Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 261
In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu, who already had tens of thousands of soldiers, participated in the battle of Zhuxian Town. Seeing the opportunity, he escaped, but was intercepted by Li Zicheng's elite soldiers.

Later, Zuo Liangyu retreated to Xiangyang and then Wuchang under Li Zicheng's troops.

He once asked the king of Chu for soldiers, money and food, but he didn't get any supplies, so he plundered the treasuries such as Caoliang, Yanpo and other treasuries in Wuchang Mansion, and forcibly plundered the young and strong people to serve as soldiers.

Later, he continued to retreat to Jiujiang, and already had 20 troops.

After defeating Zhang Xianzhong, who had entered Jiangxi from the east, he took the opportunity to subdue Wuchang and other Huzhou and Guangzhou prefectures, and his power was greatly strengthened.

Therefore, most of Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses were accumulated in the past two or three years, especially after defeating Zhang Xianzhong.

According to the information Hong Niangzi got from Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu always regarded himself as the Ming army, so the army still adopted the battalion system.

Prior to this, he successively led various battalions as General Pingzei, Ning Nanbo, and Ning Nanhou.

The main battalion under its command will be the general or deputy general (deputy general), and the small battalion will be the general or guerrilla.

At present, there are mainly the pro-barracks, the five directly subordinate battalions, the eight affiliated battalions and several small battalions.

The personal battalion was commanded by the deputy general Hao Xiaozhong. Before that, there were more than 1 elite soldiers.

However, in the eyes of Hong Niangzi, Yang Zhan and others, Zuo Liangyu's elite soldiers are only at the level of the elite soldiers of the official army ten years after Chongzhen, and they are even close to the real elite soldiers of the official army ten years before Chongzhen, both generals and servants. There is no comparison at all.

Because at that time, the general's servants were all elite veterans who had been raised for several years, or even more than ten years. Among other things, their personal combat literacy could even be compared with that of the elite Donglu.

Today Zuo Liangyu's so-called elite is estimated to be similar to that of Chongzhen's officers and soldiers ten years ago.

As for the commander-in-chief of the five battalions directly under him, they are Lu Guangzu, Li Guoying, Chang Deng, Zhang Yingxiang, and Xu Ensheng in order.

These five are all veteran generals who followed Zuo Liangyu in Liaodong, and Zuo Liangyu trusted him a lot. Now each of them commands 5 to [-] people.

But as mentioned above, each battalion has no more than three thousand elite soldiers at most, and the rest are no more than the level of soldiers who dare to fight.

The five battalion leaders directly under Zuo Liangyu have a total of nearly 20 soldiers.

The chief generals of the eight affiliated battalions are from the official army, such as Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, and Xu Yuxian.

There are also those who surrendered from the exiled thieves, such as Jin Shenghuan, Hui Dengxiang, Ma Jinzhong, and Wang Yuncheng.

As for the generals of the other Xiaoyingtou who are all unknown at this time, I won't talk about it.

The soldiers and horses under the command of each of the eight affiliated battalions are between 5 and 30. Adding the soldiers and horses of those small battalions, the total number is about [-].

But there are even fewer elite soldiers among these people. Few of them can have a thousand elite soldiers under the command of the head of the affiliated camp.

It is estimated that the remaining soldiers are not even brave soldiers, and a considerable part of them are young and strong in the past year, and have not received much training or the baptism of the war.

Looking at it this way, counting those who can barely be called "soldiers" in the Zuo army, the actual number of soldiers is more than 50.

The rest are the relatives of the soldiers, or the common people coerced to act as husbands.

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After Zhu Yu, Hong Niangzi and others had a more detailed understanding of Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses, the progress of the reorganization became faster.

Two days later, Zuo Liangyu's health improved and she was able to get out of bed. At the behest of Aimee Zhu, she wrote a letter to the subordinate generals stationed elsewhere, and sent it out together with Aimee Zhu's letter.

Lu Guangzu on the north bank of the river, after hearing the news of Zuo Liangyu's surrender to Zhu Wei, was threatened by the Yangtze River Navy and the Jian Guojun, and surrendered voluntarily on the third day after Jiangxia City was captured.

Li Guoying, who was stationed in Huanggang, also chose to surrender after receiving Zuo Liangyu's letter and Zhu Yu's letter.

So far, Zuo Liangyu's personal battalion and the five battalions directly under him have been taken down by Zhu Yuxi, and even Wu Xueli, the subordinate general soldier, surrendered during the capture of Jiangxia.

The rest, such as Jin Shenghuan, Xu Yong, Ma Jinzhong, etc., were stationed relatively far away from Jiangxia, and Zuo Liangyu's letters and Zhu Yu's handwritten orders also took a while to get feedback.

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"Xu Yong was stationed in Huangpi, Jin Shenghuan was stationed in Hanchuan, Ma Jinzhong was in Qianjiang, Wang Yuncheng was in Mianyang Prefecture, Zhang Yingyuan was in Qizhou, and Xu Yuxian was in Huangmei.

As for Prime Minister Huideng, he was originally stationed in Chongyang, Wuchang Prefecture.

But according to Zuo Liangyu, this man is sicker than him, and has recently retired from the position of commander-in-chief, leaving all military affairs to the deputy general.

He himself is preparing for his funeral, and now he doesn't know if he is alive or not. "

On the walkie-talkie, Hong Niangzi and Zhu Yuxi talked about the details of the various departments of the Left Army.

Aunt Zhu pondered for a while, then said: "Don't worry about Prime Minister Hui Deng, we need to pay attention to Xu Yong, Jin Shenghuan, Ma Jinzhong, and Wang Yuncheng.

The places where they were stationed bordered on the area occupied by the Shun Army, and now Li Zicheng led the Dong Lu Shun Army into the Jingxiang area, which must have put pressure on these four people.

If they had no intention of surrendering to the palace, they might not surrender to Li Zicheng. "

Zeng Ying said: "Probably not? Li Zicheng is now a bereaved dog. Could they surrender and be buried with him?"

Aunt Zhu smiled and said, "I also know that this possibility is unlikely, but we must always be on guard."

At this time, Hao Guangming said through the Bluetooth headset: "Historically, Zuo Liangyu should have retreated from Wuchang at this time.

Now we are both in Wuchang with Zuo Liangyu, Li Zicheng has not come, but the Qing army will not stop chasing him, maybe he is dealing with the Qing army now.

In the final analysis, your intelligence work is still too poor, and you can't even know the situation in Xiangyang, which is separated by a prefecture, in time. "

Aunt Zhu said: "Is there any way to do this, after all, the new Beizhen Fusi has only been established for less than a year, and they sent more spies to various places in Huguang after I led the army to the east.

In addition, these people do not have instant messaging means, even if they have learned some news, it is very troublesome to pass it on. "

After Auntie Zhu finished speaking, a commander of the imperial forest army came under the imperial boat and shouted, "Report to Jian Guo, Du Yinxi, governor of Huguang, has arrived!"

"Let him come to the royal boat to have an audience."

The maid on the boat passed on Zhu Yuxi's words, and not long after, Du Yinxi came.

Aimee Zhu was not surprised by Du Yinxi's arrival.

When she decided to start a fight with Zuo Liangyu, Zhu Wei was confident that she could win, so she sent a telegram to Du Yinxi, asking him to bring the two battalions to Wuchang Mansion.

Now it is March [-]th, counting the time, it has been six or seven days since the telegram was sent, and there is still a downstream waterway from Changsha to Jiangxia, even if Du Yinxi brought two battalions of soldiers and horses, he should have arrived by then.

After the meeting, Auntie Zhu immediately explained that she was going to let Du Yinxi sit in Wuchang Mansion in the future to prevent the Shun Army and the Qing Army from crossing the south of the Yangtze River.

Du Yinxi said no problem.

Afterwards, the two monarchs and ministers discussed how to guard the south of Huguang and some areas of Hubei according to Wuchang Mansion.

During this process, Hong Niangzi and Zeng Ying also participated in the discussion through the walkie-talkie.

The walkie-talkie has been equipped to the battalion level in the Imperial Forest Army, the Imperial Guard Army, and the Frontier Defense Army, so Du Yinxi has already seen it in the Yifubiao Battalion from the Frontier Defense Army, so he is not very surprised.

However, it is still a rather novel experience for Du Yinxi to use the walkie-talkie to exchange state affairs with two other people who are no longer around.

After roughly discussing the matter of Wuchang Mansion's defense against the Shun army and the Qing army's crossing of the river, Du Yinxi bowed to Aimee Zhu and said: "I have brought a person with me this time, and I want to recommend him to the supervisor."

When Aimee Zhu became interested, she said with a smile, "Oh, I don't know who it is?"

Du Yinxi said: "This man's name is Zhang Kuang, a man from Songjiang. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Yingtianfu Township tried to solve the Yuan Dynasty. He has a lot of military plans. Why is he trusted by the supervisor now, and he is the supervisor of the army in Changsha."

Zhang Kuang?

On the other side, Hao Guangming was slightly taken aback when he heard the name.

As a history buff in the late Ming Dynasty, he knew the name, but in his impression it was one of He Tengjiao's aides and subordinate officials who once opposed Du Yinxi's full acceptance of the Zhongzhen Camp.

Therefore, before Hao Guangming subconsciously regarded him as a bad little character, and did not check his information.

Unexpectedly, Du Yinxi would recommend this person.

Is this Zhang Kuang really good in terms of military strategy?

Thinking of this, he immediately inquired about Zhang Kuang's information.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)