Chapter 773: Worrying about the sky

In the past, Zhang Fu led the troops to the south, and fought countless big battles and small battles on the big rivers, and the Fuliang River even once appeared the terrifying scene that the river was red, and Liu Sheng would also cross the water army. So, when the army was waiting to be advanced in Jiaozhou Mansion, Liu Sheng asked Chen Qia to be responsible for collecting boats and boats from neighboring prefectures and counties, and on the other hand, he asked Zhouqiao to build new ships and recruit civilian ships as warships, and it only took a month and a half to take out more than 300 boats and boats. The arrival of Chen Hua's ship this time undoubtedly indicates that he will officially enter the army.

Although the powder magazine was almost set on fire by thieves, because of the proper care, Zhang Yue recruited the local county order to appease the people, and did not take advantage of this to pursue it on a large scale, so he was quickly pacified. Shishi County Commander is not a local official, but an ancestral Guangxi man, Yongle invited himself to serve here, and now a full six years have passed. The original determination was exhausted, so after appeasing the people, he always accompanied Zhang Yue by his side, in order to pour bitter water, even if he was not an official.

Due to the strict punishment of the Hongwu Dynasty, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to refuse, and it was difficult to hang up the crown after leaving the office, otherwise it would be a big crime, so even if the Shishi County Commander was almost crazy about homesickness, he did not dare to leave the county official affairs and return home quietly, so when he complained about his grievances, he was sincere, and in the end he was in tears.

"My lord, I have been in office for eight years, and my parents, wife, sons, and daughters have never seen each other, and I really don't want to worry about seeing my family for a while. It's not just a lowly position, when the address was handed over to elect officials, except for those officials, the rest were selected from Yunnan and Guangxi...... Over the years, there have been no less than 20 deaths in various states and counties, some have been killed by rebellion, and some have died of illness. ”

"In the past few days, I have also seen all of your sufferings, and I have already sent them to the capital before, which is to send officials to the address. After all, the nine-year exam is too harsh for the address officer. Now you are concentrating on pacifying the people, and when you have time, you will report to me the situation of the officials of the neighboring states and counties, etc., and I will submit it as a clip at that time. ”

Shishi County Ling this time with the mentality of becoming a benevolent if he does not succeed, secretly hoping that Zhang Yue will let go again, he simply went to the handsome Xingyuan where Liu Sheng and others are located to appeal, it is great to be killed headlong, and it is better than suffering in this miasma rampant rebellious place. Therefore, now that Zhang Yue said this, he was stunned, and he had an incredible feeling.

"Big ...... Is this true? ”

"Naturally, take it seriously!" Looking at this magistrate who was over forty years old and half of his hair was already gray, Zhang Yue only felt that his heart was heavy, so he comforted again, "You are guarding the border for the imperial court, and you can't keep making you suffer." There is only one point, I didn't care what you did in the past, but now at this critical juncture, you must be careful, don't let rebellion have a chance to take advantage of! ”

"Obey your lordship!"

Seeing that Shishi County Ling bowed for a long time, he wiped his face vigorously, and a smile that he had never had before appeared on his wrinkled face, and Zhang Yue was also emotional. He himself has been to Xinghe's kind of bitter place, and he still fights hard there, but if he stays there for ten or eight years, he will definitely not be able to bear it. And since there is not much hope, and there is only enough to make ends meet, so how can they expect these officials to be loyal and conscientious to herdsmen and appease the people?

After appeasing the magistrate, Zhang Yuezhong put on a coat and a hat to go out, because the old county government and the line were just a street away, and he didn't want to ride a horse in the rain, so he let the family lead the horse and walk over. It is said that it is the general army, but in fact it is just a decent house in the county, and the master, who is a local hero, immediately gave it up as soon as he heard that it was requisitioned by the army, in exchange for an official document appointing the inspector of the political secretary. At this moment, two rows of sergeants like benchmarks were neatly planted in the rain, looking at the expressionless appearance, as if the knife in the sky would not frown.

After entering the middle gate, a personal soldier came up with an umbrella, and Zhang Yue followed him straight inside. All the way to the place where Liu Sheng lived and saw people, the soldier said in a low voice: "Lord Haojiao learned that good news was sent from outside just now, and the road to Jiaonan is now open, and the location of the rebellion has been explored. In addition to entrenching in several states and counties in the south, they took advantage of the impassability of the road to take Thanh Hoa Province in one fell swoop! Now that the boat division is complete, the marshal has decided to divide the land and water armies to attack immediately! ”

Zhang Yue, who was undressing his clothes, was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded. This is not the first time that there has been a rebellion, and every time it has turned into a prairie fire before, it is because of the incompetence of local officials, coupled with the abuse of power by the town guards and eunuchs to provoke a popular uprising, but this time it is not so serious after all. If it weren't for Rong Changbo and Chen Zhi burying all the local garrisons at once, the southern prefectures and counties would never have been cut off from news for a while. However, being able to take the Jiancheng Thanh Hoa Province is an unexpected situation.

handed over the hat to Peng Shisan, and he entered the house. Walking through the empty antechamber, he entered the room on the left. It is now the middle of November, Li Qing, who is sick and afraid of cold, has already put on a jacket, and the other officers are mostly single, and Liu Sheng didn't know what to say just now, but he was sweating profusely at this time.

Seeing Zhang Yue come in and salute, he just nodded slightly, glanced at everyone and said: "It's the winter moon, the miasma is not booming, it is the best time to march south, the Qintian supervisor who accompanied the army before has already said that although this rain has been raining for two days, it will never last long, and it will definitely stop early tomorrow morning." At that time, according to the request of the generals, we will divide the land and water, and I will march by land, and Yuan Jie and Chen will command the water supervisor to take down the Qinghua Mansion first! With this place, it will be much easier to sweep away the southern rebellion! With Lao Huang Fu in charge of transporting and feeding in Jiaozhou Mansion, we just need to fight a good battle! In addition, there is one more thing to say to you to add some confidence, Baoding Bo Lao Liang will bring troops over in a while, and then he will sit in Jiaozhou Mansion! ”

Zhang Yue didn't expect that as soon as he came, he couldn't help but be surprised that this water and land strategy had already been decided. He was about to open his mouth to ask more carefully, but Liu Sheng ordered in an unquestionable tone: "Since you have all made a military order, if you fail to meet the deadline and discipline in the future, you will be dealt with by military law at that time!" ”

At this point, everyone agreed in unison, Zhang Yue saw that the generals were going out one after another, Shi An and Chen Yong helped Li Qing to go out, he had the heart to ask Liu Sheng, but when he saw that the other party had already turned his head and looked at a map on the wall, he turned his head and retreated first after thinking for a moment.

"Li Shangshu, what's going on with this personnel arrangement that goes hand in hand with land and water?"

After nearly a month of recuperation in Jiaozhou Mansion, Zhang Yue was doing all the military affairs, although Li Qing was not yet very good, but it had slowed down a lot compared to before, at this moment he took the opportunity to shake off Chen Yong, stared at Zhang Yue for a while, and then sighed: "An Yuanhou felt that the previous speed was too slow, and a patient like me would inevitably be dragged down by the army, so he had decided to keep me here, saying that this was also to understand the hard work of my army counselor." As for you...... Marquis An Yuan mentioned to me before that there are war elephants and ambushes on the land route, and if you make any mistakes, he can't wait for the British bus or explain to the emperor, so he simply put you on the boat. ”

"It's for this ......"

Zhang Yue couldn't laugh or cry. Previously, Weifu ran to Guangdong, and said that if I went to hand over the address, you would have to follow Liu Sheng; Now that I suddenly said that you had a mistake, it was Liu Sheng who I couldn't explain to Jingzhong; How can this veteran soldier of Marquis An Yuan be capricious? Seeing Shi An coming back with an umbrella and personally escorting Li Qing to walk towards the courtyard where he was resting on the muddy ground of stagnant water, he couldn't help but sigh helplessly, but Chen Yong, who was opening the umbrella, suddenly stopped his movements and walked over.

"If you don't dislike it, how about an umbrella with me?"

I wanted to say that I had a coat and hat, so I didn't need to be so troublesome, but I didn't intend to catch a glimpse of Chen Yong squeezing his eyebrows at him, as if there was some hint, so he nodded to Peng Shisan, and the two went out with an umbrella. Sure enough, when he got out of this courtyard, there were no guards around him, so Chen Yong whispered: "Lord Zhang, Marquis An Yuan is used to saying it, and I don't like someone to remind and advise him." The first few times it was you, and if it were someone else, I'm afraid it would have been put aside a long time ago. Before the discussion, because Lu Dudu, who was originally scheduled to take the boat division, arrived late, An Yuanhou lost his temper, and actually put him aside and handed over the boat division to Commander Chen. Li Shangshu only mentioned that it was inappropriate to use only Chen to command one general in the waterway, and as a result, he was dismissed by Marquis An Yuan. ”

Because he was temporarily ordered to rush to the army before, Zhang Yue naturally only knew the top few soldiers in the army, and the rest only knew a name at first, and they were gradually familiar with each other through getting along in the past few months. However, Chen Hua, who was ordered to be the commander of the water division this time, was not conspicuous because he was only a commander, he really didn't know that this person was a general, and he had only heard that he was a general of the water division, so when he heard that the boat master was using a general, he immediately stopped his steps, and he didn't care about half of his body in the rain.

"Commander Chen is a general?"

"His surname is Chen, what did Master Zhang think of?" Chen Yong smiled indifferently, tilted the umbrella towards Zhang Yue, and whispered, "Although I am also surnamed Chen, since he is a local, he must have some blood relationship with Chen Tianping, who has been blessed by Emperor Taizong. Although it is not suspicious of employing people, but all the people who rebelled before were powerful local officials, who dares to guarantee that he has no dissenting intentions? Shi Langzhong and I are all powerless scholars, and we all rely on adults. ”

Although the official is getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Yue has always weighed his catties very clearly, even if Li Qing recommended Shi An and Chen Yong to him, both of them acted according to orders without slackness before, but this is not to say that the two of them trust him as much as they trust Li Qing. At this time, the same is true of the word reliance, if you want to say reliance, it is just relying on his dozen or so generals who are one in a thousand!

"From now on, we will be in the same boat for the real thing, and we will never mention it again."

He replied to Chen Yong with a smile, and seeing that he was stunned for a moment, Zhang Yue nodded with a smile, stepped on the steps and entered his room. Seeing Peng 13 coming in, he took off his rain-soaked coat in the room, and loudly ordered the others to hurry up and rest, so he stretched his waist and sat down on the rattan chair in the center, then turned his head and asked, "Old Peng, you should have heard what Chen Yong said just now?" ”

"These literati have too many twists and turns in their hearts, if they were like them, the British would not have to fight in Annam at the beginning, and it would be over on guard against someone stabbing in the back all day long!" Peng Shisan angrily picked up a towel and handed it to Zhang Yue, then picked up another one and wiped his face indiscriminately, then said, "When marching and fighting, you can't just abandon it just because you are a general." I don't know how Chen Hua is a person, but I know that his son Chen Feng is indeed a man! At that time, the British public was not worried about the waterway, so whenever there was a water battle, I was often watching from the boat, from Chen Feng and below, many people I knew well! ”

"You are right, but you can't be suspicious because the rebels now have Chen Tianbao as the leader, and he, a local general, is surnamed Chen. However, since Chen Yong mentioned it to me, I can't ignore it, in case something happens, it will be a big change. ”

"Otherwise, I'll go see Chen Hua?"

"No, just in case, don't startle the snake." Zhang Yue finally figured out a few points of the joints at this time, waved his hand and said, "You just go and inquire, how many of the troops led by Chen Hua are local friends, how many are my Han soldiers, and who are the officers under his command, so as to be secret, and then see how many you know...... Then, you go and meet them. ”

Peng Shisanzai listened carefully, and he didn't say anything, and nodded before picking up his coat and hat and preparing to go out. As soon as he stepped out of the threshold with one foot, Zhang Yue told him to be careful, and he didn't look back, just waved his hand and rushed into the rain.

Zhang Yue in the room looked at his disappearing back, then turned around and turned out a book in the rattan box on the side, and watched it on the rattan chair to pass the time, but it didn't take long for his thoughts to fly away from the book.

I hope it's just that Li Qingqi is worried!

It must be known that most of the soldiers are selected from Yunnan and Guangxi, and most of them are military households that do not know water. More than half of the sailors are skilled in water, and most of the officers are local friends, and only a few are Han Chinese who stayed at the address many years ago. Since the establishment of the Department of Communications, many soldiers who were originally just expeditionary forces have been left here to serve as Tuntian military households and garrisons, and over time, even if they are homesick, they often marry local women and prepare to take root here for a lifetime. However, this sudden war has involved all the Han people, and it can no longer be measured by the previous truth.