Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 141 Shaking the government and the opposition
early morning.Inside and outside the Great Wall, there are dead bodies all over the place. The roads of the Great Wall stretch for more than ten miles and are covered with dead bodies. Of course, most of them are Tartars. Some corpses are piled up. The blood stained the city wall. , Goshawks hooted and circled in the air, and they could even hear the howling of wolves in the distance.

This is the result of Ji Dong's battle overnight. The military doctors hurriedly rescued the wounded and bandaged the wound.The injured soldiers of the Ming army were limping. They supported each other, dragged their tired bodies, and their faces showed extreme fatigue.

After a short rest, the Ming army checked the casualties, cleaned up the battlefield, dealt with the aftermath, and took care of the spoils.

These are two battlefields, on the Great Wall and outside the Great Wall.The two battlefields were nearly a hundred miles apart, and apart from blood and dead bodies, the battlefield was a mess.In the two battlefields, the Tartars dropped 6 horses overnight.

The Ming army invested a total of 8000 troops in these two battles, and also paid the price of more than 5000 casualties.

Compared with the annihilation of 6 Tartars, this casualty is insignificant, or even negligible.

But of course Ji Dong can't forget these more than 5000 warriors.Register the number of all casualties, report them to the imperial court, provide comfort to their families, and comfort the more than 3000 victims, let them rest in peace, build graves for them, and bury them generously.

Just near the battlefield, in a place with clear mountains and green waters outside the city wall, we found a treasure land of geomantic omen, collectively built a cemetery, buried more than 3 warriors together, and hired a sculptor to engrave the name of each warrior on the stone tablet. name.

Liu Zhaoji, Lin Yi and others led more than 2000 generals, stood solemnly in front of the cemetery, and then fired guns to mourn them off.

For the more than 6 dead Tartars, Lin Yi also properly dealt with them. He did not hold grudges when he died, and he did not let their corpses be left in the wilderness, dragged by wolves. Instead, he dug a mass grave and buried them collectively. .

There were more than 5000 casualties in this battle, more than 3000 were killed directly, and more than 2000 soldiers were injured and needed recuperation. Lin Yi and Liu Zhaoji visited and comforted them, including Zu Keyong.

Zu Keyong was seriously injured this time, with two arrows and three stab wounds.But this iron-clad man still did not fall, and he persisted until the end. He is worthy of being a model for the officers and men of the Guanning Army, and can be called the backbone of the Ming Army.

Send a military doctor to take care of him and let him recuperate well.

The scale of this great victory was unprecedented. 8000 Ming troops wiped out 6 Tartars. The two battlefields lasted most of the day and one night, which can be called a miracle.The trophies obtained were piled up like a mountain, including knives and spears, tents with drums and drums, horses and livestock, food, etc., all of which were registered by Ji Dong.

Then Liu Zhaoji formed a memorial, first reported to the Ministry of War, through the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of War, Chen Xinjia, and then played to the court.

In addition to reporting victory and claiming merit in the report, Liu Zhaoji also asked the emperor to order the Ministry of War to quickly replenish them with troops to make up for the reduction in the war.

When the news came out, the government and the public were shocked. This great victory was fought so beautifully. Even the two princes of the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo and Jierhalang, were killed and one injured. This is really a miracle.

The common people rushed to tell each other, and the most talked about after dinner was about Lin Yi, about how brave Lin Yi was, how he foresaw things like a god, how he strategized, how he won thousands of miles, and so on.

The officials of the main combat faction in the court, such as Yang Tinglin, the Minister of War and the Governor, were very happy to hear the news, and silently said in their hearts: "Mr. Lu Jiandou, you will soon hear the news of success in the countryside. , your subordinate Liu Zhaoji, and your good student Lin Yi are all promising!"

The happiest one was Emperor Chongzhen, holding Liu Zhaoji’s memorial, clapping his hands and laughing, exuberant: “Who says I have no heroes in Ming Dynasty? Liu Zhaoji, Lin Yi, Zu Keyong, and 8000 warriors are all my good sons. Do you dare to say that I am afraid of Tartars in field battles in Ming Dynasty? If Youqing waits like this, I will have no worries."

Emperor Chongzhen immediately issued an edict, approving all the requests in the memorial, comforting the families of the dead soldiers, and then rewarding the three armies, and allocated 10000 taels of silver from his internal funds as a reward.

The internal money is the emperor's private treasury. It is said that these rewards should be directly borne by the state treasury, but now the state treasury is so poor that Emperor Chongzhen has to pay for it himself.

There is still 1 taels of silver in this batch of Royal Wine and Royal Meat, and a total of 300 carts were loaded.The 10000 taels of silver are clearly written in the imperial decree. 3000 taels will be awarded to General Liu Zhaoji, the guerrilla general Zu Keyong will be directly promoted to a general, and 2000 taels of Baiyin will be rewarded. The remaining 5000 taels will be awarded to Miyun Deputy General Lin Resolute.

Because in this memorial, Liu Zhaoji was not like the other officers. He quickly stopped himself when he got credit, and quickly shirked his mistakes. He didn't brag about his credit, but sought truth from facts. He focused on commending Lin Yi and Zu Keyong, etc. people.

Emperor Chongzhen passed down an oral order to let Yang Tinglin, the minister of war and governor, as an angel official, take his imperial decree, personally escort 300 carts of wine and meat, leave the capital, and go to the Great Wall of Miyun to reward Lin Yi and these generals on behalf of the emperor.

Of course Yang Tinglin never tires of it, he admires these heroes from the bottom of his heart, now that Lu Xiangsheng is gone, he even regards them as Lu Xiangsheng's shadow.

Yang Tinglin led a thousand Beijing soldiers, pressed 300 carts, carried the royal official flag, and carried the imperial edict of Emperor Chongzhen, left the capital, and came to Miyun in a mighty way.

After Yang Tinglin left, Emperor Chongzhen passed down another decree, ordering the newly appointed Minister of War, Chen Xinjia, to assign soldiers to Liu Zhaoji and Lin Yi in Miyun. There are only 3000 people left in such an important line of defense. Maybe the Tartars will make a comeback For a large-scale attack, at least Chen Xinjia must allocate 1 soldiers and horses, and enough food, grass and ammunition within three months to go to Miyun and Xifengkou Pass City.

Chen Xinjia grinned when he heard that, 1 soldiers and generals are easy to gather, they can be transferred from nearby Daming Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Datong in Shanxi, Xuan Mansion and other places. The key is that food and payment are a big problem.Not only was there no money in the treasury, but there was also no grain.

Not only did the 1 people have no food, but soldiers and horses all over the country were asking for food, and there were a lot of empty wages everywhere, especially the soldiers and horses of Hong Chengchou and his bandits, who were seriously owed food and wages.

Emperor Chongzhen came up with a way. Under his initiative, Emperor Chongzhen took the lead in donating salaries and asked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and local officials from all over the country to also take the lead in donating food and salaries. All of them are impotent.

As a result, there were very few respondents, and the number of donations was very limited, which could not solve the fundamental problem.

In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to order the Ministry of Households to solve this urgent need and expand the scope of collection of salaries and salaries. In the past, it was only collected from Liaodong, Yongping, Shandong and other places, but now it is expanded to Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Huguang.

The common people in these places had just ushered in the first bumper harvest after the climate of the Little Ice River, and they all complained when the emperor raised taxes.Because although they ushered in a bumper harvest, they still couldn't eat enough except for handing in.

This is really suffering for the prosperity of the people, and for the death of the people...

When Yang Tinglin's team arrived in Miyun, Lin Yi and Liu Zhaoji were all overjoyed, and hurriedly lined up to meet the angel officer.

The angels were shut into the city, and 300 carts were also driven in.

Yang Tinglin, Liu Zhaoji, and Lin Yi are all old acquaintances. After exchanging pleasantries, Yang Tinglin read out the order, and Liu Zhaoji and Lin Yi received the order.

After the decree was read out, all the generals in the city cheered and cheered. For a moment, they felt that Emperor Chongzhen was a righteous and wise emperor.

Ji Dong is happy, but he still looks unfazed.

Then an order was issued to hold a banquet, and the whole army congratulated on the 3rd.Yang Tinglin was not in a hurry to leave, and stayed here with Lin Yi and Liu Zhaoji for 3 days.During the past three days, they drank and chatted, and Lin Yi learned a lot about the major events in the court through Yang Tinglin.

Knowing that the imperial court was going to send another 1 soldiers here, Lin Yi was very happy. He also felt that Emperor Chongzhen was very wise. What he lacked most now was soldiers.No matter how powerful a general has no soldiers, he is also a bare commander.A commander without soldiers is like a phoenix without feathers, not as good as a chicken.Especially in this troubled world, everything is possible with the barrel of a gun.

However, when Lin Yi learned that Emperor Chongzhen was going to impose additional tariffs and food payments on Henan, Qin, Jin, Huguang, etc., Lin Yi knew that the court was about to face disaster.

But Lin Yi, who is still soft-spoken, didn't say anything deeply. He knew that what he said was in vain, so he could only keep these in his heart.Still the same sentence, he can't change the court, he can't change others, he can only change himself, in this troubled world, if he can do a vigorous career, he is worthy of being a soldier, and he is also worthy of this journey.

(End of this chapter)