Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 188 Coming Out of the Mountain ([-])

The world is a game of chess, and cities are like chess pieces. If one side changes, the other will be affected.The fall of Datong Jiangguan in Shanxi affected Shandong, and changes in Shandong also affected the situation in Jiangnan.The main force of the first battalion went to Shandong to rescue Sun Zhi of the second battalion, but suffered heavy losses.After being attacked by floods, Sun Zhi abandoned Caozhou Mansion and led the rest of the Second Battalion to march [-] miles to Yizhou Mansion.Chen Chen led his army back to Yingzhou Mansion.

Because the first battalion was defeated in the battle against Lu and lost nearly ten thousand regiments, the situation in Yingzhou Mansion and Fengyang Mansion suddenly became tense.The Tartars stationed heavily in Luzhou Prefecture and along the Chuzhou line are about to move.It was just at this time that another news came that the regiment bandits suddenly sent troops to Lu'an Prefecture, and had captured Huoshan County and the city of Lu'an Prefecture. Except for the remote Yingshan County, the regiment bandits had almost captured all of Lu'an Prefecture. .

After the news spread to the Jiangning Mansion, Ma Guozhu, Governor of Liangjiang, urgently sent someone to summon Jiangning Governor Tu Guobin and Su Song Admiral Zhang Tianlu.

The governor of Jiangning is stationed in Suzhou, with jurisdiction over Jiangning Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion.Admiral Su Song is resident in Songjiang Mansion, and is in charge of the green camp military affairs of Songjiang Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion.

Two days later, Tu Guobin and Zhang Tianlu came together.When the two arrived, Ma Guozhu sent someone to invite Bashan, the minister of the Manchurian garrison in the city, and Zhang Dayou, the minister of the Han garrison in the city.

After meeting, Ma Guozhu exchanged some pleasantries, and then explained the reason for recruiting several people.When several people learned that Lu'an Prefecture had been captured by bandits, they were all surprised. The bandits were so rampant, and Lu'an Prefecture now had two prefectures and one prefecture in Jiangnan Province. This is even more so. The situation is overwhelming.Although they were surprised, they were not in a hurry. They thought that as long as the army strictly guarded Luzhou Mansion and Chuzhou, and waited for the imperial court to put down the bandits in the north, the army would naturally go south to wipe out the bandits in Jiangnan Province.

"You should think lightly, I'm afraid the situation is serious!" Ma Guozhu said with a sigh.

"Why did the master of Taiwan make such a statement?" Tu Guobin, governor of Jiangning, asked hastily when he saw this.

"There is news from Luzhou Mansion that the regiment bandits who captured Lu'an Prefecture have a lot of banners. There are three battalions, five battalions, seven battalions, guard battalions, and reserve battalions. It seems that the headquarters of the bandits are dispatched. !” Ma Guozhu said heavily.

Since the power of the security regiment grew and began to spread across the country, Tartar also had a deep understanding of the security regiment, knowing that there were many numbers within the security regiment.One of the battalions was in the northwest of Jiangnan Province, the second battalion was active in the southwest of Shandong, the fourth battalion spanned Shanxi, and the sixth battalion appeared in Sichuan.Then when the news came that the third battalion, fifth battalion, seventh battalion, guard battalion, and some reserve battalion flags appeared in Lu'an Prefecture, Ma Guozhu suspected that the headquarters of the security regiment had appeared.It's just that the bandit headquarters was defeated by King Dingnan and King Nan the year before last, and then fled into the mountains.But I never thought that the bandit headquarters would come out of the mountain.

Hearing that the security regiment headquarters had captured Lu'an Prefecture, everyone present was terrified.In their impression, even the bandit's foreign departments are so powerful that they can stir up wind and rain in the north and make the imperial court burn out, so how powerful is this headquarters?

This is the subconscious of everyone, always thinking that the branch is strong, and the headquarters that can order the branch must be stronger.A weak trunk is a strong branch, and when the trunk is weak, the branch becomes a trunk.

Tu Guobin, the governor of Jiangning, was recruited by Hong Chengchou for Taihu pirates in his early years. After many battles, he was promoted to general soldier, and later surrendered to the Tartars with Hong Chengchou.When Duoduo went south, Tu Guobin also went south.In the fourth year of Huaxing, Wu Shengzhao, the admiral Su Song of the Tartars, rebelled against the Tartars in the Songjiang Mansion, but was defeated and killed.The Turkish state guest ordered the arrest of those who participated, and more than a hundred people would be captured and killed in one day, which would only stop in half a month.Therefore, Tu Guobin is a hardcore traitor.Because Tu Guobin worked hard as a traitor, Huaxing was promoted to governor of Jiangning in five years.

Tu Guobin has also heard about the many policies of the bandits. As long as they believe that they are traitors, they will kill them all. This makes the hardcore traitor Tu Guobin very afraid.So he said to Ma Guozhu worriedly.

"My lord, Lu'an Prefecture is less than [-] miles away from Jiangning Mansion. Since the headquarters of the bandits is out of the mountain, they must be targeting Jiangning Mansion. But now the imperial army is either in the north or in the south. Jiangning Mansion It's really empty! Although Taihu Lake bandits killed Wu Yi and demoted Zhou Rui, there are still some active members. If news of bandits is heard, there may be trouble again. At that time, there will be Taihu bandits in the east, and bandits in the west , it became a pincer attack.”

As soon as Tu Guobin's voice fell, Admiral Su Song and Zhang Tianlu interjected: "Master Taiwan, after several rounds of deployment and battle damage, the number of troops under the bid is now less than [-]. If the regiment bandits attack Jiangning Mansion, the number of troops under the bid will not be enough. .”

Although the admiral is also from the first rank, and the governor added the title of minister of the Ministry of War to the first rank, but the Tartars use literature to control the military, and the governor is in charge of the military administration of several provinces. This right is not comparable to that of a small admiral.So for Governor Ma Guozhu, Zhang Tianlu also calls himself a subordinate.

Zhang Tianlu was from Yulin, Shaanxi. He and his younger brother Zhang Tianfu were drafted into the army at the same time in the late Ming Dynasty.His official career was prosperous, and he was promoted from general to deputy commander-in-chief, and then to commander-in-chief, and later served as the forward commander-in-chief of Admiral Shi Kefa.

In the second year of Huaxing, when Duduo, Prince Yu of the Tartars, led his army to Yangzhou, Zhang Tianlu and his younger brother led 3000 men to surrender to the Tartars.Then Zhang Tianlu turned around and helped the Tartar army besiege the former Ming army and suppress the anti-Tartar struggle of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.In the third year of Huaxing, the Tatars promoted him to be the admiral of Huiningchi.In the fourth year of Huaxing, he was transferred to Admiral Su Song.For Zhang Tianlu, it can be said that all his life's glory and prosperity rested on the Tartars.His hands are stained with the blood of his compatriots, and there is no turning back.

Therefore, Zhang Tianlu was very nervous about the possible Jiangning offensive by the bandits.At this time, the bandits were already well-known, and now the fourth battalion of the bandits in Shanshan and Shaanxi became the leader of the local rebels, with hundreds of thousands of people, and became a confidant of the imperial court.

Hearing what Tu Guobin and Zhang Tianlu said, the garrison minister Manchu Bashan and the Han minister Zhang Dayou also became anxious.

"Jiangning's political status is extremely important. If Jiangning is lost, the whole of Jiangnan will be corrupted, and the rebels in the south will become even more arrogant. Without the taxes and taxes of several prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, the court will also struggle." Bashan said anxiously.

"Master Taiwan, our department only has more than a thousand people. Although most of them are elites, the number is too small. The regiment bandits are now in a difficult situation. Please send troops to support Jiangning earlier!" Zhang Dayou also said.

Seeing that several colleagues were like this, Ma Guozhu nodded and said.

"Even though the gangsters are arrogant, as long as we ministers are united, we can always keep this tax-heavy land for the imperial court!"

After finishing speaking, Ma Guozhu ordered Tu Guobin to collect military rations and civilian husbands, and ordered Zhang Tianlu to recruit auxiliary soldiers to train soldiers, and was always ready to deal with the offensive of regiment bandits.Now nearly half of my troops have been concentrated in the defense lines of Luzhou Mansion and Chuzhou, and Jiangning Mansion needs heavy defense here, and the rest of the prefectures and counties also need to be suppressed by troops, and Luzhou and Chuzhou cannot give up easily.So for the officers and soldiers who are still in Luzhou Mansion and Chuzhou, Ma Guozhu can only hope that they can kill more bandits, so as to serve the court and relieve Jiangning's pressure.

(End of this chapter)