Wanli 1592

Chapter 498 Regretful Li Chengliang

What is disarmament?

In terms of weapons and equipment, spears and sabers have not been used for a long time, and they will not be maintained. The iron is rusted, the wooden handle is rotten, and they are completely unusable. The bow and crossbow are also almost completely useless. Rot does not replace.

The firearms are rusty, rusty, and rotten. Some look good, and they explode when fired. This is especially true for artillery.
In Qi Jiguang’s era, the chariot troops once flourished. The wooden parts of those chariots were completely rotted because they had not been used for a long time. .

The soldiers were not trained, old soldiers, soldiers, and market slickers with oil on their feet flooded the Beijing camp. The real combat effectiveness was probably only the guards around the generals. I don’t know if there are 1 people in total.

Who are the generals from all walks of life?

Those are the descendants of nobles and hereditary generals who were deprived of military power after the Tumu Fortress Change, all of them are glib and glib, and they are more proficient in eating, drinking and having fun than anyone else. Lost voice.

Why not rectify?

Unspoken rule, you civil servants have deprived generals of their military power, so don't you give me something to compensate?

The Beijing camp is the compensation. It is used to compensate those honorable children and hereditary officers. One family eats a little, that family eats a little, and everyone shares the food. Of course, these are not enough, and it is also necessary to do business everywhere. of.

Therefore, it is not only civil servants who are resisting commercial taxation, but also nobles from all walks of life. Although these people have no actual power, they have profound backgrounds and intertwined forces. Strong rebound.

The existence of the Nine Sides has weakened the appearance of corruption in the Beijing Camp, but once a certain part of the Nine Sides has been breached, when the northern barbarians are pointing directly at the Beijing Division, and when the Beijing Camp is needed to play a protective role, the problem of the Beijing Camp has become a must. There is no way to solve the problem, what else can I do?
Hurry up and recruit a group of recruits, give them a weapon at will, and then pretend to practice it, and go to the battlefield to die!

The level of corruption in the Ming Jingying has surpassed that of the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty. Although the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty is corrupt, although it is cowardly, although it is afraid to fight, it will collapse at the touch of a finger, but there are at least hundreds of thousands of them. There are no people in Mingjingying.

No one knows to what extent the Beijing camp has been emptied of wages. I am afraid that each family does not know the situation of other families. When it is put together, the appearance is absolutely shocking.

Li Chengliang belongs to Xungui. Although he is a new Xungui, he has not been able to participate in the distribution of spoils in the Beijing camp, but he knows the actual situation of the Beijing camp. Therefore, there is no one present who knows better than him about leading these old soldiers to the battlefield. What will happen to him, but the terrible thing is that he can't say.

He can't say it!

Although he was close to the civil servants and couldn't urinate in the same pot as those nobles, he couldn't say that, because while the nobles were getting benefits, many civil servants from the big bosses to the little shrimps also got the benefits of empty pay.

It is not an exaggeration to say that half of the imperial court has been paid dividends. If he dares to speak out, cut off people’s wealth, and let the emperor know the truth, let alone Li Chengliang, even Xu Dafu can give it to those people. Torn alive.

Cutting off someone's wealth is like killing one's parents. If you don't share the same hatred, it's really not just for fun. You can scold someone, and the whole family can bear it, but if you take away someone's wealth, they will immediately kill you Desperately, such things are not very rare.

Li Chengliang is fierce, but he dares to confront half of the court?Zhang Juzheng was so fierce that he didn't dare to attack Xungui, he could only stare blankly at the situation in Jingying, let alone him, Li Chengliang?
But this dilemma arose. The emperor asked him to lead the Beijing camp to fight, but the result of the battle in the Beijing camp was definitely not a good result. Become a brave soldier.

Not to mention Li Chengliang, Qi Jiguang is such a man who can train soldiers. When he faced the gang of soldiers in the southeast guard, after training with confidence, he took it to the battlefield with arrogance, took the lead in the charge himself, and shot and killed a Japanese The chieftain, logically speaking, should be the end of the morale-boosting army fighting bravely to defeat the Japanese pirates.

As a result, he rushed forward and found that something was wrong. When he turned around, the old soldiers "charged" in the opposite direction to him, and he was almost killed.

In the end, he ran to Yiwu to recruit recruits, and trained the Qi family army. Later, when he wrote the military book, he never forgot to warn future generations, saying that people in the market who are tricky and slippery cannot be recruited into the army.

An iron pestle can be ground into a needle, but a wooden stick can only be ground into a toothpick. If the material is wrong, the skill of the craftsman is useless.

But now Li Chengliang was suffering and couldn't tell. He quietly glanced at the other big bosses, and they all looked at Li Chengliang with strange eyes, which meant that he couldn't understand it.

In a word, we all have the risk of being killed. If you let everyone's head fall, everyone will kill you all before the head falls. This is not a joke, pay attention, this is not a joke.

The 70-year-old veteran was trembling in his heart. He weighed his own weight and tried his own weight. He felt that he had to bite the bullet and be cheated to death. At least he could keep his son and the status of the family, that would be enough. If God blesses , It would be best to let the war end without encountering the Mongols.

Take a ten thousand step back and say that it would be good if Li Rusong led the troops to rush over before encountering the Mongols, so don't pray.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that such an arrangement is appropriate, but most of the soldiers and horses in the towns and the capital battalion are infantry. When facing the Mongolian cavalry, they can handle the battle at the gate, but it is difficult to go out of the city to chase and suppress the enemy. It worked, so Li Rusong's cavalry should be brought in at a faster speed and put into battle quickly, so as to be able to fight against the Mongols."

Li Chengliang can only dance in shackles, and strive for his own chance of survival to the greatest extent within the scope of what he can do.

He is also regretful now that his intestines are green. He knew that the accident must have something to do with the Beijing camp. If he knew the big hole in the Beijing camp, he would not even take a step out of the house even if he pretended to be sick. Bite the bullet and go, if not, this old life will be accounted for in the hands of these veteran soldiers.

Poor me, Li Chengliang, who was a hero for half his life, but I have to die so uselessly at the hands of these old soldiers when I grow old. Is this really God's retribution?Is retribution for killing too much?

Zhu Yijun couldn't hear Li Chengliang's inner voice, nor could he see the sadness hidden deep in Li Chengliang's eyes.

He felt that with the dispatch of the Beijing army, and the cooperation of a mature and prudent veteran like Li Chengliang and a brave general like Chai Guozhu, even if the Mongols could not be defeated, at least they could guard the Zijing Pass and protect the capital under the premise of the fall of Pingxing Pass.

Probably, can you?

(End of this chapter)