Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 369 Chongzhen Comes
Nearly ten thousand mountain bandits were wiped out, but the casualties of the new army were minimal.

Only two soldiers were killed in battle, and a dozen more soldiers were slightly injured. The casualties of these dozen people were mainly caused by those old bandits in armor.

Most of these old bandits came from bandits, and they were quite fierce.

Chongzhen asked Xu Yingwei to collect the identity cards of the dead soldiers, and at the same time made a stretcher to carry more than a dozen soldiers who were slightly injured. He ignored the Yingshan officials who lined up to see him, and continued to march towards Huanggang.

After another half month of marching, they finally arrived at Huanggang at the end of the first month.

At this time, Zheng Hongkui's navy had already arrived in Huanggang.

At the same time, I also received a letter from Du Yinxi who sent flying cavalry: [-] town soldiers have arrived in Hanyang.

With the assistance of the navy, the army crossed the Yangtze River to reach Pankou smoothly. At this time, Wuchang was only less than [-] miles away, and it took two days to march quickly.

Chongzhen immediately ordered a rapid advance.

……

The rebellious soldiers outside Wuchang City have become a mess.

More than a dozen generals and lieutenants who took the lead in the mutiny are gathering in the big tent to fight.

"I said I can't kill He Tengjiao. If you don't listen, you insist on killing He Tengjiao. Now that the imperial army has arrived, there is no room for change. I will ask you what to do? What to do?"

The general soldier who spoke was Xu Yong, who, like Huang Degong, was from the frontier army of Liaodong Town. During the Chongzhen period, he had been fighting at the forefront of the Qing Dynasty to suppress the thieves. Forcing all kinds of thieves to take a detour, he is a titan.

However, integrity cannot be compared with Huang Degong.

The army led by Huang Degong was really a clean stream in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty.

And Xu Yong, like Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing and others, were involved in mudslides. They also suppressed thieves, but they also robbed and killed people.

"Bullshit! He Tengjiao killed Ma Zongzhen and other four people, how can we calm down the monstrous anger of the soldiers of the towns if we don't kill him?"

The deputy general who refuted Xu Yong was named Hao Xiaozhong, and he was also from Liaodong Town. There are quite a few generals from Liaodong like Xu Yong and Hao Xiaozhong in the left army.

For example, Lu Guangzu, Li Guoying, Zhang Yingyuan and others.

Liaodong Town, or the generals of the Guanning Army, have a very serious tendency to become warlords.

And this is also the most fundamental reason for this mutiny, because Chongzhen's series of actions in Xuzhou and Guide have spread to Wuchang and to the ears of these generals from Liaodong.

I heard that all the frontier generals in Xuzhou were made viscounts, and each frontier soldier also rewarded Entian. These frontier generals and soldiers in Wuchang felt that they were treated differently and insulted.

Because none of the generals in Wuchang have been knighted, and the soldiers have no grace.

In fact, not to mention rewarding favors, even the salary was not paid in full.

The standard of payment for the frontier army in Wuchang Town is just sitting salary, two taels of silver per month, which cannot be paid in full, while the frontier army in Xuzhou Town is paid in full for war, which is too much difference!

Because of this, the generals and soldiers in Wuchang Town had already suffocated an evil fire in their hearts.

In other words, the hundreds of thousands of frontier troops in Wuchang Town have long been turned into a powder keg.

But at this time, He Tengjiao imitated Sun Chuanting and set up a banquet killing general!

After killing the general, He Tengjiao actually dared to break into the barracks outside the city alone, but was directly chopped to pieces by the frontier soldiers who were so angry and stunned.

He Tengjiao was cut down, and the rebel army plundered the village again.

In just ten days, hundreds of thousands of rebel troops turned Jiangxia County upside down.

After massacring and grabbing a lot of wealth and women, the rebel army gathered outside Wuchang City again, preparing to attack Chengchang City. As for what to do after taking Wuchang City, they haven't thought about it yet, anyway Take one step at a time, as long as you have an army in your hand, where can you not eat?

It's just that the attack on Wuchang City was not smooth.

After more than [-] days of fierce attack, they were still unable to fight, and many people were lost.

Just when the rebellious army had nothing to do, a shocking news came out suddenly. The navy had reached Huangzhou Mansion, and had blocked the way for the rebellious army to enter Nanzhi or Jiangxi.

The brains of the rebel army immediately became a mess.

Up to today, it has been the third day of continuous quarreling, and there is no result yet.

"Everyone, stop arguing, everyone calm down." Lu Guangzu interrupted the quarrel between Xu Yong and Hao Xiaozhong, and said again, "We must come up with a charter as soon as possible. If we fight, how should we fight next? If we go, So where should we go? We must make a decision as soon as possible, and we cannot delay it any longer."

Hao Xiaozhong said with a dark face: "If you want me to say, don't attack Wuchang at all. The city of Wuchang is high and deep, and it is too difficult to attack. Let's directly raise troops and go down the river to attack Nanjing! Go and bring the young master back!"

"What kind of son will you pick me up?" A lieutenant said angrily, "Just kill Chongzhen and let your son ascend the throne in Nanjing!"

"That's right, the dog emperor Chongzhen dares to bully us like this, he should show him our methods." Another lieutenant said with a dark face, "Hit Nanjing, let's hit Nanjing directly!"

"Crazy, are they all crazy?" Some people remained rational.

"Only our hundreds of thousands of soldiers want to fight Nanjing? Hundreds of thousands of Jiannu were beaten to pieces by Chongzhen. You are all tired of living, right? You want to die, but I don't want to die."

"What are you afraid of? Chongzhen's army is guarding Xuzhou, and there are not many soldiers in Nanjing."

"That's right, if Nanjing is the top of the sky, there are tens of thousands of soldiers from the Beijing camp, and the soldiers from the Beijing camp are also considered soldiers? One battalion of Lao Tzu's soldiers can beat them so that my mother can't recognize them! Just fight Nanjing and fuck Chongzhen!"

Several chief soldiers and a dozen lieutenants became more and more enthusiastic, and they were spitting all over the place.

It has to be said that these warriors still have a little vision, knowing that at this time the elite frontier troops of the Ming army are all in Xuzhou, and they are all on the Huanghuai line of defense. Nanjing has no real elite soldiers at all.

This idea is exactly the same as Zuo Liangyu in another time and space.

Of course, their real intention of attacking Nanjing was not to support Zuo Menggeng as the emperor, but purely to covet the wealth and goods in Nanjing. The Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty and the Exchange are located in Nanjing.

After taking down Nanjing, they can immediately get endless money.

Most of these rebellious troops were from thieves. Even if there were a small number of officers and soldiers, most of them were from the Guanning Army with extremely poor military discipline, so the system of loyalty to the monarch and the country would not work for them.

These rebels only have money in their eyes.

Xu Yong shook his head as he watched the angry group of more than a dozen lieutenant generals shouting.

Xu Yong was one of the rare people who remained calm. He knew that attacking Nanjing would be a dead end. It was more than a thousand miles from Wuchang to Nanjing. How would we deal with food and grass for such a long journey?Did you grab it along the way?What if I can't grab it?
I'm afraid that before they hit Nanjing, these hundreds of thousands of people have already collapsed.

But it is impossible for him to talk to more than a dozen people with one mouth, so he simply didn't bother to say more.

Just when Xu Yong was thinking about running away with his army while the others were not paying attention, a whistle chief ran in panting and reported: "Everyone, it's not good!"

"Hou Si, why did you come back to Wuchang?" A general asked sharply, "Didn't you be asked to take our sentry cavalry to stand guard in the direction of Huangzhou to prevent the Ming army from making a surprise attack?"

"It's over, it's over." Hou Si said anxiously.

The chief soldier was furious and said, "It's over, let's make it clear."

"My soldiers are all finished." Hou Si cried out as he spoke, "I was killed by Yi Ding!"

"Yiding?" More than a dozen lieutenants of the general army were startled when they heard this. Is this Chongzhen coming?

In Daming, Yi Ding was an extremely special army, and now there are hundreds of them around Chongzhen.

If these hundreds of barbarians appeared in Wuchang, wouldn't it mean that Chongzhen had also arrived in Wuchang?

Don't look at them all yelling to fight to Nanjing to kill Chongzhen, and they yelled quite fiercely, but when Chongzhen really appeared outside Wuchang City, especially so suddenly, it still made their scalps tingle .

As the so-called shadow of a famous tree, Chongzhen defeated an army of hundreds of thousands of slaves in Xuzhou no matter what!

After a moment of dead silence, a lieutenant asked in a deep voice: "Hou Si, do you know how many barbarians have come?"

"There are at least a few hundred." Hou Si said with a sad face, "Zongzhen, the one coming from the east is really Yi Ding, and there are more cavalry following up, and they will soon reach Wuchang."

"Everyone don't need to panic." Xie Zhongzhong said in a deep voice, "Chongzhen may not come to Wuchang with Yiding."

"What if? What if Chongzhen also comes?" A lieutenant immediately retorted loudly, "Can you guarantee that Chongzhen didn't come, but just transferred Yiding?"

"Xu Yuxian, where's your egg?"

Hao Xiaozhong immediately became angry: "Just now you were clamoring to attack Nanjing?"

"Just now was just now, now is now!" Xu Yuxian said anxiously, "We can't beat Chongzhen."

"It's all over now, if you can fight, you have to fight, if you can't fight, you still have to fight, otherwise you and I will die without a place to die." Xu Yong sighed and said, "Let's hurry up and gather troops to meet the enemy. .”

More than a dozen lieutenants of the general army woke up like a dream.

At present, they went back to the camp to gather troops.

……

At this time, it was twenty miles away from Wuchang.

Chongzhen is leading an army of more than [-] horse-buoyed troops to rush to Wuchang.

All the way from Pankou, Bailuji, Huangzhou and other market towns, I found that there was no military disaster.

It wasn't until they entered Huangzhou Town that they encountered a group of rebel cavalry, who were quickly wiped out by Yi Ding.

Seeing this, Chongzhen was also slightly relieved. It seems that the military disaster has not spread, at most Jiangxia County, which is a subsidiary county of Wuchang Prefecture, was looted.

In this case, the impact on the entire Huguang will be minimal.

After entering Jiangxia County, I finally saw burned villages and market towns one after another, and I also saw displaced people supporting the old and the young, fleeing in the direction of Nankang Mansion in Jiangxi.

Chongzhen immediately ordered that the dry food carried by the army be distributed to the people.

He also sent someone to inform the navy to send a boat to pick up the people and send them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nanjing for resettlement.

Daming was on the eve of great industrial development at this time, and manpower was the most precious resource, so Chongzhen would not give up any common people easily, a common man was a labor force!

After the people settled down, Chongzhen continued to lead the army to rush westward.

Near noon, they finally entered fifteen miles east of Wuchang City, and then they couldn't go any further, because Wuchang's rebels had already formed their formation in the wilderness ahead.

Seeing this, Chongzhen immediately climbed into the van and opened the binoculars.

Through the field of vision through the binoculars, all the people in the wilderness ahead were chaos soldiers.

Chongzhen was as stable as an old dog, and the three thousand cavalrymen and the eight hundred barbarians were also calm, but Xu Wuniu and other new army officers and soldiers could not help but gasp.

So many rioters?I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands?

Hundreds of thousands of rebels, can we beat them?

These rebels are not the same as bandits.

Not to mention anything else, there are still many cavalry in the rebels!

While observing the formation of the rebellious soldiers, Chongzhen asked Zuo Menggeng: "Mr. Chu, how many soldiers and horses are there in Wuchang?"

Zuo Menggeng didn't dare to hide the slightest thing, because he knew that he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to, so he replied honestly: "Wuchang Town has ten town commanders, and the total number of troops is more than [-]."

"However, there are actually less than [-] soldiers."

"The remaining hundreds of thousands of people are basically servants."

Speaking of this meal, Zuo Menggeng said again: "Before, Chen and General Jin brought two towns of [-] soldiers to Xuzhou, of which half of them were soldiers and half of them were soldiers. So at this time, the rebellious soldiers in Wuchang Town should be around eight About ten thousand people."

"Eighty thousand soldiers." Chongzhen smiled, and said, "How many can really fight?"

Zuo Menggeng looked back at Jin Shenghuan and said, "There are only [-] to [-] people left who can really fight."

"Only twenty or thirty thousand?" Chongzhen laughed loudly, "If it wasn't for the Duke of Chu, I would have been almost intimidated by these rebels."

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen asked Hu Guozhu again: "Hu Guozhu, you fought against the scout cavalry of the rebel army in Huangzhou before, how do you feel?"

"It's not bad." Hu Guozhu said, "At least that team of scout cavalry is not bad."

"I don't believe that all the cavalry in the rebellious army have this fighting power." Chongzhen said, "You take another team of barbarians to explore their background and see how good they are?"

The rebellious soldiers took [-] horses and trained [-] cavalry, which looked quite bluffing.

However, Chongzhen never believed that these cavalry could become fine cavalry in a short period of time. Jin Xuan took three thousand soldiers to train for more than half a year before they could barely form an army, and most of the three thousand soldiers were still good at equestrianism.

"Yes!" Hu Guozhu cupped his hands and immediately led a group of barbarians forward.

"Hu Guozhu!" Chongzhen shouted again suddenly, "Don't hurt my horse!"

Hu Guozhu immediately shouted at Wu Batan and Yi Ding: "Have you heard everything? Try not to hurt the horse!"

"Yes!" Nearly a hundred barbarians agreed with a bang, and then divided into more than a dozen groups and meandered forward, each with seven or eight riders, looking as if they were about to detour from the two wings of the chaos army.

Infantry formations, especially large formations composed of tens of thousands of people, are most afraid of cavalry outflanking from both wings, because once a large infantry formation is set up, it is almost impossible to turn.

Therefore, the two wings of the infantry formation are generally protected by cavalry.

(End of this chapter)