Du Si He Guoxian is from He Shiyu's family, and the guerrilla Wang Lian is Wang Guoliang's nephew. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Ming Dynasty, the army was like this, and the reason why the battalions of the nine towns and towns that were mainly recruited were in the end, like the guards army, became the private army of the generals, and the stereotypes and bad habits of fighting tiger brothers and fathers and sons in battle in the Ming army were inseparable.

However, this situation was quite common at this time, and it was unavoidable, and even the emperor could not change it suddenly.

Moreover, even if you want to risk a mutiny, you will not be able to change this old habit that has been around for more than 200 years.

Now the reason why Emperor Chongzhen wants to establish the Emperor's Ming Loyalty and Righteousness Lecture Hall in Tongzhou and set up a special battalion in Zhuozhou to train the new army in a unified manner is to break this stereotype step by step.

At least now the officer class in the three battalions of the Beijing Division and the Guards no longer has such serious nepotism.

However, such a change can only be promoted step by step, especially among the border armies of the towns on the nine sides, and this kind of intertwined and intricate kinship and clan relations formed by the generals of the past generations is the fundamental bond that can maintain stability and unity among the armies of the towns and cities on the nine sides, and it also has a certain positive effect, and it cannot be easily touched.

Of course, civil officials with clever means, such as Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, can cultivate their cronies by identifying and promoting soldiers outside the Jiangmen, so as to firmly control the army under their command, while civil officials with less sophisticated means, such as Wang Jiazheng, the imperial history of the supervising army, have no choice but to rely on the original Jiangmen family.

Wang Jiazheng was born as a court official, and was ordered to Shanxi Town to serve as the supervisor of the army, in addition to the emperor's holy decree and the military salary allocated by the imperial court, he was a literati, and he did not have a soldier in his hands, nor did he have a private person who could govern the army and lead the army, so he could only accept the recommendation of Shanxi Town, and reluctantly pulled up the supervision camp of more than 1,200 people.

Except for a few people recommended to him by his friend Yuan Jixian, the deputy military envoy of Shanxi, after he took office, most of the officers in his prison camp were the personal individuals of the chief soldier and deputy chief soldier of Shanxi Town.

It is precisely because of this that after Wang Jiazheng arrived as the supervisor of Shanxi Town, he couldn't do anything else except be able to supervise military pay and military discipline.

It was not until this time that this court official from Donglin could be regarded as having an intuitive and personal understanding of the reality of the Ming Dynasty.

It is very easy to hold a book and point out the country and promote the words, but when it is really down-to-earth, when a bunch of thorny problems are waiting for you to solve, you will find the difficulties of the court with your heart, realize the vanity of the past, and become pragmatic.

Wang Jiazheng and the imperial historians of the prison army who had encountered a similar situation with him are now undergoing such a transformation.

Wang Lian followed He Guoxian and others, and after meeting Sun Chuanting, who commanded the soldiers and horses of the northern line, he took his personal guards to gallop back in the afternoon, and in order to avoid the thief army sentry horse, he had to go over the mountains and mountains to bypass dozens of miles of mountain roads, and finally in the early morning of the next day, he finally returned to Ninghua and did not delay the order.

Under the report, Wang Jiazheng immediately ordered the camp to be set up, with the 500 troops garrisoned in Ninghua as the vanguard, and he led 3,000 soldiers and horses who had been stationed in Ninghua for many days, unloaded most of the grain and grass baggage, went into battle lightly, and quickly went south along the only road on the east bank of Fenshui.

At the same time, He Shiyu's department also took his men and horses before noon to protect a large number of grain and grass escorted from Lou Fu by Huang Ting's political department, and rushed to join forces with Sun Chuanting.

After the arrival of the brigade, Sun Chuanting asked Huang Tingzheng to take part of the men and horses to stay in the big camp on the cross slope to take care of the grain, grass, baggage and wounded, and then led the assembled horse infantry army of more than 5,000 people to march towards Jingle County in the north.

Along the way, Du Wenhuan, who was once again a pioneer, encountered several sentry spies sent by thieves.

At first, the thieves dared to rush over to fight, but after killing several shares one after another, the thieves' sentry horses dissipated more and more, and when the army arrived not far from the outside of the city, when they chose a place to set up camp, the thieves at the head of the city just stood at the head of the city and watched, and did not go out of the city to fight.

This situation also happened to the striker of Wang Jiazheng's department.

Most of Wang Jiazheng's men were infantry, so the progress was relatively slow, and it was not until night fell and the lights were on that Wang Lian appeared again in Sun Chuanting's camp three miles south of Jingle County.

"Lord Fujun, my lord Wang asked the humble post to come and report it. Our army has 3,500 foot cavalry, and it has already set up camp on the top of a slope five miles north of Jingle, waiting for the military order of the Fu army! ”

Jingle County, located in the valley on the east bank of Fenshui, the city is not tall, there are four city gates in the north, south, east and west, of which the north and south city gates are the main gates, and it is also the only official road that runs through the upper valley of Fenshui, out of the south gate, the more open the south, and outside the north gate, it is the narrower the more north.

To the west of the city is Fenshui, which is small and not deep, but it is still an obstacle after all.

To the east of the city is the tall Yunzhong Mountains, which have a mountain road leading to Xinzhou.

Faced with such a terrain, Sun Chuanting's first consideration at this time was not how to attack the city, but how to avoid thieves from fleeing from the east gate.

Although it is not easy to escape from the east gate, once the thieves successfully escape and run over the mountains and mountains into the fertile plains east of Xinzhou, then the encirclement and suppression of the northern front will be considered a failure.

If that were the case, his sin would be great.

Knowing that Wang Jiazheng's headquarters in the north of Jingle City had arrived at the place, Sun Chuanting immediately ordered He Shiyu to lead 2,000 cavalry to camp outside the east gate of Jingle, and set up more red deer villages to prevent thieves from fleeing east in advance, and then let Wang Lian go back and tell Wang Jiazheng to guard the north road and not let a single soldier go north.

At this point, the Ming army on the northwest line of Shanxi led by Sun Chuanting can be regarded as surrounding Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying on the way to Luya Mountain in Jingle Town.

Gao Yingxiang has experienced two fiascos under the city of Yan'an and Suide City, and before the official rebellion, he also served as the king of the mountain with the horse thieves, so he is not reluctant to go up the mountain again, because he knows that Daming is now a skinny camel bigger than a horse, and it is not easy to deal with it.

So since he led the team to break away from Wang Jiayin, the "King of Hengtian", his goal is very clear, that is, to go to Luya Mountain to occupy the mountain as the king and gain a firm foothold.

Luya Mountain has a dangerous terrain and a radius of hundreds of miles, which is definitely a good place to bury your head in development and make a fortune.

In the issue of breaking away from Wang Jiayin's big team and going north to work alone, Ma Shouying and Gao Yingxiang are the same, after all, Wang Jiayin is famous, and now there are more than 100,000 miscellaneous people and horses, which in the eyes of Ma Shouying, the old soldier of the front army, simply does not know whether he lives or dies, and then mixes with him, not to mention whether his return to the camp and the newly established Huihui army can be saved, just say that the risk of being exterminated by the official army with him is not known how many times greater.

As for whether he really wants to transfer to the mountains to be a mountain king, Ma Shouying still has reservations, after all, he has not suffered losses at the hands of the official army, he himself is a fugitive from the border army, and he knows the details of the official army in the mainland.

At the same time, since the rebellion against the killing of officials in the city of Jiaxian County under Suide Prefecture, the robbery of Jiaxian County, the crossing of the Yellow River, the occupation of Wubao, the capture of Yongning, Tulan County, until the current Tu Jingle, back to the camp on the way to the battle must be victorious, all the attack must be overcome, it is really like divine help.

"Maybe I and this return camp under my command are really blessed by Allah Allah?"

Therefore, after slaughtering Lan County, Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying had a little disagreement about the next direction of the army, and Ma Shouying and the leaders of the Hui Camp who had not suffered hardship, as well as the leaders of the newly emerged Han "Attached Hui Army" in the Hui Hui Camp, all advocated continuing to attack the towns and villages in the north or east, because only these places had food, drink, shelter, and gold and silver and women to rob.

"Taking the risk of killing officials and rebelling against the nine clans, isn't the picture of a woman who eats and drinks spicy food and sleeps happily for a day?"

This kind of thinking is not only common in Ma Shouying's return to the camp, but even the old Hui Ma Shouying himself sometimes thinks so.

He is a return, he is Mu Suman, he has been excluded and discriminated against in the border army of Yansui Town, and he himself never thought that he might one day fight the world and sit on the country.

This is the biggest difference between him and thieves like Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and even Zhang Xianzhong.

So his idea is simple, live, then take revenge, destroy, be happy with revenge, and enjoy life.

How do you spend such a day in the mountains?

In the end, after Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying slaughtered Lan County, they agreed that after grabbing a few county towns and grabbing enough population and materials, they would either go west into Luya Mountain, or go east into Yunzhong Mountain, or develop separately.

In this way, they chose Jingle, which is sandwiched between the two mountains of Luya Mountain and Yunshan Mountain, which seems relatively remote and safe.