Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 340 Asking for Support

Let Ma Shiying not be depressed, the military newspaper sent by Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces, he was given a favor by Song Qingshu before he warmed it up. Losing official documents is a big crime for a big official like him, let alone this Selling Lu Xiangsheng is tantamount to revealing the military situation to the thief. If he is accused, it will be a capital offense.

What was so important that Gao Yingxiang finally gave up his face and retreated in such a haste?
Life!
Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses have arrived at Hanshan Mountain, Guan Ning's iron cavalry Zukuan, and Zu Dale's troops have also arrived in Hezhou. There are only a few days left before Luzhou. Who is Lu Xiangsheng?Even if the hostile people rebel, they have to praise a real man with their thumbs, a literati who can wield a fifty-pound sword and can lead the soldiers to charge at the front line. If there is little water and coarse food, he will not eat if the soldiers do not eat Lu Xiangsheng even used his own salary to subsidize the military. Under his command, even the old pawns in their 50s would die in battle. Lu Xiangsheng can be said to be the nemesis of the rebellion army.

Lu Xiangsheng's military order was to ask Ma Shiying to entangle the Chuang army in Luzhou so that he could outflank them.If you are surrounded by two roads in Luzhou City, a place full of water networks, you can't advance or retreat, let alone 14 troops, 140 million troops are the meat targets for people to kill. Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng's army is less than [-], he can't beat him.

Gao Yingxiang patted his ass and left, but left Song Qingshu in a mess. In the battles these days, there were as many as 1000 wounded in the army, and more than 600 were captured. Song Qingshu's men were killed and more than [-] were killed. I don't know who was injured. How many, the number of wounded is almost catching up with Song Qingshu's army headquarters, but they still can't lose it.

There are more than 4000 corpses that need to be buried. It is not a matter of inhumanity. It is still late spring and early summer. Once the corpses rot, there will be a major epidemic in Luzhou.

Fortunately, Anqing is a waterway hub, and the beggar army has a strong family, so they sent people to deploy doctors, medicinal materials, and took out the precious penicillin reserve. There are more than 7000 people, and the life of a living person is a great grace. Even the captured Chuangjun is grateful to Song Qingshu.

Excluding the more than 1000 crippled soldiers, it can be regarded as adding more than 5000 soldiers to the beggar army, and they are veterans who have experienced many battles. However, these Song Qingshus were not all included under his command. Ma Shiying came to intervene again, leaving 2000 troops As his pace battalion.

He didn't want to go through a second time when the enemy came and had no soldiers under his command. Now that he has formed a political alliance with Ma Shiying, Song Qingshu naturally couldn't look at him as an embarrassment. Although he felt a little distressed, he chose two thousand strong men for him. Take the rest back to Anqing, and then go to reorganize.

This time the expedition was not a loss, the army was in a hurry, and the wounded didn't have time to bring them. A few days ago, when they fought Lu'an, several big cities in the Central Plains were destroyed, as many as 50 taels of property were left behind. Song Qingshu got 30 taels, Gao Yingxiang The emperor's guard of honor was taken away by Ma Shiying again and handed over to the imperial court. Seizing the guard of honor was of great significance to this era. Ma Shiying was rewarded again, and at the same time, "righteous people" Song Qingshu naturally once again came to the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen.

The situation in Anqing has been relaxed until before the Qihuo army occupied it. Hukou, which has been guarded on the opposite side, and Jiangxi have opened the way to the merchant ships of the Qihuo army, but they are still dragging their feet on the issue of Zhao'an. The soldiers can be cashed in, but Song Qing Shubao has as many as [-] soldiers, but the court is only willing to give [-] soldiers, and the negotiations have come to a deadlock here.

This was deliberately done by Song Qingshu and Ma Shiying. There is still a hidden danger of Song Qingshu in the territory. Ma Shiying will not be sent out to fight the peasant army, but will not be in a stalemate. The Jinyiwei and eunuchs also have money every month, and they eat and drink every day for listening to games and playing everywhere, and they are so beautiful that they will not be in a hurry to return to the court.

However, Anqing's side has stabilized, but the Peasant Army's side is not optimistic. There is a saying that the king of hell will make people die in the third watch, who dares to keep you until the fifth watch, Gao Yingxiang is like this, and he retreated from Luzhou. Reluctant to give up, he marched northeast and surrounded Chuzhou, trying to open the gate to Yingtian or Yangzhou, but was blocked here by Lu Xiangsheng who followed closely.

In the Battle of Sanliqiao in the east of the city, Guan Ning's iron cavalry Zu Kuanbu and guerrilla Luo Dai marched forward bravely, killing the Chuang army general Yao Tiandong and other ten people. The river where the dead bodies were piled up was blocked, and Gao Yingxiang, who knew how to be afraid, abandoned his burden again. The light soldiers fled to Shouzhou and Yingzhou, but they ran into Liu Zeqing, the Shandong general who was guarding the Yellow River, and turned to Yuzhou, Nanyang, and again. He was attacked by Chen Yongfu, the commander of the Henan Army, and Zu Dale, the general of the Guanning Army, followed by Lu Xiangsheng. In a decisive battle at Qiding Mountain, the elite Shanxi cavalry under Gao Yingxiang were almost killed and injured. Finally, after learning Song Qingshu, Gao Yingxiang led The remaining 50 people crossed the Han River and fled into the Xunyang Mountains in Huguang.

Since then, the largest force of the peasant army who broke into the army was seriously injured.

However, in this time and space, Sun Chuanting, who wanted his life, has already come under Song Qingshu's command, and he is still helping him to organize the army and raise military pay in Anqing with a sad face. This time, Gao Yingxiang will go to Heishuiyu in Hanzhong again. I don't know, and I can't control it.

However, another major event occurred in the ninth year of Chongzhen, which temporarily interrupted the plan to pursue and suppress the peasant army. It was also more than June when the Qing army entered the customs again.

At the end of June, the Qing soldiers broke through Xifengkou, and on the tenth day of July, the Manchurian cavalry had already reached Tianshou Mountain, the location of the imperial mausoleum. , As fierce as a tiger, fourteen general soldiers of more than 20 troops, including Datong General Soldier Wang Pu, Deputy General Soldier Jiang Xiang, and Baoding General Soldier Dong Yongwen, brought all the Guanning cavalry who entered the pass to defend the capital.

He went to the doctor in a hurry, and Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces, who was a well-known fierce general, also demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall compared to Emperor Chongzhen, and was transferred to the position of the governor of Xuanda to fight against the Qing army.

At the meeting at the beginning of the year, Song Qingshu had predicted that Gao Yingxiang would die in battle and that the Qing army would enter the customs. These two things have come true. When Ma Shiying got the news, he was having a meal. To his surprise, the wine glasses fell down. Unbelievable, he quickly sent someone to Anqing to ask Song Qingshu How did he know it? However, here, the courier was in vain. In addition to urging sixteen arsenals to add and subtract troops, Anqing urged Liu Zongmin, who had red eyes, to arrange Anqing Division, two new divisions and 1000 troops. Many disabled soldiers also made a big fuss, and Sun Chuanting took over the responsibility of the commander-in-chief. Xing Hongniang and Song Qingshu, who were in command of the army, were no longer in Anqing.

In the defeat of Liu Bang Pengcheng, 56 troops were killed and injured, and hundreds of thousands of troops could be gathered immediately to continue fighting with Xiang Yu. , Liu Bei was beaten several times and the whole army was wiped out, only a few hundred people remained, and he was able to make a comeback. In the end, the Three Kingdoms stood together, and when Zhu Yuanzhang left Bozhou, there were only 26 fellow countrymen. The foundation of the Ming Dynasty, why?Because they all have solid support from the scholar-bureaucrat class behind them.

It is even more important than tens of thousands of troops to build a solid class that supports themselves. The entry of the Qing army and Gao Yingxiang's paleness brought incomparable pressure on Song Qingshu. Seizing this rare opportunity, he hurried south with a dozen cargo ships.

"Wow, the lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is gone, only the Yangtze River flows in the sky! It's so vast!"

"That's right! Xiangfan, where Caiwei lives, the Yangtze River was sandwiched between mountains in that generation. I didn't expect the downstream to be so grand!"

"This is really a completely different scenery from Guanzhong!"

A good man should take both public and private interests into account. Except for the strong Hongniang Xing who looked after the headquarters for him as his wife, he brought the rest of the girls and stood on the bow of the lucky boat that was picked out from the hands of the Yangtze River Navy. Looking at the hazy Jiang Wu, Li Bao'er, Xiaojiao, and Caiwei, the three literary girls, stared in admiration.

Staying on the back deck, Song Qingshu didn't care as much about looking at the scenery as they did. Nanjing can be regarded as the cultural and political center of Jiangnan. Most of the Jiangnan scholars live here. To a certain extent, they can even influence the capital, just like Fushe leader Zhang Pu In that way, a white scholar can actually promote the comeback of Zhou Yanru, the prime minister of the empire. There are even unofficial rumors that he once gave Zhou Yanru a list of who should be promoted and who should be dismissed. Once it is done, this Yingtianfu is such a place where power gathers, and it is also the center of the budding capitalism of the Ming Dynasty.

Marching and fighting to see who doesn't like it, just chop him with a knife, but here, how to get those scholars with high eyes and the sprouts of capitalism behind them to support themselves, this is not something that can be done with a knife. To do it, but how to do it until now Song Qingshu has no idea, looking at the misty Yangtze River, now Song Qingshu's head is full of two words, worrying.

At this time, a clear and clear voice suddenly came from outside the cabin. "Master, we've arrived at Yanziji!"

The door was gently pushed open, and Shi Lang, who was appreciated by Song Qingshu just a few days ago, poked out half of his head...

(End of this chapter)