CHAPTER XXXV
"Aren't you afraid that Liu Dongchang will rebel?" Chen Cheng asked suspiciously.
"Don't be afraid. His wife and children are all in the city, and it is impossible for such a person to ignore his home. Dang Xin still looks like a scheming man.
He had already sent spies to monitor Liu Dongchang's family's every move. Even if you run, Dang Xin can also know it for the first time.
Deputy Envoy Shi Jifang also smiled: "Don't worry, the governor has always been confident!" ”
Liu Dongchang rode into the big tent of the Cangtou Army alone, and he had already made up his mind that he could no longer stay in Ningxia City. This party Xin privately withheld military salaries and wantonly amassed wealth, which had already aroused the dissatisfaction of the guards, but as a governor, he held a high and powerful position, and the political envoy and the procurator were in cahoots with him. Liu Dongchang had secretly told him before, but in exchange for the military salary of the captain of his direct family for two years, he was swallowed up, and his psychology was already extremely aggrieved.
Bobai received Liu Dongchang very warmly: "Liu Junfeng, don't come unharmed!" It's been a long time since we last said goodbye! Today, you can get drunk and rest! ”
Liu Dongchang bowed down and bowed: "General Bobai saved my life!" ”
Bo Bai was shocked: "What's wrong?" Could it be that Dang Xin, that birdman, wants to kill you? ”
Liu Dongchang said bitterly: "It's no different from killing me...... and then told Bo Bai in detail about the back and forth of the matter.
Bo Bai's eldest son, Bo Chengen, slammed the table: "This party Xin! He also claimed to be the governor of the Ming Dynasty! It's not as good as pigs and dogs! Not only did he withhold your military pay, but even ours was in arrears for two years! And he also took advantage of our military exploits and suppressed our Tatars everywhere! Father! It's better to do the opposite! ”
As soon as these words are said, one stone stirs up a thousand waves!
All the generals stared at Bobai with wide eyes, and Bobai couldn't say that there was bitterness in his heart!
Hasn't he been miserable all these years? Since the surrender of the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing period, Jiajing was still very good to them at the beginning, Feng Bobai was the commander, and let him command thousands of troops to guard the west, and the treatment was still very good.
From Longqing to the early years of Wanli, since he sent a party Xin to serve as the governor of this place, even his deputy envoy Shi Jifang and political envoy Chen Cheng began to suppress the Tatars in various ways. first took the lead merit, then deducted military salaries, and finally directly sent people to his Cangtou army to be spies...... All of this made Bobai feel that the Ming Dynasty was no longer as kind to the Tartars as he used to be.
So many people need to be fed, so many troops need food...... I want the horses to run and don't give the horses grazing, how can there be such a thing in this world?!
For the border of the Ming Dynasty, his Tatar clan sent troops to fight with the Mongols on the steppe several times, although they won many battles under the command of General Li Chengliang, but the soldiers were also killed and wounded!
In his heart, Bobai still yearns for the stable life of the Central Plains. The Tatars can no longer withstand any war, but they can't withstand such oppression by others! Unable to cook without rice, Bobai began to quietly start a grain business with the bureaucrats in the interior, hoping to exchange them for much-needed grain and grass.
It's a pity that Wang Mingqing and those people set the price high, but the grain was exchanged for a lot, but the silver was getting less and less!
What is the difference between these corrupt officials and Dang Xin?
Bo Bai gradually lost trust and loyalty to Da Ming, but he still clung to the final bottom line - Da Ming's strength is definitely not something that his small tribe can compete with. But everyone has ambitions, especially his son Bo Chengen, who is confident that he has a large number of generals and is reckless outside, Bo Bai is not ignorant, but he can't control it.
After he became the deputy chief soldier in the seventeenth year of Wanli, his son Bo Chengen succeeded him, and the troops and clansmen gradually did not listen to him. Under the deliberate propaganda of the young and ambitious Bo Chengen, everyone slowly lost their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and only obeyed Bo Chengen's orders.
But Bo Chengen is young after all! There are a lot of things he doesn't do properly. Except for the Cangtou Army, the following troops are all regarded as slaves by him, and they can fight when they want to fight and scold when they want. More than one officer had already come to Bobai to complain about Bo Chengen's arrogance.
Now that the situation is pressing, it is impossible for Bo Bai not to express his position.
"Now I announce! Feng Junfeng Liu Dongchang is the chief soldier, I am the strategist, Cheng En and Xu Chao are the deputy commanders, and Tu Wenxiu and Bi Yun are the left and right generals! Soldiers send Ningxia City! We must take Ningxia City and capture Shaanxi! Only in this way can the lives of my Tatars be saved! Bo Bai announced in a neutral manner.
All the soldiers, including Bo Chengen, stood up with a brush, and even Liu Dongchang stood up excitedly and touched his chest with his right hand.
"I want to emphasize one more point! We are forced to have no way out! Da Ming must force us to do this! Hundreds of years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was also unbearable to the decay of the Yuan Dynasty and rebelled, and finally established the Ming Dynasty. Isn't history also a hero? We can do the same! After the deed is done, the merit will be rewarded! Everyone will get back what belongs to us! ”
Bobai's voice suddenly sank: "But if you fail, you will never return to your tribe alive, and you will never see your women and children again...... Will the brethren accept it?! ”
"Yes!"
Everyone is full of confidence! Bo Chengen's eyes were already filled with a desire for war!
Only Bo Bai's heart was full of apprehension. This time we hurriedly raised troops, whether we can succeed or not is a matter of doing so!
He turned to Liu Dongchang: "But your family ......" Liu Dongchang lowered his head, raised it again, and said very firmly: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!" ”
The herald sent by Jiang Fei has not returned, but the carrier pigeon in charge of delivering the message has flown back: Bobai has sent troops to surround Ningxia City, and he may attack at any time!
Lao Zhu was so anxious that he went around in circles in the room, if this Bo Bai really reversed, wouldn't it be extremely dangerous for him to be in the central defender? Run away or stay put? He immediately found Jiang Fei to discuss countermeasures.
Jiang Fei didn't have much to do about it. Just kidding, what can hundreds of brocade guards do? It's not enough for people to clean up. Now the only thing he thinks about is to send another herald for 800 li to rush to the Beijing division and inform Wanli of the news.
But it will take at least half a month to come and go, and by the time Wanli sends reinforcements over, he will already hang up!
Lao Zhu finally had an idea after a long time, no matter what, he must not be restrained!
"Now explain the situation to the Bolian of the great battalion, and see if he can convince the five thousand brothers! If it can be done, then we can still fight to the death; If not, disarm them immediately! These 5,000 people must not stay! Also, hurry up and tell the emperor that Ningxia is in danger! If Ningxia is lost, Mongolia will no longer have a barrier to defend from the Central Plains! Zhu Yidao finally officially issued a military order for the first time.
"And!" Lao Zhu remembered something, and called out to Jiang Fei, who was about to go out: "If those 5,000 people are willing to stay, you can disperse your Jinyi guards, scatter them among them, and conduct emergency training on them, how much can you train!" ”
Jiang Fei shouted yes at this decision, but he also knew that he couldn't train anything in this short period of time, but it was still very beneficial to try to familiarize these sergeants with their combat methods. And the most important thing is that these people can only fight with the wind, and must not be defeated, otherwise they will immediately blow up the camp.
When he left, Wanli took away half of the Jinyi guards who had been trained, and the remaining half, plus what was added later, formed Zhu Yidao's current strength of three hundred brocade guards. However, along the way, those newly joined Jinyi guards have almost reached more than half of the strength of the original wolf pack after training, which is already very good.
Bo Lian was beyond Jiang Fei's expectations, and immediately agreed without saying a word. People also have their own accounts in their hearts, and they are more promising with whom, not to mention that Lao Zhu is not bad to them. And then there are the 5,000 soldiers, who originally felt that they were raised by their former mother, but now that they can have a senior cadre to show favor to themselves, they have already burned high incense on the ancestral grave. actually have to train himself, watching Jiang Zongqi bring those fierce brocade guards, he must also have that kind of ability - no, if he really makes it in, won't he be a brocade guard from now on? Isn't it okay to mess with Lao Zhu openly??
So the first problem in Lao Zhu's imagination was dramatically solved.
Jiang Fei only sighed that it was really shit luck!
Whether it was shit luck or not, under the unique personality charm of Lao Zhu, the five thousand soldiers and horses in the city began to train intensively, and the harsh methods and strict methods of the wolves made these people cry out that they couldn't bear it, but soon the results were shown. After all, these people have crawled out of blood and fire before, and they have the most say in which methods can better kill people and better save their lives.
No one shouted that they were tired, everyone was working hard, not for anything else, Zhu Baihu had already said that surviving was the best reward for him