Chapter 45: Loyalty and Righteousness
At the end of Chongzhen's second year, there was a strange thing in the Ming Dynasty. That's because everyone is talking about slave change, and only one person is impassioned.
This person is a stunned young man, it is Liu Zhilun, who has just been promoted by a Hanlin Academy Jishi to become the right attendant of the military department, he is a Shu person, not a member of the Donglin Party, and a Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen.
It's good that this Lord Liu has enthusiasm, but if he doesn't have the strength, he will hurt others and himself!
And Emperor Chongzhen is obviously not a hero who knows how to make good use of people, and at this time, this young man is a little sick and rushes to the doctor.
Not long ago, he made an exception and was promoted to lieutenant general, and it is said that this person has a spell taught by a Taoist priest.
As a result, Shen Fu went to war, resulting in the annihilation of 7,000 people, but fortunately, Shen Fu fought to the death and did not give in to his generosity, and did not embarrass Chongzhen, who appreciated him.
Even so, Chongzhen did not accept the lesson, and actually sent Liu Zhilun, who could only talk and had no experience in leading troops, to fight.
However, Liu Zhilun asked the imperial court to camp in Beijing, but the emperor did not give it, and Chongzhen of the Sichuan army still did not agree, and in the end, Liu Zhilun himself temporarily recruited soldiers to prepare for the expedition.
In this way, under the condition that the unreliable emperor and the stunned ministers were stupid together, an eight-battalion of more than 26,000 men and horses formed by the homeless people and beggars in the Beijing division and many Ming troops who were scattered and messy set off in the wind and snow.
Liu Zhilun is an alternative in the imperial court, because he refuses to follow the crowd, and he has a bloody nature to make a difference.
But Liu Zhilun, who was promoted by the line of fire in the eyes of Zhong Zhengyingchao, is a lucky villain, and in the eyes of many generals, Liu Zhilun is a-stirring stick.
Several chief officers are angry in their hearts, the soldiers are unbearable, everyone is based on the city and defend is the perfect strategy, this Liu Zhilun jumped out and took the initiative to lead the troops to attack the Jin army, to where is the face of these chief soldiers?
Therefore, even though there are no less than 100,000 Qinwang troops in Gyeonggi, they are all based on the city to protect themselves, and no one will accept Liu Zhilun's 10,000 people, let alone any soldiers and horses to cooperate with his actions, if Liu Zhilun's troops encounter a fierce battle, no one will come to the rescue.
Liu Zhilun is actually not a straw bag with some theoretical level, and he is usually interested in military affairs, and he is not ashamed to ask questions, and often asks questions from low-level officers and even ordinary soldiers.
No one can say how many troops the Houjin army has come from all the way, and I'm afraid that even the slave chieftain himself can't come up with an accurate number.
Because not only the number of Yu Ding, Qiding, and Baoyi minions who followed the main soldiers of the Houjin Army on the expedition could not be specific, even the small tribes of Tartars who had never heard of their names outside the border wall of the Ming Dynasty and only a few hundred people took the opportunity to cross the border wall to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty.
Although there is no way to judge how many men and horses there are in the Houjin army, it can be predicted that there will not be many, otherwise it is impossible for them to give up the great opportunity to encircle the capital and seize the capital, but just circle around the Beijing division and plunder.
Liu Zhilun's choice was to lead his troops to attack Zunhua, intending to use this as a base to expand the results of the battle to the surrounding areas and cut off the return of the Houjin army, which was actually completely Miaoqi.
In order to fulfill his strategic intentions, Liu Zhilun also took the initiative to invite Ma Shilong and Wu Zimian, two commanders, to cooperate with the action, and asked them to send troops to feint to attack Yongping Mansion and provide convenience for him to recapture Zunhua after being paralyzed.
In fact, at this time, Zunhua was the big traitor Fan Wencheng stationed there, and there were only 800 cavalry under his command.
In history, the ending of Liu Zhilun's soldiers and horses was very funny, only Fan Wencheng, who had 800 armored men, sent troops to take the initiative to attack Liu Zhilun's troops, who had eight battalions of men and horses and more than 10,000 people left, and achieved the result of defeating the two battalions.
This frightened the Ming army, which was already afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and Liu Zhilun could no longer order his subordinates to attack Zunhua desperately, and the rest of the men and horses had been grinding for a few days, and the situation had completely changed.
Zhenghongqi people came to the rescue of more than 10,000 Zunhua, the banner owner Daishan personally led the troops, and finally Liu Zhilun's eight battalions only escaped one battalion, Liu Zhilun died in the 22nd day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen.
Now the development of the situation is no different from history, Liu Zhilun led the people to hit walls everywhere, and the Zhengying Dynasty hated this anomaly, and wrote to impeach Liu Zhilun for grandstanding, and after leaving the Beijing Division, he was afraid of the enemy and did not fight with the Houjin army.
Liu Zhilun had a hard time, so he could only take his men and horses to march in the direction of Zunhua, in fact, he had long been disappointed in the inaction of the Gonggong Zhugong, knowing that his future was bleak, and he only wanted to repay the country with death and leave a loyal future.
The Houjin army has been paying close attention to the dispatch of the Ming army, and Liu Zhilun's more than 20,000 people went out of Beijing to of course be noticed, but within a few days of coming out, more than half of the more than 26,000 people ran away, and now there are only 10,000 people.
After getting the information of this army, the red gang scoffed, thinking that the Ming Kingdom actually let a civilian official who had never had experience in leading troops temporarily recruit soldiers, and then went to war too much child's play.
In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and he was indeed suspected of child's play in the handling of some major events. As an emperor, Chongzhen's level should indeed be inferior to that of the Red Gangster.
The reason why Liu Zhilun's troops, who had been marching in the field, were not killed by the Houjin army was because the red gangsters looked down on Liu Zhilun at all, and even more down on those beggar soldiers, and were unwilling to give up the great opportunity to rob everywhere, and were reluctant to waste precious time to make a fortune to fight this Huazi army.
In history, it was Liu Zhilun who rushed to Zunhua to find a fight, and was defeated. Now Liu Zhilun is walking on the road with more than 10,000 people and horses.
Due to the concentration of iron armor, the fifty-six horsemen who followed Huang Han to Beijing not only had one person and two horses, but also forty-five people had a full set of iron armor equipment, eleven people also had a combination of leather armor and cotton armor, and all of them had helmets with visor protection.
Huang Han is now wearing a mountain armor equipped for his father, and Huang Yizhou resolutely asks his son to wear this good thing that is strong and weighs about ten catties less than ordinary iron armor.
Huang Yizhou thinks that guarding the mountain pass does not know if it will wait for the Houjin army to attack, and everyone should give the best protection to the cavalry brothers who may encounter the Houjin army at any time and have to fight face-to-face.
After all, when the enemy came to attack the shelter, they could only choose to throw feather arrows to the mountain pass for a long-range attack, the distance was more than eighty steps, and the lethality of the arrows was very limited, and the Ming army guarding the mountain pass had cotton armor and cotton face armor to protect it.
Huang Han thought that his father's analysis was reasonable, and he no longer shirked, and calmly accepted the centralized use of iron armor.
Zheng Guochang also knew that the equipment of the soldiers was particularly important, and before entering the capital, he not only took off his own mountain armor, but also asked the four family members to take off the iron armor and hand it over to Huang Han.
Zheng Guochang knew that he had come to Jingshi, and his safety was guaranteed, and he didn't need armor to provide protection at all. Besides, there are so many materials in the capital, and it is definitely not a big problem to get dozens of pairs of armor with his power.
Because of these five more pairs of armor, the number of Huang Hanquan's iron armor has reached forty-five.
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