I want to be emperor

Chapter 321 Sun Chuanting takes the position (two chapters in one)

The second year of Chengshun of the Great Chu Empire and the ninth year of Ming Chongzhen.

The false emperor Taiji dispatched the false Doro Wuying County King Azig, together with the false Raoyu Beile Abatai and the false Chaopin Gongyang Guli to detour through Mongolia and enter the customs in June to carry out looting.

Azige and others led the army to successively conquer many fortresses of the Ming army outside the Great Wall, entered Chang'an Mountains via Diao'e Fort, and approached Yanqing.

For a while, the Ming court panicked and began to mobilize troops to resist the Eastern captivity.

However, Dongyao knew very well why they came directly into the customs. They didn't come to find the Ming army to fight to the death, let alone to attack the capital, they came just to plunder.

Therefore, they directly crossed Yanqing, Baoding and other places where the Ming army was garrisoned more, and chose to go to Anzhou. Sure enough, the Eastern captives who marched in this way did not encounter much resistance along the way, and gained a lot.

At this time, after the Central Plains troops led by Hong Chengchou marched northward continuously, they were not far from Gyeonggi.

At the same time, the Ming army in Shanhaiguan area was ordered to go west to rescue the capital.

From this point of view, in addition to the original strength of the Ming army in Xuanfu and other places in Beizhili, there were two new forces, one east and one west advancing towards Gyeonggi.

To be precise, it is not the capital city, but the area to the north of the capital city.

Looking at this posture, the Ming army seems to have made a strategic gesture of closing the door and beating dogs, trying to cut off the retreat route of the captives in the Kanto.

But that's just what it looks like!

In fact it is not the case at all.

At least the top officials of the Ming court, including the generals who led the troops, never thought about any strategic encirclement or anything like that. At most, they just wanted to kill Dongyao's rear, forcing Dongyao to feel the danger and retreat as soon as possible.

As for the strategic encirclement of Azig's troops... so what, you don't expect to rely on a few cities in the rear to block the retreat of the Eastern captives, right?

This place is so big, people don't have to pass through the city where the Ming army is stationed, it is also possible to go around the side.

What, you want to lead troops out of the city to intercept?Come to a dignified field battle with Dongyao.

If this is the case, Dongyao may be even happier...

This is just a wave of looting at the customs. I didn't expect the Ming army to come over and send a wave of heads in a foolish way.

The Ming army and Dongyao fought in the field, and the result was predictable!
Therefore, any Ming army general who is not stupid will not do this.

Even Hong Chengchou, who led an army of more than 3 troops to the north, did not have the confidence.

Hong Chengchou's idea is to make a gesture of outflanking and force Dongyao to retreat as soon as possible. If he can kill some Dongyao in the process and hurt Dongyao so that they dare not enter the customs so recklessly and plunder in the future, then it would be great up.

As for the real outflanking of the Eastern Captives and fighting in the wild with the main forces of the Eastern Captives, Hong Chengchou never thought about it.

This Dongbao is not a thief!

Facing the rogues, Hong Chengchou was full of confidence, and he would not have too much scruples when leading troops to fight. Chasing the rogues was all about fighting fiercely, and it was miserable to beat the rogues headed by Gao Yingxiang.

But in the face of the Eastern captives, he fought extremely cautiously.

Eastern captives and exile thieves, those are two completely different concepts!
Hong Chengchou was cautious, and the other Ming troops were even more cautious.

For example, the Ming army came from Shanhaiguan.

They lived well in the Guanning area, but they had no intention of saving Chongzhen's life. The reason why they entered the customs was that Chongzhen gave them a death order, and they couldn't openly violate it.

But even though the army had entered the customs, when they marched west, they turned back three times at one step, and they didn't dare to go eastward at all.

There is also the Ming army in the three camps of Ji Town. These Ming troops basically have no intention of fighting the Ming army.

Basically, even if Dongyao takes one step, they will also take one step, and they will definitely not step forward easily.

Azig took a look, good guy, they all avoided me...

So he was impolite, and while sending a small force to plunder the countryside, he attacked Changping City, and quickly captured Changping City, and the army completely spread out to attack the city and plunder the land.

During this process, the local Ming army could do nothing about it, and the Ming army from Shanhaiguan moved slowly in order to protect itself and did not step forward at all.

And Hong Chengchou, who ran all the way from Shaanxi, is still on the way.

Speaking of Hong Chengchou... we have to talk about the thieves headed by Gao Yingxiang in Shaanxi.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, who had been living a miserable life before, found that their life was much better overnight.

Hong Chengchou left with a large number of elites from the three sides, which made Gao Yingxiang and the others feel that they could finally take a breath.

But soon they discovered that the days of panting only lasted for a few days, and soon the Ming court ordered Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting to bring new pacesetters to trouble them.

And when the fight broke out, Gao Yingxiang and the others were even more desperate.

This damned Sun Chuanting held back silently for a few months, and a new standard army equipped with guns came out. Although the number was only 3000, they beat Gao Yingxiang and the others to a full blown head, which was much worse than before. It will be even more unbearable when Hong Chengchou's main force is encircling and suppressing.

This made many gangster leaders who thought that after Hong Chengchou was transferred, they would be able to live a good life very desperate!

Hong Chengchou is difficult enough to deal with, but Sun Chuanting is even worse!
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Sun Chuanting, the new governor of Shaanxi, is not a simple person, let alone other talents, but his ability to lead troops to fight is more than a hundred times stronger than his predecessor.

When Sun Chuanting first took office as governor of Shaanxi earlier this year, he was faced with a lot of mess.

The Shaanxi Four Guards under the Governor of Shaanxi, collectively referred to as the Qin Army, said that each guard had a quota of 4000 people, but in fact the shortage was very serious.

And a considerable number of elites were packed and taken away by Hong Chengchou, directly under Hong Chengchou's command, and now they went to Beizhili with Hong Chengchou to fight against the captives.

The remaining Qin army is no more than [-] people, and most of these [-] people are old, weak, sick, and disabled. Most of them are peasants and soldiers in the guards that have been forcibly recruited since last year. Let alone guns, even armor, swords and spears are not enough. The combat effectiveness is very worrying.

More importantly, these 1 troops seem to belong to Sun Chuanting's jurisdiction, but in fact, it is difficult for Sun Chuanting to use these [-] troops for mobile operations to suppress thieves.

Because the [-] Qin troops were stationed in Guanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi officers and soldiers are currently using them to counter the core force of the Chu thieves' westward advance.

Once the [-] Qin troops were transferred away, the Chu thieves would enter the hinterland of Guanzhong Mansion in minutes.

Well, although the Great Chu Empire has no interest in marching into Shaanxi, and even thinks this place is a huge burden, even if they have the spare power in a short time, they don't plan to enter Shaanxi.

The Chu army deployed on the western front such as Yunyang Mansion, their biggest task is not to enter Shaanxi, but to prevent all kinds of thieves or Ming troops from entering Huguang.

In the past year, thieves from all walks of life tried to break into Huguang on a large scale several times, but they were all blocked by the Chu army and killed them.

The rogues killed by the Chu army were not much less than those killed by the officers and soldiers.

The Chu army is unwilling to take the initiative to advance westward. This is the only reason why the Qin army, which is mere [-] old and young, weak and lacking in guns and armor, can still defend Guanzhong Mansion!

It's not because they can fight, but because the Chu army is really not interested in marching westward on a large scale, and at most it's just a small fight.

But even Sun Chuanting had vaguely guessed that the Chu thieves would not go west, but he still didn't dare to transfer the [-] Qin army to suppress Gao Yingxiang and other thieves.

How should I put it, even if you know that the Chu thieves are unwilling to go east, you can't just let it go, at least you have to deploy some troops in Guanzhong Mansion, even if they are old, weak, sick and disabled.

If they didn't deploy a single soldier, the Chu bandits probably wouldn't mind if they occupied a large area with just one soldier.

Therefore, this Qin army with a scale of [-] people was basically unable to mobilize.

However, inside Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang and others are still active.

It was no big deal to be suppressed by Hong Chengchou's troops before, but after Hong Chengchou led his troops to leave, there will be a huge vacuum of troops in Shaanxi.

A vacuum of new opportunities for Gao Yingxiang and others.

In this regard, Sun Chuanting is not unprepared.

At the beginning of his tenure, he felt that the Qin army was no longer suitable for reuse. More importantly, this Qin army was condemned to death in Guanzhong Mansion and could not be mobilized, and it was under the direct control of the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou. thing.

The reason why Sun Chuanting's predecessor, that is, the last governor of Shaanxi, was so useless was also very much related to the lack of actual military power in his hands, because the military strength in Shaanxi had been controlled by Hong Chengchou himself for a long time, and there was basically no chance for the governor of Shaanxi to intervene.

Even the Qin army, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of the governor of Shaanxi, is the same.

In the end, the previous governor of Shaanxi was extremely useless and finally left the scene sadly.

After Sun Chuanting took over as the governor of Shaanxi, he didn't think about competing with Hong Chengchou for the ten thousand old, weak, sick and disabled Qin troops, but planned to start a new stove and form a pacesetter by himself.

Of course, as an ambitious and far-sighted governor, the new pacesetters formed by Sun Chuanting are naturally not the traditional battalion sentinels, but the most fashionable new pacesetters in various parts of the Central Plains in the past year.

The new standard army, since Yang Sichang sampled all the governors, it has become popular in the Central Plains and the southern governors. Even the governors in the north have more or less started to compile the new standard army. Even Chongzhen I myself felt the crisis because of the entry into the customs, and at the beginning of July, I also announced that I would select elites from the Beijing camp and form a new Beijing camp.

The various new troops trained in the Ming court may have different names, different establishments, and even different equipment.

But the core idea is the same: recruit farmers, throw them a musket/spear, and then pull them out to fight with a few red cannons converted to gun mounts.

With guns as the core!

Strictly speaking, it is no different from the core concept of the Chu army. The Chu army fights with guns as the core, especially artillery.

But the same concept does not mean the same combat effectiveness.

The combat effectiveness of this new type of army depends purely on what the generals who organize and train this new standard army think.

If you want to have stronger fighting power, like Yang Sichang and Shi Kefa, if you try your best to get money for guns, and train new standard troops strictly according to the Chu bandit military system, then the combat effectiveness of these new standard troops is still quite reliable , basically comparable to the early Chu army.

But if there is insufficient money and food, or if the money is not willing to spend, then the lower limit of such a new standard army is also very low... The combat effectiveness may not even be as good as the Ming army with the traditional battalion post system.

To put it bluntly, this new type of army created by the Great Chu Empire relies on spending money!
If you spend a lot of money, have good equipment, and a good salary, then your combat effectiveness will be top-notch, and you will be sure to beat the traditional old army.

If you spend less money, have poor equipment, and pay poorly, then your combat effectiveness will definitely not increase. Maybe you will collapse first if you are rushed by a group of cold-armed troops.

The treatment is not enough, and the training is not as hard, so don't blame the musketeers for shooting indiscriminately when the enemy rushed over, then dropped their guns, turned around and ran away.

Naturally, Sun Chuanting would not mess around like many governors in training the new standard army. Although he didn't have much money and food on hand, he tried his best to set up a [-] new standard army.

And his new standard army has an obvious characteristic, or advantage, compared with other new standard troops.

That is, Sun Chuanting's new standard army has more mules and horses, and more cavalry!
Shaanxi has many mules and horses, and many cavalry! .

To be honest, the cavalry troops of the Great Chu Empire came from the trilateral cavalry.

Because of the large number of mules and horses, when Sun Chuanting formed the new standard army, he could obtain a large number of mules and horses to improve the mobility of the new standard army.

As for the cavalry, he did not start from scratch, and in fact it was impossible to start from scratch.

Musketeers and even gunners can directly recruit civilians to train for a few months and pull them out to fight, but cavalry can't!

Sun Chuanting had thousands of cavalry under his command, mainly the original cavalry of officers and soldiers and some cavalry of bandits who surrendered.

Of the [-] standard troops, the cavalry accounted for one-third.

In the remaining Shaanxi New Standard Army, there are three battalions of infantry, one battalion of artillery, and one battalion of baggage.

It belongs to a very typical army with many horses and few soldiers.

And such a new standard army, although it has only been trained for a few months, Sun Chuanting is willing to spend money and tries his best to raise money and food to support the army. For this reason, he does not hesitate to deduct money and food from the original Qin army.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting is extremely strict in governing the army, and his military law is as strict as that of the Chu army.

If you want to say which army has the strictest military law in the land of contemporary China, it is not the Ming army or the Eastern captives, but the Chu army!

When the Chu army was training, they whipped their whips at every turn...

During combat, anyone who violated military orders, especially when they fled, was basically killed on the spot.

However, the strict military law of the Chu army is based on good treatment. Many soldiers are unwilling to leave the army even if they make mistakes and are beaten, because once they leave the military law, it is basically impossible for them to have a second day in their lives. opportunity to eat.

Eat enough to eat every day!
This alone is enough to make a large number of poor children sell their lives directly to Luo Zhixue. The mere strict military law is nothing when they are full.

Sun Chuanting's new bidders are naturally not as good as the Chu army. It's not because they want to, but because they don't have the ability.

Enforcing such a strict military law without generous remuneration will naturally cause some backlash.

I don't want to talk about whether it rebounded or not. I only talk about the Shaanxi New Standard Army that Sun Chuanting has worked so hard to compile. Once killed, it is like a tiger out of the cage, defeating Gao Yingxiang and other thieves.

In July, Gao Yingxiang's troops were ambushed and Gao Yingxiang was captured!

Gao Yingxiang was captured by Sun Chuanting, which means that the forces of all kinds of thieves in Shaanxi have completely entered a trough.

Sun Chuanting was finally able to free up his hands, continue training and mobilizing troops, enrich the defenses of the Xing'an Office in the east of Guanzhong Prefecture, Shangnan in the south of Xi'an Prefecture, etc., facing the Chu thieves directly, and even thought about finding an opportunity to recapture Xunyang and wipe out the Chu thieves completely. Expelled from the Guanzhong government.

It's just that Sun Chuanting didn't know at this time that the front line of Yunyang Mansion, which he regarded as a serious threat, and even the entire Chu army on the west, north, and even south lines had already entered a state of strategic defense.

Because as time entered the end of July, the Great Chu Empire had completed all preparations for the eastward campaign, and the eastward campaign was imminent.

In order to avoid accidents in other directions and thus affect the advancement of the Eastward Campaign, Luo Zhixue personally ordered the North Route Army, West Route Army, and South Route Army, requiring the troops in the above three directions to fully enter a strategic defensive posture.

Suspend all wars in other directions to make way for the Eastward Campaign!
Luo Zhixue has even made up his mind that as long as the three strategic locations of Xiangyang on the north line, Changsha on the south line, and Jingzhou on the west line are not lost, then his determination to move eastward will never be shaken.

He wanted to go straight to the Qinhuai River in one breath.

He has been fascinated by the scenery of the Qinhuai River for a long time!
(End of this chapter)