Wanli 1592

Chapter 24 The terminally ill giant

Time waits for no one else, and they are also eager for merit. The five thousand Ming army with Ma Gui as the chief general and Xiao Ruxun as the deputy general joined forces to attack after a day of rectification. Caiyun Yiyi said goodbye.

Because Xiao Ruxun's troops are extremely good at using firearms to fight, all the bird guns and Fran machine guns scattered in Magui's commanding general were handed over to Xiao Ruxun's troops to form a "firearms battalion", with Xiao Ruxun as the commander to strengthen the army's firepower.

All the soldiers in General Xiao Ruxun who could use blunderbuss were combined to form a 700-man blunderbuss team and a 300-man vehicle artillery team. The absolute trump card of Ningxia Zhencheng.

According to everyone's joint analysis, Xiao Ruxun believes that Qi Bai distributed the main force of the army in Yuquan, Mingsha Prefecture, Lingzhou, and confronted the main force of Wei Xuezeng's department. Certainly, it will take a lot of time to make countermeasures after learning the news. The Ming army has one to two days of buffer time to prepare, and then they must attack decisively and go straight to the heart of the rebel army.

In order to keep the battle situation secret, Xiao Ruxun did not send anyone to inform Wei Xuezeng of this operation.

The army set off at dawn and marched towards the town of Ningxia. The first day went smoothly. Except for the forward who searched for the enemy's sentry cavalry and killed a few defeated rebels, there was no organized rebel army until the next day. , when the army had marched for nearly a hundred miles, the sentry cavalry reported back and encountered Yao Fubao, which was occupied by the rebels. Ma Gui immediately decided to attack the city, and grabbed a few tongues to ask about the situation of the rebels, looking for a breakthrough.

Ma Gui arranged for the Ming army to take advantage of the darkness of night to dispatch suddenly to surround the city without using firearms, so as not to shock the rest of the rebels. After an hour of raiding, the small castle with only 400 guards was successfully breached. The loss of the Ming army was very small, and the resistance of the rebels was also very weak. Almost after the Ming army entered the city, they knelt down and begged for mercy and did not dare to fight again. After asking, they learned that the main force of the castle was pulled out and enslaved by the bandits. , the ones left behind are old, weak and disabled, who are simply vulnerable.

Ma Gui tied up the commander of this castle, the general manager, and brought him in front of him, and interrogated Xiao Ruxun and Xiao Ruhui together. His parents and family members were all taken away by the rebels and went to Ningxia City as a threat to force them to work for the rebels. For the lives of their families, they had to follow the rebels. If you dare to resist, you are willing to pay off your merits and tell the officers and soldiers everything you know.

Xiao Ruxun and Ma Gui looked at each other and nodded together, so Xiao Ruxun said: "As long as you honestly tell us everything you know, we will naturally not embarrass you, and we will try our best to save your family. It depends on whether you have the responsibility to sacrifice meritorious deeds."

The general immediately kowtowed to express his willingness to sacrifice meritorious deeds and lead a hundred brothers to fight the rebellion with the army. Afterwards, if he wanted to be killed, he would do whatever he wanted.

Magui agreed.

According to what the general said, the specific situation of Fort 47 in Hexi they know is similar. On the surface, there are [-] to [-] garrison troops. In the old system of the Taizu, the army was divided into two parts for defense and eight parts for garrison, and the combination of guards and garrisons was used to integrate soldiers into agriculture. Taizu once proudly declared that "I raise millions of soldiers and do not consume a single grain of rice for the people", but the reality is that after Chengzu, the army The system is becoming more and more rotten, and the generals and officers rely on their power to privately occupy the military fields, and there are also local tyrants colluding with the garrison officers to occupy the military fields, and the benefits are evenly distributed.

Therefore, the garrison system on the entire border has existed in name only, and the number of military households fleeing in various places is serious, and 47% to [-]% are better. In some areas with a huge number of fleeing, only [-]% to [-]% of the troops are defending. The combat effectiveness can be imagined, so The reason why Hexi Fort [-] surrendered so quickly without fighting was not that they did not want to fight, but that they could not fight at all. There were only three to five hundred old and weak soldiers in the castle, and some castles had only dozens of veterans guarding them. Even if the city gate can't be closed, it will be breached directly.

Ma Gui was very annoyed when he heard the words, and angrily reprimanded corrupt officers and local tyrants for harming others, while Xiao Ruxun and Xiao Ruhui glanced at each other, meaning it couldn't be more clear.

The Ma family has always been pushed aside by the Nine Frontiers and ignored, because they are not of Han origin, while the Xiao family is well aware of the truth. Deli, that's too high a view on Xiao. Of course, the generals of the Nine Sides are very clear about this, and the sharp decline of the military households' combat effectiveness is due to the system, which cannot be restored by manpower. The slightly elite army of the Nine Sides They are all recruited soldiers, and it is an open secret to recruit private soldiers to guard the gate.

In order to occupy the military field and profit from it, the generals will spend a lot of money, and then those who are a little bit ambitious and responsible will recruit private soldiers to strengthen their own strength.

The civil servants patrolling the censors came to cover up, or simply bribed them, and everyone knew it well, so they kept the emperor in the dark. There were fewer and fewer generals and troops who dared to resist. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian army fought The situation of people throwing away their armor and armor has never happened again, and the situation of being suppressed has reappeared.

It's just that Xiao Ruxun didn't expect that the land of Hexi, the border of the country, such an important town of Ningxia, would be taken down so easily by Qi Bai. It turned out that it was for this reason that they actually extended their hands to the most strategically important place in the country's border!Daming's abandonment of Hetao is already a bad strategic move. If Ningxia loses it again, the situation of corruption in the Northwest of the Northern Song Dynasty will once again reappear!
Faced with the surging rebel army, those nominal garrison officers could not resist at all, and did not want to die, so they could only surrender. They were forced to take their own private soldiers from the bandits, and then left their deputy to guard the city. For insurance, they Xiaotong's family was taken to Ningxia town to guard, lest they surrender and rebel.

Xiao Ruxun persuaded Shao Magui in anger, and persuaded him to take the counter-insurgency as the top priority, and the rest will be discussed later.

"If this situation is not contained, Ningxia Town will be useless! How can I turn a blind eye?!"

Ma Gui's sense of justice is overwhelming.

Xiao Ruxun smiled helplessly, and said: "Not to mention that the generals on both sides are connected, at least they are also grasshoppers on a rope. If you move a link, you will move your whole body, and if you are a general, you will not There is no backing, too much involved, you and I can do nothing, so, don't be too ambitious, first quell the rebellion, make military exploits, promote the official position and status, and then think about other things."

Ma Gui thought for a long time, shook his head helplessly and sighed bitterly, and agreed to Xiao Ruxun.

The three discussed it. The main forces of the rebel army are all facing the main force of the Ming army on the front line, and the defense in the rear is almost zero. Then our army can go straight to the rebel lair, raid the town of Ningxia, and completely disrupt the strategy of the rebel army. Deployment gives the rebels a great psychological deterrent. Just imagine, if our artillery fires in the rebel lair, how terrifying the deterrence it will bring to the rebels!

The three of them maintained a high degree of agreement, so Ma Gui ordered that regardless of these fortresses, they should rush directly in the direction of Ningxia town, and just break through the fortresses they encounter.

The surrendered Zong Magao stood up and said that he had many friends and comrades in Fort 47, and was willing to persuade them to take the initiative to open the city anyway and atone for their sins. Ma Gui was overjoyed and agreed immediately.

Next, the two-day forced march began. Under the leadership of Ma Gui and Xiao Ruxun, the five thousand Ming troops who had enough food and drink to nourish their spirits began the forced march. Several of the remaining fortresses were arrived by large troops. The guards in the city took the initiative to open the city after seeing the situation. Ma Gao persuaded eight castles to take the initiative to open the city. Ma Gui opened the city without even bringing the army to them, and then joined The anti-insurgency troops have made mistakes, and along the way, there are more than 500 anti-insurgency troops in the army, and they were incorporated into the vanguard army.

Along the way, Xiao Ruxun actually found that he didn't meet the main force of the established rebel army, and they went all the way smoothly without encountering any obstacles. It is enough to imagine how unpopular this rebellion is. If they won the hearts of the people, they The progress will definitely not be so fast, but before, the progress of the rebels was also very fast, enough to see that the Ming court did not have any loyal courtiers here, it just depends on whose fist is bigger, as long as the target is not a Mongol The rebels don't seem to be a big deal either.

It is true that the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli, but the deeper things are hard to change, just like in 1997, all the bamboos in Europe bloomed and died overnight, not for any other reason. Rather, its mother body came from Hubei, China in 1907. Since the moment it was born, it has been doomed to perish. No matter how many plants are reproduced, they will die at the same time. When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, will it be Also thought of this?

Xiao Ruxun felt that Zhu Yuanzhang must have never thought of this, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have killed all the heroes and left Zhu Yunwen with a cane whip without thorns, nor would he think that his sons who are strong and strong will not rebel against his beloved young The little grandson will not indulge his descendants to become the biggest social cancer of the Ming Dynasty, almost sucking up the blood of the Ming Dynasty.

Today, the world has fallen into the routine of civil officials hiding needles in the cotton.

How to save this giant who is deeply ill and is only one step away from terminal illness?

Xiao Ruxun's Daming plot is too heavy, he is a little confused.

(End of this chapter)