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

Chapter 174 Moving to Suide
Of course, Ji Dong can't stop the thief for the sake of fighting the thief, he has to find ways to seize the time to strengthen himself now.

This battle won more than 1000 bandit soldiers, and the harvest is not small. Of course, the price paid is not too big. There are more than 300 elite troops, but only [-] casualties. This credit will be reported in the future. He had to be rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen.If the court is unwilling to privately recruit thieves, Lin Yi would rather use his own money to support them. Of course he knows that in this troubled world, there are soldiers and horses, and they have the right to speak.

What's more, in the current situation, Lin Yi knew that the imperial court would not care about these trivial matters at all. As long as he could defend the border and suppress thieves for the imperial court, he would be a hero. .

As a person who has traveled through time, Lin Yi has a better understanding of the Chongzhen Emperor. Although the Chongzhen Emperor is suspicious and self-willed, he still sympathizes with his courtiers in times of crisis. According to historical records, Zuo Liangyu supported his troops and refused to listen. He was dispatched to comfort him with kind words, and he was named Ning Nanbo.In order to rely heavily on Wu Sangui, let him guard the capital, and also made him an earl, completely ignoring that his uncle Zu Dashou had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and seduced him many times to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

According to the laws of Ming Dynasty, both of these two people would have to be sentenced to death, but Emperor Chongzhen not only did not punish them for their crimes, but instead made them officials. Under normal circumstances, they are the reliance of the court.

This shows that Emperor Chongzhen is still very tolerant sometimes. As long as he can suppress thieves and exterminate bandits, expand his troops, and increase his strength, it is not a problem at all. There is nothing wrong with it, as long as no one intentionally misinterprets or adds fuel to it, nothing will happen.

Now the imperial court is only busy with foreign affairs and domestic affairs, so when Lin Yi was doing these things, he was not at all worried that Emperor Chongzhen would be unhappy.

As for these thieves who are easy to betray, Ji Dong is not worried.

Because Ji Dong knew that most of these thieves were starving people, desperate and forced by life, he tucked his head in his belt and walked this way.Now catch them and don't kill them, but give them favors, let them wear military uniforms, eat and drink, and have money to take, and have credit to make, so they probably won't turn against it.

Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Ma Huihui, Luo Rucai, the reason why these people rebelled repeatedly was because Emperor Chongzhen could not control them.

In addition, not all thieves are repeated generations. Liu Guoneng, who broke through the sky, was also a gangster who caused headaches for the government. He used to be sworn brothers with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng. His reputation was second only to Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai.But after this man surrendered to the imperial court, he worked very hard to suppress the bandits. According to historical records, he made many military exploits, and finally fell into the hands of Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng persuaded him to follow him again, but Liu Guoneng flatly refused.

This shows that these people can be controlled, and if they can be controlled, they can be used by me.

The reason why Ji Dong has recruited them now is to control them and achieve the purpose of using them for me.

Facts have proved that Ji Dong is completely correct. His move is very clever and effective. Since then, more than 1000 thieves have followed him wholeheartedly.

Soon Jiong Yi found out the ins and outs of the thieves in this area from the mouths of these surrendered generals. After analyzing and sorting out, he concluded two most useful pieces of information.

One is the main force of the bandits. At this time, they are mainly concentrated in Suide and Yichuan, and there are 4 to [-] people. Their main target this time is Yan'an.

The second is the Shetatian and Sweeping Tigers that have been eliminated by Ji Dong and the others. They took more than 1 people to attack Xi'an Mansion in a feigned attack to contain the troops of Xi'an Mansion and cooperate with Guo Tianxing and the others to capture Yan'an Mansion.These thieves heard that only 7000 reinforcements had come from Miyun, they dismissed it, and swallowed Ji Yi with a contemptuous attitude, which resulted in the battle of Longmen Mountain.

Ji Dong was very happy to learn about this, because these enemy situations are so valuable that they can be said to be hard to buy.

Lin Yi had a plan to destroy the enemy, and immediately wrote a letter to Li Guoqi, the general soldier in Shaanxi, telling him about the bandits he had learned and the situation of the Longmen Mountain catastrophe, and told him his next plan to destroy the enemy.Lin Yi moved north to attack Suide, let Li Guoqi's troops go out of Xi'an, and attacked Yichuan. If they can take these two places, it means that they will cut off the retreat of the thieves, let the Yan'an soldiers stick to the city first, and wait for them. After success, then fight out from the city, and cooperate with the inside and the outside, and the thieves can be wiped out.

After the letter was written, he reviewed it in detail. Seeing that there were no mistakes, he signed it with his own hand and stamped it with his own general seal. Xiaoying and Zhezhe helped him dry the ink and sealed it with fire tin.

Then Lin Yi called Zhang Hua in and asked him to ride a fast horse to Xi'an Mansion to deliver the letter, and told him that the matter was of great importance and he must hand it over to Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi.

Although Zhang Hua has a lecherous problem, he is still a useful talent. He has rich experience and good skills. In addition, he is clever and thoughtful. Finish.

After Zhang Hua took the order, he hid the letter on his body, and then picked out a few skilled followers, who beat horses like flying horses, and left Ji Dong's camp overnight.

Ji Dong didn't delay either, the military situation was changing rapidly and there was no opportunity to miss it.In addition, I learned from the generals that there are more than 1 people in Shetatian and the others. The battle at Longmen Mountain only wiped out two thieves and their main force. There must be fish that slipped through the net.After returning back, after Guo Tianxing and the others got the news, if they adjusted their strategic deployment, then Ji Dong's plan for this battle would be in vain, tantamount to losing his fighting chance.

Soldiers are precious and fast, and Lin Yi set up camp on the fourth watch of the night when Zhang Hua went to Xi'an to deliver the letter, and the direction was of course Suide County in the northwest direction.Lin Yi and the others had originally planned to go to Xi'an Mansion from the Luliang area in Shanxi, but now they had to turn to the northwest, because Xi'an Mansion was fine.

Ji Dong ordered to speed up the march. According to his plan, the journey of more than five hundred miles must be arrived within two days.

Don't worry about going the wrong way if you are not familiar with the geography of this area. Lin Yi has recruited more than 1000 bandit soldiers, not only increasing the strength of more than 1000 troops, but also providing reliable military information and being a guide.

Thieves haunt the mountains and hide in the mountains. They are familiar with the thieves in this area. They know the way with their eyes closed, and they also avoid detours. , Saved a lot of mahjong for Ji Dong, and there is no need to send people to inquire about Taoism, which is twice the result with half the effort.

Two days later, more than 8000 people of Lin Yi appeared in the mountains and forests dozens of miles southeast of Suide...

Zhang Hua took Lin Yi's letter with him, and arrived outside the city of Xi'an Fu after more than two hours. At this time, the fourth watch had just passed.Zhang Hua and the others took a nap in the woods beside the road. When the city opened at dawn, they flew into Xi'an Mansion in Malaysia.

In the past two days, Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, is getting angry about the reinforcements. Tens of thousands of thieves are eyeing Xi'an and Yan'an, and they only have 16000 officers and soldiers who can fight. Depressed, how dare you come out to fight against the thieves?
Several county towns were lost, thieves killed officials and seized the mansion, and so many officials and yamen died, can the court spare him?I am afraid that he will not be able to pass the test of Ding Qirui, the governor of Shaanxi, and Zheng Chongjian, the governor of the three sides. He urgently needs to win a few battles. If he kills or captures some thieves alive or drives them away, he can also make up for his mistakes and alleviate his crimes, otherwise he will be killed. Waiting to be impeached and put in jail to lose his head.

But he was seriously short of troops. It was said that nearly 2 soldiers came to support him. As a result, a total of 7000 soldiers from Miyun came. They were afraid of falling into the trap of the thieves, so they dared not leave the city easily.In this way, there is probably no hope for Miyun's reinforcements.This is how to do?If the thieves attack on a large scale, Yan'an Mansion or Xi'an Mansion, how many days can they last with such a small force?If Xi'an Mansion or Yan'an Mansion makes another mistake, I don't know how many heads he will need to grow to be able to go up to the peak.

In the past two days, he has sent two groups of people to Governor Zheng to urge reinforcements. There is no news from Mr. Zheng, but he has been informed that the main force of Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui and others has left Yunyang and Junzhou. There are great signs of coming to Xing'an.They planned to block these thieves in Xing'an, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu's troops had already arrived near Xing'an, how could they send them extra reinforcements?
Li Guoqi, the commander-in-chief, was so anxious that he turned around, flipped the table, scolded his mother, and waited on his subordinate soldiers, so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe.

The lieutenant-general participated in the guerrilla, except for quietly sending people to keep an eye on the battle situation in Luliang area, and he was helpless.

They were all very discouraged, and had no hope for this battle in Luliang. How could Ji Dong's 7000 troops deal with the more than 1 thieves of Shetatian and Sweeping Tiger? To deal with it, the imperial court sent heavy troops to suppress it for several years. Elite soldiers and strong generals from several provinces surrounded them. They wiped out.

Ji Dong only had 7000 troops, and if he encountered them, it would definitely be a disaster, so he didn't need to send people to inquire, and he got the rest that must be Lin Yi's defeat.

If the reinforcements don't come all the way, the thieves will be even more rampant. Governor Zheng and Ding Futai may be able to intercept Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in the Kangnan area, and Lao Huihui will wait for the thieves to succeed, but Xi'an Mansion and Yan'an Mansion will be in jeopardy...

At this time, a soldier who reported the incident ran in.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, happy news, the Miyun commander-in-chief's catastrophe at Longmen Mountain, the court's gangsters and the sweeping tigers were wiped out in one fell swoop..."

(End of this chapter)