stubborn thief

Chapter 333 Everyone's Equal Shooting Camp

In the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, an army returned from Guyuan Prefecture to Jingluwei in Gansu.

The yellow sand is full of roads, and the dusty sergeants hang reward cards on their waists, wear old and bloody armors, lead bony war horses, donkey carts that drag the corpse of Paoze, and firm and dignified faces. Puzzled.

They are Lutang camp soldiers under the command of Mo Yujing, the general of Gansu Jingluwei Lutang camp. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, because of the siege of Zhuanglang by the bandit King Tiger, they heard about the inquiry.

Later, Li Hongsi, the deputy general of Gansu Province, entered Guyuan Prefecture, joined Wang Xingshan, the deputy general of Guyuan, to pursue the bandits, chased them from Guyuan Prefecture to Baoji, and moved to Jingning Prefecture and Luoshui City until he drove Wang Tiger into the deep mountains.

The situation of the war against the invaders has changed. The swarms of thieves include pond horses, warriors, pack cannons, and armors. Those bowls with their helmets and flags pulled out clearly remind every soldier that this is the right and left of the frontier soldiers. Fight each other.

The soldiers did not let go of their armor for half a month for a whole year, and even the toughest sergeants were exhausted by it, and the generals were heartbroken and regretful because of it.

But what appeared in the eyes of General Mo Yujing was not just that the enemy died of exhaustion, his soldiers were also urinating blood, and they also fell one after another during the pursuit.

In the end, it was not even possible to talk about winning. Although the victory report was sent to Shaanxi, Mo Yujing knew that they did not win, and it was Wang Huo who won.

Because Wang Huo won as long as he was alive, not to mention there were thousands of thieves who were proficient in riding and shooting in danger, making it impossible for the pursuers to go deep.

When the Lutang camp withdrew from the difficult war, looking back, the severe drought continued, and tens of thousands of refugees gathered in Pingliang, Longzhou, Huating, Wu'an, Zhuanglang, and Jingning to plunder.

Victory, victory after victory, victory after victory, nothing changed except thousands of people died.

Mo Yujing's performance in the war was not outstanding, but he was just one of the many Shaanxi generals who did not deserve much credit and hard work. He could neither kill the rebels nor turn a blind eye to the looting, because he knew he could not win this war.

They want to fight, but they have no arms to raise; they face the enemy, but they have no purpose to fight; although they hold weapons, it is as if they have no weapons.

They don't even know who the enemy is.

When a group of hungry people passed by with a hoe, he would wave his soldiers to get out of the way; and when the hungry people started to loot, he would lead his army to attack them.

After the victory, the hungry people scattered and fled in all directions, reporting a good news to the court, and these people would gather together to continue the robbery soon.

It seems that there is no solution other than killing everyone they see, but every soldier does not join the army to kill everyone he sees.

If this is the case, it is better to be a rebel, at least the rebels know who they should kill.

In the general office of the Lutang Camp, Mo Yujing had no time to check the scars on his body caused by wearing armor for a long time. The imperial envoy had arrived, and a letter of appointment for being promoted to the deputy commander of Xining made the Lutang Camp almost mutiny.

Xining is the hometown of Mo Yujing.

The battalion soldiers who have experienced life and death are tired of the war against the bandits. Everyone knows the final destination of staying here, becoming deserters or dying in the war against the rebellion... People have asked the generals to take them away.

People thought that after arriving in Xining, there would be no counter-insurgency war.

However, the letters from Lanzhou generals shattered the fantasies of the veterans. An order came from Shaanxi, and Zhunmo and Beijing led [-] troops to the post—the people of Hehuang had changed.

The civil uprising in Hehuang was not instigated by Liu Chengzong. Although Liu Chengzong did plan to instigate the uprising, the people of the Han family in Hehuang Valley had already raised their troops before he sent Huang Cheng and others to instigate it.

Hehuang is a very special area, which is generally the Huangshui River Valley running east-west between Juerwan and Lanzhou, but includes more than a dozen small river valleys running north-south.

The area where the local people live is also distinct. The chieftain’s territory is in the small river valley running from north to south. The Han and Hui people whose ancestors migrated from the southeast, the army, generals, and native officials lived in the middle of the Hehuang Valley, and the Tumin and Fanmin lived in the north-south valley. River valley and mountain dwelling.

However, due to the large number of garrisons in the river valley, the difficulty of civil uprising here is higher than that at the beginning of the Great Rebellion in Northern Shaanxi. People passively skipped the stage of merging and eating big households.

Liu Chengzong received the news on the [-]th day of the first lunar month that the army was not yet ready, but Liu Chengzu of Xiningwei had selected [-] sergeants from the Zhenhai Battalion and [-] banner troops from the Xiningwei to complete the preparations, and immediately ordered his brother and Li Wanqing to advance towards the Hehuang Valley. .

Until the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Qindai, the magistrate of Haibei County, Liu Guoneng, the magistrate of Haixi County, and Zhonghu Nanshan jointly received the order to defend westward at the Marshal's Mansion, and then Wang Wenxiu led [-] infantry into the new city.

For a while, guard soldiers, pond soldiers, Yang Yao's horse battalion, Huang Shengxiao's artillery battalion, as well as the hunting battalion's fan soldiers and the fishing battalion's Mongolian soldiers were stationed in the new city. Tens of thousands of troops were assembled and ready to go. Everyone is in danger.

Chen Shiwen has made great contributions in the past few days, going back and forth to persuade the chieftain that the Hehuang Valley will change sooner or later. Instead of staying in the new city as a lamb to be slaughtered, it is better to follow the conquest, at least the clan can be preserved.

Then Li Tianyu, the largest chieftain in Xining, jumped back immediately and took the lead in asking Liu Chengzong to join the conscript, saying that he would try his best to persuade him to put down his weapons when he met a son of the Li family on the way... But he didn't dare to promise this matter, because there are too many people with the surname Li in Hehuang Even the patriarch can't restrain everyone.

Li Tianyu has only one request. After the war, let him lead at least [-] clan children to move away from Hehuang. He neither wants to be the springboard for the imperial court to attack the Marshal's Mansion, nor is he willing to be a pawn for Liu Chengzong's eastward attack.

Staying in Hehuang made it clear that he would suffer from splints.

Of course, even if you go to the west, you still can't escape the plywood... The chieftains all know that Huduntu is going to Qinghai, and Li Tianyu's move to the west is at best the lesser of two evils.

At least Huduntu is easier to deal with than Hong Chengchou.

Liu Chengzong readily agreed to this request, and immediately stated that let alone taking [-] people from the clan, if Li Tianyu had the ability, even if he took away all [-] households surnamed Li in Hehuang, he would have no objection.

People stay where they go, why not do it.

In fact, as a human being, it is difficult to be shrewd when dealing with official affairs, but when you are selfish, your intelligence will gradually increase.

For example, Lord Chongzhen and Huduntu Dahan both need to cut their own flesh to win others, but if they can't cut their own flesh, they will fall into the situation of cutting other people's flesh to win others.

Qi Guoping and other chieftains were reluctant to join the conscription at first, but no matter how much Chen Shiwen tried to persuade them, even talking about Conglong Zhigong, it didn't help.

On the contrary, after Li Tianyu persuaded them, the remaining twelve chieftains all expressed that they would join the conscript.

There is no other reason, the two stand at different angles, Chen Shiwen really thought that all the chieftains were like him, and there were hundreds of people from the clan, all family members who couldn't get closer. In essence, this little chieftain like him The village head, who joined Liu Chengzong, wanted to lead the whole village to become rich.

But other chieftains are not like this. Li Tianyu's tens of thousands of clansmen, who the hell knows who, he asked: "If you, Qi Guoping, don't surrender, can you guarantee that all three thousand of your Qi family's children will not surrender?"

"If you don't even surrender, with a hundred or ten local soldiers, you can beat tens of thousands of soldiers? If you can't beat the Qi family, it will be gone; if one surrenders, your family's No. 12 chieftain will be there. If you stay in Xincheng, you will only have one." There is a way to be slaughtered."

"It's better to go to the west with me, no matter what kind of Wachachahan, our thirteen families will be twisted into one rope, and we will still guard the west."

Li Tianyu said to the chieftains: "Don't talk about protecting the clan, let's protect yourself first."

The twelve chieftains thought about it for a while, and they all agreed with Li Tianyu's statement, and looked at Chen Shiwen with strange expressions.

Chen Shiwen was so angry that he yelled in his heart: His grandma's, Xining chieftain is fourteen!Fourteen!

Liu Chengzong was very satisfied with this result, except for a rope. He didn't regard Chen Shiwen as a chieftain in his heart, and immediately made a promise to seal the chieftains of the two Li, two Qi and four clans to the north and south of Wulan Mountain, and allow them to move [-] people. The clansmen go out.

The rest of the little chieftains were confiscated to Xiaohetao in the south of the Yellow River, and [-] people from the ethnic group were allowed to move there. There were fields reclaimed by Tumed Mongolia in the past, and they were directly under the jurisdiction of Baohu, the deputy thousand household of Guide City, and Chen Shiwen, the general of Bajiao City. .

Anyway, the chieftains had food in their hands, and they moved out those who could. The people who stayed in Hehuang faced the food crisis and only needed to organize farming to solve the problem faster.

After finishing this matter, it was not until the 22nd of the first lunar month that Liu Chengzong personally led an army composed of various people under his command to march all the way to the Hehuang Valley.

The selection of soldiers and horses for the Eastern Expedition cost Liu Chengzong a lot of energy. With more than a thousand soldiers in the guarding pond and a thousand general artillery battalion of Huang Shengxiao as the direct control, more than a hundred students from the prefecture accompanied the army and prepared to place them there. Yang Yao's [-] horse battalion was formed.

In Liu Chengzong's design, the Chinese army is only used as a suppressor, which plays a decisive role in the war, and regular operations need to be fought by conscripted troops.

Basang from the third battalion was recruited as the hunting battalion, Xie Erhu from the fishing battalion, and Ahai Daiqing from the supply battalion. They each recruited people from the coast of Qinghai Lake to Xining to form a main army with a strength of nearly [-].

Most of Liu Chengzong's army preparations were for Xie Erhu and A Haidaiqing to select soldiers for conscripts.

There are countless Mongolians who are able to fight and are willing to fight under the rule of Xining Mansion. For these people, being a soldier and eating food is much more comfortable than doing labor.

Whether it is Tumed or Khalkha, most of the captives who surrendered are soldiers, and Xie Erhu and A Haidaiqing can calmly choose the best from the best.

As for Basang, Basang is different from others. Although he was born as a slave, he is very confident and has his own ideas, and he is even better than many nobles in sticking to his ideas.

Both Xie Erhu and A Haidaiqing were from Mongolian aristocrats, but when Liu Chengzong asked them to choose soldiers, they would immediately think that their own subordinates were not good enough, and even if they didn't think so, they would agree to it from a flattering point of view.

Basang was different. He rejected the suggestion to choose soldiers. He said that his slaves were well fed, slept well, worked well, and had fought more than ten times. They were afraid but no one fled back.

The rebellious Spanish nobles were also dispersed by the Mongols, and those who were convinced were formed into the slave cavalry.

Basang said: "With just a little help from the Generalissimo, Basang will be able to lead the slaves to build meritorious deeds, and will never give up the chance of promotion to others."

Liu Chengzong didn't realize until this time that those Western nobles had also become slave soldiers of Basang... Although this was a little different from Liu Shizi's original intention, at least the wish of equality for everyone in the hunting camp was achieved.

Their living standards, treatment and personality status have changed, but their names in Basang's mind have not changed, they are still slaves of the fucking Grand Marshal.

Liu Chengzong thought about it, although the hunting battalion's combat effectiveness is not strong, it does have super willpower, not to mention the heavy troops of Gas and Ah Liu, it is actually a more comprehensive team than the two Mongolian battalions.

He asked, "What kind of help do you need?"

Basang said: "Please General Marshal to organize six hundred Han troops for me, just the kind of gunners who can lead people to charge after firing the cannon."

When Basang said this, Huang Shengxiao was next to Liu Chengzong, and he almost kowtowed to apologize.

Huang Shengxiao's artillery was a group of artillery that did not focus on manipulating artillery.

His chief Cao Yao summed up a set of close-range bombardment tactics when he moved to northern Shaanxi.

Later, during the reorganization in Xining, because Liu Chengzong originally wanted to establish a training and recruitment mechanism, the commander of the Third Battalion of Infantry and Cavalry Artillery came up with a joint drill method. Artillery should know the tactics of infantry and cavalry, and infantry should know the tactics of cavalry artillery. .

As a result, all three arms have mastered the tactics of the other two arms. At this time, the soldiers in the training camp are not surprising, but the artillery can ride horses and the infantry can fire cannons.

The problem is that Huang Shengxiao has been guarding Nangsuoqian Mo Palace for more than half a year, and he still trains artillery according to this method.

In this way, the soldiers under his command are a bit strange. It can be said that the jumping infantry equipped with guns can also be said to be artillerymen who are good at charging. They can even fire guns on horses... provided that the guns are relatively short.

Skills learned evenly.

He never expected Basang to be so good at it. He explained: "Slave cubs can endure hardship, are timid, and are easily afraid, and the charge of guns and guns boosts morale."

As soon as Liu Chengzong heard the reason, he immediately waved and dispatched [-] soldiers from Nanshan Fort... Zhong Hu's soldiers are infantry who can use guns and cannons. They are not as good at charging as Huang Shengxiao's men, but they have another advantage.

This group of people did not catch up with the Southern Expedition, and stayed in the north to learn a lot of knowledge. The West Fan language is good, and they can be strengthened to become officers.

The mighty army shook its head and swayed all the way, and followed Liu Chengzu's vanguard army to advance eastward. All the enemies that could be encountered were pulled out by Liu Chengzu in advance. There were many beatings on the road.

When the people rebel, it doesn't matter whose soldiers they are, they will fight anyone they see, and robbing anyone is not robbing. The key point is that Li Wanqing's soldiers are not many, and the rebellious people want to fight when they see him.

When they approached Nianbo, Huang Cheng, who had earlier sent out to instigate the rebellion against the Gaodianzi camp, sent his men to ask for help. They were defeated by the monk Gangsi leader in Xining, the master of Qutan Temple, and the leader of the great master Ban Zhuerzhen. Even the rebels in the Nianbo area were almost completely defeated by Banzhuer Lingzhen.

　good evening!

　　
　
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