national surname chiming

Chapter 122

After talking clearly about the money, the rest of the spoils became very harmonious, and everything can basically be dominated by Shen Shuren.

Shen Shuren won this battle very well, but strictly speaking, he is also "starting a business with financing".After winning a big battle, it is also necessary to share the benefits with the "investors".

With so many allies he has drawn, each of them has to win over and maintain a good relationship.That way, the next time something happens, someone else will come to help you.

In the end, Shen Shuren did not choose to swallow all of the more than 2 prisoners of war, but distributed 5000 of them to Liu Guoneng—it was equivalent to double the number of casualties on Liu Guoneng's side and returning them to Liu Guoneng.

Before the war, the total strength of the Liu Guoneng Department was about [-], but now it was lost by [-], and [-] were repaid. After the battle, the total strength increased to [-].

Shen Shuren also allocated the Shaanxi people who were the most difficult to control in the army to Liu Guoneng to ensure that both sides got their own place and had security.

He also promised that in the future, Liu Guoneng would give Liu Guoneng to reform if he cracked down on thieves and caught old thieves from Shaanxi.But in exchange, Liu Guoneng will also have to help him fight tough battles and resist injuries in the front within the scope of his authority.

In this way, those arrogant veterans who have been thieves for more than ten years can be fully utilized without backlash.At the same time, the most tragic and tough battles are entrusted to them to fight, and they are always wasted. Liu Guoneng will not be able to make a big success of the new Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

On the other hand, when Shen Shuren asked for help, Governor Wenfang recruited 2000 people, and promised to return them all after the fight, and send another 2000 people back to garrison Jiangling.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren decided to take two thousand direct-line troops as a top-up for the time being. After a while, the captives here are almost reorganized and reformed, and after a little training, they will exchange the direct-line troops with two thousand captive young men.

In the end, Shen Shuren's battles were fought one after another, and he suffered thousands of losses.So after all the deductions, his total force actually increased by about 1 people—from 8000 before the war to 2.

Of course, in the counties of Suizhou Prefecture that surrendered before, such as Suizhou and Anlu, there were also one or two thousand bandit troops who surrendered. Counting those who were recruited one after another, the total strength of Shen Shuren could reach [-] to [-] in the end. .

After the military strength has been expanded to nearly three times that before the war, it will definitely take a considerable period of time to train troops, rectify discipline, boost morale, and support ideological education.

Even the modern army in the 20th century, when mobilized in wartime, generally dared to expand the reserve personnel according to the three-three system.

That is to say, a regular army with one battalion in normal times will be mobilized and expanded to a regiment in wartime, and will be added to two reserve recruit battalions.This has been tested by history, as was the case with the large-scale military expansion during World War II.No matter how much it is, it will definitely be greedy, and even cause the troops to waver and mutiny.

From this point of view, Shen Shuren distributed the indigestible excess prisoners of war to his allies and helped him digest them together. It is definitely not a disadvantage, but it is beneficial to him.

Anyway, this shot is so bold, Fang Kongxuan and Liu Guoneng will come to help next time, why bother to put it in his pocket.

What is yours is mine, what is mine is still mine.

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It took Shen Shuren seven or eight days to share the spoils with Liu Guoneng at Pingjing Pass, deal with the reorganized prisoners, and sort out the captured weapons and equipment.

The disposal of tens of thousands of people is never a trivial matter.One who is neglected and not strictly supervised and educated, may cause thousands of bandits and bandits to emerge in the future.

Leaving aside, let's just talk about the thousands of people who escaped over the mountains or hid in the forest after He Yilong was killed. If they are not handled well, it will be a huge disaster.

Shen Shuren's troops were stationed for one more day, so that those thieves who hid in the mountains and waited and watched would see less hope, and they would be able to reform one more person.

Many people who chose to run away did not necessarily want to continue to fight against the government and the army as thieves, but simply because they were afraid of death and wanted to hide their names and become ordinary people and go back to farm.

As for the ex-bandit soldiers who were frightened by the bloody battle, Shen Shuren would not be in a hurry.

So five days after the battle ended, he made people announce that the search for deserters had temporarily ended.Since then, in the vicinity of the battlefield in the Tongbai mountain area, whenever it is found that there are scattered people who have no household registration, the government will allow them to re-register, but they must be incorporated into the military settlements where the government holds land.

This is tantamount to turning a blind eye and turning a blind eye to give those who flee because they are afraid of becoming soldiers a way out. As long as they farm well in the future and pay high taxes according to the standards of military settlements to make atonement, the government will pretend to know nothing and let the past go.

After completing these collection tasks, Shen Shuren's victory report documents were almost finished.

The statistics of the battle results are clear and clear, and the distribution is carefully considered to ensure that those who come to help have meat and soup.

After finishing writing, Shen Shuren also invited Liu Guoneng to review it with him.

Liu Guoneng has been in Zhao'an for four years, and now he can recognize a few words, but he still doesn't understand the written victory memorial, so Shen Shuren explained it again in spoken words.

After learning that Shen Shuren was very fair and did not blackmail any party, he was also very satisfied, and sincerely convinced Shen Shuren to have a big drink.

He said that Shen Daotai had the final say on dealing with the court in the future, he didn't ask questions, and believed that Shen Daotai's character would not lose anyone who contributed.

Shen Shuren sealed the victory report and asked people to take the Hanshui River to send it to Mr. Yang Ge for review, and then wrote a private letter with the same content, and went to Fang Kongzhang to say hello and prepare a case.

As for the final summary report, Yang Sichang sent it to the emperor in a unified manner. It also seemed that Shen Shuren would be a man and would not skip the report.

Moreover, there is another layer of meaning in doing so——Shen Shuren was hoping to rely on this great victory to uncover Zuo Liangyu's previous sins of "doing nothing to save him".

If he played directly to the emperor, he would inevitably be suspected of framing his colleagues.After arriving in the capital, Shen Shuren didn't have many friends from Beijing officials to help him, so it would be bad if he was provoked and caused troubles.

When Yang Sichang came forward, it seemed like a bowl of water was flat. The praise of Liu Guoneng and the derogation of Zuo Liangyu were all due to Yang Ge's insight, and had nothing to do with Shen Shuren.Moreover, Yang Sichang's disciples and old officials in the capital will also help to speak, and promote the implementation of Yang Ge's opinions on meritorious service.

In the officialdom, you must learn to borrow strength at any time, and if you can use other people's relationships to help advance things, try to borrow as much as possible.

It is reckoned that with Yang Sichang's lifespan, he would not be able to help Shen Shuren deliver a few good news.

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When the news of Shen Shuren's success was delivered to Xiangyang, Yang Sichang was in a state of desperation.

It turned out that during the two months when Shen Shuren snatched Liu Guoneng away and went to the Tongbai mountain area to attack together, more deterioration had occurred in other directions on the Huguang and Henan battlefields.

After all, Huang Taiji's invasion in March caused the Ming court to take away so many troops from the hinterland of the Central Plains to fill in the border gates. Huguang and Henan have too many monks and too little porridge.

In the southern Huguang war zone, because Fang Kongxue was still diligent and conscientious, and Zuo Liangyu's tens of thousands of people (called [-]) did not work hard, they were quite deterrent just by being idle in Wuchang.So the deterioration of the war situation is not obvious.

In the northern war zone, after learning that Liu Guoneng had been transferred away in May, Li Zicheng, who had been dormant in the Shangluo mountain area, finally abandoned his previous suspicions with Luo Rucai, who was also not very successful last year, and decided to join forces again.

Li Zicheng carried out a large-scale strategic transfer in the Shangluo mountain area, crossing the mountains and mountains in the dangerous mountains and rivers, from the Danshui River Valley to the Luoshui River Valley.

Danshui and Luoshui are two rivers originating from the Shangluo Mountains, both in the Wuguandao Mountains between Guanzhong and Nanyang Basin.

But the Danshui is a bit southerly. On the south side of the main ridge of Funiu Mountain, it can flow out of Wuguan along the river, enter the Nanyang Basin, and finally flow into the Hanshui River.

On the other hand, Luoshui is a little northerly, on the north side of the main ridge of Funiu Mountain, and will eventually join Yishui in Luoyang Basin and flow into the Yellow River.

Li Zicheng's strategic shift this time was quite difficult. It is estimated that many people were killed on the way, and he also gave up a lot of food, grass and luggage, so that he was able to come and go freely in the Qinling Mountains.

But after the transfer was successful, the effect of joining Luo Rucai was also very obvious-he could no longer be obsessed with going out of Wuguan along the Danshui River, and fought with Yang Sichang in the Yunyang and Xiangyang areas, but directly followed the Luoshui River, rushed To the Luoyang Basin.

On the eighth day of May, Li Zicheng entered the mountains at the source of the Luoshui River, and on the fifteenth day of the fifth month, he conquered Luonan County in the mountains.

After that, they went down the Luoshui River, unstoppable. The army arrived in Lushi County on May [-], and only two days later they made an emergency landing and occupied the county seat.They arrived in Yongning County (now Luoning) five days later and broke through the city at the end of May.

In early June, Li Zicheng broke through Yiyang and Xin'an counties again.

Among them, Yiyang County is the last county on the bank of Luoshui River and located in the upper reaches of Luoyang.

And Xin'an County has already bypassed Luoyang, and got stuck in the three passes of Funiu Mountain on the south side of the famous "Eight Passes of Luoyang" in the past dynasties, Yique, Taigu and Shenyuan.

In other words, by this time, Li Zicheng had not only approached Luoyang, but also surrounded Luoyang from the south, and prevented the official army from going north from the Nanyang Basin to reinforce Luoyang.

In the Nanyang Basin, even if Yang Sichang wanted to send reinforcements, he had to first break through the three main valley roads on Funiu Mountain that had been blocked by Li Zicheng.

Otherwise, we have to go eastward and strive to support Luoyang through Sishui Pass (Guhulao Pass) from Kaifeng and Zhengzhou.

In other words, the final stage of Shen Shuren's elimination of He Yilong on the Hubei-Henan border coincided with Li Zicheng's killing out of the Luohe Valley and entering the southern Luoyang Basin, almost at the same time.

If it weren't for the strong city of Luoyang, Yang Sichang would have to worry that this ancient city would not be quickly breached.

Now, he finally got the good news from Shen Shuren's side, and Yang Sichang at least took credit for it, at least he could calm down the possible anger of the emperor.

Regardless of whether the cities in other regions were lost or not, here at least the two kings of thieves were completely wiped out, or even the leader was beheaded and sent to the capital directly.

Therefore, for Shen Shuren's meritorious service, Yang Sichang of course fully supported him, but at the same time he supported Liu Guoneng and gave Shen Shuren a letter to help persuade Liu Guoneng to return to the Henan battlefield as soon as possible.

The Henan battlefield is not without the defense of officers and soldiers, but they are all local guards under the control of civilian officials, and their combat effectiveness is very worrying.

The civil servants in charge of defense mainly included Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and Yinchang, the king of Luoyang who participated in politics.The military generals under their jurisdiction include Wang Shaoyu, the general soldier of Henan, Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, the deputy generals.

Yang Sichang knew that these people would never be as brave as Liu Guoneng, so Liu Guoneng must go to reinforce them.

(End of this chapter)