stubborn thief

Chapter 549 Take Your Official Position
On the evening of the eighth day of February in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Yichuan arrived in Lanzhou.

The person who greeted him was Zhang Xianzhong, who conveyed the welcome of the Generalissimo to him, and agreed to meet at the yamen of the Generalissimo's Mansion in the coming day, and temporarily settled him in the official room of the Generalissimo.

At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, the whole Lanzhou was decorated with lights and festoons, and the soldiers and civilians on the street were full of joy. Zhang Yichuan was greatly surprised by the bustling scene in the city that he hadn’t seen for many years. He leaned on the railing and asked Zhang Xianzhong, "Zhang Shangshu, Is this city so lively every day?"

Zhang Yichuan and Zhang Xianzhong are old acquaintances. They have about the same status in Shaanxi Lvlin. They are both leaders of the second generation of leaders with the same surname. It's broken.

Even now, they are barely friends who can talk. Zhang Yichuan is very familiar with Zhang Xianzhong's temperament.

People who have done their job in their careers have many common advantages in life and work, such as being able to carry things, be responsible, resourceful, and bring a way out for their subordinates.

The difference is that each has its own shortcomings. For example, Zhang Xianzhong, has a quick temper, vulgar language, sometimes loses his temper and has a small mind. He always remembers when he is good to him; remember.

Zhang Xianzhong used to be a frontier soldier, almost died, and was rescued by Chen Hongfan. Zhang Xianzhong has been talking about it until now.

In short, this is a relatively muddy person, who has nothing to do with civil servants.

So now that Zhang Xianzhong has become Liu Chengzong's minister of rites, the sense of disobedience brought about by this official position is... very unique to Zhang Yichuan.

If he, the Sweeping King, and Zhang Xianzhong's Eight Great Kings are just self-proclaimed, then Zhang Yichuan is willing to convincingly call Liu Chengzong a whole-work king simply because of the outrageous matter of letting Zhang Xianzhong be the Minister of Rites.

"It's so lively every day, how is it possible?"

Zhang Xianzhong didn't think it was outrageous for him to be the minister of the Ministry of Rites. Why can't we do it?

He glanced at Zhang Yichuan, and said with a somewhat complicated mood: "It's Liangzhou. Two days ago, Li Hongsi, the deputy general of Liangzhou, demoted the commander-in-chief, and the whole Gansu changed hands."

Zhang Yichuan raised his eyebrows suddenly: "Gansu Frontier Army, is this going to surrender?"

This news was too shocking for Zhang Yichuan. So far, although he has experienced many battles, he has fought against the three generals from the east, Chen Yongfu from Henan and others, but he has never been on the battlefield. Defeat the frontier army, especially the frontier army on the three sides and five towns in the northwest.

After all, during the eighth year of Chongzhen, the leaders of the peasant army were still afraid of the mighty Ming army.

A hero cannot hold back a pack of wolves. In Shaanxi eight years ago, the peasant army was a pack of wolves, but now, when many provinces of the Ming Dynasty have been mobilized, the Ming army is a pack of wolves.

If they weren't afraid, they wouldn't have piled up and ran next door to the Marshal's Mansion.

"What else can we do if we don't surrender? Liangzhou thought that Marshal Liu was bound to win. Last year, he fortified the walls and cleared the land, burning the oasis to nothingness."

After all, Zhang Xianzhong is now a member of the Marshal's Mansion, and he knows the inside story much better than Zhang Yichuan. He couldn't help feeling very emotional when he said it, shaking his head and saying: "It's been nine months, and more than ten thousand Gansu frontier troops have been trapped in the city. Dropped with one arrow."

It can't be said that, at least Cao Wenzhao shot an arrow, which missed He Huchen.

To Zhang Yichuan's ears, this matter was completely a fantasy, and he instinctively felt... It was fake, right?

It's not that the frontier army surrendered to Liu Chengzong, but that tens of thousands of frontier troops hid in the city for nine months.

Because he fought against Li Hongsi in Shaanxi, three years ago, and even to some extent, half of today's Sweeping King is thanks to Li Hongsi.

Back then, it couldn't be said to be a fight, it was completely beaten according to him.

Li Hongsi had more than 1000 people and about 1000 horses. He drove tens of thousands of people to climb and roll in the mountains for more than half a month, and ran for more than [-] miles.

It was that battle that caused Zhang Yichuan's tens of thousands of troops to run, disperse, and die. In the end, only a thousand people escaped, but it was also that battle that made Zhang Yichuan's militia army reborn , It completely eliminated the influence brought by the gathering of Wang Zuohang's remaining troops, and turned the tens of thousands of mobs into more than a thousand elites who could run faster than mules.

Among other things, since then, Zhang Yichuan's subordinates are all young long-distance runners, and he is the only one who walks the army.

Today, Zhang Yichuan has grown a lot, and if he is allowed to relocate and stand in the same position as before, even if there are still tens of thousands of mobs, he will definitely not run away wholeheartedly, and will first run for ten days and turn his head to beat him down.

Although I dare not say that I will win, at least I have a chance to win.

If he were to lead the current subordinates, he would not need ten times as many troops, as long as there were three times, he would dare to fight Li Hongsi head-on.

Even so, the tens of thousands of Ming troops led by Li Hongsi huddled in the city and did not dare to fight, starved to the point of starvation, this matter was still too outrageous for Zhang Yichuan.

Not only outrageous, but even annoying.

Chasing me all over the ground, the invincible look of the world, the co-author met Liu Chengzong and you were obedient, and when you saw me Zhang Yichuan, you bastard would punch you hard, right?

Zhang Xianzhong obviously saw the strange anger in Zhang Yichuan's eyebrows, but with empathy, he could easily guess what Zhang Yichuan was thinking, so he sighed and said, "It's no wonder that the Gansu frontier army has no bottom. There is no bottom."

Not only can he empathize with Zhang Yichuan's dominance of the Ming army, but he can also empathize with the Ming army's dominance of Liu Chengzong.

After all, in Zhuanglang Weicheng last year, his West Camp was forced to surrender by Liu Chengzong's head.

Hearing what Zhang Xianzhong said, Zhang Yichuan asked, "Did the Gansu Ming army be persuaded by the Generalissimo?"

"Can't say that either."

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head decisively: "If you want to rely on Hong Chengchou, Li Hongsi tried his best, but... even if Hong Chengchou doesn't leave, they can't win. It is too difficult to plot against Liu and the commander-in-chief."

Zhang Yichuan didn't understand or understand these things, but Zhang Xianzhong now has a comprehensive understanding of the resumption of the Battle of Gansu, and he simply introduced Zhang Yichuan with the appearance of someone who has experienced it: "There is no shortage of good soldiers these days. On the battlefield, the Generalissimo made a surprise attack on Jiayuguan, and the Ming army in western Gansu was defeated and retreated step by step to the east. It was a foregone conclusion when they reached Ganzhou, and they could not win on the battlefield.”

"Hong Chengchou was born as a food supervisor and councilor, so he took advantage of the situation to calculate the general's military rations. While Zhuanglanghe threatened Hehuang, he was clearing the fields in Liangzhou, and even gave away the mouths of the two guards of the marshal's mansion. Do the math, so many people Nine months, hunger can starve to death the Generalissimo's expeditionary army across the Qilian Mountains."

Hearing Zhang Xianzhong's statement, Zhang Yichuan felt dizzy. There is nothing more terrifying than running out of food.

The peasant army can withstand food shortages better than the official army, but that is actually largely an illusion.

They don't have the endurance like the officers and soldiers. It's just that the officers and soldiers are an army with extremely high control power. If the food is cut off, the chief will lose control. However, these rebels are in a state of food shortage, and there is no control at all. The leader who is elected does not need to be appointed by anyone. Being a leader is based on one principle - being able to get food.

But now Zhang Yichuan has nothing to do. Just this winter, his troops have increased, and now it has expanded to three battalions, and he must go to Henan.

However, the people from Zuo Liangyu stopped in front again, which gave him the idea of ​​going out with the Marshal's Mansion, but hearing Zhang Xianzhong talk about the great powers of the Marshal's Mansion, it made him feel as if he had been completely absorbed by the Marshal's Mansion. It doesn't hurt either.

Thinking about this, Zhang Yichuan recalled the days when he was catching locusts in the Qinling Mountains, and he couldn't help wondering: "That's all like this. Why did the Generalissimo's army resist for nine months and surrender the Gansu government army?"

"At first I was very puzzled. I thought it was because Hong Chengchou went to Ningxia, which affected the morale of the army. But after doing some calculations, I realized that even if Hong Chengchou didn't run away, he couldn't win."

Zhang Xianzhong scratched his temples under the hair scarf: "The commander is not only the commander, but also sweats profusely. We thought Gansu and Qinghai were the corners of the world, and there was nothing outside Jiayuguan, but That is also the site of the commander, and the commander's baggage team is the Oara Tartars."

"what?"

Zhang Xianzhong nodded seriously, which was also a shocking thing to him: "Not counting other livestock, there are fifty thousand lambs alone."

"what?"

Everyone in Zhang Yichuan was stupid.

To be honest, this news shocked him far more than Liu Chengzong's victory over Gansu.

As a native of northern Shaanxi, Mongols are no strangers to him. Even after Liu Chengzong moved to Qinghai, the peasant army in northern Shaanxi reached a deeper cooperation with the Mongolian soldiers outside the mouth because of the short-term leadership of the Shenjia brothers. change.

Now Zhang Yichuan's subordinates are more dependent, two of them participated in the alliance back then, and they both shaved their heads, and now their hair is relatively short.

Because of this, Zhang Yichuan understands what Mongolia is like now. It is very simple to find Tartars to borrow troops. As long as you have some prestige in the interior, send someone to chat with the noble leader on the north side of the wall. Which city will be attacked together? How many people will I send? , How many people do you send, after the city is broken, the goods will be divided equally between the people and I will be negotiated immediately.

As for the hundreds of deaths in war, it doesn't matter, poor and crazy, no one cares.

You can even go directly to the Mongolian nobles to ask for someone, bring in 1000 troops, and smash the city open. As long as you have goods, livestock, money and food, you don’t need to return the soldiers.

But if you want to borrow food from the Tartars?Impossible, I am almost starving to death, where is there food for you?

Zhang Yichuan swallowed his saliva: "Marshal, sweating profusely... is it true?"

They had heard about it a long time ago, but their attitude was similar to that of the imperial court. No one believed it. They thought it was the small tribes in Qinghai shouting for fun. Khan is also like shouting and playing. Today this is a big sweat, and tomorrow that is a big sweat. Anyway, no one will obey the other, and no one will listen to the other.

The gold content is the same as Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king. He is more or less a king, and no one takes it seriously.

Zhang Xianzhong nodded seriously and said: "It's true, Khan Court is in Beiting, the Beiting of the Northern Court of the Great Tang Dynasty, do you know where it is? Forget it, I don't know if you look like this."

Zhang Yichuan was confused. He really didn't know where Beiting was, but he didn't want to let Zhang Xianzhong look down on him, so he said, "Why don't I know? It's far away!"

"No respect, no respect, does King Sweeper know about Beiting?"

If it wasn't for his curiosity about the Wara Tartars earlier, Zhang Xianzhong really didn't know. He smiled and said: "The commander-in-chief Beiting Khanting is looking for someone. Since King Sweeper knows Beiting, do you want to go and have a look? Go over and give the armor to him." War horses, there are sheep to eat, and battles to fight.”

This is Zhang Xianzhong's purpose in bringing the topic to Oirat today.

As long as Zhang Yichuan went to Tianshan, at least two or three years would not come back, and these two or three years would be the time when my father led troops to dig up the Fengyang ancestral grave.

Zhang Yichuan almost agreed.

To be honest, if it is true what Zhang Xianzhong said, the logistics supplies are sufficient, not to mention Zhang Yichuan, his elder brother Gao Yingxiang will be willing to go - the conditions are too good, so good that people can't believe it.

What really made Zhang Yichuan hesitate was not that Beiting was too far away, he wondered: "That is the commander's Hanting, don't worry let us go there?"

Zhang Xianzhong saw that the silly boy was moved just now, but his words changed, and he said quickly: "There is nothing to worry about, it is Hanting, the commander-in-chief is going to be the emperor, the center of gravity must be the Central Plains, but then It’s true that the side enjoys happiness, but it’s nothing more than the fact that the tribes in the west are fighting, the Tartars, you fight me all day long, and when the Han people get there, they are their own people.”

"Except for Lao Zhang, no one in the Marshal's Mansion will tell you about such a good thing. The Marshal's brother was sent there, and he formed a training guard in Qinghai. He plans to practice for a year. You Sweeping King's men are all veterans, and they don't need to practice at all, they can be driven over in Xia Tian."

Zhang Xianzhong patted Zhang Yichuan on the shoulder, and said: "Your soldiers are thin and weak. They used to eat mutton for two years, and then drove to the Central Plains. They will be strong and strong. At that time, a brigade commander will be indispensable."

"Stay now, what position can the commander give you? Lead a general like Feng Shuangli under me? Or get a civil servant like me and come over to be the Minister of Rites?"

Just this sentence made Zhang Yichuan wake up quickly.

Zhang Xianzhong's reputation is not small, but many of them are notorious in the Peasant Army. At that time, he only had two battalions when he surrendered to the Marshal's Mansion, and finally became the Minister of Rites.

Zhang Xianzhong knows his family affairs and knows that he has been seized of power, but for Zhang Yichuan... Zhang Xianzhong is also in charge of the official position of Xiying Brigade Commander. , Is it time to abdicate for Xian?

The reputation of the Sweeping King in the peasant army is much better than that of the Eight Great Kings!

Although the reasoning process was completely wrong, Zhang Yichuan got a correct answer: Zhang Xianzhong wanted to trick himself into Beiting!

Zhang Yichuan narrowed his eyes: "Eighth King, are you afraid that I will defect to the commander-in-chief's mansion and take away your official position as Minister of Rites?"

"hiss!"

Zhang Xianzhong took a deep breath, widened his eyes, and was speechless for a while: "You, you..."

The more this was the case, the more Zhang Yichuan felt that he had guessed what Zhang Xianzhong was thinking, so he simply got up and went out, walked to the door, turned back and said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Just wait and see, I will belong to the commander-in-chief and take away your Minister of Rites official position!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)