I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 286 Chapter 280 Six: Eunuch Model

Li Sien has a thousand soldiers, but in fact there are only 200 cavalry and more than [-] infantry.

It wasn't that he maliciously coveted the military pay of [-] soldiers and horses, but that the actual salary he got could barely support [-] soldiers and horses at most.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most military officers used to deduct most soldiers' food and salaries to support their servants.

There is no way, layer upon layer of deductions, if you don't do this, you have to pay for the imperial court to support soldiers.

Li Sien was originally the son of the Li family, and it was the Li family who broke through the joints to support him as a military officer in Zhangjiakou.

Li Weida's status in the Li family is getting higher and higher now, managing the entire northern business.

He asked Li Sien to leave his affairs alone and hand over the army to the Xinghe Army. How could Li Sien dare to object?
Besides, the Xinghe Army only wanted the number of troops, and the benefits that should have been taken by Li Sien were not deprived.

Because Huang Dapeng was in charge of Zhangjiakou's defense, Huang Yi did not send another person, and let Huang Dapeng's [-] garrison battalion soldiers and Li Si'en's troops train together, and the vacancies were selected from the Xinghe Army's auxiliary soldiers.

At the end of February, the Xinghe Army had [-] soldiers.

In addition to the 600 soldiers of the Xinghe City Qi Barracks, where Huang Yi was the deputy general, there were also three garrison battalions of [-], plus Li Sien's Chief Qian.

The number of auxiliary soldiers of the Xinghe Army has also increased a lot, and there are currently 5000 people. These people are infantry who cannot ride on horseback, and more than 2000 can move quickly on horseback.

Training horseback riding is a compulsory course for the Xinghe Army, whether it is a main soldier or an auxiliary soldier.

Over time, five thousand auxiliary soldiers can improve their riding skills.

Except for those who are able to shoot arrows and have excellent shooting skills, the other auxiliary soldiers are all musketeers, and everyone is equipped with flintlock guns.

Born in sorrow and died in peace, how difficult is it to gain a foothold outside the Great Wall?

Huang Yi deliberately created an atmosphere of tension and exaggerated the imminent war. Xinghe City was full of slogans painted with white lime, and the most frequently painted slogans were:
"Always be ready to fight, fight big!"

The second most is: "If you don't want to be beaten by Tartars and slaves, you have to take up arms to defend your homeland!"

"It's an honor to be a soldier!"

Every Baojia and every farm in the base area has militiamen in training.

The militia corporals and commanders above all ranks are equipped with flintlock guns, and ordinary militiamen use long spears measuring one foot and two feet to practice stabbing.

In order to improve the defense of the militia, each centurion's militia is equipped with a shield that can cover the whole body.

This kind of shield cannot be made of steel, nor is it a cowhide shield. They are all rattan shields, which are light in weight and strong enough to withstand bows and arrows.

The militiamen equipped with rattan cards do not use long spears measuring one foot and two feet long. Their weapons are four short spears, which can be thrown or stabbed with one hand.

Huang Yi thinks that the simpler the weapons of the army, the better. In the future, all cold weapons will be eliminated, and only archers with superb shooting skills will be retained.

The main equipment of the Xinghe Army is the flintlock gun with a bayonet. Each hundred is equipped with two three-pound regiment guns, and the serious artillery battalion of eight hundred is equipped with dozens of twelve-pound field guns.

At the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the rogue bandits in Shanxi and Shaanxi were contained, but there was a big disturbance in Shandong.

After Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's mutiny in Wuqiao, the 1000 people became two thousand, three thousand, four thousand...

They did not advance in the direction of the capital, but turned to fight back to the Shandong Peninsula. For a while, they were like a broken bamboo, and they fell into Linyi, Lingxian, Shanghe, and Qingcheng.

Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, is a wimp and tries his best to avoid fighting. It may also be that his family knows his own affairs.

The soldiers and horses under his command are not only lacking too much, but also lack of training, which is simply vulnerable.

But the governor is a senior official in charge of a party's military and government, and there is no way to hide.

So Yu Dacheng had no choice but to send Shen Tingyu, the deputy general of the Fubiao Battalion, and Tao Tingyu, the general in charge, to put together seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses to put down the rebellion.

He didn't have the guts to lead the troops himself.

The sent generals had no combat effectiveness, which did not mean that they had no intelligence. They knew that most of the assembled soldiers were beggars, refugees, and temporary recruits.

Encounters with the rebels are bound to collapse at the touch of a button.

So they took a procrastinating approach, trying to avoid encountering rebels as much as possible.

But no one could have imagined that the rebels who mutinied because they were afraid of death and did not dare to go to Liaodong to fight against slaves, felt like they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, Kong Youde and other rebel generals led the rebel cavalry to attack the Shandong soldiers who followed far away and did not intend to go to war.

Deputy General Shen Tingyu and General Tao Tingyu were all wrong. Their troops did not collapse at the first touch, but turned against each other one after another. Just after the battle, they were full of voices: "Brothers, let's go!"

"Chop up the dog officer who drank the blood of soldiers!"

"Don't let Shen Tingyu and Tao Tingyu escape!"

Because the governor of Shandong sent thousands of soldiers and horses to quell the rebellion, the number of soldiers and horses of the rebel army doubled immediately.

After repeated battles and victories, the morale of the rebel army was like a rainbow. By the time they reached the city of Dengzhou, there were already more than 5000 troops.

However, Governor Sun Yuanhua of Denglai was only a scientist, not a military strategist or a politician. He couldn't recognize the reality at all, so he didn't choose to stand by and wait for help.

Instead, Zhang Keda, the commander-in-chief, and Zhang Tao, the confidant general, were urgently ordered to lead troops and horses to form a two-pronged attack and go out of the city to fight in the field.

There are too many Liaodong people among the Denglai soldiers and horses. These people have had enough of the local people's eyes, and more than half of the soldiers and horses turned against each other as soon as the battle started.

The guerrilla Geng Zhongming and the capital Chen Guangfu in Dengzhou City are all old generals of Dongjiang Town. They are all full of resentment towards the imperial court, and gradually the resentment turned into hatred!

Seeing that the rebels outside the city had defeated the Ming army, they were all happy, so they led their men to open the door immediately.

In the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the strong city, the big city, and the unparalleled defensive power of Dengzhou City fell within less than half an hour after the combination of inside and outside.

The rebels captured 300 Ming troops who did not turn against them, more than [-] horses, more than [-] Hongyi cannons, and more than [-] Fran cannons.

10,000+ taels of silver were found in the treasury, and a large amount of gold and silver treasures were confiscated from the homes of civil servants and generals in Dengzhou, with a total value of more than one million taels of silver.

There are also many dignitaries, dignitaries and merchants in Dengzhou City, and the value of precious metals in their homes may not be less than 500 million silver.

The matter is getting bigger and bigger. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai who wanted to hide it, has been captured by the rebels. It must be impossible to hide it.

In the middle of the first month, the news that Dengzhou was captured by the rebels finally reached the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and sent Tiqi to arrest Shandong governor Yu Dacheng.

In February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and other rebel generals released Sun Yuanhua when they failed to persuade him to become king on his own.

The reason is very simple, Sun Yuanhua is kind to them.

Also released together were Song Guanglan, the deputy envoy of Shandong's procuratorate, Wang Zheng, deputy general Zhang Tao, and other civil and military generals who were unwilling to surrender to the rebels.

Things got worse and worse in February!

The performance of civil servants and generals made Emperor Chongzhen even more chilling.

So he thought of Wang Kun, a model eunuch who knows how to fight, is brave to do things, and is as clean as water.

(End of this chapter)