In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, in April, the superintendent Hong Chengchou led 50,000 troops and rushed from the capital to the Daimyo's mansion day and night. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, the so-called 50,000 army, the real number is not that much. These generals of the Ming Dynasty are not as real as Li Xiuwen, saying that there are 10,000 editors is really 10,000, even if the number is wrong, it is only a lot more.

The generals of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the border army or the Jingying and Weisuo armies, all had a general situation of empty salaries.

Just as in history, when Li Zicheng was attacking the capital, Chongzhen once looked for the general soldier Wu Xiang, hoping that his son could bring back Guanning Tieqi from Shanhaiguan to King Qin, and asked them how many troops they had in their father's and son's hands, and the answer they got was shocking.

It was only at this time that Wu Xiang told Zhu Youzhen the truth, knelt on the ground and admitted his mistake: "The roster is 80,000, but in fact it is 30,000, and the rest is empty." ”

Zhu Youzhen asked: "What about the combat strength of these 30,000 people?" ”

Wu Xiang didn't dare to hide it anymore, and said truthfully: "There are only three thousand people who can fight!" ”

These 3,000 people are the real strength of the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the hands of the Wu family father and son in the last year of the Ming Dynasty!

These 3,000 people belonged to Wu Sangui's private soldiers and were called "Jiading".

The so-called Guanning Iron Cavalry myth was created by three thousand elites, and they all adhered to a principle: when fighting, first look at the form in the rear, and if you can fight, you will follow the main general to rush forward and fight hard, and if you can't fight, you will desperately escape.

Ridiculous, right?

But that's the truth, the bloody truth!

The Guanning Iron Cavalry received a huge amount of salary, and it stands to reason that the soldiers should be treated better than other border troops, but the military salaries were not paid to them in full.

The civil servant deducted a layer and put it in his pocket.

The military commander intercepted a layer and used it to support his family.

The soldiers at the bottom, they can eat enough, even if the lord has a conscience.

Hong Chengchou is also a border army, an army of the Ming Dynasty, and it is inevitable to eat empty salaries. In addition to his own subordinates, the strength of each border army commander varies, but under normal circumstances, there are about 6,000 troops, and in fact, the situation is the same as He Renlong, only about 3,000 people.

It is claimed that there are 50,000 horses, but the actual strength is only half at most, that is, 25,000 people. As for the elite, there are naturally even fewer.

Those who died in the Six Kingdoms were not Qin Ye, that is, the Six Kingdoms. Those who died in Qin are also Qin.

This sentence applies to the Ming Dynasty, and the same applies to it. It's not that the external enemy is too strong, but the internal corruption has created a weak military situation, so how can the country not die?

This is the truth of the fall of the Ming Dynasty!

Hong Chengchou divided his troops into three routes, personally led the main army and horses through the Daimyo's Mansion, and when he entered the boundary of Guide Mansion, it was already night.

After giving the order to stay in place and bury the pot to make rice, Hong Chengchou sat in the big tent of the Chinese army and pretended to sleep.

The news of Sun Chuanting's defeat had spread, and Hong Chengchou was only slightly surprised when he learned about it, but he still didn't take Li Xiuwen in his eyes.

Even if Li Xiuwen had won a battle and defeated Sun Chuanting, in his opinion, it was just a fluke to win. How capable can a fledgling kid be?

Hong Chengchou believes that a big reason why Sun Chuanting lost to Li Xiuwen is that the Weisuo army is dragging its feet. It looks like there are a lot of people, but it's actually all a rabble.

There is another one, that is, Sun Chuanting has not enough people who can really fight, and he is a little careless, so he will give the other party a chance to take advantage of it. Li Xiuwen transferred reinforcements from the Zhou Palace, and with the advantage of numbers, it was normal to be able to win.

Although Hong Chengchou couldn't defeat the Qing army, it was still very easy to bully and bully the rebels, and it was common to lead thousands of people to chase after the rebels of more than 100,000 or 200,000.

On this trip, he brought Zhu Youzhen's edict, thinking that as long as he entered the Kaifeng realm, he would be able to send this edict to Zhu Lunkun's hands.

This edict is naturally a means for Zhu Youzhen to divide Li Xiuwen's forces and win over Zhu Lunkun. After all, they are all descendants of the Zhu family, is it possible that you still have to help an outsider to rebel against the imperial court?

Are you worthy of your ancestors and the people of the world?

There are still words of appeasement, it is nothing more than your father's obsession, and now that he has been ambushed, I don't plan to worry about you anymore, you want to inherit the king, I also agreed, and I will not blame Yunyun in the future.

As long as Zhou Wangfu accepts the appeasement, how much waves can Li Xiuwen's 10,000 Shenji Battalion make in his hand? The newly recruited men and horses are not well trained, how to resist the army of the imperial court?

Again, once the three guards of the Zhou Wangfu rebelled, Li Xiuwen would suffer from the enemy for the time being, even his family in Kaifeng City would be in danger, where else could he go?

Aren't you going to rebel?

Do you want a few wives in the family?

Do you want a child?

If that time really comes, Li Xiuwen can only throw a mouse bogey, and there is no room for resistance.

I have to say that this is a very insidious and vicious strategy.

If Li Xiuwen knew about this, it should not be difficult to guess that this plan must have come from Yang Sichang.

At the same time, Yang Sichang is also about to reach the boundary of Huguang.

Speaking of which, Yang Sichang also had deep contradictions with many ministers in the DPRK and China because of his advocacy of peace, and after the Qing army withdrew, many officials went up to impeach him, and the responsibility for this defeat was all put on him.

However, Zhu Youzhen was very partial to him, and there was no other punishment except for a reprimand, but those who impeached him were subjected to the demotion of the officials, the demoted officials, and the degraded officials.

However, the reason why Yang Sichang was not punished, speaking of which, I have to thank Zhang Xianzhong, this guy rebelled again, Hong Chengchou wants to deal with Li Xiuwen, so who will deal with Zhang Xianzhong and other rebel forces?

Yang Sichang also knew how to solve problems for the monarch, and took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Huguang to quell the chaos.

Zhu You checked it, gave Shang Fang the sword, and ordered him to serve as the supervisor Pingkou. Before leaving, he personally saw him off and wrote a poem.

The monarch himself was a grace that had never been seen before.

Yang Sichang was very moved and cried profusely. However, after crying, he also reviewed one thing to Zhu You - the seal of the general of the thief.

This is for the general soldier Zuo Liangyu, he is the only general who can fight in Huguang, and most of the others can hide when they see the rebels, and they will be done if they run blindly behind other people's butts.

It's strange to say that when Zhang Xianzhong faced other Ming generals, he could still fight a few battles, but once he met Zuo Liangyu, there was no time not to lose. However, this time there was some surprise, he actually won Zuo Liangyu.

In fact, the main reason is that Zuo Liangyu underestimated the enemy this time, so he had a chance to take advantage of it, not only returned defeated, but also lost all the official seals.

Zhu Youzhen was so angry that he vomited blood, so the consequences were very serious!

Zuo Liangyu is just a general soldier, and the emperor can't see his existence yet, so he plans to use his boss to open the knife, thinking that the responsibility for losing the battle is all on his boss Xiong Wencan.

The White Lotus Sect tossed around in Huguang, but you didn't calm down, and a vassal king died. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xianzhong, who had just been appeased not long before you, rebelled again, you still can't suppress it, what do you want?

Xiong Wencan must die, and Zuo Liangyu has to stay to serve the imperial court.

After some discussion, Yang Sichang and his ministers decided to arrest Prime Minister Xiong Wencan, escort him to the capital, and behead him for public display. (To be continued.) )