in his heart: If the rogues had such powerful weapons, how could they be repeatedly defeated by the officers and soldiers?
One must know that the rogues have an army of [-]. Even if the old and weak, women and children are discarded, there are at least [-] strong and strong troops.

And after capturing the city, how can it be easily breached by defending the city with such artillery?

Thinking of some time ago, there was a troop composed of militiamen who kept conquering the cities captured by the rogues, and Zhou Kang suddenly realized something in his heart.

Zhou Kang carefully looked at the rogue troops on the opposite side, and saw that the rogue troops looked like a whole, but the artillery unit seemed to be setting up a different banner. As for the infantry defending near the artillery, the direction of defense was actually the rogue troops on both sides.

Looking back, I saw that there were still a few small groups of troops faintly attacking the bandits.

In the distance, there is a camp in the distance, which is completely different from the camp of the rogues.

Seeing this, Zhou Kang immediately understood the reason, and cursed inwardly: "Damn it, this is driving wolf and tiger!"

Knowing the inside story, Zhou Kang didn't dare to hesitate, and hurried down the city wall to find Zhang Li.

When he saw Zhang Li, he saw a group of officials surrounding Zhang Li and flattering him. This one said how wise and powerful the Master Zhizhou was, and the other said that the Master Zhizhou managed to repel the bandits twice in a row.

Zhang Li's face sank like water, and he didn't say a word.

Seeing Zhou Kang approaching, Zhang Li separated the officials and hurriedly said, "Have the rogues retreated?"

Seeing Zhou Kang shaking his head, Zhang Li sighed and said, "I knew that the bandits would not retreat easily."

Immediately, Zhang Li noticed that Zhou Kang's expression seemed a little strange. Zhang Li waved his hand, stopped the officials next to him from speaking, then got up and walked towards Zhou Kang.

Seeing Zhang Li approaching, Zhou Kang said in a low voice, "My lord, please follow me."

Zhang Li nodded slightly.

Zhou Kang took Zhang Li to a corner of the city wall, pointed to the army of rogues opposite and said, "Can you see what's wrong with the rogues opposite?"

Zhang Li shook his head and said: "I don't understand military affairs, so I can't see it. If Zhou Qianhu finds something wrong, let's just say it."

Zhou Kang nodded. What he admired most was Zhang Li's point. If you don't understand, you just don't understand. It's not like some officials pretend to understand. They obviously don't know, but they have to talk nonsense.

Pointing to the rogue artillery unit on the opposite side, Zhou Kang explained in detail the suspicious points he saw and his own analysis.

After Zhang Li listened, he pondered for a while and said: "You mean that these artillerymen are not with the rogues besieging the city. Do you suspect that these people are that group of militia troops?"

Zhou Kang nodded: "Actually, the last general is just a guess. It is said that the civilian army has not fought with the bandits once or twice. How could it be possible to mix with the bandits?"

Zhang Li shook his head and said: "I'm afraid your guess is right. This group of militiamen is not from our same group. After Wenxi County, which was captured by the thieves two months ago, was taken back by the militia, I sent people to investigate secretly. I found out that they actually appointed officials in private. At first I thought that the local officials were killed, and the militia had no choice but to do so, but then they did not come to the state government to ask for the appointment of officials. At that time, I suspected that this group of militia had ulterior motives."

(End of this chapter)